Last Piece is a capture-only chess puzzle for one player. A few chess pieces sit on a small board, with no sides. Every move must be a capture, and any piece may take any other. You win when only one piece is left. Pieces move as they do in chess, and sliding pieces are blocked by anything in between. Pawns capture one square diagonally up the screen.
Tap a piece to see red rings on what it can take, then tap a ring. If no capture is possible and more than one piece remains, you are stuck. The game also warns you as soon as no winning line is left.
Rules arrive one tier at a time. Opening and Middlegame are plain boards. In Two Moves, each piece may move at most twice, and dots show what it has left. In The King, the king must be the last piece standing and nobody may capture it. Endgame combines both rules on a six by six board. There are sixty boards and a daily board. A clean solve earns three stars, and up to three undos earns two. A restart counts as an undo. The hint shows the next capture of a winning line and caps that board at two stars.
Worked example
A pawn stands on a2, a knight on a4, a bishop on b3 and a rook on b1. The bishop could take the knight, but that leads nowhere. Instead, the rook takes the bishop. Now the pawn captures up and to the right, taking the rook on b3, and finally captures up and to the left, taking the knight on a4. One piece remains.
Strategy tips
Work backwards. Picture the last capture first: which piece survives, and where must its final victim stand?
Keep a hunter free. A queen or rook left untouched until late can sweep up the final pieces.
Mind the pawns. They only capture upwards, so a pawn near the top edge is usually prey, not a hunter.