How To Play Duck Chess Like A Pro 

Vote here for Hikaru to do a Streamer and GM duck chess tournament where a GM plays regular chess against another GM but the catch is there will be a streamer on each of the GMS team that moves the duck every turn for the GM.

Duckprotip: The duck has 4 basic functions. 1. To block the opponent from making a move 2. To block a space for you to use for next turn 3. To block a space for the opponent to put the duck in his next move 4. To cut off a piece from protecting/attacking along it's line/diagonal

I've been playing a lot of duck chess and it's either I wipe the floor with them or they demolish me. Never anywhere in between

duck yeah

Hahahahaha this is great content, how can you be so good at chess, but so terrible at duck chess, ahhh laughing so good rn :D Love ya Hikaru, bringing my spirits up!

Duck chess is the future

Really funny how many people saw the fork at 12:25 and hikaru totally missed it. He’s talked a lot about how he was naturally bad at chess and had to learn everything… and that’s really adding up here 😂 it really is incredible how good he’s gotten

I can't wait to see the first Duck Chess Championship! 🙏🦆 I guess we have to wait for a duck engine first.

12:33 king queen for duck block rook but poor hikaru’s brain can’t calculate the infinite possibilities of 🦆

12:22 didn't he miss the queen fork? Nh3+ and block the h file with duck?

12:25 Kh3 and the duck to block Rh8.

I can't believe I saw a winning move Hikaru didn't ! My day is good now. 👍

I'm quite wondering how the endgames will be like in Duck Chess. Will an extra rook/ two extra bishops/ an extra knight and a bishop /queen vs. rook still be winning endgames?

I think, Hikaru figured out _most_ of the stuff, a duck can do, but not _everything_ yet. Let's watch Eric Rosen handle the duck.

Wow Hikaru is so good at ducking

at 12:30 night a6 duck a5 is crushing :)

I need to see Hikaru and Eric play duck chess

1:12 I am questioning if a duck pro would exchange his knight against a bishop on move 3, but I am only rated 1980 in duck chess and therefore maybe missing the deepness of this quacktic. 😂 2:19 h6 and duck h3 and the knight is trapped. 😎 7:07 Duck g2 and the bishop is trapped. If he takes your pawn you simply take back with your knight and block the queen. 8:11 Hikaru's bishop was in serious danger for a long time, he even mentioned c5 (and blocked it), but it seems he forgot about the threat later on. 🤣 10:50 It is a total mystery to me why Hikaru didn't take the free rook. 🤔 11:30 Now the bishop is hanging completely, you don't even have to block with your duck. It is amazing how duck chess seems to annihilate any pattern recognition a Super GM normally has. 😂 12:25 Nh3 and blocking the rook with the duck wins a queen. 13:00 You undo a move by clicking the refresh symbol next to the duck below the board. 17:17 That is how you play duck chess like a pro. 🤗 18:48 I know that Hikaru has his own technical terminology (juicer, pony, horse, tower etc.), but calling the duck a knight is heresy and against all principles and the values duck chess stands for. 🤣 22:25 Knights > Bishops. True for duck chess. Rock solid advice. 🙂 25:02 In a situation like this you can defend your piece by placing the duck on b7, because your opponent has to move the duck on his next move the diagonal is free again. The way Hikaru played it makes it possible for the queen to take the knight and block on b7. I hope to see more duck chess on this channel. But before Hikaru faces Eric Rosen aka the final Boss of duck chess, he should play against Andrea Botez or Anna Cramling to refine his technique.

Waiting for hikaru and Eric to play duck chess that will be a lot of fun 😁

12:33 Gm Hikaru MISS the double fork by knight to a3 (Na3+) winning material by a queen and put the duck 🦆 on a4

On 12:24, Why Hikaru didn't do Nh3+ then put the duck on H file to prevent Rxh3?

“No knight c3 because I ducked him” Hikaru Nakamura

12:24 Nh2 then duck the rook is a fork. Am I missing something?

Can we get a charity steam where Hikaru plays magnus in duck chess?

Pieces that are only defended once from a non-adjacent square except by a knight are not defended at all, since the player can capture and block the defending piece. Knights and pawns become much more valuable than their counterparts in standard chess.

I found Nh3 instantly, Hikaru didn’t even see. He said, it was tough to find. Guys, I’m playing Nepo next World championship.

Lol u missed an insane move at 12:31 where u couldve forked his queen and king and blocked his rook with the duck

12:32 Nh3+ and block with duck on H file.

Yes host a super Gm duck chess tournament! 4min games with 3 sec increment.. lets go!

2nd game, towards the end. Knight h3+, duck to h4 protecting the knight, winning the queen Edit: kept watching and someone in chat called it out 😂

The only place where you get quality chess and where we can see someone drink using chopsticks and eat noodles using a spoon

When will there be a OTB version of this?

Yessss, duck chess

Bow in front of Rosen, the Duck master!

When Hikaru said "and I duck him", I felt that

Lets go it is an Alestorm concert!

Hearing, I will duck him incorrectly has put me into temporary shock

Duck chess! Let's get quacking.

6:22 white can move pawn to g5 then black takes with pawn and white takes again and puts duck anywhere on g file.. is that a move?

LETS GO HiKARU

12:33 couldn't you have forked his king and queen and blocked the rook with the duck?

Duck Chess Bong Cloud Speed Run.

11:54 i don´t know duck chess but did your opponent miss mate in one with rook C8 and duck D7?

At this point Hikaru is using the word duck like “squanch”

You can capture a piece that is defend it and then place the duck so that your opponent can’t recapture your peace back. I think there’s a few times especially towards the end there where you could’ve done that. I think you could’ve forked the king and the queen with your night and block his Brooke from recapturing your knight

12:30 bro, just fork the king and the queen, duck the rook

Hikaru ducked that kid up

Hikaru eating noodles - that made my day

12:26 why wouldn’t he play knight h3 forking the king and queen, and putting the duck behind it so the rook can’t take

His opponents are so ducked.

At 12:27 you should have forked (knight A6 and then block the rook from taking the knight (duck A5)

We need Fischer RanDuck

6:30 "Duck b5"

12:34 why not Nh3 and block the rook from taking the knight on the h file ?? that's a fork no ?

Dang, losing his first game of duck chess is a bad omen.

12:25 i dont get how he missed forking the queen and king with a check. If i aint wrong he takes the queen and rook for free

Duck speed run

It feels good to see inferior duck chess play from Hikaru. Maybe I'm not so hopeless.

Duck chess is the best chess

13:00 funny the opponent had so little time and miss the win...

12:32 N h3+, D on h file between Knight and Rook would win the Queen, I think...

12:26 Isn't it's a fork here?

Lol 🦆

Yes Hikaru yes! Moar ducking chess! 👍🏻

duck chess you can win with just bishop and king ?

Отлично

7:11 first time I saw hikaru blunder

@25:40 could Hikaru have moved pawn to f7 and moved duck out of the way to force him to take queen and then rook would allow him to take rook or something? Seemed like he could’ve brought it back, right?

nice

i can take hikaru on duck chess

11:54 Rc8 was check mate by putting duck on d7. 12:27 could have fork the queen by blocking rook from taking.

were you eating plain spaghette Mr. Hikaru?

How do you play this chess variant?

12:26 Knight A6 duck the rook off and u have his queen no?

am I crazy, or 12:25 Nh3, duck to H2? Free fork (oh he mentions it later haha :D

I feel like knights are much better than either rooks or bishops.

😊

11:55 White Rook to c8 and duck to d7 checkmate?

0:57 The guy who draws arrows all over the place doesn’t know how to get rid of the arrows? (You just click on the board.)

No Bongcloud?

Can someone explain what duck chess is please?

8:09 wait you cussed?

Hikaru just beats them at chess while putting duck in random places :D

Why did you not take your opponent's queen?

what happens if you pin the duck to the king

hikaru missed a fork at 12:24

10:52 how did he miss the free rock?

How is your rating 15,000?

Hi hikaru

Duck chess looks fun, might as well try it.

guys I think it's too difficult

very beautiful

Duck chess is not chess.

What is duck chess

Noti gang noti gang noti gang

Pretty sure IMrosen would crush hikaru at duck chess. Just sayin..

Wow

9:12 The game is Duck Chess. Show some respect. It’s placement is just as important as moving the chess pieces.

Hikaru is playing vs low rated players no wonder he lost the real high level tournament.

I bet the first one who came up with duck chess is Beth Harmon when she was playing on the bathtub...oh yeah another great achievement by women 💖