You might think that there’s not much wrong with chess as a game, considering it’s two and a half thousand years old and just as popular as ever. But – and this is news to me – apparently, at the top end of the game, it’s all become a bit boring. Grandmasters have refined the memorisation of moves to such a degree that 60 percent of games end as a draw. The better you become at chess, the more boring it becomes.
David Sirlin – the man who rebalanced the mechanics of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo for the HD Remix edition that came out in 2008 – thinks chess could be better. So, as you do, he’s changed the game mechanics and created a game he calls Chess 2: The Sequel. Fighting games and chess have a lot in common, when you think about – a range of characters to choose, each with defined moves and set strengths and weaknesses, some predictable, some not.
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