Siege Chess puts the whole board on a castle wall and dresses every piece for war
Chess on a battlement under a full moon, with four modes, a dragon in one screenshot and a flat board for purists.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
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Somebody has built a chessboard on top of a castle wall, put armour on every piece and parked a full moon behind the keep, and the result looks less like a chess app than a siege that happens to be laid out in squares. Siege Chess is the work of Jeremy Griffin, a developer in Cornwall, and his own description is plain about the idea: traditional chess, rebuilt as a medieval world with animated 3D battles whenever a piece is taken, magical weapons and online multiplayer. The screenshots back up the setting, at least. The board sits on a raised stone platform ringed by mossy, carved battlemen...