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    Chess 2: The Sequel

    Game » consists of 2 releases. Released Jan 21, 2014

    A chess variant that seeks to address the more common barriers to getting into the game. An Ouya timed-exclusive.

    It's about time

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    #1  Edited By Gyrfal

    Honestly, I can't believe that it would take them 540 years to address the CLEAR imbalances in the original game.

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    Doctor David Sirloin has a habit of rebalancing well established games (Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo) and alienating everyone who enjoyed the original game.

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    #3  Edited By cloudymusic

    Chess variants aren't a new thing, but until David Sirlin, none have had the hubris to call their variant "Chess 2: The Sequel."

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    I heard they're totally dumbing the sequel down for casuals. Fucking bullshit.

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    Knights are OP.

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    This time, it's personal.

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    Did you guys hear about that controversial decision at the Chess 2 International? They had to replay a match because the Ouya crashed.

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    #8  Edited By Xeiphyer

    I'm just going to spend $80 on microtransactions to get a team consisting completely of Queens.

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    If they are making a sequel to Chess, then let's do this right and bring the hard pressing matters to the forefront. Is the original Chess racist? The answer will shock you.

    Yes. And sexist.

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    So Fairy Chess isn't canon?

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    #11  Edited By YoungFrey

    To steal a gag. "Chess 2: The 2nd Chess game"

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    I heard its a moba.

    rook bottom lane "buy wards scrub pawn"

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    There need to be a good console standard chess game in the first place. Thats what I would like.

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    #14  Edited By Rejizzle

    I'm sick and tired of devs rehashing the same old ideas. Come up with a new IP already damnit!

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    and it's Ouya exclusive..... well that's done.

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    #16  Edited By TheHT

    I heard they were merging units in an effort to create a more visceral and immediately satisfying experience, while making matches snappier and more tactical. Everything is now a queen.

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    #17  Edited By casper_

    Damn it Sirlin!!!!!

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    @gyrfal said:

    Honestly, I can't believe that it would take them 540 years to address the CLEAR imbalances in the original game.

    Queen is OP. King is way too nerfed for his narrative importance.

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    #19  Edited By InternetDotCom

    There is a new win condition (in addition to checkmates) forcrossing the midline with your king. This makes the game very aggressive and practically eliminates draws from the game.

    http://ludemegames.com/chess2/

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    En passant is total bullshit, you guys, TOTAL BULLSHIT! It's the "secret rule you didn't know about" rule to rule them all.

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    King me.

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    We've changed the name of all the pawns to porns and now if you lose one, you have to remove a piece of clothing. Chess 3.0

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    From what I can gleam from this thread. This game must be the dark middle chapter.

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    #24  Edited By BisonHero

    Haha, David Sirlin, what a joke that guy is.

    I mean really, read this, and tell me you don't think this guy is an asshole who is disliked by most of his family and acquaintances.

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    Haha, David Sirlin, what a joke that guy is.

    I mean really, read this, and tell me you don't think this guy is an asshole who is disliked by most of his family and acquaintances.

    ... I didn't see anything particularly bad about that? I thought it was surprisingly applicable to the recent discussions about how to play Dark Souls - lots of people with weird self-imposed rules of what is the proper way to play, calling alternate or simply more efficient ways cheap or easy mode.

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    There is a new win condition (in addition to checkmates) forcrossing the midline with your king. This makes the game very aggressive and practically eliminates draws from the game.

    http://ludemegames.com/chess2/

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    I just punched a wall that is the best sentence I HAVE EVER READ IN MY LIFE.

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    #27  Edited By BisonHero

    @fisk0 said:

    @bisonhero said:

    Haha, David Sirlin, what a joke that guy is.

    I mean really, read this, and tell me you don't think this guy is an asshole who is disliked by most of his family and acquaintances.

    ... I didn't see anything particularly bad about that? I thought it was surprisingly applicable to the recent discussions about how to play Dark Souls - lots of people with weird self-imposed rules of what is the proper way to play, calling alternate or simply more efficient ways cheap or easy mode.

    I don't think it's applicable to Dark Souls, since he is specifically mentioning competitive multiplayer.

    I just think game theory nerds tend to sound like idiots, because games with humans aren't the same as games being played by AI, there are social ramifications to your actions, and his ethos basically completely disregards any sense of good sportsmanship in competition unless it is strictly written in the rule book.

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    Hope Pawns got a buff

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    This is pretty great. Thank you guys.

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    Ain't no Checkers 2, that's for sure.

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    @bisonhero: He doesn't disregard good sportsmanship at all. Not sure how you derived that from the link you posted.

    And yeah, people give him a hard time about rebalancing HD Remix, but the guy is a good game designer.

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    Knight Armor DLC. Calling it now.

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    #33  Edited By Vuud

    I hope they add new maps.

    So if this really is OUYA exclusive, for how many days will it remain so?

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    The ultimate developer slapdown - to hell with original IPs, just remake chess and COD and MOH 93000 times.

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    I always wanted to see what happened next in the story. I hope they don't screw it up, I loved the original as a kid, I even brought the board game.

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    #36  Edited By Dizzyhippos

    if games were scored purely on there pitch this would be a 5star for sure

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    Queens were WAY to OP. Hopefully they finally nerfed them.

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    Chess 2 is really complicated! Most of the pieces move mostly the same way, with little tweaks for each individual team, but I'm really not sure about the 'Duel' system.

    When someone tries to capture one of your pieces, you can 'Duel' with someone over it. Both sides have a certain about of 'Stones' and if your on the defense and and play the same amount or more stones than your opponent (either 0,1 or 2 stones) then both the captured and the aggressor gets taken off the board. I need to play with more people who aren't the computer, but I can't see it be anything that really annoying. It does bring the pawns more into the game though, as you gain a stone every time you take one.

    It's interesting, but seems a bit too complicated for its own good.

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    #39  Edited By StarvingGamer

    @fisk0 said:

    @bisonhero said:

    Haha, David Sirlin, what a joke that guy is.

    I mean really, read this, and tell me you don't think this guy is an asshole who is disliked by most of his family and acquaintances.

    ... I didn't see anything particularly bad about that? I thought it was surprisingly applicable to the recent discussions about how to play Dark Souls - lots of people with weird self-imposed rules of what is the proper way to play, calling alternate or simply more efficient ways cheap or easy mode.

    I don't think it's applicable to Dark Souls, since he is specifically mentioning competitive multiplayer.

    I just think game theory nerds tend to sound like idiots, because games with humans aren't the same as games being played by AI, there are social ramifications to your actions, and his ethos basically completely disregards any sense of good sportsmanship in competition unless it is strictly written in the rule book.

    Man, what is with all this random Sirlin hate. If there are social ramifications to me using throws and tossing a bunch of fireballs in Street Fighter, then I probably need a new social circle.

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    @jakeh said:

    Hope Pawns got a buff

    They did. Rather the different armies favor different playstyles. One of them (Nemesis) favors pawns.

    @nux said:

    Queens were WAY to OP. Hopefully they finally nerfed them.

    Kinda. But there is an army (Reaper) where Queens can teleport. If you have an opponent who wants to lean on the queen, they can do so with a vengeance in Chess 2: The Sequel.

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    @bisonhero said:

    @fisk0 said:

    @bisonhero said:

    Haha, David Sirlin, what a joke that guy is.

    I mean really, read this, and tell me you don't think this guy is an asshole who is disliked by most of his family and acquaintances.

    ... I didn't see anything particularly bad about that? I thought it was surprisingly applicable to the recent discussions about how to play Dark Souls - lots of people with weird self-imposed rules of what is the proper way to play, calling alternate or simply more efficient ways cheap or easy mode.

    I don't think it's applicable to Dark Souls, since he is specifically mentioning competitive multiplayer.

    I just think game theory nerds tend to sound like idiots, because games with humans aren't the same as games being played by AI, there are social ramifications to your actions, and his ethos basically completely disregards any sense of good sportsmanship in competition unless it is strictly written in the rule book.

    Man, what is with all this random Sirlin hate. If there are social ramifications to me using throws and tossing a bunch of fireballs in Street Fighter, then I probably need a new social circle.

    Yes, using throws and fireballs in SF is a harmless example. Still, unless I'm wildly misinterpreting it, Sirlin's thinking would also extend to things like "always give your opponent the DQ when they accidentally pause at a big tourney like EVO". Which certainly happens, but you look like a world-class douche, and plenty of players won't DQ their opponent because what sort of a win is that if you win on the back of that DQ?

    I remember also thinking that his opinion on the badminton shenanigans in the 2012 Summer Olympics was quite stupid:

    http://www.sirlin.net/blog/2012/8/1/playing-to-win-in-badminton.html

    He says the people who threw matches were playing to win by arranging easier matchups later in the tournament due their loss, yet clearly since there is a rule forbidding “not using one’s best efforts to win a match”, they were pretty shitty at playing to win. Yet Sirlin still endorses their behaviour, which makes him a hypocrite because they blatantly disregarded a rule that was clearly going to get them disqualified. So apparently you should do everything in your power to win within the given ruleset, unless David Sirlin arbitrarily doesn't like one of the rules because it's a rule more about good sportsmanship than game theory or advanced skill.

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    @siroptimusprime said:

    I just punched a wall that is the best sentence I HAVE EVER READ IN MY LIFE.

    Yeah I gotta chisel that into stone and set it above my desk.

    "Chess 1 was a hit, no doubt about it"

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    #43  Edited By Fredchuckdave

    Ouya baby, fuck yeah!

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    2 Chess 2 Furious

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    @bisonhero: And I agree with him. If I'm in a tournament with thousands of dollars on the line, I'd be an idiot not to take a win by DQ. And if the rules of a game are so fucked that winning actually puts me at a disadvantage then I'd be an idiot not to throw the match.

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    #48  Edited By superfriend

    They split the fucking userbase. No more chess matchmaking for me.

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    @siroptimusprime said:

    I just punched a wall that is the best sentence I HAVE EVER READ IN MY LIFE.

    Yeah I gotta chisel that into stone and set it above my desk.

    "Chess 1 was a hit, no doubt about it"

    I need to write a rap with this as a line!

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    If you check the comments of that badminton article, your argument is addressed. And the response is that a rule such as "use one's best efforts" is a band-aid rule that exists to address this obvious flaw in the rule set and just proves how flawed the rules where. Furthermore, rules that are not discrete and strictly enforceable should be avoided at all costs in game design. In other words, rules should address concrete concepts (did he go over the line and therefore out of bounds?) instead of subjective ones (was he trying his hardest? Let me put on my mind reading hat.)

    The great thing about games is that their results are absolute. Person A beat person B. Period. That's what playing to win is: trying to win, to be better. It doesn't address abstract and subjective concepts like morality, or sportsmanship. It's just trying to figure out who is better at a game, which is a fact that can be proved. These other concepts are subjective and can be debated. I think Sirlin's point is that it is much preferable that facts (such as how many points where scored) dictate game results instead of the subjective feelings of a referee.

    Furthermore, Sirlin's theories do not cover the entire realm of games. There is a big difference between playing for fun and competitive play. If the goal is to just have fun playing a game, then by all means mess around and do whatever you want. If you curb stomp your friends during a friendly game to prove your dominance, then yeah, that's probably a dick move. But if you both are competing to figure out who is best, then by all means, you should try your best to win. The idea of the scrub is he thinks he is trying to compete to prove he is the best, but he is just trying to have fun and keep the game "friendly" or whatever. He's trying to be honorable, not trying to win. Which is fine I guess, but he shouldn't be mad he loses when he doesn't try his best.

    Sometimes playing for fun is really hard though, because the rules are usually designed to be competitive. I have friends who try to play poker just for fun. They want a friendly game and get frustrated when there is aggressive play that forces them to fold, because its not fun when you are not playing. But that's how Poker is played. That's like wanting to play a friendly game of boxing and getting mad when you get punched in the face.

    Sorry this is turning into a really long post but I wanted to address everything you said and game theory is complicated. As for the DQ for pressing the start button thing, I think that yes, if you where given to option to just auto win, you should take it. However, that sounds like a really shitty game, both for the players and the audience. To bring it back to badminton for a sec, Sirlin's original lesson is that there are rules, even small ones, that can have a big impact and make games shittier. In badminton's case, it was knowing who you would face depending on if you win or lose. Having the a player be able to force a DQ seems like a bad thing too. I would treat it like low blows in a UFC match. Imagine if when someone got hit in the nuts, the ref would stop the fight and ask the guy if he wanted to auto win right there. Of course he would say yes! So instead the ref issues warning or takes a point away. I would say at EVO, the ref should decide how to treat each pause, and issue a DQ if necessary. Of course, this runs into the problem outlined in the first paragraph, subjective rules. The ref has to guess if the player hit pause on purpose or not. And if the player was playing to win, he would probably also get really good at "accidentally" hitting pause at the right time, just like there is lots of holding in football even though it is against the rules. So probably the best solution would be a game that make pausing impossible while in tournament mode or something. But until that happens, we have to settle for this shitty subjective rule.

    Damn, that was a lotta post. But this shit really is complicated! And that's good! Games are awesome!

    @starvinggamer said:
    @bisonhero said:

    @fisk0 said:

    @bisonhero said:

    Haha, David Sirlin, what a joke that guy is.

    I mean really, read this, and tell me you don't think this guy is an asshole who is disliked by most of his family and acquaintances.

    ... I didn't see anything particularly bad about that? I thought it was surprisingly applicable to the recent discussions about how to play Dark Souls - lots of people with weird self-imposed rules of what is the proper way to play, calling alternate or simply more efficient ways cheap or easy mode.

    I don't think it's applicable to Dark Souls, since he is specifically mentioning competitive multiplayer.

    I just think game theory nerds tend to sound like idiots, because games with humans aren't the same as games being played by AI, there are social ramifications to your actions, and his ethos basically completely disregards any sense of good sportsmanship in competition unless it is strictly written in the rule book.

    Man, what is with all this random Sirlin hate. If there are social ramifications to me using throws and tossing a bunch of fireballs in Street Fighter, then I probably need a new social circle.

    Yes, using throws and fireballs in SF is a harmless example. Still, unless I'm wildly misinterpreting it, Sirlin's thinking would also extend to things like "always give your opponent the DQ when they accidentally pause at a big tourney like EVO". Which certainly happens, but you look like a world-class douche, and plenty of players won't DQ their opponent because what sort of a win is that if you win on the back of that DQ?

    I remember also thinking that his opinion on the badminton shenanigans in the 2012 Summer Olympics was quite stupid:

    http://www.sirlin.net/blog/2012/8/1/playing-to-win-in-badminton.html

    He says the people who threw matches were playing to win by arranging easier matchups later in the tournament due their loss, yet clearly since there is a rule forbidding “not using one’s best efforts to win a match”, they were pretty shitty at playing to win. Yet Sirlin still endorses their behaviour, which makes him a hypocrite because they blatantly disregarded a rule that was clearly going to get them disqualified. So apparently you should do everything in your power to win within the given ruleset, unless David Sirlin arbitrarily doesn't like one of the rules because it's a rule more about good sportsmanship than game theory or advanced skill.

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