Official Thread to follow the Spell Chess Team Game

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Update July 24, 2025: White resigned on move 29. The Black Team wins!


Vote for White's next move or Vote for Black's next move

The image below and the current position webpage are both kept up to date with the current position of the team game: https://wjkiely.github.io/spell-chess/current.html

Each time there is a new move I comment it on this thread, then update the image in this first comment and update the position on the webpage linked above for redundancy.

I recommend either bookmarking this comment here or the current position webpage to making checking the current position and voting easier.

Note: I vibe-coded the webpage using Gemini 2.5 Pro.

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Could you vibe-code the following:

  • Casting should be possible when a piece is selected, just remove the piece selection.
  • A non transparent piece set. Any piece set is fine, current one hurts to look.
  • Download GIF frames as a zip or an actual gif, instead of a hundred separate files in my downloads folder.
  • Undo button for moves.

Otherwise good work, and thanks for the effort you've made!

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Could you vibe-code the following:

  • Casting should be possible when a piece is selected, just remove the piece selection.
  • A non transparent piece set. Any piece set is fine, current one hurts to look.
  • Download GIF frames as a zip or an actual gif, instead of a hundred separate files in my downloads folder.
  • Undo button for moves.

Otherwise good work, and thanks for the effort you've made!

Thanks for the feedback!

> Casting should be possible when a piece is selected, just remove the piece selection. I'm not sure what you mean by this. If I click on my bishop, and then click on my king and click two squares sideways, castling happens. Are you experiencing something different such that castling isn't possible when it should be?

> A non transparent piece set. Any piece set is fine, current one hurts to look. Noted, I'll fix this when I can.

> Download GIF frames as a zip or an actual gif, instead of a hundred separate files in my downloads folder. I tried this before a few times and it kept bugging. I may try again at some point. If you'd like to improve it and share the file with me, I'd be happy to use it. (Anyone can click the Download button to get the file.)

> Undo button for moves.Rather than have an undo button, I made it so that if you click the notation for any of the moves in the game history box it rewinds the game to that position. You can use this to rewind just one move or several moves simultaneously.

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Game on! White's highest-rated player has voted, so white's first move is official. 1.e4!

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Note that I said casting, not castling.

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Also I usually deselect pieces by pressing the piece itself, which would be a nice addition.

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Black has played 1...c6!

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White plays 2. Bc4! Our highest-rated player was first to vote!

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Black plays 2...e6!

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White played 3. c3

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Black played 3...b5!

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White plays 4. Bb3!

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4. Bb3 or Bd3?

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4. Bb3, thanks for catching the typo.

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Re: "Could you add deadline for move submissions somewhere?"

The deadline is 24 hours from the time I post the previous move in this thread. Currently my post says "20 hours ago" so your team has 4 more hours.

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ok

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Black plays 4...c5!

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White plays 5. Qf3.

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UPDATE: This move is being voided. The black team had some confusion about the voter deadline, so I decided to extend their deadline to allow some players who were still thinking to vote.

The following no longer applies:
~~~~Black plays 5...Qc7. Only one voter, @daanb100!~~~~

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Black plays 5...Qe7!

UPDATE: This is merely the last comment on the first page. To see the last comment in the thread / the most recent position, you have to click "Last" below. --->