The Newest Update to Chess!

Dev of the website here! This is super cool to see! And there's currently lots of games happening on the website, surely people coming from seeing the video - thanks to everyone who's trying it out! Since this video was recorded a few days ago, we've made a bunch of improvements for things like clarity (showing you which squares are haunted), getting rid of the drawbacks that did not play out very well (like X-ray Vision), and we're still actively working on it. There's a lot of sharp edges but we're trying to take feedback and improve - thanks to everyone who tries it out and gives us their thoughts!

Gotta say, i like the idea, but some of those drawbacks are just absolutely unbeatable. I thought the x-ray thing would have given you atleast one turn to react to it but it was just insta loss, which makes it basically auto-loss at that point.

This gives major ChessSimp energy, though it's a very different game when your opponent is not 100 rated!

The first two games were pretty much impossible for you to win, especially x-ray vision. I mean come on, that situation comes up nearly every game in chess.

100 rated chess, but your opponent is unpaid

In my first game my drawback was "Modest: You lose if you have more pieces than your opponent." The opponent's drawback was "Boastful: You lose if you have fewer pieces than your opponent." Finding that out at the end of the game felt a little bit unfair...

No moves to a rank you occupy? That is a BRUTAL drawback! The second was an easy mate in two, regardless of what you played.

I played a couple games after watching this video, that buzz noise happens when your opponent tries to make an illegal move. Makes it easier to figure out your opponents drawback.

I LOVE Eric's face expression when he learned the opponent's drawback 4:03 like "you're calling THAT a drawback?"

So glad Chess Simp got his own website.

Ha, just tried this and lost a game in a few moves - my drawback was if any opponent's pawn gets past to my side of the board I lose. Good grief.

Xray vision could be split in two drawbacks (can be checked through pieces, check = loss) and both halves would be insanely hard.

The moment you noticed the True Gentleman drawback was hilarious 😂

Is there any chance we will see more chess variants (or Fairy Chess) in the future? It's fun watching high level players play with different rules or more pieces, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of content of it on YouTube. Pychess (which is a alternative fork of the website Lichess) has a bunch of fairy chess varients, and I think it would be fun to watch a game of Capablanca Chess (with Gothic alternate start, because it's a more balanced position and you will get more creative openings; otherwise White will be playing D3 or D4 at the start because the Archbishop has such a powerful diagonal targeting the rook in the corner).

More of this pls!

10:38 would he have lost if opponent played Rxg1? Since the drawback is only king moves while in check.

I want to see more of this. I would also like to see that dinner.

It would also be cool if it was possible for both players to have the same drawback, maybe in particular if the game is with a friend.

10:36 if he takes your rook to “trade”, it is checkmate 😅

You know what would make an interesting idea for chess? A lock feature, where every round, a piece is locked and its random. So move 1 (you and your opponent) bishop is locked (no big deal, can't move bishops anyway move one. Then it's randomized again, pawn locked (uh oh) move two. Then move three maybe it will say knights locked, so nobody can move a knight. Then move four maybe the bishop is locked and so on and so forth.