Block Gambit
Chess played with simulation blocks: every piece moves by its own law, and you win by taking the other side’s PLC.
Product pages are in English.
Highlights
- Step, Gain, Integrator, Derivative, Gear, Delay and a Mortar, each moving by its block law
- Three boards: Duel, Factory floor with conveyor belts, and Artillery range with walls
- A Lab of seven puzzles, each teaching one law in one or two moves
- Play the computer at Easy, Normal or Hard, or a second player on the same screen
- Animated board with legal moves, shell arcs and velocity arrows; free with a Twinsys account
A question it answers
Can I outplay the computer when the pieces obey block laws instead of chess moves — and can I solve the Lab puzzle that teaches each law?What you put in
A board (Duel, Factory floor with belts, Artillery range with walls) or a Lab puzzle; the opponent (the computer at Easy, Normal or Hard, or a second player on the same screen) and which side you play. Moves are clicks on the board.
What you get
The game on an animated board: legal moves of the selected block, mortar range rings and shell arcs, public delay schedules, integrator velocity arrows, a PLC under fire; the block's law and state on its card; the move log; material and the computer's search depth.
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