LICHESS Guess The Elo?! (#53)

[@carachamadofinger4640]

Player: *does one inaccuracy in 23 moves* chat: 600 no other way

[@lorefox201]

chats averange rating: 550

[@jnmarshmello2728]

@@lorefox201 I bring down that rating by a few points

[@comradelovespain5714]

@@lorefox201 generous much bro?

[@lorefox201]

@@comradelovespain5714 i didn't want to be too mean

[@comradelovespain5714]

@@lorefox201 it's just a joke anyway lol

[@johnchessant3012]

"What are you in for?" "Murder, you?" "Uhh ... I played f6 in a chess game."

[@neckenwiler]

Ben Finegold has left the chat

[@12jswilson]

Ben Finegold: "and you should be serving for life."

[@spectralanalysis]

I mean, you play that in the Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation xd

[@rookieman329]

*Murderer slowly backs away from him

[@humanrightsadvocate]

Ben Finegold, "You are bad and you should feel bad!"

[@nihalr385]

5:05 "This is also a GM move, it hangs a queen in one move" He's talking about Levy Rozman

[@ts4DARKop]

Dude 😂

[@ashborn7525]

GM = Grand Moron now, not Grand Master XD.

[@nihalr385]

@@Kiblitzers his chess keeps speaking for itself

[@gageswearingen7038]

Levy pin this

[@xEvilRaptorx]

Isn't that like the Botez gambit?

[@schizoidforjesus]

Caro-Kann should be renamed to the Sicilian Defence Mouseslip Variation

[@clemenszeepo4157]

XD

[@turkeylegs1343]

I saw that in the chat. You can't hide from me.

[@arunknown2177]

lmao

[@nellieb6585]

😂I’ve actually once mouse slipped out of a Caro into a Sicilian 😂

[@ImbuedHunter]

YES

[@Justaplebxd1998]

i would like to thank lichess for sponsoring this video

[@mustafaa.4690]

🤣🤣

[@shambhav9534]

They're a chess charity. I don't think they sponsor anything at all.

[@nobodycares3900]

@QuantumMeme and it's free too

[@shambhav9534]

@@caffeinator1849 Yep, definitely. The guys are doing a wonderful job trying to pioneer advancements in online chess.

[@koghost2249]

@@caffeinator1849 chesscom clear 😮‍💨🥱

[@arjunraman7276]

A queen hang, a lichess debut, a wrong link, and one of the best trolling jobs in the biz. Levy really took it over the top today

[@alexsmith3598]

I love how the subscribers submit these games that they won but it's because their opponent missed at least 5 checkmate opportunities and hangs several pieces.

[@snorlax7265]

well yeah, regular games are going to be boring so they have to submit exciting funny ones

[@GreyDoggyBone]

. . . because their **opponents missed at least 5 checkmate opportunities and **hanged several pieces. Dumbass. Learn grammar

[@worst9365]

@@snorlax7265 Nothing exciting about first guy hanging a queen and losing the game after he was winning the enitre match.

[@originalTeakill]

That's literally what's fun about it, nobody here at the candidates

[@jeal5022]

Can you really blame lower rated players if they tend to hang mates and pieces? I'm siding with the lower rated players who just want to have fun in GTE.

[@n00blord14]

I enjoyed how Levy assumed that I read whatever nonsense the clowns in the twitch chat are cooking up.

[@satyamjha9250]

Watched it live yesterday, the last guy was hilarious with, "TBH, I never submitted a game." xD

[@xx-jk1iq]

so was the real guy who submitted it bruichchess? what was that person saying?

[@idisplaypace2411]

It wasn't live yesterday lmaooo

[@spaghettiking653]

@@xx-jk1iq Yeah, the original guy was bruichchess, the guy in chat was just trolling xD

[@mobilegamer9872]

@@spaghettiking653 Almost got his game analysied LOL

[@f3ynman44]

@@idisplaypace2411 wdym? I was there too

[@shambhav9534]

You'll love the Lichess analysis by the way. They even have an alpha feature to let you run an external, non browser based, natively run (much faster) stockfish for analysing. I've tried it, and it works like a charm. The actual browser based stockfish is also much better, even the sever stockfish is better and up-to date. Lichess also has fantastic features for analysing your past games.

[@smort123]

@Aditya Vatsa I'm not poor. I just like communism.

[@thechickennoob5449]

@@smort123 I use lichess because I'm poor You use lichess because you support communism (based) We are not the same

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

@@smort123 aka lack common sense.

[@sharpvidtube]

@@ItIsYouAreNotYour Or has a sense of humour.

[@pointlessfeature]

@@ItIsYouAreNotYour woooosh

[@DDP-Gaming]

Damn I was really expecting Levy getting his own game submitted, but welp better happen next time

[@karthiktadepalli7560]

I was hoping the same, I think that it's shocking no one has tried already. I figure levy has mods check links to prevent people from doing that

[@rohitjain7906]

Same I was kinda disappointed

[@xsewer2406]

It almost happened once but one guy spoiled that and a lot people were pissed at him in the comments

[@player-hw7pe]

You can technically submit a Levy game if you face him randomly, but none of his subs would do that

[@nguyenminhquang9393]

Someone almost got levy own game summited but a cringe mf spoilered it and he should go to hell

[@till4360]

Good video, totally already watched the whole thing

[@bhmayhem]

17x speed

[@cosMYs891]

(😑)

[@lagspike7763]

Fastest video watcher in the world

[@nikmrn]

Of course

[@aea7086]

Should have the wr for fastest watcher

[@xloppyschannel4881]

Do promote LiChess more, they did amazing things for the chess community completely open source. I respect them a lot.

[@nielsunnerup7099]

but lichess doesn't pay him

[@pointlessfeature]

he can't lmao

[@freeEnd_]

Lichess kinda trash tbh, i won some local tournaments there, but i hate the website, it's driving me crazy

[@bobjoe8182]

also no ads on lichess which means a) i don't lag mid game and b) i dont get distratcted by random ads popping up on the sides

[@freeEnd_]

@@bobjoe8182 adblock is for idiots

[@sizzle725]

No timestamps? Game 1 : 0:59 Game 2 : 7:02 Game 3 : 16:50 Game 4 : 22:46 Game 5 : 27:26

[@jwolpert1310]

Don't let the haters get you down. Consistent content, consistent quality. Every. Single. Upload.

[@cricfizzer4498]

Yessir

[@ajcoetzer4711]

Faxx

[@chib4528]

pin of Don't let the haters get you down

[@Abhi-kp1fs]

Never gonna give you up

[@sunfireking7199]

@Elly van den Brink Never gonna run around

[@kn-zv7uc]

Your'e right, GTE might actually be my favorite series on youtube.

[@QuotePilgrim]

Lichess and CDC's rating systems have the same range, which starts at 0 and has no upper bound, what differs between them is the distribution. A a range is what values you can get, a distribution is the set of probabilities of getting any given value. Both chess server's distributions are bell curves, but Lichess peaks at 1500 by design, while CDC peaks at like 1000, I think.

[@BarnabyG]

saw this live, was a lot of fun, kinda blooper filled but that made it more fun

[@periodictableperson3880]

Same it, was amazing

[@justsrandom]

That's what I love about twitch tbf

[@thedogswang]

Yeah the entertainment levy put out that day was gold

[@nivnavion]

@@thedogswang yh the constant swearing in confusion after "The plot thickens" lol

[@NekoHime720]

You know, for some reason, I always thought it was pronounced as Lich-ess, like a female undead mage with the whole phylactery thing and all. It makes a whole lot more sense that it is pronounced as Li-Chess, but I would be lying if I were to say I wasn't somewhat disappointed about it

[@mburg33]

The AnarchyChess piece set on lichess has the Queen as a Lich as a joke.

[@fikpo2682]

konosuba reference?

[@schwingedeshaehers]

it is from libre chess

[@heartache5742]

that would definitely make it more exciting

[@lorenzotorri605]

I always though it was a pun on litchis (the fruit) because, once chosen the motto (“libre chess” as correctly pointed out) it sounded kinda similar

[@Nicolas-yy9dr]

Hey there Levy. Can we get how to win at chess back? That was a great series

[@voltage275]

Fr what i want more of is guess the eval he did 2 of them 1 was a feature and said nahhh fuck this series

[@ranjanasharan4051]

@@voltage275 guess the eval didn't do good financially so he abandoned it

[@miregalweiss1496]

He said it will come back

[@ranjanasharan4051]

@@miregalweiss1496 he also said he will make a video about iconic levon vs anand game in 2020/21 and it's still not made it's better to not take any if his word as facfs

[@miregalweiss1496]

@@ranjanasharan4051 I called it

[@lazprayogha]

That last game troll reveal was a hilarious travesty lol

[@TheTrueBrawler]

I'm still confused as to what happened even after having watched the video.

[@ahomosapien29]

From not even taking lichess' name in videos to it being in the title ,we have come a long way lol

[@mohbw3]

Everytime i play a tournament i hear levy in the back of my mind like; 'dont allow counterplay' and 'backward knight move'

[@cubicinfinity2]

As someone who plays a good bit of lichess, that was a weird game for 2000. However, Lichess players are different. Lots of us don't study theory. We play chess and we like experimenting.

[@anime_lober6940]

5:05 it actually is a GM move, the queen move was "game changing" just not how you would want it.

[@StigmaLotus]

Missed opportunity to call this episode, Lichess the ELO.

[@cactus1134]

16:52 *This is a very professional opening* Dude like 90% of my games go like that. Everybody plays that stuff

[@stenmin1234]

At 1300 80% of games are like this

[@drm_272]

@@stenmin1234 same here

[@mycricketingworld5328]

@@stenmin1234 even at 2000-2100 range, this is what I face very often. One of my favourite openings is Italian.

[@12jswilson]

As much as he made fun of the Lichess Sicilian, at 2000 on lichess, that's how all the Italians go. People do play all sorts of wacky shit against the Sicilian though

[@johnwalker1058]

I feel like that remark came out of Levy being generally so used to witnessing and analyzing low Elo games that he's genuinely shocked when players actually play well.

[@mrw4429]

Levi is so used to low rated chess games he gets shocked when people play well and have high ratings

[@siavashsabet2462]

Guess the Elo is best chess content, ever! King-kong aint got sh** on this!

[@andrewschultz6608]

Well, Levy was worried he wouldn't get something funny in at the end, but ... he got something fun in at the end. Great save there.

[@alexismiller2349]

I like how Levy introduces his video like the guy that introduces a Shakespeare play before it starts.

[@krzysiek1918]

6:46 It is a brilliant move, because it forks a bishop and a rook :D

[@ew3804]

The rook can just take-

[@MAF4228]

@@ew3804 i found sherlock

[@GameAlicornLuna]

"You play the Dragon? " That's right...Aint nobody beat Chess Dragon.

[@FernieCanto]

I'll be honest, I have *no idea* what the "trolling" at the end is supposed to be. What even happened?

[@collinsalyers6619]

And he sacrifices… THE KNIGHT,BISHOP,AND ROOOOOK!!!!

[@stijnburgers719]

Please never let this series die!

[@shreyjain3197]

1:30 90 seconds in, my soul already hurts looking at f3

[@wesleytabak1190]

The final plot twist was amazing.

[@refinededusoft]

"I know you can see what i said, you got fast internet"🤣🤣🤣

[@Eric1738-7]

When he said welcome to your favourite show on KZbin he was predicting the future and he ain't wrong . It is indeed my favourite show on KZbin. Might not have been before but it definitely is now

[@HazFrostYT]

23:25 I was dying when he was singing and the guy got banned at the same time 😂😂

[@rujuldabke9449]

Perfect treat after the GCSE results are out. Worth the stress ngl 👍👍👍

[@exigency2231]

bombed maths didn’t you mate

[@kliffalibur3497]

Nice. I hope you got the grades you wanted.

[@amethyst10]

Well that's not the level of 2105 on lichess ,he just got lucky to get that rating.

[@teagleh]

Yea lol

[@poohoff]

Lichess is a joke, that's absolutely 2000 on lichess

[@schrodingerskatze4308]

@@poohoff It's not. That's almost how I and most of my opponents play, only a bit worse. And I'm 1550 on Lichess. I have no idea how they got that raiting.

[@AstridCeleste96]

For some reason people are out here at 600 making 85% best/excellent moves, 5% mistakes or inaccuracies, and 5% book/good. Shit is insane.

[@neevsocha5310]

This one is the greatest guess the elo of all time

[@frankjohnson123]

I’ve noticed Levy has been mentioning Lichess more and more recently. We’d love to have you over on the free, better site, brother.

[@zakf6104]

True alphas use both

[@edmis90]

@@zakf6104 word

[@heartache5742]

over his cold dead crypto.c*m poster

[@manawearblack]

Lichess to practice, chesscom to sweat, that's how I roll

[@drm_272]

@@manawearblack based

[@JokerScribe]

Have you ever played the Sandbaggie Gambit it is truly a wholesome opening. You play 1 e4 then Qh5 no matter what black's first move is, even to nf6...and then you sac on f7 with the queen and then beat the player up for fun...and then resign a won position. Its great. Then you play in tournaments online for money without the gambit...it is truly a gambit of grade.

[@microwave911]

Just some bois talking about cigarettes, enjoying their crippling depression and watching other bois playing dubious chess moves. Perfect.

[@quantumleap7964]

bro never runs out of ideas.

[@shambhav9534]

Btw, the reason Lichess ratings differ is becaue they start at 1500 (the recommended point) and it uses the Glicko 2 system, which is a much more advanced system.

[@doesntmatter5811]

How does the system work?

[@shambhav9534]

@@doesntmatter5811 I'm not sure if I can post links. You better search it yourself. Basically, it accounts for the fact that the rating might actually be kinda wrong, which ELO doesn't.

[@DarrenSaw]

Well said!

[@duncathan_salt]

it's worth noting that, while I agree Glicko2 is a much more advanced system and I greatly prefer it, Elo is what FIDE uses so it's understandable for a chess site to choose to use it imo

[@shambhav9534]

@@duncathan_salt That is also very true. But chess sites do suffer much more from variance in performance than otb. So at least, there should be a primitive way to account for that. Still, using ELO is totally understandable as it is the standard. Chescom always seems the most conservative chess site out of the lot, while Lichess is always doing fancy stuff. Both ideologies are okay, no matter which one you prefer.

[@pulverizedpeanuts]

3:27 the twitch guy who wrote the long comment meant to say subjectively instead of objectively😂

[@TgPepper]

Can’t lie dragon Sicilian seems up my ally, I can study the first 3 moves and not know my opening any further form that. I think it’ll be a good opening to add to my repitiore

[@njh123]

repertoire, actually but its a hard word to spell and i had to google it to know so im no better at spelling than you are

[@Super0Tee]

@@njh123 is it really that hard to spell?, Idk bc English is not my mother language

[@thewooddove2]

@CosmicSOS it's a French word, so native English speakers suck at spelling it. I've never had this issue, but it helps being a frenchie

[@DanimalHype]

That face at the end screams "I will burn this shit down."

[@goldenpggie9788]

that ending was amazing. yep totally watched it fully.

[@patrickcullen1959]

When he said you should be put in prison I laughed so hard

[@connorokane3811]

Missed the entire first game because I was so enamored with the passionate debate

[@ChronosSk]

The Vienna Gambit, ya. That's a potent drug right there.

[@abdoflaha5006]

Levy I love Your Content so much!!!! My rating went from 490 to 945 in 11 months I know it's not a good rating but i know I would've never got here if it weren't for your videos. thanks man and keep up the good work.

[@thebandoftwocretins4406]

hey new sub and new chess player here any tips cause I am the same elo around 480

[@abdoflaha5006]

@@thebandoftwocretins4406 hi there!! I'm 1370 now First you need 1 opening with white and 2 openings with black (1 against e4 and 1 against d4) Second you need to play consistently and analyze your games to pinpoint exactly where things went wrong or if you missed something and since you are playing the same openings it'll be much easier to avoid the mistakes you made in Previous games. Thirdly solve at least 3-8 puzzles a day and only play rapid formats (10-20 minutes) so you take your time to understand the position before deciding on a move. This is enough to get you to 1500 rating. Good luck in your journey.

[@thebandoftwocretins4406]

@@abdoflaha5006 Hey thanks tor the advice I would definitely try that. The only problem is with openings there are a lot of variations depending on my opponents defense or attack. Do you study all variations or it is something I will figure out myself?

[@nikolaimartiskainen4128]

That was definitely one of the moves of all time.

[@opsthisaintcandy]

One day Hikaru or Eric should send Levy one of their games and see if he guesses it

[@DanielH212MC]

That bamboozle at the end lmfao

[@princehouse8457]

Great video Levy, I agree with you on the Caro and I'm so glad you introduced it to me it has helped me a lot on my chess journey. Also the video would have been 10 hours long if you didn't stop yourself from explaining the Sicilian.

[@KalmerVT]

Yakachi is a legend lmao

[@173akornz4]

I love how you talk about the Caro Kann. I play “real chess” on LiChess. Meaning I care about my rating on it. Anyway using your Caro course, I worked my way up to a level I’m proud of for me using it. Moreover, I beat a significantly higher rated player using some advice from it. I did not have the course open while playing. It was supposed to be a correspondent game, but we finished it in a few hours. I’d like to send it to you, and if you like it, and if you do another LiChess GTE, would you consider using it? I attribute the win to your course. So even if you don’t want to use it, consider this a huge thank you for your course.

[@valonarious5399]

Gothams gonna haunt that guys nightmares after that stream 🤣

[@abcdefghijlkmn1794]

For some reason lichess players always have no opening knowledge but their tactics are more crisp

[@andreiguess]

It's the unlimited puzzles

[@ranjanasharan4051]

No opening repertoire cos broke (that's why on lichess a free website) great tactics because free unlimited (and fun ) puzzles

[@princeantisocial]

I think lichess have more opening knowledge because of studies

[@eduardo9509]

7:40 DUDE!! I simply LOVE Twitch chat LOL

[@Malignant_Tumour]

Lenovo always makes good videos

[@ceskydream2849]

6:38 It's me at 2 am

[@nicolaspacettiterra4043]

The opening in that lichess game was absolutely terrible 😂😂

[@brendanduffy5942]

Damn. Chat gettin' Gotham riled up at the end

[@maciejlisewski1473]

If its not clickbait (because i haven watched yet) im happy to see that because im a lichess player. Who knows maybe in 3 years i will earn my own money and support your channel to then become famous by being in guess the elo. Anyways, good to see that my favourite series on youtube is continued

[@bawbq5305]

That troll at the end made the video so much better 😂😂😂😂 how he’s not banned

[@BarnabyG]

when gotham said any of you can be 1055 im sitting here thinking, oh no my 1700 rating imma become a 1055

[@st31928]

pretty easy if you hang queens every game like that

[@alexanderskladovski]

When gottum cheese sees more than 10 theoretical moves: 17:21

[@codeblazefire7653]

A legendary video, great gte vid as always, keep up the amazing work

[@ethandominic-13]

Personally, my drug of choice is the Albin Counter Gammbit, specifically the Lasker Trap Variant.

[@nivnavion]

Saw this live ridiculous what happened on stream YT doesn’t know what we went through 😭

[@hopefulbloom]

what happened?

[@nivnavion]

@@hopefulbloom there was like a solid 10 mins of two guys racing to be the first to submit their game to Gotham, one sending some weird library links that Gotham wasn’t gonna open in case it was a virus, both just failing to get their game in it was just mayhem

[@hopefulbloom]

@@nivnavion oh damn, i wish i was there then

[@Dragonten312]

The man just ended the stream after the episode yesterday and refused to elaborate lmao

[@GhostPuddle]

Lichess? Man what did you do to Danny? Anyway, we're happy to receive you. Claim your welcome gift at r/anarchychess

[@SuperZbros]

as a smoker I think it’s important to be honest about it and not just say it’s bad don’t do it… it’s fucking horrible and you shouldn’t but there is a reason why people do it anyways, we all know it’s killing us and we still do it for a reason. The reason people get addicted is because when they first try it, they get a crazy head rush, most people really fucking enjoy it and it spirals from there in many different ways, do not ever give it the first try, the head rush is fun but it not worth it, the head rushes go away quickly and all you’re left with is massive anxiety that can only be curbed by nicotine…. If you think you’re strong and can stay away, just try it once to see what it’s about and never try it again, you might be right you might be wrong, only way to totally avoid it is to never try it. I would say you should try most things in life just for the life experience, but nicotine is not one of those things.

[@venomous7321]

Gotham, it’s hard to quit nic when you’ve been heavily addicted for years. Telling people like that to not smoke because it’s bad for them is like telling a 600 elo player not to hang mate in 1

[@krananas]

So it’s that easy?????

[@st31928]

not for everyone, I quit after smoking 20+ for almost 10 years. I just dumped everything and suffered for a week then it slowly got better. You need a really good motivation to do it though and people around you that can help you ease up the process. In the end, it's worth it.

[@venomous7321]

@@krananas smh. nah you tell them to not hang mate and they do it anyways. You tell a smoker to stop smoking because it’s bad for them they smoke anyways.

[@ZuppaD.Cipolle]

@@venomous7321 well it is still better than not telling them not to stop, in the absolute worst case scenario you get the same end result and in 1/100000000 cases of it helps

[@yessir6427]

yeah but things like this will prevent non smokers from getting addicted

[@TgPepper]

Man’s got trolled into oblivion, oh lord.

[@harjutapa]

I... I have a confession to make. This is hard to say, but... Guess the ELO isn't my favorite series on KZbin. It's my favorite series on the entire internet!

[@satanm8c40]

Player: makes a move Levy: This warrants life in imprisonment

[@nicolafluckiger213]

First

[@nivnavion]

2nd but no one cares

[@vivaankhanna7125]

Yes, indeed

[@willow3558]

Nobody cares

[@hayksardaryanchess5576]

Firsr

[@DT.186]

@@nivnavion wasn’t 2nd

[@ryancantpvp]

Imagine an alternate universe where Gotham was sponsored by Lichess and this episode was titled “CHESSCOM Guess The Elo?!”

[@pauls5745]

#1 is a slugfest with mittens on :D oddly looking like one of my games haha

[@gamechannelminecraft6583]

"Congrats to everyone Who is early and who found this comment 🐼......

[@catmc365]

yay.

[@independenthistory1621]

4:19 Levy i’m not sure if you noticed, but whatever the heck chat is talking about make these episodes so much better

[@honhonhonhon8110]

4:10 io_jo "huffing paint got me off cigarettes"

[@ajinkyadagadkhair5474]

I just opened YT hoping to see guess the elo episode. so glad it is here

[@dsodragon8152]

21:05 Black king: ok let me do it myself...

[@pravintilekar4941]

Queen hang beginning 🤣🤣🤣

[@agent475816]

I feel like Gotham watching these people blunder is bad for his blood pressure 🤣

[@australiankappa8123]

1:32 he was obviously playing the kings Caro Kann levy

[@ragnarok1055]

his reaction for the troll AHHAAHHHAHAAAHAHHAAHHAAHHAHA

[@anweliwmontekristo8856]

🤣🤣💞

[@coltonanthony999]

“you know what’s cool, watching guess the elo while smoking a cigarette”

[@jarlnooch1882]

this gotta be the best episode of gte ever recorded, at least top 5

[@HarleyMaebry]

The Vienna Gambit is a gateway drug into the Botez Gambit.