![]() ![]() #SOLO CHESS ONLINE SOFTWARE#So a simple small booklet form or a software version (apparently an app exists) may be more practical and economical. If you're interested in this, you probably already own Chess pieces. And I think probably fun for anyone who enjoys chess problems.Īs a physical product, it's a physically larger more cumbersome package (literally about 7 times the physical volume of IQ Fit!), since it comes with 10 chess pieces in a (somewhat awkward) plastic box, and the board area and problem pages are larger. These puzzles would probably be a useful fun change of pace for an instructor with kids learning chess. They also sometimes reminded me and Anna of playing Ricochet Robots / Ricochet Pyramids. They are somewhat reminiscent of "real" Chess & Shogi checkmate problems. And the Solitaire Chess puzzles often give a more clear satisfying "aha!" insight than the IQ Fit puzzles. But these Solitaire Chess puzzles were fun too, with more of a "game-like" flavor than the piece-fitting IQ Fit puzzles. Thus I got many more hours of puzzle time value out of IQ Fit. ![]() I completed the whole set of 60 puzzles over only a couple days - very much faster than the 120 puzzles of IQ Fit, which I was gradually solving over a period of over four months! As usual with this sort of problem, sometimes you get lucky and try the right thing early. ![]() The final ones (58, 59, 60) went quicker for me, each taking only a few minutes. Finally I got an aha-insight, realizing a blind spot we'd both had, and solved it, which was very satisfying! If you want to try it, this is 56 - probably it won't take some of you as long as it took me. I spent probably a couple hours puzzling over it today, and Anna also stared at it for probably an hour (and she finally gave up and looked at the solution, confirming that of course it was legit). ![]() They gradually build up to hard tricky ones. Or, since there are Chess symbols in Unicode, perhaps this will display for you, or not: here is the first one (N=knight, B=bishop, P=pawn): I enjoy doing Shogi checkmate problems (and occasionally Chess problems too), and these were enjoyably similar.Īs with the IQ Fit puzzles, the earliest ones are very easy, so even a small child could do them. (Edited to add: pawns do not promote a pawn on the far row simply cannot move any more.) If a problem has a king in it, then the king must be the sole survivor at the end, a neat bit of flavor, but most of the problems did not have the king. Sort of chess problems crossed with peg solitaire. The puzzles are all on a 4x4 chess board with various pieces arranged, and your task is to repeatedly make captures (not non-capturing moves), so each turn you capture a piece, until only one piece is left. Apparently the current version being sold by ThinkFun has 80 puzzles, but the Polish edition (which I have) has only 60 puzzles. ![]()
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