you can do this anyway tbfYou can now bring a gun and shoot the opposing player if the game isn't going the way you like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsany's_chessExecutive director of “Chess 2” here. We realized the original game wasn’t slow enough so in Chess 2 each player now has eight more pawns in place of their rooks, knights, bishops, queen and king
Fire Emblem: Heroes already exists unfortunatelymake chess a gacha game where you can use irl money to buy checkers which can be used upgrade your pieces. the chess pieces are given anime eyes, colorful hair and bikinis that can all be customized using the checkers. also every time you move a piece it talks about how cute and smart you are and that you should buy more checkers.
fun fact: there's actually a board game based on the queen's gambit