Alternate title, "Martin plays himself with an occasional interlude for Nelson to do a weird puzzle."

martin is smart, he's playing against only enemy he can defeat, himself, from time to time allowing for someone else to make a move

Imagine having a channel that provided limitless chess entertainment alongside educational content, oh wait we're all watching it

I think this concept in inverse would be fun, where you try to LOSE against martin and if you're in a losing position you flip

The number of times Martin pressed the button, reversed Nelson's move, pressed it again and just carried on is quite amusing: "no, play something else".

Nuclear Chess - Martin's queen causes an explosion whenever it captures (similar to Atomic Chess, but the attacking piece doesn't explode). If this is too easy, then the explosion gets buffed to be able to affect pawns. Radioactive Decay - Your pieces leave behind radioactive decay along the squares they moved. Any piece (even Martin's) that moves to a radioactive square (not across it) is destroyed. Radioactive squares decontaminate after 2 moves by both players. If this is too easy, then the radioactive decay only affects your pieces. Zombie Chess - Martin's pawns are zombies! When capturing, they transform into the victim piece (so a Black zombie capturing a White knight would turn into a Black knight). They lose their zombie abilities after transforming. If this is too easy, then the zombies remain at their original square and instead swap the colour of the victim piece. Big Blue Button - Whenever Martin's bishops gets captured, all of your pieces on the same file and rank as the captured bishop get annihilated. If this is too easy, then play a harder bot. If this is too hard, then your king cannot be annihilated. Knight Boost - Martin gets an extra turn whenever he moves a knight. All of your knights are replaced with bishops, and your pawns cannot promote to a knight. If this is too easy, then Martin's bishops are also replaced with knights. If this is too hard, then your knights are replaced with rooks.

5:55 “chess when played perfectly is always a draw”

Some suggestions: Double Trouble - For every move you make, Martin gets 2 moves. Pairs - On odd turns you get to make any move you want. Even turns you have to use the same type of piece you used in the previous odd turn. If that isn't possible you lose. An eye for an eye - Every time Martin takes one of your pieces you have to take something back. If that isn't possible you lose. If that's too easy, every time Martin takes one of your pieces you have to take one of Martin's pawns. If that isn't possible you lose.

Brings back fond memories of playing my niece at chess when she was young. I would let her flip the board whenever she got behind so that she didn't get too frustrated and I could play "for real" instead of going easy on her with deliberate mistakes.

Martin with the red button is the epitome of having too much power and having absolutely no idea as to what to do with it

Jesus Christ, I laughed to tears. Seeing Martin finding one of the few moves that reverse a 5+ advantage every time is amazing.

I got a good one. Game against Martin, but after each move, Martin rolls a random square on the board and if one of your pieces is on the unfortunate square (the king is immune), that piece flips to Martin's side. Can your army handle defectors?

Nelson:Looking for M1 and could not find it Martin:Fine I will do it myself

Martin was hitting the button like it was a clock and he had .5 seconds left.

Zombie chess: anytime Martin captures your piece, the captured piece switches colors (and the attacking piece stays in its original place, but you still go next). Or success chess: every time Martin captures a piece, he gets another turn immediately.

I feel like this challenge isn't very interesting because 90% of the time, Martin plays against himself and you don't get to do anything. Maybe if the red button was more restricted (like there needs to be a bigger advantage, or Martin can only use it every X moves) it would be more interesting.

Next challenge: try to beat Martin but you team up with a copy of Martin and you alternate moves with him.

some suggestions: 1. chess against whatever bot you want (this applies to all of the suggestions) but pawns can't capture. 2. chess but you can't move anything to the same side of the board as the queen, and pieces that are already there at the start, you can't use them. 3. beat agent chess but with double the pawns, knights, rooks, bishops, and queens (on your side).

This was pretty much Martin vs Martin with you tossing a few moves randomly...

This is just martin playing against himself, and i'm all for it

Idea. Chess, but you have to fix Martin's blunders into a acceptable move.

Martin and his shotgun. If any piece comes near his king, within two tiles, they just die on the spot to his shotgun.

18:39 Nelson: He won't see ... g5 Martin: plays ... g5

It's a miracle Martin knows how the knight moves

New challenge idea: Silent wolf: you play against Martin but you are not allowed to check him or directly attack his queen (you can capture his queen if he blunders his queen) the only time you are allowed to check him is if it's checkmate

Hey @Chess Vibes! I loved this video and it was super fun seeing Martin switch the board. I have a suggestion for another game you could play against Martin. Every time he moves a pawn, he gets 1 queen, anywhere you want to keep it. Every time you move your queen, Martin gets an extra pawn, anywhere you want to keep it. This will be a fun challenge. If Martin En passant's you, he gets a knight instead of a queen. The game is a draw if all the squares on the board are covered. If this is too hard for you, then switch the bot to Agent Chess and then make it so that when you move a pawn, you get a queen and when Agent Chess moves his queen, you get another pawn. If possible, can you make this a video? I would be really excited to watch this kind of video!

martin but to move a piece you have to capture it first except for pawns, you can’t move your knight until u take a knight

It's pretty much Martin vs Martin, unless the game is tied, then he lets you pick a move

Try this against the strongest Stockfish, but you try to lose against it instead of winning. And every time you're in a losing position, the board flips.

Do the same challenge where Martin can flip the board, but this time he may only press it if he is up a point strictly in material.

i loved when martin hits the "BT´N"

this video is just martin playing with himself with occasional help from nelsi

"Scorched Earth" vs Martin: Castle as soon as possible on the side where you are being attacked the most. After you castle, you must immediately use the pieces you used in castling (especially if it means sacrificing or blundering them) when you attack the aforementioned advanced attacking pieces. If you want to make it more challenging, combine this ruleset with "First to Glory" rules (First 3 captures you make must be made with the king and if you can only get out of check by capturing with another piece before your king captures the required 3 initial pieces, you lose instantly).

Martin never misses mate in 1😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I laughed out loud so much watching this, thank you, Nelson, love it!

Something crazy I'd love to see is every time you capture a non queen piece it's removed but then upgraded and placed somewhere on board. To decide where it's placed (if you're playing white) start at a8 and try to place it, if the square is occupied go to b8, then c8 ect. If all of the 8 file is taken then go to a7 and continue until you get an open square. How the upgrading works, captured pawns promote to bishops or knights (whichever he has less of, if it's a tie do bishop) captured knights and bishops promote to rooks, captured rooks promote to queens, captured queens are permanently removed from the board

you know martin likes to give repetition draws when he learns he can force it by himself for both players. lol

I feel this kind of challenge is less playing good chess and more about setting up problems that nearly work while keeping a losing positions. The idea is to keep and out till its mate in 1 though it could be very hard to make it work.

Great video, loved the concept. Maybe you should try atomic chess vs Martin or another bot. Similar to the mode on lichess but here the rules are simple When ever a piece is captured, both pieces are knocked off the board, not just the captured one. I think this would be rather fun for everyone to watch.

This would be more true to spirit against a slightly higher rated bot. The idea is it's mimicking when you play with your little sibling and you switch sides with them when they hang their pieces so they'll keep playing. Well the problem is that sibling recognizes sibling is losing, but then when they flip the board, they have forgotten why they are losing, so they don't save themselves from the tactic, and then recognizes that they are once again losing the piece, and so on, stuck in a loop of "simultaneously knowing and not knowing what's happening." A higher rated bot will still blunder, but when they switch, they will probably be strong enough to remain aware of the tactic.

This is the most confusing and hard to follow Chess video on KZfaq. And I love it.

Martin should only be able to press the button before he moves.

its like you playing with your younger sibling, and you have to switch to make it winning for your sibling.

When the game-analysis looks like the deflections of a Seismograph on a severe earthquake

Chess but whenever Martin pushes a pawn, he will get a rook on the square where that pawn was earlier. The only time he won't get a rook is when he captures with that pawn or he does en passant

Gentleman’s Chess: Under no circumstances are you allowed to take the Queen. If she checks and you can’t block or evade, you lose. If that’s too easy, extend to the bishops as well, cause a gentleman never attacks a clergyman.

perfect play ends in a draw

Suggestions: Multimoves - Martin gets 2 moves each turn; or even 3 moves. Was already suggested below, I second this Double loss - Every time Martin takes your piece, you lose another piece of the same type. If Martin takes your queen, you lose all pawns.

Alternate title: “Martin blunders for 22min straight”

Infection mode- whatever martins capture. That piece turns into it.

Chess, but before the game you choose 3 pieces (pawns can be chosen too). Your pieces can't move except chosen ones. If you haven't chosen a king, check on your king is checkmate.

Video idea: Play against Martin. You are only allowed to move knights and 1 pawn at a time. You can start moving a different pawn only if the current pawn dies or promotes. If you promote the pawn, you can no longer move it unless you promote to a knight.

Army recruit Chess You start with a king and 5 knights, Martin starts with a king and 3 knights. Each move Martin makes (after he makes the move) he recruits a knight to add to his army. Choose where he puts it, somewhere around his king. If Martin's king is surrounded, you win.

Really liked your expression when martin blundered mate in 1

Possessive Chess: When a piece captures the opponent's piece, the attacker possesses the captured piece. (example: if white bishop takes rook g7, the rook turns white, and the bishop is removed)

Suggestion: Pandemic Chess A new virus has hit the chess world, and every piece now has to maintain social distancing. Every piece has to be at least 2 squares away from the nearest piece of the same color. The first two rows don't count if the piece hasn't been moved. Once a piece is moved the rules apply to it.

Martin playing against himself and losing lmao.

Chess but whenever Martin moves his queen you gotta give him a pawn or Chess but whenever you get an opportunity to take a piece you gotta take it (if there is 2 pieces you can take the one you want to take first) (ıdk if this has been told before) orrrrrr Martin has camels instead of horses

At some point I lost track which color are you playing with. For couple of moves there was Martin Martin Martin Martin. The eval bar was playing tennis.

Chess against Martin, but you have to end the game with stalemate when you could have checkmated

when martin blunders you should deliberately ruin your position to try to even the position

Chess but it's just Martin playing and you play sometimes

Why did I had Chess ad right before it XD? Good thing it was skipable because I despise ads for their sheer existence

Tonight I'm gonna go to sleep knowing that all I'm gonna hear in my dreams is "Martin hits the button..."

I think the best way is to make your king trapped/exposed and somehow get a winning position and then m1 your king somehow from martin missing a move.

Chess: but each peice you move the board turns in too

Play against Martin, but every other move on Martin's side is played by stockfish.

Play against stockfish where you get the button

Alternate title: Martin plays himself for 22 minutes

I think we should make a new rule : Martin can only press the button after your move before Martin's move This way, Martin making 10+ moves consecutively will not happen

Game report be like: 15 mistakes, 10 blunders, 3 misdemeanors, 5 felonies, 12 Geneva violations.

Chess but Enemy's pawn can promote on: 5th rank (White opponent) 4th rank (Black opponent)

The stat I want to see is how many moves did Martin get to make and how many moves did you get to make. I'm guessing it was at least a 3 to 1 ratio.

18:42 nelson missed bishop takes queen has to take or mate then rook h2 mate if queen doesnt block then up by a queen

"chess, but martin plays for me"

Play with Martin, but everytime his pieces get captured you need to put any piece(except the kings, pawns) on any squares.

The fact that the M1 wasn’t planned and that it just came from random Martin moves made that ending a little unsatisfying 😅 I’d love to see a version where you throw a bunch of material to keep one side and then meticulously plan a M1 for Martin to blunder, with like a battery to his king that could easily be blocked if spotted lol

Chess, but every piece has to be at least 2 squares apart. Rule only applies after the piece has been moved

Chess but you have to lose against Martin and you give yourself a row a pawns for every win Martin gets.

Chess vs Martin but Martin can move twice

4:26 I saw you tryna make that ChatGPT move. Bg1 to e5 capturing your own pawn.. 🤣

martin is just playing with himself

The funny thing is, you're actually (in some sense) playing against max-power Stockfish here. You cannot generally get a mate in one without having some colossal advantage, and you can't set up a trap that lets you get that far ahead, because Stockfish will see it. The only way this can be won is if you have an even position with proper play, and Martin makes a one-move blunder that gives up mate in 1 move. Even Martin doesn't do that very often. (Or is it like his own mates in 1, where he will never miss it? In any case, you can't rely on it.) I don't think even Magnus could win this challenge very often, with the rules as they are.

Try chess with Martin but you win when you capture all his pieces while Martin wins by checkmate

I love the part where martin hits the button

Chess puzzle. White to play and win. White Pawns are: A2, B2, C2, D3, F4, G3, H3 Knights are: C3, E2 Bishops are: G2, H6 Rooks are: A1, F1 Queen on: D2 King on: G1 Black Pawns are: A7, B7, C5, E5, F7, G6, H7 Knights are: C6, F6 Bishops are: D7, H8 Rooks are: A8, E8 Queen on: A5 King on: G8

Martin keeps blundering himself

18:06 i love the fact he missed rook h2 pin on the queen

Martin absolutely spammed that button

classic martin blundering mate in 1

I notice tons of Martin content all over YT within the last month or so... hope you guys are proud of yourselves 😂

A game played perfectly always ends in a draw

I love this martin on martin gameplay

The way to do this was definitely to give up a bunch of material first so that the board doesn’t flip. Then line up a battery to the castled king that can easily be stopped by a variety of moves. He’ll miss the block, and boom, it’s over. It also wouldn’t be as much content with the constant blundering and flipping of the board, but it’s still an interesting thought project lol

This video has more red buttons than The Poseidon Adventure.

Alternate title : Martin plays against Martin (Epic battle)

Suggestion: Chess but your pieces are like pawns, they cant move downwards, although they can still move sideways.

This is pretty much like Martin vs Martin

Team up with ChatGPT by alternating moves, if ChatGPT makes an illegal move you get skipped

Martin vs Martin. Results: 1. Draw 2. Martin wins 3. Martin loses