One Million Chessboards

One Million Chessboards a million chessboards that anyone can play on Apr 28, 2025 I made a website. It’s called One Million Chessboards. It has one million chessboards on it. Moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. There are no turns. You can move between boards. Loading... moving some pieces What Well last year I made this game called One Million Checkboxes. It was a pretty fun time! So I thought I’d do something like this again. I worked really hard on this one. I hope you like it. How This was the most technically challenging thing that I’ve worked on in a long time. I’m going to save a full technical writeup until I see how my decisions pan out, since I think there’s a decent chance I’ll need to make a lot of changes. But I’ll summarize a few things for you. Unlike One Million Checkboxes, I designed this for scale The game runs on a single server (!) The board is stored fully in-memory; it’s a 2D array of 64 million uint64s The backend is written in go. This ... Read full article.