Chess++ (2020)

If you thought regular Chess was big brain. just wait til you meet the mind-blowingly epic game of Chess++. Attacks from all 3 dimensions as you outwit the genius computer waiting to destroy your very existense. Actually a very fun game and unique way to play chess. Would recommend homies!

Really glad to see this project; especially as the website Jocly is no longer available which used to provide different chess variants to play against the AI or with another player. Chess++ is already good by providing Raumschach in it's original German format of 1907 which was designed to represent the recent innovation of flight and its use within modern warfare. The AI is difficult on hard but it would be good to have more difficulty options as easy may be too easy for some players. I would also like to see some alternate display options for the board; although I think the cubic format is effective I think personally I prefer to have 5 flat boards placed ontop of each other without vertical lines interlinking them because I found this made it more difficult to see through the board when viewing from the side. The best idea I think would be to be able to toggle different guidelines on and off at will. I really look forward to the Chess++ progressing and expanding to include new variants: Some variants I would really like to see included in order of preference are: 1) Hexagonal Chess - which has 3 board colours and thus 3 different bishops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal…

If you like chess and want to blow your mind with new dimensions then Chess++ is the way. I like the fact it has a step by step tutorial and introduces a new piece- "The Unicorn". It would be nice if you could see the computer evaluation of the position or ask for hints for the best move. It would also be nice to see it linked to an online vender/server like: chess.com, lichess.org, chess24.com or freechess.org. I can't wait for a VR version! I got the game as an early release and stream games looking for best strategy and tactics at: https://www.twitch.tv/chessplayerb4 I definitely recommend it for hours of mind blowing fun.

"Raumschach (German for Space Chess) is one of the first three-dimensional chess variants and the first to survive until present times. It was invented by Herr Doktor Ferdinand Maack in 1907. Maack first experimented with an 8x8x8 array but later determined that a 5x5x5 array yields a nicer game. Maack founded a Raumschach club in Hamburg in 1919, which remained active until the Second World War." Not bad, but needs better camera controls. After all, rotating the camera around the board is more important than rotating the camera itself or moving it in a plane.