900 ELO OR STOCKFISH?? (Guess The Elo #43)

[@Rise6474]

As someone else pointed out, that 900 took a full minute on the move before the sacrifice then proceeded to play the next few moves instantly.

[@a_wild_Kirillian]

A proud puzzle player =)

[@allanshpeley4284]

@@a_wild_Kirillian Or someone who doesn't usually cheat but decided to throw the position into stockfish this time.

[@austinorsomeonealt]

Or a casual botez gambit user

[@Davvvvv]

@@allanshpeley4284 did you not read the original comment? The move took a minute to calculate, and all the subsequent moves were played immediately. They calculated the whole line.

[@krishrao4348]

@@allanshpeley4284 or someone is just better than u ever will be

[@lucasmp11]

FINALLY MY GAMEE!!! Thank you so much for the comment "best tatic in GTE history" that makes my ego higher than my rating.

[@thisisthemansworld8704]

Ego higher than elo

[@BishopStars]

The guy who cheated is here, PogChamp!

[@ByTexic]

@@BishopStars I hope you're sarcastic

[@shloksinha2075]

dont worry abt people calling you a cheater. I once too found the same sequence in a game 4-5 years ago when I was around 900. Only difference is that I did not have to sacrifice my rook.

[@dan._.5720]

Play me

[@bilboswaggings]

this isn't the first time someone low rated finds an amazing move, people play too many puzzles so they play bad openings and then find some bizarre move to win

[@oakleypankratz8547]

I feel called out, 2200 puzzles, 950 rapid, like 850 blitz

[@Stasenko58]

puzzles are fun to pass time, learning theory is... well just a boring memorization for the most part. Unless you want to be really competitive about chess you don't really put much time into learning openings

[@Marluxiaify]

What’s wrong with playing only Puzzles?

[@gm2407]

I agree, for me I could see a great move when it is spectacular. But I could not play excellent or best moves when the position is sterile. More likely to hang pieces looking for something flashy.

[@dannyzhang6336]

he has 700 puzzle rating

[@maxbrown8109]

20:24 Gotham: right now y'know.. a3 a4 Sub: *plays a3 a4* Gotham: okay what are we doing here

[@idiotsandwich7420]

lmao he meant either a3 or a4

[@ShakShak37]

i think he meant black

[@maxbrown8109]

@@idiotsandwich7420 yeah I figured but I still think it was funny bc he drew the arrows as if he meant a3 then a4

[@Wick291]

Sub: oK bOsS

[@majoshi4335]

lmaooo ikr

[@marcuspoosz2190]

love it when Gotham roasts the shit out of the computer, telling how bad it is and how much piece of sh*t it really is.

[@nilanshur]

Computer is like an abusive parent who berates their child despite their child scoring 95/100

[@rajanibadri521]

why did you censer one swear but not the other

[@khouryyouness1816]

Tells the computer it wont get invited to parties

[@HawksVR]

@@rajanibadri521 lmao

[@thecobra0174]

@@nilanshur lmao this is brilliant

[@MMMHOTCHEEZE]

If that line was played quickly I'd agree that it isn't possible for a 900 to see it but they took a full minute on the move he captured the knight. Then played the following moves instantly.

[@massimocucca]

I'm not even that impressed. Not every 900 has the same set of skills. Sometimes you get a low elo just by playing with bad focus/consistency or just being totally naive strategically, but still spot some pretty good tactical patterns. I think he noticed the king and the queen were in a fork and he started thinking about how to remove the defenders of f3. That's not so rare even in low elo games.

[@ethantrottier3330]

@@massimocucca yes but what’s rare is understanding you’re winning with that fork even though you didn’t win the queen, you essentially traded into an endgame

[@massimocucca]

I don't think it's rare at all to understand that winning material is good.

[@modderlol]

@@massimocucca it didn’t win material

[@hoogreen]

@@modderlol it did, it won a rook for bishop and knight

[@noxteryn]

15:27 - This was a genuine straight-up "OH SHIT" moment. I was eating and I literally stopped chewing when I saw it.

[@Vooman]

i always love the damage control levy does when he undershoots their Elo in order to keep them from dropping their subscription to him lmao

[@Notkikc]

it's always a marvel to behold

[@eulermachado3968]

I mean, its probably not for holding the sub, probably hes just only trying to be nice... did you know people can be nice with others?!

[@user-svqmbiv]

I mean when you submit to GTE you know there's a chance that you're gonna get roasted

[@1uPUIKbDF8Wjv0eq3CtJSn7tkwjJce]

he should know they have a humiliation kink

[@thepoisonkid2483]

Wow, these 900 and 1660 games were fire! Glad they submitted them.

[@gastonsanchezcurbelo1297]

Love how Levy was literally speechless for like 10 seconds after the queen sac

[@fortherng3847]

10:19 "are you high?" "LET ME CHECK. yes. HIGH ON AMERICAN SPIRIT"

[@millabasset93]

A fellow Max0r fan I see

[@MK32491]

That's high key impressive. I wish I was that kind of 900 elo.

[@neelnitilshrivastava379]

you didnt even watch the video lmfao

[@ryaninsta69]

lol

[@Wick291]

Besides that sequence of moves, I highly doubt you would want to play like that 900 ELO.

[@Mentaljedi]

If you look at the time, it looked like he spent a full minute on the move. Still very impressive, but you can tell not cheating

[@ashscott6068]

I don't think it was deliberate. I think they just hung their queen then accidentally got a fork, just taking a bishop cus they saw they could take a piece. Edit. Nope. They played the queen move instantly

[@ericm1839]

that tactic was D O P E N A S T Y. as someone very proud of my 2500+ puzzle rating, goddamn that was a crisp tactic for a sub 1000 player to find. if the friends i taught did their DAMN PUZZLES i would weep tears of joy seeing them find a tactic like that. the next game was ResidentSleeper but you KNOW game 5 is about to be wild when you see "Slav Defense: Modern, Triangle System," and you remember you're watching a GTE video

[@canadadry5449]

I really do understand his hatred for the computer at times. I'll be playing a game against a bot, and it will say I made a mistake or blunder because I didn't trade my bishop for their pawn, because in just 15 simple moves I would have had a slight positional advantage as long as I had 100% accuracy throughout. Just like, "oh, of course! I just had to play perfectly for the rest of the game, and then that trade near the beginning totally makes sense!"

[@big_darkside2716]

15:05 > Good Move > Queen Knight battery LMFAO 😂😂😂

[@harshgandhi100]

This GTE episode was a representation of typical life. I Like how the 2nd half started with misery and ended in complain.

[@Dr.Sortospino]

I'm a 2000 player on Lichess, i've 3 months of play time (no, i didn't play only three months, 3 months of games). I didn't see that combination at all. Wow. That was wild.

[@janpiet9921]

I'm like 1800 online and I wouldve never spotted that combination in a blitz/rapid game. In an over the board game with like an hour+ on the clock I would probably find it but for a 900 thats absolutely nuts. Great job!

[@trevorallen8514]

I find stuff like this alot I'm 1600 and it's what I'm best at I'm still horrible in openings and end games but middle games I am really good for whatever reason .

[@PMartinez55]

I'm 1800 also and I would probably spot it like 25% of the time in Rapid because I'm always looking for that kind of knight fork with the king tactic. But a 900 seeing it is wild.

[@trevorallen8514]

@@PMartinez55 yeah a 900 finding in under a min and playing the next few moves instantly is pretty sus can't lie but for all we know they found that move by accident or got lucky all the moves before that were trash tier .

[@bigfloppa8887]

The 1659 guy is the favorite child of the 1660's parents.

[@mohbw3]

17:40 i'm 1600 and I always miss those tactics

[@ДенисКоломиец-ф7й]

29:40 actual rating is 161660

[@d8-remy]

40+ episodes in and Levi's reaction to that game 3 is the best one so far

[@TheSm1thers]

17:54 As a fan of knight forks I don't get why Levy is so surprised at this tactic. It's pretty common and is only a few moves. When I have a knight and see a queen near a king I look for forks even if it means sacking to gain more material after. I'm guessing he moved his knight there for that reason.

[@luckysniper1659]

That was crazy. I’m a 900. I would never have seen that. I once found a forced mate in 3 with a rook sacrifice which is like the highlight of my entire chess career lol. So I guess it’s possible.

[@ludomine7746]

honestly it would be a great series, 700 or stickfish

[@joshrehkamp563]

Hey Gotham, just wanted to thank you for the great content you make. I have gained 600 rating points in a short period of time from watching your videos. Keep up the good work and keep making everyone’s day a little bit brighter!

[@BKD1308]

600 rating n blitz or rapid

[@joshrehkamp563]

@@BKD1308 Went from ~850-1450 in rapid

[@BKD1308]

@@joshrehkamp563 wow good claims

[@jiten8649]

@@joshrehkamp563 what did you find was the best way that you found the improvement. I'm 500 and started last week and I cant naturally understand the analysis from computers. Would you mind playing a game against me? Thank you

[@joshrehkamp563]

@@jiten8649 I would say learn a solid opening for each side, and focus on your middle game and end game. Something like the Vienna is solid and will work all the way into the 2000’s. Watch a lot of YT videos especially from Gotham. Find some chess friends so you stay motivated, and play people who are higher rated than you. Analyzing games first without the computer moves is more effective than the computer telling you what is right without context. If you want I can play you but I’m kinda taking a short chess break 😂

[@isavenewspapers8890]

28:09 All three top moves have the exact same evaluation of +3.57.

[@cmgioe975]

The best line in the GTE “Are you High?”

[@boredperson2798]

7:38 gotham sub just turned this into the french defense but without the useless bishop being useless edit well looks like i was mistaken, thanks for telling me

[@sailorplays7391]

Thats actually a normal caro-khan line. You develop your bishop before blocking it with e6 and then play c5 :)

[@cosmicvoyager1240]

that's basically Carro-Kan :-)

[@maximussaktish]

Thats the advance caro kaan, the downside of this the advance car9 is that its way slower than the french since you need to get your light square bishop and play c6 c5

[@jopi8138]

Does anyone even play the carro-khaan anymore?

[@maximussaktish]

@@jopi8138 in a gothamches video i assume most opening played against e4 is the caro

[@DevaCODYT]

0:01 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadddddddddddddddddddddiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssss aaaannd gentlemen

[@EpicnessCrossed]

9:14 white really hated that knight h4 move so he decided to take it

[@kinchu007]

“okaaaaay next game” I almost spit out my drink. you’re hilarious Levy

[@erinsgeography3619]

14:20 “I couldn't predict these moves if you give me ten guesses.” I'm going to give you eleven, would that be enough?

[@agustinbarquero8898]

Oh my you are so cringe

[@yesyes300]

U are one of the best chess teacher, and the best content creator. Thank you for your work Levy

[@cheesy_og5681]

People hate on YT videos with content from Twitch, but I love being able to catch up on some of the things I miss in your streams! Thanks for making your content so accessible.

[@PerfectSense77]

People who hate on that are idiots.

[@LaVieDeReine86]

Levy is basically giving stockfish the "You don't win friends with salad" smackdown.

[@bagboybrown]

13:25 "When you play like this, Ray Charles is your chess coach"

[@todorpopov8613]

15:31 bro has no words left 💀💀

[@themarushin]

20:24 Levy said "...like right now a3,a4..." and when he does that says "...What? What are we doing here?"

[@wasifchowdhury2004]

He meant either a3 or a4 not both

[@LadyViolet1]

17:12 To be fair I made a very similar queen sacrifice two days ago (September 27th) and I was rated as a 659 at the time (I started playing chess around a month ago). Well also to be fair I was playing a 30 minute game and spent around a minute and a half on that move which is a very different situation then blitz. My sacrifice was also simpler in that I didn't have to lure the enemy queen there I just had to remove the enemy bishop from defending the c2 square so that I could fork the king and queen with my knight. I can post the link to the game if anyone thinks I'm lying btw.

[@paystar6016]

Sometimes a good move is like a diamond in the rough. You don't have to be a grandmaster to make a grandmaster-style move. A great display here! Great vid, Gotham!

[@tonyliu9493]

17:49, honestly all I could think about was that fork. As soon as the knight blocked the queen, I was just waiting to see if there would be the perfect moment to fork someone. (Albeit, without sacking the queen)

[@sking7252]

22:15 bro casually hangs the rook and no one notice . That's how you play when you have chess blindness

[@jetl4g390]

The year is 2040, computers have become sentient and autonomous. Gotham *remembers all his abuse against the computer* "oh, sheeeet".

[@haleysettembre]

219th day of translating Levy's titles into Neapolitan: "900 elo o Stockfish?"

[@luka3568]

omg i was in naples last week

[@miguelangelowong6786]

Wtf?

[@Laplode]

In Sicilian it would be "900 elo o Stockfish?"

[@janpeke1948]

I picked chess back up over the pandemic and watched a bunch of your videos. Yesterday, i beat two dudes in a row playing giant chess at a robotics competition social. I credit it all to this channel.

[@rokviik304]

There's many times where I'll go into a game after having done some puzzles and that kind of thinking leads me into some beautiful tactics. I expect that's what the 900 had done.

[@zephyraxthegreat]

21:10 Levy got so triggered he almost said the word😂😂

[@himanshuatri9117]

12:32 Me: what does the chesscom says about their elo? Levy: IT'S OVERRRRRR 1000!!!!!

[@gavinator10000]

Cringe

[@CanaanZhou2002]

Levy, not Levi.

[@anti_nana4463]

Such a good comment but the typo ruined it for me. :/

[@tedtiger7774]

I can kinda see how those crazy moves happened. He brings his room over planning to take the knight, takes, but oh no the queen takes his rook. So he looks for a potential attack and sees "Oh, this spot is guarded by the knight, so I can move my queen there to attack!" Then pawn takes queen and he's like "Aha! I can get a check!" He checks the opponent, the king moves, and he's just like "what else can I take... Oh look at that my knight can take the queen! Yay!" And he takes the queen. Totally luck.

[@Joebuscus]

Can any high level players explain why taking the bishop at 3:10 is good. I know Gotham explained a little bit but I thought that the knight planted on c5 would be more advantageous than taking a bishop that has is locked up by its pawns. Is it like Gotham said just better because it gives white a target? I’m about 1300 rapid just trying to understand positional middle games a bit better. Thanks

[@jrd33]

Bishops are generally worth slightly more than knights. In this position black's bishop is poor, but once white removes it, his own(currently poor) white squared bishop becomes really good. After Ba4, black's knight on c6 is pinned to his queen and can't be defended by a pawn, and black can't remove white's excellent bishop on a4.

[@SparkDragon42]

My theory for the brilliant move is that the Queen sacrifice doesn't seem that hard to see after the capture of the rook so I think the sub thought they blundered a rook but then they realised they could get the queen back with the knight fork while capturing the bishop :)

[@browny3551]

Last homie i watch before bed for months now, thank you for all the content Levy

[@flexedkumquat]

Didn’t know guess the elo was becoming guess the engine

[@ThePapaja1996]

I think they use Dragon becouse the games is on fire

[@RizTalesRR]

idk about not being invited to anything, literally gets to attend every top chess event (Engine)

[@luciferlight5082]

interesting. I'm a 1700 give or take and I actually learned a cool concept, I've always had resistance trading a bishop for a knight, but this video gave me a new perspective 😊

[@antares6998]

How come?

[@MrKieranja]

Poor computer, just doing his job and getting bullied for it

[@boftungol9423]

"They're playing the alapin, it's high rated..." Gotham: "*are you _high?_*"

[@ejcj]

in one game I misclicked and accidentally sacrificed my rook and turned out that it was the best move because if they took checkmate was coming

[@ОлексійКабанков]

Hi Levi, I believe you won't see my comment but I still will write it) I really like your videos and I'm very grateful for your support you showed to Ukraine ( obviously I'm a Ukrainian guy). It would be really cool if one day you could make a video about some great games of Vasily Ivanchuck ( greatest Ukrainian chess player). Piece and love to everyone ✌

[@poohoff]

Слава героям

[@ОлексійКабанков]

@@poohoff Слава Україні!

[@Tionotsorry]

Молимся за вас

[@Szeru]

Slava Ukraini!

[@bernardomanzanopuente5893]

Boom! ok sorry How r u right there now

[@xnotcold3363]

that Laaaaaaaaaaaadiiieeesss andd gentlemen is the most wholesome thing I've ever heard in my life. truly an inspirational movement

[@OcteractSG]

The computer doesn’t need to be invited because it’s already watching every game.

[@Wick291]

900 elo or stockfish?? nah this is "If stockfish was 900 ELO"

[@joaopedromullerlima654]

That might be an interesting concept for a video... you see a move and have to guess if it's a random 900 elo weird move or if it's an actual crazy engine move on 35 depth or something

[@dpk147]

Levy. Your face when the Queen sac happens is one of the most genuine shocked faces I have ever witnessed. It’s gold.

[@harshitrawat811]

4:45 Levy: where black just decided to.... jus.. Me: lemme complete that wiht "die"

[@thebee0320]

Levy we can see that tactic in game. All of us are 500 rapid and 2700 puzzles

[@B16Dominoes]

More like 1900 rapid and 1700 puzzles LOL

[@agustinbarquero8898]

"All of us" braindead

[@rainingglass5554]

I just witnessed my beloved football club get shafted for the second week in a row. Thank you for cheering me up Gotham. I'd be in a mental asylum without your content.

[@abhinandanbanerjee5471]

Lmao Arsenal

[@muhfadlan3921]

@@abhinandanbanerjee5471 I was thinking Man United.

[@av7productions530]

@@muhfadlan3921 im a united fan :(

[@muhfadlan3921]

@@av7productions530 so am I

[@Jaise-pw2gv]

I was at the united game

[@Wick291]

15:30 POG moment

[@Paladont]

When you accidently hang your rook and then hang your queen and end up playing the best moves

[@brianmcgrane8473]

I love the raw attitude in this video. I died giggling multiple times.

[@purpleboi9635]

24:23 weird sounds from Levi part 69420

[@nickbucciarelli5747]

Idea: You play stockfish every episode in a series and see how many moves you can last for before losing or drawing as white

[@alexsmith3598]

161660 and he missed an opportunity to trade pieces.

[@Grason20]

Legend says the two 2300s are in the punch victim waiting list.

[@zemgad]

Finally a 1660 that doesn't hang a piece on move 6

[@jaelee2946]

13:40 the game from intro/ title

[@SkateSka]

When the guy sacked that queen for the fork I instantly went OOOOOOOH!!! as if im watching an MMA fight.

[@nmapp3405]

you got me with " youre never gonna get invited to anything" hhehehhehe

[@gaetanodeluca2878]

When he said "are you high?" hahahaha lmao

[@davidgatten1033]

I like how Levy pretends to have no idea what a particular move is so he can act absolutely flabbergasted for content.

[@0RatedChess]

“This pawn buzzdozed the entire Black defense system” If you want to experience this satisfaction, playing against Martin is for you! You might even get a queen!

[@LeTtRrZ]

I've gotten up to 2209 in puzzles and I get puzzles all the time that are similar to that queen sacrifice. I still miss them very often.

[@SweetJP.]

20:18 Levy *Right now, a3 a4* a3 a4 gets played *wha-what are we doing here*

[@rickdynes]

Guys, we need to get Levy on COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE

[@slifer0081]

30:15 thats because you get an upgraded engine with premium

[@animant8811]

When he said that funny thing and that funny joke, i cracked

[@cowboyblake7346]

the are you high part had me dying

[@kaz_50]

"Used engine sometimes like me" ok? Just self reported for no reason. 19:37

[@breign72]

It's believable. I often take tactics I've learned while playing against a computer and incorporate them into my game.

[@BelegaerTheGreat]

LMAO I also took there. I literally did not see that bishop. It was LITERALLY out of my scope!

[@incognito1783]

Third game turned from, ''What elo is it?'' to, ''how do I think like an 800?''

[@urbanpope]

Mr. Rozman, On rook-queen sack, I suspect this is what occurred. 1. Sub blunders rook. Then the Sub sought ways to recover. Sub saw the knight fork possibility. Then the Sub saw the queen sack. I would be interested to see the move times. Best wishes, Mark Pullen

[@dustinjohnson7191]

Lower elo games are fun because they really do have strokes if brilliance sometimes

[@Coldstone-i7t]

Bro just roasted the engine

[@YTDariuS-my6dg]

Levy's "What? *No* !" feels like I heard it somewhere else, but regardless it has just so much emotion in it I feel like he should've went for a voice acting career.

[@Kevinofrepublic]

That guy only had 45 puzzles done. Idk how he saw that fork. Insane

[@pandapancakes37]

I thought the thumbnail said CTE and was gonna be about the longterm effects of playing chess. I'm getting my brain checked.

[@kindasweaty7219]

Some guy wrote: „Future me did u buy the milk?“ That’s actually smart

[@Airsoftaddict78]

Wow, that Queen sac .... Well, a broken clock is right twice a day!