If you had to adapt Chess into a cartoon who would be the main character? Rules:
>You have infinite budget but you can't spend it on anything else other than making the cartoon. You can't even spend it on like coffee or something for the people working on it, you have to pay for that shit yourself. Or make them pay either way.
>You are garunteed one whole season for sure, up to 26 episodes and up to 44 minutes each.
>If you want a second season you'll have to actually try to make it a show that they are willing to renew. But for the first season you can do literally anything you want in a TVMA or lower show.
Also how would you structure it? Would each episode be one player move and you like tell a story about how the shit goes down within the actual chess universe? Or is each episode a whole game? Does it take place irl at all or do we never see the players and only ever see things from the pieces' pov?
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Just a static png like the one you've posted that stays that way for 26 episodes, 44 minutes each. I don't need your infinite budget.
A pawn that gets promoted into a queen in the series finale.
White or black? Also does this pawn have a character arc about becoming queen or is it super sudden?
Also gib more details. I might draw her.
>her
if i could adapt chess into anything i'd do a gritty action movie a la super mario 1993 or battleship
Just make it Hikaru no Go vs Deep Blue.
You've already got a winning formula in your lap. Simply up the ante and roll with it.
You could also just spend 26 episodes on those comics about shota king vs. mommy pieces bully him.
If anyone here is old enough to remember the box art for Battle Chess with that sexy queen showing cleavage and a decent amount of thigh from the high slit robe....yeah. Tame by today's standards, but as an adolescent with dial up internet, and a family computer that was easily viewable by anyone passing by, that visible thigh and cleavage got a lot of mileage.
Anyway, the show would probably have to abstract the whole chess concept quite a bit or it would get really boring. I could see a show revolving around strategy and perhaps using some sort of game board to plot out military moves being effective, but the bulk of the show would have to happen away from the board either on the battle field, private conversations, etc. Basically it would be like Daenerys with her fancy Dragonstone map.
This, I'd make a Battle Chess cartoon and incorporate as many of the animations from the game into the show.
The rook had the best animations.
>just fricking eats the queen whole
The animations are so fricking slow. Chess is already a boring game, they didn't need to make you wait 300 years for the pieces to slowly walk around and position themselves.
>knight vs knight monty python reference
>the rook is the thing
>the queen just fricking disintegrates her victims
>the king just pulls out a gun against bishop
lmao
The King shooting the Bishop to death will never not be funny.
Does it have to be actual chess, like some kind of Prince Of Tennis shit, or can it be more freeform/allegorical, say an epic Machiavellian
Renaissance power play story between two kingdoms, maybe each ep following a given "piece" as they play out their move as if it were an IRL intrigue?
Yeah it can be that if you want.
Pretty much that then. Each season or sub-arc of a season would play out as a gambit. Most of the pieces would reflect their literal counterparts. Pawns would be NPC's used to serve an end, soldiers, servants, assassins, etc. Rooks I suppose would be like PMs or counselors. Attacks would be literal in some cases and figurative in others depending on the pieces and the situation. A bishop for instance doesn't have to personally stick a knife in someone to take them out.
Series of gambit, I should say, since you've got moves and responses.
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Have MC be a pawn with his pawn buddies, most of them get killed off, thrown away as pointless sacrifices by inept clergy and nobility, he makes it to promotion (perhaps gets underpromoted to knight) and is forced to sacrifice his one remaining pawn buddy to clinch the win. He's horrified at what he's become and kills himself.
This sounds really good. Is the overall concert worth watching?
The show starts with a powerful warrior Queen who, despite her high station, is the fiercest warrior and most magically powered in all the kingdom. Her power is passed down through blood, but only affects females. Alas, she has 2 sons.
The kingdom falls under siege from warriors of a distant land. After 2 or three episodes of backstory, stage setting, and intrigue, the Queen is tragically killed and the kingdom is in turmoil as all the characters close ranks to protect the King. The story splits between those who choose to stay to protect the king (and launch attacks against the opposing forces) and one brave pawn who, with a small cadre of friends, makes her way across the kingdom into enemy territory. If she can manage to find a magical amulet at the far end of the enemy's kingdom, the powers of the old queen will be bestowed upon her and she will, in effect, become the new Queen able to use her mighty powers to defend the kingdom.
This actually takes cues from chess since you can get your queen back if a pawn makes it to the far end of the board.
>this ackshually takes cues from chess because
We know.
not all of us are chess dorks, dork.
Everyone still knows the rules.
>Everyone still knows the rules.
Casuals might have heard most rules in passing, but not the full rules.
Yeah
Most people don't even know how the fricking pieces move.
They fricking don’t? How can they not?
Because they’re not chess dorks. It’s not like every child grows up playing chess. There’s no reason for them to know all the moves.
I’m under the impression that learning chess is like learning how to ride a bike: easy to learn and remember, difficult to master.
But J guess kids nowadays can’t pry their eyes off of toilets to be fricked to learn HORSEY MAKES L-SHAPES! IT’S OVER
we get it, you're a chess nerd.
jesus christ.
Yes
I’m really not, but I know where the pieces go.
The point is not everyone does, and not everyone knows that a pawn can become a queen. Pointing this out seems like an overexplanation to those who actually know chess, but considering a fair number of people do not, it was worth mentioning.
I just felt like it was a rudimental thing kids learn like books like “Of Mice and Men” but you’re right
Can't it just be a sports anime, which uses actual games?
>Mc white pawn girl
>Peasant b***h with boring but comfortable life.
>Forced into battle as a kid, becomes a pawn when they put a funny yellow hat on her head.
>It's a magic mind control hat and it makes people fight for the nobles
>But it doesn't work on Mc. She only pretends it does so as not to get executed
>Later after many months of watching all her friends die in the stupidest ways, while she happens to be in the same area as some of the higher ups she sneaks and spies on them and it turns out that the hats really do nothing and it's all placebo effect
>This means that all of the pawns including all of her friends and family are mindless npc drones who can't even tell that they still have free will just because someone told them they didn't
>Finding this out she becomes disgusted by the peasantry and vows to become a noble, leaving behind her origins and family to writhe in the dirt like the worms they are
>The rest of the series is her still pretending to be one of the drone homosexuals while she tries to sneak deep behind enemy lines and steal their treasure, enough to make herself rich and become an aristocrat.
>Season 2
>She manages to get inside the enemy's armory and pulls a heist
>She ends up claiming the old queen's magical artifacts and armaments (old queen died at some point in season 1)
>Kills many many black kingdom creeps and goes back to her commanders
>She refuses to give up the artifacts and keeps them for herself, and finally reveals that she knew all along the hats weren't magic and she was just faking
>They can't take them from her because she's too strong.
>She makes them a deal. She will destroy the black kingdom, slaughter and torture all their peoples until nothing but white kingdom soldiers draw breath on that land, and in exchange she will be made a noble.
>They accept because it's like a win win and it's cool as hell.
>She does what she says she will do, and especially enjoys hearing the wails of agony and cries for mercy coming from the black pawns.
>At the end she is rewarded for her bravery and heroism with as many dickings as she wants from the hot prince.
>They marry and one day she becomes queen.
>You have infinite budget but you can't spend it on anything else other than making the cartoon. You can't even spend it on like coffee or something for the people working on it
Catering is part of the budgeting calculations that go into the "making" of any project.
I know but I don't care. I mean with infinite budget you could just cheat and like buy a million foods and use the leftovers to like end world hunger and stuff. That's why you can't buy anything like that.
Good luck staffing a show.
We'll pay you to draw, but we can't pay for electricity or running water. There will be no amenities like coffee or tea and you need to piss in a jar that you bring from home because we won't pay for that either.
That said, we've got like infinite money to waste on getting A-list hollywood actors to voice characters and we'll basically keep pissing away money until it's perfect.
Magnus Carlsen. The leader. Spends at least 10 percent of the series intoxicated.
Hikaru Nakamura. The weirdo. The explosive time wizard, who pulls shit out of nowhere with no time left on the clock.
Levy Rozman. The audience stand in. Gets shit explained to him.
Anish Giri. The brown dude.
Wesley So . The hyper aggressive dude. Shows up season 2.
Anna and Mariya Muzychuk. The girls.
Judith Polgar. Mom
Stockfish.
The mascot.
I think I would frame it in the same way as Hikaru no Go or Akagi, where it's moreso about people playing the game
Pawn(male) gets promoted to Queen, hijinks ensures
The series has the poor chump adjust to his new role while facing misogyny on the battlefield, and the King's romantic advances onto the poor sucker
>his
you almost fricking had it and you had to make it gay you absolute homosexual
I think he meant his as in the queen still identifies a man, despite being magically transformed into a woman.
That's still just gay fetish shit you homo
And maybe "She" has to contend with the old queen, or maybe replaces the old queen after she got captured/killed
>infinite budget
Have chatgpt come up with episode ideas and launder the rest of the budget as "consultant fees"
>who would be the main characters?
Cowboys, Pirates, and Medieval Kings.
Honestly? I'd just rip off The Dreamstone.
"Checkmate" is a comedy war cartoon about the miserable lives of Pawns, stuck fighting an unwinnable war they can't control. Their King and Queen are evil , aristocratic overlords that will send them to their death. The Bishop, Rook, and Knight are a trio of sniveling sycophants, conniving cheats, and bully braggarts. Every game comes with a new military strategy (with a new invention, new tactic, or new chess variant, like shogi) that hilariously and tragically backfires. It's a cartoon about failure.
I'd honestly take the position that instead of treating every piece as a single unit, treat each piece as a squad of people.
>Pawns are a bunch of rando grunts, Rooks are engineers, Knights are knights, Bishops have the power of their god, The queen is an elite unit, the king is the mobile court of royalty
>Episodes are based on the moves, conflicts based on that too
>Follows the various groups, main one is one of pawns that makes its way to the end of the board, ranking up and going to slaughter the enemy king
This would let episodes be more than just one guy. Alternatively, instead of making it a war series, it's just the groups fricking around most of the time with the actual game just being a war game for sport. This way you can get a member of the queens /ss/ing a pawn
>This way you can get a member of the queens /ss/ing a pawn
could always make the king young too
Yeah I was thinking that too.
>If you had to adapt Chess into a cartoon
Japan is way ahead of you
>pawns are all aware they are 100% expendable and even though they dont cherish the thought of dying first they are still pretty chipper about it, and will make the most sarcastic and snide comments since pawn mis-use is one of the big stumbling blocks for new players
>knights are hot headed, gung-ho types who are rearing for action, they adore their snowflake status and unique rulesets and are always trying to get into battle first, and are always surprised when they are over extended and surrounded by enemies
>rook and bishop have a funny man/straight man routine and a heated rivalry, the rook being the dependable straight man who hates showing off while the bishop is a flamboyant fop who loves how he can dominate half the board with east, until the rook chimes in that he only ever gets one half at a time
>the queen is powerful and she knows it, and acts as the hands on field leader, trying to keep the rook, bishop, and knight in check to the best of her abilltes and failing
>the king is rarely seen due to his poor combat capability and the fact the game is lost without him, but will appear very occasionally and actually be a decent, if slow, fighter (kings are actually offensively in the late game of chess when they arent as easily trapped and their 8-way movement still allows them to set up for a checkmate), but he is shown doing all the paperwork and administrative work and is seemingly their direct connection to the "player" whatever form he takes
>the king is totally whipped in the relationship with the queen due to the power imbalance, but they are in the almost-sickeningly sweet kind of marriage where they cant go two steps without declaring their undying love
Is chessDOTcom thinking of doing a cartoon or something? What a weird survey like thread.
Hikaru no Go, but with chess.
I had an idea like this for an elaborate shitpost which I am now reminded to get back to. But I also realized I don't know enough about chess to make any convincing game scenarios.
Pawns are the comic relief mascot characters that get an absurd amount of merchandising.
I'll write it as if it were an opening narration of an 80s/90s cartoon/
>A long time ago, there was peace and prosperity in the white kingdom. But one day an unknown force came from space, the black army. They kidnapped the king and the prince (OC piece) and only the Chexx order, made up of the most powerful warriors of the white kingdom, will be able to save their majesties and rid the world of the space menace led by the evil queen, Void.
>(theme song starts)
>(We see a group of warriors traveling through different places.)
>(the main characters are introduced)
>Jacko (rook(Comic relief)) with the power to invoke structures.
>Xanders (pawn(protag's rival)) with the power to control the 4 elements.
>Jinny (pawn(is the princess in disguise)) with the power of love.
>Yungor (Bishop(your black token)) with the power of necromancy.
>Arthur (Knight(The protag)) with his sword that allows him to transform into mystical creatures (his most used form would be the centaur).
>AND... Muffy!!!(A talking panda, the mascot.)
>(The opening then shows the black army. It shows a black sorcerer, a black knight, a black giant, and a black elf tomboy who would be the pawn, then the silhouette of the void queen is shown (her appearance will be a mystery throughout the series)).
>(We see the heroes fighting against different enemies that would represent different board games, such as a notchinese terracotta army representing checkers, or mutant rats).
>(The opening ends with the protagonists and the villains of the black army + the notchinese emperor looking at each other, then it is revealed that they are standing in a giant room with a black/white floor, representing the original game board).
>CHEXX, more eXtreme than ever.
The fights would be something like this:
>The heroes first face off against the motw in the open, they are defeated by the motw's board game inspired gimmick, which would normally be that the heroes are forced to fight as he wants them to.
>They find a way to overcome that gimmick.
>The heroes and the motw are teleported to a dimension with the floor patterns of white+the villain's main color, now they have more freedom to use their abilities and defeat the motw.
>scene of the main villains doing something.
>To be continued.
I'm going to sleep, if the thread is still here, I'll develop more.
Prepare to be sued by General Mills.
Also Chinese checkers aren't Chinese if that's what you meant. (or regular checkers for that matter) They have their own version of chess, Xiangqi, and Go (Weichi)
Other than that, sounds fun, like something I would come up with.
>A long time ago, there was peace and prosperity in the white kingdom. But one day an unknown force came from space, the black army.
White pieces move first, moron, it's obvious the black army should be the defending side.
>head of diversity writers be like
What’s next? A pawn can just CHOOSE to be a queen if they work hard enough? Go back to tumblr you SJW cringelord.
It is supposed to emulate those old cartoons that didn't respect the original source.
the white team is a bunch of far right thinkers and historical figures, the black team is leftists. each episode is actually a historical documentary or philosophical lecture. black ends up winning of course. the pieces would fly off and the chess board would sit on a table as the rest of planet earth's humans move up the kardashev scale around it
if it can only be 26 episodes, the format would have to decide if each episode had only one move, or two moves. if it had moves for each episode, the episode could contain a back and forth argument from both sides instead of one argument for an entire episode
>One jaded pawn to young optimistic one
>ever notice than when they say that when you can become whatever you want if you ever reach the other side, the one thing you can't be is a king?
>While we all put our lives on the line, they stay oout the conflict, not ever daring to get near the danger like we are all forced to?
It would be a war drama/action portraying the game as a bloody conflict. The main character would be a Rook. Who manages to survive and make it to the very end. The last episode is his climactic battle with the Queen and him taking down the king, when he goes to cut him down it switches to a irl perspective where it’s just a guy knocking it over.
It's a Fantasy cartoon where two gods; The Black and the white god are fighting each other. The chess board has a bunch of towns on each tile and you see the impact of knights raiding towns and fighting in villages. Every piece is a group of people you have to learn to like before they die. The first episode is all about the two gods before the first starts. Every episode goes over a turn for the both of them until the final 5 episodes which is a montage of a bunch of death. Eventually, a pawn becomes a queen. At the end, White wins and it's implied they will start another game up in the future
It'd be a Pixar movie about a black pawn and a white pawn who fall in love even though their respective kingdoms are in total warfare against one another. The movie's climax is when one of the pawns is ordered to capture the other to secure a checkmate, and refuses because, you know, you're supposed to make love not war.
>black pawn gets promoted to queen
>has to capture white pawn before they get promoted too
>black pawn refuses
>white pawn promotes to another queen
>sexy lesbian sex ending
>cartoon about chess
>no mention of Kinger anywhere
>or Titus Uno, certified public accountant, forensic certified public accountant, and chartered global management accountant
Infinite budget? Okay first of all, you're getting some mmm-mmm animation. Like renaissance Disney animation. Second, you're getting a Manowar soundtrack. Now onto the story.
"Once upon a time there were two sisters. One day they had a fight and split up. Each had a fairytale-like encounter with a prince and eventually became Queen. Soon after the kingdoms of Black & White went to war with eachother. Pawn of
Blackgaard is a mere footsoldier who comes into the service of the Ebon Knight after saving his life during a battle. Thanks to his new status, Pawn gets to see the court of his country. He soon discovers that there is intrigue afoot. The king is a shell of a man. He is sent to a suicide charge with his master but he survives. The Ebon Knight's final act is to award him with his seal of knighthood, in recognition for his faithful service. Pawn decides to attempt to assassinate the enemy king. He dresses as a white pawn and manages to infiltrate the castle. But upon reaching the white king, Pawn sees that this king is likewise frail. He spares the man out of confusion but he is caught by the Alabaster Knight. The knight mistakes Pawn for a noble and challenges him to single combat instead of calling the guards. To both their surprise, Pawn slays the knight by performing a move that neither pawn nor knight should be able to. Pawn escapes to the wilderness to have an existencial crisis.
He freaks out about breaking so many rules until he realizes that no punishment has come down upon him. He realizes that nothing binds him and kinda becomes arrogant about it. He sets off to examine the queens' past and finds the truth. The queens are sister witches who charmed the princes of the land and used their kingdoms to enact their grudge. Furious, Pawn leads a rebellion. He confronts the Black Queen, who is rather pissed at his rising above his station more than being a traitor. Pawn proudly proclaims that he isn't bound by laws and that the real authority is force, which the soldiers give to the Crown. The Black Queen proceeds to trounce the shit out of him using sorcery until the Black King himself shuffles up behind her and wounds her. The Black Queen flees crying to her sister and the two fly away to the land they originated from. Hostilities between the two kingdoms stop and the recovering kings name the (now more reserved) Pawn the Grey commander of the new allied army. Their new mission is to forge into the foreign country the Queens fled to and slay them, defeating the army of the Jade Emperor in the process.