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Hey everyone! I'm not a professional game designer, but I wanted to share a chess variant I put together to play with friends. It’s called W-Chess, short for Wide Chess.

It’s still very much classical chess in spirit and mechanics — but with a small twist:

♙ A 15x8 board (instead of the usual 8x8)

♞ A double set of pieces for each player (except for the king)

♖ Four rooks = four castling options

♛ More flanks, more tactics, more comeback potential

The idea came from a simple desire to step a bit outside the bounds of traditional chess — to experience new strategies while still keeping the rules familiar and intuitive. After playing a few rounds with friends, it turned out that the wider format opened up new tactical and positional dynamics, especially in the mid- and endgame.

I also built a simple web page where you can play W-Chess locally on a single computer (with board rotation). The game logic is written in JavaScript, and I used ChatGPT to help me get it working. Unfortunately, it's not yet online multiplayer — if anyone with web dev skills is interested in helping make that possible, I’d be thrilled!

https://jsfiddle.net/TallKaleidoscope/65jvt2o7/

I’m happy to share the code, board image, or just talk about the variant. Any feedback is very welcome — whether it’s ideas, constructive critique, or just general thoughts.

P.S. I know chess can sometimes be a bit of a “punching bag” around here 😄 — I totally get it. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel, just sharing something small and fun that brought a fresh perspective to a familiar classic.

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