@@BlackWhiteAndGoldEagle nope lowercase 5 is not just small 5. I, however, have not been granted the time and patience to copy? paste it for your convenience. good day𓅱
To be honest I thought it was going to be something stupid but these pieces and new rules are actually pretty cool I really like the jail and the barricade pun
You should do more of these in the future! Such as -making a better clock -making a better unit of measurement -making a better week -making a better solar system -making better grammar
I tried introducing the bear rule to my friend while we were playing chess for fun, but it devolved into chaos when he kept making the bear move on my turn and just went "Bear moves, fuck your turn." Thanks for the added chaos, Oats.
I played this version for like 2 hours today, and is is surprising how dumb yet fun and balanced and really just how enjoyable it was to play. The monkey adds so much to the game, it makes you calculate the moves you can do, set up insane traps, and adds a layer of depth that was previously unavailable. I love your channel and I can't believe you don't have more subs+views. Your videos are amazing, I can't wait for more
Finally a patch that reworks some of the previously underused pieces and nerfing a few others that have been too good for far too long. The devs really made us wait for this one but I’d say it was well worth the 1400 years.
Literally the monkey is the best inclusion in this game. I see how that little chimpanzee will define who wins and lose. Has one of the best gimmicks never seen, he literally can jump only one space or if you are so good playing jump like 5. He is the UNIQUE ONE that rescue the king, at the Little cost of a banana. Personally, I would made that another piece can stole the banana, I dont know, like the elephant or something, to balance a little bit the game. Anyways, the Monkey is perfect, and is a good rival to the bird from egypt. Anyways, you are objectively correct in all.
Me and my friends did this around a year ago and we named it chaos chess. It was just an extremely complicated, extremely fun version of chess. We even painted every chess piece to look special
@@CarlosBoss2009 not really that many of them to be honest. the main cool things we added was cooler pieces, which we painted to be cooler. some of the main ones was that rooks were now hourglasses and could turn everything back 2 turns, and bishops could bring your pieces back to life
My god, this man actually made a chess sequel better than those other chess "revamps". It doesn't look like it, but when you play it, it's actually pretty balanced and fun to play.
@@bobbycrofts9241 Not really, I don't think they have any strategy involves in the game Atleast not nearly as much as normal chess, it sure is a fun game but it never made me use my brain as much as normal chess you know what I'm saying?
A quick question How do you capture a queen when what we usually use in normal chess to capture a queen is too either try to checkmate forcing her to sacrifice the queen or check and attack the queen at the same time? How can you capture the queen???
I've been playing this for some time, and it's seriously great. But to enhance it a little, I added 3 little custom rules in regard of the bear, and those are the following: 1. Bears can only take fish and fish queens. It's a bear, so it should be able to eat the fish, and the fish queens, they cannot take the other way around though, so they spend most of their time avoiding the bear. That makes for a scenario where both players want to progress with the players keeping the bear as far away as possible from their fish, thus making more use of the gained movement freedom the fish has. 2. A bear can only be taken by either an elephant or a queen. This one is just to make players try to redirect their elephants in a way they can get rid of the bear, again, making more space with the now meaningless pawn-walls, as for queens, they are powerful, but now a condition to lose, so one will protect them more, if you truly want to have freedom on the board, maybe a queen should step in. That will open a lot of new possibilities. 3. Each player takes a turn in moving the bear, with the black player starting. Since white starts moving, black gets the first bear move, to clarify, black will choose 1 of the center squares to lay the bear on, these being: d4, d5, e4 and e5, after choosing the bear's starting square, black will still be able to move a fish. From there on out, moving the bear will cost a turn though. Therefore from there on out players each will try to get the bear on each opposites throat, ruining their structures, open for weaknesses. Getting rid of him when he becomes a nuisance will become a major objective. I hope this will help to make a greater experience, if you try that is ^^.
"Less is more" (good policy for game rules and for written language) Since we're on the topic of needlessly complicated rules: The [ ' ] character goes before the [s] when the word owns the next thing, i.e. "*black's first move" "Bear's" = Bear is "Bears" = more than one bear
@@Starshine777 yeah, haven't gotten the whole s and 's thing figured out yet, thanks for letting me know. As for the bear rules, I find them to be extremely simple, yet game enhancing. If you have ideas for improvement, invent your own, or edit those presented by me. If you don't want to have anything to do with them, just ignore that comment of mine ^^.
@@EldronGah I’m joking about how this channel made a video about fixing the alphabet and in that video he called it the “correct alphabet” and that “everyone should use it” (Autocorrect keeps stopping me from doing that though lol)
I was expecting something worse, but it is actually 400x than the previous chess. I think the reason people weren't able to make this before was because you are right about everything, and it is probably hard for someone that isn't you. The sad thing is that everyone has to buy a new chess set if they are playing in real life. Maybe if you made money 2 that wouldn't be a problem?
What a smart dude so cool man keep the great video’s coming at us, bro you’ve done great and you will keep doing great! Never think that your not inportent because your important to me 😃
I know you made this as a joke, but this actually does seem like a fun variant of chess EDIT: I forgot to mention this, but I think it need bird from Egypt
Hey! I got an interesting rule: Imagine that the king gets jailed and the monkey rescue him. If the monkey with the banana dies, the king can recollect the banana and then the other monkey of his team can save him if he get captured, but if the other monkey dies and he get captured again, then he gets jailed forever.
And another thing: Everywhere the bear moves for the first time he can get killed by the elephants. You should make it the same as boring and lame chess with the bishop thing
7:17 the fishy queen probably takes inspiration from 1 point queen, which, in many variants, since they count captured piece points, prevents players from farming promotion sacrifices
Okay so I tested this out with people and it was actually incredibly interesting. I think it has a lot of potential. Here’s my feedback. 1. The rook and monkey are awesome. They add a lot of interesting complexity and were very fun to play with. They are pretty much perfect as is. Kings and queens also function pretty well and don't really need any adjusting. 2. The elephant is extremely weak. They're worse than fish, but unlike fish can't even promote. Each elephant can literally only access 8 squares of the board, with most of those squares often getting blocked off anyways. So, I'd recommend doing something to improve their options. A suggestion I have is to allow them to move horizontally/vertically 1 space, on top of diagonally 2 spaces. It would greatly increase their options, and I think would overall improve the game. Of course, you could do something else too. I just think it needs to have more maneuverability in general. 3. It takes too long to develop the fish. Allow them to move 2 spaces in the beginning like pawns can in Chess 1. 4. Just like pawns in Chess 1, I think fish should be also able to promote into any piece, not just queens. Especially with how useful rooks and monkeys can be. 5. There's very rarely a reason to move the bear, so it mostly does nothing. And then if it does manage to get into play there's also the risk of a situation where both players are just moving the bear back and forth endlessly. I know loops like that aren't new to chess, but I still thought it was especially bad with the bear. The people I played with suggested some changes, such as maybe the bear moves 1 space the first time it's moved, 2 spaces the second time it's moved, 3 spaces the third time, etc. Or maybe allow it move anywhere like the rook does, but just not the same place multiple times. Overall, very solid game. I enjoyed it a lot, and with some tweaks it could be pretty darn awesome.
Fun fact, your suggestion for the elephant in point 2) is almost EXACTLY how a _phoenix_ moves in many large variants of Japanese chess! _(Chū shōgi, dai shōgi_ and _maka dai dai shōgi_ all have a piece like this)
Elephant should trample enemy pieces on the square it skipped over, so it could potentially take 2 pieces at once. But it can't trample other elephants, instead it will stop on the first diagonal if an enemy elephant was there
Really cool idea I’ve actually played a few games and it’s pretty fun. One thing I’d change is the elephant. Right now it’s even worse than a pawn it’s forced to one spot but can’t even hop like a knight. Instead you could make it that it stampedes through the two spaces killing both pieces in the way.
@@milofrens3730 If you have a chess board do this test. Place a pawn anywhere on the board. Then from that position put a pawn on any diagonal that is 2 squares from that first pawn. Do the same for the newly placed pawns until you can do no more and then tell me how many pawns there are on the board.
Sorry but i know its so long to make this but i appreciate your work and few more questions how does the monkey save the queen? The rook i dont understand and the bear
Quick critique. There needs to be a better win condition than just letting the queen live. Shes impossible to capture in most endgames. Suggest monkeys being gone or the king being captured while no bannana
That was also my first reaction. Games will literally never end, because no unit can ever touch the Queen unless it gets blundered. Capturing a Queen without saccing your own is hard enough in regular chess, and with all the other units being heavily nerfed, it certainly won't get easier.
I think the rule as stated in the video does have some merit. In Chess 1, it is not uncommon to sacrifice the Queen to gain a positional advantage or help Pawns towards promotion. However, because Fishy Queens are not real Queens, this tactic now comes with a greater risk.
fun fact the rook is actually called “the castle” in turkish also bishop is called “the elephant” in turkish too and the queen is called “king’s advisor”
In German it's tower, too. The bishop is a "runner", the knight is a "jumper" and the queen is a "lady" - which is also the name of the "checkers" game. If we had the bear, it would probably be called the "Hasselhoff".
Because that makes more sense, bishops doesnt fights in battles or in front lines and queens are not known for their war and figthing capabilities. European version of the chest is dumb
Fun fact about the monkey: there's a chess variant called Congo which has a piece also called monkey with the exact same movement, except it captures the pieces it jumps over (so they can only be of the opposite color) instead of the last one
The sorcerer can go to any position in the board independent of it's currently position. The way it captures is through skipping 1 circular row, and the next ring after it is where the sorcerer captures, it does not move to the location of the piece when it captures. Bird.
The "Get Out of Jail Banana" is one of my favorites. I love it. I don't even care if this game actually can be played through without major problems; I still want to play it.
"The monkey saves the King because he has a banana" "If the King has no banana the monkey does not have any incentive to save him" "The monkey never saves the Queen because she does not have a banana" 🍌 nice.
If you see this, I plan on making a 3-D printed version and I will come back and drop the STL so if you or anyone else has a 3d printer, you can print it
As person who plays regular chess the rules seem a bit complicated and hard to remember with some cleaning up this could be fun but not at the state it is now
Chaturanga has a bunch of random rules, but my favorite has to be the Boat Triumph from its 4-player variant, Chaturaji. The Boat in Chaturaji moves like the Chess 2 elephant, but if any player moves a Boat to form a 2x2 square of boats, a Boat Triumph occurs, and the boat instantly captures all other boats in the square.
the only brilliant thing is that is the monkey can save the king only 1 time, doesn't matter what piece you change and add, chess will still be better.
By the way, the pawn doesn't necessarily have to turn into a queen, it can also turn into a bishop, knight, or rook. but you'd only usually want to switch into a queen or knight.
@@mrraggadish Bishops are worth 3 points and queens are worth 9. Also there are endgames where promoting to queen will end in a stalemate, but promoting to bishop won't.
i think the fish should also be able to switch into either some kind of nerfed monkey in case both monkeys get wiped out early game or maybe it could switch into a banana thing that could replenish the king's banana once used up
nobody is talking about how OP the rook is in chess 2 (everyone is talking about monkey). Think about how chess is played. You place pieces to cover other pieces that are covering other peices that if moved will discover other pieces that can be taken out. The fact rook can only attack after a piece is taken means nothing, as you would use a piece that can just apear everywhere on the board defensively by nature anyway. Take this super simple example- the enemy moves to a spot that will take your monkey, you only have once turn to save it. Just take your rook from all the way on the other side of the board and fly it to defend that monkey. The rook ALWAYS guarantees a defense. Side note- rook goes from the best end game piece (as you can easily box the king for a safe checkmate) to the worst piece, as it literally can't attack with a solo king on the board. In the event the king does take a piece, it can ONLY do so in a place the rook can't kill it, as you can't place yourself in check.
@@prerakgames4668 You can capture two pieces in a single turn? On the turn where they are both protected from everything but monkeys? Huh? I was talking about the very end of the comment which said you can't place yourself in check. Since there is no check, that's not an actual restriction. The entire side note is a bit confusing to me though so I might just misunderstanding.
It's hard to see through all the levels of irony. I can't tell if you know everything about chess's history or if you don't even know what a variant is, but either way, the video is very funny, very accessible, a bit educational, and actually has a lot of cool ideas. I've tried making my own variants in the past, and this sure gave me inspiration for new rules, thanks. Great work dude, keep it up
I can’t wait to see someone try to make this playable in Tabletop Simulator. As a 3D artist, I’ll even go as far as to start modeling the pieces themselves when I have time lol
What if a piece is in the Elephant's way? Can it not move the two spaces in that direction then? Or will it finish the move as well as taking the piece in the way?
Idea for the elephant: if there's an enemy in between where it's going and where it is, it dashes through the enemy, taking the piece but it still goes all the way to 2 pieces.
The cannon is actually a relatively shit piece, it's value is around 1/2 a Rook, the only reason the cannon looks powerful in Xiangqi is because the other pieces in Xiangqi (except Rook/Chariot) are far weaker than the cannon
In chess the cannon would be better i think. Xiangqi has elephants and the palace assistants to mitigate cannons which chess does not have (though the King in chess has better movement so maybe that balances it out). I dont think the monkey plays at all like the cannon lol, calculating all the places the monkey can attack seems like a nightmare.
I would love to watch someone play this. I find fairy chess layouts like this fascinating and seeing people figure out new strategies because of that is always interesting.
Oh yeah, i never gonna forget a matchup in 5D chess. When i was losing i traveled back in time and kill the parents of mi rival, but in the same time he did the same, so whe draw for time :/
I love how some of these ideas already exist in different games (taking pieces via jumping kinda in chinese chess, capturing pieces, fishie's move and fishie queen in shogi and piece that can be used by both players in Sáhkku)
Hello Mr. Jenkins. This is the government department of chess that JFK was too lazy to name. We are pleased to report that your new model of Chess is now being put into use for 100 new chess sets being created as we speak. We would furthermore like to request your permission to put these sets into use immediately and ban all other chess sets. We will be eagerly waiting for your response.
@@claudioiiirequino5187 rly I actually wanted to make the game but I still have to learn lot of stuff especially online. sooo... if you need help, like pls
@@Hazekura I know coding I can make the Chess 2....Welll uhmmmm I need to learn WAY MORE CODING if I wanna make chess 2... also I dont know Scripting...
Being honest, this chess is SOOOO much more interesting, will check it out! Also, I think that we could add a rule page on the download link so that we can play with people who haven't watched the video yet.
Some Suggestions for balancing the pieces after many hours playing this version of chess: -Buff the Elephant so it can see 2 squares in each direction. It's range is pitiful (currently it can see only eight squares on the entire chess board). -The Crow's purpose as a piece should be a planned revenge killer (but only if the crow is touching the piece that was taken). -Limit the monkey's range to 3 hops per move. There are 32 pieces and 64 squares on the board. That being said, if the monkey can continuously jump over every other square, the monkey has the most capabilities out of any chess piece I have ever seen. It desperately needs a nerf of some kind. - Fish should be able to take pieces that are in front of it. - Taking the Bear should also capture the piece taking it -- incentivizing making it an obstacle throughout the game that either player can move. One final suggestion, make a clause to insure once both the king and queen are captured, despite the monkey remaining on the board, the game ends in defeat.
I mean, rooks are still a thing, so theoretically you could still castle as normal, but it wouldn't make thematic sense anymore. Instead of the king hiding behind his castle walls, he is hiding behind... A bird?
It doesnt make so much sense here, bcz u one of the reasons to castle in chess 1.0 is to connect rooks to control the entire back roll, from there you can prepare the rooks to atack (if needed) Since chess 2 crows cant capture like rooks, castling wouldn't make them controll the back roll, only the spaces adjacent to them
Ps: You could only castle to make a shield on the king, so unlike chess 1.0 you could make a rule where you can castle even if the king is in check, or maybe you could castle with the Queen once she's captured, you could make the crow fly to the jail and break free the queen swaping their position. But ONLY of the crow selected hasnt moved yet
There's a slight flaw in the bear, in which no matter where it's first move goes, it can be captured by an elephant. But I really like the idea of it. It should be uncapturable. And maybe add another. More dead square make the game interesting.
6:17 it does not need to become a queen, it can become any piece the player wants to. However in chess 1.0M (M = Modern times) the best option is queen or knight and a queen is better than a knight in new chess tho you can turn a pawn into a BERD (oh yea and this nerf on bishops is sadge)
The problem with making an chess 2 playing engine is the bird's movement. It has a huge branching factor, and that messes up traditional mini-max searching algorithms, they get overwhelmed. So you might have to use a more modern kind of AI. Maybe an Upper Confidence Bound algorithm, or better yet a learning AI that uses UCT (Upper Confidence bound applied to Tree search) base algorithm
I bought a game sometime last year called chess plus, it’s chess but the pieces are split in halves so you can combine them with other pieces to make mega pieces.
The pawn doesn't necessarly evolve into a queen. You can choose, in what it evolve. This might Sound useless, but in some situations, a knight is really more use full.
A bishop can also be more useful. If you are playing a 10 game match against someone and you mate them with bishop and knight you destroy their spirit forever. Dominance is an important piece!
The soldier moves exactly 2 spaces in every direction. The way it captures is when moving, all pieces in your way are captured. Elephant. capturing everything at it's way.
You made chess 2! This is brilliant (!!)
Pretty soon we'll be adding "Chess 2 World Champion" to Magnus Carlsen's list of accomplishments...
true
Great! Can't wait for Chess2
@@Seamens banana
@@noahramsey banana
"and the monkey does not save the queen, ever, because she does not have a banana"
That's such a loaded sentence
I see it as good wisdom.
why did i not think of this lol
lol
well it's 2022 so you should double check on that queen if you know what i mean
Okay but
Kris Get The Banana
"L shape, or lowercase five"
This series has a whole lore now
came to the comments for this
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@@BlackWhiteAndGoldEagle nope lowercase 5 is not just small 5. I, however, have not been granted the time and patience to copy? paste it for your convenience. good day𓅱
@@zoemodesette9114 Hey, thanks for the comment, but it was all a joke man. I know lowercase five isn’t ⁵. Have a good day you too
@@BlackWhiteAndGoldEagle no
To be honest I thought it was going to be something stupid but these pieces and new rules are actually pretty cool I really like the jail and the barricade pun
Exactly what I thought
*bearicade*
@@penelopem.4054 hi
qwerty btw
YOU LIKE IT, then i hate u
Same
You should do more of these in the future! Such as
-making a better clock
-making a better unit of measurement
-making a better week
-making a better solar system
-making better grammar
There is a better unit of measurment, but americans refuse to use it
@@rafa57games Oats Jenkins can always improve on it
@@rafa57games True. For some STUPID REASON, WE IGNORE THE METRIC SYSTEM!!!!
@@rafa57games You're lucky you aren't standing a few football stadiums closer to me right now
Making better ORGANS would be fun.
Someone is inevitably going to make a playable online Chess 2 and I cannot wait
I WANT
Please someone do this
There better be
I was thinking the same
i will.
When the elephant moves diagonally 2, it should trample any piece that is 1 away diagonally. Which means that it can get 2 kills in one turn
yea, thats what i think
Or else the elephant would basically be useless.
I love this idea, Bishop was pretty busted but not Elephant is too heavily nerfed to be useful
Sirlin's Chess 2 already has stuff like that.
“Boom double kill im able to use the R.A.P.S now bitch”
I tried introducing the bear rule to my friend while we were playing chess for fun, but it devolved into chaos when he kept making the bear move on my turn and just went "Bear moves, fuck your turn." Thanks for the added chaos, Oats.
him: YOU CANNOT LIMIT THE BEARICADES FREEDOM
"Bear moves" is such a powerful statement.
@@Dexuz Bear moves, screw your reply.
@@Dexuzbear moves, screw the stairs
@@antimatterg bear moves, screw your reply
I played this version for like 2 hours today, and is is surprising how dumb yet fun and balanced and really just how enjoyable it was to play. The monkey adds so much to the game, it makes you calculate the moves you can do, set up insane traps, and adds a layer of depth that was previously unavailable. I love your channel and I can't believe you don't have more subs+views. Your videos are amazing, I can't wait for more
Depth that was previously unattainable in chess...?
@@iruleatgames yes
I like the idea of the bear being a neutral barrier for both players
Man acctually tryed this
how do you save the king i think the monkey cant move correctly
Finally a patch that reworks some of the previously underused pieces and nerfing a few others that have been too good for far too long. The devs really made us wait for this one but I’d say it was well worth the 1400 years.
gd in a nutshell
now now, this isn't a patch remember, this is a sequel
@@fanofstuff9593 yeah, nothing like overwatch though. This is some real sequel stuff
"The necessary technology was not yet available to achieve this vision." ~ James Cameron, probably.
Best update since the Queen/Bishop buff. Rise of the Robots kinda ruined chess, and the AI are completely broken and OP.
Literally the monkey is the best inclusion in this game. I see how that little chimpanzee will define who wins and lose. Has one of the best gimmicks never seen, he literally can jump only one space or if you are so good playing jump like 5. He is the UNIQUE ONE that rescue the king, at the Little cost of a banana. Personally, I would made that another piece can stole the banana, I dont know, like the elephant or something, to balance a little bit the game. Anyways, the Monkey is perfect, and is a good rival to the bird from egypt. Anyways, you are objectively correct in all.
it'Ŝ̬ tru. 𓅱
If a monkey takes a King, he steals the banana!
There is no rival to Bird from Egypt
@@omerd602 it'Ŝ̬ tru αs well. 𓅱
monkey mates gonna be so sick. u move one piece and it opens the monkey swing and king's checkmated
Me and my friends did this around a year ago and we named it chaos chess. It was just an extremely complicated, extremely fun version of chess. We even painted every chess piece to look special
what are the rules?
@@CarlosBoss2009 not really that many of them to be honest. the main cool things we added was cooler pieces, which we painted to be cooler. some of the main ones was that rooks were now hourglasses and could turn everything back 2 turns, and bishops could bring your pieces back to life
@@snorkellus that sounds fun
My god, this man actually made a chess sequel better than those other chess "revamps". It doesn't look like it, but when you play it, it's actually pretty balanced and fun to play.
Shotgun king is a very good singleplayer varient
@@bobbycrofts9241 Not really, I don't think they have any strategy involves in the game
Atleast not nearly as much as normal chess, it sure is a fun game but it never made me use my brain as much as normal chess you know what I'm saying?
A quick question
How do you capture a queen when what we usually use in normal chess to capture a queen is too either try to checkmate forcing her to sacrifice the queen or check and attack the queen at the same time?
How can you capture the queen???
@@anghuyphamnguyen3096 Probably Monkey. Yeah a perfect player wouldn't fall for monkey but a lot of real human players would
@@nyandoesthings I don't think anyone will fall for a simple attack
Especially long term player (me for example)
Finally, chess devs gave us an update, it only took like 1300 years.
Still better than geometry dash devs
@@boundary5947 All 1 of them!
Dude it’s not an official update it’s a community mod
cant wait to see Chess 3,hope its only took 900 years
@@thepumpkindoctor found the redditor
also it was another joke, you just didnt get it because your brain is the size of a watermelon seed
I've been playing this for some time, and it's seriously great. But to enhance it a little, I added 3 little custom rules in regard of the bear, and those are the following:
1. Bears can only take fish and fish queens. It's a bear, so it should be able to eat the fish, and the fish queens, they cannot take the other way around though, so they spend most of their time avoiding the bear.
That makes for a scenario where both players want to progress with the players keeping the bear as far away as possible from their fish, thus making more use of the gained movement freedom the fish has.
2. A bear can only be taken by either an elephant or a queen. This one is just to make players try to redirect their elephants in a way they can get rid of the bear, again, making more space with the now meaningless pawn-walls, as for queens, they are powerful, but now a condition to lose, so one will protect them more, if you truly want to have freedom on the board, maybe a queen should step in. That will open a lot of new possibilities.
3. Each player takes a turn in moving the bear, with the black player starting. Since white starts moving, black gets the first bear move, to clarify, black will choose 1 of the center squares to lay the bear on, these being: d4, d5, e4 and e5, after choosing the bear's starting square, black will still be able to move a fish. From there on out, moving the bear will cost a turn though. Therefore from there on out players each will try to get the bear on each opposites throat, ruining their structures, open for weaknesses. Getting rid of him when he becomes a nuisance will become a major objective.
I hope this will help to make a greater experience, if you try that is ^^.
"Less is more" (good policy for game rules and for written language)
Since we're on the topic of needlessly complicated rules:
The [ ' ] character goes before the [s] when the word owns the next thing, i.e. "*black's first move"
"Bear's" = Bear is
"Bears" = more than one bear
@@Starshine777 yeah, haven't gotten the whole s and 's thing figured out yet, thanks for letting me know. As for the bear rules, I find them to be extremely simple, yet game enhancing. If you have ideas for improvement, invent your own, or edit those presented by me. If you don't want to have anything to do with them, just ignore that comment of mine ^^.
@@ydb82 Why did you guys repeat the same conversation twice
@@PhantomOfficial07 I simply replied to his comment, there is no conversation going on, is there? xD
@@ydb82 Yeah but both of you said the same message twice
No! When the pawn gets to the end. It cuts its thingy😂😂😂😂
Top Chess gang?
New sequel: chess 3: fixing the numbers and letters around the edge to conform to the *correct* alphabet
THIS
what do you mean by correct alphabet?
@@EldronGah Oats has made a "correct alphabet" video, where he "fixed" the alphabet
@@EldronGah I’m joking about how this channel made a video about fixing the alphabet and in that video he called it the “correct alphabet” and that “everyone should use it” (Autocorrect keeps stopping me from doing that though lol)
i really laughed when we used his lowercase 5
I was expecting something worse, but it is actually 400x than the previous chess. I think the reason people weren't able to make this before was because you are right about everything, and it is probably hard for someone that isn't you. The sad thing is that everyone has to buy a new chess set if they are playing in real life. Maybe if you made money 2 that wouldn't be a problem?
I like how you didn't say its 400x better, you just said its 400x than the previous chess, allowing for an interpretation of the phase
@@Unknown_Threat It *_is_* 400 better the last chess. 10:47
@@gamerdomain6618 grammar !
@@Alittlebitofeverythingoffical No.
@@Alittlebitofeverythingoffical cringe
Since this is so good we should call normal chess a prequel to this game.
No normal chess is one of those bad movies that’s so much better remade
But normal chess is good just not as good as chess 2.
@@goopy_boi5432 There is no normal chess in Ba Sing Se
@Halo "most peaple play Chess 0 but if your cool you would play chess."
@@Maya-ul1rr i get this reference. But are there monkeys in Ba sing se
What a smart dude so cool man keep the great video’s coming at us, bro you’ve done great and you will keep doing great! Never think that your not inportent because your important to me 😃
I know you made this as a joke, but this actually does seem like a fun variant of chess
EDIT: I forgot to mention this, but I think it need bird from Egypt
agree with the edit
he is being serious do not ever disrespect stuff
or
@@tatejohnston8876 was there a reply you replied to that was deleted afterward?
@@GavinPetty no
"the monkey can SAVE the king because he is holding a banana"
Me: *laughs uncontrollably*
The queen doesn’t have a banana lol.
*Unkontrollably 𓅱 You need to use the korrect alafabet
Lol
@@captainpuff1238 But that contradicts everything deltarune taught me! The Queen ALWAYS has a banana!
10:10 So a fish can kill a bear, but a bear can't kill a fish? Sounds reasonable.
Böses? BÖSES! BÖSES!
Should make it so that fish specifically can’t kill the bear
@@Windperfire its not really like that at all
hmmm?
Yes because the bear is a bearricade
Hey! I got an interesting rule:
Imagine that the king gets jailed and the monkey rescue him. If the monkey with the banana dies, the king can recollect the banana and then the other monkey of his team can save him if he get captured, but if the other monkey dies and he get captured again, then he gets jailed forever.
And another thing:
Everywhere the bear moves for the first time he can get killed by the elephants. You should make it the same as boring and lame chess with the bishop thing
Alternative Title: Oats Jenkins making chess an animal jungle for 11 minutes and 20 seconds
Hahahaha , are you serious?
XD
War between Kingdoms but in Vietnam: the game
11 minutes and 19 seconds
agreed
He is always objectively right about everything. If he was king of the world there would be no problems in this universe
Just so you know I like your comment but I can’t click like because it has 69 likes
Except getting rid of the C
Yez
No oats Jenkins is always wrong
Everybody gangsta till the king of the world loses his banana
Man, I've been waiting for 1,400 years for this update. Thanks so much.
😂
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@@Quibkin nice rook
@@takescythe7738 🏰
when the developers abandon a game it so sad. But when the modding community takes over development, its the best thing to ever happen.
7:17 the fishy queen probably takes inspiration from 1 point queen, which, in many variants, since they count captured piece points, prevents players from farming promotion sacrifices
Okay, we now need two AI’s to be trained in playing this so we can watch
It will end in draw cuz Queen
I think it is going to be fishy
actually planning to do this xD
@@RavingKoala keep us updated!
@@RavingKoala
Definitely will watch that
Okay so I tested this out with people and it was actually incredibly interesting. I think it has a lot of potential. Here’s my feedback.
1. The rook and monkey are awesome. They add a lot of interesting complexity and were very fun to play with. They are pretty much perfect as is. Kings and queens also function pretty well and don't really need any adjusting.
2. The elephant is extremely weak. They're worse than fish, but unlike fish can't even promote. Each elephant can literally only access 8 squares of the board, with most of those squares often getting blocked off anyways. So, I'd recommend doing something to improve their options. A suggestion I have is to allow them to move horizontally/vertically 1 space, on top of diagonally 2 spaces. It would greatly increase their options, and I think would overall improve the game. Of course, you could do something else too. I just think it needs to have more maneuverability in general.
3. It takes too long to develop the fish. Allow them to move 2 spaces in the beginning like pawns can in Chess 1.
4. Just like pawns in Chess 1, I think fish should be also able to promote into any piece, not just queens. Especially with how useful rooks and monkeys can be.
5. There's very rarely a reason to move the bear, so it mostly does nothing. And then if it does manage to get into play there's also the risk of a situation where both players are just moving the bear back and forth endlessly. I know loops like that aren't new to chess, but I still thought it was especially bad with the bear. The people I played with suggested some changes, such as maybe the bear moves 1 space the first time it's moved, 2 spaces the second time it's moved, 3 spaces the third time, etc. Or maybe allow it move anywhere like the rook does, but just not the same place multiple times.
Overall, very solid game. I enjoyed it a lot, and with some tweaks it could be pretty darn awesome.
Fun fact, your suggestion for the elephant in point 2) is almost EXACTLY how a _phoenix_ moves in many large variants of Japanese chess! _(Chū shōgi, dai shōgi_ and _maka dai dai shōgi_ all have a piece like this)
I agree entirely with you! Hope he makes some changes in an balance update - chess 2.1 perhaps
Elephant should trample enemy pieces on the square it skipped over, so it could potentially take 2 pieces at once. But it can't trample other elephants, instead it will stop on the first diagonal if an enemy elephant was there
Flying fishes and idk banana fishes
@@KasabianFan44 yeah it sounded familiar
Oat Jekins is literally the king of improving things. Keep up the good work and might be famous one day
This actually unironically looks like a good game. Would legitimately purchase/play.
Same
Same
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Everything except the elephants imo.
To me it sounds like a game that would just drag on forever, because no unit can catch a queen, but catching the queen is required to win the game.
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Also someone should program it into a game
lol
Really cool idea I’ve actually played a few games and it’s pretty fun. One thing I’d change is the elephant. Right now it’s even worse than a pawn it’s forced to one spot but can’t even hop like a knight. Instead you could make it that it stampedes through the two spaces killing both pieces in the way.
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Realised the problem with the elephant also. It literally only has access to 8 squares.
@@anythingpeteives why 8, it can only move to 4 squares ( he said that he has to move 2 spaces)
@@milofrens3730 If you have a chess board do this test. Place a pawn anywhere on the board. Then from that position put a pawn on any diagonal that is 2 squares from that first pawn. Do the same for the newly placed pawns until you can do no more and then tell me how many pawns there are on the board.
good idea man
Sorry but i know its so long to make this but i appreciate your work and few more questions how does the monkey save the queen? The rook i dont understand and the bear
Quick critique. There needs to be a better win condition than just letting the queen live. Shes impossible to capture in most endgames. Suggest monkeys being gone or the king being captured while no bannana
That was also my first reaction. Games will literally never end, because no unit can ever touch the Queen unless it gets blundered. Capturing a Queen without saccing your own is hard enough in regular chess, and with all the other units being heavily nerfed, it certainly won't get easier.
I think the rule as stated in the video does have some merit. In Chess 1, it is not uncommon to sacrifice the Queen to gain a positional advantage or help Pawns towards promotion. However, because Fishy Queens are not real Queens, this tactic now comes with a greater risk.
Omg chill it’s just a joke
I would say have the queen move like the king if the king is in jail. Fishy queens still get to move like queens
@@doomse150 If the king is dead, she may still be able move any direction, but she'll have to stop in front of any pieces in front of her
fun fact the rook is actually called “the castle” in turkish
also bishop is called “the elephant” in turkish too
and the queen is called “king’s advisor”
This is in Arabic as well
In Poland we call it "wieża" (tower)
That's really funny because the Turkish word for the castle in chess 2 means "bird guy" crazy lol
In German it's tower, too.
The bishop is a "runner", the knight is a "jumper" and the queen is a "lady" - which is also the name of the "checkers" game.
If we had the bear, it would probably be called the "Hasselhoff".
Because that makes more sense, bishops doesnt fights in battles or in front lines and queens are not known for their war and figthing capabilities. European version of the chest is dumb
Fun fact about the monkey: there's a chess variant called Congo which has a piece also called monkey with the exact same movement, except it captures the pieces it jumps over (so they can only be of the opposite color) instead of the last one
So the monkey is literally just checkers
@@JDT-Loadsamoney it can also move like a king without capturing but yes basically
So a game of checkers is just a bunch of monkeys duking it out?
The monkey is a checker except he can move to white squares and his attacking method is different.
The sorcerer can go to any position in the board independent of it's currently position.
The way it captures is through skipping 1 circular row, and the next ring after it is where the sorcerer captures, it does not move to the location of the piece when it captures.
Bird.
The "Get Out of Jail Banana" is one of my favorites. I love it. I don't even care if this game actually can be played through without major problems; I still want to play it.
it's the link in the description to play it
wha?
Imagine the queen having the banana like the king does.
"The monkey saves the King because he has a banana"
"If the King has no banana the monkey does not have any incentive to save him"
"The monkey never saves the Queen because she does not have a banana"
🍌 nice.
💀
I think the king can trick the monkey into saving him twice but it would hurt to be ripped off by the monkey....
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@@matthewblaikie7903 K
Wait I just realise something. AYOOOO!
If you see this, I plan on making a 3-D printed version and I will come back and drop the STL so if you or anyone else has a 3d printer, you can print it
I feel like this would legitimately be a fun variation on chess.
yes
SOMEONE MAKE IT
This would be so hard to learn and have metas but I feel like once people would actually learn it, it would make for really fun games
its not that fun just tried it
As person who plays regular chess the rules seem a bit complicated and hard to remember with some cleaning up this could be fun but not at the state it is now
“The monkey has no incentive to save the queen because she doesn’t have a banana”
Wording, man! You could not have made that sound worse
Oh he knew what what he was doing.
Wait.. so that means.. 😳
@@БерикБисенгали-н3я That the monkey can’t save the queen, yes.
For real though, what were you going for here?
@@isavenewspapers8890 banana is an innuendo for dick
@@isavenewspapers8890 It's a reference to something...
Chaturanga has a bunch of random rules, but my favorite has to be the Boat Triumph from its 4-player variant, Chaturaji. The Boat in Chaturaji moves like the Chess 2 elephant, but if any player moves a Boat to form a 2x2 square of boats, a Boat Triumph occurs, and the boat instantly captures all other boats in the square.
need to work the phrase Boat Triumph into my every day speech more often
the only brilliant thing is that is the monkey can save the king only 1 time, doesn't matter what piece you change and add, chess will still be better.
By the way, the pawn doesn't necessarily have to turn into a queen, it can also turn into a bishop, knight, or rook. but you'd only usually want to switch into a queen or knight.
Bro why would I need a bishop instead of a fish queen
@@mrraggadish Avoid stalemates
@@mrraggadish Maybe beacuse you don't want opponent to focus on eliminating it ASAP
@@mrraggadish Bishops are worth 3 points and queens are worth 9. Also there are endgames where promoting to queen will end in a stalemate, but promoting to bishop won't.
i think the fish should also be able to switch into either some kind of nerfed monkey in case both monkeys get wiped out early game or maybe it could switch into a banana thing that could replenish the king's banana once used up
Its so funny that you make these changes in english chess. In russian the Bishop is actuly still called an elephant and the Rook is called a tower
That's cool and in Hungarian the crow or what is bastion and the bishop is runner
Some people call the rooks elephants
i have a friend that says that in arabic the queen is called prime minister, not even queen.
Also in Turkish bishop is elephant, knight is horse, rook is castle, king is shah, queen is vezir (like a king's helper)
in Italian we call it tower too, then the knight is just horse, and the bishop is a standard bearer
I thought this would be funny, but I genuinely want to play with these rules, I'm loving the concept
unironically i want these pieces to be added to the game
me to! 𓅱
Not me going to write the rules on paper and use a rock to mimich a bear to play the game
@@dragondg6412 make sure you also have a banana
@@Meow-vi9jb same here
6:19 it can also turn into a bishop, knight, or rook
nobody is talking about how OP the rook is in chess 2 (everyone is talking about monkey). Think about how chess is played. You place pieces to cover other pieces that are covering other peices that if moved will discover other pieces that can be taken out. The fact rook can only attack after a piece is taken means nothing, as you would use a piece that can just apear everywhere on the board defensively by nature anyway.
Take this super simple example- the enemy moves to a spot that will take your monkey, you only have once turn to save it. Just take your rook from all the way on the other side of the board and fly it to defend that monkey. The rook ALWAYS guarantees a defense.
Side note- rook goes from the best end game piece (as you can easily box the king for a safe checkmate) to the worst piece, as it literally can't attack with a solo king on the board. In the event the king does take a piece, it can ONLY do so in a place the rook can't kill it, as you can't place yourself in check.
There's no check in this version.
also the rook can easily get a king
@@TheRedSmarty well you will be checkmated on turn 1
@@prerakgames4668 You can capture two pieces in a single turn? On the turn where they are both protected from everything but monkeys? Huh?
I was talking about the very end of the comment which said you can't place yourself in check. Since there is no check, that's not an actual restriction. The entire side note is a bit confusing to me though so I might just misunderstanding.
After a piece is killed the rook can capture the king or Queen
It's hard to see through all the levels of irony. I can't tell if you know everything about chess's history or if you don't even know what a variant is, but either way, the video is very funny, very accessible, a bit educational, and actually has a lot of cool ideas. I've tried making my own variants in the past, and this sure gave me inspiration for new rules, thanks. Great work dude, keep it up
Oats Jenkins:idk how to draw a bird.
Also Oats Jenkins:*makes a lowercase bird from Egypt that is perfect
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Can the elephant move if there's a piece in the way? I'm trying to recreate this in chesscraft, but I don't know if the elephant jumps or slides.
I can’t wait to see someone try to make this playable in Tabletop Simulator. As a 3D artist, I’ll even go as far as to start modeling the pieces themselves when I have time lol
plz tell me when thats compleat
Don't forget to tell us whe it's ready
HAS THE TIME COME
Please keep going
Ward*
i want to actually play this version of chess
Samee
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same 𓅱
Be easy enough to program.
finally, a sequel we've all been waiting for
we had Checkers (Chess 0)
Chess 1.0
and Chess 2.0
Checkers was the prequel
The trilogy is complete
What if a piece is in the Elephant's way? Can it not move the two spaces in that direction then? Or will it finish the move as well as taking the piece in the way?
Imagine magnus playing chess 2 and still beating absolutely everybody
If it's online Nakas got a shot
Or not beating anybody cuz Queen
@@hy7864 why?
@@hy7864 ?
he is too logical for this. the adhd kids will dominate in chess 2
I was not ready for the lowercase five on 3:39
He cut it on time
Gives me 40 flashback
Waluigi
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Make board out of Hexagons.
As CGP Grey one said:
"Hexagons, are the *best*agons."
watched that video once, hexagons were my favourite since then
@@lux6485 same
No bestagons, not interested.
4:03 the tail is behind him? i thought he was siting on the tail
Idea for the elephant: if there's an enemy in between where it's going and where it is, it dashes through the enemy, taking the piece but it still goes all the way to 2 pieces.
Ye
Actually that seems like a nice improvement, considering the fact that Oats took away its special ability.
So you're telling me, as an actual chess player who has spent years perfecting the game, I have to forget those rules? Well, I'm up for it!
Nope he is not, this is a joke (or if not a joke at least not a serious attempt to make the next version of chess)
@@generalgoose8552 Thats the joke ( or you are farming r/woosh'ers )
This is actually a lot better than I thought it would be
what about en passant?
@@lukego2 i guess it just doesn’t exist in the new chess
@@kestrel.89 how about the castle
@@lukego2 castle didn't make sense anyway. is it two or one move? why the king can move past the rook?
No it sucks a$$
what software do you use ? ( I want to make a chess variant too)
Yeah Im really wondering about that too did you find anything?
the monkey is kinda like a nerfed version of the chinese chess cannon, which is insanely OP. (minus the banana mechanic of course LMAO)
The cannon is actually a relatively shit piece, it's value is around 1/2 a Rook, the only reason the cannon looks powerful in Xiangqi is because the other pieces in Xiangqi (except Rook/Chariot) are far weaker than the cannon
@@HatterTobias good point, I think my overvaluation is because the cannon also has some non-standard value as the ultimate noob trap in xiangqi
In chess the cannon would be better i think. Xiangqi has elephants and the palace assistants to mitigate cannons which chess does not have (though the King in chess has better movement so maybe that balances it out).
I dont think the monkey plays at all like the cannon lol, calculating all the places the monkey can attack seems like a nightmare.
it's also like chinese checkers pieces.
Finally, after many centuries, Chess 2 has finally come out.
I would love to watch someone play this. I find fairy chess layouts like this fascinating and seeing people figure out new strategies because of that is always interesting.
same
same
do you have any pictures of each piece individually, i wanna make this my lichess theme
Nothing beats 5D chess with hyperdimensional timetravel
yeaaaa, but it is actualy very ql game
5D Chess 2 with multiverse time travel.
I like the chess first person shooter
Oh yeah, i never gonna forget a matchup in 5D chess. When i was losing i traveled back in time and kill the parents of mi rival, but in the same time he did the same, so whe draw for time :/
Oh hey its lagiacrus from monster hunter
I love how some of these ideas already exist in different games (taking pieces via jumping kinda in chinese chess, capturing pieces, fishie's move and fishie queen in shogi and piece that can be used by both players in Sáhkku)
Also the bear in duck chess
That's the whole point
Hello Mr. Jenkins. This is the government department of chess that JFK was too lazy to name. We are pleased to report that your new model of Chess is now being put into use for 100 new chess sets being created as we speak. We would furthermore like to request your permission to put these sets into use immediately and ban all other chess sets. We will be eagerly waiting for your response.
i have a question, if you start the game its already checkmate because the crow/rook can fly anywhere it wants...
Someone needs to code this into an actual game, complete with ranked play.
we have SCRATCH
@Some Dude ...
@Some Dude based
@@claudioiiirequino5187 rly I actually wanted to make the game but I still have to learn lot of stuff especially online. sooo... if you need help, like pls
@@Hazekura I know coding I can make the Chess 2....Welll uhmmmm I need to learn WAY MORE CODING if I wanna make chess 2...
also I dont know Scripting...
You can't deny the fact that Chess... is the game ever - Oats Jenkins 2022
Being honest, this chess is SOOOO much more interesting, will check it out! Also, I think that we could add a rule page on the download link so that we can play with people who haven't watched the video yet.
You can’t really checkmate a Queen. All you have to do is keep her safe the whole time and this game will never end.
It's possible ._.
u can, you have to do a king checkmate on the queen, then, make it so any moves are unsafe, and every piece is protected by another
or, you can make the whole board in danger. way harder and probably not possible though
The fact that only the king has a banana to have the monkey save him is creative and hilarious at the same time.
I love how your elephant piece actually just straight-up looks like Cthulhu.
Some Suggestions for balancing the pieces after many hours playing this version of chess:
-Buff the Elephant so it can see 2 squares in each direction. It's range is pitiful (currently it can see only eight squares on the entire chess board).
-The Crow's purpose as a piece should be a planned revenge killer (but only if the crow is touching the piece that was taken).
-Limit the monkey's range to 3 hops per move. There are 32 pieces and 64 squares on the board. That being said, if the monkey can continuously jump over every other square, the monkey has the most capabilities out of any chess piece I have ever seen. It desperately needs a nerf of some kind.
- Fish should be able to take pieces that are in front of it.
- Taking the Bear should also capture the piece taking it -- incentivizing making it an obstacle throughout the game that either player can move.
One final suggestion, make a clause to insure once both the king and queen are captured, despite the monkey remaining on the board, the game ends in defeat.
Ur bear idea is amazing😮
The Queen still can run forever
👍
*THE CROW IS CALLED THE ROOK*
This is good but i have a question. Can the elephant jump over other pieces when moving diagonally?
everyone take a chance to admire his drawing skill
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there should be a special move that's the equivalent of Castling in Chess 1.0
I mean, rooks are still a thing, so theoretically you could still castle as normal, but it wouldn't make thematic sense anymore. Instead of the king hiding behind his castle walls, he is hiding behind... A bird?
It doesnt make so much sense here, bcz u one of the reasons to castle in chess 1.0 is to connect rooks to control the entire back roll, from there you can prepare the rooks to atack (if needed)
Since chess 2 crows cant capture like rooks, castling wouldn't make them controll the back roll, only the spaces adjacent to them
Ps: You could only castle to make a shield on the king, so unlike chess 1.0 you could make a rule where you can castle even if the king is in check, or maybe you could castle with the Queen once she's captured, you could make the crow fly to the jail and break free the queen swaping their position. But ONLY of the crow selected hasnt moved yet
@@zorimanar2247 maybe swap with elephant, and move elephant to monkey
I feel like the monkey save is a similar concept
The chess community has been waiting for this for thousands of years
10:36 the bear always gets captured instantly bc each elephant has control over d4, d5, e4, and e5
There's a slight flaw in the bear, in which no matter where it's first move goes, it can be captured by an elephant. But I really like the idea of it. It should be uncapturable. And maybe add another. More dead square make the game interesting.
if you move the bear towards your side there should be no reason for it to die
@@hamburger2430 But you can capture it too, so doing that would block a square for you to develope.
well i was thinking that if you do that, you lose the chance at gaining power in the middle, which is a common tactic in chess 1
This single 11 minute video has taught me the fundamentals of chess, while trying to make them different.
I printed this out and my family LOVED it!
This looks very fun, can’t wait to play it with my siblings. (I’m probably going to carve a wooden chess set for this)
Cool!
6:17 it does not need to become a queen, it can become any piece the player wants to. However in chess 1.0M (M = Modern times) the best option is queen or knight and a queen is better than a knight
in new chess tho you can turn a pawn into a BERD
(oh yea and this nerf on bishops is sadge)
Most of the time it's the queen. But there are some positions where you could need a bishop, knight or rook instead. It's just very rare.
@@schrodingerskatze4308 When would you ever want a bishop or rook over a queen?
@@MadSwedishGamer To avoid stalemate for example or if you have some weird tactics.
@@MadSwedishGamer it avoid stalemate
@@schrodingerskatze4308 what? Doesnt make sense, if you want a bishop might as well get a queen because it also has rook movements
As someone who had played hundreds of games of chess, I can confirm this is an amazing improvement.
Utterly Outstanding
Simply Amazing
Sublime
Truly incredible
@@mhkk1491 define "chess player" before you pull out your statistics
Chess piece proposal:Lizard
It basically is the elephant but it goes straight instead of diagonally
The problem with making an chess 2 playing engine is the bird's movement. It has a huge branching factor, and that messes up traditional mini-max searching algorithms, they get overwhelmed.
So you might have to use a more modern kind of AI. Maybe an Upper Confidence Bound algorithm, or better yet a learning AI that uses UCT (Upper Confidence bound applied to Tree search) base algorithm
Just a small detail: Notice how he redrew most of the pieces as animals 🤣
For real, this sounds like a good game
I want to play it!!!!!!
this makes me want play chess 100000000000000000000000x more 𓅱
Stockfish: "What is this nonsense?" Stockfish four hours later: "Royal capture in 152"
I bought a game sometime last year called chess plus, it’s chess but the pieces are split in halves so you can combine them with other pieces to make mega pieces.
Queen knight
The pawn doesn't necessarly evolve into a queen. You can choose, in what it evolve. This might Sound useless, but in some situations, a knight is really more use full.
A bishop can also be more useful. If you are playing a 10 game match against someone and you mate them with bishop and knight you destroy their spirit forever. Dominance is an important piece!
Also, if the player still has their original queen, they might choose something weaker to avoid an accidental stalemate
The soldier moves exactly 2 spaces in every direction.
The way it captures is when moving, all pieces in your way are captured.
Elephant.
capturing everything at it's way.