BRILLIANT Intermediate Chess!

[@GothamChess]

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[@wdogwg]

pog

[@geolav7102]

First

[@zevelgamer.]

Brave is better.

[@matercan5649]

Is opera GX good?

[@jatinvikram5333]

no.

[@AverageBishop-]

Levy never fails to make me sit at the chess board and play with myself

[@chapter1564]

In chess or literally?!!

[@10011110011]

@@chapter1564 did he stutter?

[@SwimmingClass1922]

Ayo

[@scriptself6092]

Relatable

[@yasingurlek1515]

pin of shameee

[@tyhfr192]

The most brilliant part of this video is that Levy managed to not stare through his audiences souls in the first few seconds of the video 😂

[@Jukantos]

He made up for it at the end

[@10RJ72]

that subtle stare at 1:20😂

[@divyanshgarg5434]

​@@10RJ72😂

[@Necro-the-Pyro]

The furtive little glance up at the end said more than any soul-piercing stare in the opening ever could.

[@tyhfr192]

@@10RJ72lol very subtle

[@josefharrison9036]

This was actually such an amazing video! Analyzing 1200 ELO games is actually super instructive, I love it! More like this, please!

[@Demian_R]

You should check out Chess Vibes recent rating climb series. He's in the 1600s now and it's all been very good learning material.

[@GetOffTheLawn]

The ending of this video was so satisfying. I laughed for a solid 10 seconds and normally I don't smile or show any emotion.

[@markc6454]

YO FOR REAL

[@noahpersichetti1343]

Same

[@mysticseven6578]

His facial expression was particularly good on that one. What an ending.

[@josephrohman1522]

kinda a dark comment. I mean no smiling or anything is crazy

[@SUPERZAYAN1]

I literally lol I wasn’t even expecting it to be so abrupt 😂

[@ErikThor]

Levy: I thought people didnt know how to move pieces backwards until 1500! Also Levy: if you are below 1500 moving pieces backwards is ALWAYS a bad idea Hang on this whole operation was your idea.

[@zezeti2246]

Levy logic😅

[@tahaabdou7462]

lore accurate 👍

[@DeJay7]

Levy never fails to change the title of a video within half an hour multiple times.

[@plane15man]

Man knows his algorithms

[@boredhcr2]

@@plane15man what does that do lol

[@FluxOrbit]

​@@boredhcr2Some titles will grab attention better, so he's trying a few until he finds one that does well. Same reason you may see some channels change their thumbnail image a few times when a video first comes out.

[@chasingpekka7319]

Not 1200 yet around 550 to 700. My first brilliant move was while I was 620. Sacrificed a knight to get checkmate. It was my greatest move ever.

[@prince_bk]

I got my best as not 1 but 2 In a row Rook sacrifice and queen sacrifice(won on next move)(as 550 elo)

[@Lets_MakeItSimple]

share the link

[@Lets_MakeItSimple]

What !!! no kidding, share thelink to the game@@prince_bk

[@prince_bk]

@@Lets_MakeItSimple deleted account a long ago

[@BambinaSaldana]

I think mine was either when I sacrificed a bishop to win a queen, or also sacrificed my bishop to win a rook.

[@BionicOne1]

As a 1250 I can relate to this game so much. Openings getting more solid and then just wild stuff with a lot of plot twists happen during the game 😀

[@Jacobinks]

I love how Gotham put a very subtle plug to chessly within a sponsor spot 😂😂😂

[@AnindaAntorikkha]

fr

[@dark_magician_sdy]

He's playing 5D chess

[@joelhaggis5054]

He sacrificed... THE SPONSOR

[@ult1873]

0:00 Yes, in my room.

[@ayushvardhan1567]

same, it was yesterday

[@Prince_Of_Morocco]

If someone still didn't get his first brilliant move, you can get a free one if your opponent plays the Damiano Defense against you. Since it's a really bad response by black (Defends the center pawn but blocks the bishop, and also loses on the spot) and a relatively famous opening in low elo, you can sacrifice the knight and take the center pawn, and there, your first brilliant move.

[@cocenjoyer85692]

True, but this is called the Damiano Gambit, and it is theoretical, book moves. And i separe teh brilliant moves, what does that mean? Well when i play an "brilliant move" that comes from an opening trap it doesn't count as a brilliant for me, since i wasn't the pne who made the move, it is just all part of a trap and the moves are memorized

[@Prince_Of_Morocco]

@@cocenjoyer85692 Mate, this was a little help for new players to get one if they didn't, i know it's not a "real move".

[@bendeguzbretz3602]

I love when Gotham roasts us

[@scu-dub]

Just got back playing after 15 years and thanks to levy I am back bringing the heat! 💪🏽✌🏽

[@paper2979]

Nice

[@spikemctavish8720]

Doubt it

[@scu-dub]

@@spikemctavish8720 lol

[@stevekullens4898]

It's actually really helpful to see games around my skill level get analyzed.

[@zack6z]

I laugh at the end omg! Thank you Levy, I used to play chess like garbage and now I bought your beginner course and I’m close to 600 and beating consistently 500 after falling down to 400. I even didn’t finish the course yet, chapter 9 is coming. Thank you so much I will buy the E4 and Caro can just after!! PS: you should think about an offer where we can buy all your courses. I will happily pay for it.

[@lameuerte]

Gotham chess : "the motto of the game is never resign" Also Gotham chess : *trashtalks every opponents on his games because they are lost and won't resign

[@nonomanius]

Where is "Get out of here?"

[@blaineweaver1300]

I'm 320 in blitz and proud. I've had some crazy wins and a lot of losses and / or huge blunders, but it is still fun

[@raphaelseitz805]

17:48 Qd1+ does win the rook: Re2, Qf1+, Rf2, g4+ and the king cannot defend the rook anymore.

[@SuperSentry3.14]

Should I be embarrassed if my elo is in the double digits

[@R4YPixels]

No daddy🤭🤑

[@aggelosaggelos8243]

Levy never fails to make me sit at the chess board and play with myself

[@flatbread42]

Levy, I hit 1500 rapid last night. Thank you for getting me into chess study, teaching me the principles, and teaching me the openings I play (some of which I’ve played since I was 600). Keep sharing this awesome game with people.

[@ifty7017]

watch danya

[@flatbread42]

@@ifty7017 I watch Levy, Danya, and Hikaru. I like each of them for different reasons and can’t see myself not watching all three unless I stop playing chess. Danya is an amazing creator.

[@johnwalker1058]

Congrats! Kudos to reaching a new milestone!

[@puppytrish]

congrats, where's your elo at now if you happen to see this comment?

[@TylerWilson2004]

1200 is like that awkard phase in chess puberty when your going from being an intermediate player to an advanced player. You never really know what your gonna get.

[@reynaldi2297]

I literally gained 700 elo in 3 months, thanks to you Levy!

[@GigaShiv]

What elo are you? Just curious

[@reynaldi2297]

@@GigaShiv i started at around 500, now I am close to 1200 😊

[@Okayge2309]

I started in March now I'm 1100 on both Rapid and Blitz. I also gained a lot of points because of Levy.

[@segundacuenta726]

Its all you buddy. Nobody can win them for you.

[@MonkeMonkeLeLeaderMonke]

After he talked about the brilliant moves, I decided to play a chess game for the first time in awhile and got my first brilliant move

[@Ilportavoce]

5:10 lmao, i love ur humor gotham

[@Mikhail-tal-the-GOAT]

video starts at 1:37

[@adrianoiacangelosanz1320]

that’s the greatest plot twist i’ve ever seen in my entire life

[@zesh5792]

I got my first brilliant move yesterday during class, good times

[@dcastropty]

"are you still rated half of that". Didn't need that personal attack.

[@Christoffer69]

Levy never fails to make my day worse 😂

[@stepstar865]

Everybody give this comment a like! Lets make this comment the most liked comment

[@stepstar865]

This man spittin' fax

[@asahi7955]

Lets make this the most liked comment so it can get the pin of shame lmao

[@stepstar865]

@@asahi7955 also a great option

[@Geb83]

Bro wanted the pin of shame🤡

[@anonymustarrasque3550]

Personally, I think you should never resign unless you're playing against a user named SavageOppress, in which case you should give up even if the position is equal or you're completely winning.

[@adeenn777]

Levy never fails to disappoint us

[@stepstar865]

Best comment

[@stepstar865]

Everybody like his comment

[@stepstar865]

Lets make this the most liked comment guys

[@Rogeriscool]

bot comment

[@head4you1]

Levy 🐐- do you remember your 1200 elo? Me - no i was 60- Levy - NO! Me yes cause i wa- Levy - are you rated half of it Me - 😳

[@mattiapanariti3116]

The other day I completely destroyed a 1800 hundred in two different games, as a 1050 on a irl board. That made me realize that I can get a lot better at chess, and part of thr reason why I'm getting better is your channel and your advice . So I wanted to thank you levi👌🏻

[@jodicezimuto4740]

HE was bored

[@NikadaNK]

The ending of this video was so satisfying. I laughed for a solid 10 seconds and normally I don't smile or show any emotion because I sold my soul for some Fritos in 2012.

[@Blanket-hs2ou]

Same except mine was for feet pics

[@Blanket-hs2ou]

Btw I don’t regret my actions

[@mr.forgettable3317]

levy has a heart of gold and chess of a master hats 👑⛑👒🎩

[@blurry_budd]

M 2200 and trying to improve by watching 1200 with Gm titles playing ( plz give us something helpful to learn from levy m stuck here for a long time now )

[@Arclizz]

Levy never disappoints

[@chrismclin5165]

yo levy i just watched the video on “checks captures and attacks” just had my highest accuracy with 92% the computer said i had an inaccuracy but MAN it works!! ur awesome bro. Subbed and i’ll be getting the course

[@nou1319]

Every since I started watching levy, I've lost 300 elo and a braincell each vid -3k elo soon

[@Admin-dv9yp]

Thank you for making a video about people at my level this will definitely help a lot of other intermediate players.

[@FarhanAlam-jb5xy]

Thank you levy for the consistent uploads. I always stay up late just to wait for your videos.🎉❤

[@shashankshetty2150]

Climax is better than most of the movies 😂.

[@maxthorne4948]

We should do another Poll to see the actual stats of what elo GC viewers are.

[@10011110011]

The measure of ones success is that he become a GM before becoming bald

[@KUNALGURAV2003]

Levy is more consistent than my life difficulties 🙂

[@alfredgarrett5065]

I want my, Get out of here!

[@saumalyasarkar101]

0:30 did levy just say resigned instead of redesigned.

[@MCPE-lr8wq]

I started playing chess in January my rating at that time was 400 and now it has gone up to 1300 . My goal is to be a 2000.

[@geographynonsensical5003]

tips for a 1000? (like maybe openings or tactic or something)

[@NiQsterVX]

@@geographynonsensical5003 Learn a couple of openings for both sides and the thing you need to work on is to actively think about what you are doing and not making mistakes caused by tunnel vision or similar, basically

[@alvinkihika7263]

​@@geographynonsensical5003I'll give you one don't hang pieces that also means don't make a piece over worked, what I mean is don't let a piece protect more than one piece alone because a good sacrifice would make you lose more

[@jayeshrattnani8577]

@@geographynonsensical5003 bro don't blunder and punish opponent blunder that's literally it

[@geographynonsensical5003]

@@alvinkihika7263 oh ty i never thought about that overloaded tactic but i just hear about it

[@Dabackyardboyz]

After said 'The rook is not a kangaroo," he should've said, "Welcome to Gothamchess recaps." 😭😭

[@uluslarinbirlikteligi]

Everyone: Opera Levy: Opra We are not the same

[@eshanjaffar8212]

Steven he sponsered opera and many others and now levy

[@shajujacob662]

Day 30 asking for rook b1 song

[@romainparrot5087]

I really like the intermidate game analysis, it feels way easier to understand and I can focus better on the video and dive deep on it.

[@SevenTheJester]

*Levy, at **12:48* - White is just totally...like hopelessly lost. *Me, watching the video* - Yeah, I've seen enough of your videos to know there's a twist coming. I'll bet white ends up winning. *Also me, at **19:34* - Damn, alright. I guess I was wrong. *Me for a third time, at the end of the video* - Alright, well, I guess I deserved that. 😂 Also, my guy Levy said "...I'm still not a grandmaster, and I'm almost bald." Man, nobody roasts Levy like Levy does. Respect. 🫡🤣

[@kane0281]

I just recently hit 1200 and let me tell you.. it is definitely not an understatement when people say that 1200’s all play the London it’s all you see

[@Dave-to5it]

For real I'd probably be 1300 by now if I learned how to counter it, my opening plays right into it.

[@petamangg894]

FIRST🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤ PLS PIN

[@SarcasticBeingYes]

shaddup, u aint first nor does anyone care

[@devon1134]

I am at 300 elo and made 2 brilliants in a row. Im just better at sometimes and sometimes I blunder everything

[@YogeshRikhari]

I was 837 when I played my first brilliant move. I captured Black's queen by sacrificing my knight to a pawn

[@CR-ms5er]

he didnt even say get out of hereeeee

[@being_human776]

Bro why i don't face 1200s of this playstyle , the ones I get seems like 1600+

[@coconuttree69]

I started playing chess because my friend sayed that he could beat me at it . but 1 month later i challenged him and i won . After that he stoped playing chess.

[@swarajbirje4294]

1200 chess has South Indian movie action and plot twists😂

[@aaryananand7288]

I'm 300 elo man T-T I can beat 1400 elo puzzles, but I'm shit when it comes to actually playing the game T-T

[@bhavneetsingh1343]

Levy was so pissed off he didn't even say get out of here. He knew we'd do it ourselves out of embarrassment.

[@jonreznick5531]

Fantastic ending. Really committed to the bit.

[@woeisme3018]

that silence at the end made me feel melancholic

[@aravindsfirst]

"Sieze back the tempo" is actually really instructive. Thanks Gotham!

[@bmv0746]

Sieze the means of checkmate production, comrade!

[@antkid7xd363]

"1200s are better than a lot of you watching right now" Me who's 1400: IMs who are watching: Higher rated players: Hikaru watching this to see what levy does:

[@a.j.leclair5426]

I dont remember much but i remember my first gotham video because it was so bad that i had to watch more videos to try to make sense of his nonsense lol

[@dinardinar2657]

I ACTUALLY didnt expect this ending

[@mamahnamte3336]

I hardly get a brilliant move but last night i got 3 straight brilliant move in 1 game which is all pawn moves and I don't even understand why two of them are brilliant 😂😂😂

[@ShrekOgrestone]

If you think I'm gonna watch a man discuss what's happening on a virtual 8x8 grid for 21 minutes, you'd be right.

[@andy89135]

800 here. Got 2 brilliant moves in the same game once. First was a bishop sacrifice to win a rook and a pawn. Second was a few moves later when I castled to avoid a losing exchange.

[@zaynxei4414]

“do you remember the last time you crossed 1200 elo?” yes, i was in the alps playing a tournament against my final opponent magnus carlsen which i won, we both stood up and he shook my hand and said, “congrats, new world champion” then i woke up.

[@adamparker6540]

of course i remember my first brilliant. bishop sacrifice with check to win the opponent's queen.

[@yarrow373]

Bro didn’t even tell us to get out of here 😭

[@KetamineUser69]

😭😭😭😭

[@СтатскийСоветник-с2ч]

I was expecting anything, but the ending caught me off guard!

[@markcoronel2764]

My first brilliant move is a castling move 😭

[@disguisegamer7125]

I was playing like a brilliant guy until 2 week ago but suddenly i started making blunders and got worse and worse instead of improving i feel like i am practicing on how to make blunders

[@azullejjo]

I love how OperaGX is just adding stuff already present in Microsoft Edge and advertising it as new.

[@takethecrown6781]

13:03 THAT REACTION THO 😆 🤣 😂 (And that ending too)

[@CreatureDomain]

I am rated 1649 and 1200 was the happiest time of my chess carrier. Nowadays, the sacrifices are stupid cuz everyone defends perfectly and wins with one point material.

[@penguinisgone]

The fact that im watching this knowing that my low elo ass wont get better

[@antipneumonic3563]

16:10 levy: "you're getting skewered!" me: " 🤓 umm... it's actually called a PIN"

[@liamdurkin7327]

That eye contact at the end after you said "if we do the math.." letting me know that the whole time I thought I was following along with that logically thought process it was just a mockery of the 1200 brain

[@Alshrida]

I’m a 950 and I swear I play butter than this

[@christ_inspire_daily]

I love the silence after the checkmate

[@nckgaming]

From 400 to 1400 in 6 months Gotham videos help A LOT

[@sagardahiya6138]

i am 1200, started in feb this year. i really wanna play someone around 1400 to see what i am dealing with. woild you play a couple pf rapid games with me?

[@sagardahiya6138]

username: sagarDahiya8

[@andriikliuiko7267]

triple exclamation mark, ingenious brilliancy at the end, thanks for the lesson Levy

[@GodPratham0]

Levy insulated 900's by saying that average is 700-800 bro everyone wants to learn some people maybe 2300 and watching you never know

[@plumber1337]

13:33 the blaze hit too hard 😂

[@hussain1720]

I just love 12-1300 content in this channel

[@Jake_du_perrinho]

Hola levy vi tu video sobre los 7 tipicos errores que cometemos y ahora me fijo mejor en todo el tablero y en el maldito alfil de c8

[@BigDaddy-zq1cq]

I love it when levy said its cannon time and cannoned the intermediate chess players

[@cousinalabama]

Opera One "with a completely resigned look". Blud's bringing chess into every aspect of his life lol

[@Numinexora]

To be honest with yall I really wanna become like levy I don't want to become like magnus or hikaru coz i want to be entertaining, good at chess and should be able to teach chess to other like the way the person wants to me to

[@Aaalllyyysssaaaaa]

lmao I remember my first brilliant moves. They were all before I knew ANYTHING about chess beyond how pieces moved and take the middle, I got a whole bunch of them and not even one of them was doing what I thought it was doing. Once I knew more about how things worked I stopped getting brilliant but started having way more fun. It's better when you're good on purpose, or know exactly how badly you're getting flattened.

[@dan22manu55]

From 500-1200 in chess Thanks Levy for your help

[@dp2404]

How long did it take you?

[@dan22manu55]

@@dp2404 about 7 months