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Rankless
RPG Combat
HP, attack, defense, and a block chance that scales with armor. Skills change the math - piercing, execute, lifesteal, reflect damage, splash, and regeneration. Melee pieces advance into the square; knights and archers strike from range.
Now in Beta
Rankless
RPG chess you can play anywhere. Your pieces have health, levels, and gear - and they carry every scar with them into the next battle.
The Game
Chess, Except Your Pieces Level Up
Captures aren't instant in Rankless. Pieces have hit points, attack, and defense, so a fight over a square is an actual fight - and the piece that survives it keeps the experience. Your knight who's been through three campaigns plays nothing like a fresh recruit.
A Persistent Army
Every individual piece earns XP and levels independently, gaining health, attack, defense, and speed as it goes. Not the piece type - that pawn. It's your roster, and you build it one battle at a time.
Gear That Changes Rules
Dozens of weapons, armor, and accessories across five rarities - and the good stuff grants mechanics, not just numbers. A Longbow makes a piece ranged. Thorn Mail reflects damage. A Healing Staff turns a bishop into a medic.
Speed Decides Turns
In battle rooms, an initiative queue replaces strict alternating turns. Build a faster army and you simply act more often - a whole axis of strategy chess doesn't have.
Ways to Play
Five Games in One Board
Underneath all of it is a complete, legal chess engine - en passant, castling, promotion, pins, checkmate, stalemate. Everything else is built on top of a game that plays by the real rules.
Campaign
Act I, The Verdant Kingdom: a branching run of hand-built rooms that each teach one real chess idea - the knight's L, the fork, the pin, the back-rank mate - wrapped in story beats, shops, rest stops, and a boss who tells you the pieces were only ever tools.
Adventure
Leave the board entirely. Walk your hero through the Blackreach Dungeons, dodge patrols, crack open chests, recruit prisoners into your army, and drop into a battle whenever something blocks the way out.
Online Multiplayer
Real matchmaking against real people, with live clocks and increment, draw offers, resignation, and a match history that tracks your record. Bullet, Blitz, Rapid, or multi-day correspondence.
Classic Chess
Want none of the RPG? Play straight chess against a proper engine with search, position evaluation, and a difficulty ladder from beginner to genuinely unpleasant.
Puzzles
Mate-in-N puzzles with timed records - plus a built-in editor so you can build your own positions, share them, and see what other people made of yours.
Make It Yours
A 3D perspective board if you want atmosphere, flat 2D if you want clarity. Eight board themes from Forest to Volcanic to Void, plus piece sets and board sidings earned or bought with what you win.
Characters
Every Piece Has a Role
The classic six become archetypes with their own stat lines, abilities, and upgrade paths. Heroes bring the whole army with them: a King inspires nearby allies to hit harder, and a Queen's dominance lets her strike several enemies at once.
♚
The King
Sovereign: Inspires nearby allies
♛
The Queen
Champion: Strikes multiple foes
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The Rook
Guardian: Excellent defense
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The Bishop
Sage: Arcane diagonal striker
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The Knight
Ranger: Leaps and hits at range
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The Pawn
Recruit: Hidden potential
Platform
It Just Runs in Your Browser
No download, no store, no waiting on review. Open a link and you're playing - on a phone, a tablet, or a desktop. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like an installed app, offline included.
Touch and Desktop
Pinch to zoom and drag to pan the board on a phone; mouse and wheel on a desktop. Portrait or landscape, the board is built to be readable on a small screen.
Cloud Saves
Make an account and your army, campaign progress, and match record follow you to any device. No account? It still saves locally and plays fine.
Installable & Offline
A real progressive web app - install it from the browser, launch it full screen, and play the single-player content with no connection at all.
Tech Stack
What It's Built With
Status
What Beta Means Here
Rankless is playable right now, free, at ranklesschess.com - no download and no account required to start. The game is feature-complete, but the world is still filling in: Act I of the campaign and the first adventure map are the story content so far, and more is being built. Expect the occasional rough edge, and tell me when you find one.