PEMEM
Telegram bot · group game
Add the PEMEM bot to your Telegram group and type /chess. The board is drawn right there in the chat as 8×8 inline buttons, so nobody has to install an app, open a website or sign up for anything.
PEMEM is a chess bot you play inside a Telegram group. Playing a game with your friends needs no outside app, no website and no registration: the bot sits in the group, and the game happens in the same group chat where everyone was already talking.
Type /chess in the group and the bot posts one message. The whole game then runs inside that message. The board is drawn as 8×8 inline buttons, and each move edits the existing message rather than sending a new one. That is why a game does not leave dozens of messages behind it — the conversation stays clean until the last move.
The bot is built for groups of friends, work team chats and people who like chess. The two players watch each other’s moves land in real time, and everyone else in the group can follow along if they feel like it.
Wanting a game in the middle of a group conversation normally means an outside app or a website, an account on it and a link passed around before anyone can move a piece. With PEMEM the game is in the group itself — typing /chess is the whole setup.
If every move arrived as a message of its own, one game would bury the chat. PEMEM keeps the whole game in a single message: a move edits that message, and nothing new is posted.
Castling, en passant, pawn promotion, check, checkmate and the drawn positions are all checked by the bot itself. Try a move the rules do not allow and the board simply refuses it, answering “Noto’g’ri yurish.” — Uzbek for “illegal move”.
When a game ends, the result is written against the player who earned it. The /score command shows your points and your wins, losses and draws whenever you ask for them.
Search for @pemem_bot in Telegram, or open the bot link directly.
The game only runs in a group, so add the bot to the group you want to play in.
You do not have to grant the bot any extra permissions — it works as an ordinary member.
The bot posts the lobby message: “⚪ Oq: bo’sh / ⚫ Qora: bo’sh”, meaning White and Black are both still empty, with a button for each color.
One taps [⚪ Oq], the other taps [⚫ Qora] — the game starts by itself and that message turns into the board.
The [🔎 Web’da ochish] button shows the board as a full-screen web page.
The messages and buttons below are the bot’s real output, not rewritten for this page. PEMEM writes in Uzbek only, so the text stays exactly as it comes out and the English around it explains what each screen says. The board is not a picture: every square is a separate button.
Typing /chess in the group makes the bot post a lobby message. Once two people have claimed a color the game starts on its own and that same message turns into the board, so every stage below is one message edited over and over. In the header “⚪ Oq” is White, “⚫ Qora” is Black, “bo’sh” means the seat is still empty and “Oqning yurishi” means White is to move. The closing line “O’ynash uchun rang tanlang” asks the group to pick a color, and the “0 ball” beside a name is that player’s score.
Friends group
group
/chess
♟ PEMEM Chess
⚪ Oq: bo’sh ⚫ Qora: bo’sh
O’ynash uchun rang tanlang 👇
♟ PEMEM Chess
⚪ Oq: Aziz — 0 ball ⚫ Qora: bo’sh
O’ynash uchun rang tanlang 👇
♟ PEMEM Chess ▶️ ⚪ Aziz — 0 ball ⚫ Bekzod — 0 ball Oqning yurishi
♟ PEMEM Chess ▶️ ⚪ Aziz — 0 ball ⚫ Bekzod — 0 ball Oqning yurishi
♟ PEMEM Chess ⚪ Aziz — 0 ball ▶️ ⚫ Bekzod — 0 ball Qoraning yurishi
A pawn that reaches the far rank makes the bot ask what to promote it to, and the choice is four buttons. The line reads “♟ Piyoda o’zgartirilsin — figurani tanlang:”, which is Uzbek for “promote the pawn — pick a piece”.
Friends group
group
♟ Piyoda o’zgartirilsin — figurani tanlang:
The /score command works in a group and in a private chat with the bot alike. A reply looks like the one below: “Sizning natijangiz” is your total in points, and the second line counts your wins, losses and draws in that order.
@pemem_bot
bot
/score
📊 Sizning natijangiz: 7 ochko ✅ 3 g’alaba · ❌ 2 mag’lubiyat · 🤝 1 durang
Games only happen in groups. Message the bot directly with /chess and it tells you what to do instead, which is the confusion people run into most. The Uzbek alert says that PEMEM Chess is played in groups only, and asks you to add the bot to a group and type /chess there.
@pemem_bot
bot
/chess
Pop-up window from the bot: ♟ PEMEM Chess faqat guruhlarda o’ynaladi. Meni bir guruhga qo’shing va u yerda /chess yozing.
Tap a piece while your opponent is still thinking and the board does not change. You get a pop-up that nobody else in the group sees, reading “Navbat raqibingizda.” — “it is your opponent’s turn”.
Friends group
group
Pop-up window from the bot: Navbat raqibingizda.
The state is shown on the last line of the message header. In Uzbek “Shoh” is check, “Mat” is checkmate with the winner’s name after “G’olib”, “Pat” is stalemate and “Durang” is a draw.
| State | Header line |
|---|---|
| Check | ⚠️ Shoh! |
| Checkmate | 🏆 Mat! G’olib: <Ism> |
| Stalemate | 🤝 Pat — durang |
| Draw | 🤝 Durang |
None of these replies are posted into the group. Each one appears as a pop-up for the single person who tapped the button, and only for them. The bot writes them in Uzbek; the left column names the situation each one covers.
| Situation | What the bot says |
|---|---|
| /chess in a private chat | ♟ PEMEM Chess faqat guruhlarda o’ynaladi. Meni bir guruhga qo’shing va u yerda /chess yozing. |
| The color is taken | Bu rang allaqachon band. |
| You are not a player | Siz bu o’yinning o’yinchisi emassiz. |
| Not your turn | Navbat raqibingizda. |
| Against the rules | Noto’g’ri yurish. |
| The game is over | O’yin tugagan. |
Every finished game writes its result against the players. A score cannot go negative: if you are sitting on zero, a loss leaves you on zero.
Points belong to the player, not to the group the game was played in. The /score command shows the running total.
| Command | Where it works | What it does |
|---|---|---|
/chess | groups only | Opens the lobby for a new game |
/score | group and private chat | Points and statistics |
/rating | group and private chat | An alias for /score (not in the menu) |
/start, /help | group and private chat | The help text |
Telegram’s command menu lists only three of them, described in Uzbek: chess — “Shaxmat o’yinini boshlash” (start a chess game), score — “Ochkongizni ko’rish” (see your points), help — “Yordam” (help). There are no admin commands.
The board is drawn with inline buttons and every move edits the message. From the first move to the last, the group holds exactly one PEMEM message.
Castling, en passant, pawn promotion, check, checkmate, stalemate, insufficient material and the fifty-move draw are all supported.
No off-the-shelf chess library is involved. The engine is the project’s own code, and it was checked against perft depth 4 = 197 281, which means its move generation follows the rules exactly.
Tap a piece and every empty square it can reach is marked 🟢, while an enemy piece you can capture is marked ♟💥. The square you picked is flagged with 🔸.
A win is +2, a loss is −1 (a score never drops below zero) and a draw is +1. Points belong to the player, not to the group.
The [🔎 Web’da ochish] button in the lobby (“open on the web”) shows the board as a full-screen web page. It is optional: the buttons in the chat are enough to play a game through to the end.
No. Admin rights are not required — adding the bot to your group as an ordinary member is enough, and the game works from that point on.
No, games are played in groups only. Type /chess in a private chat and the bot answers “♟ PEMEM Chess faqat guruhlarda o’ynaladi. Meni bir guruhga qo’shing va u yerda /chess yozing.”, which asks you to add it to a group and type /chess there. /score and /help do work in a private chat.
A win is worth +2, a draw +1 and a loss −1 point. Your score never falls below 0. Points are tied to you rather than to the group, and the /score command shows the running total.
Two: one on White, one on Black. The first two members to claim a color are the players, and tapping a color somebody else has claimed returns “Bu rang allaqachon band.” — the color is already taken. Everyone else in the group can watch the board, but they cannot move a piece.
Yes. The [🔎 Web’da ochish] button in the lobby opens a Telegram Mini App — the same game on a full-screen web board. It is optional: you can play a game from the first move to the last with the buttons in the chat.
Yes. Castling, en passant, pawn promotion, check, checkmate, stalemate, insufficient material and the fifty-move draw are all handled. The engine is the project’s own code rather than a ready-made library, and its correctness is confirmed by a perft depth 4 = 197 281 test.
No. The whole game happens inside one message: a move edits the message that is already there instead of sending another one. Until the game ends, the group holds a single PEMEM message.
No. Nothing beyond your Telegram account is needed — no separate app, no website, no sign-up.
Uzbek, and only Uzbek. The bot has no language switch, and the Mini App page is in Uzbek as well.
Add the bot to a group and type /chess — the first game starts within seconds.