Levy offering IM level analysis over a game played between two people who are trying to remember how all the pieces move is everything right about the internet.
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 CZcams started pushing chess videos for me. I'm still yet to see it I've learned anything.
5:59 "The low-rated player realizing they can block the check, that's already an accomplishment, as the eval is zero-zero-zero..." This gives me an idea for something fun: Have two strong players take over bizarre but even middlegame positions arrived at by two low-rated players or comps, letting them compete on boards that they would normally never see.
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.
With apologies to Nimzovitch, here is my system. It has never failed me. 1. Lose a pawn in the opening. 2. Fight like hell until you drop a piece in the middlegame. 3. Resign during the endgame.
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.
@@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"
12:03 Levy's best quote of all time. "and that's how you know that these low rated players actually have potential, because in the middle of pooping all over the floor, they actually found time to clean it up"
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.😂
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
Levy: GENIUS MOVE right there, opening up the queen for a mate in [Input Very Low Number] The player: i'm pretty sure pawns capture pieces in front of them
@@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.
@Raven Gaming Indeed! I have tried launching Stockfish against itself and white won with super-advantage! Rook+Queen+Queen+Bishop versus bare black king!
Watching this game gives me an idea: Weakest Link Chess. It's a 4v4 game, although it could be any number. Each time it's your team's move, each player secretly locks in their choice. The move used is the worst move as evaluated by an engine. So each move is the "worst" every time. It could be instructional and fun.
@@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.
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.
ive never played chess until a few days ago, and im like 100 elo. This video hilariously is teaching me all the dumbass mistakes im making. Great job :)
I like watching Age of Empires 2 games (another game that I don't actually play myself), and the Low Elo games in either are always the one where you can learn the most. Seeing great players make brilliant moves is something you might be able to understand as a new player, but it's not something you could actually pull off yourself. But seeing really stupid beginners mistakes is something that you could actually figure out to avoid doing yourself.
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.
@@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.
This was the funniest chess video i have ever seen not because of the players but because he is just so funny at narrating ..... you have a tallent in comedy my friend amazing stuff
When I started watching you I was 600 now after studying I’m 1300! Also played an orb tourney a couple weeks ago here in Canada and won a game against someone rated 2000 with the trompowsky raptor that I learned from you!
Holy cow. I'm impressed they went from so utterly low to so much higher than me in such a short period of time. That's really cool that you showed a game from someone who jumped in level so abruptly. It feels less like mockery and more like fun.
@@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
Levi just proved that he does, in fact, play YuGiOh. He knows Jinzo’s attack points. A casual memer would not know that Jinzo has 2400 attack and make a 24 reference to him LOL
@@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.
1:01 Russian Roulette Pawn 2:58 Check 6:20 Jinzo 7:36 Hydraulic press bar (criss-cross-apple-sose-mate) 9:01 brilliant hang everything combo 10:31 perfect balance 11:35 Lose all of my material 11:50 Cleaning poop on floor 13:10 Hanging rook = free membership 13:30 Lazerbeam brrrrr 13:47 Oh my god there’s a rook over there that’s so sick! 14:00 How to win Rook-Endgame
This is actually one of the best chess videos I've seen in a while precisely for the commentary on how _to_ improve, and how _players_ improve. Great work, sir.
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.
13:47 LMAO the commentary 💀 this dude my fav creator and will be for a long long time. i just like his format of videos, and his personality makes them even better. Gotham Chess, if you’re reading this keep doing what u doing. peace
I remember when I just got into chess as a kid, Id just play based on visuals patters I create with pieces and overall randomness. Those were the best chess memories tbh.
19:02 chess ratings are based on a exponential system where a player 400 points above another is 10 times more likely to win. So 600 points of improvement means you are 31 times stronger (10sqrt(10)). Just wanted to point that out as a curiosity
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 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.
I can't believe that I've never heard of the Queen-King endgame referred to as "maintaining the knight's distance" before. You actually managed a teaching moment in a 200 ELO game.
@@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.
@@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.
He was 300 at 2021 and 1700 at 2021 that crazy. I played for much longer and ( way less games I think ) and I'm 1700. Loved the video keep the good work.
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
"You can do this [blunders queen] if you're a supporter of Alexandra Botez" I just DIED laughing there Edit: The end was REALLY inspiring. Makes me wanna play.
@@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
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.
@@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
200 rated player: * plays a game *
Eval bar: ah shit, here we go again
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
Levy offering IM level analysis over a game played between two people who are trying to remember how all the pieces move is everything right about the internet.
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 CZcams started pushing chess videos for me. I'm still yet to see it I've learned anything.
As once a wise man said: Perfectly played chess, ALWAYS ends in a draw.
😂😂😂😂
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.
5:59 "The low-rated player realizing they can block the check, that's already an accomplishment, as the eval is zero-zero-zero..."
This gives me an idea for something fun: Have two strong players take over bizarre but even middlegame positions arrived at by two low-rated players or comps, letting them compete on boards that they would normally never see.
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.
“In the middle of pooping all over the floor, they actually find the time to clean it up. A little bit.”
Levy you paint with words.
”and then they continue”😂😂😂
this is me in every chess game
what part of the video
@@aSocio 12:06
"And then they kept going"
"How to lose at chess"
So that is why Magnus is so good he hasn't yet seen this series
Is*
Chess academy?
lmao
Rumors are he has seen but in incognito mode.
dont worry boys i’ll send it to him
"Mom, can we go see the Hikaru vs Magnus fight?"
"No, we have Hikaru vs Magnus fight at home"
Hikaru vs Magnus fight at home:
ok, this was funny
🤣🤣🤡
@@39jyotinanda57 🤡🤓
Hahahahah
Hshahaha
(Me with 299 ELO): "Look at these idiots!"
😂😂😂
Us 300 elos would never >:D
these players ideas are probably "if all the moves are blunders, there are no blunders."
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.
*a 200 elo player makes a move that doesn't hang a piece or hang mate in 1
Levy: "Black is playing like a pure grandmaster here"
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.
This gave me more consistent laughs than any comedy special on CZcams!
This gave me more consistent laughs than any comedy or sitcom on netflix!
@@SashaDaeith what wouldn't
As a struggling 500 this gives me the smallest amount of hope
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😢😢
With apologies to Nimzovitch, here is my system. It has never failed me.
1. Lose a pawn in the opening.
2. Fight like hell until you drop a piece in the middlegame.
3. Resign during the endgame.
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)
“Oh my god there’s a rook over there that’s so sick!”
Had me dead 😂😂
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
The move from black saying "You know what, I don't wanna lose my material, So I'm gunna lose ALL my material" had me rolling
I came to laugh at chess beginners and ended up learning how to checkmate with 1 queen endgame
Username checks out
Seeing the eval fly up and down with each move like a rollercoaster is my favorite part of this video
M
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"
12:03 Levy's best quote of all time.
"and that's how you know that these low rated players actually have potential, because in the middle of pooping all over the floor, they actually found time to clean it up"
Yeah that’s very deep
“A little bit, then they… kept going”
-inspirational quote master levy
😆😂🤣🤣
😆
"We're not laughing at the players", said the man who put "YOU SHOULD QUIT CHESS" in the thumbnail
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
That Treez went to 1600 in that short a time is soul crushing. I've been stuck in the 1200s for like ten thousand games.
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.
White: "There are 20 opening moves and I won't stop until I do them all in one game."
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.😂
Levy: This move is genius
Eval bar: *drops to the bottom of the ocean
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
Levy: GENIUS MOVE right there, opening up the queen for a mate in [Input Very Low Number]
The player: i'm pretty sure pawns capture pieces in front of them
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.
After losing a bunch of games in a row, watching 300s play chess is therapeutic
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
Jesus he is 1600 now??? I was laughing at his moves and now I can't possibly win against him because I'm 1100, that's actually inspiring
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!
"That's called a counting problem"
I love how he says it like it's a serious chess term
"At the end we'll have a positive message about never giving up."
Thumbnail: "You should quit Chess."
I said it once and I'll say it again, chess when played perfectly is a draw
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
3:40 Clearly a chess genius. Activating the king, ready for the endgame.
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
12:07 - pure gold
As a gold coin.I can confirm it was pure gold
Yes it is pure gold
13:33 can't stop laughing omg :')
love these 3 digit games, gives me confidence
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
"This battle is going to be legendary."
~ 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
This is what happens when a beginner knows all the essentials but doesn't think 1 move ahead
Watching the eval bar during this video has me DYING. 🤣
EVERY move is a complete reversal of momentum
Watching this game gives me an idea: Weakest Link Chess. It's a 4v4 game, although it could be any number. Each time it's your team's move, each player secretly locks in their choice. The move used is the worst move as evaluated by an engine. So each move is the "worst" every time. It could be instructional and fun.
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.
I love how he’s explain each of their moves like they actually thought of them strategically and not just cluelessly 🤣
ive never played chess until a few days ago, and im like 100 elo. This video hilariously is teaching me all the dumbass mistakes im making. Great job :)
Literally didnt ask
@@chrisdawson1776 🤡
@@mabellee1511 🤓
@@chrisdawson1776 corny
@@bxmo7077 🤓
I like watching Age of Empires 2 games (another game that I don't actually play myself), and the Low Elo games in either are always the one where you can learn the most.
Seeing great players make brilliant moves is something you might be able to understand as a new player, but it's not something you could actually pull off yourself.
But seeing really stupid beginners mistakes is something that you could actually figure out to avoid doing yourself.
"Because no one below the level of 800 will mate you with King and Rook"
Me barely 500 - Guess I gotta learn it now.
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.
"Absolute genius move! but of course that doesn't happen" had me in bits
The thing with gothamchess is he roasts people in a way it almost sounds like a compliment,And him and hikaru make a good pair of chess judges.
This was the funniest chess video i have ever seen not because of the players but because he is just so funny at narrating ..... you have a tallent in comedy my friend amazing stuff
This series is honestly more educational to someone of my level than a recap of why and when GMs push a flank pawn
When I started watching you I was 600 now after studying I’m 1300! Also played an orb tourney a couple weeks ago here in Canada and won a game against someone rated 2000 with the trompowsky raptor that I learned from you!
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
Holy cow. I'm impressed they went from so utterly low to so much higher than me in such a short period of time. That's really cool that you showed a game from someone who jumped in level so abruptly. It feels less like mockery and more like fun.
I love that you make Yugioh references 😁😂
40 minutes ago
“Chess is a boring game.” -Levy Rozman, 2021
-IM levy rozman
@@HimanshuSingh-cr4ir no, you're Himanshu Singh
@@idoorion9279 but he is left rozman
@@darkkirbygod lol
@@heco. xd
Somehow this series morphed between "look at these blunders" to genuinely educational and I'm here for it.
AlwaysHasBeen.Meme
It always has been educational.
13:50 made me laugh harder than I have in months 🤣🤣😁😁😂😂🤣🤣
"like Jinzo, no trap cards". I love you man😂😂😂😂😂
Holy shit, went to 16hundred in less than a yr, 14 hundred games that shit is so inspiring
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.❤️❤️
Levi just proved that he does, in fact, play YuGiOh. He knows Jinzo’s attack points. A casual memer would not know that Jinzo has 2400 attack and make a 24 reference to him LOL
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.
I started out at 300, after 500 games I am now 920. Erik is such an inspiration.
Thank you🥺good job!
@@treezerik the real TreezErik themself? I am honoured.
13:47 has left me in tears
"Oh my God there's a rook over there! That's so sick!" I couldn't stop laughing. 🤣
3:24 No botez was harmed during this scene🤣🤣🤣
1:01 Russian Roulette Pawn
2:58 Check
6:20 Jinzo
7:36 Hydraulic press bar (criss-cross-apple-sose-mate)
9:01 brilliant hang everything combo
10:31 perfect balance
11:35 Lose all of my material
11:50 Cleaning poop on floor
13:10 Hanging rook = free membership
13:30 Lazerbeam brrrrr
13:47 Oh my god there’s a rook over there that’s so sick!
14:00 How to win Rook-Endgame
Oooooh I can't stop laughing, thank you that's gold
This is actually one of the best chess videos I've seen in a while precisely for the commentary on how _to_ improve, and how _players_ improve. Great work, sir.
"Not a bad move"
Eval bar goes brrrrr
(2:30)
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.
"and here the players repeated moves... Just kidding they aren't super grandmasters" Levy don't lie to us.
"Because in the middle of pooping all over the floor they actually found time to clean it up"😂😂😂😂😂😂
The legendary triple hang, it is truly an honor to witness such a game
“Like Jinzo… no trap cards.”
lmaoo didnt know you were a yu-gi-oh type of guy
13:47 LMAO the commentary 💀 this dude my fav creator and will be for a long long time. i just like his format of videos, and his personality makes them even better. Gotham Chess, if you’re reading this keep doing what u doing. peace
14:47 as well lmao
I remember when I just got into chess as a kid, Id just play based on visuals patters I create with pieces and overall randomness. Those were the best chess memories tbh.
This is the first video in almost a decade which I actually laughed out loud so hard especially after that Qxa5🤣
12:13 I'm totally gonna use this analogy in the future
13:44 "OMG Theres a rook over there! Thats so sick!" haha xD
was about to beat an 800 for the first time, didn't realize there was a repetition rule....
I love that even though in the opening the king was on g6 black was still winning
19:02 chess ratings are based on a exponential system where a player 400 points above another is 10 times more likely to win. So 600 points of improvement means you are 31 times stronger (10sqrt(10)). Just wanted to point that out as a curiosity
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.
The eval bar could honestly be a heart beat monitor on the most scary roller coaster of their life.
you gotta love how after every move of EACH player the engine is like "bruh you just 100% threw the game"
I love how Levy goes into a maximum level analysis on a 200 elo player’s first move, even though it was more than likely a mouse slip
I can't believe that I've never heard of the Queen-King endgame referred to as "maintaining the knight's distance" before. You actually managed a teaching moment in a 200 ELO game.
“Oh my god there’s a rook over there”
me: *dying of laughter
"Like Jinzo, no trap cards"
Bro you literally did a crossover between my two hobbies lmfao
200 players are either making blunder, or brilliant moves by accident 😂😂
I lost it when the king started running out in the first 5-6 moves! This is genius content!
I love how this is a 200 elo game yet they somehow unintentionally make better midgame plans than I do as a 1000 rated player
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.
"Because in the middle of pooping all over the floor, they actually had some time to clean it up... then they kept going" - GothamChess, 2021
The eval bar just had the most grueling workout session of it's life
"Like Jinzo, no trap cards" I see you are a man of quality!
Black King: Chilling on g6.
Engine: Equal Position.
13:40 I laughed way too hard at this shit
I love how the eval bar drops back and forth between the top and the bottom
He was 300 at 2021 and 1700 at 2021 that crazy. I played for much longer and ( way less games I think ) and I'm 1700.
Loved the video keep the good work.
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
"You can do this [blunders queen] if you're a supporter of Alexandra Botez"
I just DIED laughing there
Edit: The end was REALLY inspiring. Makes me wanna play.
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
Low levels aren't dumbs, they just find the geniusest moves to lose material, King included
The GM tag. Killed me XD
I'm actually impressed someone managed to get all the way down to 202, I imagine that wouldn't happen very often.
*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...
11:35 "i dont wanna lose my material so im gonna lose all my material"
I don't wanna drink alcohol so I will drink alcohol
fascinating how both playersoverlooked ALL the opportunities through the entire game, just randomly moving pieces around
"We're here to laugh, first and foremost."
LISTEN BUDDY XD I'm learnin' over here!
13:20 if they did that I would never have to pay for the rest of my life
As someone who learned chess 4 days ago, I can confirm this thought process is accurate
This is the most hilarious thing I’ve ever watched my entire life
"...and proceeds to actually know how to do the checkmate."
you had us in the first half not gonna lie
not gonna lie, this game was absolutely perfect, I laughed so hard and the end was really wholesome. Really good video