For your enjoyment, a little offering I've been working on:
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=8314An entire world based on a chess board. (Plus some other goodies.)
Way I see it, is the game of chess involves either embarking to an "empty" square and building the appropriate tower there or embarking to an "occupied square" and attempting to "capture that piece".
I'm using nanofortress to create 1x1 embarks where the towers are located then retiring them as towns using Dfhack, so they'll have dwarves there if adventurers visit, or enemy dwarves there if we try to re-embark there.
So here is the breakdown of the piece movement:
Movement of a piece into an "empty" square involves two actions:
1) re-embark in the piece's current location, "tweak makeown" all the dwarves there, change it into a lair, then abandon the site.
2) Using Nanofortress embark in a 1x1 empty square and rebuild a new tower there in the shape of the appropriate piece, change it to a lair then retire it as a town (basically, choose a dwarf, invoke dfusion, change dwarf into an -option 2- adventurer, invoke "mode set", change mode to -option 2- "adventurer", retire adventurer.)
Movement of a piece into an "occupied" square involves three actions:
1) re-embark in the piece's current location, "tweak makeown" all the dwarves there, change it into a lair, then abandon the site.
2) Using Nanofortress and Embark Everywhere, embark in a 1x2 set of squares, where one of the squares contains the enemy fortress.
3) Build the proper tower while at the same time trying to capture all the dwarves in the opposing tower ( if you can free some of "your" side's dwarves who had been captured in previous moves, that's a bonus population.) Once both these goals are finished, change the site into a lair and retire the fort.
The two sides are fighting this highly ritualistic war in order to decide who the next Dwarven King will be. The side able to put the opposing one into "Checkmate" is the victor. (At least until some other group decides to commit to generations of tower building in a bid for rulership over the entire world...)
Now a minor motion picture!