Captures II

Captures II is a chess-driven puzzle game in which you try to capture all of your opponent’s pieces. The chess pieces move according to regular rules, but the board layout changes from level to level and some squares have special effects.

Board effects

The game includes the poison, curse, portal and random effects introduced in Captures, as well as two new effects: shield and snow. These effects can alter how pieces interact with the board.

Trade offers and perks

The CPU can offer to add pieces to the board or remove them. After completing the trade offer world, you can make trade offers yourself.

Completing a world, which consists of eight levels, rewards you with a perk. Perks can strengthen your pieces against tile effects, let you create trade offers or alter the board with new tile effects. You can disable all perks and win all levels to unlock grandmaster achievements.

Level rules

To complete a level, you must remove all black pieces from the board. A stalemate or losing all of your white pieces causes the level to fail, except when your last white piece and the last black piece are lost at the same time, which completes the level. During a speed run, restarting a level counts as a mistake. Random tips appear throughout the game, and the CPU likes to trade pieces.