Jeremy Zay

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Zaychess

A chess app built to feel good to play

Mac App Store (opens in a new tab) Support
01

Home screen

Every mode is one click from the home screen: Local Game, ZayBot, Load Game and Multiplayer.

Zaychess home screen with Local Game, ZayBot, Load Game and Multiplayer
02

Drag and drop

Drag pieces on the board, and the squares they can legally move to light up.

A pawn being dragged on the Zaychess board, its legal squares highlighted
03

Match setup

Before a ZayBot match you pick the difficulty on a slider, which also shows how aggressive that level plays.

Choosing ZayBot's difficulty level, with its aggressiveness shown
04

Resume a saved game

When you reopen a saved game, you can keep playing against a person or hand the other side to the AI.

The resume prompt: continue a saved game against a human or the AI
05

Online matchmaking

Queue for an online game through the relay server, and cancel from the waiting screen whenever you like.

The multiplayer waiting screen while matchmaking

Play the AI, a friend or someone online, and save any game.

  1. 01

    ZayBot and Serendipity

    An AI opponent with 11 difficulty levels. The lower ones each lean toward a style, from passive to hyper-aggressive.

  2. 02

    Local and online play

    Face to face on one Mac with automatic board flipping, or online through the relay server's matchmaking.

  3. 03

    Saved games

    Save games to .chesslog files and load them later. Undo and redo work in AI games too.

Platform
macOS 12.0+
Version
1.2
Distribution
Mac App Store
Saved games
.chesslog
Data
No account, no tracking