The Capture Game — Daily Chess Capture Puzzle

How to play in four steps

• Choose a piece. Its normal chess move must reach another piece.
• Capture that piece. Each moving piece may capture at most twice.
• Leave the king until the end. The king can move but can never be captured.
• Keep taking pieces until only the king remains. Use undo when a path gets stuck.

Chess moves. A fresh kind of puzzle.

All the pieces belong to you. There is no opponent, no check, and no race against a clock unless you want one. A rook travels along a rank or file, a bishop follows a diagonal, a queen combines both, a knight jumps in an L, and the king moves one square.

The twist is the capture budget. Every piece starts with two moves to spend, and every move must take another piece. Once its two dots are used, it stays on the board as a target. Find an order that brings the remaining targets within the king's reach. The full how-to-play guide covers every piece, and the strategy guide shows how to plan the king's finish.

One daily, or keep going

Start with today's seven-piece challenge above, or open the daily puzzle page. Want a gentler start? Unlimited mode offers five-piece boards. Ready for more branches? Choose nine pieces. The puzzle library holds 300 fixed standard boards you can revisit or share, and the archive keeps every earlier daily board.

Every board is original and generated from our own rules, then checked for a complete legal solution. There can be multiple winning orders. You can undo a move, reset the board, or ask for a hint at any time.