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[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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] 40 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Brilliant

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

They WOULD be a nightmare though.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Did you find out?

Otherwise I may

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