Tag: chess

White's move. Mate in three. A giant chessboard is the perfect environment to teach a child some basic chess strategy, right?

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A girl studies a chessboard on a lawn, watched over by two men: Dan and JTA.

Made a little progress on the game idea I'd been experimenting with. The idea is to do find a series of orthogonal (like a rook in chess!) moves that land on every square exactly once each before returning to the start, dodging walls and jumping pits.

But the squares have arrows (limiting the direction you can move out of them) or numbers (specifying the distance you must travel from them).

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Four sample puzzles, one of them solved.

Every board is solvable, starting from any square. There'll be a playable version to use on your device (with helpful features like "undo") sometime soon, but for now you can give them a go by hand, if you like this kind of puzzle!

Playing simultaneous games against both children might have been less challenging if they hadn't both kept trying to start fights with one another at the same time! 😂

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Two frustrated-looking children each sit in front of a separate chessboard (the photographer is presumably playing both of them).