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Kickstarter's CRAZY chess SCAM! | Crazy crowdfunding stories

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10 ай бұрын

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@slopesgameroom 10 ай бұрын

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@SodaPopBarbecue 10 ай бұрын

I'd love to see you cover Crowdfunding's Worst TTRPG Scams, and TTRPG Accessories(which includes apps) as a follow-up. There are SO MANY EFFING examples of both.

@postalpupper4884 10 ай бұрын

Could he be holding an Amico?

@lilhanhan 10 ай бұрын

@@postalpupper4884 It definitely looks like an Amico

@voltakid4859 9 ай бұрын

Hey slopes. I doubt you will notice this comment and I apologize to reply directly to your ads but your instrumental tracks that were played here tickle an itch in my brain. If I could have lengths to them I would appreciate it. If you made them a link to a band camp to buy them would be nice. Or a link to the producers

@slopesgameroom 9 ай бұрын

@@voltakid4859 Appreciate that mate, I spend a lot of time getting the music together for these. The vast majority of tracks come froma royalty free site i use called Epidemic.

@Business_Skeleton 10 ай бұрын

I feel like there are better scam targets than a group that loves a game about noticing details in the placement of the pieces.

@Patralgan 10 ай бұрын

Sure, but chess is still huge

@mightyfilm 10 ай бұрын

I had to look at the footage several times before giving up and seeing the solution. Cheers to those who can see a thin couple pixel wide flaw, when I was looking for bigger picture stuff like a slightly changed angle.

@BrimarBrimar-gv5lc 10 ай бұрын

@@Patralganit’s not that huge it’s usually 21 inches by 21 inches , that’s not really that big unless you are an insect then it probably would be huge but from a human perspective it’s not that big 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@SioxerNikita 10 ай бұрын

Chess is about patterns, not "noticing details about placement of pieces"

@TheReZisTLust 9 ай бұрын

Checkers 🤔

@BlackburnBigdragon 10 ай бұрын

I knew this kickstarter was a scam simply because of the board, and how they claimed it worked. The board was WAY TOO THIN to contain anything that would make the pieces move like that. I have quite a bit of experience with electronics and you simply couldn't fit anything that you would need to get the board to do that in that skinny board.

@volvo09 10 ай бұрын

That was the first thing that caught my eye, a long with the piece movements.

@trailersic 10 ай бұрын

I dunno, if it worked the way it said it did you would just need a flat panel of loads of magnets which are activated in sequence to pass the piece between them moving across the board. But if they were serious about it they really needed a prototype proof of concept rather than a fake video.

@JamesChessman 10 ай бұрын

@@trailersicI don’t think it would be so simple: Rows of magnets would probably need complicated moving parts, or maybe… really advanced magnetic pulses, or something? I can’t really imagine it coming together, but: chess software is certainly advanced… so it’s possible that someone can use that, in a nice moving set someday, maybe. Though it’s mostly just difficult to imagine lol

@CruelestChris 10 ай бұрын

Obviously they were planning to take out the fancy electronics and use good old-fashioned magic.

@Caper1144 9 ай бұрын

I’m not at all an engineer… but it seems like a board like this would be easily possible.

@christorrence1114 9 ай бұрын

My grandfather was the inventor of four-way chess and also invented four-way checkers, They were fun and his rules are far better than the new wave of the same idea. He had thousands of boxes of unsold examples and after many years of sitting in a warehouse, I made a tidy sum as a kid selling them door to door.

@furonguy42 10 ай бұрын

The fact they gave themselves away with the animation is a bit baffling to me. They could easily have done that stop-motion without needing to use any kind of superimposing or masking vfx. By doing that, they're adding extra steps to the process just to give themselves less margin for error. I used to do stop-motion animations in my teenage years, they weren't anything special, but I have experience in the process and I cannot fathom any reason they'd need to mask in that Knight unless there was something behind it that gave them away even worse.

@mostmelon8243 10 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing. It’s a simple camera trick. What buffoon thought to photoshop it?

@RezzSubs 10 ай бұрын

THIS. When Slope mentioned it was stop-motion I thought "oh they probably moved the piece a little on accident at some point and it jittered". I facepalmed HARD when it was revealed to be bad masking instead. Like bro this specific setup is easy and fast as HELL to animate why'd you overcomplicate it like that 💀

@lassikinnunen 9 ай бұрын

Someone sneezed and "we'll fix it in post". If you put effort to it you could just have moved a magnet under the table or something too.

@oz_jones 9 ай бұрын

*he. Not multiple people.

@RezzSubs 9 ай бұрын

@@oz_jones 1) Angel might not have done it himself and got someone else to animate that for him. We don't know who that person is, or their gender, or if they even are a single person, hence the use of "they". 2) Singular "they" has been a thing since the 14th century and was made official by Oxford last century.

@abandonwareguru 9 ай бұрын

Even aside from the knight, you can see his hand's shadow just snap out of existence every time he pulls it away, since the editor made every cut too early.

@greenadderdotcom 10 ай бұрын

Stay tuned for my automatic Risk table. The pieces don't move or anything. It's just that the table flips itself over so the losing player doesn't have to.

@chrispham6599 10 ай бұрын

I would actually back this for sure

@kokuhakuqiun4215 3 ай бұрын

@@chrispham6599me too

@aegisofhonor 9 ай бұрын

I can tell just by looking at the way the pieces move, they move exactly like the way a Claymation chess peace would move in like a Gumby episode of even one of the British Claymation shows. It's way too fast and "animated" for that to be the way the pieces actually move in real life.

@paulscottrobson 9 ай бұрын

If it was possible it would be much slower and the speed would vary as the distance to the operating magnet changed. I think it would noticeably step.

@darrenlawrence587 10 ай бұрын

Nice to see my boy Techmoan make a cameo appearance.

@slopesgameroom 10 ай бұрын

He is an incredible channel

@redadder515 10 ай бұрын

Guess Mensa Delgado has never heard of the games of shogi or even go. Otherwise, his last lie of a competing chess campaign may have worked.

@jamesflames6987 10 ай бұрын

Stop motion animation would mean a series of photographs where the pieces were physically moved between each frame. This is something more like digital animation.

@hazy33 9 ай бұрын

Yup, Slope isn't the brightest bulb. Would also be nice if when he used Techmoan's content (the bit showing a working electric chess board) he'd give him credit

@bakawaki 9 ай бұрын

Always love when scammers get caught.

@petoperceptum 10 ай бұрын

The joke is they could have just made an attractive chess set.

@JamesChessman 10 ай бұрын

Good point. There is always demand for a great-looking chess set!

@zilentis1835 9 ай бұрын

I know right, I loved those pieces, they looked cool as hell.

@emilejanse2672 8 ай бұрын

Yes only that would involve actually doing something, like running a whole business.

@pulsefel9210 10 ай бұрын

for some reason this made me remember a thing my 3DS had with a pokedex for the gen 5 games that could read QR codes to display 3D models of pokemon in the real world. so make a combo of that and a chess board. have a screen displaying the pieces as symbols for those who dont have the device, and glasses that pair with it reading the QR codes in the symbols turning them into the pieces for their vision.

@dasherpie 10 ай бұрын

I think it’s funny sometimes looking at kick scammer of board games is more fun then some actual board games ^^ btw I love your videos ❤️

@mikethetowns 10 ай бұрын

What's a chess masters favourite country? Czech Republic.

@cjlister8508 10 ай бұрын

I cant work out why they needed to cut around that knight anyway? Surely with stop motion you just move the pieces. Nothing needs cutting out.

@stormisuedonym4599 9 ай бұрын

Digital animation. He wasn't clever enough to use stop-motion.

@Lightblue2222 10 ай бұрын

The stuffed slopes doll is holding an Amico remote. Im sold!

@Mightydoggo 9 ай бұрын

From *all* of the gullible groups of people out there you could steal from... Taking that one where people have way too much free time, are usually incredibly smart *and* love to look at every even so small detail, was probably the worst pick.

@Moonzari 9 ай бұрын

I remember seeing Techmoan’s review for the SquareOff a few years ago and thought this was the same thing when I first began watching. But seeing the review in your footage I was pleasantly surprised to find that this is a different one. I appreciate the work you do, I always learn stuff from your videos!

@SonicBoone56 9 ай бұрын

Same

@TKainZero 9 ай бұрын

My little brother donated to a similar project for a automatic playing chessboard. Years later, he finally got his board, and it broke within the first 30 seconds of playing.

@linksbetweendrinks7032 2 күн бұрын

"I think I'll scam chess players." Those obsessive super nerds with an excruciating eye for detail? Good luck with that.

@rubyhowling 9 ай бұрын

4 player chess is actually a really fun variant to play with friends

@nendoroiddancing7361 10 ай бұрын

Its like getting free gum and selling it for $20 dollars for stick

@rustkitty 9 ай бұрын

Honestly self advertising as "Mensa member" is a huge red flag. It only means two things. That you were able to score high on an IQ test (you can actually "study" for those and score significantly better, also retry infinite times if you have the time and money to flush down the toilet). But worse than that, it means you think IQ tests are important in real life.

@davidwhitney2524 10 ай бұрын

It makes no sense to me that this channel doesn't have 1 million subscribers. All Slopes videos are so good, I have been watching for years. Come on algorithm, get your sheet together.

@slopesgameroom 10 ай бұрын

Massive thanks for the support mate

@Gold_Tail 10 ай бұрын

as a owner of a square off neo (Basicly same idea as this) It works fairly well, but is /much/ thicker, and much slower, The concept can be done but it ovbiously requires care (Also for what it's worth mine is much more quiet than the techmoan example)

@slopesgameroom 10 ай бұрын

Perhaps you have a newer version or techmoan boosted the volume

@Gold_Tail 10 ай бұрын

Yeah it's a bit newer of a version, To be honest the main issue is the speed, 2 seconds ish per move doesn't seem bad, but it adds up over a 90 move game@@slopesgameroom

@AcornElectron 10 ай бұрын

Saturday night, I’m already half cut, might as well sneak in a Slopes.

@TimoRutanen 8 ай бұрын

I feel like anyone advertising being a member of Mensa should probably be kicked out of Mensa.

@savage751 10 ай бұрын

You can see the first person who "reviewed" the product (cause we all know every 20 something hot girl is really into chess lol) is constantly looking off to the side...I assume to read cue cards lol

@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley 10 ай бұрын

She was very vague with her words, which is what made it obvious to me it was a scam. It was a generic "endorsement" that she can use to appeal to a variety of companies that want to use it. I don't fault her, she's just getting her money as a paid actor, but it's just something to notice when looking for any genuine reviews.

@slopesgameroom 10 ай бұрын

I personally think it's pre recorded and just slapped into this video. She could be talking about anything

@przemekkozlowski7835 10 ай бұрын

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley The other big red flag is that if the chessboard actually worked, "Angel" could have found some chess grandmasters to demo it to and then get one of them to do the endorsement. That would have legitimized the project and given it serious cachet.

@StoolSamples 10 ай бұрын

Once again, Slope, you killed it with this video. Made me laugh several times! Hahaha can't wait for the next one! 🤘

@slopesgameroom 10 ай бұрын

Already well underway mate

@captainobvious9233 19 сағат бұрын

I missed the Knight's Mane until you pointed it out. I was focused on the base of it.

@jamesflames6987 10 ай бұрын

I will only buy this when they find a way to fling the knight into the air so it can jump properly.

@ag8680 10 ай бұрын

Going to the website to get notified of the plush! The Sega blu ray came in like 2 days so I'm stoked to watch it!

@slopesgameroom 10 ай бұрын

Ahhhh that's awesome thanks. Be sure to check inside the slipcase of the blu ray

@beachgirl_bev 10 ай бұрын

Being in MENSA doesn't mean you're super smart - it just means you like being in some weird fratty boys club where they share Rick & Morty memes and bully women who try and join

@beachgirl_bev 10 ай бұрын

Being an accomplished engineer would make me trust you as an engineer. Not being part of a social club based around how smart you think you are

@Totavier 10 ай бұрын

Funnily enough the word "mensa" in my country is actually a spanish slang which means: "Dumb" in female, in an example: "Mira a esa mujer mensa". Which means: "Look at that dumb woman".

@petoperceptum 10 ай бұрын

My favourite thing about MENSA is that the original founders got upset when loads of poor people qualified and joined.

@serbonkers4130 9 ай бұрын

@@petoperceptumthis.

@Phantomsangel 10 ай бұрын

The face on the plush is adorable. That's the face of someone exposing a scammer lol.

@alanfike 10 ай бұрын

Props to a fellow Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle opening theme fan.

@slopesgameroom 10 ай бұрын

Ahhhh mate, I adore it

@retrogamerecluse 10 ай бұрын

You only need one chess game and that's Battle Chess on a single 3.5'' floppy PC disk! 😀

@mdb45424 10 ай бұрын

As an engineer the idea is do able execpt the hurdles of moving pieces over each other. I guess if you use really small pieces or really large boards, you could path find. It could almost be silent if you make the movements slow, and you could save hardware by tieing a phone app to be mother braod

@stormisuedonym4599 9 ай бұрын

Did... you not watch the functional versions of this scam in play? That's a solved problem.

@ScottySkilz1 9 ай бұрын

i love the addition of the music from marvel vs capcom 2.......only true OGs know what im saying

@erikm8707 9 ай бұрын

I knew it was stop motion because the moving chess pieces looked off to me, but I don’t know what exactly I am supposed to see with the knight piece.

@do3807 9 ай бұрын

Man, that Praise You intro was too good

@giansideros 9 ай бұрын

4:37 sounds like he's pronouncing Leicester as an American would. 😄

@RealBenAnderson 8 ай бұрын

Maybe I'm making a false correlation, but I have been noticing a connection between Mensa members (who I have to imagine are pretty high on their own intelligence most of the time) and scammers / con artists. I mean, if you are convinced that you are smarter, and therefore better than, the vast majority of the population, I imagine you must also be convinced that you deserve to have their money and they do not deserve to have it. You can do so much better, smarter things with it than they would, can't you? Even if you just spend it all on luxury for yourself, you deserve that luxury, and they surely do not, because they are just mediocre peasants. You are a Special! It's only right. Right?

@Wtfzipcode 9 ай бұрын

my only gripe with this video is at the end, when you say "checkmate", you should have shown a checkmate

@MehrAufMarxHoeren 8 ай бұрын

4:38 Sorry, are you sure lichess was involved in the sponsoring? I'm not aware of lichess having had any sponsor. Or did I missunderstand what you were saying?

@chrisdoe3642 10 ай бұрын

its effortless to just watch your vids and keep watcyhing ever vid you eer did, hell of a job

@stifynbaker2914 Ай бұрын

"If you are watching this, I hope this little recap stings hard." Or, he could take heart from the fact that you've given him exactly the tips he needs to avoid his mistakes and succeed with the scam next time.

@yesterdaysrose5446 9 ай бұрын

Barely started the video and I'm like "Eh! Eh! Eh! I've seen the Techmoan videos, so while my chess knowledge is rudimentary at best, this shit is scam-a-rific popcorn worthy."

@dancingwiththedogsdj 10 ай бұрын

Slope's! 0:01 I am so excited for another video! I'm only disappointed it isn't a longer one, but that is 100% your fault, sir. I can't get enough of you... (sorry I started singing, "I can't get enough of you baby") You are such a great channel to watch and fun! I don't know what else to tell ya, but I am hooked. Thank you for being you and your time! Have a wonderful day! 🍻🌎♥️🎶🕺

@slopesgameroom 10 ай бұрын

Ahhhhh that was awesome to read! Thanks so much x

@dancingwiththedogsdj 10 ай бұрын

@@slopesgameroom just keep doing what you do and there'll be plenty more to come! 🍻🎶🕺🏻

@poisonedivysaur 9 ай бұрын

Butch Hartman of Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom fame kickstarter Scam. Have you ever heard about that? It's wild.

@slopesgameroom 9 ай бұрын

Already done the video mate

@fedos 3 ай бұрын

That "chess lover" could be talking about anything. I wonder if sheneven knows that she was used to avdertise a chessboard scam on Kickstarter.

@JLaffey 9 ай бұрын

I was *literally* in the process of typing a comment saying how a bunch of the people shown at 7:38 looked to be straight off of ThisPersonDoesNotExist when that bombshell got dropped 😂

@urzamtg 9 ай бұрын

i have many found memories of 4 player chess in my 8th grade homeroom. dont talk trash on it. it was fun af.

@urgon6321 9 ай бұрын

It could be done in such a way that the shadow of the hand can stay on the board. just use layers... Also there are linear electric motors, so in theory it should be possible to make such automated chess board, but it would require control over at least ~320 individual electromagnets. Not a cheap thing to build...

@mostmelon8243 10 ай бұрын

This kind of idea is simply impossible, not without very small pieces relative to the board or a mechanical arm. This is because the knight jumps over other pieces. Just imagine if the board’s first move was to move the knight. How is this feasible? It’s completely walled off.

@Patralgan 10 ай бұрын

There are such mechanical boards where the pieces move automatically and the knights simply slide in between the other pieces. There's just enough room to do so.

@herbie747 8 ай бұрын

I do stop motion as part fo my job and the second I saw that first video I could tell what it was.

@SonicBoone56 9 ай бұрын

Didn't expect to see the GOAT Techmoan used as a video source here.

@johnaraya3761 9 ай бұрын

how am i misses these

@menjolno 9 ай бұрын

9:35 I think if i was the website responding to the allegations. I would take down the true statements. and start a kickstarter to pay the lawyer fees for defamation. If i reach my goal, i would put up the true statements, else don't put up the true statements.

@KaiserMattTygore927 10 ай бұрын

Didn't se any issue with the four player chess thing, I'm sure it's probably complete mega-chaos while than in-depth strategy, but I think chaotic games that exist for fun have their place. Would play it myself if I had the time or friends that gave a shit about chess.

@JamesChessman 10 ай бұрын

Right, it's definitely something that people could make it work, if they really wanted to. 3 or 4 player chess. People could at least have fun forcing such a game lol. (It's a separate issue, whether or not they could make money with it... but it's probably a better idea, than a lot of trash ideas, that actually have made money. Like how the Amico, is a nonexistent idea that scammed millions apparently.)

@thebcwonder4850 8 ай бұрын

4-player chess exists, and it’s just as chaotic as you think it is

@francisco5531 9 ай бұрын

Mythic Games = Ransom pledges = SCAM

@bryanq4499 2 ай бұрын

This is such a cool idea too

@raymonko 2 ай бұрын

Shout out to the Mechanical Turk.

@retrorobbins 10 ай бұрын

Quality video mate, is it a teddy bear a doll a Cuddly Toy a potential mascot for Blockbusters 😂😂 nevertheless he looks pretty cool, has he got a spring in his head and will it nod when I'm driving 😂, checkmate

@slopesgameroom 10 ай бұрын

His head is quite big tbh... Just like mine :P

@lostevesy 10 ай бұрын

Looks more like cgi than stop motion, if it was stop motion you wouldn’t need to cut out things

@YoLoboBro 10 ай бұрын

Lichess fell for a chess lie, because Angel Delgado was a demon del fraudo.

@zerosdeath 9 ай бұрын

Dude, you should do one on the Jumanji Rip off. I warned people a bunch of times, but they got ripped off.

@TheBrad1300 9 ай бұрын

Idk who that first lady is but she 100% does not play or care for chess.

@warpathh 9 ай бұрын

Awesome video. Good coverage. Subb’ed

@bioLarzen 10 ай бұрын

A side note: four-player chess is not at all a stupid idea - it's just nowhere near an original one, as you pointed out ;)

@nobodyimportant8859 10 ай бұрын

I played 4 player chess 1 time. With 2 other people. I won, it was over 15 years ago and until I watched this video that was the only time I had ever seen a 4 player chess board.

@JamesChessman 10 ай бұрын

I didn’t know that was a thing before reading your comment…!

@nobodyimportant8859 10 ай бұрын

@@JamesChessman it was called chess four.

@JamesChessman 10 ай бұрын

@@nobodyimportant8859 Cool, I'm glad I saw your comment, to learn that people have made it happen: chess with 3 or 4 people, on one board. Was it a huge board? (Bigger than a standard board, I expect, right?) I actually had imagined it, but I figured that it would never really happen. Like how 3D chess is a great concept that basically has never really happened lol.

@nobodyimportant8859 10 ай бұрын

@@JamesChessman google search chess four..it is similar to to one you see in this video. Each side has an extra 2 rows for the pieces

@duogemstone 10 ай бұрын

One dude looks like a discount tim curry

@muffenme 10 ай бұрын

So this scammer never heard of time lap photography with central lighting .

@michaelgamel5915 9 ай бұрын

could I get to a link to the video making run of it?

@michaelgamel5915 9 ай бұрын

*fun

@Frogesh 8 ай бұрын

do a video on fake Tvs in countries like Bangladesh and India. its a massive story in these country people get scammed all the time with fake tvs

@Fuuntag 4 ай бұрын

7:00 this is what happens when you pay people on fivr to help your scam.

@slopesgameroom 4 ай бұрын

Those exist btw... It's a nuts world

@Fuuntag 4 ай бұрын

@@slopesgameroom I know I was being partially sincere 😂

@slopesgameroom 4 ай бұрын

I remember a super mario RPG remake on Kickstarter that was gonna be made by fiver Devs lol

@Fuuntag 4 ай бұрын

@@slopesgameroom truely we are living in the saddest of all the timelines 😂☹️.

@commandergrab396 9 ай бұрын

Interesting video. Hadn't heard of this before and went down my own rabbit hole looking at some of the forums. Just a note though: I think the backdrop image for 11:22 is kind of in bad taste haha. Homeless people asking for money and scammers asking for money are very different

@oxymoron02 9 ай бұрын

Wow this guy is like my age but dressing like he thinks he's still fifteen.

@Christina_Cage 10 ай бұрын

Stopped at 1.36 to mention that a magnetic "e-moving" Knight is pointless as the Knight sometimes "jumps" other pieces so via magnet some of its movement will not be possible right? ...sorry, I just love chess. I even slowed the video to make sure the board was set correctly at the start 😅😅 Edit: the board being used by Slopes at 2:10 actually is set up incorrectly 😊 I told you I was bad 😅

@3rdalbum 9 ай бұрын

There are other self-moving boards and they manage it okay by having the knight moving along the boundaries of each square, I think? Or maybe detecting where all the other pieces are and pathfinding around them.

@TheReZisTLust 9 ай бұрын

An automatic chessboard you say? Weird, cause i usually just pull up a game and can play against an automatics opponent for free.

@KairosObj 9 ай бұрын

Good stuff man.

@raylopez99 9 ай бұрын

I'm Ray Lopez and I approve of this expose chess video.

@novaleader7305 10 ай бұрын

I dont see the appeal of an automatic chess board in modern day, we have Echess and so many good chessbots

@RussyPopDnD 9 ай бұрын

What I don't understand is the endgame here - if the kickstarter had been funded, what next? Kickstarter isn't completely without protections, and they would have been forced to refund without a viable product.

@cicadathegod8277 10 ай бұрын

Scammer editor: Knight to H3.

@stapuft 10 ай бұрын

i had an idea for chess once, combine it with "magic the gathering" with each piece, representing a creature in your deck, the board starts off with nothing but your "commander" on it, and over the course of the game you "summon" minions from your deck, their strenths/"class" determines what piece they are, and how they move on the board, but the card controls their attack/health/and abilities, to the board, kind of liek you do in strategy computer games, with the added effect of spell cards, that can be drawn instead of minions, and cause various effects, based on what the card itself says. end goal would be to deal damage to opponents commander in order to reduce their health to 0

@gariko 10 ай бұрын

Look at the board game Summoner Wars. It's got half of what you thought up

@stapuft 10 ай бұрын

@@gariko after playing around with the tutorial.....yeah thats almost EXACTLY what i was doing, just with magic cards, and without "gates" though i like the added strategy they give to the game. i need to play with this more, is it digital only, or is there a board game version?

@gariko 10 ай бұрын

@@stapuft yes, it's a physical game. I actually forgot there even was a digital version (even though I had the 1st edition version)

@cpt_nordbart 10 ай бұрын

Nice to see Techmoan here

@BrimarBrimar-gv5lc 10 ай бұрын

Love this guy 🙏🙏

@JaykPuten 10 ай бұрын

3:30 Mensa doesn't mean your super smart, just good at taking tests I got family that are Members that are in Mensa, and believe the world's flat and Trump is somehow president of the US still as he never transferred power

@fmdof 10 ай бұрын

ive always wanted to play 4 player chess.

@calaifur 10 ай бұрын

glad to see more of these

@RebellionFreedom 9 ай бұрын

This is a hilariously appropriate way to get rich for today’s worthless popular work ethic. Real men work.

@RetroAmateur1989 10 ай бұрын

Outstanding move

@kalobhunt9001 10 ай бұрын

Ol techmoan what an awesome channel.

@Sideshownicful 9 ай бұрын

I don't get this product. How lazy are you that you can't move the pieces for the computer?

@efad3215 9 ай бұрын

I think it's moreso a talking piece and not a board people would actually play on, at least not competitively. More a novelty and a step for telepresence games than anything imo

@antonyslaughter 9 ай бұрын

You can say the same thing about power windows in cars.

@momirbaborac5536 9 ай бұрын

proves that chess players are not very smart

@chobies5383 9 ай бұрын

Man bothered to use a copyrighted song for the intro

@mattjames6349 10 ай бұрын

couldn't he have just said 'oh it's probably a bit of motion blur with the chess piece? or just something to do with the uploading of the video? Wouldn't that have been simpler? :)