I Made Chess 2.0

How I made a custom electronic chess board to play real-time chess, a variant of chess without the concept of turns!

A bit of clarification on real-time chess vs kung fu chess: I consider kung fu chess to be when chess played without turns online, whereas real time chess is played physically. There are actually material differences between them like the finite movement speed of pieces in kung fu chess and the proximity advantage in real-time chess, so I think having different terms to describe them makes sense.

[TakeTakeTakeApp]

Send us a board and we’ll make a video of Magnus Carlsen playing on it! We’ll cover your expenses of course.

[Airblader]

Two things NEED to happen:
1. You need to be invited to Open Sauce.
2. Some GMs have to play this.

[tsume_akuma]

This is Lawful Good Michael Reeves. You can tell, because the build is 1 sloppily integrated Taser away from being the usual Michael Reeves.

[GleebusGlumbus]

> Chess with no turns
> Looks inside electromagnet
> Turns

[michaelharvey]

using different frequencies to differentiate between players is genius

[onebrickatatime]

I cannot imagine the pure psychic damage of playing this game

[t-]

This is so cool. One problem I can see happening is - since the game is so fast-paced, you can't always keep track of all of your opponent's movements, so it's easier to get away with illegal moves. If the board could be connected to a computer, then you can track every piece, and if a player makes an illegal move, all of their pieces become locked except for that piece that's in the wrong place, forcing them to move it correctly before continuing.

[isaacnaumenko]

The slander never ends, he included every single one of my losses! I won more games than I lost, I swear.

[VictorBorbaMusic]

You’ve got to patent this man, 100% this is an incredible invention

[chrish]

Taking chess (a game over 1, 000yrs old) and changing it from a turn-based strategy game to a real-time strategy game is so novel and ingenious - I love it.

[PsRohrbaugh]

I have to say brothers sitting around soldering electronics watching anime is like the coolest family dynamic I've seen.

[goomba]

You're absolutely insane, and I'm here for it. Love the technical descriptions as well as showing where you messed up and how you fixed the issues. Great concept, video and project!

[Flurrfyy]

Dude I think this is actually Chess 2. Like, a lot of people have claimed to make chess 2, but this game actually changes the original version of chess in such an important, challenging, and strategic way that I think it deserves the title of being its own game.

[BrooksMoses]

Fun! I noticed you counting down out loud to start a game; it might be nice to have the board do that by putting every piece on a cool-down cycle at once.

[JujuProdGames]

This is wild, me and my classmates actually play Kung Fu Chess and seeing it on a real board is fantastic. Of course, you go completely above and beyond with these projects, can't wait to see what you make next!

[MungkaeX]

My 6 & 9 year old enjoyed watching the video. If you ever produce a version for retail, the two will undeniably start bugging me to buy it for them.

[nathanielvanrumpt]

You gotta take this to one of those NYC chess hustlers at Central Park

[crawfordscottd]

Dude im a newly old person and its so nice to see such ingenuity, creativity, and enjoyment coming from youngsters. This made an old guy happy to see.

[isaacnaumenko]

I am so unbelievably offended right now. Is this not the most honest face you have ever seen?

[phlosen]

13:55 the best thing is: you can just sneak in an illegal move because nobody will be able to keep track of that :)