Mini-Chess

I had an idea for a game I might prototype: Mini-chess!

Chess but only with a 6x6 board, but what do you think of the starting position?

I know the queens are on the wrong color in the picture, but what about knights and bishops? I think each side should have a knight and bishop, but should the bishops be the same color? Should the bishop be on the queenside or kingside?

I think it's a fun idea, I might make a browser game out of it

Update: I'm making it a reality! (You can't play against other people online, it's just local) You can play here!

That' pretty cool i think you should test out games with the boards to determine the specifications if the nights and bishops should be on different colors but overall seems like a fun idea. The only worry is that it might get overcrowded but ofc there are less pieces.

nice idea!!!

Yeah definitely! I've been playing out some games, and it definitely feels cramped for the pieces, but I think it could still be an interesting game

Thanks! I'll update this thread if I do end up making a game out of it, I'm currently neck deep into re-writing the search function for my Chess engine Maxwell

Thats pretty cool are you into coding? I only know a little html

I played a game against myself, and it was very fun

Good job

lol seems cool

Yeah I've been coding for about 8 years now, and I know most "mainstream" programming languages, although I really don't like C and C++ hahaha

Awesome! I think it'd be really cool to have my own Elo system with leaderboards and stuff, maybe we could even get some strong titled players to try it out

This looks fun and interesting, are you planning on making it as a custom variant?

It would be interesting to have titled players play it.

I briefly looked through the variants settings, but I didn't see a setting for changing the board size.

So I kind of want to make my own website to host a custom game, matchmaking seems complicated, but I think it'd be a fun project once Maxwell is at a good point

Yeah definitely, I wonder how they'd handle the lack of space... I have a feeling at GM level it would just be a draw every time hahaha

Ok so I couldn't resist how fun it looked to make, so I made a little prototype here, it doesn't stop you from making illegal moves, the same side can even move twice in a row, but I'll work on it in-between Maxwell updates

Update: I fixed the same side being able to move twice in a row

Another update: Touch screen support!

Nice! HTML, CSS and JS are great starting points (I assume you're learning CSS and JS with HTML), for this project I'm using HTML, CSS and Dart, which is a static-typed language that compiles to JS