CHECKMATE IN 1 MOVE!!

[@joaomauriciomendesaraujo2734]

As the Brazilian GM Rafael Leitão is used to say: "I saw mate in three, I got mated in two".

[@prsancho]

A “How to Lose at Chess” by GM Piglet would be hysterically funny!

[@marcelobulhoes6180]

@@prsancho conta antiga, 2006

[@prsancho]

@@marcelobulhoes6180, não te entendi. Perdão. Ele tem esses vídeos?

[@thiagoschernikau4769]

"No xadrez, ri melhor quem ri depois. Vi mate em três, levei mate em dois." ~GM Rafpig

[@marcelobulhoes6180]

@@prsancho falei da sua conta mesmo, criada em 2006, um ano depois da criação do youtube

[@trashgames8121]

This ending was the embodiment of the „call an ambulance, but not for me“ meme

[@alphaarsenic8323]

lmfao for real

[@sanmatijain3340]

I am sure even black was pretty sure it's a mate, when he saw time running , started searching for moves, and won

[@tenacity4200]

dang you beat me to it :P

[@darrellwillis4871]

Congratulations... You played yourself

[@Marhathor]

Was about to make that comment lol

[@gabby_5820]

This is probably the best chess plot twist I've seen. I've never heard of a chess game with blocking a mate with a mate in 1. Pure insanity.

[@thibautverron6590]

And the blocking move is forced, even. Like black didn't need to see the mate in one, all he had to do was not resign.

[@alexanderelderhorst2107]

Beats Sherlock any day!

[@Temerityofficial21201]

Mate by blocking mate the ultimate uno reverse card

[@starrekt2037]

@@gabby_5820 insane

[@gilangwahyuagung2530]

I'm sure white's heart dropped when the game didn't end when they played Qa8

[@Browlie31]

No, when they realised that they can't take the bishop.

[@rorschach775]

@@Browlie31 That's where I would've realized I was fucked. White getting blocked by that bishop is like force mating yourself. Like a Shakespearian tragedy.

[@PhiNguyen-wm4kq]

@@Browlie31 at that moment, I was thinking to myself: "So? What's the drama? Don't tell me white not gonna take the Bishop and play some stupid move?". And then I realised the eval bar is full of black not white, I was: "???" :))

[@disruptor6550]

"Call an ambulance, call an ambulance!....... But not for me!"

[@conetay]

If that was me on white I would've deactivated my account at that exact moment

[@theyhaventfedmesince]

"you can't eat your own bishop!" My eight year old would disagree

[@zackbuildit88]

Woah you’re eight year old can already play the Friendly Capture variant? Dang

[@bengood24]

A friend of mine captured his own queen at the World Open once and he’s over 2000

[@puppergump4117]

The pope spends on average $100 million a year on lawyers instead of firing bishops

[@kentmichaelgalang686]

kids who aren't even a year old would agree too that you could put any of the pieces in your mouth if you wanted to

[@Vombatus_]

How old is your 8 year old now if they haven't fed you since they ate their bishop?

[@agargamer6759]

This was actually pretty instructional, especially the bit about coming up with concrete reasons rather than verbal arguments for certain moves

[@MijinLaw]

To be honest, Lev himself often gives verbal arguments but it's nonetheless a good tip (always look for concrete threats rather than vague perceptions) and I also felt I learned several principles from this video (e.g. about double fianchettos)

[@danieldragojevic3016]

Well but you still have to think long term

[@Ozymoron]

@@MijinLaw I think the main difference is that Levy is an IM though. He can explain his verbal arguments with a concrete reason. He might not always explain the reason on stream or in every video but he understands enough about chess positions and can see enough moves ahead to give something concrete if he was asked

[@MijinLaw]

@@Ozymoron sure and I guess that's what I meant. He gives verbal descriptions sometimes like "king is too loose" or whatever but yeah I know that's often just for brevity on his videos, and more often he goes into variations. I think the quality of his analysis is very good and one of the main reasons why he's overtaken agadmator.

[@ThomasLiljeruhm]

Also to focus on King's safety and defense, before pushing forward.

[@chess]

The ending 🤯

[@sm00thgames63]

Oh it's you...

[@shauryasrivastava1499]

Wassup

[@pastamouse2792]

lichess is superior

[@damir54377]

💀

[@AkshayNumberOne]

@@pastamouse2792 🗿

[@puzzLEGO]

I would have panicked after playing queen a8 and I hear the ‘click’ check sound and not the ‘badoop’ checkmate sound

[@adreak9868]

The worst feeling you can get during a game

[@The6stringsmusic12]

Quick call an ambulance! But not for me

[@aondutta325]

Why would you not hear the click check sound?

[@qyralkent9918]

@@aondutta325 read again

[@aondutta325]

@@qyralkent9918 nvm i get it now

[@ttobbattam]

This is the game from those scenes in movies where the opponent says "check", and then the hero responds with "check, checkmate", and then people criticize the scene for not being possible in a real chess game

[@machinedramon3532]

They're just so far into each other's heads that it circles back around to playing like this lol

[@tonymunene1592]

1

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

2

[@tlpthelowlevelpros5909]

3

[@NoOne-yv2ei]

4

[@owengonzalez227]

Is two digit ELO really impossible? I’m getting really close and I’ve been working on getting it down for years.

[@kairodriguez3934]

Good luck man! Looks like we're racing there

[@pokmanl9810]

Two digit elo any% speedrun Good luck on the grind

[@dinodakker9644]

Bruh

[@manawearblack]

Lowest I saw was 130 but I'm pretty sure the dude like did it on purpose lol

[@gabrielfrizzo9064]

The minimum elo is 100, but good luck getting there man!

[@b1tw337]

The fact that this dudes Elo is higher than mine and missed mate is depressing. I really need to get better.

[@allanturmaine5496]

Man, that's just an average of your plays. Go find some good plays, dude!

[@everyzan-m2q]

1500 is a really good rating man. no shame in not being 1500.

[@feellliix]

raise your floor, not your ceiling!

[@prsancho]

Same…

[@agent466]

Well this is proof you can so JUST DO IT MAKE YOUR DREAMS HAPPEN in the words of Shia LaBeouf

[@ESALTEREGO]

"His father took 10 rubles from him each time he made a stupid move" Oh so this is why russia has so many gm

[@plasmakitten4261]

when your country has many many GMs but no money

[@PerfectSense77]

@@plasmakitten4261 They've got plenty of money. It's just concentrated into like 50 people for the most part.

[@valinorean4816]

@@PerfectSense77 not anymore... mwahaha!

[@DrNiradino]

Thats also a rather brutal fee. If my memory serves me right, typical grocery run of bread, butter, milk, greens and so on would cost you 5-10 rubles, and monthly salary of averge worker was 200-500 rubles.

[@valinorean4816]

@@DrNiradino your memory doesn't serve you right, or at least that's long since not been applicable; you are off by more than an order of magnitude

[@nress3]

This was one of Levy’s best episodes yet. Wild game plus the great lessons geared toward intermediates. Levy at peak instructor in this one.

[@LouPanetta2]

White: *plays Qa8+* Black: Call an ambulance, *moves Bb8+* BUT NOT FOR ME!

[@Foxhound3857]

2:18 "But, already we have nonsense." I just flat out loved this quote and the way he delivered it. You just know Aman Hambleton would be completely unhinged watching this voodoo unfold.

[@splatter0019]

"you can't eat your own bishop!" ChatGPT took that personally

[@chandravadan5827]

Levy: makes a video where magnus plays double fianchetto in all the games Also levy to 1500 rated player : Why are you playing double fianchetto are you crazy

[@vbvvv1653]

He also explained that a double fianchetto is only an option against d4 c4 setups, and he said in that video that magnus is playing that because he's magnus Carlsen and can do whatever he wants

[@warmike]

@@vbvvv1653 not "whatever". One time he tried to scholar's mate a ~2200, got punished and lost.

[@alphag4mer909]

@@warmike scholar's mate is pretty much losing for white, you can't do anything about that fact

[@walterbushell7029]

@@alphag4mer909 Probably not against me against Carlson.

[@logandekmarques8412]

As the international master Levy once said: "Look, when they do it, it's called theory, when YOU do it... It's called you're drunk, go home, no more chess for you."

[@ujjithkesamneni7658]

I can really empathize with the guy playing white, something really similar happened to me, I had mate in one but I got back rank mated as I didn't notice my opponent's previous rook move on to the open file , love your videos bro.

[@fsdfsdfdsuytfgdseg3806]

classic

[@smort123]

Happend to me too. But I was the guy with the rook. Welcome to 900 elo hell.

[@raph_plays6805]

Hi

[@sugarist3938]

happened to me too, it was mate in one or two, but one of my moves wasnt check and he back rank mated

[@blazingxflame]

Same

[@BazzoMusic]

Levy at the end of the game: "I usually end it on a dramatic note, BUT LOOK AT THIS DUD"

[@edwardmuraru3551]

=]]

[@tacticalchunder1207]

Even as a 900 I’ve come up against a few double fianchetto openings the last few days. Probably because of what Magnus did in that blitz tournament.

[@drm_272]

I'm a 1300 and it happened to me too

[@pastamouse2792]

@@drm_272 1800 here. yeah at higher levels it gets rarer and rarer

[@Hassy171717]

So was Magnus's double Fi vs a Queen's pawn opening???

[@askill8695]

​@@Hassy171717 he was doing against anything with both colours but then again he's Magnus. he can get away with it

[@erikk17]

I played double fianchetto before Magnus. They called me a madman. But in general I am 1800 too lazy to learn openings and no one has any idea what to play against it on this level

[@multiplefandomperson]

White's heartbeat before playing Queen to a8: Solid 80 beats per min White's heartbeat when it showed Qa8+ and not Qa8#: 1671267176172671762716727612761 beats per min

[@haleysettembre]

253rd day of translating Levy's titles into Neapolitan: "Saccmatt rind a na moss"

[@andreamiglietti4267]

Menomale esistiamo noi italiani

[@PushyPawn]

Why? Are you a special boy?

[@helium999_]

damn, blocking a mate in 1 with a mate in 1

[@Botmini17]

16:25 “ oh my god he took my knight mahhhh”

[@fin3662]

10:30 I saw h5 here to eventually go g4, is there any particular move order that's better?

[@arara___]

I enjoy games with less-rated players as much as the next person, but I think this was the most instructive video I watched from you in a long time. Congrats on bringing this type of content to KZbin, hope you do more of it!

[@doodlesyoru2108]

brasil sil sil

[@loggeek]

17:17 There is a cool simplification trick in this case! ...Qd1+!! forces a queen trade (Rxd1 bxc4 or Qf1 Qxf1+) and Black wins easily

[@davitharutyunyan875]

That's cool! But what would be even cooler is if white could get out of it, maybe by sacrificing the rook for prepetual checks, but seems like it's not possible haha

[@adamh6094]

As a learner, it’s important to see the “don’t do this!!” Content as well as the “do this!!” Content. Today I learned that have more space means you need to be more aggressive, else it collapses. I’ll give this a go!

[@ij4927]

Opposite castles are more agresive and you must take advantage of the pawns that aren't defending your king to attack

[@alanschrader3117]

This was one of the coolest, most instructive games from beginning to end I can remember watching on your channel. So much here for opening strategies/weaknesses, midgame positional ideas and exploits, and an absolutely incredible tactical resolution. I always love seeing the GM's artistry being analyzed in great detail, but seeing a 1500-ish game analyzed in this detail is a masterclass for the intermediate player. Very cool content.

[@adityaabnca6488]

Couldn't agree more

[@tharfagreinir]

Discovered check while protecting against a check on your king is something that happens rarely enough on its own - but a forced checkmate immediately afterwards while your opponent was also one move away from checkmate? That's just insanely rare.

[@curtisbrummitt5470]

My god, that's such an anime fight scene at the end. NeilC: Hoho, BigShak. You've blundered this game. Now I shall show you the power of the rook-queen checkmate, in your own back rank! NeilC: Die, BigShak! You can apologize to your pawns in Hell!!! . . . NeilC: Gh, wh-what is this?! The... the game... it's not over?! BigShak: Yare yare... you really thought g3 was a blunder... NeilC: N-Nani?! That... that bishop... Tch, this changes nothing! I'll take with my queen! You can't retake it with my rook guarding! You still have no escape! BigShak: Foolish, foolish! Did you forget about my rook on the g file?! NeilC: Th-the rook?! You... you've simply prolonged this game for another turn! I'll just move my king out of check and take the bishop on my next turn! BigShak: It's you who have prolonged this game! Look, everywhere you can move your king will put you in position to be mated in my next turn! You have no escape! NeilC: N.... NAAANNIIII??!?!?!

[@Jas019]

Someone animate this please

[@Cr1ngePolice]

cringe

[@xristakosinlove]

😁🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@santhoshv6284]

@@Cr1ngePolice no

[@mundane3809]

@@santhoshv6284 yes

[@0GL]

Big Shaq x Neil Cicierega is a collab that NEEDS to happen now.

[@b1tw337]

“You’re gonna have a bad time.” Dang I didn’t know I was watching Undertale

[@na4543]

Where time stamp

[@gl3nda96]

This game was a rollercoaster of emotions.

[@neko12]

I'm always happy to see these episodes. I know that some of my 3am games could make it there, but its still really enjoyable to watch when I eat dinner or just have a break. Great content!

[@PerfectSense77]

Your 1pm games could qualify too lol, no doubt about it. And mine too.

[@mohammedmostafa5106]

should be called "Grand-masters make a ton of blunders, what happens next is shocking."

[@bacco0447]

I love how your commentary varies between the elo of the players

[@DrSalmon]

Man the good old 1550 days thank god im 800 now

[@meow6991]

XD

[@malfa248]

the bishop from 15 football yards is here to save the day yet again

[@Oscar-ns9wg]

I really like the how to lose at chess playlist Levy! Keep em coming!

[@horrayiguess]

"But you can't eat your own bishop!" Chat GPT:

[@loc7909]

2:15 So when they lurch out too far like that with their pawns, in the opening especially, and you haven't moved many or any pawns, is it almost always a good idea to try to undermine them in the center like that with your own pawns before bringing out any more pieces? I'd love to see some more Gotham videos on this type of garbage pawn opening stuff, and garbage opening and how to punish in general. Great stuff!

[@_thirtyseven]

I had a game like that once, where my king and my opponent’s king were two squares apart. He moved his queen to the square in between our kings, thinking he got a kiss of death check, only for my queen to take his queen and mate him.

[@Rudy137]

0:01 I do and I'm tired of pretending I don't

[@joshuareynolds8134]

"You can't eat your own bishop!" ChatGPT begs to differ.

[@WalaStika]

That was pretty badass, it's like checkmate via en passant or a pawn promotion.

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

pawn promotion mate is cool. pawn underpromotion mate is very, very cool

[@elizskr]

Black King: Call an ambulance, call an ambulance, but not for me

[@nathan9901]

Ugh dude Levy brought up the interview 5 years from now thing as a joke and neurons actually fired in my brain and i related so hard i almost cried

[@nathan9901]

Its 4am lol

[@briansrandomstuff411]

20:02 "it's checkmate!" Or is it? - Vsauce

[@gavinotoole2864]

Levy saying "Man's not hot" just made my day 😂

[@CardenDioxide]

Imagine White's absolute horror when they heard the check sound instead of the mate sound.

[@Zzeuoba321]

This videos was fun and more instructional than the low elo games

[@Toma-621]

Now that I think about it I really wanna see an opposite side castling speedrun

[@renobgm]

I'm at the 1500/1600 myself and reeeally appreciate this more intermediate content

[@seancarterx]

Same, I think many of us who picked up chess during the post-queens gambit boom have gotten to this intermediate range where the beginner content is only entertaining and the top level content is a bit over our heads. These kinds of videos are perfect and this wasn't even a typical 1500 rapid game at all (3 piece blunders is VERY unusual in longer time controls at this level, at least in my experience.) I'm sure we could all benefit from more 1400-1600 game breakdowns. I also cross my fingers for good guess the Elo games in that range.

[@elomial724]

​@@seancarterx Imagine being such a looser and watch Netflix lmao. How can you all waste so much of your life on such a bullshit?!

[@akayy17]

O M G that’s the most insane checkmate I’ve ever seen

[@psych0536]

I was playing a really solid game (I'm 1350 btw) consistently had an advantage and after my opponent finally cracked I'd gotten up to +10 advantage according to stockfish in a couple of moves. And then I hung back rank mate in 1. I hated myself in that moment. At least I won the next game so I got my rating back. The fact I almost beat that 1450ish player is still a good sign to me that I will climb up past 1400

[@ryanhanson3365]

To 1800 you go!

[@richardtrager7125]

18:55 I’m 500 elo and I still thought of qe4 fork and grab the rook

[@karabelotaole1107]

I just wanna say Thank you Levy Through your videos and funny commentary I've gotten back into chess and started to take it more seriously and today I won my first tournament

[@denekhesab.2527]

That's super cool

[@Hothead-xs4zr]

When you deliver checkmate and the game doesn’t end

[@darkslayer54278]

0:10 "2 digit is not possible but they play like it" LOL

[@crimson14828]

jump

[@toaster7254]

6:35, I'm elo anywhere from 650-750 atm, been going up and down a lot. This move, regardless that the king isn't under attack, is what I say "giving the king some breathing room". A lot of the times when I don't randomly make this move if I don't have any good moves, I will play this move, to not let myself realize i can be back ranked checkmate. that's the whole point of that move

[@microwave856]

ah, 600 elo logic. something us mere mortals cannot understand

[@NovabitsYT]

"You can't eat your own Bishop!" ChatGPT: *Let me introduce myself*

[@josephiroth89]

This ends with one of those "Call an ambulance... but not for me." moments.

[@bontentengu]

Levy's, "I think I have it [adhd]", makes a lot of sense, and I thought this for a while. There have been many videos where Levy explains he made a move against a strong player and immediately regrets it. Now, I'm not a psychiatrist, but that is one of many instances where I though, "I think Levy has ADHD!" That impulsiveness and the creativity he shows is very ADHD-like, in my opinion.

[@gabrielandradeferraz386]

all moves can look great in the one second it takes to make them

[@welleda]

The discover check with the bishop takes to eye against eye to a whole another level

[@DevaCODYT]

14:55 Levy : this pawn is not worth it. The pawn : I have feelings too ;(

[@brosselin8638]

''You can't eat your own bishop!'' ChatGPT strongly disagrees

[@FedoraMan-Sports]

LOVE THIS PLAYLIST, thanks for uploading, your great gotham!

[@DonthaveausernameLOL]

If you look closely, at 18:21 Stockfish claims mate in five for black, and Qxb1 apparently isn't the move to take advantage. Unfortunately, I'm too incompetent to see which move actually does force mate

[@Mike-we3rb]

10:42 as someone about 700 elo. When you asked what the best move was. I looked around. At first I thought rook behind the pawn that’s by the white rook. Then I realized the pawn is protected so then I looked and say b5 pawn and I was like, yeahhhh if knight takes, you have 2 protectors

[@isavenewspapers8890]

White cannot take anything with any knight.

[@kristofevarsson6903]

This is perhaps the greatest example of falling on your own sword to smite your enemy I think I've ever seen in chess.

[@1Bolzard1]

I learned an important lesson from this game, about myself. When prompted, I actually evaluated the position correctly and found the best move despite being an 800, but in games I’d never find them, so I need to learn to step back and evaluate positions more and give things some thought.

[@ConcaveDave]

15:25 I love how I have adhd and levy’s videos are honestly some of the only ones I can fully get through with constant interest lol

[@Surtak]

This is my facourite video in a while now. Clear instructional content delivered in your signature style. I actually learned something!

[@gamingnamehere1560]

the opening at the beggining is just how mere mortals like myelf spam pawns when we cant think of anything.

[@DavidNwokoye]

Britain VS Ireland, a battle as old as time 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@98godofwar]

When you showed me the last check I actually laughed out loud at a chess move for the first time in my life. that was pretty awesome.

[@RadikatMLG]

That ending was legendary

[@blacklight683]

20:00the second I saw m1 my brain looked at every move to find it

[@merfall2224]

This is the truest "call an ambulance... BUT NOT FOR ME!!" meme ever

[@awmdanger9677]

*I think that this is the Most Luckiest Game of all time 😂😂.*

[@prsancho]

There’s a worst one. Check “The Worst Move in Chess History” video.

[@arielioffe1810]

The new interview question: “where would you like your pieces to be in five years?”

[@carclain123]

"it's like a kidney stone... If anybody watching this has passed one then they know its, its not good" This is the high intellect hard hitting chess analysis I come here for.

[@50percent_cool]

If I could play 400 like this I’d be 800 10 months ago

[@KohYeokHoeJovanMsh]

it is funny how most of these videos start with gotham being so calm but during the game just loses his mind🤣

[@brianingle799]

Dude I took a break from chess videos for about 9 months, and I come back to absolutely super hot fire content from you Levy. These videos are awesome. You have absolutely stepped up your quality of content since the last time I watched you. Please keep doing these videos because the world will die without them, probably.

[@ze444]

This is wild. Just found this video and it's easily the wildest game I have ever watched especially the ending. Great analysis, great setup for the ending.

[@wardsmith2542]

8:45 it's a declaration of war in chess I thought chess was Already war?

[@euphemist6137]

This is much more intense than the whole of Netflix

[@alamoflint7055]

7:02 His father used to punish him severely

[@otaviodiniz5934]

A man of (oversimplified) culture I see...

[@AavyanTiwari]

​@@otaviodiniz5934 Hitler oversimlified!

[@J4ckk.]

This makes "The bishop from 100 meters" memes 100x funnier

[@KimiiiRaikkonen]

Awesome game, love the commentary. I had to laugh when you talked about the kneejerk move and "zzooom". Still laughing from it. Crazy game, this feels like a lower or equal ranked game than mine (I'm 600-700). I did not think 1500 were this bad. But love the game, the drama. and the crazy chaotic swings from the constant blundering both people managed to do. Awesome

[@carmi9243]

ive had kidney stones

[@number1-willstetsonsimp]

L

[@noahdevore4039]

10:07 For this sequence my 2 thoughts were g5 and bishop d 5 and I'm surprised he said both of them and it was a better move than the 1500 played because I'm only 800(probably more accurately 900 because most of the time when i lose its because of 1 blunder)and I found a better move then the 1500.

[@HusamCode1]

10:31 here i think knight to e5 traping the rook defended by bishop and pawn if white knight takes pawn takes then white pawn takes then pawn takes and the rook is still traped because pawn is defended by queen Tell me if something wrong❤

[@pokmanl9810]

When the title is full caps, you know we’re all gonna click and we are going to be entertained

[@YetAnotherScrub]

The analysis at 18:20 is pretty funny because Levy is talking about defending the pawn but it's mate in 5. Obviously a bit beyond these players and far beyond me, but nice to see that Levy is with us on that one.

[@adamgubric7813]

The one of the best example of 'call the ambulance but not for me' meme

[@notpass1631]

Me waiting until Magnus plays e5 with white with some alien high advanced knowledge he probably has and we consider it a genius move 😂😂