This is a cool idea! However, there is no real reason to progress the pieces forward - it seemed to work fine to just bring the same piece forwards and backward and wait for the AI to do something crazy. One way I would combat this would be to make pawns work as they do in normal chess - they only move forward, and they promote at the end. But nonetheless, this is very impressive for the jam (especially the AI) and it was nice to see another chess entry :D
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Thank you for the nice words :)!
Yes, the AI needs an update :). I will call it the Skynet update ;).
But moving only forward and promote would be a good option indeed. Or a maximum number of turn so you have to go to your opponent to win. And the AI needs to be smarter indeed. And do some less random moves :)
But glad you liked it, especially because you made a chess game also. I will check that one out later today. I am curious on your approach.
Thanks again!