To think: Brax could have won that game at any point. But he knew he could immortalize himself by stalemating and getting into a Gotham video. Well done

Wow. Stockfish will never understand the absolute beauty of letting your bishop hang for 5 moves just to hop your knight INTO a pawn fork between that knight and bishop. 700 Elo chess truly is the ultimate form of chess.

I think this game is a healthy reminder that you don’t have to win a game of chess if you don’t want to

That was awesome on several levels: 1) It demonstrates perfect 700-level games 2) It demonstrates Newton’s Law 3) It made me feel a lot better about myself as a chess player

Brax: You're surrounded, all of your soldiers have been captured and my army is ready to kill you any move you make Joey: Ok, it's a draw

Chess, when played perfectly, is a draw. Chess, when played imperfectly, is a draw. QED Chess is a draw.

14:13 Mikhail Tal said: " When your 2 pieces are hanging.. hang another one to confuse the opponent. " A masterpiece this game is.. !!

The real perfection is how you managed to entertained us with such a wild game.

that queen sac at the beggining from black had me absolutely stunned, mind blown, shaking and crying rn, it truly speaks for itself

The perfect game is when stockfish hangs its queen and acts like nothing ever happened. Gives me vibes of 2020.

I love how there is no outro and the video just ends

Joey was one move away from achieveing his immortal game

This game reflects life, opposite pieces negotiated, became friends, forgiven enemies, but each side fought for what they deem as right, truly truly a perfection

Stockfish never loses. 700's never win. But somehow, both of them can draw

I literally cried for 20 minutes watching this. So beautiful

First time somebody actually made me subscribe by mentioning the subscribe button. Well played, Sir.

Joey and Brax just solved chess once and for all 🙌

the fact that he brought the queen to a8 when it could be captured but didn't bring it to the same square when that was checkmate on the last move says a lot

Man he actually got me to subscribe with 0:50 😂😂 I have to say, i’ve been watching for years. I mostly watch hikaru/magnus in search of the highest level chess, but never fully understand whats going on. He may not be as sharp but the ability to relay experienced play to unexperienced players is insane. Now with a comedian-esque delivery, I fall asleep laughing, learning chess subconsciously.

At the top of my thoughts immediately following my viewing of this game, a single, comforting thought has come to me: it was a mis-click, right? Naturally, your mousepad is a little dirty, you want to move on to the next game, you flick your mouse over to the left side of the board and it snags. Before realizing, you depress the left button on your mouse, sliding your digital queen across the board into a position so delicately crafted as to equally divide the glory of victory and the sting of defeat. And yet, somewhere deeper in my heart, I understand it was no mistake. In recent moves, when white also had 2 queens, they made similar moves lining up the queens on the same file, like a twisted waltz designed to play at the human heartstrings. Alas, the powers of human habit prevailed over reason on this dreaded day. We have witnessed the lack of distinction between a king against the side of the board and lying open in the middle. In their haste, our protagonist did not adequately consider the consequences of their actions before they were made. Truly, the game of chess played perfectly, no matter between the brainchildren of the greatest minds in computer science or the half-brained timewasting of those blessed with boredom, ends in a draw.

You already know you're about to have fun when you hear him say "Ladies and Gentlemen..."

He really only needed one more square for checkmate😭😭 I don’t think even I could’ve lost this endgame

This reminds me of this one tournament I played in about 7th grade and the only three pieces left on the board were the two kings and the enemy queen. I got stalemated on the edge where the king and queen were both a knight move away from my king.

15:13 my man forked himself 💀

14:05 Levy's most sane moment

“It’s fascinating because it does nothing” is my favorite Gotham soundbite

Gotham is holding back his remaining braincells after this chess game

What you said at 01:00 totally applied yo me. Would admit i had to hit that subscribe button with a smile on my face. Great way to convert viewer to subscriber. And well deserved, great content. Go Gotham

Levy is such a good content creator. I'd watch him do anything, not just chess.

Perfection is found in imperfection!

The point of hanging another piece when one piece is already hanging is to confuse the opponent so much on which piece to take that they resign

I really like this kind of stuff because it makes me feel like such a strong chess player

As they say, chess played perfectly always ends in a draw.

Everyone saying it was the most perfect game of all time, but the video was uploaded 30 seconds ago

17:22 Inner Carlos Magnuson

From the thumbnail I thought the video was going to be about Quantum Chess

7:09 "My man Joey really has to stop playing chess games" you definitely could have ended the sentence right here

The chess speaks for itself

I will say I forced a stalemate on a completely lost game the other day and felt like a genius

After such a masterfully played tactical match, that last move was obviously a mouse slip.

it gets even better knowing that the ending could very well be a mouseslip

Wow Levy, I thought I was bad at chess just by looking at the eval bar, but now my confidence is shredded forever. Thanks for reacting! New sub

The defence and resilience that joey has shown in this game is just purely at a world class level 👏

Joey saw the threat to the knight at the worst possible time, I live for that stuff.

To be honest, the last move was so remarkably amazing, mind blowing that I just could not believe such thing was possible. I am familiar many two queen stalemates, having played many of them myself, but for some reason I hadn’t seen that one.

I could watch Levy mow a lawn for 5 hours and still be entertained

There is no words that can be spoken. This is truly a masterpiece.

"He decided to activate his inner Magnus Carlson. But then he decided to activate his inner Carlos Magnison." 💀🤣

5:17 that punchline cracked me up

This episode is a golden nugget. It's just so entertaining and elegant. 👏👏👏

5:50 he slowly loses his mind over criteria of a perfect game

this is why chess is so fun, low elo is chaos unexplainable gigabrain moves, while high elo is like supercomputers

Thanks for all the fun content Levy!!! Long may it continue

Man oh man, this takes me back to my stalemating days. I remember it like it was yesterday. In fact that's when it was. 😃

"Second to bingo"😂😂

18:00 Gotham has gone so insane durring this video that he forgot who was Joey 😂

I see your "never play F6" and raise you a "still theory." Also, this video reminds me of the Finegold story where he was moderating a kids tournament and one kid declared stalemate and was proud of it.

Hey Levy! Could you please make a video covering dos and donts of a middlegame? I often make mistakes, losing my advantage from the opening while in the middlegame.

The fact he doesn’t even care about subs he just loves chess and loves his fans is truly amazing keep it up Gotham ❤️

As soon as this got a couple of minutes into the game I went "stalemate" to myself.

20:39 the funniest thing is on Brax's last move he/she could've won by moving to a8 instead of B8 and drawing the game.

Levy thank you so much for all your content! I started this year as a 1300 and today I just passed 1700. If you’re wondering if your content is helping people it definitely is.

joey gettin ready for chess boxing

This looks like a game of two checkers players playing chess after just learning the rules.

I'm surprised a Pulisic avi is able to not move pieces completely off board

After watching this video I have realised that I have played many perfect games of chess.😂😂

I love that ending of silence 😂😂

Pov: you're watching the video and ad pops out The ad:"do you suck at playing chess?"

It takes like 1 hour maximum to memorize the checkmate patterns for queen & king/rook & king vs king, super easy and it’ll save your game

I love the comedy of this video! I laughed so hard at the blundered ladder mate with 2 queens how are they 700.

The final move stalemate hurt

That was the smoothest "please subscribe" I've ever seen

That looks like the kind of chess I play. I am proud of myself if I manage to think and plan one move in advance. Mostly I just do something because of tunnel vision and then I am surprised by what I missed.

I am 900 elo and seeing my opponents just 200 points lower and doing this is awesome

I love how the pieces at the end form a cross....lol

joey decided to activate carlus magnsen

This match was so quancivilous I was left hornswaggled

this video was much more fun to watch than any of your pro videos imo, very relatable chess haha

0:57 Okay you got me lmao

Brax just wanted to make it into a "never resign" video. Good on ya, mate!

Levy is the only person to ever make the most videos with titles less than 5 letters long

Perfection plus levy=chess

Botez Gambit played to perfection.

This ones sanity must've already crumbled.

Makes us watch 20 mins of pain, to end in a draw, then dip like nothing happened 😂

Hey levy, is there a reason you haven’t been doing recaps of the tournaments recently? I love every video you post, but I’d love to see recaps. I don’t watch matches live, so it’s nice to keep up with the pro scene via you.

bro caught me in 4k with that subscription speech 😂

Gotta love the passive-aggressive gaslighting about subscribing

i actually can't tell if the brilliant that levy points at are actually brilliant, because even if they have a great idea behind them, he can always call them brilliant even if they aren't, and they're just great moves

I've watched a lot of Gotham videos but none have made me laugh harder than this ending 🤣

17:16 had my drying. Carlos Magnusen

Me watching as soon as levi uploads speaks for itself

WOO BABY hell yeah nothing better than a Gotham video to make this afternoon even better!!

This game is like me messing around in analysis playing both sides and hanging pieces to confuse Stockfish.

Those GM tags kill me everytime lmao

Perfection speaks for itself

Claim your 1 hour ticket here🤗

watching these makes me feel so much better about my own blunders

Brax: I pray you resign or I’ll humiliate you Joey: Then it’s a draw Brax: …alright fair enough

A Draw when played perfectly is a Chess.