"developing" your pieces really just means moving them into a good position, which is often the middle of the board where they have the most moves available.
To develop the pieces is to move them from the back line and give them control over central squares and squares on your opponent's side. Basically, don't just get lost moving your first few pieces over and over again while half of your army sits on the back line. Bring all or at least most of them into the game, slowly, methodically, using each one to back up the next so that they are protected from uneven trades. In this way, most or all of your army is in play before you attack, and typically, before you bring out the queen. Something like that.
This game came out in 1998 and the previous year was the first time a human world champion (Gary Kasparov) was defeated in a match by a computer (Deep Blue). Deep Blue won a game against Kasparov in 1996, but lost the match 4-2.
I'm a newbie in chess but I'm pretty sure 'developing' pieces means putting them in places where they can actually do some damage. So out of the back ranks where they're stuck, and more in front and in center.
Hey man. Just wanted to say I love the channel. Beating every game on an old console is a really cool goal. Simple enough, but still a huge undertaking. Best of luck dude, keep it up.
« There’s just too much going on », says Thab about a chess board, but not about a 3 min total chaos item abuse tight timer 120 frame perfect inputs New Sup speedrun.
Damn I was really hoping it was going to be Conker's bad Fur Day, especially since you just played a boring chess game. But pokémon is always good. These videos make my morning on Fridays. I'm usually getting on my first break at work so this is a boost for me. Thank you
Man, this video was hilarious. I could relate so much with finding chess hard to understand. And it is interesting to imagine that chess is one of the oldest games to ever exist. I remember always seeing old guys playing it in the park as a kid with these humongous pieces. I actually had my jaw drop seeing "Hey you pikachu" take the lead. That was my childhood favorite growing up and I know it has not aged that well haha. Great video as usual!
Titus honestly got screwed over by Warner Bros with Superman 64, they had to follow all sorts of insane requirements, so it wasn't really their fault the game turned out like it did. This game, however, was actually a very advanced piece of chess software for the time, I think the AI even won some kind of prize. But, as a kid, I mainly enjoyed the insane animations lol
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone wasn't published until this game was probably mid-development, but imagine if this game was more like a video game version of wizards' chess as depicted in the 2001 movie? Also imagine if instead of really rough 3D renderings of the chess set, they had used the the best 2½D visuals the N64 could muster, even with no animations - just visually distinct chess sets. Imagine also, if you will, that to progress through the game you beat increasingly difficult opponents, each with visually distinct chess sets. It was actually a decently received game, apparently the chess AI was done pretty well.
I play a lot of chess, and I enjoyed seeing Thab blunder and then watching his reaction as he realizes the computer is slowly taking his valuable piece from across the board - a feeling all chess players would understand.
Developing your pieces means A) not making repeating moves of the same piece(s) in the opening, and B) getting most of you non-pawn pieces off their starting squares.
Funny, I remember playing Battle Chess in the late 80's or early 90's. I don't know how the AI compares but I'm pretty sure the piece taking animations were far superior.
That was BY FAR the most extreme and depressing marble race I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Watching Conkers and OOT get snubbed at the end was heartbreaking. Was screaming at my tv the whole time.
my dad bought this for me to help me get better a chess... I never did get better at chess.. but honestly chess ai has always been pretty legit. My dad had a board in the early 2000s that was computerized and would tell you where to move the computer pieces.
My mum bought me this for what must have been a birthday present when I was younger. I hated it so much, and she really wasn’t impressed with it, so it’s possibly the only game we ever returned to the store.
I was the type of teenager who would learn chess just to feel smart. I got ptretty good at it, even to participate in tournaments, but once highschool was over, I was like "Actually...I don't like this game" and haven't touched ever since. Also, I love how the marble race was more exciting than the game, according to how many comments have reacto to it.
Bloody ell' the Marble Race segment is always such a treat to watch, it was such a great idea to use the Marble Race to determine what game to do next :)
For a game like chess to be juxtaposed with the most exciting marble race in history is so fitting. Super excited for Hey You, Pikachu! I loved that game as a kid!
When I was a young kid I rented this game from Blockbuster based on nothing but the box art, I didn't even read the name apparently, because I remember getting home and being devastated that it was just a chess game. What a waste of a weekend rental
Yeah, my chess teachers never taught me anything about the names, so I just figured stuff out as I went and somehow ended up being relatively okay. I’d say the biggest flaw you had was board/safety awareness, like at 8:33 where you could have swept right with the queen to take the pawn without having to threaten with rook. Still would’ve made things annoying cause Bishop would’ve taken pawn at c2, but doing a bit of damage is better than nothing when on the back foot, imo.
Thabeast: Develop your pieces. What does that even mean? I hate buzzwords. Also Thabeast in the same video: I developed my knight... You know what the word means because you correctly used it more than once. To develop a piece means to put it onto a square where it does some good. A knight on f3 controls more squares than a knight on h3, for instance. And both a knight on h3 or f3 will do far better than when that knight's sitting at home on g1.
I'm really into chess and have a friend who mentioned this game, he said it's broken and the computer glitches/cheats. I knew instantly he'd been en passanted as a kid but he refuses to accept it's a legal move to this day.
Most important thing to do in chess is to cover your own ass. You have to move your pieces as a singular unit, always covering each other. If you lose a piece make sure your opponent pays for it.
People who are the best at chess are those who can memorize theory. The early game is dominated by theory with real skill not really starting until the mid to late game. For a game made so long ago it is still THE game with an almost infinite number of possible game outcomes.
Every video that goes by that isn't OOT makes me laugh a little bit harder at how far ahead of the release schedule the play schedule is. How long ago was the streaming OOT announcement video now? 🤣 🤣 🤣
I'm gonna write a bunch of stuff up here to keep those looking at the comments from seeing spoilers to the results of the marble race. Still left it vague, stop peaking if you haven't seen it. Heads up, the Mic unit is region-specific and a JPN one will not work with the NTSC game/vice versa.
"developing" your pieces really just means moving them into a good position, which is often the middle of the board where they have the most moves available.
"oh my god! why am I so bad!" the eternal chess experience
That marble race had more excitement than the whole last season of Formula 1.
To develop the pieces is to move them from the back line and give them control over central squares and squares on your opponent's side. Basically, don't just get lost moving your first few pieces over and over again while half of your army sits on the back line. Bring all or at least most of them into the game, slowly, methodically, using each one to back up the next so that they are protected from uneven trades. In this way, most or all of your army is in play before you attack, and typically, before you bring out the queen. Something like that.
I remember my dad renting me this game, and when I played it, it was my first feeling of "wait...this game kind of sucks."
Redheaded stepchild vibes
When the marble race is the most exciting thing on this video.
Yeah, that’s a problem when the marble race is more exciting then the chess.
This game came out in 1998 and the previous year was the first time a human world champion (Gary Kasparov) was defeated in a match by a computer (Deep Blue). Deep Blue won a game against Kasparov in 1996, but lost the match 4-2.
This may go down as the greatest marble race of all time
And the worst, considering the winner is one of the worst games on Nintendo 64.
@@spidersquid8 lmao i can't wait for the playthrough, it was so goddamn jank I could never tell if the mic was broken
@spidersquid8 Conkers Bad Fur Day and Ocarina of Time would have been much better winners
I think that old chess computers fell for sacrifices fairly easily so that might be why sacrificing the queen worked in your case.
well when you are playing on the dumbest levels...yea...But not on the highest levels...
Me going to beasts’ house in 2001: aww no way, you have CHESS?!?
Me going to beasts' house the week after you visited: Eww! Are you playing Hey You Pikachu?
Me going to Beasts' house this week: aww no way, you're TRIMMING HERBS!?!
Me going to beasts house later today: aww no way, you're masturbating? Lemme try
When I leave an elevator alone I press every button, and I mean all of them. This is my journey to making everyone else mad.
Not very nice
@@Thabeast721And yet, still hilarious. Lol ;p
Some people just like to see the world burn
@@JobberJim darn Skippy. :)
I lost my job because somebody did that once. Made me twenty minutes late to work. Thanks.
"My queen and bishop was forked" totally understand 😭😭😭
I'm a newbie in chess but I'm pretty sure 'developing' pieces means putting them in places where they can actually do some damage. So out of the back ranks where they're stuck, and more in front and in center.
Battle Chess was dope back in 93-94. My school had it on our classroom computers. Good times.
Hey man. Just wanted to say I love the channel. Beating every game on an old console is a really cool goal. Simple enough, but still a huge undertaking. Best of luck dude, keep it up.
« There’s just too much going on », says Thab about a chess board, but not about a 3 min total chaos item abuse tight timer 120 frame perfect inputs New Sup speedrun.
Damn I was really hoping it was going to be Conker's bad Fur Day, especially since you just played a boring chess game. But pokémon is always good. These videos make my morning on Fridays. I'm usually getting on my first break at work so this is a boost for me. Thank you
“I am not going to play a single N64 game. And I mean not any of them. And if I were, I’d know exactly which one I’d play next.” - Evil Thab
Man, this video was hilarious. I could relate so much with finding chess hard to understand. And it is interesting to imagine that chess is one of the oldest games to ever exist. I remember always seeing old guys playing it in the park as a kid with these humongous pieces. I actually had my jaw drop seeing "Hey you pikachu" take the lead. That was my childhood favorite growing up and I know it has not aged that well haha. Great video as usual!
lmfao your commentating of the marble race was the highlight of this one lol your excitement spiked to over 9000 with that wild upset finisher lmao
Is that... Is that what the cover art looks like for this game?
yes lol i remember that cover box at blockbuster back in the day and avoided it
Compared to the ps1 chess game which had a cool wizard cosplay photo.
Yep. I had it back in the day.
👀 keep walking
Titus honestly got screwed over by Warner Bros with Superman 64, they had to follow all sorts of insane requirements, so it wasn't really their fault the game turned out like it did.
This game, however, was actually a very advanced piece of chess software for the time, I think the AI even won some kind of prize. But, as a kid, I mainly enjoyed the insane animations lol
These marble races have no right to be this exciting 😆
He means all of them
ALL of them?!
Ye, but there is a twist
A twist of the nips
Wait what is he gonna play? I didn't catch it.
Every Nysnc album??
He fucks all of us
wasn't expecting those top 3 for the marble race dang
That was one of the more exciting marble races haha
He means all of them... With each passing video that statement becomes more and more existentially ominous.
I don't expect this to be amazing but I'm here for all of them
This young man's chess abilities are exceptional. His strategic mind never ceases to impress me. Is there anything he can't do?
Sing the bass lines in a Barbershop Quartet?
@@deraykrause4517 I really think he could do it, especially if it were part of an N64 game.
After a king's pawn opening, the French defense is black moving their pawn one space, not two spaces
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone wasn't published until this game was probably mid-development, but imagine if this game was more like a video game version of wizards' chess as depicted in the 2001 movie?
Also imagine if instead of really rough 3D renderings of the chess set, they had used the the best 2½D visuals the N64 could muster, even with no animations - just visually distinct chess sets.
Imagine also, if you will, that to progress through the game you beat increasingly difficult opponents, each with visually distinct chess sets.
It was actually a decently received game, apparently the chess AI was done pretty well.
Fridays are so good. End of the work week and this absolutely awesome N64 game series. 😊😊
Well that was the most invested I've been in the marble race so far
I’m actually mad that hey you Pikachu won.
I play a lot of chess, and I enjoyed seeing Thab blunder and then watching his reaction as he realizes the computer is slowly taking his valuable piece from across the board - a feeling all chess players would understand.
Developing your pieces means A) not making repeating moves of the same piece(s) in the opening, and B) getting most of you non-pawn pieces off their starting squares.
Funny, I remember playing Battle Chess in the late 80's or early 90's. I don't know how the AI compares but I'm pretty sure the piece taking animations were far superior.
Complains about "developing" pieces then proceeds to use the term ad nauseum 😂
That was BY FAR the most extreme and depressing marble race I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
Watching Conkers and OOT get snubbed at the end was heartbreaking. Was screaming at my tv the whole time.
Now I'm thinking of that Thab vs. Carl chess game
For reference: this is probably that "game" : ruclips.net/video/b-LoCK9qMBg/видео.html
Omg can't wait for next week lol been wondering when this one was gonna show up😂
my dad bought this for me to help me get better a chess... I never did get better at chess.. but honestly chess ai has always
been pretty legit. My dad had a board in the early 2000s that was computerized and would tell you where to move the computer pieces.
The only time I played this game was in a hotel room back when some had N64 controllers in the TVs 😂
Bro did a Botez gambit like it was a legit strategy as opposed to a meme mocking the Botez's terrible chess 😂
Hey you Pikachu is a nightmare. Cant wait!
My mum bought me this for what must have been a birthday present when I was younger. I hated it so much, and she really wasn’t impressed with it, so it’s possibly the only game we ever returned to the store.
One time my father mistakenly rented this game thinking it was an adventure game.
Worst weekend! I was 7yo I had no idea what chess was! xD
That marble race was a nail biter lol. Ocarina would have been nice but hey you pikachu should be interesting
Hey, it is cool that you liked chess enough to learn opening moves. I am all for people being passionate about stuff they like.
WILD MARBLE RACE AT THE END!!!
Imagine if Thab set the win condition to finishing every chess puzzle
I was the type of teenager who would learn chess just to feel smart. I got ptretty good at it, even to participate in tournaments, but once highschool was over, I was like "Actually...I don't like this game" and haven't touched ever since.
Also, I love how the marble race was more exciting than the game, according to how many comments have reacto to it.
Excellent vid as usual, thab. Thank you.
Bloody ell' the Marble Race segment is always such a treat to watch, it was such a great idea to use the Marble Race to determine what game to do next :)
For a game like chess to be juxtaposed with the most exciting marble race in history is so fitting. Super excited for Hey You, Pikachu! I loved that game as a kid!
Slayer and Chess sounds like a match made in heaven.
I'm resisting the temptation to skip every gameplay clip in this video to get to the marble race, and I mean all of them
When I was a young kid I rented this game from Blockbuster based on nothing but the box art, I didn't even read the name apparently, because I remember getting home and being devastated that it was just a chess game. What a waste of a weekend rental
Yeah, my chess teachers never taught me anything about the names, so I just figured stuff out as I went and somehow ended up being relatively okay.
I’d say the biggest flaw you had was board/safety awareness, like at 8:33 where you could have swept right with the queen to take the pawn without having to threaten with rook. Still would’ve made things annoying cause Bishop would’ve taken pawn at c2, but doing a bit of damage is better than nothing when on the back foot, imo.
Love watching the chat blow up towards the end of the marble races.
I loved this game as a kid but never understood those weird characters they used to battle each other lol so strange
I bet the Chess Master from those old 90's chess gamed could trim the herbs!
That was an insane top 3 in the marble race! :D
nice i wanna see wtf is up w hey you pikachu lol.
btw, you should play both versions, they are different. Play the JP version too!
Hell yeah Hey You, Pikachu! That was was hella.....well, bad. I can't wait to watch you yell at Pikachu in frustration.
100 elo chess in a nutshell
Thabeast: Develop your pieces. What does that even mean? I hate buzzwords.
Also Thabeast in the same video: I developed my knight...
You know what the word means because you correctly used it more than once. To develop a piece means to put it onto a square where it does some good. A knight on f3 controls more squares than a knight on h3, for instance. And both a knight on h3 or f3 will do far better than when that knight's sitting at home on g1.
Having to wait 5+ minutes of the computer to make a move on hard mode is actually bonkers. Who would ever want to play that way??
been waiting for this to drop!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
19:50 PogChampion dude
I'm really into chess and have a friend who mentioned this game, he said it's broken and the computer glitches/cheats.
I knew instantly he'd been en passanted as a kid but he refuses to accept it's a legal move to this day.
lolol it’s refreshing seeing someone suck at chess as much as I do. loved this video
Even in the 90s, there were better ways to play chess on your own without a computer, like electronic chessboards.
Thab mentioned yesterday that he was an auctioner before he started streaming. No wonder the marble races are so exciting.
14:32 All three game titles change to green on the same frame 🤯 that's crazy lol
I used to rent it a lot when I was about 9 years old! Especially because was one of cheapest games to rent. About 1 dollar.
The only thing I understood here was that his Queen and Bishop got "Forked"... and I'm not sure I understood that correctly.
I hope everyone is having a good Friday!
This game looked pretty exciting in Nintendo Power 😅
Most important thing to do in chess is to cover your own ass. You have to move your pieces as a singular unit, always covering each other. If you lose a piece make sure your opponent pays for it.
[Chess Simp voice] That blunders a bishop.
trust the process!
People who are the best at chess are those who can memorize theory. The early game is dominated by theory with real skill not really starting until the mid to late game. For a game made so long ago it is still THE game with an almost infinite number of possible game outcomes.
Every video that goes by that isn't OOT makes me laugh a little bit harder at how far ahead of the release schedule the play schedule is. How long ago was the streaming OOT announcement video now? 🤣 🤣 🤣
Titus is also the developer of the Prehistorik platformer game series -- so it's not all bad.
This was the most exciting marble racing so far!
The Philadelphia 76ers reference was too real.
I'm so early to this video I can now checkmate someone in Chess in 4 moves.
Wow, that was some horrific chess playing!
You should've developed your pieces
I played more hours than healthy with this game back in high school. Yes I was on the chess club. Yes I was a huge nerd. :D
7:43-7:45 Rook B2? That’s B1 ThaBeast.
The funny thing is Titus won a prize for best AI for chess bame back in 1997 or so...
This is the game that got me decent at chess as a kid. I destroyed all my peers in 6th grade by a long shot. My skills capped out about there though 😅
10:38 Btw the fox is Titus' mascot
At least they did something right
Maaaaaaaaaan, I wanted conkers bad fur day to win, game is amazing.
What a lineup on the marble race
I love your videos. Thank you for the free entertainment.
Zelda.... so close to greatness!
Hey you Pikachu..... short video incoming! lol
I'm gonna write a bunch of stuff up here to keep those looking at the comments from seeing spoilers to the results of the marble race. Still left it vague, stop peaking if you haven't seen it.
Heads up, the Mic unit is region-specific and a JPN one will not work with the NTSC game/vice versa.