Please make it stop

[@abatedrogue3755]

Still waiting for Gotham to make a series where he coaches a 400 and sees how quickly he can take him up to a 1500

[@gapl2370]

yes

[@rasheedmiller8938]

@gothamchess do this!

[@nazareno3121]

@Correct omg i hate u and all of ur kind

[@WRSHP]

@Correct can you explain what exactly stuff he’s spraying?

[@absoluteradiance5423]

I'm 1300, i could also use another 1100 elo

[@yoda_in_pyjamas574]

Please someone buy a bottle for Levy... Man is drinking from a flower pot

[@o_s-24]

Let's raise money for him

[@gumhoy5054]

Reduce Reuse Recycle! 😃

[@renobgm]

Let it happen.

[@SilverionX]

Could be worse. The flower could still be in there.

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

It's like when you used rice water to water plants, but he's using that water he used to water the plants as his drinking water.

[@muhammadshams3326]

"Stop playing chess" thanks Levy, I needed this.

[@jelvi6725]

You have been stuck in 1100 for a year. Lesson: Don't try again

[@muhammadshams3326]

@@jelvi6725 😭

[@B0wser998]

Update: It's called "Please make it stop" now

[@muhammadshams3326]

@@B0wser998 that's even better

[@Numerixx]

But Levy still somehow has the right to call our games "diarrhea"

[@denispasanen9237]

Levy in 2022 - How to improve your chess Levy in 2023 - Stop playing chess Levy in 2024 - Stop thinking about chess

[@vinesworth]

Gets arrested in 2025

[@voidgamer7122]

@@vinesworth gets out of prison in 2035 and uploads a video called just “stop”

[@securityyt9791]

2026:

[@efulmer8675]

Levy in 2025 - Stop chess Levy in 2026 - Stop Levy in 2027 -

[@TactfulWaggle]

2024 here, agreed and accurate

[@sammcelhone2836]

You and Hikaru should each get a player rated 600 or less and give them 2 weeks of free lessons and see which one wins

[@aoyuki1409]

they kind of did with the pogchamp tournament and it ended horribly hilarious

[@solifa1]

What about Levy and Magnus?

[@thanosnoctem4473]

@@solifa1 Magnus isn't really the best teacher ngl.

[@bananamakes9053]

@@thanosnoctem4473”So the rule of the square is, well… IDK what the rule of the square is.” -The man himself

[@usabob_138]

u should do a challenge where u get a lower rated played that thinks they deserve a certain elo and make them play a best of 3 against that elo

[@stisoisfnr7769]

Actually that sounds like it would be so fun! (If ppl are real about it and not trolling, which could also happen ez)

[@jar5498]

This would be really satisfying to watch. I've seen so many people saying things like "oh I'm lower rated but I'm really good *for my rating*." Like no you're not, if you were better than your rating, your rating would be higher

[@randoprior4130]

I think this is a great idea. It's a super popular idea in lots of video games so might get picked up by the algorithm like crazy too!

[@maryantony9413]

@Gothamchess

[@B2washere]

@@jar5498 Theres lots of games like valorant that being in a lower rated elo while deserving a higher 1 is common. But in chess its impossible cause as you said, you would be higher elo already.

[@ARlSh84]

This video made me think that Gotham is catching me breathing oxygen for no reason

[@ARlSh84]

@Correct no thx I cannot be baited

[@Pomgranate]

you know its a bad game when levy says "so far so good" 4 moves into the game

[@quixotix9540]

Bold of you to assume these are noticeable mistakes under 2000

[@andersj91]

Chess is like Rocket League. You still have whiffs and bad games at high level, but they're rare and something to laugh about, not constant sources of frustration. Consistency is key

[@Alex1000tenten]

Don't see how Rocket League in specific is relevant, in all games you make mistakes, and that is not unique to one specific one

[@tay7412]

@@Alex1000tenten dude, he just picked rocket league as the example. No big deal

[@Rayalot72]

@@tay7412 His choice is unacceptable. Should have picked Dota 2.

[@squadwiper79]

This is rocket league. What's your rank in rocket league

[@mattiassollerman]

Chess is like curling. The more you practice the better you become.

[@danielkimble5127]

6:20 Taking space is when my opponent pushes pawns; overextending is when I push pawns

[@christossavvides5153]

And when the opponent loses all their pawns and I find myself having a better position, I am wondering how I did it. Not replicable.

[@ChristianRandorff]

I love the addition of the clock, makes it so you can understand the players time situation and relate that to their moves.

[@seniorhn8604]

Levy staring at my soul at the beginning is far scarier than anything I saw

[@thehunterwr4666]

Same

[@davidtrottier7066]

"Mom can I have a 2000 rating" "You have 2000 rating at home" 2000 rating at home

[@solifa1]

Lol

[@scriptself6092]

Lol

[@rdr6269]

"You should never feel bad about your terrible chess. Because it's never getting better, only worse!" Thanks Levy! Very Inspirational! Good talk! lol

[@bplup6419]

Me: *gets drunk and plays chess all night* *Next day Gotham releases a video* Me: *nervous whiskey sweats*

[@LillaMig]

Everyone that thinks gotham should coach a 400 rated player and get him to 1500 like this comment

[@DemonZangetsu23]

Chess is by far my favorite board game Also I would love to join a chess club to learn how to be better

[@StudyResearchfr]

Join one then You’ll regret not joining one

[@pepenunito1403]

@@chelbez I can't tell if it's sarcasm or not...

[@spaghettiking653]

@@chelbez har har har very funny

[@wakpak4399]

I usually play chess every Monday at a coffee shop, although it's not a chess club none of us are 2000-rated players.

[@maxs.5625]

@@chelbezI care

[@shubox5040]

This might just be me, but every video I watch, there's a 1 second period at 0:00 where Levy's AI realizes its recording then activates 'Radio Personality 31-A'

[@AstroKidLo]

I played a guy who was playing so cowardly he was up a rook, it was a queen/rook vs queen/2rooks endgame (and some pawns) and he literally had my king in the corner defended by my queen and he kept checking me and instead of trading queens the game ended a draw by repetition from him checking me and me offering the queen trade but him refusing 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@jesterpenetrate6912]

u got lucky there, he could have simplified and won

[@rosiefay7283]

11:38 I like it this way! It shows me whether you are showing a hypothetical line or what actually got played. Sometimes (in earlier videos) I've assumed you were showing a hypothetical line and it eventually turns out it was the actual game. With the clocks resetting I needn't make that mistake.

[@johndododoe1411]

Would be easier if it wasn't buried in small print. While demonstration on a board can't, this graphic display should have a highly visible indication so viewers don't have to take their eyes off the pieces being moved. As a computer professional, I would suggest moving discolored pieces (red/blue) while ghostly outlines stay in the real positions (pieces in original positions remain original color).

[@isavenewspapers8890]

Yeah, but you'd think they'd set it to say "--:--" or something.

[@user-cf9zp5wl4v]

Question for the community- I’m new at playing ranked chess and am only a 550 ELO with a 50/50 win/loss ratio against real opponents, but I can regularly beat a 1200 ELO computer 75/80% of the time. The question is wha gives? Lol. Do engines and people (especially at low ranks) just play differently? Are engines just more predictable? I appreciate the channel, and have learned a lot from Gotham, so thanks for the help

[@dandyosprey9405]

What I’ve found is that bots will play a decent op and then as long as you survive in the opening the Ai just self destructs at 1200 and will start hanging pieces in ways that a normal person just wouldn’t do. Real people usually end up blundering in a more discreet kind of way making it easy for you to miss capitalizing on, which leads to a closer game. This is at least how it comes across for me as someone who used to like only play the Ludwig bot.

[@siddharthamishra1999]

Yeah bots don't play like humans. It's very hard to program a bot to "play badly" like humans do, so lower rated bots are programmed to make bad moves randomly every once in a while. Humans don't really think like that, their play gets worse when a position is complicated or they're under pressure and their mistakes are more understandable. You can stall vs a lower rated engine and just wait for it to blunder something obvious. So really if you want to get good at chess, you should play against humans

[@teovinokur9362]

bots do not play like humans at all. make sure to play a couple 10-20 minute games against real people every day

[@PrimeHunter18]

Not all Bots are the same but generaly speaking bots play perfect until they blunder on purpose. some bots are also rubberbanding whitch means they play better when you are ahead and worse when you are behind.

[@siddharthamishra1999]

@@RedScotland It's literally impossible to beat the hardest computer, playing frequently against it won't help too much since you'll never see your progress (and it's demoralising). Just play humans and review the game using the engine later

[@Chryztallic]

"Black should be developing the bee-ship" - Gotham Chess

[@frankoshoF]

I can't stop , i like to suffer

[@munixi9351]

I have no clue how my dad has a higher rating, his signature moves are a3 and h3 on the first turns, and always bishop takes knight

[@rdr6269]

He trades in his bishops for knights and wins?

[@shanedsouza189]

@@rdr6269 it works better at lower elos because your opponents have Knight fork blind spots

[@JimmyBoosterCrate]

Dads often seem to be uncannily good at chess with virtually no principled openings, no studying chess at all, just a somehow genius brain. Mine is the same way

[@rdr6269]

@Jimmy This is a little off-topic, but Anna Cramling posted a street chess vid where this old guy almost beat her by bringing out the queen very early and moving mostly the queen for the rest of the game. In her analysis, he did have the winning position several times, I think. Broke major principles and still almost beat a high rated player, ha ha.

[@horiabodeanu7641]

My Balkan dad does the same he is 700 Elo. So I guess you are not alone 😅

[@shikharpal4194]

Levy earlier- How to improve at chess Levy now- Stop playing chess

[@cursedcat6467]

Me: I want 2000 elo games Mom: we have 2000 elo games at home 2000 elo games at home:

[@nichtsistkostenlos6565]

I guarantee you both of those guys finished that game and were like "welp, that's enough chess for today..."

[@Mystery_CLT]

BRO I EVEN SAW THAT CHECKMATE AND IM 700 RATED omg

[@ltothet2652]

Hi Levy, Just wanted to say thank you for your content, and i love your video on the Traxler counter Attack, i won so many games with it. Love from Germany.

[@assolutamentenessuno199]

Yeh

[@nekhbet_853]

The easy rule is that it’s overextending if I do it and taking space when GMs do it

[@TheToeGod1]

My accuracy is in the 10s 😂😂

[@GrandIens]

Tip for 3 digit players: Stop resigning. How many games has resigning made you lose? In 3 digit elo anything can happen so don’t resign.

[@Peter_panter]

I love the clocks can you always do that? It kinda adds context to the game.

[@abdullahimran4624]

that was only a slightly bad game even for 2100 chess...

[@error__music]

Hello! Great commentary as always. I just have a quick question as a new member of this community. How do I send games and how do I hide the names and elo rating for a hypothetical guess the elo episode? Thank you in advance!

[@TurtleGamers1]

New too. I assume some patreon kinda thing? I think he hides the names himself.

[@ninasarac8052]

@@perside2455 as in subbed to him on twitch?

[@perside2455]

@@ninasarac8052 Yeah, also he records his GTE's live so it's not like the channel randomly opens up. Forgot to add it in the other comment so I might just add it here fyi 😂

[@error__music]

@@perside2455 If he hides the names himself doesn't he see the elo ratings in the process? Thanks btw.

[@tugs8689]

@@error__music he has mods who do that

[@gamingforever7336]

Should have been a Guess the elo submission.

[@thisismonitor4099]

If you think of a chess game as a set of chess puzzles posed by each player, then the reality is that it should not be surprising that these guys had a lot of mistakes. I am about 2200 rapid. If I play against say a 1500 player, my entire analysis looks like I am a chess engine with over 90% accuracy and like 20 centipawn loss max. If I play against a 2100, because they are basically as good as me, I look much worse because the "puzzles" that they set are much harder - they anticipate my moves much more and hence I am much more likely to make a mistake. If I play against a 2500, they will look like they play like a computer with 90% plus accuracy and I look like I was a 500 player because their puzzles are much harder ...

[@loknight4058]

They be like : hello i m playing on my brother's account

[@DarkInTheNight]

You need to try playing the cat bots, especially mittens.

[@prince_bk]

I thought I was the only one (0-5)

[@anime69171]

Please make it stop 💀

[@JeremyYoungyoutubechannel]

These how to lose at chess videos are always so funny 🤣

[@evanmino]

2:40 100% black was thinking "If Knight to F7 forks queen and rook, bishop could capture instead of king and I don't forfeit the right to castle." That's what I would think and why I didn't see it as a bad move at first...but I'm certainly not rated 2,000. =P

[@frostypotatos180]

na its like 20x more likely that it was either a misclick and the pawn was supposed to go to that square or he was just overprotecting his pony in case of qf3/bc4

[@Ulaanbasaar]

@@frostypotatos180 pony?

[@kohinoorbanerjee4009]

@@Ulaanbasaar smol hors

[@spacetheory831]

I literally stopped playing chess last year

[@mrkklo]

I’m 400 elo and this is deep

[@cassidyent5066]

Scandinavian defends and two knights study are missing from e4 on your chesslly please Gotham fix this!!!

[@abetterfuture4787]

Even Magnus Carlson makes the occasional blunder. Don't beat yourself up over it. Just recognize the mistake and learn from it so you play better next time.

[@nicolasderra3888]

Carlos Magsen

[@cartoonsingular]

nah.. im gonna keep reviewing winning games so i get more compliments

[@lunareinhold3976]

@@nicolasderra3888 how helpful. Touch some grass

[@bruhmoments2502]

Why is Gotham drinking from a jug

I think at 11:05 it would be best to move the bishop in front of the rook so there is a check and take the queen

[@carsonjohnson4057]

Agreed, I saw that too! But Levi was commenting a lot on the game so can’t really blame him for missing one, admittedly really good, move.

[@isavenewspapers8890]

@@Stonks1957I think they meant Bd4+, resulting in a queen trade.

[@mrblakeboy1420]

i played a 700 rated bot. 5 mistakes, 15 blunders, 5 missed wins

[@Ha1ivan]

Dang would have made a wonderful GTE

[@stephanebelizaire3627]

Happy New Year 2023 !

[@BloodPump]

Glad to see the return of the soul stealing stare at the beginning lately.

[@Addictivemeh]

I want a video that's a full minute of staring in silence, before beginning the video like nothing happened

[@bayezidahsan7309]

Hey Levy! I just want to say that you are the best chess teacher ever!! When I started playing chess I was stuck at 600 and couldn't get higher no matter how hard I tried.. But after I found your channel and started to watch your videos regularly, I slowly got better and better and finally today, I reached the elo of 1000! Thank you so much for helping me get here! Love from Bangladesh! 🇧🇩♥️♥️

[@Omega_thehusky]

i dont play chess i just watch you cause funny

[@Abremoch]

I think Levy has been watching a lot of the Critical Drinker channel because of his ending "get out of here" which is very similar to the "Go away now" of the drinker...

[@erikk17]

Me as 1900 had similarly bad game. Like if two drunk babies was playing And i was like i should definitely submit it but i see someone did it better

[@EGJohnson1]

5:02 "I apologize, I clicked the forward button" LOL

[@spaghettiking653]

1:33 Levy, you keep mispronouncing this name. It's "Alekhin", not "Alyokhin". The Wikipedia page says that Alekhine was quite unhappy with his countrymen who made the same mistake, which is why he opted to write his name in French as "Alekhine" so that there wouldn't be any ambiguity.

[@MaRmAn1337]

exactly, I caught the exact same thing, pronunciation of Alekhine by Levy terrible

[@spaghettiking653]

@@MaRmAn1337 Glad someone else was noticing as well :)

[@siddharthamishra1999]

Well I believe how Levy says it is at least close to how the actual Russian name is pronounced (I've heard ye-khin instead of yo-khin too). Where can I read about him preferring the ala-khine pronounciation?

[@dtch719]

@@siddharthamishra1999 no, those guys are right) Reading "Alehin" as Levy did is usual for those who speak Russian, cause substituting "е" with "ё" (pronounced "yo") in that position is kinda natural for the language. But Alehin himself read it otherwise) There are a lot of sources in Russian, one can start from the links in the beginning of the wiki page ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Алехин,_Александр_Александрович

[@usageunit]

@@siddharthamishra1999 Note 1 on his Wikipedia page says: "He became angry when Russians sometimes pronounced the ⟨е⟩ ye of Alekhin as ⟨ё⟩ yo, [ɐˈlʲoxʲɪn], which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was "Al-YEH-khin"." It also provides an external source for this information.

[@bestbeatsever]

those titles getting out of hand 💀

[@verbatim545]

The levy stare at the beginning is legendary

[@fayezahmad7464]

As a 2100, I can confirm this

[@FallenCreed]

Why hello there everyone. It's me, the goose, once again. If you missed the other classes, I'll do a recap. I see GothamChess I click, and so should you. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

[@nischal1633]

Thank you the one and only wise goose 🦆

[@biharek7595]

You're truly the GOOSE

[@enderdude8714]

im not into chess content though

[@enrapturedgoose5317]

@@biharek7595 he's a fraud and a charlatan

[@davethebrave.]

the chads got so much fun.

[@rcube8385]

Yo Levy. I really enjoy ur videos and u r a great guide too for the beginners. But it would be awesome if u gt the GM title and trust me we all root for u.

[@MrVovansim]

Pretty clear he's not going to get a GM title. And who cares, he's a good teacher regardless of titles.

[@GardenChess]

He retired from over the board chess in case you didn’t know

[@AncientSparta]

ya, he said it just wasn’t fun for him anymore and it became more stress than it was worth, the video is called something like “I’m quitting chess”

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

That stare into the soul at the beginning was missed

[@thomasthe_G]

16:59 they are not as bad as you

[@abcd-sw1kd]

Beat the new cat bots. theres no way you can beat mittens.

[@level_25]

Well it's 12:00AM here, who cares? Who doesn't want to laugh and enjoy the game?✨

[@zigzag1906]

2:40 I am an Alekhine player and the engine loves that bishop move in some positions where the knight is on e5, obviously not here, but easy to see why they did it

[@CoconutTheLeafRain]

Yo Gotham, what’s your favorite opening to play? I’m pretty interested in chess, but I don’t play it too much, and I wanted to experiment with different opening to see what I like best.

[@Scanixon]

Try the london xd

[@deviousrealm518]

If I remember right, he recently said the Spanish

[@guybarazani1590]

He likes the caro kann the most

[@bestbeatsever]

Caro-Kann is his fav (said in a variety of vids)

[@oliverhuang8796]

Hi

[@XenonVFX_YT]

Me when I game review.

[@alphagamer-4784]

the stare he gives at the start of the video

[@spamemael5129]

I like this WAY more than the low elo videos. You can actually learn tactics and improve your game

[@TgPepper]

Yes! There’s hope for me yet to be a 2000!

[@AgN847]

Can't wait to see people point out that it's clickbait, and that 10000 blunders is impossible

[@RNGSUS111]

If Levy pins this, I will make 10,001 blunders

[@specil-k]

this has been shadow pinned

[@faboxy2733]

4 minutes 135 comments. That´s what I call a Community!

[@benbryant1367]

7:30 Bishop takes on B7 would have been a free Queen if Faren takes back with Queen

[@benbryant1367]

Oh well he acknowledged it the next move 🤷

[@cristianosabba3164]

C7*

[@jedediahsabri6427]

Our blunders: oh oops I forgot my queen was about to be taken when I pushed that pawn because I didn't know what else to do 2000 blunders: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO I ACCIDENTLY GAVE UP 0.2 EVAL!!!!!!!

[@c44473]

did he just drink from a vase 3:20

[@lololo6959]

The death stare before the video started was extra devious today

[@skycaptain95]

I like playing chess but if Levy tells me to stop, it's over. Thanks everyone, it's been real.

[@patrickdaly1088]

I loooove to play the space game. But I've been playing the KID, Pirc, and Alekhines for years with the black pieces, both sides of the French and Caro. 10 years of learning to play for space and what makes an overextension, I still get it wrong often, but I do love to play for space. One out of every ~500 games I get a pawn cemontod on e6 as white in some kind of benoni structure (though probably it came from a 1.d4 Pirc transposition b/c of my move order), and the game's just over. I get the opportunity all the time, but I don't do it because normally I would lose that pawn eventually, it's an overextension most of the time, I've learned through hard experience. But when it isn't **OH LAWDY** The modern-hypermodern imbalance is my favorite and second most played opening imbalance. I'll play either side of the imbalance with either color, sometimes I'll end up with a reversed Advanced French because my opponent didn't put pawns in the center, so I did.

[@NorbYyY_GG]

2:30 as a 1300 player in rapid, i think the reason for bishop to e6 was to defend the pawn on f7 that would have been a queen and rook fork, and if you took the forking knight with the king, you would have lost the right to castle

[@macheteexport2749]

Well saccing a piece to make your opponent lose castling rights is rarely worth it and certainly not here. You don't need to defend "fork" that would just end up you winning a piece.

[@plumber1337]

The eval bar was having the ride of the century.

[@DK2200_Games]

Whenever you are bored. Just watch GothamChess. He makes such a patient game into a funny, educative masterpiece.

[@oloyt6844]

The ridiculous clickbait, while perhaps bringing in new viewers in the short term, is undeniably pushing your long term viewers such as myself, away. It just keeps getting worse and worse.

[@eviculum4518]

I love how Levy thinks about how it’s audience feels and what they’re thinking…truly genius

[@Radlee.]

This game was so bizzare that when Levy pointed to the blinds saying "They're already calling the cops, I'm sure you guys can see that", I did indeed see the cops.

[@strategicsage7694]

'complete destabilizes the knight, which already has no stability'

[@A_itsar]

remember Mittens ELO is 1

[@minasherif2418]

I remember i used to always chase down my opponents' bishops that come close to me, but now if they don't retreat back, i just leave them

[@mattdyne]

As a 1000 rated player Im shocked that Levy said he didn't see bishop F5, that was my first thought

[@SayfuHQ]

This is what happens when you let your little brothers play 😭

[@lifestreeks9671]

6:09; I dont know the difference in its entirety. but I like to believe that there is some intuition that goes off saying "this is enough".

[@MrGame-mo3cp]

"they're not bad as you" dang that hurt a little bit

[@jptambo]

"it's never getting better, it's only always getting worse" 😭😭😭😭

[@jgm3mes766]

**Someone makes a blunder** Levy: 0 Elo chess

[@gurjot1729]

Self-mating is funny word