A tavern chessboard in lamplight with a fallen king, whiskey, and smoke

The Arcade · Table

Chess Cabinet

A wooden board, a fallen king, and the house playing black.

  • Full rules
  • You are white
  • House plays black
  • Arcade pass

The pass opens the table. The pieces were always public.

In this game

A 30-day pass to The Arcade — a cabinet of playable titles. You buy access to the collection, not the games themselves.

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Insert coin · table shelf · original cabinet rules

About this cabinet In the cabinet

The rules of chess are not anyone's shareware episode. This table is an original cabinet board: you sit as white, the house sits as black, and the usual law applies — castling, en passant, promotion to queen.

No engine binary, no third-party GUI. The play page is ours. Click a piece, then a square. Undo if you rushed. The cabinet is not in a hurry.

How to play

ClickSelect a white piece, then the square it should go to.
New gameReset the board.
UndoTake back your last move and the house reply.