The chess puzzle in Future 2 is simply the primary piece in an all-consuming puzzle the Future neighborhood is quickly attempting to resolve forward of the The Fringe of Destiny enlargement reveal for Future 2 on Might 6.
If you happen to don’t full this chess puzzle, launched within the twilight of the “Heresy” episode, you may’t assist the neighborhood remedy the bigger image. So we’re right here to assist clarify it and provide the solutions you’ll want to discover the answer — and we’ll show you how to get some nice Heresy weapons alongside the best way.
On this Future 2 information, we’ll stroll you thru begin the chess puzzle, clarify how the puzzle works, and present you remedy the chess puzzle.
Learn how to attain the chess board in Future 2

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To succeed in the chess puzzle in Future 2, you’ll want to load into Eris’ house in The Final Metropolis. Use the Eris’ Flat waypoint to drop in after which use the Hive portal to teleport into Eris’ Throne World.
As soon as inside, rigorously drop off the facet of the platform, on the lookout for a doorway that results in a chamber underneath the place Eris is standing. You’ll discover a chess board sitting on the desk. Once you strategy, it’ll ask: “Choose up the King?” Work together with the board and also you’ll be teleported onto it.
Once you land on the chess board, you’ll unlock the power to fly in at any time by way of The Final Metropolis menu, utilizing the Unknown Antechamber waypoint both at Middlegame (earlier than you’ve accomplished the puzzle) or Endgame (the place you may acquire info to assist the neighborhood after the puzzle).
HoHowever, to really remedy the puzzle, you’ll first want to seek out all 60 chess items hidden across the Sol system. For the precise areas, we advocate you try Esoterickk’s video above, which is able to present you precisely the place to seek out all 60 chess items. If you wish to have some enjoyable searching your self first, keep watch over your radar as you do the next:
- Go to Eris’ house
- Go to The Tower
- Go to the EDZ
- Go to Europa
- Discover the primary 4 areas of The Nether
- Resolve “secrets and techniques” in The Nether
- Discover the Courtroom of Blades
- Experiment with the Path of Ambition and Path of Resolve
- Communicate to The Drifter
You possibly can observe your progress by way of “The Opening” Triumph, and the Triumphs that come after it (“Drifter’s Items,” “Nether Secrets and techniques,” and so forth).
When you’ve discovered all of the items — otherwise you’re in a position to social gathering up with a good friend who’s discovered them already — return to the chess board to start the puzzle.
How the chess puzzle works in Future 2

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Within the Unknown Antechamber, you’ll see an enormous chess board with items on it, in addition to symbols on the white facet of the board denoting the assorted items you’ve collected, together with the “Deletion” and “Take” symbols on both facet (extra on these final two later).
The concept right here is that you’ll want to create a board the place, on the following flip, you (white) will win the chess recreation by reaching checkmate on the enemy (black) with out placing your individual king into checkmate.
To attain checkmate, you’re ready to make use of the items you’ve collected by standing on their image pillar after which taking pictures the place on the board the place you’d like them to seem. The primary puzzle, for instance, is solved by standing on the pawn pillar and taking pictures a pawn to the place simply again and to the left or proper of the white queen — which is straight forward of the black king.
That’s easy sufficient for those who perceive the foundations of chess (which is necessary for this puzzle, so brush up on the foundations for those who can’t bear in mind), nevertheless it positively will get extra difficult as you go. Bear in mind, this isn’t simply chess — it’s Future chess.

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Along with putting items, you can too destroy items — both your individual or the black items — with “Deletion” or you may “Take” items, which turns the black enemy items into white ally items. The opposite catch right here, and what makes this puzzle fairly tough, is that you could full 27 chess puzzles (of various complexity) with the 60 chess items you’ve collected. This implies you have to be extraordinarily environment friendly with the items you employ and be aware of if you use them.
Earlier than you get began, listed here are two fast suggestions as you’re attempting to resolve the chess puzzle:
- ,The board is labeled like a regular chess board, with A-H on the underside facet of the board and 1-8 on the left. Use this to maintain observe of which items you employ and when and the place you employ them.
- Whereas standing on one of many pillars that lets you place a chunk, you may goal together with your weapons to make the chess items dissolve and as a substitute present their image on the board’s flooring. This makes putting items on a crowded board a lot simpler.
We advocate you strive a couple of boards by yourself, as these huge Future puzzles don’t come round fairly often. (The final one this measurement was means again in early 2020!) If you happen to mess up a transfer, you may undo it by way of the inexperienced computer-thing in the back of the room. If you happen to mess up rather a lot, you may work together with the e book behind you to begin over. And if you’re prepared for a step-by-step transfer walkthrough, try the part under.
What’s the resolution to the chess puzzle in Future 2
One of many cool components about this puzzle is that it could technically be accomplished in a number of alternative ways, and never each profitable resolution would require the identical quantity or sorts of items. You could even have strikes left over, relying on what you select.
The solutions we’ll checklist out under are these found by good friend of epicgamejourney Skarrow9, a Future YouTuber identified among the many recreation’s neighborhood for fixing puzzles. You possibly can see his video above, or try one other puzzle supply like Datto if you would like one other set of strikes to strive.
You possibly can learn the next moveset by following the piece or motion (Pawn) adopted by “to” and the board area (C-3). Some puzzles require a number of steps, which will probably be damaged up by commas. You’ll know you accomplished the puzzle appropriately when “Absolute Pin” seems on the left facet of your display screen. We’ve additionally denoted if you’ll obtain rewards as you remedy the puzzles.
- Pawn to E-6
- Rook to H-8
- Pawn to E-5 (Heresy weapon reward)
- Pawn to E-4, Pawn to F-4, Knight to D-4
- Knight to D-5, Pawn to E-6
- Pawn to D-1 (Heresy weapon reward)
- Pawn to F-4, Pawn to D-7, Bishop to E-5, Knight to G-7
- Knight to C-6, Rook to D-2
- Deletion to F-6 (Heresy weapon reward)
- Knight to D-7, Pawn to E-4, Bishop to F-5
- Pawn to C-6, Pawn to E-6, Pawn to D-7
- Take to E-4 (Heresy weapon reward)
- Bishop to E-5
- Pawn to B-7, Pawn to F-7, Knight to H-8,
- Knight to D-7, Knight to E-7 (Heresy Adept weapon reward)
- Destroy to F-2, Knight to F-2
- Take to C-3, Take to E-7
- Bishop to C-5, Knight to D-3, Knight to F-5 (Heresy weapon reward)
- Deletion to D-7, Deletion to E-2
- Bishop to E-8
- Bishop to E-2 (Heresy weapon reward)
- Knight to E-5
- Knight to E-3
- Deletion to D-5, Knight to C-4, Knight to H-3, Pawn to B-6, Pawn to B-7 (Heresy weapon reward)
- Bishop to D-2, Deletion to E-4, Deletion to H-4, Queen to D-7, Take to F-5
- Knight to B-4, Queen to E-7, Bishop to D-5
- Take to F-5, Take to E-3, Take to D-6, Take to C-4 (two Heresy Adept weapon rewards)
With puzzle 27 solved, you’ll have accomplished the preliminary chess puzzle and might be part of the neighborhood in determining what comes subsequent.
What to do with the knowledge you get on the finish of the chess puzzle

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Once you remedy the ultimate chess puzzle in Future 2, you’ll unlock a bowl of water that you could peer into on the precise facet of the board, permitting you to see a wierd chess board with symbols throughout it and — probably — a colour within the center. You’ll additionally see a sign quantity denoted on the left facet of your display screen.
It is a community-wide puzzle, the place gamers want to return collectively and share their photos collectively to make a code. Gamers have already spent hours submitting to this huge type, and this particular web site, which has led the neighborhood to a brand new Bungie-made code enter. This code hasn’t been totally cracked but, so you may nonetheless submit your findings to the hyperlinks above to assist the neighborhood remedy the Aion Community v4.2.4 puzzle.
It’s presently unclear the place this puzzle will ultimately lead (or what the reward will probably be), however as soon as there’s a resolution, we’ll publish a brand new information and hyperlink to it right here. For now, you need to use the JGN-PX4-DFN code at Bungie.web (or observe this hyperlink to auto-complete the code) to unlock the Secret Sign emblem that gamers have already discovered hidden within the Aion Community puzzle.
If you happen to’re trying to assist observe alongside and contribute, you may observe creators like Skarrow9, FalloutPlays, Datto, MrRoflWaffles, BogOnMyDog, and subreddits like r/raidsecrets for updates.