A game mixing dots and boxes with chess. Completing a box activates the enclosed chess piece, capturing other activated chess pieces.

Reviews standard rules, and introduces the analogous game on a hexagonal board.

Analysis program and results.

Entry with rules, basic strategy, and references.

Includes a survey of the mathematical and computational literature. (August, 1997)

Streaming-video 30-minute talk held at MSRI during the Combinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop, July 24-28, 2000. Describes a particular type of endgame which arises frequently in practice and can be solved in polynomial time.