Chesses 2 throws a classic back into the blender with eight new twists

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Chesses 2 throws a classic back into the blender with eight new twistsCheck mates

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Thought you’d seen just about all that chess had to offer? Following last year’sChesses, experimental game developer and Chess menace Pippin Barr is back with kingly sequelChesses 2, offering eight more variations on the time-worn strategy puzzle - a checkmate challenge that defies dimensions, predictability, and the structural integrity of your computer monitor.

As withChesses' grab-bag ofweird and wonderful Chess remixes, Barr’s new sequel is a free browser game offering eight remixes of the thousand-year-old board game - ranging from immediate gags to fascinating new puzzle scenarios.

Then there’s XR, pictured above, which simply instructs you to “orient your device screen up and place appropriately-sized Chess pieces in the standard opening position.” Very funny.

But largely, Chesses 2 is a lovely bundle of quick little “what if?” Chess scenarios. For something with a little more teeth, Barr and Johnathan Lessard’sChogueturns Chess into aproper dungeon-crawling roguelike.

Chesses 2 can be playedin your browserfor free. Tired of checking mates? Barr’s got a history of remixing classics, withBreaksoutandPongseach providing a whopping 36 twists on their respective base games.

That’s like, 72 games right there. Should keep you busy.