Chess wiki

36 pages · last verified 2026-10-12

Concepts 1

Page	Owns
reserved-colour	The two squares and the two sides, and what brass and red mean on the board

Page	Owns
ads	Ads are the whole model: formats, placement, consent
difficulty	The three levels and what each does
modes	Computer or friend; which side the human plays
preferences	The stored settings and the last New game choices. Draft until T004
rules	The rules the engine enforces and the ways a game ends
saved-game	The stored unfinished game: key, shape, when it is written and removed. Draft until T004

Page	Screen
ad-choices	store/ad-choices.html
banner-ad	patterns/banner-ad.html
board	game/board.html, and the computer thinking
draw	game/draw.html
home	home/home.html, and its empty state
how-to-play	settings/how-to-play.html
in-check	game/in-check.html
interstitial	store/interstitial.html
lost	game/lost.html
moves	game/moves.html — sheet
pass-and-play	game/pass-and-play.html
pause	game/pause.html — sheet
pieces	patterns/pieces.html
privacy-policy	settings/privacy-policy.html
promotion	game/promotion.html — modal
resign	game/resign.html — modal
resigned	game/resigned.html
selected	game/selected.html — legal-move dots and capture rings
settings	settings/settings.html
setup-computer	game/setup-computer.html
setup-friend	game/setup-friend.html
splash	states/splash.html
stalemate	game/stalemate.html
timeout	game/timeout.html
toasts	patterns/toasts.html
won	game/won.html

Page	Decided
2026-10-04-fresh-ux-direction	Chess gets a new UX, drawn from how a chess player uses a board, and not a redraw of the four screens the app has.
2026-10-04-piece-artwork	The pieces are twelve SVG files of our own under .context/designs/brand/pieces/, one per side and piece, referenced by every screen.

Page	Owns
current-app-vs-new-design	What the app does today against what the designs ask — the build list