An alternative chess platform

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32 Comments

dadGPT@lemmy.world · 129 pts · 2y

i couldnt excel in chess, so decided to chess in excel

Darkard@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 2y

I promote my pawn to pivot table

Lxrduy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 57 pts · 2y (15 replies)

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

runjun@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 2y (1 reply)

♔♚ ♕♛ ♖♜ ♗♝ ♘♞ ♙♟︎

BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 2y

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

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y (8 replies)

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".

GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz · 40 pts · 2y (6 replies)

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

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y

Brilliant

MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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

AThing4String@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

They WOULD be a nightmare though.

MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

AThing4String@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Did you find out?

Otherwise I may

goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y

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

Neato@ttrpg.network · 22 pts · 2y

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

radicalautonomy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

And they definitely need to make the spaces squares.

nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y

CAPS vs lowercase

SorteKanin@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 2y

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

Terminus@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Why does black get to go first? 1. E5? (good meme though)

Solaris1789@jlai.lu · 21 pts · 2y

white actually went first but they played the swedish samba (Kf3, Kg1)

neidu2@feddit.nl · 22 pts · 2y

Finally I can do something useful through SharePoint

Verito@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I'll raise you rnbqkbnr/ppppp1ppp/8/4p3/4P3/8/pppp1ppp/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 2. Come at me bro.

Olmai@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I don't know the format but shouldn't it be rnbqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 2 to remove the pawn ambiguity ?

Verito@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

Aw fu, I mean..You see through my plan THIS time... Erm.. yeah.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y

Source code?

HubertManne@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

holy crap. I never thought to do this. This means I have access to chess practically in any situation. Heck i may make a template.

answersplease77@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

google docs allow multiple users to live edit the same file. it's flawless

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 2y

Give it FICS integration

Lepsea@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

You can be the first human to do en passant on that platform

WanakaTree@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

Even better, you could write a macro so en passant would be forced

WanakaTree@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Just make sure when pieces get taken you drag them under the board instead of deleting them. Otherwise what will you do when you need to promote a pawn?

Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

There'd be no coming back!