Chess in Facebook Messenger

[Ian Kingston]

Via the Guardian: you can play chess against one of your Facebook friends using the Messenger app. Send the message '@fbchess play' and a board appears. You enter moves by typing them.

Fortunately there doesn't seem to be an engine attached, so the possibilities for using this to cheat seem limited.

[Alex Holowczak]

This has been around for a few months. I abandoned it when my most recent game wouldn't let me capture en passant, and I had to else I was stuffed...