Move over knight vision drills...

Check out the new game Troyis, that, in addition to being a little fun, will almost certainly help us patzers get a better feel for how the knights move. Basically it is an exercise in Knight walks: you have a certain amount of time to make all the white squares change color using your knight. If you fail to do so, you lose. The knight can't move to the unfilled (blue) squares, which are like squares that are already occupied.

This Q-bert-esque game starts out easy and then things get pretty tricky. The web site promotes it as being really addictive, the most addictive game since Tetris. This is just hype: there isn't enough to it to be as addictive as Tetris.

If you want addictive, try Bowmaster. Don't say I didn't warn you. (Crappy web page design warning: don't click on the page when it first comes up, you just have to wait a few seconds for the game to load).

Hat tip: Evolution Blog, which is an excellent science-themed blog.