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That is very clever!

But I hate the way the pawns face. Makes sense! But it still reads, to me, like one of those "color, but the text is in a different color" things. Feels like the pawns should be facing the opposite direction. =/

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It's attack direction not movement direction. Pawns are the one piece where there is a difference and I'm not sure which is better ;-)

Also, there's rochade/castling.

Catapart is aware, they're just saying it's unfortunate how it ends up looking.

It is very clever, except accidental rotation can easily turn rooks into bishops and vice-versa.

Sounds like a fun variant, allowing that as a move... (Remicent of shogi).

You could put each piece on a square base that must remain aligned with the board.

Yeah, I wonder if it would be a slight improvement to combine move+capture.

So pawns would be

    /|\  /|\


    \|/  \|/

which looks less anti-directional.

It would make sense to have move and capture be different. Like square in front and two lines or points to the diagonal.

Also visualizes en-passant in a better way.

Same. I understand why they're like that but I can't see it any other way than: "Why are pawns going to move in the wrong direction?".

I think change out \/ for:

    ■ ■
     P

And the knight for:

And you might have something a little nicer

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