LastMove for Kids

LastMove Chess Puzzle Screenshot

Last Move is a chess engine generating of all sorts of mate in 1 chess puzzles. All you need is to make a single move to mate the opponent’s King. Last Move is going to teach your child not only to discover mates in simple and complex positions, but also to create, construct them on their own in the unusual and very fascinating games. In spite of the seeming simplicity, the game tasks will teach your kid some play-related abilities: ingenuity, intuition, logical and creative thinking.

Last Move – Game Rules

The objective of the game is to create by various means situations of mate on the chessboard. Last Move features 4 task types: 1) mate in 1 move; 2) add the opponent’s King on a square where he is mate; 3) add pieces to have the opponent’s King mated; and 4) construct a position of mate with the available pieces. If your kid cope with them, he / she wins. Your child always plays for the stronger side, i.e. the side that creates the situation of mate to the opponent’s King.

Task Types:

Mate in 1 move

This task is similar to an ordinary chess puzzle when one side is to mate the enemy King in one move. How to do it is up to your kid. Multiple solutions are possible, and any of them is enough to win. Example:

LastMove Chess Puzzle Mate in 1

(solution: Ke4)

Add the King

The opponent’s King is missing, and the task is to add it in such a way that it is in a situation of mate. Note that there is no need for a final mating move. Example: 

LastMove Chess Puzzle Add King

Solution: 

LastMove Chess Puzzle Add King - Solution

Add pieces

LastMove Chess Puzzle Add Pieces

Solution:

LastMove Chess Puzzle Add Pieces - Solution

Also you can review and try to solve some other puzzles generated by Last Move in this article: “Last Move Puzzles: Find a Solution!” 

Construct mate

The essence of this task type is to create on the initially empty chessboard a position in which the opponent’s King is mated. Two sets of pieces – white and black – are at your disposal to carry out the assignment. The objective is to show maximum imagination and ingenuity. You are free to invent the most unusual, non-stereotyped and even “unreal” mates (i.e. mates that may not be achieved in a real chess game).  When done the LastMove will check and let you know if it is really a mate position.

Lats Move – Features

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 chess 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 to find a solution.

The Last Move generates three types of chess mate: 1) simple mate; 2) mate through discovered check; and 3) mate through double check. For each right solution you get a certain number of points. The higher the difficulty level, the more points you get.

System Requirements:
PC: Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP/Vista