there's only one variant of chess i'm aware of that has red pieces in addition to black and white
the cosmic chess game that guides the movements of world politics is yuri chess. i'm just sitting with that for a while. considering the implications.
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in reply to @xenofem's post:
why didn't they make each quadrant (tridrant?) of the chessboard with the angles 60-90-120-90 so there's no uniquely disadvantageous player
yuri chess is an inherently asymmetrical game (this too is yuri) – black and red have completely different objectives, and white has no defined objective within the rules of the game, the white player just decides what they want to do. red getting immediately checkmated would constitute a win for red, a loss for black, and white can decide for themselves how they feel about it; it's hard (especially for me as not much of a chess player) to intuitively say who (if anyone) has the advantage here. @folly's post I linked has a lot more analysis of the game if you're interested!
