How to play Spherical Chess

[@RuyVuusen]

So basically chess, but this time you actually have an excuse for not seeing that that Bishop can attack you.

[@scugknight437]

As a person who sucks I approve this message

[@Swagpion]

Yup

[@mihailmilev9909]

@@scugknight437 lmfao I love that comment

[@Lumberjack_king]

Lol 2 “that”

[@suitcaseguy8393]

@@mihailmilev9909same

[@wompastompa3692]

I played cylindrical chess with some buddies a decade ago. We didn't have a cylinder, we just used a normal chess board and had a rule that treated the left/right edges like the warps in Pac-Man. We called it warp chess.

[@e_doors]

"Warp chess, how to play. the rules are like regular chess except for these changes"

[@michka841]

topology chess

[@theominouspigeon]

​@@nicholasstanton9575 loli want a meatball?

[@honeyjuice219]

this is just normal chess but overly complicated and overly confusing, I love it :D

[@Hawokki]

This is playable. Look at 4 dimensional chess. It has time traveling, not kidding

[@orionalbeniz9945]

Yes, but also having a board which loops on the sides, so not exactly the same

[@ErebusTheDragonn]

why not have the best of both worlds and have multidimensional chess with time travel on a globe

[@goober4347]

New chess variant: spherical sovereign chess

[@KororaPenguin]

​@@goober4347 How about spherical sovereign courier chess?

[@joelthomastr]

So bishops can theoretically reach any square of their own color on the board in one move as long as there's nothing in the way Edit: no they can't because they switch direction at the poles, they stay on one diagonal, very clever

[@SilentGamer._]

they CAN move in either direction, 2:20 for reference.

[@porcuspine2368]

@@SilentGamer._ Only if they're starting at the pole, otherwise they have to reverse their rotation. 1:45

[@Luaporleafcutterant]

Almost all Checkmate patterns chess players learn involve the edge or the corner of the board which doesn't exist here. So in endgame you need at least a rook and a queen to mate I think

[@number1ratedsalesman_1997]

[[ 🧐📸🧐📸🧐📸]]

[@dcrggreensheep]

@@number1ratedsalesman_1997Mating means checkmate.

[@9tr0n]

ayo

[@oenrn]

Two rooks should still be able to give a ladder mate like normal (just be careful the king can't take the rook by crossing over).

[@shiinondogewalker2809]

Checkmate with rook + king should work Edit: ok maybe not

[@steveburke1519]

Fun fact: King and Queen (or Rook) vs King is a draw, and I'm not even sure if King and 2 Queens vs King could force mate. Mating positions are possible, but can they be forced?

[@haroothy]

Maybe king and a queen vs a king is a draw, maybe .. but two rooks and a king seem winning

[@mburg33]

A way I am testing it out different checkmates is just treating all checkmates done in the center of the board since there’s no edges. Just by playing around on a board editor I found possible mating ideas: - Queen & Rook - 2 Queens - 5 Bishops - 6 Rooks - 7 Knights

[@erickpoorbaugh6728]

It looks like the problem is that the king’s ability to move across the pole prevents you from forcing opposition. For example, if you have your queen on e7 and king on b6, and your opponent’s king is on c8, your opponent isn’t forced to play Kb8, but can instead play Kg8. I think adding any other piece can prevent this, though, by guarding the cross-polar square. Two rooks should be able to force mate by getting on the same file (to protect each other), and trapping the king in one of the non-polar ranks. You can push the opposing king out of the polar area by checking it, and mate through opposition using the same method as a king-and-single-rook mate, with the rooks’ file replacing the “sides” of the board and the rank of the rook further from your king replacing the “back” of the board.

[@Tehom1]

It seems like 2 queens or 2 rooks could ladder mate easily enough: force opponent's king to a pole, then put rook or queen on the pole and it attacks the entire pole.

[@alex.g7317]

Where on earth did mating come into this??

[@ShineyRcus0103]

RETURN OF THE CHESS RULES BAYBEEEEEE

[@Buphido]

You can simulate this ruleset on a normal chessboard. Treat the left and right edges as pacman-style warps and imitate the top and bottom of the sphere by treating columns with a difference of 4 as opposite to each other, so moving a rook up and through the edge of row two will see him emerge at the top of row 6, heading the opposite direction.

[@pedroivog.s.6870]

Good job now it's even more confusing, yet accurate!

[@TaiStar42]

Pac-Man that’s the logic I used when I came up with this game.

[@Fralther39]

I’ve heard of circular chess but this is ridiculous!

[@BRUH-lx3jv]

That's the chess that flat earthers prefer the most.

[@ValkyRiver]

@@BRUH-lx3jv I would love to see a Mercator projection of this chess variant

[@antonioaguirre5464]

Just wait until you see hyper sphere chess.

[@Tehom1]

This is the best explanation of chess movement on a sphere.

[@ValkyRiver]

I would love to see a mercator projection of this

[@TheQuark6789]

Hey wait a minute

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

Flat Earth Chess.

[@trequor]

Underrated comment 😂😂😂

[@mikesmolowitz1269]

Interesting idea. Any piece that moves to Greenland is suddenly much more powerful than it should be.

[@ultrio325]

valk??

[@trentonrothan9724]

There is an interesting strategy for casting by hand. Move the rook over two squares on one move, then step across the poor with the king on the next turn. Rules with a pole on a sphere confuse me a lot.

[@joshuan.]

What

[@trentonrothan9724]

@@joshuan. I have a bad version of autocorrect on my tablet. I typed rook, but it corrected me to room.

[@347Jimmy]

You're not allowed to castle once the rook has been moved, though He did say all the standard requirements still apply Edit: oh wait you're meaning use two turns to manually create the same position, gotcha

[@MuhammadAhmad-fl5ip]

0:39 Good teaching

[@KrasBadan]

I like that you can actually play it on a normal board. Just pretend that lateral sides are portals to each other and figure out how you can move on 1st and 8th ranks. You'll basically be playing on the projection of the sphere.

[@alexadams4017]

pac man

[@zuthalsoraniz6764]

@@alexadams4017 No, the typical videogame wraparound would be toroidal chess gluing ranks 1 and 8 together. For a spherical wraparound, the left and right edges wrap around normally, but every point on the top or bottom edge maps to the point on the same edge that is half the edge width away, and facing in the opposite direction (so e.g. a rook moving from a5 to a8 would come out of e8 moving down).

[@scrazad1601]

@@zuthalsoraniz6764 pac man

[@theomelettecuber5458]

Yay! En passant is allowed! :D Also this is when you don’t have a chess board and you decide to use a globe from a geography class (plus some magnets).

[@fredfondler7281]

I love having a refresher of the rules of chess

[@tulisotilas]

In order to play it on regular board I would personally make changes. Maybe crossing the poles would end the turn. Possibly any piece is not able to take a piece when crossing over the pole. Then I would rather have is so that crossing a pole changes the color of a bishop, rather than having it go straight for one square. Or I could also think of the poles being impassable, and still allowing the sides of the board be wrap around. Without computer the rules around the poles seem bit too convoluted to actually keep track of checks and illegal moves.

[@TripleSGames]

If you remove pole travel it would be cylinder Chess

[@the4lternative972]

That looks cool. I thought it would be named "Globe chess" tho..😂😂

[@Aiden45-w]

It’s basically just chess, but without borders

[@yourboi5492]

It’s spherical! SPHERICAL!

[@Lev_Malygin]

Finally, after all this years i can play chess for sphear-earthers!

[@tranquilmagister8481]

haha i am ironically a flat-earther and it would be so amazing to buy this as a decoration (mostly) just to mess more with my friends who are very against the idea, like i accept sphere chess before a sphere earth

[@marcoasturias8520]

Finally, 3d chess

[@vonakakkola]

nah, it's still 2d, you can't go in the third dimension, it's just 2 dimension who have the shape of a ball

[@aaronking2020]

@@vonakakkola normal chess is a 2D plane, in order to bend it (making it a sphere) you need a third dimension.

[@sdrawkcab_emanresu]

@@aaronking2020 The movement is based around the surface of a sphere, which is a 2d plane

[@chri-k]

@@aaronking2020 it does not work like that. the sphere is still 2 dimensional, as it has no volume.

[@fastbreak333]

I imagine it’s tempting for a kid to spin it really fast until the pieces fly off.

[@funnyfunk5862]

It's tempting for ME.

[@Teufela666]

An "infinite" board seems like a cool concept, but it must be a pain to view the board to analise the position.

[@temkin9298]

Take tiles to a rectangle, take the opposite pole tiles and paint them differently so that diagonals have the same color.

[@TobiasTheWolf]

Even though I didn’t understand a word of this. I find this version of chess fascinating.

[@duonghoangminh258]

Basically a paper chess board wrapped around the globe

[@deadersurvival4716]

With extra steps.

[@KalmerVT]

Finally Gary Chess released Chess 2

[@cloverisfan818]

chaos chess: there are no turns. move whenever you like.

[@BaronVonDergner]

Hey, I used to play this too! There's a chessboard that instead of being a globe is two interlocking gears for each player's half of the board

[@philjones3824]

Some of these chess variations are fascinating.😮

[@arconisthewolf4430]

My frustration levels sky rocketed,Thanks

[@thatstrangeguy292]

Merge this (somehow) with chess 5d and I'm gonna time travel to an universe where the merge didn't happen.

[@LuckyWolfUnleashed]

0:58

[@citronvannalemon]

*"S P H E R I C A L !"* - That one line from Drake and Josh

[@TheRandomizerYT]

At this point this man is just buying the wierdest board games available on the Black Market to show us how to play them lol

[@Riciliz]

POV：You see the thumbnail and wonder how the pieces stay atached then remember magnets

[@meep.472]

magnets

[@Indian_Gamer_PSS]

Magnyet

[@ShinwaneKido]

"Magnets, son" (Not Senator Armstrong)

[@Riciliz]

​@@meep.472 was that your first thought?

[@deadersurvival4716]

@@Riciliz While I'm not meep, allow me to inform you, it was my second. My first was "ball shiny".

[@rubenlarochelle1881]

This is the same game as another one covered by this channel, in the same "Chess Versions" playlist: Noble Celts. "Spherical chess" sells you this globe to play chess on, while "Noble Celts" sells you a vintage map, but what they really are is simply an aesthetic alternatives of a much simpler chess variant: playing on a normal chessboard, consider the left and right sides as adiacent to each other, allowing the pieces to teleport horizontally but not longitudinally. That's it, it's really that. It's one simple variant, with the titles "Spherical chess" and "Noble celts" simply selling you nice boards. Feel free to buy them if their aesthetic pleases you, just be aware of this and of what you are actually buying.

[@veggiet2009]

Looks awesome 👍

[@hkayakh]

Imagine this but a globe of the earth instead of a chess board

[@michalkloucek473]

Planes = queen and knight combined.

[@kipu44]

No Game No Life

[@xaviertorrence2559]

spherical Risk

[@mikesmolowitz1269]

I once saw a picture of a spherical chessboard like that. Imagine a globe that has the usual map of the Earth. Then fill every other space with a solid color to form the checkerboard pattern. It looked really cool, especially with the upside-down pieces near the South Pole.

[@mikesmolowitz1269]

Now Australia borders South America, courtesy of the South Pole.

[@Luaporleafcutterant]

I don't like the Knights movement across the poles. It allows it to move from a light square to another light square which it normally cannot.

[@bestaround3323]

Makes sense if the board loops

[@okamisansempai557]

This is really unique way to play...😁😀🙂nice video

[@danik0011]

riddle me this sphere earthers, why isn't this "normal" chess and the flat board not a variation? 😂

[@0mathgaming]

Because the version with a flat board was invented first. Besides, chess isn't the earth. Just because one type of chess is the traditional version doesn't mean the same thing is true for all other aspects of reality. For example, most pizzas are circular (it is true that rectangular pizzas are also common, and sometimes you can find even weirder shaped pizzas, but that's beside the point), but pizza boxes are usually rectangular prisms and not cylinders. Two different things have completely different rules about them, including shapes. Btw I can't tell if you're trolling or not, but I figured I'd put the whole answer here anyways (you know, just in case this type of question shows up elsewhere).

[@vonakakkola]

@@0mathgaming and... i mean, if you're on the battlefield what you see is a flat surface with some mountains and trees, in the medieval times no one would think on a global scale war even if everyone knows Earth is shaped like a ball

[@0mathgaming]

@@vonakakkola Very true.

[@aaronking2020]

We didn't magnets in 3000 BC

[@shazwansith4604]

Wait until they make Torus Chess

[@LunizIsGlacey]

If anything, that'd be easier, since it's the same as a regular board where the edges are "portals". Technically, unless the starting position is changed, both players have been checkmated before the game even began. So some rules would have to be altered...

[@MaladyKayjo]

Now we need hyperbolic chess

[@harrisonpatricio8163]

Now i want hyperbolic chess.

[@mikesmolowitz1269]

Absolutely! The flat board is the interior of a circle. The spaces near the center are big. As a piece moves away from the center, the spaces get smaller. So you approach the edge asymptotically, and you'll never reach it.

[@SirStouk]

WOW My head hurts just thinking of trying to play that 🤯

[@ThumbsTup]

Hyperbolic chess next?

[@existenthungoos9190]

it wouldn't be the same as linking 2 sides of the board? (like a bishop can move from h1 to a2)

[@Karanthaneos]

We can clearly see now that the world isn't flat. Check mate, flat earthers.

[@tango_mondo5751]

Flat earthers play this

[@guywhoateallthepizza1031]

The Bishop just became a sniper

[@leoli2284]

A complex form of chess

[@mr_indie_fan]

You think this is a complex form of chess? Look up 5d chess with multiversal time travel, yes that is a real chess videogame.

[@Dondo26]

Might just buy this to display

[@cristianeugentolontan6007]

So what is next? Hologram chess? Chess with infinite squares? Chess with a piece on every square possible?

[@michalkloucek473]

Now i can recycle an old globe :)

[@volition142]

So why would I not just play this on a regular board? much less confusing

[@BizVlogs]

Step 1: find pieces that somehow defy the laws of gravity and can stick to the globe

[@deathsheir2035]

The first chess variant I didn't know exist...

[@Nico2718_]

If you unfold the sphere in a normal board it's basically classical chess but you can teleport from one side of the board to the other like in snake. So no need for the spherical board 😅

[@MiCuentadeYouT]

Awesome!

[@ryanbester5181]

as part of the homestuck fandom I will call globe chess Skaia

[@Mealbot2000]

Interesting, but my one question is… Why?

[@treehousegames7903]

Resisting the urge to make a reference rn

[@balala7567]

me upon the realization of being stuck in the the when in the home

[@aesopbricktop]

This is turning my brian to velveeta cheese. time to grab a permanent marker and a volley ball.

[@jk-2053]

Cool idea, but Imma be honest, I'd hate to be the guy with his starting pieces on the bottom. It'd be better if the poles were purely horizontal (or if we had a better way to see it).

[@Ukyuu9]

Spherical chess is the right place for the intercontinental ballistic missile opening

[@cicik57]

you should disable strange and confusing moves through the pole and this will be fine.

[@greenscout_12]

they werent kidding when they said chess is popular all over the world

[@lilifoliaenvt]

The perfect game to play when you're stuck at home, wink nudge

[@jdc5164]

The nuggets and a little Christmas gift will look at the minute 😙

[@mr_indie_fan]

Is there a videogame based on spherical chess yet?

[@maddoxmonteza]

flat earther: the earth is like a chess board meanwhile the chess board

[@MonkeMonkey26]

In a nutshell: Normal chess, but a bit confusing/hard to watch and looping

[@ultrafun2227]

all flat earthers *HATE* this game

[@ZJasmineDragon]

"ah yes, as a beginner, Im glad to always have the ladder mate to rely o... oh....

[@danik0011]

Basiaclly chess but it is glued on the edges

[@PALICORN_HQ]

Finally a chess update

[@higuys7576]

Basically Chess but a bit cursed

[@singaporeandude1332]

Chess : world domination

[@teamcyeborg]

This seems like it would be impossible to win or even convince anyone to play, but I desperately want to buy it just to have it sitting on my desk

[@HSmarkus5]

This is the next level of earth is round

[@martinteece8983]

so bigger sphere would be 4 player version. or even a solverin chess edition on sphere would be epic to see

[@ucleam4108]

reminds me of Kekkai Sensen / Blood Blockade Battlefront 🗿

[@callmeandoru2627]

Checkmate, flat earthers

[@TheUltimateCancerCell]

Hmm... why are the black pieces on top and the white pieces on the bottom?

[@solarsloan]

SPHERICAL

[@IndonesiaBallFreePalestine]

Fall ❌

[@ZeneonOMEGA]

I imagine this is what Planet Chess looks like. And the only thing you can do on Planet Chess is play Chess.

[@mikesmolowitz1269]

What if the planet has rings? Can pieces move to the rings? Is Ring's Gambit a good opening?

[@dogekid7]

P.S. Orthogonally means horizontal and vertical

[@veggiet2009]

I don't get the polar moves

[@Barnaclebeard]

1:17 -- "bolth"

[@Barnaclebeard]

2:43

[@brukujinbrokujin7802]

Basically regular chess board without the edge

[@b05-casumbaltedfrancisiis.54]

Hearing " Hey you can't move there that square is in check!" Will be much much much often and more annoying

[@deadersurvival4716]

Then don't move into check.

[@limb.dondototohasstartedso7288]

my name is KING D KID

[@NXTangl]

Next let's see hyperbolic chess.

[@vtserian]

That's some interesting sh!t you got there

[@kittyn5222]

Hey master

[@snacku7]

I played chess on my good old Clifford torus

[@NachoManWithThePlan]

Still waiting for pentagonal chess

[@christianalexander9808]

rook go brrr