---
name: Post-King Chess
description: Use when playing or explaining Post-King Chess (asymmetric continuity; Node not a king). Hosted AI is a 1-ply subset. Hosted /v1 via this Worker or aziel-runtime. Author Aziel Eliab.
---

# Post-King Chess

The goal is not to win. The goal is to remain.

Author: **Aziel Eliab**.

Use when playing or explaining Post-King Chess (asymmetric continuity; Node not a king). Hosted AI is a 1-ply subset.

Always send `User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0`. Cloudflare Workers may 403 an empty agent.

## Endpoints (this Worker)

Host: `https://postking-download-tracker.vibelock.workers.dev`

| Method | Path | What |
|--------|------|------|
| GET | `/v1/health` | Liveness. Does not increment downloads. |
| GET | `/v1/skill` | This markdown. Does not increment downloads. |
| POST | `/v1/new` | Start a game. Body: {difficulty, seed}. |
| POST | `/v1/move` | Play a human UCI move. Returns AI reply. |
| POST | `/v1/status` | Continuity status for a FEN/state. Stateless. |

OpenAPI: `https://postking-download-tracker.vibelock.workers.dev/openapi.json`

Catalog OpenAPI: `https://aziel-runtime.vibelock.workers.dev/openapi.json`

MCP: `POST https://aziel-runtime.vibelock.workers.dev/mcp`

Catalog aliases under `/p/postking/…`.

## How to call (Mozilla/5.0)

```bash
curl -s -A 'Mozilla/5.0' https://postking-download-tracker.vibelock.workers.dev/v1/health
curl -s -A 'Mozilla/5.0' -X POST https://postking-download-tracker.vibelock.workers.dev/v1/new \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"difficulty":"steward","seed":1}'
curl -s -A 'Mozilla/5.0' https://postking-download-tracker.vibelock.workers.dev/v1/skill
```

Grok: import the catalog OpenAPI as a custom tool. ChatGPT: GPT Actions. Venice: HTTP tools.

## Local (after one-click install)

```bash
curl -fsSL https://postking-download-tracker.vibelock.workers.dev/install.sh | bash
postking ui
```

Then open http://127.0.0.1:8844 (this computer only).

## Honest banner

THIS IS: asymmetric continuity-based chess. Human is king-bound; AI has a Node. Capture of the Node is not an ending. THIS IS NOT: standard chess, a rating engine, or a truth score. Author Aziel Eliab.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21897338  
Record: https://zenodo.org/records/21897338

License: CC BY 4.0 (not Apache). Forks are welcome and always allowed.