yes

I mean, you can invite whomever's available ig

yo gotham hows life

Aman, definitely

Anish will be an interesting guest

Honestly best comment I have ever seen

best. comment. ever. CHANGE MY MIND

@@liodoesmc1298 your comment :)

@@ryukyoutubes ty

Ahhh come on. It would be atleast 2850

why do I relate so much

@@aryabhoola Because you are soooo not alone.

LMAO yes

That's me

😂😂😂😂😂

Hahaha sounds like me when my boss facilitates a meeting.

Just smile and nod along-Eula Lawrence.

Hahaha

How do u write in italics?

_Great question_

It's honestly pretty simple, here, here, takes, takes, takes, draw a line and takes, then resign.

I didn’t know my queen was under attack

​@@hunterham9414😂😂😂😂

Literally me a few minutes ago, got a brilliant on a bishop sac then blundered by taking with the wrong rook 😭

lmfao, that's so freaking cold.

Well but maybe his ancestors invented the first light bulb🙄 lol

👏👏👏👏comment of the year!!👍👍

More like Gotham holding the spotlight and Hikaru saving the day

@@TTharvest Oga mi, Weldone Sir.

99999999 lines deep

So many arrows in his head...

The guy calculating every single move available for the next 5 turns

He just goes: *Takes* *Takes* *Takes* *Takes* *Takes* *Takes* .....

Remember, the arrows you're seeing is him slowing it down so his hands can keep up. He's probably doing that a few times faster without having to draw the arrows.

Maybe 99,99% With what you said, it means he wouldnt be able to smack down every 100th person

It's like a 6 ft 300 lb amateur boxer who is very good. He could destroy regular people, but put him up against Mike Tyson, and it's no contest. The very best in the world are on a whole different level.

As of Nov 2021 there are 8321 fide masters and 7900000000 people living in the world. Which means fide master will beat 99.999999% ppl. This is simplification, but I hope you got the idea.

@@fenderbender2096 I would bet that there are at least a couple dozen if not hundreds (could be thousands. Not exactly a precise guess here) of people who are at a fide master or higher level who have no official rating or title. So, the reality might be more like 99.999998%. Edit: Also, Levy is an IM not an FM. And since GMs are also above IM, the total number of IMs and GMs is more relevant o the question of people Levy can easily beat than the number of FMs is. There are, in total, 5646 IMs and GMs in the world. If we double that number to approximate for unrated people, and divide by the world population, we find that Levy could easily beat ~99.99993% of people. Your calculation was quite far off. It seems that you may have forgotten to multiply by 100 for the percentage.

I bet the 2400 IM could beat at least 3% of the worlds population in chess. See how we are all correct with these % arguments.

Exactly 😂😂

fr fr, the gap in skill between them is insane despite hikaru only being one rank higher than him.

@@dogmania2892Thats why everyone in the chess sphere uses the term "super GM" as an easy way to differentiate people like Hikaru, from the "average" GM. It's basically an "unofficial-new-official-title", haha, above GM that seriously everyone uses. For real though, it should be an official title, and I apologize on behalf of the chess community for how confusing it can be for the uninitiated... ... *sigh* Blame FIDE idk man, chess is still very much stuck in the past. A lot of good progress has been made in the last few years.... but mostly in spite of FIDE, not because of them. Frustrating stuff.

repent to God Christ

The skill gap is same as between 1k player and Gotham pretty much.

lmao word

facts

Yeah, its pretty ridiculous.

Honestly, as a weaker player I still greatly prefer these puzzles because they feel less like I'm looking for cute tactics, you're just looking for solid lines that don't collapse a few moves down the line in a position that's complicated. (without feeling contrived) I feel like these puzzles forced me to just play better chess and honestly that probably helps improve way more than the sort of puzzles I'm used to doing on lichess or whatever.

@@irreleverent . I tell you what. I play at the 2000-2100 level on lichess (all time controls) with a peak near 2200. I'd say learn the simpler tactical motifs, not these long complicated ones, and spend the rest of your time learning strategy by the great masters of the past like Capablanca. You'll learn so much more because the reality is that even GMs miss this ridiculous tactics in real games. But the ability to piece together your own long term strategy is worth so much more than solving a 3000+ rated puzzles. As proof, as of recently I play a lot of puzzle race on lichess because I find it fun. But I often see 1600-1800 players solving as many tactics as me. I can solve 50-60 tactics per race. But then, if they are as good as me tactically why are they rated as low as 500 points below me? As I said, I think strategy is important but also positional knowledge goes further than the complicated tactics. I learned to do tactics almost void of puzzles per se. I learned to do tactics by replaying combinations from actual games and visualizing the tactics without moving the pieces. I did the same for my own OTB games post analysis. Sometimes the combinations were 8-10 moves deep. I did a lot less tactics than most but I felt that my time was much better spent. I hope this helps whomever reads but I get that everyone has their own preferred strategy for studying chess.

*e n e m y s p o t t e d*

@@RonWolfHowl Lmao

I've always preferred the term "family fork".

@@Diachron *Always has been*

Backrank Checkmate spotted

This seems to me to be a key insight. Being able to prune the decision tree quickly and correctly is a huge plus.

@@philfrei1 And this is how most of the engine moves are found, the engine needs not only to calculate moves, but it also needs to be able to discard moves quickly, because imagine the engine having to take every legal move into a position, then having to look at all the moves in the position after each one of these moves, and again and again, until it reaches 20 moves deep into it only to discard it at the end anyways, this would slow engines down a lot, so engines eliminate moves until a few moves remain that make sense then look 20 moves deep into these ones and also discarding moves it doesn't need to look into, it really makes engines much faster, but sometimes less accurate because they discard moves they thought were losing, but then you give them more depth and more room to look into wrong moves, and then they find it was winning, chess engines are really fascinating things edit: the 20 move figure i used is with 20 depth, which some people use 18, some people use 30, but it's still the same idea at the end

@@alphag4mer909 yup, there was a game recently where hikaru apparently played a bad move according to engine, because at first it looks really bad and the engine didnt dive that much, but then with enough depth starting from this bad move, it appeared that a clean mate was in sight and the bad move became actually a brillant one

@@ankthares6474 Yeah, it’s insane to me that STILL in 2022, it’s still possible for the top chess players to come up with ideas even the chess bots don’t see.

Hikaru said that this is one of his main strengths as a chess player. He doesn't nessecarily need to do high depth calculations in order to know a position or move is wrong. He has extremely on point intuition, and just gets a feeling a move or position is wrong, whereas Levi needs to do the actual calculations and sometimes still doubts he's messing something. That being said Hikaru still is a beast at fast paced calculations

suprising that this has no replies

Surprising it has 2 replies

Always says idk, then dominates

Good point. I've seen this from expert engineers as well... saying "I don't know..." should not be taken without the understood "but I know a helluva lot more than the rest of you." It can be very cringy when a junior takes the expert's "I don't know" at face value and starts trying to teach the master.

@@friendlyplayer92 4

Definitely shows the difference between GM and super GM 😂

Hikaru: But Grandmaster is only my base form.. And This. Is. SUPER GM! *screams for 5 episode*

@@demonguy5082 Whenever we see Hikaru in a chess match or on stream, what we haven't seen is the 80 minutes beforehand he spends screaming in the bathroom and flexing all muscles to turn on super GM mode.

The title didn't account for super gms...

@@christianthomas7591 yeah the point of the statement is the book is for GMs primarily to fight through where Hikaru being a super basically flashed his way through the entire thing

He is not flexing. He is just being Hikaru, operating in a different dimension.

Not trying to flex but the OBVIOUS move... lol

Hikaru does it a lot. I consider it like a child with huge interest on finding new things. Genuine joy more than intentional flexing.

@@Pullapelle if you dont think hikaru doesnt like to flex your crazy haha

He's not TRYING to flex, he just does it naturally

I find it that I can usually understand GMs plans but they have a habit of consistently finding the best one in a convoluted position that has many possible options where it seems like most normal players (up to IM standard it seems from this video) will look for a more simple and safe line rather then always chaos and high initiative.

​@@josephstewart2821 basically their ability to caculate and anaylize ahead dozens of moves from few best lines, also do the same for their opponent best lines, is just unfathomable by normal people.

I’m 2400, that makes me a superior person than you.

@@GardenGuy1943 I was talking about this comment. :)

@@gudguy866 Same.. Why don't I have my own wiki page when I'm already 580 😆

Thinking the same

lol, imagine this was a 5 year plan, get big on youtube, collab with super gms, get back to competitive, get into top 10.

Yeeah but it literally says “training with hikaru” so not much of a twist.

@@and_I_am_Life_the_fixer_of_all this would be an actual plot twist.

Bottom right corner: Training with Hikaru Sometimes the best secrets are kept in plain view

I would suggest you to go straight to the world championship

🤣🤣

I thought the same and when Hikaru said c5 looks like a decent move I felt like the smartest person alive lol. My only thought was "Hey lets clear up the diagonal for my bishop"

But I also blunder my queen at move 5 alot so...

Godspeed sir!

Well chess humbles you doesn't it

Meanwhile Levy at the end: "I'm a *damn good* chess player" I'm just kidding, he has the right to say that

I've played against both and what I find is that up to 2500 players tend to be extremely accurate, know pretty much every common tactic and positional structures so are always one step ahead of anyone below them. Beyond that (2600+) seems to be a case of the players being extremely creative and able to come up with such awesome initiatives and novel tactics that even the guy who knows all the simple tricks will be getting outfoxed by the new ideas thrown at him. I don't think it's impossible for 2500s to draw with 2700s though, the 2700s largely maintain those high ratings by deliberately avoiding playing people 200+ points below them who would just certainly steal points away if they had to face them regularly.

@@josephstewart2821 Interesting insights.

@@josephstewart2821because I’m sure you’re a top 10 in the world and you’ve played soo many GMs

​​@@josephstewart2821 and we have Carlsen who eat 2700 for breakfast in most of his career😅

@@imnotpurestr He even won some matches against top 10 players. 😂😂

@@mohamedbelhadj3107 yup. Shows how much we progressed at chess.

@@Replis Or at least how much Hikaru has progressed.

@@b.t4604 In Soviet Russia, it is _we._

@@davidsandrock7826 In Russia, chess progressed at us.

@@FaranAiki in russia king checkmates you 😳

❤️

Nice

Nice

I’m so happy the pinned comment is a positive one

Pinning good comments now

Np

@@quentinAxe :)

Prodigies such as myself can't relate ;(

Isn't the GM's like 11 so more like son playing with his dad :-P

@@seraphim-kpopdreamcorpsear5255 he went to get milk for biscuits and sausage gravy 3 years ago mom, where did he go?

@@seraphim-kpopdreamcorpsear5255 prodigy, ur like 1 rated if you actually were people would know but we don’t so shut

@@mlgklipz2543 Ok.

*Pausing the video with my little brother* brother: "I think a is the best move" me: "A is a good guess, but it wouldn't work for this reason. B is looking a lot better." *Plays the video* Levy: "so obviously a and b are terrible moves, the question is between c, d, e, and f. hmmmm, this is a tough choice..." Hikaru: "well you'd be crazy to consider a, b, c, or d. I can see why someone might be tricked into thinking e or f was a good move, but if you look at every possible board position in 6 moves from now, you'll realize that g is easily the best move."

lmao. im dead

Lol

hahahahha

And then actually does it.

@@Mainscout watch him solve poverty and global warming next year 🙏

@@noodle06317 just use communism

@@thebus3181 XD, it works 0 times out of 10 but let's try 🙏

@@Carlos-iq4th that is the best part about it

And hikaru has no idea how to beat magnus.

@@noerhidayat8195 And Magnus has no idea how to beat young Misha

@@tdb517 really?

@@noerhidayat8195 Of course. Young Misha could have easily crushed Karpov but let him win so he wouldn't start crying like a baby.

@@noerhidayat8195 And then Wesley So or Dubov have a great day and Carlsen loses 4 games straight.

Basically lol

Hilarious. I love Gotham. He isn’t bothered about looking stupid.

Underrated comment i'm dead

@@segunpeters6201 That's essential to getting better. Some people can't take the ego beating involved in that.

I mean, yeah. Not always will the best engine line be the "best".

Go for it

Know the feeling

@@James-qh1fv nice

@@James-qh1fv I'm amazed that you had 12 hours available for chess training each day

@@professionalprocrastinator8103 maybe they meant 1-2 hours

ha lol

Plot twist: Hikaru wrote the book

plot twist: hes reading the book during the video

Plot twist: the book is on his ceiling

Plot twist: he has the whole book fucking memorized

gm norm in the summer confirmed?

He's beginning to believe

he probably saw a spider

@@AltairCreedZ 😂😂😂😂

@@AltairCreedZ lmao

Bruh 160 likes and 1 comment

@@jennifermeech4006 438 likes and only two comments

@@jennifermeech4006 noone cares bro

Some of the best bragging I've ever witnessed lol

This was so dumb I laughed

Hahahaha, i thought that too🤣🤣🤣🤣. Harry Potter playing professional chess

😭😭😭 im crying

I like this comment so much

I wanted to like your comment, but it's at 400 and I don't plan on ruining it.

Very insightful

@aditya Here, take my like.

@@greeneyes-_- the grammar guru 🧞

I just wanted to give a like.

I cried too.

YAAAAAAY you solved a puzzle! congrats. now beat levy

Subtitle: (Super GMs solve them in 2-3 minutes tops)

Headlines were the original clickbait.

@@12jswilson well there's GMs and then there's GMs. pretty sure not all GMs would be able to snap solve these positions like Hikaru did.

well that's why they always say don't judge a book by its cover (and title). Ig its yt system thats copying this idea through 'clickbait' thumbnails

Indeed

You sound like a high rated player. Somewhere near 2200. Can I know it?

Could you pls give an example?

Great observation on how he gets deeper into the best lines, and so quickly

@@senconian i think it comes from experience and very careful observation. Also it’s really amazing to see the speed of how they analyze the game.

Can you please tell Hikaru that humility is a virtue?

@@diabl2master lmao dude just not care and he’s right most of the time anyway xD

@@hiiiiiiii.-. He literally doesn't care

@@diabl2master When you are as good as Hikaru is at chess, he has the right to flex lol. A player below him by levels has to be humble. Levy's a good guy and doesn't need to be told. It's the reason he has a successful chess channel despite not being a super GM.

@@sam9239 I think Levy is too hard on himself. Awhile ago, I had a therapist who pointed out that the best bullies are often ourselves. Treat yourself the way you'd treat a good friend.

Hikaru teaches GothamChess chess

This needs to happen. Levy can review memes with Hikaru and correct him when he screws up.

This is the character arc the chess world needs.

@@trollslayers5054 please!

the latter is im-possible

wtf :o

:O

:0

oh wow

Wow

It's not a new concept, the chessdojo channel have a few of such videos

@@arasvardanyan3708 I had no idea, I will check chessdojo then

@@fcolecumberri you are so cute :3

@@karolanbadziowan6315 Am I?

@@fcolecumberri yes :)

Why would we do that? Obviously the 900 is better

@@thebus3181 better on making dumb decission

But the 900, without knowing how or why, gets every single move correct.

Lmao

@@thebus3181 we need to learn from the hero's themselves

Lol 😂

Hello darkness my old friend

That actually makes me sad

Day 1 of agreeing with this guy

Day 1 of agreeing with the guy that agrees with the comment

Day 1 of disagreeing with these noobs

And if you apply yourself someday you may even surpass a rook

Day 1 of agreeing with the guy who agrees with the guy who agrees with the comment

He's the kid in school that all of his erasers

@@leskobrandon8454 I think you a word.

What does this comment and the replies even mean

@@Noname-67 it

It's not being humble. He's just objective

The more you learn the more you realize how stupid you are. Curse of knowledge.

In order to become an IM, you have faced defeat many, many, MANY times. This forces some form of introspection upon you wether you want it or not. NOW... how you shape that introspection is up to you; insecurity, humility, ego trip or, the one Levy picked, elation.

@@chillax9184 humility and objectivity aren’t mutually exclusive

i don’t think it’s being humble to admit you’re not at the level of one of the best chess players who has ever lived lol

Yep, I did the same 🤣

So bad loool

Yep my queen died.

The

I was gonna comment this L

Here before this comment pops off cause verified

Bro stop following me it’s almost scary now

What's up checkmark

pog! love your vids, surprising to see you here

levy's humility even tho he's a total boss and can beat 99% of people out there really helps

sorry. 99.99%

@@petegeorgopoulos7708 Also give credit to Hikaru for being so willing to collab with people online and giving all of us a gleam of genius.

This comment was made by the european gang

Colon : Exits This guy : We don't do that here

True

2 am here in germany

@@jugrajkang4532 My friend: First time?

Bruh I'm 700

I'm 250 and still like this content lol

@@juanpablosanchezaveleyra6454 Ehhe noob ew Jkjk we just need to keep learning and one day we'll be worth more than a knight

I'm 700 and love his content lol

if i take blue buff.. i raise my elo around 500.. double buff and it is up 1000... right ling?

And the crazy thing is there’s only 3000 IMs in the world. Which means he’s in the top 0.00001 percent of chess players. The skill gap is ridiculous

Yeah the super gm are just insanely superb

Reading the comments and, this one just hurts. It hurts friend. It's you're. I have to grammar police this because you did it twice in this one comment. You are awesome. you are putting out. It's you're. Ty. Best of luck to you.

@Yaseen _ you're worth more than a king

@@PhirstPlays you’re worth more than a knight friend thank you so much for correcting me don’t know what I would do without you

@@danielr1384 Bahahahaha, It is all in good fun. I left you a sub. Best of luck, seriously.

wow levys awesome brother is a knight? this is incredible thanks for the information

Closet Black Ops pros?

Playing osu

Well I mean as a chess player, when I play online i just click and hover fast from experience but I also play fps shooter games like Valorant

high dpi mouse.

You should watch some Shroud content...