How to play Sovereign Chess

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0:00 - Objective
0:15 - Setup
0:31 - Starting move
0:46 - Queens, Bishops, Rooks
1:04 - Same Color
1:29 - Pawns/Brown Lines
2:19 - Controlling a Color
3:01 - Occupying Color Squares
3:19 - Capturing Pieces
3:50 - Pawn Promotion
4:25 - Changing Kings Color
4:53 - Castling
5:18 - To Win
RULES:
The rules are the same as regular chess except for these changes. Lay out the board and setup the pieces on the outer ring of squares, matching each piece with the color and type indicated around the edge of the board. In the next ring of squares, place pawns matching the colors of the adjacent pieces. In the four corners, instead of pawns place matching-colored knights.
Randomly select a player to make white’s first move. After white’s first move, the other player may choose to play as white or play as black. Whoever plays black makes the next move then turns alternate. Queens, Bishops, and Rooks may not travel more than 8 squares in a single turn. Therefore, they may not check a king that is farther than 8 squares away. Kings are allowed to move out of check by moving out of this range.
A piece may not end its turn on a square of its own color, but it may travel over a square of its own color. Therefore, a player may not check their opponent’s king with a piece of the same color as the square that that king is on. Kings are allowed to escape check by moving to a square matching the color of the checking piece.
Pawns move 1 square vertically or horizontally, and capture 1 square diagonally, towards the center of the board. The brown lines on the board help guide pawns toward the center. Pawns move and capture towards either brown line, even if that move is further away from another brown line. A pawn adjacent to a brown line may not move across it, but it may capture across a brown line so long as the capture takes it closer to the center of the board.
Pawns on the outer 2 rings of the board may move 1 or 2 spaces away from the closest edge. They may move like this even if they have moved previously. En passant is not allowed.
When you move one of your pieces onto a square of another color, you then control all the pieces of that square’s color and may move them so long as you have a piece on that square. Once the colored square is unoccupied, then you may not move those pieces until you occupy one of the matching color squares again. You are allowed to use your controlled colored pieces to control other colors.
When you move a piece to a square that is the same color as your opponent’s king you do not gain control of their pieces. Pieces that are the same color as a player's king may never be controlled by their opponent.
There are two squares of each color but only one of those squares may be occupied at a time. When one square is occupied by any piece, whether a player controls it or not, then the other square of that color may not be occupied.
You may only capture pieces of colors that your opponent controls. You may not capture any piece you control, nor pieces that are uncontrolled by either player. If you capture an opponent’s piece that is on a colored square, you immediately take control of all pieces of that square’s color. You may escape check from a colored piece by capturing the matching colored square your opponent controls, giving you control of those pieces instead.
When a pawn reaches the center 4x4 area marked by a black border, it must promote to any higher piece of its same color, which may include a king. If you choose to promote a pawn to a king, you remove your current king from the board, and place the new king, of the same color of the pawn, where the pawn was promoted. [show 2 examples: Coup d’Etat & Overthrow]
If you promote to a king of a different color, then your previous king’s colored pieces will now be controlled by the player who occupies a square of that color.
On your turn, instead of moving a piece, you may replace your king with a king of any color you control. Your turn then ends unless your king is now on a square of its own color. Then you must legally move it off of that square.
You are allowed to promote to a king or change your king’s color to get out of check. There is no limit to the number of times you can change kings during the game.
You are allowed to castle with any rook you control that is on the same row as your king so long as all the normal rules of castling are followed. To do so, move your king to any vacant square between it and the rook and that rook to the other side...

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  • @LiPolygon
    @LiPolygon2 жыл бұрын

    Now I'm trying to imagine 5d sovereign chess with multiverse time travel and I can feel my brain melting

  • @DerGecko92_old

    @DerGecko92_old

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh no

  • @connorschultz380

    @connorschultz380

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's where my brain went too, mod for the game from steam? You could add most of those variants to 5d chess with a mod

  • @Sphagetti__

    @Sphagetti__

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@connorschultz380 yes but let's be honest here, what's the point? It is difficult to have an innate understanding of chess (looking crazily far ahead without calculating) pretty much impossible to have that understanding of 5D, the same with multiverse time travel and sovereign. To make multiverseD sovereign chess would be impossible^3

  • @connorschultz380

    @connorschultz380

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Sphagetti__ it be fun, it be wild. I already play chess 1 turn at a time, so it be wild

  • @LiPolygon

    @LiPolygon

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Kushenable I think you misunderstand me, Theres a game called 5D chess with multiverse time travel and I meant I was imagining a version of that game for this version of chess.

  • @voidraldarken
    @voidraldarken2 жыл бұрын

    So, let’s say that black controls blue, who controls pink, who controls green, who controls purple (all under black’s control). If white takes the black piece controlling blue, white would control ALL of those colours. That’s insane.

  • @bulldog300

    @bulldog300

    2 жыл бұрын

    Medieval politics be like that

  • @honeyjuice219

    @honeyjuice219

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes, yes they will

  • @vuedanto8576

    @vuedanto8576

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's called sovereignty. Take down one piece and you control all.

  • @honeyjuice219

    @honeyjuice219

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vuedanto8576 oh so that's where the name comes from

  • @PiGuy216

    @PiGuy216

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly...that's how it was designed!

  • @LeotheTiger1234
    @LeotheTiger12342 жыл бұрын

    Initially I thought this was a 4-player game; it isn't. It is for 2 players, and there's so much to think about.

  • @coreyeverett5500

    @coreyeverett5500

    2 жыл бұрын

    There is a four player mode actually!

  • @peculiarjack617

    @peculiarjack617

    2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine combining the rules of sovergier chess with progressive chess...

  • @LeotheTiger1234

    @LeotheTiger1234

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@coreyeverett5500 How does it work?

  • @LeotheTiger1234

    @LeotheTiger1234

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@peculiarjack617 Now that would be confusing.

  • @THEDeathWizard87

    @THEDeathWizard87

    2 жыл бұрын

    Initially I thought this was a 10-player game with 1 color per player

  • @SmokeyBCN
    @SmokeyBCN2 жыл бұрын

    Up until the rules about changing King colours it seemed fairly straight forward

  • @darththeo

    @darththeo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Even that is fairly straight forward.

  • @aickavon

    @aickavon

    2 жыл бұрын

    From what I understand... you basically... switch who you're playing as which potentially has a lot of use in terms of positioning.

  • @arturocevallossoto5203

    @arturocevallossoto5203

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you are white and transmute to the king to blue, then the blue pieces are your new main pieces and white pieces would function as those of the subkingdoms. This means black could put a piece in a white square and then control your former white pieces.

  • @theofficialwoohoogamers

    @theofficialwoohoogamers

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@arturocevallossoto5203 Oh so if you change you king to blue then you don't lose control of your king when the piece (you control) goes off any of the blue squares

  • @Anastas1786

    @Anastas1786

    Жыл бұрын

    @@theofficialwoohoogamers Yes. If you're Black, then promote a pawn to a Blue king, you're now permanently in control of the Blue "kingdom", and Black becomes just another "vassal". This has interesting implications. If you promote to a different color, you could _lose_ control of your original color unless you planned ahead and put a "vassal" piece on a square of your original color. And depending on how your "chain of command" is set up, promoting to the wrong colored king could actually _break_ the chain, potentially allowing your opponent to swoop in and steal your whole empire!

  • @horse5791
    @horse57912 жыл бұрын

    This is both NEEDLESSLY COMPLICATED and really elegant. I kind of need this.

  • @mooshroommoon

    @mooshroommoon

    Жыл бұрын

    I can't find it.

  • @Pomodorosan

    @Pomodorosan

    Жыл бұрын

    It's like a cool little "What if" idea that had to be completely developped to leave no ambiguity.

  • @TouchcreatorYT

    @TouchcreatorYT

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@mooshroommoonbuddy it's in the description

  • @KittSpiken

    @KittSpiken

    Ай бұрын

    It seemed incredibly obtuse, but suddenly just clicked as the rules went on. Pretty impressive.

  • @defensivekobra3873
    @defensivekobra38732 жыл бұрын

    So essentially each colour is it's own faction and black & white both rival kingdoms who compete for the favour of these factions

  • @Scrubermensch

    @Scrubermensch

    2 жыл бұрын

    City-states on Civilization, basically

  • @anonyme4881

    @anonyme4881

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thats called a Feodal states. Its basically a civil war to elect the next king of the nation, and you need to control duchy for that. Neat

  • @daemonace5910

    @daemonace5910

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, until the king decides to change color

  • @Absenteeee

    @Absenteeee

    2 жыл бұрын

    That comparison helped me understand it a lot actually

  • @Anastas1786

    @Anastas1786

    2 жыл бұрын

    And then, by the rules of promotion, one faction can manage to wrangle enough power to de facto (or de jure, if you interpret the King changing color as him joining the faction outright) control the country, while the original ruling party becomes a secondary power within its own government, a power that could either reclaim its original authority or even be subverted by a foreign enemy agent and convinced to fight against its "corrupted" former leader.

  • @PiGuy216
    @PiGuy2162 жыл бұрын

    The reason there is no “en passant” in this game is because the pawns are moving in the same direction as their neighbor pawns. If one pawn jumps over a possible capturing square, the other pawn can always “catch up” to capture it, unlike traditional chess…

  • @kyarumomochi5146

    @kyarumomochi5146

    2 жыл бұрын

    En passant isnt even a real rule in traditional chess

  • @kodeytheneko

    @kodeytheneko

    2 жыл бұрын

    Kyaru Momochi it's a real rule in FIDE chess, which is what most people play.

  • @shibo2319

    @shibo2319

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kyarumomochi5146 but its forced so....?

  • @kyarumomochi5146

    @kyarumomochi5146

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kodeytheneko Does it apply to ALL chess games? Then its not a true rule Its still argued if it should be a true rule or not

  • @matthewbless3335

    @matthewbless3335

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kyarumomochi5146 tempting the fate of Gary Chess and his brick I see. You are braver than I

  • @coreyeverett5500
    @coreyeverett55002 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for giving this game some visibility! i bought a game and even got a note from Mark Bates himself when I asked for a black king (as I'd been given an extra queen instead). It's really fun!

  • @viporal7898

    @viporal7898

    2 жыл бұрын

    A disciple of master Bates?

  • @carsonrush3352

    @carsonrush3352

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@viporal7898, ...

  • @mihailmilev9909

    @mihailmilev9909

    Жыл бұрын

    @@viporal7898 who?

  • @mihailmilev9909

    @mihailmilev9909

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow very interesting, what are some of the strategies?

  • @viporal7898

    @viporal7898

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mihailmilev9909 asked

  • @peculiarjack617
    @peculiarjack6172 жыл бұрын

    At this point chess rules is flexible enough to allow this many variants to exist

  • @NikolajLepka

    @NikolajLepka

    2 жыл бұрын

    Historically speaking, we've had hundreds of variants. The one we know simply as "chess" now, is from the late 1400s. Check out Courier Chess and or Cambodian/Khmer Chess for some historical variants which vary quite a bit from "regular" chess

  • @syro33

    @syro33

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@NikolajLepka Or Shogi and the other East Asian versions! Western Chess is just one version of a game that originated in India! Its really interesting.

  • @NikolajLepka

    @NikolajLepka

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@syro33 it absolutely is! I own a Xiangqi set (chinese variant), and honestly I recommend it over the regular western kind

  • @luizcastro5246

    @luizcastro5246

    2 жыл бұрын

    chess rules are very basic, the endless possibilities they generate are what makes calculating the right option fun, hard and engaging. Just like a string of ones and zeros can be decoded into a poem, so can the rules of chess be translated into another game

  • @KuroDCupu

    @KuroDCupu

    2 жыл бұрын

    think of it as using mods for your game

  • @graysonprettyman4584
    @graysonprettyman45842 жыл бұрын

    This looks and sounds SO complicated, but really, all of the new rules are consistent and common-sense. Seems like a fun variation!

  • @Puschit1

    @Puschit1

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, the king replacement is confusing

  • @Really_Skunkey
    @Really_Skunkey2 жыл бұрын

    This looks like it takes a couple games to get used to, but that looks like so much fun

  • @blumoogle2901
    @blumoogle29012 жыл бұрын

    I like mounted chess more, where you can mount pawns, bishops, Queens and Kings on top of knights and create combination pieces to mobilise more effectively and then unmount again. And you can mount rooks to create immobile fortresses which can take adjacent pieces without moving.

  • @SorchaSublime

    @SorchaSublime

    2 жыл бұрын

    How about mounted sovereign chess? Did you think about that?

  • @vinodwasnik4

    @vinodwasnik4

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SorchaSublime how about mounted 5d multiverse with time travel soverain chess?

  • @Romashka_Sov

    @Romashka_Sov

    Жыл бұрын

    This is what you call wargames

  • @ICountFrom0

    @ICountFrom0

    Жыл бұрын

    I can't find rules for that, google just tries to sell me wall mounted chess and I'm too tired to argue with it.

  • @lucisveritas

    @lucisveritas

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ICountFrom0 the closest version I could find is horseman's chess

  • @ComDenox
    @ComDenox2 жыл бұрын

    It looks very interesting, so many things to keep track of

  • @luckylucas8596
    @luckylucas85962 жыл бұрын

    The different color concept is interesting, but as somebody who is colorblind, I’m going to confuse the colors of the pieces too often.

  • @TheDevilockedzombie

    @TheDevilockedzombie

    2 жыл бұрын

    BRO just see colors. Like its so easy. Im seeing colors as I type this out lmao

  • @luckylucas8596

    @luckylucas8596

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheDevilockedzombie Nice b8 m8.

  • @sophieyu2697

    @sophieyu2697

    2 жыл бұрын

    ohhh man i feel so bad for colorblind people :( maybe theyll add like shapes or an indicator to show which color it is!

  • @sophieyu2697

    @sophieyu2697

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheDevilockedzombie ah yes why cant the colorblind person see colors

  • @cyanideytandcuriousseadogg4160

    @cyanideytandcuriousseadogg4160

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sophieyu2697 add a guide section and a marker to show what color each piece is.

  • @FloatingSunfish
    @FloatingSunfish2 жыл бұрын

    Ah, yes. As if regular chess wasn't complex enough. 😂 I'd love to see the GMs of old react to this.

  • @arcaears

    @arcaears

    2 жыл бұрын

    Capablanca famously thought chess would be "figured out" to a point where players always draw, so he loved variants as a way to keep the game fresh!

  • @SorchaSublime

    @SorchaSublime

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@arcaears to be fair it is theoretically possible for chess to be "solved", but no human would really be able to take advantage of that.

  • @FloatingSunfish

    @FloatingSunfish

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is why I believe those with photographic memories will always have an unfair advantage over us mere mortals. 😂

  • @SorchaSublime

    @SorchaSublime

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@FloatingSunfish eh, day to day photographic memory sounds hellish. Imagine being unable to forget literally anything ever

  • @grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic536

    @grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic536

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SorchaSublime that's not how it works

  • @erner_wisal
    @erner_wisal2 жыл бұрын

    More the confusion,chaos and strategy, I like it

  • @RGC_animation
    @RGC_animation2 жыл бұрын

    I am still confused about this game, but this seems like fun!

  • @spyro2002
    @spyro20022 жыл бұрын

    This one's just wild, especially the transmutating kings

  • @dziewiaty
    @dziewiaty2 жыл бұрын

    Finally solid entry to claim the title of Chess 2

  • @dannypipewrench533

    @dannypipewrench533

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, now we just need to add the extra dimensions, mulitverse aspect, and time travel to make it complete.

  • @Scrubermensch

    @Scrubermensch

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dannypipewrench533 that's ultimate chess 3 & knuckles

  • @dannypipewrench533

    @dannypipewrench533

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Scrubermensch True.

  • @dziewiaty

    @dziewiaty

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are both wrong, 5D chess is obviously chess 5

  • @dannypipewrench533

    @dannypipewrench533

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dziewiaty Perhaps.

  • @cymtastique
    @cymtastique2 жыл бұрын

    This is so complicated! Thinking ahead in normal chess is hard, but this... Where would you even begin? I'd love to see some people play this!

  • @ngarcia103
    @ngarcia1032 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see how the recorded moves (like you'd do in regular chess) would look. I'd love to see all the different colours, how takeovers / King swaps would look, etc.!

  • @deadersurvival4716

    @deadersurvival4716

    2 жыл бұрын

    I've seen two changes to notation for this game that some use and some don't. (I'm gonna keep to the changes, and assume everyone who knows this knows standard notation) First, gaining and losing piece control rotated by [x>y], replacing x and y with single letter notation for their respective colors. Secondly, the length that someone goes to to mark the different colors and their controllers. I've seen the single letter notation for the color being used in front of the pieces', so BQa2-c4[G>P] would be for a blue queen moving from a2 to c4, that somehow caused their controller to lose green control and take pink control.

  • @NateConklin

    @NateConklin

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ive used standard and forsyth-edwards. Both with color fonts to denote color pieces.

  • @ngarcia103

    @ngarcia103

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@deadersurvival4716 I think here, unlike regular chess, having the "P" for a pawn move would be easier. And I was going to ask about colours that start with the same letter, but it appears they thought of that as well... White Black Ash Slate Red Orange Yellow Green Cyan Pink Navy (instead of Blue) Violet (instead of Purple)

  • @deadersurvival4716

    @deadersurvival4716

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ngarcia103 I mean, algebraic notation outright omits a letter for pawn moves, so anything with a single letter is identifying the colored pawn.

  • @unicornbro517

    @unicornbro517

    2 жыл бұрын

    I came up with color,piece,original square, new square, capture if any. It’s a lot but it seems like the most logical way of keeping track of moves in this game. A gray rook taking a purple piece would be gaRA13B13x. The x being the captures and the ga being for gray because of green.

  • @Katslia
    @Katslia2 жыл бұрын

    You know it is going to be confusing when you realize the video length is 5 minutes

  • @Puschit1

    @Puschit1

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, games like Warhammer have 100+ page rule books ... it's only important if the rules are intuitive or arbitrary. It's easy to remember that you control blue pieces when you control a blue square for example and many of the things he says are more like clarification and consequences of the actual rule and not additional rules.

  • @goatgamer001
    @goatgamer0012 жыл бұрын

    In normal chess, you can move to 7 spoces away. In this game its up to 8

  • @rew_mate

    @rew_mate

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good point. I wonder if this is an oversight?

  • @NateConklin

    @NateConklin

    2 жыл бұрын

    8 is the length of a standard chess board.

  • @rew_mate

    @rew_mate

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@NateConklin Yes, 8 is the length of the chessboard, so you can only ever move 7 spaces away, since the square you start on is one too.

  • @Pixelhurricane

    @Pixelhurricane

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rew_mate if you phrase it as 'you can move the entire board length in one turn', down to ' you can move 8 spaces', it seems more reasonable that the game just plays well with 8 moves being the correct tuning for balance. Otherwise pieces like knights and pawns would become much less useful due to being way slower than all other pieces by comparison

  • @serraramayfield9230
    @serraramayfield92302 жыл бұрын

    Learned about this game last month, glad to see a video! I thought that checkmate wasn't the only way to win, though...

  • @RGC_animation

    @RGC_animation

    2 жыл бұрын

    How else would you win?

  • @boiledicetea

    @boiledicetea

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@RGC_animation maybe by controlling a color which is that king's current color eg: you occupy a cyan square and your opponent is using a cyan king at that time

  • @Mpg0907

    @Mpg0907

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@boiledicetea 2:46 (when you move a piece to a square that has the same color as your opponents king, you do not gain control of this color.)

  • @boiledicetea

    @boiledicetea

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Mpg0907 i never said you could control them :)

  • @randoman8654

    @randoman8654

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@boiledicetea that would be so unfair that the whole game would be a race to getting one piece on your opponent's color

  • @Idunno1707
    @Idunno17072 жыл бұрын

    I’ll never fully understand this but it definitely looks interesting to play.

  • @drago939393
    @drago9393932 жыл бұрын

    The designer never stopped to ask themselves "is this too much?".

  • @Trikovioz
    @Trikovioz Жыл бұрын

    I've loved playing chess since I was 12 (self taught, I understand the rules 100% but I'm not exactly amazing at the game) and this looks incredibly interesting and fun! I think I'm just drawn to complicated looking stuff like this and it's exciting me just how much I understand it! Now there's only one issue. Much like traditional chess, it's going to be very difficult locating an opponent to play this with. Obviously this'll be harder to find an opponent for lmao. But if I find someone who knows chess, this should be fairly easy for them to get as well! I love this!

  • @joojojoj956
    @joojojoj9562 жыл бұрын

    At last, after hundreds of years without any news... They released Chess 2

  • @kirtil5177

    @kirtil5177

    2 жыл бұрын

    2 major powers and a bjillion minor ones being thrown around

  • @Thatguy5606
    @Thatguy56062 жыл бұрын

    Chess: Politically Accurate Edition.

  • @dannypipewrench533

    @dannypipewrench533

    2 жыл бұрын

    *F E U D A L I S M*

  • @gaaberu5728

    @gaaberu5728

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dannypipewrench533 tomato, tomato...

  • @dannypipewrench533

    @dannypipewrench533

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gaaberu5728 I do not believe there were any tomatoes or tomatoes in Europe during the Middle Ages.

  • @alexjames7144
    @alexjames7144 Жыл бұрын

    I like that with this it eliminates the traditional Chess principles of well studied openings as its far too chaotic, meaning it relies entirely on adaptability and actual critical thinking because you can't just memorise objectively correct opening sequences

  • @EatAnOctorok

    @EatAnOctorok

    Жыл бұрын

    Just like real war.

  • @awkwardcultism

    @awkwardcultism

    Жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't say so; I think if we played this game for a few thousand years we'd understand a few openings quite well.

  • @jojbenedoot7459

    @jojbenedoot7459

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@awkwardcultismfwiw, the version of chess played today has only been around since the 1400s, not thousands of years

  • @jeanmarc6517

    @jeanmarc6517

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jojbenedoot7459 There has been numerous change since then, so the version we use is even more recent

  • @randolipe9056

    @randolipe9056

    11 ай бұрын

    @@jojbenedoot7459 Also we got computers now, so analysing games is now way easier and quicker

  • @JalebJay
    @JalebJay2 жыл бұрын

    Declining en-passant requires you to bring bricks to the table then.

  • @ivanvalencia5785

    @ivanvalencia5785

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don’t hate the game based on the rules and besides, 1) there are other chess variants that en passant aren’t allowed. And 2) if you never tried, you may never know

  • @josiahsimonalcantara3086

    @josiahsimonalcantara3086

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ivanvalencia5785 joke?

  • @jcf20010

    @jcf20010

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@josiahsimonalcantara3086 I was asking myself the same question.

  • @mlahut
    @mlahut2 жыл бұрын

    Suppose I change my king's color to blue, then my opponent gains control of blue. Does he immediately win the game? (If so, is there ever a case where changing the color of your king is a good idea?) EDIT: this is explained at 2:55 - having a blue king gives you overriding control of blue. But I suppose you would then lose overriding control of your original color if the opponent had a good central position.

  • @coreyeverett5500

    @coreyeverett5500

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yup! That's why the white and black squares are there. Under normal circumstances, you aren't allowed to go on those squares.

  • @LuLu-ip4zb

    @LuLu-ip4zb

    2 жыл бұрын

    It might be good if you current king is trapped

  • @sir.atombro3752

    @sir.atombro3752

    2 жыл бұрын

    I understood that the enemy cannot occupy the color of your current king. As such they cannot win by controling them.

  • @impossiblehanley2732

    @impossiblehanley2732

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nothing happens.

  • @Tzizenorec

    @Tzizenorec

    11 ай бұрын

    @@sir.atombro3752 The enemy _can_ occupy those squares, but all they gain is that the occupying piece becomes uncapturable by pieces of that color.

  • @paulyguitary7651
    @paulyguitary76512 жыл бұрын

    This reminds me about when my friend group was playing spades all the time during the 90s. We played so much that we made house rules that made the game harder. In other words this chess is for people that the game is too easy for. Pretty cool but i don’t play chess enough these days so I think I’ll stick to classic chess.

  • @danielyuan9862
    @danielyuan98622 жыл бұрын

    Holy heck this is such a complicated yet such a potentially fun game.

  • @shanelawrence7438

    @shanelawrence7438

    2 жыл бұрын

    check out 5d multidimentional time traveling chess

  • @fireballme1153
    @fireballme11532 жыл бұрын

    And people claim time travel chess is complicated! wow, this is a really big game; it seems amazing.

  • @gulgaffel

    @gulgaffel

    2 жыл бұрын

    Now we need 5d sovereign chess with multidimensional timetravel.

  • @Voriki2

    @Voriki2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gulgaffel and fairy chess pieces

  • @idontknowmyname3622

    @idontknowmyname3622

    2 жыл бұрын

    No 5d chess is waaaaay more confusing

  • @Scrubermensch

    @Scrubermensch

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'd take sovereign chess over 5d any day!!!

  • @ICountFrom0
    @ICountFrom0 Жыл бұрын

    I was following, and even starting to think of basic stratagies, right up until taking control of a pawn and promoting it to a king, and changing your controled army to a completely different colour. I can't think of any reason to go from black to blue unless I'd already run through almost all of the black pieces. And now the only things I can think of are the times when it's best to move a pawn and promote it to king vs the times it's best to just hotswap your king.

  • @aaronlaluzerne6639
    @aaronlaluzerne66392 жыл бұрын

    Well now we can play chess variants where players can start off with 48 to 56 pieces. Add all the pieces from faerie chess and other chess variants, people will be able to have the most intense and entertaining chess games of all time. Plus more ideas and variants to add into knightmare chess.

  • @ivanvalencia5785

    @ivanvalencia5785

    2 жыл бұрын

    PUN CITY

  • @crowreligion

    @crowreligion

    Жыл бұрын

    'Knight'mare chess... Something to do with knights?

  • @Nemes1sVR
    @Nemes1sVR2 жыл бұрын

    I love your chess content its so fun seeing how much creativity can be put into such an old and simple yet (for newcomers) complex game Sorry if that made no sense to you

  • @videogamenerd1991
    @videogamenerd19912 жыл бұрын

    Aside from the rules being convoluted, at first, this is a REALLY cool way of playing Chess! I may have to find this set.

  • @MysteryMaster3
    @MysteryMaster315 күн бұрын

    Bought 1 last year. So much fun. Instructions also offer rules for a 4 way last king standing free for all.

  • @wellesradio
    @wellesradio2 жыл бұрын

    Sovereign Chess enthusiasts… “There are dozens of us! Dozens!”

  • @TheCheesyNachos
    @TheCheesyNachos2 жыл бұрын

    2:06 would have been a very cool en passant if it was allowed

  • @TheHylianBatman
    @TheHylianBatman2 жыл бұрын

    Wow, that's so cool. That's so funky and fun, I love it so much. And this channel! I'm gonna check this out.

  • @grockman2795
    @grockman27952 жыл бұрын

    At first, I thought I understood this, but then we started talking about if your king’s color changes and is now controlling other sections and… yeah.

  • @jaysonbunnell8097
    @jaysonbunnell80972 жыл бұрын

    It would take me a while to figure out, but this looks rather fun

  • @tomasouzaheuert
    @tomasouzaheuert2 жыл бұрын

    This is in fact simple to understand and a really genius idea

  • @KiyokaMakibi
    @KiyokaMakibi Жыл бұрын

    I gotta admit, as chaotic as this all sounds, I’d love to try it. I wouldn’t be able to plan so meticulously as some chess players, but the chaos this game brings sounds so fun!

  • @hassanalihusseini1717
    @hassanalihusseini17172 жыл бұрын

    Sounds very complex, but interesting!

  • @ivanparadamarin1119
    @ivanparadamarin11192 жыл бұрын

    Great. Now i know the rules of a board game I'm never going to buy.

  • @jakebocskovits7426
    @jakebocskovits7426 Жыл бұрын

    Just bought it through your link. Can’t wait to play.

  • @jacqueslochs2114
    @jacqueslochs21142 жыл бұрын

    This honestly looks like fun, I’ll have to give it a go sometime.

  • @sammysammyson
    @sammysammyson2 жыл бұрын

    Although this seems like a load of fun, it seems like there is a bit much going on for practical or casual play. I'd love to see a simplified version I can play with just about anyone :)

  • @ChildOfGorb
    @ChildOfGorb2 жыл бұрын

    I was actually considering playing this until you said “en passant is not allowed”.

  • @NikolajLepka

    @NikolajLepka

    2 жыл бұрын

    it's not that en passant isn't allowed, it's that it's realistically impossible. pawns have to cross through the middle area, and if they do so they must promote, so there's no way you'd ever even reach the opponent's side and be able to perform an en passant. sure, you might be in a situation where a side-pawn does a double step next to your pawn, but how are en passants supposed to work in that scenario?

  • @ChildOfGorb

    @ChildOfGorb

    2 жыл бұрын

    My not allowed i mean not really possible

  • @leritykay8911

    @leritykay8911

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me, who didn't even know en passant or castling was a thing: ...

  • @ivanvalencia5785

    @ivanvalencia5785

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don’t hate the game based on the rules and besides, 1) there are other chess variants that en passant aren’t allowed. And 2) if you never tried, you may never know

  • @josiahsimonalcantara3086

    @josiahsimonalcantara3086

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah same makes this chess variant unplayable

  • @wofflecat3011
    @wofflecat30112 жыл бұрын

    The black rook: this is the end of the line king the black square: I got you fam

  • @matvey8945
    @matvey8945 Жыл бұрын

    Finally!!! Chess battlefield with capturing points and a loooot of fun.

  • @Lightmagician60
    @Lightmagician602 жыл бұрын

    This wasn't too bad. Until the whole switching kings thing came in

  • @BusyHardyLi
    @BusyHardyLi2 жыл бұрын

    That’s a HUGE chess board!!!

  • @MystLgnd
    @MystLgnd3 ай бұрын

    Interesting variant ! ⭐👍

  • @AndrewS-vu4ji
    @AndrewS-vu4ji Жыл бұрын

    This channel is like board gamer comfort food.

  • @Meomega
    @Meomega2 жыл бұрын

    This is insane. I want to play a software version of this game first to get a feel for all the rules and dynamics

  • @citronvannalemon

    @citronvannalemon

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure someone's insane enough to make a site like that exist.

  • @Meomega

    @Meomega

    Жыл бұрын

    @@citronvannalemon there’s just too many rules to keep track of imo for it to be a good table top game. You’re going to forget a rule at some point and bungle the game. You need the assistance of software, at least for when you’re learning it.

  • @agr0nianTV
    @agr0nianTV2 жыл бұрын

    Slightly confusing though I feel like I'd get it after 1 or 2 games. Looks like allot of fun though!

  • @walgekaaren1783
    @walgekaaren17832 жыл бұрын

    This is insane. But I like the gist of it. Good one, mate!

  • @navyntune8158
    @navyntune81582 жыл бұрын

    Just to be clear about the en passant not allowed thing, the brown lines are effectively barriers that don't let enemy pawns through in the first place, and the pawns in the same regions are gonna be moving in the same directions either way

  • @honeyjuice219
    @honeyjuice2192 жыл бұрын

    so basically this game allows you to take color crowns on the board. very complicated but for some reason still makes sense

  • @ivanvalencia5785

    @ivanvalencia5785

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s complex but NOT complicated

  • @honeyjuice219

    @honeyjuice219

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ivanvalencia5785 it means the same thing. and you phrase it like one is bad and the other us good. it's good to have a complicated game and it's also bad to have a complex game

  • @ivanvalencia5785

    @ivanvalencia5785

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@honeyjuice219 oh

  • @Shiirow
    @Shiirow2 жыл бұрын

    Sovereign Chess, when the idea of adding multiplayer goes way to far.

  • @dontreadmyyoutubeprofile3390
    @dontreadmyyoutubeprofile33902 жыл бұрын

    loved it!

  • @zciliyafilms5508
    @zciliyafilms55082 жыл бұрын

    This looks absolutely insane. I want it.

  • @sumbuddy4088
    @sumbuddy40882 жыл бұрын

    2:16 Literally unplayable.

  • @gcubing_4064
    @gcubing_40642 жыл бұрын

    Now that is complex. Add Faerie pieces, time travel and boom - most complex game ever!

  • @SJohann

    @SJohann

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget alternate universes, and maybe other boards, and maybe exploding pieces?

  • @chefdeadpool8481
    @chefdeadpool84812 жыл бұрын

    I would love for this as a play style in 5D Chess

  • @noom_real
    @noom_real2 жыл бұрын

    Me : oh, this is so hard. I will never be able to play it. My brain : OOOOH FANCY COLORS NICE 👍

  • @gabby_5820
    @gabby_58202 жыл бұрын

    Ooh, basically mind control chess

  • @deadersurvival4716

    @deadersurvival4716

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope, that's Benedict Chess

  • @Flamuski
    @Flamuski2 жыл бұрын

    Chess: MMO RPG

  • @KellyBakker-rx3up
    @KellyBakker-rx3up11 ай бұрын

    So cool concept

  • @Deleted_Eevee
    @Deleted_Eevee Жыл бұрын

    I swear to God this man probably has a machine in the basement just cranking these out every minute a new version of chess pops out

  • @anthonycannet1305
    @anthonycannet13052 жыл бұрын

    The blocking color squares and no self captures rules make it impossible to put the board in an invalid state of who controls what. Let’s assume these rules didn’t exist for the example: I have my piece on an orange square, then move an orange piece to a blue square. So whoever controls orange also controls blue. On my next turn I move a blue piece to the other orange square. Lastly, I move my original piece off the first orange square. I still maintain control of both colors because the orange pieces give me control of the blue pieces and the blue pieces give me control of the orange pieces. To prevent that, you can’t occupy a colored space if the other space is occupied. But what if instead of moving to the opposite space, I use the blue piece to capture my original piece on the orange square? It’s the same loop again of blue giving me orange because I have orange. So the rule of not being able to capture different colored pieces you control prevents the loop

  • @ComDenox

    @ComDenox

    2 жыл бұрын

    All of this could also be avoided with a rule saying "The color of your king is your main color. Controlling a color by controlling another color in a chain (of any length) must trace back to your main color at all times, otherwise you immediately lose control of that color" Also maybe there are other issues without the two rules you mentioned, but the issues you presented could still be avoided with this simple rule.

  • @deadersurvival4716

    @deadersurvival4716

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ComDenox You literally just made the same rule. Except you reintroduced a loophole where both players could have a color by occupying both of it's different spaces.

  • @ComDenox

    @ComDenox

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@deadersurvival4716 it's a different rule, don't know what you've read. Just the purpose is the same.

  • @deadersurvival4716

    @deadersurvival4716

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ComDenox It's literally the same rule, the only thing you've done is take away the visual sanctity of having one player on one color.

  • @ComDenox

    @ComDenox

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@deadersurvival4716 so it is a different rule, just with the same purpose. You just said what I said.

  • @AexisRai
    @AexisRai2 жыл бұрын

    I'm confused about a thing: 2:45 "When you move a piece to a square that is the same color as your opponent's king, you do not gain control of their pieces." (Black moves knight to white square, but opponent has White king, so Black doesn't gain control) Ok, I'm with you so far... 2:55 "Pieces that are the same color as a player's king may never be controlled by their opponent." (Shows orange king, blue bishop on orange square, attempted move of orange pawn (by blue's controller?) is marked illegal) I am mainly confused by the "a player"s king" because there's only one king per player and it's not orange, but that's not true, controlling a color gives you more kings. (If you parsed it as "a [player's king]" and not "[a player's] king" then you might get it better.) I think I would have said "Pieces that are the same color as *any of a player's controlled kings* may never be controlled by *that player"s* opponent." to clarify this.

  • @AexisRai

    @AexisRai

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ConnorJC3 Oh, thanks, I missed this. The initial config has queens. When the shot I pointed to showed up, it seemed to have a king in the general region where a colored set is initially placed, but I forgot what was actually placed there.

  • @AexisRai

    @AexisRai

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ConnorJC3 ...feel like he could have explained how you get a different colored king before saying this segment about color king control preventing the opponent from taking control of that color. but idk.

  • @Demoknight_F
    @Demoknight_F2 жыл бұрын

    I never heard of this game before but I would like to play this game. I just checked it out and I don't have enough money right now, I will one day

  • @byrontheusurper6505
    @byrontheusurper6505 Жыл бұрын

    This is so cool!

  • @DolusVulpes
    @DolusVulpes2 жыл бұрын

    So its basically chess but now with vassals and mercenaries? That's pretty cool, and also a little mind melting.

  • @derpanator5671
    @derpanator56712 жыл бұрын

    the way you described caslting was incorrect. its not to any vacant sqaure between the rook and the king, the king moves two spaces and then the rook goes behhind it

  • @deadersurvival4716

    @deadersurvival4716

    2 жыл бұрын

    In traditional western, yes. Not in this variant.

  • @ivanvalencia5785

    @ivanvalencia5785

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, so you can castle on any open spaces between the king and rook

  • @jenesdude
    @jenesdude Жыл бұрын

    This seems like a really interesting variant of chess, plus it has nice potential for 3D-printing. Cool! // Выглядит, как очень интересный вариант шахмат, ещё и с лёгкой возможностью печати на 3D-принтере. Круто!

  • @oceanicmage
    @oceanicmage10 ай бұрын

    Imagine a 4 player 5D chess variant of this but with Faerie pieces and Promotions for every piece like in Shogi...... YEAH!

  • @NormalGayBro
    @NormalGayBro2 жыл бұрын

    That's wild my guy Veeeeery interesting

  • @Femaiden
    @Femaiden Жыл бұрын

    4:35 so, if you change to a king and thst king ends up on a square of its own color and you now have to move it off, can you use that movement to capture an opponent's piece?(if there is a piece in range)

  • @HardcoreGamerAus
    @HardcoreGamerAus Жыл бұрын

    I will never recover from this video.

  • @williamwilting
    @williamwilting Жыл бұрын

    Imagine turning Sovereign Chess into Sovereign Paco Šako (Peace Chess); if you're interested in what Paco Šako is played like, simply search for it. Instead of capturing a piece, they will unite with it. You can chain moves. And your goal will be to make one of the pieces controlled or owned by you unite with the opponent's king. The fun part of this is that no piece will be removed from the board, unless a pawn promotes or a king changes regime. The only problem with this concept could be the change of control over a piece within a union, but creative ruling could solve this.

  • @ngeteengetee7589
    @ngeteengetee75892 жыл бұрын

    This sounds like absolute chaos and I love it

  • @eduwoodentoysgrace4077
    @eduwoodentoysgrace40772 жыл бұрын

    looks like a nice game.thank you

  • @Solar_Planet_YT
    @Solar_Planet_YT2 жыл бұрын

    4:44 Black King: i can teleport. White queen: i checkmated you but now you teleported to the other side. The pawns: 😮

  • @pixelgp5620
    @pixelgp5620 Жыл бұрын

    I needed to watch this video 3 times in order to understand the king's promotion concept. LOL. I want to play this game so bad now.

  • @owenposer6720
    @owenposer6720 Жыл бұрын

    This looks so fun

  • @BootedKiteReallySmells
    @BootedKiteReallySmells2 жыл бұрын

    4:03 this is where my brain just gave up

  • @NOL_bm
    @NOL_bm Жыл бұрын

    I unironically thought this was very straightforward until they mentioned promoting to a king, and then I realized the game was intended to be complicated.

  • @Broadway_Ben
    @Broadway_Ben2 жыл бұрын

    Question about 4:38, when the orange king is forced to move off the orange square, wouldn’t that relinquish your control over the orange color and therefore that king wouldn’t be your king anymore? Or is it still your king and you just can’t move it? And if it is your king does that mean the other playing taking control of the orange pieces is an automatic check mate? Also in this same scenario does that player now have control over blue pieces, even though they technically do not have control over the orange pieces?

  • @tk9254

    @tk9254

    2 жыл бұрын

    For the first question: By swapping kings from black to orange, he essentially made the orange king his new “base king”. In the game there can only be two kings at a time, your opponent’s and your own. when he swapped kings from black to orange, he is now the orange king with black subordinates compared to before when he is black king with orange subordinates. Hence he can move orange pieces and the king however he likes, but not the black if he doesn’t control black square.

  • @EatAnOctorok
    @EatAnOctorok Жыл бұрын

    I got confused when king colors were mentioned, but the comments cleared it up: You are always in control of the color that your king is. You can change king color, and you only control colors of spaces you occupy. Essentially, if your king is white, you can put a white piece on orange, and control orange. If your king changes to orange, you become orange as a whole, and lose control of white unless you have an orange on white.

  • @cobytaylor2097
    @cobytaylor20972 жыл бұрын

    This is so cool

  • @travisporco
    @travisporco Жыл бұрын

    wow, what an incredible idea

  • @josephrion3514
    @josephrion35142 жыл бұрын

    Now I had some concerns about the fairy chess although if prompted would play. This one. This one I find very intriguing

  • @Hakimgrr_
    @Hakimgrr_2 жыл бұрын

    this is so cool and crazy i want it