
Zen Chess: Mate in Three is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-three problems in a beautifully designed chess board.
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Zen Chess: Mate in Three is a minimalist chess puzzle game.
Designed for chess lovers of all levels (even if you just learned how to move the pieces);
Solve 300 puzzles carefully selected by a Chess Grandmaster (TOP 200 in the world);
Enjoy a minimalist, beautifully designed chess board and pieces;
Original soundtrack, specially composed to help you keep your focus and concentration;
Everything in the game was made with a lot of love and craftsmanship.
Can you find the three moves that will solve each puzzle? Give it a try and show yourself you are a true chess master.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek +17 more
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Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
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zen chess 시리즈의 3수 메이트 편에서도 sfx 음량 설정이 저장이 안되는 데, 이는 2수 메이트 편에서도 이어져온 문제점이었다. 또한 메이트 수순이 늘어남에 따라 복잡해지는지 퍼즐 수가 100개로 줄어들었다. 그리고 은근히 룩, 비숍, 퀸이 일자로 늘어서있는 패턴의 퍼즐이 간간히 보여, 그 패턴의 메이트 수순에 익숙해져 금방 넘어갈 수 있다는 점이 게임 자체의 난이도가 하락하는 듯 했다. 전체적으로는 나쁘지는 않지만 전작과 똑같은 문제점, 그리고 플레이 타임 및 분량을 생각한다면 아쉽다고 느낀다. 그럼에도 퍼즐들은 괜찮은 편이었다.
Zen Chess: Mate in Three continues in the same vein as its predecessor: it's a nicely presented, chess-themed puzzle game that doesn't know anything about chess beyond the 8x8 grid, the two colours and the shape of the figures. As its puzzle mechanics, all it knows is the initial setup, and the sequence of 5 moves (WBWBW) needed to win - it doesn't even know which figure can make which move, as there's no differentiation between illegal moves and moves that don't get you to the solution. As in ZC:Mi2, this is a big disappointment, and a missed opportunity. Especially because the boards are much better, in general pretty good. There are 100 altogether, and unexpectedly, few of them are endgame - most of them are middle game where White has built a positional and sometimes power advantage, and there are some delicious early game ones where most figures are still on the table and Black almost fully immobilzed its King, and only needs a bit of help to completely lock it and get checkmated. Nice evil stuff :) I was genuinely surprised to see some reviews accusing the game of many boards requiring guessing. No, they don't - you just have to be able to think three moves ahead. There are many boards where the first move is rather inconspicuous, or seemingly stupid - but in every case, it servers to maneuver the Black King into a hopeless position. To me, these are patently good chess puzzles. The other accusation is that some / many boards have multiple valid solutions which the game doesn't allow. I'm not too sure here - whenever I thought of some obvious looking different solution, I was able to verify that it wouldn't work. However, if the game understood chess and made countermoves to every opening, these questions wouldn't even come up... In the end, as the puzzles are generally good and the interface is nice and unobtrusive, ZC:Mi3 is a good puzzle game, just isn't a chess game. Think of it as your Sunday chess puzzle edition in the local paper, which beeps when you think of the wrong move.
More of the same. It's fine for the price.
Juego de ajedrez de 100 niveles que se completa en 3 movimientos.
This is a game for all chess lovers who love to solve chess puzzles.
It tests tactics, I think.
zekamı artırdı net olarak alın zaten çok ucuz
Slightly difficult chess puzzles.
Inizia ad essere troppo giocare a scacchi e poco risolvere un enigma.
Relaxing chess. 10/10
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