I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
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#2I thought this would be about redesigning their movement to make a new kind of game. But it's only the shape of the pieces.
That said, I'd use a square for the rooks so they don't get confused with the bishops as they get moved and maybe an L shape for the knights. It would definitely make it easy for beginners to learn how each piece moves.
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#3This is fantastic, I would love to try playing a game with these pieces. I think this could improve accessibility and also make the game less intimidating for newcomers.
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#5It would be interesting to do an experiment on people playing one another (online) with these pieces vs regular pieces (e.g. one player with a regular set and one player with this set). Because I do feel like I can visualize the state of the board more easily with this approach--but would that translate across people into better play, or is there some point where a more expert player (I don't play very often, though I enjoy playing and have played for years) has already internalized the mapping from piece shape to movement. But that said, it does feel like the difference between font styles in programming, which for me have a very meaningful impact over time.
Edit: Though good point to the parallel commenters, the knight shape is harder to differentiate and kind of throws me off. But maybe tweaks there.
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#6I thought this would be about redesigning their movement to make a new kind of game. But it's only the shape of the pieces. That said, I'd use a square for the rooks so they don't get confused with the bishops as they get moved and maybe an L shape for the knights. It would definitely make it easy for beginners to learn how each piece moves.
> It would definitely make it easy for beginners to learn how each piece moves.
Which is more or less the easiest part of the game to learn, and one which pretty much anybody will have down after one or maybe two games.
It's a clever little idea to share on Twitter but in practice I think it would make the board slower to read for advanced players, because so many pieces look similar.
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#7Curious about the second tweet: are they typically called “liberties” in chess or is that borrowed from Go?
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#8That is very clever!
But I hate the way the pawns face. Makes sense! But it still reads, to me, like one of those "color, but the text is in a different color" things. Feels like the pawns should be facing the opposite direction. =/
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#9Curious about the second tweet: are they typically called “liberties” in chess or is that borrowed from Go?
Its not a chess term.
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#10What I enjoy about this design is it exploits the correlation between piece value with the number of ways it can move, resulting in a visual intuition that more visually complex pieces are worth more on average. The knight is perhaps the frustrating exceptions to this.