Tactix
Tactix is a variant of chess . It is played with dice on a 9x9 board. Tactix is a new edition by Schmidt Spiele of the Parker game "Duel" from 1975 with slightly different rules (for example Duel uses an 8x9 board).
Both games have nine dice per player . Eight of these have the normal dice points from 1 to 6 and one, the so-called king's dice, only has ones. The only other material is a game board made up of eight by nine (for "Duel") and nine by nine (for "Tactix") squares, the sides of which are bordered. The cubes, the edges of which have been milled off, can be tilted over this edge without any problems, and that is precisely the permitted method of movement.
In a move, a die can be tilted as many spaces as it shows eyes at the beginning. A one-time, right-angled turn is permitted. The starting line-up for both players is: in the middle of the king's dice and then next to him, from inside to outside, a “six”, a “two”, a “one” and a “five” on top of the dice, with these lying so have the "three" pointing to the player and the "four" pointing to the opponent.
It is beaten like in chess : At the end of the move you reach the field of an opposing "piece", remove it and take its place with your own "piece". In addition to the size of the playing field and the color of the dice, there is another difference between “Duel” and “Tactix”: In “Tactix” the king can capture other “pieces”, in “Duel” not.
The aim of the game is either to hit the opposing king's die or to reach the opposing king's starting square with your own king's die. The king square does not have to be held one move, so that it is pointless to "cover" this square in order to immediately capture an incoming king, which would have lost the king. Reaching the field is enough.
This rule shortens the course of the game, because you don't have to guarantee that the target field is not threatened. Nevertheless, there is an even shorter version of “Tactix”, where it is sufficient to reach the midfield with the king's die.