Pawn Analysis

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  • čas přidán 24. 04. 2024
  • Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. In my opinion, it's a "must-play" game in that it expands your idea of what chess variants even are, with over 400+ pieces and a non-p2w upgrades system.
    SHORT REVIEW:
    all tiers: high risk to be killed; good to quickly have targets for a specific square or fork, but much easier to disrupt than classic chess; just like pawn in regular chess, opponent can often use your own pawn against you because your own pawn blocks the way
    +0: passable king defense / sit forever near center as potential fork threats
    +1: can quickly go to 5th row and constrict, decent promotion threat; still not used THAT often, but is the best of the tiers and is the only one with positive winrate
    +2: for rushes only, have rooks behind it, but it can often be ignored
    +3: no army really wants it, despite the insta-promote; meme army with angel, but needs buff (goes without saying that bishop+++ is still a lot worse than queen in classic chess)
    discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsf

Komentáře • 79

  • @Swagpion
    @Swagpion Před měsícem +116

    The biggest weakness is now being forced into becoming a bishop.

    • @propaul1369
      @propaul1369 Před měsícem +19

      When a pawn promotes to bishop and then that bishop dies what happens with its value? You lose 0 bc it was a pawn or 12 bc it is a bishop?

    • @IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq
      @IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq  Před měsícem +63

      12 (but you don't lose anything net, because you gained 12 from the promote)

    • @gabrote42
      @gabrote42 Před měsícem +3

      ​@@propaul1369 you gain 10 when it becomes a Bishop (may change depending on + level), and if that dies, then you go back down to 0

    • @propaul1369
      @propaul1369 Před měsícem

      @@IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq oooooh yeah makes sense (wouldnt make sense as a game mechanic to not give you extra points), thx for the answer :3

    • @propaul1369
      @propaul1369 Před měsícem +1

      @@gabrote42 okay so you lose the value of your pawn (depending lvl) and gain the value of bishop (again depending lvl)

  • @madoakuma4509
    @madoakuma4509 Před měsícem +26

    As someone who just learned about the game by watching your video, I think that I'm entering into a really big rabbit hole

  • @speddoellol1199
    @speddoellol1199 Před měsícem +48

    I wish Chess Battle Advance had public testing. I want it NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I want this Classic
    game to Be
    Available for everyone...

  • @hexergaming19
    @hexergaming19 Před měsícem +82

    what do you mean chess battle advanced is a real game

    • @IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq
      @IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq  Před měsícem +60

      this is oldoldchess battle advanced, not chess battle advanced (which is also a real game)

    • @adrianinoninja
      @adrianinoninja Před měsícem +48

      @@IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq cant wait for analysis of oldchess battle advanced and chess battle advanced

    • @JustAnotherCommenter
      @JustAnotherCommenter Před měsícem +9

      can't wait for analysis of newchess battle advanced and newnewchess battle advanced

    • @RupertAndCheese
      @RupertAndCheese Před měsícem +6

      @@IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq Isn't actual CBA an abandoned incomplete project that basically doesn't exist?

    • @IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq
      @IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq  Před měsícem +13

      @@RupertAndCheese it depends what CBA you're talking about

  • @hardcorescythe
    @hardcorescythe Před měsícem +39

    i'm loving learning about chess evolved battle advanced online

  • @axelostlund2348
    @axelostlund2348 Před měsícem +25

    Feels like fairy chess but fueled by obsessive insanity

  • @NotQuartz
    @NotQuartz Před měsícem +10

    Seeing the spaghetti monster edits, I’m trying (and failing) to recall any time when Icely actually named a game dev. He’s named custom map creators but never devs seemingly

    • @gabrote42
      @gabrote42 Před měsícem +3

      Most people know him as definitely not an alt account, or his copyright notice. His friends call him Grand. Well, when he had some more. And before thar he was The Grandestine

  • @yokucasper
    @yokucasper Před měsícem +20

    deleted the hidden video playlists... its over icebros.

  • @amitthehuman
    @amitthehuman Před měsícem +52

    Amazing how the developer missed the point so hard, he managed to put power creep into chess.

    • @altrivotzck6565
      @altrivotzck6565 Před měsícem

      What do you mean by this, though?
      What point are you referring to?
      I know the game is kinda scuffed, but I wouldn't really say there's "power creep"
      I guess the pawn being a weak piece is what you're talking about?

    • @amitthehuman
      @amitthehuman Před měsícem +15

      @@altrivotzck6565 yeah, but it's more than that. The weaknesses of pieces in chess are what makes it work. The pawns are bad because it forces you to work around them and gives pacing to a match. The more powerful pieces get out later partially because they are harder to get past the pawn barrier. Then at the end game you find yourself desperately defending these weak pieces, because if only one of them reaches promotion it can give you the win. When you look at these chess battle advanced matches, they have absolutely no pacing. Everyone is instakilling everyone else. You get out of the barrier with some "unblockable" and target all of your opponent's pieces. You may get the extra bit of building a comp, but the game loses all the strategy. So that's why it's especially galling to add power creep to chess, because making the pieces more powerful already makes the game worse.

    • @altrivotzck6565
      @altrivotzck6565 Před měsícem +7

      @@amitthehuman I think you're comparing it too closely to actual chess.
      It's much easier to enjoy the game if you think of it as a different game in the same genre, rather than "worse chess"
      It's more like a TCG, where a lot of the actual "fight" happens before a match even starts, when players are designing their own team, and the actual fight itself is more just trying to use the "deck" to the best of your ability, including some Chess-like tactics.
      It's like many Chess variants, like Spell Chess or CrazyHouse, which cause the game to go way quicker, by allowing the players to do "stronger" things to eachother.
      Conversely, you have variants like the online Drawback Chess (I can't really think of many others, though I guess playing a less-powerful version like Chaturanga would be similar), where the changes it makes to the game are "negative", usually slowing the game down, rather than speeding it up like most other variants.
      Anyways, basically what I'm saying is, is that comparing this game too closely to actual FIDE chess just doesn't really make sense.
      If you have a bunch of different pieces that you can choose between, and you can rearrange them, then yeah, you can arrange them into positions where you can easily attack your opponent. That's kinda the premise of the game, almost.
      Attacking it on this premise doesn't really feel like fair criticism, and it barely even feels like criticism, at all. There are plenty of other things about it that can be fairly criticized.

    • @altrivotzck6565
      @altrivotzck6565 Před měsícem +8

      Of course the regular pawn was always going to be weaker than other similar pieces. The Pawn is like intentionally designed to be as weak as it can be. It can only move 1 square in 1 direction (save for a special time-saving rule that was added later) and it can only capture on short-range squares different than the one it can move on.
      Almost any other piece design is gonna be stronger than that, and people simply aren't gonna use ones that are weaker.
      The only other Chess piece I can think of that's about as weak is the Chaturanja Elephant, and it's almost certainly stronger than a pawn.

    • @cinnastag
      @cinnastag Před měsícem +1

      ​@@altrivotzck6565idk why you're booing him, his assessment is just objectively correct

  • @darqed
    @darqed Před měsícem +8

    cant wait for the analysis of every single oocba piece

  • @axerity9212
    @axerity9212 Před měsícem +26

    is it just me or is that hostage sprite looking kinda 🥵

  • @Michael-cg7yz
    @Michael-cg7yz Před měsícem +5

    Can't believe this channel still isn't named "Channel Icely Advanced"

  • @ecbrd8478
    @ecbrd8478 Před měsícem +2

    i love hearing you talk about this absolute madness

  • @throwawwy53
    @throwawwy53 Před měsícem +4

    I still use a pawn+ because just the reach on them is cool, it takes 3 turns for the axeman and milita to reach your half, but only one hop for an upgraded pawn (it will die afterwards but that's a sacrifice i'm willing to make)
    promoting to a bishop is their biggest weakness though

  • @ilodino2000
    @ilodino2000 Před měsícem +1

    Oh it’s actually gonna keep coming! I’m very down for this. This game is very funny.

  • @user-th1hu6hg9s
    @user-th1hu6hg9s Před měsícem +8

    Pawn not promoting to Rook makes it terrible.

  • @jamesissadyo
    @jamesissadyo Před 21 dnem

    Dude make more of these, their very entertaining

  • @GigasGMX
    @GigasGMX Před měsícem +24

    Only now do I realize that "the Spaghetti Monster" isn't a cute self-deprecating username that the OOCBA dev gave himself, but a sick burn lobbed at him by Icely.

  • @TillyCorbin
    @TillyCorbin Před měsícem +2

    i love advancing my battle in chess

  • @godlyvex5543
    @godlyvex5543 Před měsícem

    I hope we get more videos even though the views are bad, there is like zero interesting content about this game on the internet and I'm glad to finally be able to watch some

  • @slawless9665
    @slawless9665 Před měsícem +2

    at least there is one minion even worse than the pawn - the frog

    • @crowreligion
      @crowreligion Před měsícem

      Too many people hate checkers :(
      (Frog is basically checker)

  • @drorraz7962
    @drorraz7962 Před měsícem +4

    What happened to the cobalt core videos?

  • @gabrote42
    @gabrote42 Před měsícem +1

    2:27 You seem to have used it XD
    16:52 Angel is my favourite piece. So much more fun than Dragon. And on a samurai game it can let you uptrade them with her enchants
    23:30 this sound more like candy cadet

  • @Timkorea0810
    @Timkorea0810 Před měsícem +1

    0:20 spaghetti monster's identity REVEALED

  • @dr.archaeopteryx5512
    @dr.archaeopteryx5512 Před měsícem +2

    Good heavens, what have they done

  • @tam4655
    @tam4655 Před měsícem

    a little surprised i havent hward him wail and cry this video, it makes his monologue sound incomplete

  • @espicelmecanicodecombustio1632

    A new channel dedicated solely to cba discussion? Some might call this a crippling addiction

  • @addmakerhd480
    @addmakerhd480 Před měsícem +1

    More like pawn bus bus

  • @mistery8363
    @mistery8363 Před měsícem

    why is it old old? is there a new chess battle advanced?

  • @diffdimgamerseven9986
    @diffdimgamerseven9986 Před měsícem

    pawn battle advanced

  • @dimitriskontoleon6787
    @dimitriskontoleon6787 Před 14 dny

    OK pawn+++ looks like have no good value, cost 3, but looks like was not so terrible, I don't know if this just one point was so critical. At very least can promote in one move!

  • @cheesybrik9073
    @cheesybrik9073 Před měsícem

    I don’t plan to play this game but I love your analysis of it. Also keep dunking on the developer crypto bros need to be shamed into oblivion.

  • @mrpages6384
    @mrpages6384 Před měsícem

    Battle advanced chess

  • @theominouspigeon
    @theominouspigeon Před měsícem +1

    pwan

  • @user-vs7cc5nl5i
    @user-vs7cc5nl5i Před měsícem

    Crazy?I was crazy once.
    They put me in a room,
    a rubber room,
    a rubber room with chess battle advanced, chess battle advanced made me crazy.

  • @vinicius13.23
    @vinicius13.23 Před měsícem

    Would be cool to have an android version :(

  • @BryanLu0
    @BryanLu0 Před měsícem +5

    0:21 ?? Is he basically saying that chess has too strong defense? But then complains about everything having a blindspot? ...what

    • @musicexams5258
      @musicexams5258 Před měsícem +1

      it sounds like he just hates closed positions in normal chess

    • @altrivotzck6565
      @altrivotzck6565 Před měsícem +1

      @@musicexams5258 I had never really heard about the creator's design philosophy, but this explains a lot.
      Now I know why this game is so fast-paced & aggressive in comparrison to chess.
      I thought that was just a consequence of the designs of the first few pieces, but no, it was probably intentional.

  • @theneongoomba
    @theneongoomba Před měsícem

    I never knew how much I didn't need another Icely channel until now : )

  • @alicethetransdalek7333
    @alicethetransdalek7333 Před měsícem +2

    chess biece analysed

  • @ezralives
    @ezralives Před měsícem

    I want to know what real chess battle advanced gameplay was like its buring a hole in my soul....

  • @addmakerhd480
    @addmakerhd480 Před měsícem +1

    Pp lol

  • @edlerlucasbarcellosdasilva3622

    coment

  • @RupertAndCheese
    @RupertAndCheese Před měsícem +1

    You seem to have a mutually antagonistic relationship with this man.
    Also I feel like this game has a net negative impact on your life, dude; it's pretty trashy.

    • @godlyvex5543
      @godlyvex5543 Před měsícem +2

      I disagree, I think the game is pretty good. Certainly many flaws, but it's absurd to call it a net negative.

    • @RupertAndCheese
      @RupertAndCheese Před měsícem

      @@godlyvex5543 By net negative I mean emotionally.

    • @RupertAndCheese
      @RupertAndCheese Před měsícem

      @@godlyvex5543 Comment didn't post I think? Anyway, I meant a negative impact on his emotional state.

  • @clicktuck
    @clicktuck Před měsícem +1

    Chess chttle chvanced