 This is Gio, welcome to my channel. Now what I wanted to do in this video is do a follow-up to the previous video we made where I showed you some of my board game collection, right? And in that video I showed you one full chess board that I have, the portable one where sort of a tarp type of material where it's not flat board, it's loose where you can lay it down on flat surface and play chess where you can go picnicking or to the beach or to the park or something like this. And another chess board or some of the pieces that I showed you is the chess board basically that we had since I was a kid, the wooden ones that's not complete and I found some additional pieces actually going through some boxes and grabbing this board here. While making that video where I was showing you the board game collection I mentioned that I had another chess board that I had bought a long time ago and when it finally made its way to our new location I was going to show it to you. And this is the board right here and I wanted to show you this board because I do want to crack it open and take a look at it again and this is a chess board that I bought back in the 1980s when I was in high school. And I sort of bought it for the family and after getting it we sort of had a little location in the corner of the house where we set it up and it was permanently set up there. So anyone that wanted to play chess you just say let's go play chess and you go sit down and play chess, right? And it's sort of as you can tell it's sort of got a lot of tape on it and it's moved with us a few times and it's found itself to me in this new location and I'm gonna try to set it up somewhere for a permanent basis and hopefully find someone that I can play regular games with, right? Because chess is something that I played a lot when I was younger but I haven't had the opportunity to play it as often as I did when I was younger as an adult because I found I guess less and less people play it as I get older and I sort of geared myself towards backgammon so I played a lot of backgammon. So backgammon and chess are two games that I played a lot I grew up with basically that have been a huge part of my life and we sort of made a video where I showed you my grandmother's backgammon board and we recorded basically six games, six rounds really not six games but six rounds best of five of me and my grandmother playing backgammon and at some point I'm gonna go back and collect all the data that we had for those dice rolls and create a series on how to play craps right so that's the ultimate ultimate goal of that that whole set that we did other than showing you my grandmother's backgammon board and backgammon how we played it right and this is sort of the I guess sibling to that board to that game which is chess which I grew up with okay so let's crack this open and that's a quick intro to this video and for those of you into comic books that haven't followed my comic book videos this is actually a box cutter from valiant this bloodshot reborn promo box cutter that they sent out to retailers and they sent a whole bunch to one of the local comic shops I go to you know they gave me a couple of these actually three of these three or four of these so I've been using it in my move cutting off boxes and organizing things and I can't remember where the top for this went okay and this is this is the board I'm doing this guy over here but this guy we don't need this guy anymore and here's that here's table for this beautiful marble board it's really heavy actually so I'm gonna put them there again as I as I said I bought this in the in the 1980s when I was in high school for the family and as soon as I saw it I fell in love with it it cost me a pretty penny back then but it was well worth the purchase so what I'm gonna do I got another stand set up here so I'm gonna move this guy over here it's got sort of this soft stuff so it doesn't scratch up the surface and do damage to it beautiful board when it comes to chess you never really or I never have put the chessboard where the table is overhanging right because some of the pieces might fall and break it but for this to make this video let's do it on this because it's a right height table here to give you guys a good feel of this that's pretty clean I cleaned it before I packaged it right so it's not bad and let me show you the pieces and this is classic classic chess right it's got black and white right and these are the pawns for it and as far as I'm concerned chess or board games in general I think I mentioned this in previous video should be part of every education system should be part of every curriculum so we're gonna do let's do let's set up the white pieces here and the black pieces here okay and again they're all a little different right take it like this this one on this side is got a little bit yellowish tint and this one's pure white so this guy might have some ferrimitalic some some minerals in it that possibly rust I'm not sure what's giving that was not that bad for this piece let me show you actually let me show you what this looks like the pieces how they're organized here right I'll put those ones out that's okay take a look this is how the pieces are laid out and the board was sitting on top of it right so let's lay down the pawns the white pieces and these guys have the red so chess definitely chess backgammon in my opinion they should be part of every curricular system maybe centralized maybe community local maybe homeschoolers because there are people who are homeschooling decided homeschooling option for the kids for their family you know people get together when they're homeschooling their kids and they homeschooling groups right and if I was doing something like that if I was organizing something like that 100% that would include chess and backgammon as two of the games that the kids would be playing because chess is a game that's really about this is the rock really about patterns right because what you end up doing is you learn how and this is the night and this guy is a little bit darker than than the other pieces the two the two nights that we have here or sort of a darker color than the rest of the pieces here and the two nights for the black pieces are a little bit different here let me show you contrast between these since we have it up here since we're talking about this so the night here and the night here they're a little bit different and not as for the black is not as dark as the as the other pieces and for the white it's got sort of a yellowish tint relative to that one so they stand out the nights in this board okay sort of for chess the way it works is when you learn how to play it you sort of learn the movement types of each piece right so you got the bishop you got the night you got the rook and here's the thing together so you see them together fluff and whatnot hanging about so in chess you sort of learn the movement type of each of the each of the pieces right the pawns for the black let me give you contrast of the pawns white so you learn the movement type of each of the pieces right and then once you sort of I don't know if you say master once you get a handle of how each of the individual pieces move what you end up doing is learning how to put combinations together right and that's really what chess is about for me anyway and I'm not a chess connoisseur I'm not an expert in chess I played a lot of it and to in my in my I guess single digit years when I was a really small kid all the way up to the early 20s I was playing a fair bit of chess but basically chess for me was the way I learned learn about it was basically learn how each piece moves and then put combinations together and as you play more and more the combinations that you're able to do become a little bit more complicated and while you're managing your combinations trying to you know it's almost like boxing right you're trying to put commas together you put your combinations together you're trying to watch out for the other person putting their combinations together so it's very intricate game and guess the juice is flowing for the brain right where you're looking at patterns trying to maneuver sort of a dance going on between two people that are playing the game right well on the other hand backgammon which is in large part very different than chess back gammon does teach you certain amount of pattern but because there's a certain amount of luck involved in backgammon backgammon is more about probability statistics so it's an amazing game to teach you probably in statistics with a little bit of the patterns that you notice are very shallow they're not very deep but with chess what you're doing is you're putting very intricate patterns together right and very minimal like chance and in chess that really doesn't exist other than your opponent making a mistake right so chess is all about depth of the patterns that you're going to go into how many moves ahead you're thinking and backgammon is more being on your toes and dealing with probability in statistics and a lot of chance coming to game right but they're both brilliant because a very good backgammon player will always be the okay backgammon player and a very good chess player will always beat an okay chess player okay so they both take a certain amount of skill right very much so very much so here's the rock for the black and here's the night for the black that I love this one it's like spotted it's brilliant piece it's a little bit different than it's more pronounced the the spots of this one relative to the spots of the the other one right this is the more spotty one and here's let me put the rock beside it so you see the contrast in color right so the nights in in this board are very our sort of different tone than nights in than the other pieces right because here here's the other Bishop night and take a look at the king and queen and here's the king and queen for the black it's got a little bit of not too much we played a lot of games on this it wasn't a traveling one so definitely anyone that came to our house will sit down and play and let me show you since we've got the setup let me show you the combination the first combination that I ever learned right as a kid and as a kid I remember you know we were taught this early on so initially you learn that you know the pawn can move to two two squares or one square in the first move right and the bishop can move diagonally and we used to call the bishop a monkey I don't know if that's something that's done in slang or not or something that we just did the night sort of moves an L pattern oops from here to here right moves an L pattern the bishop moves either diagonally or vertically or horizontally right like this and the queen can move you know mimic all all movements from you know all the other pieces and the king is almost pretty useless it only moves in one place at a time right so after I learned how to play chess right after I learned how to master not master but well enough to know how each piece moved we were taught combinations and the first combination I ever learned is the one that stuck with me because it's probably the easiest combination and it was something that we constantly tried to do because as soon as we learned that we're like wow what that's amazing you know I wonder if anybody else knows this so we would always try and on opponents and sometimes people will forget that this move it was so easy to do and it takes four moves to checkmate the other person okay so let me show you this thing so basically in chess usually the white goes first as far as I know anyway or that's the way we usually played it so the white goes first and to do this move I don't know what it's called I'm gonna show you two variations of it one of them is in four moves you get a checkmate and the other one is in five moves you get a checkmate and then basically the goal of the game is to for the black if they want to checkmate the white is to get the queen here right as long as the king hasn't moved and as long as these two pieces haven't moved the queen and the pawn here haven't moved and this queen has backup has support then this becomes checkmate because the king can't go anywhere this guy could be moved this guy could be moved and it would still become checkmate as long as the queen is doing the final attack on the king right so basically the way it works is this the white gets to go first right if you happen to be the white so in general move generic move very simple move is to bring the pawn here and the black would mimic the white and it would bring the pawn here because that's the center line right and then the white let's assume was brought the pawn here to protect this guy okay now what you could do with the queen is put your queen here because it has access to this spot here or you could put your queen here because it has your access to this spot here if you bring your queen here the automatic response from the white is to do this because you've crossed over the halfway line and you're threatening their territory and queen is powerful so you sort of want to shoot away or we used to anyway so in general the movement that we used to do was to put the queen here okay now this is two moves white has moved to black has moved to now let's assume the white doesn't know that this move exists that if the queen comes here then it has the possibility of checkmating the king if the queen has back up right so it's white's turn and let's assume the white doesn't know this is gonna happen or doesn't see it coming let's say they move their pawn up here what the black would do now is move the bishop here okay now once this guy's here the black is only one move away from checkmating the white if the white doesn't see this coming right hasn't taken any precautions the white can't take precautions right the white could do this block the bishop here the white could do what else could do this block the queen's access here right the white could simply just move this guy up here right and the queen can't get there it does risk losing the knight right so there's a whole bunch of stuff that you can do they could even move the queen here protect the spot give it back up okay but let's assume the white doesn't see this and does another move let's say they bring the knight here they want to bring it into game into play in the next move the black queen can take that and the king the only two places it can go is to can go here which is still check it can go here which is still check it can't take out the queen it can't eat the queen because the queen's got back up right and there's no other pieces to take out the queen so this becomes checkmate and this was the first move that I ever learned right and it blew me away when I first learned that it was like all of a sudden the realization that it's not just one piece you're thinking about you're thinking about putting combos together right and once we learn this we try to do this every time at the beginning right I would try it and whoever else I was playing against if they were a kid that they had learned this game they would try it right now the variation of this is this let's take these bad guys back okay let's stick it with the two let's say two moves have occurred with the white and two moves have occurred with the black so it's whites turn to move right now let's assume the white goes here again so it's trying to build you know sort of an intricate little maze within its zone right but instead of moving this guy here I could do the attack with the knight I could go there now this is not protecting it's not doesn't have reach over here yet like the bishop did in the first move right so this version takes five moves because my knight has to come here to give access to this okay so let's assume the white still doesn't know what's going on and decides to well let's bring their knight into play right what could happen now is this guy goes here now again the black is one move away from check mating the white right all the black has to do is take this out this guy right bring the queen here now the white if they don't see this and they're worried about this guy let's say they do this they bring the pawn forward to shoe the knight away right then the black the queen can take that guy out right position yourself here and again the king is there's a check move that's check that's check the white can't take out the queen it can take out the night but doesn't make a difference doesn't have a move so it's checkmate again another variation of this is you can bring the knight here and you're both you're giving the white the option to either save the queen or save the the rook right and this is sort of the first two combinations first two patterns that I learned when I play chess and I believe I went up to like seven or eight deep patterns but I don't I don't remember them anymore right I haven't played this kind of you know heavy chess game for a very very long time as I mentioned up and focused on playing other games board games maybe axon allies diplomacy backgammon a lot and a lot of computer games as well right so chess sort of took a backseat to the rest but when I was growing up this thing was absolutely brilliant it it really was an ex you know fantastic fantastic teaching tool into you know getting the juices flowing in your brain and right now we're in 2016 end of 2016 right now and as far as I know the only country in the world that has made chess mandatory in their school system and their curriculum is Armenia and they did that in 2011 2012 so in 2011 they bait basically passed the law saying that every school in Armenia from elementary school I believe all the way to the end of high school has to have chess as a mandatory course as a mandatory activity in their education system which is absolutely brilliant and I don't know any other countries that have done this or any other countries that have any board games as a mandatory course in their school curriculum right something at least some that a centralized education system has done right which is basically introduced chess into their into their curriculum and you know Armenia happens to be a very small country I think there's you know three and a half million people in that country but it's a powerhouse when it comes to chess and it was a powerhouse before the 2011 law was passed in in the country as well I think the ranked in the top 10 in the world for you know grandmasters ratio grandmasters to you know population actually I think they're the highest when it comes to ratio of grand masters to the population and they're ranked as the top 10 in championships that they win world ranking of chess which is an amazing place to be right it's it's fantastic says a lot about their education system and in large part right very much geared towards pattern recognition and mathematics and and challenging the challenging the mind right so that's it that's sort of my chessboard and this is seriously these let me take a look at this one take a look at a pattern for on here right beautiful and the pattern for the night here absolutely love it absolutely love it so I'll try to set this up somewhere in the house here we're set up permanently where we can sit down and play chess time to send out some messages to see who's who's into playing some chess room thanks for watching I thought you would enjoy my promise to show it to you and I really didn't want to take a look at it again pull it out of the box and find a new home for it here right I hope you enjoy it that's it for now I'll see you guys in the next video