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Shattered Chess
A chess variant where captures crack and collapse the board
Shattered Chess is a new chess variant where the board itself becomes part of the strategy. Captures crack squares, repeated damage can turn them into Abysses, and those gaps change how pieces move and attack. Rooks, bishops, and queens must navigate around collapsed terrain, while knights can leap over it. Castling, en passant, and promotion still work.
Thanks for checking out Shattered Chess! I wanted to make a chess variant that keeps the familiar rules but changes the board itself as the game progresses. The idea was to create something that feels tactical, strange, and still very much like chess. I’d love to hear what you think - especially whether the fracture mechanic feels interesting or too chaotic.
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About Shattered Chess on Product Hunt
“A chess variant where captures crack and collapse the board”
Shattered Chess was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #122 on the daily leaderboard. Shattered Chess is a new chess variant where the board itself becomes part of the strategy. Captures crack squares, repeated damage can turn them into Abysses, and those gaps change how pieces move and attack. Rooks, bishops, and queens must navigate around collapsed terrain, while knights can leap over it. Castling, en passant, and promotion still work.
Shattered Chess was featured in Board Games (5.4k followers), Indie Games (7.1k followers) and Games (98.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 30.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Shattered Chess was hunted by Dmytro Hrytsenko. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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