WeaponizedChess

WeaponizedChess is a chess game that adds weapons, stealth and three-dimensional movement to the familiar black-and-white board. The players take turns moving pieces, and the goal remains to defeat the opposing king. Depending on the rules and settings, you can often move more than one piece during a turn.

Pieces and combat

The pieces represent military forces, including choppers, jets, tanks, submarines, destroyers and combat engineers. Low-observable units engage in stealthy cat-and-mouse contests, infantrymen use jump-packs to fly over the battlefield, and combat scuba units travel invisibly beneath the surface to attack. You can change options to make pieces move much like their regular chess counterparts while still using weapons, and adjust other aspects of play as well.

Game options

The game includes a board editor, a notation system for describing games, pre-defined starting boards and a set of popular color themes. You can save preferences for how the game plays and looks, and set it to load those preferences automatically when it starts. There are 13 piece sets available.

Play against others

The Linux/SteamOS version supports play against a computer opponent or another human sharing the same computer; it has no online matchmaking. The newer Windows version has fully animated graphics and lets you play online with Steam friends, but does not include a computer opponent. Both versions are included, so the computer opponent and online play are available in their respective versions.