THIS IS ULTRA MEGA SUPER EARLY ALPHA STUFF BUT IT SHOULD WORK!
If you are not an intermediate chess fan who is used to janky gaming this is not the game for you!!
That said...
This is chess! Also lichess!
**THIS PROJECT HEAVILY RELIES ON AI IF YOU DONT LIKE THAT DO NOT LOG IN WITH STEAM/LICHESS ON THE SITE**
Seek classic or rapid matches on lichess... Play up to blitz matches on lichess by sending challenges or both authing on gamchess. Or abandon all of it and just play bullet in-session (host authed) against the gamches backend.
Oh yeah and just play in a session with your friends!
Lichess documentation indicates it may be allowed for API's like this to play blitz games with blessings from their discord... The first time someone shows up to ask for that I will join their discord and ask.
I built this for 3 groups of people:
The ~5 out of 500 of you playing regularly that like chess and would play chess
The ~500/ out of ~250k of you that bought the game and didn't know how to get started making or stuff because the ecosystem is weird but you like chess....
The ~5k out of idk how many steam nerds that might give the gmod guy 20 bucks to play lichess on steam in a silly way with chat and friends and stuff...