Socchess 2025

Socchess is an abstract, two-player sports game where soccer meets chess. The pitch is a square grid. On your turn you take two deterministic actions: advance one of your pieces using its chess pattern, then control / pass / shoot the neutral ball. There are no dice and no hidden information—every play is positional and transparent.

Create lanes, build overloads, and time runs. Interceptions and tackles are handled by adjacency and blocking rules, so turns are quick but tactical. Possession is earned by ending adjacent to the ball; passes travel along clear lines; shots target the goal mouth.

Matches play in short halves. The player who scores more goals (or reaches the target first) wins. The Print-and-Play set includes a 4-tile letter-size board, two team colors plus a ball, and a concise rules sheet.

—description from the designer