“Wait, that’s just a free pawn” “Haha! You fell for my trap! It’s now mate in 48!”

Why am I not surprised a chess cheater doesn't even know how en passant works

I'm wildly impressed that Hikaru has a 90.2% accuracy across so many games. Dude is basically a chess engine himself.

Levy making a cheater playing a game with him is the chess equivalent of Chris Hansen telling you to have a seat.

Chess has to be the only game you can cheat in and STILL not know what the hell you're doing.

94 Accuracy with a brilliant move That last 6% was the cheater not knowing what en passant was

if i was a cheater and i saw gothemchess suddenly appear as my opponent i would be already be looking for the next account to use

We should start referring to the cheaters as "Stockfish", because let's face it the engine is the one who deserves credit for the games. The opponent is just the dude who wrote their name on the group project and received a 10

to win against him you just need to get into a position where en passant is the best move for him

Ok but let’s all appreciate Levi can last this long against stockfish

"Let's play the most solid opening" *Proceeds to accept an engine-approved gambit and open the position*

Captain Levi: Kills Titans for the sake of Humanity. IM Levy: Caches cheaters and bans them for the sake of Humanity.

I remember once I was at 790 rating and I got into a game with this guy and lost, so I kept replaying him and giving him the win so he can get to 1000 rating he was when I started playing him at like 850, he played weird he didn’t rake free queens sometimes and saw mate beyond that, and I friended him, after I stopped playing for a bit I saw he got banned

Playing such engines reminds me of me trying to play IM's (international masters) when I got paired way up in a big tournament. It was like wrestling with a very big python. You just got squeezed hard move after move after move until something broke. Every single time. This was when I was a class B or A player 35ish years ago. At least against experts and the occasional normal "master" I could get a draw a decent amount of the time with my endgame (which was the only part of the game I ever got good at, to a meaningful degree).

"Is do nothing an option?" -Levy Rozman

Nothing is more a testament to a cheaters stupidity then their inability to understand how improbable and unjustifiable their performance is.

I am addicted to Levy's videos more than actually playing chess 🤣🤣

I've been noticing recently that the titles have been changing right after the video is uploaded

chess cheater be like: "wtf my engine is broken its telling me to do an illegal move" oh wait the cheater probably doesnt even know what an ilegal move is

Youre a Gem. The fact that you found this story in 1 of a trillion chess games is cool as hell man. Your passion is stronger than most

8:59 Levy got the help of a computer during a chess game!?! 😱

Can't believe Magnus was not in the thumbnail

Lmao. Peer pressure worked. No tank-top. 🤣 Edit: yes, I now realize he has one on later in the video. 😢. Levy is beautiful regardless of what he wears.

I think the best part of every Gotham video is that sweet clap transition at the beginning. The crisp sound of the clap, the room acoustics, and the sharp cutoff make it satisfying to hear I can't be the only one

At least back in the day in OTB tourney chess, cheaters were more subtle. The primary cheating was rating cheating. So a player would drop their rating by losing to get into a lower class, and then play in a big tournament and try to cash in on a prize playing inferior players. But over time, USCF (US Chess Federation, governing US chess tournaments, generally) wised up to that and stopped letting ratings drop more than 100 points (at least in a moderate term time frame). I was accused of rating cheating once by a couple other players in my class (D), ironically when my rating was higher than it had ever been, because I was demolishing or drawing players rated 400 to 600 points higher than me in a small tourney. BUT, I pointed some things out. 1). I was as surprised as anyone. 2). I hadn't played a serious game in 6 years, and apparently had matured a lot through college and a couple years of real work. (And I'd vowed to STOP making casual, stupid, overconfident, lazy sorts of blunders). 3). I was playing for maybe a $30 class prize (this wasI 39 years ago, so I can't remember exactly) from a $12 entry fee. About a $14 hour day, to try to "cheat" my way to an $18 profit. I pointed out I made $20+ an hour, and stop insulting my intelligence. I ALSO pointed out if I REALLY wanted to cheat, I'd go to Philly for the World Open in July, and play for a class prize of $10,000 and a roughly $50 entry fee (and if I'd had ANY idea I'd improved that much, I might have wanted to try that, being a once in a life time chance to cash in on improving a lot). Now, OTB, they're watching for cell phones, etc (per a friend of mine who played in some serious tourneys). And on the net it's just ABSURD what goes on. It's sad.

Levy: "Is do nothing an option?" Zugzwang: *twists neck *cracks knuckles *turns on caps lock

3:17 Levy: “G4! Danger levels!” Me who hasn’t been told that he’s worth more than a queen recently: 😠

the clap transition made me smile it was very fun and like it, there are not many youtubers who don't try their hardest to be professional and just take it easy and giving the community what they love, personally I feel like everyone who is invested just a little bit in the community has a great time watching levy with every joke we have and in general chess changed my life thanks to levy.

I really wonder what's going on in their minds when they cheat. Are they not aware that it's often super obvious to other players that they are cheating? Or do they just not care and just want to see how long they can go without getting caught? I'll just never understand those people... Any decent player will be able to tell that they are cheating, especially a player of Levy's caliber.

The only series which I look forward to except guess the elo in this channel. Very exciting and thrilling.

Every time Levy points out a move that makes no sense but it’s a move I would’ve made, it reminds me how absolutely dogshit I am at chess

love these, you should make more of em if possible

The first game is, of course, proof that a game of chess played perfectly is a draw

I like how he is 95% predicting engine moves without engine :D

Loving the content!! Could we get more chess history videos? Id love to see more World championships or more Bobby Fisher games

i absolutely love cheater and engine content, please make more of these! You make them so entertaining :))

I'm very happy that I was there to see this gem of a game live ❤️

One way that seems to work against engines is just to exchange pieces as much as possible...

love all your content levy just wish your audio was a tiny bit louder thank you for everything you do for the chess community.

Levy, we absolutely love you fighting these villains and you deserve our support and admiration. Rock on!!!

5:27 whoa! White played the rare “ring around the Rosie” with their white square bishop!

I think the problem with levi's game is that he didn't play the best move 34 times... Idk, maybe if he was good

This was a very fun format. Please do more!!

We need more of this

"It's always fun to predict what the best move actually is" - I believe this is called "playing chess". 😁

Thanks for the content Levy

what a series! love it. Just missing the "confrontation", calling them on discord or some how engage them into a call and expose them

11:40 Qf4 was just a blunder on gothams part. He got distracted and didn't see the queen was aligned with his bishop. He took account of the pawn being undefended but in his distraction he missed the bishop would also be undefended. It's a pretty easy thing to defend against but dude was just distracted.

Hey Mate, I am just sponging all your content, love this shit. Feels like "regular guys plays at GM level" and its so underdog to watch you be human (yes I implied GMs are not). Noticed all your content is with an online board, small request but id love to just watch you move some physical pieces for the next vid! GL and dont change, unless youre trying to improve.

I'd love to see Hikaru play a cheater to see if he could beat him without flagging him, would be really interesting

18:11 "They are not even taking!" Thats when I know I'm being played hard by the engine, its when they dont even take free pieces. it's usually because the move they make is even more damaging

These videos are so brilliant... And your commentary and awareness of stupidity is my favorite. hahahahah

Levi is becomming like the boogeyman of cheater chess.

Levy got 82% accuracy against engine that's impressive

Arms are growin Levy- now you can wear the tank top proudly

When u played against the cheater and said „hey siri“ my siri also calculated even tho i was watching ur video

its been 2 years since i watched this guy, and he still makes banger content. just subscribed, and im waiting for gotham's channel to get to 10m. 😄

I love watching cheaters get caught. Please make more of this content!

DUDE u nearly won!!! this series 1st vid so cool

After Nb3 attacks your rook , I like Rxd5 followed by Bd4 forking the rook and Kt. And simplifying the position to two rooks versus a rook and a bishop

Man the first game gave me laughs :D Imagine cheating in chess without even knowing the rules of the game! Imagine being actually so bad in the game and still cheating in it :D

The engines are so merciless. Back in the 70's and early 80's, I liked to sac pawns and pieces, drag the kind to my side of the board, and then checkmate it while it would go back to developing its pieces, like it's king was in a normal spot. LOL Then in the late 80's and early 90's, I liked to build up a big attack on the castled king, and feed the computer some material in order to get at the king and force some kind of mate with some rooks, etc. Like the time a spectator said to me (in a human vs. computer tournament, when the computers were little stand alone specialty devices), "You just dropped your queen." "No, I don't NEED a queen!", I responded, and mated the machine by force 5 or so moves later (it was easy to see, but beyond the program's horizon). Then ALL the programs got so good that they'd just smash me consistently. Oh well.

Been watching a lot of your content lately and went back to see old videos to learn from. Openings and your climbs. It is amazing how your attitude and humour has changed since 2020. You honestly seemed a bit condescending back then which felt weird to watch as I started with your new content. Don't know what happened but you improved so much.

21:06 pointless checks! throw in some pointless checks! he probably takes 7 seconds to move out of each one!

Felt like Gotham was getting squeezed by an anaconda in that game. The engine is relentless.

Just played a game and got 99.2 but that was easy as they just blundered everything. Life is good sometimes in the sub 300 space 🤣

why do i love binging this youtuber so much

levi i beg you to make more videos of catching cheaters and make them play against each other like in the good old days

Gotham's really trying to break the world record for how many times he can change a video's title in a day

Cheating in chess is like using a boat in a swimming contest

That was a beautiful demonstration how even cheating requires skill to pull it off. One doesn't know en passant and the other hangs on to the computer even if they're running out of time, not being able to win a completely and utterly won game.

i find so many cheaters below the 1500 rank.. its frustrating..

Dude played 94% against an IM and thinks they're going to get away with it lol

Challenge to Levy. Start a new account and try to get flagged as a cheater, without actually cheating.

Declining the draw was the top engine move. Engines always hate draws.

The scariest thing about playing a cheater is thinking that a certain move is bad and they playing it.

I hate cheaters it's like 60% of my games. Every time I win they're playing fair but every time I lose they are cheating!

Hi Levy I have a video idea (maybe its dumb idk lol) It could be called: Guess the Action You get a two positions from the same submitted game, the difference could be around 10-15 moves (Maybe more or less idk). You are also given the elo of the players. Your goal is to guess as much correct moves (move order included) as possible. I really hope that this idea could be realized and apologies for my bad English.

Congrats on 900 videos levy

You should do one of these where you play them, then force a rematch and have hikaru play them. Call in big brother and see if he can at least time out if not fully beat an engine

that initial game between two players rated below 1500 was just way too good for that rating level. thats the sort of game i would expect from a high level chess tournament, or even better. if they weren't cheaters, then they are really strong GMs who are smurfing. which leads me to a question, what are the odds at least one of these guys wasnt a cheater but a GM on smurf account? and this leads me to another question: if these guys are cheaters... why? don't they realize that it's obvious there is something very suspicious with the way two below 1500 players just play as well or even better than top GMs? moreover... wtf... i mean if they are cheaters, they themselves aren't getting any better at the game and as soon as they leave the help of the engine they will just not understand shit about the position and end up blundering even clearly winning positions. so ,in the end, by cheating they are just deluding themselves.

Yay I love to catch cheaters Especially while playing with the instruments

I find chess cheater videos more fun than guess the elo, Thank you Levi

Seriously cheater content is some of the best videos to watch!! Great job again Levy

I am sorely disappointed when I saw you weren’t wearing the orange tanktop in the thumbnail. I never realised you liked clickbaiting people. I believe that you can be better than this Levy.

I appreciate the anamorphic bokeh of the red slashes in the thumbnail.

OMG!!!! That in passant moment was hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

when he ask Serie the math question, my serve replied too

thanks to you ive played 5 chess games in the past hour and its my first time playing so i just wanted to say thank you for showing me this game is actually fun

Next month I am participating in my first chess tournament, so you have a video on how they work.

I love these videos!! Good stuff sir!

Ah, good ol' en passant. The move that, more than half the times I've played against a player that didn't know it, they *refused* to believe that it was a real thing, even after I showed them the rule in the rulebook that explains it.

About half-way through that game when you had 3 pawns for the knight, would it have been a good strategy to swap off the rooks and go for a bishop & knight ending? Checkmating with B+N takes quite a lot of moves and you could probably have flagged him for the draw.

Bring back a cheater v cheater video. Loved that one.

that opponent if was fair play then magnus never could defeat him.

Tried to stand up to the people talking about him wearing tank tops and then wears a T-Shirt today hahaha what a coward

"I wonder if this person is proud of themselves" I'm going to go out on a limb and say that cheater didn't even know what checkmate he was playing. Dude was probably just blindly following the letters and numbers. Probably could never appreciate the play stockfish was planning.

I see you very happy since last time I watched one of your amazing content.

Hey Levy! Can you please upload some more how to win at chess episodes? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

imagine cheating in the game of chess, meanwhile u dont know basic rules of it...