Malfizar's Siege Chess

A few months ago I launched a website for a chess variant I made. 

I called the variant Siege Chess, and host it at https://siegechess.net.

The site has some basic features for creating, joining games, and challenging other users. 
It supports a maximum of up to 8 players, and allows the users to customize the size of the board and apply some custom settings.

To briefly describe how the game works, it begins when the host of a gameroom clicks on Start Game:
1) Players take turn placing their fortress. 
2) Players take turns placing their king.
3) Players are given some gold to purchase their starting army. Other players will not be visible during this step. They will click 'Ready' once they have selected their army and are ready to begin.
4) When all players are ready, the game will officially begin.

At the start of a players turn, they will get one gold. 
The player can choose to move, capture, or spawn pieces.

There are two ways to put a user in check. Either attack the king like you would in ordinary chess, or attack the stationary fortress with three pieces. If either condition cannot be resolved, then it is checkmate. 

If a player is in check, they cannot spawn pieces. If the fortress is attacked by any number of pieces ("siege"), the user does not earn gold. 

I've had a lot of fun playing the variant with the people I have shown it too, and want to grow the playerbase a little bit. I hope you guys enjoy the variant! 

These are some screenshots that I took to show off the game:

Looks awesome! I'l check it out

I look forward to playing against you!

yeah me too

I hope you enjoy it! If you find any bugs btw, consider making a forum post in the club I made for the variant. Seems there's a couple that got through testing that I need to fix sometime soon.

Me too

Looks really nice

same here

I tried it out

It is quite fun to be honest

Very intriguing concept

We should play it together sometime.

did you code it yourself (or ask ChatGPT)?

Yeah

8 players at once

The website is down right now

I tried to play but couldn’t get into the website.

@brutalitywarlord: do you know what the problem is?

Someone is finding a way to make the server uses 100% of its CPU. 
I suspect its related to the bot, will try fixing that, but in general not sure whats going on

This did happen in the past, the culprit last time was a player finding an exploit to allow games with only bots to continue running. It is gonna suck a little bit, but I am going to restrict users to only being able to add one bot to the game. This should prevent any of those kind of shenanigans in the future.

oh ok good