Chess but with a VIP (very important pawn) 

It is interesting how this rule suddenly makes the Pawn the most important piece in the game. Queen is just a mere servant also in the attacks, and defending is bipolar, because not only King safety matters, but also VIP must covered from all threats. If the opponent would know, which one of the Pawns is VIP, he would concentrate all his forces to demolish it.

All pawns are important, but some are more important than others.

Ive noticed you’re experimenting with video ideas, titles, and thumbnails lately and its nice to see you hit a good rhythm racking up 100k+ views

The V.I.P. wins against the poor family man... this says a lot about society...

The marked pawn (pion coiffe) aka the very important pawn, must not be queened, nor must it be taken by your opponent or checkmate delivered by any other pawn or piece, or you lose. (Howard Staunton, 1847) This was primarily for use when the Elo difference is huge, in other words, where there is a vast difference between the skills of the players.

Suggestion: Cannonball chess Every two moves, Martin fires a cannon at a random square and if your piece is on that square it dies. But Martin's pieces have put on cannonball-proof armor so the cannonballs don't do anything to them. Good luck!

Really like the new editing! Great stuff!

1:25 you could have won the queen

You should play against Martin with checkers pieces (can only move diagonally one square at a time, and must jump to take other pieces) while Martin has chess pieces.

Next Challenge: You must alternate between paired pieces, i.e if you move the light squared bishop, you can't move it again until you move the dark squared bishop first. bishops pair, knights pair, rooks pair, king and queen pair

I really appreciate these calm and chill challenge videos! They are very nice to watch during quiet time with my daughter!

Great stuff, as always, Nelson! Thanks!

Chess but your opponent 's pieces are fire! everytime you capture your opponent's pieces, that piece will be on fire. The pieces which on fire will be destroyed in the next turn and if your others pieces are nearby the fired pieces(1 square away from it), those pieces will also be on fire!

Wow, VIP has three meanings now Very Important Person Very Important Pawn Very Important Piece

10:38 "You don't want to see this part." Me: *slows video to half/quarter speed* Yes I do XD

Challenge: Chess but you can only move a piece if EVERY piece with less point value than that piece has been moved (pawns don’t count). Eg. If you want to move a rook you will have had to already moved at least 1 pawn, both your bishops and both your knights. You can move either a knight or bishop when you have moved at least 1 pawn. I will say that the king is worth 10 points (so more than everything else). Sorry if this is confusing

This is known as pion coiffé (capped pawn), a form of handicap where the stronger player has to checkmate with a specific pawn.

Day 14: As a challenge, could you beat Martin with not taking any pieces?

this should become a chess variant but the opponent doesn't know the VIP pawn. If the VIP pawn gets captured then you lose

chess vs Martin but you are only allowed 4 active pieces at a time. A piece becomes active when it is moved for the first time and remains active until the end of the game or until it is captured. If an active piece is captured you can choose to activate another piece. If you already have 4 active pieces and are forced to move a fifth piece then you lose. Hard mode: 3 or 2 active pieces

Hi Nelson. Nice video. I was curious about what strategy you would follow.

Chess but your ranged pieces have a limited range of 2 and your knights cannot move. You give your opponent 2 more knights for compensation

Highlander chess: Only one of each piece type can be allowed to move. Examples: If you start play e4, you may not move the other pawns unless it gets taken first. If you play knight c6, the other knight can't be moved until that knight is taken. Edit: This challenge seems to get difficult when the bot has a higher rating.

These Martin challenges are fun. You should do more of these :D

"Here we go the V.I... (awkward silence for half a sec) OHHHH MY" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I love your Martin challenges

I think this would actually be a hard challenge, every time you capture a non queen piece it's removed but then upgraded and placed somewhere on board. To decide where it's placed (if you're playing white) start at a8 and try to place it, if the square is occupied go to b8, then c8 ect. If all of the 8 file is taken then go to a7 and continue until you get an open square. How the upgrading works, captured pawns promote to bishops or knights (whichever he has less of, if it's a tie do bishop) captured knights and bishops promote to rooks, captured rooks promote to queens, captured queens are permanently removed from the board

g pawns are usually among those that survive long enough to become passed

I love the new editing style! Did you hire an editor? its really good and keep up the good work

1:51 *Starts disregarding the pin sacrifice, Bishop G4 check and then win the queen unles he's dumb*

"Pawns are the heart and soul of chess"-Philodor

1:20 MARTIN DOES THE CHAD BONGCLOUD

You should play this against a humans where you both have one VIP. Would be fun seeing you trying to figure out which of his pawns is the VIP, and see i you can get him to sacrefice the queen for the wrong pawn

At 12:06. When the rook takes the G file, putting the bishop on the h8-a1 diagonal, then under promoting to a knight for mate would of been a lil nice.

tbh it is interesting how adding this rule makes the f pawn, usually known as the worst pawn, will become the most important piece

That pawn paid extra

You could have skewered the queen knowing it’s Martin and he wouldn’t block with pawn

How about restriction chess? Like a king can't move to a place where it can be checked, pieces(except for knights) can't move towards or pass enemy pieces line of attack. However you can go through diagonals and still have the option to capture a protected piece. If a piece blocks a piece's line of sight you can cross through there. You can play against Martin and he doesn't have to abide by this rules, cause he is that special. Ik this is confusing but it's been stuck in my head for a while and I would like to see this in a game.

Next is the MVP - Most Valuable Pawn

Yeah I see you reversing moves

Ok, you start the game normally, but can only checkmate if it's your only move

Really cool idea

Not martin playing the bongcloud 💀

good cop bad cop ches. You are playing against martin and stockfish but they are alternating moves( I hope this will be interesting )

all pawns are equal, but this one's a bit more equal

Challange idea: You play against stockfish level 8 from regular chess starting position. You play as white. Your goal is survive for 60 moves.

Challenge: Power Pyramid chess against Martin Every time Martin captures a piece, the piece (or pawn) that was used to capture gets upgraded into a better piece (pawn=>knight, knight=>bishop, bishop=>rook, rook=> queen) if a queen of Martin captures a piece, a pawn is placed wherever you want.If it is too easy, then apply the same thing to you but in reverse, if a pawn captures, it's gone from the board(also I love your video ideas😍)

idea: chess but you have to move the same type of piece moved by Martin (for example if he makes a pawn move you have to make a pawn move as well

Chess, but every time one of Martin’s pawns is facing one of your non-pawns, that piece dies (except for the king)

Imagine a similar challenge, but the opponent must have a certain minimum amount of material on the board as they get checkmated. That would make it far more challenging.

I like the editing!

chess against martin but you can only use pieces on the king's side of the board, and those pieces cannot move to the queen's side of the board. If you are forced to do otherwise, you lose.

Challenge: try the same thing but with center pawns as the vip. Either one will be fine and if that’s too easy make both of them the vip and one of them had to deliver checkmate but both of them must be alive.

Thanks for the video on the boiling frog opening, i had an irl tournament today and got 3 in my age group and i got 5/7 points and i played the opening 4 times and won every game

Chess against Martin but, you have to checkmate him with underpromotion.

Give Martin 2 kings and you have to mate both his kings on the same move

the pawn is a G

by the way - if there's a pawn that martin can take but it's defended, no matter what martin will not take it.

Challenge: chess but your king is a foolhardy micromanager, which means you play Bongcloud, every third move must be a forward king move if possible, if a piece is captured the king will want to go to the site and investigate, he does not trust his wife so the queen is not allowed to move where he can't see her, and he must be defending the piece that delivers checkmate. Optional rules: every time a piece captures an enemy piece, your piece must write an incident report and deliver it to the king as soon as possible. If a piece questions or disobeys the king's excessive rules, he will write them up for insubordination and deliver it to them as soon as possible. The pawns go on strike due to poor working conditions and being undervalued so they will refuse to move or capture after the sixth move. The pieces also hate the king for his micromanaging and excessive rules so they will not move more than two squares at a time unless capturing. If the game does not end after 40 moves, the opportunistic enemy king will make a really good offer and your pieces and pawns will defect to the other side and you may only play on with the queen and king.

You took your own knight with bishop.... hahaha

Damm this is a really interesting concept

The V.I.P is rich and can afford a membership.

Chess but you cannot move the three most valuable pieces on the board

Here's a challenge I've came up with: Try to beat Martin but you can't let him take any of your pieces. If he ever does, you lose.

Aint no way Martin got beaten by a pawn checkmating him-

nice new sfx for the intro

Very Important Pawn. ha nice pawn there

"aha! Choose which one you want alive, the pawn or your king!" "Pawn." "wh-wha?"

Challenge idea: You play against a bot, but every time you make a good, excellent, best, great, or brilliant move, the bot temporarily turns into stockfish for the next two moves.

now imagine he rolls e or d pawn

That second game, why not advance both pawns on the left side to the 2nd rank before all the stuff you did to herd the king over to that side of the board?

Chess but if you lose a bishop, you can’t checkmate.

I liked the glasses you put on the VIP queen!

Challenge: every 10 moves, you are forced to make the worst legal move possible

Challenge idea: You ply Martin but it’s hyper-bullet chess. You only have 30 seconds to play and win against Martin. If it is to easy make it 15 seconds.

Play with martin but you have 30 seconds and martin has 10 minutes

all pawns are equal but some pawns are more equal than others

You take your own knight with queen in 2nd game...hahaha

Imagine getting checkmated by a pawn💀

It's similar to pion coiffé handicap

Now do the reverse V.I.P where u have to win without taking 3 pieces is martin vip's

Day 1:when u move a piece u have to move it again on the next turn, castling is kings move. If you are forced to move another piece u lose

woah the g pawn is the VIP he’s the top g

Nelson really did a disrespect speedrun against nelson at 10:25

chess but if you can capture anything, you must

Maybe use this challenge again but against a real player but you both have a randomised VIP pawn and the first one to lose the VIP loses and you also don't know which VIP pawn is from the enemy

Chess but you play 20 moves against Martin and then, swap colors, that is try to win the lost position against Martin.

Are we all just gonna let the fact that Martin played semi-bongcloud slide?

'Hitmen Chess' : Each friendly piece can only take enemy pieces once those pieces takes one of your pieces. you need to eliminate the pieces in order of which attacked first to last. Goal: Try to checkmate him without 'freely' being able to take any pieces, only if an enemy piece becomes a hitman piece. (This happens when the enemy piece has taken any of your pieces)

Try to checkmate Martin with a discovered attack after moving the King!

do this but with another person you both have a vip and you dont know his or hers vip but you know urs

Challenge:Martin but you can’t move your queen or premote a pawn to a queen

Could have done discovery checkmate with pawn and rook

The Curse Staff:Chess but you cannot move the same unit twice in a row but every 3 turns get a extra move example you move the king 3 times then you can move it for the 4th time for free

CHALENGE IDEA (Horse House) play a game where you have to checkmate only with horses and with more than 5 horses

Video idea: if you get checked it's checkmate

Beat Martin but every move he gains another rook (his or yours). Also, Nelson and Nelson 😁

Challenge: beat Martin in under 30 seconds.

and the king is the MVP

Do chess, but the king is a senile old man who wanders around the board randomly every two moves based on a spinner.