Dark Chess
Control
The city thrums with electric menace, its towering skyscrapers clawing at a smog-choked sky. You are small. You are unseen. A flicker of fur and instinct darting through neon-soaked alleys, your claws scraping metal vents as you vanish into shadows. Above, searchlights carve the darkness—mechanical hounds patrol with clicking joints and thermal eyes. Your goal pulses in your skull: *Find the Seed*. They say it’s a relic, buried in the underbelly of this steel labyrinth, the last organic lifeform in a world choking on synthetic rot. But the Corp knows you’re here. Every crumb of intel stolen from their servers, every spliced security feed—they’re hunting. Survive. Adapt. Chew through wires to blackout districts, scramble drones with stolen codes, outwit the silent, skittering things that mimic rats but taste like copper and code. The city is a machine, and you? You’re the mouse that jams its gears.
Description
This unique chess variant utilizes traditional Chinese chess pieces but operates under entirely different rules. The core mechanic revolves around a strict hierarchy where only higher-ranked pieces can capture lower-ranked ones. Victory is achieved by eliminating all opposing pieces or immobilizing the opponent’s forces, while defeat occurs if your entire army is devoured or rendered unable to make legal moves. Strategic positioning and careful preservation of high-value units become paramount in this tactical reimagining of classic gameplay.
