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This is cool!

One suggestion: some way to tell what the enemy pieces are? Maybe a legend to the right of the board? I ended up discovering by trial and error.

Isn't it pretty obvious? At least I recognized them.
Since I last looked, at least on my browser the gameboard has been significantly enlarged.

I'd say it's now obvious, but previously I mistook a bishop for a pawn.

I think it makes a pretty good assumption on understanding core chess rules, but yea that would be nice. The thing that did trip me up at first was not realizing the red and blue bishops were the same piece, I was wondering if I was missing something.
I think I found a mini bug. Say I do a score of 10. Then I change board. Then I die with score < 10. I still have 10 for that board. It makes it easy to cheat the leaderboard :) Fun game!
This is really fun and intuitive. Pretty, too. What did you build it in?
This is really really awesome
Very nice. Enjoyed playing this. I know Chess, what is Roguelike here ?
yeah I concur

Great little arcade game. Not a rogue-like.

Very cool concept only annoying thing was I exited out of the instructions panel and then wanted to revisit it later but it seemed impossible
There must be something in the water! I’ve been working on a (very different) chess-like roguelike, and just released the demo. Check it out if you’re a fan of weird chess puzzles, bad chess puns, and Hnefatafl!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3856240/Pieces_of_the_Kin...

Looks great! Gamedev is so cool, being able to create enjoyable, playable worlds and characters must be so satisfying. If you can tell me how to build something like this I will be so grateful.
Wishlisted! Looks great
This is highly parasitic: someone does a Show HN about their hobby project, and then you come and snap on to it like a leech with your to-be-paid-for completely unrelated game demo.

I find this kind of behaviour disgusting. Why don't you do a Show HN on your own?

no bad but the blue and red characters, I have no idea what they are
Looks like enemy movements are deterministic, wonder how feasible it is to script this. Was able to increase my score by 4 points trying alternate lines near the end
great game well done i could easily play this for far too long
Someone on the leaderboard got to 118? Would be fun to watch that replay.
Can't go over 19, seems to be a lot of RNG, sometimes pieces spawn around protecting each-other and you stuck between them, so not much you can do.
Big chess fan here.

This is great!

Genuinely interesting, thank you.
Fun, responsive and intuitive. Congrats.