Junior Chess Game

Junior Chess strips the game down to what actually matters when you're still learning it: seeing where a piece can legally land before you commit to the move. Click a piece and the board highlights every square it's allowed to reach, so you can compare options instead of guessing and taking the move back.

Each match is one-on-one against the computer. Pick a board color, choose a difficulty, and play a full game toward checkmate — the AI scales up as you improve, so a round on the easy setting plays very differently from one on the hardest.

Controls

Everything runs on the mouse, or a tap on a touchscreen: click a piece to see its legal moves, then click the square you want it to move to.

Tips

• Use the legal-move highlights to check whether a piece is actually safe before you click — the game is already showing you where it can be taken from.
• Start on an easier difficulty and only raise it once you're consistently getting your pieces developed out of the opening.
• Watch your own king the same way you'd watch a stronger opponent's — the computer plays more aggressively at higher difficulties.

Best suited to someone who knows how the pieces move but wants a low-pressure way to practice reading the board, rather than a tool for facing seasoned players.