Props to black for finding that one check that wasnt a checkmate 10 times in a row that takes some real skill

A wise man once said: "If you find Mate in 1, look for better". Brilliant use of chess principles in this game.

Harry was more focused on building a harem than conquest

"This isn't a flower vase, it's a drink holder" Right, a drink holder... for flowers.

Next time I'm having a bad day, I'm just going to remember what this king went through. What this king survived. What a hero.

I love how levy squeezes 17 games of two of the best chess players in the world into one video but also dedicates the whole next video to just this one masterpiece

Black at the end missed so many mates that it’s actually impressive how he found all the WRONG moves

Harry: I’m up 35 points in material Levy: So you’re going to checkmate, right? Harry: … Levy: … so you’re going to checkmate, right? Mohammad: *wins game*

I volunteer at a chess club for 9-year-olds, and this video is the first I've seen that actually matches theirs.

For those that are curious. I tried counting every missed mate. Including the 5 possible moves when black lost on time, I counted 59 missed checkmates. Most missed mates on one move came out to 9 when Levy stopped counting.

“White won with a 35 point disadvantage and survived 100 possible checkmates “ 😂. Not even Magnus could survive that.

I was screaming at the end when Levi was counting all the mates in one 🤣

Levi in 2022: 50 Elo game Levi in 2025: -3000 Elo game

Levy refusing that his "glass" isn't a flower vase is hilarious. It is.

Thinking to myself "oh theres mate in one this wasn"t so bad" and checking the time stamps to see 10 minutes left hit me like a fucking train

"This is not a flower vase you bozos." Tough words from someone drinking from a flower vase.

this is limbo, but with chess rating

This chess game had a better narrative, character development and plot twists than at least 90% of the Netflix's shows, just winning with a 35 material deficit is enough to make a best seller book or movie but the amount of checkmates this king escaped can make this the comeback history of the century (at least on the low elo history)

Mohammad sending this game thinking be like levi would be proud of him for winning against 2 queens

I just got my buddy into chess and he’s 200 elo right now, watching his games is an absolute delight

As someone who hasn’t watched any of the video yet, this is a certified GothamChess classic

I feel so happy for Levy. It's such a feat that he got sponsored by such a big company like Water.

White went beast mode on the psychological game avoiding 100 mates in 1.

Bro said ima fork the queen and bishop with my bishop😂😂

bro hung more checkmates in 60 seconds than GMs have made in their entire lives

The reason I love this channel is he can go from covering a riveting match between Magnus and Hikaru to this game in back to back videos.

The thing that makes this even funnier is the title “GM” on both of them

18:19 i dont know how much meme can i make with this

This may be the single most undeserved victory in history. Incredible.

This game actually makes a lot of sense to me. We are dealing with a player who learned opening tactics, but NEVER learned basic checkmating tactics. My younger kids play JUST like this. They never want to sit and learn how to give a checkmate. Their games end by just taking ALL of their opponent’s pieces, getting as many queens as possible, and just expecting their opponent to resign. This is why I say lower rated players should never resign. I know it’s supposed to be chess etiquette or something, but how do you ever learn how to win an endgame if the game ends every time someone hangs their queen?

18:18 best reaction I've seen from him so far

bro managed to create an entire harem of queens and be unable to mate with any of them. truly a carlos magnusen moment

Let's count the mate-in-1s, shall we? 11:17 Qxh2# (1 mate, 1 total) 15:12 Qb4# (1 mate, 2 total) 15:35 Rc2#, Qb6#, Qfc1#, Qd6#, Qc4# (5 mates, 7 total) 16:06 Rc2#, Qb6# (2 mates, 9 total) 16:18 Qc3#, Qec1#, Qeb6#, Qbb6#, Ra6#, Rc2# (6 mates, 15 total) 16:39 Qa7#, Qeb3#, Qb6# (3 mates, 18 total) 17:00 Qb1#, Qb2#, Qcb3#, Qeb3#, Qb6#, Qa7# (6 mates, 24 total) 17:12 Qa7#, Qeb3#, Qb6# (3 mates, 27 total) 17:18 Qb1#, Qb2#, Qcb3#, Qeb3#, Qb6#, Qa7# (6 mates, 33 total) 17:34 Qb6#, Qa7#, Qeb3#, Qfb1#, Qb5# (5 mates, 38 total) 17:54 Ra6#, Qa6#, Qc4#, Qfc1#, Qbb5#, Qfb5#, Qbb6#, Qec3#, Qec1#, Qeb6# (10 mates, 48 total) 18:24 Qh1#, Q1g2#, Qfb5#, Qc4#, Qbb5# (5 mates, 53 total) 18:56 Qf5# (1 mate, 54 total) 19:02 Qbf6#, Qbe2#, Qc4#, Qce3#, Qe1#, Qfb3#, Qe4#, Qf5#, Qf7# (9 mates, 63 total) All of them are unique positions because black kept moving pawns :')

No way levi got sponsored by water, can’t believe he made it this far. So proud of levi!

Dude just wanted to build a harem man, leave him alone😂

Bro tried to checkmate with the Harem Gambit.

Quest : Find the only move that doesn't mate your opponent in a +20 M1 situation.

18:49 Levi turned into Mickey really quick

This is so much fun to watch, makes me feel like I'm not the only brainlet when playing chess I myself am the master of stalemates, happens way more often than a checkmate

I'd rather watch 100 more of these than another Magnus/Hikaru game 🤣🤣🤣

Levy should create a tournament between all his 50 elo fans, would be epic.

200 elo chess players out there motivating us to never give up🔥🔥🔥

That endgame looked like a puzzle on avoiding checkmating

The fact that it wasn't even a draw, but it was a win for white just made me feel that at least I'm not the worst player in the world

I like how at 17:46 Levi counts Queen b2 as a Mate and seconds later when Black plays the move its the WRONG ONE😂

He should’ve shown all of the blunders, mistakes and missed wins at the end

"it's a drink holder thing" - GothamChess

What's absolutely fantastic about this game is if this was over the board, they both probably would have agreed that white's king actually was checkmated at one point during that final sequence, it was only by virtue of the computer telling white he still had legal moves that he didn't concede

I’ve never seen two people be so evenly matched in being bad at something. 😂

A match between someone that does everything they can to loose and someone who does nothing they can to win

This match is the definition of: "How to give stockfish a heart attack"

Thanks WATER for sponsoring this video. We will always appreciate your contribution to the society and community.

I love how Levy starts on a calm tone, explaining every move and alternative and goes on to scream beyond madness in the endgame.

Yesterday Levy showed the best possible match in the world and today he flipped the script with the worst game in the world

the main point of learning opening theories is not to play like a robot, move by move, it is to not poop your pants within the few first move and ready to embrace the battle. You will see a lot of time, some one start with a garbage move and then turn out it is a decent opening with the move order mixed later on, and newbies who don't know opening theories will panic. And thanks to Levy and his opening courses, I've gained 300 elo for the last few month, I'm proud to say that I'm a pretty good 1500s elo player

an international master, but he doesn't know he's drinking out of a flower vase.

As a 250 elo player myself, somehow, this video gives me immense joy.

The pain you feel when realize there were so many Single Queens on that board but none of them were willing to mate with your king...😭

“It’s a drink holder thing.” -Levy

this is like Elmer trying to catch Bugs by firing several cannons and blowing everything except Bugs' spot

Never seen 50 elo chess game before, this is gonna be a good one The comment section is a battleground rn

I didn't think Chess at this level existed.

"maybe you cant look left for 24 hours" that made me laugh way harder than it shouldve lol

4:06 Pawn A6 is definitely ONE OF the moves of all time

These low-elo chess videos always manage to improve my mood, no matter how bad my day is going.

4:07 right here is some wonderful analysis and comment, had me laughing wetpantingly uncontrollably !!

I love how players are titled with gm. Perfect.

Levy went from analyzing a matchup of the two best players in the game playing at the highest level to analyzing a 50 elo matchup and both videos were excellent.

"This is not a flower vase you bozos!" - Levy, showing a flower vase

ITS A FLOWER HOLDER GothamChess:ITS NOT

“Aw man I can’t seem to mate the king..” Levy: motorboat noises

HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO MISS LIKE 100 MATES IN ONE?!

"Can't make a checkmate without cracking a few Queens, Jack!" - Harry, probably

The only way to consistently find all the wrong moves, is to know the right ones

Levy: *Harry, how bad are you at chess?* Harry: *YES*

I don't understand how the opening was so normal for over 10 moves (and this is even counting the bishop down), and then at the end it became so ridiculous. I mean, I would give checks all the time just out of fear of stalemating by accident and chances are I'd find a mate out of pure luck. This is insane.

Sometimes I wish I could start all over again with my chess journey so to speak. The first few weeks of learning the very basics of the game are just magical

Stockfish,mittens and Magnus be like: WHAT IN HELL?!

Levy: Never resign He tells us this because of games like this and he knows his audience

Levy going insane after trying to count how many -M1's in the position is something I didn't expect to see

Levy needs to make videos like this with a drinking game involved. Every blunder is a shot

Bro was building the queen harem

Lol this totally reminds me of that one Nat Geo video where a rat survived being hunted by a dozen other snakes

Can we all just take a minute to appreciate the craftmanship on that flower vase?

Dude I'm not gonna lie watching Levy agonize at the end is straight up comedy gold

This was good. I'd like to see more like this. It makes me feel better about how bad a chess player I am.

Legend says Black Is still searching for that M1

White is a genius! LOL He had this planned 20 moves ahead. Black didn't quite understand how to coordinate his queens. 🤣🤣🤣This should be the game of the year!

Harry: Haha look how many Queens.🤤 Levy: 😱🤯🤬 edit: decided to spell his 4 letter name right.

Lossing with 3 queen 1 tower and 1 knight more than the oponent is wild

I wish there would be a game where super grand masters are pitted against each other but the one with the most blunders wins

7:57 I don't think white saw the mate in one, I think they saw the undefended pawn.

The stare into the void at the beginning was magical

This is one of the games of all time. 😂

Yes, its a drink holder thing 😂

(18:47) "There are 20 mates in this position" *starts Mickey voice* "TwEnTy Of ThEm, MiNiMuM" Levy is a living god 😂

This is without a doubt one of the games of all time.

Gotham getting mad is just one of the funniest thing ever 😂😂😂

White is a godly gm who trumps magnus, in a real world setting he'd be the guy dodging bullets on instinct, bro actually played mindgames over the net

Levy being like the count from Sesame street counting mates