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Another prediction: Dan will make Arin sacrifice his queen, but he will lose his as well.

Have you seen this one before? Lol

@@TheMajor8478 If I remember correctly, it's happened twice before where Arin made a mistake and Dan was very kind and genuine about it. And Arin gets to a point in chess where he sort of can't take it anymore and just willy nilly moves to try and take Dan's pieces next turn, rather than seeing what all could happen from not only his actions, but Dan's. I just got done watching a vid of theirs from a few years back with chess where Arin had to sac his queen but Dan also let his go in the same move, so I just wanted to chime in there... I know that at least when I play chess, I almost never let my queen go unless it happens to involve the opponent losing theirs.

@@adamgriffin1860 Oh, sorry, for some reason I thought yinz were the same one person. Oops

Also: Arin will be a in a completely fine position but will start going on about how he's completely fucked, and throw the game by making random moves.

When Arin said "I'll make you slip up", he was talking about taking the mouse and moving Dan's pieces for him. This wasn't his usual overconfidence.

@@TROPtastic Given how the match turned out, I think it wasn't his usual overconfidence, but it ended up turning into it, somehow.

-UCKING BI--

yeah lol "I'm not very good, so the fact that I'm destroying you is indicative of how absolutely pathetic you are"

Came here to say basically this.

THE SILENCE AFTER yk arin was seething

If your opponent is irritable, seek to irritate him.

Shang Tsungs art of war

Seduction is a game of chess, and Dan is a queen.

@@maxman1602 queenie with a peeny

And when he called Sun Tzu "Shang Tsung" I almost suffocated I laughed so hard

Arin is committed to the bit

I am unable to believe it is 100% a bit. XD

the funny this is he would probably stand a decent chance if he learned some solid opening principles, it seems like a lot of Dan's set ups are kind of...questionable. Also would help him prevent a lot of the early game fuckery that tends to trip him up. Then again I guess the show wouldn't be as entertaining if they actually played well

I have never related to Arin more than when I watch him play chess against Dan. We both have identical symptoms of chess anxiety and frustration. It's like my brain physically cannot think more than one or two steps ahead, and I don't even have ADHD.

Chess is Arins own personal Dangonrompa

And we come to the heart of it. Arin gets too attached to the components of a given game. To him everything is a puzzle that should make someone feel something.

@@effigytormented it's also that he has severe ADHD and can't focus, so he gets overwhelmed and makes stupid mistakes.

@@effigytormented I feel like he panics at the prospect of losing any piece at all, and shuts down because there is no obvious way to win without losing anything

@@burnin8able Exactly. I've actually noticed that he tends to feel the same in Checkers too, when the goal of Checkers is to force your opponent to make a move that will take one of your pieces but let you take more from the opponent. Chess is a bit more methodical but the goal is to know who to sacrifice to fulfill your objectives.

@@burnin8able that's how I feel sometimes, because I want a "perfect game" but realistically I know that's impossible

This comment fucking got me lmaooo

15:02 this will help.

Actually, its 15 minutes in, but the point clearly still stands.

@@murpaderp8461 annnd,,,,you have 666 likes now

If you play Chess Ultra in VR on this map against the computer, the computer's character model is Death. It is metal af. I only play on Gomorrah because of it.

Dan: the type of guy to put up old calendars in his dungeon to throw off his victims and give them phones but every number on it goes to him

This.

The problem is exactly that arin doesnt trade pieces. He gives too dan too much space by holding on to his pieces so much. Its actually recommended for newer players to trade pieces, since that also makes things easier since you dont have to focus on so many pieces at once.

@@lollordfrozen Even pros trade pieces. Chess is a game about trading pieces for advantages and board positions. Pro players just have more setup to try to get their board in the most advantageous position they can while minimizing their opponents as much as possible, and then taking a risk.

Nothing will ever top "I'm the video game boy! I'm the one who _wins!"_ though...

Cats be like I'M THE KING OF EVERYTHING

The Art of Kombat

Wasn't that lion King?

@@nayf6847 Technically yes :D but it's a reference to different moments of the video (Not trying to sound like a jerk, just tryin to help!)

Gotta add that year “Shang Tsung, The Art of War, 2022” 😆

Just what the doctor ordered.

yeah by the way im the first reply

Devil went down to Georgia, he was looking for a pawn to steal 🎻

I adore this portrayal

The twist is that Arin is already in hell and this is his torment

Please somebody do a game grumps animated of this

It's a real Dan moment.

"WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND??"

Underrated comment.

This is why Arin is the ultimate gamer

Except Tungulus

Arin's natural disadvantage is that he is too ADHD to think of all possibilities. It's why he gets overwhelmed and basically gives up halfway through the game.

Both his emotional investment in all his pieces and his ADHD are natural disadvantages

A Father To His Pieces..

Did you bite your thumb at me, good sir?

It ain't wrong though. There were plenty of times when chess players used the talking technique to distract their opponent, including trash-talking. If you can remain "robotic" and cold to those, it's an advantage

In High School,, My brother and his friends would purposefully dress weird and not shower when their chess team would have matches against other school. The psychological warfare worked too.

I really hope the Game Grumps use this idea.

Or even Dan giving him tips in general would be nice too. He told arin not to lose his queen over his rook around 17:56 but typically he just lets arin do whatever lol

Funny part is that Dan opened very poorly and Arin had advantage but Arin is constantly damaging his own position. Arin just needs to learn and understand that a good rule of thumb is that every piece and pawn must be protected at all times before you try attacking, if he understood that maybe he wouldn't play that awful c4 move after tanking and even so maybe he'd better scan his pieces see his Bishop is no longer protected and a Knight threatens it and move it. C4 felt like Arin just couldn't find anything so he figured he'll trade pawns but he failed to understand that pawn structure is the backbone of the position and when moving a pawn you gotta first see if you weaken yourself, in this case c4 leaves the Bishop without defense which isn't terrible on its own but merely keeping it in the back of your head will let you not hang it the next move. I think it's best if after a game Dan would just go move by move with Arin and try to explain what went wrong. This game really was all about pawns, from the c4 incident to later Dan's capturing of the pawn that guarded Arin's Knight, the over committing of pawns King side by Arin without first castling queen side and so leaving his king exposed in the center etc. Truly an instructive "why pawns matter" game.

My brother was the AI, playing analogue, but he basically taught me chess and shogi the same way.

This is one of those really good ideas.

stop making me have ideas

Man, I wanna see every chess match animated like that.

RED PLANT BLUE PLANT PURPLE PLANT.

It's Arin. He hasn't even done the tutorial for chess.

Well apparently Dan won at Mario Party...but they "lost the footage"...so anything's possible...... ...but knowing Arin there's extremely low chance of that happening lol

After Dan won, they went back 10 moves, Dan purposefully did bad and risky moves, and Arin still got no closer to beating him. You've got a good long while to find something else with that consistency

Arin had the chance to take two of Dan's knights if all went well and he somehow lost his own knight and let both of Dan's escape. I think you could get rich by betting money on Dan every time

Unless Arin learns to not consider chess like a puzzle to which he must find the correct answer, and more like a tactical game where he can take advantage of Dan's breaches... I don't think you have much to be scared of :p

It's interesting that Arin is good when the game is chaotic and Dan is good when the game is straight forward.

also lose a turn in wheel of fortune, but that's like a 99.9999999999999990% chance.

He pretty much died on move 11 anyway, haha

I predict multiple instances of one of them winning with no idea how they just won. I'm no chess expert, but I know more about chess than Arin does (I've studied a few standard openings, etc. I estimate my skill as somewhere between Arin's and Dan's), and when I played 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel with a friend, we would often surprise ourselves by winning unexpectedly. It's hilariously hard to follow, especially if both players elect to make it so by repeatedly spawning off new timelines. It's more boring if they start with a standard board and just both refuse to time travel, at which point it's _almost_ a normal game of chess.

@10:00-ish was that a "Call me maybe" reference, Arin

Dan IS Mr. Business after all

Well chess IS all about trades

I hope someone inserts his rant set to somber music into a scene from a movie or something

Hard to say, but probably yes

He'd probably do better if he didn't panic so much. 😅

That’s what I was thinking, try for a desperation backrank.

I saw that too. Something tells me though that even if the stars had aligned and Arin saw all that (and Danny missed it), he'd probably get too emotional about it and give the whole thing away.

it was always defended by other knight or bishop, so he couldnt capture it with king

@@Artimo09 Not during the whole minute he was thinking at 20:50, I was screaming 'JUST TAKE THE KNIGHT', while he then proceeds to give up his own knight lmfao

They'd both be trying to throw for the rest of eternity, and they'd be in a stalemate until the end of the universe 👁👄👁

@@KhaoticSanctum69 I think Dan would out-throw him.

@@homeiswonderland Arin would freak out and throw the table and then neither one would win or lose and they'd be stuck forever

@@KhaoticSanctum69 Doesn't the game end in a tie if you stalemate?

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter idk I've never played chess. I don't even know how the pieces move and I've watched every episode of chess on this channel

And arin want to playing #KaneAndLynch2 will be awesome to laughing and more story ever from long time ago...

Damn, 40 minute episode AND it got hit by a copyright troll?

Imagine he started calling them ponies, he'd instantly be GM level.

It doesn't count. Video game chess is still just chess, which is a board game and not a video game

Whoever made the thumbnail knows what they’re doing.

I am glad for the break though, I was getting bored of so much of it. It is very entertaining to watch them play it, so I'll be happy to watch when they pick it back up, but maybe not nearly every single day like they were doing. I realize i'm in the minority though lol.

I can relate

Deep cut 👁👄👁👍 congrats from a pokemon fan

I thought of the animaniacs episode of when they played checkers for their lives. Arin matches up the "chess is unknown to us" line

I hope so too! I love hanafuda

I forget how hanafuda is played, but I know it made sense at the time and was incredibly fun to watch.

I guess he's between 1000 and 1200, but it's hard to tell because he doesn't really take these seriously and Arin doesn't force him to come up with hard moves.

That's what he tells himself

The king of rematches, and that king is in check

They are the board game masters

Unrelated but the acting in your joel haver-style animations is so perfect, really fitting for NPC's

That's just the hoodie guy, you should wear a hoodie to honor him if you ever go over his games.

Navy SEAL vs. Baby Seal