White Starts With Nothing
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Game is played by the usual chess rules, but White start without any pieces.
Instead, each turn you drop one piece (starting with White King) on any empty square of white half of the board. Pawns can't be dropped on the first row.
Dropping pieces is the only thing that you can do, because all other moves for both sides are made automatically by AI.
Goal is, naturally, for White to win, preferably fast.
There are several scenarios, differing by starting position and how dropped pieces are selected.
Based on https://github.com/douglasbagnall/p4wn chess engine.
Also, there is kind of post mortem about this game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/white-starts-with-nothing/so-i-just-applied-ld-theme-to-chess
PS:
1. If AI falls into infinite cycle of repeating moves, treat it as a draw.
2. If you want, you can add/change modes (i.e. starting position, pieces order and whether it is randomised) by editing "modes" variable at the beginning of display.js.
Update:
Post-compo version was rewritten completely. It supports undos, saves, playable on mobile. Gameplay is still the same so far, except AI is slightly tweaked to play more conservatively.
Instead, each turn you drop one piece (starting with White King) on any empty square of white half of the board. Pawns can't be dropped on the first row.
Dropping pieces is the only thing that you can do, because all other moves for both sides are made automatically by AI.
Goal is, naturally, for White to win, preferably fast.
There are several scenarios, differing by starting position and how dropped pieces are selected.
Based on https://github.com/douglasbagnall/p4wn chess engine.
Also, there is kind of post mortem about this game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/white-starts-with-nothing/so-i-just-applied-ld-theme-to-chess
PS:
1. If AI falls into infinite cycle of repeating moves, treat it as a draw.
2. If you want, you can add/change modes (i.e. starting position, pieces order and whether it is randomised) by editing "modes" variable at the beginning of display.js.
Update:
Post-compo version was rewritten completely. It supports undos, saves, playable on mobile. Gameplay is still the same so far, except AI is slightly tweaked to play more conservatively.