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For me the instructions are pretty clear: every square "right to left, top to bottom" - except don’t land anywhere the queen can take you, and don’t take the q
by logicallee 4y ago
For me the instructions are pretty clear: every square "right to left, top to bottom" - except don’t land anywhere the queen can take you, and don’t take the queen. (i.e. somehow move to the upper-right, then one to the left and so forth going through the rows and columns backards and down, like reading right to left down a page.)
I gave up after 4 minutes. It's really tough and I only got partway through the second row. I play OK chess (slightly above average on lichess) but it is a really tough visualization exercise.
for anyone who did it to completion, how long did it take? did you speed up by the end?
- heleninboodler 4y agoTook me a few minutes to understand what exactly I was supposed to do but once I figured it out I reset and did it in 13:15. Pretty neat game. I'm not sure I could do it faster a second time, just because my approach is a bit trial-and-error. Some patterns were surprisingly elusive this way. I actually think I would enjoy it more if the UI helped a bit more, like by marking the squares that were forbidden because of the queen.
- logicallee 4y agoThanks. Regarding marking forbidden squares, apparently the whole point of the game is to develop visualization skills for chess (under Help, it references a grandmaster who recommends this exercise), so if it marked forbidden squares it would defeat the purpose a bit, I think!