Chess But You Can Cheat

[@LouigiVerona]

One of those frustrating letsplays when the person playing has only a superficial interest in the game. Half of the problems in the video were because of not reading the rules closely, and ultimately, from not taking the game seriously.

[@seeker296]

still entertaining though. We got to learn along with him organically rather than seeing actions we don't understand bc we haven't read the rules either. A question of target audience, maybe

[@Akathysia]

tbh this guy plays a lot of chess so getting a game which breaks so many things that are fundamental to chess might be weird

[@NaThingSerious]

@@seeker296it’s infuriating, because he sits there like “what? Why isn’t that cheating? Why can’t I do that? What does this mean?” And makes wrong assumptions and mistakes that are so obvious if he just paid attention and read the rules.

[@gollumarx]

Exactly, it was like he wasn't even trying

[@thisguy6948]

Honestly, I agree with you

[@istariknight1]

Congratulations! You beat him and became the next bridge troll because you "sunk to his level" by counter cheating. To break the cycle you have to rise above his nonsense and beat him without cheating yourself. It's definitely doable he blunders a lot :)

[@WOKEchair]

I thought it was something similar to this

[@macronas1239]

I think that the 'castles' and 'towers' are different things, 'castles' is the piece you created when you combined the rooks, and since there were only two rooks in the game left, you couldn't move it

[@TheRealMeatwad]

^This. I thought it was pretty obvious.

[@robertwoodruff8491]

If you can cheat, move his two rooks together and remove two pieces at once.

[@robertwoodruff8491]

You can qlso, use one of his pieces to take another of his pieces. I really fealt when he got a chance to cheating he wasn't using it to his full advantage.

[@unfairdev8197]

Yeah, they are. The castle is the big yellow piece.

[@majorleaguegamingpack828]

Yeah!!!

[@Deathwish3838]

A lot of those rules really did seem simple enough. It was very clear that the wording was specific for a reason and mattered, so I didn't see where the confusion came from on some. It also baffled me that you were not using the pawns to capture things when you were allowed to cheat, or even putting his pieces on those orange tiles to kill the piece and get rid of that orange tile.

[@FD-wl7xq]

He literally said his bad at the game

[@Deathwish3838]

@@FD-wl7xq He's*

[@MrCheeze]

It's clear from watching that he isn't familiar at all with the conventions of puzzle games and such, became a lot more fun to watch once I stopped expecting him to.

[@thatguy-hh1nf]

Yeah this felt like pulling teeth, I want to see manlybadasshero play this

[@danielpionko1365]

Bro his almost 40, chill

[@danielyuan9862]

At 8:30, you moved your bishop on the wrong square. Its center is way off the square you intended to move it to.

[@danielyuan9862]

Also, the rule on the merged rooks is that _castles_ can't move unless there are at least three _towers._ So I assume there the towers are the original rooks you start with and the castle is the merged rooks.

[@hongkonger885]

⁠Also, because pawns can't promote (they ascend), there can never be more than two towers (rooks) once two are spent to make a castle. So castles can never move. Nelson misinterpreted that as "the rooks cannot move" instead of "the castles cannot move".

[@Jartran72]

@@danielyuan9862 And ofcourse if you merge your tower and since pawns ascend and don't promote, it is impossible to have 3 towers on the board. The castle is a handicap. Though I would be interested in knowing how the castle is supposed to move

[@Jartran72]

@@hongkonger885 I did not see you already explained it, sorry.

[@poryzonegames942]

​@@Jartran72The answer is obvious: It is not supposed to move at all. It's just worded differently

[@Rvezz28]

Just casually leaving your bishop off the board and forgetting about it for the remainder of the final game 😂 this looks fun.

[@kahramanuluskaya1519]

Yeah bro😂

[@nachocheese5311]

oh yeah just checked lmao

[@FluffyDragon-cm8bz]

To be fair, it's mostly covered up and is hard to see

[@Rvezz28]

@@FluffyDragon-cm8bz covered up for us because of the overlay but he probably saw the full board and just left a "hanging bishop" 😂

[@FluffyDragon-cm8bz]

@@Rvezz28 Maybe. Not sure he sees his own webcam feed or not

[@kamen42]

Go for the "good" ending - you get it if you don't cheat during the game. It's... not easy, Any of your pieces is in constant threat, because the troll can cheat at any time. But I found that the rule allowing you to move the opposite queen is a huge help. Move her to a slippery square, or move her directly to the "piece of knowledge" (the orange stuff left by bishops) to get rid of her.

[@kontousuniente4952]

to be fair ai in this game is really stupid and when it cheats a troll randomly illegally taking an undefended piece almost never happen

[@kamen42]

@@kontousuniente4952 I noticed they don't really abuse cheating as much as they can. For example if you move your A or H pawn forward, they almost always cheat to take the rook... Which is an annoying move if you want to avoid cheating yourself. But other than that, their cheating isn't really startegic a lot of times. For example I never noticed they would move my queen even though they could get rid of her immediately.

[@Qwentar]

Can you use your opponents queen to take your opponents pieces?

[@kamen42]

@@Qwentar No. It doesn't take the pices, it just stacks them on the same square, which violates one of the rules that pieces should not touch

[@kontousuniente4952]

@@Qwentar no cuz taking pieces of the same color is cheating

[@Jackal21mac]

This was so frustrating to watch. You'd break the same damn rules every other turn and never learn

[@SkellyHell]

A troll and a goldfish playing weird chess. Man has a terrible memory of the rules

[@AliAlBahadily]

I see the troll cheating and the dude is oblivious XD 12:11 I almost broke my screen

[@dark6.6E-34]

@SkellyHell he is so oblivious to everything. Moved his bishop a 2nd time to read what's under it and confused himself.

[@chillpill1649]

Hes 2200 rated he is so used to regular chess. He’s cracked at the real game

[@gigachadgoose]

Dude, why are you being so mean about it, he is used to playing regular chess and has done that for thousands of games, give him a break

[@Justamag1c]

Obviously you didn't cheat Nelson, you were just turning on your rice cooker

[@astro_ash]

The rice cooker gambit 😂

[@Maxmaxmax63]

Deep lore

[@ihmI843]

only ogs remember

[@TrueTruthHonest]

no one even tried to cheat nelson. what are you talking about?

[@ihmI843]

@@TrueTruthHonest in an earlier video of his, he accused someone of cheating. he got a response saying they were allegedly turning on their rice cooker while playing the game.

[@roblodocus2539]

You became the troll! Maybe Bobby Fisherman can find a magical item to change you back!

[@lyricalplays5872]

You sir are a genius😂

[@Ka_muu]

The "you are not a juggler" around 26:30 indicates you were on track to get a particularly awkward achievement and you just broke the rule you were accidentally following to get it.

[@Picklesinexpiredmilk]

Rules: 0. If they cheat, you cheat as payback 1.if you cheat or incorrectly accuse, they cheat as revenge 2. You can only move your own color piece 3. You can move other Queens 4. Pawns move foward, left, right 5. Paws are a metaphor for invisible worker trolls 6. Pawns move backwards 7. Normal Knight moves 8. Horse picture 9. Only the knight can jump over pieces 10. If White King dies, game over 11. If Black King dies, random piece get replaced with the Black King 12. Normal King moves 13. Normal Bishop moves 14. Normal Rook moves 15. Bishop work out of town and come back for supper 16. Rook+Rook=Castle 17. Castle gives scrap (🥚) 18. Normal Queen moves 19. Advanced chess rules were compromised by winkly troll ages 20. Any pawns that make it to the end of the board ascend 21. If a Queen captures a piece, the board kicks itself sideways 22. Bishop leave knowledge behind, Knight isint the only one jumping over those 23. Rooks eat their pieces to be stronger 24. Do not walk in each other's shoes 25. No pieces leave the board unless they work out of town (Bishop only) 26. You cannot move the knowledge from the Bishop 27. Some tiles are slippery You cant move the castle if there's more that 3 Rooks 29. The Queens won't have an affair Secret ones ( hidden before the game starts ) 33. This duck is evil, DonT tRUst It 34. My Queen will never have an affair, I don't play by the rules Unamed1. They must never reach the great beyond! Unamed2. Two sides? Seems dumb Unamed3. What do I call him? (Soilder, ninja, horse boy, k**ler mount, jump hoof, big hoop, leapers Knight, Knight, Frog?) !HORSE GUY! Unamed4. My home, a bridge, to connect, is to live, but am I just a pawn? In my game, of chess, to play, is to win, but can I lose? This darkness I me? -me

[@reubenmanzo2054]

12:10 You should've accused. That knight made an invalid move. Same with the pawn at 18:00.

[@AWYIKHONGMoe-go3el]

The bishop drops a gift of knowledge that kills pieces.Since,you can move the opponents queen,you can just put it on the gift of knowledge to sacrifice it

[@Randombaconplayzz]

No castling😅

[@gravityplayer5237]

This guy has never played a videogame before. Good god.

[@mavrikgaming970]

FR like imagine he played an actually challenging puzzle game or god forbid a rouge like

[@dark6.6E-34]

proof being good a chess doesn't correlate with being an overal intelligent person, in this case an average person.

[@mavrikgaming970]

@@dark6.6E-34 true I was abt to counter that it’s chess related but yea fair enough

[@josiahjaramillo6998]

Does that make you guys mad? You should teach him how to play then instead of being emotional over nothing. This game has nothing to do with other games. It is pretty confusing to learn chess with tons of new rules you have to always keep in the back of your mind.

[@dark6.6E-34]

@@josiahjaramillo6998 feels like we watched different letsplays. I have never seen anyone so confused, bored, and uninterested in playing a game and learning its rules in my life. Messing up the same rules repeatedly seconds after seeing them. It is just mildly infuriating, like those unsatisfying montages.

[@chesscraze9329]

Just a little thing, on the first move (or any other time) you can take either of the black knights with the rook, because it will automatically turn into the castle, and therefore cannot be accused. Even better, you can do this with the pawns and take all of black's back-rank pieces (can't be accused because the pawn ascends.). Also, if you ascend 8 pawns, you automatically win the game, so since the troll's AI doesn't allow it to do any of the OP things it can do with the black advantage (take white's king with any piece automatically winning at any time) you can force a win in 8 moves no matter what. (You ascending your opponent's pawns also counts toward the 8 pawn ascension auto-win so if the troll cheats to eat a pawn of yours you can ascend one of thier pawns as revenge)

[@xchalibur77]

It's already difficult when you know the rules dammit.

[@goodobaggins]

😂

[@pu2f551]

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[@ProwlyCH]

​@@pu2f551Shut up

[@Brickproof]

​@@pu2f551uhh... And?

[@darknessdragon270]

​@@pu2f551 Me 1:32 "Shut up"

[@brandonbombplays9304]

Little brother: I know the rules of chess! Also little brother:

[@kitkat47chrysalis95]

Well, it is pretty close to correct. He got the knight right, and the gist of it

[@dartricky8689]

It seems that a Stalemate (pawns being small-minded) was also considered a win for you...

[@dannyyeung8237]

Yeah that is what happened

[@FustinJields]

because the king gets captured next move

[@TheMrCarnification]

Watch again. It wasn't stalemate because the troll was forced to move onto the piece of knowledge which kills it

[@Jartran72]

That is not what happened. The king killed itself on the black move. There is no stalemate in this version because there is no check or checkmate.

[@msl758]

It’s bizarre watching you play a game of “chess” making these silly mistakes when I’m so used to watching your regular videos that contain so few of them

[@Boundless_Border]

I've noticed that people who are really good at chess tend to do worse than a weak player when you modify the rules even slightly. And to be fair, at least with this one, he doesn't know all the rules to start.

[@sopwafel]

​@@Boundless_Border but even given that he's super slow and misses stuff that's obvious

[@Keviamaya]

I think is fun, i like watching non gamers play :]

[@aelrondchavez3673]

I lost it when the pawn fkn ascended bro 😂😂😂😂

[@robertbennett848]

When you catch him cheating, take his pieces with your pawns.

[@Rip_Unknown0408]

23:15 it's called "only the knight can jump over pieces" not the other one.

[@Cycles42]

"The rules are the same as 5D chess with multiverse time travel but without multiverse time travel, except for these changes."

[@alexphenex8]

"For refresher of those rules, click on this video"

[@arvid_music]

@@alexphenex8 lmao good one

[@isha2271]

Never though i see this reference

[@thetaomegatheta]

TBF, this is a bit hard to watch. It is entertaining, but a lot of the mistakes that you made were caused by you not reading the rules attentively, like when you assumed that queens can't take each other, or when you assumed that kings can't take opposing queens, or where you couldn't distinguish between castles and towers, despite having previously created a castle.

[@river559]

Literally this. Same with when he read the rules for the knights and the rooks which functions the exact same in regular chess and saying he didn't understand, when he clearly knew what those pieces did. Fun game and video overall, just was so painful to watch out of all the scuffed chess videos I've seen

[@RedIsACrepe]

ye

[@LouigiVerona]

It's like the most basic mistake of letsplays: don't do it if you are bad at the game, you're just gonna make it frustrating.

[@cronqvist5763]

Legit frustrating to watch.

[@jony-j8w]

​@@cronqvist5763I clicked off just because of that. I genuinely couldn't watch this

[@Erik-Hi504]

22:26 you accused the rook of the wrong rule "you can only move the towers when there are three", you should have done "only he can jump over peices"

[@marcoasturias8520]

He did it on purpose because there were only two rooks, so the troll cheated twice with a single move

[@lucaselchidoris4637]

​@@marcoasturias8520No it didn't. It just cheated on the "no jump" rule, cuz the rule is "you can only move _castles_ when there are 3 or more rooks", not rooks, castles, the yellow big things.

[@kevinpalmer4137]

16:53 the black queen dates back to yhe wrinckled ages That is a savage accusation

[@AlexT-o1k]

36:26 didn't realize he had a bishop in the corner

[@ygordaniiel]

It is so painful to see you play so badly 😂

[@DaDitka]

Remember the words of the great pro wrestling commentator Jesse "The Body" Ventura- win if you can, lose if you must, but ALWAYS cheat.

[@eallawson7601]

Weird but captivating. That Troll had to go! My dad used to say "cheat fair" when I sometimes managed to beat him and I never quite understood what he meant (still don't) but it's a good memory.

[@SS77S7]

That was really cool, a refreshing new way to look at chess. You might also want to check out 'Drawback Chess', it's a little bit less on the fantasy side and more like actual chess, I felt like you struggled a bit keeping up with the numerous new rules. Eric Rosen played drawback chess a lot.

[@danielyuan9862]

I got a chance to play against him once. I was so close! I had a winning endgame but couldn't convert.

[@gudgud]

“Pawns are actually a metaphor for the invisible worker trolls.” That doesn’t matter, let’s take it. 😂😂😂

[@BlessedGoodtalk]

13:07 The fact that the black pawn discover checked it's own king, queen took king and king resurrects is truly cheating. If you play this game, you will forget the real rules of chess and capture your opponent's king

[@davidjames149]

Couldn’t you have just used a pawn for your “cheat” captures rather than using your pieces?

[@supermaximglitchy1]

12:12 you could have accused him here

[@GlazedYeti]

That was actually an interesting chess variant. Sufficiently self aware and not taking itself seriously. I feel like the serious games that try to reinvent or upgrade or “fix” chess are on a fool’s errand, but this is just silly in the best way 😂

[@Luredreier]

12:16 I believe that the troll cheated there. 22:59 Castle and rook are two separate pieces with separate rules. 38:38 You turned into a troll.

[@markkiser9329]

totally different game where the troll always wins...

[@benoit2234]

That was some 500 elo gameplay 😂

[@bilingualfish4246]

1 elo

[@張謙-n3l]

the most tricky part is that in this game, the pawns turned into wazirs

[@AspieGamer13]

I think the problem is you’re TOO GOOD at chess to play this version

[@bilingualfish4246]

Bro he was ass fym

[@lyricalplays5872]

Loved the video, would like to see you get the other endings as well, also could you make a video on drawback chess I'd bet you'd love it!

[@dijkztrakuzunoha3239]

Bishop went on vacation and never came back

[@helljackalll]

just realized theres a hint that theres multiple endings, when the troll says you can take your revenge, revenge is in quotations

[@Curtis-CHL]

36:05 I think you forgot there was a bishop hiding in the bottom left corner. 😅😅😅 I feel like checkmate (or perhaps non-existent stalemate) would be faster with the sneaky bishop

[@Da_commenter]

Yes lol

[@NJDJ1986]

@9:14 goddamn! Even castling is counted cheating too! This is complicated!

[@Lars-y9o]

Brilliant - that was your best video by far. I cant remember ever laughed that much at chess: thnaks

[@danielyuan9862]

Plays e4 *_YOU CHEATED_*

[@Lars-y9o]

Best one

[@stevejohn7459]

You should try oroboros king. Basically Chess+ but with power ups, currency, and new chess pieces.

[@thewalrus1569]

You seem so confused it must be hilarious for the game dev 😂

[@OwentheSamoan1]

now to unlock all the pages

[@20spray1]

Watching you play this game was like watching those Last War Survival game advertisements on Facebook. Seriously painful to watch.

[@Adruxtkd]

This was so frustrating to watch, the amount of chokes are incredible

[@jamesoakes4842]

I think a video of watching Levy, Hikaru, and Magnus playing this would be hilarious.

[@thestratilosopher42]

My favorite part of this is how offended you seemed when you caught him cheating haha. Solid content IMO. Thanks for trying something new!

[@gdviciousbee2715]

i dont know why but i beat this game and i felt really triggered by some of the things nelson missed even though i think i did too

[@jedrzejkraszpulski442]

fun video. 27:23 Really redefines the meaning of doubled pawns!

[@thegunnednoob]

yo when that horse just meleed your pawn you should've pointed cheating out for not moving right

[@mr.dragon.purple9209]

7:09 You said he moved in + pattern, not that he moved off the board, that's why it's false accusation 8:40 You acciedently break the rule of that it can only move in × pattern 22:52 There have to be 3 towers to move a CASTLE, not the ROOK 29:51 It says that queen can't take the king, not that king can't take the queen

[@LeftynotLeftist]

He has dementia pro max, I can’t believe he can’t understand the rules and also keep forgetting them.

[@anaselfellah6243]

This is interesting i would love to see more of it

[@Imnuktam]

Try it again without cheating. Said you got the bad ending so betting there is a good ending if you can do it without cheating back.. Also curious what the castle is if you make one.

[@focus.4659]

Funny stuff, do more of this please

[@SchnurriTV]

Ngl the game really feels like how imagine the afterlife to be. I know this is quite random, yet thats the exact atmosphere, i think the afterlife has

[@PuchimonExtreme]

honestly, after learning/understanding the rules. The game is really really easy to win even without cheating. Especially since the enemy's cheats are "within limits". (AI only breaks ONE rule at the time. So if they jump over pieces, its never bishops moving straight/etc) Then there are exploitable tricks like Bishop's minefield + controlling enemy Queen is legal. So you just stroll around a bit with your Bishop, then have the enemy kill themselves. Surprisingly, knights are one of the more useless pieces in this game due to mines and slippery tiles turning the center into a hazardous zone. Also the fact that the AI is equally oblivious to all forms of "surprise attacks"

[@hyejinahn6174]

Bring back the chess adventure series pls

[@Glastoki]

I'm pretty sure when a tower eats another piece that counts as two towers so that the castle can move.... Whe two towers combine they make a castle then when one of the other towers eats a piece the castle can move. Which is extra confusing because rooks are sometimes called castles by kids.

[@GODCOR]

when that pawn went to heaven, i burst out laughing

[@ekxo1126]

this video remembers me of those easy android ad games where the player does everything possibly wrong, except now the game seems fun

[@zacharysherry2910]

"The queen may not cheat"...Damn right! 😂

[@JonasArnout]

surprising how long it takes you to understand the rules given the chess genius that you have (or are if you prefer), seems like a fun deduction game :)

[@alternative35]

12:44 he was so surprised that he let out a lil questioning squeak

[@CSDragon]

Castles aren't towers. "Towers" are rooks "Castles" are that crazy floating unit you created when two rooks touched

[@Basket-76]

12:11 the troll cheated with his knight? How did you not notice?

[@PixyAC7]

In mother russia, we don’t play chess, we play Tross

[@Garry_Li]

23:12 this rule was for castle, how u didn't get it

[@lionel4685]

Can you move the black queen on a mine to destroy it as a legal move ? Can you move the black queen on the white queen and thus provoke black cheating, on your turn ? Cam black hide his king outside the board after all bishops are out ? Can you put the king inside a castle to protect it ? If pawns don't promote then how do you possibly have three towers to allow for the castle to move ? Can you place a bishop strategically so that when the board flips the king is in check ? If you cheat and are called out, then black could just take any piece from anywhere and kill your king, right ? Hmmm...

[@Kermit_E_Frog]

I have a hunch moving a pawn from right side of the board to the left would have promoted ir make them "ascend"

[@fbeegle]

Wanted to see if you'd be willing to do a quick video on how to read and interpret the answer keys/board key notation in "1001 Ways to Checkmate". Looks to be a great book but the number notation isn't really user friend ly in my opinion!

[@udertalea.umusic6370]

25:17 i don't think the pawn is allowed to move like that

[@Michelle-mz8yq]

True

[@olgakornak8719]

Yes.

[@aykarain]

8:41 can you seriously NOT see it properly, its on the wrong square

[@RainbowHelveltica]

the thumbnail move was actually an illegal move, even though bishops DO work out of town. This is because only HE can jump.

[@olgakornak8719]

31:31 rook can't jump over the pieces! (black)

[@Fine_Mouche]

18:54 : i think u need promote a pawn to a tower and don't kill an tower ennemy.

[@gollumarx]

OMG that was so frustrating to watch, you didn't seem to even try

[@ValkyRiver]

You should try ouroboros king

[@stevejohn7459]

I agree and it’s more fun!

[@heftylad]

Watching a chess guy trying to play a funny game but being confused by the jokes rather than laughing is entertaining yet so infuriating.

[@Qwentar]

You're confusing the rooks as castles. The rooks are towers. Remember when you had your two rooks side by side and they merged into a new piece? That's the "castle". You then have to promote pawns s.t. there are three more rooks, then the castle can move.

[@chesscraze9329]

No, the castle can never move because there is no promotion

[@Qwentar]

@@chesscraze9329 Interesting... thank you for that correction.

[@okolenmi7511]

19:28 - he can actually get it by pawn... or maybe he can move some enemy pieces out of board

[@matthewjasper5346]

This is almost the most frustrating thing to watch with him discovering the rules

[@nathansscienceclass4775]

The bigg yellow pieces are the castles the rooks are the towers, bro

[@Chomta]

I ate a bishop

[@Chomta]

I will eat another.

[@Jartran72]

I was literally yelling at you this video. Your refusal to read the rules and learn..Your own bishop was captured by a pawn on H8, but minutes later you already forgot you can capture the knight on h1 12:25. Or the bishop tiles.. Or you killing your own knight. Or you not realising pawns don't capture diagonally.. Many many examples. This was really frustrating. It feels like you don't like reading and hat is just sad, because you are not that young and should have grown up with books or comics or whatever.

[@TheXboxGamer-mv8zo]

If he cheats just drag back by taking his king wit yours

[@iGeen7]

Hey, you haven't opened all rules 😢

[@5gearz]

I want to write this in my book and have people play this in real life

[@wilTfrie]

25:15 he moved wrong! (black's pawn)

[@crowreligion]

8:20 I think that counts as the dark square outside the board, which is not on the diagonal

[@nnnuke]

Really frustrating to watch. Especially at the end. You could’ve just captured the king instead of trying to checkmate him.

[@Stuffnstuff650]

He moved a tower not a castle