Echo Chess
A chess puzzle where your piece becomes whatever it captures.
Every day: A dated daily level, the same for everyone and served from the game's server as today's level, with an archive of past days: clear a small board of enemy pieces with one piece that turns into whatever it captures. New puzzle: Once a day; the server decides the date (exact time not stated).
Echo Chess is a daily chess puzzle with one twist: you are what you eat. You move a single white piece around a small board full of black pieces, and every capture turns your piece into the piece it took. The goal is to clear the board, and each day brings a new dated level for everyone.
About Echo Chess
Echo Chess plays on small boards rather than the full 8x8. You control one white piece and the board is scattered with black pieces, plus some blocked squares. Your piece moves by normal chess rules, but whenever it captures, it takes on the identity of what it captured: take a knight and you now move like a knight, take a pawn and you are stuck moving like a pawn. The puzzle is to find an order of captures that clears every black piece without leaving yourself stranded.
The home page shows the day's date and several modes. Classic is the daily level, and further modes on the menu include a timed Blitz and head-to-head Duels. Daily levels are fetched from the server by date, so every player gets the same puzzle, and older days can be opened from the archive.
It suits chess players who enjoy calculation and route planning more than openings and endgames, and puzzle fans who know how the pieces move.
How to play Echo Chess
- Open Echo Chess and choose Classic for today's daily level.
- Move your white piece using normal chess moves.
- Capture a black piece: your piece now becomes that type of piece.
- Plan the order of captures so you can always reach the next target.
- Clear every black piece from the board to solve the level.
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Tips
- Work backwards: decide which piece you want to be at the end and what it needs to capture last.
- Avoid turning into a pawn early unless the remaining pieces are right in front of you.
- Queens and rooks give the most freedom, so save captures that turn you into them for when you need range.
- Watch for blocked squares; they cut off lines that look open.
Questions
Is it the same puzzle for everyone?
Yes. The daily level is fetched from the server for the date, so all players get the same board.
What does you are what you eat mean?
Each time your piece captures, it changes into the piece it captured and moves like it from then on.
Can I play earlier days?
Yes, there is a daily archive.
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