All pawns are important, but some are more important than others.

It is interesting how this rule suddenly makes the Pawn the most important piece in the game. Queen is just a mere servant also in the attacks, and defending is bipolar, because not only King safety matters, but also VIP must covered from all threats. If the opponent would know, which one of the Pawns is VIP, he would concentrate all his forces to demolish it.

The V.I.P. wins against the poor family man... this says a lot about society...

Ive noticed you’re experimenting with video ideas, titles, and thumbnails lately and its nice to see you hit a good rhythm racking up 100k+ views

The marked pawn (pion coiffe) aka the very important pawn, must not be queened, nor must it be taken by your opponent or checkmate delivered by any other pawn or piece, or you lose. (Howard Staunton, 1847) This was primarily for use when the Elo difference is huge, in other words, where there is a vast difference between the skills of the players.

Suggestion: Cannonball chess Every two moves, Martin fires a cannon at a random square and if your piece is on that square it dies. But Martin's pieces have put on cannonball-proof armor so the cannonballs don't do anything to them. Good luck!

1:25 you could have won the queen

Next Challenge: You must alternate between paired pieces, i.e if you move the light squared bishop, you can't move it again until you move the dark squared bishop first. bishops pair, knights pair, rooks pair, king and queen pair

I really appreciate these calm and chill challenge videos! They are very nice to watch during quiet time with my daughter!

Chess but your opponent 's pieces are fire! everytime you capture your opponent's pieces, that piece will be on fire. The pieces which on fire will be destroyed in the next turn and if your others pieces are nearby the fired pieces(1 square away from it), those pieces will also be on fire!

Wow, VIP has three meanings now Very Important Person Very Important Pawn Very Important Piece

You should play against Martin with checkers pieces (can only move diagonally one square at a time, and must jump to take other pieces) while Martin has chess pieces.

Really like the new editing! Great stuff!

chess vs Martin but you are only allowed 4 active pieces at a time. A piece becomes active when it is moved for the first time and remains active until the end of the game or until it is captured. If an active piece is captured you can choose to activate another piece. If you already have 4 active pieces and are forced to move a fifth piece then you lose. Hard mode: 3 or 2 active pieces

10:38 "You don't want to see this part." Me: *slows video to half/quarter speed* Yes I do XD

This is known as pion coiffé (capped pawn), a form of handicap where the stronger player has to checkmate with a specific pawn.

Highlander chess: Only one of each piece type can be allowed to move. Examples: If you start play e4, you may not move the other pawns unless it gets taken first. If you play knight c6, the other knight can't be moved until that knight is taken. Edit: This challenge seems to get difficult when the bot has a higher rating.

Challenge: Chess but you can only move a piece if EVERY piece with less point value than that piece has been moved (pawns don’t count). Eg. If you want to move a rook you will have had to already moved at least 1 pawn, both your bishops and both your knights. You can move either a knight or bishop when you have moved at least 1 pawn. I will say that the king is worth 10 points (so more than everything else). Sorry if this is confusing

1:20 MARTIN DOES THE CHAD BONGCLOUD

Great stuff, as always, Nelson! Thanks!

"Pawns are the heart and soul of chess"-Philodor

I think this would actually be a hard challenge, 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

At 12:06. When the rook takes the G file, putting the bishop on the h8-a1 diagonal, then under promoting to a knight for mate would of been a lil nice.

Day 14: As a challenge, could you beat Martin with not taking any pieces?

These Martin challenges are fun. You should do more of these :D

this should become a chess variant but the opponent doesn't know the VIP pawn. If the VIP pawn gets captured then you lose

1:51 *Starts disregarding the pin sacrifice, Bishop G4 check and then win the queen unles he's dumb*

Chess but your ranged pieces have a limited range of 2 and your knights cannot move. You give your opponent 2 more knights for compensation

Next is the MVP - Most Valuable Pawn

Challenge: chess but your king is a foolhardy micromanager, which means you play Bongcloud, every third move must be a forward king move if possible, if a piece is captured the king will want to go to the site and investigate, he does not trust his wife so the queen is not allowed to move where he can't see her, and he must be defending the piece that delivers checkmate. Optional rules: every time a piece captures an enemy piece, your piece must write an incident report and deliver it to the king as soon as possible. If a piece questions or disobeys the king's excessive rules, he will write them up for insubordination and deliver it to them as soon as possible. The pawns go on strike due to poor working conditions and being undervalued so they will refuse to move or capture after the sixth move. The pieces also hate the king for his micromanaging and excessive rules so they will not move more than two squares at a time unless capturing. If the game does not end after 40 moves, the opportunistic enemy king will make a really good offer and your pieces and pawns will defect to the other side and you may only play on with the queen and king.

Imagine a similar challenge, but the opponent must have a certain minimum amount of material on the board as they get checkmated. That would make it far more challenging.

You should play this against a humans where you both have one VIP. Would be fun seeing you trying to figure out which of his pawns is the VIP, and see i you can get him to sacrefice the queen for the wrong pawn

"Here we go the V.I... (awkward silence for half a sec) OHHHH MY" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Challenge: Power Pyramid chess against Martin Every time Martin captures a piece, the piece (or pawn) that was used to capture gets upgraded into a better piece (pawn=>knight, knight=>bishop, bishop=>rook, rook=> queen) if a queen of Martin captures a piece, a pawn is placed wherever you want.If it is too easy, then apply the same thing to you but in reverse, if a pawn captures, it's gone from the board(also I love your video ideas😍)

I love your Martin challenges

That pawn paid extra

g pawns are usually among those that survive long enough to become passed

How about restriction chess? Like a king can't move to a place where it can be checked, pieces(except for knights) can't move towards or pass enemy pieces line of attack. However you can go through diagonals and still have the option to capture a protected piece. If a piece blocks a piece's line of sight you can cross through there. You can play against Martin and he doesn't have to abide by this rules, cause he is that special. Ik this is confusing but it's been stuck in my head for a while and I would like to see this in a game.

Thanks for the video on the boiling frog opening, i had an irl tournament today and got 3 in my age group and i got 5/7 points and i played the opening 4 times and won every game

Challenge: try the same thing but with center pawns as the vip. Either one will be fine and if that’s too easy make both of them the vip and one of them had to deliver checkmate but both of them must be alive.

'Hitmen Chess' : Each friendly piece can only take enemy pieces once those pieces takes one of your pieces. you need to eliminate the pieces in order of which attacked first to last. Goal: Try to checkmate him without 'freely' being able to take any pieces, only if an enemy piece becomes a hitman piece. (This happens when the enemy piece has taken any of your pieces)

tbh it is interesting how adding this rule makes the f pawn, usually known as the worst pawn, will become the most important piece

Hi Nelson. Nice video. I was curious about what strategy you would follow.

good cop bad cop ches. You are playing against martin and stockfish but they are alternating moves( I hope this will be interesting )

Not martin playing the bongcloud 💀

Chess, but every time one of Martin’s pawns is facing one of your non-pawns, that piece dies (except for the king)

idea: chess but you have to move the same type of piece moved by Martin (for example if he makes a pawn move you have to make a pawn move as well

chess against martin but you can only use pieces on the king's side of the board, and those pieces cannot move to the queen's side of the board. If you are forced to do otherwise, you lose.

Challange idea: You play against stockfish level 8 from regular chess starting position. You play as white. Your goal is survive for 60 moves.

You could have skewered the queen knowing it’s Martin and he wouldn’t block with pawn

Give Martin 2 kings and you have to mate both his kings on the same move

Here's a challenge I've came up with: Try to beat Martin but you can't let him take any of your pieces. If he ever does, you lose.

I liked the glasses you put on the VIP queen!

Challenge idea: You play against a bot, but every time you make a good, excellent, best, great, or brilliant move, the bot temporarily turns into stockfish for the next two moves.

Challenge idea: You ply Martin but it’s hyper-bullet chess. You only have 30 seconds to play and win against Martin. If it is to easy make it 15 seconds.

Maybe use this challenge again but against a real player but you both have a randomised VIP pawn and the first one to lose the VIP loses and you also don't know which VIP pawn is from the enemy

Yeah I see you reversing moves

The Curse Staff:Chess but you cannot move the same unit twice in a row but every 3 turns get a extra move example you move the king 3 times then you can move it for the 4th time for free

Are we all just gonna let the fact that Martin played semi-bongcloud slide?

Try to checkmate Martin with a discovered attack after moving the King!

all pawns are equal, but this one's a bit more equal

nice new sfx for the intro

"aha! Choose which one you want alive, the pawn or your king!" "Pawn." "wh-wha?"

I like the editing!

Ok, you start the game normally, but can only checkmate if it's your only move

Chess but you play 20 moves against Martin and then, swap colors, that is try to win the lost position against Martin.

woah the g pawn is the VIP he’s the top g

Now do the reverse V.I.P where u have to win without taking 3 pieces is martin vip's

Day 1:when u move a piece u have to move it again on the next turn, castling is kings move. If you are forced to move another piece u lose

Nelson really did a disrespect speedrun against nelson at 10:25

Very Important Pawn. ha nice pawn there

do this but with another person you both have a vip and you dont know his or hers vip but you know urs

12:16 to do the pawn checkmate play bc8 ka7 kd7 ka8 ra6+ kb8 f7# :)

You take your own knight with queen in 2nd game...hahaha

Damm this is a really interesting concept

Chess but you cannot move the three most valuable pieces on the board

by the way - if there's a pawn that martin can take but it's defended, no matter what martin will not take it.

2:54 if martin had played Rook g4 you would have had to sac your queen I think

I think u should make a video of u playing with Martin but your pieces must all land on light squares

Chess against Martin but, you have to checkmate him with underpromotion.

you could checkmate nelson with the pawn if you defended queening square with your king instead of your bishop, and you defended the square nelson's king escaped with your bishop

now imagine he rolls e or d pawn

the pawn is a G

Aint no way Martin got beaten by a pawn checkmating him-

It's similar to pion coiffé handicap

challenge: play vs martin, but you can only ever move pawns and the king (only pieces you can move are promoted pawns) EDIT: promoted pawns can only be promoted to bishops to keep them from being overpowered against Martin

chess but one move you have to move and the second move should be a check if you cant check you lose it is oltante like 1 normal move then it has to be check like this you havee to keep on repeating if you have checkmate in 2 stilln you cant play it you have to play against martin then against nelson it will be fun!

Really cool idea

all pawns are equal but some pawns are more equal than others

The V.I.P is rich and can afford a membership.

Do chess, but the king is a senile old man who wanders around the board randomly every two moves based on a spinner.

Could have done discovery checkmate with pawn and rook

You took your own knight with bishop.... hahaha

Imagine getting checkmated by a pawn💀

and the king is the MVP

Suggestion: You must move the same type of piece that Martin just moved. (If you play as white, your first move doesn't count)

Challenge:Martin but you can’t move your queen or premote a pawn to a queen

Challenge: every 10 moves, you are forced to make the worst legal move possible

Challenge idea: You can't take protected pawns or pieces (even if a queen is hanging and only a pawn defends it)

1:01 Blundered but nah he defend