How to play Arimaa

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  • @LuxisAlukard
    @LuxisAlukard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +509

    Great thing is you can use standard chess pieces for this game!
    From wikipedia:
    These are, in order from strongest to weakest: one elephant, one camel, two horses, two dogs, two cats, and eight rabbits. These may be represented by the king, queen, rooks, bishops, knights, and pawns respectively when one plays using a chess set.

    • @Penguinmanereikel
      @Penguinmanereikel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Wouldn’t it make more sense to make the knights the horses?

    • @LuxisAlukard
      @LuxisAlukard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@Penguinmanereikel I agree, but's what wiki said :)

    • @LuxisAlukard
      @LuxisAlukard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@Penguinmanereikel Maybe knights are smaller pieces? Because in Arimaa - you can tell thee difference just by the size

    • @CaptainWizard3000
      @CaptainWizard3000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@LuxisAlukard I think it is just based on the value of pieces. I feel like bishops are usually taller than the higher-valued rooks

    • @kaylaa2204
      @kaylaa2204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@LuxisAlukard You can in alot of chess sets too. Nice sets try to make the height of the piece correlate to its value. And rooks are more valuable than knights in chess

  • @isaac_aren
    @isaac_aren 2 ปีที่แล้ว +325

    2:27 I love how you used the cat as an example of a piece pushing another off the board

  • @rextanglr4056
    @rextanglr4056 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1077

    So... basically the goal of the game is to promote a pawn.

    • @DuckStrider
      @DuckStrider 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Exactly

    • @arrowghost
      @arrowghost 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      The Passed Pawn and score a touchdown

    • @ninayescover5554
      @ninayescover5554 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      exactly

    • @overpower3382
      @overpower3382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Not at all. The way the pieces move and interact with each other is entirely different. The win condition will be suited to fit those rules.

    • @inspectorhound7931
      @inspectorhound7931 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Well... aside from the fact that there are no captures, no special moves for individual pieces, and pieces can only be permanently removed from the board via four out of the 64 squares.
      And unlike pawns, rabbits can't even do anything offensive against the opposing pieces (they can help with defensive plays).

  • @arcturuslight_
    @arcturuslight_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +419

    I like how pulling the opponent down with you by triggering a lose condition for both players counts as a win.

    • @EdKolis
      @EdKolis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Flashbacks to Bowser's kamikaze grapple in Smash Bros

    • @terribletrench
      @terribletrench 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I don't have to win, you have to lose.

    • @mihailmilev9909
      @mihailmilev9909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@EdKolis lmfaooo

    • @risyadxmi443
      @risyadxmi443 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Death for you, death for me.

    • @Player-df7ny
      @Player-df7ny ปีที่แล้ว +1

      if i ever play this game, ill count that as forcing a draw

  • @jacobcharleszimmerman7934
    @jacobcharleszimmerman7934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    This game was designed specifically to be difficult for a computer to play but easy for a human.

    • @destroyergod_9205
      @destroyergod_9205 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How?

    • @jacobcharleszimmerman7934
      @jacobcharleszimmerman7934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@destroyergod_9205 It was designed by a computer engineer, so I guess he knew what would be difficult for an AI. However, that was back in 2003. AI has gotten a lot better since then and I think computers can now play this game easily.

    • @imacrostutorial
      @imacrostutorial 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@destroyergod_9205 The branching factor of this game is a lot higher than chess. Its more than 17 thousand

    • @danielyuan9862
      @danielyuan9862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@imacrostutorial But that's only because you essentially have 4 moves per turn.

    • @fractalez
      @fractalez 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@danielyuan9862 Also because the player chooses the starting position

  • @anthonycannet1305
    @anthonycannet1305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    The number of each piece is made to resemble a standard chess set. King=elephant, queen=camel, rook=horse, bishop=dog, Knight=cat, pawn=rabbit. So as long as you can mark the trap spaces on a chess board, you can play this game with a standard chess set

    • @ikindajustexist520
      @ikindajustexist520 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Shouldn’t the knight be horse?

    • @anthonycannet1305
      @anthonycannet1305 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ikindajustexist520 I set them so the piece heirarchy in Arimaa matches the point values associated with classic chess pieces. In Arimaa, the horse is 3rd most powerful. In chess, assuming the king is worth infinite points cuz you lose without it, the rook is the 3rd most valuable piece.

    • @nif4345
      @nif4345 ปีที่แล้ว

      the traps are consistent, also tsg said themselves that the horse is the knight when used for normal chess

    • @LoveKirbythecutepinkball
      @LoveKirbythecutepinkball 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or Chinese chess or Japanese chess

  • @edtr8434
    @edtr8434 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Imagine people start to develop gambits, openings, defenses, strategical placements of the pieces according to deducible plays of your opponent based of their set up. Since there’s more ways to set up the starting positions it would be insane.

    • @jondo7680
      @jondo7680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This game was designed to be hard for computers, and I think they even have some price going on I don't know if someone won.

    • @defensivekobra3873
      @defensivekobra3873 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's gonna be a friggin lead metagame

    • @baitposter
      @baitposter ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​​​​@@jondo7680
      The prize was offered only up to 2020 or so for someone to develop software that could be a selected set of masters at it
      Regardless of the details, I'm sure it's already expired, and contemporary AI could do it better by simply learning biases and probabilities in human player behavior after it learns the ruleset and win conditions

  • @m.a.r.i.a.9861
    @m.a.r.i.a.9861 2 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    I was expecting "The rules are the same as the regular chess except for these changes" lmao

    • @EdKolis
      @EdKolis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Except for these changes: the pieces are attending a furry convention!

    • @zakiajacobprecioso408
      @zakiajacobprecioso408 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      THERE RULES ARE THE SAME AS ANIMAL CHESS EXCEPT FOR THESE CHANGES

    • @Ninja_Ahmed
      @Ninja_Ahmed ปีที่แล้ว

      En passant is allowed

    • @janehuskmann1914
      @janehuskmann1914 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's only if you flip the board over.

  • @MegaMinerd
    @MegaMinerd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    This one is very interesting. I'd love to see how full games of this play out and the way the mechanics interact.

  • @juicedelemon
    @juicedelemon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    chess 2 is finally here! props to the devs! miss you chess 1

    • @cinderare
      @cinderare 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Faerie chess, Musketeers chess

    • @CNWPlayer
      @CNWPlayer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      gotta blunder about 10000 quadrillion more queens until that happens… so it’ll be about a second.

    • @revimfadli4666
      @revimfadli4666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cinderare Marsellais Chess
      Onitama

  • @wbl_unlimited
    @wbl_unlimited 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I would love to see you cover Archon, the fantasy computer/NES chess game

  • @jacencade4019
    @jacencade4019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    The pieces look difficult to distinguish between. Other than that this looks very good.

    • @jort93z
      @jort93z 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I agree. At first glance I thought there are only big and small pieces, and all the big ones are the same, lmao.

    • @somekindofgnome8477
      @somekindofgnome8477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The game was designed to be used with a chessboard and pieces, so you don’t even need to buy anything new if you have a chess set. You just need tiny pieces of black paper or coins or whatever to stand in for the holes.

    • @jort93z
      @jort93z 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@somekindofgnome8477 Good point.

    • @jacencade4019
      @jacencade4019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@somekindofgnome8477 I saw someone say that in another comment.

    • @Sparasemi456
      @Sparasemi456 ปีที่แล้ว

      69 likes, *nice*

  • @theheartofthequeen
    @theheartofthequeen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you for this great introductory video of Arimaa. This video is clear to understand. I have just learned this interesting game recently and I really love it!
    However, in my opinion, there is one mistake in the video that could be fixed and one suggestion to add in the future, perhaps a revised, refresher video or something like that!
    At 3:18, this video explains if a player (in this case, it is Gold) is unable to make a move because all of Gold's pieces are frozen or Gold does not have any legal moves, then Gold lose the game. It is actually the correct rule, but the placement of the pieces will probably be confusing.
    Assuming that it is Gold's turn, actually the two Gold rabbits on the square G1 and H2 are ABLE TO MOVE because those two are both adjacent to Gold elephant on the square H1 and the square G2 is not blocked.
    For instance, if the silver cat on the square D2 or H7 is on the square G2 instead, then Gold loses the game because those two gold rabbits no longer have a vacant square to move to.
    A good thing to add, regarding legal moves, unlike Chess, 'threefold repetition' (the same position occurs three times during the game) is forbidden/illegal in Arimaa. If threefold repetition is the only move left that a player has, that player loses the game due to not having any legal moves.

    • @TripleSGames
      @TripleSGames  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Good catch, that is indeed a mistake

  • @HatterTobias
    @HatterTobias 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    This game is EVERYTHING Animal Chess should've been

  • @arkbeetle
    @arkbeetle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Is En Passant Allow?

    • @Sarahbryson321
      @Sarahbryson321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yes but only in the weird variant of this called ‘chess’, but I’m sure it’ll never catch on

    • @arkbeetle
      @arkbeetle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Sarahbryson321 Chess? Oh! You mean that bad game where stalemate is a draw? Yea, it will never catch on.

    • @thebrazillianguytm2186
      @thebrazillianguytm2186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      here before the dumb guy says "ThIs Is NoT cHeSs"

    • @omatic_opulis9876
      @omatic_opulis9876 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thls ls NoT cHeSs

  • @pawnquacker
    @pawnquacker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's surprisingly simple yet so intriguing.

  • @danielyuan9862
    @danielyuan9862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    3:18 aren't the two rabbits at the bottom-left allowed to move because they are adjacent to the elephant?

  • @Snukkuri
    @Snukkuri 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "You may not push pieces off the board"
    What the scene looks like:
    "It's over anakin, i have the high ground!"
    "You underestimate my power!"
    *undos illegal move*

  • @danielyuan9862
    @danielyuan9862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Are you allowed to pass a square adjacent to a stronger enemy piece, even if you have no ally pieces next to that square?

    • @BuffaloEdward
      @BuffaloEdward 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No. Once you hit the adjacent square, the piece is immobilized

  • @Alter-Ego545
    @Alter-Ego545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    when you see the video is 3:45 long and it's by triple s games, you knows it's complicated

  • @Robinmine
    @Robinmine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    link in description goes to "arimaa borad game" instead of board game

  • @Person-ef4xj
    @Person-ef4xj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is both similar to chess and very different at the same time.

  • @brunopires7314
    @brunopires7314 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    that was clear and concise! thank you!

  • @Tigewew
    @Tigewew 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really wish i could see someone play all these games

  • @LoveKirbythecutepinkball
    @LoveKirbythecutepinkball 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In xiangqi, general can move 1 point orthogonally inside the palace. While Chinese pawn move left and right once it cross the River. But I meant the pieces of arimaa piece movement

  • @ember6124
    @ember6124 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:21 why does gold elephant not count as a friendly that would allow the neighboring rabbits(?) to move unfrozen?

  • @steveburke1519
    @steveburke1519 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You neglected to mention that Arimaa can be played on an ordinary chessboard using ordinary chess pieces: K=Elephant, Q=Camel, R=Horse, B=dog, N=Cat, and P=Rabbit. Put a coin on c3, c6, f3, and f6 to represent the traps.

  • @arrowghost
    @arrowghost 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Looks like that elephant is not going to be opposed by a rabbit when there's no mouse or rat.

  • @JennyBlaze253
    @JennyBlaze253 ปีที่แล้ว

    Recently found out about this game through reading the Teen Titans Academy comics, as the first issue had one of the characters playing it. Interesting to find out how to play.

  • @thomaslwin8588
    @thomaslwin8588 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Investing concept, would like to know the strategies:D

  • @genius11433
    @genius11433 ปีที่แล้ว

    From the thumbnail, i thought that this would be a chess variant. Glad to have been proven wrong.

  • @PauxloE
    @PauxloE 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The pieces in the set used there are just awfully similar to each other, making it extra hard to see which one can push/pull which other one. They should have used just figures displaying the full animal instead of just the head.
    Or, what did when playing it with my wife, use the Looney Pyramids you know e.g. from Martian chess - tiny ones for the rabbits, medium ones for cats, medium + tiny for dog, big one for horse, big + tiny for camel, big + medium for elephant (or some other clearly distinguishable series). Of course you need enough of one color to make a full set (though the hat can be of a different color, if needed).

  • @alexvilla5277
    @alexvilla5277 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Anybody know how to solve the arimaa puzzles app. Camel number 8, par 2???

  • @cheesuschrist300
    @cheesuschrist300 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    fun fact: this game was designed to be as hard to make a bot for while being a easy for humans to play as possible

  • @zackandderson7587
    @zackandderson7587 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful concept

  • @okamisansempai557
    @okamisansempai557 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    very complicate game...but interesting, nice video!

    • @imacrostutorial
      @imacrostutorial 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Its actually a lot simpler than chess because all pieces move the same way...
      It can even be played with chess pieces and board.

    • @versuzzero5335
      @versuzzero5335 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think chess is more complicated than this when it was newly created.
      But yes, simple games are hard to invent as time goes on.

    • @danielyuan9862
      @danielyuan9862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@versuzzero5335 Even though chess is more complicated in terms of rulesets, I've heard that this game is more complicated in terms of AI computation power needed.

    • @BuffaloEdward
      @BuffaloEdward 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@danielyuan9862 it was specifically designed to be easy for human players and very difficult for computers. The main issues that AI has with the game are that because each player gets four actions per turn, there’s a massive amount of computation involved in figuring out what actions to take and, because it’s so hard to capture pieces, the game state doesn’t tend to simplify much as the game is played, unlike chess, which gets easier to calculate as pieces are removed

  • @plzcme434
    @plzcme434 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is a surprisingly good game. Certainly worth trying out.

  • @robuhr2300
    @robuhr2300 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mistake on 3:22 - the two rabbits are not frozen, because the elephant is orthogonoly to them!

  • @arthvitbansal8376
    @arthvitbansal8376 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can a partition be used in between during setup???

    • @dirtydan9785
      @dirtydan9785 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sure. It's a board game, they can't exactly stop you

  • @Bonasomnium
    @Bonasomnium 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If only this game was more mainstream...

  • @arthvittiwari4855
    @arthvittiwari4855 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is there a limited number of each piece? List them in the replies

    • @Shardus
      @Shardus 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same number of pieces as in chess, but different names for the pieces. 1 elephant, 1 camel, 2 horses, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 8 rabbits.

  • @Tehom1
    @Tehom1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sounds interesting but not at all "intuitively simple" like the game box says. There were a lot of little rules that seem like they can completely upset your strategy.

  • @Viel_Glueck
    @Viel_Glueck 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:28 wouldn't the silver player lose in that scenario, because the silver player has no rabbit left => immediately loses and can't kill the enemy rabbit with it. Or is that an exception?

    • @Robinmine
      @Robinmine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      all 4 steps are a single move and happen at the same time

    • @ScorpioneOrzion
      @ScorpioneOrzion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      you only lose/win at the end of your turn.

    • @Viel_Glueck
      @Viel_Glueck 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Robinmine that can't be true, because then he couldn't drag the enemy rabbit in the spot his rabbit died in (because it would be occupied)

    • @Robinmine
      @Robinmine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Viel_Glueck yes tijimen's response is much more accurate, the 4 steps are a single move but definitely do not happen at the same time (there are many obvious examples). I didn't think my response through :P I play arimaa only online and you make all the steps before sending the move and can change your steps in the meantime. The win condition is evaluated at the end when you finish your move.

    • @omars6224
      @omars6224 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Viel_Glueck Good observation. However only the win/lose conditions are evaluated at the end of the turn. Freezing, captures, etc are evaluated after each step.

  • @paulgibbons2320
    @paulgibbons2320 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I feel like it should have a pig an we should call it pig push.
    What's the history/origins of this game?

  • @janwarrenbunoan3795
    @janwarrenbunoan3795 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    *You may push or pull the piece protected for a friendly piece, so that your opponents piece was removed.

  • @przedwczorajszyszprot9931
    @przedwczorajszyszprot9931 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So horsey from chess finally got his own spinoff?

  • @aperson6546
    @aperson6546 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How to play Spanish Card games??

  • @arthvittiwari4855
    @arthvittiwari4855 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is there a way for the game to end in a draw???

    • @dirtydan9785
      @dirtydan9785 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If I understand correctly, no, they seem to have made it so that forcing a draw on your turn is a win condition

  • @lownleinhigh
    @lownleinhigh ปีที่แล้ว

    Make a "how to play" for "Games of the Generals"!

  • @SL2797
    @SL2797 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you push an opponent's piece into a trap?

  • @jonathanschmitt5762
    @jonathanschmitt5762 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The rules are the same as regular chess, except for these changes. For a refresher of those rules, check out this video☝️.

  • @fractalez
    @fractalez 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, this is a really cool game

  • @Mr_comical0
    @Mr_comical0 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A wise guy said: teamwork makes the dream work

  • @alexlangrock4225
    @alexlangrock4225 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like how at first glance it just looks like furry chess, but then it has nothing to do with Chess whatsoever

  • @vmaximo185
    @vmaximo185 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is very interesting

  • @GaJaz05
    @GaJaz05 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like this game!

  • @lauziyi5728
    @lauziyi5728 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why?

  • @notdavid6893
    @notdavid6893 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm waiting for a game that looks nothing like chess but the opening still be "the rules are etbe same as regular chess except for these changes.

  • @GadielGarciaLopez-oz3il
    @GadielGarciaLopez-oz3il ปีที่แล้ว

    I like this game

  • @ahbraveconscript997
    @ahbraveconscript997 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    hold on is en passant allowed or not?

  • @spah_tf2
    @spah_tf2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    arimaa, also called furry chess. how to play.

  • @Grimm_Sleeper
    @Grimm_Sleeper 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The rules are the same as regular chess except they are nothing like regular chess

  • @killerkitty100mobile8
    @killerkitty100mobile8 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This game is so weird. Interestingly i believe this came from “animal chess” not its actual name but it’s from china and is just as weird and unessisarly complicated while also being stratigicaly simple

  • @cyruskeshmeshian5851
    @cyruskeshmeshian5851 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m waiting for chess 3 lol

  • @hwanmigellegaspi4803
    @hwanmigellegaspi4803 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is like chess+abalone+chekers

  • @isavenewspapers8890
    @isavenewspapers8890 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Only now…

  • @lomanalchemik7749
    @lomanalchemik7749 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    At least!

  • @musicme148
    @musicme148 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    АРИМАА

  • @YeahEsCereal
    @YeahEsCereal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is old chess

  • @SeadKorjenic
    @SeadKorjenic 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    &arimaa kinda looks like Chess

  • @udeshbenthuhewa5333
    @udeshbenthuhewa5333 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    First Play

  • @udeshbenthuhewa5333
    @udeshbenthuhewa5333 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    One Elephant

  • @zamir3773
    @zamir3773 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is chess

  • @johnangel8361
    @johnangel8361 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The furries made their own chess

  • @jort93z
    @jort93z 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I kinda feel like it needs a mouse to beat the elephant, sort of like the spy in stratego.

  • @dixiebiscuit5623
    @dixiebiscuit5623 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    so, like chess, just better

  • @Sarahbryson321
    @Sarahbryson321 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ok

  • @Salah_Eldin.321
    @Salah_Eldin.321 ปีที่แล้ว

    leki

  • @andreithevideoeditor9290
    @andreithevideoeditor9290 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2nd

  • @Dragon-eh9oq
    @Dragon-eh9oq 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I said aringma

  • @chris92264
    @chris92264 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pin me

    • @danielyuan9862
      @danielyuan9862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      White Bishop - - Black Knight (You) - - Black King

    • @m.a.r.i.a.9861
      @m.a.r.i.a.9861 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@danielyuan9862 lmao

  • @Machodave2020
    @Machodave2020 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Chess Lite

  • @alexlangrock4225
    @alexlangrock4225 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like how at first glance it just looks like furry chess, but then it has nothing to do with Chess whatsoever