RTS Chess

Chess is slow if you wait for the other person. I got rid of the wait.

RTS Chess is ordinary chess with the turns taken out. Both sides may move any ready piece at any time. After a piece slides it sits on cooldown; when the highlight fades you can move it again. You win by taking the king. Check is not a pause. The king is allowed to walk into danger, and you are allowed to take it.

The rest of the rules are the boring ones: 8×8, castling, en passant, pawns that become queens. The tempo is the only dial. Default cooldown is a second. Shorter than that and it stops being chess and starts being a brawl, which is also the point.

There was an HTML5 build and an iPad build. The Mary Sue wrote it up as bananas, which is fair.

Play it here: https://playrtschess.com/