Show HN: MMO Chess – One Global Chess Game for the Internet

1 ggerritsen 0 8/24/2025, 10:02:06 PM mmo-chess.netlify.app ↗

What if the entire internet played a single chess game together? I built MMO Chess as a fun experiment in crowdsourced gaming – when you visit the site, you're randomly assigned to play as either White or Black in one ongoing global game that everyone shares.

Built this with LLMs as an experiment. Curious to see what happens when HN gets their hands on it!

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