TALOS — The Living Chess Studio

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TABLE GAME · 2–4 PLAYERS

ANARCHESS

A new game is starting…

Players

Opponent

Tile supply

Tribes

Official quick play

The die names a tile colour. The tribe of the other colour opens.
Lay the tile beside the land. A single neighbour must be the opposite colour.
Then optionally settle, move orthogonally, or attack diagonally with one pawn.
Own areas of at least two tiles; the largest area is taxed and reserve pawns cost points.

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ONE PLAYER · TWO TRIBES

ANARCHESS SOLO

A new score challenge is starting…

Perfect-score target192points

Tile supply

Scorecard

Official SOLO priority

Lay the die-selected tile as in Anarchess.
Use a pawn of the opposite colour: settle first, otherwise attack, otherwise move.
The pawn action is required whenever one is available. Only a stranded turn can pass.
A tied area scores four per tile. Every unused pawn costs six points.

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TABLE GAME · JUMPS ARE COMPULSORY

ANARCHECKERS

A new game is starting…

Players

Opponent

Tile supply

Tribes

Official quick play

Tile placement and scoring are those of Anarchess.
Pieces move diagonally to an empty adjacent tile.
Jump diagonally over an adjacent enemy to an empty tile beyond it.
If a jump exists, take it. If it opens another jump, the same piece must continue.

Anarchchess

The house rules the community plays, collected from r/AnarchyChess, anarchychess.org and the Anarchchess bots. Every rule is a switch: turn it off and it simply does not exist.

The three land games

An independent implementation of Dimitris Grammenos’ published games (FORTH). Anarchess, its one-player SOLO score challenge, and jump-and-chain-capture Anarcheckers are separate game entries—not modes attached to an Anarchess session. They share the die, land and area-scoring foundations while retaining their own official turn rules.

About this build

The chess engine, land-game rules and Anarchchess rules running in this page are the same Python files as the desktop application, executed by Pyodide. Nothing is rewritten for the browser, and after the first visit everything is cached: it works on a plane.