Solitaire Chess

Greetings players and fellow patzers 🙂

So recently a very good friend of mine sent me this in the post as a present:

https://www.thinkfun.com/solitairechess

You have pieces set on a 4x4 board, and the aim is to capture a piece with each move until only 1 piece is left.
No King-checks, no castling, no en-passant, and no pawn promotions.
All you do is capture pieces... Quite refreshing!

I am stuck on one of the advanced ones (I haven't even got to the "expert" ones yet)
Here's how the pieces are set:
- Pawns on a1 and c2
- Rook on b2
- Knights on a3 and b4
- Bishops on d2 and d4
(Hide your solutions if you want to have a go!)

What do you guys think of this concept?

Originally posted by 64squaresofpain
Greetings players and fellow patzers 🙂

So recently a very good friend of mine sent me this in the post as a present:

https://www.thinkfun.com/solitairechess

You have pieces set on a 4x4 board, and the aim is to capture a piece with each move until only 1 piece is left.
No King-checks, no castling, no en-passant, and no pawn promotions.
Al ...[text shortened]... d d4
(Hide your solutions if you want to have a go!)

What do you guys think of this concept?

Took me about 20mins to do the one quoted.
Not been on the site but I enjoyed doing this 'un
Adds a whole new concept to calculating exchanges!!
Zak -If you haven't done it by Saturday, I'll show you in't pub!!

Originally posted by venda
Took me about 20mins to do the one quoted.
Not been on the site but I enjoyed doing this 'un
Adds a whole new concept to calculating exchanges!!
Zak -If you haven't done it by Saturday, I'll show you in't pub!!

Yeah I finally got it... kicked myself for not solving it quicker lol

And yep, see ya saturday!

Ok this is the first one of the expert ones.
I've admitedly only spent 5 minutes looking at it, but feel would be good to share for you problem solvers out there 🙂

place the pieces as follows:

Bishop on a1
Pawns on b1 and c4
Rooks on a2 and d4
Knights on c2 and d3

Hide your solutions, and enjoy 🙂