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checkmate hot1 slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

Chess, eh? It’s sometimes known as the sport of kings.. but then again, so is horse racing. And soccer. And American Football, but we’re getting away from the point here! The game of chess seems to pop back into the public consciousness once a decade or so; American Bobby Fischer played Boris Spassky in several widely televised “East vs West” games during the 1970s, for example, and Garry Kasparov’s legendary “Man vs Machine” matches against the IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue” caused a media sensation in the 1990s. 

Apart from such rare events, however, Chess doesn’t get a great deal of attention outside of its core circle of dedicated players and supporters. That makes the game an unusual choice for converting into an online slot – who does Hot Rise Games hope that Checkmate Hot1 will appeal to? The developer has done their best to make sure they cast their net as widely as possible by making sure the game looks great and is fun to play... but have they done enough?

To answer the question, let’s start by examining the game's paytable; note that Hot Rise have not programmed this part of the game to update as you change your current wager size, so I have converted the numbers shown into stake multiples manually. I hope the developer will add this tiny bit of extra code into their games next time, as it is far more player-friendly! The King is the highest-paying symbol with a return of 25x your stake for a full pay line of five-of-a-kind; I guess this is correct in Chess terms, although I think I would have made the King into a wild or other special symbol if it had been me designing this machine! 

The Queen is next, of course, with a return of 10x for all five, followed by the Rook at 7.5x, the Bishop at 5x, and the Knight at 3.75x. Strangely, the Pawn has the same value as the Knight and pays 3.75x for five-of-a-kind; does Hot Rise Games know how to play this game?! Yeah, I’m probably overthinking this a little bit, right?! The developer has wisely chosen to use playing card suits for the low-paying symbols rather than the more commonly used values, which might have gotten confusing as we already have a King and Queen on the board.

Despite having 30 pay lines, Checkmate Hot1 online slot asks you to set your bet as a multiple of 40 coins. I’m not sure why this is, but I guess it doesn’t matter too much in these times where every game features completely fixed pay lines. The minimum bet is €0.40 per spin, while the maximum reaches €40.00 per spin. If you look to the bottom of the stake selection screen, you will see your “base bet”, which is the amount you need to divide the numbers shown on the paytable to find out how much you will win as a multiple of your bet. 

base game & modifiers

The base game uses a standard 5x3 playfield which is shown hovering in midair inside a church-like room full of beautifully decorated tables, chairs, and chess sets. There are 30 fixed pay lines, but the layout of some of these is quite unusual, and you may want to spend a moment or two examining the diagrams on the paytable before you begin to play. Wins are awarded for hitting three or more matching symbols on a pay line starting from the left-hand side of the reels.

The wild symbol acts as a 2x multiplier in Checkmate Hot1, so any winning combination that includes one or more wild symbols will be doubled. 

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