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You can actually go to settings and set your preference for very hard drawbacks if you want to try it. It should be fun.

I think the last opponent misinterpreted their drawback's "You must promote to Bishops" to mean "You must promote ALL of your pawns to Bishops (or lose)" and thought they would lose if they captured your King before marching all their surviving pawns down the board. That's the only explanation I can come up with for their plays.

Lmao I love the reveal that the opponent who spent several minutes on a single move had the drawback "indecisive"

That last game was maybe the dumbest thing I've seen, peak cinema

17:24 "Oh golly, when's Tony going to make a strained guttural noise of realization this time?"

17:48 "Aaaaand there it is."

I like how the "terrible move" suggested at 27:50 is the same move you made in the last game.

10:25 There's no way Messy divorce isn't one of the hardest drawbacks. You're limited in pieces to checkmate with and endgames are completely losing if the king hides on the side where you have less pawns.

Second game in and bro is already pulling out the Sun Tzu level psychology warfare with the knight fork. Gambling chess has changed this man

2:11 that is some crazy rhyming

The last opponent's drawback being Bishop Fan Club and not "Ichthyophobe: You can't make the move that stockfish would make" may be my favorite plot twist this year.

The last game was a stoppable force vs a moveable object

22:40 - i guess his gambler drawback prevented his king move and thus he lost.

Drawback Chess default promotes to a queen normally, so if they promote to a bishop or rook it almost always means they have the bishop or rook fanclub drawback.

That last match was WILD. One of the best I've seen here yet.

29:24 I love how I was just saying “true gentleman” over and over, just to find out that it was just pure blindness of the opponent lol.

I thought for SURE that last guy had the drawback about having to study a piece for a turn before you can take it

Your last move was winning at 32:01, according to the opponent's drawback they could only move their king diagonally and therefore they couldn't capture your king. Of course they could have captured your king with the pawn the move before.

0:16 savior complex: when in check, must move queen, or lose
4:19 messy divorce: pieces can't cross from queenside to kingside or vice versa
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11:21 scouting ahead: as long as you have a pawn, can't move non-pawn pieces ahead of your most advanced pawn
23:02 warlord: at the start of move 12 and onwards, king can't be on first two ranks, or lose
27:37 devil on your shoulder: devil suggests terrible moves, can only disobey seven times in a row

4:01 "whereas for the opponent, if you have any dreams of playing an attacking game of chess, you might as well not go to sleep"
28:54 "i love the idea of devil on your shoulder because the only thing i can imagine is the troll from king of the bridge telling us what to play"
31:30 insane king walk
32:02 KING TAKES KING
32:24 laughing "what? why didn't they just take our king? like ten different times"

drawback chess is the best. the goat of chess variants. i feel like every time you play the games get more and more insane, and it's super fun to see you play with harder drawbacks!!!

31:26 Their drawback: “Queen can only move diagonally” could not take the king. Same with the king standoff. “King could only move diagonally” cannot take your king. He should’ve taken it with a billion other pieces tho lol