Action Chess

Waiting for your turn? How very nineties! Enjoy age-old tactical mechanics in a new frantic setting!

Game Rules

Action Chess aims to follow the regular chess rules. Except - of course - the
rule about taking turns to move pieces.

The implementation has known limitations:

1. No en passant
2. No castling
3. No stalemate
4. Pawn always promotes to Queen

Controls

For mouse control:

1. Click on a piece
2. Click on the target square
3. Good job, try another move!

For keyboard control:

1. Select the file to move from by typing a letter from A to H
2. Select the rank to move from by typing a number from: 1 to 8
3. Repeat (file and rank) for the target square
4. Good job!

Extra help:

• Type SPACE to re-select the last moved piece to and move it again - helpful for both keyboard and mouse control.
• Type X to reset an in-progress move 

Builds

Notes on releases:

• The Linux build is tested for each release
• The MacOS  build have been tested for some releases
• Windows build has never been tested - LMK if it doesn't work!
• HTML5/JS build has performance issues (not uploaded ATM)

Background

This game was originally written for ldjam #41 with improvements post-jam.