Why?

[@CaptnCondor]

To think: Brax could have won that game at any point. But he knew he could immortalize himself by stalemating and getting into a Gotham video. Well done

[@neilAneerGAmAI]

Pure genius

[@itsmehadi5645]

Hes so smart

[@FlVE]

And the fact that he could do that while benchpressing is just amazing

[@migueltadeuu]

you just need the right mindset hehehhe

[@lynxx5494]

Too smart

[@casmar2042]

Wow. Stockfish will never understand the absolute beauty of letting your bishop hang for 5 moves just to hop your knight INTO a pawn fork between that knight and bishop. 700 Elo chess truly is the ultimate form of chess.

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

loooolll

[@SaLeMI997]

😂😂😂

[@sbom6063]

Either love you or hate you, you're straight spitting fax

[@DrNiradino]

It's a briliant use of Asinus Buridani paradox. You present your opponent with two exqually good choices (in this case hanging knight and bishop) therefore removing your opponents ability to make one rational choice of what to take. As you can see, it works every time.

[@kabir_j211]

man im stuck at 600 yet i guarantee that i will destroy these guys all day long

[@hamster8706]

Brax: You're surrounded, all of your soldiers have been captured and my army is ready to kill you any move you make Joey: Ok, it's a draw

[@shubbyshabaas]

Brax:👍

[@mrvlacp]

Brax: ok

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

Brax: Ok, it’s chessin time

[@benjaminirving2593]

@@cheddarsunchipsyes8144 My favourite part of this video is when Brax said “It’s chessin’ time” and proceeded to chess all over everyone

[@-YELDAH]

@@benjaminirving2593 truly a moment of all time

[@teegees]

That was awesome on several levels: 1) It demonstrates perfect 700-level games 2) It demonstrates Newton’s Law 3) It made me feel a lot better about myself as a chess player

[@irift3]

I don't get those kind of players and I'm in that range 😔

[@kabbablabba4073]

newtons law? which one?

[@LJW1912]

@@kabbablabba4073 if you hang your Knight you'll draw the game

[@nicolasj6745]

@@kabbablabba4073 Maybe Actio = Reactio

[@Thezombiekiller06]

@@nicolasj6745 Bro you made a mistake and left the N in your pfp

[@oldskyggen2423]

Chess, when played perfectly, is a draw. Chess, when played imperfectly, is a draw. QED Chess is a draw.

[@mariuszpudzianowski8400]

In Chess 2.0 winning and losing will be banned.

[@kentmichaelgalang686]

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 i imagine sims 4 but everyone is dressed as a chess piece

[@mariuszpudzianowski8400]

@@kentmichaelgalang686 In Queen's Gambit last scenes Beth is dressed like Queen and that outfit is dope af (like most of her outfits through the series). If I wasn't a fat fuck I would definitely try to pull that look of.

[@kentmichaelgalang686]

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 i just imagined a really buff famous martial artist in a queen cosplay dress lol

[@mariuszpudzianowski8400]

@@kentmichaelgalang686 I mean, queen is the most powerful piece so it would make sense lmao

[@callmebomb]

I think this game is a healthy reminder that you don’t have to win a game of chess if you don’t want to

[@bulatomat]

Hello bomb

[@cedrics7374]

So.. it’s ok.. to draw, but also.. to lose? 🤯

[@frimnpi7473]

that queen sac at the beggining from black had me absolutely stunned, mind blown, shaking and crying rn, it truly speaks for itself

[@lucacr7015]

@frinpi7473 thinks he's intresting 😂😂😂

[@jordanthomas8542]

I hate u for ruining this for me but I do agree it was an interesting sac

[@devmehta7406]

Unrelated, but SinisterMagnus closed his account himself. Also there is new account SinisterDanya

[@prathamkhatri1783]

The Queen sac in the end had me absolutely stunned, mind blown, shaking and crying rn, it truly speaks for itself

[@wasifchowdhury2004]

And then when goku suddenly teleported into c7 and said "it's balling time" and dragoned deez balls across white's king I really felt that

[@BramJam]

The real perfection is how you managed to entertained us with such a wild game.

[@DamaDojo1]

@@daley_bricks.... reported

[@automatescellulaires8543]

@@DamaDojo1 Man those thing are really really annoying. How are they not automatically deleted ? The mini icon cloning is enough in itself for automatic detection.

[@DamaDojo1]

@@automatescellulaires8543 i have a suspicion KZbin does it too

[@ManMan-su4bq]

This game reflects life, opposite pieces negotiated, became friends, forgiven enemies, but each side fought for what they deem as right, truly truly a perfection

[@jeankepler]

The most inspiring game of chess ever played.

[@alvinaliev]

Underrated comment

[@Scimmiato2oox]

this comment really got me in my feelings

[@hihunter7]

Amen to that my friend

[@obi-wankenobi1254]

I love how there is no outro and the video just ends

[@dinonuggiesguy4847]

No goodbyes, it just left us with our own thoughts after seeing the game, left to contemplate

[@martinvackar9005]

same as with life

[@gfghdgfghd6391]

Average Gotham video

[@Nitro52]

The perfect game is when stockfish hangs its queen and acts like nothing ever happened. Gives me vibes of 2020.

[@T041]

Lol so accurate

[@deftcg]

I wouldn't call Epstein a queen but we definitely hung him

[@undone.9856]

Reminds me of 2022 September 8th

[@deftcg]

@@undone.9856 Big Guy

[@undone.9856]

Thank you!

[@sehaj_deepsingh9956]

14:13 Mikhail Tal said: " When your 2 pieces are hanging.. hang another one to confuse the opponent. " A masterpiece this game is.. !!

[@fgffffugugi8223]

That sounds like an actual thing he would say

[@T041]

Stockfish never loses. 700's never win. But somehow, both of them can draw

[@burntmyballsonahotpocket9093]

Stockfish decides to have mercy on them

[@mattd582]

Joey was one move away from achieveing his immortal game

[@baybee6379]

the fact that he brought the queen to a8 when it could be captured but didn't bring it to the same square when that was checkmate on the last move says a lot

[@samholden5758]

It shows the ability to learn- that square is obviously bad.

[@pwnedd11]

@@samholden5758 This had me loling!

[@anenigma8378]

I refuse to believe that move was not a mouse slip. White really wanted to do ladder mate which is why he hung his queen earlier. He knows what the formation look like...right?

[@BMLBiz]

@An Enigma ladder mate is done with rooks so part of its principles include sending a rook the the other side of the board to be safe from the king. If he was trying to ladder mate and knew what he was doing he'd have moved the queen to c1 instead of hanging it on a8. For my money I'm gonna say he was trying to rub it in that he won.... sacrificing a queen knowing he could make another. Clearly dude didn't know how to use two queens otherwise he'd have went Qb7 for mate instead of hanging it on a8... actually I take back my earlier statement... I think he just couldn't comprehend that the king could take his queen..... clearly dude was scared of his early mistake and is why he ended up giving a stalemate... probably didn't even know it was a thing.

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

@@samholden5758 loool

[@shreyjain3197]

The point of hanging another piece when one piece is already hanging is to confuse the opponent so much on which piece to take that they resign

[@MMYpvzh]

You already know you're about to have fun when you hear him say "Ladies and Gentlemen..."

[@animehype265]

Bro can give everyone Grandmaster title except himself

[@Bbro-ls1tu]

“It’s fascinating because it does nothing” is my favorite Gotham soundbite

[@ahscott2001]

This reminds me of this one tournament I played in about 7th grade and the only three pieces left on the board were the two kings and the enemy queen. I got stalemated on the edge where the king and queen were both a knight move away from my king.

[@zegra9012]

He really only needed one more square for checkmate😭😭 I don’t think even I could’ve lost this endgame

[@prithvisinghpanwar007]

joey decided to activate carlus magnsen

[@ruzgaryazici8165]

14:05 Levy's most sane moment

[@rickb2076]

First time somebody actually made me subscribe by mentioning the subscribe button. Well played, Sir.

[@filipeguedes6174]

@gothamchess1.................. you bloody bastard fam

[@BuxOfficial]

Not only is he great in chess, buy 5d chess as well

[@twelvoe4205]

i felt called out haha

[@jetsedegroot1732]

Perfection is found in imperfection!

[@chri-k]

imperfection, perfected.

[@anshuld3996]

The first minute was all about reverse psychology about subscription.

[@AnimaAim]

Levy is such a good content creator. I'd watch him do anything, not just chess.

[@safrprojects]

😏

[@chri-k]

@@safrprojects …

[@kristofkalman2659]

That came out wrong...😂

[@dippadaws]

I bet you would

[@cal_calibre]

Wow

[@tropicxyt]

where these 700s at when i queue up 😭

[@WalterTurnerBBB]

I literally cried for 20 minutes watching this. So beautiful

[@balleraydin]

what the

[@dragonmoonwave]

0:10 IMO chess is second to competitive pokemon, the strategies and mind games you have to use at high levels is insane

[@ombaaa]

it gets even better knowing that the ending could very well be a mouseslip

[@MaxIronsThird]

it's not, bc now this person knows that if he goes a8 for a check, the King will take it. He might have blundered that once, but 600s don't do that twice in a row, maybe 4 or 500s. Not seeing the stalemate is understandable for a 600 though, specially if he was low on time.

[@anenigma8378]

White forced the king away from b8, and didn't see it. 💀

[@vnaa1n142]

From the thumbnail I thought the video was going to be about Quantum Chess

[@derengel3398]

The chess speaks for itself

[@oprahsgran5989]

It's getting old now ngl

[@Theshiligo]

@@oprahsgran5989 amen

[@jordanmcmorris5248]

Overused meme definetly speaks for itself though

[@cheshireyordle9586]

64 likes, perfect

[@SirSloth100]

Joey plays for himself

[@abab7272]

Gotham is holding back his remaining braincells after this chess game

[@remil3777]

7:09 "My man Joey really has to stop playing chess games" you definitely could have ended the sentence right here

[@shiverian5970]

At the top of my thoughts immediately following my viewing of this game, a single, comforting thought has come to me: it was a mis-click, right? Naturally, your mousepad is a little dirty, you want to move on to the next game, you flick your mouse over to the left side of the board and it snags. Before realizing, you depress the left button on your mouse, sliding your digital queen across the board into a position so delicately crafted as to equally divide the glory of victory and the sting of defeat. And yet, somewhere deeper in my heart, I understand it was no mistake. In recent moves, when white also had 2 queens, they made similar moves lining up the queens on the same file, like a twisted waltz designed to play at the human heartstrings. Alas, the powers of human habit prevailed over reason on this dreaded day. We have witnessed the lack of distinction between a king against the side of the board and lying open in the middle. In their haste, our protagonist did not adequately consider the consequences of their actions before they were made. Truly, the game of chess played perfectly, no matter between the brainchildren of the greatest minds in computer science or the half-brained timewasting of those blessed with boredom, ends in a draw.

[@davidreynolds7376]

I could watch Levy mow a lawn for 5 hours and still be entertained

[@davidreynolds7376]

but not 6 tho. That'd be boring

[@jw561]

Man he actually got me to subscribe with 0:50 😂😂 I have to say, i’ve been watching for years. I mostly watch hikaru/magnus in search of the highest level chess, but never fully understand whats going on. He may not be as sharp but the ability to relay experienced play to unexperienced players is insane. Now with a comedian-esque delivery, I fall asleep laughing, learning chess subconsciously.

[@jw561]

I guess although your content was always enjoyable, I questioned if it was helping my game. I now feel like squidward with krabby patties. I know you through a screen, to you im a name on a screen, but you are one of my greatest chess teachers. Thank you Gotham, to say you deserve a click is an understatement.

[@ythrip9127]

@@jw561 motivational

[@aazzrahimramaniramani3459]

Same here,

[@xcubicalyt784]

Everyone saying it was the most perfect game of all time, but the video was uploaded 30 seconds ago

[@Idleon_n_chill]

It is a perfect game though

[@zokubtdlin2203]

fr

[@richardv.582]

Dude

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

@@memesshorts1616 I watch it x6 🤬

[@flawless6631]

I play at 41.4x

[@Sorcerer_Poog]

"Hey, whats your favorite GothamChess video??" "Why?"

[@krisDag17]

To be honest, the last move was so remarkably amazing, mind blowing that I just could not believe such thing was possible. I am familiar many two queen stalemates, having played many of them myself, but for some reason I hadn’t seen that one.

[@overdramaticpan]

This game is like me messing around in analysis playing both sides and hanging pieces to confuse Stockfish.

[@Taeschno_Flo]

You gotta know as an ace kitchen utensil

[@josephplayspickleball]

Wow Levy, I thought I was bad at chess just by looking at the eval bar, but now my confidence is shredded forever. Thanks for reacting! New sub

[@nathandaniel5451]

Nah you all g, honest just practice and play. I find just putting in effort into trying to improve will get you very far. For me, just watching his vids, doing puzzled and just playing will make it so much easier to improve. Eventually after enough games learning openings becomes easier. And do chess puzzles. I'm not a high rated player, but it's crazy how much you can improve just by playing and putting an effort into improving. So when I play I go through the analysis afterwards to see what I missed or what mistakes I made.

[@upon-a-black-hill]

You play like a 400 who beats 700s because you don't give up

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

A stack of likes 🥺

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

@@upon-a-black-hill the most back handed compliment ever 💀

[@czowieksukcesu]

Pov: you're watching the video and ad pops out The ad:"do you suck at playing chess?"

[@blaecccuebbler7711]

I really like this kind of stuff because it makes me feel like such a strong chess player

[@minari3462]

this is why chess is so fun, low elo is chaos unexplainable gigabrain moves, while high elo is like supercomputers

[@vishalvishu649]

What you said at 01:00 totally applied yo me. Would admit i had to hit that subscribe button with a smile on my face. Great way to convert viewer to subscriber. And well deserved, great content. Go Gotham

[@scoutgaming737]

I am 100% certain that they were both drunk

[@splaffy981]

As they say, chess played perfectly always ends in a draw.

[@FernieCanto]

... maybe I'm crazy, but doesn't Levy himself make that very same comment, like, 15 times in the video?

[@splaffy981]

@@FernieCanto don't worry. He does

[@nicolasj6745]

Is that the truth? In my knowledge we never have enough storage for bruteforce every possible chess-game. So you can't say if in a perfect game from both sides their is a forced mate in >100 for white, for black or its always a draw.

[@5omebody]

@@nicolasj6745 realistically... we may never know. but if we had to guess... because you don't lose anything by going first, it's likely impossible that black wins when played perfectly ... and so it's up to a coin toss whether white wins, or it's a draw. but of course white winning would make for a boring saying so i guess that's why this became a popular saying???

[@nicolasj6745]

@@5omebody Maybe white make with his begin-move a attack-marker which can a perfect black move order abuse? The Zugzwang / compulsion to move / tight spot are today only interesting for end-endgames. But maybe in a perfect match the force to make a move are bad for the beginner (white). But how you said: We may never know

[@bruv.6001]

Ok.... This is the most painful game i ever seen 💀💀💀💀

[@cabecadevento6503]

15:13 my man forked himself 💀

[@Based4Life]

Knight was suicidal 🗿

[@Based4Life]

To confuse your enemy you must first confuse yourself 🗿

[@fsabau]

After such a masterfully played tactical match, that last move was obviously a mouse slip.

[@msmit1999]

20:32 this is the most obvious mate possible, how can you do anything else than Queen A8?

[@afroteddybear]

This looks like a game of two checkers players playing chess after just learning the rules.

[@Seapatico]

This episode is a golden nugget. It's just so entertaining and elegant. 👏👏👏

[@anakinsghost4787]

Joey saw the threat to the knight at the worst possible time, I live for that stuff.

[@adam-the-one-and-only]

20:39 the funniest thing is on Brax's last move he/she could've won by moving to a8 instead of B8 and drawing the game.

[@bassamghali3500]

I am just so new to Chess, why was that last position a draw when the king could not move anywhere safe? - Is it because he was not actually in check and any move would put him in check?

[@enikoxhaj3193]

@@bassamghali3500 yes

[@SnowMexicann]

@@bassamghali3500 pretty sure theres an option to ask for a draw and brax accepted for whatever reason

[@lenny3953]

@@SnowMexicann no the King cant move anywhere and is not in check cause you cant place you own king in a check and he has no other pieces that he can moves so a draw

[@SnowMexicann]

@@lenny3953 Yeah no shit I know that, but Brax did not have to accept the draw, he could have easily checkmated him.

[@simpforpadme7366]

The defence and resilience that joey has shown in this game is just purely at a world class level 👏

[@OagengKhuduge]

Man oh man, this takes me back to my stalemating days. I remember it like it was yesterday. In fact that's when it was. 😃

[@MrJokerman43]

I will say I forced a stalemate on a completely lost game the other day and felt like a genius

[@yuvrajsingh4190]

17:22 Inner Carlos Magnuson

[@audrikixtarx7495]

I'm 750 Elo, why aren't my opponents like this?

[@whittar]

I'm surprised a Pulisic avi is able to not move pieces completely off board

[@JosephVE3GKT]

That was the smoothest "please subscribe" I've ever seen

[@wompastompa3692]

I see your "never play F6" and raise you a "still theory." Also, this video reminds me of the Finegold story where he was moderating a kids tournament and one kid declared stalemate and was proud of it.

[@pncka]

If either side had a way to win, the 50-Move rule would probably make it impossible to do it in time.

[@khaderkhan190]

I love the comedy of this video! I laughed so hard at the blundered ladder mate with 2 queens how are they 700.

[@seandoesstuff4172]

I'm 400 and somehow I think these people are worse than me.

[@baylorskinner9799]

5:50 he slowly loses his mind over criteria of a perfect game

[@RedditorOne]

Hey Levy! Could you please make a video covering dos and donts of a middlegame? I often make mistakes, losing my advantage from the opening while in the middlegame.

[@nelvin8475]

I love how the pieces at the end form a cross....lol

[@guyguy6082]

There is no words that can be spoken. This is truly a masterpiece.

[@GearsDatapacks]

When he said that two 700s were going to play a perfect game, I just knew it.

[@usharana7641]

I am 900 elo and seeing my opponents just 200 points lower and doing this is awesome

[@HansLemurson]

A Draw when played perfectly is a Chess.

[@Speireata4]

That looks like the kind of chess I play. I am proud of myself if I manage to think and plan one move in advance. Mostly I just do something because of tunnel vision and then I am surprised by what I missed.

[@lowgn4320]

joey gettin ready for chess boxing

[@dipsaha2354]

After watching this video I have realised that I have played many perfect games of chess.😂😂

[@MrVovansim]

Brax just wanted to make it into a "never resign" video. Good on ya, mate!

[@ndexer]

this video was much more fun to watch than any of your pro videos imo, very relatable chess haha

[@aaradhyashelly2818]

Bruh

[@anunknownsky]

I'm 700 but why aren't my opponents like this

[@jjb5523]

Gotta love the passive-aggressive gaslighting about subscribing

[@israelgulley9104]

Levy thank you so much for all your content! I started this year as a 1300 and today I just passed 1700. If you’re wondering if your content is helping people it definitely is.

[@aliasgharzariwala2677]

To think I am a 650 rated and I am a thousand percent positive that I am better than both of them. I’m not even being cocky

[@muhammadhassanbhatti4752]

Me watching as soon as levi uploads speaks for itself

[@derpyderp997]

This ones sanity must've already crumbled.

[@ShadNex]

1:10 never subscribed to a channel from them talking about subscribers but i just did xd, watching like 30+ of your vids also helped

[@matteotrucco3223]

Props to me watching this at 00:59 (I live in Italy) with a 38.5 Degrees Celsius fever

[@jimgardoufy3647]

Thanks for all the fun content Levy!!! Long may it continue

[@realdanielpeach]

WHERE ARE THESE 700 elo players?! I’m around 750-800 and I NEVER see these guys

[@wham_sandwitch]

i actually can't tell if the brilliant that levy points at are actually brilliant, because even if they have a great idea behind them, he can always call them brilliant even if they aren't, and they're just great moves

[@joshstauffacher819]

Where are these people in my 700 Elo games

[@abdullahbawadi8188]

Perfection speaks for itself

[@derengel3398]

Chess=Perfection

[@abdullahbawadi8188]

@@derengel3398 not any chess

[@abdullahbawadi8188]

@@derengel3398 only

[@ВікторУсатенко-с5п]

Either perfectly good or perfectly bad play in chess ends in a draw.

[@airculver]

Hey levy, is there a reason you haven’t been doing recaps of the tournaments recently? I love every video you post, but I’d love to see recaps. I don’t watch matches live, so it’s nice to keep up with the pro scene via you.

[@olivererz6197]

He quit professional chess, it gave him too much anxiety

[@airculver]

@@olivererz6197 he said he had quit competing cause playing gave him anxiety, but he didn’t say anything about doing the recaps of other players. I know big events like tata steel are going on with some of the top GMs, but he isn’t making any recaps like normal

[@raintalon6138]

"He decided to activate his inner Magnus Carlson. But then he decided to activate his inner Carlos Magnison." 💀🤣

[@tommygun4486]

Makes us watch 20 mins of pain, to end in a draw, then dip like nothing happened 😂

[@whitesaint760]

Holy crap the foreshadowing at the beginning is gold

[@riccardolodi4456]

WOO BABY hell yeah nothing better than a Gotham video to make this afternoon even better!!

[@dime124]

As soon as this got a couple of minutes into the game I went "stalemate" to myself.

[@GenericInternetter]

"All the best players know how to force a draw." "Two queens is the *strongest draw*."