Drawback Chess is Insane

Once Eric realizes he can click on a piece and only legal moves are highlighted, he'll have a lot less confusion and play a lot better.

19:45 "The problem is there's no stalemate in this game" Eric in shambles 😂

33:31 amazing that the wording of his drawback was edited in real time. Live the devs for this!

The fact that it’s impossible to tell if the opponents are exploiting the drawbacks or just blundering is hilarious

33:51 International Master: "How do knights move? 1, 2, 3"

27:40 made me LOL "free knight! ... oh i can't save the bishop" 😂

I sometimes play a game with my friends on a chess board, where one person (the game master) makes up the rules and the players only know how the game ends (usually capturing the king, but not always) and have to figure out how the rules by playing. The game master only tells whether a move is legal or not. If it is legal, then the move is made. Otherwise the player gets another attempt. This video makes we want to make it into a website like drawback chess, so that Eric can play it. The rules can be anything, but many follow the "Chess, but ..." principle. E.g. Chess, but you can only move closer to the center. Or Chess, but you capture by sandwiching an opponent piece. Or Chess, but the pieces gain the powers of the pieces protecting them. Chess, but all pieces are queens. Chess, but captures are forced etc.

I think the Chebyshev or 'king' distance - i.e. smallest number of king moves to get from A to B - feels more natural and is easier to see on the board than Manhattan. Manhattan makes diagonal moves moves huge compared to up/down/left/right or the Pythagorean length. King distance makes diagonals smaller than Pythagorean length, but it reflects the 'true' metric of the chess board since kings actually do cheat Pythagoras in that sense. Also 'H-phile' should really be called 'H-phobe'! It's still a pun, kinda... or an anti-pun.

I've tried timed 5+5 against a human and unlimited time against the AI. iirc I beat the AI once because it had some insane drawback which I can't remember. The last game I played, I lost in a funny way: the AI had an intermittent drawback: color blind - it couldn't move to a particular colour (randomized each move). Its queen saw and didn't capture my king about five moves in a row. I got complacent, thinking that its queen couldn't capture my king :)

This is my favorite variant for now, it is so creative

some of those drawbacks are brutal; Eric's in the 21:44 was hard but his opponents was absolutely brutal

It's crucial that an explicit metric is set in the wording of distance-based drawbacks

thing is, you have to leave your king hanging, but your opponent might get into a situation where he cant take your king. I won a game while in check because i was able to make a check in response and my opponent had the drawback to always move out of check with the king.

"Never resign if you have a knight." Sacs the knight

Love this format, please bring more of it to YouTube!

Love the draw back chess videos. My kid told me about your stream for this style and I’m loving it! Please continue with these videos!

This is really fun, I'd love to watch more.

31:54 I feel like you should get the same drawback in the next game if the game is aborted, to avoid tactically aborting for better drawbacks.

yay more drawback chess!!!

2:33 Ne5 traps the queen!!! Edit: nvm, i thought both players had the same drawback