Engine analysis report for white: 0 mistakes 0 blunders 24 missed wins

Never, ever resign because Levy might be proud of you if you make the biggest comeback ever

13:30 Levy "There are 6 options for White's king to move." Me "No Levy, Kf4 is still check."

Resigning: *Exists* Beginners: We don’t do that here.

13:28 Kf4 is clearly the best move in this poaition

"Snatching a draw out of the jaws of victory" best line ever!

13:28 "there are 6 options for white's king to move. 5 of them continue the game. 1 does not." Yeah, f4 lol

Gotham’s joke about elo ~800 early pawn pushes being “preparation” spawns a new video series: Gotham commentates beginner chess games as if they were played by grandmasters.

My apologies fellow viewers.

9:57 Levy : There are no more checks Qd3+ : Am I a joke to you?

The “because you trust your opponent will finish/win the game” (I forget the exact wording) is hilarious to me because I had a game where I only had a King remaining. The other guy had a Rook and King. I didn’t surrender, and he TYPED TO ME IN THE CHAT that I was being disrespectful for not just resigning in this position as he continually failed to mate me correctly with this set up. 1200s by the way. :) He ended up flagging and it was a draw. I know that sounds disrespectful to some, but think about this: if he didn’t know how to mate with Rook and King, why should I just resign? If he didn’t learn how to win the game, then it wasn’t a won game. It’s why you always study how to win in an endgame. I definitely resign in end games where the opponent is clearly showing they have the knowledge to finish the game even if it will take 20 more moves. I’m not in the interest of wasting people’s time just because they “might” make a mistake. But when the dude is moving his Rook around all over the board letting you run wherever you want, might as well go for a draw LOL

"Why win, if you can draw?" - Giri, Anish

*"Putting bishops in jail would actually be a good thing for society"* - GothamChess, 2021

If there's anything the Rosen Trap™ and Gotham's "Lose at chess" series has taught me, it's to always look for stalemates and my opponents to blunder

"It is never too late to hang a mate, or the illusion of it" "Snatching a draw out of the jaws of victory" Levy you're brilliant

Resigning is the polite thing to do between experienced players when it's clear that you can't draw. You often don't get any breaks in a tournament, so don't waste anyone's time. But if there's a chance you won't lose, make your opponent show you. If they're in time trouble, play it out to mate: clock management is part of the game, too.

Me: *blunders a queen, resigns and switches tab to YT* Gotham: Never, EVER resign in chess! Me: bruh

13:23 there are only 5 squares that the king can move to because of the rook check :)

13:24 Levy: highlights Kf4 as an option to escape the check. Rook standing point-blank from the king: am i a joke to you?

‘Putting bishops in jail would actually be helpful for society’ That sent me down the hallway laughing.

"The Gods of Chess saw fit to serve me these pieces. And despite their flaws, I shall play them, even unto death!"

I just drew a game where opponent was up 7 points of material. Never resign.

I'm extremely low rated, but I still feel bad to flag someone or wait for them to blunder after they have an absurdly winning position. Maybe I should think of it more as a rated learning exercise for the both of us.

Levy has the best chess quotes out there: "Why did the Chess Gods bestow upon you a FULL set of pieces, only for you to move like four of them?!"

I was just searching for another Gotham analyzing a low elo game, keep it up 👍

Every perfectly played game ends in a draw.

Was 6:16 a subtle attack on the Catholic Church lol?

Yep, just started playing chess 3 weeks ago. I told myself I would never resign and that works wonder, there are a few games where I down a queen or pieces worth more than 10 points but due to other players blunder I was able to win. Below 1500 you should never resign.

It's incredible the way he explains the game like it's a high level game🤣

Here before that 1 kid started blessing everyone

Can we all please be proud that he did not edit his mistake of showing 6 squares where king could go when there were only five. 13:20

Love these vids, hoping it becomes a series like Guess the Elo

You’ve made my chess game good enough to beat my friends! We aren’t very good (~450 elo) but I have more fun now :)

13:38 kf4

Ummmm ... 6 options at 13:35 ??? One of those is illegal

Mightily entertaining as always. Gotham, I have a request: could you give us a video advising how to get back in shape after hiatus. I was out of chess for two months and I've lost all my sharpness. Yes, I'm doing tactical puzzles daily (even got to my personal best), I'm still nailing it in correspondence chess, but I'm terrible under pressure in rapid. I don't see threats, I miss chances, etc. What should I do to get back in the game?

Can we take a second and respect the fact that levy uploading videos literally everyday?

Actually, Magnus Carlsen tweeted- "Snatching a Draw from the jaws of victory." on Anish Giri's game after he drew the game in a winning position. Gotham knows where to use what😂😂

Please keep this series going

Nothing beats the feeling of that win on time when your opponent has rook and king to your king and can't quite remember how to convert.

After that first game titled Never resign, every never resign game is just down the hill

8 years ago when I was still playing on the board chess. I was around 1400 and playing against a 1900 rated player. I was in a dead lost game. I was thinking about resigning but used 5 moves to set a trap that I did not really believe in. I placed my rook as if I blundered it and he took it with the only piece that prevented me from mating him. He could have won a million ways easy but I guess he did not look for danger.

“Snatching a draw out of the jaws of victory”

I can see how proud you are of your student.

13:42 ah yes kf4 into check continues the game

2:22 I was expecting Kd7 when he said "worst possible move" lmao

Never ever resign GM's: Yeah this is mate in 57 no matter what *resigning Sound*

Snatching a draw, out of the jaws of victory! 🤣🤣

Here is an idea: separate these from the other low elo games and make it a series of it's own called 'Never resign'

0:54 Thats how i always play with my friend lmao. We got some crazy chaotic positions most of the time, its really fun.

he was afraid of being of being checked.

"Snatching a draw from the jaws of victory."- Gothamchess, 2021

I have seen guys resign when one of their pieces gets pinned.

6:17 My god, that was incredible.

the short castle had me crackin up

God bless 'em as they ascend Mt. Improvement but meanwhile, watching 800's play chess is more fun than going to the zoo.

Even for GM, I find it desrespectfull to end the game the moment you realize your opponent outsmarted you. A lot of beatifull checkmates are never played out because of this. There is only one reason in my opinion for resigning -> After a blunder.

this never resign series just keeps getting better. There must be great never resign games from the history of OTB classical chess too. Thanks

"Putting bishops in jail would actually be a good thing for society", Levy Roseman.

"Snatching a draw out of the jaws of victory" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😂😂😂

There was this daily game I played, I was completely winning, around -8. I hung a rook and a bishop went to +7. A few moves later he hung his rook back and went to -1. And went to -60

This was enjoyable but nothing can beat the first one (having mate in 1 and instead giving opponent mate in 1)

Levy, can we have a recap to overview the Sinquefield cup?

This one actually hurt.

I've never seen an 800 play so poorly. Amazing game!

6:10 Putting bishops in jail would actually good for society 😆🤣🤣😅😂 Man i totally agree on that 😁

bro that was an epic game! thank god they miss all that mates u talked about!! love it every second

Sending games to levy by 800s has become their new way of getting the game analysed

13:25 there are 5 options, king cannot go to f4.

This is especially true for opponents near 800 who most times don't know the basic checkmates like king and 1 rook, king and queen, 2 bishop, etc Also i remember playing against this guy who almost defeated me, then was very very VERY toxic in chat. He promoted 2 queens even having so much material to checkmate my lone king. He tried to checkmate me (couldn't even checkmate with 3 queen) and ended up stalemating me XD

Wow that felt like a thriller movie Good job Levy

When your mom comes and says to stop the phone in the middle of the match with one move from promotion

for me it's just about respect for the other player, and i'd rather play another game with my time

13:24 I would want to play Kf4 in that position but didn't know if it was a legal move, thanks for reasuring levy :>

Really like these videos about how to train to become a GM.

I mean its better than them stalling a defeat to annoy you

I don’t know what is worse when playing with a sore loser: People who spam “Accept Draws” Or People who keep making a move the second before they get auto-resigned

This game was such a rollercoaster!

This game just physically hurts me

What I have learned from your videos so far: - There is a thing called development. It is a name for randomly moving knights and bishops. - The thing where you can't move some piece beacuse the other player would take some better piece is called pinning. - One of the best first moves is moving the pawns in the middle. That is a London start I think.

Me, getting my rook and queen forked on move 6, proceeding to throw my laptop out the window: Ah yes, Levy said never resign. *proceeds to throw it out anyway* (technically I didn't resign hehe)

Even Levy did the chess king sacrifice.

That was exhilarating... what a video. Good job bro.

“Putting bishops in jail is actually probably good for society”😂

getting 2k views in 5 minutes is how you can define a master😁 love your content gotham❤️🙏🏻

When I was 800 I didn’t know either that a pawn could help to checkmate

Super GM in disguise! He snatch a draw out of the jaws of victory! I love these words

13:24 Levy says there are 6 options. Including an illegal move, apparently?

In some 1000 rated game, I lost a queen for a Bishop, I kept playing, I drawed the game using knight forks and sacrifices, he asked for a rematch, I blundered a full queen, I continued, I forked him twice, won the game, hit me up if you guys wanna see that 👀

I love laughing at these videos and then realizing that I would probably do something that dumb in the heat of the moment

The number of stalemates I’ve managed to pull off in games I had no business still being in lol.

13:26 Levy can play illegal moves. Must be a benefit of being an IM.

Never, EVER miss an opportunity to throw shade at the Catholic church. Thanks, Levy.

great series

Except when you're getting ladder checkmated

Another joke mocking Catholics. I'm not Catholic, but for fucks sake

As a fellow 1000 I confirm that you should never resign

This is so painful holy dude

just casually watching this video after levy resigns 2 of his games in the tournament...

Protestants and athiests be like: 6:15