If you watched Little Z's video he shows that a few moves earlier, Cyberton had a straight shot to Alpharad's king but the move missed, so I think it evens out in the end.
What key difference between a good tournament player and a great tournament player is not playing for the best value, but playing for the win. What he did may have been the worse play on paper, but it was his highest odds of winning. In a lot of games it's called "playing to your outs".
The story telling is so on point and the way Alpha drags us through the narrative for the conclusion is truly stunning. I laughed so hard at the end 10/10
Legit, the pure irony of Alpha, one of the infamously lucky gamers, losing to RNG against someone seemingly infamously unlucky in pokemon RNG, and losing to a crit sends joy through me.
Context for anyone who doesn’t know why Cybertron is infamously unlucky with Pokémon RNG: In gen 5, he went to the finals of the world championship, where he missed 4 will-o-wisps over the course of the set, leading to his loss. Pokémon then buffed WoW’s accuracy from 75 to 85.
I think the last match illustrates Pokémon Chess really well You can get into the mind of your opponents and outplay them with a thought out strategy but that all means nothing in the eyes of a crit
Alpharad defeating Kidd in 2 moves by chaining 3 super effective moves and taking the king just to lose the finals match because the man that missed 5 will-o-wisps in a row in a pokémon tournament got a crit on the pawn that was protecting the king is just an absolute Pokémon chess moment
What spectacular storytelling. Truly Phenomanal. Cyber getting that crit last moment was beyond clutch and just goes to show how you should always play around the crit Jacob
He actually had basically won earlier but the killing blow missed, which is what put him that situation at the end where he had to crit. He also missed like 5x more than anyone else. Dude was mad unlucky.
You also get to see that Alpharad made it to the finals without fully understanding the rules. He thought that if a piece attacked another piece it wasn’t effective against then either: nothing would happen, or the attacking piece would be destroyed. Instead both pieces get destroyed. You can see it at the start when he makes his king ghost to give it immunity to fighting and normal (which does nothing since the king would still be destroyed if attacked by a fighting or normal piece) You can see it at 8:01 when he doesn’t take the queen with his bishop. And at 8:08 when he thinks he can’t use his knight or bishop to take the queen.
Wow. Cybertron really got a lucky crit with 2 seconds left. Holy hell. Love to see Frank featured like this. His channel and editing are so underrated.
Cybertron had immense bad luck the whole event even more than Alpharad during the last round But even though he missed like every win possible he still won That's the difference between someone who Plays around luck and uses it when necessary and someone who doesn't
I know nobody asked for or let alone cares about the names of the background music, but anyway, here goes: 00:00 The Blue Danube Waltz, Johann Strauss II. 00:16 Winter, Antonio Vivaldi. 1:26 Trepak, The Nutcracker, Pyotr Tchaikovsky. 2:02 don’t know. 2:28 Moonlight Sonata, 3rd movement, Ludwig van Beethoven. 3:06 Carmen (Overture), Georges Bizet. 3:50 Ride of the valkyries, Wagner. 4:34 Nocturne op.9 No.2, Frederich Chopin. 5:55 La Marseillaise, French national anthem, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (I think) 9:00 1812 overture, Pyotyr Tchaikovsky. Please feel free to correct me or add any other classical pieces I might have missed.
Nah, that’s just his luck averaging out. If Aaron “Cybertron” Zheng can hit five 25% misses, he can hit one 6.25% chance crit. (Edit: thank you for the correction, Megarotom)
You got to understand cybertron got unlucky throughout this tournament but still won from pure skills until the end where luck is really needed and he got it.
Truly, Alpharad was on a winning streak. He was getting so close! And all it took was a lucky critical hit to have that dream come crumbling down like the tower of Babel.
Everyone in the comments already said how beautifully cursed this was, so I'd like to take a moment to ask the editors to perhaps turn down the music a bit since there is no subtitles. Although subtitles would be great anyway and that way more people can watch the video! Closed caption really really doesn't do the trick and I found it quite hard to follow with so much stuff going on, so who knows how many genius moves I missed!
I just imagined Magnus Carlsen losing the Chess World Championship Finals to a critical hit and bursted out laughing, truly a superior form of chess is being played here
Alpharad proceeds to become a chess player and also a fanfic writer of The Stormlight Archives (the person who wrote this monologue of a rage quit was a fan of The Stormlight Archives)
@@Auriel_1337 Cybertron won since he got that 6% chance of a crit, letting his rook move again. Since Alpharad's king was right next to the rook it was a victory.
This is a reminder that even the internet funny man is truly not the protagonist of every single one of his videos. I felt the pain at the end of the video.
9:40 "Unfortunate" doesn't begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point. After getting completely tooled by scheduling with my opponent changing times on me last minute and refusing to provide confirmation prior to the day of the match as to play times, losing this way somehow felt even worse than I had thought possible. My preparation was superior, my play was superior, and I lost, so I don't see a reason to continue engaging in an activity where what is within my control is overwhelmingly outweighed by what is not. I am done with competitive Pokemon, and you won't get a fond farewell. This community is infected to its roots with a degenerative disease that grows stronger over time but stops short of killing its host. Tournaments used to have a competitive spirit at their heart, this has been transplanted and replaced with an artificial organ that feeds on vitriol and mockery from insecure little boys that heckle by the sidelines and tear each other to shreds over scraps of attention. The environment we fostered has trapped us all like this in a vicious cycle, and escaping it requires acceptance of the harshest reality we all scramble to explain away, that none of the countless straining efforts we put ourselves through here will ever amount to one single shining glimmer of significance. I would make this the end, but World Cup is still ongoing, and I would never leave so many great friends out to dry, so I'll suffer through a few more games for them. One last thing before I leave you all to react with disdain, ridicule, and self-righteous fervor, before you do everything in your power to minimize my words and thoughts, box them up and shove them to some cobwebbed corner of your memory, and hope they disappear forever as a stain on your finite time ground to dust. From this moment on, nothing you say matters to me. The foulest insults you hurl with intent to wound will calmly settle at the earth before my feet, and the venom you spit will bring all the pain of a warm summer breeze. You are less than anything you can conceive, while I carry on, brimming with joy distilled from detachment.
Alpha losing because of luck, and against Cybertron at that, is absolutely insane! Also, love the cheeky nod to Cybertron's bad luck knowing full well how this tale ends.
I do think Jacob's biggest weakness in this game is his cockiness. I feel like that's what keeps him being a relatively average competitive Pokemon chess player, every time he does alright he acts like he's invincible. He's like the real life Pit: mid tier with an Icarus complex.
I was about to say I didn’t really get how he lost but now I do so for those who might not understand: Cybertron hit a Crit on the piece blocking Alpha’s king meaning he could go again for free, hence his loss.
I was confused too. I know the crit gives him an extra move, but theoretically, couldn't he move his rook away for some dumb reason? I figured the game would make cybertron capture the king instead of just calling it there.
This version of chess has a ton of potential plays, as seemingly you get to pick the typing of every piece! Would love to be able to play this and experiment
You can play it yourself at pokemonchess.com :D
nice
very cool alpharad
Can’t wait for the face reveal
Pokeman chest
it's not working for me
There is something poetic about a stall tactic falling apart to a critical hit
Classical.
Vintage Pokémon.
That is truly the most pokemon thing of all time
Well to be fair stalling does increase the chance of a crit happening
i mean completely rng based...don't see what ur talkin bout bro seems like a skill issue to me
Jan's words echoed in your head:
"Always play around the crit"
Even in Chess, Jan's words ring true.
Underrated comment
No one Is safe
I respect the absolute blind faith in RNG at the end, RIP alpha
Never underestimate your opponent. They could make a good move at any time. But this was just rng.
If you watched Little Z's video he shows that a few moves earlier, Cyberton had a straight shot to Alpharad's king but the move missed, so I think it evens out in the end.
@@miah8163 10% chance to miss, 6% chance to crit
What key difference between a good tournament player and a great tournament player is not playing for the best value, but playing for the win. What he did may have been the worse play on paper, but it was his highest odds of winning. In a lot of games it's called "playing to your outs".
The ultimate “That Crit mattered”
Alpharad losing to _someone else’s_ blind faith in luck is a truly ironic twist of fate.
he cybertron did miss his first "win" that game so without the miss that luck would not have been needed
Alpha always takes up the villain role I love it
Lady Luck has been a cruel mistress to Alpha... she seems to be turning against him in recent years.
Alpharad luck just directs one to the funniest outcome, not necessarily the successful outcome.
A true Icarus moment
The story telling is so on point and the way Alpha drags us through the narrative for the conclusion is truly stunning. I laughed so hard at the end 10/10
how chaotic, i love it
Adds a lot of strats than regular chess
yeah
chess.
You need to add this to your website😊
make it official!
In the wise words of Mr. Pokémon Challenges himself: "Should've played around the crit"
S tier comment.
He never learns and thats what we love 😂
looooool i can imagine janne voice
I read “crit” as uh something different… damn I gotta clean my brain’s gutters
HAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂 Man, now we need a Pokémon Chess Nuzlocke run
Legit, the pure irony of Alpha, one of the infamously lucky gamers, losing to RNG against someone seemingly infamously unlucky in pokemon RNG, and losing to a crit sends joy through me.
Should've used en passant.
@@FectoElfilin Holy hell
I don't think you're using infamously correctly but I'm not sure
Context for anyone who doesn’t know why Cybertron is infamously unlucky with Pokémon RNG:
In gen 5, he went to the finals of the world championship, where he missed 4 will-o-wisps over the course of the set, leading to his loss. Pokémon then buffed WoW’s accuracy from 75 to 85.
@@plutosupporter7758 a 0.09% event to occur as well. Then then 1/10th of 1% and it happened. Ohh you know Cybertron Popped Off
"Live long enough as the hero and see yourself become the villan"
This is it guys
The main character arc is over
Alpha's rumbling arc begins
When you never wanted to be the king (you swear) but you play Pokémon chess
I think Alpha villain arc began loooong ago
I think the last match illustrates Pokémon Chess really well
You can get into the mind of your opponents and outplay them with a thought out strategy but that all means nothing in the eyes of a crit
This is definitely a video by Alpha. Never gets punished until the last second where his podium collapses underneath him.
flew too high
Should have played around the crit.
Something something icarus
@@bahumat9853 Jan shaking his head
@@bahumat9853 yeah if he would’ve just went to e5 instead of d5 it would’ve been game over
Alpharad defeating Kidd in 2 moves by chaining 3 super effective moves and taking the king just to lose the finals match because the man that missed 5 will-o-wisps in a row in a pokémon tournament got a crit on the pawn that was protecting the king is just an absolute Pokémon chess moment
and part of the win was him killing Jynx, absolute irony
Chess is a complicated game. Pokémon is a complicated game. And now they’re merged. Truly beautiful.
And complicated
@@ImanError404 no not yet :)
Ngl pretty complicated
It's also very complicated
And its also kinda complicated fr fr
I audibly gasped when I saw the triple super effective move to win. Easily the best play out of the entire tournament.
What spectacular storytelling. Truly Phenomanal. Cyber getting that crit last moment was beyond clutch and just goes to show how you should always play around the crit Jacob
Alpharad: *Is about to win via timer*
Critical Hit: *Death whistle intensifies.*
Pick it up
Pick IT *UP*
Bro’s biggest enemy was the rulebook
True
Overused
i blame the rng
@@thecreaturehunter blud who r u
I think I’ve seen this comment before
I love that the most unlucky person in the tournament actually got lucky for once in his pokemon career.
And against Alpha of all people
And that the single shot at luckiness was the ending move to win the whole tournament.
it all balances out eventually
He actually had basically won earlier but the killing blow missed, which is what put him that situation at the end where he had to crit. He also missed like 5x more than anyone else. Dude was mad unlucky.
@@Hack--rz1io Comedy writes itself
That ending is honestly the most Alpharad thing I've seen in a while
That was nothing short of a full tale of hopes, intrigue, valor and tragedy.
Serpireor:i am safe!!!
Abstol:no
A true nuzlocker always goes down to the crit
Actually if you consider the situation he could have played around the crit by switching out his pokemon there.
truly the nuzlocke king
He should have played around the crit.
Alpha's insane RNG and Cybertron's 5 will-o-wisp RNG came together to create an absolute abomination that last game
Watched the LittleZ video first, and coming to this really makes me appreciate Alpha's ability to weave a narrative.
Alpha wins through RNG, it's just part of the game.
Alpha loses through RNG: A dramatic and tragic event of mass proportion
@@SuperIsaiah Yup, exactly. lol
It's a pretty impressive talent, actually. He's a good entertainer. :D
@@SamWeltzin
But also a sore loser.
You also get to see that Alpharad made it to the finals without fully understanding the rules.
He thought that if a piece attacked another piece it wasn’t effective against then either: nothing would happen, or the attacking piece would be destroyed. Instead both pieces get destroyed.
You can see it at the start when he makes his king ghost to give it immunity to fighting and normal (which does nothing since the king would still be destroyed if attacked by a fighting or normal piece)
You can see it at 8:01 when he doesn’t take the queen with his bishop.
And at 8:08 when he thinks he can’t use his knight or bishop to take the queen.
Holy crap... that final move looked like a Platinum nuzlocke.
Wow. Cybertron really got a lucky crit with 2 seconds left. Holy hell.
Love to see Frank featured like this. His channel and editing are so underrated.
What you didn't see is the amount of easy wins he lost out on because opponents got crits or winning attacks missed
Cybertron had immense bad luck the whole event even more than Alpharad during the last round
But even though he missed like every win possible he still won
That's the difference between someone who Plays around luck and uses it when necessary and someone who doesn't
As a PokeChess GM myself, Jacob is an up an coming star that is truly frightening for the scene
hes kinda bad 🎐
@@peephobei agree that red dress still lingers in my mind
oh wait no not that kind of bad sorry
@@KusaneHexaku well both apply
No one ever expects the bidoof gambit, truly one of the most formidable plays that few can play around
But the magikarp defence tho...
I know nobody asked for or let alone cares about the names of the background music, but anyway, here goes:
00:00 The Blue Danube Waltz, Johann Strauss II.
00:16 Winter, Antonio Vivaldi.
1:26 Trepak, The Nutcracker, Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
2:02 don’t know.
2:28 Moonlight Sonata, 3rd movement, Ludwig van Beethoven.
3:06 Carmen (Overture), Georges Bizet.
3:50 Ride of the valkyries, Wagner.
4:34 Nocturne op.9 No.2, Frederich Chopin.
5:55 La Marseillaise, French national anthem, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (I think)
9:00 1812 overture, Pyotyr Tchaikovsky.
Please feel free to correct me or add any other classical pieces I might have missed.
I love your choice of putting classical materpiece music in the background.
As someone who is obsessed with both Pokemon and Chess, I'm very glad that this monstrosity exists
I don't know much about chess but this video really made me want to get interested in it, that was probably also the goal of the video I guess
RIP Pokemon Duel
@@GSamus14 was a great game, I had such a good setup lol
Imagine getting out-lucked by the man who missed 5 will-o-wisps in a row?
Nah, that’s just his luck averaging out. If Aaron “Cybertron” Zheng can hit five 25% misses, he can hit one 6.25% chance crit. (Edit: thank you for the correction, Megarotom)
@@SunshineRey no the miss is 10%, the crit is 1/16
@@megarotom1590 it's 25%, will o wisp was 75% acc in gen 5. it got buffed to 85% acc next gen
@@CasualPizza they are talking about the last pokemon chess game. They are right, I just mixed up the percents when typing.
@@SunshineRey oh alr
You got to understand cybertron got unlucky throughout this tournament but still won from pure skills until the end where luck is really needed and he got it.
The end of this video is so freaking good, the classical music paired with a moment that really comes full circle, it's hilarious
The fact that Alpha lost because he didn't play around the crit it's beautiful
He really tried stalling indefinitely, this is the most pokemon moment of all time.
I would ask for the runback but there's no chance I'm ever coming back from all those blunders 😭
I love that in the clip at 2:38 where he says out of danger into danger that he shows a clip of danger into danger. XD
the pain of loseing 2.2 seconds away from winning. my heart goes out to you
Of all the times lady luck decided she wasn't gonna help you, it had to be for $1000
Lady Luck gives and Lady Luck takes
Sometimes it feels like Alpharad is the villain of the internet, and he is.
This video has proven that not even Alpharad's luck is infinite
If you think about it, a 6% chance is pretty lucky...
PChal: He should've played around the crit!
Truly, Alpharad was on a winning streak. He was getting so close! And all it took was a lucky critical hit to have that dream come crumbling down like the tower of Babel.
The critical hit from cybertron of all people still gives me chills
A man known for his luck against a man known for his bad luck was truly fitting for the finals
I love this game now I am actually obsessed playing this with friends
Where can you play it?
@@RyeBread08if you find little zs video on it, he has it in the video's link
@@RyeBread08 Google, you need to create a room and share the code tho
@@zack5162 ok thank you 👍
Aaron winning with luck feels incredibly poetic
After many misses on super effective take lol
Stupid crit
You can’t even be mad at that ending. Cyber deserves the win with that gamble.
I swear, this man is Icarus, but with infinitely regenerating wings, solely so he could burn them again
Imagine pokemon chess becoming actually competitive and having other tournaments
Everyone in the comments already said how beautifully cursed this was, so I'd like to take a moment to ask the editors to perhaps turn down the music a bit since there is no subtitles. Although subtitles would be great anyway and that way more people can watch the video! Closed caption really really doesn't do the trick and I found it quite hard to follow with so much stuff going on, so who knows how many genius moves I missed!
Alpharad losing due to luck is irony at it’s finest
What's more ironic, that or the fact that it was Cybertron who benefited?
It wouldn’t be an alpharad video if something didn’t go horribly wrong
The classic Pokémon blunder - you didn’t play around the crit
I just imagined Magnus Carlsen losing the Chess World Championship Finals to a critical hit and bursted out laughing, truly a superior form of chess is being played here
This was a real Alpharad moment
This was a real Alpharad video.
Truly the Alpharad moment of all time
Okay, but knowing Alpharad, that ending was the best possible conclusion. That was peak content.
I was holding that the VERN NATION would do more
the last one was like losing a nuzlocke to the final elite four member or champion
This is actually a brilliant evolution (pun intended) of chess. It adds more strategy and an element of chaos to make it so interesting. 10/10
Anytime anyone references cybertron, it’s so funny that it always ends with the clip of will-o-wisp missing 5 times (or a joke abt missing)
Alpharad: "Unfortunate" doesn't begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point.
Alpharad proceeds to become a chess player and also a fanfic writer of The Stormlight Archives (the person who wrote this monologue of a rage quit was a fan of The Stormlight Archives)
Im so glad to see Aaron get a good rng roll. I swear he would have won words that year if the whisp hit
Awesome video, Alpha! Can't wait to see your next video on Pokemon Chess Boxing!
I understand the rage Alpha felt but, GOD DAMN, that was an AWESOME final move
I don't understand what happened. Alpha's king was still alive. How else do you win in chess?
@@Auriel_1337 Cybertron won since he got that 6% chance of a crit, letting his rook move again. Since Alpharad's king was right next to the rook it was a victory.
I love how he uses classical music since chess is deemed a sophisticated and intelligent sport.
Wow, I wasn't expecting it to end like that. It hurts, man
I love watching my favorite 7 creators and alpharad suffer by playing modded chess
1:46
TCNick3 was right. Vernias is one of the least talented players he’s ever seen.
“imagine being in last place with zero stars!”
This is a reminder that even the internet funny man is truly not the protagonist of every single one of his videos. I felt the pain at the end of the video.
Can't wait for Pchall to react to this and tell him he should have played around the crit
Pokemon chess is one of the most chaotic and amazing thing's ive ever seen
0:30 honestly....that just sounds like someone added the gimmick of checkers to chess
9:18 Alpharad trying to use stall to win. In chess. 😂
If you told me Alpha would turn into the biggest PokeTuber 5 years ago I would have laughed. But here we are.
That ending was.. Was just so poetic.... I would be doing FLIPS. Good old crit RNG to the rescue again....
I’ve already seen the Little Z video, so I’m excited to see your painful… painful 2nd place all over again.
Just like real Pokémon, it all comes crashing down to a horribly timed crit
this video was such a whimsical Journey to corruption vs Journey of near failure story, beautiful
That last play was the VERY DEFINITION of an icarus moment
The music choices in this video just make so much sense I love it
9:40 "Unfortunate" doesn't begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point. After getting completely tooled by scheduling with my opponent changing times on me last minute and refusing to provide confirmation prior to the day of the match as to play times, losing this way somehow felt even worse than I had thought possible. My preparation was superior, my play was superior, and I lost, so I don't see a reason to continue engaging in an activity where what is within my control is overwhelmingly outweighed by what is not. I am done with competitive Pokemon, and you won't get a fond farewell. This community is infected to its roots with a degenerative disease that grows stronger over time but stops short of killing its host. Tournaments used to have a competitive spirit at their heart, this has been transplanted and replaced with an artificial organ that feeds on vitriol and mockery from insecure little boys that heckle by the sidelines and tear each other to shreds over scraps of attention. The environment we fostered has trapped us all like this in a vicious cycle, and escaping it requires acceptance of the harshest reality we all scramble to explain away, that none of the countless straining efforts we put ourselves through here will ever amount to one single shining glimmer of significance. I would make this the end, but World Cup is still ongoing, and I would never leave so many great friends out to dry, so I'll suffer through a few more games for them. One last thing before I leave you all to react with disdain, ridicule, and self-righteous fervor, before you do everything in your power to minimize my words and thoughts, box them up and shove them to some cobwebbed corner of your memory, and hope they disappear forever as a stain on your finite time ground to dust. From this moment on, nothing you say matters to me. The foulest insults you hurl with intent to wound will calmly settle at the earth before my feet, and the venom you spit will bring all the pain of a warm summer breeze. You are less than anything you can conceive, while I carry on, brimming with joy distilled from detachment.
Huh
@@yes_sir_01 10/10 reply
The fact that at 7:50 1812 overture was playing which is a song about a war that got turned on its head is a good touch
Alpha I have a proposal for you: a Sonicmon Nuzlocke (the Pokémon fire red rom hack you and Jo played) Let me know if you accept this challenge
It is weird how luck is Jacob's biggest ally and enemy
Glad to see Chess finally get some DLC
Seeing Pokémon and chess combine is very interesting and not knowing anything about chess only makes it more interesting
Can't wait for Pokemon Challenges to tweet out you need to play around the crit.
the victini in the thumbnail looks like it is having the most prolonged edging session of its life
As always, alpharad's luck works in the funniest way possible. In the end, luck was against him
Alpha losing because of luck, and against Cybertron at that, is absolutely insane!
Also, love the cheeky nod to Cybertron's bad luck knowing full well how this tale ends.
always love Alpha's storytelling
Almost thought this was a small ant video as wooper beats a charizard
I do think Jacob's biggest weakness in this game is his cockiness. I feel like that's what keeps him being a relatively average competitive Pokemon chess player, every time he does alright he acts like he's invincible. He's like the real life Pit: mid tier with an Icarus complex.
I guess you could say that he, *flew too close to the sun.*
Literally just finished the little Z video and was wondering when I’d get to see your perspective
I was about to say I didn’t really get how he lost but now I do so for those who might not understand: Cybertron hit a Crit on the piece blocking Alpha’s king meaning he could go again for free, hence his loss.
I was confused too. I know the crit gives him an extra move, but theoretically, couldn't he move his rook away for some dumb reason? I figured the game would make cybertron capture the king instead of just calling it there.
With which piece did he do that exactly? Explain which pokemon he moved please?
@@Karomix3 he used his rook to take the piece guarding alpha's king and got a crit to take the king.
This version of chess has a ton of potential plays, as seemingly you get to pick the typing of every piece! Would love to be able to play this and experiment
Really great video! loved the music choice and the ending.
0:26 I listen to classic music while studying so thank you for Winter it’s the best of his season in my opinion
Hey Alpha, would you be able to put a music list in your future videos? You seem to have the right songs for every scenario