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
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
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
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?
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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
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!
@@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.
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.
The biggest weakness is now being forced into becoming a bishop.
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?
12 (but you don't lose anything net, because you gained 12 from the promote)
@@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
@@IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq oooooh yeah makes sense (wouldnt make sense as a game mechanic to not give you extra points), thx for the answer :3
@@gabrote42 okay so you lose the value of your pawn (depending lvl) and gain the value of bishop (again depending lvl)
I wish Chess Battle Advance had public testing. I want it NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want this Classic
game to Be
Available for everyone...
As someone who just learned about the game by watching your video, I think that I'm entering into a really big rabbit hole
do yourself a favor - don't
Feels like fairy chess but fueled by obsessive insanity
i'm loving learning about chess evolved battle advanced online
what do you mean chess battle advanced is a real game
this is oldoldchess battle advanced, not chess battle advanced (which is also a real game)
@@IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq cant wait for analysis of oldchess battle advanced and chess battle advanced
can't wait for analysis of newchess battle advanced and newnewchess battle advanced
@@IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bq Isn't actual CBA an abandoned incomplete project that basically doesn't exist?
@@RupertAndCheese it depends what CBA you're talking about
deleted the hidden video playlists... its over icebros.
cant wait for the analysis of every single oocba piece
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
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
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
i love advancing my battle in chess
i love hearing you talk about this absolute madness
Amazing how the developer missed the point so hard, he managed to put power creep into chess.
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?
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@@altrivotzck6565idk why you're booing him, his assessment is just objectively correct
Can't believe this channel still isn't named "Channel Icely Advanced"
Oh it’s actually gonna keep coming! I’m very down for this. This game is very funny.
a little surprised i havent hward him wail and cry this video, it makes his monologue sound incomplete
is it just me or is that hostage sprite looking kinda 🥵
bro
just saw the lilith sprite and i might not be able to hold myself back...
it's only at gyatt level 0
0:20 spaghetti monster's identity REVEALED
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.
lmao
@@IcelysUnnecessary2ndChan-gv1bqwait why do uou call him that? because his game is spaghetti and hes a monster?
at least there is one minion even worse than the pawn - the frog
Too many people hate checkers :(
(Frog is basically checker)
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
What happened to the cobalt core videos?
Dude make more of these, their very entertaining
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.
Good heavens, what have they done
Pawn not promoting to Rook makes it terrible.
rOoK
A new channel dedicated solely to cba discussion? Some might call this a crippling addiction
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
why is it old old? is there a new chess battle advanced?
More like pawn bus bus
I run Pawn+ with Samurai+.
Also, this game gives me a headache.
I'm advanced rank lol
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.
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!
BRING BACK EN PASSANT
pawn battle advanced
I want to know what real chess battle advanced gameplay was like its buring a hole in my soul....
how do you have 775 pawns and why have you not upgraded them
*777
Battle advanced chess
Would be cool to have an android version :(
pwan
I never knew how much I didn't need another Icely channel until now : )
0:21 ?? Is he basically saying that chess has too strong defense? But then complains about everything having a blindspot? ...what
it sounds like he just hates closed positions in normal chess
@@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.
chess biece analysed
Pp lol
coment
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.
I disagree, I think the game is pretty good. Certainly many flaws, but it's absurd to call it a net negative.
@@godlyvex5543 By net negative I mean emotionally.
@@godlyvex5543 Comment didn't post I think? Anyway, I meant a negative impact on his emotional state.