A Friendly Game of Chess is This Week's Tavern Brawl
Challenge an opponent to a game of chess! Most of your pieces will automatically attack the minion (or minions) in front of them!
Blizzard has answered the calls of the community after we asked for a brawl featuring the Chess boss in the One Night in Karazhan adventure. The brawl works exactly like the adventure boss with the difference that we now get to play against another player instead of AI.
Trivia
- This is the first time we are seeing this brawl.
- The brawl comes to us from the One Night in Karazhan Chess Boss.
- You do not gain credit for class wins in this brawl.
The Brawl
- You will either get to play as The Black King or The White King. The heroes are the same.
- Only 10 health sits on your hero, so make sure you keep up a good defense!
- You don't get to attack with the majority of your minions, they automatically attack at the end of your turn.
- Positioning is key. You'll get the best value if your minions are between his as they will hit two targets instead of one.
- If you rearrange minions by using the Castle ability. Very helpful to re-position that healer.
Discuss this Week's Brawl
If you want to discuss this brawl with fellow brawlers, head on over to the discussion thread!
I like this Brawl more than i like actual HS.... I wish they would make it permanent...
for the first time ever I have got a legend from a tavern brawl :) Cairne Bloodhoof
Congrats on your Cairne and that happened to me too. For the first time ever I got a legend from a tavern brawl:Alexstrasza
I nearly fell out of my chair!
cool was a bit late now I cant win a game losed 10 in a row I hate this
get good
got lucky to run into someone who clearly did not understand how to play this brawl at all right in the first match so that was a free pack. it's a shame there is no incentive to go back to this because the mechanics get boring really quick and you can't do class daily quests with it...
If you want to do your daily quest, use your brain and make a good deck in normal/ladder mode :)
I love the concept of this game... but I hate the way they tied it in to the 'hearthstone' feel ....
Drawing nothing but pawns for the first 7 cards really sucks. Literally nothing you can do to win in that situation (although I understand their reasoning... it gives the 4 year old playing the game a chance to actually win once in a while). I personally believe it would have been better if you just had all your pieces in hand from the start and were just limited by mana.
first game, first win, ez, and 40 dust!(
so boring haha, free pack, quest and bye bye
This Brawl requires thinking! I had quest. Started with 0-5. Was about to kill smbdy. Then I realized strategy) Ended up with 5-5.
Many players (from comments) didnt realize. But I'm sure, they are pretty succesfull with Shaman.
I never thought that beating human players at this brawl would be easier than beating the heroic AI of the boss, looking at how raw the AI of karazhan is :)
I love this brawl, and I'm glad that blizzard seems to be paying a lot more attention to the community lately.
The AI in karazhan is absolutely stupid. I just plays every piece it has with no regard to positioning or anything of the like. Human players are way better 99% of the time.
The heroic boss had better cards (more of them) then human opponents in this brawl.
Welp, that was easy, people shoving down every card ASAP and doesn't use Hero Power. Thanks for pack.
Too many people playing curvestone without thinking. easiest 40 dust :D one of my favorite karazhan bosses
Hint: you don't have to play on curve, or play anything really on the first turn as white, not sure about black(since heroic was on white)
Who knew, going second in Hearthstone is actually favoured!
As an avid chess player, I can enjoy the deeper aspects of this brawl, as I did the adventure boss. However, there is a clear balance issue to this game mode as a brawl. You wouldn't think this at first glance, but black is very advantaged. That extra card and the coin are extremely valuable. This is a brawl where you are likely to run out of cards pretty quickly. By turn 5 or 6, it isn't uncommon to have nothing in hand (or a dead queen). And then you draw a pawn. That's depressing. Black's extra card often will decide the game because situations like what I mentioned above are common.
Additionally, the coin enables to summon, for instance, a rook earlier than expected, or allows to summon a more expensive card when you otherwise only have, say, a single pawn you can play. And, I've been in situations where I want to summon a big card (i.e. rook) but it gives me the same amount of minions as my opponent and I won't be able to attack two of their pieces with each of mine, but the coin can allow to summon an extra pawn in that situation. And you know how there's no 2 drops? When you are playing as white, and you have a pawn for turn one, then on turn two you have only a pawn you can play? Now imagine that same situation when playing as black, and you can instead coin out the rook on turn 2 (if you don't have two pawns). That is a huge difference.
tl;dr Black is better than white in this game mode.
You know what's funny is /r/hearthstone is absolutely convinced white is favored.
Could be the actual chess standard messing with them. In normal chess white has the advantage.