Some feature requests:
The material counter definetively needs a bar too.
It's not clear when I selected a piece to move it, they need more highlighting.
A visual icon for check and checkmate.
When can I castle? When can I move a pawn two squares?
Option to repeat my last starting position. The computer position too?
It woud be interesting to see which starting positions are more popular. If you have alot of spare computing power to organize a tournament between starting positions. (I expect something complicated like a Nash equilibrium and optimal starting strategies that are a probablilistic mix of starting positions.)
[1] spoiler alert: drop a few pawn and upgrade the knight and bishops to rook, double them on the side and hope the oposite king has not enougt protection for a frontal atack.
It would be nice to add the initial position to the transcript, and also a permalink to share the game.
Castling is possible if king and rook were spawned on the standard chess positions and hadn’t moved (e.g. king on e1 and rook on a1)
Pawns move two squares from the second row only.
There is an option to save your setup (for registered users) and also option to set up for computer (in computer settings).
Tournament is a super idea, neat way to make a theory of setups:)
Awesome ideas with the initial position transcript and permalinks, we’ll work on the implementation!
Play against computer, with a friend, or multiplayer
39 is the total in standard chess - if you sum up values of a queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and 8 pawns the result is 39. King should be on board but doesn’t count towards the total since it’s basically infinite
In computer settings you can toggle manual setup for computer, which allows you to set up for computer
You can also let computer play against itself! Make two setups and see which one is stronger
