Haha yeah...
I've never really gotten into networking games, I only know the most surface level of socket programming and can barely set-up a peer-to-peer game system. I do not know how to make a multiplayer game here on itch or elsewhere, I assume I'd need to buy an AWS server and do a bunch of netcode for that, which is something I've never been taught or have tackled before.
While I have problems with it, I do still like this core design idea as my chess variant, and yes I would like to make it truly multiplayer over the internet but that's far outside the scope of this jam, game, and myself at this time, unfortunately....
Thank you for playing, GreenBeakCrow! I appreciate it :)