Of course there have been even more experimental titles in recent years, like Shotgun King, which looked at the rules of chess and just had a deep laughter at them, while crumpling them into a ball of paper and throwing them into the garbage bin. While, on the opposite side of the spectrum, Chess 2: The Sequel (yes, this is the actual title of the game) tried to spice up the rules to make games more dynamic. One of the most well known example is Battle Chess, which added a fresh coat of nice graphics to the basic flow of the game, without changing any of the relevant rules. Video games are not new to tackling chess.
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With the recent Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit and the bouts of Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura on the chessboard (plus some – let’s call them “interesting”- scandals involving alleged cheating and sex toys), chess keeps a relevant place in pop culture and shows no signs of stopping.
Maybe surprisingly, this event didn’t stifle the interest in the game – if anything, it led to the creation of sophisticated open-source chess engines like Stockfish that are regularly used by players of all skill levels to refine their strategies and check the viability of certain tactics. A tale of kings and pawns, eternally retoldĬhess is a game with an incredibly rich story that is still extremely popular, even after the historical Deep Blue’s victory against Kasparov in 1997 that showed how a machine could play better than the best human player. I have used that time to explore the game and give myself an idea of its mechanics. The game went through an open beta phase back at the end of August and in the first weekend of September 2023. This time, we talk about Checkmate Showdown, an interesting mixture between chess and a traditional fighter – now wishlistable on Steam and coming out in November 2023.
This article is part of SuperCombo’s ongoing indie fighting game coverage.
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