your opening: -600 elo your middlegame: 6000 elo

"The thing about 600 elo chess is one game you're playing Magnus Carlsen, the next you're playing someone who doesn't know right from left" > *proceeds to do both in the same game*

681 spotted a 7 move sequence involving a rook subtracted by knight sacrifice by bait leading to apparent (since it's actually defendable but the defense is not easy to spot either) mate in 5 by king manipulation, discovered check and last minute bishop support from the dynamic knight im at a loss for words

There are only two types of players @600 elo those on their way up and those on their way down. That’s why it’s so crazy.

Finally a relatable chess game analysis

"... OR if he sees all this fuck shit" is my favorite chess analysis of all time

you started the game as a 600 elo player and ended as Mikhail Tal.. ggs

beginning: doesnt understand the scandinavian is actually kinda bad for black, ending: discovers 7 move rook sacrifice involving a double bishop mate

That was a beautifully horrific game. Keep it up lmao

This is why magnus has to step down

Gotham really have to see this video I cant explain my 600elo moves

the most obsurd one I've heard was "I was trying to distract the opponent" WHEN THERE WAS A HANGING PIECE THERE

The opening in the beginning is the called the scandinavian. The main line is you take his pawn, he takes back with the queen and you develop your knight, attacking his queen. Yes, he's technically developing his queen for free, but not really, cause it's not good practice to take your queen out so early since it can be attacked, and now your opponent is developing for free while you're hiding your queen. that's what tempo is.

You’ve got some great calculation for a 600

fianchetto = one of those fancy structures that the king hides behind and sucks off the bishop. gotcha

900 elo here... so this is why im losing all my games lately

1350ish player here. That was the funniest and most brilliant chess video I have ever seen. And yes, saccing the rook on c5 was the right move, even you you don't seem to have understood why. Put very simply, if he recaptures, you can put your plan into effect, and if he doesn't, you've won a knight.

FM here. This video was really entertaining; you've got a knack for explaining things in an engaging way. Best of luck on the way to 700 and onwards - you showed good self-awareness in this video, which will help a lot!

Normal person's response to the clinically insane Scandy opening

The best advice I can give to you that I haven’t seen any other people give is that if you’re going to play a 15 minute long game then use all 15 minutes of your time. You only used 5 minutes in this game, but think of how much better you could’ve played if you had triple the amount of thinking time. That’s like, triple the brain power.

The finishing was really good for 600 elo 👍

"Guess wot mo*****fu*****" gave you the confidence of 3000 elo 🤣

Dude! You're freaking hilarious, and as someone who just got in to chess and has finally surrendered to learning the sequential aspects of it and whatnot, your narrations are just so relatable. That was so funny how you called the bishop doing fancy shmancy moves and how sometimes I think a stupid elo opponent just isn't seeing something but in reality I just suck cheeks and am about to lose to a pawn. Subscribed and can't wait to casually enjoy your content.😂

This was the funniest shit I've seen a while...

Me a 900 at midnight trying to recover my 5 losing streak

iconic bro. iconic.

Bro i laughed way hard when you said i was panicking like any other dude and gave a check

A bit hard to see, but after the dark bishop check, he could have blocked w the rook, at the end of 'takes with knight' 'takes with pawn' and 'takes back with bishop' it's just winning a pawn. Still a good plan overall, very good finish for 600

It was great to see how he has a lot of ideas and understanding of the game (about development, blocking pieces, etc...) but don't know which ideas to prioritize. Once he had one idea that he had to follow through, he did that really well and ended up with a nice result. Congrats on the beautiful ending

Your analysis of the e4 d5 opening is hilarious, keep it up

very entertaining commentary, you should keep doing more of these

0:24, i can definitely see why letting him get the queen to the centre looks bad, but the queen is actually misplaced there because it can be attacked so easily. For example after he takes the pawn with the queen, your next move can be attacking his queen with knight c3, then the queen will have to awkwardly scurry away and you can develop the rest of your pieces very easily and have a very nice game

Never doubted you for a second

I love your choice of words

Amazing commentary. Finally someone who actually explains the thought process

I'm an 1800 (vids on my channel with proof), and this was and interesting analysis of a game. The opening was hilarious to watch because it was as simple as exd5. The idea is when he takes his queen out you respond with developing all of your pieces while he fiddles with his queen. I also liked the ideas in the middlegame where you created checkmate threats. In the end it was just ggwp.

Bro made 1 brilliant and 2 great moves by sacking the rook in 3 moves I'm pretty sure

Holy shit man, be careful, Magnus may start another cheating allegation.

I need more of this guy. Great storytelling!

Bro at the middlegame I couldnt stop laughing that was such a fun match to watch😂. Keep it up buddy

I absolutly love the whole video! Its like He Is in my head listening to all my thoughs 😄

Bruh im subscribing after that. Never seen 1 of ur videos but this was funny and awesome

This video made me cry laughing, good shit bro

I just LOVE this video. That checkmate pattern is tremendously good - the rest is... well, it can be improved :D

Unironically the most helpful chess analysis I've seen

Holy shit, you perfectly captured my thoughts during a game, thats so cool

I can't believe somebody LITERALLY ACTUALLY read my MIND. Seriously, i always play what i'm moving and not what the enemy try to move. So, if the enemy doesn't do what i already planned, i just fckn take it.

This made me feel so seen. Thank you.

This was so funny and relatable i genuinely laughed out loud. So good

I learned a lot from this video alone compare to hikaru or even Gotham. This calls for a subs... Bring more of such analysis 👍

This was great lol, enjoyed it till the end!😂✊🏻

That ending was fucking insane actually. Many 1000+ elo players can't even find stuff like that. Going from blundering over and over to finding a 7 move sequence leading to checkmate is crazy.

Magic - great finish!

This was brilliant bro! Thanks so much for sharing this most entertaining insight into some thought processes that you are experiencing at your current early level of practical chess understanding. I’m a Chess Coach (around 2250 elo USCF) and stuff like this is pure gold for old Patzers like myself to help us focus on the right elements in creating & teaching a lesson! I’ll probably watch this a few more times and then make a lesson plan to address some of the more naturally confusing choices and directions you so humorously highlighted early in the video. Great Stuff! PS. If your looking for some free tips just let me know in the comments. Peace

The funny thing is, Rd6 would have completely stopped your checkmating attack (although, after they played g6 that would have still allowed you to win their Knight if Nxd6, exd6) and they would have come out of it up a pawn in material despite giving back the Rook (their King would have still been very open so there might have been tactical opportunities and definitely a positional advantage as long as they can't leverage their undeveloped material lead, but I don't see an immediately deadly threat against them as a 1600, so go ask an 1800 or a 2000).

This video is very instructive to show the difference between a trick and a tactic. When its not very forcing, then its a trick.

5:26 The thing is your game calculations are way better than any other 600 elos. As an 1100 Elo player, I would have seen all those moves only after taking the bishop check. But I also saw the thing that if rook on d8 blocks the check then the checkmate is preventative and black ends up with more material. re5 kxe5 bxe5 rd6 bxd6 and exd6

These are the chess analysis I need in my life - relatable asf, subbed

That final plan was just insanely smart, this man is the real undercover Magnus Carlsen.

Deadass this highlights the 2 most important laws of chess. 1) never give up. 2) count on ur opp to fuck up

Your unfiltered kind of commentary is soo pleasant to listen to. A breath of fresh air in an ocean of all the censorship.

This was the best chess video I’ve ever seen I was hyped when your grand plan worked out😂

This was the best Video i have seen in a while

this is the only yt video ever that got me talking irl tf is this

This is FR the most relatable guy on the planet 🌎 😂😂 Especially this part😅 1:37

never have a felt so understood by a thought process

I love these videos, I played 3 games as white today and had the exact same thought process regarding the opening in every single game. I'm positive I've watched enough opening videos that I should know what to do by now but in the moment it feels like there's no good moves.

I'm here for the ride. You went Sherlock Homie in the middle game.

Fantastic tactic at the end for a 600!

Its impressive that a 600 elo player spotted the tactics at the end and the sacrificing of the rook, must be the result is of puzzles and training You have potential 😉

You were both moving so fast at the beginning, I thought it was a 3 minute blitz game.

I’m really impressed by your high-level calculation! Just a bit more brushing up on the fundamentals of developing your pieces and you’ll easily improve your elo! 😊

Brilliant plan for mate

I don’t know if you care but if you open e4 and opponent responds with the Scandinavian (d4), the best thing to do is just take the pawn. They recapture with the Queen, you play Nc3, Queen usually goes back to d8, and you’re up a tempo.

AMAZING especially for 600 very funny and I was really hoping you saced the rook and when you did it was great Probably a brilliant move and if the rook blocked then knight takes and you have chances Anyway great vid!

He gambled on the opponent being so bad that he misses that mate. Now that's a gambler.

This was actually funny as shit, please give us more 😭

Honestly, good job finding that Checkmate. I'm around 900, and I probably wouldn't have seen that!

This gotta be the best chess content I’ve seen in months

Bro you are really doing a great job in entertaining and really connecting with the 300-600 elo range guys like me😂😂

Very impressive, didn’t even know half the much things as you do when I was 600

I love this channel. Just got into chess recently and I play pretty well I just struggle finding checkmate especially in the mid game. Maybe it’s because I play 10 min matches but still your ability to find mate is amazing

You came up with that plan at 600, nice!

when encountering that opening, I just push the same pawn one more square forward. It will prevent his knight from going f6 where it usually tries to go, and if he pushes a pawn to try and contest your pawn, you can push another pawn to d4 or f4 in case of a trade and continue blocking the knight from coming out

this is some of the best commentary i have ever seen

This is gold! It's so entertaining to see these low elo calculations! My games are exactly like this! Never improve bro!

ngl, i love listening to you!

That part where they didn't take the rook with the knight is so relatable. You make this big smart plan and it's just that one possibility you didn't think about that ends up happening

i love this format, this is soo funny 😂

I would relate to this but my plan will always somehow fail no matter what

I enjoyed the commentary, haha :)

Nicely done!!

“Does not take the fucking rook” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂that’s hit killed me I was like that is actually brilliant yk if he takes it because he doesn’t have to 😂

you the first dude i seen make chess funny as fuck you got legendary commentary😂

Decent calculation! My one note is that after you sacrifice the rook for the knight, they can accept that sacrifice and block your bishop check with the rook, giving the material back and maintaining material equality instead of being checkmated. At higher elo levels, I would also move away from them needing to voluntarily take the rook. Instead, you could try deflecting the knight by taking on c5 after which you could check with the bishop, then knight, then take the rook for free. If they take back on c5 with the pawn, then you have opened the b-file and could try to take advantage of that with your rook.

I speak for everyone when I say we want more of these

the best part is that this checkmate even on last 3 moves was avoidable in 3 different ways 😂😂

As an FM I can say your thought process is pretty impressive for 600. Keep it up! As an exercise you can try to find a defense against your treacherous plan and find the ways to improve it.

Lol thats too good this opening made me laugh hard

The middle game was brilliant