My First Games of SPELL CHESS

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8 ай бұрын

In this video, I try playing Spell Chess for the first time. This is a newly released chess variant with a some interesting additional twists to traditional chess.
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@jay-el9pg 8 ай бұрын

I love how just like duckmate, this variant added freezemate and jumpmate

@eonoire 8 ай бұрын

Jumpmate puts your friend in checkmate

@EDoyl 8 ай бұрын

The "Any piece that lands in a frozen area becomes frozen" rule doesn't seem to do anything if freezes only last one turn. Maybe spells lasted several turns in an earlier version.

@lyingcat9022 8 ай бұрын

Noticed that too.

@refoliation 8 ай бұрын

Does it mean that a long range piece can’t move through the frozen region? (To the other side)

@nicolaslemus8063 8 ай бұрын

I tried custom rules with a friend and found out you can increase duration for spell and if piece come inside it does freeze so I'm guessing it only applies to custom games

@firippumartinezu1782 8 ай бұрын

@@refoliation As far as I know, a piece can move through or into the frozen area.

@CesarGomez-kp5lm 8 ай бұрын

I played the game as soon as it came out and yeah, freeze lasted 2 turns intead of 1 (it was kinda broken)

@bandiddums 8 ай бұрын

I can't believe that in the first few games he played, he did an "oh no my king!". The fact that the scenario can happen is hilarious lol

@mauer1 8 ай бұрын

its pretty normal for chess variants where you dont have to respond to technical checks (and just lose in the response) in atomic chess this happens aswell.

@nikitademodov3446 8 ай бұрын

If you jump over your own piece standing on the 3rd rank with a pawn, an opponent's pawn can take two pieces at once with en passant!

@Cra3ier 8 ай бұрын

that's a big brain move!

@talsayar 8 ай бұрын

Holy hell

@fintan9218 8 ай бұрын

Curious if the game allows that to actually happen. Have you done it?

@mauer1 8 ай бұрын

@@fintan9218 i tried it now with the analysis board it does actually happen. have build a hillarious position where you can decide if you wanna use the opponents jump spell and your jump spell to take the king, or if you wanna en passent 2 pieces

@gogonifox8542 8 ай бұрын

@@fintan9218i tried in analysis and it does work, you take both pieces

@tophatx4598 8 ай бұрын

I just hopped into analysis mode and found that if you jump a piece with your pawn, and an opponents pawn is in position to en passant, the pawn will capture the piece you hopped as well as your pawn. Two captures in one! I really liked watching this and would love to see some high level spell chess.

@MenkoDany 8 ай бұрын

Do you have a PGN of this? I can't replicate ;_;

@isavenewspapers8890 8 ай бұрын

⁠⁠@@MenkoDany1. d3 d5 2. Be3 d4 3. jump@e3&e4 dxe3

@greenoftreeblackofblue6625 8 ай бұрын

This actually seems like a very interesting chess variation, the clash feelings of the spell is still there too

@yodaiam9305 8 ай бұрын

still waiting for that 5D chess gameplay

@ModernArtery 8 ай бұрын

Yes Eric please try 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel

@mauer1 8 ай бұрын

but only with proper instructions. we dont want him to end up like hikaru.

@chazstahs 8 ай бұрын

Sure.. just gonna casually hang my queen then get tried for treason by the king and stabbed through the monitor.

@alexanderpedersen1401 8 ай бұрын

I would love to see more of this when people have started to develop strategies.

@Magic_OTC 8 ай бұрын

The fact that the knights don't need the jump spell is a clever reference to the source material, Clash of Clans, where the hog(riders), which is what the knights are, can already jump over walls!

@jasperredford3504 8 ай бұрын

The inventor of chess was really thinking ahead!

@asiamies9153 8 ай бұрын

How is it a reference? It's just logic

@Magic_OTC 8 ай бұрын

@@asiamies9153 Yes, it is logic, a logical reference. Again, hogs jump over walls, so it's a cool detail that they made the piece that can already jump over ""walls"" (pieces) the hogs.

@asiamies9153 8 ай бұрын

@@Magic_OTC I can't tell if you're trolling or not

@Magic_OTC 8 ай бұрын

@@asiamies9153 I'm not. Are you? Because I don't see what you're failing to understand here

@SaneCowboysfan 8 ай бұрын

This is probably my favorite variant so far, it adds new rules without overcomplicating it too much.

@thelastxgamer 8 ай бұрын

I love variants, it's like chess but with less opening theory. It emphasizes calculation and clever moves more than regular chess while still being instructive of the general strategies therein. Wonderful content :)

@mangotreebs7749 8 ай бұрын

I love how the knights are hogs the rooks are golems, etc lol

@ot1438 8 ай бұрын

why do the bishops have goatees

@dmonroym0 8 ай бұрын

Bishops are like the warden

@jossemalmberg 8 ай бұрын

@@ot1438wizard

@Benjamin-1776- 8 ай бұрын

should have the rooks be pigs for when they get on the 7th rank

@I_am_Itay 8 ай бұрын

35:36 Bb5 with freeze on d7 is mate

@aaaaaaaaabaaaaaaaaa 8 ай бұрын

Have you ever played chinese chess (xiang qi)? The rook with a jump spell is basically the same as the cannon piece in that game. The cannon moves like a rook but can't capture a piece it is looking at - it has to jump over another piece to capture the piece behind it. One of the most common openings is to put your opponent's king in check on move 1 by moving your cannon

@IWkris 8 ай бұрын

There are one pawn on each side in the starting position though, but yes it's very cool and doubled cannons are almost always checkmate (unless you can capture the backline cannon)

@Asdayasman 8 ай бұрын

Eric is so good at chess that he premoves on the analysis board.

@SebastianBohn 8 ай бұрын

Now I wanna jump for some ice cream, but I’m feeling frozen. First gotta watch the whole stream, wizardry of Eric Rosen. GG

@leic405 8 ай бұрын

If your opponent jumps one of their own pieces with a pawn, can you capture both the pawn and the piece they jumped with en passant?

@NoisqueVoaProduction 8 ай бұрын

I thought that it was great to add this new abilities that enable new mechanics and tactics. I hope to see more of Eric Rosen playing them. I was trying for myself and couldn't figure out how powerful a freeze can be (if the opponent can't counter-freeze on the next move)

@joshfotsch3314 8 ай бұрын

It seems the freeze jump combo is pretty insane. If you can check the king regularly and freeze it at the same anything they use to block it can be jumped over the next move. I think you would have to do a counter freeze to stop it, and I'm pretty sure its a forced win if you do this when their freeze is recharging

@OmneAurumNon 8 ай бұрын

Is it possible to capture two pieces simultaneously with en passant in this variant? if I have a knight on c3 and jump over it to play c4, and you have a pawn on b4, can you play bxc3 taking both the knight and the pawn? I can't imagine any reason this would ever happen in an actual game, but if it's possible at all that's really amazing

@tellahsage6477 8 ай бұрын

Damn i just tried this out on the analysis board and it actually works... amazing!

@JustAnotherCommenter 8 ай бұрын

That just proves that en passant is superior. Please chess devs never fix this "bug"!

@DrakePitts 8 ай бұрын

that's really cool! thanks for pointing that out

@aboodosili7905 8 ай бұрын

Shout for everyone who was waiting for Eric to post this video

@soloeurope2258 8 ай бұрын

Very fun mode! You're one of the few creators I can watch longer format videos of, keep it up.

@MrRikum 8 ай бұрын

Eric always manages to find the weirdest chess variant 😅

@fintan9218 8 ай бұрын

This is brand new, and was developed by the clash of clans devs

@ahobbo6401 8 ай бұрын

Duck chess was normal.

@SevenTheJester 8 ай бұрын

@@BobbyFischer0000 Wrong. He never said that Eric finds them first, he only said that he always finds them. If you and I were both on our way to California and we both got lost...does that mean that if I find California first, it's no longer there for you to find? There's just no more California? More importantly...how insecure are you in your level of intelligence that you're *that* eager to tell a stranger that they're wrong? Here, I've got you. I think you're very, very smart. The rest of mankind pales in comparison to your vast, otherworldly amount of knowledge. Men want to be you, and women want to be with you, but we're all secretly envious of your unbelievably high IQ. ...do you feel better now?

@peterderpanda3971 8 ай бұрын

@@SevenTheJesterCringe

@SevenTheJester 8 ай бұрын

@@peterderpanda3971 Thank you wholeheartedly for your meaningful and worthwhile contribution. I appreciate your opinion and hold it in very high regard. 👍

@fintan9218 8 ай бұрын

Nice ive been waiting to watch you play this variant

@g0ldst0ne57 8 ай бұрын

It feels like freezes cancel each other out unless capturing or when the opponent doesn’t have their freeze

@CarlosSamuel-ms9ee 8 ай бұрын

Not always as the freeze doesn't apply to all of the opponents pieces, only the pieces in the freeze zone.

@TheZotmeister 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful! Yes, more Spell Chess, and more variants in general!

@ottertvmtg6229 8 ай бұрын

yes! i wanna see more spellchess!

@SevenTheJester 8 ай бұрын

Eric talking about his face swapping program reminded me of something. I have an app that turns photographs into different kinds of art. It does pictures that look like pencil sketches, pen drawings, oil paints, et cetera. I went to google images and downloaded pictures of Eric and Levy, had the program turn them into drawings, and I'm redrawing them on paper so that I can turn them into actual artwork. ...and don't judge me, I need the drawing and painting practice and I'm running out of stuff to draw. 😐

@eric-rosen 8 ай бұрын

Would love to see the final results!

@SevenTheJester 8 ай бұрын

@@eric-rosen If it turns out any kind of decent, I'll be happy to share them. I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. 😂

@jurirandow 8 ай бұрын

More of this please, very entertaining!

@DrakePitts 8 ай бұрын

33:15 "I really gotta watch out for these jumps" immediately blinders a piece to a jump

@JustAnotherCommenter 8 ай бұрын

Imo, jump is worth 5 points of material (since it can manifest the ability of a rook OR a bishop, but not both) and the freeze is worth 1 point of material (in the default gamemode where the duration only lasts one move, also becuase the opponent can counter-freeze). In custom gamemodes, I'd say if the freeze lasted more moves, it'd be worth that many points of material as well.

@LuftpolsterManu 8 ай бұрын

very cool to explore new variant with you :)

@neomorphicduck 8 ай бұрын

Love this variant and want to see more!

@-hitmanace1822 8 ай бұрын

More please loved it !

@eyezuel5307 8 ай бұрын

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO

@mikelezhnin8601 8 ай бұрын

this format looks volatile as hell love it

@greysub924 8 ай бұрын

Eric. I really enjoy the spell chess games you played. Please make more spell chess content ❤

@stuvius 8 ай бұрын

This was insanely fun to watch!

@recklessroges 8 ай бұрын

Spell chess was magic. Thanks.

@TylerRayJohnson 8 ай бұрын

It was awesome, do more! Fun variant

@kroeterichNo1 8 ай бұрын

Finally! What a fun variant!

@FartingSpider12 8 ай бұрын

This variant of chess seems awesome! Hope to see more!

@LordTreyHowdy 8 ай бұрын

I genuinely love this. Spell chess marathon?

@kitapsevgisi7955 8 ай бұрын

This was both confusing and amazing! That was fun! :D

@taylorbrown2996 8 ай бұрын

would love to see more

@a_wild_Kirillian 8 ай бұрын

Cool. I still recomend trying Patso Shako, too. Spell chess is a pretty interesting variant. Although, freezes somewhat neutralize each other, because you're incentivised to just counter your opponent's freeze with your own. If you freeze and your opponent can respond with no counter freeze without losing immediately, then it's a race for running out of freezes and you just lose afterwards. But I got to 1650 in a couple of days and it was still fun. Perhaps, there's a higher freeze meta that I haven't gotten into yet. Dodging jumps and still getting an okay position is challenging enough for now. Attacks on a castled king are super scary because of jumps.

@noahprentice751 8 ай бұрын

very cool, would love to see more

@mikkelhansen3714 8 ай бұрын

His opponents are frozen. He's just Rosen.

@gareth5804 8 ай бұрын

I would like to see more of this

@Aoltooliol 8 ай бұрын

I feel like knights become almost useless cause they're the only piece that doesn't benefit from the jump spell

@sc-troy9449 8 ай бұрын

I love you play this, looks like fun

@isavenewspapers8890 8 ай бұрын

A pawn, attacking a square which has been leaped over by an enemy pawn and is occupied by an enemy piece, may capture onto that square and thereby capture both enemy pieces at the same time. Imagine if you were the capturing pawn in this situation. You go to a square, you stab the enemy piece there, and while an enemy pawn is leaping overhead, you stab upward into it as well.

@coreyyanofsky 8 ай бұрын

a jump spell could allow a pawn to hop over a blockading piece

@Danumurti18 8 ай бұрын

Wow, seems fun, will try it

@davidmikan7925 8 ай бұрын

31:55 The prettier mate was the awesome Qxg4, hanging both the queen and the rook but winning with the jump!

@Tvde1 8 ай бұрын

what if knight on f3 and pawn jumps to f4 and theres a black pawn on b4, can you en passant and take both the pawn and the knight?

@morfos95 8 ай бұрын

We gotta test it :o

@LCRich2001 8 ай бұрын

somewhere in the comments someone asked this same question. apparently it’s a yes

@Daviddant100 8 ай бұрын

This variant seems fun. I would like some more!

@EricOneHive 8 ай бұрын

Damn spell chess is cool! Loving the Clash Crossover!

@jayshah8383 8 ай бұрын

More spell chess please!!

@jeremy.N 8 ай бұрын

34:18 white freezes e7 and moves the queen in to e6 after that the only move is to counterfreeze the queen and do something else (very hard to see, but the only move is queen d8 to d7) then white does not defend the queen, but moves their bishop to b5 the king is now in double check* with jump potion without a freeze this cannot be defended and eric loses unless in this hypothetical he finds queen to d7. finally chess with only tactics and no strategy /j Edit: pawn to a6 also works, but it's unlikely to find either move with that giant queen threat

@rage2904 8 ай бұрын

8:50 if white counter froze, there would be Rd1, "jump checking" the king while the knight check remains. It's basically double check and mate.

@ModernArtery 8 ай бұрын

This is actually really cool

@moz2589 8 ай бұрын

Yet another banger video from the Spell Chess master himself Eric fRosen.

@tonid4081 8 ай бұрын

more spellchess!!

@TheKawww 8 ай бұрын

I need more spell chess

@Semicolon42 8 ай бұрын

30:00 missed a checkmate, jumping the knight in to e3 and freezing on the white queen. No escape for white there! (Especially because their freeze was on cool down)

@ocococoe 8 ай бұрын

Freeze recharged after black's move though so wouldn't the opponent just counter freeze and take the knight next turn.

@Susul-lj2wm 8 ай бұрын

i just tried it out, apparently if you jump a pawn over another piece, en passant can capture both

@ramachandra776 8 ай бұрын

After completing duck chess , Eric starts spell chess . 😂

@matthewkrambeer2480 8 ай бұрын

I want to see more spell chess

@starry7544 8 ай бұрын

I really like this variant.

@edmis90 8 ай бұрын

Imagine the danger you'd feel if you had 0x 0x of your abilities left but your opponent still has 1. Custom handicaps like that would be fun to watch in Rosen vs Viewers games.

@dudaseifert 8 ай бұрын

please play more variant chess(other than 1v1v1v1). i loved this!

@ggmoyang 8 ай бұрын

This variant is so fun, I'm addicted.

@Ichthyodactyl 8 ай бұрын

I actually love the Chad Rosen thumb. I had a good cackle about it.

@dimitriskontoleon6787 8 ай бұрын

Looks like the freeze easy answered with freeze. But is so new game that many just miss this defence. Basically freeze work on double attack, and only some times...

@anonymustarrasque3550 8 ай бұрын

SPELLCHESS IS SO CONFUSING!!!!

@eaglegosuperskarmor 8 ай бұрын

With your analysis at the end, it still would have been checkmate even if you blocked with the queen, since they would still be able to jump it.

@Chun788 8 ай бұрын

Can you move a pawn two squares up from its starting square with a pawn blocking it by using a jump? And with that said can you en passant the pawn that jumped the other pawn

@oakworm5526 12 күн бұрын

this looks like so much fun

@mendelmarozov888 8 ай бұрын

My favorite variant

@zachsmith8284 8 ай бұрын

WE WANT MORE SPELL CHESS!!!!!

@javfenchel 8 ай бұрын

Just a follow up on the rules. You can capture two pieces at once, en passant after a pawn jumped a piece. However you may not do so if the pawn jumped your piece.

@PoppixxYT 8 ай бұрын

Clash of clans spells!?

@fintan9218 8 ай бұрын

The devs developed this, i dont play clash of clans but apparently that game is going to have some chess theme crossovers as well.

@eyezuel5307 8 ай бұрын

please do a longform spell chess video

@samglasnovich4682 8 ай бұрын

"Knights already jump" 😂

@ThomasLiljeruhm 8 ай бұрын

I just know that this would be perfect for Rosen.

@jeremy.N 8 ай бұрын

also about jump en-passant your pawn jumps over your or the enemy knight, but could now be taken in en-passant does that still work?, does the enemy pawn capture two pieces at once? can it capture it's own piece? (black pawn on e4, your/enemy knight on d3, you jump over the knight with a pawn to d4)

@yto6095 8 ай бұрын

8:41 rook to d1 still wins though, either you take the king with the knight, or with the rook. unless white already blocks that while counter freezing, with the bishop or the knight... or with the rook jumping from a1 to e1 so that your rook would need to jump over both of their rooks which is impossible

@gonnabetitled 8 ай бұрын

Just some advice, don't move your d pawn so early because in many cases Bb5+ can become a forced checkmate, generally a good setup is c3 e3 d4(or c6 d6 d5 with black) this way you never have any Bb5 problems and get an easier position to play.

@jasonuerkvitz3756 8 ай бұрын

This must be part of the SuperCell crossover. Clash of Clans and Clash Royale all have chess themes this season. Very cool. The illustrations for the two spells are clearly from Clash games.

@totallynottwo 8 ай бұрын

28:20 isn't it checkmate if he froze the piece the bishop was going to instead of next to it? It would prevent the opponent from double freezing the bishop

@genesisx4 8 ай бұрын

The title should have been "Frozen Rosen"

@EebstertheGreat 8 ай бұрын

23:27 white has a mate in 2: 4. freeze@b7 Bb5 Kd8 5. Qxd8# , or 4. freeze@b7 Bb5 other 5. jump@c6 Bxe8# Or white could freeze@c7 instead with the same lines.

@kroeterichNo1 8 ай бұрын

Eric, one more thing, your d5 opening kinda suffers against 2.Bb5+ which more or less wins in a very few moves.

@electricnezumi 8 ай бұрын

I would love to see how a chess engine would handle this. Obviously not trivial to program but I would love to see what kind of bs they get up to

@Max-br5wo 8 ай бұрын

34:57 after Eric freezes d2 I think opponent has tricky mate by freezing d7 and playing bishop b5, threatening unstoppable bishop jump to take the king next move. Incredibly tricky variant, love to see it

@Saeb81 8 ай бұрын

Rosen is king of variants

@ravikiran1997 8 ай бұрын

9:57 - "Call an ambulance, but not for me" moment 😂

@hellium6613 8 ай бұрын

e3/e4 then d6/d5 is instant win for white, check with bishop and freeze, then when horse moves out move Queen to a5 and ur threatening two jump mates that opponent can’t block.