Antichess (Giveaway Chess) Online
Play Antichess free online — captures are compulsory and the first player to lose every piece wins.
- Family
- Modern chess variants
- Origin
- International
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Players
- 2
- Difficulty
- Beginner
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About Antichess
How Antichess works
If you can capture, you must — though you may choose which capture to make. The king has no special status: there is no check, no checkmate and no castling, and a pawn may even promote to a king. You win by losing all of your pieces or by being left with no legal move.
Antichess is a game of forcing sequences: since captures are compulsory, offering a piece often dictates your opponent's next several moves. Look for chains that feed your pieces to the enemy faster than they can feed theirs to you.