P2W Chess but it gets more cursedIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-10-18 | 50 cursed things about pay-to-win chess, comment your favorite one. what is this an iceberg video
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfSiren: The Most Compelling Unit in P2W ChessIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-09-30 | Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. In this episode, we will discuss the Siren, a unit with the ability to *compel* an enemy to effectively pull it closer to you. Since enemies closer to you are more likely to be controlled by your own squares, this effect can be really powerful, and it can also displace enemy's attempts of king or rush defense.
NOTE: I recorded a Beacon video before this but I don't think I had enough footage (I want to record one more match with it) but it seems like that experiment has proliferated and everyone is using a Beacon++ now. lmao
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfChess With FireballsIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-09-29 | Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. In this episode, we will discuss the Fireball, a unit with no movement at all, but overwhelmingly strong attack range for its cost. The armybuilding challenge this unit poses is actually something I really like about this game even though the unit is "nuanced".
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfChess With SamuraiIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-09-19 | Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. In this episode, we will discuss the Samurai, an immensely popular unit with a lot of interesting synergies that's well worth the fact that it spaghettifies what it means to start a turn.
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfI Hacked Difficult Troll Puzzles Into P2W ChessIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-08-27 | Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. I have hijacked the daily challenge to put in some overly difficult puzzles in it.
Unfortunately you could cheese 2 of them by stupid AI, so there's that.
Also it's genuinely hacked as in, without the developer's permission, requiring editing code and recompiling source. Man I forgot to mention the guy who wrote the left comment in the intro was also 'featured' in a previous video who didn't accept that there was an RP hacker after different 5 people posted about it. what a dunce lol
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfP2W Chess Dev Must Pay $2000, Forced To Shut Down Server and Delete Everyones ArmiesIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-08-26 | A hacker spams the API even more and generates millions of server objects.
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsf P2W Chess Evolved Drama Playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=GMzs92anSPs&list=PL-mTRA90BO3QvOFEoBLWeXDq1QLNihu8_P2W Chess Evolved: How To Beat Daily ChallengesIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-08-25 | Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. It occurs to me that a lot of people are still bad at playing the game so I thought I'd show off tons of AI exploits and beating daily challenges, though this video probably won't be interesting for those who are already experienced.
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfP2W Chess LOSES $100 TO DDOS By Chinese HackerIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-08-24 | A hacker spams the API to fake daily-challenge wins and defeats, spamming tens of thousands of requests to P2W Chess and driving up server costs. Yes I can't believe this situation is getting worse.
Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. In this episode, we will discuss the Hoplite, a unit that can move adjacent copies of itself, and is vital in a certain f2p rush deck.
0:00 Intro 4:53 Hoplite vs AI 6:36 Hoplite Naturally Losing To Nuance 21:55 Directly Punished for Hoplite Base 33:05 Hoplite Memes
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfP2W Chess ACCOUNT STEALING Exploit = AnarchyIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-08-11 | Well it only took like 2 days for 3 complete clowns that originated from my community to infiltrate P2W Chess and leak a devastating account-stealing exploit.
0:00 Intro 2:51 Clown #1, who hacked into random accounts (including active ones) to give currency 5:43 Clown Provokes German Hacker 7:53 Everyone Knows The Hack Now
someone submit this entire series into chess communities
0:00 German Hacker Demands $30 To Buy P2W Chess 3:10 The Game Is Getting So Hacked Others Will Update Before The Dev 5:04 The Spaghetti Monster's King Upgrade Teaser 12:51 AMAZING OOCBA Livestreamer Returns After Years 13:04 (I forgot when I pulled up this video that I was also speaking in it lmao and was expecting the audio ducking to do the work. This is only supposed to show that the guy loses to single pieces and the video is that low quality.) 13:14 AMAZING OOCBA Livestreamer Returns After Years 14:50 INVENTOR OF CHESS BATTLE ADVANCED RETURNS
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsf P2W Chess Evolved Drama Playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=GMzs92anSPs&list=PL-mTRA90BO3QvOFEoBLWeXDq1QLNihu8_「P2W Chess Drama」German Hacker Causes Mass Paranoia And Fallout In P2W Chess CommunityIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-07-07 | After the crypto scam developer got blackmailed by a mass-reporting puritan, and an autowin exploit hacker, this has exposed waves of hack paranoia, actual hacks, and that the German hacker may not have been German after all.
NOTE FORGOT TO PUT IN VIDEO: another big reason this hacker is garnering more attention is that the rest of the hacker's behavior does not suggest someone that knowledgeable, I forgot to mention this topic (but there are people asking "how could a hacker be that inept", "[exploiting] can't be that hard if a german can figure it out") which suddenly makes people feel like "if the hacker can do it why can't I" P2W Chess Evolved Drama Playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=GMzs92anSPs&list=PL-mTRA90BO3QvOFEoBLWeXDq1QLNihu8_What If Chess Pieces Had Armor?Icelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-07-02 | Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. Armored pieces make up a major amount of the meta because this ability is immensely strong.
0:00 The 5 Advantages to Armor 22:20 A "Brief" Overview of Anti-Armor 29:20 Specific Armor Pieces (there are many of them) 43:00 Hoplite Memes / Ending
Not sure if I mentioned but armor also 'regenerates' (well, it's a new piece) when even an armorless Duelist promotes to Fencer. I unfortunately only found an amazing replay where that got used to 3v1 uptrade after I already made the video
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsf「P2W Chess Drama」Crypto Chess Dev Blackmailed By German HackerIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-06-23 | Yes, in the span of one week, the crypto scam developer is being threatened by 2 individuals - a mass-reporting puritan, and then someone who thought the game was so grindy they found an autowin exploit to cheat wins and make random players lose rating on queue.
This is a very stupid video, but recent events in the OOCBA community are just so stupid that I took the 10 minutes to make this video (oh also I have filmed a real video about armor which is coming S O M E T I M E). P2W Chess Evolved Drama Playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=GMzs92anSPs&list=PL-mTRA90BO3QvOFEoBLWeXDq1QLNihu8_Every Balance Disaster in P2W ChessIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-06-13 | A chess variant that wanted to add 400 new pieces becomes a balancing disaster filled with mocking players, constant pay-to-win, and the developer falling into cryptocurrency.
0:00 What Is This Game Anyway? 4:00 Turn 1 Checkmate 5:10 Overpowered 21-Cost Units 8:37 v0.41: Phoenix Beacon Disaster Update 10:15 Psych Ward 12:05 Aftercare 13:43 v0.42: GravityMage Disaster Update 19:59 v0.44: Greed Disaster Update 26:08 v0.46: Angel Disaster Update 27:47 v0.47: PoisonMage Disaster Update 29:54 v0.50: Nexus Disaster Update 31:07 v0.51: Lich Dryad Disaster 33:00 v0.53: VoidMage Disaster Update 34:34 Che$$ Evolved's New Direction
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfP2W Chess: Random Armies To GrandmasterIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-06-09 | Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. In this episode, I actually play the game. I mean okay, technically I don't *get* to GM but I beat 2 GM's and I never lost a single match during the climb.
Yes I'm still working on the greed/p2w overpowered updates video.
0:00 Intro 0:50 First Bot Match 5:10 Second Bot Match 9:35 vs. Beginner (LIiteray) 16:10 vs. MirrorBot 19:45 vs. Expert (doom99) 23:15 vs. Grandmaster (PlakaPlaka) 37:46 vs. Grandmaster (Alfrechess) 46:16 vs. Master (cv1519)
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfP2W Chess: Unfair Checkmate TrapsIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-05-24 | Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. This episode is all about MEME CHECKMATES, and pieces that represent a lot of threat to the enemy King that is not immediately obvious.
0:00 Intro 0:20 Ninja 3:00 Angel 4:42 Turn 1 Checkmate Used To Be A Thing 5:16 Inventor of CBA's Thoughts on Turn 1 Checkmate 5:41 Null Turn 1 Checkmate 6:15 Thunder Turn 1 Checkmate 7:26 What Is A Turn 1 Checkmate? 7:57 ACTUAL Turn 1 Checkmate 9:04 Turn 0 Checkmate 11:29 Enchantress Traps 14:59 Losing To A Single Dragon++ 18:38 Nexus Disaster Update 20:18 Nexus Turn 1 Checkmate 21:01 GravityMage Turn 1 Checkmate 21:46 Minotaur 25:15 Summoner 27:46 The Ultimate Combo 30:53 The BIGGEST MEME Combo 33:56 Outro and Teaser for P2W Chess Video
Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. In this episode, we will discuss the Queen, which you may be happy to know is still an excellent piece, and has synergies that make it even more excellent in OOCBA.
0:00 Intro 0:37 Expensive Unit Discussion 5:32 Morale Decay's Massive Queen Synergy 11:52 RoyalGuard++ 17:04 Queen Replays 23:45 Queen Upgrades 27:17 Queen vs. Queen+++ Replay (this is a long one due to all the branches considered) 32:40 Back to Mainline 37:00 Outro (final clip is a streamer called fizzypaintsoda)
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfWhy are Knight, Bishop, and Rook so horribly balanced in this chess variant?Icelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-05-03 | Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. In this episode, we will discuss the clown balancing of the pieces, as the set value for the pieces (0, 6, 10, 12, 21) is super far off from classic chess (1, 3, 3, 5, 9) - in classic chess the Knight is supposed to be equal to the Bishop, but for some reason in this variant the Bishop is costed much closer to the Rook.
0:00 Intro 0:36 Reason #1 why Knight has a lower value in OldOldCBA: Much more blindspots in classic chess 2:33 Reason #2: less fork potential 3:22 Knight Upgrades 7:07 Bishop 7:14 Bishop in Rush 9:57 Bishop Rush - oh wait 10:13 Bishop Upgrades 12:40 More Bishop replays, use in rush, promoters, nuances, etc. 16:15 NullMage Is A Pseudo-Synergy with long range 18:23 Rook - its purposes are often taken by other units - short units are cheaper and improve positionally while Rook does not 21:33 Trying to make a good Rook army with a low collection - difficult because you don't have good transparent units or good promoters 21:53 Spearman is the best moveset with Rook. Bishop does not have a diagonally attacking minion the same way Spearman does, and Spearman won't block the attack of Rook like Pawn does 27:33 Rook Upgrades 29:29 no one likes Rook+++
EXTRA NOTES: - Forgot to mention swappers can also fix Bishop's colorboundness. I kinda mention it, but it's not really that worth mentioning (colorboundness vs pawn chains is a FAR bigger deal in oldoldoldoldcba than oldoldcba) - Rook used to have a really pathetic upgrade tier of ++ getting only 4 moves instead of those 4 teleports, and +++ having those 4 teleports. It was later changed for +2 getting range 3 diagonal and +3 getting range 5 diagonal, and then changed into the current swapfetish version.
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfPawn AnalysisIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-04-25 | Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by a crypto-addicted Spaghetti Monster. In my opinion, it's a "must-play" game in that it expands your idea of what chess variants even are, with over 400+ pieces and a non-p2w upgrades system.
SHORT REVIEW:
all tiers: high risk to be killed; good to quickly have targets for a specific square or fork, but much easier to disrupt than classic chess; just like pawn in regular chess, opponent can often use your own pawn against you because your own pawn blocks the way +0: passable king defense / sit forever near center as potential fork threats +1: can quickly go to 5th row and constrict, decent promotion threat; still not used THAT often, but is the best of the tiers and is the only one with positive winrate +2: for rushes only, have rooks behind it, but it can often be ignored +3: no army really wants it, despite the insta-promote; meme army with angel, but needs buff (goes without saying that bishop+++ is still a lot worse than queen in classic chess)
discord: discord.gg/V64JDvbWsfChess Evolved: the most gigantic chess variantIcelys Unnecessary 2nd Channel2024-04-24 | Chess Evolved Online, also known as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced, is a game created by the Spaghetti Monster. In my opinion, it's a "must-play" game in that it expands your idea of what chess variants even are, with over 400+ pieces and a non-p2w upgrades system.
I've been hesitant for a long while to do this kind of video, because the (solo) game developer has made a lot of genius, but also a lot of crap, and despite making a (mostly) not-p2w game, it took a long time until it was not-p2w, and the developer has pissed away a lot of the genius-credibility. (one of the most credibility reducing things the spaghetti monster has done is spending years addicted to a crypto game that had p2w upgrades)
Anyway, I figure this game is on my mind, and it's easy enough to make videos about it.