Best Episode So Far (Guess The Elo #11)

[@user-pp9rl6gp2j]

Gotham: You're up a pawn so you can do whatever you want. Me: *sacrifices everything*

[@ayushanuroop9203]

bruh you went too far 🤣🤣👍

[@itzjanosbtw1509]

Gotham: goes to get some air through the 10th floor window

[@kennyalive8687]

Sacrificing king would have been a much more unpredictable move!

[@self-study3324]

@@itzjanosbtw1509 new york air, about as fresh as a sulfur mine.

[@asjadazeez]

Even the king 😂😂😂😂😂

[@aaronchen9820]

Content Idea: Have twitch chat submit games with dumb brilliant moves and have Levy analyze them while having a mental breakdown. Better idea per reply by Shaun Stopher-Sellers: "Levy has to guess the brilliant move, he gets to choose like 3 moves per game to be the brilliant".

[@rishikanchi4]

That is actually a great idea. “Brilliant” idea. LOL

[@AshnuOSRS]

Levy has to guess the brilliant move, he gets to choose like 3 moves per game to be the brilliant

[@vaibhavsharma1833]

An outstanding idea!!!

[@greyberger8776]

@@AshnuOSRS that actually sounds like a great idea

[@hassanjawhar9569]

Yes please a “brilliant” idea

[@algiovannelli1271]

I honestly think I've seen Levy more this week than my own family

[@jdko5955]

Same

[@andymacnicol9338]

Ditto man 😂😂

[@hsohn4901]

same

[@nmartont]

the way God intended

[@Nikko_no_Tabi]

Wait, you're supposed to talk to your family? I've just been watching Levy's streams every day

[@brettpoole7888]

After seeing the "brilliant" moves in this episode I no longer care if I ever get one.

[@TactfulWaggle]

every brilliant move i've gotten was actually brilliant, these moves in this video are not even, like.. what?

[@overestimatedforesight]

Brilliant moves are incredible - if you're as smart as stockfish.

[@daltonrolls7031]

I got one recently on my chess account and it seemed so dumb. Not even sure what these engines are thinking.

[@VuNam_MCVN]

​@@daltonrolls703140 moves into the future

[@williams3552]

Levy often commentate the chess games in a way that makes it feel like an actual story.

[@isaacpowrie465]

Storytime with Levy

[@alestell2134]

thats because he knows every game has a story

[@NormCantoral]

contrast this to the way Day[9] does story time. completely different approaches

[@marcusbuhas6562]

True

[@kaidoChess]

YES YES YES THIS!

[@beatstroyer2623]

“Use your lead in development to create threats”-Levy spoken like a true American 24:56

[@ilgonispilags2945]

Also very russian

[@mayurtaral1425]

Ohh🤕

[@sabakhvichia3993]

japan does not aprove this joke

[@derkommissar4986]

​@@sabakhvichia3993Japan was in the lead like in the 80s

[@mintchevvv1834]

@@sabakhvichia3993I don’t approve your spelling

[@abhinavshankar414]

I won't mind watching like 10 of these episodes back to back

[@Oolampara_Chekkan]

Nobody will

[@kumudtimalsina6218]

I can do 50

[@username.subject.to.change]

how about 11 haha

[@Eric_Reborn]

that's what I've been doing lol. I like playing the game along with him.

[@Brycism]

Levy has legitimately catalyzed my obsession with chess. Even when I find myself frustrated with the game, watching him play and commentate games makes me fall more in love with the game. He always manages to help me see the excitement and beauty of it all.

[@BleedDodgerBlue]

Dude Levy is so good at making content that he makes me want to play less chess so and just watch his videos instead 😂

[@pastybean4482]

Same dude ..

[@alexemery4069]

"Yes yes hang that rook" - gotham chess

[@yBazo82]

Favorite part

[@leginamon3984]

20:44

[@rogg0224]

It's good because when winning by a lot you want to simplify into a winning endgame

[@canngothi1781]

After:usually hang both rooks. Now:think that he is a noob when he said so

[@asmolbean9300]

The way he said it so erotically as well

[@Phelnoth]

26:24 I had "Bishop to e7" stuck in my head like an earworm so I re-watched a bunch of Guess The Elo just to find it.

[@ursanotsomajor]

I can't get rid of this phrase now too. Sometimes I just say it out loud and laugh like a psycho 😁

[@kweno1022]

16:54 that 93% accuracy with 5 blunders tho

[@floatgolom3719]

Yeah the computer knows something that we don't. 5 blunders, 5 mistakes, 3 inaccuracies, so in total thats 13 errors (if you want to put it that way) and still 94% accuracy. Sounds impossible tbh

[@vantiendungnguyen9443]

A long game will have high accurary beacause it 's very easy to make a good move in end game

[@sharafmakahleh4125]

he played 39 best move and only 4 good moves the accuracy measures how close you played like an engine and he did

[@MattiMCFC]

Sharaf I guess that makes sense

[@superprofi4307]

White had 2 brilliant moves in that game!

[@andynicholson7944]

In this Kafkaesque short story, viewers observe an IM’s terrifying descent into madness attempting to make sense of the chaotic games unfolding around him.

[@buffalodebill1976]

Though 4 months late(r), you made my day :-)

[@robske3386]

Still waiting for someone to submit one of Hikaru’s games.

[@hshankar2002]

Someone did in one of the streams, but then he didn’t like it because the point was to use your own games and it kinda put off him off and he restarted the episode w out that game

[@bobbysyblik68]

I want to see Levy talk about the bongcloud in detail

[@voidzminer1017]

I was going to say he might get copystriked, but then I remembered, hikaru doesn’t care chat literally

[@chuan813]

Harishankar Radhakrishnan need Hikaru to submit his own game then

[@SerialElfYT]

@@voidzminer1017 chess games aren't copyrightable, because the pattern of moves is a report of fact it follows under the same category as recipes. Unprotectable

[@Stillontour]

Me: *plays a bad move* The hallucination of Levi that plagues me daily: 29:54

[@NoOne-qi4tb]

Remembering what move was the best: 26:25

[@limelight6970]

@@NoOne-qi4tb for the longest time I thought he said “take the crank lol”

[@dude124353]

No one talking about the obnoxious cuts directly after talking about how he does everything in one take? lmao, that's the funniest part of this whole video. Levy on another level with the meta comedy

[@devagr]

I want to like this comment but currently it's at 69 likes

[@user-mk1hi8fz2c]

Man made 5 blunders and still managed to have a 93.7 accuracy

[@n.007gaming9]

And then there's me having 60% accuracy with no only 1 or no Blunders

[@admiralrng6506]

funniest moving 1300 player I've ever seen

[@pxblos.canvas]

Absolute content machine

[@salonowyadam]

It's like money printer

[@Edlay_]

Stop simping holy fuck

[@evolutionstats]

True.

[@spyv6603]

@@Edlay_ shut up

[@Aisatsana1971]

@@spyv6603 no you shut up

[@randomguy9084]

Gotham when a sub plays bad in a guess the elo: "Oh dear, oh precious, it's ok" Gotham when a sub plays bad in a sub battle: "WHAT ARE YOU???" sub crying: "I'm an idiot sandwich"

[@NoobieAbhinav]

Me: Levy, when do you sleep with such schedule? Levy: Wait what?? What is sleep? Do you mean slip?

[@reyanshkumar6087]

True

[@NoobieAbhinav]

@Aun Hathiari yeah, but slip and sleep sound more similar, so I did not write it as mouse slip

[@aravindgundakaram1830]

@GodOfJazzHands bro you’re a genius😂

[@milannesic5718]

Those are cuts from his long stream dude. He just cut a few episodes out of his stream. And uploading to KZbin is fast. And he has an editor that does that

[@NoobieAbhinav]

@Aun Hathiari oh ok

[@r.a.wchannel7609]

29:50 Engine:b6 is a brilliant move Chipmunk Levy: What!?!? What!?!?

[@b-reyer8252]

Well it was a brilliant move. F8 rook was hanging and Re8 was impossible because of Rfe1. b6 was literally the only move that could have saved black from losing a rook, sacrificing the d5 pawn and getting activity back. Obviusly black didn't play b6 for that reason, I can bet serious money on that, of course he was like 'oh I am gonna attack the queen', but actually b6 was a really good move and the only one in that situation.

[@envy695]

16:53 when someone on cool maths games chess plays the Grünfeld against you

[@gideonevangelista9650]

"if you are my student, you're no longer my student" -Levy to the man who blundered his rook

[@Pnthrx]

This channel deserves a million subs, even more.

[@alonshoval6267]

Wayyyyy more

[@ioannislelou6437]

It will probably hit 1 million subs soon...

[@stacia6678]

Judging by the current rate, it’s gonna happen soon.

[@kyarumomochi5146]

It 980k rn :D

[@chadb2840]

I’m from the future I’ve got news for you

[@FelipeMatti]

Levy: *Looks at the sun in despair* Sun: *Shines majestically* Levy: *Solemnly smiles and musitates "good, thought I was going insane"*

[@magikarp653]

I'm ready for multiple heart attacks. Let's go!

[@AdamGaffney96]

21:00 as the Sub in this game, unfortunately not an owner of the gambits course, I don't have an opening against the Queens Gambit so just winged it. Thank you for covering my game though I've gained literally 100 ELO points just since the recording of this! Funny coming back to this now I'm 1800, this game was trash I don't know this guy

[@raunakjain5612]

13:42 what just happened there😂😂 Queen just grabbed all the pieces?!?!😂😂

[@aledella98]

I'm really confused as well ahaha

[@alexemery4069]

Nxc5, dxc5, Qxf4 I this is what happened but editing issue makes it look funnier

[@raymondlim2670]

@@alexemery4069 how dxc4?

[@alexemery4069]

@@raymondlim2670 its dxc5 not 4

[@alexemery4069]

@Linpaws hsohg Hsohg so the last two moves made that you see are black Qb4 then white goes Rb1 my guess is black used Knight on e4 to take whites pawn on c5 white captures that Knight with pawn on d4 hence dxc5 then the queen slides over to take the Bishop

[@rope321]

26:24 I'm dying lol

[@E.Mastery]

Bro u need a subreddit, imagine the magnitude of memes

[@dinogab727]

ppl just hang out at hikaru's subreddit

[@adithyaprasad9207]

He does have one. But it's not that popular i guess

[@alexanderkononov1862]

@@adithyaprasad9207 probably becausr he doesnt react to it (regularly)

[@chrismacku8471]

there's r/anarchychess too for when you get a lil tired of the Hikaru fluffing...

[@KRONOS1909]

@@chrismacku8471 So here's me and here's drake and ....this is funny, guys, this is really funny. So the joke here is....

[@Blittzz]

when the brilliant move is so brilliant, it transforms Levy into a goblin

[@quantumleap7964]

"yes, hang that rook" - Levy "Gothamchess" Rozman 2021

[@butterfly_3000]

18:52 This song is now stuck in my mind

[@Stock-IPOFocus]

Sleeping: *exists* Levy: We don't do that here

[@bachxuan3346]

Levy saying boss cracks me up everytime

[@cielararagi3195]

Chipmunks Levy is not real, he can't hurt you. Chipmunks Levy :

[@idonoy661]

what

[@zipzapzipzap6859]

29:52 ?

[@NoOne-qi4tb]

26:25 ?

[@stickfigure4975]

wha

[@alpha9951]

17:43 he actually made two brilliant moves

[@vinayxis1242]

We live in a society where those who truly deserve a brilliancy don't recieve it.

[@Guts1024]

23:50 " Bush-Ass Gambit " 💀💀

[@mequana]

Legendary

[@doneskies2587]

Is it just me that didn’t like the cuts all the time? I like the analysis please don’t skip

[@anasqumhiyeh8631]

I think the cuts are because of him cursing, I didnt watch the stream but I can assure he cursed the ever living shit out of some of those games

[@davidappelgate320]

@@anasqumhiyeh8631 Either that, or he edited out some TTS donations.

[@anasqumhiyeh8631]

@Sharad Kumar Singh thats guess the elo for you

[@Johnsli]

It just looks weird. Like at 13:44 where the queen goes through a knight and a pawn to capture a bishop, seemingly.

[@djdialjockey6262]

@@Johnsli you know what you know what what.

[@Waheezy420]

I've seen chess videos from many different streamers, and I have to say that the comedic and entertainment value of Gotham's videos is higher than all of the other streamers combined...and to top it off, he is one of the best at clear, easy to follow instruction

[@GingerMathematician]

"Did Black think he was winning here? That's terribly sad" haha

[@r-4spberry]

На моменте чёткого "Отличная защита" сердце в пятки ушло

[@thisisthemansworld8704]

Хаха даа, я вообще не знал что он говорит по русски. Ведь даже без акцента

[@voice_of_broken_dreams]

@@thisisthemansworld8704 Вроде у него русские корни, он говорил, что свободно говорит на русском

[@thisisthemansworld8704]

@@voice_of_broken_dreams оо я тоже Актан, ничего себе

[@noahdelarosa4485]

17:34... when I pitched too hard to a girl in a mixed softball game in PT class.

[@nolanmccune8982]

*Player makes a move that forces his opponents queen off the board* Computer:..... *Player pushes a pawn because they don’t know what to do* Computer: Genius! How did I not see that

[@Willdroyd]

*pushes pawn* OMFG WTF BEST MOVE I HAVE EVER SEEN

[@tonykim37]

Levy: Oh that’s a blunder Engine: Looks brilliant to me!

[@stoutlager6325]

"black learned the first two moves of the scandinavian and then hung a bishop." Yes, that's how most beginner scandi play goes. People see hey quick way to whip out the queen. Then 'yeah don't need any more theory I got this from here' (tries some unsound traps, hangs stuff, loses).

[@czar3kyay215]

18:49 this guy has some good freestyle lmao

[@rynxxx2089]

Levy: "this is the best episode so far" Gothamchess community: *knows that all of his content is epic because he puts so much effort in it*

[@Brn2Dai]

26:18 Another top-tier voice acting moment. I was out of air by "beck renk".

[@d1ab]

20:18 he just wanted to maximise his development of his pawns

[@doggo3356]

26:38 When you realize it's not a dream 😂

[@thefriendliestgamer4103]

“Black is 800 he did not play well” not me crying as an 850

[@jhonzeusterrado6969]

Last time I was this early, I'm not more worth than a Queen.

[@Owen_loves_Butters]

17:24 This is the first time I’ve non stop laughed for 5 minutes straight

[@derickr9809]

Bro, he turned into Mr. Krabs for a second, I swear 🤣🤣🤣

[@noahdelarosa4485]

18:25 when I'm too lazy to switch on the light in the bathroom at midnight and need to do a No.1

[@desaifamily8239]

27:08 “The Dewa Kepas opening course strikes again.” chat is absolutely savage

[@benslater3588]

Me: Takes advantage of opponents positional weaknesses, convert the endgame flawlessly, opponent resigns after 30 moves Stockfish: Ha, two inaccuracies, 80 cap score, do better lol That guy: Blunders a simple rook pawn endgame, makes 5 blunders Stockfish: Damn bruh you better than me, 94 cap score

[@qwerteebe]

19:05 "oh queen side just blew up" yes

[@uwerlmi6120]

14:22 Yeah I also saw that too. Gotham: Nvm its a garbage move Me: 😥

[@audson317]

It cracks me up how many people think having an accuracy above 80 is evidence of cheating

[@artyomtiunelis2561]

"Отличная защита" - Gotham chess (Great defence)

[@Verylengthyapple]

First game Levy: black is 700-800 Some guy in chat: BLACK IS A GM!!!

[@MaschenkoAN]

I've never seen someone not from Russia who would swear so well in Russian

[@GnI1991]

If I know correctly: his parents are from Russia, and, hence, he is fluent in Russian :)

[@MaschenkoAN]

@@GnI1991 it makes sense

[@nikitaberejnoy4359]

Да, он из семьи русских евреев, мигрировавших в США, так что думаю русский его второй родной

[@xeo_oo]

you haven't seen lithuanians

[@nikitaberejnoy4359]

@@xeo_oo Probably he didn't seen whole cis

[@rademoji_6524]

I've recently gotten into chess via ludwig which was where I found this channel and by god I am thoroughly enjoying every single video, especially the guess the elo series. Keep up the funny and entertaining work! :D

[@mysanity_islow]

I like how in the third game, white actually had 2 brilliant moves lmao

[@gabrielnobrev]

*IM has a mental breakdown after seeing brilliant moves*

[@supersquare04]

Levy getting mad over the brilliant moves was the best part haha

[@euginarex5649]

I got scared from the unexpected "good defense" in Russian

[@youtubeviolatedme7123]

the brilliant move award, like God, works in mysterious ways

[@abhishek17mo]

This is the best chess series ever... Plz don't stop doing this ever

[@pltncllyyrs7386]

I really don't get how 'brilliant move' is a brilliant move 😂 and your voice Levy "What is this? What is this move?" LOL

[@CallMeTaste]

No idea either so it must be galaxy brain.

[@desmonides]

Maaan those ancient philosophers were on to something ☝🏾

[@yourlawyer_]

"Ow my neck really hurts" ~GothamChess, 2021

[@xerlax2430]

I love that change of voice always, when very shooked. Love your chess videos.

[@thepadawanchesschannel8323]

Moral of the story- computers don’t know how to evaluate ‘Brilliant !!’ moves

[@TheRealHungryHobo]

It'd be interesting to see Levy open up the line the computer is looking at when it says a move is Brilliant. For a move to be brilliant there has to be lots of moves on the table, and only one is a "winning" move - which means somewhere in that line is a way for the player to completely turn the game around, even if it's like 16 moves deep. They found the "Brilliant" move to start the line, but they completely missed the line and blundered immediately after. If you follow through the computers line of follow-up moves it would probably become much more obvious why the line is "Brilliant."

[@orlock20]

@@TheRealHungryHobo So you are saying it's a combo attack bonus where if you play so many excellent moves in a row you get a brilliant?

[@Zenlollipop]

@@orlock20 No, they're saying what they said, it's a brilliant move if it's a critical move that maintains or seizes some advantage and the reason it maintains that advantage, as opposed to every other move in that position regardless of how reasonable or attractive they seem, is only apparent several moves down the calculation. Even if you missed the reason it's brilliant and immediately blunder the next move, the computer will still flag the first move as brilliant.

[@yaboykirby7789]

Brilliant moves for the computer are ones it doesn't see in the first 2 seconds, that move at the end is pretty standard for any computer whereas the engine would never even consider that pawn push, I certainly didn't and if somewhere down the line because of that you can force a draw from there then yeah that's why it's it brilliant

[@BlueGrovyle]

2:40 "Homedog McSliceovic" 💀

[@aparmahajan7930]

As a 900 player, this gives me hope

[@spear8403]

13:41 what the hell just happened? A few pieces just dissapeared out of nowhere

[@loganator00]

Only real fans know Gotham said Big Poopy before this recording and cut it from youtube.

[@jonathanbrewer5317]

What did he say? I don't watch twitch streams as I have not undergone a lobotomy

[@benjohnson472]

Home-dog-Mcslicovic is my new favorite Gothamism

[@bakulshah4367]

Day 87: Of requesting Levy to cover opposite coloured bishop endgames. Especially when you have a slight material advantage of being up by two or three pawns against your opponent and you both have opposite coloured bishops as well.

[@anujg74]

lol

[@thenerdgamer5778]

Dude is dedicated

[@jaswik2023]

i mean i dont think he is filtering games based on this unless you mean that he has to make a video regarding this structure?

[@GreenTornado]

Bakul Shah Isn't opposite-coloured bishop endgames usually a draw? If you have a slight material advantage, like two or three pawns, you should focus on promoting one of them and using the other one or two to deflect the enemy bishop from the queening square so it has to sacrifice itself to stop you from getting two queens. I'm not a master of the endgame, but that is what I would try to do.

[@stankyt5882]

they're draws unless one is attacking. when one is attacking, they are winning because they're up a piece in the attack. the other side can't use their bishop against the attackers bishop.

[@weevilbun6914]

I feel those 1100 games, sometimes I'm a god, and sometimes I play like a possum you found in the neighbors garbage

[@ayushanuroop9203]

Someone : How's your life going? Me : It's fine. *Meanwhile my Life* 16:53

[@atharvashrivastava7618]

Chess is the thing that unites people. I started watching gothamchess 5 months before( from another account or just levy will think I just subscribed now and I am doing big talk ) now also levy is entertaining. I will always support levy and lucy in promoting chess. Love from India.

[@kidpitch]

"I'll be just as influential as Trotsky in my life time" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@prestonyes6450]

video idea: chat submits games with brilliant moves and levy has to guess what move is brilliant

[@desmonides]

I love this idea and second it ☝🏾

[@sirbruhofpantylands7723]

"oh yes, hang that rook!" best line

[@ber7129at]

A thrilling episode from start to finish. Cannot believe I'm watching commentated chess on youtube. Like if you'd told me 5 years ago this would be my favorite thing to watch on youtube... I don't know what I would have done.

[@rf2581]

His brilliant move reactions could be a video by themselves 😂

[@ayoutubecommenter7494]

Some observations: That queen move is hard to find not because it's a hard move but because while you are planning what to do and you spot that the enemy can attack your queen threatening mate you don't even want to go for that line so you don't usually watch out for moves after that (but ofc you do when you are an IM). The brilliant move at the end is brilliant because if black plays anything else then Bxf8 Kxf8, Re1 [insert queen saving move here], Qd8 is mate. You can only defend the mate if you lose a complete rook or the queen, OR you make that brilliant move. Even if you move the pawns in front of your king Bxc8 loses material really badly.

[@kurumi394]

17:17 When you find out two months after the start of the semester that you were supposed to attend zoom classes, not just watch online videos true story :(

[@benhornstein1688]

Beyishop to e7. Rrrook d8. Because take back rank. 26:24

[@cameronmueller907]

14:47 you heard it here first folks, Levy's bad at chess

[@Maxuras]

i like how the queen at 13:50 just bulldozes the pawn and her own knight out of the way to get that bishop. Very subtle cut

[@raph7255]

Wait So Gotham called me a prospect technically, now that's an ego boost. I'm in a tough time, cause of Covid, but hey this made my day

[@raph7255]

I don't have Covid I just am in a thought time we are all in a tough time so good luck to all.

[@markomladenovi2511]

The most beautiful feeling is when i light my joint and i watch your videos. Greetings from Switzerland.

[@slippy8191]

This random "пиздец, блять!" was a music to my Russian ear :)

[@АртёмЩукин-я2х]

Я абсолютно афигел

[@drtvadr5202]

I nearly peed my pants several times cracking up... Dude, you are not just the funniest man in chess, but quite possibly the funniest guy on KZbin! Keep 'em coming!

[@riordanpatton4783]

2:39 Homedoglesliceavitch lmaooooo

[@moonbow5019]

What is that😂

[@P1r4n]

This video just proves to me that not ever having a brilliant move doesn't mean much.