Red Dwarf Chess Scene

Holly vs Queeg - Red Dwarf Season 2 Episode 5 - "Queeg"
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[@tumourfish1035]

'oh sorry, queens don't move like that, I was thinking of poker' is probably my favourite line from the whole series

[@NeidalRuekk]

I've seen queens move all kinds of ways, and not just in Poker! ;)

[@themadplotter]

Horsey takes king prawn

[@notnotadev]

horsie

[@imaweerascal]

Is that with fried rice?

[@ab8jeh]

Still use that terminology.

[@TheIkaraCult]

Whenever I think of this scene I always think of Norman's little sideways nod to the Cat after he gives him tactical tips, never fails to make me smile

[@dcocz3908]

or Rimmer's use of 2 die throws rather than 3 in his RISK conquests

[@HylianFox3]

@@dcocz3908 "Rimmer, this story is not gripping me. I am *completely* un-gripped!"

[@jamesportoraro8248]

I love how most of Holly's moves were - "horsey to bish 3"

[@jareththegoblinking3191]

I love how it’s actually Holly playing chess with himself

[@deanmoncaster]

Great now you've spoiled the surprise, soon you'll be telling people Darth Vader is Luke's dad!

[@d-five7265]

@@deanmoncaster he is? Bugger!

[@user-cc4se5jp6c]

It looks way cheaper than I remember this show as a kid and I love it. Need to find to time to watch it as an adult

[@SightForMemories]

do you have fond memories of a console game or a pc game from the nineties or maybe even the eighties, we thought they were the bomb back then, now it looks like something drawn in an etchersketch...

[@AndrewGivens]

@@SightForMemories Yep; here it was the writing and performance that carried it, with those old games it was the gameplay that was magic.

[@juliaconnell]

I've been meaning to do this for years - rewatch the show - finally been doing this, unlike many other shows really ages well - true classic

[@smoker6683]

"Horsey takes King Prawn" LOL

[@Slammy555]

We used to get these a season behind in the states, I would record Doctor Who, which ran from 10:30 through ? so it was on too late to watch and they started playing Red Dwarf after. This was the episode that convinced me I needed to introduce my friends to Red Dwarf. I brought the 1st episode for them to watch so they'd understand the idea but only one other friend started watching. It was the 1st Ace episode when everyone else started watching. My friend brought it over for everyone to watch, I remember my one friend said it doesn't matter if you know what's going on exactly that was just a funny episode.

[@DavidL1986]

when you look at the success of a show like Big Bang Theory. For me, red drawf laid the foundation that a show based around science (i know its in space too but generally science etc) had potential for a very good show

[@davidjsaul]

I find the first season very rough as they actually took the time to establish the characters and their traits properly. Even the second season isn't great but has its moments. But by season three it was brilliant and all that initial character development was worth it. In this day and age it would probably have been cancelled after one season unfortunately.

[@Slammy555]

@@davidjsaul I think the stand out was Me2, there were a couple of good ones in S2, S3 was a good season, near the end of S4 was when I think the character building really paid dividends especially S5 which may be my favorite sci fi season ever with maybe Firefly as #2 in the as far as rewatchability but that's only after burning myself out on Star Trek and Wars.

[@kosmokat111]

I think my fave ep to this day is "Marooned" It's a perfectly contained little ep, and if we're not watching from the start, it's my go to ep to show people to introduce them to the show

[@Slammy555]

@@kosmokat111 It does a really good job of explaining Lister's and Rimmer's relationship and characters for sure.

[@gazprosser]

Love the fact that the ships bridge also doubles up as a recording studio

[@danielwilliamson6180]

The look on Holly's face when he says "Naughts and Crosses?" at 2:05 is priceless.

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

Naughts and Crosses (otherwise known as Tic-Tac-Toe) is an unwinnable game, so it's the perfect stall.

[@JohnyG29]

@@cardinalhamneggs5253 who the hell calls it tic-tac-toe?!

[@ThunderFlarz]

I mean Google is right there but it's what Americans call it.

[@Deevo037]

The best bit was straight after this scene, April fools.

[@AndrewChapman]

Or in this case, April, May, June, July and August fool😄

[@nathanjgtaylor1985]

We are talking jape of the decade 🤣

[@SightForMemories]

He was a right tosser

[@stevenharris7614]

A good weeze

[@BenEmberley]

..........WHAT??

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

This is one of my favorite episodes. He plays the crew masterfully.😜

[@jettisoncargo]

Holly was playing both sides but mostly he was playing the crew.

[@MichaelNelson-kp8zi]

'Bye bye baldie!' Holly actually still has some hair while Queeg is totally bald XD!

[@pwnmeisterage]

Queeg is not bald. He's streamlined. For efficiency.

[@Deciheximal]

"Pawn to king 4". Game is over on the first move.

[@AFMountaineer2000]

Really? While I do know how to play, with them just saying the positions like that I have absolutely no clue what they are doing.

[@michaelmoran9020]

I think they mean D4 but yeah its pretty funny

[@dadkinson]

@@michaelmoran9020 e4, since he's playing White

[@robhogg68]

@@AFMountaineer2000 Not really. Bobby Fisher did say "With 1. e4! I win", apparently, but given players of approximately equal ability, there's not a lot in it.

[@shellsbignumber2]

Yeah, I think he just Fool Mated him.

[@bstgamer1]

This just proves Holly isn't that thick to organise a thrilling Chess game with a double mate against himself.

[@mcpartridgeboy]

Probably just pretending, not like the crew can play, rimmer probably likes to think he can but probably cant

[@bstgamer1]

@@mcpartridgeboy But Rimmer is good at RISK because he keeps a winning RISk diary referencing Meltdown Season 3 ep 6 think if i am right???

[@mcpartridgeboy]

@@bstgamer1 true !

[@Adrian_3006]

One of the best episodes of Red Dwarf! Hilarious 😅😅😂

[@windwaker0rules]

Modern computers of this era are so good that they tie 99.9% of the time, so these future computers would be playing for years over and over until they found a winner.

[@TheRealKaiProton]

One of the best episodes,

[@bobbobertbobberton1073]

This is how I fight when I'm drunk.

[@BenEmberley]

.......is that horizontal or perpendicular?

[@kamalindsey]

*OBLIVIONIZED*

[@retromaster6163]

Horsey to King Bish Three!

[@sgnjamcitydevteam6913]

*Oh sorry queens don't move like that, I was thinking of poker* Lol

[@shellsbignumber2]

Lol. This is too funny😄 I wish, he'd suggested a game of Twister.

[@ozanareyiz7773]

It isn't funny. Anyone who claims it is, must be an ignorant, that doesn't know even what funny means or humour.

[@deanmoncaster]

Damn this show is good

[@MisterEon]

Take a shot for every time Holly says Horsey to Bish 3

[@TammoKorsai]

It ended up being Numberwang, but with words.

[@LazarouDave]

That's Wordwang! Take A letter.

[@misterprecocious2491]

​@@LazarouDaverotate the ship😂

[@gagglegames]

@@LazarouDave So as we enter the final round, Im, you're leading with tarpaulin, and Uli, you're trailing with H

[@bettyswunghole3310]

Wheeze of the week!

[@mhagain]

We are talking chess game of the decade.

[@arlfiftyfourtd8132]

I thought this would be the end of Holly. Silly me XD

[@ClippyClippington]

Looked for this scene theanks lokl good times

[@LazarouDave]

Surprised you were even able to find it, I thought this video got forced Unlisted and set to private for copyright 😂

[@ClippyClippington]

@@LazarouDave I love the show and I love this moment and looked it up and took me right to ya bud

[@sebastianrochefort6763]

@@LazarouDave it was in my recommended feed so

[@nick_watoosh]

@@sebastianrochefort6763 same

[@LazarouDave]

@@sebastianrochefort6763 Oh decent, probably been claimed or something so I don't profit on it, fair enough I guess

[@MONSTERDR451]

Tabby Star did not come ALONE 👽👽😎😎🙃🙃

[@frankie3041]

Oh no! How’s Holly going to get out if this one!! 😬

[@markhunter3263]

I’m curious if anyone has ever tried playing this sequence out on a board. Is it a legit path to a win, or are we just hearing random moves?

[@CZghost]

That's interesting. I would totally like to know. 😅

[@MrYehboi]

I don’t think any of the moves are real lol. Chess positions are letter number so a1 g7 etc. So pawn to king 4 is not actually a move

[@karelzjinec]

@@MrYehboi Not exactly. What you are talking about is algebraic notation. That is a modern most common system. They are using descriptive notation which used to be common in the english before 1980s'. Pawn to king 4 would simply be e4

[@MrYehboi]

@@karelzjinec oh lol never knew that. Thought it was a joke

[@Theoutcome0]

Either some moves are removed from the final cut or they’re making sense. After Holly’s “illegal move” they seem to reset and begin the game again. But then the “pawn to queen 5” move doesn’t make sense unless that pawn has already been moved

[@baldbeardedbloke6887]

This is a shorter version of this scene. I don't remember how he does it but holly actually won this game.

[@LazarouDave]

Technically Holly wins regardless, if you remember the episode ending

[@baldbeardedbloke6887]

@@LazarouDave Because he was playing himself.

[@campex]

​@@baldbeardedbloke6887 we are talking jape of the decade. We are talking April, May, June, and July fool

[@stoobydootoo4098]

No, he didn't.

[@franticstorm7411]

There were one or two prawns in there.

[@Yusifer100]

We are talking jape of the decade.....

[@youtubeuser987]

0:47 **fangirling Robot Wars crossover meta intensifies**

[@sodd1000]

Shame Norman is so moany. I now understand why they wanted rid of him after watching the extras that had him in them. He has no positivity in him at all. I do think he was by far and away the best Holly and a shame he kind of ruined it for me.

[@sodd1000]

You can read? Maybe you are the grammar police? Gan feck either way

[@stoobydootoo4098]

Nonsensical bilge.

[@sodd1000]

@@stoobydootoo4098 Considering I have just watched through all the episodes (again) and all the extras and have watched numerous interviews and you must have watched none you are the one who must be spewing bilge. Had you recently watched what I had watched you would know what I know. You don't as you are an ignoramus.

[@johnmartinez7440]

​@@sodd1000 Cringe.

[@JonSmith-cx7gr]

I'll have a Babycham.. Obscure reference mode...........

[@pigknickers2975]

It was him wasnt't it! Well spotted.

[@JonSmith-cx7gr]

@@pigknickers2975 Ha ha. It was discussed in some Red Dwarf documentary. Craig Charles and co discussing the guy and his voice and the advert.

[@pigknickers2975]

@@JonSmith-cx7gr 👌

[@Shtanto]

Has Agadmator seen this yet?

[@liamwalsh4008]

And then after horsey to D3 we have captures captures erases, and it was in this position that Holly resigned from existence.

[@megabite3869]

I'm sorry, I'm not a native speaker, but what's with Lister's accent? :D I don't really understand it without subtitles...

[@LazarouDave]

I might do subs at some point, I mostly uploaded it for myself as it was nowhere else Scouse is certainly a tricky one for non natives though, can be tricky even for those of us who are fluent sometimes, tbf 😂

[@megabite3869]

@@LazarouDave I don't actually need subtitules, because I know Red Dwarf very well, so I know what they are saying even without understanding to Lister :D I've seen it mostly in my native language (we have pretty good dubbing btw, but some jokes make sense only in english, so they change the meaning sometimes) or with subtitules. Sorry for my English...

[@LazarouDave]

@@megabite3869 I'm not sure what your native language is, but that English was basically perfect 👍

[@megabite3869]

@@LazarouDave Czech. Of course it is better in English, the original is always better :D

[@rainmaker709]

Holly: "I want my ship back." Queeg: "To bad." Holly: "You want Red Dwarf, you gotta fight for it." Lister: "Steady on Hol'. This mans a nutta." (Nutta meaning Nutter as in crazy.) Holly: "I challenge you to the game of your choice. May the greater mind win." Rimmer: "Oh my God." Holly: "For the winner, command of Red Dwarf." Queeg: "And for the loser?" Holly: "The loser will me erased, terminated, oblivionized." Cat: "Bye-bye baldy." Holly: "Name your game." Queeg: "Chess." Holly: "It can be anything. Any game at all." Queeg: "Chess." Holly: "Drafts, poker, anything." Queeg: "Chess." Holly: "Subbuteo, Snakes and Ladders." Queeg: "Chess!" Holly: "Monopoly maybe? I'll even let you go first." Queeg: "CHESS!" Holly: "So you like a bit of Chess, do ya? Transfer me to the monitor." Lister: "Holly, don't do this man. Ya gonna get rubbed." Holly: "A computers gotta do what a computers gotta do. Let battle commence." Queeg: "Pawn to King 4" Holly: "Horsey to King Bish 3." Rimmer: "It's called a Knight actually Holly." Queeg: "Knight to King Bishop 3." Holly: "Queen to Rook 8. Checkmate." Queeg: "That's a illegal move." Holly: "Oh, sorry. Queens don't move like that. I was thinking of poker. Cluedo? You can be Colonel Mustard." Cat: "Psst.If it's any help, I've been studying his tactics and there is a pattern emerging. Every time you make a move, he makes one too." (wink) Holly: (wink back) "Thanks Cat." Queeg: "Pawn to King 4." Holly: "Knight to King Bish 3." Queeg: "Bishop to Knight 5." Holly: "Horsey takes King Prawn." Queeg: "Pawn to Queen 5." Holly: "Horsey to Bish 3" Queeg: "Bishop Pawn..." Holly: "To Queen 3." Queeg: "Takes Pawn." Holly: "Prawn to King 4" Holly: "Horsy to Bish 3." / Queeg says something unintelligible. Holly: "Prawn takes Horsey." Queeg: "Bishop Pawn takes Pawn." Holly: "Bish takes Prawn." Queeg: "Bishop to Knight 5. Double check and mate, sucka." Holly: "Oh yeah, didn't see that." Lister: "Holly man, what have ya done?" Rimmer: "He's lost." Queeg: "And the loser gets erased." Holly: "Naughts and Crosses?"

[@MrUnmutual2014]

Errol Brown played some mean chess

[@stoobydootoo4098]

Emm...a. . Just rumours - I believe. Everyone's a winner - Ain't no doubt about it.

[@DavidL1986]

for me this show laid the foundation for shows like the big bang theory. It just showed how something based around science, technology etc can be extremely funny. It was ahead of its time

[@mariooldani9545]

And the letter H too.

[@duncancurtis5971]

Charles Augins is Queeg.

[@j.j.c.s2802]

Subscribed .... but please be aware(?) This series was 4:3 aspect ratio as it was pre the introduction of the 16:9 format. Hence, the picture appears stretched in the horizontal.

[@LazarouDave]

90% sure I just screen recorded it from iPlayer, could be wrong though 🤷

[@j.j.c.s2802]

@@LazarouDave Yes.. that should be fine - think there's possibly a setting needs a tweak in your editing software? If you're using one, of course? Something's defaulting to 16:9! Check the set up and see if it gives you the option to 'use settings based on original clip' - hope that's useful.

[@andrzejwilk7316]

i hated it for its usage of the relative notation.

[@accountwontlastlong1]

So you like a bit of chess, do ya?

[@SD78]

QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG.

[@n-doghansenmand5655]

What part of UK does the Guy with the dreadlocks come from

[@LazarouDave]

Craig Charles? Liverpool.

[@WinstonBuford]

smegville

[@guyincognito.]

@@WinstonBuford It's a town just north of smegville; Smeg Head.

[@LordTalax]

The loser will be erazed

[@alanrowley9540]

*Erased

[@MsCrashbandicoot95]

@@alanrowley9540 Bye bye baldy!

[@pk1645]

Chess.

[@MsCrashbandicoot95]

CHESS!!!

[@lordmanatee439]

Why did black go first?

[@stoobydootoo4098]

Don't be so negative!

[@tonywhite9873]

lol

[@georgiab3909]

Prawnsssss xD xD

[@jokersmith9096]

KZbin algorithm thinks I'm British and by the looks of it wants to feed me nostalgia from a kids show.

[@RetroParadise]

Not a kids show

[@Bruh-zx2mc]

Oh, so you're actually a gun raving lunatic.

[@SightForMemories]

Not a show for kids. although adolescents might find it funny, and certainly teenagers, and young adults, even senor adults, or just plain... then there's the elderly, well they only like things before the seventies, so there's no hope there.

[@Soleilasens]

This is painfully unfunny

[@LazarouDave]

You could just leave without commenting. I'm not the BBC, direct your complaints to them, and about 34 years ago too!

[@Soleilasens]

@@LazarouDave I just emailed them about this

[@Soleilasens]

@@nervousnorvus1944 funnier than this shit

[@Soleilasens]

@@nervousnorvus1944 you literally find this garbage funny, your opinion on humor is worthless

[@Soleilasens]

@@nervousnorvus1944 and I wasn't even making a joke just mocking how stupid the reply of the video uploader was. Now stop shitting up my inbox ✋️