Take your chess game to another level with tschess, available for iOS and Android
Chess is dead. Long live tschess!
When it comes to prestige, The World Chess Championship is the single greatest achievement a professional player can win. Unfortunately though when the event was last held in 2018, every single match ended in a draw, for the first time in human history. The event was so boring that the tournament slated to run in 2020 was literally cancelled [0]. Chess is dead. Chess remains dead. And we have killed him.
Fortunately for enthusiasts of the game, out of these smoldering ashes has emerged a new, faster-paced, more strategic game. One in every particular better suited to our contemporary lives. That game is known as "The End of Chess", and its name is tschess.
Unlike most incarnations of the game, tschess doesn’t rely on novelties or gimmicks but instead offers a fresh take on how the game is played. It does this by allowing players to determine the starting positions for each of their pieces on the board, effectively eliminating the King’s Gambit and all other opening strategies that can kill a game before it even has a chance to get started.
At this point some chess aficionados out there might point out that the idea of customising the starting order of chess pieces is nothing new. In fact Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest champions in modern history, proposed his very own variant of randomised chess known as Fischer random chess. Tschess’s developer is no stranger to the concept, but aims to improve upon it.
For instance, one major problem with Fischer random chess is that it removes the player's sense of agency, by placing the starting configuration of both players in the hands of almighty providence. In tschess it's up to each player's own mind to create their starting configuration on the back two ranks. In tschess both players also have equal opportunity with which to determine their configuration, but the outcome will hinge entirely on their ingenuity and skill and creating the best possible opening.
In short, tschess is the natural successor to Fisher chess and promises to revitalise the tired old game of chess for a new generation. Still don't get it? See for yourself.
You can find tschess available to download now for free from the App Store and Google Play.
[0] CLARIFICATION: This article initially stated that the 2020 World Chess Championship was cancelled because the 2018 event was so boring, it was subsequently determined that the COVID-19 pandemic might have played a more substantive role in the tournament cancelation.