Mini Chess
Every chess piece on a 5×5 board. Five-minute games.
White
Black
White moves first. Tap a piece, then a square.
Every chess piece on a 5×5 board. Five-minute games.
White moves first. Tap a piece, then a square.
Every mistake shows up two moves later, which makes it a fast way to learn how the pieces work together. Tactics — forks, pins, back-rank mates — appear in almost every game. Try Easy to learn, then take on the Hard fox.
Mini chess, or Gardner minichess, is chess on a 5×5 board with every piece type. A game takes about five minutes.
Pawns move one square only, so there's no en passant, and there's no castling. Check, checkmate, stalemate and promotion work as usual.
On Easy it looks two moves ahead and sometimes picks a worse move on purpose. On Hard it searches as deep as it can in under a second — it will punish a loose piece.
Yes. Switch to 2 players and take turns on the same device.
Yes — no sign-up, no ads, no server. The fox thinks on your own device.
More Mini Play: Mini Go 9×9 · Mini Checkers 6×6
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