Levy: "he actually has a forced mate in 6 here" The player: "the horse goes in an L shape"

@@Keijo_ :D this comment made my day! Brilliant!

@@Keijo_ 😂

@@Keijo_ lmaoooo 😹😹 made my night bro

I'm pretty sure neither of them understood the game beyond taking pieces and avoiding check. Not that I can say much. It's where I was before KZfaq started pushing chess videos for me. I'm still yet to see it I've learned anything.

The combustion chamber dance.

Yur right. They must just give up. I had a 900 rated game give up after he was mate in 1 after losing his queen

Legit lol'd. Well done

the eval bar is like "I'm out"

lol

😂😂😂😂

But expertly played ends in you winning. But I'm crap so I barely win 🏆 🙃

@@HillbillyYEEHAA what's ur rating

does this mean chess is just noughts and crosses with extra steps?

@@katuwalewskie6992 yes.

ok, this was funny

🤣🤣🤡

@@39jyotinanda57 🤡🤓

Hahahahah

Hshahaha

Yeah, that kinda gives additional 0 in the end to the Elo rating)))

A pure 2782 elo grandmaster playing for the world title: hangs Bishop.

😂 😂 😂

@@u.v.s.5583 World-class grandmasters actually have comitted such blunders in the past. Are these blunders extremely rare? Yes. But not unheard of.

As a 700-rated player, this is very relatable.

”and then they continue”😂😂😂

this is me in every chess game

what part of the video

@@aSocio 12:06

"And then they kept going"

This gave me more consistent laughs than any comedy or sitcom on netflix!

@@SashaDaeith what wouldn't

I'm right there with you. It is very difficult to see what the best move is, or that you have mate in 3, or anything like that.

im a 200 and this is very helpful LMAO at least u can know youre better than me

What's your elo 1 year later?

@@nuggetthesmartass9472 501 🤡🤡

129😢😢

And in the land of blunders, inaccuracies are brillant moves.

@@artsenor254 SO TRUE

Best underrated comment :-)

@@artsenor254 then what are best moves? le holy moves?

@@hapainess3636 Disgusting engine lines, of course.

Yeah that’s very deep

“A little bit, then they… kept going”

-inspirational quote master levy

😆😂🤣🤣

😆

😂😂😂

Us 300 elos would never >:D

@@ballistic2247 lol i always get paired with 300 elos who actually play well. Where are all these idiots i can farm elo 😔

​@@lorencalfe6446en verdad no lo entiendo, tengo 600 elo y los 600 de los videos de gotham son muchisimo peores que yo

Is*

Chess academy?

lmao

Rumors are he has seen but in incognito mode.

dont worry boys i’ll send it to him

this made me giggle so hard

In the UK it's called "going for a Burton" 😽

Me when i play the queen's Gambit👍

Watching these games was like watching two blindfolded deaf guys fighting, I imagine them standing on completely different sides of the room swinging at air and tripping over themselves.

I prefer playing the accelerated Nimzovitch (losing 2-3 pawns in the opening)

Username checks out

Thats cause your just playing I assume. Change how you study. Change your mindset and play less blitz. 1) Do at least 5 hours of puzzles a week on lichess. On weekends, do all of the puzzles you failed until you have them all done. Write down your "areas of improvement". BANG! Now you have next weeks puzzle set! 2) Play 3 games a day, analyse your best first, then analyse your worst and compare them. Get yourself a chess computer and make a database of all your games. 2.5)when possible, play and analyse your OTB games. 3) pick 1 area of study a week. Openings, middlegame, endgame, mates, positional analysis and tactics. Work on that 30 minutes 4 times a week. MAKE NOTES. 4) Be aware of your mindset. Are you nervous, do you play scared, do you lack confidance, are you tunnel visioning, are you too careful, are you not careful enough. Are you hungry? Do you "tilt". This matters!! 4.5) Set goals for example here are a few of mine: - 1800 tactics/puzzle rating -1500 rapid rating in 6 months -1500 classic rating in 6 months 5) Actually put the work in to improve. Practice doesnt make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

@@itzallai2397 You've made me realise why I'm happy to play at the level I'm at. I play chess for fun, I don't want to turn it into work :P

@@UdumbaraMusic Its not work if you enjoy and are passionate. you should want to do the "work". Its like a musician composing a piece. Its "work" but not really. I really enjoy all these aspects of the game.

@@itzallai2397 ​Yea that's exactly my problem I think - I'm already a musician and sound engineer so I don't really have the time or patience to practice chess like that. Someone kept lending me books on chess and I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get into them​ since I love both the game and learning/improving, but ultimately what you said made me realise that the better at chess you get the harder it gets because of the next opponent has put much more work in, and then your friends will probably stop playing with you because you're too good :P At least with music after a certain point of skill & technique all you need is a good idea that resonates with at least some people - a victory in chess is much less forgiving!

@@UdumbaraMusic As a drummer studying jazz in college, I understand. But Im not sure I agree with no longer needing to get better after a certain level. My professor has been playing drums for 45 years and still follows a very strict practice routine.

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Yeah it's hilarious 🤣

Not only does it swing, it swings in their opponents favor almost everytime

@@nuggs4snuggs516 ikr lol

@@nuggs4snuggs516 The eval bar never swings in your own favor... It always assumes the best possible move. It doesn't make any sense that it would swing in your favor unless you played a really deep move that the engine didn't even see until you played it. That's why it's called "average centipawn loss" and not "average centipawn gain"

That’s actually a really awesome idea! I bet they might actually be a bit flummoxed.

This is a crazy good idea.

Awesome idea

Levy does something similar with that other series where he lets someone play then takes over. But yeah having two strong players both do it would be interesting

There could also be a way of balancing uneven positions. Just have a stronger player have the weaker position, and have the weaker player take the stronger position.

The horsey move in an L 😮

im just gonna leave this at 69 likes

the bishop is an elephant 🔥 🔥

😂

To be fair, diagonally in front is in front, right? Of course, this doesn't apply to en passant captures, but whatever.

Followed by "How could you possibly think I'm being arrogant? I make these videos for fun" Those aren't mutually exclusive. I believe though that he's not trying to be hurtful, but those thumbnails sure don't support his point.

@@waitselljones8068 ooooh, careful! You'll get the "pin of shame" for dissent.

@@taylorowen9833 hm. Can you pin a reply to a comment?

@@waitselljones8068 you could pin a comment attached to a reply but I doubt he would do that

It's almost as if to succeed on this platform you need a catchy and clickbaity title and thumbnail. If your mental is so weak that a thumbnail from a youtuber hurts you so deeply to actually quit a hobby you enjoy greatly there are different issues there

lol

He’s on another level

It's cuz the bar is about a high level rated game, where every move recieves a penalty this game otherwise, wouldn't be played perfectly, so even if it was a bad move, it was good for the situation

It's genius.... if that in account the level of the opponent

Since 4 months? Thats crazy

@@snp9417 im 800 since 4months

1877 peak like 2 months ago now😳

@@treezerik Wow thats pretty good progress in a year and 3 months only

@@treezerik ooo, the madlad is here! Congrats, man!

His face as the bar went completely down was comedic genius

That is the funniest part 🤣 I died laughing

Timestamp plz

@@Cleansquire 13:40

LMAOOOOOOOOO SAME

White favorite opening move is the one where you put your knight next to the corner, because its unexpected opening move nobody does and white also loves to put the corner pawn forward in start of the game to get the powerful rock in the game from the start to rekt your opponent.😂

As a gold coin.I can confirm it was pure gold

Yes it is pure gold

It makes me feel better ‘bout myself when players blunder me

@@theknight8988 Bishops are better.

@@theknight8988 bro i like you more than the bishop simply because i changed my repertoire to d4 often leading *Closed* positional maneuvering games where knights are usually better. Inspired by Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian. But i do agree that Bishops >Knights usually.

yep, i just lost 5 before coming here :(

@@timetraveller2818 we’re friends, two of me can’t mate, but paired with my friend bishop over here we can

I got the 100th like!!

A great king leads by example!

It’s hard to say whether he developed the king as a well thought out plan for a later king sacrifice or he was just following theory

Going Code Geass

Didn’t expect to hear it from you…

Watching it in 2 minutes

@@bluemoon3779 i meant the series in a whole, never said i finished the vid. I normally save his vids before sleeping

All hail Lelouch

oh

Holy shit this is actually GENIUS??!?!

@@tiramisumusical yeah i acc like that idea, just like the teacher using ur answer as a bad example. You feel shame in ur move being the one played but also learn from it.

Great idea!)))

As a different idea, you could have a (1v1) variant where as long as there are at least two legal moves, you must submit two different candidate moves each turn, and your opponent chooses which of the two you play. Double attacks and forcing moves (or semi-forcing moves) would be really important.

@@EebstertheGreat that wont work, if your opponent gets to pick then you're gonna be just losing when you're in an endgame where theres only 1 good move or something similar. I mean unless you want to have an extremely fast game, but that doesnt feel like chess anymore.

Ahahahaaaaaa))))

That has not been proven.

@Raven Gaming Indeed! I have tried launching Stockfish against itself and white won with super-advantage! Rook+Queen+Queen+Bishop versus bare black king!

@Raven Gaming No, that's nonsense. In Tic-Tac-Toe, X goes first, but the game always ends in a draw if played perfectly.

@@SeventhSolar As if TTT is the same as chess

~ Kai - Kung Fu Panda 3

Nice

Sure, let's forget about Carlsen vs Anish, where Carlsen sacked his queen for 3 minor pieces beginning on like move 6 and won.

Why did I read this in a Barney Stinson voice?

One could call them, Low Elo Legends

Literally didnt ask

@@chrisdawson1776 🤡

@@mabellee1511 🤓

@@chrisdawson1776 corny

@@bxmo7077 🤓

40 minutes ago

Yeah, the ladder and the Queen/Rook + King mates are the mates you need to know

I once stayed with knight and bishop and that was still a damn draw. I know how to mate with two bishops but cant with knight and bishop. So much of +material but still a draw.

@@thf1933 I'd imagine you have to cut off squares with the bishop and king and then finish it with the knight

@@rgderen88 well you need to know the technique because it may take up to 30 perfect moves to checkmate while 50 empty moves is a draw. If you use only bishop and king his king has too much holes to escape through the diagonal attacking line. So you use all three pieces to chase him to the edge and then to the corner of the same color with bishop. I watched the technique but need to learn it better.

@@thf1933 Hey, somebody had to invent it, can always try to figure it out.

Bro you defeated a boss, nice!

damn

Congrats bro Same here, started at 400 now sub-900 (i play mainly Blitz) Thanks for Levy and other guys that bring me to this point

I started at 600, now I'm 500. Poggers

@@knownas2017 hey want to practice together? I'm 600 so we aren't to far apart on elo

I think that's about reasonable. Especially since it's rapid. A year of dedicated play should bring you above average

How is that inspiring that's not difficult

@@ovoj5631 bruh he was a literal beginner and went to 1600 thats pretty good

@@sarojbhattacharyya1095 in 1400 games??? I mean I started playing in May of this year, and got to 1500 in 1k games and that's without any openings courses or training. Id kinda expect him to be that high at least if he takes the game seriously

Thank you so much. But correction, 1763* peak as of a month ago xD. HAHA. Nah seriously that means a lot to me, LIKE A LOT.❤️❤️

computers dont know chess

@@lelouchvibritannia1919 basically

I know this is a joke, but I can't help but say that computers don't know chess is inaccurate, rather, computers don't understand chess players, which makes sense, because they aren't programmed to understand chess players, they are just programmed to know chess.

Also his special effect

did* He doesn't now, clearly, nobody can lol

Can’t wait for the GothamCards spinoff channel.

It’s Levy

@@rgderen88 why? The game is still as active as it's ever been. Unless you mean because of covid making events difficult, but even then a lot of the larger events have just moved online.

-IM levy rozman

@@HimanshuSingh-cr4ir no, you're Himanshu Singh

@@idoorion9279 but he is left rozman

@@darkkirbygod lol

@@heco. xd

AlwaysHasBeen.Meme

It always has been educational.

Oooooh I can't stop laughing, thank you that's gold

14:47 as well lmao

Thank you🥺good job!

@@treezerik the real TreezErik themself? I am honoured.

Some legendary math battle going on here

That other guy totally misled you. Elo is, in fact, a logarithmic scale (like the Richter scale, or decibels). It's called such because it's proportional to the logarithm. Sorta. In truth, "a player 400 points above another is 10 times more likely to win" doesn't actually mean that there's some factor for the player 400 points above which is 10 times the size of the lower player's. After all, it's not like saying the higher-rated player is 10 times more likely to win against a specific opponent than the lower one; Elo is designed only to give any sort of predictive power for individual matchups, so the predictive capacity when comparing different matchups diminishes. If anything, what this suggests is that Elo... is linear. A difference of a fixed amount of Elo equates to a fixed difference in skill, because the probability that one person beats another is predicted by the difference in their skill levels. tl;dr Davi, you were right to call it logarithmic, or at least you would be if either of you were right about probabilities. And the other guy doesn't know what a logarithmic scale is.

@@Pablo360able Powerful comment! Thank you.

@@Pablo360able Nah I know what a logarithmic scale is but because I had the premisconception that chess ratings were about percentiles that people were likely in and their standing, I hadn't realized he was talking about not just a log function to randomly compare people wrt each other but a scale. So I took the log of the ratings he exemplified instead and then was puzzled with how small x had to be. Yeah my bad for the chess ignorance as I had no idea these rating systems were built to compare two players' skills in terms of the number of likely wins for a given number of playing.

@@korkunctheterrible4302 ur are right but ur logarithms need some work i can't help but get drowned in the eternal chaos of overcomplicating things man u just do log(difference between elos) than doing log(x+400)/logx which is NOT equal to 10.

He's probably a kid. They learn much faster than the rest of us afults.

I just started and lost a game and then won another because the other guy couldn't get online to play in time. One day I plan to win a game legitimately

Is there a video for this reference?

@@dangermouse9348 it's an inside joke in chess that blundering your queen is called the "Botez Gambit", named after a streamer who is famous for accidentally blundering her queen in blitz and bullet

Fun Fact: You never blunder, it's always a gambit.

@@blazoraptor3392 Thanks. I'm aware of Alexandra Botez. Just wondered if it came from a specific game.

@@dangermouse9348 she's done it multiple times if im correct

*I have gotten shamed on Gotham's Discord server because of my rating*

there's lots of people that have absolutely no background in chess, I imagine if you've only just leant how the pieces work, it's going to be really hard to will any games, the amazing thing is when I see people with 1000+ games and a 500 or below rating.

@@countofst.germain6417 I went down to about 500 when I joined, but at that point I was basically making random moves.

@@Nashy119 well I started at 500 because I clicked beginner, then went down to about 350, same day I spent 10 mins learning the London system and went up to 800

@@countofst.germain6417 how lol? ive played over 150 games, learnt some openings etc and it was a slog to even reach 300...

Maybe that is why i hit 1750 eventually LMAO. I believe in you! Keep grinding

@@treezerik 1750 in 7 months? You've got to be kidding me, dude, that's insanely impressive. I'm wondering where you'll end up a year from now. It took me a full year to make 1750, and I'm at 2200 7 months later. And you're probably going to be even stronger than that, possibly a lot stronger (will you get to 2300? 2400? Maybe even Levy's strength?). Please keep me updated. I've sent you a friend request on chess сом.

@Max Khovanski 1750 in 7 months is a lot easier than 1750-2200 in 7 months like wtf

@@Cohenchess It's not, though. If it were, then why would it take me more than 7 months to get to 1750?

@@maxkho00 ? It is definitely much harder to get from 1750 to 2200, than 1750 from 200. 1750 is in intermediate levels, 2200 is in master levels. Could literally take years for some people to get there, even at 1750.

It would be more satisfying if it was 2000 elo

@@nayanikachatterjee9490 or a 2 minute video

Makes no sense at all

@@thepronoob1972 yeah exactly

haha OCD is totally quirky and funny xD i'm like so mentally ill 🤪🤪

on your... Junk?

@@flegmatika5758 genitals

based