Echo Chess — reorg.dev
Classic chess. Twice the queens. Zero excuses
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Details
- External ID
- 1269890
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Echo
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3252774120744781
- Tags
- Games
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Echo Chess: classic chess on a tall 8×16 board where each side starts with two queens. Free, no login, no ads. Play pass-and-play or online with a friend or AI.
Enrichment
- Niche
- word and daily puzzle games
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- chess variant game with double queens
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A custom chess variant on an 8x16 board using standard canvas/web graphics, a modified minimax chess engine, and WebSockets/WebRTC for peer-to-peer play.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #40 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 339 days after the earliest competitor.
- Coffeehouse Chess · ph · 2026-09-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- chessbox · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- A never-ending chess match between Claude and Codex · hn · 2026-09-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Chessora · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Board Game Master · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- 玲珑 Linglong · ph · 2026-09-18 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- XIANGQI KNIGHT · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Can a person's chess mind outlive them? An attempt with 41 masters · hn · 2026-04-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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