Risiko Chess

Risiko Chess combines chess with Monopoly-style events, Risk and strategic war-game elements. Two factions compete in a war organized every five years by the World Dominion Organization, which uses the conflict to set new geopolitical parameters. As the first general of your army, you take part in a test described as a climb to the pyramid of the Eye of Providence by Charles Thomson.

Chess and events

Classic chess rules provide the starting point, but the game changes how you approach the board. It includes 28 Monopoly-style events in military, political and economic categories. Each chessboard square has its own geography and special terrain, which affects your tactics. Battles can take place in open terrain, rural areas, small villages and cities, with the setting influencing your tactics and choice of units.

Strategy and simulation

The CPU can analyze and learn your gameplay style, including political, military and economic approaches, then use that knowledge to challenge you, exploit weaknesses and take advantage of mistakes. Units make visual and mental calculations in battle and can retreat or use extreme tactics. Military units use seven dynamic visual and auditory waves to interpret their surroundings, with their operation depending on the scenario, vehicles, weather and other variables.

Simulated weather includes wind, cloud cover and weak, medium or heavy rain, which affect unit characteristics, especially those of aircraft such as jets, helicopters and drones, as well as airborne munitions. Vehicle, equipment and ammunition physics govern combat damage: explosion debris has mass and velocity and can damage vehicles and the environment, while shockwaves can cause damage even when an attack is inaccurate.

War and its consequences

The game simulates mines, drones, conventional, aerial, naval, nuclear and biological weapons. It calculates damage to buildings, natural objects, civilians and military units, as well as domestic and international public opinion. The United Nations monitors both factions and may impose time-limited sanctions on nations that use excessively brutal methods against civilians or the enemy. These sanctions can have military, political or strategic consequences.

Rescue helicopters attempt to save or heal their personnel. Terrorist attacks are simulated with victim counts calculated according to the geography, urban setting and terrain affected. At the end of a game, points are calculated and every aspect of the war is analyzed.