this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (6 children)

How do you differentiate black and white pieces? Maybe half the pieces should have white text instead

[–] runjun 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

♔♚ ♕♛ ♖♜ ♗♝ ♘♞ ♙♟︎

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Was thinking the same, use unicode or emojis for chess pieces.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Definitely. White background too. Chess Team Six ready for check.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, it definitely needs to be color coded.

The other thing that would bother me is that if you're playing black, you have to play upside down. I wonder if there would be a way to "flip the board".

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Probably could make a board on another sheet with a formula that points to the opposite side of the board

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 13 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That sounds like a nightmare of VBA code. I love it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can think of 1½ ways to do that that wouldn't involve VBA.

They WOULD be a nightmare though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lol. Fair enough. I'm not sure which would be worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the spirit of anarchy chess, I MAY need to find out. For science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Did you find out?

Otherwise I may

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think sheets will let you flip the text completely. Although then issues with using mouse when looking at it from that side

[–] radicalautonomy 9 points 1 month ago

And they definitely need to make the spaces squares.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

CAPS vs lowercase

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Is there a variant of chess where you use the same color? Like blind chess but you're only color blind.