Published on 2007-07-12 21:46:32

Today, jQuery community member Jonah Fox just launched 64squar.es, a completely free, fully featured and easy to use online chess site with a clean simple interface. Users can play opponents in real-time by dragging and dropping the pieces just like a real chess board. Ajax is used to make your moves on the opponent's board and vice versa.

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64squar.es is built using Ruby on Rails and Jquery. It also uses Juggernaut (a ruby on rails plugin ) to remove the need for polling to improve responsiveness and ease future scaling. Many exciting features are planned for the coming months. More features include :


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