AWFUL 600 Elo Chess

[@vhh2953]

Everyone talking about the stare at the start but nobody talking about the absolute gaze of devastation and pain at the end. Ending stare, 11/10.

[@jaredschroeder7555]

Exactly. The intro stare is fun, but the stare of anguish is hilarious.

[@mysticseven6578]

Fact.

[@eg8049]

Gotham said the music on my page is trash

[@twin_towers_destroyer]

@@eg8049 is this a ploy? Is your music the best ever?

[@uroshyx2893]

BRO IS SANS WTF

[@warlock415]

Gotta love the "If I just keep checking, I'll eventually accidentally mate." strategy.

[@caarlosss_-8836]

It wouldve actually worked if he committed with it

[@MrGregnsk54]

And then stop checking when you have M1 on the board))))

[@soccpuppet4638]

Chess players trying to get a girlfriend strategy

[@Overkill9991]

Sometimes I resort to this when ever I get low on time

[@_yuri]

@@MrGregnsk54 i think this might be scripted by person who sent this 😬

[@foxybohv7732]

I'd pay actual money to see their reactions to the analysis

[@triavesta3957]

Same man

[@junior523]

​@@MrsLangue sad

[@mvp_plus2738]

that was me, pay up and ill react

[@xanderkkenlem5755]

3 dollars and i gotchu

[@foxybohv7732]

@@mvp_plus2738 I'll give you 56 cents and a McChicken

[@basketballsenator]

They weren't attacking pieces on the board, they were just attacking Levy's heart.

[@subhrajyotisen7153]

As a fellow honorary GM, absolutely loved the sportsmanship of giving the game away to his opponent. Such a gentleman!!

[@FUnnyReddits716]

How do you send levy a game

[@FUnnyReddits716]

@@KolliOde what’s his email name

[@thirstylizard1809]

@@FUnnyReddits716 your games are trash and not entertaining, save everyone their time and don’t send anyone your crappy games

[@brkh96]

I see twitter and discord links on his youtube channel About page, trying contacting him through those?

[@FUnnyReddits716]

@@brkh96 ok thanks

[@tomkelley4119]

“Don’t raise your ceiling, raise your floor” is EXACTLY what I need. I feel like raising the ceiling is puzzles, raising the floor is practice.

[@grapeleopard6809]

Raising the floor is most definitely doing tactics

[@fruitygranulizer540]

raising the floor is studying

[@ellenripley4640]

raising the floor is raising the ceiling of the guy who lives under me

[@xdimitrije]

Puzzles are important too

[@GuillaumeRx]

Well, you can only get as far as your level for every stage of the game: While playing a new account, I noticed some players rated lower than my actual rating would give me a decent fight during the opening and middle game, but crumble in the endgame for example. Sometimes, they'd have a decent position or a winning endgame and I would kick their ass easily because they have no idea what they're doing. Because my floor is higher than theirs over the end game, and they make the last mistake(s).. So to raise your floor, for the beginners out there: 1/ Practice and master one opening with black, and one with white. Just one for each. Play only those until you know every main variation and can play them on auto-pilot. Every time an opponent play a tricky move that changed the game and surprised you early on during the opening, just study the correct move sequence to respond to that for the next time you face that move. For example, I play the London System. Got tricked one or two times with the England Gambit (very aggressive response for black, with lots of traps). I learn the exact move sequence to respond to it, and after move 7-8 my opponents are doomed and start blundering all over the place or resign because they haven't studied it that far and are usually winning at that point. I love when they play it, I almost pre-move the counter-moves, and I watch them get super hesitating with their moves, and play slower and slower, realizing that I know their tricks so well it takes me a quarter of a second to play each move. It's like I can feel the smile on their face when I play the London and they prepare their "super trap". And I'm like "Uno reverse card". So they panic and have a worse position, just because I know my opening better than them. And I have more time because I know it on auto-pilot, which gives me an advantage later on. Just the psychological advantage of knowing your opening inside and out will give your more confidence in your game, and allow you to progress more easily. 2/ Do tactics for the middle game. A LOT OF THEM. Learn chess principles (King Safety, Bishops vs Knight in close/open positions, light square and dark square bishops vs the pawn structures of the game, take the open files with your rooks, etc). 3/ Know the classic endgames, especially the two-rooks one. 4/ Play slower time controls (10 minutes with no increment for instance), and analyze the games afterward for a minute. Just to know when you lost the advantage, the key moments.

[@eb6510]

as a former 600 I deeply empathize with both these players, my brain cells used to simply stop functioning the moment a mate was threatened

[@JeffNoel]

I had to watch until the end to find out... I could not have predicted this ending. That was insane.

[@w8rh8mmer]

⬇️ the extra like button for those who won‘t destroy a beautiful number

[@nicholaslittle2312]

Power to the pawns!

[@thilorahn]

At the end, Levy was so flabbergasted that he couldn't even say "now get out of here" 😀

[@adamgarner4149]

Sagar's little bro was taking over for him whilst he went AFK. It makes more sense than 1 person playing. Unless he had split personality disorder.

[@mayank2340]

​@@adamgarner4149 it does indeed makes sense 😂

[@jacobit49]

I love the newer style. Sudden endings just staring in disbelief with Levy always leaves a smile in my heart.

[@jout738]

Makes sence, when Levy said, that you can be 1000 in one moment and 200 in another moment. I myself am preatty bad at openings, because are so many of them and I dont know how to play them well, while I got my aggresive opening myself, so typically my opponent can get the advantage in start with better openings, but as we have went 20 moves forward. The game becomes more complicated and so I do then become more confident, when then in more complicated situation I tend to be better, than my opponent and im preatty good at spoting mates, while sometims I have missed them.

[@jout738]

This indian guy has learned to do proper opening in start of the game, so thats why did so well in the start of the game, but then is complete dogshite at finding the mate and it looks like he does not care anymore to find the mate, when just wants to defend from now on, while its still mate in one.😂

[@nextgenfootball69420]

u r geh

[@Leiijeudemonigseu]

Me:That was a great move Levy:Now that was a terrible move Me:Absolutely terrible, just horrific

[@anonymousaxolotl]

"Don't raise your ceiling, raise your floor" Honestly pretty goated advice, thanks gotham! When I worked on getting from 700 to 1100, the main change was purely taking more time on moves and avoiding dumb quick blunders, can confirm this is absolutely true

[@Mediocre_Gaming1917]

A decent number of 700 players are 1100 players whose brains occasionally turn back into pumpkins at poor times, it's really amazing what little but consistent checks can do

[@GoofyAhOklahoma]

Today's stare was godly. The dramatic flair swept me off my feet. 10/10 Edit: Wtf is with all these bots

[@aldocort3418]

Go away Yeaman

[@haroonmuhammadkhann]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipCrfJqBdsStlc0 you have to know this

[@vojinthebrawler6694]

@YeaMan noooo

[@aurelius1877]

@TikTok User 😂

[@Martynovic]

@TikTokUser397 yo what did he just say 💀💀💀

[@suriyasuresh4369]

15:05 to 15:07 literally felt you my man

[@nikolaskasztler]

Todays stare was short but intense, looking deep into the viewer‘s soul. 9/10

[@URAGOOFUS]

boring

[@aldocort3418]

Go away Yeaman

[@vojinthebrawler6694]

​@@aldocort3418 bot

[@aldocort3418]

​@TikTok User Wtf??

[@darkclouds717]

U r 100 elo

[@MikeChernev]

Levy getting a text while recording and not editing that out is one of the most wholesome things I've seen in a KZbin video 😅

[@MrBenten11111]

it was editors text saying we need to make video longer (Pun Intended)

[@nadirqg]

It's part of his video-making style to not edit videos.

[@vukvla2046]

@@MrBenten11111 he doesnt have an editor...

[@orang9134]

@@MrBenten11111his vids are like 20 mins long he doesn't need too

[@Youssef-z7i]

​@@vukvla2046 r/woooosh

[@i_am_anxious02]

That was such a good stare at the start, 10/10

[@aldocort3418]

Go away Yeaman

[@vojinthebrawler6694]

​@@aldocort3418 bot

[@jasperandchess7]

@@vojinthebrawler6694 it's a good bot tho

[@vojinthebrawler6694]

@YeaMan oh no it begun

[@drownedcreation]

lame as hell

[@decentsingersclub]

Sagar actually played extremely well as a 600 in the first half, what the hell happened after that?????

[@hecatommyriagon655]

You know, I'm a very, very casual player and I think I know what could be going on. If I'm winning, I have a real hard time just fining the easies mate or what ever, I may see five of them and calculate and then suddenly get lost and mix something up and want to make it beautiful and forced and then suddenly I've fucked it up. :D

[@ludicerX]

Not a chess player, but if you feel like you're in a winning position, you can get tunnel vision with your end goal (in this case, a particular checkmate pattern) and lose sight of other possibilities. At that point, if things start getting in the way of that goal, you don't even think about taking a different course - you focus on removing those obstacles, whether real or imagined.

[@youwantmyname9208]

​​@@hecatommyriagon655f you are up on material, you would accept any trades with opponent because you will always win, but Sagar just be like "Hmm yes yes, move my king and pawn for no reason"

[@soundwavesuperior28]

500 here. One time somebody gambited their knight & took my bishop, and I played a counter gambit that was very likely rated super low by the bot, but still worked because were both ~500’s. Whenever it all ended, I had taken a knight, a rook, a bishop, and a queen, but then I immediately blundered my last rook & had to rely on pawns afterwards. Very wild game there. I just made a move without thinking, you know?

[@themajesticman2424]

​@@hecatommyriagon655are u the gm sagar in this video

[@M4W07]

The most beautiful thing about these games is that before it starts to go downhill, a checkmate is missed

[@mudrams5015]

Levy, the daily uploads are a treasure, but we hope you’re taking care of yourself and taking enough time off because we always appreciate the quality content.

[@TheCraftKnight]

I agree, yet the way he can do a video without editing seems like it keeps it simple enough for daily content.

[@ColinTimmins]

@@TheCraftKnight He us such a good talker… =]

[@dinterdos]

​@@ColinTimmins For sure, he always finds a way to keep us engaged all throughout

[@Stewz66]

This comment is on point. Self-care Levy. We care about you buddy! Love the videos.

[@pierrotzzz]

Where is yeaman

[@ITZ_PIGEON_TIME]

12:22 this broke me 💀😂 "My plethora, my cornucopia, MY UBIQUITOUS CHECKMATES"

[@beanbagbum9184]

Everyone is talking about the stare at the beginning, but the stare at the end was the real star. No words were needed, levy managed to portray grief, and emotional distress through a single glance.

[@Mrbeahz1]

Not even a "Get outta here".

[@minephlip]

16:23 as a former and recently 600, his idea was probably to just attack or take the queen with the rook, and didn't see the problem with that

[@Youssef-z7i]

As a 600, the guy probably fell asleep after the game.

[@jamess3159]

Whites pawn G 3 stole my soul

[@hawkeyemihawk5697]

Levy: Being down a pawn is not the same as being checkmated. Mikhail Tal: If I am down a Queen, it means you will be checkmated.

[@gdpr2]

"Being down a pawn is not the same as being checkmated" -Levy 2023

[@bowxfire5275]

Unless you get checkmated and are down a pawn in which case, you're trash.

[@einbenutzenderbenutzer]

Words to live by

[@gdpr2]

@@einbenutzenderbenutzer truly inspiring

[@henry4240]

“Unless you’re down a pawn and checkmated” -Levy 2023

[@strangejune]

@@henry4240 "in which case you're just trash." - Levy 2023

[@itacs-english2787]

15:54 and 18:51 are meme material right there !

[@gokulkrishna9037]

That no no could be used in so many ways lol, reminds me of no no no wait wait wait

[@Ishimqru_Sora]

Bout to clip those Edit:clipped and shipped it, just gonna wait for someone to edit them

[@masterhamzster5276]

The stare at the end was filled with both horror and discombobulation. Truly one of the stares of all time. 10/10

[@zxph]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGeVcnauqtZrhtk

[@gremlinn7]

He stared into the eyes of Chessthulhu and became one with the madness.

[@Fawaffles]

Sagar was probably doing it on purpose knowing it would make Levy bawl his eyes out

[@sukuna2809]

"One of your blinkers is faulty and while you are driving into the body shop you drive off a cliff" -Levi 2023

[@JokerX126]

Could never have predicted this ending. Absolutely insane. Thank you Gotham for your endless entertainment.

[@Kev1nTheKev1n]

18:50 when you realize you have a project due in a few hours that you havent started

[@Checkmate_Edits]

Levy staring down at us beginners was very scary and terrifying. 10/10 Stare If you know you know.

[@al87221]

@YeaMan he lied

[@drownedcreation]

fucking lame

[@TSpoon823]

Yeah he was staring right at me 😂

[@GNU_Linux_for_good]

16:49 Levi hasn't understood yet - there are more important things in life than to checkmate.

[@Yu-Gi-Oh36508]

like giving people heart attacks

[@dipteshgupta8092]

5:16 imma be honest with you. As a certified 800, I can confirm that the reason he played Qd2 was to castle long and set up a battery.

[@UpperChores]

man just left his armada at the enemy king and played somewhere else on the board, this is like you field the biggest army in history to kill 1 man but you command them not to attack and take a sunday drive to the beach instead.

[@ezrastewart543]

Truly, this was an incredibly emotional stare. I could sense what Levy felt behind those eyes. So beautiful. 10/10

[@drownedcreation]

lame as hell

[@ezrastewart543]

@@drownedcreation :( im gonna cry. my feelings are shattered into oblivion

[@Lego_Huracan_SuperTrofeo]

​@@ezrastewart543 Here's a cookie 🍪

[@drownedcreation]

@@ezrastewart543 you should cry, honestly. You're fucking lame.

[@ezrastewart543]

@@drownedcreation can we arrange a time and date for me to cry most efficiently, i dont wanna just cry for no reason

[@virsingh33]

i love how levy starts by showing us how well these guys play in the opening and then every other move is a blunder

[@a-bombmori7393]

"Don't raise your ceiling, raise your floor so that you don't fall off a cliff" is really good life advice in general.

[@aidanhoidal-bui2738]

This game follows the same plot of a lot of superhero movies. A villain has many chances to defeat the hero but wastes time and the hero just wins in the end for no reason.

[@Will-on4om]

I started playing chess about one month ago. I’ve found that I’m terrible at getting a check mate. I don’t know the ways of the game good enough to see steps ahead yet. So for me I get how he missed the check mate in the moment. There’s been many time where I thought I was on to something just to fall into a trap and lose my pieces or lose all together.

[@Geoarc_1440]

Props to Black. Never gave up even though the M evaluation was against them for like 20 moves, and saw the win

[@SmithCS]

Props to black for not giving up and seizing the moment to come back. That’s tough as a 600

[@wavingpenguin3288]

Today’s stare was nothing short of revolutionary. Truely a milestone in the stare community.

[@haroonmuhammadkhann]

it's finally here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipCrfJqBdsStlc0

[@vojinthebrawler6694]

@YeaMan nooo

[@doofenshmirtz6417]

Truly*

[@EligellaNemmaLustig]

HOW MANY BOTS CAN THERE BE

[@brothercuber3288]

Agreed. 10/10

[@ideaaddict923]

As somebody who is not very good at chess, I can actually clarify a few things for you. "Why did he spend 40s and lose a knight?". It is because beyond a certain point your brain is just nothing. No thoughts are occurring, just a headache and annoyance that you don't know what you should be doing. So you move to get things moving. Move a piece, it can't be that bad. I once drew with a 700 ELO bot and I missed 4 wins. Sometimes or maybe some people (havent decided which) cannot think ahead or even analyze what is currently happening. I can never even remember the en passant thing.

[@isavenewspapers8890]

Imagine that an enemy soldier tries to run past you, so you tackle them from the side. That's basically what it means to capture en passant.

[@HauntedGrief_Yt]

Guys my building is 7 floor tall but the balconies are locked. Should i search of keys or just slam my pocket knife? I need to destroy my computer.

[@birdnerd9437]

3:45 Alright boys, time to go grab us a brick

[@natebozeman4510]

I'm glad to hear that since then my boy Sagar bounced back and is 1100 rating, because THAT was rough lol. I'm sure we've all missed winning ideas like this though when we were lower rated.

[@hctaz]

Listen. There have been many winning moments I’ve missed because they were complicated and involved multiple steps to actually get to the winning position. Checkmate in 1 with a Bishop, Queen, and a Rook surrounding the enemy king giving him zero possible moves isnt one of those things. :p LOL But I am also glad he found his footing and recovered after this one.

[@trianglemoebius]

Hell, I'm well into the k's and I've made some really stupid mistakes (not this stupid, though). Generally I realise it a few minutes after the game ends and have an "oh fuck!" moment... so you don't have to be a 600.

[@simonbarry6582]

Sure but this was not a missed winning idea, it was obvious mate in 1 against an undefended King in open space missed several times.

[@josephscroggins4560]

the face of horror at the end cannot be described with words. thanks for the awesome content levy

[@wizard0078]

This was hilarious to watch. The two players just making mistake after mistake and he just loosing his mind 😂😂

[@Dani-._]

2:20 “now these two piece’s have to IntErAct”

[@rafaelgabrielgarlinidal-bo9496]

We need "Irrational Elo Chess" and "Imaginary Elo Chess" as video titles, Mr. Gotham

[@kgyo]

I think imaginary elo is just some variants

[@IBlameLana]

5:56 *me down 8 points and getting checkmated* he's surely not talking about me :)

[@cptPerseus]

16:20 This "what" got me every time! :D

[@gamercraft2600]

Old title: “Negative ELO Chess”

[@danrichards9727]

10:31 this is important its about my puppy

[@zayanali2197]

that king move at 15:50 really questioned my trust in humanity…

[@carlomaster1o596]

Gotham: WHY DID YOU MOVE YOUR KING WHEN THERES MATE IN 2??!!? Sagar: I dont want my king to miss out on the fun :3

[@keshernparthiban3120]

Gotham even at the funniest videos you still teach us something. I've gained a lot of elo from your guidance in the win at chess and guess the elo series as well as your gm tournament game reviews like the tata steel. You're really amazing and please keep up the good work!! :)

[@Kanding3000]

You know levy's mental health is declining when instead of a stare the video starts with him looking down

[@toriless]

I pretty much agree with you on this one. It seems impossible to miss all those checkmates. He should at least see a few. I also find it ironic that moving the king to H2 was fine before but not done and the done later on blows the game. One question, how did the promoted queen ever move. It was already checkmate once promoted.

[@ludicerX]

White's Queen came down from f6 to block the promoted queen along the 1 rank (the only legal move available).

[@dlmperplex337]

Who all want GothamChess to start a King's Gambit declined: Zilbermints Double Countergambit: Bongcloud variation speedrun

[@haroonmuhammadkhann]

lmao honestly? kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipCrfJqBdsStlc0

[@basilismit1199]

I knew he lost the game when he didn't en passant at 3:27. The chess gods had already decided his fate the moment he refused to honor them.

[@aaron3133]

The fact he found the mate at the end is kinda impressive

[@TheReejOfYourDreams]

"This one, in one of the biggest top anime betrayals in chess, King h2 loses the game." The amount of pain in his voice

[@Whatismusic123]

When you've spent 10000 hours learning chess theory but are still a tad dumb.

[@TheMapGod275]

As someone who can’t mate even I saw at least 3 mates bro this guy

[@Drakkako]

That down then up stare is Divine 🫣

[@aldocort3418]

Go away Yeaman

[@vojinthebrawler6694]

​@@aldocort3418 bot

[@ninjay2205]

@TikTok User lmfao

[@doomakarn]

18:47 Now we understand why he stares deeply into the camera before the video begins.

[@BSDestiny]

16:19 as a 600 Elo Player, The Idea was hope that the enemy don´t see the rook and then grab the queen

[@chesnaught_ph4291]

damn, loosing a rook with check, loosing to a check, and a promotion with check and a mate with check

[@reidfeindt1047]

16:10 is the greatest move chess has ever seen

[@nakamishi5518]

The beginning stare was good, the ENDING STARE WAS BEAUTIFUL, MAGNESIAN STARE 10/10

[@Gigachad59260]

15:50 is the best moment

[@Hjex64]

Bro just gave off the two thousand yard stare at the end

[@VitalSigns1288]

That ending state just huts my soul. I've done this plenty of times, play an amazing game then proceed to become some reverse Magnus Carlsen and play a perfect series of moves that leaves my opponent with no other option than to checkmate me and cost me the game.

[@dan8250]

"Now it's over" *6:00** minutes remain on the video* This gonna be good

[@Dr.CaveCurinas]

In honesty white seeing Qd2 was absolutely impressive for a 600. I know I wouldn't have seen that

[@SurfSnowMusicLife]

16:00 lol 🙌

[@tuktuk1959]

The whole video: "yah I am gangstah I will be a big man in prison The last few seconds of the video: "ej buddy, pick up the soap for daddy"

[@thewitch3368]

Levy: 5 legal moves 1 loses! White: should i find it and do it?

[@realKimNinja]

7:37 " The 600ism " 🤣🤣

[@raynnerbonilla6171]

Got to 1k elo this week!

[@communistcaty8193]

Good looking my friend

[@raynnerbonilla6171]

@@communistcaty8193 You got it bro! looking forward!!

[@denichez]

The stare of disbelief, pain, and agony at the end is real 👁👁

[@letscraft8724]

That was scarier than a horror movie 💀

[@Chronocal]

9:46 you can Also sac the queen for the rook and win it back via knight fork

[@Djellowman]

9:55 white even has Qxg7

[@Efekarahan024]

The stare today was marvelous, the fade away look back was excellently done : 9/10

[@gurunext]

For hardcore fans: No Rooks were sacrificed 😣 Can't say the same about everyone's braincells SYCKE! HE SACRIFICES THE ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK!!! 18:12

[@taranciucgabrielradu]

What I think was happening: white was playing a challenge: one extremely bad, barely not a blunder level move every x moves. That would explain just randomly giving up checkmating to move the king up one square for no reason at all

[@Temerityofficial21201]

“When you play without space in chess it can be very very cramped” Every 60 seconds a minute passes.

[@poggo7748]

this made me realize Im terrible at the game and would do all of this, but Im a gm when Im watching

[@poggo7748]

also; 10/10 stare

[@kube572]

0:04 is the first time I think I've ever seen Gotham make a cut in his intro. 10/10 stare by the way, I felt Levi's eyes looking into my soul for an intense, short second.

[@cwp24]

That’s most tragic ending I’ve seen. Tunnel vision was on full display there at the end. JUST MATE HIM!!

[@arjunipillai]

bishop e6 is like ' one of your blinkers is faulty and while driving to body shop you drive off the cliff! '

[@pepa3647]

16:08 just killed me 💀

[@etragun]

Fun fact: this is the first time is 93 videos Levy hasn’t started a video off with a stare immediately.

[@TheTrueMega]

What about his philosophical stare a few vids ago

[@tduggin1897]

In todays stare you can notice, a new star. He starts from looking down but he rises his head. The actual stare was quite short but i felt it inside me(pause). 10/10

[@ADliver4430]

i would have stopped chess if I lost such game.

[@Erero]

That "HOW DARE YOU" came directly from his soul xD

[@zeese426]

hello Levy, just wanted to say that I watch your "X elo game" videos while working out and it does a brilliant job at fueling my hate which in turn makes me stronger, keep up the work