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

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!

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

Jan's words echoed in your head: "Always play around the crit"

Even in Chess, Jan's words ring true.

Underrated comment

FlygonHG moment

Yes I play tf2, and yes I think random crits are the worst thing ever created

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

No one ever expects the bidoof gambit, truly one of the most formidable plays that few can play around

But the magikarp defence tho...

Alpharad: *Is about to win via timer* Critical Hit: *Death whistle intensifies.*

Pick it up Pick IT *UP*

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”

Alpha's insane RNG and Cybertron's 5 will-o-wisp RNG came together to create an absolute abomination that last game

"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

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

Sometimes it feels like Alpharad is the villain of the internet, and he is.

I audibly gasped when I saw the triple super effective move to win. Easily the best play out of the entire tournament.

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

Alpharad losing due to luck is irony at it’s finest

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 actually a brilliant evolution (pun intended) of chess. It adds more strategy and an element of chaos to make it so interesting. 10/10

That ending is honestly the most Alpharad thing I've seen in a while

Holy crap... that final move looked like a Platinum nuzlocke.

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

That was nothing short of a full tale of hopes, intrigue, valor and tragedy.

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.*

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

I love how he uses classical music since chess is deemed a sophisticated and intelligent sport.

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

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

As always, alpharad's luck works in the funniest way possible. In the end, luck was against him

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.

Im so glad to see Aaron get a good rng roll. I swear he would have won words that year if the whisp hit

Seeing Pokémon and chess combine is very interesting and not knowing anything about chess only makes it more interesting

The critical hit from cybertron of all people still gives me chills

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

You can’t even be mad at that ending. Cyber deserves the win with that gamble.

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.

I swear, this man is Icarus, but with infinitely regenerating wings, solely so he could burn them again

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

This is the first time alpha has actually come across someone with more luck than himself

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

I swear every time I’ve watched an alpharad video recently it’s just him losing at various different things 😂

the pain of loseing 2.2 seconds away from winning. my heart goes out to you

I love that Vernius is so ripped but his face looks so baby XD

I love watching my favorite 7 creators and alpharad suffer by playing modded chess

That ending was truly a pokemon experience lol

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

The end of this video is so freaking good, the classical music paired with a moment that really comes full circle, it's hilarious

Honestly such incredible storytelling

You can't even be mad. That ending was clutch. It may have been pure luck, but it came so close. gg

This man really included both the Jynx clip AND the Will-O-Wisp clip in the video. Outstanding.

the last one was like losing a nuzlocke to the final elite four member or champion

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

@@CDCHexaku well both apply

I had already seen this play out from Little Z's video, but I must say I was eager to see the action from your point of view, and, boy, did you not fail to deliver ! Truly a beautiful event on the lest competitive competitive game :D

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

@@xillin74 10/10 reply

I absolutely love the fact that he makes the notes for people who don’t know elo state that 800 is amazing when you start with 1000 elo. He literally has lost more then he wins, against people who have 900 elo, which means that his opponents also lose more then they win. No hate man, chess is hard as fuck, but it’s still funny

As a little Z fan that loves chess, this is an absolute win.

As he lost,he heard Jans words echo through his brain "you should've played around the 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

What force of nature creates these grandiose irony riddled scenarios for this guy to create top tier content like this?

That's CRAZY two seconds left. Man this seems like it would be so much fun... If only I had friends who liked Pokemon.

Losing to a crit is heartbreaking, seems kinda familiar lol

I already knew how the tournament ended and I was still tense about the outcome! Great presentation!

That critical hit was so ridiculously funny

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.

Of course, the two most iconic Pokemon mechanics brought over to chess: type matchups and RNG

I am 100% believing that Alpharad is living in an anime. Nobody could've scripted that as well as sheer dumb luck.

Alpharad is canonically the unluckiest main protagonist ever to exist

Just shows you that the only thing more powerful than Jacob's luck is his own hubris.

Just like how critical hits can end nuzlocke runs, a critical hit ended Alpharad's chess run.

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

To think chess would be the most chaotic and dramatic thing alpharad has done

you gotta admit, if mr. rad is going to lose a tournament, it has to be like this

Little z is such a great creator

I can't believe that Alpharad was the first to figure out how to do a stall strat for Pokemon chess.

The only RNG Aaron has ever had that’s blessed him this well

That rng loss perfectly summed up Pokémon’s and rpgs in general random elements as a whole but is still consider him to be the best preforming person in the tournament

I agree with your first theory that the fighting queen would be the best meta. Have it target the VERY common normal type pawns for just many many extra turns.

Imagine finally winning a chess game by being smart then losing becuase theres a hidden 6.25% chance to move again

That ending was like, the pinnacle of luck = skill, and Aaron just happened to have both on its side

this video was such a whimsical Journey to corruption vs Journey of near failure story, beautiful

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

What an ending to the final game. That was insane

That was a wild final game. Everything was important, and it wouldn't have been better if it was scripted.

You're already the nuzlocke king, can't win them all.

Awesome video, Alpha! Can't wait to see your next video on Pokemon Chess Boxing!

Imagine he got the crit and then missed 😂

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

The constant victories has simply led to the forgetting of a wise teaching that costed the final match *_Always play around the crit_*

I am so surprised there were no misses at any critical point. That stuff happens to me all the time.

As a Nuzlocke King, you'd have thought he'd planned around the crit by now..

Alpharad discovered competitive Pokémon chess and signed a dark pact with Big Stall

This is the one time wooper can actually be a good Pokémon.

The fact that Alpha lost because he didn't play around the crit it's beautiful

I think in every move the miss and double move chance should be based on resistance and weaknesses value.

Now I can't wait for 5D pokemon chess with Palkia and Dialga messing time and space and also ultra beasts making cameos

Loved watching the whole stream. Would love to see more in the future

That ending was so well set up. Bravo.

Fun fact: Ground is technically the best for offense unless the opposing team was fliers, and ghost is best for defense with 2 immunities.

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

I'm glad that the strat to beat stall in both singles and Pokemon Chess is to just crit them

Amazing story telling AS USUAL 👌

Alpharad just can’t seem to get a break with these creator tournaments lol 😂