Oliver Roeder with several, aggressive suggestions for change:
Format inversion
Keep it simple! Instead of 14 games in which the players start with 120 minutes, play 120 games where the players start with 14 minutes. Do it over a long weekend.
Gray scale
Paint all pieces the same color — not black or white, but gray. Otherwise, play proceeds as normal. If at any point a player touches a piece that isn’t actually theirs, they lose.
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‘Squid Game’ furniture
Both players’ chairs are made of glass; only one is tempered.