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[@thatregularguy22]

I love how I can think "Of course, Levy. I can see why these moves are horrendous" and then play my own game where my opponent must think that I eat crayons

[@andrewamann2821]

The McDonald's fry box full of Crayola doesn't really help that, either... But, I get it, sometimes you just need a midgame snack.

[@jinnito]

😂

[@loglorn]

I feel so attacked rn

[@fatmccat1513]

But in reality you eat markers

[@clgr1323]

But... but crayons are for fire, not for eats, that s what pencils are for

[@adrianlouis2108]

Imagine them thinking "That was one worthy opponent."

[@A4yan_.]

No way

[@zflorii]

Bro im dying right now😂😂😂

[@mahammadmahaboob3355]

Bro I’m dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🫡🫡🫡

[@bruhwhat8586]

700 elo chess is a beautiful sight to witness

[@viksinha5410]

1000th like

[@gCarrot]

I once made martin fight himself. 33 blunders, 12 missed wins. The best part was that martin knows en passant.

[@guy-]

Like me!

[@leszekryniec7054]

And it was a draw?

[@Dark23KnightGames]

He googled en passant, holy shit

[@thatcanadaguy3098]

@@Dark23KnightGames Pipi bricked

[@PronteCo]

I mean of course he knows legal moves, they are all given to the AI to choose from :|

[@soasertsus]

going from that absolutely insane forced fork on the queen to immediately hanging a rook and a bishop within one move is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in chess

I've started laughing so hard 😂😂😂

[@epicgardening]

My ELO raised 200pts watching this masterpiece

[@robinbrown6530]

Ah yes, an Australian viewer I see. :P

[@clorocks3401]

YO ITS EPIC GARDENING

[@filipelobo8942]

From 300 to 500? I can believe that

[@learntodrivenow]

Mine lowered 200pts

[@loandlex9947]

@@learntodrivenow your elo can’t be in the negatives

[@JZPlays98]

Just two GMs showing us what a perfect draw with two Kings looks like. Very educational

[@AJ_239_]

thanks bro

[@diemyfriend]

@@AJ_239_ he said later, not now, you silly

[@abedakkawi8118]

@@diemyfriend he did after 2 hrs

[@dheerbhatia6853]

The stock fish line had me rollling

[@haziqiman1317]

Stockfish had a stroke reviewing this game😂

[@natetalksfootball8764]

I feel like Jordan just understood that the game required no additional context via that email

[@r.kauffie]

This guys, is another example of: “When chess is played perfectly, it always ends in a draw”.

[@KobrokoHere]

-A wise man...

[@suyogindependent]

*perfect according to current engines.

[@sanket7_]

@@suyogindependent 🤓

[@SevenHunnid]

I do food reviews while I’m hįgh on my KZbin channel 😮

[@abdulmazid6860]

These guys,are Bro...😂😂

[@D34DB4B135]

This isn't chess, this is art.

[@lievenbeckert3133]

its abstract art

[@slink66]

Conceptual art

[@rafaelgranados6910]

Performance art.

[@exuviumisopods]

it's art with an F in front

[@jayure1346]

You could say it speaks for itself

[@clgr1323]

Basic principle to teach newbies in chess. If you have more pieces than your opponent, exchanging is almost always good

[@burnt_breat6126]

I genuinely laughed when he said “The queen is seeing everyone” 😂

[@viciousimpaler]

Queen is for the streets

[@anakienpezzotta6264]

the queen sees you

[@testtest2247]

This game will still be studied in 500 years. Masterpiece. They both saw 50 moves ahead and saw the draw. Blacks queen move was exactly what can happen in this elo.

[@JohnSmith-ut5th]

I think you meant Disasterpiece.

[@hogi99]

This isn't just art, it's the Mona Lisa of bad chess! 🤯

[@MrBrew4321]

Bahahaaha. Imagine they sit there at the beginning of the game guy 1: "draw in 50" guy 2: "yes I see that now, well should we play it out anyways?" ...ouch I think I just cracked a rib laughing, ty gotham, ty comments section

[@poiklp5615]

At the gm level draws are actually quite common. What a good game it was

[@diemyfriend]

@The wock but I already thanked your mom last night so i don't have thanks left to give :(

[@haylo3277]

@@diemyfriend LMAOOOO

[@kaspervestergaard2383]

@@diemyfriend What?

[@janski1476]

The plays were so galaxy brain even the computer thought they were blunders, just shows us how much we have left to learn from those masters

[@MorningNapalm]

Mind blown.

[@ripdimebag42]

One thing I've noticed starting out in the low ranks is that a lot of people don't know how to checkmate and just expect you to resign. I've danced my lone king around the board until the clock ran out a few times because of it. So at low ranks at least, I never resign. There's a pretty good chance I can run out the clock or force a draw.

[@paleb.e.n.9715]

So true.

[@student99bg]

What's your rating? And in what time control ? In bullet dure, but if your opponent has 2 minutes on the clock in an endgame like this he should always be able to easily win

[@tubax926]

endgames in beginners are mainly determined by how smart you are. these guys are low ranked because of their awful endgames are their lack of smarts. my openings and middlegames are pretty similar to these 700s but i'm in 1500 because my endgames are nearly perfect.

[@ThiccFish]

White was like "Jesus christ this guy knows his tactics, a discovered attack on my queen with his queen, I gotta get safe"

[@Pianistax]

@yes nah f u

[@ithinkiammodulo]

@beyond your imagination dam fr🎉🎉

[@lipschitzlyapunov]

Just like the Martin bot

[@MissNotorials]

Tbf, I was thinking about the same move they played to get the rook into play and attack the queen. I was staring at that bishop the entire game and I knew the pawns were trash, I just forgor to think 💀

[@abdurrahmanbasyah6771]

Levi has 2 sides "you have to always look for checks" "stop giving checks"

[@ferrisffalcis]

if you look for a check and you find garbage you don't take it LOL

[@or3213]

Looking for checks and giving checks are different things though.

[@roach6992]

What he really really meant is dont give checks in the middle of a board when the only pieces you have are a bishop and rook because you arent gonna checkmate them that way.

[@gordonfreemanthesemendemon1805]

there isnt a contradiction there, always look for checks because it makes it easier to find tactics and winning combinations, but just because youre considering the moves doesnt mean you have to play it without thinking one move ahead, is what levy means.

[@greekfountain9303]

I had a guy check me over 50 times because he was stalling for time, they did nothing besides making me want to jump off a cliff

[@veroxid]

13:10 - I legitamently wouldn't be surprised if that was a misclick. I've done horrindous blunders like that in the past because of a misclick or the game freezing and misinterpreting my inputs when it unfreezes.

[@monkeyofwar6818]

Stunning performance by our 2 GMs. This is why GMs almost always draw, they're too high level.

[@lancer227]

[Spoilers] Perfect ending. No one deserved to win that game.

[@huntermitchell6335]

🙌

[@trevsguitarstash4967]

Hahaha 😆

[@amoldivo]

Both of them deserved to lose!!! 🤷🤣

[@Weqqqk]

Hahahah

[@SergheyKatastrofenko]

We all won though because we got to watch this madness. I'm ok with it.

[@dion4670]

It's always great to see two Gigachad Masters go at it.

[@user-ls8qt6mo2m]

true

[@cjpow]

No one deserved to win this. Perfect as all things should be.

[@xdragon2k]

If you have been wondering why he kept yelling "trade the rooks and win the end game", now you've seen what that one rook can do if not taken off the board.

[@p60168]

This certainly was one of the games of chess ever.

[@chichandoo3199]

Shut up

[@Szeru]

haha

[@mrmasrawy92]

😂

[@smolgrizzly4608]

I liked the part where they said " it's chessin time" and chessed all over the place

[@jinnito]

😂

[@idontgetthejoke4813]

Remember when this was titled "This is Chess."? Good times.

[@UOUPv2]

Lmao.

[@adoniskarim7958]

Kids won't know the beuty of that period of time... It will always be in our hearts 😔🙏🏻

[@Pianistax]

It was the best 8 mins of my life

[@steelmongoose4956]

He changes his video titles so frequently, but he didn’t think to change that shirt.

[@YannY1150]

I remember when it was called 57 mistakes

[@Gavoh3]

I cannot possibly express how dumbfounded I was when I correctly guessed 5:21. You said I wouldn't be able to guess so I just thought of a random move and it actually happened

[@jordanashton5879]

I absolutely love when Levy theoretically makes a move in analysis, says he loves it, has all the confidence in the world, and stockfish subtracts 1-3 points from whatever move he's defending. I know what Levy is saying is 100% true for a human player, but it's an ever-reminder that the machine gods are looking down upon us playing chess and laughing while enjoying a margarita and playing candy crush on a beach

[@stevelaesch4163]

This is quite possibly the most riveting, dramatic, edge-of-the-seat, draw in the history of chess. Because never at any moment was there the slightest possibility of it being a draw. Until the final moment, when it was. Wow.

[@wertsew1288]

"Ok, fine, let's trade the rooks."

[@petersmythe6462]

This is roughly the level of chess where you can see a lot of serious stupidity and blundering pieces for no reason but also occasionally amazing moves that are just like "how did they see that?"

[@Gsichtsgrapfen]

This video is actually perfect for beginners. It could also be called "A lot of dumb bs you better not do, more reasons why and even more brain cells Levi is loosing while analyzing" :D just amazing!

[@the_bottomfragger]

You know most of these games just offer endless laughs and entertainment to me. That endgame brought me physical pain. This was like listening to the greatest performance of my favorite symphony of all time but the guy next to me is talking on his phone for an hour.

[@john_voske]

That ending is poetry on a chess board

[@nathanpierce7681]

it looked like a yinyang symbol with rooks

[@buddermonger2000]

6:40 Yeah there's a pretty clear reason for this queen move: white knight had a clear fork on both it and the b file rook within one move so it was preventing that fork and while it means one rook got boxed in, it was either move the queen or that b file rook or blunder a rook.

[@Griff1011]

But if nxc6, dxc6, no?

[@AdrianStalker]

" a clear fork" 😂😂 We got Magnus Mcbozo with some insights over here

[@Eyowiwpwideosn]

And you blundered a knight,pretty clear reason huh

[@bobbymcjoey9432]

Are you dum or something? White have tried to fork the queen and rook but black had a pawn covering c6, so White would've just given a free knight

[@kieranashley119]

10:44 I would've played that move too. You can also later play Ne4 as it blocks the rook from protecting the knight.

[@BobChess]

3:30 "Stockfish hates it, but whatever I hate Stockfish, so that counter balance it"

[@Icecreamer276]

Levy opens these videos with the same 30-second sketch every time and I still can't help but laugh in anticipation because I know what we are about to witness on the board transcends comedy itself

[@austinorsomeonealt]

Chess played perfectly always ends in a draw

[@JohnSmith-ut5th]

Omg, I laughed so hard when black hung the rook and bishop at the end. Thanks Levy!

[@FatherManus]

17:27 Honestly, that KG7 checkmate plan was my exact idea in that position. I did not see the discovered attack on the rook at all. But I definitely wouldn’t have blundered the rook AND the bishop. That is insane. When you lose a rook you didn’t expect to lose why would you go forward with the same plan without reassessing?

[@-blank-]

It was also my first idea. And i am such an impulsive person that i could totally see myself doing that without even thinking. But since it wasnt me playing i looked for a little longer and saw the free rook.

[@arjun_12]

I like the way how you give pauses in-between to make the scene intense

[@shivam-zf4pd]

and then play the move while interrupting himself to get the comedic timing just right :) 6:32

[@dave0754]

All you had to do was sacrifice the damn rook, CJ

[@slimetakes2339]

5:35 I think that since puzzles so often show an endgame where the king is trapped behind its own pawns that he was preparing for that, I do that sometimes although I shouldn't

[@isavenewspapers8890]

Giving your king a flight square is perfectly fine. Just remember that you should wait for a good time to do it and that moving your h-pawn is generally less weakening than moving your g-pawn.

[@TrinityEcho]

Honestly it went better than my expectation of draw by repetition

[@cyrillindenmann4562]

Thought it would go for a 50 move draw because they dont know how to checkmate with rooks

[@user-abc123yeshaha]

@@cyrillindenmann4562 I thought it was going to be 1 move away from the 50 move draw then they do a pawn move.

[@napiernygma8075]

what a class act by the grand masters leaving only the kings on the board in a known drawn end game

[@rammani7170]

Me seeing this : Finallyyyy … a worthy opponent!! Our blunders will be legendaryyy!!!

[@Varscool]

5:21 😂 bro the analogy

[@gavinjenkins7463]

Hey Levy, just wanted to give you a big thank you! I just played my second over the board tournament last night and I was able to take first place with 4 points out of 4. You have always been my coach thank you so much and everyone get a chessly course!

[@CampfireHeadphase]

shill

[@roach6992]

He doesnt care about you, if u died hed say "damn" then move on with his life i promise you

[@namantalwar6358]

Congrats!

[@victorhugomeneses1595]

@@roach6992 What's your problem? Get a life! And do not try to search for it here. You do not belong here and you never will.

[@agoraphobia882]

@@roach6992 stuff like this is the reason you dont have friends btw

[@matteosottana4431]

The honorary GM title stands for Gotham Master, we all know that.

[@thunder_claw]

Actually, it just stands for GothaM

[@tianlecheng2656]

Thunderclaw yeah

[@wooshifgay462]

Gm Actually stands for grand master

[@thunder_claw]

@@wooshifgay462 Congratulations, you got the joke!

[@wooshifgay462]

@@thunder_claw why doesnt anyone fall for it?

[@MorningNapalm]

The two kings at the end represent the plenitude of their minds.

[@majd_mouaadalr355]

"Stockfish hates it but I hate Stockfish so that counterbalances" Bro's tryna laugh me to death 1500 miles away.

[@galador8089]

Chess, when played perfectly, is a draw.

[@tombratcher6938]

Coincidentally yes

[@strategicsage7694]

And also when played horribly, it is a draw remarkably often.

[@idkadecentname6589]

@Hunter Vonnegut exactly! All you have to do is get a yahtzee

[@Whythesun]

Whatever your ELO is (ok, let’s say under 1300), you can learn a lot from this analysis by Levy. This is very well done and makes you feel like a genius for seeing the mistakes before they are made and if you don’t see them he will show you and make you feel them….

[@johnb6723]

Those two were a long way behind 1300. A 1300 typically plays like the Nelson chess bot, hence why that bot is rated 1300.

[@truckman6404]

I know for sure that a 1300 is way better then Nelson im 500 and I destroy Nelson

[@dogoinc8074]

Trust me 1 or 2 times in the scollers mate trap i’ve seen bishop to B 5 and i just atack the queen and now the knight is not pined by mate later and im just doing good

[@dipendrasingh9343]

I think G3 at 05:45 is to avoid back rank mate, I am 800~ and a lot of times I straight forget backrank mates because I am crushing the opponent on the other side, so I have straight up started pushing a pawn as soon as I castle. Since white pushed G3 right after Castling I think that is the most probable reason. And Yes, I was able to guess that because I make those garbage moves...

[@user-fb4du2yv8x]

Endgame tip for 700s: if you have a rook and they have a rook and pawns, sac your rook for all the pawns. Because your 700 opponent doesn't know how to mate with king and rook, so it's a draw. If they mate you after using some time, report them for cheating, and gain back your elo.

[@ddandymann]

Yeah no one below 900 knows the king and rook mate. The same applies up to about 1400ish with bishop and knight.

[@xqli_]

I'm 1600 and I don't know the B+N mate. I've never drawn because of it though. I always try to preserve a pawn

[@zswu31416]

I learned king and rook endgame at 500, bruhh

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

Chess.com has an excellent tutorial on king+rook mating, I highly recommend studying it. 😎

[@enchantedorange3141]

@@zswu31416 i learned it at 300 lmao

[@riotcelestian4587]

Big fan bro.

[@batflashzyzz]

Pin of Notre dame

[@baguettegamer5313]

pin of 😀

[@agrawalhospital5605]

Pin of non shame

[@cosmicvoyager1240]

Pin of Temporary

[@apeiro3810]

5:37 I used to play this move, it's logical but sucks if you have undeveloped pieces, the point is to stop backrank checkmate later on the game

[@ew3804]

21:48 Mate in 37 bruh

[@MIDO44444]

I love how black was offering white a clear win by the rook trades and white actively trying not to trade into a no brainer winning endgame , triple digit is truly the wild west

[@evlx1240]

Gotham, I've been going through a lot these past couple months with family issues, personal issues, and just seeing the world in general in a negative way, but your videos have helped me get better and I always feel better watching your videos. Thanks :)

[@obiarne]

What helps me in this situation, is having goals for the future, things you look forward to. It can be simple things, like God of War Ragnarok, or learning a language, the ending of a series... It helps you keep going in difficult times.

[@biharek7595]

@@obiarne or chess! The simpliest of goals in life you can have is to just get better at playing chess. We're watching a chess channel after all, aren't we?

[@obiarne]

@@biharek7595 I've been addicted to Blitz chess since yesterday, holy moly haha

[@Qweryll]

"Stockfish hates it, but whatever. I hate stockfish so it counterbalances."

[@trecat5467]

I love the game of “is this going to be a super high level game or a how to loose at chess video” that I get to play when I see the title

[@onecoolart]

The chess speaks for itself

[@RubenRGAC]

These videos are like a combination between laugh and stress

[@carmacksanderson3937]

Jordan uncorked that fork of the King and Queen I audibly gasped. This was a beautiful game

[@dwaterson21]

Bro created a Shakespearean tragedy out of a game of chess

[@rynhardtsteyn3603]

57 blunders are rookie numbers when I first started chess…

[@kennyfa2874]

The 57 blunders speak for themselves

[@XanderisMLG]

Black luring the king into a king-queen fork is like pushing a villager in Minecraft to get it to your trading area.

[@theodentherenewed4785]

I really like your coverage of low elo games, it's both entartaining and educational. I sympathize with these players, there's sometimes only one winning move and I and my opponents tend to make blunders in those endgame moments.

[@Hyakure_]

Just watching your videos have taught me alot ive improved alot just by watching you

[@bilalmohamed06]

I love these kind of videos. Very informative and very entertaining to watch, need more lose at chess!

[@Flyingtart]

@beyond your imagination Very instructive, thank you

[@willalex7949]

I wish that king walk out to a queen fork was actually seen and not obliviously encountered because it was quite a sequence.

[@ricochade3842]

"stockfish hates this move but I hate stockfish so it counter balances" is a very pure Levy line

[@sok4846]

I feel like a genius when i'm watching this. Also, it's actually impressive how they made a draw with only two kings on the board. Haven't seen a draw like that.

[@tob564]

That is actually not too rare kind of draw in chess when draws are not offered and accepted.

[@Mittens]

Have you ever seen a shirt that made you question you're vision? You have now

[@firstlast-fr1le]

"noobs put pawns in the center and forget out them." That really hits home. had a recent game and towards end after a bunch of trades i was left with 2 passed pawns in the center as the front edge of a 4 pawn chain. I was only looking at my pieces and trying to find a way to attack. Couldn't find anything for the life of me because my pawns were in the way. Got up to grab another beer, came back and sat down - and it was like someone slapped me in the face when i saw my obvious moves.

[@ronnieketchum1241]

Every single time on this playlist. NOBODY has any idea how to play any sort of endgame.

[@nickknight8065]

These games are great for a laugh, and we can laugh because we've all been there. Don't stop! 😆

[@itzashouthere240]

5:30 , As a noob whose been mated more than i should be on the back rank by a rook because my king was covered by pawns after castling, i do that pawn move to prevent that kind of checkmate.

[@Rtheghost]

5:26 sounds like he was back ranked a lot before and was trying to prevent it😅

[@jogy1329]

at 5:25 i was able to guess with 10 guesses cause i guessed any legal pawn move

[@aheadr6366]

A perfect game of chess is always a draw.

[@Imslandar]

I almost guessed the move, just picked the wrong pawn, thought it'd be b2 to b4.

[@BIG-qn6ed]

My guy had his hand glued to the rook

[@fnaffan2725]

watching this game makes me feel like a grandmaster

[@tvao9010]

2:16 this sounded autotuned for some reason

[@justingolden21]

g3 was one of my ten guesses! Mine were 8 pawn moves on the sides and then a rook move and a knight move haha

[@yadan9188]

I'm a man that speaks for himself. I see GothamChess notification, I click and I enjoy.

[@amk__]

@The wock bots 🤡

[@manawearblack]

A man speaks for himself

[@sentfromheaven00]

The subscribe button speaks for itself

[@stoneskull]

just do it

[@johnsondale07]

im wiping the tears from my eyes...the funniest chess game ever presented!

[@stopstalkingme2023]

how dare you call it funny!!!, its a perfect chess game! Its art, its poetry. Its a dose to cure anyone from Anxiety. APOLOGIZE!

[@SamsonVegas]

This was the absolute funniest thing I have seen on YT in like forever. I beg you, pls make more of these!!!!!

[@SamsonVegas]

"Players end in a draw with 2 kings on the board;.. and proceed to shoot themselves in the head with a gun, ending in a permanent draw. The end.

[@SamsonVegas]

lol

[@YOLO22272]

Always cracks me up when stockfish says “M37” and other absurdly high mating numbers. How am I supposed to find that?😂

[@ejrocks8076]

Yesterday I had a game where I didn’t move a pawn for over 20 moves 🧠 Edit: I also blundered mate in 2 but they didn’t notice and it ended with stalemate.

[@nameless7508]

Played perfectly 🙏🙏

[@tambuistuff]

12:56 is the most amazing reaction to the best move in the history of chess.

[@ThatsNotMichael]

13:03 WHAT

[@gaminggaza1268]

I laughed so hard at end that tears came in my eyes

[@thomaslerby7465]

man this is better than any commedy

[@kotovasiya-tv]

8:56 thuu- thu dz d (C) IM Levy Rozman