Build a game like Chess.com with Claude Code

An online chess site: play online against others, play against a computer, puzzles and more.

1–2 weeksMore screens, accounts and a backend

The Claude Code prompt

Build an original browser game in the same genre as Chess.com: an online chess site. Use your own name, characters, art, sound and levels. Only the general mechanics should feel familiar; do not copy Chess.com's name, characters, art, music or level layouts.

Version one should have:
- Play online against others
- Play against a computer
- Puzzles
- Ratings
- Game review with move list

The hard part: Move rules and the engine. Use chess.js for rules and Stockfish WASM for the computer player.

How to build it:
1. Read this folder first. If it is empty, set up a browser game with Vite, TypeScript and Phaser (or Three.js if it is 3D). Write a short PLAN.md with the game loop, entities, controls and what you are leaving out of version one.
2. Get the core loop playable before anything else: play online against others. Use simple shapes or free placeholder art until it feels good.
3. Add the rest of the mechanics one at a time, keep game rules in pure functions you can unit test, and make it work with both keyboard and touch.
4. Add a start screen, game over, score and a saved best score in localStorage, plus sound effects you generate or that are free to use.
5. Run it, play it, tune the difficulty, fix what breaks, and finish with a summary and how to deploy it as a static site.

Paste it into Claude Code in an empty folder. It plans first, so read PLAN.md and steer before it starts building.

Version one

  • Play online against others
  • Play against a computer
  • Puzzles
  • Ratings
  • Game review with move list

The hard part

Move rules and the engine. Use chess.js for rules and Stockfish WASM for the computer player.

Make it yours: original name, characters, art and levels. Familiar mechanics are fine; Chess.com's assets are not.

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