Show HN: Schmess – chess with no turns; pieces freeze on cooldown after moving
Schmess is chess where both sides move at once and every piece has a cooldown. Matches finish in under two minutes.
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Solo dev here. Schmess is chess with the turn structure removed. Both players move whenever they have a free slot, and every piece freezes on a cooldown after it moves. It's on a half board, with 100+ puzzle stages. If two people played this over a physical board they'd scrape each other's fingers raw - that's roughly the tempo.
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It's the second of a few small-board variants I'm building (halfchess was the first, more coming). Building a chess engine for a game with no turns turned out to be the hard part - I've put the war stories in a comment below.
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