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Year Game Developer Setting Platform Notes 1964: The Sumerian Game: Mabel Addis: Historical: MAIN: Text-based game based on the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash. [1]1969: The Sumer Game
Rise to Ruins (formerly Retro-Pixel Castles) is a city-building strategy video game developed by Raymond Doerr and published by his independent company, SixtyGig Games, for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. The game was released into Steam Early Access on 27 October 2014. [1] [2]
When a new game is started, players can choose one of six different world types: lagoon, coastal, classic, flatland, desert, and arctic. Once the game loads, they spawn in the middle of the map. From here, they can start exploring the world or build different structures with a variety of blocks already given to them.
Since many pieces (pawn, lance, knight, silver) can all promote to gold-like piece, checkmate by a gold is usual. Because of the relative ease of mating with a gold compared to other pieces, it is often advantageous to keep a gold in hand during the endgame so that a mate with a dropped gold can be executed.
With the stronger side to move, checkmate can be forced in at most thirty-three moves from almost any starting position. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although it is classified as one of the four basic checkmates, [ 3 ] [ a ] the bishop and knight checkmate occurs in practice only approximately once in every 6,000 games.
Fool's mate was named and described in The Royal Game of Chess-Play, a 1656 text by Francis Beale that adapted the work of the early chess writer Gioachino Greco. [2]Prior to the mid-19th century, there was not a prevailing convention as to whether White or Black moved first; according to Beale, the matter was to be decided in some prior contest or decision of the players' choice. [3]
A dead position is defined as a position where neither player can checkmate their opponent's king by any sequence of legal moves. [34] According to the rules of chess the game is immediately terminated the moment a dead position appears on the board. Some basic endings are always dead positions; for example: king against king;
Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles chess, cross chess, swap chess or simply bughouse, bugsy, or bug) is a popular chess variant played on two chessboards by four players in teams of two. [1]