I was actually surprised to see that you can only use a vest move once. usually in this types of chess mods they'll be no limits let alone drawbacks to the gimmick but seeing that vest's are a one time thing makes me think an actual professional made this mod.
Knight's vests are super useful. they can: -let bishops change the color they're on -let the queen checkmate without any support -get pieces over pawn chains -allow your king to trap an enemy king against a wall or corner in some endgames, without the help of other pieces (rooks can also trap kings in the corners with it)
@@TheExiledMeriler it can do it in the corner. if the bishop is on c3 and the opponent king is on a1, it is checkmate as the bishop controls a1, a2, b1 and b2.
Ok this ones really cool. It is very similar to the variants of chess that allow you to combined the moves of captured pieces, but making it a one use item that you actually have to think about taking or using is so unique. Also the vest are just aesthetically pleasing. Also also, this is literally a mechanic used in Shotgun King and I played that recently.
yeah, I though of Shotgun King as well hahaha and although I agree that the vests are aesthetically pleasing, that noseless knight is fuel for nightmares.
@@vantretiredargumentativedu7763 knights were intended to be riding horses, which is why they look like horses, the vest looking like a llama means that the knights in this are riding llamas, and I find it hilarious to imagine riding llamas in a war
I like this better than Chess Plus as it doesn't centralize the gameplay around absorbing moves. It doesn't derail the game too much but its still on a different track.
This is a chess variant that actually seems to add something meaningful. Other variants I've seen wind up being extremely convoluted in attempts to be unique, while this is a simple addition that adds another level of strategy. It uses the familiar shapes of chess unlike some other variants, so there is not any need to learn to recognize the potential moves of 4 new pieces. Not to mention it slightly discourages trading as the last piece to capture winds up with a vest, which alters chess strategy in a subtle but very real way.
@@ericsilva6787 I still don't get what he said about trading. And I agree fog of war is one of the best ch ess variants, up there with chess 960 and stuff.
@@mihailmilev9909 Well, the vest is an advantage, so if you trade pieces on the same square, last capture gets that advantage, therefore that specific case of trading is not that convenient for the first taker
@@mihailmilev9909 Trading is a chess situation where you capture a piece that is protected by another one, effectively guaranteeing that piece will be captured the next turn. The usefulness of such a move will depend greatly on the pieces involved and the board situation.
ya but queens with knight moves basically has no counters except for smart piece positioning. basically too op. there's a reason the original devs made the knight move like an L you know
ya they kinda have to make it thin to make the vest fit but c'mon. it literally looks a pony from my little pony but got turned into a chess piece by the villain
what if you run out of vests for a piece? can you just make up a vest to use instead, or is it like houses in monopoly where you just don’t get them if they run out?
@@sohkhoonchuan2420 But say if you capture both of your opponents bishops then hold onto the vests, they can't get bishop vests from capturing your bishops.
The game comes with a variant where each player starts with 2 Kings. In that ruleset, Check and Checkmate only apply to a player with only 1 King left, so the first one can be captured and plundered.
Y’all ever just brutally murder your opponent’s knight and rip his horse’s flesh off to use as a one-time ticket to move over one unnecessary pawn? Yeah, me neither.
now this is a chess variant i can get behind. a lot of the others are good, but this one is very intuitive, with a simple yet high skill expression design
I have had one of these chess boards for almost ten years now. I'm glad someone is finally talking about it! (Or maybe there's always been a community for it but I haven't seen them yet)
If a piece has the pawn vest, will every pawn move be able to check a king (e.g. double step move, one step forward) or only the move you use for capturing (diagonal move)?
Pawn can only capture diagonally; any piece in front of it blocks its forward movement. A pawn can't check a king right in front of it. Therefore the same applies to pieces wearing a pawn vest which cannot normally move forward.
This game makes it possible for the queen to become even more powerful then she is because she can get a knights vest. The only move set she does not have in a normal game.
2:38 "Promoted pieces may not gain a pawn vest upon promotion." Does this apply if a pawn had used a vest move to reach its own back line and was captured in the promoting move?
I wonder a piece that captured opponent's rook on a square which is the original sqaure of its friendly rook can castle or not. For example, white bishop may capture black rook on a1 square and gain a vest move of the rook. Can that bishop castle?
@@oguzhanyigit1326 I would think in the same way, but one fact confuses me. Initial two step vest move of the pawn is respected when it is in the second row, even though it is not the actual initial move of the piece.
Yeah, I was wondering why castling wasn’t mentioned, then I realized that a piece with a vest can never have castling privileges anyway. I do remember a puzzle where you could castle with a newly promoted pawn, which would create questions for this variant, but they ruled that that was illegal when it was discovered back in 1972.
@@darknessdarkrai4549 No it doesn't The video specifies the 'regular' 2 row step applies every time a pawn is on its starting (second) row. (not just it's first move, like with castling) The question is 'does a pawn on row 1 also have this ability'? (a position which in regular chess can't occur, so even 'the same as regular chess except for these changes' doesn't cover this question) If I were to play this, I would assume the answer is 'yes'
@@user-jn4sw3iw4h Good question. I also wonder if a pawn on the first row has an "assasinate king ability" which instantly wins the game. The video discusses what happens with checks and checkmates, but doesn't explicitly mention this case. Also, since it's not a situation that occurs in regular chess, it's not covered by saying "usual chess rules except for these differences. If I were playing, I'd have to assume that yes, it has this ability.
It’s very cool to see all these commercial variants of chess instead I’d looking through a 900 page wiki on every varient and wondering if you could play them
A queen exchange often results in one of the queens being taken by the king. In particular, you have variants of e4 e5 d4 d5 dxe5 dxe4 Qxd8+ Kxd8, which are common enough (especially among beginners), but in this version are no longer advantageous for the side that begins the exchange (in this case, white).
Little detail: I don't think he said you are allowed to change your mind and remove a vest you haven't used yet, and this could potentially be a problem in some extreme cases (like for example when, in regular chess, you promote a pawn to queen and instantly end in stalemate, while if you promoted to something else you could have won; with a similar reasoning, I think you might sometimes find it convenient to "lose some priviledges").
Please do the Gigamic Classics series, Games in the series => Modern Classics = Quixo, Quoridor, Squadro, Pylos, Quantik, Quarto Other games in the series = Gobblet, Gyges, Skybridge, Quads (made by Kris Burm, the inventor of GIPF series of games), Quits, Ballast, Bataclan, Quivive, Sahara, Sputnik (Reimplementation of Quivive), Zenix, Inside, Eclipse, Batik The first 6 games are also part of the Modern Classics, and those 6 games are only ones in the Classics series still published by Gigamic (The Classics section in their website only mention those 6 games), so that's why I separated them from the other 14 (Classics series can be found in Board Game Geek)
Idea: infinity chess. The goal of the game is to use your king to defeat all of the other pieces and gain their powers. The catch is once the king gets a vest, they can use it for the rest of the game. If the king is captured at any point the king loses but if the king gets all 5 vests, the king wins
0:13 So, if you looked at the video carefully, you could see there are KING VESTS. You can play as the rules shown if this ever happens: For example, it wouldn’t be checkmate if a queen protected by a bishop’s attack on the king would be protected by a rook and queen. If it is the “prevented checkmate” or “protected checkmate,” winning person goes first, who must capture the king (illegal move if not), the queen or rook will capture the piece that captured king, bishop captures, rook captures, and rook will be given the king vest. Exceptions: Regardless of if a Vest Move happened, the piece with the king vest may NOT take it off. If that were to happen, it would be checkmate because there were no king. Like a pawn or queen vest, it can be awarded to any piece except for itself. A queen may still take the vest because like I said, it would be checkmate if not. Like the piece were to be a regular king, if any of its king moves (any of the adjacent squares other than the square of the piece), or any other move is an illegal move, the game is a stalemate. Therefore, it is a draw. In a vested piece to an opponent’s king endgame, the following rules must be followed: 1. If the vested piece is a queen or rook, it is an immediate win for the color of the vested queen or rook. 2.1. If the king-vested piece is a pawn, it can run to the other side until it is at the far rank. When the far rank is reached, a rook or queen vest is added to the king vest on top of it. This results in the same ending as the first scenario. 2.2. If the same scenario is present but the other king threatens all pawn moves and capturing spaces, it is a draw by stalemate. If the opponent king threatens one capturing space and the normal pawn movement, the vested king can perform an “illegitimate capture;” when the vested pawn moves to the capturing space that is NOT a threatened by the king. 3. If the king-vested piece is a knight or bishop, it is a draw based on insufficient materials to checkmate. 4. If both ending pieces are king-vested, this results in the same ending as the third scenario. 5. If this is the first (or second) scenario, the two players can offer a draw or one can offer a resignation.
I have a question So to wear a vest you must capture a piece right ? And to play a double step move with a pawn vest it must of been your first move . So how to play a double step move while you already moved to capture a piece ?
@@mirciefova9927 then there is no way to get king vest, unless there are two+ kings as well as the rule is do not lose both kings (if one of them is alive then fine)
pawns seem like they'd be overpowered in this. A pawn that can get a vest move can pretty easily promote, and a rook with a pawn vest move would be incredibly powerful when going for a checkmate. A bishop with a pawn vest move would be able to change square color.
In a trade you could have a piece defended by a pawn. Someone could take, say, a knight with a bishop, and then have the bishop be taken by a pawn. In this game that would then go from a roughly even trade to one where the person with the knight and pawn ends up ahead with a powerful pawn that has the possibility to promote.
A bishop with a Knight vest and a knight with a bishop vest can corner checkmate a king, while a queen with a knight vest and a knight with a queen vest can control a 5x5 area of the board.
ive played chess for years this seems like an interesting addition, similer to shogi. but yeah en passant moves that arnt regular could be everywhere, so thats a thing
A variant of the game I came up with that will override some of the rules of the original Plunder Chess: Vests can be stacked. Vests are permanent, but they are weaker than the captured piece itself (except for knight and king vests, which start at full potency). Any sliding piece vest (including Pawn's) move can move one square beyond the original bounds of the piece for each vest. For example, a Bishop with 1 Rook vest can slide 1 square orthogonally. Another example could be that a Rook with 2 knight vests can hop either 3 squares horizontally and 1 square vertically, or 2 of each, or 1 square horizontal and 3 vertical. You may only accept 1 vest at a time. For example, a Pawn captures a Knight with a Bishop vest, and it can only take either the Knight vest or the Bishop vest. You may plunder for a later capture, but it is only usable 1 time. This temporary vest usage is signified by putting the vest on upside down. You may plunder a piece that has the same moving capabilities as the capturing piece. Pawn moves get amplified one square forwards per vest. Knight moves get amplified one square in either direction per vest, you choose. Bishop moves can hop at minimum 2 squares diagonally like a knight, and for each vest beyond the 1st one, they amplify this movement by 1. Rook moves are the same as the bishop but orthogonally. Queen moves are the same as the rook and the bishop, plus they can amplify this hopping ability in either diagonally or orthogonally using Bishop and Rook vests respectively. King moves are amplified 1 square in each direction per vest. If you use a double step move (2 additional moves forward instead of 1) or an en passant move or promote using pawn vests, remove one pawn vest each time you use any of those moves. Promoted pawns gain the pawn vest, but flipped upside down. Pawn vests can promote to other vests, but it cannot be a recently promoted pawn (the same turn that a pawn promoted, as that can gain the pawn vest) and the vest of choice to promote to will be flipped upside down. A true checkmate ends with the capture of all pieces, but a king cannot move into check. The player that is in faux checkmate must move a piece, which can include the King that is in a faux checkmate. That player gets a King vest on any piece they choose, including the King if it survived the opposing player's turn. The King may therefore be captured after a faux checkmate. If a player has 2 of a piece's vests, then they may sacrifice those vests to bring that piece onto the board. This variant of Plunder Chess requires 16 of each piece's vests due to the stacking.
I want to see stacks higher than the piece itself, with some upside down for good measure! "If you make one or more of your vests fall off during your turn, they are lost."
What if a pawn uses a vest move to capture an enemy piece on the back row, say, knight? Would it be pawn uses vest to capture knight, plunders knight, gets knight vest, promotes and the vest is transferred? Or do I have the order of operations wrong
this chess has, new checkmate patterns, color changing bishops, and infinite potentional compared to the already infinite original chess, must be fun to play
Well yeah because 1) your opponent could always just blunder a piece to the king 2) they might be forced to sac a piece in order to not lose material 3) its quite common in endgames for kings to capture lots of pieces, mainly pawns
At first I thought you mean the queen-vests, but then I saw it. I think these are there in case you want to play different rules like „you must capture every opponents pice“ or „you start with a vest on every pawn“ or so on
@@T101G But a king vest would be acquiredby capturing a king, not by the king capturing a piece. The kind of vest is determined by the captured piece, but capturing kings is not usually a part of the game.
It does look a pretty word when the chess pieces look weird but it's still look cool when you play when it's called plunder chess i always like some different chess variants and they have cool hobbies like three man chess and four player chess those are my favorite chess variants🤌👍👌
My favorite part is that queen can checkmate the king with a knight vest all ny herself like an empress from the fairy chess pieces. Also king being able to check
I was actually surprised to see that you can only use a vest move once. usually in this types of chess mods they'll be no limits let alone drawbacks to the gimmick but seeing that vest's are a one time thing makes me think an actual professional made this mod.
But if you capture again you may re-vest.
@@gabef9538 oh no, this game is unprofessional again
😂😂
Queen with knight vest would be to op
@@Kennisball582 quight ?
Knight's vests are super useful.
they can:
-let bishops change the color they're on
-let the queen checkmate without any support
-get pieces over pawn chains
-allow your king to trap an enemy king against a wall or corner in some endgames, without the help of other pieces (rooks can also trap kings in the corners with it)
a bishop with a knight vest can also checkmate without support
@@arcioko2142 Pretty sure it can't due to vertical moves gives place. Not sure that it even do it in the corner
@@TheExiledMeriler it can do it in the corner. if the bishop is on c3 and the opponent king is on a1, it is checkmate as the bishop controls a1, a2, b1 and b2.
Knights would definitely outshine bishops in this mod
@@arcioko2142 it can't be forced though, unlike the queen + knight
Ok this ones really cool. It is very similar to the variants of chess that allow you to combined the moves of captured pieces, but making it a one use item that you actually have to think about taking or using is so unique. Also the vest are just aesthetically pleasing.
Also also, this is literally a mechanic used in Shotgun King and I played that recently.
yeah, I though of Shotgun King as well hahaha
and although I agree that the vests are aesthetically pleasing, that noseless knight is fuel for nightmares.
@@xicufwm I didn't notice the knight change but now that I have... I disagree, it looks like a llama and I love it.
@@vantretiredargumentativedu7763 knights were intended to be riding horses, which is why they look like horses, the vest looking like a llama means that the knights in this are riding llamas, and I find it hilarious to imagine riding llamas in a war
I like this better than Chess Plus as it doesn't centralize the gameplay around absorbing moves. It doesn't derail the game too much but its still on a different track.
I was about to say that this is exactly how soul cards work in Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
This is a chess variant that actually seems to add something meaningful. Other variants I've seen wind up being extremely convoluted in attempts to be unique, while this is a simple addition that adds another level of strategy. It uses the familiar shapes of chess unlike some other variants, so there is not any need to learn to recognize the potential moves of 4 new pieces. Not to mention it slightly discourages trading as the last piece to capture winds up with a vest, which alters chess strategy in a subtle but very real way.
Hadn't thought about the trading part, that's really cool. Also, I think fog of war chess does add a lot of strategy
@@ericsilva6787 I still don't get what he said about trading. And I agree fog of war is one of the best ch ess variants, up there with chess 960 and stuff.
@@mihailmilev9909 Well, the vest is an advantage, so if you trade pieces on the same square, last capture gets that advantage, therefore that specific case of trading is not that convenient for the first taker
@@mihailmilev9909 Trading is a chess situation where you capture a piece that is protected by another one, effectively guaranteeing that piece will be captured the next turn. The usefulness of such a move will depend greatly on the pieces involved and the board situation.
You know how the knight is the queen’s weakness? Not anymore.
Super powerhouse
But imagine though....
How tf are you gonna checkmate a king wearing a queen's vest. Ik it's possible but it must be hard💀
@@ytghost8982 it's a one time move
@@ytghost8982 but you need to kill queen using king to do that, and it is impossible if the enemy doesn't blunder
@@tzem2590 not exactly, you could sacrifice your queen to the opponent while givin the king the oppoertunity to kill the piece who killed the queen
The variants are the best thing about this channel and I'm all for it.
wait.... you mean there is something else here as well?
@@user-jn4sw3iw4h Well, he DOES offer the variants for purchase.
My dream to make a knight move like queen is now true, nice!
ya but queens with knight moves basically has no counters except for smart piece positioning. basically too op. there's a reason the original devs made the knight move like an L you know
Amazon, anyone?
Zombi Bit 🐒🐝
At first I read the title as "how to play blunder chess" and i thought to myself "finally, a game on this channel i know how to play"
A very cool version, but I have to say the knight piece looks really silly 😂
My thoughts exactly 😁
ya they kinda have to make it thin to make the vest fit but c'mon. it literally looks a pony from my little pony but got turned into a chess piece by the villain
Looks like lama
@@zahed2428 ya, looks like a llama with a eprection on it's forehead
Be nice. It's a llama.
what if you run out of vests for a piece? can you just make up a vest to use instead, or is it like houses in monopoly where you just don’t get them if they run out?
i assume monopoly rules
Since he used the word "available vests" it goes by monopoly rules
If you think about it, you usually will only ever capture two of any type of your opponent's pieces (other than pawns)
@@sohkhoonchuan2420 But say if you capture both of your opponents bishops then hold onto the vests, they can't get bishop vests from capturing your bishops.
@@liamwhite3522 There are 2 per player
Finally you made another chess tutorial video that ISN'T a resized version of chess
This variant seems to mildly discourage initiating trades because the last piece to capture gets to keep its vest.
you can decline recieving a vest after capturing, probably for this reason
@@paulamarina04 but they'd still get one from the piece itself
Reminds of "Shotgun King : The Final Checkmate", it has soul cards you gain upon killing a piece that function similarly.
Same
Chess: power-ups
Hahahahahaha that was 🤣🤣🤣
smart.
0:12 & 0:25
if capturing a piece gives the option for vest (captured piece movement), then how does the KINGS VEST works?
The game comes with a variant where each player starts with 2 Kings. In that ruleset, Check and Checkmate only apply to a player with only 1 King left, so the first one can be captured and plundered.
Good find though. I didn't see that.
I was confused about that as well.
yo imagine a king with a king vest
@@ballsacsincorp The dude literally says in the video that a piece cannot hold a vest which does not give it any new moves.
This Shotgun King update looks sick
Yeah, but it's a bummer they nerfed the black king and removed his shotgun
Y’all ever just brutally murder your opponent’s knight and rip his horse’s flesh off to use as a one-time ticket to move over one unnecessary pawn?
Yeah, me neither.
I do that to the queen
I like that this variant of chess allows the King to be pretty much a walking checkmate from anywhere on the board. The memes that can ensue.
So basically the soul mechanic in "Shotgun King" but in regular chess and can be used by all the pieces.
My question is how do you get a king vest is it by checking or by campturing which will end the game
Idk
now this is a chess variant i can get behind. a lot of the others are good, but this one is very intuitive, with a simple yet high skill expression design
Rooks and Queens should also be able to plunder pawn's double step move option to let opponent's pawn take en passant, which could avoid stalemate.
One can always alter the rules themselves
@@christopherwellman2364 Really? Then it's fine. Thank you for checking it.
1:54 Best. Game. Ever.
I have had one of these chess boards for almost ten years now. I'm glad someone is finally talking about it!
(Or maybe there's always been a community for it but I haven't seen them yet)
Shotgun king’s soul mechanic irl
"How do you feel to enter a White Square upon being on a Black Square at the first of the game?"
"It was wonderful"
-Black Square Bishop
This might be the coolest variant I've seen
If a piece has the pawn vest, will every pawn move be able to check a king (e.g. double step move, one step forward) or only the move you use for capturing (diagonal move)?
Since it's copies the pawns move options 1:1 I'd guess only the capture move counts, since that's how it works for regular pawns
Pawn can only capture diagonally; any piece in front of it blocks its forward movement. A pawn can't check a king right in front of it. Therefore the same applies to pieces wearing a pawn vest which cannot normally move forward.
The definition of check is that there is a threat of capturing the king next turn. Nothing mentioned in the video contradicts that definition.
Bishop + Pawn = Color swapping Bishop.
Pawn + Bishop = Sniper Pawn.
Queen + Knight = Amazon.
Meet the sniper
bishop + rook = queen.
King + queen vest = ez check evasion
Knight + Rook = Knight with a severe skill issue
@@thatoneflaregun3167chancellor
Nice video, beautiful explication + I love the pieces, that you use to explication!
Except the knight maybe that looks like a giraffe
02:02
@@gorkemgulan yeah...a litte long, but it still okay
This game makes it possible for the queen to become even more powerful then she is because she can get a knights vest. The only move set she does not have in a normal game.
The knight vest lets her cover an entire 5x5 area, which can be incredibly powerful for checkmating.
If clients explained what they want for their app like this man does, the world would be a much better place
2:38 "Promoted pieces may not gain a pawn vest upon promotion."
Does this apply if a pawn had used a vest move to reach its own back line and was captured in the promoting move?
I wonder a piece that captured opponent's rook on a square which is the original sqaure of its friendly rook can castle or not. For example, white bishop may capture black rook on a1 square and gain a vest move of the rook. Can that bishop castle?
I guess not, because normally both the king and the rook needed not to move for castling, but you need to move and capture a rook for that to happen.
@@oguzhanyigit1326 I would think in the same way, but one fact confuses me. Initial two step vest move of the pawn is respected when it is in the second row, even though it is not the actual initial move of the piece.
@@사회학과 thats because pawns cant go back to their original space normally :/
@@사회학과 the 2 step move isn't necessarily a one-time thing it jsut happens to be due to the nature of how pawns move
Yeah, I was wondering why castling wasn’t mentioned, then I realized that a piece with a vest can never have castling privileges anyway.
I do remember a puzzle where you could castle with a newly promoted pawn, which would create questions for this variant, but they ruled that that was illegal when it was discovered back in 1972.
3:23 Killer king is now a reality
What is the point of the king vest? 0:12 far left
Swag
@@Bookworm12-j9t Absolutely 💯 Just Effectively Stole Their Crown, Should Get It When U Checkmate The Opponent.
for when you capture the king
But you get checkmated when they Take your king@@OnSpray
@@OnSprayyou can't capture a king
Can the king castle with pieces that have a rook vest?
What happens with a pawn in the first row? Does it only move normally, or can it advance two rows?
That discuss this in the video
@@darknessdarkrai4549 No it doesn't
The video specifies the 'regular' 2 row step applies every time a pawn is on its starting (second) row. (not just it's first move, like with castling)
The question is 'does a pawn on row 1 also have this ability'? (a position which in regular chess can't occur, so even 'the same as regular chess except for these changes' doesn't cover this question)
If I were to play this, I would assume the answer is 'yes'
@@user-jn4sw3iw4h Good question. I also wonder if a pawn on the first row has an "assasinate king ability" which instantly wins the game. The video discusses what happens with checks and checkmates, but doesn't explicitly mention this case. Also, since it's not a situation that occurs in regular chess, it's not covered by saying "usual chess rules except for these differences. If I were playing, I'd have to assume that yes, it has this ability.
No it cannot advance 2 rows, answered in the video.
“Blunder chess”-250 elo
It’s very cool to see all these commercial variants of chess instead I’d looking through a 900 page wiki on every varient and wondering if you could play them
I just realized you can finally checkmate someone with a king and a pawn!
ya but who'll let their piece let alone queen get eaten by a king?
@@honeyjuice219 the royal fork with a vest on king
@@deltamico But who'll let _that_ happen?
@@danielyuan9862 lmao so true, only a rookie will make that mistake
A queen exchange often results in one of the queens being taken by the king. In particular, you have variants of e4 e5 d4 d5 dxe5 dxe4 Qxd8+ Kxd8, which are common enough (especially among beginners), but in this version are no longer advantageous for the side that begins the exchange (in this case, white).
This opens up so many new strategies!
I might buy it next month. Would buy it this month, but my gaming budget went to a certain color-based card game that I'm sure will be just as fun ;)
I have a question
If rook or queen with pawn plunder moves 2 squares forward from second rank can they be en passanted?
Yup
Not only from the 2nd rank
This looks very cool! But how would even get the King Vest?
King Vest at 0:12
Kings can wear that because it looks cool
THIS IS INSANE YOOOO
“For a refresher of the original rules of chess” gave me the biggest jumpscare ever I was so used to “those rules”
So does the knight vest only let you jump over pieces with a knight's move, or can the piece jump with its normal move also?
You can only jump in an L-shape
Little detail: I don't think he said you are allowed to change your mind and remove a vest you haven't used yet, and this could potentially be a problem in some extreme cases (like for example when, in regular chess, you promote a pawn to queen and instantly end in stalemate, while if you promoted to something else you could have won; with a similar reasoning, I think you might sometimes find it convenient to "lose some priviledges").
Please do the Gigamic Classics series, Games in the series => Modern Classics =
Quixo, Quoridor, Squadro, Pylos, Quantik, Quarto
Other games in the series = Gobblet, Gyges, Skybridge, Quads (made by Kris Burm, the inventor of GIPF series of games), Quits, Ballast, Bataclan, Quivive, Sahara, Sputnik (Reimplementation of Quivive), Zenix, Inside, Eclipse, Batik
The first 6 games are also part of the Modern Classics, and those 6 games are only ones in the Classics series still published by Gigamic (The Classics section in their website only mention those 6 games), so that's why I separated them from the other 14 (Classics series can be found in Board Game Geek)
2:19 imagine a pawn with a rook plunder
Vest moves are interesting in Plunder Chess.
Aww the pieces wearing little vests are Soo cuteee
What do the "LAST MOVE" and king collars do, and how do you get them?
“SOFT AND WET!! my bubble “plundered” your queen’s ability”
Blunder chess? That's easy, I am an expert in it! Oh, wait...
How would you get the kings vest?
You must be one of those who confuse the King and Queen with each other.
Idea: infinity chess. The goal of the game is to use your king to defeat all of the other pieces and gain their powers. The catch is once the king gets a vest, they can use it for the rest of the game. If the king is captured at any point the king loses but if the king gets all 5 vests, the king wins
Does the double-step move from the pawn vest apply from the second rank, or the piece's starting square?
A piece with a pawn vest may move two spaces forward at any time
0:13 So, if you looked at the video carefully, you could see there are KING VESTS. You can play as the rules shown if this ever happens:
For example, it wouldn’t be checkmate if a queen protected by a bishop’s attack on the king would be protected by a rook and queen. If it is the “prevented checkmate” or “protected checkmate,” winning person goes first, who must capture the king (illegal move if not), the queen or rook will capture the piece that captured king, bishop captures, rook captures, and rook will be given the king vest.
Exceptions:
Regardless of if a Vest Move happened, the piece with the king vest may NOT take it off. If that were to happen, it would be checkmate because there were no king.
Like a pawn or queen vest, it can be awarded to any piece except for itself. A queen may still take the vest because like I said, it would be checkmate if not. Like the piece were to be a regular king, if any of its king moves (any of the adjacent squares other than the square of the piece), or any other move is an illegal move, the game is a stalemate. Therefore, it is a draw.
In a vested piece to an opponent’s king endgame, the following rules must be followed:
1. If the vested piece is a queen or rook, it is an immediate win for the color of the vested queen or rook.
2.1. If the king-vested piece is a pawn, it can run to the other side until it is at the far rank. When the far rank is reached, a rook or queen vest is added to the king vest on top of it. This results in the same ending as the first scenario.
2.2. If the same scenario is present but the other king threatens all pawn moves and capturing spaces, it is a draw by stalemate. If the opponent king threatens one capturing space and the normal pawn movement, the vested king can perform an “illegitimate capture;” when the vested pawn moves to the capturing space that is NOT a threatened by the king.
3. If the king-vested piece is a knight or bishop, it is a draw based on insufficient materials to checkmate.
4. If both ending pieces are king-vested, this results in the same ending as the third scenario.
5. If this is the first (or second) scenario, the two players can offer a draw or one can offer a resignation.
I have a question
So to wear a vest you must capture a piece right ? And to play a double step move with a pawn vest it must of been your first move . So how to play a double step move while you already moved to capture a piece ?
Condition for double pawn move is being on rank 2.
I've got a serious question. How can you get king vest?
By capturing a king, obviously. How are you gonna do it? I missed the part where that is my problem.
@@smellslikeanvil9257 It's impossible to capture a king. Possible is king can be checkmated.
@@mirciefova9927 then there is no way to get king vest, unless there are two+ kings as well as the rule is do not lose both kings (if one of them is alive then fine)
serious: just check one
not-serious: capture a king
2:13
so- can you promote to an equivalent or lower rank piece? or no promotion at all
No promotion at all. It's explained in the video at 0:03 "The rules are the same as regular chess, except for these changes."
Is it okay if I change a few rules of the game like most videos that I watch if I have the game to be exact
The queen with the knight vest or the knight with the queen vest is the amazon fairy piece
1:01 is no one talking about how a PAWN captured a queen?
Guess so
I think it's the 3rd to 7th row
Mom can we have amazon?
no we have amazon at home
amazon at home: *queen with knight vest*
Does the king vest allow the piece to be checked?
I don't think there is a king vest
@@fredfondler7281 There are two. 0:23, left side
Edit: 0:12 is more obvious
@@whyisthereaname8503 But how does one earn themselves a king vest?
@@doomse150 On the Plunder Chess official site, they say that "King vests may be plundered when playing 'Two King' variations"
pawns seem like they'd be overpowered in this. A pawn that can get a vest move can pretty easily promote, and a rook with a pawn vest move would be incredibly powerful when going for a checkmate. A bishop with a pawn vest move would be able to change square color.
Well, it's not that hard to prevent a pawn from capturing a piece.
only an idiot would let their power pieces be captured by a pawn on accident
In a trade you could have a piece defended by a pawn. Someone could take, say, a knight with a bishop, and then have the bishop be taken by a pawn. In this game that would then go from a roughly even trade to one where the person with the knight and pawn ends up ahead with a powerful pawn that has the possibility to promote.
They wouldn't be as powerful as you think, considering they can only use vest moves once.
A bishop with a Knight vest and a knight with a bishop vest can corner checkmate a king, while a queen with a knight vest and a knight with a queen vest can control a 5x5 area of the board.
2:43 No vest promotion, darn.
You blunder: Oh no!
It’s blunder chess: Anyway
ive played chess for years this seems like an interesting addition, similer to shogi. but yeah en passant moves that arnt regular could be everywhere, so thats a thing
A variant of the game I came up with that will override some of the rules of the original Plunder Chess:
Vests can be stacked.
Vests are permanent, but they are weaker than the captured piece itself (except for knight and king vests, which start at full potency).
Any sliding piece vest (including Pawn's) move can move one square beyond the original bounds of the piece for each vest.
For example, a Bishop with 1 Rook vest can slide 1 square orthogonally.
Another example could be that a Rook with 2 knight vests can hop either 3 squares horizontally and 1 square vertically, or 2 of each, or 1 square horizontal and 3 vertical.
You may only accept 1 vest at a time.
For example, a Pawn captures a Knight with a Bishop vest, and it can only take either the Knight vest or the Bishop vest.
You may plunder for a later capture, but it is only usable 1 time. This temporary vest usage is signified by putting the vest on upside down.
You may plunder a piece that has the same moving capabilities as the capturing piece.
Pawn moves get amplified one square forwards per vest.
Knight moves get amplified one square in either direction per vest, you choose.
Bishop moves can hop at minimum 2 squares diagonally like a knight, and for each vest beyond the 1st one, they amplify this movement by 1.
Rook moves are the same as the bishop but orthogonally.
Queen moves are the same as the rook and the bishop, plus they can amplify this hopping ability in either diagonally or orthogonally using Bishop and Rook vests respectively.
King moves are amplified 1 square in each direction per vest.
If you use a double step move (2 additional moves forward instead of 1) or an en passant move or promote using pawn vests, remove one pawn vest each time you use any of those moves.
Promoted pawns gain the pawn vest, but flipped upside down.
Pawn vests can promote to other vests, but it cannot be a recently promoted pawn (the same turn that a pawn promoted, as that can gain the pawn vest) and the vest of choice to promote to will be flipped upside down.
A true checkmate ends with the capture of all pieces, but a king cannot move into check.
The player that is in faux checkmate must move a piece, which can include the King that is in a faux checkmate. That player gets a King vest on any piece they choose, including the King if it survived the opposing player's turn. The King may therefore be captured after a faux checkmate.
If a player has 2 of a piece's vests, then they may sacrifice those vests to bring that piece onto the board.
This variant of Plunder Chess requires 16 of each piece's vests due to the stacking.
I want to see stacks higher than the piece itself, with some upside down for good measure! "If you make one or more of your vests fall off during your turn, they are lost."
@@NicD Lol now it becomes Jenga all the sudden.
If there's a vest move, are there also vorst moves?
I'm not sure if i can use a king vest to castle, like if i have a king vest on a knight, can i castle?
What if a pawn uses a vest move to capture an enemy piece on the back row, say, knight?
Would it be pawn uses vest to capture knight, plunders knight, gets knight vest, promotes and the vest is transferred? Or do I have the order of operations wrong
The queen will get a knight vest
Well explained.
plunder chess is cool, that i want to play.🏁🏁🏁🏁
this chess has, new checkmate patterns, color changing bishops, and infinite potentional compared to the already infinite original chess, must be fun to play
A queen with a knight vest is op
I read it like “blunder chess”
I noticed the King vests, but what is the point of those? can they even be acquired?
Well yeah because
1) your opponent could always just blunder a piece to the king
2) they might be forced to sac a piece in order to not lose material
3) its quite common in endgames for kings to capture lots of pieces, mainly pawns
At first I thought you mean the queen-vests, but then I saw it.
I think these are there in case you want to play different rules like „you must capture every opponents pice“ or „you start with a vest on every pawn“ or so on
@@T101G But a king vest would be acquiredby capturing a king, not by the king capturing a piece. The kind of vest is determined by the captured piece, but capturing kings is not usually a part of the game.
@@doomse150 Aah i thought they meant the king wearing vests
Theres a two king veriation of plunder chess
This is really neat! I'm left wondering why King vests even exist though...
Are you allowed to promote to the same piece and can kings promote?
why does the king vest exist?
How would you get a king vest?
It does look a pretty word when the chess pieces look weird but it's still look cool when you play when it's called plunder chess i always like some different chess variants and they have cool hobbies like three man chess and four player chess those are my favorite chess variants🤌👍👌
This is gonna be fun to play lol
Finally!
Chess multiclasses!
Hey bro why they make a king's vest when you kill the king, the game is over???
Technically if a pawn has a queen vest, would it technically use?
Is there online version of plunder chess?
I bet a pawn with the queen must be the biggest flex
Ok so? What if you promote the piece with a vest move and captures a piece?
My favorite part is that queen can checkmate the king with a knight vest all ny herself like an empress from the fairy chess pieces. Also king being able to check
1:49 What about kings?
There is no way to capture a king
@@Nick3hdzyou can in your own rules
Where and how do i get this i need it i love it GIMME it *_N O W_*
I only have 1 question left, if you are a rook and u have a pawn vest, if u just move one step forward would that count as a pawn move or a rook move?
both
The only move in that case that can use up the pawn vest is en passant
Why would you decline a vest when you can replace it?
A bishop plus rock or a real plus bishop is just a one use queen when you can only use the move, you didn’t after using the other move