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[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (15 children)

How do you differentiate black and white pieces? Maybe half the pieces should have white text instead

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Yeah, it definitely needs to be color coded.

The other thing that would bother me is that if you're playing black, you have to play upside down. I wonder if there would be a way to "flip the board".

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Probably could make a board on another sheet with a formula that points to the opposite side of the board

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Brilliant

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like a nightmare of VBA code. I love it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can think of 1½ ways to do that that wouldn't involve VBA.

They WOULD be a nightmare though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lol. Fair enough. I'm not sure which would be worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In the spirit of anarchy chess, I MAY need to find out. For science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Did you find out?

Otherwise I may

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