Let's hope it stays that way

Well his opponent was 100 rated. He previously ended videos saying everything more after the completed challenge was just him smurfing and he wouldn't do that.

Let's hope it stays that way

He didn't tell why he had 0-1 score with this guy

@@SteelM4chineyou didn’t watch the behind the scene

Yes because white in that game most likely wouldn't (or didn't) play English

@@jamezp1 no he did not. You just explained something to someone who very obviously already knew that, so he did the same to you.

​@@darksecret965either that, or, you know, Europeans are white

Yup was my guess. When the challenge began, I was thinking "well this challenge won't work if Simp is black"

@@danielhoang289I also thought that the challenge could be “play English opening if white, Dutch defence if black”. So it would work for both colors

We got an Anglo-Lithuanian variation though...

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

@@maizjsj a follow up of openings lead to it

Yup, plural. He went Italian game with his light bishop, but Spanish with dark bishop. So mission not accomplished I would say.

@@D0BR0VECE Doesn't that just mean that he toured Europe even more?

@@np8139 It certainly does. It also means he failed the challenge. Both things are true.

​@@D0BR0VECEhe failed the challenge legalistically, but satisfied even more so the spirit of it

I thought fianchetto was an Indian thing because fianchettoing is often done with the King's Indian. EDIT: I didn't realize that fianchetto was an Italian word, but now that begs the question why is fianchettoing often used for Indian defenses if it's an Italian word.

@@GTron13 fianchetto just means developing the bishop to the long diagonal.

Not necessarily. There's also the Italian game.

@@GTron13Fianchetto is italian for little flank, which is what the bishop is occupying when it goes to b2/b7/g2/g7. As for the indian defenses, indian chess (chaturanga) doesn't have 2 space pawn moves so they often start by developing the knights.

@@GTron13 SICILIAN Dragon, you heard of that?

But that would be just a normal English?

I think Italian style means minimum effort, i.e. just one space

⁠@@avaraportti1873a fianchetto is one space, so not exclusive

which the TTS insists on pronouncing "chunkitto" for some reason

​@@vozh-kc when he says "fianchetto" he usually uses google translate, which pronounces it correctly

I don't know if you can still do the English opening and/or develop your bishops Italian style as black. That's my guess, as someone who doesn't know what those moves are.

i don't understand

4:03 for someone who didn’t watch the video till the end the English opening starts with c4 so simp must be white

He didn't make it to Italy though. He was supposed to fianchetto both bishops.

He did at the end, after the credits

obviously simp had black in the first game and resigned to start as white for the british opening

In the end of the video (after the outro song at 4:04), it shows Simp starting as black. I'm guessing you need to start as white for the English opening.

watch until very end and you find the answer

@@filippocamana3472 His outro is too legendary, hardly any frequent viewers ever check it again

fianchetto seems too easy though. then its just basically get the en passant. at least a weird italian with your pawn in the way is harder

There's also Zugzwang

​@@tochoXK3 one visit to the Germany is enough

@@tochoXK3 And finish with Zeitnot

Perhaps the Dutch defense as well

and needs of a Luftloch

He put the light bishop where it goes in the Italian opening.

@@BWTHeuSeD yes but I don't think that's what the challenge creator meant

​@@remil3777rule of thumb: be as clear as possible in your challenge or simp will misinterpret it

Well it may or may not be the intended move, but fianchetto is ridiculously easy to achieve, so it doesn't really matter.

@@remil3777 If the challenge creator wants fianchetto, they should say fianchetto. Talking about "Italian style" right after talking about the English Opening really really makes it seem like it's a reference to the Italian Game.

We don't know what the challenge meant, but he developed the bishop like in the italian opening, which makes sense

The Italian game really only requires Bc4

@@bufar That's true, especially as the square for the other bishop is covered by the e5 pawn in the Italian game, but I still think it would've been more faithful to the challenge's wording to sacrifice a bishop on f4, especially as the wording is "develop your bishops Italian style" not "develop your bishops as you would if playing the Italian game". Sorry, that was a bit long winded.

so do i

permaban

was thinking the same, been searching the comments for someone else talking about it

he did, watch till the very end next time (after the outro)

China has a different version of chess. chinese friend explained it to me. he said the way we play chess is stupid because there are so many exceptions to the way pawn moves.

new response just dropped

no, only discord

because that's where the bishop goes in the italian opening

According to the few seconds of behind-the-scenes we got at the end of the video, it was the former.