That's checkmate, partner. - TF2 Chess

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of L4D?
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on August 9, 2011 · 4:09 PM 
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111 Responses to “That’s checkmate, partner.”

  1. Xenrek on August 9th, 2011 4:18 pm

    Well, going to need to start writing up rules for this alternative method of chess playing.

    going to need 3 chess sets, a 17x17 tile board, 16 20-sided dice, and willing test subjects…

  2. GameboyPATH on August 9th, 2011 4:26 pm

    Engineer countered by adding another swamp card to his rook which would allow him to headshot the bishop, cast firaga from the knight, and eventually move all the way to peppermint forest, where he could align with his men on Boardwalk to make a connect four, earning him 50 points for a straight flush.

  3. Xenrek on August 9th, 2011 4:27 pm

    This game needs to be made, now.

  4. mikeorike on August 9th, 2011 4:31 pm

    I feel compelled to start making my own rules of chess. Hmmm…

    Him: I move my bishop here, and that's checkmate
    Me: HA! Little did you know that that tile was booby-trapped with man-eating monkeys!
    Him: But, I brought Man-Eating Monkey Repellant!
    Me: Still! My queen can escape through the secret passage i built behind the vines!
    Him: But it's not Thursday!
    Me:…I have a lighter!
    Him: DAMMIT

  5. TheInsaneWombat on August 9th, 2011 4:32 pm

    And then the Engineer reveals that there is a ten Engy sentry farm right around the corner.

    ……

    You're right, that wasn't funny. I'll go sit in the corner.

  6. TheInsaneWombat on August 9th, 2011 4:34 pm

    Bingo!

  7. madhatter0082 on August 9th, 2011 4:37 pm

    Yea, but now you gotta bring the king back to your HQ. Good luck with that.

  8. VaultLegend on August 9th, 2011 4:37 pm

    Heavy is King of Chess!

  9. Imagination_Man on August 9th, 2011 4:44 pm

    Sadly, since the Engineer had accrued too many points, the server auto-balanced him to the enemy team. He was surprised to find the BLU team playing a similar game, but on motorcycles.

  10. mikeorike on August 9th, 2011 4:47 pm

    But he couldn't have made the straight flush until he found the Holy Grail and passed go! He also need to roll doubles and punch trees for wood!….unless…it was OCTOBER!

  11. HoopleDoople on August 9th, 2011 4:49 pm

    Only six classes and no hats? WTF is this crap! And those rooks… the noobs won't quit with the W plus M1

  12. Kirbyzilla on August 9th, 2011 4:50 pm

    I don't see any problems. This is how I play chess, isn't it for all of us?

  13. Inshushi on August 9th, 2011 4:55 pm

    Yahtzee!

  14. Inshushi on August 9th, 2011 4:56 pm

    Sorry but the rule for october only applies if it was the odd year after a even one, plus the square root of pie plus the amount of spare metals and tyberium on the field.

  15. Inshushi on August 9th, 2011 4:57 pm

    Heavy is obviously a tower.

  16. tinynewtman on August 9th, 2011 5:00 pm

    After that, Spy realized that there was a cloaked Rook near the entrance, so he rolled 3, collected 2 wool, drew a Blackjack and Sorry'd the rook. This gave him an extra 20 mana to put toward promoting his pawn to Axelord. This tied the game up, and Engineer had no choice but to challenge him to Calvinball.

  17. tinynewtman on August 9th, 2011 5:03 pm

    Do you have an Aperture Gravity Well And Quantum Portal Device?
    If so, I know of some very proper test subjects.
    Now we just need to find some alternative dimension for the resulting supernova of awesomeness to consume…

  18. razorman715 on August 9th, 2011 5:15 pm

    This only proves that there will be a TF2 board game.

    Roll a 1: Move 1 space
    Roll a 2: Attack
    Roll a 3:Buy a hat
    Roll a 4: Buy a hat
    Roll a 5:Sell a hat
    Roll a 6: Sell your family to buy more hats

    There are no winners…. Except valve.

  19. jyndtactica on August 9th, 2011 5:16 pm

    Next month the TF2 Chess update!
    Spy's with bishop hats!
    The unmovable Heavy has his Rook hat on!

  20. TheArrived on August 9th, 2011 5:17 pm

    Bishop is Sappin' mah Knight!

  21. Je2iah on August 9th, 2011 5:20 pm

    I saw this in a thread on the TF2 forums sometime last year. It's gone now. Too bad, I coulda found the artist :P

  22. Ovahdrive on August 9th, 2011 5:22 pm

    Rook: I love this Bishop!

  23. GazzyW007 on August 9th, 2011 5:26 pm

    Our servey says… GOD!
    DING DING DING DING DING

  24. GazzyW007 on August 9th, 2011 5:26 pm

    Pfffff. Real Men Play Lord Loss Chess.

  25. BTSnoogans on August 9th, 2011 5:32 pm

    I'm gonna piss off some of my friends by playing with that rule.

  26. MasqueNoMercy on August 9th, 2011 5:35 pm

    i add HP to my chess pieces so they cant all be killed with one hit

  27. MasqueNoMercy on August 9th, 2011 5:36 pm

    i have my pawn two spaces to the left meaning i can get out of any hole with the pawn rope throw special ability

  28. Sr_Pantalones on August 9th, 2011 5:37 pm

    It needs more hats…

  29. Water_Fire_type on August 9th, 2011 5:50 pm

      ▲
    ▲ ▲

  30. Scone527 on August 9th, 2011 5:50 pm

    ಠ_ಠ

    I'll be right back, my brain just ran away screaming…

  31. Scone527 on August 9th, 2011 5:52 pm

    You know what this game really needs? 3D Chess: http://www.amazon.com/John-N-Hansen-529-Strato/dp

  32. Rathial on August 9th, 2011 6:12 pm

    mmph mmhmmph!
    is pyro speak for "That queen is a spy!"

    Playing against the spy isn't as bad as playing against the sniper though his queen can kill your king from across the board.

  33. Tacogod225 on August 9th, 2011 6:14 pm

    Well that may be, but your spy is a……..DOUBLE AGENT! WITH A HAT!

  34. Juggernaut470 on August 9th, 2011 6:25 pm

    Tyberium, doctor?

    That couldn't possibly be anything like Tiberian could it?

  35. CriticalQuit on August 9th, 2011 6:27 pm

    Engineer is smart enough to be a master at chess.

    Spy is smart enough to know he can still win by annoying the hell out of Engie until he ragequits.

  36. Vabolo on August 9th, 2011 6:29 pm

    I figured they just all got backstabbed.

  37. Vabolo on August 9th, 2011 6:30 pm

    I thought he'd be the King (of team), and the Medic would be the Queen.

  38. Vabolo on August 9th, 2011 6:30 pm

    Pyro just likes to burn stuff.

  39. Inshushi on August 9th, 2011 6:34 pm

    Scouts= peons, Soldier = knight, heavy =tower (Or maybe queen, powerful, tho it doesn't move as the queen) I think Pyro is better as a king, not for how good but mostly cause close distance is pretty good.

  40. TheInsaneWombat on August 9th, 2011 6:35 pm

    Me: No, my King has a ten foot pole. Your rook can't reach him.
    You: Then I use my knight to break through your outer wall.
    Me: I counter with exploding pawns!
    You: I have flak jackets.
    Me: Oh… Then I-

    This goes on for several hours until one of use falls asleep.

  41. chetoos8 on August 9th, 2011 6:40 pm

    Player 1: Redmonds opening, sign of a coward
    Player 2: Blutarch's defense, sign of an idiot

  42. Vabolo on August 9th, 2011 6:40 pm

    DA NA NA NORELATIONWITHTHESUBJECT!

  43. TheAl41 on August 9th, 2011 6:44 pm

    I keep losing…. cheap camping blue paratroop a sniper :(

  44. TheAl41 on August 9th, 2011 6:44 pm

    I didn't laugh

  45. TheAl41 on August 9th, 2011 6:45 pm

    Heavy can't be queen, he's too slow…

  46. Omnomynous on August 9th, 2011 6:50 pm

    Bishop=Sniper
    Scout=Pawn
    King=Engineer
    Knight=Demoman
    Rook=Pyro
    Queen=Spy

    I would add something else for Medic, But I've never played TF2 and I ran out of pieces :/

  47. Inshushi on August 9th, 2011 6:51 pm

    Yeah, I stated that as a tho, that's why I think he does better as a tower, great damage in straight line.

  48. Paulrus-Keaton? on August 9th, 2011 7:08 pm

    <img src="http://www.behindthehype.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/revolver4.jpg&quot; alt="some_text">

    In every game of TF2 there is always a Spy, and there is always a victim. The more control the victim thinks he has, the more likely he is to get backstabbed. Gradually he will rage quit; I, as the Spy, just help him along.

  49. vash_ts on August 9th, 2011 7:16 pm

    OBJECTION!

    …you really need courage to play that thing, wisdom to survive, and power to THROW THE DAMN BOARD AT YOUR OPPONENT!

    sooo… Mr Water_fire_type, you owe me some rupees, I think…

  50. MasterLuigi452 on August 9th, 2011 7:29 pm

    A chess game that requires the skill of TF2?
    Tell me folks. Where do I buy that?

  51. Armetron on August 9th, 2011 7:43 pm

    Spy's sapping all my chest peaces

  52. Kirbyzilla on August 9th, 2011 8:22 pm

    sometimes I light my pieces on fire and make them kamikaze pieces

  53. PortalMan118 on August 9th, 2011 8:26 pm

    A game for only the classiest of TF2 players…

  54. TheAl41 on August 9th, 2011 8:34 pm

    tower should be sniper, he can shoot in straight lines

  55. P0TAT0ES on August 9th, 2011 8:48 pm
  56. Zyquux on August 9th, 2011 8:49 pm
  57. Hipsters! on August 9th, 2011 8:50 pm

    Bah, ever since Chess went F2P it’s just gone downhill.

  58. Zyquux on August 9th, 2011 8:55 pm

    Pyros = Pawns

    (lawl W+M1 joke; I'm so funny.)

  59. Leo E. on August 9th, 2011 9:29 pm

    I come home from a long errand fraught with bullshit, and am greeted with the funniest thing I've seen in a while?

    Oh Halolz, I love you. ♥

  60. Inshushi on August 9th, 2011 9:30 pm

    I would say the Sniper is a bishop, it stays behind other pieces to shoot from a more protected place.

  61. Lord_Science on August 9th, 2011 9:31 pm

    CARD GAMES ON MOTOR- *head explodes*

  62. Steve on August 9th, 2011 9:35 pm

    3=======>

  63. Water_Fire_type on August 9th, 2011 10:15 pm

    fine… *Hands over rupees*

  64. Mindlessinvalid on August 9th, 2011 10:39 pm

    weren't they already playing calvinball? Only a game played between a stuffed tiger and a 6 year old douchebag with ADD could feature gameplay this rich and varied.

  65. Rocker23220 on August 9th, 2011 10:47 pm

    +1 for the reference

    and shame on you, people who didn't get it!!!
    tsk tsk

  66. TheQueenofSouls(DT) on August 9th, 2011 11:05 pm


    Now I need to do this for science!
    CARD GAMES ON MOTOR- *head also asplodes*

    *You were killed by…*

    BLOODY HELL! NO FAIR!

  67. WheelMan1337 on August 9th, 2011 11:06 pm

    Ladies and mentlegen… The world's first Spycheck.

  68. nadare6912 on August 9th, 2011 11:14 pm

    In the second panel the engineer has a bare left hand, in the last panel he put his glove back on he was so mad.

  69. HawnShandyside on August 9th, 2011 11:19 pm

    I will be a tester, no matter how badly this will hurt

  70. BoxeyBrown on August 9th, 2011 11:43 pm

    Lack of social life: Check

    Looks like I'm in

  71. BoxeyBrown on August 9th, 2011 11:44 pm

    Spys: They Ruin Every Game!!!

  72. ChemicalKirby on August 9th, 2011 11:50 pm

    The next time I'm loosing at chess, i will try this and see where it takes me

  73. GameboyPATH on August 10th, 2011 12:12 am

    And incredibly awesome.

  74. ChemicalKirby on August 10th, 2011 12:15 am

    King and queen usually have hats…

  75. CriticalQuit on August 10th, 2011 12:42 am

    Screw the brains, i have fire!

  76. CriticalQuit on August 10th, 2011 12:43 am

    Entire team is pawns!

  77. FiveEight on August 10th, 2011 1:15 am

    Artist is
    HERE
    http://pandadrake.deviantart.com/

    have a nice day

  78. Cake Core on August 10th, 2011 1:38 am

    That's interesting, because YOU ARE FIRED!
    Yes. You. Box. Your stuff. Out the front door. Parking lot. Car. Goodbye.

  79. Cake Core on August 10th, 2011 1:45 am

    I can't be a test subject, but I can supply the bean counters
    And the tumors

  80. Cake Core on August 10th, 2011 1:55 am

    OMGWTFBBQ

  81. Cake Core on August 10th, 2011 1:57 am

    Then the dominoes will come crashing down like a house of cards….
    Checkmate.

  82. Vabolo on August 10th, 2011 2:03 am

    What if I roll a 20?

  83. Vabolo on August 10th, 2011 2:03 am

    No reason to trample his e-Peen….

  84. Vabolo on August 10th, 2011 2:04 am

    INDEED.

  85. Cake Core on August 10th, 2011 2:14 am

    ITS CALLED A ROOK
    ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKK!

  86. Cake Core on August 10th, 2011 2:16 am

    Is it really camping if the sniper is 50 ft away?

  87. Cake Core on August 10th, 2011 2:17 am

    Who sent all these Pawns to fight?

  88. jostimaster on August 10th, 2011 6:03 am

    You buy more hats. Or keys to get sparkly hats.

  89. jostimaster on August 10th, 2011 6:04 am

    So THAT's why they're in charge!

  90. smartmonkey on August 10th, 2011 7:45 am
  91. Pioneer1 on August 10th, 2011 8:20 am

    +1 for Cave Johnson

  92. GazzyW007 on August 10th, 2011 11:04 am

    Since you made a YGO:TAS reference, I read your comment as British!Yugi.

  93. GazzyW007 on August 10th, 2011 11:06 am

    Well therefore Kane is behind this.

    THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!

  94. GazzyW007 on August 10th, 2011 11:12 am

    Most logical comment on Halolz.

  95. walktovanish on August 10th, 2011 11:27 am

    That's exactly what I thought of!

  96. Korogoth on August 10th, 2011 1:54 pm

    Somehow the fact that the spah snorts while laughing make it that much more funny for me.

  97. Alpar on August 10th, 2011 5:23 pm

    BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE BABIES COME FROOOOOOOOOOOM.

  98. SonicsmyName on August 10th, 2011 7:51 pm

    ….
    Should I be proud of myself or enraged that I didn't figure out what you guys meant by W +M1 untill now?

  99. ProfessorLuigi on August 10th, 2011 10:12 pm

    Indubitibly.

  100. ProfessorLuigi on August 10th, 2011 10:13 pm

    It's like how I used to call Clubs "clovers".
    Admit it, they do look like shamroks, don't they?

  101. ProfessorLuigi on August 10th, 2011 10:14 pm

    Clearly they weren't out classed.

  102. ProfessorLuigi on August 10th, 2011 10:15 pm

    Trample? Man, that must hurt.

  103. ProfessorLuigi on August 10th, 2011 10:17 pm

    Tell me the logic, in which a post that shows a text triforce gets downthumbed like there's no tomorrow because it shows no relation to the current subject at hand, while a post that just shows a picture of a potato, which also has no relation to the subject, gets thumbed up 9 times.

  104. ProfessorLuigi on August 10th, 2011 10:18 pm

    Chess fetish?

  105. ProfessorLuigi on August 10th, 2011 10:25 pm

    DEM BLOODSUCKING LAWYERS

  106. Solomerc_Elite on August 10th, 2011 11:36 pm

    Portal 2 tangent, that's how.

  107. vash_ts on August 11th, 2011 4:41 pm

    Pleasure doing business with you, Mr W…

  108. Cake Core on August 11th, 2011 11:58 pm

    IT'S A TRAP!

  109. Vabolo on August 13th, 2011 1:20 pm

    Potatoes are awesome.

  110. GameboyPATH on August 14th, 2011 2:46 am

    I really wanted to throw that in there, too.

  111. Shawn Handyside on August 17th, 2011 2:35 am

    Thanks! I updated it!

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