Is it possible to play classic chess?

[🎮vanslavich]

short answer yes/no will be enough

[esdin]

yes, in multiplayer, if you both agree to never send a piece back in time.

[Patashu]

Well not really, because pieces will still threaten past check even if you pinky swear you won't do it.

If you want to play classic chess, there are innumerable existing good ways to do it.

[Naoya]

Pretty much what esdin said. Don't count on the AI to play by those rules, though.

[🎮vanslavich]

thx everyone!

[ACTIONBOMBA™]

no classic chess :( than i wont buy it...

[rtsquared]

If you want to play classic chess, why not download one of the free chess engines (Stockfish, Lc0, etc.) and one of the freeware GUIs (Tarrasch, SCID, Cutechess, etc.)?

The inability to play normal chess on this program should have no bearing on your desire to purchase it.

[Naoya]

Hell, just get Simply Chess right here on Steam. It's free. Or go in lichess, or chess.com

[ACTIONBOMBA™]

Originally posted by Naoya:

Hell, just get Simply Chess right here on Steam. It's free. Or go in lichess, or chess.com

i have a few very lazy friends, who only play their games on steam. i really would love to have a sweet chess-game here on this platform too :) but i prefere playing in 2d - dont need this fancy 3d chess from nowadays :D

[Naoya]

Simply Chess is definitely for you, then. It's very simple 2D fare.

[Finn-Rob]

Great places to play classic chess out there. "5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel" is not one of them.

[Doors&Corners]

Could we have classic chess with branching for different moves? I would like the visuals here for studying games, and it would be nice to map different variations.

[ausfo55]

Not to single out OP but to ask in general. Why do people do this with every single Chess Variant game that comes out? There are literally hundreds of different games that are all regular chess and presented as such. Why on earth would anyone go into a game that markets itself as a variant of chess asking this question? It's like going on the Halo discussions and asking if you can play call of duty in it because they are both shooters... Again not singling OP out but I see this same question asked in every chess variant forum and it boggles my mind why it gets asked. I know of exactly ONE variant where you can play regular chess as an option in addition to the variant and because the engine is built for the variant when you try to play regular chess against the AI it performs worse than if you were simply playing on one of the free chess websites/apps. So IDK what difference does it make if it's included or not? If you want to play regular chess there are numerous places you can do so for FREE against a huge player base.

[Pooks]

Originally posted by ausfo55:

Not to single out OP but to ask in general. Why do people do this with every single Chess Variant game that comes out? There are literally hundreds of different games that are all regular chess and presented as such. Why on earth would anyone go into a game that markets itself as a variant of chess asking this question? It's like going on the Halo discussions and asking if you can play call of duty in it because they are both shooters... Again not singling OP out but I see this same question asked in every chess variant forum and it boggles my mind why it gets asked. I know of exactly ONE variant where you can play regular chess as an option in addition to the variant and because the engine is built for the variant when you try to play regular chess against the AI it performs worse than if you were simply playing on one of the free chess websites/apps. So IDK what difference does it make if it's included or not? If you want to play regular chess there are numerous places you can do so for FREE against a huge player base.

I don't think people normally see the leap from normal chess to variants as the difference between Halo and CoD. I used to think in a similar fashion, to use your analogy I would have once viewed 5D Chess as a Halo mod rather than a completely different game. To which the logic might normally follow that; If I pay $15 for this modification, can I still just play the base game? Of course the obvious answer here is as you implied; there are already so many free copies of normal chess that it would be wasted for the creators to implement it into their own project when so many great and feature filled iterations already exist.

[who?]

Originally posted by ACTIONBOMBA:

no classic chess :( than i wont buy it...

Bruh, why would there be classic chess in a game specifically made to be different to chess?