it's probably VERY prone to draws tbh

Let players keep playing if they still have pawns then, as long as they can make a queen they haven't lost.

@@bestevil. that's even more draw-ish lol

@@justenoughrandomness8989 exactly

@@bestevil.bros living up to his username

Like a king in a smothered checkmate

Strangely, this actually feels weirdly cozy. Idk

stolen

@@Noobpopcan Ever thought about the fact that people can have the same thoughts 🤯🤯🤯

@@NoobpopcanYou ->🤡

I was extremely temped to put that clip in the intro lmao

That sounds fun but I don’t have a board

@@Genericyoutubefan yeah I can't remember the exact piece layout we used but there isn't a single empty space on the square meaning that white has to capture on their first move

This has been an idea since the start of chess bro, you did not come up with it unless you are Ronich Manduel, who is dead

@@TheOnly2nd i invented it when i was like 7 or something without knowing much about chess besides how the pieces move

@@jayman1462 ohh i thought you were claiming you were the original inventor lol sry

Definitely a case of convergent design.

@@TheOnly2nd ah. you're good

chess but your opponent is french

I must have cut it out because I wasn't talking. It's usually fine because a couple of pieces change places during the jump-cut, but this time it looked confusing because my opponent shuffled his king around and ended up in the exact same spot after the cut

​@@GreenLemonGamesok that makes sense. I got really excited for a second there. "Pawns can do that?! That changes everything" lol

I was considering a similar setup! My idea was RQKR on the first rank, NBBN on the second, then pawns on the 3rd. I wanted to use the existing setup though, at least for this video.

@@GreenLemonGames Oh yeah that is a nice way to do it. I like the current set up since shares an elegant factor with Ed Trice's Gothic Chess: in Gothic Chess the leftmost chunk of the board and rightmost chunk are preserved, with the middle chunk differing from regular chess since the fairy pieces are beside the king. Hence RNBK and QBNR feel nice (maybe an invocation of the "processing fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure"). Other than differing bishop colours, your considered set up with the knights at the edges would make their first move more satisfying than if the knights started in the middle with bishops on the edges.

Yes! There is technically no limit

@@GreenLemonGames You can design custom pieces and all?

​@RandomBurfness I don't have any non-standard/fairy pieces in the game yet, but I will definitely be adding some

A 2d mode is coming soon - hopefully that will help!