DinoChess

Real chess. Prehistoric rivals.

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Opponent

Nix Quill Sickle Bruma Regina Titan

Deinonychus. Built for speed, not thinking.

Strength

1234567

≈400 Elo · Juvenile: Grabs anything left unattended.

Play as

WhiteBlackRandom

First game at this level.

Settings

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KingOne step any way. Protect it: if it can’t escape check, that’s checkmate.
QueenAny distance, straight or diagonal.
RookAny distance, straight lines.
BishopAny distance, diagonals only.
KnightJumps in an L: two, then one to the side.
PawnForward one (two on its first move). Captures diagonally.

Castling: The king moves two squares toward a rook, and the rook hops over it. Only if neither has moved and the king isn’t in check.
Promotion: A pawn that reaches the far side becomes a queen, rook, bishop or knight.
En passant: A pawn that rushes two squares past an enemy pawn can be captured as if it had moved one.

Built for speed, not thinking.

Deinonychus means 'terrible claw' — it carried a large, curved claw on the second toe of each foot, held off the ground as it walked.
Paleontologist John Ostrom's 1969 study of Deinonychus helped launch the 'dinosaur renaissance,' reframing dinosaurs as active, agile animals instead of slow, lumbering ones.
Ostrom's work on Deinonychus also revived the idea that birds descended from small theropod dinosaurs — now the mainstream scientific view.
Deinonychus fossils have been found in western North America, including Montana, Wyoming, and Oklahoma.
Its long tail was stiffened by bony rods, which likely helped it balance while running and turning.
Deinonychus was a dromaeosaurid — the same family as Velociraptor — but much larger, at roughly twice the length.

It counts as a loss.