Alunisoft · a chess roguelike

Saturday

Every week, the same bench in the same park. A father who never explains where he's going. And a club, further in, where they play for something.

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Saturday starts as the chess you already know — sit down, learn how the pieces move, win a game or two — and then it stops staying chess. A club that remembers every game you've played against it, a roster that grows one piece at a time, and a board that keeps changing shape under you.

An eight-by-eight board with an Archer, a Jumper, a Colossus and a Mage on it — An Archer, a Jumper and a Colossus on an ordinary eight-by-eight. None of them are pieces chess has.

A twelve-by-twelve board mostly in darkness, with a lit window around four pieces — Twelve files wide, and you can see seven of them. Something is standing at the edge of what you can see.

An eleven-by-eleven board with squares missing from it — Some squares are simply not there. They are not blocked, they are absent — for both of you.

A board whose outer ranks and files have been taken away, closing around the middle — One boss takes the board away a line at a time, and never the line his own king is standing on.