If you are white and transmute to the king to blue, then the blue pieces are your new main pieces and white pieces would function as those of the subkingdoms. This means black could put a piece in a white square and then control your former white pieces.
@@arturocevallossoto5203 Oh so if you change you king to blue then you don't lose control of your king when the piece (you control) goes off any of the blue squares
@@theofficialwoohoogamers Yes. If you're Black, then promote a pawn to a Blue king, you're now permanently in control of the Blue "kingdom", and Black becomes just another "vassal". This has interesting implications. If you promote to a different color, you could _lose_ control of your original color unless you planned ahead and put a "vassal" piece on a square of your original color. And depending on how your "chain of command" is set up, promoting to the wrong colored king could actually _break_ the chain, potentially allowing your opponent to swoop in and steal your whole empire!
@@RGC_animation maybe by controlling a color which is that king's current color eg: you occupy a cyan square and your opponent is using a cyan king at that time
This reminds me about when my friend group was playing spades all the time during the 90s. We played so much that we made house rules that made the game harder. In other words this chess is for people that the game is too easy for. Pretty cool but i don’t play chess enough these days so I think I’ll stick to classic chess.
I was following, and even starting to think of basic stratagies, right up until taking control of a pawn and promoting it to a king, and changing your controled army to a completely different colour. I can't think of any reason to go from black to blue unless I'd already run through almost all of the black pieces. And now the only things I can think of are the times when it's best to move a pawn and promote it to king vs the times it's best to just hotswap your king.
Well now we can play chess variants where players can start off with 48 to 56 pieces. Add all the pieces from faerie chess and other chess variants, people will be able to have the most intense and entertaining chess games of all time. Plus more ideas and variants to add into knightmare chess.
it's not that en passant isn't allowed, it's that it's realistically impossible. pawns have to cross through the middle area, and if they do so they must promote, so there's no way you'd ever even reach the opponent's side and be able to perform an en passant. sure, you might be in a situation where a side-pawn does a double step next to your pawn, but how are en passants supposed to work in that scenario?
Don’t hate the game based on the rules and besides, 1) there are other chess variants that en passant aren’t allowed. And 2) if you never tried, you may never know
Although this seems like a load of fun, it seems like there is a bit much going on for practical or casual play. I'd love to see a simplified version I can play with just about anyone :)
This seems like a really interesting variant of chess, plus it has nice potential for 3D-printing. Cool! // Выглядит, как очень интересный вариант шахмат, ещё и с лёгкой возможностью печати на 3D-принтере. Круто!
I looked at the title and kinda expected Sovereign Chess to be like normal chess, only one guy points to his pawn on E2 and declare that it's a queen now, and there's nothing you can do because his pieces are outside your jurisdiction.
I tried the game a bit, seems a bit too confusing with the ability to change your king's color, end up in a situation where the opponent has control of the my king's color squares, yet I am the one controlling said color pieces. Without a PC-version to help you keep track of who controls what, a board game version would get tiresome to constantly question who controls what. Other than that, it adds much needed complexity to chess. Fighting your opponent over control of certain pieces is brilliant.
So let me get this straight. Your king is checked. You move the pawn to the center of the board. You decide to promote it to king, your king is now in the middle of the board and unchecked?
So if I change my king to blue and then my opponent take control of blue and thus my king, is that checkmate because I no longer have a king? or does my king become the previous color?
So, let’s say that black controls blue, who controls pink, who controls green, who controls purple (all under black’s control). If white takes the black piece controlling blue, white would control ALL of those colours. That’s insane.
@@connorschultz380 yes but let's be honest here, what's the point? It is difficult to have an innate understanding of chess (looking crazily far ahead without calculating) pretty much impossible to have that understanding of 5D, the same with multiverse time travel and sovereign. To make multiverseD sovereign chess would be impossible^3
@@Kushenable I think you misunderstand me, Theres a game called 5D chess with multiverse time travel and I meant I was imagining a version of that game for this version of chess.
And then, by the rules of promotion, one faction can manage to wrangle enough power to de facto (or de jure, if you interpret the King changing color as him joining the faction outright) control the country, while the original ruling party becomes a secondary power within its own government, a power that could either reclaim its original authority or even be subverted by a foreign enemy agent and convinced to fight against its "corrupted" former leader.
The reason there is no “en passant” in this game is because the pawns are moving in the same direction as their neighbor pawns. If one pawn jumps over a possible capturing square, the other pawn can always “catch up” to capture it, unlike traditional chess…
Thanks for giving this game some visibility! i bought a game and even got a note from Mark Bates himself when I asked for a black king (as I'd been given an extra queen instead). It's really fun!
Historically speaking, we've had hundreds of variants. The one we know simply as "chess" now, is from the late 1400s. Check out Courier Chess and or Cambodian/Khmer Chess for some historical variants which vary quite a bit from "regular" chess
@@NikolajLepka Or Shogi and the other East Asian versions! Western Chess is just one version of a game that originated in India! Its really interesting.
chess rules are very basic, the endless possibilities they generate are what makes calculating the right option fun, hard and engaging. Just like a string of ones and zeros can be decoded into a poem, so can the rules of chess be translated into another game
Well, games like Warhammer have 100+ page rule books ... it's only important if the rules are intuitive or arbitrary. It's easy to remember that you control blue pieces when you control a blue square for example and many of the things he says are more like clarification and consequences of the actual rule and not additional rules.
I like mounted chess more, where you can mount pawns, bishops, Queens and Kings on top of knights and create combination pieces to mobilise more effectively and then unmount again. And you can mount rooks to create immobile fortresses which can take adjacent pieces without moving.
Don’t hate the game based on the rules and besides, 1) there are other chess variants that en passant aren’t allowed. And 2) if you never tried, you may never know
@@rew_mate if you phrase it as 'you can move the entire board length in one turn', down to ' you can move 8 spaces', it seems more reasonable that the game just plays well with 8 moves being the correct tuning for balance. Otherwise pieces like knights and pawns would become much less useful due to being way slower than all other pieces by comparison
I'd love to see how the recorded moves (like you'd do in regular chess) would look. I'd love to see all the different colours, how takeovers / King swaps would look, etc.!
I've seen two changes to notation for this game that some use and some don't. (I'm gonna keep to the changes, and assume everyone who knows this knows standard notation) First, gaining and losing piece control rotated by [x>y], replacing x and y with single letter notation for their respective colors. Secondly, the length that someone goes to to mark the different colors and their controllers. I've seen the single letter notation for the color being used in front of the pieces', so BQa2-c4[G>P] would be for a blue queen moving from a2 to c4, that somehow caused their controller to lose green control and take pink control.
@@deadersurvival4716 I think here, unlike regular chess, having the "P" for a pawn move would be easier. And I was going to ask about colours that start with the same letter, but it appears they thought of that as well... White Black Ash Slate Red Orange Yellow Green Cyan Pink Navy (instead of Blue) Violet (instead of Purple)
I came up with color,piece,original square, new square, capture if any. It’s a lot but it seems like the most logical way of keeping track of moves in this game. A gray rook taking a purple piece would be gaRA13B13x. The x being the captures and the ga being for gray because of green.
Suppose I change my king's color to blue, then my opponent gains control of blue. Does he immediately win the game? (If so, is there ever a case where changing the color of your king is a good idea?) EDIT: this is explained at 2:55 - having a blue king gives you overriding control of blue. But I suppose you would then lose overriding control of your original color if the opponent had a good central position.
Initially I thought this was a 4-player game; it isn't. It is for 2 players, and there's so much to think about.
There is a four player mode actually!
Imagine combining the rules of sovergier chess with progressive chess...
@@coreyeverett5500 How does it work?
@@peculiarjack617 Now that would be confusing.
Initially I thought this was a 10-player game with 1 color per player
Up until the rules about changing King colours it seemed fairly straight forward
Even that is fairly straight forward.
From what I understand... you basically... switch who you're playing as which potentially has a lot of use in terms of positioning.
If you are white and transmute to the king to blue, then the blue pieces are your new main pieces and white pieces would function as those of the subkingdoms. This means black could put a piece in a white square and then control your former white pieces.
@@arturocevallossoto5203 Oh so if you change you king to blue then you don't lose control of your king when the piece (you control) goes off any of the blue squares
@@theofficialwoohoogamers Yes. If you're Black, then promote a pawn to a Blue king, you're now permanently in control of the Blue "kingdom", and Black becomes just another "vassal".
This has interesting implications. If you promote to a different color, you could _lose_ control of your original color unless you planned ahead and put a "vassal" piece on a square of your original color. And depending on how your "chain of command" is set up, promoting to the wrong colored king could actually _break_ the chain, potentially allowing your opponent to swoop in and steal your whole empire!
I am still confused about this game, but this seems like fun!
Ah, yes. As if regular chess wasn't complex enough. 😂
I'd love to see the GMs of old react to this.
Capablanca famously thought chess would be "figured out" to a point where players always draw, so he loved variants as a way to keep the game fresh!
@@arcaears to be fair it is theoretically possible for chess to be "solved", but no human would really be able to take advantage of that.
This is why I believe those with photographic memories will always have an unfair advantage over us mere mortals. 😂
@@FloatingSunfish eh, day to day photographic memory sounds hellish. Imagine being unable to forget literally anything ever
@@SorchaSublime that's not how it works
This is so complicated!
Thinking ahead in normal chess is hard, but this...
Where would you even begin?
I'd love to see some people play this!
Learned about this game last month, glad to see a video! I thought that checkmate wasn't the only way to win, though...
How else would you win?
@@RGC_animation maybe by controlling a color which is that king's current color
eg: you occupy a cyan square and your opponent is using a cyan king at that time
@@boiledicetea 2:46 (when you move a piece to a square that has the same color as your opponents king, you do not gain control of this color.)
@@Mpg0907 i never said you could control them :)
@@boiledicetea that would be so unfair that the whole game would be a race to getting one piece on your opponent's color
Chess: Politically Accurate Edition.
*F E U D A L I S M*
@@dannypipewrench533 tomato, tomato...
@@gaaberu5728 I do not believe there were any tomatoes or tomatoes in Europe during the Middle Ages.
I’ll never fully understand this but it definitely looks interesting to play.
Holy heck this is such a complicated yet such a potentially fun game.
check out 5d multidimentional time traveling chess
This reminds me about when my friend group was playing spades all the time during the 90s. We played so much that we made house rules that made the game harder. In other words this chess is for people that the game is too easy for. Pretty cool but i don’t play chess enough these days so I think I’ll stick to classic chess.
I was following, and even starting to think of basic stratagies, right up until taking control of a pawn and promoting it to a king, and changing your controled army to a completely different colour.
I can't think of any reason to go from black to blue unless I'd already run through almost all of the black pieces.
And now the only things I can think of are the times when it's best to move a pawn and promote it to king vs the times it's best to just hotswap your king.
Now that is complex.
Add Faerie pieces, time travel and boom - most complex game ever!
Don't forget alternate universes, and maybe other boards, and maybe exploding pieces?
2:06 would have been a very cool en passant if it was allowed
4:44
Black King: i can teleport.
White queen: i checkmated you but now you teleported to the other side.
The pawns: 😮
Well now we can play chess variants where players can start off with 48 to 56 pieces. Add all the pieces from faerie chess and other chess variants, people will be able to have the most intense and entertaining chess games of all time. Plus more ideas and variants to add into knightmare chess.
PUN CITY
'Knight'mare chess... Something to do with knights?
Bought 1 last year. So much fun. Instructions also offer rules for a 4 way last king standing free for all.
Sovereign Chess enthusiasts…
“There are dozens of us! Dozens!”
That’s a HUGE chess board!!!
At first, I thought I understood this, but then we started talking about if your king’s color changes and is now controlling other sections and… yeah.
I was actually considering playing this until you said “en passant is not allowed”.
it's not that en passant isn't allowed, it's that it's realistically impossible.
pawns have to cross through the middle area, and if they do so they must promote, so there's no way you'd ever even reach the opponent's side and be able to perform an en passant.
sure, you might be in a situation where a side-pawn does a double step next to your pawn, but how are en passants supposed to work in that scenario?
My not allowed i mean not really possible
Me, who didn't even know en passant or castling was a thing: ...
Don’t hate the game based on the rules and besides, 1) there are other chess variants that en passant aren’t allowed. And 2) if you never tried, you may never know
Yeah same makes this chess variant unplayable
Although this seems like a load of fun, it seems like there is a bit much going on for practical or casual play. I'd love to see a simplified version I can play with just about anyone :)
The black rook: this is the end of the line king the black square: I got you fam
I never heard of this game before but I would like to play this game.
I just checked it out and I don't have enough money right now, I will one day
I will never recover from this video.
Sounds very complex, but interesting!
I swear to God this man probably has a machine in the basement just cranking these out every minute a new version of chess pops out
So its basically chess but now with vassals and mercenaries? That's pretty cool, and also a little mind melting.
As a person who likes chess for its complexity i m very interested in this
dude no way.. chess 2 is already looking so good
This seems like a really interesting variant of chess, plus it has nice potential for 3D-printing. Cool!
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Выглядит, как очень интересный вариант шахмат, ещё и с лёгкой возможностью печати на 3D-принтере. Круто!
Looks fun and complex
Your such a good game teacher
I can barely even play regular chess, this is going to be fun!
what sick bastard decided to make chess even more convoluted than it already was
Ooh, basically mind control chess
Nope, that's Benedict Chess
I looked at the title and kinda expected Sovereign Chess to be like normal chess, only one guy points to his pawn on E2 and declare that it's a queen now, and there's nothing you can do because his pieces are outside your jurisdiction.
Alt title: chess but a crowd of colorful chess pieces watch you play
My brain can't handle that much information
Well the pieces can represent colours or team for tic tac chek
what about the 4 player variant game and the royal variant? Can you please make those videos on May 9 and May 10?
“The rules are the same as regular chess, except for these changes.”
*proceeds to completely change the game*
Gamer 1: So how good is your control?
Gamer 2: I once won sovereign chess.
I really want to see games played of this
You can control different chess pieces but there's a catch and that is the others can control that too
"There is no limit to the number of times you can change Kings in a game."
I feel like this is saying something.
Chaotic Chess, I like it
This is even hairier than Star Trek 3-D Chess. Off to check out 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel . . . .
İmagine your teacher says “tomorrow we Will have a chess event, dont forget your chess” and you take this to it
… and explaining this to your opponent
Dude, imagine this game, Combined with Faerie chess, the possibilities will be insane
Now imagine 5D Sovereign Chess with Multidimensional Time Travel....
This looks so fun
Anyone else think of mess effect when they head sovereign
How is the end checkmate? He can just take the purple pawn
Looks very complicated, but fun
Do DnD next. Hahaha. You'll need a whole series to cover the basic rules.
I need this asap, but I live in England, i cant find this anywhere
Try reaching out to the seller on their website, maybe they can work something out?
Getting an engine going for this would be pretty nuts
I saw the thumbnail and at first thought it was Scrabble
I understand exactly none of this but it definitely sounds like chess
at least a little bit
I should find a way to share my 'Orbital Chess' concept
And people say that chess is still in need of an update
yoooo pogger chess update
I tried the game a bit, seems a bit too confusing with the ability to change your king's color, end up in a situation where the opponent has control of the my king's color squares, yet I am the one controlling said color pieces. Without a PC-version to help you keep track of who controls what, a board game version would get tiresome to constantly question who controls what.
Other than that, it adds much needed complexity to chess. Fighting your opponent over control of certain pieces is brilliant.
This is so much harder than original chess.
So let me get this straight. Your king is checked. You move the pawn to the center of the board. You decide to promote it to king, your king is now in the middle of the board and unchecked?
So if I change my king to blue and then my opponent take control of blue and thus my king, is that checkmate because I no longer have a king? or does my king become the previous color?
Finally, Chess 2
Chess but there's partially abandoned facilities filled with military androids that either side can control
My stupid brain already melting from all the rules.... 😂
But I understand why it's called sovereign chess.
chess
but you’ve solved your domestic problem and is now building an empire with nearby kingdoms
4:35 what if you cant legally move it off the square of the same color?
This game has my mind blown. I rather just play simple chess instead. No need for such a complex varient
the fact that it says 'alpha edition' is just terrifying
Holy Roman Empire Chess
i love this
the people who made chess forgot to make more rules and well, this happened
In reality, the bishop should have a range of 4, as it goes diagonally across 2 per move
So, let’s say that black controls blue, who controls pink, who controls green, who controls purple (all under black’s control).
If white takes the black piece controlling blue, white would control ALL of those colours.
That’s insane.
Medieval politics be like that
yes, yes they will
That's called sovereignty. Take down one piece and you control all.
@@vuedanto8576 oh so that's where the name comes from
Exactly...that's how it was designed!
Now I'm trying to imagine 5d sovereign chess with multiverse time travel and I can feel my brain melting
Oh no
That's where my brain went too, mod for the game from steam? You could add most of those variants to 5d chess with a mod
@@connorschultz380 yes but let's be honest here, what's the point? It is difficult to have an innate understanding of chess (looking crazily far ahead without calculating) pretty much impossible to have that understanding of 5D, the same with multiverse time travel and sovereign. To make multiverseD sovereign chess would be impossible^3
@@Sphagetti__ it be fun, it be wild. I already play chess 1 turn at a time, so it be wild
@@Kushenable I think you misunderstand me, Theres a game called 5D chess with multiverse time travel and I meant I was imagining a version of that game for this version of chess.
This is both NEEDLESSLY COMPLICATED and really elegant. I kind of need this.
I can't find it.
It's like a cool little "What if" idea that had to be completely developped to leave no ambiguity.
@@mooshroommoonbuddy it's in the description
It seemed incredibly obtuse, but suddenly just clicked as the rules went on. Pretty impressive.
So essentially each colour is it's own faction and black & white both rival kingdoms who compete for the favour of these factions
City-states on Civilization, basically
Thats called a Feodal states.
Its basically a civil war to elect the next king of the nation, and you need to control duchy for that. Neat
Yes, until the king decides to change color
That comparison helped me understand it a lot actually
And then, by the rules of promotion, one faction can manage to wrangle enough power to de facto (or de jure, if you interpret the King changing color as him joining the faction outright) control the country, while the original ruling party becomes a secondary power within its own government, a power that could either reclaim its original authority or even be subverted by a foreign enemy agent and convinced to fight against its "corrupted" former leader.
The reason there is no “en passant” in this game is because the pawns are moving in the same direction as their neighbor pawns. If one pawn jumps over a possible capturing square, the other pawn can always “catch up” to capture it, unlike traditional chess…
En passant isnt even a real rule in traditional chess
Kyaru Momochi it's a real rule in FIDE chess, which is what most people play.
@@kyarumomochi5146 but its forced so....?
@@kodeytheneko Does it apply to ALL chess games?
Then its not a true rule
Its still argued if it should be a true rule or not
@@kyarumomochi5146 tempting the fate of Gary Chess and his brick I see. You are braver than I
Thanks for giving this game some visibility! i bought a game and even got a note from Mark Bates himself when I asked for a black king (as I'd been given an extra queen instead). It's really fun!
A disciple of master Bates?
@@viporal7898, ...
@@viporal7898 who?
Wow very interesting, what are some of the strategies?
@@mihailmilev9909 asked
At this point chess rules is flexible enough to allow this many variants to exist
Historically speaking, we've had hundreds of variants. The one we know simply as "chess" now, is from the late 1400s.
Check out Courier Chess and or Cambodian/Khmer Chess for some historical variants which vary quite a bit from "regular" chess
@@NikolajLepka Or Shogi and the other East Asian versions! Western Chess is just one version of a game that originated in India! Its really interesting.
@@syro33 it absolutely is! I own a Xiangqi set (chinese variant), and honestly I recommend it over the regular western kind
chess rules are very basic, the endless possibilities they generate are what makes calculating the right option fun, hard and engaging. Just like a string of ones and zeros can be decoded into a poem, so can the rules of chess be translated into another game
think of it as using mods for your game
This looks like it takes a couple games to get used to, but that looks like so much fun
This looks and sounds SO complicated, but really, all of the new rules are consistent and common-sense. Seems like a fun variation!
Well, the king replacement is confusing
It looks very interesting, so many things to keep track of
The different color concept is interesting, but as somebody who is colorblind, I’m going to confuse the colors of the pieces too often.
BRO just see colors. Like its so easy. Im seeing colors as I type this out lmao
@@TheDevilockedzombie Nice b8 m8.
ohhh man i feel so bad for colorblind people :( maybe theyll add like shapes or an indicator to show which color it is!
@@TheDevilockedzombie ah yes why cant the colorblind person see colors
@@sophieyu2697 add a guide section and a marker to show what color each piece is.
2:16
Literally unplayable.
REEEEEEEE-
More the confusion,chaos and strategy, I like it
You know it is going to be confusing when you realize the video length is 5 minutes
Well, games like Warhammer have 100+ page rule books ... it's only important if the rules are intuitive or arbitrary. It's easy to remember that you control blue pieces when you control a blue square for example and many of the things he says are more like clarification and consequences of the actual rule and not additional rules.
I like mounted chess more, where you can mount pawns, bishops, Queens and Kings on top of knights and create combination pieces to mobilise more effectively and then unmount again. And you can mount rooks to create immobile fortresses which can take adjacent pieces without moving.
How about mounted sovereign chess? Did you think about that?
@@SorchaSublime how about mounted 5d multiverse with time travel soverain chess?
This is what you call wargames
I can't find rules for that, google just tries to sell me wall mounted chess and I'm too tired to argue with it.
@@ICountFrom0 the closest version I could find is horseman's chess
Declining en-passant requires you to bring bricks to the table then.
Don’t hate the game based on the rules and besides, 1) there are other chess variants that en passant aren’t allowed. And 2) if you never tried, you may never know
@@ivanvalencia5785 joke?
@@josiahsimonalcantara3086 I was asking myself the same question.
This one's just wild, especially the transmutating kings
Finally solid entry to claim the title of Chess 2
Yeah, now we just need to add the extra dimensions, mulitverse aspect, and time travel to make it complete.
@@dannypipewrench533 that's ultimate chess 3 & knuckles
@@Scrubermensch True.
You are both wrong, 5D chess is obviously chess 5
@@dziewiaty Perhaps.
In normal chess, you can move to 7 spoces away. In this game its up to 8
Good point. I wonder if this is an oversight?
8 is the length of a standard chess board.
@@NateConklin Yes, 8 is the length of the chessboard, so you can only ever move 7 spaces away, since the square you start on is one too.
@@rew_mate if you phrase it as 'you can move the entire board length in one turn', down to ' you can move 8 spaces', it seems more reasonable that the game just plays well with 8 moves being the correct tuning for balance. Otherwise pieces like knights and pawns would become much less useful due to being way slower than all other pieces by comparison
Sovereign Chess, when the idea of adding multiplayer goes way to far.
I'd love to see how the recorded moves (like you'd do in regular chess) would look.
I'd love to see all the different colours, how takeovers / King swaps would look, etc.!
I've seen two changes to notation for this game that some use and some don't. (I'm gonna keep to the changes, and assume everyone who knows this knows standard notation)
First, gaining and losing piece control rotated by [x>y], replacing x and y with single letter notation for their respective colors.
Secondly, the length that someone goes to to mark the different colors and their controllers. I've seen the single letter notation for the color being used in front of the pieces', so BQa2-c4[G>P] would be for a blue queen moving from a2 to c4, that somehow caused their controller to lose green control and take pink control.
Ive used standard and forsyth-edwards. Both with color fonts to denote color pieces.
@@deadersurvival4716 I think here, unlike regular chess, having the "P" for a pawn move would be easier.
And I was going to ask about colours that start with the same letter, but it appears they thought of that as well...
White
Black
Ash
Slate
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Cyan
Pink
Navy (instead of Blue)
Violet (instead of Purple)
@@ngarcia103 I mean, algebraic notation outright omits a letter for pawn moves, so anything with a single letter is identifying the colored pawn.
I came up with color,piece,original square, new square, capture if any. It’s a lot but it seems like the most logical way of keeping track of moves in this game. A gray rook taking a purple piece would be gaRA13B13x. The x being the captures and the ga being for gray because of green.
And people claim time travel chess is complicated! wow, this is a really big game; it seems amazing.
Now we need 5d sovereign chess with multidimensional timetravel.
@@gulgaffel and fairy chess pieces
No 5d chess is waaaaay more confusing
I'd take sovereign chess over 5d any day!!!
Suppose I change my king's color to blue, then my opponent gains control of blue. Does he immediately win the game? (If so, is there ever a case where changing the color of your king is a good idea?)
EDIT: this is explained at 2:55 - having a blue king gives you overriding control of blue. But I suppose you would then lose overriding control of your original color if the opponent had a good central position.
Yup! That's why the white and black squares are there. Under normal circumstances, you aren't allowed to go on those squares.
It might be good if you current king is trapped
I understood that the enemy cannot occupy the color of your current king. As such they cannot win by controling them.
Nothing happens.
@@sir.atombro3752 The enemy _can_ occupy those squares, but all they gain is that the occupying piece becomes uncapturable by pieces of that color.