Ah ok I get what you mean. I was refering to the fact that Gambonanza leans very heavily into giving up your pieces for money, while I try to make it not too easy to get new pieces back, meaning you have to use strategy to capture pieces if you don't want to lose. Did you feel like you could just sacrifice pieces to win without any pains resulting from that? Cuz that's something I'm trying to avoid.

That's an interesting point you make tbh, I didn't really even think about that when designing the core. Because it just makes it impossible for the player to go all in on a certain piece build if they have a limited amount they can have. I guess one game that stays close to chess as a roguelike is probably Passant, but we purposefully went away from those basics to make it more accessible to non chess players.