Humanity spent 1,500 years perfecting chess and now... let's  look at it from a completely useless different angle.

Side Chess is an almost-fully functional chess game played on a standard board, except you're viewing it from the side. 

Select a piece, pick a move, try to remember where your enemies are. 

Fail. 

Repeat.


This is the most important chess innovation since Deep Blue. Possibly, more important-er.

FEATURES

  • En passant, castling, promotion, somehow implemented, still completely unplayable.
  • Play against a limited "AI" (that barely works)  or challenge a friend on the same screen (shared suffering is encouraged)
  • Live commentary that judges your every move
  • A funny background music to accompany your confusion
  • Download your game as a move list to prove to people this actually happened (and help me with debug, )

WHAT'S NEW

Time to show some love to the less-loved chess simulator ever:

  • Advanced AI mode. Turned the dial past "random moves across the 2d board." It actually plays now! Well... a bit. Turns out AI is hard, but it should give you a decent challenge, assuming you can play at all.
  • Readable font option. One tap shifts the text to OpenDyslexic font. The game will still be confusing, but the text won't.
  • A fresh coat of paint. No more neon assault, same chaos, easier on the eyes. With the text size slider and the different palette I ensured this chaotic nightmare is equally accessible to all.


Let me know what you think...

Updated 8 days ago
StatusPrototype
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorThe Bit Bet
GenreEducational, Puzzle
TagsChess, Funny, Parody
ContentNo generative AI was used

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🤣Interesting  but hard to play 🤣

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that’s a migraine made game 🤣

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wow!!