u/Advanced-Benefit6297

I created ARCChess to improve my positional understanding. It adds one rule to standard chess:

Every piece must remain connected to the King through a chain of adjacent pieces. Disconnect, and those pieces turn to stone - still on the board but frozen until the connection is restored.

New tactics this creates:

- Sever Move: cut off pieces without capturing
- Stone Blunder: accidentally stone your own army
- Load-bearing pieces: some pieces matter more as bridges than attackers

arcchess.org