Ever wanted to play chess with someone... in Minecraft? Ok, maybe that never crossed your mind. Still, now you can!
Currently, you can build a free-style `Wood Chess Board` with no rules and minimal effort. For slightly more effort, you can build a `Gold Chess Board` that enforces chess rules.
In addition to just playing chess, as this mod evolves it will introduce the amazing chess variants produced in Pippin Barr's Chesses 1, Chesses 2 and his upcoming Chesses 3 games. Pippin's great, and this is my tip of the hat to him and creative contribution to our game design community 'round TAG. There are plans to introduce a variety of "Tournament Boards", including timed boards, ender-based remote-play boards and server-specific ELO rankings. For those who like collection/cosmetics, I'm planning on adding piece sets of varying rarity that can be crafted or found as loot, with the intent to make this extensible for those so inclined to make/add their own fancy pieces.