How to play Hidden Identity Chess
Learn the rules to the board game Hidden Identity Chess quickly and concisely – This video has no distractions, just the rules. For a refresher of the original rules of Chess, check out this video:
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RULES:
The rules are the same as regular chess except for these changes. There is no check or checkmate. The object of the game is to capture your opponent’s king. Each piece is replaced by a special chess piece whose identity can only be seen on 1 side. During set up, each player places their pieces however they want on their closest 2 rows, with their pieces identities facing them, hidden from their opponent. There is no restriction to where pieces can be placed. Pawns are allowed to be placed on the first row and bishops can be placed on the same color.
Whenever a piece is captured, its identity is revealed.
Pawns on the first row are allowed an initial double-step move if you want. If a pawn moves to its second row, it can still perform its double step move. En passant is allowed like normal against an opponent’s pawn taking a double-step from either row, however, if the opponent’s piece being captured isn’t a pawn then the pawn preforming the move is removed from the board instead. When performing en passant, announce what you are doing, but leave the identity of the piece you are trying to capture hidden. Your opponent then says if it is a pawn, if it isn’t, then the pieces identity remains hidden. The king is allowed to move to a threatened space.
Castling is allowed if the rook is on the same row as the king and there are no other pieces in between. To castle, move the king 2 spaces towards the rook, then move the rook to the other side of the king. If a rook is 2 spaces away, or adjacent to the king, then the king takes the space of the rook and the rook is moved to the other side. You may only castle if it is the King and Rook’s first move of the game.
If ever a piece is moved illegally, or discovered to have move illegally in the past, then the illegally moved piece is removed from the board and the opponent of that piece also removes any single enemy piece of their choice from the board as a penalty. If the illegally moved piece was already removed from the board when discovered, then the opponent removes 2 pieces of their choice instead of 1. If the removed piece was the king, then they win the game immediately. If a player performs more than 1 illegal move in a game, then they immediately lose.
The first player to capture their opponent’s king, wins!
You can also play with the revealed kings variant. At the start of the game, use a divider when setting up the pieces and play with a normal king. Remove the divider to begin play, both players will now play the game with knowledge of the enemy king’s location. If your opponent performs an illegal move, then instead of removing pieces, you win the game immediately.
they released chess 2 lmao
Games of The Generals
So basically Stratego + Chess
1:18 wait… So you can straight up lie about the piece not being a pawn!? 😅
stratego but its chess.
Basically luck chess
2:19 Better way to say, "If the owner removes their opponent's king, then they win the game." The person who's king gets removed actually loses the game immediately.
Castle with a rook and a pawn, and always move that pawn like a king => pretty sure a lot of people would think the pawn is the king 😀
Only if that pawn is captured, it will be revealed that this was actually a pawn. I'd say this strategy is pretty effective.
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This is interesting, I often wonder how to make invisible (or at least half invisible) peices in board games. And thinking about like people writing down notes of where their own is that they keep secret and always moving their invisible peice and then taking it off the board while everybody closes their eyes each time but silly me. Heh, somehow I didn't think of this, just using those special peices that show which peice it is on one side, and it could be that like there are shadows and you don't make out which peices they are, although it would be a problem if you wanted to make a board game where every peices is completely invisible. ♟👻
Hidden identity chess + chess plus
just gonna walk right on past the fact that the black rank 2 pieces are reflected on the mirror backsides of the black rank 1 pieces giving white an absurd advantage
Reminds of me of the game of the generals
Would be quite easy as you could put the queen and Bishop up front so mate in 1
Game of Generals joined the group.
bro turned strategio into chess
But what if your opponent calls you on an "illegal move" but it wasn't, example, moving a rook 1 square forward at a time (faking a pawn) and then eat next to him, at my point of view, it's legal, but for him, it's not
Was anyone else thinking of Stratego?
how would promoting work?
this looks so fun
So…. Stratego?
This is like stratego
Chess but the enemy has an identity crisis
Sounds like a 'Game of the Generals' variant
chess stratego
When Games of generals and chess have a kid
So basically games of generals.
Seem like game easy cheat if no referee oversee
Awesome
so basicly stratego but with chess pieces? [anybody who doesent know what stratego is its a board game kinda like chess and the pieces are only seen what they are by there own side the also the pieces have a strength number you can only kill a piece if you are stronger or are the same level of piece when a piece attacks if its number is higher then it will win if lower then they both get captured i forgot if weaker in stratego some pieces can only be captured by a other piece such as the bomb if a piece that is not the 3 power piece (the miner) attacks it they and the bomb are captured also the bomb can not move the next piece is the 10 power piece (the marshal) he is the strongest piece kinda like the queen it can only be captured by itself from the enemy team a bomb or the spy the spy is power 1 but can capture the marshal if it attacks theres more then that but basicly yea oh and like in his hidden chess you get to move pieces wherever you want and the king of this game is the flag it cant move like the bomb.
Just from the title I instantly thought of statego
It reminds me off a board game called stratego
It reminds me off a board game called stratego
i actually love how normally illegal moves are actually allowed to be played, you just have a high risk in doing so.
this is just stratego
games of the general but chess
This mode is so bad
Alot of time when i hear he say the rule, i just though he just say the rook
all of these shenanigans and you ARENT allowed to lie about the pieces identity? so dumb
Stratego
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so basically stratego…
When Guess Who and Battleship decides to make a Chess Baby
this just feels like a game of the generals ripoff
Bruh this is just Game of the Generals
so just chest but it's really stratego
I love the fact that chess developers left such a big modding potential, so when players get bored even after 1500 years of playing the game thay can still ad a fresh touch to it
Game of the generals: hmmm this sounds familiar
Sounds like Stratego
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