New mobile take on the Dice Chess variant! Curious what this sub thinks of our implementation
I'm from Latvia and I've been playing chess since kindergarten. A couple of years ago I was looking for something to shake up my usual routine, so I joined a Dice Chess tournament in Riga. Wasn't expecting much, but it turned out to be way more popular locally than I thought. Got hooked, and decided to digitize it with my own take on it: Chess Hero, for mobile.
For anyone who hasn't played it, you roll 3 dice at the start of your turn, and together they show which 3 pieces you're allowed to move that turn. Everything else stays standard chess: same board, same pieces, same goal.
What that does to the feel of the game: you can't fully commit to one long calculated plan anymore, because the piece you need might just not show up on a given roll. You end up keeping a few ideas warm instead of pouring everything into one line, and there's real tension in the roll itself as sometimes it hands you exactly the piece you needed, sometimes your best-placed piece is stuck on the bench for a turn. Still sharp, tactical chess underneath, but it rewards adapting in the moment over pure deep calculation.
Closed beta is opening soon, capped at 1,000 players. Anyone who takes part gets a unique founder skin as a thank-you. Mostly curious how this sub feels about the implementation and happy to compare rules specifics if anyone's played other versions and wants to see how ours differs.
Sign up at chesshero.com if anyone wants to poke at it directly! Closed Beta starts on the 12th of August.