This is not a "rule change", it's a "rule revert"; The original version of chess was to capture the king, and this changed to make longer games and be more interesting.

ah yes, the true kings gambit

The King just wanted to be treated equally

The "hard" mode chess bots in 2 Players game literally plays like martin

Funny thing is, it wasn’t checkmate. He could have gone to the other square by the pawns.

When the AI doesn’t feel like going Kd6 so it just decides to give itself an unfair advantage

I have this game on my tablet (2 Player Games). Whoever programmed the chess in this one is absolutely hilarious lmao. In the "hard" difficulty of chess, the bot starts out with some decent, familiar openings. After that, it just captures whatever it can capture. Truly one of the AIs of all time

My friend actually challenge me to play this, he was mated when he siddenly just took my rook, and i was like so confuse how he took it

I've gotta show this AI to my chess professor, he's either gonna be depressed or absolutely bursting with laughter

It's not a game, it's history.

This makes sense until you consider that stalemate is a draw yet only comes up in situations where their next move should be into check.

Newsflash... That wasn't checkmate, king could have escaped to d6.

Whenever i play chess irl i make it a rule to where if you dont notice it your king can get captured

the best part is it wasnt even mate

0:01 that looks like a problem to the knight on g5

"Checkmate"

I’ve been playing that version the last couple days and it’s easy asf. I (700 elo) put the bot to max difficulty and whooped it’s ass. It’s the same rule only you just need to actually capture the king