Once you get bored of that, there's the classic radioactive pooping knights [1] ;). It's also wrapped up into an app [2] if that's better :)
Very keen for feedback :)
1. https://minichessgames.com/#/play/pooping-knights 2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minichessg...
That said, the audience is 6 year olds so I don't really want it to play perfectly!
I guess when I played your game IIRC in a case the computer could have trapped me but it didn't. Perhaps I had an escape route that I didn't see.
(How is the maximal theoretical length of a game?)
My 9 y.o. daughter likes it, but she wants to play as the Kings too.
Quite probably you did just run up against a bug in it! I'd have to see the position though.
Great question on the maximal theoretical length. Being pedantic I'd imagine infinite if I just move a knight back and forth and you move a king back and forth. (Though I disallow repeat moves for interests sake)
If the Kings advance in the 1)"b", 2) "d" or "e", 3) "g" column in a synchronized way, they form an horizontal wall of 3 ranks that will trap the Knight at the bottom of the board. This takes 5 * 3 to go from "7" to "2" plus 1 movements to take the Knight, so in 5 * 3 +1 = 16 they should win, and the maximal amount of movements for the Knight is also 16.
This use a little of hand waving, so I may be missing some corner case or brilliant strategy for the Knight. I also may be missing some obvious strategy for the Kings to win earlier. So add a few question marks here and there in the provious paragraph.
> I'm going to build out the reverse play when I find time in the next few weeks hopefully!
:)
https://minichessgames.com/#/play/kings-vs-knight
Hope your daughter likes it.
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