Okay, not a fully thought out idea due that i saw this yesterday. Im not even 100% motivated for the idea cuz its just fresh.

See, where i live, in the park, they recently installed/made a chess area. Like a huge chessboard on the floor with pretty big chess pieces.
Why they did it? no clue especially becuase where i live, people steal just about anything. incudling giant chess pieces.
http://www.daisysdisneygetaway.com/photos/640x480/chess.jpg
But looking at it, watching people playing life size chess made me giggle. Then it hit me, do something like that yet in Cradle, more especially in the guild hall as an expansion room due that Cradle has no public park D:

It would be a small room with chess board pattern etched into the floor. Moving pieces would be like Design Mode, where you pick an item up and place down somewhere else. OF course the hard part would be the rules of chess. You cant just move a knight and place it on the other side so thats the tricky part. next, When you "eat" a piece, it goes directly to the farthest side of the board. it can no longer be moved until its checkmate. then they automatically go to starting position.

The Chess Pieces will be creative!
One side can be a Mix of Monsters or a Specific Monster Family and the other side can be the Spiral Order.
heres a quick list i made, not sure about it at all!

King
*Spiral Order: Baron maybe. or for the heck of it, Nick
*Monsters: Lord Vanaduke
Queen
*Spiral Order: Agent Kora
*Monsters: Ice Queen
Bishop
*Spiral Order: Kozma? or a Stranger
*Monsters: Warmaster Seerus or a Gremlin
Knight
*Spiral Order: Guardian
*Monsters: A Trojan Knight of Course!
Rook
*Spiral Order: Izola
*Monsters: Lumber
Pawn
*Spiral Order: a proto knight or a ATH bot
*Monsters: some form of Devilite

Note as you can already see, it is missing alot of info and was not thought out, gimme your thoughts, suggestions and changes and i will try my best to accommodate to your forum needs, Lug- eh, um Forum Posters.