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Chess with voice chat, new variants, and more.
What landed recently.
VCC now fits your phone properly. The header reflows instead of spilling off the edge, nothing scrolls sideways any more, and the page no longer pinch-zooms out from under you mid-game. Boards, menus and settings all reshape themselves for small screens — tablets included.
The disguise just got better. Your secret queen now stays hidden as long as it moves like a pawn — single steps, the double-step, diagonal captures, even en passant. Only a move a pawn could never make blows its cover. March it up the board in plain sight, then strike.
The two newest variants have joined free play and the Sandbox. Drill Setup Chess by arranging both armies yourself before the merged game begins, or crown both secret queens and watch the disguise drop — nothing is hidden when you drive both sides, so it’s the perfect place to rehearse your schemes.
Before the game starts, both players get 30 seconds to secretly crown one of their pawns. It moves like a queen from the very first move — but to your opponent it looks like an ordinary pawn until it strikes, and then the disguise drops for good. Pick your moment: an early reveal wins material, a late one wins games.
A new variant where the opening is yours to invent. Both players get 60 secret seconds to arrange their army anywhere on their own half of the board — castle your king in a corner, stack the center, fan your pawns out wide. When the clock runs out the two halves are revealed and a normal game begins. No castling, no book lines, no mercy for a badly hidden king.
The whole app has been redrawn as a chess bulletin: an editorial serif for headings, a proper monospace for everything you read as a number — clocks, ratings, board coordinates, move lists — and panels that sit on the page like printed plates instead of frosted glass. Same board, same rules, considerably better dressed.