Comparison

One of the great starting points and sources of inspiration for the creation of Endgame has been the fabulous game of chess.

The most relevant and noteworthy differences between chess and Endgame are summed up in the tables below.

Game artifacts

Game artifact	Chess	Endgame
Game board	Board with 8 x 8 squares (□)	Battlefield with 8 x 8 squares (□), 2 x POW Camps, and 1 x Grey Market
(Vehicle) pieces	2 x 16 pieces, in total 32 pieces	2 x 16 vehicle pieces, in total 32 pieces
War pieces	─	14 x weapon pieces
Happenstance pieces	─	6 x happenstance pieces
Game bag	─	1 x Grey Market bag

Vehicle & War pieces: Directions of movement

Chess	Directions	Endgame	Directions
Pawn	N (and NE and NW en passant)	Armoured Car	N, E, S, W
Bishop	NW, NE, SW, SE	Tank	N, E, S, W
Knight	NNE, ENE, ESE, SSE, SSW, WSW, WNW, NNW	Truck	N, E, S, W
Rook	N, E, S, W	Warehouse	N, E, S, W
Queen	W, NW, N, NE, S, SW, SE, E	General & Doppelgänger	N, E, S, W
King	W, NW, N, NE, S, SW, SE, E	Minefield	─
─	─	Mortar	NW, NE, SW, SE
─	─	Drone	NW, NE, SW, SE
─	─	Missile	NW, NE, SW, SE

Vehicle & War pieces: Moving and impact range

It is seen that some of the chess pieces have a much longer range than the equivalent Endgame pieces, making rapid attacks over the full chess board possible. However, a vehicle piece in combination with a missile can have a significant range of impact as well (see e.g. the example on the Tactics page).

Where the Pawn in chess can move up to 2 in its first move and then only 1 forward (or √2 in en passant) and never backwards or to the side, Endgame does not include any such restrictions.

Chess	Moving & impact range (min-max in □)	Endgame	Moving range (min-max in □)	Impact range (min-max in □)
Pawn	1 – 2	Armoured Car	1	1
Bishop	√2 – 7√2	Tank	2	2
Knight	√5 – √5	Truck	3	3
Rook	1 – 7	Warehouse	1	1
Queen	1 – 7√2	General & Doppelgänger	2	2
King	1 – √2	Minefield	0	1 – √2
─	─	Mortar	─	√2 – √2
─	─	Drone	─	√2 – 2√2
─	─	Missile	─	√2 – 3√2

Vehicle & War pieces: Airborne capabilities

Chess	Ability to fly	Endgame	Ability to fly
Pawn	No	Armoured Car	No
Bishop	No	Tank	No
Knight	Yes	Truck	No
Rook	No	Warehouse	No
Queen	No	General & Doppelgänger	No
King	Yes (once, during castling)	Minefield	No
─	─	Mortar	Yes
─	─	Drone	Yes
─	─	Missile	Yes

Game pieces: Happenstance pieces

Happenstance	Chess	Endgame
Embargo	─	No new weapons
Dud	─	Return weapon
Friendly fire	─	Fire weapon on your own vehicle
POW Exchange	─	Exchange imprisoned vehicle pieces
POW Escape	─	Vehicle piece escapes
AWOL	─	Vehicle piece captured

Game mechanics: The Move

Mechanism	Chess	Endgame
The move	Single step: Move a piece	Two steps: Move a vehicle piece, then move a war piece
Move two pieces at once	Castling	Dobbelgängering
Move a piece in a specific way once	En passant	─
Move a piece in a specific way once	Move a pawn two squares	─
Replace a piece with another piece	Pawn promotion	─
No legal move	Stalemate	─
Declaration and obligation	“Chess” declared and obligation for opponent to move	Declaration of “imminent danger” not required and no obligation for opponent to move

Game mechanics: Eliminating (vehicle) pieces

Mechanism	Chess	Endgame
A (vehicle) piece moving to a square occupied by the opponent´s piece	The opponent´s piece is captured and permanently removed from the board	Both vehicle pieces are placed in the appropriate POW Camps
A vehicle pieces fires a weapon at another vehicle piece	─	The vehicle piece that has been captured is placed in the appropriate POW Camp.
A vehicle piece enters the opponent’s Minefield	─	The vehicle that has entered the minefield is placed in the appropriate POW Camp

The basics of the game

Feature	Chess	Endgame
Point system	One: Basic	Two: Basic and Advanced
Game setup	Standard	Standard
Semi-random game setup	Freestyle (Chess960)	Semi-random (semi-random mirrored permutation)
Random game setup	─	Random (random mirrored permutation)
Luck	No luck	Some luck
Information	Perfect	Not perfect (initially)
Zero-sum game	Yes	No