It is funny how embarrassing USA culture is that you can't even put something on the profile picture that is not disgusting.

"When there is mate in one, look for a better move"

low elo chess is like war, but the tactician is incredibly drunk

"OOOOH! Me, Attack Rook!" I've never felt so attacked and I'm not even a rook.

I would learn so much if Gotham critiqued my game but i would also cry

Low elo chess is surprisingly more entertaining than high elo chess

Im a 500 ELO and sometimes the way we win is that we just kinda wander into checkmates

As 200 ELO this makes me feel good

4:26 I LOVE THIS PART 😂

Everyone was so focused on high level chess gameplay, it's really the lowest level chess gameplay that we wanna see

As someone who is rated at approximately this level, it's useful to see what was played (and what I honestly would probably have played) vs. what is the better move. I know you make these low rank videos more for entertainment, but I actually get a lot of value out of them. Thanks Levy!

I started playing chess yesterday and on my first game did only 13 blunders so I'm chillin

The funny part is that the two players are actually insanely intensed in this match like a match btw Hikaru and Magnus

Their rating means nothing to them. In their minds they were fighting to the death with best moves every time. White went home after that win, smacked his wife on the tush, and opened a bottle of champagne. “Tonight, we celebrate!!!”

Levy: You ever win a game by accident? Me an insomniac playing at 3am: OH yeah its all coming tog-wait I won?

7:20 is single handedly your best joke ever.

i almost died laughing at this commentary

Nice timestamps Gotham. Really gotta love the intensity of the Magnus-Hikaru game

16:53 This is the definition of “when you have mate in 1, look for better”

I really need to find more 700s like this lol, I’m at 600 but I’ve never seen a 19 blunder game, 2-4 each is normal

Such a good story! Felt like I was watching a movie!

Learning by low elo players' mistakes make you improve way more than studying a gm. It is way harder to implement the playstyle from a gm than avoiding basic inaccuracies a 800 plays.

Imagine them drawing and both being like. That was a high level game.

This is really interesting to watch when you're 700 Elo. The whole match I was like "But how could that have been a better move?!"

The funniest thing is I thought most of the 700 elo moves before they made it cause I would do it only to be ridiculed how stupid I am

"What an intense game! I can't wait to show Levy how well we both played for people of such low ELO!" *gets roasted to oblivion*

Thanks Levy! I'm pleasantly surprised that I not just won the GLE lottery but also featured in a standalone video! (I played white in this game) Few notes from what I can recall from my line of thinking, in case anyone was wondering (AMA!): - 5:32: I had some success in Scandinavian with this bishop and rook setup (usually winning a queen or something with a discovery) so I was tunnel visioned to clear e-file for the rook than anything else. - 7:09: I saw Rxb1 loses a2 pawn but Bxb1 can still protect so I went for it, didn't even look one step further after Qxa2, which ofc was the thing I was trying to do all along. - 11:37: Starting from here I missed most of black's queen backrank mate, wasn't aware that moving my bishop out is a way better idea. - 14:20: Believing black was doing some sort of rook sac idea that I didn't see, I decided to not give what they wanted, but I realized immediately after Qd8+ that was stupid 😂. I wonder if I recalled the rule of "2 more attacking pieces" at that moment I would see that was just a clear rook blunder. - 16:15: Can confirm, you won the million dollars. - 19:39: My brain isn't functioning, and I have this tendency of not giving what my opponent would obvious expect me to do. - 20:24: I just eyeballed that my king was more active, can probably stop those pawns after a queen trade, and I have queenside pawn majority, which was all an illusion. Have been struggling but I'm now motivated to put more efforts to not "fake learning", and review my course lines. Love your videos, keep it up! And/or find more success in your Chess career, whichever works better for you ;)

I'm around 500 elo rn but this was worse than my games. I know it's easy to think I'm over estimating myself but I paused consistently trying to see what I would play and I spotted about 2 of the early checkmates. I don't think these guys were actually 700 elo.

The queen moving one space at 16:00 instead of checkmate is something I’ll never forget

20:53 almost broke my heart when i heard it was gonna be a draw. but thank god that was only a joke

2:02 The amount of times ive lost my bishop like that is more than my ELO.

i remember discovering chess 2 years ago when i was eight , now im 10 and ive learnt so much from gothamchess . im most likely around 900-1000 ELO and im trying to get better at chess so badly

5:30 check mate is possible with Qb3

700 elo players with gotham : doesn't know en passant, doesn't see Mate in 1, blunder there queen and blunder mate 100 elo players with me : know en passant, see mate in 519 , know there openings , know double checks , legally 100M IQ

"Full Oooga-Booga mode!!" What a game!! Props to the sub who submitted this one! Been there. The comp score comes up, you review the game and 6 mistakes, 4 blunders, and 3 missed wins later you're muttering "what a stupid game". Next day you're at it again. Yep, been there. Great content - entertaining and fun!

I’m not here for the game I’m here for the reaction

8:52 deez knights🤣🤣🤣

4:18 I'm dead 💀💀

Chess humor at it's finest. The world needs more videos like this. It's funny because it's true, and because I'd have made many of those moves.

Personally me being a newer player, I'd move the other bishop to C5 or D6. The idea is as the game goes on it's attacking the king when not in real danger Hell even doing G4 a block down threatens their bishop/queen if they move the knight. Hell as he points out it lets the knight retake or drive in when it would be a much more questionable move if the bishop with threatening real pieces if the knife moved.

I’m am approximately 1,300 and if a 700 to 800 played , Queen D1 I would’ve start suspecting too 😂

THIS IS FUNNY!! Good content Levy, I'm rated about 700 and have never laughed so hard. "The queen has 2 paths one is mate and the other picks up a pawn" 😂😂 I hope to see more of this!

I just surpassed 800 and now this makes me feel like i should be 1500 lol

10:59 “because you put the stupid bishop here” I’m dead!!!!

It's great to see Levy showing some of his own gameplay every now and again.

3:29 "This is definitely the best move" *eval bar starts going down

I'm 800 and I'm happy with myself that I saw that mate in 2 at 5:50

I could not stop laughing. This fellow is highly articulate - and funny as hell. Congrats - a really well done video with lots of entertainment value. Loving it! 😂

this only makes me confident about my games

2:10 "This is why you don't premove your opening" Flashback to yesterday's GC clip

Wow that was a rollercoaster of a game

16:35 chess players not mating where have I heard that one before 😂

I love the way the eval bar keeps swinging from one end to the other every 2nd move

I don't even play chess but I watch his videos because his narrating and explaining voice is very comforting. It feels like I know very niche stuff without knowing any opener whatsoever.

“when i have 15 queens I should turn them to pawns”

Levy failing for over 16 minutes to FINALLY come up with a mating pun is almost as much of a blunder as the stuff we saw on the board XD

"I am wearing black today because I feel like I am attending a chess funeral"😭 0:57 Classic Levy🤣🤣🤣

"Checks, captures, attacks" - good for a clean 200 point boost.

actual masterpiece

I think I'd miss a lot too when it comes to being pressured by time (rapid chess).

5:25 7:55 10:45 Me being a 400 (who blunders queens often and also finds brilliant moves): "wait, even I saw that for white"

Man i haven‘t laughed this hard in quite some while haha *goes back to getting mated in 2*

Great video for us low/beginner ELOs. Do more of these in the 300-800 range.

omg this is the funniest video I've ever seen in chess play, we need more of these players lol

The eval bar was giving a nice visualization of Levy´s heartrate while presenting this game

3:02: "I love the way white is handling this position" 3:09: "I hate this, white is now completely winning" the duality of chess. Love it.

The fact that I tried to watch this video during a class, while everyone was doing quiet independent work and he went oooga booga and I just lost it. The word choice. Love your videos man. You make chess funny and enjoyable even for complex and hard the game is.

“ I don’t always blunder mate in 1, but when I do, I take the pawn on the opposite side of the board. 😂

Are we all just ignoring the devastating burn at 16:39?

You got to love the fact you named the games after grandmasters

yeah same i defeated my dad by accident, when i looked at my knight not knowing that blocking the f7 square and rook on e8 checkmate without my knowing and not planning it.

When i saw Levy crack his back before the chaos began, i remembered i can crack my back too and did it, its like when the opponents king castles and you remember and castle too lmao

Thank you for the timestamps! Really useful. Grandelius - Pichot was a blast!

4:25 AYO 🤨

“You want to avoid having the king and queen on the same diagonal” *demonstrates a “better” move by putting king on the same diagonal as the queen*

For reasons like Qa5 and Bf4 premoves, I now premove my pieces is they only work in that way (in Scandinavian I’ll premove Qxd5. If it fails I’ll probably play Nc6

I was so hoping for a stalemate, time stamps were very clever as well!

This is making me realize how important being strong at openings are, I’m at like 500 and I instantly saw the mate in 2 and I would do a lot of the moves you mention after the opening, but I am just awful at openings

4:13 "i don't think I will"

the joke with chess players failing to mate got me laughing on the ground

191st day of translating Levy's titles into Neapolitan: "E scacc re 700 elo è assurd"

Overload tactics are not easy to see, that one was the least beginner level blunder of the game

"White insists on getting checkmated again" That had me in tears 🤣

My favorite part is stockfish literally having a heart attack analyzing this game going up and down from white to black on the left 🤣

These low elo series can help me alot!!!! I've actually starting to realize my mistakes because I also did these things in a real match. I guess I watch too much GM players that's why I'm stuck under 1000.

As someone rightly said ' When you players plays a perfect game it's mostly a draw'.

when theres a check mate opportunity halfway in the game you know its a good game

I am currently around their rating and in my last 4-5 games i have had 0 blunders 0 missed wins and 1-2 mistakes, typically mate in 25-ish movies. Im very new to chess, so this helped me alot in learning more about what I can specifically learn. Thank you!

The truly funny thing is this is what GM level chess looks like to Stockfish.

4:27 Lmaoooo🤣🤣🤣🤣

4:31 "ooh me attack rook" I'm crying 😭

Anyone else notice every video starts with a frame of Levy's deadpan face? It's hilarious.

The funniest part of this video for me (a 700) is I’m literally making the same mistakes in my head as I try to analyze as Jav did lol

That "White here goes:oh my! I haven't blundering in several moves" Part was just great

Bro i just started playing chess and i actually laughed my ass of... the amount of sarcasm is just a killer

These videos are actually very helpful for the beginners.

I think it would be an interesting idea to also feature games where people around this rating (500-1300) play really high level games. That’s what’s so great about some of these guys: they can play atrocious games but also really good ones.

That eval bar going up and down had me dying xD

I feel so attacked, and I wasn’t playing 😭😭

I have never cried, screamed and wanted to die this much