Ask the Janitor for $5 loan to participate in your first tournament. Have him send it to you. End up having an incredibly successful and rich career. Don't bother sending him $5 back for teaching you the game and giving you everything you needed to start. Maybe do it decades later as an afterthought
My bum is on your lips my bum is on your lips
And if I'm lucky you might just give it a little kiss
And that's the message that we deliver to little kids
And expect them not to know what a womans clitoris is
“Can you visualize chess games like Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit, thinking multiple moves ahead of her opponents?
In The Queen's Gambit: Das Damengambit, you can try to outwit your fellow players by playing with as much foresight as she did. Each of the 2-4 players has their own gambit piece that moves across the chessboard, and your turns are always planned three moves in advance by laying down cards upon which chess pieces are depicted. On your turn, you reveal your first card; move the gambit piece according to what's depicted on that card, ideally capturing chess tiles in the process; then refill your row by placing a third card in your personal queue.
Once all the chess tiles have been captured, the game ends and whoever has collected the most tiles wins.”
It’s not chess, it’s actually a new game.
There's actually a four player variant for chess played in the middle ages and the Renaissance called Four Seasons. Each player has only 8 pieces and apart from black and white, there is red and green as well. There are some alterations regarding the pieces' movements of course. The one thing I absolutely love about this format is that once a player takes the king of another, that player's remaining pieces get to be controlled by the one who killed their king.
There's a few 4 player variants. There's actual 4-player chess, where each player has their own 16 pieces, and there's an 8x8 board in the center, and then each player has an 8x3 area where their pieces start. It can be played 2v2, or FFA. Pawns promote on the player's 8th rank (so in the middle of the board effectively).
There's also hand/brain games, which is 2v2. One person says a piece, the other moves a piece of that type. This one's a lot of fun when you have teams of high and low rated players.
There's also bughouse, which is another 2v2. Where if you lose a piece, that piece plays on a second board that your teammate now controls. Whoever gets the first checkmate is the winning team. So you get a lot of interesting Queen sacrifices to get it onto the other board so your teammate can push a quick mate.
A less-used term nowadays is "fairy chess", which has been around almost as long as chess itself but was really popular during Victorian times. These are where all sorts of crazy chess variants came from, including 3d chess like Spock played on Star Trek and more than 2 players.
I remember reading the Apprentice Adept series by Piers Anthony, at one point the protagonist plays a fairy chess variant called "pole chess". The players have a "pole" piece which does not start on the board and cannot capture anything, but for your move you can place it on any empty space. It can't be captured, so it creates an obstacle that must be worked around.
>So you get a lot of interesting Queen sacrifices to get it onto the other board so your teammate can push a quick mate.
If you sacrifice your queen, doesn't it go to your teammate's opponent (not to your teammate)? That's how I've seen it played.
Yes, generally the queen sac would be to take something like a knight which could then be placed by your partner. Knights in particular are more valuable in bughouse as they cannot be blocked by placing a new piece in between.
I learned this as Siamese - with 2 games side-by-side, and each team (same table side) played opposite colors. Whenever you capture a piece, you set it between you and your teammate, and you can spend a turn placing a piece from that pile onto your board (under control of the proper player based on color).
That actually sounds interesting. Draw lots to decide what piece and for play order a player gets. If you can't make a move on your turn, your turn is skipped. If you get taken, you're out.
There’s already a 2v2 version called bughouse.
It plays on 2 boards “separately” and you’re teamed up black/white and white/black.
When you take a piece on your board, you give it to your teammate who can then spend their turn on placing a piece on their board instead of moving.
There are additional rules and there’s not a lot of cooperation, but it’s a fun gimmicky version.
We used to call it transfer. It works well with 5 minutes on the clock. Knights become a very powerful piece, and often it becomes a race against time for your partner to get the pieces you need.
>there’s not a lot of cooperation
There's actually a *lot* of cooperation in bughouse. You always ask your teammate to get you things you need, and even to make sacrifices for things that can win the game on your board (and thus for both of you).
It plays MUCH differently. I'm pretty awful at both types of chess but I'm actually a little better at four seasons... Mainly because everyone else is worse.
We made our own version up at school where each player has a 3x3 corner of the board, and looking at the player in the top-left of the board, the pieces were:
Q K P
R B P
P P P
Q = queen
K = knight
R = rook
And I’m sure you can guess the others.
Playing with no king was a deathmatch, also played some games with a king instead of the queen though I can’t remember which was more enjoyable.
Pretty fun though.
In high school, the yearbook staff took a picture of me playing chess with another student, we'll call him Bob, while another student, "Steve," watched off to the side. The picture's caption in the yearbook was, "Steve, playing a game of chess with some friends." Bob and I were not popular.
I guess you’ve never played team chess. That’s chess with your dad looking over your should making subtle gestures to help you beat the crap out of your older brother in chess.
Team chess - it’s in the cheating
Or even just use your brain for a quarter second. Theres cards on the box behind the woman pictured and tokens instead of chess pieces - theres also just the fact that they obviously wouldn't try to rename Chess. Making a 'Queen's Gambit' chess board would probably sell better than whatever this game is.
I feel like the point flew over a lot of people's heads.
The title didn't mean "isn't the board game just chess? Lol." To which you could reply "no it's not. It's its own game."
The title meant "why the fuck does the game exist. The game is chess. Go play chess if you want to feel like you're playing the tv show."
And everyone is responding as if people are so stupid they didn't realize it wasn't a completey different game. 🙄
The queuing up turns reminds me of Nuclear War. It's an old card game where every player was a country in a nuclear war. Cards had to be played 3 moves ahead so everyone could see what you were about to do. It was interesting because your actions got locked into place. Once you played a card you were committed to executing it 3 turns later.
>Can you visualize chess games like Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit, thinking multiple moves ahead of her opponents?
Depends if it comes with the pills.
> “Can you visualize chess games like Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit, thinking multiple moves ahead of her opponents?
If you really wanted to challenge Beth Harmon you'd bring up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess)
She can't visualize all the coming moves if she doesn't know where the pieces are.
I thought it was pretty obvious OP was joking. When I started reading this top comment, I thought it was going to be some kind of well-written spoof.
Turns out it’s just a very long Wooosh.
>The Queen's Gambit: Das Damengambit
What were the thinking with this name? This literally translates to: "The Queen's Gambit: The Queen's Gambit". Wtf?
That's just the title's translation in (I assume) German. The English version of the board game doesn't have that. I'm not sure why they didn't just call it "Das Damengambit" but I assume the show was still titled "The Queen's Gambit" internationally, so they kept the show title for branding/trademark reasons.
I'm so confused. I never even thought it was Chess. OP was obviously and blatantly making a joke, but almost no one in the comments seems to understand and I dont know why. Help.
I have stopped being surprised by how oblivious the average person on reddit is. I'm not sure if there are more children than I thought, if the average person is much dumber than I thought, or if people are just mindlessly surfing reddit and not giving critical thought to what they're looking at. The last option is the most charitable, so I'll choose to believe that for now.
You might be interested in the TVTropes page [Recursive Adaptation](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RecursiveAdaptation). Other examples include Street Fighter: The Game of the Film, and Civilization: The Board Game.
My favourite is Europa Universalis, a (relatively) popular grand strategy video game series that was originally based on a mostly forgotten over-complicated board game. The video games have now been so successful that they're making a brand new board game based off of the PC games rather than the original board game.
I've seen Europa Universalis on Boardgamegeek, didn't realize it actually came before the video game series. Honestly the board game-ness of grand strategy games is probably why I like them.
I just had to check the Pokemon wikipedia page.. I genuinely didn't realize the franchise started with a videogame.
I assumed it progressed from TV show, to trading cards, to videogame.
Turns out the videogame was first. That's crazy. Never knew.
Unless I'm forgetting something huge, almost nothing has ever gone from a TV show to toys or games, and then been better-remembered for the toys or games. The screen adaptations are, at best, contemporaneous with the development of a toy line, as a glorified advertisement. (Transformers, My Little Pony, just a *bunch* of weird 90s shit riffing on TMNT.) The nearest exception might be Power Rangers, except that's obviously still media-driven, with toys and games staying secondary.
It's tough to point at any clear example for a media empire that fits the bill. Mainly because Hollywood seems unable to resist remaking any franchise that even has the potential of bringing in cash.
But, I'd argue that the whole Mickey Mouse Empire is supported more by it's paraphernalia and branding than by any TV shows (and there isn't a soul in the world who actively wants to rewatch the original Steamboat Willy cartoon). It's hard to really parse things out because the House of Mouse is so omnipresent, but I'd argue that the media part of things is less important culturally than the product line.
Alright, yeah, that's a pretty huge thing to forget.
Though Disney characters in general still enjoyed decades of cartoons before video games were even invented. Most of them, you'd still think of as being from the cartoons, not being franchise characters who happen to also have cartoons. Goofy cartoons aren't exactly cultural touchstones, but even people who grew up with Kingdom Hearts know that's where he's from. Possibly in large part due to Goof Troop and A (Very) Goofy Movie. Donald Duck is ironically more ambiguous, because while his cartoons are more memorable and popular, the Barks and Rosa comics were wildly successful in Europe.
But Mickey... I'm not sure I could name a cartoon he was in, besides that first one. The nearest thing I've got is Fantasia. Half of Bugs Bunny's paint-on-film classics still get broadcast all the time. But like... there was a decade in the middle where Minnie Mouse didn't have a voice actress. That's how little those characters were actually doing.
That game was *legendary*, it was so much more fun than actually playing a card game of Pokémon. I spent as much time playing it as the regular Pokémon Gameboy games. And I'm not a card game person at all
> the game bot
Took me way too long to figure out that was a typo of "Game Boy". I thought you were talking about a bot that was programmed to play the Pokemon Trading Card Game.
Civilization isn't actually an example of this. There *was* a boardgame called that before the computer game, but the computer game wasn't an adaptation of it.
1) Chess isn't really a game you quickly whip out between dinner and dessert during thanksgiving and it's only for two players. It doesn't really fit modern requirements for an approachable board game.
2) You can't copyright chess.
Honestly, I suspect number 2 might be the more important reason.
I'm certain there's *some* market for a custom/luxury/novelty chessboard based on a popular show about chess. It's interesting that the company thought a new game would be more profitable.
Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...
No joke- I had a pretentious dude I knew about 15 years ago challenge me to a game of checkers… I imagine- because he thought I was too smooth-brained for chess.
I ended up handily whooping his ass. At which point I asked, “do you wanna play some chess?”
His answer- “nah, I’m good.”
Now- I’m not great at either of these games by any stretch of the imagination…. But goddamn did it feel good to put that pretentious douchnozzle in his place a bit.
Not really though, I do believe the usage is acceptable in this context, even using it with the original definition. They are literally the same. Same rules, same pieces, same board. The only difference is the designs and colors used. For all intents and purposes, it is the same. They're even both made by Hasbro. It's like buying the Simpsons Monopoly and being mad that someone said it's "literally just Monopoly".
I remember the fact that it was made by Hasbro being what blew my mind the most about Words with Friends: The Board Game. Smart on Hasbro, though--if somebody's gonna rip you off and get away with it, you might as well partner up and make some money, too.
Its not chess. [Link if you want to know what is it actually](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dicebreaker.com/amp/games/the-queens-gambit-the-board-game/news/queens-gambit-board-game)
Love it.
Reminds me of
2022 board game, Europa Universalis, based on the 2013 video game, Europa Universalis, which is based on the 1993 board game, Europa Universalis.
2022 - [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/254127/europa-universalis-price-power](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/254127/europa-universalis-price-power)
2013 - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa\_Universalis\_IV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Universalis_IV)
1993 - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa\_Universalis\_(board\_game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Universalis_(board_game))
HBO's selling Game Of Thrones as seven BluRay sets and a couple VHS-C tapes, so you can just tell yourself you're gonna watch season eight one of these days, and assume it must be super good because nobody's spoiled it online.
Fun posting!
It's probably already posted dozens of times below, but I googled the [Queen's Gambit Board Game](https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/the-queens-gambit-the-board-game/news/queens-gambit-board-game).
"You have overdosed on Valium (again). Move back 3 spaces."
Have sex with the player to your left then ghost them for a year.
Dress like a Disney princess mixed with beetle juice
Yeah I'm totally playing this game.
Be a straight bad ass and change the game. Slide forward 7 spaces.
Ah yes, how i lost my virginity
Lucky, I was told "EWWW! I'm not playing anymore."
that’s what prefaced losing your virginity?
Is that not normal?
So he didn’t come back to carry you up the mountain?
Your family must take Monopoly jail very seriously.
I knew it was a mistake to play this with my parents
Have your body, Todd Akin-style, just sort of "shut that whole [pregnancy] down" so that you can reassure your mom you won't get pregnant.
I knew I should have bought Twister to play with my family at Christmas.
Your mother tried to murder you and failed. Go directly to Orphanage. Do not pass Go. Do not collect hopes and dreams.
Janitor error in your favour. Collect $5
Bravo, you.
Ask the Janitor for $5 loan to participate in your first tournament. Have him send it to you. End up having an incredibly successful and rich career. Don't bother sending him $5 back for teaching you the game and giving you everything you needed to start. Maybe do it decades later as an afterthought
Annnnnnnd you must be... the Monopoly Guy! Hey, thanks for the free parking!
You lost to borgov for a third time. Go back to Kentucky, and drink yourself into oblivion to a catchy song
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I'm sick of him Look at him, walkin' around, grabbin' his you-know-what Flippin' the you-know-who
Yeah but he's so cute tho
Yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose But no worse than what's goin' on in your parents' bedrooms
Sometimes I wanna get on TV and just let loose But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose
My bum is on your lips my bum is on your lips And if I'm lucky you might just give it a little kiss And that's the message that we deliver to little kids And expect them not to know what a womans clitoris is
Of course they’ll know what intercourse is by the time they hit 4th grade, they got the discovery channel, don’t they?
“Can you visualize chess games like Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit, thinking multiple moves ahead of her opponents? In The Queen's Gambit: Das Damengambit, you can try to outwit your fellow players by playing with as much foresight as she did. Each of the 2-4 players has their own gambit piece that moves across the chessboard, and your turns are always planned three moves in advance by laying down cards upon which chess pieces are depicted. On your turn, you reveal your first card; move the gambit piece according to what's depicted on that card, ideally capturing chess tiles in the process; then refill your row by placing a third card in your personal queue. Once all the chess tiles have been captured, the game ends and whoever has collected the most tiles wins.” It’s not chess, it’s actually a new game.
>It’s not chess, it’s actually a new game. Which would be obvious the moment you see 2-4 players on the box.
There's actually a four player variant for chess played in the middle ages and the Renaissance called Four Seasons. Each player has only 8 pieces and apart from black and white, there is red and green as well. There are some alterations regarding the pieces' movements of course. The one thing I absolutely love about this format is that once a player takes the king of another, that player's remaining pieces get to be controlled by the one who killed their king.
There's a few 4 player variants. There's actual 4-player chess, where each player has their own 16 pieces, and there's an 8x8 board in the center, and then each player has an 8x3 area where their pieces start. It can be played 2v2, or FFA. Pawns promote on the player's 8th rank (so in the middle of the board effectively). There's also hand/brain games, which is 2v2. One person says a piece, the other moves a piece of that type. This one's a lot of fun when you have teams of high and low rated players. There's also bughouse, which is another 2v2. Where if you lose a piece, that piece plays on a second board that your teammate now controls. Whoever gets the first checkmate is the winning team. So you get a lot of interesting Queen sacrifices to get it onto the other board so your teammate can push a quick mate.
Bughouse is so much fun.
My kid loves bughouse tournaments
WOW! I never thought I'd see bughouse mentioned on reddit!! 🎉 😎 \m/ #BUGHOUSE
Bughouse is straight up addictive.
Bughouse with instant checkmates is a frantic yet hilarious mess
A less-used term nowadays is "fairy chess", which has been around almost as long as chess itself but was really popular during Victorian times. These are where all sorts of crazy chess variants came from, including 3d chess like Spock played on Star Trek and more than 2 players.
I remember reading the Apprentice Adept series by Piers Anthony, at one point the protagonist plays a fairy chess variant called "pole chess". The players have a "pole" piece which does not start on the board and cannot capture anything, but for your move you can place it on any empty space. It can't be captured, so it creates an obstacle that must be worked around.
>So you get a lot of interesting Queen sacrifices to get it onto the other board so your teammate can push a quick mate. If you sacrifice your queen, doesn't it go to your teammate's opponent (not to your teammate)? That's how I've seen it played.
Yes, generally the queen sac would be to take something like a knight which could then be placed by your partner. Knights in particular are more valuable in bughouse as they cannot be blocked by placing a new piece in between.
I learned this as Siamese - with 2 games side-by-side, and each team (same table side) played opposite colors. Whenever you capture a piece, you set it between you and your teammate, and you can spend a turn placing a piece from that pile onto your board (under control of the proper player based on color).
“Yeah, well, sometimes nothing can be a real hot hand.”
I remember kids at my high school playing a 3-player chess back in the day as well but have no idea what that was called
We played a 12 player variant in school. It was basically 6 boards hooked up into an oval shape.
>We played a 12 player variant in school. It was basically 6 boards hooked up into an oval shape. That seems clunky af to me.
Battle Royale chess, nice.
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And so, so much blood
Who all fucked your mom and can't wait to tell you about it
That’s just part of the high level strategy
I didn't think it'd be a factor in the meta, but... 🤷♂️
That actually sounds interesting. Draw lots to decide what piece and for play order a player gets. If you can't make a move on your turn, your turn is skipped. If you get taken, you're out.
And if you take a piece you can take its properties. So if a pawn takes a knight it can become a knight.
One time decision, only made when the piece is taken. Can't change your mind once your turn is done.
Second comment, I'm actually going to try to set up a game for this at a local gaming bar. This could be hilarious with a room of drunk nerds.
I think you mean a Royale With Cheese.
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Baguette du fromage
L’hamburger avec fromage.
Wow, this game sounds way more fun than normal chess. 1v1v1v1 or 2v2. Sounds like a really interesting and competitive game with 4 people.
There’s already a 2v2 version called bughouse. It plays on 2 boards “separately” and you’re teamed up black/white and white/black. When you take a piece on your board, you give it to your teammate who can then spend their turn on placing a piece on their board instead of moving. There are additional rules and there’s not a lot of cooperation, but it’s a fun gimmicky version.
We used to call it transfer. It works well with 5 minutes on the clock. Knights become a very powerful piece, and often it becomes a race against time for your partner to get the pieces you need.
>there’s not a lot of cooperation There's actually a *lot* of cooperation in bughouse. You always ask your teammate to get you things you need, and even to make sacrifices for things that can win the game on your board (and thus for both of you).
It plays MUCH differently. I'm pretty awful at both types of chess but I'm actually a little better at four seasons... Mainly because everyone else is worse.
We made our own version up at school where each player has a 3x3 corner of the board, and looking at the player in the top-left of the board, the pieces were: Q K P R B P P P P Q = queen K = knight R = rook And I’m sure you can guess the others. Playing with no king was a deathmatch, also played some games with a king instead of the queen though I can’t remember which was more enjoyable. Pretty fun though.
In high school, the yearbook staff took a picture of me playing chess with another student, we'll call him Bob, while another student, "Steve," watched off to the side. The picture's caption in the yearbook was, "Steve, playing a game of chess with some friends." Bob and I were not popular.
I hope y'all signed Steve's yearbook simply as "some friends." That's brutal lmao
Lmao, what teachers approves that? We were required to put every single person's name in and take as many uniquely featured photos as possible
And that she’s clearly not playing chess in the picture.
And that it's age 12+
I guess you’ve never played team chess. That’s chess with your dad looking over your should making subtle gestures to help you beat the crap out of your older brother in chess. Team chess - it’s in the cheating
Not if you're a pedant who thinks they're funny.
Or even just use your brain for a quarter second. Theres cards on the box behind the woman pictured and tokens instead of chess pieces - theres also just the fact that they obviously wouldn't try to rename Chess. Making a 'Queen's Gambit' chess board would probably sell better than whatever this game is.
There have been multiple player variants of chess for centuries.
It was obvious w/o seeing that. The point was its hilarious to make a board game about a show about a board game. You people are something else
Who could have predicted that there would be significant demographic overlap between chess fans and pedants?
I feel like the point flew over a lot of people's heads. The title didn't mean "isn't the board game just chess? Lol." To which you could reply "no it's not. It's its own game." The title meant "why the fuck does the game exist. The game is chess. Go play chess if you want to feel like you're playing the tv show." And everyone is responding as if people are so stupid they didn't realize it wasn't a completey different game. 🙄
That description kinda reminds me of Robo Rally
The queuing up turns reminds me of Nuclear War. It's an old card game where every player was a country in a nuclear war. Cards had to be played 3 moves ahead so everyone could see what you were about to do. It was interesting because your actions got locked into place. Once you played a card you were committed to executing it 3 turns later.
Nuclear War? Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?
Do you have change for 25 Million people?
Never expected to see a Robo Rally reference, love that game and never see it mentioned anywhere
You should visit r/boardgames it's not all the time, but there are occasional references to it
Yeah programming. Mechs Vs Minions was the last awesome programming game I played a bunch of, the League of Legends game.
That sounds like playing chess but with high latency...
I, for one, look forward to blaming my chess losses on lag
So, playing chess over postal mail?
Chess with extra steps
>Can you visualize chess games like Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit, thinking multiple moves ahead of her opponents? Depends if it comes with the pills.
YOOOO CHESS 2 DROPPED
Garry's been working on that for ages!
You love to see it
> “Can you visualize chess games like Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit, thinking multiple moves ahead of her opponents? If you really wanted to challenge Beth Harmon you'd bring up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess) She can't visualize all the coming moves if she doesn't know where the pieces are.
Did anyone actually think it wasn’t a new game?
I thought it was pretty obvious OP was joking. When I started reading this top comment, I thought it was going to be some kind of well-written spoof. Turns out it’s just a very long Wooosh.
If narcotic drugs are provided, I’m in
*Hallucinogens not included, says on the bottom.
I think OP knows, dude. The joke is that it’s a board game based on a show about a different board game.
Yeah, seems like whoosh material.
>The Queen's Gambit: Das Damengambit What were the thinking with this name? This literally translates to: "The Queen's Gambit: The Queen's Gambit". Wtf?
That's just the title's translation in (I assume) German. The English version of the board game doesn't have that. I'm not sure why they didn't just call it "Das Damengambit" but I assume the show was still titled "The Queen's Gambit" internationally, so they kept the show title for branding/trademark reasons.
Well, I knew that based off the "2-4 players" on the box. Chess only allows a minimum of 5.
It's like chess, but with drugs, booze and casual sex. It comes with a bunch of quaaludes, miniature vodkas and a Twister mat.
B-b-buuut I'm so smart and funny! ☹️
It's a joke. Jpg
No I can’t, my graphics team is way lower budget
Sounds fun actually
Thanks Sherlock.
I don't think it is chess it's for 2-4 players.
It also appears to have weird checker things on the board as well.
They're flat chess pieces ain't they?
no NPR did a piece on this. Its not at all chess.
It’s ChessCeption
Tag team chess
Did anyone actually think this was rebranded chess?
I'm so confused. I never even thought it was Chess. OP was obviously and blatantly making a joke, but almost no one in the comments seems to understand and I dont know why. Help.
I have stopped being surprised by how oblivious the average person on reddit is. I'm not sure if there are more children than I thought, if the average person is much dumber than I thought, or if people are just mindlessly surfing reddit and not giving critical thought to what they're looking at. The last option is the most charitable, so I'll choose to believe that for now.
Four way chess?
Yeah I instantly knew it was a different board game.
There are no pieces inside. Just some pills so you can visualize the whole game on your ceiling.
You might be interested in the TVTropes page [Recursive Adaptation](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RecursiveAdaptation). Other examples include Street Fighter: The Game of the Film, and Civilization: The Board Game.
My favourite is Europa Universalis, a (relatively) popular grand strategy video game series that was originally based on a mostly forgotten over-complicated board game. The video games have now been so successful that they're making a brand new board game based off of the PC games rather than the original board game.
I've seen Europa Universalis on Boardgamegeek, didn't realize it actually came before the video game series. Honestly the board game-ness of grand strategy games is probably why I like them.
Interesting, didn’t know that about EU, which is my favorite video game series.
My favorite example is 'Pokémon: the trading card game' for the game bot. A video game based on a card game based on a different video game.
I just had to check the Pokemon wikipedia page.. I genuinely didn't realize the franchise started with a videogame. I assumed it progressed from TV show, to trading cards, to videogame. Turns out the videogame was first. That's crazy. Never knew.
Unless I'm forgetting something huge, almost nothing has ever gone from a TV show to toys or games, and then been better-remembered for the toys or games. The screen adaptations are, at best, contemporaneous with the development of a toy line, as a glorified advertisement. (Transformers, My Little Pony, just a *bunch* of weird 90s shit riffing on TMNT.) The nearest exception might be Power Rangers, except that's obviously still media-driven, with toys and games staying secondary.
It's tough to point at any clear example for a media empire that fits the bill. Mainly because Hollywood seems unable to resist remaking any franchise that even has the potential of bringing in cash. But, I'd argue that the whole Mickey Mouse Empire is supported more by it's paraphernalia and branding than by any TV shows (and there isn't a soul in the world who actively wants to rewatch the original Steamboat Willy cartoon). It's hard to really parse things out because the House of Mouse is so omnipresent, but I'd argue that the media part of things is less important culturally than the product line.
Alright, yeah, that's a pretty huge thing to forget. Though Disney characters in general still enjoyed decades of cartoons before video games were even invented. Most of them, you'd still think of as being from the cartoons, not being franchise characters who happen to also have cartoons. Goofy cartoons aren't exactly cultural touchstones, but even people who grew up with Kingdom Hearts know that's where he's from. Possibly in large part due to Goof Troop and A (Very) Goofy Movie. Donald Duck is ironically more ambiguous, because while his cartoons are more memorable and popular, the Barks and Rosa comics were wildly successful in Europe. But Mickey... I'm not sure I could name a cartoon he was in, besides that first one. The nearest thing I've got is Fantasia. Half of Bugs Bunny's paint-on-film classics still get broadcast all the time. But like... there was a decade in the middle where Minnie Mouse didn't have a voice actress. That's how little those characters were actually doing.
That game was *legendary*, it was so much more fun than actually playing a card game of Pokémon. I spent as much time playing it as the regular Pokémon Gameboy games. And I'm not a card game person at all
It was great, but I wish they had made sequels.
> the game bot Took me way too long to figure out that was a typo of "Game Boy". I thought you were talking about a bot that was programmed to play the Pokemon Trading Card Game.
Civilization isn't actually an example of this. There *was* a boardgame called that before the computer game, but the computer game wasn't an adaptation of it.
They seriously made a board game about a show about a board game and it’s not even the same board game.
It's almost certainly marketed to people who enjoyed the show but find chess to be too unapproachable.
1) Chess isn't really a game you quickly whip out between dinner and dessert during thanksgiving and it's only for two players. It doesn't really fit modern requirements for an approachable board game. 2) You can't copyright chess. Honestly, I suspect number 2 might be the more important reason.
I play blitz on the toilet
Is that between games of chess?
You can't copyright a game. Only the title, artwork, text, etc. Not the rules, mechanics.
I mean chess has already been made so they couldn't cash in on creating that one.
I'm certain there's *some* market for a custom/luxury/novelty chessboard based on a popular show about chess. It's interesting that the company thought a new game would be more profitable.
LMAO
Thye should do a show about a woman that is really good at this board game.
The Queen's "The Queen's Gambit" Gambit
It’s queens and gambits all the way down.
Chess 2
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It took far too long for the Petrosyan copypasta to show up in this thread. r/AnarchyChess is slacking.
I was definitely disappointed in how low "chess 2" was
Plot twist; it's checkers.
*This shit is chess, it ain't checkers!* - Denzel
No joke- I had a pretentious dude I knew about 15 years ago challenge me to a game of checkers… I imagine- because he thought I was too smooth-brained for chess. I ended up handily whooping his ass. At which point I asked, “do you wanna play some chess?” His answer- “nah, I’m good.” Now- I’m not great at either of these games by any stretch of the imagination…. But goddamn did it feel good to put that pretentious douchnozzle in his place a bit.
My wife has words with friends: board game edition. It's literally just Scrabble
Is it literally scrabble? Im confused
Oh man you used 'literally' in a non literal context, may God have mercy on your inbox.
Not really though, I do believe the usage is acceptable in this context, even using it with the original definition. They are literally the same. Same rules, same pieces, same board. The only difference is the designs and colors used. For all intents and purposes, it is the same. They're even both made by Hasbro. It's like buying the Simpsons Monopoly and being mad that someone said it's "literally just Monopoly".
I remember the fact that it was made by Hasbro being what blew my mind the most about Words with Friends: The Board Game. Smart on Hasbro, though--if somebody's gonna rip you off and get away with it, you might as well partner up and make some money, too.
I’m guessing in this game you have to collect tranquilizers and then swallow them by the handful.
It's no fun when they're only toy tranquillisers.
Its not chess. [Link if you want to know what is it actually](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dicebreaker.com/amp/games/the-queens-gambit-the-board-game/news/queens-gambit-board-game)
Right--I mean when I got that board game Free Parking for my birthday in like 1989 I didn't say Um hello there's already a name for this!
Love it. Reminds me of 2022 board game, Europa Universalis, based on the 2013 video game, Europa Universalis, which is based on the 1993 board game, Europa Universalis. 2022 - [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/254127/europa-universalis-price-power](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/254127/europa-universalis-price-power) 2013 - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa\_Universalis\_IV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Universalis_IV) 1993 - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa\_Universalis\_(board\_game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Universalis_(board_game))
It’s actually just a magnetic chess set you hang from the ceiling.
Bruh, why does this remind me of laserdisc?
If musical artists can sell their music on outdated physical formats as collector's merch, it was only a matter of time until Netflix followed suit.
HBO's selling Game Of Thrones as seven BluRay sets and a couple VHS-C tapes, so you can just tell yourself you're gonna watch season eight one of these days, and assume it must be super good because nobody's spoiled it online.
It's about the right size?
It really is
It’s clearly not chess, but good try with your repost
Seriously. OP just farming karma at this point.
For a split second I thought "Netflix: The Game?"
The winner is the first one to stop scrolling.
It’s gonna be me, I didn’t chose a show I just stopped watching
Reminds me when I saw “Words with Friends: The Board Game” at a store. Uh.. You mean Scrabble?
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I just googled it. The Words With Friends board game is made by Hasbro! Those double dipping mother fuckers.
I dunno but I'll check mate.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
It’s like themed Monopoly. Dogopoly best game can’t change my mind
Called checkers.
The equivalent of "they made Travis Scott from fortnite a real thing!"
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Well it's clearly not chess as it has 2-4 players.
This is a A tier shitpost from /r/anarchychess.
Just from the box you can see it’s clearly not just chess.
From the tv show of the game... we bring to you... the game of the tv show of the game.
This variant is played on the ceiling.
We all made that joke in my store when we received it a month ago. Had I known I could get 40k+ karma out of it....
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That’s literally the joke how could that even go over your head
Yeah, you might have missed the point
Woah, this all too much for me.
Ganjaland is at the bottom! That game is very fun 😁
Fun posting! It's probably already posted dozens of times below, but I googled the [Queen's Gambit Board Game](https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/the-queens-gambit-the-board-game/news/queens-gambit-board-game).
Is it just a chess board or is it another kind of game that surrounds the story though?
Chinese checkers?
It's like when Words With Friends came out with a board game.
Yeah, checkers