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NEWS + UPDATES
New 1.0.4 Update
- Revamped Leaderboard for better tracking and competition.
- Optimized Player Lobby, allowing efficient matchmaking.
- Improved the Bot option, now offering more competitive and challenging moves for practice.
- Extended match-finding time, ensuring more accurate skill-based pairings and stronger player connections.
Videos
Completed the first series of matches for Levels I-XI. Alpha remains undefeated in publicly viewed games.
New 1.0.3 update
Improved the player lobby to more quickly find matches.
Video: Alpha vs. Platinum – Level II
This video has been added to the YouTube.com channel. At the move which occurs at 2:31 minutes into the game, Blue could have taken the Gold Queen with its GateKeeper. Would that have changed the ultimate outcome? No. It could have resulted in a Challenge to Blue who would not have been able to win in 2 moves anyway.
New 1.0.2 update:
Fixed an unusual bug with the Archer after a Pawn Reborn move. Added the Bot option, when waiting for a match.
What is the answer to the Math Riddle?
If there are 66 Battles, 6 game boards, 4 rotations per board, random changes in color played, and with options to play in Ghost Mode and HyperSpin, how many combinations and mathematical permutations of the opening positions are there to play?
Reversal Attack - Alternative
The E6 Pawn goes unnoticed by the Blue GateKeeper at D4 when the C6 Queen moves to D5. Instead Blue focuses on taking Gold’s Mage and setting up a reversal attack. At that point, it does not really matter as the F6 King is trapped no matter what. See the A1 Queen once the Gatekeeper vacates D4. If the Gold C7 Queen blocks the Gatekeeper Reversal attack as the narrator states, the Blue Queen at A1 could win the battle with its newly discovered attack. Mistakes often happen especially when the board is full, and the clock is ticking. In this case, the Gold King could have been killed 1 move earlier.
New 1.0.1 update:
Minor fixes were completed in 1.0.1 including the correct logging in with Google Play. Additionally, ads are temporarily removed while implementing a new ads feature. A GateKeeper bug when combined with Pawn Reborn was found and fixed. Upgraded to a new server software release to make the Google Play login possible. Purchases on Apple Store are now showing in the Reports. Other interface adjustments implemented. Working on 1.0.2 now.