Who made chess popular: Magnus, Hikaru, Levy?

[@GothamChess]

Hello dearest viewers, seeing some comments regarding OGs of chess content, and again want to reiterate what I say in every video - this is why I don't start mentioning names, because if I forget one, some people think I do it deliberately. There are many, many, many OG chess channels. Chessbrah, Agadmator, Mato, Daniel King, the list goes on and on. The point of the video was simply to discuss Hikaru's recent interviews, show you some of my stats, and how chess has grown for 4 years.

[@VK022]

Hello

[@end.olives]

I LOVE Epic chess, hes the best for me

[@Kovthe34]

Pin of shame!

[@sanpobyampracha2021]

Pin of clarification

[@Memesifoundonfacebook]

Pin of Shame

[@eray3374]

"International Master, Levy Gothamchess, Sacrifice the rook, rook B1, Rozman.". Actually the coolest introduction of yourself

[@thenexthikaru123]

real

[@IjonTichy-1000]

The Shepherd of Goats

[@paul_warner]

Don't forget, "161660"!

[@yordidelf]

Awesome!!

[@themichaelson]

​@@IjonTichy-1000that line is fire.

[@andyplaysgundam]

"Dad, why is my sister named Rose?" "Because your mother loves roses." "Thanks, dad." "No problem, Levy GothamChess Sacrifice the Rook Rook b1 Rozman."

[@octobsession3061]

More like levy magnus milker rozman

[@v3lojt]

This is the funniest comment I have ever seen

[@tsQ90]

I would argue that your mom is fan of Eric Rosen

[@rajrathod6228]

It would make a damm good name 😂

[@strongest32]

Before Levy, before Hikaru, Agadmator was the truly pioneer in this kind of content.. i started to play chess thanks to him in 2018.

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Agadmator is the Best I enjoy listening to him call games moreso than anyone else his Brother in law Jozarov Chess does a great job with Engine games if you enjoy watching great chess I recommend Jozarov as well Hikaru and Levy I do watch as well and various others this is an everyday thing for sure

[@3rdEarlRussell]

captures captures

[@joshuabrew478]

Literally the exact same story for me!

[@kennyg1358]

Agoatadmator

[@rinboy1966]

Sorry about that but what Levi means is that He reaches and spread a game of chess to more people and that's true mate don't get the message wrong and stop yapping Agadmator we love him too

[@NobodySpecial420]

Levy "Rook B1" Rozman is close to my heart.

[@Goose29100]

Rook b1 was funny😂

[@artursverza]

Why B1?

[@Rudy137]

@@artursverza exactly

[@bgbd182]

@@artursverza it's a classic gothamchess reference, just a little song he sings, especially back in the day

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

Levi "Rook B1" Rozman

[@oliver-04]

Farmer milking two goats at the same time

[@Elle-gy1lq]

Mouth to teet

[@Diamondthetimewaster]

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[@holy42cosmos]

​@@Elle-gy1lqhmmm 🤔

[@--_-__-_--]

@@oliver-04 nice way to put it

[@NoCommentsVideo]

I like watching levy’s milking videos

[@jaimecolodro1588]

I think Antonio "agadmator" really brought chess to the noobie comunity. The others improved that version but he was the Pioneer

[@Nishki-v-Sharkata]

I second that. I was watching Agadmator since 2017/2018 and feel bad that he is usually left out of mentioning for what he has achieved for the community. At least I hope they still speak his name in some library or bar.

[@nirvana5761]

who is he?

[@mikecabral1579]

I agree Agadmator was first for me and First to 1 Million Subscribers I think. I ran across Gotham a little while after. I really stink at Chess I have purchased two copies of Levy’s Book one for me and one for my grandson I have only read one chapter and my grandson has never read one word. So my plan to learn chess with my grandson never happened. Other sports won out.

[@flookaraz]

I was actually watching some chess lecture guy (i forget his name.... Ivan?) and then youtube recommended me agamator because of him and then gothamchess came later

[@manavm]

@@flookaraz matojelic? I remember him being the first youtuber i started watching

[@roberto873]

For me it was Agadmator, his style was nice and catchy

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Agadmator is Great I’m glad you enjoy watching his videos some people are never content

[@wooshbait36]

He is a known cheater in the top GM circle, the same as Daniel Naroditzky.

[@bet.aissaoui.chouaib]

me too, More serious and professional, kinda like a chess historian, now benfinegold is also admirable.

[@AC-kb1dc]

yeah i started there via alphazero games then binged the historical content then ended up here and have some on hikaru, danya and anna

[@dominicwanzer2057]

Respect to this comment and Anton. His channel is great and his narration is the reason I got into chess channels. Levy is very good as well, but for the Morphy saga, Ivanchuk, Fabiano.... like any tournaments they play, he is a great teller.

[@KidHomeCook]

0:04 Mentioned Hikaru 0:20 Mentioned Magnus 0:24 Mentioned Himself

[@emailjwr]

Milk% speedrun (WR)

[@justinmclean5778]

Doing gods work

[@akashdatta5149]

Doing gods work

[@Ansh-y5i]

Doing gods work

[@bawseeeee602]

Doing dogs work

[@zachwilson3769]

Agadmator the biggest overlook of this whole thing. Mans the og

[@TheStupidDetectiv]

Cry again

[@VictorPanda21]

​@@TheStupidDetectiv 0/10 Ragebait. Clown 🤡🤡

[@AM_-wg1hj]

I got seriously into chess since the lockdown began, the first content creator to ever draw me in was Agadmator, before any boom in the chess world happened.

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Great choice Love Agadmator he’s my favorite I’ll watch many others as well though but Agadmator I enjoy his style and game calling moreso than others

[@SnazzyZubloids]

It's a damn shame Antonio/Agadmator rarely, if ever, gets any credit. Dude's been grinding out videos since 2017. I also believe he was the first chess tuber who reached 1 million subs. He's not a super high level player/analyst, I don't even think he's rated, but he has a great understanding of the game and a fun delivery.

[@C0GST0R135]

Yes, Agadmator is the first chess youtube channel to reach 1 million subscribers. Who would've thought a chess channel would ever reach 1 million subs? It was a monumental achievement at the time, it basically marked the start of the chess boom. Agadmator was drawing in thousands and up to even millions of views to historic and modern games alike, he was doing all this long before GothamChess or Hikaru.

[@VedanthB9]

Agadmator's an FM, to my knowledge.

[@Shefooo]

He also never used clickbait or ads ..

[@user-l7e7o]

@@Shefoooclick bait is annoying for anyone above the age of 16 but realistically, you need to make $$. And levy’s goal isn’t so much to make everyone who likes chess better it’s to get more eyes on the game, which clickbait works wonders

[@filthyfrank.5]

Womp womp

[@pathutchison7688]

Agadmator got me back into chess in 2018. Antonio should get his flowers.

[@TheStupidDetectiv]

No he shouldn't

[@pedrohlc17]

he got me back aswell also in 2018.. fabi vs magnus match.. good times..

[@AdanMartinez-ek1ee]

Just bought Gotham Chess Board on a Neighborhood Market Walmart. Look in the customer service area. 🎉

[@BDeLuca4444]

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[@GothamChess]

Thank you! Maybe more people can go ask!

[@Dillingham-]

Some day that first edition Gotham is going to be worth a lot more on ebay than the $45 cover price 🤑

[@toothlessrpm6177]

@@Dillingham-I’m buying 20 just incase your right and I’ll retire early thanks to Gotham ❤

[@demonkiller7566]

​@@GothamChessHe's joking about returning the board to customer service; I can't tell if you got that or not.

[@starssouls5]

Magnus is basically the Eminem of chess. Stays quiet, doesn’t do socials, kills their craft, everyone knows who it is.

[@tommyoksanen471]

Top comment.

[@chrispowell5431]

Brilliant comparison!

[@godnmaste]

I guess that would make hikaru a drake and gotham a travis scott? hans a kanye?

[@lemonadesaccounttm8721]

@@godnmaste dont compare hikaru to a diddler 😭

[@avalope]

Kramlik is who

[@Ashbakhaaz]

There are two very different questions here. The first question: who's the most famous out of Levy, Hikaru and Magnus? The second question: who did the most for chess between Magnus and the internet as a whole? Levy asks the first question while Hikaru asks the second one. On the first question, it is very easy to demonstrate that Magnus is the most famous: indeed, everyone who knows Hikaru or Levy undoubtedly also knows Magnus, while the opposite isn't true. Plenty of people have heard of Magnus because of some vague interest in chess yet have no presence at all on youtube. Therefore Magnus is necessarily more famous. But that doesn't invalidate Hikaru's point. The internet as a whole had a huge impact on chess, and given that it includes the work of multiple people, I would definitely agree that it did more overall than Magnus alone.

[@LuKanO84]

give some justice to agadmator too. Antonio is the real chess teller who started chess boom on youtube

[@GigaShiv]

Not giving a single mention to Agadmator in this video is criminal

[@TheStupidDetectiv]

Cry more

[@MMM13-yr2]

​@@TheStupidDetectiv you retard literally took the time to cry under every single comment mentioning agadmator

[@rehany3401]

Cope harder

[@Cyberangel39]

You mean 'Agad-only-reads-engine-lines-in-a-monotone-voice-mator' ?

[@GHOSTAG1]

Video starts at 0:00 and ends at 27:45 btw

[@hypermaxwellthecat]

omfg thanks bro you were really helpful

[@--_-__-_--]

@@GHOSTAG1 holy hell you truly are a hero we all deserve, but we all don't need

[@Rayane-je6ps]

Thank you bro😂

[@Kartik-go5wy]

thanks for telling me (its very good to know)

[@bonorman9020]

stfu and be original

[@pranjalbengani3739]

8-10%??? BROTHER ITS 80%

[@davidhale8034]

Word

[@Goo_Gle.]

Yeah he meant multiple 8 by 10% to get 80%

[@helloandgoodbye7286]

did the math for yall its 17.3639226%

[@sirsuntar8717]

Levy and Hikaru make the videos, Magnus is the reason people watch

[@Monkey-se8wf]

This needs to be top comment 😭

[@nikhildawani2913]

Levy plss pin this comment 🙏, this is the best comment

[@asolsen624]

Carlsen literally hosted the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour in 2020 during corona and we now have the Champions Chess Tour every year. Without Carlsen Hikaru wouldn't have any tournaments to make content about.

[@dontvoteforanybody3715]

Bingo.

[@prakhar2098]

Sagar and Samay are the reason Chess boomed in India during Covid. Anish and Vidit were part of them not the other way round.

[@eternalyt5175]

For real.

[@Blindfolded_Newbie]

He didn't mean it like that. He mentioned Anish and Vidit first as they are GM and he was talking about GM at that moment. And then mentioned others as they are content creators.

[@mohammedshoaib1774]

I feel samay did more chess popularity than any professional chess player. Period. He even grew chessbase India.

[@prakhar2098]

@@Blindfolded_Newbie Oh no, I was just pointing it out. Nothing adversarial in my comment towards Levy. Just giving a perspective from India.

[@michaelmassaro4375]

@@mohammedshoaib1774for India 🇮🇳 I don’t doubt it but not for all other viewers from different countries

[@joshpinchuk7061]

When Levy does these type of videos, he should be a gentleman and mention Chess Network (Jerry, the first big streamer) and Agadmator (Antonio, the second and even bigger) who were undoubtedly the most influential chess streamers way before Gotham and GmHikaru.

[@waffleocalypse]

When Josh writes these types of comments, he should be a gentleman and mention Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) and Larry Page (former CEO of Google, which owns KZbin) who were undoubtedly the most influential internet people way before Josh.

[@HexxuSz]

jerry is GOAT

[@josemanuico5613]

they opened the doors

[@Carloskypp]

Nah

[@SinghNikhilDLFRK]

started off watching Agad. Classical chess matches, modern spin, and just overall great strategy. Not sure why I started watching Levy but he' entertaining at the least.

[@cedric-euw]

Gotta say Agadmator should be mentioned in this conversation with him pioneering this kind of content (to the masses at least, dont know if someone did this type of content before him but didnt get popular)

[@BigMac7091]

The captions at 19:28 💀💀💀

[@remonm990]

Underrated

[@blitzroan5495]

Lol

[@marlonoloo1677]

Great work Levy. I'd like to pay my respects to Agadmator who was essentialy the only gateway finto chess for me and many other fans pre chess boom. What's great about chess is that there is a lot more variety nowadays and that can only be great for the community

[@chross__5015]

The french show "Rematch" also dropped out on ARTE, about Kasparov's career and Deep Blue. I'd love to see the international chess community talk about it because it was a masterpiece itself

[@smoorej]

The first and biggest spike in chess history was the Fischer/Spassky championship. We don’t have easy access to data to quantify this statement but I lived through it and it is impossible to overstate the effect it had. The whole world was following it. Shelby Lyman became as famous as Walter Cronkite in the US. People didn’t tune into the TV news, they tuned into the chess match. The battle wasn’t an artificially created rivalry, it was the test of American freedom and democracy versus the industrialized, subsidized Soviet chess machine.

[@KenKurkowski]

I totally agree. I had been playing chess casually, off and on, since I was a little kid, but started rated chess a couple of years after Fischer-Spassky. That was when a Canadian Open tournament attracted 600 (!!!) players, nowhere near that since those days.

[@dw96969]

Lol, US+russia is not equal to "the whole world"

[@Bananamaltastic]

I remember years ago when you were taking off, I was thinking, "Wow, this guy might surpass Agadmator on KZbin." It was how you covered multiple games in one video with high energy. You were absolutely right that most people don't care to do super deep analysis of individual games.

[@j-mura6378]

yeah, I was one of those Queen's Gambit folks...

[@penultimania4295]

Magnus/Hans here 🤣

[@davidjohnson3913]

0:40 My rankings; #1 Magnus, #2 Levy, #3 Hikaru I never even heard of Hikaru until after I started watching GothamChess and they did a collab. I didnt play much chess or know anything about the chess world but I have known about Carlsen since 2014 or so because his name was thrown around in lots of different circles and the news even before he was World Champion.

[@your_innervoice]

Hikaru said whaaaa..!!! He said this- 2:12

[@FartingSpider12]

I think a lot of people started with Agadmator and he will always be one of the GOATs of chess content, but I can say with certainty that Levy is the one who got me really hooked in 2019 and the one that keeps me interested nowadays

[@topchess]

If Elon beats me after 1000 games i'll do whatever Gotham Chess proposes

[@GuruvayurDevaswomAyurvedaHospi]

Hey its topchess,cool

[@shreyanssahani275]

Top Chess is a BADDIE

[@1987Raziell]

The way that Levy gives respect to them both (Magnus and Hikaru) is very cool!

[@thomsonjonus5006]

Stop looking around Levy. Procedures. remember?

[@LiminalRook]

Everything is clear to me now, we do the procedure.

[@sharpinclude]

Really appreciate your deep thoughts and different perspectives on the growth of this community, Levy. I hope to see both content creators like you and professional players contribute in the chess world!

[@lilmeow-meow4443]

Hikaru nakamaru is a baddie

[@danielguo2897]

hikamura nakaru 🥵

[@ganeshrasal26]

@@danielguo2897 LFMAOOO

[@mastercharles0924]

💀

[@LiminalRook]

@@danielguo2897I can’t please… I can’t read these comments and not laugh man I am about to die

[@backdoorguy1]

My take - Magnus is known by even people who don't care about chess

[@federicoddm]

No respect for Agadmator is WILD.

[@osaqa4931]

lets be honest agadamator is very good chess content creator but i think he is there for people who already play chess and want to see the games of the top players, i dont see him as someone who would introduce chess to new audience. but you are right he should have been mentioned in this episode

[@TheStupidDetectiv]

Its not wild at all.

[@brokenwave6125]

He said he can't mention every single chess person. Get over it bud

[@user-l7e7o]

Yeah he’s insane I started watching him when I was 14 was 800 got up to 1900 in 3 years. If you genuinely want to get better watch his videos insanely instructional stuff. Like these videos I just kind of passively watch.

[@illyayekimov9663]

I like that agad isnt as clickbaity like gotham and he shows more lines than gotham

[@dannymartial7997]

It makes sense what Hikaru says. Being the best isn’t the same as being the most influential. Michael Phelps is the greatest swimmer of all time, but nobody is picking up swimming because of him. Hikaru has done more for chess in terms of popularizing it among the general public and bringing more attention to the game.

[@ostranrose]

first title: hikaru said what about magnus carlsen??

[@BananaWizard2]

There's no way only 10% of his videos are about Magnus, is has to be at least 20%

[@callumhardy6478]

27:40 yapping ends

[@markuspfeifer8473]

Rook B1, sacrificing the queen with a discovered attack

[@markuspfeifer8473]

In reality it’s just a Botez gambit

[@studdpuppy85]

No mention of Agadmator? He walked so you can run! 🏃

[@TheStupidDetectiv]

Lol cry

[@jestercab42]

the statistics don't show that

[@penultimania4295]

Nonsense

[@--_-__-_--]

What would happen to Levi's income if Magnus happens to dissappear?

[@vince6390]

He'd be milking him even harder

[@ravensclaw7501]

Nothing tbh gte and other stuff is still very interesting

[@KenKurkowski]

Gukesh and maybe Erigaisi will replace him. India is to chess what Russia was for the longest time. Even if it weren't for the current political situation, I think this would still largely be true.

[@fangiscool1]

​@KenKurkowski they don't pull the viewer numbers that Magnus does on any platform. There is no replacement unless you think 10-30% drop in viewership is a replacement.

[@IPLPetru]

"IM Levy GothamChess sacrifice the rook, rook b1 Rozman" 0:25

[@Idk-vf3mr]

I started playing right after the queens gambit film, discovered hikaru and you right after, I don't play much anymore but I still like to be updated/entertained by your daily videos :)

[@thayslanymaciel3271]

Such a great video! There’s no point in discussing who did the most. They all had their roles in making chess more popular. That’s like deciding if soccer is popular because of the players or the commentators and tv channels that broadcast it. They’re dependent on each other.

[@juanduran3134]

Hey man, been watching you for a while and I think you do an amazing job. I have slowly been getting better by watching your videos . Keep up the good work 🙏🏻

[@prathameshchavan6128]

9:00 "Hell yeah baby, Hikaru ma man" - Levy "sacrifice the rook" Rozman, 2024.

[@spark5010]

This is by far the Best Video i have watched on how chess grew. Thank you Levy For making Chess Enjoyable

[@oliver-nation4377]

Hikarus chess career is grand, but nothing compared to Magnus.

[@penultimania4295]

Hikaru sounds so jealous of Magnus ngl. He wants to be Magnus so bad.

[@bhusuman8746]

Thinking about your successes over the years makes me so happy, and its hard to explain. It all feels like a fever dream. Super happy for you levy!

[@davidwillke1294]

I got hooked on chess content because of Agadmator. His reviewing style of old and new chess games and his involving 'I give you a few seconds..' was second to none! SHAME that you don't mention him!!!

[@evantm2588]

Bro can yap for an entire video and I’m always here! Love this guy

[@vegitron6059]

It's also worth considering that something like subscriber count or views is not linear, the bigger you are the faster you grow, someone with 500k subscribers till take a lot longer to reach 1 million than someone like mrbeast will take to get another million, fame gets you talked about and spread around more easily

[@rosssmith6283]

It was Magnus that got me into Chess. A random video of a chess guy late for a game and still winning, so i looked up who he was and found out he was the goat. Then started watching more videos of him and eventually found your tutorial videos

[@marshalltucker9690]

8:40 dabs up hukaru

[@ahmadsh746]

I just gotta say, I find your approach is very very accurate. If someone wants to go pro they gonna need more resources than just a youtube video. To be hounest, yeah I like chess but what made me stick to it, is you, I kept liking chess because I like you and your entertainment focus (which I also believe most of chess fans are looking for and is the correct method to draw attention to hte game). Respect and I hope you get to GM as fast as possible.

[@GrandManor]

12 years ago, 60 Minutes aired a story about Carlsen (The Mozart of Chess). Even though he had not even won his first championship yet, it elevated worldwide interest in chess to a level beyond Fischer-Spassky, beyond Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, beyond any amount of streaming Nakamura will ever do.

[@renatozeru]

Nothing compares to the Bobby Fischer era. That was the golden age of chess. Chess was as popular as any other major sport, followed by millions. In Kasparov's time, chess was still very popular but already declining in popularity. In the 21st century, things went downhill. And although there was a 'revival' with online chess/streaming/pandemic, chess is very much a niche game nowadays.

[@shahariarshahed2175]

@@renatozeru you don't look like a guy who lived through Fischer's time

[@TheArcticWitch]

​@@shahariarshahed2175 He seems to be looking at the fischer era also from a very american perspective *and* it was more of a short blimp there even then

[@nikhildawani2913]

​@@renatozeruMagnus era is way more gold and better than fischer era,This era has witnessed greatest chess player ever live

[@fangiscool1]

​@@nikhildawani2913 I mean, people who lived through Fischer, Kasparov, and Magnus witnessed the three greatest to ever live at the time. It doesn't mean living through one is better. There will be a new "greatest to ever live" soon enough

[@Switzerland_489]

The greatest chess battle without the board

[@sajawalhassan1f12]

Yapping ends at 27:44

[@AntonioMartinez-dc8dx]

😂

[@not_lukie3248]

🤣🤣

[@jackgoodman27]

10:20 serious respect for bringing up the importance of woman in chess.

[@giridharpavan1592]

bro said 'his perspective' as if it mattered

[@mybrandnewsocks]

‘You play the fool to fool the fool who think they’re fooling you’ - enjoy your well earned flex but know your strengths are strongest left just off centre. A gentle tide still moves with the weight of an ocean and I see you and many do. There’s a quote from Batman ironically very fitting but like most openings, I remember it vaguely. You’re exactly what this city needs. Speak calmly because you hold a very large stick. Much love brother

[@questionable6278]

Levy never fails to slobber all over Magnus

[@bonorman9020]

omg be original you bozo

[@jacobheffley215]

He be doing tricks on magnus' meat😂😂😂

[@ratboyiscool]

Pin of shame incoming

[@ExStylez]

Levy just casually anouncing the start of a new era of chess, Gol D. Roger style (minus the death)

[@SmileAndWave69]

Love to see people giving shoutouts to Agadmator, and deservedly so but ChessNetwork and Chessbrah were two of the first who started making online content and are the main reason I got into chess.

[@AggieWolverine]

Yeah ChessNetwork got me into it.

[@darthrainbows]

Magnus achieved legendary status in the public eye just for being consistently amazingly good at the game, which is kind of unique in the history of chess (not the being consistently good part, the getting public fame for it part). Other chess legends all had to accomplish something incredible or be involved in something revolutionary to get that public acclaim. Bobby Fischer had to beat the Soviet juggernauts to win the title of World Chess Champion in a proxy match of the Cold War. Kasparov had to play Deep Blue. How many other grandmasters - other than those currently playing the game - even have *any* name recognition at all? You mention Capablanca - one of the greatest chess players of all time - and the average doofus on the street thinks "Here's lookin at you kid" (that's a reference to Casablanca, the 1942 classic masterpiece of cinematography, for the chess nerds here who've never seen a movie before). Morphy, Alekhine, Tal... blanks stares. Magnus? Everybody knows who Magnus is. My 70-something year old mom, who has never played a game of chess in her life, never watched any chess content, can't even name the pieces (not even using "horsey" and "castle"), has absolutely zero interest in the game - she knows who Magnus is.

[@muzzamilsalman4117]

9:27 Nah, Musk would be 450 max.

[@bart4371]

Not a good joke

[@Johncornwell103]

​@@bart4371not a joke

[@muzzamilsalman4117]

@@bart4371 no im genuine

[@michaelakingboye7238]

I agree

[@bart4371]

@@muzzamilsalman4117 even if he weren’t smart enough, he’s smart enough to pull up some videos and learn

[@ham9444]

I can't see chess becoming commercial as long as the main format is 3 to 4 hour games

[@TheDudeReza]

Honestly every time i open KZbin Gotham has new content, How is this possible?! Dude we really appreciate you for making so many videos, but be sure to take a break sometimes too

[@invisablind]

I actually really enjoy these kind of videos where there's no chess analyzing but just talking about a particular subject even if its within the chess world!

[@JustRightPinedo]

Bro thinks he’s Levy Rozman

[@eurotwink9740]

It’d be nice to see more commentary videos like this, from my POV. Your chess recaps are great but I can only click on them when I am able to look at the game and give it my full attention, whereas this style of vid (+C Squared) is nice as it allows me to keep the chess content going while on the go or cleaning the house.

[@Gil-games]

Bro! Where is the article's link???

[@jjm1123]

Me. Me, me, me. This is all about me. And even when it is not, you have to notice the absence of me. It's almost always about me, though. Yours truly, Me.

[@StockFish-v3f]

Waiting for pin of shame because i don't have any

[@Gee-Sus-Official]

not funny r3tard

[@alzheimerdinger1455]

18:23 "capture people (not physically)" 😂you didn't need to clarify😂

[@jessojohn9226]

8 to 9% bro, more like 50 to 60%

[@jameroth7661]

If I ever have the chance to meet Levy in a non-chess environment, I'll first ask him: " Hey Gothamchess, is that Magnus Carlsen over there?" and then act like I didn't know who Levy was.

[@davidjohnson3913]

9:25 Elon Musk ELO would be like 500.

[@FriskTemmieGoogle]

Nah, I bet he couldn't beat Martin more than once every 5 games

[@JuanIgnacioCIdre]

Hey. We love you and your rants!

[@naveenbattula]

Sagar Shah is a gem of a person

[@richirare]

I've been watching your videos back when you had less than 10k subscribers, but even before that I was watching Agadmator, he is the one who got me into chess. I remember being blown away by his videos covering the Alpha Zero V Stockfish back in 2017. I also remember the game you and him played against HIkaru and Eric back in 2020, where you kept telling what to do and he just ignored you and did his own thing and lost the game because he wanted to queen his pawn halfway down the board, lol. I remember vividly when you got more subs than him, and you even made a video about it. You are a great content creator, better than Agadmator, and that's why you have so many eyes on you every day. I haven't watched a single one of his videos in a couple of years but credit where credit is due, he lit the torch that you now carry, the least you could do is mention him. Best of luck in your road to GM, I can't wait to see you get the title.

[@brawlboy3925]

I love ur vid don't stop uploading ❤

[@DofusIlusion]

people who plays and watch bit of chess: - definetly know magnus - definetly knows levy and nakamura people who only plays chess: - definetly know magnus - 90% knows levy and/or nakamura people who doesn't plays chess: - probably know magnus - probably doesn't knows levy or nakamura

[@Marwa_a_z]

27:45 video ends

[@jamesconnor4652]

I don’t usually comment but feel like saying I fell in love with chess thanks to ur channel when I was 20, 4 years ago didn’t ever think I’d play as I thought it was for old ppl

[@anywhywho]

If Gotham brushed his hair, nobody would recognize him at all. His wife would have to call Magnus to ask where did Levy go.

[@fangiscool1]

I guess you don't know how curly hair works. The curls would just brush out and look like an afro. It would look pretty similar silhouette-wise

[@Alekhine01]

The connect with four generations watching youtube is something I never thought about. Great point.

[@LeahLeahh-wm1bv]

8:30 (THANKS ME LATER)

[@Zuracooking]

0:03 0:20 0:24 Trifecta tripple drizzle holy trinity of farming

[@nexus.chess-puzzle]

Self delima 0:24

[@iceyroo]

Elon would PEAK at 950 Elo.

[@kennyg1358]

Pathetic jealous loser.

[@ADITYAGUPTA-cn6pv]

I just love your hustle, i feel really really happy for you because your success is not by chance, you are working your ass off everyday and it's good to see it paying off!

[@fumoffu1]

Elon Musk is that kind of guy who would be stuck in 800 elo-Hell

[@eltxeo]

600elo speaking genuinely offended