this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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[–] Lxrduy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 1 year ago (6 children)

How do you differentiate black and white pieces? Maybe half the pieces should have white text instead

[–] runjun@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

♔♚ ♕♛ ♖♜ ♗♝ ♘♞ ♙♟︎

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

Was thinking the same, use unicode or emojis for chess pieces.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, it definitely needs to be color coded.

The other thing that would bother me is that if you're playing black, you have to play upside down. I wonder if there would be a way to "flip the board".

[–] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably could make a board on another sheet with a formula that points to the opposite side of the board

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds like a nightmare of VBA code. I love it!

[–] AThing4String@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can think of 1½ ways to do that that wouldn't involve VBA.

They WOULD be a nightmare though.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. Fair enough. I'm not sure which would be worse.

[–] AThing4String@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the spirit of anarchy chess, I MAY need to find out. For science.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Did you find out?

Otherwise I may

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I think sheets will let you flip the text completely. Although then issues with using mouse when looking at it from that side

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 22 points 1 year ago

Definitely. White background too. Chess Team Six ready for check.

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And they definitely need to make the spaces squares.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

CAPS vs lowercase

[–] SorteKanin 2 points 1 year ago

Is there a variant of chess where you use the same color? Like blind chess but you're only color blind.