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chessbox
Online chess for 4 players - free, no account needed
lay four-player chess on a 14×14 board. Create a game and share one link: the first four people play, and everyone else watches live. Free, no sign-up.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built chess4box because I wanted to play chess with three friends at once instead of taking turns in 1v1 games. Four-player chess exists, but most versions I found made everyone sign up, install an app or wait in a lobby before the first move.
What it does:
♟️ Four players on a 14×14 cross-shaped board: Red, Blue, Green and Yellow
🔗 You create a game and send one link. The first four people who open it play.
👀 Anyone else who opens the link watches the game live
💸 It's free and there's no sign-up
How it evolved: I started with the rules engine, which was the hard part because moves on a cross-shaped board don't behave like normal chess. Then I kept cutting friction. Every step between "hey, want to play?" and the first move was a place where people dropped off, so accounts, lobbies and invite codes all went. That left a single link. Watching live happened almost by accident: once a game is just a link, letting extra people in to watch was nearly free, and it turned out to be half the fun.
Recently I've been working on mobile, since that's where most people open a shared link.
I'd love your feedback, especially on:
• How the first game feels on your phone
• Which rule variants you'd want next
Grab three friends, send them a link and let me know who wins 😄
About chessbox on Product Hunt
“Online chess for 4 players - free, no account needed”
chessbox was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #150 on the daily leaderboard. lay four-player chess on a 14×14 board. Create a game and share one link: the first four people play, and everyone else watches live. Free, no sign-up.
On the analytics side, chessbox competes within Board Games, Strategy Games and Free Games — topics that collectively have 20.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how chessbox performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted chessbox?
chessbox was hunted by Marcin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Marcin