The game of chess when Black never wins whatever you do unless you have given hope.

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Imagine getting mated before the game even starts 💀

MISTAKE: Position #17 should have been King-Bishop-Knight instead of King-Rook-Knight. Apologies for that and thank you for spotting that :) Also, check out 5x5 chess as well! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p8upa7Knsa6spXU.html

I would love it if you could somehow get chatGPT to play one of your weird rule chess games

I’d be interested to see 5x5 chess, where the starting position would have pawns on the second and fourth ranks, a king and 4 symmetrically organized pieces on the 1st and 5th ranks, and an empty 3rd rank. Obviously it would be much, much more complicated, as this sort of thing grows in complexity exponentially, but I think it would be the smallest setup that doesn’t have guaranteed mates or draws for white from every starting position.

dude just made all GMs faint in 2 minutes, love it

0:52 and 1:24 are the same positions and, as correctly shown in the 0:52 version, it's a mate in 1 for white.

My dude literally solved a chess variant in less than 3 minutes

now do 4x4x4 chess(three dimensional but with 64 squares just like a regular board)

Fun fact: If White tries to avoid a draw in the thumbnail position by not playing the immediate stalemate, everything else leads to Black winning by force.

In a very popular sitcom in Mexico and here in Brazil called "El Chavo del Ocho" or just "Chaves", there is an episode where the character Quico draws a "chessboard for beginners". It is a mixture of genius and absurdity. And that's just impossible to win, but it's different, it's 2x2. It's pretty funny.

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When you play with smaller boards, you often have to weaken pieces to make it fun and interesting. In school, we would play chess on half a board (4x8) so that every square starts with a piece on it. Pawns could only capture pawns; pawns couldn't move two spaces from the starting rank; promotion was allowed on the back rank, but often we would use a checker piece to show the promoted pawn could move like a king now 1 space in any direction but was not royal (no check or checkmate).

This would be an interesting game if the first turns involved picking piece placement. Like battleship kinda.

This type of chess has always teased and haunted me in my dreams, but now it's a reality.

I can literally see a less than 6 move checkmate here

I did not expect you to solve 3x3 chess from the title and thumb nail but you did and now I am subscribed.

This isn't art... THIS IS MADNESS! I love it.

What about 5×5 chess where you take the pieces from files a-e and place white on rank 1-2 and black on rank 4-5 (ranks 2 and 4 being pawns). White pawns promote on rank 5 instead of 8. Then preserve chess rules like queenside castling, double pawn move, and en passant, and then play.

this guy turned chess into tic-tac-toe💀

1:24: King / Knight and rook is stated to be a draw somehow. While taking the rook in the middle with the rook is checkmate.

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But who said we are always going to take pieces? We might not take them from start

Could maybe work on 4x4 or 5x5? Or a rectangle like 3x5 or 5x3

This is one of my FAVORITE chess video mini chess looks so fun but so hard i wish someone would teach me how to play normal chess with my friends

Now add multiverse time travel.

I stared at the thumbnail for way too long trying to find the way to win

POV: Chess player plays Tic Tac Toe

This board is somehow really adorable

I need slightly bigger but still smol mini chess now

Polgár Laszlo wrote a book about Minichess, he used this variation to teach chess. 5x6 (10 pieces a player)

Here's how to balance it: both players have to do their moves at the same time. Each has a way to write their chosen move down, both don't show until a ref calls for the move to be shown. If the players moves conflict, they rock paper scissors to see which one gets to prioritize their move. Winner moves their piece and the other cannot move theirs until the next move. If both moves end in check, then each has to make a move that gets their king out of check at the same time, same as before. In the event of a King lockdown, the board resets. If a player made a move that would have a piece take their enemy (example, Rook takes Rook), but their enemy made a move that predicted that attack (Bishop moves to original rook space) then the move ends with the counter take being the final move. If this move ends in either King piece being in check, the one in check automatically loses. However, if both are in check at the time of this move, then the King dual check rule applies. If a King Lockout occurs, then the King Lockout rule applies. Winner is declared when only one King is in check or both of a player's non king pieces are taken.

Mini chess is chess but 3x3. You can make your own setup

It would be interesting to analyze mini chess of bigger and bigger board sizes as long as they're small enough that they can be fully analysed by brute force and search whether there's a symetric board position that is a forced win for black and if there is one, what is the smallest board size that it occurs.

im interested to see 5x5, where white gets first rank, with pawns on 2nd, black on 5th, with black pawns on 4th

I don’t know if I want to see more like -this- one but I did enjoy it! 😂

The strongest opening in this game is the white variation of the board

Very fair game, I like it - 👴🏻

The trouble with the thumbnail board (KBR) is that it's only stalemate in one if white wants it to be, and a since stalemate is a draw, I'm not sure it's the best option for white. Granted, I haven't exhaustively searched white's other options to figure out if there are any better ones, but I doubt any skilled player on white would open with rook takes c3.

5*5, both sides have half of their peices, one rook, one bishop, one knight, one king and queen

#16 there is mate in one if Rxb3#

How to win: grab the room and kill the other room then the other bishop will either die or move if he dies the kings is checked he move down he gets checked that's his u win

Mini-chess, how to play. The rules are the same as regular chess except for these changes. For a refresher of those rules, check out the link in the description. Lay out a 3x3 board...

this triggered my claustrophobia and it gives me anxiety lmao

The 16th position is not a draw it is mate in one for white if you first take the rook

Great video, hope you also make a video of 4x4 and 5x5 too

Now we need atomic mini chess

I recommend to resize the board into 4x4. at least 1 pawn should be placed onto second ranks.

Mega chess: 15x15, three rows of pieces

Chess but any move will checkmate

4 by 4 sounds like a better idea imo

1:37 is interesting if white blunders 1. Ba2 then it's black to play and mate in 6.

12th position is not a draw - you need to take it with the white rook

Knight to f4 💀💀💀

the chess rubik's cube checkmate black's king on every side

the interesting game here is to allow both players to choose their own starting setup, and chart which setups lose to which other setups I suspect king and 2 queens should still be dominant for white, but maybe there's at least rock-paper-scissors to be played about which position to put the kings in (invalid starting positions with both kings in check would obviously count as a draw, I imagine)

Position 19 is even better because it's impossible for white to win but there are several ways black could mate if white does not open Rxc3.

Bro made the tic tac toe of chess games

If you take with the rook on move 1 it’s stalemate

So basically white is always going to win or stalemate just like with TicTacToe

Finally I can read squares quickly

this is how our 8X8 chess look to a higher intelligence entity

Actually, if you play by the rule that stalemating the opponent gives them the win, then the bishop + rook setup in the thumbnail actually has some room for strategic play, with room for both colors to win!

How to get this chess board style?

the knight cannot reach the center of the map

i wonder what's the smallest nxn board in which you could have an actual game coolvideo:)

Thumbnail is definitely a stalemate, not watching the video

0:56 if white captures with the queen white will checkmate

On position 13 there is a funny variation: black could play 1. ... Qxc2 which would also lead to a draw after either 2.Qxc2 or 2.Qb3+ and any other move would lead to black winning

It is not clear to me that a variant with only bishops is insufficient material on a 3x3 board. It is on an 8x8 board, but the options on a 3x3 board are more limited. But I assume it is impossible to put the king in check on that particular board as all the bishops are on opposite color squares of the king.

Are those draws the only legal sequence of moves on those board states?

this would be way more interesting if it was a 5 x 5 and pawns have their own row.

Now, how do we solve 8×8 chess.

Idk why I even did this but in the thumbnail the winning move is bisop a2

How about 3x3 chess but black is mirrored?

For the stalemate one, 19/22 why not move your bishop next to their king, they cant take with either piece, you grab their bishop and gg.

Me after looking at the thumbnail: This is genius, cause rook takes rook is stalemate...

IT IS LIKE TIC TAC TOE BUT U USE CHESS PIECES

the rules are the same as regular chess, except for these changes

Nice video!

Imagine setting the London there

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This is tic tac toe v2.

Bro i want to castle and get my king into danger

I wanna see these two bots fight. Martin (White) vs Stockfish (Black)

Because checkmate.

make pawn promotion a thing. that's an order. Also, make it 4 by 4, so both sides actually have an equal chance of winning.

Chess but only half a board

How about asymptomatic starting positions? Are there any games taking more time in that case?

Alright who the hell forgot to prototype their sprite

This made me feel claustrophobic. I haven't felt like that in a long time. Wtf

This should be called micro chess. Mini chess should be 8x8

Could you do 8x8 chess?

This is like that one piggy tales chess episode

what about seventeen, cant you play rook takes knight and checkmate?

Looks like the initial form of Skaia in homestuck

We need Medium Chess

The longest draw game should be “the game”

0:57 white always wins.two options at the beginning...