homeaboutarchivenewslettermembership!
aboutarchivemembership!
aboutarchivemembers!

Playful Chess Variants

posted by Jason Kottke Aug 23, 2019

Gravity Chess

From experimental game developer Pippin Barr, several variations on the game of chess that makes the game more interesting (or at least weirder). In "Clone" mode, every time you move a piece, a copy of that piece is made. In "Chance" mode, selecting a piece causes the piece to change randomly to another type of piece (e.g. from a pawn to a rook) that you can then move. In "Gravity" mode, pieces fall to the bottom of the board unless they're blocked by other pieces. In "Quantum" mode, a new piece is spawned in each possible new position of a selected piece.