Hammond & May try to play chess while downing shots

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Published 2022-07-17
Who wants to play normal chess when you can introduce some gin into the mix? The rules are simple – if you take a piece, you take a shot. Enjoy over an hour of Richard Hammond, James May, a chess board, and slightly too much alcohol…

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All Comments (21)
  • @WhatNextVids
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  • @chess
    What a layer this adds to the game! This was great fun!
  • @janimizer1725
    I love how Hammond still says ''If you've just joined us'' at random intervals as if its a TV programme
  • Hammond has a breathtaking technique- explaining every bit of thought process out loud to your opponent. 😅
  • Amazing how civil they are when it's just two of them together. Throw a third one in and all he'll breaks loose.
  • @SalemShanouha
    I would watch a whole series of May and Hammond playing different games. Monopoly next?
  • Just what i needed. One hour of James and Hammond bickering. One hour to forget all the other bullcrap on this planet. Thank you.
  • I just love that they're calling them "prawns." I didn't realize that those little pieces were crustaceans lol.
  • @ikeatable1
    I put the game through Stockfish, and the analysis bar had a seizure in the first five moves alone. Great content, even greater for people who play chess.
  • @mannydcbianco
    "You are thinking about it, which I'd say technically is cheating!" -- Richard Hammond, while playing chess
  • @dr.celsius886
    James: "explains one move ahead" Richard: "This is a level of thinking I can't fathom"
  • @oblivious5396
    i love how Richard getting slightly drunker after every drink is actually visible
  • @loxburry
    James surveying the room about whether Richard had already been wearing glasses and coming to no conclusion was magical (23:46)
  • @Danker19991
    Trust me Hammond, after your fourth shot no one had any doubts that it was real gin.
  • @eenayeah
    Imagine telling James and Richard 20 years ago, on Top Gear--a car show, mind you--that 20 years later they'd be playing chess while drinking and that hundreds of thousands of people would still be watching them.
  • @classymuffin4589
    I love that half the game is them making moves that don't particularly do anything followed by the other saying "oh that was genius".
  • @agentPLINY
    I love how Hammond has to vocalize every single thought in his brain 🤣
  • As an avid chess player this was simultaneously hilarious and horrendously painful to watch
  • I don't know why Hammond was convinced that we'd think they were using water instead of gin. I'd be much more likely to believe that he was pretending to drink a glass of water which was really gin.
  • @ThelouwseFD
    Hammond: we can't prove to you that it's real gin Also Hammond after a few shots : 37:12 Don't worry we believe you 😅