Chase
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Chase
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It's chess having fun!
You and your opponent build the board as you play, tile by tile, restricting their movements in order to trap them — without trapping yourself in the process.
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This is the real game, opened at the tutorial section's overview. Eight screens, one action each, nothing to install. Press Next and watch it play itself.
Cramped in a frame? Open it full size.
Tiles carry roads out of their middle, and pawns travel on roads and nowhere else. Your advantages can also be your opponent’s advantages. The object is to jump, sweep and block your opponent and collect debts, so that their pawns have no legal moves left — nobody is ever taken off the board, the gold moves instead, and a player who owes more than they hold has lost.
Positions lifted out of real games, in three tiers. One move, the most gold you can find in it. Same rules, same board, no account.
Cramped in a frame? Open it full size.
(Because we want you to have fun and share it with your friends.)
Leave a seat open and somebody takes it. Or play the computer, or two of you on one screen.
The game finds its own turning points and writes them beside the board — every time the lead changed hands, what did it, and where the gold stood afterwards.
Press one and the replay jumps there. Nothing to mark up, nothing to set: it reads the game it just watched.
Your whole game as one object you can turn over in your hands — every turn a layer, every swing a shift of colour through it.
This is a real game, eighty-five turns of it, drawn by the game itself. Drag it. Stop anywhere and the board opens at that moment.
Watch any game back at your own pace. The link opens for anybody — no account, nothing to install.
Stop at the move that lost it and play the rest out differently, against the computer or a friend.
Classic, Tile Drafting where you pick from the next three, and Inception. One rulebook underneath.
Mostly your win rate, partly how far behind you were when you won. Leading all game adds nothing.
Chase Chess was invented by a 5 year-old girl (actually, 4-and-a-half) 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. As the game evolved, she would go on to suggest the game's style, using color, directional function, and many of its rules to make it what it is today.
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