Game: Chess-Maze II
Invented and implemented by Karl Scherer, September 2000
Object: Turn all black pieces into white pieces while clicking on pieces of alternating value (details see below).
Click anywhere on the board to start the game. This will automatically create a randomized starting position.
Now click any piece. It will turn to white piece. The white pieces are your pieces. The type of piece you clicked determines where you can go next. You cannot step on a white piece.
The range of the pieces is similar to standard pieces. ADDITIONALLY, you can move one square into each direction.
This makes the walk easier than the original CHESS-MAZE game, but: The VALUES of the pieces restrict your walk, because they must alternate. For the VALUES we assume that Pawn < Rook < Knight < Bishop < Queen < King.
You win if there are no black pieces left.
There are ten variants with a randomized board (and hence virtually unlimited numbers of variations) as well as four 'problems', i.e. given boards that you have to solve. (Of course you can also design your own board with right mouse-clicks).
When you have solved a maze, try the same maze starting from another square.
Recommended: Turn Move-Animation off.
The game Chess Maze II is what I call a 'HIGH-LOW-MAZE'. HIGH-LOW-MAZES are characterized by the fact that with every step the player has to alternate between higher and lower values of some kind. Hence HIGH-LOW-MAZES are a generalization of A-MAZES or AREA-MAZES, where the player has to alternate the relative size of the area he/she has stepped on. (See the Zillions games A-MAZE and A-MAZE II).
A quite popular type of HIGH-LOW-MAZE is a setup of large overlapping cardboard sheets, where the task is to change levels with each step. In this case the value that alternates is the relative 'upper' or 'lower' level height.
There seem to be very few games around which are HIGH-LOW-MAZES. As with A-MAZES, I challenge all Zillions-programmers to invent a few more.
More freeware as well as real puzzles and games at my home page: karl.kiwi.gen.nz.
Download Chess-Maze II Now!
Invented and implemented by Karl Scherer, September 2000
Object: Turn all black pieces into white pieces while clicking on pieces of alternating value (details see below).
Click anywhere on the board to start the game. This will automatically create a randomized starting position.
Now click any piece. It will turn to white piece. The white pieces are your pieces. The type of piece you clicked determines where you can go next. You cannot step on a white piece.
The range of the pieces is similar to standard pieces. ADDITIONALLY, you can move one square into each direction.
This makes the walk easier than the original CHESS-MAZE game, but: The VALUES of the pieces restrict your walk, because they must alternate. For the VALUES we assume that Pawn < Rook < Knight < Bishop < Queen < King.
You win if there are no black pieces left.
There are ten variants with a randomized board (and hence virtually unlimited numbers of variations) as well as four 'problems', i.e. given boards that you have to solve. (Of course you can also design your own board with right mouse-clicks).
When you have solved a maze, try the same maze starting from another square.
Recommended: Turn Move-Animation off.
The game Chess Maze II is what I call a 'HIGH-LOW-MAZE'. HIGH-LOW-MAZES are characterized by the fact that with every step the player has to alternate between higher and lower values of some kind. Hence HIGH-LOW-MAZES are a generalization of A-MAZES or AREA-MAZES, where the player has to alternate the relative size of the area he/she has stepped on. (See the Zillions games A-MAZE and A-MAZE II).
A quite popular type of HIGH-LOW-MAZE is a setup of large overlapping cardboard sheets, where the task is to change levels with each step. In this case the value that alternates is the relative 'upper' or 'lower' level height.
There seem to be very few games around which are HIGH-LOW-MAZES. As with A-MAZES, I challenge all Zillions-programmers to invent a few more.
More freeware as well as real puzzles and games at my home page: karl.kiwi.gen.nz.
Download Chess-Maze II Now!
