MAGNUS CARLSEN - PERFECT GAME!!

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18:50 Magnus, But Dont Skip
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[@stephenmossler1675]

This exquisitely illustrates the mindset that is plagueing the American man. Rather than actually trying to reach this concept of ‘perfection' himself, GothamChess instead resigns himself to simply praising and talking about the achievements of others. This ‘observer' mindset is what is causing the gradual, silent decline of our nation. America is the worlds most influential trading partner, and we cannot afford to lose our position as a global investor, but sadly this is what is happening due to the passivist nature of our citizens. The world will not look upon America favorably if we continue to be seen as a nation of whinhing, passive snowflakes. I understand this is a bit unrelated to the video, but i just need to let out some of the frustration that has been building up. Chess is a perfect example of what is happening, as we've even gone to the point of inventing machines to play the game for us, so we dont even have to put any effort in, and can simply sit back and enjoy the show. Levy Rosmann is a representative of this whole group of commentary channels that waste their lives simply on observing the achievements of more taltented people, a defective man. I hope that one day that America will look back at us in shame, and wish they descended from a nation of innovators and inventors, but I'm afraid there will be nobody left to look back.

[@oussemaharrathi382]

what kind of pin is this? pin of shame ?

[@akritisingh2675]

Pin of shame

[@atomichamster2709]

Bro what?

[@dimitrispapadakis2122]

Pin of insane

[@obibellowme]

Pin of incel

[@bennyvyshedskiy3909]

When Magnus doubles his pawns: ah yes but of course he's opening the file for his rook, When Ian doubles his pawns: you dumb boy you just created weaknesses

[@neerajgupta1068]

Lmao 🤣🤣

[@noopSiesNife]

Well it’s still a weakness for Magnus

[@smitsolanki2660]

😂😂

[@Alan-cm7ye]

I won against opponent in Lichess. I got double pawns & extra knight lol.

[@aronbjornkristinsson2099]

Not the same situation at all. Kings pawns vs queens pawns.

[@dkpandey1996]

Can you really blame Levy, or anyone, for being a Magnus fanboy after that game? It was a masterclass.

[@PMartinez55]

I don't blame him for being a fanboy. I blame him for his really annoying, repetitive, nondescript titles.

[@dkpandey1996]

@@PMartinez55 On that I'm with you.

[@user-no3id7li4h]

@@PMartinez55 well i can't really say no can i ?

[@kylezo]

@@PMartinez55 you can't get pinned from here bro try a top level pickme comment

[@dreamchaser1774]

@@kylezo he's not wrong tbf

[@Lordin_]

Mr. Rozman, do you REALLY think that just cause you gently asked in the time stamp for me to not skip to Magnus, i’m not going to do it? You DARE to underestimate how much of a Magnus fanboy I am?

[@Lordin_]

I didn’t skip just because of the audacity

[@lerchen4897]

lol

[@Wick291]

I found Magnus's white knight.

[@maybe-ef4ch]

@@Wick291 congrats, you missed the irony and self-awareness and decided to instead insult somebody. here's a medal 🎖

[@yesimpato]

@@maybe-ef4ch don't cry dud

[@kevinhawkshaw8784]

Magnus just wants a chess position, slightly better, slightly worse, and he will squeeze water from a stone for a win. Yes he's great in the opening, steering clear of his opponent's prep and getting the game into his style of position. Yes he's great tactically and makes few mistakes. But holy hell it's his positional understanding and endgames that really separate him. He wins games no one should win, against opponents who wouldn't lose a game like that to anyone else.

[@talphazero1036]

Magnus Effect They know he can do it, so they get scared that he will

[@eezz101]

@@talphazero1036 he is just better mate

[@talphazero1036]

@@eezz101 He is definitely the best player, but trust me, a good little chunk of his wins can be attributed to his opponents chickening out of their playstyles to try and stop Magnus from doing Magnus things. Take a look at Fabi Vs Magnus WCC. Fabi didn't reinvent his style to go against Magnus. He played like Fabi, and though that just ended the games in draws, he didn't embarrass himself by trying to be different. Magnus just does things to people that make them realise they aren't going against a regular player

[@roywall8169]

It does not matter who plays for the title, everyone knows who the best player on the planet is.

[@grak1396]

Stockfish?

[@erikskov8759]

@@grak1396 Magnus "Stockfish" Carlsen! Cheers!!

[@12jswilson]

I do feel bad for the winner of Nepo-Ding. Very few will consider them the true World Champion. It'll be "They're the World Champ, but ..."

[@manuelbonelli3690]

@@12jswilson not even very few. Noone lol

[@mr.anonymous5961]

@@12jswilson I think its fair . If they really are World Champ then prove it . Prove you are better than Magnus . Beat him convincingly. Become No. 1 Rated player in the world . Show Consistency. No point in demanding the title , Conquer It

[@langajay506]

Me trying to sleep 😴😴😴 Levy: Magnus Carlsen perfect game Me: ok few minutes I'm out...

[@maximussaktish]

Magnus proving that just because hes not playing the world championship doesnt mean hes not the best (that did noy age well but in my defense no one wouldve thought nieman would beat magnus as black)

[@anilbista7445]

magnus doesn't need title ,title needs magnus

[@moon4tzuyupokeonce41]

@@anilbista7445 exactly...!!!

[@eezz101]

Magnus doenst need to prove anything these days, everyone knows he is the best, highest rated player since forerver mate

[@Szeru]

He has a title of being Magnus. Whoever will win this damn WC is going to be a second player in the world xD

[@aimalkhan8417]

“I’m gunna squeeze my little thing here, you know stress reliever” -Levy

[@autoimmunedefficiencysyndrome]

I once played a perfect game. My opponent only made 1 blunder. It lasted around 6 moves

[@r.m2192]

I’ve had a couple of 99% accuracy games but they were only like 20-15 moves

[@lucasjuhlsiems9209]

@@r.m2192 Same! Mine lasted 2 or 3 moves. I'm just great

[@r.m2192]

@@lucasjuhlsiems9209 Wow those 2 or 3 moves of prep make you as good as Stockfish. Impressive stuff good job.

[@chosen729]

Ha! I played 1. e4 and then the game was aborted. The game of my career!

[@autoimmunedefficiencysyndrome]

@@chosen729 That's a perfect game alright 👍 xD

[@benjaminanderson6709]

Alireza said in the interview that Qb3 was not prep. Just something he decided OTB.

[@aluminiumknight4038]

@@vampireducks1622 he was surprised by fabi and played Qb3 knowing it's not the best move and it gives an equal position just to get a game out of fabi's preparation

[@kanlin2501]

Its going to feel so weird after the championship match between Ding and Nepo knowing that the champion is actually 2nd in the world..... By a very very margin at too.

[@TheMarc477]

Yep they might aswell skip the world championship till Magnus retires. Would also be fun if Magnus would troll cadiditated tournament by beating everyone and then not playing WC hahah

[@agarrikr2996]

@@TheMarc477 well he doesn’t want to play championship for the mental strain it does, therefore he wouldn’t play vs the candidates because that’s literally the same.

[@swordsman1137]

Well, Kramnik is #1 when he beat Kasparov. Rustam, Topalov are also not #1 iirc when they played world championship match

[@alexx3940]

We all know who nr 1 actually is no matter whose name is on the first spot

[@jaideepshekhar4621]

@@agarrikr2996 There he doesn't have anything to prove. He can just enjoy himself.

[@thomasseale2234]

Alireza said in the post game interview that Qb3 wasn't his prep, he just found it over the board and he thought it looked interesting.

[@D3ADBR0]

LEVY IS REALLY GRINDING KZbin NOWADAYS.

[@lucaspaiva8659]

When he's not grinding KZbin?

[@wanderleisilvainabowtie2574]

You gotta do what you gotta do to put Yak in your belly.

[@sparksdrinker5650]

You accidently have CAPS on.

[@MsLuxisss]

Hey levy! I wanted to thank you for all your amazing content 💕. I had my first tournament some time ago and i had a +9 position using the grob against a 1700 fide and lost. It was freaking amazing. All that was in my mind was danger levels and check captures attack. Then i lost under time pressure. Keep being an amazing teacher

[@onniruusunen9444]

Loved the game from magnus. Karpov type of manuevering and creating weaknesses slowly until the opponent collapses

[@maximussaktish]

I really want to see a classical game between magnus and ding

[@charlesknoepp2865]

Levy you deserve all your success! Thank you for this amazing content! 👍❤

[@slythespacecat]

watched the whole thing but the Magnus game was just sublime. Even with Levy explaining things it felt like watching a natural phenomenon happening. Like, slowly but surely the eval bar goes up, opponent runs out of moves, Magnus wins. Dude makes it look so simple it's magical sometimes

[@HauntedZA]

Love the energy and style of these recaps

[@neeru7298]

It's literally impossible not fanboying for Magnus. I really love your recaps man! You made me a better player

[@Timmyjoc]

Dayum Gotham going hard lately with the vids, nice!

[@joemcglone7267]

Has to be one of the most “engine” games a person has ever played. All patience and slowly improving

[@JOBAVALONDONONLY420]

Top content as always! Will you play some chess variants?

[@sagemodelogic1432]

Love ur videos so much keep making the amazing content

[@nicolaspacettiterra4043]

I think that the idea of Kf8 in the Wesley game might have been to sidestep Bh7+ In the game you mentioned, in which d4 was played, after exd4 Nxd4 was impossible due to Nxd4 and Bh7+, winning the exchange But after Kf8, black may be threatening Qb4 and d4

[@skyhighclips6528]

I actually saw Levy at a grocery store in New York City a while ago. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

[@dark_magician_sdy]

Nice larp

[@maybe-ef4ch]

Levy is the tamest of new york citizens

[@DarrylHart]

OK I know I asked for the POS. But I'll gladly pass up my request for you to have it.

[@cahallo5964]

This one's old

[@yannickweineck4302]

I've read the exact same story about sirActionSlacks , I don't think it's true. Sounds like a copy paste thing.

[@esther.s_crochet]

with the help of your videos, levy, I was able to play a perfect caro with a centi-pawn loss of 15 near the beginning of my chess. I LOVE your channel and all of your content is SO helpful!

[@Khesner]

Levy, your choices of words and phrases is what bring me to your videos. Thank you!

[@about30ninjas96]

Would you consider covering the women’s speed chess championship final? Hou Yifan and Lagno had some fantastic games, and the match was wild

[@tracethomas7946]

Your lamp is back!!! I missed lamp so much. Thank you!! I bought my own lamp just like it awhile ago.

[@galacticsalt7336]

Love ur content levy, ever since ive started watching your videos, I’ve gained +300 elo to 800 and beat a 1400

[@GridToast]

ty for uploading levy

[@mst3ksanta]

8:55 those moves make more sense since whites king is behind a nicer pawn structure and the blacks c pawn is gone. also the black knights are further from the king but aren't in a position to attack may squares

[@elikaminski1660]

Levy I love your videos man

[@monithirty3485]

Great recap vidoes! I have a suggestion for you, doing a recap on the World Youth Championship that starts on 6th sep, in Mamaia, Romania.

[@Aakarsh350]

Oooh. Slow and steady Magzy!💎

[@lib-center96]

The pinned guy does not understand that not everyone has time to analyse games and break it down into understandable chunks with the help of an engine to appreciate it. Levy here not only does that, he brings understandable and interesting commentary that brings life and joy to the Game of Kings. This can be inspirational and engaging to not only chess afficionados, but newer generations of tech literate talents that might actually have a knack at the sport and might just be, for lack of a better word, genii that take the game to another level when they fully mature. When you ask a champion who inspires them, they often say it's a genius or talent before them and their COACH, or someone who gave them the push to even try their hand at the beginning. Levy is that same person for many of us here in the Gotham Chess community, and rather than bringing chess to a decline, is helping it grow for even the international audience (hi that's me included) and bring the glory to new heights and not new lows like the commenter described. Now a personal shoutout to Levy, I know it must be stressful running a channel especially with such insane comments while you're trying to engage with your audience even in the comments (which must take a lot of time). I hope you're doing well on a personal note, as your mental health is something we in the audience care about besides the chess. Looking forward to the recap of round 2, cheers from SG

[@apexpredator36]

There was no obvious blunder or even big inaccuracy from Nepo's side and still Magnus choked him positionally as if it's nothing even though Nepo is playing WCC next year😂

[@meruemo776]

Interesting how Ian went undefeated in the candidates but immediately loses the first classical game to magnus after. Tbh ding vs ian for the championship is more exciting than a repeat result of the last time

[@xXG3TPWNEDXx]

People keep acting like Nepo should be world champ but the guy gets stomped by Magnus everytime. 🤣

[@maximussaktish]

Candidates proofs that nepo is the clear number 2 in the world but magnus is just too strong

[@gagak1557]

Nepo seems disheartened now

[@msizi-innocentmanqele4899]

@@maximussaktish I think the psychological part has more to do with this checkout the statistics between kasparov and vish the exact thing happened.

[@adityavv96]

Who are those people ?

[@Mathijs_A]

@@maximussaktish Magnus is destroying Nepo and Nepo has easily beaten the rest in the candidates, but that doesn't mean Magnus woud beat the others like this. In a match vs Alireza, Ding, Caruana, Levon etc Magnus would probably win, but not by winning over half the games

[@didntwantmyrealnameanymore]

it feels like caruana's one game in 2018 where he had that one winning chance was like humanity's last chance against magnus or something

[@joshdarius5995]

Terrific commentary, thx

[@BakedFishy]

2:33 Alireza said after the game that the move wasn't in his prep. He made it up over the board.

[@johanfrodell7346]

Perfect recap of a perfect game!

[@Giniro_No_Suisei]

I love how he describe chess matches like a sport tournament.

[@mismis3153]

I also got a perfect game once. Granted, it did end in 3 moves by the fool's mate but I think it's still impressive.

[@Meteo_sauce]

The opening magnus played has consistently been played by stockfish 15 against alphazero i think magnus took inspiration from stockfish

[@pr0fessorstone]

you have some of the coolest chess videos

[@Memer44]

Today i realised how frustrated levy was when he would always press the forward ⏩ button.

[@sharonsabu365]

I love these types of arcs

[@saulsalgador.3842]

Have a great weekend, nice recap :D

[@spooktracks3270]

Don’t you dare try to make me feel guilty skipping to magnus in the chapter titles😈

[@aluminiumknight4038]

Alireza said he played Qb3 over the board to get out of "forced lines", aka fabi prep.

[@dusk5121]

The magnus game felt like how a master fights a student until the student is exhausted and falls simply by a gentle touch. This guy is unfair

[@pallettownkid4778]

That was a great recap and great game wow

[@leerobbo92]

That Magnus game is one of the most unassumingly beautiful games I've ever seen. Made all the better by that context of him saying how bad that structure is long term. Unreal. Is he going to get even better without the time sink and pressure of the WC?!

[@philipmaher2198]

Thanks for the recap video Levy . You and Daniel Naroditsky are the best to watch .

[@user-xe8pl5rt4i]

could you please share like a pgn of observed games in the description?

[@JoelJosephJojish]

Hey levi could u pls tell me what a centipawn loss is I checked in google I didn't quite understand

[@PrinceFlynnRider]

Magnus Carlsen is a BEAST.

[@tuahnakir6189]

I love your socioeconomic commentary of the price of apartment in New York City!!! :D

[@derjoe642]

Levy is kind of a mentor for many people playing chess, but also for people who don't play chess. This channel is insanely interesting for the sport itself and everyone who is interested in playing games requiring a little bit of intellect and mental strength. Chess as 1on1 sport can do so much with the ability to reflect own mistakes and building some attitude in everyday life. Great, entertaining commentary and its kind of motivating for me playing the queen on some squares again. Kind regards from a man who's playing chess like a three year old.

[@fusettimatteo]

I get perfect games too sometimes but it's just a 20 move sweep in the Vienna gambit, this is crazy

[@mariorm__]

Love your content Gotham ❤️

[@jonawolters1079]

Qb3 was not Alireza‘s prep. He said afterwords in the interview that he came up with that over the board.

[@MacDaniboi]

When I get it it's because my opponent walked into my opening trap and got mated on move 10, when he does it it's through mindboggling tactics and positional play and perfect understanding.

[@Ttj007]

I’m still waiting for a impression part 2

[@Uhthis]

God, I really love watching Magnus play. He's beyond this world.

[@rainrain3759]

Nice lighting

[@lonelyfriday6022]

I am a very new begginer of like 250 elo and i know a setup london system opening and caro kaan and i often find myself coming across moves that nobody in their right mind would play against these openings but i don't know how to punish them accordingly.

[@vogel2499]

Solving hundreds of puzzles could help you to quickly recognize tactical error. More subtle, positional blunder is harder to recognize though, puzzle training simply won't help you for that.

[@aluminiumknight4038]

250 rating? Just worry about your own pieces, don't lose them

[@vogel2499]

@@aluminiumknight4038 Mostly I agree, but it would be tragic if someone persistently bongcloud his way to 1000 rating.

[@lonelyfriday6022]

@@aluminiumknight4038 thanks, i think i might be a little above 300 but i’m working on not resigning games also

[@Brusswuoka]

If you really are at 300 Elo, the only thing you should care about is not to evidently blunder pieces. Do not study openings or such because players at that level won't play anything theoretical. Just think before moving pieces and you should be fine. I've personally never been at 300 Elo (when I started playing chess a year ago I was already at 900), but I've made it to 1500 without studying a single line of theory.

[@pinguinultrazn1t706]

7:42 "What do you think, you think i'm smart? Guys i'm a youtuber" 😂😂

[@TedThomasTT]

I saw a video of you without glasses, you looked cool dude.

[@hjhjhjwh]

So its a mini candidate tournament ...where world champion is also included

[@jenzhen2361]

Can we all appreciate Gotham for a near midnight upload

[@Pizmos]

As my rating has grown in chess, I’ve started to appreciate these recaps of top level games more and more. Guess the elo may be entertaining but it doesn’t bring my understanding of the game up very much. Love the videos, keep it up!

[@kushalsaha6299]

What is centi pawn loss??

[@solomonyaakobov4428]

Can someone please explain what is a centipawn?

[@msizi-innocentmanqele4899]

I'm here for Levy's witty commentary, chess is just a bonus for me. 🤞🔥😹💯❤️

[@Marhakesh]

Yes!! Slower pace! I support that.

[@RaptorWolf81]

I waited all day for this video!! I knew you wouldn't miss the chance to use Magnus as a bait

[@williamrobert9898]

it was not a bait 🤦‍♂

[@bedribeygin07]

My english is getting better thanks to you. Thank you very much.

[@gladosadoree]

"What did Hans do wrong?" I think he proved that maybe chess doesn't always speak for itself.

[@Philson]

wcc prep?

[@charliep726]

I was wondering how much it cost to live in NYC the place where you can by closet for seven figures

[@robologo]

Wow that last game was sick

[@9389sharm]

How come Levy started using Lichess?

[@riched5045]

LES GO LEVY

[@slythespacecat]

before i watch the video i have to say this: often times i forget how good Levy is at chess (i know elitists will say he's only an IM, idgaf dude, whatever). Yesterday when the Sinquefield Cup was underway i checked twitch to see if anybody i liked was covering it and saw he was online. So i watched a bit, enough to see the guy crushing chessle with a beefeater Threw me back to the pre-youtube days, watching on twitch a blitz game ending i'll never forget: chat was wilding as usually, Levy just being his casual self having fun and then proceed to show how to mate with bishop and knight - now, i know this is trivial for his level, but to me it was awesome to see. Like, he made the opponent go to the wrong corner just to show how it doesn't work, and how to send the opponent to the right corner. Then counted the moves, looked at the clock, quickly checked in his head to make sure there was no 3 move rep (he didn't say this, but i know this had to go through his mind) and pre-moved the whole sequence So, bottom line, you've gotten so good with these recaps, making them interesting and appealing like no one else can in YT, that sometimes i forget how good you actually are as a chess player as well Much love Levy, now to the video! (idk if you'll see this, but if you do, hope it brings a little positivity to your day!)

[@jacobcarter2700]

Thank you for the the videos and teaching chess.

[@alwaysup22]

Looking back at this round 1, commentary is very very interesting on Hans. Stockfish loved Hans' position and he didn't convert... But interesting how his position was computer approved ;)

[@siddhantchess]

It would be so frustrating for the next world champion to not be considered the strongest player

[@donsmith3857]

that last game shows just how good magnus is

[@ctr7503]

At about 0:55 ya said "He played a perfect game and we gotta check that out. But first! The appetizer games of the round!" But what I heard was: "But first! I gotta make sure KZbin doesn't smite me into oblivion with retention time statistics."

[@Vincent-nz4vt]

Favorite quote of the video: "You think i'm smart? I'm a youtuber"

[@jeremyelvin8319]

what the heck happend to levie's lighting?

[@vivalakid]

I am a beginner and still new to chess, so please do not hunt me down, but does the structure of Magnus not look a little like a Jobava London opening, without having c2?

[@hp7639]

Magnus looks on the sweet side on the thumb nail whike Nepo looks vicious and real beast.

[@V_ChessGuy]

Levy what’s your best centipawn loss? Mine’s like 23

[@paramchhaya]

Can anyone explain to me what does senti pawn loss mean?