Chess Tiger Pro vs Puluc 3D

Beginner or advanced, become a chess master, without ever being disturbed by ads. Do you want to master the most prestigious, the classiest game ever, while having fun? It's EASY! For starters, there are no ads to distract you. There's no account to create, and you don't even need to be connected to the Internet. So, how does it work? If you are a beginner, let yourself be guided by the introductory lessons included. The lessons are SHORT and EASY. Right from the start, you begin playing by moving pieces, and you learn the rules of the game while having fun. The first 40 lessons are free. Once you know the rules, you start playing real games! The coach shows you the moves a Grandmaster would pick. Not just one move, but THE 4 BEST MOVES. Sounds too simple? But think about it... How did you learn to speak as a child? Did you take grammar and spelling lessons? Of course not. You listened to the adults talk and then you went for it! Because that's how you learn! This app allows you to do just that, AND IT WORKS! From the very first games, you start learning effortlessly. You immediately enjoy playing, and after a while you notice that the right moves come to mind naturally, as if they were obvious. Gradually, you deactivate the suggestions and play by yourself. At the end of each game, the coach shows you the good and bad moves you've made. You can better understand what happened, and you can even try out other moves to improve. If this sounds unbelievable, you should read the user reviews for our app. It has one of the highest satisfaction ratings on the App Store, in all countries. FOR BEGINNERS, THIS APP... • contains introductory chess lessons that are suitable even for children. The first 40 are free. • shows you all the possible moves of a piece when you touch it. • explains why certain moves are forbidden. • can suggest 4 to 6 excellent moves at any one time. The green button lets you show or hide these suggestions. • can tell you when you can mate your opponent, so you can look for the winning move by yourself. • can warn you when your opponent is about to play a dangerous move. • provides 50 trainer levels of increasing difficulty. • analyzes your games and shows you how to improve. FOR EXPERTS: • Both USCF and FIDE rating scales are supported. • Chess Tiger Pro has one of the strongest chess engines for mobile devices (3040 USCF Elo). • On current devices, as incredible as it sounds, it plays at the world champion level. • You can set up any position. • You can save your games and replay them later. • You can exchange games with your friends very easily by email. • You can import game collections in PGN format. • The chess engine displays its thinking, up to 20 moves ahead. • You can analyze a game by replaying it. Chess Tiger Pro indicates bad moves by coloring them red. The 4 best moves in each position are shown in green. • Chess Tiger Pro supports variations: you can test other moves and then return to your original game. OTHER FEATURES INCLUDE: • The coach can comment on the game as you play (optional). • When the game is over, the coach can analyze it and show you how to improve. • 19 beautiful visual themes are included, which you can customize. • 10 styles of chess pieces are available. • You can choose from 20 chessboard styles (marble, blue marble, wood, metal, stone, …). • A collection of over 10,000 famous games by the greatest players of all time is included. For example, the entire career of Magnus Carlsen, since 2001, is available. • 4 playing styles are included, from «cautious» to «suicidal», which you can combine with all available levels. • Includes an opening book of more than one million moves. • Many customization options are available (graphics, sounds, engine output…). • ...and much more... privacy policy: http://www.chesstiger.com/iphone/About_privacy_en.html terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Puluc is a game inspired by the Maya: a race-and-capture game of warriors, prisoners and rescue, may have been played for generations in the highlands of Guatemala and southern Belize. Two camps face each other across a stone road cut through the jungle. Five warriors to a side. Every turn is staked on a throw of four corn kernels. And here is the twist that makes it more than a race: taking a warrior prisoner is not the same as defeating him. Prisoners travel with their captor, stacked beneath him, and only by dragging them all the way home do you remove them from the game for good. So every prisoner you take is also a liability — you have to walk him back down the road, within reach of the enemy, to make the capture count. Your own captured warriors can be rescued the same way. Take the stack that holds them and they are freed and sent home. A GAME THE MAYA STILL PLAY Puluc — also called bul or buul — is a game of the Maya peoples of Belize and the Guatemalan highlands. The American ethnologist Stewart Culin described it in 1907, and it is still played today by Q'eqchi' and Mopan Maya communities. In the Maya languages the name bul means simply "to play with dice". Its deeper past is genuinely uncertain. Scholars debate whether it reaches back to the pre-Columbian Maya or took shape in the centuries after the Spanish conquest — no board has ever been found in the archaeological record. What is certain is that it was played across the Maya lowlands with these same four corn kernels, and that in some communities it carried the weight of ritual, played during the vigil before the maize sowing to strengthen the seed. This is not a museum piece. It is a game people still sit down and play. Boards vary from village to village — seven, nine or eleven spaces, always an odd number. This edition uses eleven. HOW IT PLAYS Throw the four kernels. Each is marked on one side; the number that land marked is how far you move. If none land marked, you move five. Zero becomes five — that is the old rule, not a mistake. Send a warrior up the road. Land on an enemy and you capture him, taking command of his entire stack: him, and everyone he was already carrying. Run a captive stack off the far end of the road and the reckoning comes due. Your own warriors who were taken are freed and go home. Your enemy's prisoners are eliminated for good. Eliminate all five of your opponent's warriors and the match is yours. WHAT MAKES IT WORTH PLAYING Rolled movement, real decisions. The corn decides your distance; you decide who moves, which way, and whether it is worth walking prisoners back through ground where they can be taken off you. Stacking cuts both ways. Prisoners ride beneath their captor and the whole stack moves as one — so a triumphant capture can become a catastrophic loss if the wrong side reaches it. Nothing is permanent until it is delivered. A lost position can be reversed by capturing the right stack, which keeps matches alive to the last throw. Short, sharp games. Finish one in a sitting; take a turn while you wait for something else. BUILT FOR THE PHONE - One board is the whole game — no menus, no lobbies, no screens to tap through. - One-handed portrait play: pick a warrior up, drag him, let go. - Your opponent is the computer, and it plays to win. - An in-game rules reference whenever you need it. - Turn indicator and roll value on screen while you play. - Looping theme music with a one-tap sound toggle. - Plays entirely offline. FREE AND QUIET No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts, no sign-in. Nothing is collected and nothing leaves your device. One throw of the corn can turn a match. See if you can run the road.