DUCK CHESS

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
  • In this video, I play my very first game of Duck Chess. This is a new funny and entertaining chess variant that involves a duck. If you want to see more duck chess, leave a quack in the comments 🦆
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  • @infantiltinferno
    @infantiltinferno ปีที่แล้ว +3678

    "I wonder if my opponent meant to play Duck D7", glorious.

  • @Parangtha
    @Parangtha ปีที่แล้ว +2136

    Eric: There's no escape
    *next move*
    Eric: Oh no, an escape!

    • @VanquishR
      @VanquishR ปีที่แล้ว +40

      This variant is a constant rollercoaster

    • @Dr._Bo
      @Dr._Bo ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@VanquishR of emotions

    • @jaydentan4336
      @jaydentan4336 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dr._Bo OF CUM!

    • @Brinez5
      @Brinez5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Dr._Bo no not really

    • @Dr._Bo
      @Dr._Bo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Brinez5 I meant just for me but aight🤷🏾

  • @ramachandra776
    @ramachandra776 ปีที่แล้ว +2203

    "The stalemated player wins" - Eric will take to this variant of chess like a duck to water . 🙂

    • @ckq
      @ckq ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Thing is you can move into check so stalemate is basically impossible

    • @EebstertheGreat
      @EebstertheGreat ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@ckq It's like a reward for managing to find such a bizarre and rare position.

    • @simont.2145
      @simont.2145 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      With this in mind he will be duck chess world champion, mark my words😅

    • @JimmyBoosterCrate
      @JimmyBoosterCrate ปีที่แล้ว +52

      That's only if you ACTUALLY have no moves; not even a move into check. That almost never happens. If instead, your only moves are to move into check (which would be considered a stalemate in normal chess), you have Lost.

    • @jonathanbarkins8480
      @jonathanbarkins8480 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@JimmyBoosterCrate That's what I was thinking. So Eric didn't actually have to worry about stalemate at all, am I correct?
      Edit: I made a FEN position of one of the only (at least simplest) stalemate positions I could think of: 3k1qBK/5PRP/6P1/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
      You can paste it into the lichess editor and look at it if someone wants to see it.

  • @radosawkarwacki4386
    @radosawkarwacki4386 ปีที่แล้ว +1038

    Watching Eric struggle to checkmate at the end was one of the funniest things I've seen this week. I'd love to see more of Duck Chess here, it's so entertaining!

    • @whocares2277
      @whocares2277 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      I'm up two queens, a rook and a knight, how do I checkmate?

    • @enzymeaoe
      @enzymeaoe ปีที่แล้ว +11

      lol same here, this looks so annoying if you're eric!

    • @jackester6742
      @jackester6742 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I think this could be an awesome series if he took it seriously and climbed as far as he could. That stalemate rule seems to fit Eric's skillset.

    • @johnnytightlips1708
      @johnnytightlips1708 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hahahahahahaha

    • @parzingtheasian
      @parzingtheasian ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@whocares2277 "this is reduckulous"

  • @AaronHillyer
    @AaronHillyer ปีที่แล้ว +798

    Is it just me or hearing Eric say "duck e2" just sounds so hilarious

  • @ThePinnacleSFA
    @ThePinnacleSFA ปีที่แล้ว +131

    "i should've played Duck a3"
    classic blunder, Eric

    • @michaeld519
      @michaeld519 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I lost my shit when he said that. Just so ridiculous. It's rare that a chess TH-cam video can make me actually laugh out loud, but Eric made it happen.

  • @infantiltinferno
    @infantiltinferno ปีที่แล้ว +722

    When opponent Ducked the back rank mate, I was in stitches. This looks really fun.

    • @parzingtheasian
      @parzingtheasian ปีที่แล้ว +33

      this is reduckulous

    • @JDRed117
      @JDRed117 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@parzingtheasian yeah agree, it's riduckulous

    • @tomasbeltran04050
      @tomasbeltran04050 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      it's really hard to win

    • @andreasbobe5239
      @andreasbobe5239 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you just make a double entendre with both meanings having the same meaning???

  • @someaccount3438
    @someaccount3438 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    This is why Eric is my favorite chess TH-camr/streamer. While everyone else is like "Magnus this, Niemann that", Eric plays duck chess.

    • @Lufia4
      @Lufia4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Chess simp do a lot of fun challenges! If you like alternative chess =D

  • @TheWizardsOfOz
    @TheWizardsOfOz ปีที่แล้ว +461

    Eric: Duck chess 🙂
    Eric: Goose chess 😬😭

  • @LuukSwinkels
    @LuukSwinkels ปีที่แล้ว +334

    Oh no my duck

    • @lukaspecko5807
      @lukaspecko5807 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      :D::DD::D:D:D made my day

    • @josefharrison9036
      @josefharrison9036 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I swear that phrase is straight out of a DankPods video

  • @GMPranav
    @GMPranav ปีที่แล้ว +108

    I love how in a lot of these variants suddenly the knight becomes an ultra powerful piece.

    • @marcopeterson805
      @marcopeterson805 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Always has been

    • @jomuffins6551
      @jomuffins6551 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just cover it's best landing space and it can't do much

    • @quarot
      @quarot ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *cough* atomic *cough*

    • @skylimitua
      @skylimitua 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Knight isn't too strong in my opinion. Surely, duck can block the entire diagonal of a bishop and it can only block one knight's square. But knight only has 8 squares, and most of the times, 4 of those are either useless or behind the edge of the board, 2 are defended and 1 is losing to a tactic. Which means there are more often than not only one moveable square for a knight, which duck can prevent allright. And even in the endgame, taking a massive detour to reroute a knight just sacrifices too much tempo which is of the absolute essence

  • @Cheetahhh
    @Cheetahhh ปีที่แล้ว +167

    I definitely recommend more of this game. It's a fun concept, adds a completely different dynamic, and is super fun to watch. I would absolutely love to see what strategies the people that play this game a ton could come up with, I bet there would be some unbelievable tactics and such. Great video :D much love

    • @jeanabiazar1183
      @jeanabiazar1183 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yoo what u doin here lol

    • @parzingtheasian
      @parzingtheasian ปีที่แล้ว +4

      oh hey it's sweaty bridge man and i guess he also likes chess

    • @hoola_amigos
      @hoola_amigos ปีที่แล้ว

      +100

    • @insight827
      @insight827 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What the fuck why is cheetahh here, so much crossover between mc and chess lmao

    • @daanielson
      @daanielson ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bro cheetahh i watch you why are you here bro lmfao

  • @lschess686
    @lschess686 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    Hey Eric, LSChess here, I thought i was holding, definitely missed the hang rook, thanks for the duck chess game!

    • @IX_4
      @IX_4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you are good

  • @moox100
    @moox100 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    So what we need now is 4 player, fog of war, atomic duck chess

    • @IIIRobIII
      @IIIRobIII ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You forgot bullet, no increment

    • @lucasmatsuoca
      @lucasmatsuoca ปีที่แล้ว +38

      And this should be the format for the world champion title.

    • @sgtnubbings6501
      @sgtnubbings6501 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      With no turn order

    • @chri-k
      @chri-k ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sgtnubbings6501 yes

    • @bonaaq86
      @bonaaq86 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sgtnubbings6501 turns by cooldown

  • @_wetmath_
    @_wetmath_ ปีที่แล้ว +204

    more videos on this please!! this is so fun to watch, didn't feel like 20 mins just passed

    • @mcnica89
      @mcnica89 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They should organize a tournament with all chess streamers. They could call it: the Tour-duck-ment

  • @animefreak3010
    @animefreak3010 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Great video. I was literally crying laughing at how surprised he was each time checkmate was avoided when he was checking him like 15 different ways

  • @Tletna
    @Tletna ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Man, that was hard. Your opponent kept ducking your checkmate attempts at the end there.

  • @Josh-ui7nq
    @Josh-ui7nq ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Because check isn't a thing, I think the only way to stalemate is to have no valid moves at all (ie the King fully blocked in)

    • @TheGoldenRater
      @TheGoldenRater ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Youd probably have to help stalemate the king with the duck tho. Meaning your opponent is almost self stalemating.

  • @maxybg
    @maxybg ปีที่แล้ว +4

    15:28 "yes! it's backrank checkmate"
    *proceeds to block with two pieces*
    "gah"

  • @magician531
    @magician531 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Best Chess Varient yet. They didn't have to make it a duck. But they made it a duck and that makes the game.

  • @mattriarchal
    @mattriarchal ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Duck is neither friend nor foe.
    Duck simply is.

  • @dcraftbgdev
    @dcraftbgdev ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A chess player went to the lemonade stand and he said to the man "backrank checkmate"

  • @GriffinK10
    @GriffinK10 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The time trouble along with trying to figure out how to checkmate is so entertaining

  • @thatchrisguy188
    @thatchrisguy188 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    11:00
    Eric: You should always place the duck in the way of your opponent's best move.
    Opponent: *Places duck in the way of Eric's best move.*
    Eric: :O

  • @eduardwerner3087
    @eduardwerner3087 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A few years ago, I invented ‘tombstone chess’ where there are four tombstones (bricks). They are getting placed after a capture on a square next to the square where the capture has occurred. When the fifth capture occurs one of the tombstones will be moved. This is also great fun and annihilates opening theory.

  • @Neathar
    @Neathar ปีที่แล้ว +105

    I was sure there would be at least 2 matches is this video, but I forgot that with a duck the number of moves doubles and so does the amount of time

    • @nephandi2316
      @nephandi2316 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No, move + duck counts as only 1 move, but there is a 4 second increment

    • @Neathar
      @Neathar ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be taken seriously. Usually it takes the form of a story, often with dialogue, and ends in a punch line. It is in the punch line that the audience becomes aware that the story contains a second, conflicting meaning. This can be done using a pun or other word play such as irony or sarcasm, a logical incompatibility, nonsense, or other means.

    • @maxkho00
      @maxkho00 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Lol your comment wasn't even close to a joke. It was just a relatable observation. I don't know why you posted that Wikipedia snippet.

    • @Neathar
      @Neathar ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The joke was implying that the time doubled because you had to make 2 moves per turn, when in reality I think the reason would be increased complexity and inexperience with this specific gamemode. But yeah, I guess in a sense you’re right

    • @maxkho00
      @maxkho00 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Neathar No, believe or not, making two moves actually takes twice as long as one. There is no joke here.

  • @zada4a
    @zada4a ปีที่แล้ว +4

    0:45 I believe no checks and objective is to take opponent's king means stalemate only can occur if both kings capture each other. But that would mean that both win because both are stalemated without a king.
    Remember that king can move on any square attacked by any piece in this variation, it can't be smothered.

  • @robologo
    @robologo ปีที่แล้ว +3

    18:15 hilarious lack of checkmate

  • @NoisqueVoaProduction
    @NoisqueVoaProduction ปีที่แล้ว +5

    7:59
    Eric Realized he could just take the bishop and block the check with the duck.

  • @ckq
    @ckq ปีที่แล้ว +7

    6:45 he could've taken the knight and blocked the bishop.
    One thing noticed is if the Queen touches the king while attempting to mate, you can just take it and use the as the shield

    • @resonance4452
      @resonance4452 ปีที่แล้ว

      If he takes a knight there is Qxb5?

    • @joeldanielferraris9380
      @joeldanielferraris9380 ปีที่แล้ว

      Uh white queen takes black queen on b5?

    • @ckq
      @ckq ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joeldanielferraris9380 I may have gotten the timestamp wrong. I was talking about the opponent taking Eric's knight on g4

    • @ckq
      @ckq ปีที่แล้ว

      @@resonance4452 he as in opponent taking knight on g4

  • @MysticPotato
    @MysticPotato ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I laughed when he say "Duck E2"

  • @ItsAsparageese
    @ItsAsparageese ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This looks super fun, and I love that it's a variant that would be delightfully easy to adapt to OTB play :D

    • @IIIRobIII
      @IIIRobIII ปีที่แล้ว +6

      With an actual rubber ducky😄

    • @ItsAsparageese
      @ItsAsparageese ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@IIIRobIII Right, if you can find one tiny enough that'd be perfect 😆 I love the idea of a nicely carved Duck piece to add to sets, too

    • @rhoddryice5412
      @rhoddryice5412 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ItsAsparageese Or a board large enough.

    • @ItsAsparageese
      @ItsAsparageese ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rhoddryice5412 True lol

    • @Theking0fgg
      @Theking0fgg ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just have to go to the local pond, wait for a duck to come, and then you can play all day long with a friend

  • @lucasmatsuoca
    @lucasmatsuoca ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I think the trick to checkmate is to check very close to the king where it can’t be blocked or 1 square away where you block your own check an opponent has to move the duck in a way it can’t keep blocking the check. I’m not sure though, but it seems like an idea

    • @SanyaJuutilainen
      @SanyaJuutilainen ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Or create a suffocating checkmate with knight

    • @lucasmatsuoca
      @lucasmatsuoca ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yeah, smothered mate still smothered mate. Only problem is that smothered mates are hard to get. But i presume you can get smothered mates easier if you block 1 of the escape squares with the duck. Since the pieces move first, the side getting smothered mated can’t move the duck to get a square

    • @ReneZ11
      @ReneZ11 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      What Eric thought would be stalemate in the endgame is actually the way to win. If the opponent can only make moves that put him into check, they HAVE to make that move, leading to capturing the king on the next move. The only way to actually stalemate is to leave the opponent no moves at all, which is very hard to get in an actual game.

    • @cdorresteijn
      @cdorresteijn ปีที่แล้ว

      I think the best approach is to do a double check.

    • @AnxStudios
      @AnxStudios ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ReneZ11 true. He couldnt think about it at the time scramble but king can move even that square occupied. Stalemate is very hard to get unless oppenent has only the king :D

  • @LegendaryFartMaster
    @LegendaryFartMaster ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I was fortunate to see these games live. Absolutely insane tactics!

  • @Joelthinker
    @Joelthinker ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "It feels so good to move the duck"
    I never thought I'd hear a sentence like that in the context of chess

  • @_wetmath_
    @_wetmath_ ปีที่แล้ว +11

    10:43 can he play Qxb5&Dc4, preventing white's queen from capturing back?
    this means that pieces defended by other pieces from long distances are not actually defended

    • @HazhanJalal
      @HazhanJalal ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Naroditsky has to add another category/type for undefended pieces. Like Type 5head undefended pieces.

    • @lucasmatsuoca
      @lucasmatsuoca ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well, the danger about this type of moves is that you wasted your duck move without thinking too much ahead.
      I’m not sure but let’s say white plays Qg3 and Duck f5, now black’s queen is attacked by the bishop and the knight is attacked by the queen because the duck is blocking the defense of the bishop on e3.
      I don’t know if it works though, cause if we keep thinking through the lines it gets so so complicated, everytime you take a piece by blocking the defender, you are in danger because once the duck moves you’ll be attacked and the opponent can create a normal threat while unleashing the duck. I don’t know if you got me 😅. The tatics in duck chess are at least 2 times harder to calculate, and it keeps expanding in a factor of 2 per move, cause the duck is a variable.

    • @_wetmath_
      @_wetmath_ ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lucasmatsuoca im thinking:
      Qxb5+Dc4 (take knight and block defence)
      Qg3+Df5 (discovered attack on white's queen and double attacking white's knight, while cutting bishop's defence)
      then Qd7+Df3 (forming battery with bishop to overprotect knight, while cutting the white bishop's attack)
      but yeah my head hurts calculating this

    • @_wetmath_
      @_wetmath_ ปีที่แล้ว +2

      hmm a piece isnt pinned if the duck can block (exchanging the thing that's pinned i guess)
      also you can safely capture a piece that is defended from more than 1 square away (capture piece and duck block)
      i think you need 3 rooks to ladder mate: 1 to cut off king and 2 to give check
      you know this is the time where an irl physical chess board would make calculation alot easier

    • @lucasmatsuoca
      @lucasmatsuoca ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@_wetmath_ yeah, to understand this type of variant we should maybe start thinking if elementary checkmates are a thing, is 1 rook enough material to checkmate? Is not so obvious, are 2 knights able to checkmate 1 king? Also not so obvious. It’s almost an entirely different game. I assume that if someone create an “stockduck” engine it would completely obliterate humans in less than 20 moves. If in regular chess we already miss tatics, imagine duck chess

  • @flighteldgar
    @flighteldgar ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I dunno if you didnt see this or if you did but thought it was stalemate but at 17:48 , Knight e2 is game over since he has to move his king into the knight's attack allowing you to take it. Looks like the best method of winning is to make your opponent's king walk into check and take or have 4 queens and just attack all squares

    • @gh.05t70
      @gh.05t70 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was wondering if anyone else saw this

  • @manuelbergler6884
    @manuelbergler6884 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I'd love to see stockfish analyze this game :D

    • @emprost-kun2388
      @emprost-kun2388 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I'd love to see hans Neimann analyze this game :D

    • @cringename2757
      @cringename2757 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@emprost-kun2388 the duck speaks for itself

    • @UnbornHeretic
      @UnbornHeretic ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fish v. Duck

    • @TheOneWhoHasABadName
      @TheOneWhoHasABadName ปีที่แล้ว +8

      the duck will eat stockfish, it just doesn’t work

    • @PkGam
      @PkGam ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheOneWhoHasABadName It could be added to Fairy-Stockfish one day. Lichess added it to their site to examine variants supported.

  • @JayMannStuff
    @JayMannStuff ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "The duck adds a whole new layer of complexity" - Eric Rosen, 2022, out of context at 2:32

  • @WanisheMusic
    @WanisheMusic ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3:53 "that's counterpro duck tive" I see what you did there

  • @thehulkyman
    @thehulkyman ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Wow! What a fun variant! I'd Love to see a duck marathon

  • @myfirstnamemylastname1244
    @myfirstnamemylastname1244 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    14:36 it's hilarious how he says this so seriously

  • @thevoteman
    @thevoteman ปีที่แล้ว +1

    he forgot that there's no checks. if the king can only move to a square where he's in check, and the duck can't block it, you win on the next move. there's technically a stalemate but it's nearly impossible to achieve.

  • @lul.t.6831
    @lul.t.6831 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The fact that “Qe7, ducky too” didn’t make him laugh of cuteness…

  • @deetrixreed8961
    @deetrixreed8961 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Props to his opponent giving him a good run for his money, playing amazing at the start, and then making the same honest "mistakes" that Eric was. Really made for a great game. Cheers.

  • @berkayguler4453
    @berkayguler4453 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    realization at 3:58 is gold lol

  • @eliyasne9695
    @eliyasne9695 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I can't even imagine how computer duck chess looks like...

  • @juhonieminen4219
    @juhonieminen4219 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The value of knight goes up, because it can't be obstructed by the duck. Bishop and rook can get badly stuck a duck'd.

  • @brabhamfreaman166
    @brabhamfreaman166 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Wondering if ‘Duck Duck Goose” might be a future variant? Players each get their own duck, plus Eric’s goose idea.

  • @Thesnakerox
    @Thesnakerox ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Funny story: I've always had an idea for a piece that behaves in the same way as the Duck in that it can go to any unoccupied space on the board, and cannot capture or be captured. However, when to move it follows the same rules as any other piece, i.e it must be the only piece you move on your turn. Names I thought of included the Wall, Barrier, or Bastion.

    • @Sorta8
      @Sorta8 ปีที่แล้ว

      - What do I even... ah, duck it.
      - Duck it?
      - Duck it.
      - uh, Duck?
      - Duck.

    • @hy7864
      @hy7864 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fun Fact: FM Ralph Betza (one of the Individuals notable for creating multiple chess variants) talk 'bout that piece in his article "Restrictions on Being Captured". Here's part of it:
      "What about an uncapturable Ghost? Is it worth a Knight because it blocks the enemy pieces so well? Is there a limit to how much blocking you can use, so that one iron ghost is worth a Knight, but seven iron ghosts are worth less than seven Knights (or their equivalent, for example two Knights, two Bishops, and two Rooks)? (Actually, if you have 6 or more Iron Ghosts, you can easily draw against the FIDE-chess army.).
      I think that an Iron Ghost is worth five or ten times as much as a capturable Ghost. This is just a chessmaster's feel for the value after a small amount of experimentation: Ghost equals half a Pawn, Iron Ghost equals a Knight or Rook, either estimate could be very wrong."
      -FM Ralph Betza 1996

  • @mikebaker2436
    @mikebaker2436 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Eric: "The stalemated player wins... if only that was real chess."
    Me: "Flase. The stalemate is the higest of wins. Everyone but FIDE knows this." 🤣

  • @Jozaia
    @Jozaia ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A good tactic is taking a piece defended at long-range, then placing the duck in-between to cut off the defense… what a fun variant!

  • @chrishamilton1728
    @chrishamilton1728 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Eric, the king can move into a check lol, the only way to stalemate is if the king has no unoccupied squares around it.

  • @esrohm6460
    @esrohm6460 ปีที่แล้ว

    that you needed 2 queens a rock and a knight to checkmate in an extremely convoluted mate pattern shows how much more complex this gets just through adding a duck. imagine it where a gees instead

  • @jamesgarvey3895
    @jamesgarvey3895 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    (in a very serious and reflective tone) "I should've played duck A3."

  • @Ramenenglish
    @Ramenenglish ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "I should have premoved Duck A3." -Eric Rosen

  • @feelshowdy
    @feelshowdy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The phrase "duck tactics" is so satisfying to hear, also it reminds me of Ducktective.

  • @asahamada6403
    @asahamada6403 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "I wonder if my opponent meant to play Duck D7" lmfaoo

  • @iliakatster
    @iliakatster ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That panic about the end was hilarious, esp since I think there is no stalemate b/c there is no check so unless the king is physically boxxed in, he can be forced to move into check and get captured.

  • @speleospape2679
    @speleospape2679 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thx for all the great TH-cam content you've been posting lately!

  • @ultrawow65
    @ultrawow65 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think one huge strat would be to eliminate the oponent's knights as soon as possible

  • @pt1cemomot567
    @pt1cemomot567 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    pretty funny to watch this after 3 mounts and know, that in that short period eric became one of the most famous and best players in duck chess

  • @angryducklinginstitution76
    @angryducklinginstitution76 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Myself being a mildly-talented chess player, this video piqued my interests for certain reasons. I'm currently working on earning my online Bachelors of Science in IT. One of the classes I'd previously taken was an introductory course in programming with Python. That particular class taught us about the duck concept in which many programmers/developers/scriptwriters tend to engage:
    The idea involves setting a small rubber ducky toy somewhere on your desk, near vincinity of your computer. Whenever said programmer encounters a rather vexing problem they don't quite get, developer lore has it that verbally talking through the problem at hand can perhaps help one in finding a viable solution (or in this case, aptly "stepping through", a term which means a programmer is reading through someone's written code).
    In that same class we'd also went over the fact the Python programming language itself uses Dynamic Duck Typing, or in which case, if Python has some sort of variable, with that variable acting in a specific sort of way, then treat said variable by the way in which it acts.
    Example:
    I set a variable called my_variable. The value for my_variable is going to be equal (or in programming linguo, assigned) to the string (str) "My name is Kevin." A string is simply any form of text , whether that text be just one single word, or an entire paragraph. Strings have certain "properties" or principle characteristics which you must abide by, as does everything else that gets written in code. For instance, one specific property of a str is that you can't add it to any type of integer (int). If you tried writing the code "my_string + 3", that wouldn't make any sense, as you'd be asking the computer to add the number three to the sentence "My name is Kevin." You CAN, however, multiply a str and an int together. Multiplication of a str tells the computer to print (display) whatever indicated str by however many times it's being multiplied. E.G. - my_var * 3 would result in a print or display of the following:
    My name is Kevin.
    My name is Kevin.
    My name is Kevin.
    Therefore, in terms of Dynamic Duck Typing, if my_variable seems to be acting as if it has the properties of a str, then by all means Python will treat my_variable as a string. The original concept comes from the principle "If it acts like a duck, treat it like a duck."
    As such, I'd originally thought this video might be some kind of a cross between programming and chess. Hope everyone finds this little collision of worlds interesting!
    * Here's another interesting fact: I myself have been formally diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (among a few other conditions/disabilities). And I learned how to play chess from a guy who'd actually been a former student under world class chess legend Bobby Fischer, with Fischer himself also having been autistic. :)

  • @djconnel
    @djconnel ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Eric forgets there’s no check and so there’s no checkmate and stalemate requires literally no available moves.

  • @JimmyBoosterCrate
    @JimmyBoosterCrate ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Keep in mind that you have to make two moves at every turn, so you need at least 2s increment to survive unless you're Andrew Tang.

  • @raosahebsuryavanshi84
    @raosahebsuryavanshi84 ปีที่แล้ว

    "The stalemated player wins" - Eric will take to this variant of chess like a duck to water .

  • @EebstertheGreat
    @EebstertheGreat ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 12:18 white could just take your knight and then block the check with the duck. White can easily keep beating any checks with the duck, bishop, and rook, especially since white can still castle.

  • @thecardczar8764
    @thecardczar8764 ปีที่แล้ว

    Funny watching Eric panic over stalemate while opponent has a knight on the board in a game where checks don't matter so there are no absolute pins lmao

  • @Aprch
    @Aprch ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Okay so Queen e7 Duck e2" lmao I completely lost it

  • @raul12300
    @raul12300 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this way too much, please upload more of this variant!

  • @JamesCA
    @JamesCA ปีที่แล้ว

    "it feels so good to move the duck. but it feels so bad when the duck is moved in my way."

  • @Rubrickety
    @Rubrickety ปีที่แล้ว

    “The duck is a strong piece.” -William Steinquack

  • @nathanieltownshend2174
    @nathanieltownshend2174 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Forget normal chess, this is the only version I want to see

  • @Eric-yc7po
    @Eric-yc7po ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I commend the resilience of the opponent. I, like Eric, thought multiple times that there was forced mate lmfao

  • @ritris5165
    @ritris5165 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think a core idea (probably more towards the end game) would be "place the duck where you want to move"
    Because
    A - your opponent cannot leave the duck on the same square, and is therefore forced to open your desired square.
    B - it guarantees your opponent cannot use the current square the duck is on.

  • @Maerowitz
    @Maerowitz ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This was really fun to watch. Would love to see more duck chess!

  • @jaredjessen1379
    @jaredjessen1379 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really wanted to hear "Oh no, my Duck!" at some point

  • @tomwallen7271
    @tomwallen7271 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Winning in Duck Chess might be the most difficult thing imaginable.

  • @FiendishFuManchu
    @FiendishFuManchu ปีที่แล้ว

    Constructing that mating net is how I feel playing regular chess

  • @maxskinner7243
    @maxskinner7243 ปีที่แล้ว

    and since this has come up, duck chess has had 127 players active at once, pretty fun because people blunder thinking that they have defeated me when i can capture their piece and and block their way of capturing my king. Its fun

  • @Sion_Real
    @Sion_Real ปีที่แล้ว +1

    8:21 the bishop is pinned so it can not capture the queen

  • @sans4071
    @sans4071 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:53 Bishop B4 and Duck D2 just kills the queen as it cant move but they have to move the duck so the queen dies.
    Easy.

  • @lunafoxfire
    @lunafoxfire ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow this is the best chess variant I've seen in a while haha. Super cool

  • @edoardo7669
    @edoardo7669 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Raising "quack" to a whole new level :D

  • @robdubent
    @robdubent ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hahahaha watching you try and finish this game had me in tears😂
    They should cal it ‘what the duck chess!’

  • @makotohanazawa6560
    @makotohanazawa6560 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    both sides straightup joggling the duckling around each others queen for 5 moves or so so funny

  • @wyattcrider8367
    @wyattcrider8367 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    watching eric try to mate at the end was downright painful

  • @kod4062
    @kod4062 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is it. Whittling a duck chess piece rn lol

  • @RMLLcrazy
    @RMLLcrazy ปีที่แล้ว

    The king can walk into check so I don't think you were ever close to stalemating him.

  • @memeson69
    @memeson69 ปีที่แล้ว

    Duck chess is straight fire this is the best thing to happen to chess in 1000 years

  • @jadriellaracuente2692
    @jadriellaracuente2692 ปีที่แล้ว

    Me and my buddy got bored and made a similar version of this, i called it jester chess. The peice was a dice block. Each player would have one, it could move anywhere, and wasn't capture able. It can't attack or block checks. But and it would count as its own move

  • @noraeld5020
    @noraeld5020 ปีที่แล้ว

    "the duck adds a whole new layer of complexity"

  • @ckq
    @ckq ปีที่แล้ว +1

    16:10 that's basically checkmate since the king or knight can move and is lost next

  • @theoliveoilboy
    @theoliveoilboy ปีที่แล้ว

    the funny thing is i dont think stale mate is a thing here, because the second to last move wouldve been it but he just walked onto an attacked square

  • @blackman7186
    @blackman7186 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh God... I laugh my ass off whenever he says 'Duck'

  • @Drhmo
    @Drhmo ปีที่แล้ว +3

    MOOOOORE !!!! We need more duck chess pls Eric! I solomly swear to watch like and comment on every single duck chess video from you :D

  • @vko7059
    @vko7059 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dude, duck chess is so sick

  • @Callipygous1975
    @Callipygous1975 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Thanks for the IntroDucktion! It's bound to be the very next craze😜

  • @yeahno3167
    @yeahno3167 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It looks like you can trap your opponents pieces much easier, for example, attack opponents queen with a bishop and block his escape route with the duck 😅

    • @atulkrishan7830
      @atulkrishan7830 ปีที่แล้ว

      And they will block your bishop using duck and will attack your bishop.. 😂😂

    • @secretunknown2782
      @secretunknown2782 ปีที่แล้ว

      But in the next turn opponent can just remove the duck and again make escape route for queen

  • @tadtastic
    @tadtastic ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i want to see more content on this variant and more youtubers playing it