"and the monkey does not save the queen, ever, because she does not have a banana" That's such a loaded sentence

You made chess 2! This is brilliant (!!)

To be honest I thought it was going to be something stupid but these pieces and new rules are actually pretty cool I really like the jail and the barricade pun

I tried introducing the bear rule to my friend while we were playing chess for fun, but it devolved into chaos when he kept making the bear move on my turn and just went "Bear moves, fuck your turn." Thanks for the added chaos, Oats.

"L shape, or lowercase five" This series has a whole lore now

Literally the monkey is the best inclusion in this game. I see how that little chimpanzee will define who wins and lose. Has one of the best gimmicks never seen, he literally can jump only one space or if you are so good playing jump like 5. He is the UNIQUE ONE that rescue the king, at the Little cost of a banana. Personally, I would made that another piece can stole the banana, I dont know, like the elephant or something, to balance a little bit the game. Anyways, the Monkey is perfect, and is a good rival to the bird from egypt. Anyways, you are objectively correct in all.

everyone take a chance to admire his drawing skill

8:41 "Because the queen does not have a banana"

Finally, chess devs gave us an update, it only took like 1300 years.

Someone is inevitably going to make a playable online Chess 2 and I cannot wait

Me and my friends did this around a year ago and we named it chaos chess. It was just an extremely complicated, extremely fun version of chess. We even painted every chess piece to look special

ain't no way he could make chess be- *holy shit this guys good*

Finally a patch that reworks some of the previously underused pieces and nerfing a few others that have been too good for far too long. The devs really made us wait for this one but I’d say it was well worth the 1400 years.

You should do more of these in the future! Such as -making a better clock -making a better unit of measurement -making a better week -making a better solar system -making better grammar

You can’t really checkmate a Queen. All you have to do is keep her safe the whole time and this game will never end.

What a smart dude so cool man keep the great video’s coming at us, bro you’ve done great and you will keep doing great! Never think that your not inportent because your important to me 😃

When the elephant moves diagonally 2, it should trample any piece that is 1 away diagonally. Which means that it can get 2 kills in one turn

Since this is so good we should call normal chess a prequel to this game.

Insane buff for the knight, big nerf for the bishop, I love the room rework, big pawn buff, I was kinda hoping for a queen nerf, but still one of the best updates we’ve got yet, my favorite feature is the new bear character

I’ve been waiting 1,400 years for this amazing long-waited sequel to my favorite game, Chess. Thank you very, very, very much.

Alternative Title: Oats Jenkins making chess an animal jungle for 11 minutes and 20 seconds

New sequel: chess 3: fixing the numbers and letters around the edge to conform to the *correct* alphabet

Really like chess 2, you earned a sub

Cool, but the queen is likely way stronger since the other pieces mostly have weird attack conditions.

10:10 So a fish can kill a bear, but a bear can't kill a fish? Sounds reasonable.

I played this version for like 2 hours today, and is is surprising how dumb yet fun and balanced and really just how enjoyable it was to play. The monkey adds so much to the game, it makes you calculate the moves you can do, set up insane traps, and adds a layer of depth that was previously unavailable. I love your channel and I can't believe you don't have more subs+views. Your videos are amazing, I can't wait for more

Chess piece proposal:Lizard It basically is the elephant but it goes straight instead of diagonally

10:54 this is great you did a fantastic job with the rules!!!

My god, this man actually made a chess sequel better than those other chess "revamps". It doesn't look like it, but when you play it, it's actually pretty balanced and fun to play.

Okay, we now need two AI’s to be trained in playing this so we can watch

The room can jump over things which it basically flies. I like the room so far!

We have been waiting for this

This actually unironically looks like a good game. Would legitimately purchase/play.

I've been playing this for some time, and it's seriously great. But to enhance it a little, I added 3 little custom rules in regard of the bear, and those are the following: 1. Bears can only take fish and fish queens. It's a bear, so it should be able to eat the fish, and the fish queens, they cannot take the other way around though, so they spend most of their time avoiding the bear. That makes for a scenario where both players want to progress with the players keeping the bear as far away as possible from their fish, thus making more use of the gained movement freedom the fish has. 2. A bear can only be taken by either an elephant or a queen. This one is just to make players try to redirect their elephants in a way they can get rid of the bear, again, making more space with the now meaningless pawn-walls, as for queens, they are powerful, but now a condition to lose, so one will protect them more, if you truly want to have freedom on the board, maybe a queen should step in. That will open a lot of new possibilities. 3. Each player takes a turn in moving the bear, with the black player starting. Since white starts moving, black gets the first bear move, to clarify, black will choose 1 of the center squares to lay the bear on, these being: d4, d5, e4 and e5, after choosing the bear's starting square, black will still be able to move a fish. From there on out, moving the bear will cost a turn though. Therefore from there on out players each will try to get the bear on each opposites throat, ruining their structures, open for weaknesses. Getting rid of him when he becomes a nuisance will become a major objective. I hope this will help to make a greater experience, if you try that is ^^.

Oat Jekins is literally the king of improving things. Keep up the good work and might be famous one day

Imagine he 3D printed pieces and a board that you can buy

"the monkey can SAVE the king because he is holding a banana" Me: *laughs uncontrollably*

Just note the Queen's original name was Vazir meaning minister in Persian 'cause in Persian armies the kings and their minister's went to battle. Vezirs did all the war management so it makes sense that they be the most powerful piece.

the only brilliant thing is that is the monkey can save the king only 1 time, doesn't matter what piece you change and add, chess will still be better.

Man, I've been waiting for 1,400 years for this update. Thanks so much.

He is always objectively right about everything. If he was king of the world there would be no problems in this universe

Can you please make a digital version of this?

YOU MADE YOUR OWN ORIGINAL MAIN CHESS GAME EPICK

I know you made this as a joke, but this actually does seem like a fun variant of chess EDIT: I forgot to mention this, but I think it need bird from Egypt

I was expecting something worse, but it is actually 400x than the previous chess. I think the reason people weren't able to make this before was because you are right about everything, and it is probably hard for someone that isn't you. The sad thing is that everyone has to buy a new chess set if they are playing in real life. Maybe if you made money 2 that wouldn't be a problem?

3:37 bro almost did the funny moustache guy simbol

This sounds unironically good.

Okay so I tested this out with people and it was actually incredibly interesting. I think it has a lot of potential. Here’s my feedback. 1. The rook and monkey are awesome. They add a lot of interesting complexity and were very fun to play with. They are pretty much perfect as is. Kings and queens also function pretty well and don't really need any adjusting. 2. The elephant is extremely weak. They're worse than fish, but unlike fish can't even promote. Each elephant can literally only access 8 squares of the board, with most of those squares often getting blocked off anyways. So, I'd recommend doing something to improve their options. A suggestion I have is to allow them to move horizontally/vertically 1 space, on top of diagonally 2 spaces. It would greatly increase their options, and I think would overall improve the game. Of course, you could do something else too. I just think it needs to have more maneuverability in general. 3. It takes too long to develop the fish. Allow them to move 2 spaces in the beginning like pawns can in Chess 1. 4. Just like pawns in Chess 1, I think fish should be also able to promote into any piece, not just queens. Especially with how useful rooks and monkeys can be. 5. There's very rarely a reason to move the bear, so it mostly does nothing. And then if it does manage to get into play there's also the risk of a situation where both players are just moving the bear back and forth endlessly. I know loops like that aren't new to chess, but I still thought it was especially bad with the bear. The people I played with suggested some changes, such as maybe the bear moves 1 space the first time it's moved, 2 spaces the second time it's moved, 3 spaces the third time, etc. Or maybe allow it move anywhere like the rook does, but just not the same place multiple times. Overall, very solid game. I enjoyed it a lot, and with some tweaks it could be pretty darn awesome.

At Greece it is called "πύργος" = tower

Nailed it

Quick critique. There needs to be a better win condition than just letting the queen live. Shes impossible to capture in most endgames. Suggest monkeys being gone or the king being captured while no bannana

fun fact the rook is actually called “the castle” in turkish also bishop is called “the elephant” in turkish too and the queen is called “king’s advisor”

2:33 Oats: Birds are very weak, Australians: LIES!!! ALL LIEEEEESSSSS!!!!!

You know what I would say to this move(ment)? BRILLIANT!!

"The monkey saves the King because he has a banana" "If the King has no banana the monkey does not have any incentive to save him" "The monkey never saves the Queen because she does not have a banana" 🍌 nice.

Fun fact about the monkey: there's a chess variant called Congo which has a piece also called monkey with the exact same movement, except it captures the pieces it jumps over (so they can only be of the opposite color) instead of the last one

That dark queen piece is haunting

I feel like this would legitimately be a fun variation on chess.

“The monkey has no incentive to save the queen because she doesn’t have a banana” Wording, man! You could not have made that sound worse

Bro single handedly updated chess

do you have any pictures of each piece individually, i wanna make this my lichess theme

The "Get Out of Jail Banana" is one of my favorites. I love it. I don't even care if this game actually can be played through without major problems; I still want to play it.

Really cool idea I’ve actually played a few games and it’s pretty fun. One thing I’d change is the elephant. Right now it’s even worse than a pawn it’s forced to one spot but can’t even hop like a knight. Instead you could make it that it stampedes through the two spaces killing both pieces in the way.

Nice brilliant game👍🏻😁

Why do I love this so much

I thought this would be funny, but I genuinely want to play with these rules, I'm loving the concept

Its so funny that you make these changes in english chess. In russian the Bishop is actuly still called an elephant and the Rook is called a tower

BRO THIS IS FIRE

here in India and the neighboring belt, the modern chess pieces are named slightly different. King is Raja (king) Queen is Wazeer (typically the hand of the king or the head minister) Bishop is Oontt (camel) Knight is Ghoda (horse) Rook is Haathi (elephant)

I was not ready for the lowercase five on 3:39

i want to actually play this version of chess

Queen does not have banana 🍌 - this is for the queen

The development of chess is literally getting better and better. This version of chess isn't actually stressful and doesn't need calculations. Well done!

finally, a sequel we've all been waiting for we had Checkers (Chess 0) Chess 1.0 and Chess 2.0

By the way, the pawn doesn't necessarily have to turn into a queen, it can also turn into a bishop, knight, or rook. but you'd only usually want to switch into a queen or knight.

"Birds are very weak, they cannot attack." *Magpies have left the chat*

Why is this so good?

Make board out of Hexagons. As CGP Grey one said: "Hexagons, are the *best*agons."

Chaturanga has a bunch of random rules, but my favorite has to be the Boat Triumph from its 4-player variant, Chaturaji. The Boat in Chaturaji moves like the Chess 2 elephant, but if any player moves a Boat to form a 2x2 square of boats, a Boat Triumph occurs, and the boat instantly captures all other boats in the square.

I realized that because you have to capture the real queen to win, not the fish queen, the fish queen became a red herring in a way

I printed this out and my family LOVED it!

I can’t wait to see someone try to make this playable in Tabletop Simulator. As a 3D artist, I’ll even go as far as to start modeling the pieces themselves when I have time lol

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This is awesome!

I would change the elephant so that it can take pieces that are 1 space away. They can take these pieces only if there isn't a piece behind it. They move as they normally do, but they tak the piece 1 space away, as they move. However, if there is a 2nd piece, the elephant is overwhelmed and after taking the first piece, it dies taking the second pieces (it takes both pieces, but dies).

Imagine magnus playing chess 2 and still beating absolutely everybody

nobody is talking about how OP the rook is in chess 2 (everyone is talking about monkey). Think about how chess is played. You place pieces to cover other pieces that are covering other peices that if moved will discover other pieces that can be taken out. The fact rook can only attack after a piece is taken means nothing, as you would use a piece that can just apear everywhere on the board defensively by nature anyway. Take this super simple example- the enemy moves to a spot that will take your monkey, you only have once turn to save it. Just take your rook from all the way on the other side of the board and fly it to defend that monkey. The rook ALWAYS guarantees a defense. Side note- rook goes from the best end game piece (as you can easily box the king for a safe checkmate) to the worst piece, as it literally can't attack with a solo king on the board. In the event the king does take a piece, it can ONLY do so in a place the rook can't kill it, as you can't place yourself in check.

while i was watching a CHESS ad pops up!! perfect video!! (by the way loved your video)

mario chess already had blue squares. it was ahead of it's time.

Oats Jenkins:idk how to draw a bird. Also Oats Jenkins:*makes a lowercase bird from Egypt that is perfect

Hello Mr. Jenkins. This is the government department of chess that JFK was too lazy to name. We are pleased to report that your new model of Chess is now being put into use for 100 new chess sets being created as we speak. We would furthermore like to request your permission to put these sets into use immediately and ban all other chess sets. We will be eagerly waiting for your response.

that will be a cool concept

He sacrificed THE ROOOOOK!!!!!

Someone needs to code this into an actual game, complete with ranked play.

It's hard to see through all the levels of irony. I can't tell if you know everything about chess's history or if you don't even know what a variant is, but either way, the video is very funny, very accessible, a bit educational, and actually has a lot of cool ideas. I've tried making my own variants in the past, and this sure gave me inspiration for new rules, thanks. Great work dude, keep it up

Enemy piece: gets killed Rook: ok where's the king

2:30 this bird gets into every video I swear😂

the monkey is kinda like a nerfed version of the chinese chess cannon, which is insanely OP. (minus the banana mechanic of course LMAO)

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You should have added stage hazard like water in the map were it could help a fish piece or something like that. But still this was fun to think about.