if you're like me then there's things that you like besides chess or i don't know maybe not but
everybody on youtube and on twitch is currently playing among us and i played a game recently
where it really felt like my pieces were the imposters
so i wanted to show this game because it's pretty fun games blitz game and there's something we can
learn can entertain us twitch saying hi to youtube oh some guy said something mean some
guy said something mean you're getting a timeout okay let's get started so it was
in english and i played b6 this is called the english opening and also the english defense
knight f3 bishop b7 g3 g6 so i go for the two fiance setup knight c3 and f5 now i personally
really like setups like this when they don't commit to the center with the d or the e pawns
but he he got really aggressive really quickly this guy he uh he sacrificed his rook and
played d4 now the only thing about the setup is that it's just very bad here because normally
you need your queen to take this pawn and
he's nowhere near doing that so i played e6 because i want to get my queen
and my knight out and i want to castle one way or the other probably this way
plays bishop g5 but again he's down material so a move like this doesn't make a lot of sense
and bishop f6 and so he trades but he's down material so why is he trading so that that wasn't
very good against the three minute blitz game queen d2 knight a6 i played knight a6 because if
i go knight c6 he's gonna go here and i just don't like this so i went this way long castle long
castle and i gave him the pawn and played the move f4 and we see that on the opposite end of the g
file is the bishop on g2 so he can't take my pawn he goes this way and now my rook has successfully
opened up the g file for my other rook so the game is going to be decided at least i'm
going to have to break in on this side of the board so bishop h1 and here i played a fun move
rook g1 check now he can take but i noticed that i would be hitting his king and his bishop so if
he he if he plays into this then he's just down a full piece and he's gonna lose this
game because of my bishop right i'm just going to be up a bishop and so when i played rook g1
he played king c2 and here i realized that there's a really funny move in this position
and this kind of inspired the thumbnail for this entire video uh what is the move twitch youtube
you can pause what's the move why would i make an among us i mean it's already funny that i
have a rook invading on the first rank but the best move in this position is the move
queen five check followed by the idea rook a1 now i actually could have just played rook a1
because i'm lame but i decided to give him a check first but rook a1
rook a1 and that's that's that's where my rook is pretending to be a white rook just standing in the
i mean how rare is it that in the middle of a game you get the rook on a1 being the imposter like
this i think it's pretty i thought it was pretty hilarious margaret's just standing in the corner
eyeballing who it's gonna kill and what it's gonna sabotage
and no one knows it's there that's the best part that's the best part my rook just and
it was the best move this whole this whole plan with rook a1 was the best move um so he played e4
and i took and he played knight h4 i made a blunder bishop before i i actually blundered
the move knight to h4 i thought it was a genius but it turned out that i'm just bad at chess uh
i should have just played like queen f6 or queen a5 now again both of us have about a minute here
so what ends up happening is i lose a bishop and i thought i was checkmating him um by getting a two
pawns back now i'm threatening night before checkmate because of my rook in the corner
so he plays a3 and now i play d5 bishop h7 and where did i put my rook
this rook is faking tasks but but he's got a friend my rook vents all the way down to g1
i got two rooks on my opponent's back rank in the middle of a game that's why this
game really cracked me up i was like how how like how rare is something like this
that the rooks are just together going to c1 and b1 it's just i don't know it looks really
funny my man's got three pieces all on the left side of the map you know doing oxygen reactor um
and knight f3 and here i played rook b1 which is another really funny move because
he can't take with anything he plays bishop d3 and here i made a big mistake
i actually instead of knight f3 my opponent uh could have played like a bishop d3 kind of
idea and you'll see that in the game he actually does exactly that right
so my queen if it moves back he takes on a6 and i thought hiro was a genius so rook c1 take take and
here i was like alright he has to take and i take here and i'm winning the problem is he doesn't
have to take my rook it's a ridiculous position he can play king to d2 oops he can play king to d2
maintaining vision of the rook the bishop and this and here i would have had to play i can't
play rook d1 because he takes with a knight queen c6 bishop takes a6 and then i also lose my rook
and i'm just i'm losing because i don't have any pieces so i would have had to play here here here
resulting in an end game where i have a two-pawn advantage but the engine somehow is claiming that
he has enough play with like rook here that he's fine which is kind of insane actually my rook is
trapped look at this this is this is wild stuff my rook is just stuck apparently um oh wait not
rook h8 king b7 knight d8 i guess of course of course of course yes i did in fact see this
yes yes i hate computers um but in the game he took and i'm completely winning but i had like
20 seconds and i would just end the video here but in in very embarrassing fashion
um my opponent thought that rook b8 would force king b8 knight c6 uh but um
here with like 10 seconds on the clock
i was unable to win this game and uh my my opponent uh flagged me here
so the imposter with one pawn remaining uh successfully flagged me uh and i lost
so i guess a couple of rules that i could add for blitz i don't know
this was an im this wasn't you know um sometimes king runs are really annoying to deal with when
you have like 10 seconds on the clock so run your king out don't keep your king in the corner uh
always kind of find a king path you can take notes on this run your king to the middle of
the board into your opponent's territory uh but uh as far as as far as my play goes uh
stop spending so much time in the game thinking about youtube ideas and uh more time checkmating
now i think oh i missed maintain one first of all i promoted a queen and somehow forgot
that i could use that queen to defend my queen and make the guy in one move
uh i also had in this position two checkmates i could have taken the knight
and also c4 is mate and also c takes b4 is mate so i missed three mates in one there
uh and then i missed another maiden one queen b5 and then i missed
nothing after that i missed nothing i just lost some time
pain all right pain is what i feel i'm in spain without the s right now
but this was a a pretty beautiful game
and uh you can use some of these opening ideas like the tufi and keto the f5 against the the
english but obviously more important than that planting a rook in your opponent's territory
that'll generally that'll generally be successful especially if you can get two rogues down there