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Hi everyone. I am developing **Grand Chess Manager: Road to Grandmaster**, a chess career and club management game made in Godot.
Most chess games focus on one board at a time: play a match, solve puzzles, analyze with an engine. I love those, but I always felt chess was missing a deeper management-style game: something closer to a sports career sim, where the board matters, but so do preparation, tournament selection, form, titles, money, coaching, transfers and the long road from local events to elite chess.
The idea is:
- create your own chess player and grow from amateur level toward master titles
- enter tournaments, gain or lose ELO, and chase title norms
- train openings, calculation, middlegame, endgame, psychology and form
- manage a chess club, squad, coaches, scouts, sponsors, salaries and facilities
- sign and sell players through a transfer system
- follow a living chess world with news, rankings, leagues and simultaneous matches
- play/review board-level games, with optional Stockfish support for analysis/AI
What I am most interested in is whether chess players and management-sim players feel this fantasy is underexplored.
If you played a serious chess management game, what would make it feel authentic to you?
- Should the focus be more on one player's career, managing a club, or switching between both?
- Which parts of real chess life are usually missing from chess games?
- Would you rather see deeper tournament drama, training systems, club finance, opening preparation, or board-level match control?
- Are FIDE-style titles/norms/ELO enough, or would you want more human stories around rivals, coaches, family, sponsors and pressure?
I attached a short clip/screenshots from the current build. I would genuinely love criticism, especially from people who play chess, follow tournaments, or enjoy management sims.
GenAI disclosure: GenAI was used to assist with some visual/promotional assets and translation/localization. The game itself does not require GenAI and does not use generative AI during gameplay.