How To Win At Chess (Ep 3, 1300-1700)

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This is a new series I'm launching called How To Win At Chess. This is episode 3. We will feature many openings for beginners, intermediate, and hopefully advanced players, as well as discussions of middlegame strategy, tactics, and so on.
0:00 Introduction
0:33 GAME 1 vs. 1381 - DUTCH LENINGRAD
22:09 GAME 2 vs. 1478 - LONDON vs. KINGS INDIAN
34:42 GAME 3 vs. 1546 - EXCHANGE FRENCH DEFENSE
47:28 GAME 4 vs. 1700 - CLOSED SICILIAN
1:10:30 GAME 5 vs. 1731 - CARO KANN DEFENSE
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[@sudiptaadhikary3369]

Yah! Should have named how to win at chess while playing idiots. Bullshit games. Eric rossen is the best

[@cyclicalbard7848]

My man he’s trying to help out inexperienced players, so lay off

[@RemyTheRat93]

Who cares man, it helps some people

[@bepisman3962]

S T F U

[@unimaginableboi7164]

"Yah!"😂

[@psychoticmortacarn]

You should have named your account How To Sound Like A Complete Loser

[@astraestus8828]

Chess is so frickin addictive... I can’t stop watching these videos

[@edis0n]

Keep it up bro! I've been playing since middle school and wish I would've stayed at it throughout highschool. The grind doesn't have to stop

[@beena2730]

Please stop playing it🙏.. U dont know how dark this game is

[@edis0n]

@@beena2730ok Karen

[@elev8lqcit250]

@@beena2730dont listen to him, all you gotta make sure is that chess doesn't take over your life and deteriorate your mental state

[@matamax7342]

😂

[@osjos2822]

"Hey Levy, not sure if anyone has told you this before, but you look like Doritos cool ranch tastes" -Grafspeed in twitch chat

[@apharys8921]

At first I thought wtf? but then... yeah I see it, he totally does.

[@SuhasPai]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZ2Qd5KsidZjg8k Chess 2020 - Year in review

[@lukela-anni4453]

@@apharys8921 here's the timestamps 5:09

[@leadnitrate2194]

Lmao that guy was on to something

[@luke5118]

29:45 he apologises

[@pianodan10]

“A Rook that doesn’t move is like having a cat.”

[@masterlaughter4924]

😅😆

[@johnfife4370]

Good point

[@wyattseals3251]

I was really disappointed he didn't follow up with "but if you stop paying attention and walk right in front of it, it will smack you in the face"

[@alexanderreusens7633]

Chat seriously underestimates how solid 1700s can be

[@noob_gamer2787]

Gotham: It's mate in one and you can't stop it! Subs: I can't defeat you but he can *Fly has entered the chat*

[@liviousgameplay1755]

"I hate all flying... insects. I was gonna say 'all flying things,' then I realized that planes are pretty good." :D

[@kaderiddle3492]

I appreciate him saying it’s hard 1400+. It is definitely where is starts to get rather tough and you rely on your tactics and opening knowledge, not just your opponent pulling a botez gambit.

[@samtrout5147]

“We don’t just go here and lose like a botez.” -Levy 2020

[@pikalex_pixie2300]

I heard that :o I dont know much about the community, but why was that jab used?

[@Mr.Opinion]

@@pikalex_pixie2300 alexandra botez coined the term "botez gambit" which is characterized by losing the queen. Its a joke because its not a gambit, she just hangs her queen sometimes

[@That_Awesome_Guy1]

@@Mr.Opinion You mean alot?

[@Mr.Opinion]

@@That_Awesome_Guy1 lol

[@Frostgaming335]

49:32 flying insect distract Levy 53:45 Levy solve the problem

[@monaipsm]

Last time I was this early, Kasparov still the world champion

[@masterchief1520]

What

[@garveiveyiv2562]

@@masterchief1520 there is a meme where, if you are never early on a KZbin video, you name something a long time ago. so since Kasparov was the world champ such a long time ago, and this is a chess vid, he named him.

[@tassmh7080]

Hey dude I just gotta say by far the most helpful thing in helping me win has been stopping at critical moments and imagining how you would react in the situation if you were using that moment to teach me, you would sneer and be like "and just look. LOOK. Look at how disgusting this move is here." And you would do something so simple that I would overlook it and it just wins the game. Your smugness and appreciation about the cheekiness of chess has greatly helped my winrate.

[@mrchoon2010]

I love the way he talks about this level "It's tough at this level" "people ta this level have put a lot of time into their chess" It's like an IM is complementing my game, haha. Love it

[@vibrant_darnkess3936]

'win tempi on the horsey' -gotham, 2020

[@mc100hu]

34:20 shredding opened the position, then talking about Shrodinger's cat, very impressive

[@seanb.383]

Merry Christmas to you as well! The engine analysis after the first game was very instructive as during the game you gave your thoughts and reasons so when it came time to check against the engine I was able to follow. Really amazing how much weight in the first game two pawn moves carried: -2 losing pawn move early and then later another single pawn move would have allowed equalizing! Delightful and instructive game. Thank you. 🎄🎁

[@cloudownsyounoob]

The Caro at the end where you played an equal position was the most instructive thing I've seen in a while. I struggle in those positions a lot.

[@that_onearmguyyy4618]

im obessed with getting better at 19:07 this is my recent issues at the 1600 level that one wrong pawn move loses my advantage then game beyond frustrating... thanks for all this content i went from 1000- 1600+ just watching you eric and ben...

[@clashplaya8638]

I hit 1000 a few minutes ago. Thanks for everything you’ve taught me Levy!

[@joybreegaming8781]

Congratulations

[@oldmanyellsatscreen]

Nice one

[@Altamas285]

What's your rating now?

[@lorenzboerger3955]

I like how Levy says WE did this... Makes me feel I am a Badass player just by watching

[@Altamas285]

This deserves more likes..

[@Mumbolian]

I always thought Levi was so well adjusted for being a chess genius...then I saw him freak out about a fly.

[@tonycudjo9416]

Shout out to the first chess video that got me hooked back to chess. Because of your courses Levy, the last year my rating has climbed from 700 to 1550. Go get his courses people!!!🔥

[@KhaosShield]

The quality of Chess is admirable and the instructional technique is fabulous. The reaction when a fly is in the room and gets within Levy's safe space.... Priceless!.

[@midhunnair80]

I love GothamChess videos. Always informative and good stuff to improve chess. Keep it up.

[@bkorodi1797]

You are pumping out so much quality content that i decided to stop playing chess for a week to have enough time for learning and watching all these .

[@xFionna]

yet you improve more by playing than watching, a combination of both would be better i'd say

[@aaronbaldwin4900]

This series is so great. It's one thing to be told strategies, but even better to see the thought process as the game goes on

[@thebus3181]

Merry Christmas Also, I forgot to do this yesterday... Day four of telling Levy that he is the best chess instructor. Also as a 1400 this was very helpful.

[@lohit9206]

Hey man, appreciate these daily uploads, I'd be great if you could make a video on subtle things like using bishop pairs, exploiting position disadvantage of opponent and more such things ❤️

[@ashe_xox]

that would have to be more of a series honestly, theres so much to cover in the positional aspect of chess

[@Hsel-lc1wt]

Check out the channel ChessNetwork! He's got a really useful playlist called beginner to chess master which covers most of the topics you're asking about :)

[@sagharkhalili2959]

Man I love your videos thank you so much Also happy new year 2021

[@dragonbane44]

Opponent plays exchange French. Me: it is tricky Levy: ohhh it's disgusting and boring Me: it is disgusting and boring

[@jasonkolcun7849]

Love ya Levy. Merry Christmas ⛄🎄 and happy holidays.

[@adamk8945]

You’re amazing! Nicely done

[@dariopalomba8420]

Merry Christmas to you and thanks for your videos. Best wishes from Athens, Greece.

[@bartdekoker1337]

Again great instructive video Learning a lot Thx

[@20teverify]

This is the best series. I've already commented this on the first one, but it needs to be said: Strong players playing blitz vs 1000s is pointless, it's just a clown fiesta. This clearly shows that 1300, 1200 don't blunder every second move and we can actually learn to build plans and strategies. Absolutely amazing teaching, it's great to hear your thought process! Keep them coming!

[@Bhubnipz]

That benevolent part around 46:45 was surreal as hell

[@pinkimpostor1597]

Merry Christmas Levy and Gotham

[@JacobScott0000]

Nice. Thanks Levi. Keep em coming

[@mikaelzen9075]

I love u guy! Keep on doing these videos...Watching u from Germany

[@bishopgreenhill4359]

Levy,please please please do a openings guide/course on that particular line of the closed sicilian.This looks really cool and hard for black to play,because its so trappy.Watch your videos every day,ratings climb with white and black even though ive seen them many many times.Never miss a video of yours,great channel prob the biggest on you tube.Oh i love the courses ive bought the New york style E4 and dynamite D4,vienna gambit is deadly lol

[@michaellegeyt8273]

these are really good videos thank for doing them, please keep going!!!

[@kentonbenoit9629]

Tell me your religion

[@Edward-rf1yu]

6:29 That message in chat got me messed up. Wtf

[@JamesTenuta-zm8rf]

Impressive Teaching because Levi gets You to th point of Understanding that there is always more to Learn & that is Genius!

[@cialaisvis6862]

Oh this is brand new. Was just looking for this sort of material, on my learning path, just got to 1300+ and considering my next steps

[@hagosa5299]

Merry Christmas Levy

[@sudarshan3901]

most funny episode till now...couldn't control my laugh on that fly thing

[@nonamehere9658]

1:08 - You've said Leningrad/Ленинград without any accent!

[@tomas-wi8dy]

Merry Christmas you to Levy!

[@thejew599]

Could you post the games in the description so we can analyze them later?

[@teddygoboom1]

Just go on levy's account, don't think he plays many rapid games. Or just search his opponent's name

[@MeMe-nm7jr]

I kind of agree with OP here. It would take Levy way less time to export the PGNs and post them in the description than for users to have to go searching for these games in another platform. Even if that's easy enough to do, it could get confusing if Levy's played the player a couple times or like if we don't know the dates they played or which game was the one posted here or stuff like that. Just so much easier to provide PGNs of games IMHO. Takes seconds to export, post, and import.

[@thecurefan1]

That made my day, you girls ROCK!!

[@KSG148]

Merry Christmas Levy!

[@pdawg999999]

Yo levy happy holidays this year sucked but I at least got into chess and your videos are nice

[@BK-uy9nj]

Merry christmas levy! Hope youre doing well man

[@skii_mask_]

the fly b-plot was exhilarating.

[@yannickokpara4861]

In the palto game, before the rook moved down to give king space, there was qh8 check then king runs to f8 which now opens up a connection between the queen and rook on the h-file and rxf7 delivers checkmate

[@yannickokpara4861]

That is if you had played the rook move earlier

[@lesterlesoine9225]

"Finegold cult member "=o)...he is a very unique person. His humor & sarcasm is an acquired taste kind of detracts from his chess knowledge. Yours, john Bartholomew and Daniel naroditsky are some of my favorite chess vloggers. Thanks again for all you do to help improving & understanding chess better

[@vrezhgulyan6834]

I like the look of the Leningrad Dutch defense in game one, looks like a kings Indian without all the shuffling required for the e5 pawn break

[@andredobbs5390]

Very instructive

[@skateboardchess]

This is very helpful!

[@Creative-CTRL]

Levy, thank you for being my KZbin Coach! I've played since I was a kid taught by an older friend. I always lost to him, and I always lost to the best player in my middle school chess club. Lol I never knew any strategy or defense setups I just played. With your videos I've gotten way better in just a couple months. I picked up a Chess Players Bible from the library to study Openings and strategies more in depth. I can't wait to play my old friend so I can get my long-awaited revenge for the hundreds of times he beat me! Keep creating great chess content!

[@joeb4142]

Git er done!

[@Sndcbr]

Love these new videos

[@stupidassol]

Merry Christmas to you as well!

[@Harrogin]

34:17 Schrodinger’s Rook

[@PoToDeX]

‘My opponent is like a dementor sucking all the happiness out of the position” by gothamchess awesomeness

[@sevenssports4421]

Happy christmas sir!!!

[@guilhermebgirardi]

My friend, 57:05 was straight no chaser. You may be even better wordless. Way to go...

[@MrEDMeaner]

So many highlights, aside from the great chess lessons. (The fly x2, the sarcasm, the great reactions)

[@zwren3693]

Love this series

[@vishalsingh-yj8bk]

levy just love this series!! Keep em coming

[@cookiemonster-nk3xb]

These videos care great!

[@kylesanford4341]

Your sarcasm makes these videos gold lol

[@theobeulakker3492]

you too merry christmas watch a lot of you're videos thx

[@ctriamimgons]

just found this dude. he's a beast and personable.

[@kentonbenoit9629]

So am I

[@drvofoka7033]

Dude something about that whole "Merry Christmas hope you're all doing well" was just so freaking adorable.

[@valiantchen1938]

Merry Chrismas , my man!!!

[@arthurwieczorek4894]

3:15 / Re your concept 'danger levels', which no one else seems to use. For many years now I have use 'valance leverage' to mean the same thing.

[@pawnhub8033]

Soooo much content. :D I cant handle it

[@nicholasthibodeau9704]

merry christmas Levy

[@410ha]

Can you make a Video about checkmate patterns ? and how to see chekmates ?

[@googly3533]

hey, thanks for making these videos and offering clean quality content. Its very helpful and obviously, entertaining. 👍🏻

[@chetanvaidya768]

I like his confidence..he doesn't give the shit about ur rating 😂😂😂😂😂

[@gducioevdgxyeuvddd3828]

He’s confident his opponent knows he’s being watched on stream and they won’t be using an engine on levy that’s why he’s not scared. The amount of cheaters at that rating pool is really really bad. But live stream reveals everything

[@leadnitrate2194]

@@gducioevdgxyeuvddd3828 I'm at about that level, and I don't really see a lot of cheaters. Why do you think there are more cheaters at this level than others?

[@neverbeenoutside4963]

@@augustgreig9420 not any that you know of. Its really easy to hide

[@gducioevdgxyeuvddd3828]

Most of the time it’s not full strength stock fish. Which is pretty standard for chessdotcom players. U play enough you’ll know who’s using it and when they aren’t.

[@JoanRaba21]

46:43 The benevolent and benelovent thing just like Peter Dinklage's GoT bloopers rflmao

[@eshedruf]

57:08 doink bink doink shnap bam slam

[@maxhenderson1890]

36:55 who would’ve ever guessed Gotham is scared of flies 😂😂😂

[@shreesammatjoshi7934]

4th day of missing the person appreciating levy for his daily uploads.

[@gauravsaimaddipati8356]

Lol

[@benjaminguitar6480]

I can't wait to check out what music you are rocking Levi, so far I've only heard terrible music taste from chess masters so far lol

[@carrots1550]

Great video

[@therealmaaz]

love this series

[@meeeshroom]

1.5 hours of chess with my favorite streamer Levy! Thank you

[@MrKrishs]

Thank you so much Levy for the great content everyday :) learning a lot from you. Merry Christmas 🎄

[@Serenade314]

I love your videos! Your ability to explain your train of thought really makes this as educational as well as entertaining.

[@andrewharper1609]

A little history lesson for those who don't know. Leningrad was the Soviet era name for St Petersburg (Petrograd).

[@charlesbrown8879]

I didnt know that. Thanks for that nugget of information.

[@tingxu2939]

Merry Christmas!

[@bigflibbbigflubb]

Merry holidays and happy Christmas fellas

[@jason0joon]

What would be very instructive would be if you played the "balanced game" on chess with people lower than you so you just start less material. That way you can show how to win when behind and how to cover the loss of the material and also teach your opponent how to take advantage of a material lead and convert a winning position.

[@joonpak]

46:45 Levy gets confused and believes benelovent is in fact the proper way to say benevolent

[@exuviumisopods]

Could someone suggest reading on what GothamChess said regarding light/black squares and the understanding behind that in chess?

[@stefanpejak9131]

31:24 Can I disable chat on twithc. Yes Nick you can. I always do it. Just put some electrical tape over the place where chat is or use screwdriver to kill those annoying pixels.

[@gokusoloscope]

Or just create a hole or crack in the chat

[@DanoftheDead805]

Favorite moment of the whole stream @36:46

[@Angelinaaajolie]

Nice vid as always :))))