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Sovereign Chess

Ah, crap, thanks for letting me know about that! 🐍💦

Other player's can't see different tints because of tabletop sim. shenanigans. For a fix colors other than black or white should be custom assets as best as I can tell. Cool game though

Chess needs a simultaneous movement variant, where players each draft a move and reveal it at the same time.

It'd be chaotic, yes, but fuck it.

@DarkVexon, this is why there is a "pie rule" for the first move:

1. Players flip a coin to decide who sort of goes first.
2. The player who sort of goes first makes a move for White.
3. The player who sort of does not go first then decides whether to play Black or White.
4. Play proceeds normally with the Black player.

This is called the "pie rule" in reference to the tradition of "whoever divides the pie gets the last pick of slices". This puts the burden on the first player of creating an opening position with 50/50 odds.

The "pie rule" is a convenient solution to a very common strategy game flaw. It is not, in my mind, a satisfying solution - it's a patch over a design flaw that often deserves some extra thinking - but, well, Sovreign Chess has it, which sort of patches out the Obviously Strong Opening problem.

(Actual Chess has this problem too - White has a large edge by modern game design standards! - but players have decided to just ignore it.)

Take your design beef up with Mark Bates, I am not a consummate chess player or understander.

I'm a little confused - isn't this game overwhelmingly White biased? White can take Blue turn 2 with E2-E4 and then E4-E5. Even if Black tries to go for Red with E-15 E-13 and then E13-E12, White can move the Blue Pawn from B-13 to D-13, which immediately puts the Black Pawn in a position where it has to move off or be captured.