The Game of Nemoroth
- May 26, 2022
- azgoroth
The Game of Nemoroth, created by Ralph Betza in 2002, is the most complex playable chess variant ever created. Based on a cosmic horror theme, standard chess pieces are replaced with new pieces exhibiting side effects and complex interactions with each other. Multiple pieces can occupy a square and check is replaced with "compulsion," which can happen to any piece and to multiple pieces at the sam…