Time
30
Score
0
Round
Ready
Click this square
A1
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Sam Cornwell built this. His daughter Olive helped him vibe code it. As chief tester, Olive did a hella lot of work.
Sam loves chess, although he's not very good. Manages about 1500 elo on Blitz over on TakeTakeTake — follow him. He's no contender but loves getting a good thrashing by a GM and learning new things.
KWIK CHESS is designed to help people get used to moving the mouse quickly over a chess board. It can also be really useful to keep your brain sharp.
Version 0.80
You have 30 seconds to click the square shown at the top of the screen. Correct clicks score points, wrong clicks lose points, and bonus piece rounds may appear to keep you awake. This mode is about speed, board vision, and getting your mouse moving fast without freezing.
Every square on the board appears once. Click the requested square as quickly as you can until all 64 are cleared. Wrong clicks add time, so this is less frantic than Sprint but more exacting: learn the board properly and your time will fall.
Memorise the position of the king before the pieces vanish, then click the square where the king was. Each round gets harder, and XTREME mode fills all 64 squares for anyone who wants punishment. It is memory, pattern spotting, and chess-board awareness in one unpleasant little package.
All 32 pieces begin randomly scattered on the board. Move them onto the correct starting squares as fast as possible, using empty squares as temporary parking spaces when another piece is in the way. Pawns can go on any pawn square of their colour, and paired pieces such as bishops, rooks, and knights can go on either matching square. XTREME mode keeps the same goal, but pieces can only move legally: knights jump, sliding pieces need clear paths, kings move one square, and pawns move one square up, down, left, or right.