Welcome to Stupid Chess!


This is a web-based board game running on a python-flask/mongo backend with a react frontend. It is deployed on a raspberry pi running in my house. Here's the salt configuration used to do that.

You can see the code for this project here.

You might also visit my other projects hashbash and bolas. My personal website can be found here. Here's a link to my resume.

Stupid Chess is a variant on the popular Chess and checkers board games that John Norwood (that's me) and some of his college friends invented when we stumbled across a chess board that had been ripped in half and an incomplete set of pieces. It has a number of delightful rule changes over these earlier inferior games, and you can learn how to play on this page here.

In addition to Stupid Chess, you can also play chess and Checkers using this website. The profile page will track your stats and currently active games. You can do a number of things from here: