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Make any starting position with 39 points of material. When players are ready the setups are revealed and normal chess rules apply.

Play against computer, with a friend, or multiplayer

It's pretty unbalanced. The computer opponent can decide which pieces it uses after I make my choice.
Each opponent sets up for themselves so by default computer makes its own setup

In computer settings you can toggle manual setup for computer, which allows you to set up for computer

You can also let computer play against itself! Make two setups and see which one is stronger

Super fun and brutal. I won one game (of a few) because I was very lucky. [1]

Some feature requests:

The material counter definetively needs a bar too.

It's not clear when I selected a piece to move it, they need more highlighting.

A visual icon for check and checkmate.

When can I castle? When can I move a pawn two squares?

Option to repeat my last starting position. The computer position too?

It woud be interesting to see which starting positions are more popular. If you have alot of spare computing power to organize a tournament between starting positions. (I expect something complicated like a Nash equilibrium and optimal starting strategies that are a probablilistic mix of starting positions.)

[1] spoiler alert: drop a few pawn and upgrade the knight and bishops to rook, double them on the side and hope the oposite king has not enougt protection for a frontal atack.