Last Move

: Last Move is the third program in the Chess Puzzles Series. It is a generator of all sorts of game situations in which you will have to make only a single move, but that will be the most important one - mate to the opponent`s King. The program is going to teach you not only to discover mates in the most difficult positions, standard-looking as well as highly non-trivial, but also to Create, construct them on your own in the course of unusual and very fascinating games. In spite of the seeming simplicity, the game tasks will require of you to demonstrate all of your best play-related abilities: ingenuity, intuition, logical and creative thinking. The game has two modes: Play and Training. Play mode incorporates 10 levels of difficulty. The difficulty of a particular task depends on two factors: the number of pieces involved and the time allotted for the solution. The more pieces are on the chessboard, the greater is the difficulty of the task, for the opponent has more possibilities for avoiding likely threats of mate. The higher the difficulty level, the less time you have for discovering the solution. The program generates three types of mate: 1) simple mate; 2) mate through discovered check; and 3) mate through double check. For each task you have coped with the program gives you a certain number of points. The higher the difficulty level, the more points you get.