Tug Chess

The game

Tug Chess is chess with a beef: every capture is settled by an arm-wrestle. Each piece carries STR and PWR stats, and when you take an enemy piece the board flips into a propaganda-poster tug-of-war where you mash keys against the Automat's stamina — win and the victim is dragged off the board and entered in the move ledger. Checkmate still wins outright, so the classic game is intact; muscle just decides the raids. Red, black and cream constructivist geometrics with a spinning sunburst behind every brawl.

How to play

• Click (or tap) one of your red pieces, then click the destination square to move it.
• Any move onto an enemy piece starts a CAPTURE CONTEST: a tug-of-war overlay with a rope knot and a timer.
• Alternate the F and J keys as fast as you can — same key twice in a row costs you ground (on touch, tap the left and right halves of the screen instead).
• Stronger attacker (STR vs the defender's PWR) pulls further per press; lose the tug and your attacker retreats, forfeiting the turn.
• Pull the knot past YOUR LINE before the 8.5-second timer drains and the capture lands: the enemy piece is dragged off the board and the take is logged in the ledger on the right.
• P or Esc pauses; Enter or a click starts the match and rematches.