How to play Tic Tac Chec

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RULES:

The object of this 2-player game is to be the first player to get their 4 pieces in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Layout the board between the two players. You can also play this game with a regular sized board by marking off a 4 by 4 area. Each player picks a color and takes the matching-colored pieces. Pick a player to go first, then turns alternate. During the first 3 rounds, players take turns placing any piece on any empty space on the board. After each player has 3 pieces on the board you are then allowed to move a piece instead of placing a new one.

All pieces move as they do in regular chess. For a refresher of those rules, check out this video. The only difference is that when a pawn reaches either side of the board it reverses direction. Captured pieces are removed from the board and returned to their owner and may be placed again immediately, or on any future turn, on any open space. You may not capture by placing a piece on the board. The first player to get 4 of their pieces in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, wins!

[sophiegrey]

This seems very vulnerable to games where both sides can always stop each other from winning indefinitely

[caseyycaseyy]

Tic Tac Toe: "The only winning move is not to play."
Tic Tac Chess: "The only winning move is to keep playing."

[onenhere]

0:18 Cool effect!
Reversing the video makes the papers fit precisely and easily.

[benhohndorf]

0:18 let's just give a shout out for most perfect paper placemats ever

[danielyuan]

0:18
Wow, that was pretty smooth.



Did you play it in reverse? ;)

[juliatruchsess]

A pawn that has reversed also can capture in reverse? I would think it'd be hard to remember which pawns are going forward and which are going in reverse.

[CrystalClearWithBE]

It's good to do so while using a regular chess board using a 4×4 grid. Pawn, rook, bishop and knight are required each one.

[nurfgal]

This is a good version to learn how those 4 pieces work

[jarltheawesome]

Holy i remember watching ur risk how to play video and its amazing how different you look now

[yomyomcam]

what a load of chess variations, all so challenging and interesting, thanks for sharing!

[AliAhmad-yiss]

Whats weird is that I know ill never play most games he shows yet i still watch them

[uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhidk]

Can we get some gameplay of this? This seems really interesting!

[rcsibiu]

This channel is super interesting I love the content

[darrenyi]

So to win just put the peice in a horizontally vertically or diagonally to
Just like connect 4

[DimonKILL]

Literally Tic Tac Toe + Chess with its own rules

[mnbn]

Omg this sounds insanely Fun, and irritating at the same time. I HAVE TO PLAY THIS

[GreenGearStudio]

This is closer to three men's morris. The predecessor of tic-tac-toe. And I just think that's neat

[honestcommenter]

White moved the knight while only having two pieces on the board? Is that allowed? Does the player only need to reach three pieces on the board once? What happens if one player capture all pieces of the other player?

[svenlie]

i bet there will be an some sort of opening theory where if you learn everything the person who begins wins

[yoavmor]

I wonder if this game has any forced wins or forced stalemates, not that this game has stalemates... And I wonder if they have been found already