How to play Strato Chess

Learn the rules to the chess variant: Strato Chess quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules. For a refresher on the original rules of chess, check out this video: • How to play Chess (202...
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RULES:
The board is made up of 3 planes each identically oriented on top of the other. Setup the pieces for one color on the bottom plane and the other opposing it on the top plane. All pieces have their regular movement in addition to being able to move vertically up and down the planes.
Pawns may move 1 space vertically up or down a plane in addition to their forward movement if you want, retaining the same relative location on the new plane. A pawn may move up to 2 vertical planes the first time it is moved if it moves two spaces forward.
Knights can move vertically 1 or 2 planes in addition to their normal movement. Simply transfer their relative location to the new plane.
Bishops can move diagonally up or down a plane in a single move. For each vertical plane movement, move the bishop 1 diagonal space in a straight line. You may not move the bishop vertically up and down in a single move to navigate around other pieces, nor may you move horizontally after completing your vertical move.
The Rook may move vertically up or down to any plane, in the same relative position, so long as the path isn’t obstructed.
The Queen has the same vertical plane movement as both the rook and bishop combined.
The King may move vertically up or down 1 plane in the same relative position. Only the King’s first move of the game may it move it vertically up or down a plane and horizontally 1 space.
No piece may capture another piece when performing a vertical plane movement, therefore, no piece may perform a vertical plane movement if their path is obstructed. The path is obstructed the destination or travel space is occupied.
The very first time in a game that each piece is moved, that piece must change at least 1 plane. However, the king and rook are allowed to castle on the same plane, or they may both move together up or down 1 plane. Also, if your king is in check, then you may move pieces on the same plane to capture or block the check even if it is that piece’s first move of the game.
You are only allowed to capture pieces on the same plane, thus you may only have a check and checkmate if all the pieces used for the attack are on the same plane. However, remember the king can move across planes, so having pieces on other planes will be necessary to ensure checkmate. Pawns may get a promotion on the farthest row of any plane.

[@walfiee]

This is taking chess to another level. LITERALLY.

[@72-d]

Imagine Fushioning 3-Man Chess and Strato Chess

[@thundeguyk]

aka my brain

[@DatChernobylGuy_]

Well, the third player wouldnt have a safe starting space.

[@Adomas_B]

You'd need to spend 5 minutes to make the first move

[@dengc8973]

no

[@oriangleman9884]

3 player 5 dimensional laser strato chess

[@techarts8938]

It sounds so easy to promote the pawn

[@Vishal-ox3fs]

i was thinking the same

[@sagatario58]

It definitely sounds easier, but it would also be really easy to move a rook to the two planes you don't start on and use them to defend. Theres less peices in the way, but that applies to both the attacker and the defender.

[@nealforreals2098]

Issei: Promotion!

[@whong09]

Knight is so buff lol

[@chipyopthemf9937]

Ha, you should see four player free-for-all chess

[@honeyjuice219]

Me realizing this is 3D chess: Oh no, what will 4D chess do

[@hutao1341]

Ask people who live in 4d 🤔🤔

[@omerd602]

Wait till you hear about 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel

[@hutao1341]

@@omerd602 ...

[@sandpaperunderthetable6708]

@@hutao1341 it exists and its fun

[@theomelettecuber5458]

And then 6d chess and higher

[@NateTheOhioan]

“Are ya winning son?” “I don’t even know anymore.”

[@Ridlay_]

So *there’s* the middleman for 5D chess, nice! Although I kinda wish Knights had that cool thing in 5D chess where if you moved planes it would take up your movement. For example, you move up/down one plane, than 2 spaces horizontally, or up/down two planes and one space horizontally.

[@bobthebox2993]

Yeah, the movements in this one don't make that much sense

[@parkerf6649]

It should have 8 boards. Then it would be cube chess

[@Zuzentasun]

Haha that would be amazing

[@galvasthehighlordoftheumbr5111]

1024. Chess Building.

[@actualrgescnt5337]

How to promote pawn in cube chess I wonder.

[@werttrichen]

chess³

[@abdulkahmed7684]

@@galvasthehighlordoftheumbr5111 512?

[@astroceleste292]

* movements are unintuitive compared to 5d chess with multiverse time travel

[@pianodna-james3147]

So we have 2D chess, now 3D chess, and what is 4D chess? I’ve seen an online 5D chess which uses time traveling included

[@gamespotlive3673]

5D Chess with Multiverse Time-travel. Yeah, I'm on the discord. It's pretty cool.

[@irok1]

Technically 5D Chess with Multiversal Time Travel is only four dimensions, because they don't use the 3rd dimension

[@Nen_niN]

@@irok1 Would be cool to see a 5D Strato Chess with Multiversal Time Travel. Not to play, just to see

[@dengc8973]

5d 3 man wobbly strato chess with multiverse time travel

[@revimfadli4666]

@@dengc8973 with random setup, Hostage mechanics, and Marsellais double moves

[@Spectacles_]

Ooooh! I can't wait for more chess variants to be covered!

[@sakshamsinghal5418]

Now we want 3 player strato chess

[@HemlockHedge]

Definitely less complicated than it seems, but still adds a lot more strategy to it.

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

This game is all about switching places while playing chess.

[@brianindiana9375]

How can you actually checkmate someone? I'd imagine you would need a lot of troops leftover to actually do anything

[@dtheundertale3799]

Yeah at least a single queen wont be enough anymore.

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

First 3 person awesome chess Now multi floored radness please have tournaments for these world

[@witherman4406]

So this is 3d chess but not as fun or without proper Knight and pawn movement.

[@Friendlybot9000]

So the king can move forward on his first turn? So this game has the unbeatable turn 1 bongcloud attack, best version

[@Mrjacharles]

Oh wow, this is making my head spin 0.0

[@mediocredude6839]

Chess idea called "chess decent" Set up the pieces in chess as you normally would in a game of chess There are 5 layers with all pieces starting at the top When a piece is captured then the piece that captured the enemy piece will go down 1 layer All captured pieces will go up by 1 layer and when a piece goes beyond the 1st layer then it is permanently captured Pawns can only promote at the bottom layer and once it is promoted then it will be moved to the top layer Kings must capture a piece if possible Kings must decend down when in checkmate or when a piece next to the king gets captured The game ends when either the king descends all the way down or when there are no enemy pieces on the kings current layer

[@thisispk...]

this is a kinda war where there's option to choose where to fight! SKY, LAND or UNDER

[@zyxiecatapang9933]

2:38 you Put the knight on the f file instead of the g file

[@apersostudios7738]

This makes pawns kinda powerful and essential to win the game

[@johnnyjames2959]

What about en passant? How does it work in here?

[@localidiot450]

0:24 aww, that's disappointing, I thought the metal parts on the side were like little slides that you would use to get up a board, would have been cool

[@brilykatigbak5419]

Bro took 3d chess to a whole new level

[@ivhileetu]

At 2:44 i just realised that there is 2 black bishop's meaning the knighr and bishop was switched

[@detona091]

2:35 why are the knight and bishop swapped

[@pencilmationworldpenciledd1303]

How to play Tripoley

[@ldcam21]

The Knight Wrong move Millennium 3D Chess .the Knight moves in exactly the same “L” shaped manner (i.e., up two and over one, or up one and over two), however, now the Knight may move to a new level using the same “L” shape movement. Therefore, a White Knight starting at 1b1 can move to 1a3, 1c3, 1d2, 2b3, 2d1, 3a1, 3b2 or 3c1.

[@cinderare]

It just like 5D chess but easy

[@Ghazi_Al_Tamimi]

imagine having 6 people playing this 2 on each plane but the people on a plane will play normally

[@Tomek1949]

It's like 3D chess...

[@babybruce8256]

Looks fun

[@ikolcipher2332]

do's castling count as a move for the king

[@TheWeeklySlopYT]

So black pieces have the high ground you say?

[@ApLzTheArtist]

Mind boggling

[@rocketmen6553]

Actually this looks cool then the other chess i seen.

[@forg5683]

"Is this chess?" Me:"Very"

[@mikec3304]

Simple. Thank 😊 🙏 you

[@ilovemelodyjane]

Thanks ❣️

[@destinytimer4304]

How can you checkmate king if king can move between plane

[@veikkakarvonen831]

🤔

[@BasementDweller_]

Looks fun!!! I want to buy a set.

[@Niiwastaken]

at this point you're just overcomplicating something that didnt need these complications lmao

[@egorzhdanov6145]

Is en passant legal here?

[@benjaminskymaverickp4464]

Very good!!!

[@Kiritsem]

This seems like a game that you would play high

[@TriviaQuizocity]

why doesnt it just heve the same rules as 2d chess but with the extra dimension?

[@thegamemaster9872]

How many chess updates are there!?

[@jackscutestyoutubechannel7433]

i found the font you use: Dutschlander

[@Tomek1949]

Aaand the font used in the thumbnail?

[@TripleSGames]

in the videos the font that I use is called “Adobe clean UX”. For the thumbnail, I use the font “chalkboard”.

[@Tomek1949]

@@TripleSGames Aaaand the links to the fonts?

[@Tomek1949]

@@erikam.2207 N-n-no! He told us he uses the font Chalkboard in the thumbnails, but there's a lot of those, so I cant find the correct one!

[@superfluous9726]

I feel like the fact that you can't take a peice vertically takes a lot out of the game.

[@veikkakarvonen831]

Imagine how easy check would be... just get your rook under the king

[@linchet]

Yeah but if that was the case, it'd feel like the queen could check the opponent's king from virtually anywhere on the board

[@renerodriguez419]

I like the look of a three plane chess, but I feel that it destroys the beauty of chess with it's additional rules. I really don't like that the King can escape mate by moving to a different plane.

[@timbomb374]

Thought it was gonna be 3d chess but it's actually more of its own thing

[@adamjameslawson2681]

I want 3 player 5d strato peace chess with multiversal time travel

[@minimanbeast1014]

I know it isnt an actual board game, but i eould love to see the rules of 5d chess

[@TripleSGames]

I will probably do it at some point it just takes a lot to wrap my mind around, and the video would be rather challenging I think. But I will probably do it at some point

[@polarwolf2903]

In this game Sheldon Cooper is invincible

[@PRIMEVAL543]

Check out 5D chess

[@penguinpng-gj1lr]

Ah yes finally getting the z axis involved

[@FenrizNNN]

Just wait for the W axis

[@whatwhat98]

My simple brain can only handle regular chess

[@leonardoplays5546]

Can you do pop it chess

[@danielblumberg308]

How do you checkmate if the king can move up or down?

[@thewolf8660]

By having pieces waiting for him on every layer.

[@RGC_animation]

Guess you could say they are "planeswalker".

[@TabbyVee]

not being able to capture during verticle movements ruins this whole thing, that was like the only interesting part of this

[@ElDubsNZ]

Not a fan of how Knights and Kings move in this one. It should be based on movements through an axis.

[@mr.creeper6836]

What if you have the king in check from below/above?

[@clonefighter1996]

You can't have the King in check from above/below, as explained in the video. The attacking piece's movement would be obstructed by the King, as you can't capture pieces while moving to the floor they're on.

[@mr.creeper6836]

@@clonefighter1996 Thank you!

[@forhadislam6294]

Sounds easy enough 🌚

[@luisgabrieldelmo772]

This is basically 3D chess

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

It's look like 3d chess

[@MeesterTweester]

finally, 3D chess

[@saghair88]

I’m here after seeing Sheldon plays 3D chess on the Big Bang theory

[@goosifyed9717]

its chess, but we added a z axis

[@lthereader5670]

5d chess with time travel before it was cool.

[@trinstonmichaels7062]

Trinston was here..

[@-XxAqua_KitxX-]

Its like chess

[@Just-Nedo]

this is the ACTUALLY 3D chess

[@joshyycute5823]

This is like a hide and seek but in chess boards

[@oprainfall7381]

3D Chess with Dimension hopping

[@lauziyi5728]

Oh god

[@rickyvelez8221]

the white knight is on the wrong space, its next to the king

[@videoseeker117]

A rook and king can move 1 level together Me : PFTTTTT

[@Lightmagician60]

Comments: so 3d chess Me: wouldn't 3d chess be normal chess and this be 4d chess. With 5d being the one that involves time travel (previous board states)

[@Ghostisbad123]

How to play monopoly millioner

[@felixfryxell7529]

Seems like too many spaces for 32 pieces.

[@axell15thewispmaster79]

So, 3 dimentions worth of Chess. Like 3 different planes of existance. And we can hop over them like nothing

[@unnaturallynatural8885]

a 4 dimensional being probably has a version of this that makes more sense

[@nicholasstanton9575]

Um…

[@samthesnowman666]

tf 324243 43

[@SwampThing585]

“Chess but longer”

[@baissazaid1081]

this hurts my brain

[@anjiecheng6990]

Like 3D chess

[@rozanfaust2967]

Whoever plays the white piece must have a shitty time looking down everytime just to check their pieces on where they can move.

[@JezElectro13]

Both armies have Knights (on horses) and Rooks, so this placement of pieces indicates the most out of any Chess Mod that White are offenders. they just attack Black's Tower (because Black couldn't fly there, this wasn't invented yet there)

[@arkasha6649]

5d chess: easy edition.

[@black_m1n825]

That's just 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel, without the Multiverse Time Travel part in real life.

[@nizargutomo7969]

3D creatures play 2d chess. 4D creatures play this

[@Greggorto]

Me realizing knights should be able to move in L for Up and Down

[@Burst_AO_Studios]

Whoever made this must have never had any friends

[@Nannerb4]

owie chess to copmlicated brain hurty :(

[@epic5706]

I'm sorry, what?

[@veronicawilliamson4526]

3D chess

[@ExperiencePath]

I,... Umm,... nevermind