Fog of War Chess | GM Hikaru's First Ever Game

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  • Опубликовано: 25 сен 2020
  • GM Hikaru Nakamura learns how to play Fog of War vs IM Levy Rozman
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  • @GMHikaru
    @GMHikaru  3 года назад +1319

    The speedrun vs the bots is over on my second channel - you guys have been so supportive on this one, please go give it some love, thumbs up, subs, etc. Thanks!! ruclips.net/video/I4XWFNZmmjw/видео.html

    • @susankaranam3090
      @susankaranam3090 3 года назад +3

      Okkkk...

    • @skridalthcrevasse2388
      @skridalthcrevasse2388 3 года назад +9

      Mr. Hikaru Nakamura, when doing mental calculations of plausible/possible lines, do you mentally visualize the chess pieces in 2-Dimensional form, as is the case for numerous virtual chess games, or in 3-Dimensional form, as is the case for in-person gameplay?

    • @becalm23
      @becalm23 3 года назад +2

      Levi seeing Hikaru's side right?

    • @smithsmitherson9449
      @smithsmitherson9449 3 года назад +2

      a

    • @yosefzaghi9504
      @yosefzaghi9504 3 года назад

      500th like

  • @sagov9
    @sagov9 3 года назад +10798

    "I lost because you didn't play the right move, why are you so bad at this game."

    • @wiselettuce8715
      @wiselettuce8715 3 года назад +1245

      The classic toxic super GM kekw

    • @mcpartridgeboy
      @mcpartridgeboy 3 года назад +798

      naa man, happens in poker all the time, its legit reasoning, you literally can win because and only because you played badly, now that deoesnt mean playing badly is a good strategy because it isnt in the long term.

    • @sagov9
      @sagov9 3 года назад +461

      @@mcpartridgeboy well unless you reason that playing 'badly' in a certain situation will mislead the opponent in a way that makes him lose, then it's not playing badly.

    • @mcpartridgeboy
      @mcpartridgeboy 3 года назад +68

      @@sagov9 It is definatly playing badly in poker , its just you need to ajust for that, like in poker when your playing bad players its pretty simple you just wait for good cards and value bet, maybe not semi blind chess but its hard to believe a solid game plan is worse than a goofy move.

    • @sagov9
      @sagov9 3 года назад +343

      @@mcpartridgeboy You're missing my point. If you know how the opponent thinks, you can use 'suboptimal' play to mislead him. It's a valid strategy in games like this and poker, and not 'goofy' at all.

  • @zhandrmax740
    @zhandrmax740 3 года назад +4121

    The funniest fact, that when you hang your piece, your opponent might think that it is protected from the fog. So some risky moves can be strong in differnt cases

    • @johnk3841
      @johnk3841 3 года назад +18

      Yep

    • @johnk3841
      @johnk3841 3 года назад +179

      Though usually people trade when they see a piece unless they're capturing with the queen or rook then they'll be more hesitant

    • @kockoklosharcheto
      @kockoklosharcheto 3 года назад +155

      Bluffing in chess

    • @meepmeep3874
      @meepmeep3874 3 года назад +12

      Yeah they talked about exactly this in the video.

    • @googane7755
      @googane7755 3 года назад +12

      I mean if you're trading a bishop or a knight for any of their pieces you're usually fine in most cases. Would be more worried about queens though

  • @h3ms
    @h3ms 3 года назад +5408

    In this game, psychology is more important than tactics.

    • @meowmeow1786
      @meowmeow1786 3 года назад +35

      Yep exactly it yeah.

    • @GaussianEntity
      @GaussianEntity 3 года назад +85

      Eh I say LOS is everything. Not having sight in this game is the equivalent of death.

    • @toshikosatoru8483
      @toshikosatoru8483 3 года назад +25

      this should be another version of poker.

    • @doyouknowkeplertwentytwob4032
      @doyouknowkeplertwentytwob4032 3 года назад +48

      Psychology is the most important part of true tactics. Asymmetrical information ftw

    • @ethangilworth7891
      @ethangilworth7891 3 года назад +7

      Simply not true

  • @joshboy88420
    @joshboy88420 3 года назад +3529

    Watching masters of chess playing this game is hilarious. Years of devotion and training out the window in a way no other version of the game has ever done.

    • @Jjb-gk4ce
      @Jjb-gk4ce 3 года назад +31

      Chess960 will throw that training out the window too

    • @Pharoic
      @Pharoic 3 года назад +181

      @@Jjb-gk4ce 960 eventually simplifies into a *relatively* normal game after trading. It throws things off in the openings, but you still have full info of the opponent's moves. This forces them to think about the whole game differently.

    • @RAGEN99
      @RAGEN99 3 года назад +19

      What about 5D chess

    • @kissanoita255
      @kissanoita255 3 года назад +18

      It is actually 5D chess, but if you look it at that way normal chess is 3D

    • @doommaker4000
      @doommaker4000 3 года назад +9

      @@kissanoita255 Is it really? I mean, you do play on a time axis, but there is no such wacky things you can do with timelines.

  • @PossumMedic
    @PossumMedic 3 года назад +1473

    Hikaru: "Why do you suck so bad?!?"
    Levy: *wins Twice*
    xD

  • @itwasinthispositionerinoag7414
    @itwasinthispositionerinoag7414 3 года назад +4294

    This is a cool variant, not even gonna try and wrap my head around the strategy involved but it seems like bishops should be OP due to their scoping ability

    • @AayushSaxena07
      @AayushSaxena07 3 года назад +642

      And knights too because of their unique moving pattern without getting visible

    • @ernestrobinson8441
      @ernestrobinson8441 3 года назад +240

      Yeah, seems like a good strategy would be to fianchetto both bishops and keep rooks on open files to maximize visibility.

    • @remussayed1007
      @remussayed1007 3 года назад +59

      Fianchetto hippo position seems to be the best opening position.

    • @egor6946
      @egor6946 3 года назад +8

      Remus Sayed maybe with more active knights

    • @kekwe3088
      @kekwe3088 3 года назад +53

      Knights can sneak up on the queen tho

  • @aryanprakash1048
    @aryanprakash1048 3 года назад +1550

    “The capture sound still exists. Otherwise it does not.”
    -Levy 2020

    • @rhettzkie
      @rhettzkie 3 года назад +49

      This sounds like agadmator quote. 😂

    • @aryanprakash1048
      @aryanprakash1048 3 года назад +2

      @@rhettzkie Sure does haha. Agadmator's best moments.

    • @wcg3928
      @wcg3928 3 года назад +1

      Levy* not Levi Ackerman from AoT

    • @aryanprakash1048
      @aryanprakash1048 3 года назад +2

      @@wcg3928 oh I got autocorrected lol

    • @Baggerz182
      @Baggerz182 Год назад +1

      repent unto God

  • @johngrey1074
    @johngrey1074 3 года назад +6025

    It would be cool to see the strategies that DeepMind or Stockfish would come up with to play fog of war chess.

    • @muchograndeyolatengo
      @muchograndeyolatengo 3 года назад +556

      It'd be cool. You can't use either of them though, since they both rely heavily on traversing the game tree, which you can't do with so much imperfect information. You look one move ahead and the game tree instantly scatters and you're left with nothing.
      Alpha Zero could possibly make some tiny sense of the game since it consists of two components and can therefore remove one (the Monte Carlo Search Tree) without driving itself into complete irrelevance. It would then rely completely on its neural network making predictions for the next move only and would most likely as a result be extremely stupid and light years from the Alpha Zero we know. Especially since its psychological perception of the game is gathered through self play, so it would probably be pretty bad at predicting the moves of a human player. On top of that, it doesn't track the move history, since it's irrelevant in a normal game of chess where all you need is the current board state to make your decisions. In a game like this (similar to poker), you need the move history in order to look for patterns that can help you get a broad sense of the board position.

    • @TheAmazingCowpig
      @TheAmazingCowpig 3 года назад +227

      Well, AlphaStar managed to play StarCraft, which is mechanically+environmentally more complex than chess due to having fog of war and being real-time, and so was the next logical environment for DeepMind's exploration of AI playing games. So DeepMind has already explored an learning neural network AI traversing an environment with incomplete information.
      That said, there was also a sort of consensus about AlphaStar's performance in StarCraft that it still wasn't quite truly the top grandmaster-professional player level in terms of tactics, but rather just that it was able to brute force the best of players through raw, mechanical skill in its management abilities, and that anyone that could execute a unique enough plan solidly enough could still blindside the AI if it wasn't something the neural net could account for (even over thousands of training hours and years worth of knowledge).
      However, given the more limited scope of the movements available in chess compared to a video game RTS, I'd imagine that a DeepMind-like AI would be able to handle it rather well, once it was given enough information and training time.

    • @muchograndeyolatengo
      @muchograndeyolatengo 3 года назад +58

      @@TheAmazingCowpig Or said in another way: (I might have been a bit foggy in my explanation) Starcraft is close to being deterministic, meaning that you can look hundreds or even thousands of "moves" ahead and have a pretty good sense of what the game state looks like. On the other hand looking just 2 or 3 moves ahead in this chess variant and you have absolutely no idea of what the game state is. You could be up 3 pieces or you could be down a queen.

    • @TheAmazingCowpig
      @TheAmazingCowpig 3 года назад +63

      muchograndeyolatengo I don't think Starcraft would be significantly more deterministic than Fog of War chess. Any time a player does not have vision of their opponent, they have incomplete information about how to act; information gathering is a core facet of all strategy games, from this version of chess to video game RTSs. 2 or 3 moves in FoW chess could be equated to 2 minutes into the future in a Starcraft game.
      While the exact rules and consequences differ, DeepMind has already created the AI that tackles having incomplete information about the game state (as a progression from AlphaZero that did have complete information about the game state at all times). So, a DeepMind AI for FoW chess would probably look something similar to AlphaStar.

    • @muchograndeyolatengo
      @muchograndeyolatengo 3 года назад +18

      ​@@TheAmazingCowpig
      The only incomplete information the AI has in Starcraft is the opponent's build order. Everything else is perfectly visible (including all the battles). So it can excel at everythign else through self training (build order, resoruce management, micro etc.)
      And if I recall from the matches I've seen, the AI seriously lacks in strategic understanding but makes up for it in perfect micro. We are talking about two completely different domains here. You can' really represent a game of FoW chess with a tree. It's just not possible. The only thing you can train is a standard opening, but that's really exploitable unless you add noise to the input vector or do some other kind of magic. You can't train it to understand the move patterns of human opponents of different strengths through self play. Because humans are not gonna think the same way, which again makes it inherently exploitable.
      But we're talking in circles here. I'm not gonna convince you and you are not gonna convince me. So I'll let you have the last say and then I'm gonna retreat :)

  • @Serfdomftw
    @Serfdomftw 3 года назад +642

    Hikaru "Why dont you play better so i can predict your moves/the position" "This is frustrating"

    • @realbignoob1886
      @realbignoob1886 3 года назад +11

      Ikr xD

    • @zeichofreed79
      @zeichofreed79 Год назад +32

      The enemy can't predicy you if you don't know what you are doing, tsunzu probably

    • @Baggerz182
      @Baggerz182 Год назад

      repent unto God

  • @Kolop315
    @Kolop315 3 года назад +583

    Feel like Hikaru just couldn't unlearn(in only 2 games who could tbf) some things that just don't apply when you can't see. You can see him running through a ton of positions in his head while Levy is just kind of chilling, which I find pretty hilarious.

    • @temkin9298
      @temkin9298 Год назад +28

      Levy is me when I am playing casually with limited time. ;D
      My opponent tries so hard to understand my moves while I just go with the flow.
      However if there is no time limit, I would get beaten easily.

    • @na.meless
      @na.meless Год назад

      yeah fr lol

    • @Baggerz182
      @Baggerz182 Год назад

      repent unto God

  • @3zk1i_93
    @3zk1i_93 3 года назад +446

    so weird seeing Levy just talk to Hikaru for 15 minutes without Hikaru ever saying anything back

  • @moltargaltar1219
    @moltargaltar1219 3 года назад +793

    Hikaru’s eyes roll back into his head to look at the crystal ball inside his head
    “I think I know the exact positions, btw”

    • @thewon9633
      @thewon9633 Год назад +11

      XD and then looses 2 games while his chat calls him toxic

    • @Baggerz182
      @Baggerz182 Год назад

      repent unto God

    • @tillburr6799
      @tillburr6799 9 месяцев назад

      @@Baggerz182 no

  • @angelhanna2917
    @angelhanna2917 3 года назад +473

    "why are you so bad?"
    5 seconds later...
    **Gets obliterated**

  • @yudoball
    @yudoball 3 года назад +651

    Capturing the king without enemy knowing that he was in check is like getting backdoored by evelynn

    • @linczas.-.68
      @linczas.-.68 3 года назад +2

      Xd

    • @alessandromorelli5866
      @alessandromorelli5866 3 года назад +16

      when she oneshots your adc and leaves

    • @jojoxiong4664
      @jojoxiong4664 3 года назад +33

      Wtf, lol comments here?

    • @neilpanganiban272
      @neilpanganiban272 3 года назад +2

      u mean flanked? coz backdoor is taking the nexus right.

    • @jojoxiong4664
      @jojoxiong4664 3 года назад +9

      @@neilpanganiban272 nah, you can backdoor as evelynn cuz she can go invisible given that the inhib and nexus turrets are down

  • @heraclitu-s
    @heraclitu-s 3 года назад +175

    "When playing others streamers streamsniping isnt a problem" - Levi, when Hikaru clearly has Levis stream open on secret monitor on ceiling :P

  • @GoldTheAngel
    @GoldTheAngel 3 года назад +671

    That Advance Wars thumbnail is actually golden.

    • @nvat5569
      @nvat5569 3 года назад +38

      yep, i clicked because of that

    • @achillesmichael5705
      @achillesmichael5705 3 года назад +13

      Yellow guy was OP

    • @kymab.5172
      @kymab.5172 3 года назад +10

      @@achillesmichael5705 wait what does he do again? Like all his units are stronger, or smth? All i remember is that his co power gives me headaches.

    • @flop3869
      @flop3869 3 года назад +9

      My god the Nostalgia.... I loved that game

    • @projack5617
      @projack5617 3 года назад +2

      @@nvat5569 we all did u.u

  • @anturanggatantra2137
    @anturanggatantra2137 3 года назад +487

    Wow, this is like real life war. Information of position is the most important. And then formulating strategy out of the information while predicting opponent moves

    • @johnk3841
      @johnk3841 3 года назад +98

      Yep. This is more like real war. You dont have all the info in a war. Just like you said, the more info you have the better your chances of winning. Unlike regular chess where everyone can see what's going on

    • @steve-ks9df
      @steve-ks9df 3 года назад +73

      well in ancient warfare guerilla tactics were less often used, and opponent armies met on the open battlefield. So this is more like modern warfare, chess is like ancient warfare

    • @34BigPete
      @34BigPete 3 года назад +12

      The board game Stratego has similar elements to warfare and this variant as well.

    • @steve-ks9df
      @steve-ks9df 3 года назад +6

      @VIKING AT THE BRIDGE WHOM GAVE HIS BALLS TO BRITS First of all, Sun Tzu wasn't from a million years ago lol. are you not English native speaker? He died about 2500 years ago. But yea, of course there were spies, etc. in ancient warfare. But again, chess is *more* like ancient warfare than modern warfare.

    • @Boricosa
      @Boricosa 3 года назад +2

      @VIKING AT THE BRIDGE WHOM GAVE HIS BALLS TO BRITS irony is not really a good thing to use when trying to correct someone

  • @jimraynor4383
    @jimraynor4383 3 года назад +97

    Hikaru : "Levy why are you so bad at this game"
    Also Hikaru: loses twice in a row

  • @h-0058
    @h-0058 3 года назад +182

    "Your queen was just there in my territory the whole time!"
    Hikaru: "Mhm... Yeah... Sure..."

  • @killereagle666
    @killereagle666 3 года назад +598

    I love how Hikaru was expecting Levy to play theory, got played, and then got rude with him to protect his ego. This variant looks sooo fun.

    • @koolguy728
      @koolguy728 3 года назад +93

      "Got rude" is a bit of an over reaction. I don't think he was being rude at all. Just trying to understand the thought process.

    • @anonymoussecret5948
      @anonymoussecret5948 3 года назад +122

      He said “ok but why are you so bad at the game.” Stop defending this toxic GM. Such a fragile ego

    • @shoobyshooby725
      @shoobyshooby725 3 года назад +100

      @Anonymous secret yeahhhhh don’t know if “toxic” is the right word when at the most he’s just bantering with a friend. You can stop talking like yesterday.

    • @demicolon9255
      @demicolon9255 3 года назад +8

      @RamblingDuck cry more

    • @howridiculous5346
      @howridiculous5346 3 года назад

      @RamblingDuck yeah man you're right... stop rambling now lol

  • @Tehom1
    @Tehom1 3 года назад +147

    At 13:27 it seems a very big advantage to exchange queens deep in opponent's territory. Beyond them losing castling rights, you get to see a substantial part of their current position while they see nothing of yours.

    • @rexex345
      @rexex345 Год назад +16

      The queen effectively becomes your scout, where it's better to use it to get valuable info than take things or pressure.

    • @Baggerz182
      @Baggerz182 Год назад

      repent unto God

  • @xendurr8180
    @xendurr8180 3 года назад +198

    It's really funny when Hikaru's thinking. Seems like he's possessed or something.

    • @meowmeow1786
      @meowmeow1786 3 года назад +6

      He's trying to access that part of his brain like: 👀 🧠 🔚

    • @kingjensen8091
      @kingjensen8091 3 года назад +9

      Ceiling demon

    • @CH3LS3A
      @CH3LS3A 3 года назад +17

      @@kingjensen8091 using stockfish on the ceiling WeirdChamp

  • @highkage9535
    @highkage9535 3 года назад +100

    Now we'll just wait for 4 Player Fog of War Chess.

    • @Jivvi
      @Jivvi 2 года назад +10

      2v2 would be great. You team up with the person opposite you, you can see their pieces and the squares they can see, and you have to capture both the other kings to win.

    • @AdaptiveApeHybrid
      @AdaptiveApeHybrid Год назад

      6v6

    • @mtganalytic9796
      @mtganalytic9796 Год назад +2

      Why not battleground for 100 ppl? Xd

  • @stevemcintosh9381
    @stevemcintosh9381 3 года назад +117

    Gotta love the “Ah! Jesus!” When levy sees the queen just chillin in between all the pawns

  • @littlecutething2686
    @littlecutething2686 3 года назад +947

    hikaru should try advance war

    • @ovalsrawesome7645
      @ovalsrawesome7645 3 года назад +95

      This was such a deep cut to my childhood. I haven’t thought of this game in years

    • @chiiing8288
      @chiiing8288 3 года назад +49

      I was about to comment this. make a map with pre deployed units!

    • @SonicsniperV7
      @SonicsniperV7 3 года назад +8

      Agreed. Seconded.

    • @Finigini
      @Finigini 3 года назад +11

      I would love this. I wonder if he has ever heard of Advance Wars.

    • @peterhardie4151
      @peterhardie4151 3 года назад +11

      Colin Sasha... Grit... great game.

  • @superman2j3
    @superman2j3 Год назад +121

    Levy is having way too much fun and hikaru is just calculating the whole time lol

  • @pjbutton3396
    @pjbutton3396 3 года назад +70

    I'm so, SO HAPPY that literally ANYONE is acknowledging Advance Wars!

  • @nickharvey5975
    @nickharvey5975 Год назад +72

    I wish you could see the pieces move through the fog of war, like a rook sweeping past a queen's vision

  • @benjaminoechsli1941
    @benjaminoechsli1941 Год назад +31

    I love seeing Levy be the master here. Won't be long before Hikaru shifts his thinking a bit and gets insane. Much like that excellent thumbnail. Advance Wars is one of my favorite game series.

  • @chungusballs
    @chungusballs 3 года назад +255

    "I feel like after among us, this will be the next thing"
    levy the fortune teller

    • @rama7731
      @rama7731 3 года назад +2

      Apparently its not that fun

    • @dasamont8274
      @dasamont8274 Год назад +17

      @@rama7731 It's probably more fun when you're talking to the other person, because then you can bluff and such things. Also, it could be fun to combine this with 4-player chess, there's no chance that you could predict what every player is doing, so you'd just have to play as well as possible with the information you could see. Especially if you also couldn't see if another player lost, and potentially also their colours, so you'd only see your own pieces and the enemy pieces, with no way to tell which player is threatening you.

    • @user-de1gi8wh4s
      @user-de1gi8wh4s Год назад

      Amongus amonus

    • @BlakeSeely57
      @BlakeSeely57 Год назад +1

      Look it where we are today

  • @ggghjk5280
    @ggghjk5280 3 года назад +139

    Hikaru: “I’m pretty sure I know exactly where your pieces are”
    Also Hikaru: 7:52

  • @Unknownuser-vq9ul
    @Unknownuser-vq9ul 3 года назад +33

    I absolutely love that ADVANCE WARS thumbnail reference 11/10

  • @andrewj.2516
    @andrewj.2516 3 года назад +25

    3:25 these eyes are blowing

  • @jkid1134
    @jkid1134 3 года назад +250

    Every day we stray closer to YuGiOh

    • @mightybatillo
      @mightybatillo 3 года назад +3

      I was thinking something similar the other day. About the fan made pieces like the unicorn and pegasus and how you can add more stuff up till you end with a MOBA or RTS game 🤯

    • @mlgproplayer2915
      @mlgproplayer2915 3 года назад +2

      lol

    • @louistully8025
      @louistully8025 3 года назад +2

      When we going to get a chess anime?xD

    • @erickrisdatuin8663
      @erickrisdatuin8663 3 года назад

      @@mightybatillo that's the downside of becoming popular nowadays, if you consider it a downside.. On the bright side, Chess is becoming more popular.

    • @Senneih_cram
      @Senneih_cram 3 года назад +1

      Wdym yugioh xD

  • @tigerfloof
    @tigerfloof 3 года назад +111

    God I was so hoping Hikaru was actually playing AW2 PVP

  • @TheRaspberryFlavored
    @TheRaspberryFlavored 3 года назад +8

    >Levy trying to explain the rules
    >Hikaru interrupting him "YEAh yeah yeah I understand"
    >Doesn't understand

  • @highkage9535
    @highkage9535 3 года назад +26

    They just had a completely different game in their heads on 15:47 GMs are no joke.

  • @zada4a
    @zada4a 3 года назад +118

    I have a strategy for this version, where you move all pawns just 1 space up and move the rooks over to one side. Everything is defended and you let your opponent do the mistakes. Then you strike and push Harry the H pawn.

    • @pewpewpandas9203
      @pewpewpandas9203 3 года назад +51

      Arnold, Ben, Chad, Darrel, Ernie, Frank, Garry, Harold (Harry)

    • @Asdayasman
      @Asdayasman 3 года назад +23

      Until that becomes the dominant strategy and people counter that.

    • @lalithasrividhara6205
      @lalithasrividhara6205 3 года назад +14

      Then gets scholar mated

    • @lucasmatsuoca
      @lucasmatsuoca 3 года назад +16

      my first game i played c3, got my queen out and was moving it around the 3rd rank and 4th rank when it was safe by previous info i got, then by move 12 or 13 my opponent hang his king, lol, never played since this first game, 100% win rate here

    • @Jivvi
      @Jivvi 2 года назад

      a3 b3 c3 d3 e3 f3 g3 h3 Ra2 Rah2 h4 h5 h6 h7 h8=Q#

  • @namesakee
    @namesakee 3 года назад +158

    higher rated than Hikaru ... yes !!! Let me have the moment guys ...pls

    • @namesakee
      @namesakee 3 года назад +2

      I'm elated Mr Hikaru ... Big fan.

    • @RubyPiec
      @RubyPiec 3 года назад +7

      What

  • @benghazi4216
    @benghazi4216 3 года назад +26

    This is the best version of chess that I've ever seen!
    This needs to become a thing between GM's!

  • @NexenTriz
    @NexenTriz 3 года назад +68

    Chess where one pawn can secretly move like a king.

    • @alldetected3106
      @alldetected3106 3 года назад

      I peeped that too 🤔

    • @oOPPHOo
      @oOPPHOo 3 года назад +1

      Less exciting, but I was wondering about chess with sorta "beginner intuitive" rules. No en passant, no castling(!), and the queen can also move like the knight.

    • @nikodemg6608
      @nikodemg6608 3 года назад +4

      oO PPH Oo That sounds even worse than the one pawn that can move like a king

    • @oOPPHOo
      @oOPPHOo 3 года назад +3

      @@nikodemg6608 Full disclosure: I'm not aiming for a fun mode. It would be an experiment to see exactly how much those rules matter. Probably a very messy experiment.
      Until quarantine began and I jumped on the twitch chess hype, I didn't actually know how castling worked (though opponents of mine had used it) and I had never even heard of en passant. I'd be curious to see the "meta" with those sorta rules.

  • @SizzlingSquiggle
    @SizzlingSquiggle 2 года назад +6

    Ive watched this video like 3 times since it's publish. I love it so much. Please play more of this variant with other people

  • @forminecraft2067
    @forminecraft2067 2 года назад +24

    Seeing Levi and Hikaru at 1500 rating feels illegal

  • @AtomicArtumas
    @AtomicArtumas 2 года назад +10

    I feel like early queen movement is exceedingly powerful due to her vision.
    Even something as simple as knowing the first 3-4 moves your opponent made could allow you to feasibly counter their entire game, so even if you end up losing the queen, you could come out significantly ahead.

  • @newbie4789
    @newbie4789 Год назад +8

    Just realised that the E1/e8 queen exchange is a strong move in this version. The person doing the exchange will get lots of information and most likely no more castling

  • @LithmusEarth
    @LithmusEarth Год назад +17

    Hikaru is super impressive, his ability to mentalize the entire game there. [This is actually my second time watching this, oh man, yep.]

  • @azimpetra
    @azimpetra 2 года назад +9

    One thing I learned about this variant, is that people make 'inefficient moves' that you wouldn't do in normal chess.
    To hide your pieces that your opponent piece discovered(sight).

  • @rodneybrown2364
    @rodneybrown2364 3 года назад +20

    you two are hilarious together. The facial expressions are so fun! I feel like Kasparov with that "flabbergasted and flummoxed" look at the board was the proto-meme to these highly advanced memes you both wield.

  • @apasi4247
    @apasi4247 3 года назад +10

    this is the best type of strategy war games, because its add the unknown variable into the equation

  • @Polaris5664
    @Polaris5664 3 года назад +20

    We now need Chess with commanders who give buffs to certain pieces.

    • @Ministevo1
      @Ministevo1 2 года назад

      Chess Evolved has that concept (but there a lot of other crazy things there so... yeah)

  • @ejvaz13
    @ejvaz13 Год назад +5

    Hikaru and Levi playing a third game in their head while playing the second game is amazing! Wish I could play just in my head.

  • @psychoticmortacarn
    @psychoticmortacarn 2 года назад +3

    I REALLY love the emphasis on bluffing that comes with this mode, it really flips the whole game on its head

  • @Jose-or3hq
    @Jose-or3hq 3 года назад +18

    Really like that Advance Wars 2 reference int the thumbnail.

  • @IchBinUnschuldig22
    @IchBinUnschuldig22 3 года назад

    More of this please, I really enjoyed it.

  • @smithsmitherson9449
    @smithsmitherson9449 3 года назад +22

    The best thumb nail ever. I will play this video a million times to give it more views and comment every single comment to boost the odds of more brilliant art like this thumbnail.

  • @BNavazoS
    @BNavazoS 3 года назад +3

    It makes me really happy that people still remembers that piece of art Advance Wars (1 or 2, both are great).

  • @royalghost4914
    @royalghost4914 2 года назад +6

    The fact that he used Kanbei and Andy from Advance wars, a gba game known for it's fog of war for the thumbnail is just awesome!
    Hikaru are you an Advance wars fan as well?

  • @frostwaffy
    @frostwaffy 3 года назад +2

    I need more of this. The thrill is so good.

  • @tusharjamwal
    @tusharjamwal 3 года назад +2

    This is so dank I was imagining that I'm watching the board from Levy's perspective and the commentary still made sense to me

  • @TheMarksT
    @TheMarksT 3 года назад +3

    8:00 Brave Queen! Interesting concept here, gg. Lol. Thrilling to watch in a way. Thx.

  • @NormCantoral
    @NormCantoral 3 года назад +5

    ohhh ok. now this I can get into. this should be a variant in some kind of tournament !!!

  • @VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan
    @VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan Год назад

    I wish there was more of this.
    Fun to watch :D

  • @niaissathel6345
    @niaissathel6345 3 года назад +2

    BIG ups for the Advance Wars reference.
    This channel's editor(s) is/are truly a man of culture.

  • @davidp.7620
    @davidp.7620 3 года назад +6

    It's amazing how on his first game he could figure out where almost every piece of his opponent was

  • @geometricart7851
    @geometricart7851 3 года назад +9

    "you know Hikaru is serious when he's not speaking" "I'm just not saying anything because I don't know where your rook is going" LOL

  • @briankelly1240
    @briankelly1240 3 года назад +2

    So glad to see Advance Wars is not completely forgotten! What got me into video games

  • @standard-carrier-wo-chan
    @standard-carrier-wo-chan Год назад +2

    Hikaru struggling to unlearn decades of regular chess.
    Welcome to your glimpse of how being an actual field army commander feels, Hikky

  • @ThatBigGuy824
    @ThatBigGuy824 3 года назад +8

    The other day I was watching Rosen play fog of war thinking "I can't wait to see Hikaru play this"
    Now my dreams have come true

  • @Fanofstuff
    @Fanofstuff 3 года назад +5

    i feel like in this game, the queen is even more valuable than any other piece beacuse it gives the most vision, and positions are seemingly kind of reduced in importance vs having vision of what is going on so you can get into a better position. very spicy game, looks fun

  • @UnreliableUsername
    @UnreliableUsername 3 года назад +1

    Gotta love them Hikaru facial expressions while thinking/calculating hahaha

  • @gorgehilly7308
    @gorgehilly7308 8 месяцев назад

    The way Hikaru looks up and to the side combined with this variation of chess makes me imagine "I'm in your walls" meme

  • @krishgarg2806
    @krishgarg2806 Год назад +5

    At the beginning, Levi should have just said, you can only see squares you can move to. Would have been much easier to understand.

  • @jdawg8427
    @jdawg8427 3 года назад +7

    13:45 "When did i have Tacos?"

  • @TheMaskedMeowth
    @TheMaskedMeowth 3 года назад +1

    more fow chess pls!! i love this

  • @its2three4
    @its2three4 3 года назад +2

    love the use of advanced wars in the thumbnail here!

  • @thanhnguyenduy6306
    @thanhnguyenduy6306 3 года назад +20

    One of those gamemode the wooden shield is actually op.

    • @mikhailzaruykin663
      @mikhailzaruykin663 3 года назад +1

      Ah, I see you are an expert in juicer placement as well

    • @spurs_7798
      @spurs_7798 3 года назад

      wooden shield is always op

  • @lg-hw5tk
    @lg-hw5tk 3 года назад +18

    "After among us, this will be the next thing.." Uh huh..

  • @NarayanAT
    @NarayanAT 3 года назад +1

    This is a really cool way to play chess. Very enjoyable video watching Hikaru think so much.

  • @Crustmajor
    @Crustmajor 3 года назад +1

    Excellent Thumbnail Hikaru, I loved that game as a kid.

  • @juliofranciscogomezstoppel1860
    @juliofranciscogomezstoppel1860 3 года назад +3

    This game mode makes things far more interesting, it trully turns chess into a war game, with information being just as valuable as the position itself. It also allows for way riskier stragegies, since you can eat the king.

  • @laegu5430
    @laegu5430 3 года назад +4

    It scares me how quickly this turned into an info battle

  • @Yamikaiba123
    @Yamikaiba123 3 года назад +1

    I love how Hikaru has to look away and visualize the board, in order to see PREVIOUS turns.

  • @Markylado
    @Markylado 8 месяцев назад

    HOLYSHT I JUST SEEN THIS AND OH MY GOD,
    THE ADVANCE WARS REFERENCE LMAOOOO

  • @MasterBronzeElite
    @MasterBronzeElite 3 года назад +8

    8:58 he explained that at the start...

  • @iJukes
    @iJukes 3 года назад +6

    at 2:10 he said: "after among us this will be the next thing." i mean he was right, chess is the thing now!

  • @ezyro6198
    @ezyro6198 7 месяцев назад

    The faces that hikaru makes I can't 🤣🤣 pls..

  • @orlypejr
    @orlypejr 7 месяцев назад

    I love how you guys innovate this game. Fog of war in chess is genius! I also love the 4 way chess battle you guys did. Amazing.

  • @shortmarkets7529
    @shortmarkets7529 3 года назад +5

    Levy: hi
    Hikaru;: you gave me to much information you lose

  • @eliascarlosmoralesheinke5186
    @eliascarlosmoralesheinke5186 3 года назад +5

    Hikaru just had a screen with Gotham’s stream on the ceiling that’s why he knew where the pieces are

  • @robertwintersteen3065
    @robertwintersteen3065 3 года назад +1

    Bruh, I just came here for the Advance Wars thumbnail. I used to play that game all the time on my Gameboy Advance SP.
    What a throwback....

  • @vladimirtchuiev2218
    @vladimirtchuiev2218 3 года назад +1

    I probably have to apply Starcraft logic in it. You have to scout, unlike in regular chess. Therefore it's much more useful to get the queen out early. Once scouting is prevented, it can be a guessing game on where the opponent must strike. One must take care to avoid enemy bishops though.

  • @insertjokeh3r3
    @insertjokeh3r3 3 года назад +3

    The advance wars thumbnail was amazing to see.

  • @samuelzachary8396
    @samuelzachary8396 2 года назад +3

    the mind games are so good, I imagine this is waay more fun with high level players.

  • @briankelly1240
    @briankelly1240 Год назад +2

    Advance Wars reference, love it! Grew up on Chess and AWs!

  • @alexdellaschiava4224
    @alexdellaschiava4224 3 года назад +2

    OH MY GOD THE THUMBNAIL! Advanced Wars! The memories!

  • @Rhovanion85
    @Rhovanion85 2 года назад +4

    The fact Chess Grandmasters played Advance Wars just warms my heart.

  • @kristian9k3g99
    @kristian9k3g99 3 года назад +7

    More of this. Please. I think this is really interesting. Can you get both sides for the you-tube instead of just using the twitch vod?

  • @Jumpenny
    @Jumpenny 2 года назад

    Loved the game the thumbnail is from, advanced army was epic

  • @tobibecker5723
    @tobibecker5723 Год назад +1

    Every 1200 just plays this game
    Hikaru takes it absolutely serious and makes a blindfolded game out of it