Particle Chess 1.0

Particle Chess is a game based on the rules of Chinese Animal Chess (Dou Shou Qi). Instead of animals, however, these are beasts from a different zoo, the Particle Zoo! Simple and fast to play! Fun for adults and children alike!

Play against your friends with either Pass N Play on one iPhone or over your wireless network or Bluetooth (if supported), play by email (in next version), or challenge yourself against the computer on one of four difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard, or, if you dare, Einstein! You can also play against players running my Animal Chess app.

Easy to pick up and learn, hard to master, perfect for a quick gaming session.

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RULES

The object of the game is to get one of your particles out of the collider through the exit on the other side of the board while preventing your opponent from doing the same. Its quarks vs leptons in a race to the exit!

Particle Chess follows the same rules as Dou Shou Qi. Each particle is assigned a value, and a particle can captured by any particle of equal or lesser value than itself, with some exceptions. The highest value particle cannot capture the lowest value particle but the lowest can capture the highest. Also a particle may capture any particle that falls into the magnetic traps laid to protect its exit regardless of the particles value.

Particles can move one space horizontally or vertically, but not diagonally. The lowest value particle can enter the magnetic flux, but the it cannot attack while crossing in and out of the flux. The pieces valued at 6 and 7 have the ability to jump through magnetic flux horizontally or vertically if not blocked by a particle inside. Also particles are not allowed to move into their own collider exit.