Drawback Chess is So Much Fun!

Drawback Chess is my new favorite chess variant! Try it out at www.drawbackchess.com/
Do you enjoy it as much as I do? Let me know in the comments.
Originally streamed at / imrosen on Feb. 18.
0:00 What is Drawback Chess?
01:34 Drawback Game 1: Taking Turns
10:59 Drawback Game 2: Number of the Beast
21:39 Drawback Game 3: Cowardly
33:03 Drawback Game 4: Taking Turns
37:02 Drawback Game 5: The Scent of Blood
42:02 Drawback Game 6: Taking Turns
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From now on, whenever I feel bad about myself I will remember how Eric missed the red king twice...

[@radosawkarwacki4386]

Yes, this was so painful to watch. At least I have comfort in the thought that he realized his mistake lol

[@kaedensaunders6222]

And at least he still won lol

[@nicksdrumsticks]

8:26 When you can take the opponents king, look for a better move

[@johnforster3821]

I was screaming at my laptop. Especially when he moves his bishop anyway, but back...

[@mikebaker2436]

I literally yelled "No! Take the King!" in the middle of a fast food restaurant.

[@GAOMaster]

@@johnforster3821 Same

[@gumikebbap]

@@johnforster3821 me toooo. i was screaming "check mate! check mate!!!"

[@TVIDS123]

Just woke up my girlfriend shouting about this lol

[@knightrider585]

Oh dear, the old castle into check gambit.

[@valeriekeefe8898]

Watching an IM miss taking the king twice was fun.

[@scottysutherland3568]

That was hilarious. In all fairness tho, how many of us viewers actually caught it when it happened!? 😂

[@Worldsportstalk24]

@@scottysutherland3568 probably most of us, it was glowing red after all. He even moved the Bishop lmao

[@christienscott1171]

Drawback: your opponent is sniping 2/3’s of the time. It’s to be expected because the website isn’t that popular yet, but damn that’s pathetic on the snipers’ end. Like congrats you won when it was completely asymmetrical

[@deinauge7894]

who was sniping? maybe the 1st opponent, but the others clearly not

[@sadagusfate]

@@deinauge7894 even the first opponent, eric played in such an arkward manor it became fairly obvious what his drawback might be

[@irjake]

As Aman says: when you see a hanging king, look for better.

[@pepperwestwood]

They do a great job on the drawback names too. I once had… Vegan: can’t capture knights lol

[@evanpenn1]

I was reluctant to click on this video....and then I very much enjoyed it. "Hanging King" had me chuckling. Then Eric trying to move his pawn forward a couple of times and getting the rejection noise...after thoroughly explaining how he had to move a piece backwards after an opponent capture. 😄

[@FZs1]

Only Eric can say "It's time to rage-quit." in such a calm voice 😂 @44:05

[@birdtalon]

8:26 bishop takes C1 😭

[@rakhatthenut3815]

8:40 OMG ERIC, FOCUS

[@twown]

Moving the king Makes a sad sound. /end poem

[@mikebaker2436]

11:03 Eric: "...you can't move to the 6th rank!" Me: "I hope that this is a White-only drawback... because for Black it would be brutal."

[@mikebaker2436]

...very asymmetrical... at least Black would be able to theoretically Queen a pawn..."

[@stvia]

9:22 wait so your opponent would have been able to take your king? Maybe he got confused and thought if he takes it wins he loses because he has not captured the target piece yet

[@IIIRobIII]

That first game your opponent was stream sniping sooo obviously....

[@sepehrsolouki7218]

It was so much fun! more of this plz Eric!

[@xPanda25]

The drawbacks that have to do with not capturing on x file/rank, or about not giving checks, I feel should be changed. As of right now, if the opponent figures out or snipes the drawback, there is literally no way to win. The opponent can just move back and forth on the same file/rank, and no matter what you do, you cannot take them, since they can capture and put themselves in check with no penalty, while gaining increment. If it's a "no capturing on file/rank", I feel there needs to be an exception for the King; and for a no check, perhaps "no check before move 25" or something along those lines

[@BannedLivesMatter]

It's not supposed to be fair. That's the point of a drawback.

[@xPanda25]

@@BannedLivesMatter unfair is one thing, completely impossible to win is another

[@BannedLivesMatter]

@@xPanda25 But that's the whole point, it levels the playing field for everyone. It would be boring if you always lost to grandmasters, wouldn't it? It's drawback chess.

[@Shawnmell]

Would love to see you play this with a fellow streamer at a higher time control. That way you don’t need to worry about sniping and have more time to understand the drawbacks

[@dimBulb5]

This was great! Hope you do it again sometime! Thanks!

[@salvatore861]

Nooo that ending

[@leandro8897]

So sad 😂😂

[@zumochiari2682]

broooo when he missed he could take the king in the first game cause the opponent moved the king into check ToT

[@user-ht8yr3xh2j]

Let's GOOOOOOOO ERIIIIIIC Drawback chess is really funny!!! 😊

[@stvia]

drawback: when your oponent captures something you must move backwards Eric: let's just make pawn moves and not develop anything so I don't have any backwards moves

[@i05fr3d]

Anyone else legit yell NOOOOOOOO...... Twice........?

[@martinscharfenberg7012]

Your drawback wins or loses elo depending on the result of the game. Difficult drawbacks will lose more often and have a lower elo. So the lower the elo, the higher the difficulty. Hope that makes sense.

[@leandro8897]

It actually don't... Or I'm just dumb 😂

[@NWRIBronco6]

That makes sense and also feels like a terrible system for naming the difficulty of drawbacks! Even if they used that value internally but displayed a simple subtract from fixed MaxElo that would be more easily interpretable.

[@pastorofmuppets4552]

Even in drawback chess, ELO ruins the game.

[@nosphoenix1911]

Untrue. The player that loses will lose elo but the drawback itself gains elo. The winning players drawback will lose elo and thus be considered easier.

[@TlalocTemporal]

​@@nosphoenix1911-- Is "Taking Turns" not brutally difficult at 400-some elo? Why are the relatively easier drawbacks at 1000+ elo?

[@tristanread4933]

I just played my first drawback chess game, and my opponent put my king in check, and I managed to castle out of it somehow. Then, I lost. Turns out, my opponent took my king “en passant” 💀

[@armwrestlingfan6804]

What are u doing with your bishop?? 😂😂😂

[@dastardlydan4022]

8:38 noooo

[@rotkappy1424]

it hurts so bad hahaha

[@vgpackpulled9748]

Did you try to take King on 6th rank?

[@onebear6504]

Why don't you try playing 10 mins more as thinking about moves under the drawback takes more time than usual and blitz might be too fast paced for it. Personally I like the more careful deliberations that comes with this variant so having time for longer forms of it might be better ... opinion from chess amateur xD

[@tjutd7911]

Does anyone know what Eric studied at University?

[@JamieAlban]

something like computer science and media studies iirc

[@thephysicistcuber175]

8:38 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀.

[@pondorien]

I played number of the best as black, and it was really bad

[@johnchapman2307]

Takes the queen?? Lol what

[@armwrestlingfan6804]

How dare ye snipe?!

[@kruksog]

Stream-snipers are so incredibly lame. To them I say, get a life.

[@WingedEspeon]

Taking turns is just too restrictive to be interesting.

[@DoenerDuesentrieb]

asdf

[@MikelMonleon]

The taking turns grammar is so bad. I don't even think it's right. "All your piece types have to have moved an amount of times that are within 1 of each other?" What's one of each other? The distance of the pieces? So confusing. It should have said: "You must move all piece types once before moving the same piece type again."

[@petertaylor4980]

It's also a vicious drawback. Trading queens puts you on a very short turn clock.

[@mimiaumeow]

does drawback chess have checkmate if there are no other pieces on the board? otherwise the black player could have just shuffled their black king back and forth on the 6th rank and never lost...

[@nabeelahsan504]

first?

[@avery465]

First game was definitely stream sniping lol