Chameleon 2019

Chameleon is a chess-like strategy game, played on a 5 x 5 grid, where each piece's movement capability changes based on the color of the tile where it lands.

In traditional Chess the black and white checkerboard pattern only determines starting positions. Chameleon's pieces each have a central color or nature. This nature changes the way each piece can move based on the tile where it sits. Like a Chameleon, each piece changes based on it surroundings creating a dynamic and fun game experience.

All pieces can always move one space in any of eight directions like the King in Chess. But they have additional Chameleon movement capability that changes according to their nature color and tile color where they are placed - either like a Bishop when on a like colored square, or a Knight when on a square of the opposite color.

There are three winning goals:

A player who captures all opponent's pieces wins the game. A player who moves any one of their own piece to the opponent's area (farthest five tiles), and it isn't recaptured immediately, wins the game. If a player who has only one active piece on the board and moves it onto the opponent's area they win the game immediately without waiting for the opponent's next turn.

—description from the publisher