Show HN: Schmess – chess with no turns; pieces freeze on cooldown after moving (schmess.com)

Solo dev here. Schmess is chess with the turn structure removed. Both players move whenever they have a free slot, and every piece freezes on a cooldown after it moves. It's on a half board, with 100+ puzzle stages. If two people played this over a physical board they'd scrape each other's fingers raw - that's roughly the tempo.

Plays in the browser, no signup. 29 stages free, one-time unlock for the rest ($3.99 / Rs 149). No subscription, no ads.

It's the second of a few small-board variants I'm building (halfchess was the first, more coming). Building a chess engine for a game with no turns turned out to be the hard part - I've put the war stories in a comment below.