Do not resign my bollocks… you resigned 4 times during your last tournament …

“Rooks don’t generally have a guard unless they’re guarded” welcome to gothamchess recaps

The number of games I've won from a totally lost position just because someone resigned after hanging a queen is actually astounding.

Golden rule of chess: never resign when you have a knight

Fun fact; I once had an opponent resign when they had Mate in one lol.

My jaw dropped harder than the Eval bar in the last move. My God what a game

16:11 "kings can't touch, chess is not that progressive yet" lmfao levi

While I´m occasionally guilty of resigning myself, I wholeheartedly agree with the title. One of the reasons I kinda suck at converting advantageous positions or just playing endgames is because I only play online, and half of my opponents just resign when they get to a worse position, denying me the opportunity to royally screw up and serve them a win on a silver platter

Never Resign, Unless you're playing against me, then always resign.

Gotham:Never resign my pupils! Me who just resigned in a game b4 this video, when i was winning: wish the vid was posted an hour earlier

gm: resign after losing a pawn this guy:i have my queen

The ending was so anticlimactic, i love it.

The whole talk about "the opponent playing on your terms" was quite informative!

I didn't resign; my internet merely disconnected

I remember while you were streaming on twitch , you got a bad position from the start against one of the Gms if i am not mistaken , and you got very low and even said once that " its's just over " but then you didn't give up and converted the game to a win , that should be the spirit , even i dont resign until i mate or get mated , thats it , no else no buts :)

A) if I had ever been rated in the 900s I would swear this was me playing White. I get ahead in material, start playing way too fast and loose. Thanks for the reinforcement of “one step at a time”. B) “Chess is not that progressive yet” knocked me out of my chair! Informative and entertaining, this is awesome stuff man. Thanks for helping all of us get better (or at least laugh at being bad). Keep up the great work!

Yeah resigning is like pointless if u're playing for rating. Literally 50% of the people stalemate me with 2 queens.

GothamChess: Never resign! Also GothamChess: Resigns 72.3% of times he lost (according to insights)

Also Levi: "cmon you are down a rook just resign"

I’m amazed by how much I laugh during these videos. Levy is hilarious

Love the tip on the 2 move combo, you should make a video on different 2,3,4 move combo scenarios

The King after his army disapears: Fine i'll do it myself!

Another option is resigning on move 2 in an online tournament when you are playing someone you don't want to play against because you think he is a cheater 😅

16:42 "You have knight G5 check which guarantees you win a queen." Not terribly easy to spot. I missed it. This situation would make a pretty good chess puzzle.

This video has been up for 5 hours and I’ve already won 2 games where I was down a piece. Thanks, Levy.

When you are already on a losing streak and then this video pops up: "I am inevitable"

1:19 Apparently, words in Polish with a consonant followed by i and then another vowel become palatalized ( if you are interested you can serch palatalization on wiki ); so siema would be pronounced as shiema ( but not with the english sh, its like the russian letter latinized as shch, namely Щ )

Good morning Levy... I have about 2 years now following your channel & goes without say that you my favorite content creator keep it up.... all the way from Sout Africa

This was the first time you've explained the threat behind considering "Captures" in "Checks/Captures/Attacks" in a way that I was actually able to fully grasp. It's not just about "Can I take a piece and thus get points, lul?" or even "Can I take a piece improving my position?" but there's a clear continuation of: "For all the pieces he could respond with, what will they leave undefended or vulnerable to follow-up attacks?"

You are right, yesterday I was in danger of getting mated in 3 or 4 moves but my opponent made a mode that allowed me to mate him in 1 move and I won 😄

Thank you! This is so important. Resigning is not a good habit - I understand if its completely hopeless situation, you're 18 points down - sure. But in most situations, even if you lose an important piece you can still turn it around. I've had games where I was beaten down for 30 moves and I was down a ton of important, but then my opponent got a bit too aggressive and I managed slowly turn the momentum and win with check mate. It felt amazing, and it was only possible because I refused to give up.

I was on a chess break from last 1 month got back today i have got a lot of 'levy content' to cover

As someone who plays around this level, I relate.

Lately I’ve had games in which I blundered my queen early on and wound up down by 15-20 points only to have the opponent resign as soon as I capture their queen. I had one game in which I was down by 17 and went on the run of my life to end up a few moves from check mate when my opponent complained that they had been beating me by 17 and resigned. I wish I’d taken a screenshot because it felt more satisfying than any checkmate I’ve ever given.

this video is a great example of why i love gotham's outros

Even if you don't win, get get valuable endgame practice. And there is no greater feeling than swindling a draw from a losing position.

Levi you said bishops are better than knights, but the problem is when I have a bishop and my opponent has a knight he wins , and when I have a knight and my opponent has a bishop, then also he wins,why is that so ?

Never resign when you have a king

That ending. Straight to radio silence! Lolled so hard.

gotta love that eval bar drop

Once I was losing by far, the person I was playing against had my Queen, and a lot of other pieces, but eventually I took his Queen, other pieces, then won!

I have been playing chess for a bit and found this video and before I found this video I didn’t realize there was a resign button and I still can’t find it

I remember being in a match and sorely losing. They had almost all their pieces and I was left with a queen, bishop, and a few pawns... And then they blundered mate in 1. After protecting that one square for like 5 moves. It was brilliant.

There is much chess learning in trying to survive as long as possible in an obviously loosing endgame.

OMG! That was hilarious! "Sometimes we fear that which our opponent had never even considered!" -- Nimzowitsch, in "Karlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929"

I remember when I was playing a game in my first FIDE rated chess tournament, I was lost and my opponent had a forced mate. I did not resign, and I lost anyway. My 60+ old opponent was trash talking me all that time after I lost the game, he was like-"WHY ARE YOU SO ANNOYING!?YOU DON'T RESIGN AND WANT TO WASTE MY TIME..I THINK YOU ARE NOT MATURE ENOUGH BECAUSE YOU ARE JUST A CHILD" and all that... Conclusion:Well, sometimes you gotta resign.

Usually watch your vids during my daily cardio but it's been a bit too many the last couple days and I'm afraid if you keep it up this much I'll get too skinny very soon ... thanks for your effort tho!

Earlier today, I won a game where I was 11 points behind in material because my opponent blundered his queen and then his bishop in back to back moves... at moves 63 and 64.

I never resign

It's safe to say, no one cheated in this game

so the enemy can checkmate you so they don't want you to resign because they want to taste the victory

1:45 gotta love the New York accent saying hot dog

I learned this lesson after realizing it wasnt actually over and i had resigned

I never resign. I let my opponents checkmate me.

That ending was brilliant lmao

Brilliant bishop sacrifice at 13:10 hanging it 4 ways with threat of M1

Fight me Levi

The day I started watching his videos I improved alot in chess! Thank you!

this guy gonna take every chance he can get to plug his unprincipled “vienna” sideline.

I highly recommend Mr. Dodgy's Chessable course on Eric Rosen's stalemate tricks. I hardly touch the resign button anymore because I know there's a good chance my opponent will walk into a stalemate.

I never resign. I just win.

I resigned once and immediately regret when I saw my opponent didn’t take my hanging knight.

that ending hit me

More 3 videos to go... hitting 1k videos.... Let's go Gotham.... Appreciate your work

I once got a -4 position against an FM and resigned as I didn’t see a way to stop his checkmate but there was one. That was sad😢

i do not resign, i hack into my opponents account and change all their passwords to assert my dominance beyond the chess board

Smack in the middle of the video I get an ad of Hans Niemann screaming, followed by "My chess speaks for itself" merch.

Can you imagine his face when he found out he managed to get himself checkmated

The term resign is not applicable for vishy 😂

Gotham claims that I shouldn't resign,but he resigns in games tho😐

“The resign button” lmaoooooo Levy is really a comedian and a chess elite dude.

That last bit was just too funny to me 😭🤚. The player with white* would have been so happy converting his pawn to queen LOL and boom they get checkmated in the next move 🙈😂

Me in daily chess : Gotham said no resign, buckle up

I'm definitely showing this to my school chess club!

Looks like every bullet game in my 5 game losing streak

This is exactly why if I ever get a piece up I just start trading everything till I can just take all the pawns.

Love the ending

not too long ago I played a game where the board was just our kings and my opponent's queen and my opponent had no idea how to mate with just a queen so it ended up being a draw by 50 move rule

We finally agree on something Levy

Levvy bingo: -intense begin stare -i live in new york -sports reference -guess the elo reference -more valuable than …?

I think at 16:52 white played e6 hoping for Qxe6 and the fork with Ng5 lmao

Today when I was about to loose I got stalemated in two different games back to back . There's no feeling better than that 😁

The title reminds me of the line from "The Batman (2022)". "If you... are justice... please DO NOT RESIGN"

The moment you get tilted you start playing as a player 500 rating below your current one lol

That's how I play StarCraft 2. Surrender button does not exist, you leave when defeat screen (or maybe victory screen) pops up

Gotham: "these players are writing a story" also Gotham: "Rooks don’t generally have a guard unless they’re connected to something else” meanwhile Gotham: resigns 4 times in his tournament

18:00 _"Foreshadowing is a literary device..."_

I'm a 400s player who recently just lost my Queen early whilst facing a 500s player. Since I never resign we played on and around a dozen or so moves later they blundered their own Queen. I then went on to win the game despite being way down on time simply because I was able to promote a Pawn to a Queen and after doing so the opponent resigned.

At my level, I play the Italian game a lot and my opponents often resign after 5.Nxd8. I hope this video doesn’t change that.

Whilst I'm not great j always tell my friends never resign, lots of people can't do end game, along with stupid stale mates and just general sloppiness (which I am prone to as well) a losing position can be turnt round.

that black queen is like naruto fighting the six paths of pain, and winning in the end LMFAO

0:00 You ever have one of those games where you start it and quickly realize you have to go do something? So you tell the opponent that you have to go and you ask for a draw, but they ignore you and play on, trying for a cheap win? I had one of those games yesterday. They forced me to play the game out in the Trader Joe’s parking lot, where I won via timeout. I had just a king and a pawn, while they had a queen and a bunch of pawns. That queen was one move away from taking my last pawn and securing the draw they could’ve had ten minutes earlier, but he had 0.1 seconds on the clock when he was a move away, and that was too late. My point is, if someone tells you early in the game when you don’t have a clear advantage that they need to go, be a good person, don’t get greedy, and take the draw. Edit: the funny thing is, on his final move, it took him half a second to choose between taking my last pawn and leaving a trapped knight (which would’ve been considered insufficient material) or taking the knight and leaving my pawn.

Honestly I resign too much and too easily thanks levy. Got back into chess again and I needed to relearn this.

I think that Siema was drunk by the beer he drunk before the game lol

I have pulled so many games out from down under. I've drawn games down a queen, heck I have even gotten a lucky mate down 14 points before. The only time I ever resign is if the opponent doesn't have any bad moves, I have 0 tricks, and the end game is impossible to win.

I resign early and often so there’s no chance I end up in compilations like this lol.

Entertaining and informative; thanks for sharing.

1:41 thanks levy, very cool

2:34 oR you can play the wyvern queen and try to do the scolars mate there wont be a mirrored position

I had opponent to resign when I managed to make a fork with knight against king and rook and queen in middle of the board when almost all the pieces were still on play (I couldn't believe my eyes that that position was not covered by his pieces). It was annoying because it was nowhere close to me winning yet even that I would have won queen to a knight. It was a 5 min game and I suck on those, he could have won by time or by me blundering half of my pieces. I accept resigning when it is obvious you can't win and it is just matter of time before you get mated, but not when game is practically just starting.