Really cool game! Funnily enough I've been trying to get into chess recently so this was fun to see! On my first playthrough I didn't quite get the extra mechanics as the screen was too zoomed in to see the whole shop, I didn't really interact with the timer on pieces and then eventually the game soft locked with the enemy team not making a move, but I was enjoying playing chess with different piece positions than usual. Second playthrough I learnt about zooming out so I could see the whole shop, and I pressed e to see all the timers and then things clicked, I really liked the idea, I started playing the game as intended and was properly thinking about what pieces to use. Eventually having multiple queens to checkmate in less than 5 turns was very fun. Selling pieces is a really cool idea too, especially with the shop being randomized (I think), so I also had to consider if there were any pieces I actually wanted from the shop. The game did softlock again sadly, but I think I got to experience the core of the game. This is really fun, such a good idea on the theme and also chess in general lol. Excellent work on this! 

Okay I love chess so this game was pretty great. I hadn't read the description when I first played so I wasn't really sure how it was different from regular chess other than how it has a shop and how it keeps the position of the pieces every game but I worked it out eventually. This is a cool twist that I haven't seen before, which made me really think about whether to even move certain pieces or not! You also made a pretty solid chess engine that has nicely designed pieces visually.

- There should be an option to not promote once it pops up with the menu for which piece you wanna promote a pawn to, because i didn't actually want to promote the pawn on this specific turn and realised i was forced into it as soon as I got to that menu.
- I found a bug where the game loaded for a second when t should be the enemy's turn, and then they just never made a move which softlocked the game.
- My screen was far too zoomed in; i could only see the left side of the shop and couldn't see the top of the screen either. Changing resolution did nothing.

Still this is a pretty cool chess variant!

Really cool entry! The art style and music create a great vibe, and the gameplay is very fun. My main suggestion would be making the text a bit larger and adding a quick restart button to make it feel even smoother to play. Great job on this game!

It's kinda easy if you know the common moves of chess, maybe balancing the piece timers a bit with a little more explanation on the countdown (but not outside, in game)

I kept going around the chess board thinking i would find something secret :P.