Keibot

A board game that combines elements of chess and tic-tac-toe with Easter Island-inspired graphics originally developed by Glen Solosky (released for the Macintosh in 1995).

The game

There are 3 ways to win Keibot (pronounced Key-bo):

1. Get 3 beads in a row (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)
2. Capture 3 of your opponent's statues
3. Place all ten of your beads on the board

(Actually, there is a fourth way to win, but it happens very rarely — trap your opponent so he can't move.)

The statues move like knights in chess (an L-shaped move, two squares horizontally or vertically and then one square perpendicularly). To move a piece, click on its square, then on the destination square.

Place your beads by aligning yourself with your opponent, with one square in between — a bead goes in that square.

Capture your opponent's statues by landing on them (except for the last to move — he's safe. He's the one with a shield).

On normal and hard levels, four idle rounds (without either a capture or bead placement) result in a draw.

On hard level, the first statue to move can't move on the second round.

The source code is available on GitHub.