oh huh, I'm not sure why this one made it to the front page and not the link to my site!

Anyway, yeah, I guess I could have gone with turns here but I thought that building a more realtime MMO thing where pieces could cross boards would be a little more interesting and novel. I also didn't feel like a version of this that was turn based would ever complete.

certainly a queen can go wipe out a whole board, but the game tries to place you next to other active players when you join, which hopefully promotes some interesting counterplay to that. And I think playing chess in realtime like this against someone is pretty fun. But I understand why it might not be for everyone!