Grandmaster's Gambit

GRANDMASTER'S GAMBIT

THE ART OF INTELLECT

CHISELING CHESS PIECES...

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White to Move

AI is thinking

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Kimiko 🇺🇸

♚ BLACK

Player 🇺🇸

♕ WHITE

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Pawn

Pawn moves 1 square straight forward.

THE ART OF INTELLECT

GRANDMASTER'S GAMBIT

UNLOCKED Royal Alabaster

Player 🇺🇸

GRANDMASTER

WINS: 0 • LOSSES: 0 • WIN RATE: 0%

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Online Match

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MATCHMAKING SYSTEMS

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Ding Easy Bot

Rating: 500 • Casual practice

Perfect for beginners. Focuses on basic moves, makes occasional evaluation blunders, and plays with an approachable pacing.

Viswanath Medium Bot

Rating: 1500 • Solid challenger

Intermediate level. Uses advanced positional heuristics, maintains realistic tactical depth, and adapts smoothly to your thinking pace.

Judit Hard Bot

Rating: 2500 • Grandmaster skill

Minimax depth evaluated. Calculates strong lines, exploits blunders, and offers legendary chess master caliber gameplay.

HALL OF GRANDMASTERS

Global Leaderboard

HOW TO PLAY

Welcome to Grandmaster's Gambit, a luxury mobile chess experience designed to play and look beautifully on any device.

Controls

• Tap & Drag or Tap to Select any piece to view legal moves.

• Drag the piece to the target square, or tap the highlighted square to move.

• Dynamic guides: Emerald Spotlight indicates a legal path; Crimson Glow shows invalid directions.

Rules & Gameplay

• Castling: Move your King two squares towards a Rook; the Rook hops over.

• En Passant: Capture a pawn that has just advanced two squares by moving diagonally behind it.

• Promotion: Advancing a Pawn to the eighth rank opens a premium selection panel to promote your Pawn.

AI Opponent

• Challenge our responsive chess AI. Select from Casual (easy evaluation), Medium, or Grandmaster (deeper minimax search depth) levels!

VICTORY

Player Wins the Match!

ONLINE MATCH • CHECKMATE

Checkmate

White Wins

CHAMPION CARD

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GRANDMASTER

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