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Moveless Chess - Chess puzzles without moving your pieces

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nicosaraintaris
Jun 22, 2016
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Hey there! My name is Nico Saraintaris. I'm a half o Beavl, a small game dev team from Argentina.

 

And yes, this is kind of a shameless plug, but I'm designing/developing a game called Moveless Chess. In Moveless Chess you cannot move your pieces. So how do you play? You transform your pieces into new ones. How does it work? We've used the Piece Relative Value System to make an Action Point System for the game. You make a transformation every turn and it costs Action Points (APs). Every level you have a certain amount of APs available, so you have to be clever to checkmate your opponent. 

 
Not moving your pieces and using an Action Point System to limit the transformations made by the player... that's basically it. Moveless Chess consists on cheating the AI with this new set of rules, because the AI plays by the book... unaware of your powers. So this whole situation let us make really interesting levels (one of my favourites is based on Alekhine's gun).
 
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We are working on the game right now (Android, iOS, Web), but we'd love to have some feedback from players who love chess and chess puzzles (that's the reason of this thread happy.png).
 
So. You can try a web demo here: http://movelesschess.com
 
Cheers and thanks for reading this!
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n9531l
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Jun 23, 2016
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I'm still trying to get over PRA vs. RS. I will need to be in the right mood to do any serious thinking about your new game. Maybe later.