Tic Tac Chec, solved
The original 4×4 Dream Green game, played against a complete tablebase.
What this is
Tic Tac Chec uses one pawn, knight, bishop, and rook per player. Each player places three pieces before movement unlocks; captures return pieces to their owner's hand. Align all four pieces in a row, column, or long diagonal to win.
Under the canonical original rules, perfect play is a draw. This explorer covers 2,462,360,745 normalized post-opening positions plus all 14,236,865 opening positions.
Which edition?
This explorer solves the original Dream Green edition published in 1998. It does not use the updated tournament rules advertised for the 2025 Bobby Fischer reissue; that edition remains separate until its complete rules are confirmed.
How to read it
The verdict describes the player to move. Legal moves are ranked best first. Forced wins choose the shortest line; forced losses choose the longest resistance. Draws have no finite distance.
Drag a piece from the hand or board onto a highlighted square, or click a piece and then its destination.
Move notation
N@c2 places a knight on c2; a1-a4 moves the piece from a1 to a4. Pawn arrows show current travel direction after reversals.
Rules interpretation
This table uses travel-direction pawn captures: after reversing at an edge, a pawn's capture diagonals reverse with it. Infinite non-winning play is a draw.