So, this video became unexpectedly popular (thanks, RUclips algorithms!) and currently has 4x the views of my next highest-viewed video. If you've stumbled on this video, I'm an International Master (IM) who makes educational chess videos. Chances are you're a new/casual player, and if you're looking to get better I'd recommend playing longer games (at least 30 minute per side) and watching my Chess Fundamentals series: ruclips.net/video/Ao9iOeK_jvU/видео.html Chess is a great game - I hope you consider pursuing it further. Cheers!
cool retro video! I'd love to see you play it at level 72, why level 10???? That's like watching Lebron James play a middle school basketball player one on one. Not impressive, just kind of feel bad for the poor thing.
My first opponent was my grandfather. He taught me chess and one day I defeated him. We always had so much fun playing chess. Unfortunately he passed away last year :(
First chess opponent was my dad... he schooled me. Still can't beat that bastard. UPDATE: After years of trying, let it be known, lest we forget I BEAT THE BASTARD today on 2/10/17
TheCoolChiller haha nice! I absolutely love the game.. unfortunately I've maxed out my ability and I'm afraid I'm not that good... still love it regardless.
@Master Yoda why can't you just accept the joke? Is your life so meaningless that you are telling a stranger to get schooled just so you can pretend like you are special and better than everyone else? Nobody cares that you know that during the United States Revolution there was a king and not a queen, you are on a chess video, not a history buff video, so stop trying to correct everything anyone else says
@Master Yoda Charity work??? How is telling someone that Great Britain is different that England charity work? Those two words are interchangeable in day-to-day talk, and everyone would know what you are talking about. If you were to go up to someone and say England, they are going to think of the United Kingdom, England is used to refer to the U.K., and England is a part of the U.K., so how the hell are you teaching me if I know this stuff? and how is this charity work? Again, this is a chess video, not a history buff video, and I would appreciate it if you could just take the joke and not be so serious about one small mistake another person makes over the internet.
@Master Yoda I know that they are not the same, but they are mostly interchangeable, normal people will understand what I am saying, and that is all that matters, if you want to keep arguing, be my guest, but I'm not going to continue to respond to you given that you didn't carefully read my argument. For the last time, this is a chess video, most of us came here to just chill out and watch chess, not learn about the United States Revolutionary War
mine was my classmate and I got him in foolsmate which means he opened his kings diagonal space and I got my queen there so I captured his king with my queen look it up
You can't cheat against this computer- if you move the wrong piece than what it orders you to move, the game pieces won't match the computer game score any more. I get what you mean though. lol
I cheat against the computer regularly, lol. After I have made a horrible move and played it out I will go back (a number of moves) to see where I went wrong and what line would have been better. I don't see it as cheating, more learning from my mistakes.
YES! THIS IS HOW I LEARNED! I use to play not knowing how anything worked then over time I saw patterns and eventually learned how to check and checkmate.
My first opponent was my father who taught me how to move pieces when I was I think 7 or so. My big dream was to beat him one day, but he kept crushing me everytime we played. But when I turned 14, something has changed, I finally felt like an equal opponent, even though I was still losing all the games, I felt like I´m getting better. Then, a few days after my 15th birthday, I challenged him to a game, that lasted for 3 days (we didn´t have clock). I played Italian opening, got a nice position and launched an attack that resulted in my father´s resignation before forced mate in 4. I almost bursted into tears after that. My father never played me again, he says that it makes no sense cause I´ve already proved that I am better. Now I am 22, rated 1614 FIDE, hoping to break my father´s record of around 1750. Thank you for this video, John. :)
@@randomrandom316 Hey man, thanks for asking. Not yet, I am currently 1664, the last two years completely stopped my progress, but I am still working on it! :) Circumstances changed a bit, but I'd still like to do it, although for different reason than I used to!
My first opponent was my father. I was 7. Never took to a serious level. About couple years ago I started playing on the internet. Last monday I went to my girlfriend school to teach some children the basics of chess. I am not a good player, rating around 1200 online only. But it was very satisfying to be able to teach them the basic rules like control the center, develop minor pieces to good squares, castle, dont move the same piece twice during the opening. Your chessable website helped me with the basic lines for e4 and d4. Regards.
I do the same at my school. About the same rating too. Haha. Still trying to get them not to play the 'cup of death' with 1.a4... 2.h4... 3. g3... 4. b3... I cannot fathom why they do this.
That's better than nothing, with a FIDE ELO of 1,200. You can try download Chess Free made by AI Factory from Google Play. You can get a FIDE ELO rating from this app and improve upon it. Better play it on a tablet.
JackWithPants Ikr. Many RUclips chess channels would just maybe play the moves on a computer graphic board and comment on them only. I loved that John actually ran us through his brain in a real-time game! I subbed, too! Loved it! ❤
What is wrong with the 2.5k people that disliked this video? This is top-tier content. He isn't whoring himself out for subscribers and sponsorships, he's just presenting the content in a polite and informative way. This is genuinely everything I've been looking for in a chess youtuber.
In my experience most people who dislike these types of videos aren't doing it willingly. I can't even count the amount of times I've accidentally disliked a video on my phone, I always take the time to un-dislike, but I'm sure most people just don't give a damn.
Made this video spur-of-the-moment; it's not even representative of my content, but of course it's the one that works its way into the RUclips algos :D
My grandad got me into chess, ever since I played him with him as a young child I was hooked. 13 years later and I was chess champion every year in school apart from one year. Those were for you grandad
if i remember correctly, i found this exact type game in iraq in our "downtime" chest. I was always interested in chess since a kid and had little people to play with. Being black from country South Carolina, weren't too many people that knew anything about it. I played a few times in school with a couple of people. Won once without even understanding. Fast forward to 2006 and i found this in the chess box and played it everyday for the year i was there. This and sudoku kept my mind off the stress of actual war. Im pretty good now, and i definitely credit this old game. I've been looking for it, kinda, since 2014 when i remembered it. and now i know the game. Going to ebay right now
My grandpa was my very first opponent and also he taught how to play. I played so many times with him and after 13 years (2 years ago) finally I won a match. Now my grandpa is 83 years old but still a good player.
I played in a tournament with you way back in the day in Minnesota. The Scholastic chess championships I believe. I squandered my talent that I didn't really know I had at the time, but was similar in rating to you back when we were 11/12 years old. I was 1633 in 1999, I think you were about the same
I want to buy my father such a thing, but there is not a single normal description of how it works anywhere on the Internet! And only with you I finally saw the principle of operation of this computer! Thank you very much! This computer is very cool because it is physical and you can touch it with your hands, as if you are playing with a living person, not on a smartphone or monitor. and you move real figures - full immersion. It's a pity that so few of them are produced and I found a similar one at a flea market with very great difficulty (Chess Partner 3 Kasparov )
Start at 9:40 Save almost 10 minutes of your life. Edited : Before any reply lead this topic astray , The time before 9:40 contains , Review on the product (That electronic chess board) , Him telling you his past experience playing with computer and him learning how to play with the board because he got an error.
@@Ryuzenski It's just a suggestion for people who come for the title of this video so they won't waste their time. 9.40 min ,they can use it to watch 1-2 good short videos. It's 9 minutes of error ,not really a good introduction or explanation and doesn't have anything to do with the title. If you want to watch then watch. Don't have to be so proud about not feeding the hungry.
"How creative, hehe, oh more bad jokes, OH NO I'M MATED! Anton squared me, oh man I just fell for a scholars mate, I just got scholared!" Did it happen like this? :)
There is a connection. I remembered this quick mate but didn't know the moves or name. After some googling I stumbled onto Jerry's video. That was the beginning of me watching tons of chess videos and putting (a little) effort into getting better. Before that I'd just screw around on Yahoo from time to time.
me too besides my father he taught me, I played against ChessMaster 7000 i think, and I beat him everytime, I thought I was good, but I know now I still need work.
I preferred the PC version chessmaster 9000 namely because the mobile version was tremendously weak I actually tested it's strength by only using variants of the scholars mate every match and it worked up until 2500 every single time which is rather pathetic
I loved watching your video(twice now). Excalibur King Arthur, bought at Fry's Electronics in 2003. Once I learned the London System opening, I was finally able to start winning at higher levels at a faster rate, 10 level jumps at a time. It's like I cracked the code and on my way to finally beat the computer soon.
Ah I miss them times John,I used to sell these table top chess computers in my shop 90s to mid 2000, the strongest one I can recall was a Mephisto big wooden board and practically full size pieces it was around 2200 , my first ever one was early 80s a scicys one must have been around 1200 max lol, I was a beginner then so I thought it was a GM lol,but it definitely improved my game and gave me hours and hours of enjoyment,I moved up to stronger models later. Thanks for the memories John,I think you went back to being a kid again then John. Cheers Joe (BDG Joe)
Lol, I first started with Lego chess, I too thought that the computers must obviously be the best players, I would often pair the computers up against each other so I could witness the best games ever played! Now I realize how bad they are xD
Never seen such a thing in Russia, it is incredible for me that so long ago you had such cool "computers". My first opponent was my grandma (she taught me to play), and now I am helping her to fight against Chess Titans :)
My dad was my first opponent and even though we don't have the best relationship, I appreciate that he's got better skills just on intuition. He doesn't read any theory or whatever and he absolutely kicked my ass last time he was at my place. I think he did Caro-Kann against me which took me aback since I'd never had opponents online do it to me. Just pushes me harder to be better.
I'm relly curious to see you take level 72. You can try to cut computer's thinking time out of the video. And my first opponent was my father, who taught me the moves some summer. But he wasn't any kid of serious chess player. He just played a bit as a kid himself. We only played occasionally I decided to learn more of chess way in teens and then I played ChessMaster on my phone. Still, wasn't very serious about it. Until I was 19 and I was bored and I got ChessMaster for a computer and did Josh Waitzkin's tutorials, which were the thing that really taught me how to play. And then I started playing chess on facebook and this is how it started :P
Krabbypal maybe, depends on time controls. I figured the first line out in about 30 seconds. I completely missed rg8 and would have misplayed if someone played it against me
I'm 33 years old, never played chess. Now in my "mid 30s" I'm starting to shift interest towards chess . I'm little overwhelmed by all those openings and moves to remember. But I will watch your basics videos for sure!
nah, john is 2400-2500 according to the video whereas the computers max level is 1650, it wouldnt even be a challenge, also stated in the video is that the comp thinks for a long time at higher levels.
I used to play with a very similar chess computer in the late 80s. Its name was Mephisto and I really enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for reminding me of those old good times.
DGT Centaur would be the modern version of this board. It's sleek, beautiful and modern looking. If you're into playing over the board vs computer then you might find that worth a try... Especially with the interface this used, it might be familiar to you. I applaud your younger self for playing chess and damn I wish I had something like that when I was little. I hope that you preserve this childhood memory and when you're an old guy you do another video or hologram or whatever is used in the future... And show us this again because I think that it's amazing that such a simple yet profoundly advanced device (for it's time) inspired a child and elevated a simple game to a passion that lasted a lifetime. Thank you for sharing this with us. Liked* Followed*
my first opponent was my mom(i think) on a little mini magnet chess board i got from the dollar store. still have the board, though i don't think it closes properly any more.
Omg this was also mine, my uncle bought one of those for christmas when I was like 4 and he taught me how to play but I didnt have many people to play with so I always played against the machine
My first chess opponent was my Dad, I just discovered chess on RUclips and I have now beaten him something like 7 times in a row, going for the adoption
So, this video became unexpectedly popular (thanks, RUclips algorithms!) and currently has 4x the views of my next highest-viewed video. If you've stumbled on this video, I'm an International Master (IM) who makes educational chess videos. Chances are you're a new/casual player, and if you're looking to get better I'd recommend playing longer games (at least 30 minute per side) and watching my Chess Fundamentals series: ruclips.net/video/Ao9iOeK_jvU/видео.html Chess is a great game - I hope you consider pursuing it further. Cheers!
John Bartholomew I
John Bartholomew ah typical haters in the comments. Its a great video! Greetings from The Netherlands
John Bartholomew my rank is only 785, I am 14 though
cool retro video! I'd love to see you play it at level 72, why level 10????
That's like watching Lebron James play a middle school basketball player one on one. Not impressive, just kind of feel bad for the poor thing.
John black king should be at black and white king at white
I was hoping it would move the pieces on its own with something like moving magnets...
me too :c
Me too
The computer could track a magnet and move it under the board
same
How would the knights jump over other pieces?
8:40 "Oh now it wants to play white..."
*Detroit: Become Human*
Markimoop Chess:become grandmaster
Btw PS4? Mine is swiss001avaition
Markimoop That s how Skynet started his shit.
IT'S AWARE AND ARGUING
*DEVIANT*
My first opponent was my grandfather. He taught me chess and one day I defeated him. We always had so much fun playing chess. Unfortunately he passed away last year :(
Well played...
Rip:(
My grandfather was also my first match and he also taught me to play when i was 5.
Unfortunately he died last year and i was never able to beat him
Yeah he taught me chess too when I was 6 and we even play today sometimes
Same here
Shhhh, don't tell to computer what you are planning!
• No one:
• 90s Chess computer: “Excalibur Explorer would like to know your location.”
• NSA: 👁👄👁
@@neuroticcaffeinated9486 Damn bro. You've got the whole gang laughing.
neuroticcaffeinated everyone:* use your common sense
Zackary Semancik no. Everyone:*
Zackary Semancik use your common sense
First chess opponent was my dad... he schooled me. Still can't beat that bastard.
UPDATE: After years of trying, let it be known, lest we forget I BEAT THE BASTARD today on 2/10/17
Kisses For daddy lol what
TheCoolChiller haha nice! I absolutely love the game.. unfortunately I've maxed out my ability and I'm afraid I'm not that good... still love it regardless.
Me too
I won against my dad once, but he soundly beat me in the rematch! He can lose more than half of his pieces and still fight harder than ever.
I can easily beat my dad now, but its only because I have improved and he has stopped playing for a long time.
"I think I want to harass the queen"
Elizabeth: *Sweats nervously*
@@mr.atulkumar6861 shat up
@@mr.atulkumar6861 stop spam advertising
Elizabeth: *sweats excitedly*
@@Mr.Dr.Doctor nooooo 😂😂
@@Mr.Dr.Doctor wait oh OHHHH
My first chess opponent was my grandad. May he rest in peace ❤️.
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F in the chat to pay respect
me too
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“I wanna harass this Queen here”
-John Bartholomew
-American colonies 1776, making fun of the King of England
@Master Yoda why can't you just accept the joke? Is your life so meaningless that you are telling a stranger to get schooled just so you can pretend like you are special and better than everyone else? Nobody cares that you know that during the United States Revolution there was a king and not a queen, you are on a chess video, not a history buff video, so stop trying to correct everything anyone else says
@Master Yoda Charity work??? How is telling someone that Great Britain is different that England charity work? Those two words are interchangeable in day-to-day talk, and everyone would know what you are talking about. If you were to go up to someone and say England, they are going to think of the United Kingdom, England is used to refer to the U.K., and England is a part of the U.K., so how the hell are you teaching me if I know this stuff? and how is this charity work? Again, this is a chess video, not a history buff video, and I would appreciate it if you could just take the joke and not be so serious about one small mistake another person makes over the internet.
@Master Yoda I know that they are not the same, but they are mostly interchangeable, normal people will understand what I am saying, and that is all that matters, if you want to keep arguing, be my guest, but I'm not going to continue to respond to you given that you didn't carefully read my argument. For the last time, this is a chess video, most of us came here to just chill out and watch chess, not learn about the United States Revolutionary War
@@Rikomer the guy is gone lol
My first opponent was a GM that came to my school!
He mated me in 9 :(
That's not too bad considering
Chaos Knight checkmated him in 9 moves
Chaos Knight hahahahha
@@xander.mp5 What do you mean by chaos Knight?
@@kieranashley119 chaos knight is a nick of user they were responding to
My first opponent was my english teacher, he beat me in 4 moves.
English teachers FTW! :)
definetly that F file move with Queen backing with Bishop mate :)
I love that 4 move checkmate.
Thank you for clarifying it for them I don't know what he was thinking
mine was my classmate and I got him in foolsmate which means he opened his kings diagonal space and I got my queen there so I captured his king with my queen look it up
_"This is the lock picking lawyer, and today we're going to play chess"_
i dont get it
Oh thats who he reminded me of!
@@zachnado69 Another RUclipsr with the same voice
@@spiraldj lol i know who he is, their voices are similar but not quite the same.
@@zachnado69 well then you clearly understood the point of the comment though
It would be so sad if someone was playing this by themselves and then cheated against the computer... I can't even imagine how sad that would be...
Syrtech yeah, poor computer what if it would notice and restart the game lmao
Syrtech lmao
You can't cheat against this computer- if you move the wrong piece than what it orders you to move, the game pieces won't match the computer game score any more. I get what you mean though. lol
Jessica Fischer uh are you related to bobby Fischer? Lol
I cheat against the computer regularly, lol. After I have made a horrible move and played it out I will go back (a number of moves) to see where I went wrong and what line would have been better. I don't see it as cheating, more learning from my mistakes.
I though little magnets would move the pieces for you
i forgot how far technology has come in the past few decades....
Anun Kash I thought of Harry Potter :P
OMG same
Lol
Can someone actually show me a chess board like that?
Bro this ain’t jumanji 😂
"My first opponent... thats actually a lie, my first oppon- *clicks away from video for lying*"
Why
@@rajchopra3868 its uh... joke.
@@ryancade3829 ik, I just didn't get it
I thought it was funny, everyone has a different sense of humor.
@@HenryLobber hilarious
I learned how the pieces moved from Chess Titans on the Windows OS. It was a teacher, then an opponent, then a victim.
ScienceOfInduction same!
Indeed
'Victim'😂
I used to play it, but i knew nothing of strategy so i always lost.
YES! THIS IS HOW I LEARNED! I use to play not knowing how anything worked then over time I saw patterns and eventually learned how to check and checkmate.
This was extremely helpful. Listening to your thought process while playing a lower level player was super insightful. I wish more of these existed.
"1600 is a decent amature rating"
wow i feel bad, 1200 here D:!
My rating is 427 currently. I'm learning though :)
@@tomsproducer9892 good keep it up
1200 is a strong player.
@@robmorr23 You must have smoked something Rob, I want some please
How do you know your rating? Played in a tourney?
that's kind of cool, man. not sure how or why the algorithm recommended this, but I'm not mad
Haha, this video somehow become popular. At any rate, thanks for checking out my channel :)
thank unbox therapy for those views :p
Battlerite Gods Did he plug it in a recent video?
He reviewed a chessboard that's just like this. But the opponent pieces move on their own, and you could play with someone across the world.
McMonkeyFTW Jin
My first chess opponent was actually my father on a regular chess board.
oooooooo you have a dad.. showoff
Ker Plunk Wtf?
+Ker Plunk how the fuck is that showing off?
Chaz Vangelov You know that it's sarcastic?
oreo8118
The computer telling me to put myself in checkmate:
Me: No, I don't think I will
my first opponent was me and I won
Kidu Jhingamma congratulations you played yourself
Awww you lost
Single lol
In your dream U beat yourself but In Reality U lost cause Your other self die so U came into a situation of Life and Death
One of our first enemies are ourselves sooooo
I congratulate you 👍
It's a shame you've lost touch with your old friend Aaron. You should look him up! I bet he'd love to hear from you.
Ya done messed up A-A-RON!
Plot twist you are aron
I think u are aaron
Aaron? Is that you?
Reid Pattis Aron isnt that you ?
everytime he tilts the board so we can look at the screen i mentally scream
My first opponent was my father who taught me how to move pieces when I was I think 7 or so. My big dream was to beat him one day, but he kept crushing me everytime we played. But when I turned 14, something has changed, I finally felt like an equal opponent, even though I was still losing all the games, I felt like I´m getting better.
Then, a few days after my 15th birthday, I challenged him to a game, that lasted for 3 days (we didn´t have clock). I played Italian opening, got a nice position and launched an attack that resulted in my father´s resignation before forced mate in 4. I almost bursted into tears after that. My father never played me again, he says that it makes no sense cause I´ve already proved that I am better.
Now I am 22, rated 1614 FIDE, hoping to break my father´s record of around 1750. Thank you for this video, John. :)
Did you break past 1750?
@@randomrandom316 Hey man, thanks for asking. Not yet, I am currently 1664, the last two years completely stopped my progress, but I am still working on it! :) Circumstances changed a bit, but I'd still like to do it, although for different reason than I used to!
Wish you the best, you are anyways close so its almost certain you will go past 1750.
@@randomrandom316 Thanks, that's very kind of you, wish you the best as well. I'll make sure to report it here when I have achieved my goal!
@@Multiscrime what time control are you rated in? Standard, rapid, blitz or maybe all of them?
So this is made for those who dont have any friends, like me.
Me, too. Having no friends is much better than having negative friends. I know this for a fact, as I live in a 4th world country lol
John Payawal you mean Scotland?
Hello Darkness My Old Friend...
Shut up and take my money
284 likes? i didnt even remember watching this video
John: haha checkmate.
Computer: 10
White - 1
Black - 0
Or 1-0
Or as the computer put it:
10
9
8
7
6
My first opponent was my father. I was 7. Never took to a serious level. About couple years ago I started playing on the internet.
Last monday I went to my girlfriend school to teach some children the basics of chess. I am not a good player, rating around 1200 online only. But it was very satisfying to be able to teach them the basic rules like control the center, develop minor pieces to good squares, castle, dont move the same piece twice during the opening. Your chessable website helped me with the basic lines for e4 and d4.
Regards.
I do the same at my school. About the same rating too. Haha. Still trying to get them not to play the 'cup of death' with 1.a4... 2.h4... 3. g3... 4. b3...
I cannot fathom why they do this.
Nice job Pinky Brain , teaching is a great skill.
Pinky Brain
That's better than nothing, with a FIDE ELO of 1,200.
You can try download Chess Free made by AI Factory from Google Play. You can get a FIDE ELO rating from this app and improve upon it. Better play it on a tablet.
Pinky Brain 🧠
I love this sort of thought process video! Subbed.
Thanks for subscribing! :D
JackWithPants Ikr. Many RUclips chess channels would just maybe play the moves on a computer graphic board and comment on them only. I loved that John actually ran us through his brain in a real-time game! I subbed, too! Loved it! ❤
What is wrong with the 2.5k people that disliked this video? This is top-tier content. He isn't whoring himself out for subscribers and sponsorships, he's just presenting the content in a polite and informative way. This is genuinely everything I've been looking for in a chess youtuber.
In my experience most people who dislike these types of videos aren't doing it willingly.
I can't even count the amount of times I've accidentally disliked a video on my phone, I always take the time to un-dislike, but I'm sure most people just don't give a damn.
@@albertopinto8813 still the like to dislike ratio is higher than normal
They're robots
@@josemanuelromeroperez5112 just bitter people that couldnt get past level 10
Maybe people who got bored watching the video, stop gatekeeping dislikes
My father was my first opponent, he taught me almost everything he knew about chess.
Edit: Never imagined getting this amount of likes.
Shyanism Films Me too.
Shyanism Films you sayed almost everything ? LOL nothing compared to the immensity of the game...
everything he knows*
Mfgcasa even Carlsen don't know all about chess :)
almost everything that might be some sort of saying his father might been into chess for so much.
I don't even know how to play chess, what am I doing here?
No better time than now to learn!
how about 1996? :D
+John Bartholomew i searched for drumming tutorials but ended up here
Watch my drumming videos instead lol.
+Drumming411 ^^
*RUclips Algorithm:*
2016: nah
2017: nah
2018: nah
2019: *PUT IT ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS!*
Damn bro this video wasnt even released in 2016
@@shoaibshaikh7592
Yes it does
August 2016
@@shoaibshaikh7592 aug 30 2016
Made this video spur-of-the-moment; it's not even representative of my content, but of course it's the one that works its way into the RUclips algos :D
@@JohnBartholomewChess because chess, for some point 😂
I just realized I just watched a 20 minute video watching a guy playing chess with himself
Wrong, he played against the computer.
He’s playing against the computer...what video did you watch 😂
Then u must be on drugs
With the '10' in the end, the computer says white wins (1-0). Got this computer from my grandfather when I was young :).
"Would you like to play global thermonuclear war?"
greetings, professor falken
I'll take the Russian s
Ill move systemic oppression to Iran
That is from war games. Right?
@@cookingwithlukasj.8817 yup
God bless Aaron & all he has done for the chess community :)
My grandad got me into chess, ever since I played him with him as a young child I was hooked. 13 years later and I was chess champion every year in school apart from one year. Those were for you grandad
I'm sure your grandad's proud of you.
@@Chokiii0-0 yes
and here i thought pieces will move by itself 😂
You can buy a board that does that.
@@DaviniaHill id rather not mess with those devil boards thank you very much.
@@DaviniaHill i forgot why i commented 1 year ago :D
if i remember correctly, i found this exact type game in iraq in our "downtime" chest. I was always interested in chess since a kid and had little people to play with. Being black from country South Carolina, weren't too many people that knew anything about it. I played a few times in school with a couple of people. Won once without even understanding.
Fast forward to 2006 and i found this in the chess box and played it everyday for the year i was there. This and sudoku kept my mind off the stress of actual war. Im pretty good now, and i definitely credit this old game. I've been looking for it, kinda, since 2014 when i remembered it. and now i know the game. Going to ebay right now
@Elite delete your comment before you get laughed out.
Thank you for your service. I'm also from rural South Carolina, and started playing computer chess back in the 1980's with the Radio Shack units.
My grandpa was my very first opponent and also he taught how to play. I played so many times with him and after 13 years (2 years ago) finally I won a match.
Now my grandpa is 83 years old but still a good player.
He sounds like the nicest person on earth
"Teach mode teaches" advertising done right
I played in a tournament with you way back in the day in Minnesota. The Scholastic chess championships I believe. I squandered my talent that I didn't really know I had at the time, but was similar in rating to you back when we were 11/12 years old. I was 1633 in 1999, I think you were about the same
Euph Blast from the pasr. What's your name, if you don't mind me asking?
@@JohnBartholomewChess and a reply never came
Avid Watcher so sad
This is so sad can we SMASH THE LIKE BUTTON
John Bartholomew his name is Euph Blast
I want to buy my father such a thing, but there is not a single normal description of how it works anywhere on the Internet! And only with you I finally saw the principle of operation of this computer! Thank you very much! This computer is very cool because it is physical and you can touch it with your hands, as if you are playing with a living person, not on a smartphone or monitor. and you move real figures - full immersion. It's a pity that so few of them are produced and I found a similar one at a flea market with very great difficulty (Chess Partner 3 Kasparov )
Yes! It's an extremely tactile, pleasing bit of old tech :) Really fun to play - I may have to bust mine out again and record another video.
7:38 "There is now a level zero."
Name that movie quote.
Jason Blooey Kung fu panda?
Kung fu panda
No
WarGames
This should be a "Climbing the Rating Ladder" series! Start at level 1!
Start at 9:40
Save almost 10 minutes of your life.
Edited : Before any reply lead this topic astray ,
The time before 9:40 contains ,
Review on the product (That electronic chess board) ,
Him telling you his past experience playing with computer
and him learning how to play with the board because he got an error.
ayy dark kiva in your profile aint it? thanks btw
@@lbnc_ Yeah ,It's Dark Kiva. YW
The first 10 minutes was a good introduction, im not using those 10 minutes to cure cancer or feed the hungry
@@bleep2368 Typically what you do when explaining something is talk
@@Ryuzenski It's just a suggestion for people who come for the title of this video so they won't waste their time. 9.40 min ,they can use it to watch 1-2 good short videos. It's 9 minutes of error ,not really a good introduction or explanation and doesn't have anything to do with the title. If you want to watch then watch. Don't have to be so proud about not feeding the hungry.
The 10 doesn't mean you defeated level 10. It means 1-0. If you lose it says 01.
@Reasonable Man you are. *facepalm*
@A long time ago we made it to paradise. What a disappointment...
@A long time ago we made it to paradise. ignore them. i think you could be right.
Fake Mustache No one made a joke..
@@zeroej also he hasn't said he's pranking
Pretty sure I missed Re5! a few times, haha.
Phew, I'm not crazy. Thought the same thing! Entertaining stuff.
JMANNN I WAS STUMPED, STARIN AT THE SCREEN FOR 10+ MINUTES BROTHER THINKIN WHY YA DIDN'T PLAY THAT
John Bartholomew B
John Bartholomew qqqqqqazqwE
👹👹👹👺😺😺😺🤖🎩💂
play knight c3 a4
The 10 actually means 1 to 0, so it means you win, and if you lose it shows 01 which is 0 to 1, so it means you lose
No one: "I'll sacrifice my bishop to his knight."
*horse noises upstairs*
Nigel: "Welcome to Jumanji!"
That was actually good
What u doin step horse
@@mr.atulkumar6861 fuck off
beep, beep beep, beep, beep, beep beep beep, beep, beeeeeeep
:D
boop
Your mom
Terorists win
@X_X Me too 😢
21:32 I was hoping the board would start to play a winning melody of these piep sounds.
My grandfather taught me how to play. During one game he told me where to move....and then scholar's mated me!
Gotta defeat 'em while they're young, right? :)
"How creative, hehe, oh more bad jokes, OH NO I'M MATED! Anton squared me, oh man I just fell for a scholars mate, I just got scholared!"
Did it happen like this? :)
There is a connection. I remembered this quick mate but didn't know the moves or name. After some googling I stumbled onto Jerry's video. That was the beginning of me watching tons of chess videos and putting (a little) effort into getting better. Before that I'd just screw around on Yahoo from time to time.
When I saw the thumbnail, I thought you were gonna play on top of a CRT tv screen.
I feel like I could watch a whole series of just you playing this machine lol.
Even though it might take some time, I would love to see a game against lvl 72!
My first chess opponent was also a computer, ChessMaster on my phone back in 2004
me too besides my father he taught me, I played against ChessMaster 7000 i think, and I beat him everytime, I thought I was good, but I know now I still need work.
Me too. Chessmater taught me a lot.
ChessMaster is my favourite mobile game of all time! :D
Oh, yeah. That satisfaction you got from beating higher levels. For a long time I made sure ChessMaster was on my every phone.
I preferred the PC version chessmaster 9000 namely because the mobile version was tremendously weak I actually tested it's strength by only using variants of the scholars mate every match and it worked up until 2500 every single time which is rather pathetic
I loved watching your video(twice now).
Excalibur King Arthur, bought at Fry's Electronics in 2003. Once I learned the London System opening, I was finally able to start winning at higher levels at a faster rate, 10 level jumps at a time. It's like I cracked the code and on my way to finally beat the computer soon.
Ah I miss them times John,I used to sell these table top chess computers in my shop 90s to mid 2000, the strongest one I can recall was a Mephisto big wooden board and practically full size pieces it was around 2200 , my first ever one was early 80s a scicys one must have been around 1200 max lol, I was a beginner then so I thought it was a GM lol,but it definitely improved my game and gave me hours and hours of enjoyment,I moved up to stronger models later.
Thanks for the memories John,I think you went back to being a kid again then John.
Cheers
Joe (BDG Joe)
Lol, I first started with Lego chess, I too thought that the computers must obviously be the best players, I would often pair the computers up against each other so I could witness the best games ever played! Now I realize how bad they are xD
+Daniel Glidewell maybe bad,but it was great to play and learn,especially when you was a beginner etc
Joe Chess and Gadgets. Definitely!
Don't underestimate a computer. The best one right now can beat even grandmasters
12:08
Him: I think I wanna harass this queen
HR: bonjour
13:38 win the queen with Re5
David Alba wouldn’t pawn to g5 get out of it? Still a great move though to mess up blacks’ position.
@@dielectriclightsaberorches9808 then, Rxg5, Qh6, Rg8 threating both Bxh6 and Rxh8 plus the fact that already white is a pawn up.
@@albertopulido4267 Bxg5 is better tho
@@manuelwel8098 could be... I don't have time to check it... But probably both win
@@albertopulido4267 To "check", you say?
....
I won't leave.
Never seen such a thing in Russia, it is incredible for me that so long ago you had such cool "computers".
My first opponent was my grandma (she taught me to play), and now I am helping her to fight against Chess Titans :)
Look up the Elektronika 01.
Intially, I thought the pieces will move on their own. 🤣🤣
Me too
Me too
Same lol
Me too
Me too
My dad was my first opponent and even though we don't have the best relationship, I appreciate that he's got better skills just on intuition. He doesn't read any theory or whatever and he absolutely kicked my ass last time he was at my place. I think he did Caro-Kann against me which took me aback since I'd never had opponents online do it to me. Just pushes me harder to be better.
Vid starts at 9:40.
No, it actually starts at 0:00
How does Piezor's comment have more likes than the OP's? Don't you get the point?
lol
Tnks
I was there when i read this
i dont even know how to play chess but this is so nice to watch
fungi_anime.mp4 I'm glad to hear that! Chess is a fantastic game - hope you take it up.
20:55 Mate in 1 I think, even!
Qh4. Kh7 and Kg7 are illegal, Kg6 and Kg5 are Rook attacks, Kh5- wait.
...Nh5 works. *Then* it's mate in 2.
Your commentary for this is perfect, could you please do more videos with this chess set?
some random game master: IDONT NEED PIECES, *presses the empty board with his finger and beat the bot*
I don't know why but this videos is so fun to watch
I'm relly curious to see you take level 72. You can try to cut computer's thinking time out of the video.
And my first opponent was my father, who taught me the moves some summer. But he wasn't any kid of serious chess player. He just played a bit as a kid himself. We only played occasionally
I decided to learn more of chess way in teens and then I played ChessMaster on my phone. Still, wasn't very serious about it.
Until I was 19 and I was bored and I got ChessMaster for a computer and did Josh Waitzkin's tutorials, which were the thing that really taught me how to play. And then I started playing chess on facebook and this is how it started :P
Then make a move a day
13:47 if you moved rook E1 to E5, you could have killed the queen by sacrificing either a horse, a rook, or a bishop...
Krabbypal re5 g5, rxg5 qh6, rg3 (re5 will allow the queens escape to) qh5. Queen escapes or the position will repeat.
William Hitchcock yep, you are right... wow, i did not see that, well played
Krabbypal on the third move, rg8 is better than rg3. I missed it but it will either win the rook, or trade rook and bishop for the queen.
William Hitchcock, ya, but i feel like not a lot of ppl could have figured that out in the middle of a match, under the stress and all
Krabbypal maybe, depends on time controls. I figured the first line out in about 30 seconds. I completely missed rg8 and would have misplayed if someone played it against me
I'm 33 years old, never played chess. Now in my "mid 30s" I'm starting to shift interest towards chess . I'm little overwhelmed by all those openings and moves to remember. But I will watch your basics videos for sure!
“Half of the comments here are quotes from John Bartholomew”
-Me
16:47 so we will not talk about this noise he made. It seems to be minecraft villager.
Are you a 5 year old trying to sound smart?
@@grod5998 you mad?
@@hsksjdisis alright, now I know for sure you're 5 thx for confirming
@@grod5998 paradoxal.
Ummm umm umm
The computer is breaking a rule of bringing out the queen to early but well
I'd like to see a video of John taking on this thing's max level.
nah, john is 2400-2500 according to the video whereas the computers max level is 1650, it wouldnt even be a challenge, also stated in the video is that the comp thinks for a long time at higher levels.
My first electronic opponent was the Mephisto MM3 in the year 1985 I think. I learn to love the game with this chess computer:)
I love how the Computer trolled you to play E4-E5 for a 'welcome back'.
I used to play with a very similar chess computer in the late 80s. Its name was Mephisto and I really enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for reminding me of those old good times.
If you're talking about the mephisto academy, that was actually rated around 2000, it was very impressive for its time and way ahead of this.
Takes me back to the days of my Radio Shack chess. On the highest levels, it could take over 2 hours to make a move!
Thanks for the nostalgia - I really enjoyed watching this. I had a Fidelity Chess Challenger 7 when I was younger.
8:10 He starts to move his first piece. Thank me later.
Jkjkjkkjk your welcome
Thanks
I was gonna listen to him for the whole time
Do you have ADHD? I like watching videos all the way through.
play the computer on max level : )
Maltebyte2 agreed! You can edit out the long pauses while it thinks, or you can just talk about the position and what you’re thinking.
Dilly dilly! 🍻
Checkmate in 3 moves 😂😂
r/madlads
I think it was max
The guy would crush it. The max is 1650.
12:09 queen abuse. Sees a Royal guard, “DONT MESS WITH DE QUEEN”.
Hi, I start playing chess, after I watch this video. And brought myself a chess computer too. Thank you
DGT Centaur would be the modern version of this board. It's sleek, beautiful and modern looking. If you're into playing over the board vs computer then you might find that worth a try... Especially with the interface this used, it might be familiar to you.
I applaud your younger self for playing chess and damn I wish I had something like that when I was little. I hope that you preserve this childhood memory and when you're an old guy you do another video or hologram or whatever is used in the future... And show us this again because I think that it's amazing that such a simple yet profoundly advanced device (for it's time) inspired a child and elevated a simple game to a passion that lasted a lifetime. Thank you for sharing this with us. Liked* Followed*
"No, I wanna be white"
- John Bartholomew
It soumds funny bur its just cuz whote starts first
@@mr.atulkumar6861 what?
@@iliketurtles3415 do you mind if I ask how old you are?
@@callmeqt1269 He's 12, but you're also 12.
my first opponent was my mom(i think) on a little mini magnet chess board i got from the dollar store. still have the board, though i don't think it closes properly any more.
why am i watching this?
thanks so much for your lessons john.
Omg this was also mine, my uncle bought one of those for christmas when I was like 4 and he taught me how to play but I didnt have many people to play with so I always played against the machine
damn you're uncle's awes. 4 years old? that's how people should gift children
14:30 Re5 looks like a trapped queen in a few moves.
I'm new to chess. Do you mind explaining what does Re5 refer to?
+mustafa rashad moving the rook to the e5 square to trap the queen
+mustafa rashad moving the rook to the e5 square to trap the queen
Ziad Hossam Ahh ok, Thank you very much :)
14:10 Re5, unless black wants to make matters worse with g5, Qxf3. Knight for queen, easy.
Such a good video.
Thanks for all your other videos and your chess fundamentals series, they really helped me improve.
My first chess opponent was my Dad, I just discovered chess on RUclips and I have now beaten him something like 7 times in a row, going for the adoption
I remember my grandfather had one of these, I loved playing around on it.
John: im gonna make the apocalypse variation-
Me: horsie go broommmm
“I think I wanna harass this queen”
Me: •~• what d u mean?
shut up
@@chalitoselpecas2659 Well that was rather rude
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@@aminebadri5118 feminists and soyboys wants to file molestation charges against you
Sim-
When I was 3, I was in the hospital and a doctor taught me how to play chess, I died a few days later tho :( rip me 1883-spaghetti
So your in heaven?