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I can’t decide whether this attempt at creating a three person chess board is the best idea ever, or the worst idea ever. So I’m going with the concept that it’s ‘awesome-bad’.
It’s based off a (presumably) terrible joke on The Big Bang Theory – sorry, I hate that show – where the main characters invent the game for some ‘hilarious’ reason.
The rules? Apparently just like real chess, until the whole thing just collapses into broken absurdity.
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It’s a studio audience, not a laugh track. But that audience must be the most pathetic sheep ever or they must be paid based on how hard they laugh because they are in uproar over every single damn unfunny line.
I’ve heard the bit about it being a studio audience many times and I honestly don’t see the difference. It still ruins any attempt at there being comedic timing.
And yes, they do seem to find some remarkably unfunny things uproaringly hilarious.
There really is no reason for it, it adds nothing to the show but takes a whole lot away.
Hating on Big Bang Theory? wtf… such an amazing show, hilarious in every way. IT Crowd although i like it too doesn’t even come close.
It boggles my mind that anyone enjoys the Big Bang Theory.
Three player chess, on the other hand, I could totally get behind.
I still want someone to make a real-time chess as opposed to a turn-based one. You know. Just for the chaos.
Big Bang has its moments, like using star maps and military drones to find the house of america’s next top model. I guess one awesome moment doesn’t make up for sheldon laundry jokes though…
Have to play it to know I guess.
But looking at it, it does look ridiculous. First move – rook takes rook? Second, P2 takes P3 rook. 3rd, P3 takes your rook… Ook.
Also having no center makes pieces like the queen far less valuable.
Yep, pretty much a disaster. Good drinking game maybe?
Where are the jetpacks?
Methinks this demonstrates why crazy chess variants have been for four players previously – three just gets weird!
Dammit.
Speaking of tv shows… did I see you on One HD with Maude Garret and the guy from Tripple J?
So every player starts with one castle each after they take one each on their first move. Good game.
Maybe it can emerge in any square they choose touching the circle? We need a video of some people playing it.
That would make the Rook, Bishop and the Queen insanely powerful. And also mind-boggling. Diagonal movement is curved even without allowing pieces to reappear at an aribtrary point on the other side of the circle. Knight movement would be insane as well.
I suspect that a game like this could work, but you’d need a triangle grid or a hex grid or something. A circular board like this just makes my mind hurt.
I’m a fan of Big Bang Theory, but even I have to concede, that episode with the 3 player chess was aweful.
You can try better three person chess board (hexagonal) with rules similar to classic chess rules on http://www.ThreeChess.com . This round board looks awesome, but it’s too different from the classic chess and to get used with.
Does no-one see the uncrossable black lines separating the three players? I think it’s pretty awesome.
dont worry big bang two and a half men pretty much anything with a laugh track is annoying chuck lorrie is a bad man for making this garbage
The funniest thing about this is that, the more the nay-sayers run down “The Big Bang Theory”, the more they tend to sound like Sheldon Cooper… 😀
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