1D Chess: How To Play Doc Pop's One-Dimensional Chess

In this video, Doc explains how each of the chess pieces move on a one-dimensional board. 1D Chess is a fun chess variant for players of all levels.

[karansandhu]

Hey Doc Pop, extremely interesting and insightful video. As a chess enjoyer and a programmer myself, I would like to know if you have had the idea of 'solving' this chess as in finding objectively best move in any possible position. If not, I would love to dive deeper into the intricacies of this chess and maybe develop an engine or a database if it is in-fact solvable in a reasonable amount of time. Again, really cool concept, Thank you for sharing it with us

[tlaskosaur]

Hey, nice video, the only thing i spotted is that you put the knight back on the wrong space at 3:20, which means that the bishop check was going to end in a forced mate, maybe the solution is switching knight and bishop at the start so queen and bishop are at different coloured tiles?

[SpeedyMellonBoss]

Brilliant!!
Fabulous!!
Extraordinary!!
Fantastical!!

[kitebrethren]

The other 1d Chess with just a King, Knight, Rook, and Pawn was a solvable game. I wonder what the solution to this game is? Probably much easier to find than 2d Chess.

[ZacharyLoeber]

For some reason you being a chess nerd just makes sense:)

[kitebrethren]

I’m gonna set this up and take a look at it actually.

[deangel]

Hello, where did you get your chess pieces? I have the exact same ones and got them from this family game set from an old collection my parents had lol. I've never seen the chess pieces anywhere else.

[MarkJayronElizares]

the king is already in check in the first place

[nicehandsomefruit]

Did you experiment with the pawns and kings going diagonally too? Did it not work as well?

Why not have it so the king can go "diagonal" by 1 like usual? That bishop endgame seems weird and could be more of a chasedown if white could move king to the next white square

[nitey]

This is really cool! How did you decide for knights to move two or three squares instead of only three, alternating colours like in normal chess?