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

@eonoire

8 ай бұрын

Jumpmate puts your friend in checkmate

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)

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 :)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

35:36 Bb5 with freeze on d7 is mate

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?

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. 👍

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

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

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

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)

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.

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. 😂

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

Eric ‘play first, read instructions when getting mated’ Rosen. What a wonderful thug

I genuinely love this. Spell chess marathon?

Nice ive been waiting to watch you play this variant

More of this please, very entertaining!

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

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

This was insanely fun to watch!

Love this variant and want to see more!

yes! i wanna see more spellchess!

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO

very cool to explore new variant with you :)

I would like to see more of this

More please loved it !

this format looks volatile as hell love it

12:34 "okay so opponent is threatening to take my king because they have a jump..." :D "but what they missed, is I also have a jump..." D:

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

Finally! What a fun variant!

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.

Spell chess was magic. Thanks.

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.

It was awesome, do more! Fun variant

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

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

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.

would love to see more

very cool, would love to see more

I love you play this, looks like fun

Damn spell chess is cool! Loving the Clash Crossover!

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

41:34 his mind froze after reading "can you jump en passant"

This variant seems fun. I would like some more!

After completing duck chess , Eric starts spell chess . 😂

The title should have been "Frozen Rosen"

Wow, seems fun, will try it

"Knights already jump" 😂

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

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

This is actually really cool

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.

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

This variant is so fun, I'm addicted.

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

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...

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.

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

more spellchess!!

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.

I need more spell chess

More spell chess please!!

I just know that this would be perfect for Rosen.

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.

I want to see more spell chess

this looks like so much fun

My favorite variant

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.

I really like this variant.

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

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

His opponents are frozen. He's just Rosen.

Simple enough. Thought it was gonna be some complicated magic the gathering kinda stuff

9:47 The fact that opponent also hung their queen is funny, cuz there was jump a2, rxa5

Rosen is king of variants

please do a longform spell chess video

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

i was gonna say this looks shockingly like supercell stuff but then realized its probably a collab lol

At 25:40 there was a way to save the pawn on b7. It was bd5 and if qxb7 the jump would have gotten you the queen!

@Existence_-_

8 ай бұрын

I’m glad someone saw that. Tho I reckon bc8 might’ve been better to lure the queen into taking the bishop as well, and rook takes back with jump

SPELLCHESS IS SO CONFUSING!!!!

I feel like more modern openings and fianchettoing your bishops would be extremely strong with this variant.

13:02 he almost did what the oppenent blunder lol😂

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

This is great. For the first time in my life, chess masters are hanging their queen, and I'm seeing it before they do.

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.

Gotta love how his opponents all have a mate in 2 and everyone misses it :(