Chess Evolved: the most gigantic chess variant

chess evolved online this might be the best and worst chess variant ever made this is a version of Chess but with like 400 New pieces and yes there there's a lot and it's also in like a ccg format I've been playing this game for over seven years probably God damn it's closer to eight anyway now the antics of the developer is probably its own video the developers committed so many design sins and questionable life choices that you really got to wonder what the purity of this game and very base takes on life but this is not that video here's the classic chess Army you start with this at the beginning of the game the most important part is like you can customize basically everything about it as long as you have a full row so you can even like pre- Castle before the game as a very mild example of what rearranging your army can do obviously also I don't know why the Knight is looks like an Egyptian and is facing right so if you ever heard of a test set called No Stress chess it's basically a chess board for absolute beginners and it's a really nice teaching tool and it has these info cards for how the different pieces move in chess and this info card thing is basically the entirety of the left side of the screen in chess evolved so if your pattern matching skills in completely zero you know this means that the Rook can move as far as it wants vertically or horizontally it truly shows you every possible location on the board that can go this is what a knight looks like it is a different move type that looks green and it is is unblockable so it's basically the jump ability this move can't be blocked by other pieces the bishop which you can see that moves diagonally you can clearly see that's how it works there the queen which is both of those and the pwn now yes there is no on pasant in here and yes it does promote to a bishop instead of a queen cuz the queen is now some other piece of promotion honestly no one does get to promote a bishop in these SE freaking games but I agree with this cuz the opposant would be too long to write for a common piece actually I would like to highlight that these pieces like the the the large piece that you would expect in chess The Rook Bishop uh Knight Queen they're all listed as Champions and the whole idea with that is that you know the pawns a minion they're entirely different sets for Minion and Champion so I click this button up here and do all these These are the minions which are much weaker in value you can see the cost is very low this cost value is how much this cost to put in your army you have a max number of total points you can see the Champions cost a lot more than the standard minions you cannot put a champion on the minion row and same vice versa so that's a way to make it look you know more like normal chess armies you'll not that the king is neither Champion nor minion which is relevant sometimes you've also got the worst description ever for castling also you do not lose immediately when you lose the King on death lose 25 morale then bleed three moral each turn morale is kind of like your health now losing your king is almost death but is not necessarily I'll rant about that design decision some other time the most important thing to know is that castling three spaces doesn't work like a normal chest so prepare to get scammed no how did I to not intimidate you with my massive piece collection and make things easier I'm going to start a new account the first that you ever get in the game is a starter pack this is actually you'll be able to buy like dozens of these this is not actually very impactful Choice it's a very common Noob question and it's Clan box all the time the other two does do not have the Synergy or power but it's recommended to get them anyway even if they don't really synergize but we're going to pick the clan box here yes the game does come in a ccg like wrapper you gain currency and open boxes to get units and I basically have no problems with this idea like it makes a really nice progression of getting units and you'll get so many units that you're not going to feel like you're out of things to do or whatever um okay why is the spaghetti monster decided to put the mute button now okay anyway you can edit the Army you can visit the shop and there's the tutorial and there's multiplayer oh great another thing to mock the developer for got to bring that up do I the login box mechanic this a complete tangent but developer who has been active and is still active in the community and answering questions and stuff very cursed perspective on the Lo login box mechanic basically you can click this because this is a freaking idle game and open up a box for completely free and it will have units or currency in it and then there's a timer so they're completely free right but obviously the point of this mechanic is that you'll spend your whole day having the game on in the background just so you can open these yes you get lots of currency for this yes it makes this game look more like an idle game and in that video that talks about the developer of the this game the freaking spaghetti monster there will have to be so much talk about how this game is like trying to cultivate a non P2 pay to win aesthetic and it only gets like 75% of the way there which is still better than lots of the other congregate crap at the time with energy systems and much much more blatantly pay to win things than other games but this game's history was not free of that kind of nonsense I just want to get that out there okay the gameplay for real okay so first of all this is the Army building screen and yes this is upgrades but no it's not a p to win upgrade system the way this game does upgrades actually incredi like I really some people dislike it but I think it's really great so you can see all the new units that we just got from opening that box at the very start again if you have pattern matching skills you can see this Rook can move as far as it wants horizontally or vertically but then compared to this Warrior which has a lot less range and obviously we can see that reflected in its much lower cost but technically it is different from The Rook like it's not always worse cuz you have these diagonals that can also move and attack too you also got some SWS man so comparing to the pawn it is this is cost zero it has two attacks and a move only so we can see the move and attack are split into these different move types and let's switch these pawns out at the edges for swordsman and let's just switch the warrior and this also Maxes my total points let's save the Army and oh look another Skinner I mean login box all right whatever anyway let's get in a game that's some meme tips that you can look at so now that we're in a game finally you can see there are some blue and red things on the grid which represent the range of attack that you have this is a good feature but sometimes like it can be relied on too much as a crutch it like it really helps in terms of learning what things do because you can see this Fireball which is a new unit it has a range destroy Target of these three squares that are in front of it and like you wouldn't need to necessarily look at the fireball to see that these are dangerous squares because the red squares are immediately just showing you that area use the sords of that just put into the army you can see that it has a mover attack there which is one position in front of it has sideways attacks and move from starting position there already this is a nice tip from the classic Army you can see that I can either move here or here which is the move from starting position move and this synergizes with the idea this Rook is now completely able to just attack forwards okay my opponent has just moved their militia out of the way here to here and you can see that a splash line has been drawn to show what the the threat is you can see the threat is this Rook can take the swordsman and I will not be able to capture back and notice that behind The Swordsman graphic is only a red square with no Blue Square behind it so if I put this Pawn here that will support the swordsman and that will be defended however the AI in the early games is very dumb and will intentionally make choices like that you can see that's an enemy piece with a blue square behind it you should always be looking out for those like an enemy square with just a blue and no red behind it means that square is undefended and that is high priority to at least check now threat squ cannot help you with everything there are sometimes where might have this situation but it's not good for you to take it but almost always it's good for you to take undefended enemy pieces like that so just continue playing move this bishop here and attack this this is undefended but and and it's still undefended after this turn actually let's just take it this bishop can of course this is a classic chest piece and it can move as far as it wants diagonally so let's go and take it [Music] this Rook is still trapped and it is value 12 uh so even if I didn't like know what the piece did the value is really helpful in determining whether it's a good trade or not like this bishop is value 10 this Rook is value 12 so it is good for me to make this trade like in terms of points and by the way you might be noticing the numbers at the top of the screen those are the morale which I mentioned before those are the thing that goes down whenever a piece is captured because the morale is basically just the sum total of all the value notice that the values are actually just the costs from the Army building screen the queen costed 21 the Army building screen and will also have 21 value while in game and all the value is summed up to make this total and yes there are mechanics that involve spending this effective Health total and there's a mechanic where after turn 15 both players lose one morale which is a way to make games end if they have been stalling for that point so games will always end now let's try to just practice good chess like this this Knight is can attack either here or here we can block that off by putting this Pawn in the way you you can also see this is a dumb AI Army so it doesn't matter but for some reason new players and like they build armies so badly that this is something that real humans do look at this this it's a freaking Bishop it can only move diagonally and yet we have Fireballs that have no moves of their own so the bishop is completely blocked this Fireball can't move just happens so often but let's Okay this is again this Pawn is undefended so we will want to defend it putting another Pawn there that's a militia you can see there it even has an on death lose morale mechanic which interacts with the numbers at the top of the screen so this Pawn is actually being attacked twice and only defended once so I should want to add another Defender onto it if I can so let's put the Knight there now I do want to get this bishop out and it still got attacked well pretty sure this is a good trade for me to do yep there you go so notice that I only spent one Pawn but got to take a militia and a knight there okay nice bad moves everywhere so this Warrior you can see that the warrior has this diagonal move or attack so we can just take it right away I'm just going to move this Warrior around just to show its movement we can even try to move and try to hit this enemy King and of course taking the enemy King is what we want to do that king move was especially weird cuz I can very easily threaten it let's move the queen out you can see these Splash lines are making we're making really good use out of them here's a check and hopefully you can see just how the queen is moving and how it's diagonal and vertical representation is on the board as basically every piece works like that that's an undefended Knight okay okay okay okay did not intend that but that's actually a really good mechanic demonstration um because losing the king isn't death you can actually do counter checks like that so my opponent blocked the check and threatened a king attack of their own I can do the same thing and ignore the king threat notice that my phone happens to have 25 morale exactly 25 is a really important value like it's it's often a very key value because of the lose 25 um this bishop is undefended I can just take that and threaten the King again all right I lost my king but it doesn't matter I can just take the king now if I didn't win the game on this then the bleeding mechanic would take into account where my opponent would lose three per turn three morale per turn because of not having a king but there we go that's Victory you get this massive new player bonus I guess let's check out the store you can see the theme boxes are actually really just accessible and you'll be able to afford more really easily I'm sure people will be looking here for a guide to what boxes to buy long-term players will never buy anything in these boxes because they're very shortterm they have slightly better Rarity ratios but the boxes you get are the units you get are not exclusive to these three boxes here are the stats which I had to personally compile because apparently the developer exempt from loot box disclosure both the values represent only cost of exactly one piece because some of these boxes have more than one piece that you can get and like this is 4 this is 20 420 anyway it's hard to go wrong and the and unlike some other games maybe you would expect like buying infinite basic boxes is a great way to get units it's not even a joke like it looks like the noob box for free to plays but it's the it's like an incredibly good value no matter what point you are in the game also it looks like there's a premium currency which you can actually get tons of this currency in the game for free free to place can already amass like a thousand of it the game is another aspect where the game is really really like it was completely contrasting for all the other pay to wins at the time even though it did have a bit of pay to win itself anyway because we're so early on we're big we're going to get an Arcane box all right you can see we got some of these Fireballs just view the collection here can also go to another Army slot and I'll show like we're going to put these Fireballs which you remember those are the immobile things that can't move but do have a greater attack range and let's switch out the queen for a wizard which has unblockable move attack or slot places with Ally just a move type that we have not seen before this is actually really common in the piece that they will gain swap places with Ally God damn it swap places with Ally it's a very interesting utility the heck did I get Ranger says a forest piece but I opened a clan boxing buggy game anyway let's just put the frost Mage thunder mage I guess we actually at pretty low point value I think I might bring the queen back there we go and put swordsman on the edge and a bomber I mean this is not a good army I'm just going to say like it it it ruins oh look another Skinner box um an it's not a good army I'll probably have a more dedicated Army building video later but uh this do unlock ranked mode and honestly the best way to play this game is to just play ranked all the time don't play practice mode which has less rewards um the thing is that there's a rating number but please ignore it I mean you you don't want to have lad anxiety and like be like me where I have like 4,500 rating but every single game you're like stressing out trying to not care like caring about a freaking arbitrary number there's no point anyway let's see the swap ability so we can see it just it just swaps and it's unblockable too and and like swapping is a very like this is a very intentional Synergy on the part of the developer that's a beacon by way a piece that allows the opponent to teleport any range three Ally Minion or Champion notice the king is not even included because the king is neither of those things but yeah that's the utility unit that the opponent's using so we can move the wizard and I'm just going to try to show this swapping ability so swap obviously has Synergy with immobile units and it can swap like that so I'm actually targeting that Beacon Square real bad trade opponent but sure we'll take that Rook could try to use the frost Mage which has the status effect of being able to freeze an enemy unit in this particular range but we can also get the thunder mage ready it's time to show a mechanic that we call Nuance so of course this is the info card for thunder mage so I mean please read or at least read the part where you pay one that's pay one morale by the way magic which is an unblockable ability after four turns any unit in the mark location is destroyed so it's a destroy effect that takes four turns which means that the opponent could move it out of the way right so if I put it there well it doesn't do anything well I'm just going to put it in the most relevant place which is on that Beacon that Beacon is an immobile unit so this is this is a great example of nuance because I'm just going to be able to take this Beacon for free because it's an immobile unit it will make the opponent regret ever putting beacon in the Army we call this Nuance to mock the developer anyway let's move this wizard it seems like we can to attack this King uh this hold on let's attack the king first the king can only move this way into here uh into this space or it can just not do it because it's a stupid AI but I would have been able to get a free militia that way notice that this Fireball ADV vanishes after attacking so it's actually not a good trade on my part well it's it's an okay trade to take this militia I could have had the king move to the left then I would move the wizard to the left and then take this militia next turn anyway the King was freaking is very take the beacon just got destroyed so now my opponent will be losing three morale each turn for not having a king guess let's show off the freeze mechanic so okay nice trade um so this makes it unable to be used for three turns which can open up various attacks like for example if I move this swordsman here last turn my opponent would have just been able to take it but with the militia but since this is frozen I can actually make this move then do that and you can see that like it it helped that the unit was frozen for three turns we can win here by killing the valkyrie which had a weird attack range I didn't point out anyway so now I'll get a ton of rating now I I should explain all the numbers on screen I don't know I'll just show up bunch of pieces so okay look we also got rubies which is also what I was hoping to demonstrate we can easily get tons of these so-called premium Curren this way and so when you're really early on and because Basics are not that far behind from Ultra crate even though Ultra crate is the one that gives you the high Rarity units if you have rubies like exchanging them here which is a way to exchange them there's this slight value loss but it's very very mild in the sense that if you like the gold values are not the same but it's still so so well worth it CU that giv me like what 34k Dragon Coins which is enough to buy Ever more boxes so I want to get more Fireballs okay so we got instead a bunch of wizards as I really want to demonstrate something imagine not getting many Fireballs okay I got enough probably so a question you might be wondering is like for example I have obtained five Thunder Mages here but I can't even put four of the same and yes this is bugged and you this like the error messages bugged still developer Etc so why would you ever buy multiple same box you can't use more than four units for the same Champion there is no restriction like that for minions by the way well the answer is that upgrade units Buton so let's just switch to pawn that that one makes the most sense you can upgrade units in this game which increases their move set but also their cost to put in the Army so ordinary Pawn can only move once with a range two move from starting position this one has a range three move from starting position and has double move it also promotes the bishop plus which is an upgraded version of the bishop so it is very common for Min and to also improve their promotion too and the cost is that you need multiple of that unit in the inventory and this also creates like choices about how you want to have your collection and what upgrades are actually Worth or not the game tests your ability to evaluate pieces to an incredible degree so we have like fantasm which I've obtained multiple copies of for this purpose this is plus three cost but four extra attacks the wizard now this okay this is the one like I wonder sometimes there are these upgrades that are so obviously good because no one actually plays the base version of wizard now the base versions of units there's actually a lot of really good base units there were times where there were really overpowered upgraded units I do not believe this is the case anymore as the game it's kind of been Brute Force balanced out let's not give too much credit to the designer the designer is not capable of balancing pieces there have been many overpowered garbage designs in the past but it just so happens that after enough Brute Force balancing and not enough new units the game is in its most balanced and non-pay to win State let's upgrade the wizard giving us a wizard plus also this Fireball um just catch so the chases well here um this adds four attacks for one cost but they're in the best four attack positions that could possibly be this is another basically needed upgrade leave the rest alone and by the way if you like if you maybe if you're wondering cuz some freaking people have done this yeah see I don't I this Army used to have three Fireballs I can still actually play this Army in ranked modes and stuff but I will just not be able to save this Army because it has units that I don't own like yeah but you will still be able to play it it'll just get locked as this unless you want to change it get rid of these so it's really nice that allows you to use units you don't own so that you don't like upgrade all your pawns away like an idiot or something yeah the upgraded version of the fireball which costs plus one more it's it's just the non-upgraded version is just a lot weaker this upgraded wizard can also swap with the eight adjacent spaces around it this is a tip what a great tip so even early on there are like these synergies you can try out like in this situation I have the thunder mage right here which can kill a mobile like it's it again it targets a square and I have a frost Mage which can freeze enemy units so you can see the Synergy right here and there's like tons of these types of synergies all around the game so now that unit has become a mobile and now it's going to die for free there's also the Synergy with the wizard being able to swap with the fireball which is still really fun to swap around uh immobile units like that anyway let's watch the samurai die for free and also like I will be making well I feel like I will be making lots of videos about specific units because there have been so many games played with these designs like the samurai that instantly attacks a target has been part of the meta for like forever because of its ability to do things without costing a turn if you ever played any other games you know how good it is to be able to get like free turns and stuff might as well open a basic box just to show so you can open up to 20 at once and get tons of pieces that you've never seen notice that not all of them are new because some of these are actually from like the other theme boxes I'd probably recommend starting with a rush Army like one that is does not block movement you're in the early ranks to make this per of the game go through a lot faster so this involves using the classic chest piece which by the way is why Bishop was is like has such a high value the Knight is only six value in this game which is really weird and part of it is its ability to be used in rushes like this also there is more currency nonsense besides even this because there's all this stuff where you can claim to get even more currency which feels rather infinite because you're just going to get them so fast it's just ways to make you think a chess game needs an economy and a Mastery of all the pieces another Noob killing technique is a unit in the clan box which I may or may not be lucky enough to get in this as I open these there we go so this is the Ninja piece a piece that is not really competitively viable you should really stop using that for like rank 2,000 but like but it creates so many easy checkmates if your opponent is an idiot so here my opponent has actually blocked it off I can't put my ninja here but the ninja has a range three unblockable attack which makes it really easy for smaller mates so if my opponent takes this bishop we'll have this example right now it's just like this has worked for absolute years yes against Real humans so that's why gets spammed but the piece is not actually very good except for this purpose it's a piece that really makes me wonder how many rage quits it caused like back when the game was was at its peak and popularity one last thing I feel is most relevant for new player progression you get to level uh rank 500 which will happen like an hour or two of gameplay you'll be a novice but two important things will unlock for progression one is this dragon's favor these things are more dark patterns you can buy it it says PV PP matches but it's not just PVP don't even know why it says PVP but you you basically should just buy it because that new player bonus does that it doesn't last forever and it counts this is a great way to take advantage of the new player bonus coins now the reason it's kind of a dark pattern is that it kind of incentivizes you play the game for 24 hours which I think is like it's just like addiction causing it should be like 1 hour of time instead freaking economy mechanics and chess again the second thing is this challenge the daily challenge which only unlocks at rank 500 this basically just a massive list of units where the AI is weak to so it's really hard to say these challenges are really challenging at all you can collect this daily Ruby prize for doing so and it's just a lot of currency every day the problem is this has also been designed to get you on an addiction treadmill because I mean let's just show off a game this will not I guess this is more representative of a thing that looks more like a challenge so there's like all of these units so I guess it's also a way to to play with and against units who might have not have seen then we got these gnomes that will terfy something in close range and then upgrade into an air Elemental Earth Elemental sorry we also get a Mastery which is one of the landmarks one of the ways we can get uh the Mastery level up because the Mastery of these also count let's see if I get the moon Fox cheese going over here though I think it's probably unlikely unless it teleports here okay so we we can get to see the amazing AI in action I hope cuz that Moon Fox revives on death to the square behind it and there you go the King's dead and of course with the bleeding morale this will be a quick win so yeah um if you look at the stats like 66% of people were able to beat the challenge that's like first try stats so it really does not take much effort to win the challenge toad also acts like a checker piece by the way that's what that does okay so the dark pattern is now here the addiction treadmill because you see I just won the challenge but it tells me to come back during the next challenge to claim a ruby prize which means I don't get any rubies today I need to go come back tomorrow to repeat the same procedure dark patterns absolute spaghetti monster Behavior You' think the developer would have put like some bundle or something in here that Unshackled you from these addiction mechanics but it just no the developer should just admit this is an idle game already you probably got to make some different video compiling the dark pattern memes in this this game because another one is if you win the game too fast you start losing some benefits and coins as in if you beat an AI before 10 moves which does likely mean that you Checkmate cheese them with a ninja but it's just good to stall the move count until move 15 yes I know F freaking bot farming advice is the thing that I want to put on this channel oh no anyway this is old old chess battle I mean chess evolved online much like people were too lazy to create Bob ASU mod custom content videos pretty much no one has competently analyzed the stuff in this game even though it does deserve it despite the Lal developer really is the best word to describe the freaking Dev of this game I've always really enjoyed like watching analysis videos of certain units and strategies and games one is done for this and there's there's generally really a lot that is cool about this game again I think it's it's like a must playay experience and the things that will make you hate this game only happen after like weeks of playing when you're going to notice them and all of those experienced player issues with the game have nothing to do with the noob lowlevel of skill issues that sub 100 hour players experience anyway that'll be it and uh also this is the this chess evolved is part of the reason of the existence of Chess battle Advanced invented by Strat shot player

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Length: 28min 21sec (1701 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 24 2024