Chase Chess is a creative strategy game played on a chess board where you restrict the movements of your opponent in order to trap them — without trapping yourself in the process. By the number of games that can be played, only Stratego and Go run deeper, which puts Chase ahead of chess, Shogi, and every other game played on a chess board. Your advantages can also be your opponent's advantages. The object of the game is to jump, sweep, and block your opponent, and collect debts, so that their pawns have no more legal moves remaining.
a space with tiles or gold
your opponent
pay gold to pivot any tile in any direction
earn gold sweeping across 10 or more of your tiles
Download the official rules for more details on how Chase Chess is played.
Chase Chess Rules (PDF)By turn 9, chess has about 74 septillion possible games.
In 1997, top-ranked chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov was defeated by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue.
At the same point, Chase has about 59 duodecillion possible games — 790 trillion times more than chess.
Chess engines search by brute force, and Chase gives them far more ground to cover: a Chase position offers hundreds of legal moves where chess offers about 35. Arimaa, a chess variant built to resist computers, held out for eleven years before a program finally won in 2015.
Although Chase Chess is inspired by classical chess, a radically different kind of game emerges when we allow a player's possible moves to be completely determined by the choices they make. Each player is also challenged by their every move helping their opponent in a game whose conclusion unveils one clear winner. Further:
A game with 'complete information' (i.e., no private information) is made better when players find it impossible to use moves from other games that the other player may be unaware of. In Chase Chess, taking a best-guess approach is more useful than pattern recognition. It would not be difficult for someone without any knowledge of other Chase games to win against an experienced player.
By the end of the first turn there are 19,712 possibilities. By turn two, 627 million. Mirroring life with such unpredictable possibilities at each moment, memorization of openings and endgames is irrelevant in Chase Chess. Here, the unexpected turn of events becomes commonplace. Flipping the script keeps things fun and reminds players to keep on their toes!
Fair competition is the highest form of cooperation. Something that helps your opponent may also be what helps you.
Each situation in life is full of possibilities. But those possibilities are wasted if you don't navigate your life to make changes happen.
If you do something to harm others. It could just as easily work against you.
Find a balance between saving and spending. Don't put all your eggs in one basket, including the savings basket.
Life can change suddenly, and in unexpected ways. Make reasonable choices and assume surprises are for the best.
Every problem has a solution, though you never really know what it is until you try.
Each choice you make has both a cost and a benefit. When people experience the cost of their actions directly rather than just the benefits, they make different choices.
Life is filled with nuance. Although something may appear to be one or the other on the surface, the reality goes much deeper.
Just because someone attacks you it does not mean you have lost. Sometimes surviving means defending yourself.
Chase Chess was invented by a 5 year-old girl while playing with ducks in the shower on tiles whose intersections were like circuits for ducks to pass or be blocked by. After some months, her father realized that the novel game could be played on a chess board using pawns. As the game evolved, she would go on to suggest the game's style, color, directional function, and many of its rules to make it what it is today.
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