Chain Capture: a chess saga

You get a board and a handful of chess pieces. Tap a piece, tap something it can take, and it takes it and stands on that square. Then do it again. You win when one piece is left. Get the order wrong and you strand a piece in a corner with nothing left to eat. The pieces move the way you already know. Pawns capture diagonally and only forward, and that is what usually ruins a plan. Knights jump over everything, walls included. The King captures one square in any direction and nothing can take the King, so it is either your last piece standing or the thing in your way. Stars come from restraint. A chain is a run of captures made by the same piece: the fewer times you hand over to another piece, the more stars you keep. Par is on screen from the first move, so you always know what a clean solve looks like. 100 LEVELS, FIVE CHAPTERS The pawn opens, the queen arrives at 16, the King at 31,…