About Super Chess 16x16
From the inventor
In today's modern world — where everything keeps growing bigger, smarter, and more futuristic — it's about time we had a better chess game.
If you're old enough, like me, you may remember the Star Trek chess board. I thought for years and years about how to make a better real-world chess game. Honestly, it wasn't until about four years ago that I finally solved it and figured out how to do it right.
Not by inventing a pile of useless things, and not by repeating the same piece over and over. I concentrated profoundly, and made it mathematically balanced.
You'll find that every piece here is balanced — in its movements, against the board size, against the total number of pieces, and a lot more.
What this is
Super Chess 16x16 is a chess variant played on a 16-by-16 board with eleven unique piece types, where every piece is reprogrammable — the player authors its movement at runtime. The same game is available as a free browser play, as a downloadable desktop application, and as a Google Play mobile app.
The studio
The game is published by Roberto Monzon. The site, the engine, the artwork, and the named pieces (Prince, Princess, Archbishop, Super Knight, Fortress, Programmable Piece) are owned by Roberto Monzon.
Patent Pending
A U.S. Provisional Patent Application has been filed at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the data-driven piece-movement engine and the runtime programmable-piece authoring subsystem. The application covers, among other things:
- The data-driven piece-movement engine and JSON piece- definition file format.
- The 16-by-16 board with eleven or more unique piece types.
- The runtime programmable-piece authoring subsystem (the gesture by which the player adds a movement vector to a piece by clicking a destination square).
Source code, artwork, sound, and the named pieces are also protected by copyright. The brand and logo are protected by trademark.
Contact
Questions, suggestions, partnership inquiries, press: write to admin @ chess16x16.com.