Malfizar's Siege Chess

A few months ago I launched a website for a chess variant I made. Given that I made the game capable of going up to 8 players in a single game(with the appropriate board size), I figured that you four player chess players could get a kick out of the idea!

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

Keep in mind the site is not yet mobile friendly, so use horizontal view if you are on mobile.

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 fun!! Very reminiscent of George R.R. Martin's Cvasse. I've never read the books, but I built a version of the game entirely out of Legos once! I look forward to trying this out with some friends of mine!

I would love to have an 8 player game once! Oh the chaos that would be. I actually plan to add a Merchant Piece that returns gold to a player that captures it, which is meant to facilitate some kind of pseudo diplomacy and trade in the game lol. Maybe I'll add a full blown alliance mechanic to the game eventually.

hello

Hello there!

Anyone online want to play right now? I would love to have a 3-4 player game of Siege Chess!

I don't want to give you my username. Can you make an anonomouse mode?

Huh? The usernames are not saved to any database, plus there's no passwords either. You can use whatever username you want anytime you log in.

Would anyone like to play this with me?