Still waiting for Gotham to make a series where he coaches a 400 and sees how quickly he can take him up to a 1500

Please someone buy a bottle for Levy... Man is drinking from a flower pot

"Stop playing chess" thanks Levy, I needed this.

Levy in 2022 - How to improve your chess Levy in 2023 - Stop playing chess Levy in 2024 - Stop thinking about chess

You and Hikaru should each get a player rated 600 or less and give them 2 weeks of free lessons and see which one wins

"Mom can I have a 2000 rating" "You have 2000 rating at home" 2000 rating at home

This video made me think that Gotham is catching me breathing oxygen for no reason

u should do a challenge where u get a lower rated played that thinks they deserve a certain elo and make them play a best of 3 against that elo

Chess is like Rocket League. You still have whiffs and bad games at high level, but they're rare and something to laugh about, not constant sources of frustration. Consistency is key

6:20 Taking space is when my opponent pushes pawns; overextending is when I push pawns

Bold of you to assume these are noticeable mistakes under 2000

you know its a bad game when levy says "so far so good" 4 moves into the game

"You should never feel bad about your terrible chess. Because it's never getting better, only worse!" Thanks Levy! Very Inspirational! Good talk! lol

Levy staring at my soul at the beginning is far scarier than anything I saw

I love the addition of the clock, makes it so you can understand the players time situation and relate that to their moves.

Me: *gets drunk and plays chess all night* *Next day Gotham releases a video* Me: *nervous whiskey sweats*

"Black should be developing the bee-ship" - Gotham Chess

This might just be me, but every video I watch, there's a 1 second period at 0:00 where Levy's AI realizes its recording then activates 'Radio Personality 31-A'

I played a guy who was playing so cowardly he was up a rook, it was a queen/rook vs queen/2rooks endgame (and some pawns) and he literally had my king in the corner defended by my queen and he kept checking me and instead of trading queens the game ended a draw by repetition from him checking me and me offering the queen trade but him refusing 🤦🏽‍♂️

Levy earlier- How to improve at chess Levy now- Stop playing chess

Chess is by far my favorite board game Also I would love to join a chess club to learn how to be better

I can't stop , i like to suffer

I have no clue how my dad has a higher rating, his signature moves are a3 and h3 on the first turns, and always bishop takes knight

11:38 I like it this way! It shows me whether you are showing a hypothetical line or what actually got played. Sometimes (in earlier videos) I've assumed you were showing a hypothetical line and it eventually turns out it was the actual game. With the clocks resetting I needn't make that mistake.

Question for the community- I’m new at playing ranked chess and am only a 550 ELO with a 50/50 win/loss ratio against real opponents, but I can regularly beat a 1200 ELO computer 75/80% of the time. The question is wha gives? Lol. Do engines and people (especially at low ranks) just play differently? Are engines just more predictable? I appreciate the channel, and have learned a lot from Gotham, so thanks for the help

If you think of a chess game as a set of chess puzzles posed by each player, then the reality is that it should not be surprising that these guys had a lot of mistakes. I am about 2200 rapid. If I play against say a 1500 player, my entire analysis looks like I am a chess engine with over 90% accuracy and like 20 centipawn loss max. If I play against a 2100, because they are basically as good as me, I look much worse because the "puzzles" that they set are much harder - they anticipate my moves much more and hence I am much more likely to make a mistake. If I play against a 2500, they will look like they play like a computer with 90% plus accuracy and I look like I was a 500 player because their puzzles are much harder ...

I guarantee you both of those guys finished that game and were like "welp, that's enough chess for today..."

Hey Levy! I just want to say that you are the best chess teacher ever!! When I started playing chess I was stuck at 600 and couldn't get higher no matter how hard I tried.. But after I found your channel and started to watch your videos regularly, I slowly got better and better and finally today, I reached the elo of 1000! Thank you so much for helping me get here! Love from Bangladesh! 🇧🇩♥️♥️

Hi Levy, Just wanted to say thank you for your content, and i love your video on the Traxler counter Attack, i won so many games with it. Love from Germany.

Hello! Great commentary as always. I just have a quick question as a new member of this community. How do I send games and how do I hide the names and elo rating for a hypothetical guess the elo episode? Thank you in advance!

**Someone makes a blunder** Levy: 0 Elo chess

Glad to see the return of the soul stealing stare at the beginning lately.

I love the clocks can you always do that? It kinda adds context to the game.

I’m 400 elo and this is deep

Me: I want 2000 elo games Mom: we have 2000 elo games at home 2000 elo games at home:

2:40 100% black was thinking "If Knight to F7 forks queen and rook, bishop could capture instead of king and I don't forfeit the right to castle." That's what I would think and why I didn't see it as a bad move at first...but I'm certainly not rated 2,000. =P

Why hello there everyone. It's me, the goose, once again. If you missed the other classes, I'll do a recap. I see GothamChess I click, and so should you. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

i played a 700 rated bot. 5 mistakes, 15 blunders, 5 missed wins

I loooove to play the space game. But I've been playing the KID, Pirc, and Alekhines for years with the black pieces, both sides of the French and Caro. 10 years of learning to play for space and what makes an overextension, I still get it wrong often, but I do love to play for space. One out of every ~500 games I get a pawn cemontod on e6 as white in some kind of benoni structure (though probably it came from a 1.d4 Pirc transposition b/c of my move order), and the game's just over. I get the opportunity all the time, but I don't do it because normally I would lose that pawn eventually, it's an overextension most of the time, I've learned through hard experience. But when it isn't **OH LAWDY** The modern-hypermodern imbalance is my favorite and second most played opening imbalance. I'll play either side of the imbalance with either color, sometimes I'll end up with a reversed Advanced French because my opponent didn't put pawns in the center, so I did.

Dang would have made a wonderful GTE

Even Magnus Carlson makes the occasional blunder. Don't beat yourself up over it. Just recognize the mistake and learn from it so you play better next time.

I love how Levy thinks about how it’s audience feels and what they’re thinking…truly genius

3 digit players: 4 digit chess games are so high class! 4 digit games:

The levy stare at the beginning is legendary

These how to lose at chess videos are always so funny 🤣

Hey Levy! I’d love an explanation about overextension if you have enough content to make a video!

You need to try playing the cat bots, especially mittens.

i dont play chess i just watch you cause funny

"They're not as bad as you" Damn that felt personal

i just noticed u got 2 mil good job were all so proud of you keep making content

Me as 1900 had similarly bad game. Like if two drunk babies was playing And i was like i should definitely submit it but i see someone did it better

I think at 11:05 it would be best to move the bishop in front of the rook so there is a check and take the queen

Thank you Levy for the wonderful advice

Just a sec back I was checking your channel to see if I was missing anything and there I have a notification of a new video. Thanks!

1:33 Levy, you keep mispronouncing this name. It's "Alekhin", not "Alyokhin". The Wikipedia page says that Alekhine was quite unhappy with his countrymen who made the same mistake, which is why he opted to write his name in French as "Alekhine" so that there wouldn't be any ambiguity.

Yo Levy. I really enjoy ur videos and u r a great guide too for the beginners. But it would be awesome if u gt the GM title and trust me we all root for u.

That stare into the soul at the beginning was missed

The death stare before the video started was extra devious today

Yes! There’s hope for me yet to be a 2000!

Well it's 12:00AM here, who cares? Who doesn't want to laugh and enjoy the game?✨

Levy I went from 300 to 700 when I watched a few videos of yours then later 1 got to 1340 thanks so much

5:02 "I apologize, I clicked the forward button" LOL

16:59 they are not as bad as you

the stare he gives at the start of the video

My accuracy is in the 10s 😂😂

Drifty and Faren are definitely grandmasters

Yo Gotham, what’s your favorite opening to play? I’m pretty interested in chess, but I don’t play it too much, and I wanted to experiment with different opening to see what I like best.

7:30 Bishop takes on B7 would have been a free Queen if Faren takes back with Queen

"Its never getting better, Only getting worse" Story of my life

17:00 Not as bad as you My 8 missed wins and 7 blunders in 30 moves:Accurate

did he just drink from a vase 3:20

2:30 as a 1300 player in rapid, i think the reason for bishop to e6 was to defend the pawn on f7 that would have been a queen and rook fork, and if you took the forking knight with the king, you would have lost the right to castle

2:40 I am an Alekhine player and the engine loves that bishop move in some positions where the knight is on e5, obviously not here, but easy to see why they did it

The best part of my day is getting my soul stared at by levy at the beginning of the video

If Levy pins this, I will make 10,001 blunders

I like playing chess but if Levy tells me to stop, it's over. Thanks everyone, it's been real.

Levy never misses a chance to roast his audience 🤣🤣

BRO I EVEN SAW THAT CHECKMATE AND IM 700 RATED omg

The eval bar was having the ride of the century.

Actual question: Why is it than when I watch these videos, I can easily see tactics before Levy talks about them, but in my games I tend to be way less perspicatious? (900 elo)

overextension: to obtain space too quickly. Which is kind of a silly definition as, if you have obtained it too quickly, you havent really obtained it as, you are overextended, and pieces will become hung with simple moves. I think a good definition would be , to move outside the line of protection without the intent of sacrifice. To take space would simply be extending as you are moving your pieces out to the furthest point of being protected and holding possession of squares through threats and not simply occupying the space.

Levy's channel is growing tremendously I like it

Should have been a Guess the elo submission.

"it's never getting better, it's only always getting worse" 😭😭😭😭

"2100 ELO 0 Good Movs" ok that will be me, after finishing 472 Puzzles

whenever I watch Levi's videos after I quit for the day, they make me want to go back and play more

I certainly felt that when I got over 2000, I did so by accident. It's good to have solidarity and know that, yes, other people over 2000 stink it up too. It's good to know that there are holes that, if fixed, would make me much better. Though on the other hand it's humbling when i think I played well and the computer laughs at me.

“They’re not as bad as you” 🤣🤣🤣

"They are not as bad as you" that hurt Levi:)

Levy looking straight at my soul at the beginning

"they're not bad as you" dang that hurt a little bit

Am still asking for you to play against the computer "mitten" It will be worth your time

Whenever you are bored. Just watch GothamChess. He makes such a patient game into a funny, educative masterpiece.

6:12 "How many of you know the difference of taking space and overextanding?" Me an Europa Universalis player: YES

Yea i struggle with how much space is to much sometimes i cant lie

Hi Levy, in the video you mentioned about taking space Vs overextending. This could be a really good video idea for us in the lower to mid ranges in elo. I have a game I could donate for demonstration purposes should you be interested. Keep up the awesome content, big love from the UK :)

The number of times I've played online chess after work drinking at a bia hoi and just enjoy the game despite blundering down 100 Elo

I read the title saying stop playing chess then when I clicked on it it said please have it stop.

"the computer thinks Bc5 is better" " *but the computer is a scumbag* " - Levy 2023

Tip for 3 digit players: Stop resigning. How many games has resigning made you lose? In 3 digit elo anything can happen so don’t resign.