Timur's Chess
A 14th century chess variant with giraffes
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My weekend vibecoding project was to attempt to resurrect a 14th century chess variant favored by the Central Asian warlord Timur (Tamerlane). There are giraffes, elephants, citadels, and you can promote up to 2 additional kings! theres a working AI chess engine and relatively untested multiplayer
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HN · launched Oct 11, 2026 · 23 upvotes (top 29%)
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes A 14th-century chess variant playable in the browser with WebAssembly or JavaScript, basic minimax/alphabeta AI, and simple multiplayer can be comfortably vibe-coded in a weekend.
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Competitors mentioned: Chinese chess
Feature requests: Physical board version
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Attention rank: #30 of 80 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 345 days after the earliest competitor.
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- External ID
- 50043948
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Timur's Chess
- Website domain
- timurschess.com
- Cohort
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- Upvotes percentile
- 0.71
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- AI summary
- medieval chess variant game for players
- Manually corrected
- No