Chess-Sweeper

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Chess-Sweeper is Minesweeper played on famous chess positions. Each number counts the pieces of either colour attacking that square, squares nobody attacks open their neighbours, and tapping a piece means it captures you. Mark the squares where you think a piece stands, pick one of three visibility modes and a difficulty filter, and see which position it was, with its story, when the game ends.

Positions and summaries are drawn from Wikipedia's articles on famous games, endgame studies and endgame theory. Source code on GitHub.