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[@glareeedowotb]

Can we take a moment to appreciate how the Chess developers finally updated the game so that Levy doesn't run out of content

[@lwgaming5464]

Ok

[@rajarshichakraborty1852]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that these type of comments are getting pretty annoying

[@Randomvideos-kc2fp]

How is this comment has 107 likes?

[@noamsoleil2610]

​@@lwgaming5464"Ok" are the best comments on earth.. not

[@seadrown6252]

@@essensaelite ???

[@gilly_the_fish]

32:34 Queen to C4 actually isn't game over because you can use a spell to let your bishop jump over the king to take the queen

[@eldkille8428]

Woa ur RIGHT, I was convinced he'd lose too

[@piepiece4952]

YES!! someone else saw it and said something

[@heraldofv3379]

Exactly

[@ThatOneGoatGuy]

I was in so much pain seeing levy just completely ignore the fact HE can jump over his OWN PIECES. the queen can chase but it ain't safe!!

[@BBQ_Vr]

the bishup

[@FartingSpider12]

I love this variant so much. It allows for some crazy wacky tactics and its just awesome. Like how Eric Rosen quickly discovered that the Scandinavian Defense is just about the worst opening you could play as Black because it immediately transposes into a Botez Gambit xD

[@Fishy_17]

It’s even worse than that. Scandi is mate in 3 with Bb5 followed by Qh5.

[@LostPleir]

What about the modern variation with Nf6?

[@Fishy_17]

@@LostPleir d5 is too late. There’s only 6 moves that don’t hang mate after e4 (or e3) and those are: a6, c6, Nc6, g6, e6 and e5. Nc6 is bad, g6 loses a piece I think, and a6 is also pretty bad (although it is rather tricky if white tries to punish it and I’ve won a few games with the move, and beat a 2000 with it). Caro, french and e5 are all fine, just watch out for the light-squared bishop.

[@JedynArneson]

Thank you for introducing me to the world of botez gambits

[@johananabeyratne8954]

All this time ChatGPT was playing Chess 2.0

[@teomoro10]

In the last game after Qc4 you could’ve done jump potion on the king and take the queen with the bishop

[@akshattripathi7550]

exactly what i was looking for, atleast someone noticed.

[@tetraedri_1834]

Black wins by playing Qe4 instead. White has no freeze spell and king can't escape e-file. On black's next turn green spell to e3 and queen captures the white king.

[@GDNachoo]

I thought this comment was a joke until i saw the video 😭

[@william_shakespeare]

Timestamp?

[@cks2020693]

@@william_shakespeare32:34

[@camacc]

32:34 you can actually use the jump spell on the king and take the queen with the bishop and you would be fine

[@s20206]

Exactly

[@slayerslayer6981]

You smart 🙀

[@TheMrProK]

Or after Qh4 freeze queen and put the pawn on b4, then take queen with rook using a green spell on h2 pawn)

[@sectenor]

Came here to say the same thing

[@julian7306]

@@TheMrProK yep

[@andrewbloom7694]

This is actually a legitimately cool varient! It was especially fun watching GOTHAM make such ridiculous blunders for once while he was learning 😆

[@bpzr]

How do I play on mobile?

[@strek45]

​@@bpzrit's not available on mobile unless you login from a search engine

[@alexcopypaste691]

​@@bpzrтолько через сайт

[@lordfootball5684]

Feel like reactive spell counterplay is the way to win in this mode. In the position at 31:30, white can play queen a4 while freezing the black queen. This threatens to take the king (with a jump spell) and the black queen on h4. Black has to address the threat to his king by either moving or blocking, either of which would end up loosing a queen.

[@bobbyspicer5041]

They would play pawn to b5 and you can take their queen but then they would take back with rook, you take their rook and only end up with 1 extra rook

[@DeltaZapdos]

@@bobbyspicer5041 You say that like trading queens, jumps and freezes, winning a rook while activating your own, and neutering black’s attack all in the span of 3 moves isn’t the best option available.

[@duelmasteryuya1205]

​@@bobbyspicer5041+5 advantage is better than nothing, even in spell chess.

[@bilbobaggins7075]

being out of freeze first basically auto loses given any check on the king can insta lose the game

[@eifbkcn]

They could save the queen with a jump spell, right?

[@Cykk0]

11:36 - green spell instead of freeze was mate 32:35 - not mate because you spell your king and bishop their queen haven't played yet but the green spell essentially turns pieces into the canon piece from Chinese chess, which is my fav

[@themulticourse2460]

That's JUMP SPELL

[@arpitadatta3073]

Fr jump spell, my valks are already crying at that nomenclature

[@jonasvigueras685]

At 29:30 also freeze the enemy king

[@superfaststeve]

oh my god i kept screaming (not literally, i was quite the whole time) at the screen for him to take the king with the jump spell!!

[@josephmother2659]

@@superfaststevelevy completely forgot about the jump spell the entire time 😫

[@noonereally4370]

At 32:35 you are actually not lost, you just use the phase through spell on your own king and take their queen with the Bishop from f1

[@trapezoided]

oh yeah, but i assume queen to e4 is lost for white tho?

[@gabrijeltuka8090]

i just wanted to comment that i guess ur a coc player as well if u spoted that :D

[@MrLemonsChannel]

Jump spell

[@HunterTracks]

​@@trapezoidedI think you can take the d7 pawn with queen to check and stall for freeze recharge, though then freeze, knight c3 bishop b5 is still losing.

[@lordfootball5684]

After black plays queen to h4, white can play queen to a4, counter-threatening to take the king with a jump spell, and the black queen. Black has to either move the king or block, and lose their queen.

[@whitespaghet4164]

31:55 instead of moving the knight, you can freeze the queen, then pawn to b4 since you can jump potion the rook to take the queen and you win a bishop

[@JediJess1]

1. e3, e5 2. Nf3, Bb4 3. c3, Ba5 4. Nxe5 (4. b4) 4... Qf6 (4... Freeze@g2 Qh4 5. Freeze@h4 Nf3 (5. Freeze@h4 b4) 5... Bxc3 6. Ke2, Qc4+ 7. Jump@e2 Bxc4)

[@sakshamsaini6894]

Hello levy Big fan Just wanted to let you know at 11:36 you could've just jumped over the pawn and take the king Also when you were analysing the game at the end at 32:34 after Qc4# you could jump over your king with the bishop and take his queen. Thank you

[@sakshamsaini6894]

@@D4RK8244 so wrong

[@gursimranwhatt]

​@@sakshamsaini6894agreed

[@D4RK8244]

@@sakshamsaini6894 nah

[@Melky_Man]

​@@D4RK8244wrong

[@FFFr3sHHH]

​@@D4RK8244so wrong

[@461weavile]

Levy is simply enjoying the game. What a great change of pace.

[@edvgaming3312]

K😅üüb😅

[@duranvt3856]

32:37 I’m not sure if it is a valid move, but you can put the green spell on your king to take the queen with the bishop

[@nellieb6585]

Levy panicking then hanging a clean bishop in a winning position is so on brand 😂

[@cedricboxberg847]

Honestly, love seeing you playing chess variants!! It's fun to follow your thought process and actually quite educational, getting me more hyped for variants. Love to see more/more variants:)

[@big_darkside2716]

11:37 Overjumping the pawn and taking the king was instantly in my mind... Funny games :D

[@MadDogMilo]

Same, I was screaming at my tv when he didn’t play that move

[@yogeshsaluja7008]

Same😢

[@plasmaflippy9376]

Its actually crazy how literally 3 games in Gotham almost saw an amazing checkmate, just that he didn't realise the bishop, but with a little bit more, that's it he'd already be becoming a master

[@casper14301]

What are you yapping 💀

[@DoctorBones1]

@@casper14301 bro i write shit like this all the time when im struggling to sleep he probably has his phone in bed or smt

[@casper14301]

@@DoctorBones1 yeah it's fine just funny as hell to read haha

[@plasmaflippy9376]

@@DoctorBones1 Nahhh bro I wrote that at like 3am with one hand and one eye closed

[@yozah4830]

@@plasmaflippy9376why were you typing with one hand 🤨🤨

[@pac665]

In the heavily analyzed position at the end of the video you could easily avoid the attack by freezing the queen then playing b4 to neutralize the Bishop tricks while simultaneously guaranteeing that you win the queen with the Rook after you jump your pawn on h2 on the next move

[@TezlaChess]

8:17 bro is baffled. Flabbergasted. Bamboozled.

[@tetrisbit]

29:40 freeze the king and you win. simple. no matter what they move, you can take the king. it doesn't matter if you get checked because you take the king, and if pawn blocks you jump over the pawn.

[@superfaststeve]

they can freeze your piece that is checking the king

[@A_Swigg]

@@superfaststevethey were out of freezes

[@A_Swigg]

Looking for a comment saying this

[@nawark4726]

absolutely everybody was talking about 32:35 but i was looking for this comment@@superfaststeve

[@ilikechips9204]

Levi, at 32:33 after the queen move you can cast a jump spell on the king and after that the bishop behind the king would take the queen.

[@yunglee2040]

Bro are u magnus carlson or what?

[@yunglee2040]

Bro levy should see this

[@arkochattopadhyay8875]

Reply from your original account magnus

[@rasmus2128]

Yeah but queen e4 instead is gg

[@shaunthedcoaddict1656]

@@arkochattopadhyay8875Yeah but everyone else found that magnus

[@FuryJack07]

10:58 A Spellmate! Does that make sense? I hope.

[@dishwasher5000]

Nice

[@Trephining]

Haven't even reached that far into the video, but the term Spellmate is simply awesome, and it needs to have some kind of solid definition.

[@benridder2241]

Super fun to watch and think about! Please keep playing this mode!

[@maccross4567]

11:35 Gotham not using the jump spell on the pawn and taking the king is killing me.

[@Nivang07]

😂

[@Tea-lw9bj]

THANK YOU

[@kkfnihtoa8090]

At 32:36 you can put a jump spell on your king and take the queen with the bishop on f1, still a very bad position if they don't move the queen to c4

[@daltonmekis]

well that only works bc c4 was wrong. Qe4 was mate for black

[@mrbungle3310]

I actually love this....there are many chess modifications out there and this one is simple yet interesting

[@MAGUSTHEFORSAKEN]

3:40 his shocked reaction was priceless

[@ValueNetwork]

8:12 amazing Levy shocked face here 10/10 no notes

[@gogplays1686]

Levy's stare was truly one of the stares in history

[@kotnascher3763]

Looks a bit like trumps mugshot

[@huh-xz6by]

​@@kotnascher3763💀

[@Happyboi1798]

He is going to sacrifice your soul

[@hypa4066]

It made me feel like my rook was going to sacrifice it’s

[@Truffle_Pup]

That stare that says "I hope I don't look like I totally sold out for tripe content"

[@StavanShah-ST54]

Levy : Video games get updates every few weeks. Geometry Dash who hasn't got an update in 6.5 years : BRO WHAT

[@krishnavedampudi6535]

20:15 nice free pawn bro. It is feeling real nice at a6 with a bishop staring into its soul and if you take their bishop with your bishop, the opponent uses a jump spell on a7 and the rook jumps over the pawn and kills your bishop and also develops his rook

[@sathwickytgamer671]

Bro missed mate in one😂11:45 jump spell

[@simoncharles6664]

32:02 insted of Nf3, Qa4 threatening the king whith jump and the frozen queen seemed nice

[@I_am_Itay]

Yes, both b4 and Qa4 just winning on the spot

[@rafa57games]

I think that using a mana system and special spells for each cards would be complex, but very fun

[@yoelmesfin7893]

“I’m eating everybody can’t stop me now” 10:00 🗿

[@gamingwithalexyt2787]

💀

[@aldincalderon8845]

Instant blunder when trying to figure out mechanics levy finally understands low elo

[@catherinelawrence7291]

The first millisecond of him staring at us is the best part of the video 😂😂

[@AGENTOfMKA]

Lol

[@lwgaming5464]

Lol

[@Randomvideos-kc2fp]

Lol

[@disguisegamer7125]

Lol

[@teaser6089]

Lol

[@caimanaraujo479]

Ah thats so sad... I thought this would be Oats Jenkin's Chess 2

[@Yashar_Gh]

32:42 You can actually take the queen with your bishop with the help of jump spell

[@reapexe6556]

Great insights and analysis as always, Levy! Your videos really made chess a lot more famous, accessible and so much more enjoyable. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@orlock20]

There were updates in the 1800s including instant promotion and some rules on stalemate. Before that, there was the castling rule, before that it was changes to how the pieces moved. Warhammer chess allows combat along with traditional moves.

[@KingKlear]

Pretty sure the last patch was in the 1970's when they disallowed vertical castling.

[@dragonlord9957]

14:20 the opponent hanged the bishop If levy used the jump spell pawn right infront of the rook

[@TenToTu]

11:36 BRO JUST TAKE THE KING

[@abraruralam3534]

I imagine providing a rage spell would be game breaking: allowing one of your pieces to make two moves in a single turn...so perhaps that's why they didn't dare to add it. It's still quite amazing though how freezing and jumping doesn't break the game.

[@eriksteffahn6172]

7:00 this is actually one of the main ways to cheese and even a decent opening, although I'd play 1.e4. Black actually only has a few responses, since Qh5 is a huge threat: - Bb4 is the main move, resulting in a symmetrical position after c3 c6 cxb4 cxb5 - g6, preventing Qh5, playable, but maybe a bit passive - Bd6, with the idea to play Kf8 after Qh5, looks awkward, but might be playable - Be7 with the same idea as Bd6, but I think Bd6 is better - Ke7 looks very questionable, but might not lose with precise play, the advatage is that black saves a freeze All other moves lose after Qh5.

[@g_lise7103]

32:40 it isn't lost, because bishop takes queen with green spell on the king

[@gusliftsaweight7585]

15:24 "We need to get the bishop out of here" you can just take with rook and jump

[@BurningM]

Levy if you're willing to play unique chess you've got to try shotgun king, a rougelike chess game. It's obviously very different from chess, but the way it incorporates chess mechanics is very interesting!

[@Synion]

Seconding this idea!

[@moronoftheinternet8864]

Yes!

[@pairot01]

I love that game!

[@alexholker1309]

There's also Ouroboros King, another roguelike which is mechanically a lot closer to regular chess.

[@PsychicMuffinSupreme]

The answer to Qh4 (and freezing g2) is probably just to freeze h4 and play b4. You don't need to retreat the knight to f3 to threaten the queen because the rook is already threatening the queen with a jump spell. This guarantees the queen is lost and is likely the reason your opponent didn't play it.

[@beatsev1]

a nice feature would be that if you castle without using spells you get a free spell or maybe a mini-freeze potion which freezes just a piece.

[@Trephining]

Agreed. Having some means of "earning" additional spell uses via earlier restraint from using them would present interesting strategies.

[@fernandoberriel2257]

At the last position you were looking, if the queen moves there you could do the same they did to you before, spell the pawn in front of the rook and take the queen

[@anametoignore2286]

This actually seems like a very fun set of extra rules. Would never want it to be too serious but it'd be very fun if a couple good players cooked a few openings for this

[@kingdomofjace1190]

12:44 Levy laughing looking at the invisible chat. Cool habits

[@divertedpreon6312]

16:00 EAT THE BISHOP WITH THE ROOK USING THE SPELL

[@JosephLachh]

I saw this video yesterday and didn’t watch the video because I was so excited to play. Now that I’m watching the video, I see this is very valuable information. Levy is literally going through just about the exact same mental process I did to build opening preparation, yet much faster and with less losses.

[@PotatoChess-we7rj]

32:31 Gotham says that Qc4 is game over WHEN YOU CAN JUST TAKE THE QUEEN WITH THE BIIIIIISHOP!!!

[@dankdabs43]

I was gonna say omfg thank you

[@BubbyBoy]

I was so stoked Oat Jenkin's Chess 2 was an official format now, but my hopes were crushed.

[@orange.juice-gv9qz]

16:41 you could use the green spell to take his beisop

[@WindyNight114]

I hope it sticks around. Speaking of chess variants, I’d love to see another few videos about fog of war!

[@MikkoRantalainen]

It's interesting how much the dynamics of the game change with the addition of two simple spells!

[@allengainzmma]

This was very entertaining to watch I definitely hope Levy keeps playing this.

[@steinberg070]

After queen h4 u could freeze the queen then use ur rook and jump the a pawn to take the bishop and their wouldn’t be a threat

[@6Monto]

you having fun playing this, looking forward to see you play more

[@SectionDan]

Tf2 looking in superiority 0:01

[@RudeJoJo]

Can we appreciate how Levy never fails to clickbait(entertain) us?

[@sammylsenpai8058]

34 likes and no replies wait lemme fix that

[@saatvikkalra6061]

Can we appreciate the fact that I'm in your walls

[@drkgon]

@@saatvikkalra6061thank you 🥰

[@Split_Oficial]

Ayo🤨🤨

[@sammylsenpai8058]

@@saatvikkalra6061 💀

[@I_am_Itay]

31:55 After Qh4 just freeze the queen and play b4 and then there is no Bxc3 at the end so next move Rxh4 would be decisive

[@thebloodedbroadaxe]

32:03 you just block the bishop on the right with the b2 pawn, then on your next turn use the green spell and take the queen with your rook :3

[@jergusegres6986]

great and fun content, i was so sad when you didnt find checkmate in one by jumpspell on your pawn and rook to h7 at 11:52

[@PiusBamigboye]

I was literally shouting at him to jump and take 😂

[@fikus7879]

In the position at 32:40, you could use the green potion on your king and take the queen I think. Great video, you never dissapoint

[@themulticourse2460]

That's JUMP SPELL

[@VexiGames]

Also at 32:00 there's Qh5 and freeze the opponent's Queen

[@Spartacus11]

no it's the green hoppy hopper@@themulticourse2460

[@swiniapierdek]

19:56 But if you take back with the bishop there's mate using the jumping spell and taking the king with the queen.

[@AlexeyKomissarouk]

18:01 there's a cool continuation here where black checks ND3, and if white takes with bishop, it's jump mate with queen. White just got baited out of the freeze, so this is almost mate... but you can king jump to G1 as the only escape. What a game.

[@cwp24]

I like how Gotham started playing this variant and he’s already mastered it.

[@Lmjacks]

this video changed my life Levi, very excited for this new chess dlc

[@kornobi_3165]

Whoa.. half a million views already? Proud to remember those early 2020 days on twitch..you deserve your success imo.

[@qrw-nx6yt]

32:37 put the green spell on ur king and use the bishop and take the queen

[@Tra1n]

8:06 300 elo moment

[@abdullahazadhimel-3768]

9:55 this is really wicked

[@louisBrother1988]

8:12 The rook finally got its revenge after all those rook sacrifices

[@pewpewpandas9203]

Levy, when the queen moves to c4 in your mating trap at the end, you could spell your own king, then capture their queen with your bishop.

[@lukew6725]

It's about time! I've been waiting hundreds of years to finally get a chess sequel!

[@zatwost]

Finally, the sequel we needed.

[@michaelr1661]

32:32 - jump spell on e2 and Bxc4

[@Pokeety11]

32:35 Put a spell on your King and take the Queen with your bishop. Wouldn’t that work?

[@aggersoul23]

This makes chess even more interesting and tactical. Really makes you triple think your moves.

[@sillyking1991]

but there's also the risk of creating unbeatable openings. for example if white starts e4 and opponent plays e6 then Qh5 with a freeze surrounding g7 is an extremely powerful move. i haven't gone through all of the lines, but so far it seems like its just straight up lost for black

[@pierrecurie]

@@sillyking1991 The new abilities supercharge offense, which gives a big adv to 1st player (white).

[@uttkarshtewari2532]

​@@sillyking1991 i think that just blunders a queen they just attack the queen with a counter freeze not 100% sure tho

[@joykenn9772]

It's for fun only, a Circus attraction if you will, nothing more nothing less. Nothing educational about it.

[@sillyking1991]

it can, im not 100% convinced. i've ran a few games doing that opening gambit and i think there are some viable, if not outright wining responses. its possible its less that that offense is actually stronger, its just much more complicated and easier to make a mistake in defense. so like..with perfect play it may not actually make a difference, but obviously most players aren't perfect. and its REALLY easy to mess up vs certain openings @@pierrecurie

[@ItsSqueakRat]

Watching Gotham refer to the jump spell as a "green spell" causes me immense pain inside

[@studiogotucharlietv3103]

32:40 you could just take the queen with the bishop

[@Luro_edits]

I play both games and im so happy they collabed

[@hishamalmallohy7392]

I love how levy never clickbates us

[@JustAnotherCommenter]

Can we just appreciate all the appreciation comments because Levy is so appreciatable?

[@thedude4039]

Can we just appreciate all the appreciation comments about the appreciation comments because they are so appreciable?

[@giovarlin_31]

​​@@thedude4039can we appreciate all the appreciation replys about appreciation comments that appreciate the appreciation comments because they are too appreciable?

[@Anand-lx8pp]

@@giovarlin_31 Can we appreciate all the appreciation replies about the appreciation replies that appreciate the appreciation comment which appreciates the appreciation comments about Levi because he is so appreciable?

[@FlagerMiszcz]

cringe af

[@Anand-lx8pp]

@@FlagerMiszcz Don't care NPC's comment.

[@6Monto]

16:46 adding this mech to chess makes it more complicated that its already is for sure.

[@KamabokoGonpachiro167]

11:35 you could use the jump spell (The green one) on that pawn and take the king

[@RohitVerma-fj4kz]

32:35 am i missing something? Q_C4- doesn't that loose the queen (bishop takes-spell)

[@rojavida]

That’s what I thought. You jump your own King. Of course it’s quite possible we are both missing something!

[@VexiGames]

Yeah, but also before Qh4 loses to the Qh5 and counter freeze

[@RohitVerma-fj4kz]

​@@VexiGames if u mean instead of Kf3- Qh5, dosen't that loose the queen (Rook jump like previous game)

[@VexiGames]

@@RohitVerma-fj4kzQh4, Qa4 freeze:h4, c6, Qxh4, Rxh4 jump:h7, Rxh4 jump: h2

[@RohitVerma-fj4kz]

​@@VexiGames that seems more likely to be the case👍

[@tomas.krupicka]

It's funny seeing Levy learn something new, and at the same time, during second game (starting 8:00, 9:20) quickly turning into Frank 😂

[@wubs5461]

32:03, instead of Nf3, play b4 to kick the bishop because the rook is still threatening the frozen queen using a jump spell

[@LiliumAtratum]

19:53 The pawn at a6 is *not* defended by the bishop from e2. Because, if black takes (Ba6 for example) you recapture Ba6 the opponent jump@e3 and Qe1#

[@seththedanklord3648]

12:52 Legend has it, if you say Cheese, you summon the cheese master himself, Orange Juice Gaming.

[@mikedrxp]

Don't bring OJ into this💀💀

[@seththedanklord3648]

@@mikedrxp why not?

[@mamsu3561]

11:40 isn’t jump spell on pawn mate with rook?

[@dishwasher5000]

Yup.

[@PleXXtoR]

In 32:37, your Bishop on f1 could get the black queen with green spell on your white king. He had no blue freeze spell (if this was not mentioned before)