[frading]

There are those little black and white arrows on each tile, which indicate which way is forward for a specific player. Does that help? Or maybe you saw them and you mean something else?

Interestingly, someone here mentioned that those arrows add a lot of clutter, and someone else on twitter said they only noticed them after I pointed them out. It's interesting how people perceive things like that so differently.

[lucasmullens]

It might be worth considering just changing the rules for the pawn to deal with this. It's hard to tell what it means to move "forward" on a board like this, even after understanding the indicators.

Maybe pawns could just move horizontally/vertically and attack diagonally, regardless of color?

[frading]

That's an interesting suggestion.

The pro is that it will simplify things, remove visual and cognitive clutter.

The con is that we stray away from classic chess rules, which I'd still like to avoid as much as possible.

I will think about it. It may be possible to allow as an option.

[jncfhnb]

The first image shows a rook traveling a path different from the one shown in the arrows though? Why would the definition of forward be different for a pawn vs rook?

[frading]

I classic chess, the rooks can move in any direction. Forward, backward and sideways are allowed. The pawns are the only pieces that are limited to forward movements. So the arrows are only necessary for the those.

Or maybe I'm misunderstanding your question?