Chess Miner 1.1

Chess Miner is a tutorial chess program.Only white pieces are involved in the game (officers, but no pawns!). The computer makes moves with them. Youare the miner, and only mines are at your disposal. A move by the program consists in a single shift of a piece alonga certain route. Your move consists in the placing of a mine. Moves by both playing sides alternate. Yours is alwaysthe first one.Your aim is to 'undermine' all white pieces by means of the mines. You have to discover what route each piece follows and then place mines on each square of that route. The game has two modes: Play and Training. Play mode incorporates 10 levels of difficulty. The difficulty of a giventask depends on the number of pieces involved and on the length of route of each piece. The more pieces arepresent and the longer their routes, the harder is the user's task. All tasks are generated by the program. Thenumber of possible positions is practically infinite, therefore the possibility of a position being encountered twice isin the vicinity of zero. For each task you have coped with the program gives you a certain number of points. Thehigher the difficulty level, the more points you get. Chess Miner is intended to improve one's concentration, memory, spatial imagination, and the skill to discover regularities. It also helps consolidate one's knowledge about chess pieces and their possible motions about the chessboard.
Chess Miner is a free to try software. You can free download and try it for an evaluation period.

• License Shareware
• Date Added 21 January, 2009
• Price: $14.95
• Category Home & Education / Teaching Tools
• Filesize 233.0 KB
• Author Alex Bartashnikov