Zen Chess: Champion's Moves

This game is a fail because we have to guess which move was played by the player and often it is not the best move according to the engine.

Do not purchase this product. Firstly, there are multiple positions where you are forced to make the Champion's move in order to progress, even if there's an objectively better move in the position. For instance, in the game Kramnik v. C. Houze Lyons 2001, Kramnik played Rxg7+ instead of Re8#, so Zen Chess forces you to do the same. Secondly, there is at least one position(Tal v. Tringov Amsterdam 1964) where the continuation shown in Zen Chess not only deviates from the original game, but also contains a move that is obviously illegal. Thirdly, and as far as I'm concerned most damningly, the user experience for this is [i]painful[/i]. There's no drag and drop for moving the pieces, the game allows you to make illegal moves, the game takes a long time to transition from one level to the next, and if you get a move wrong(which, for the reasons above, may actually not even be wrong) you have to restart from the initial position.

类似于国际象棋残局，只不过应该是历史真实对局中的最后几步 固定路数，完全不能自己控制 而且棋子的移动也没有做限制，可以随便放（比如，兵全地图直接飞；当然，随意放肯定会导致直接失败的） 除非对国际象棋有非常大兴趣的人，否则游戏性其实并不高

What can i say, i liked Zen chess mate in 1, 2,3 and 4 moves. For 0.51 cents on sale i would say this a good deal on Zen Chess Champion moves. But i feel as if there are too many errors in the chess moves. On board #47 there is an illegal move made by the game. You can not put the kind in check but that is what it did. There are several boards you can finish with better moves but the game is inflexible. It feels wrong some how. Or maybe my chess skill is too high as the game is not really a challenge for me. I feel that this game is a miss somehow, it should of been better. But then again for 0.51 cents on sale I should not complain. The only feeling is that this could of been a great game if the developers care enough. Buy at your own risk.

[h1]Описание:[/h1] Повтори ходы чемпионов. Иногда нам дают только 1 ход, иногда нужно сделать несколько. Только так как задумано и никак иначе. Это уже деградация серии на высшом уровне и нужно было закончить на хороших частях мат в 1-2 хода... Надеюсь продолжений больше не будет и это последнее что мне придется увидеть у автора по этой серии... [h1]Послесловие:[/h1] Если вам понравился этот обзор добро пожаловать в группу http://steamcommunity.com/groups/uojer - тут вы сможете увидеть рекомендованные мною игры, другие обзоры, а также просто пообщаться в хорошей компании.

세계 체스 챔피언들의 역사적인 경기를 바탕으로 한 체스 퍼즐. 150스테이지로, 10스테이지마다 도전과제 하나씩입니다. 말을 1번~7번 움직여야 하는데 스테이지마다 다르고 힌트도 없어서 어렵습니다. 챔피언같은 체스 실력이 없다면 가이드에 공략이 있습니다. [code] 스팀 큐레이터 : [url=store.steampowered.com/curator/44849820/]INSTALLING NOTHING[/url] [/code]

In 'Zen Chess: Champion's Moves' you will be put in the position of a World Chess Champion. You will need to play through historical games and solve the same chess problems the champions had to solve to win each game. PROS - Simple to play; - Great concept; - A good game for your memory; - Beautiful designed chess board; - 150 different puzzles; - 15 achievements; - Famous chess quotes; - Promoting chess on Steam; - Relaxing music; CONS - There isn't a reset button; - You can do impossible moves (there isn't a chess engine); - Not for begginers (I would recommend to play the Mate in One, Two, Three, Four series first); - There are multiple puzzle errors: Puzzle 47: [spoiler] After Bxf7+, black plays Kxf7 and not Kd8. [/spoiler] Puzzle 100: [spoiler] The white pawn on e5 should actually be white so you could be able to resolve that puzzle. [/spoiler] - There are description errors: Puzzle 112: [spoiler] Rb7 move is actually mate, but the description says: '' Salomor Flohr resigns''. [/spoiler] - Multiple possible best moves: Puzzle 125: [spoiler] There are 4 possible best moves as it's a mate in one move. [/spoiler] Puzzle 149: [spoiler] Rh1 (which is the second move) can be played instead of Rh2 as the first move. [/spoiler] I know that you need to find the exact move that the Champions made back then, but the developers should have chosen only the puzzles that have one possible best move. If there are 4 possible best moves on the board then it's a matter of guessing and not a logical quest; - If the puzzle ends with a mate then you don't have enough time to study the final position as the game moves forward to the next puzzle; - The puzzles were taken from a free online chess archive and they still managed to copy them wrong in some cases; - All these issues are known for years, but nobody is trying to fix them. It took me around 45 minutes to finish the game and I would give it a 5/10 difficulty rating as there are many errors. It's better to get this game on a sale as, in my opinion, it is the worst one from Zen Chess and I would recommend it to those who want to test/improve their chess skills or to those who want to try new games/are doing playthroughs. If you don't know how to solve a puzzle, you can check out my full game playthrough video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7tUpKyjmsU

Une sélection de problèmes plutôt intéressante, mais beaucoup plus simple que ce à quoi je m'attendais. Il y a deux erreurs graves (coups interdits). On peut alors douter que les parties citées aient vraiment été prises comme modèles. J'en ai consulté une au hasard dans des archives en ligne ; les matches ont bien eu lieu, mais pas de la façon annoncée... Attendre une réponse du développeur sur le sujet de report d'erreurs, tient de la gageure. On aimerait disposer d'un temps de visualisation libre du plateau après l'annonce de l'abandon du joueur, afin de pouvoir deviner les coups suivants - ou, à défaut, leur transcription. Comme pour les autres jeux de la même série, une numérotation de grille serait également la bienvenue. C'est d'autant plus vrai pour l'autre jeu avec des parties en aveugle que je n'ai pas encore poussé bien loin. En revanche, les "mats en 1, 2, 3 coups" (pas le "4 coups !") sont sans défauts et appréciables.

2/10 amazing idea and would love a CHESS game like this this game and ALL Zen Chess don't know how to play chess! The game knows how to unlock the next level by putting pieces in the order and place they choose. this means the game will only accept the win if you did it the way they wanted and not any other way.

Played on Steam Deck. Not recommended. This isn't chess puzzles like the other Zen Chess games, but just recreating the final moves of previously played GM matches. It's random too, sometimes you have two moves and will actually play checkmate because that's what happened in the match, but most of the time it is last 1-10 moves before a resignation, and even the resignation happens several moves out from checkmate and you don't even get to play it out. I play 4 moves to see the stage complete with the message "Bent Larsen resigns (Mate in 6 moves) or play 1 move and see "Pal Petran resigns (Mate in 8 moves)".... There are even two stages with some unnecessary moves thrown in probably just because that's how the match played out in real life, is this supposed to be like a walk down memory lane or something?