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props to you pronouncing a polish name correctly

@Samuel Morrison everything in School can be found in YT, why go to School?

pin of shame

Why pay for courses when you can just watch the videos

Brilliancies at 800: Sacrifices the queen for smothered mate. Brilliancies at 2700: Sacrifices material for King hunts, obscure tactics and checkmates Brilliancies with bots: Moves the bishop with the hanging rook to enticipate the weather next week

greatest comment ever. You deserve at least 200k likes

@Midnight Toast I am sure there are some that might have lol.

No 800 is sacking queen

unds like jojos after part 5 ngl

@WeirdoDude, I bet you're the type of kid in Physics class to scream out "plasma" when the teacher says there are only three elements.

What's missing in this video is that Duda had only 2 minutes on the clock in a rapid game after Anish played Rac8. He spent 15 seconds, started laughing at the camera realizing he had forced mate in 11. It took him 15 seconds to calculate mate in 11 with rook and queen sacrifice, despite having moves like Rxc8 that were easily winning anyway O_O

Duda is men's private part in my language 😭😂

Nah he was taking the piss out of his opponent 😂😂😂 imagine having a much more easier way to win and then opting to use a mate in 11. That’s disrespect on a whole new level.

10kth like i just came

Yeah that's most important thing..

Jfc, I read that topic and though you were talking about me and then remebered giri existed

I'm literally watching this while procrastinating on a coding project. Levi is really on top of his predictions

SAME LMAOO

​@Cougar Bellinger I asked

How's your project going?

bro thinks hes hikaru

Same lol😂😂

Imagine being up +13 points of material and get mated in the very next move

That's easily what happened to you were up +69 material and got mated by a pawn

Happened to me then I sacrificed the QUEEN

@Little Bill he's referring to a back rank checkmate from the queen or rook

I mated my opponent when my opponent got +14

@chunk frog I once mated a girl when I was 12.

That queen sacrifice...to checkmate the king with a pawn...sacrificing 9 points to win with 1 point material...INSANE!

@NO NAME you can hold the enemy at gunpoint and force them to resign

@Yora of course because it's a forced check

@Yora thats why it’s called forced bro

Sacrificing the queen looks insane. But I ran that board position to really understand what's going on, and it turns out that at this point, black would only have a single possible move at each turn, without having any opportunity to pick between even two options. (Except that move to get yourself checked by the pawn, but that obviously was no actual option.)

Levi: *Misses mate in 937* His viewers: "And he sacrifices, HIS CAREER!"

Ong

Levy, thank you for getting me into chess, I’ve been playing for a little over a year now and I’ve finally broken 1400. You are such a captivating and hilarious teacher. Happy thanksgiving Levy!!!

Damn bro nice. Im probably somewhere around 500 but i did beat a 1000 bot once or twice. Dont play much chess but i watch a lot of these.

1500 blitz. Started before a year

@M. J.no dude, you’re just not as talented

@M. J. thank u. I thought that was fishy

What an accomplishment!!! Now you are going to get addicted to this stupid game and waste yiur your life

As a high level player, the fear that rook sacrifice must have put into him is insane

@Pixtlewint lmaooo exactly

Was the first sentence necessary

@ac3 yes

Proof?

@Optic Power literally me everytime I play chess

I attended just one tournament in my life. Despite not being into chess, I accepted my friend's offer because why wouldn't I. I did plenty of moves like "okay, I can spot the potential response for my opponent that would destroy my whole idea". My opponents saw those responses and beat me. It wasn't a fun experience.

Full vid hes talking about here https://youtu.be/mCfYi7634rU

If you know chess a little like 25 percent a queen bait can make you quit the whole gane

@L. Pietrobon It's just the whole experience... The one match you actually stand up a few moves would be the highlight, probably. And watching all the finals after being knocked out early. Getting the tourney jitters out early can't be a bad thing.

@L. Pietrobon Learning to respect your opponents intelligence and ability to defend is a very necessary step in the process to becoming better. It does sometimes work in lower elos, but it's a very bad habit to develop. 6:59 Levy explains the whole thing perfectly.

@kindlin Getting steamrolled doesn't contribute to learning imo since you never had a chance

As a Polish person, i can say that his pronounciation of Jan-Krzysztof Duda was phenomenal.

​@Viper What ye mean?

potwierdzam

polish "person"

I can confirm

5:40 "For legal reasons I shower more than once I week" - Gotham you never fail to disappoint. Stand up comedy at its finest.

C4 is indeed a good move, one could even say in the right hands... it can be very *explosive*

@Random Account he will never get it

@G He’s making a fatherless joke plus it’s closer to “find your dad” than “find out you’re a dad” which doesn’t make sense anyways

on an completely related note if the swastika was an official IUPAC hydrocarbon name it would be 3,3-diethylpentane.

@Peyton Yedica am I though?

This guy has more brilliant moves in a single game than i have in my entire chess career

@StickPFP lil bro put an alternative to his joke 😭

i've never even have at least one

I feel so bad for you, all these little nerds are attacking you for saying career as a joke.

I never ever got a single brilliant move lol

Stockfish doesn't even recognize brilliant move in this moment xd

Why is Levy such a phenomenon and a total one of a kind in the Chess media world? Because his combination is rare: a funny entertainer who understands his audience, and to 90% of chess players has high level chess knowledge to boot plus he’s a content machine and his voice is listenable.

Spot on. Plus he stuck to what works for him and didn't try reinventing the wheel after he began growing like crazy. I love the fact that the content hasn't really changed and he doesn't try introducing experimental content every week. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

You should have added Duda's reaction as well. When he found the mate, he was smiling for 2-3 minutes straight.

6:40 Levy: if the queen could teleport it would be mate in 2. chatgpt: hold my reality warping beer sir. iykyk

I went to the practice tool just to see how close would I got to the 11 moves checkmate, I didn't consider the king running away in that direction but even then, I did find 2 other checkmates in 10 and 14 moves, this was really cool!

@ChupaCabra If not played perfectly by Black than yes

There is no mate in 10 in that position

The fact that im sitting here, suffering and finding it after a solid 8 minutes, knowing that somewhere there was a mate in 11 and this dude found it during a game is insane. Hes just always in the puzzlerush mindset

Levy your analogy of the naked king and the king with a new construction versus one who had a party and burned down his house was legitimately hilarious. Well done.

From Italy, you have a new follower! Clear and deep explanation, you are very good to entertain the public too

Per me parla troppo invece , andasse più veloce con la partita

Levy: the queen cant just rampoline her own pawn chat gpt: are you sure about that?

Applause to the chess players, but applause to you too, dude. However great they are at what they do, that's how good you are at what you do. I don't even like chess, but binge-watch your content. Hope you get those 10m followers, you'd deserve them.

You are quite literally the person that made me think to myself “I really should start playing chess to actually learn.” I would know nothing without people like you, Danya, the Chessbrah channel, Hikaru, Finegold and others. So thanks Levy, happy holiday. :)

That was a really intense game of sacrifices and I was flabbergasted at such big brain moves. Really love the commentary you do, it makes every game nail-biting. Your videos are amazing. Keep up the nice work 👍.

10 seconds in and I'm already bricked up this is gonna be good

🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

@Тэмүүлэн С who said anything about women

Bro?

@PredHimSelf ah that makes more sense, carry on 👍

@Tongekki you win, ggs, you won in life.

The amount of fun you had doing the commentary was a real joy. Thank you.

I love nerdy pleasures like this. Tremendous combo and wonderful commentary, thank you!

I saw g7+, however, I didnt even saw the foward moves, truly an amazing game

Thank you for this wholesome, interactive, super instructive video. Your hype hypes me up as well haha. Great content as always!

Usually when there is a 16-to-20-minute video, I only watch a couple minutes and then click off. But its different when I watch Gotham's (18–20-minute uploads), because I'm always so hooked to them. Just wanted to say, keep up with your videos, they are great! 👌

"if you see it, then they're definitely gonna see it"-Levy Rozman 2022 This is just so true in many levels 😂

Except low elo chess

kinda sounded like dig at our board vision 😂

I love the way you are mixing chess and humor, your videos are brilliant!

I don’t know how to start learning chess, but I have watched some moves that other people start with. I got a lot of best moves and I had no clue what I was doing. The game after I got a lot of blunders and I still don’t know how to think more than 3 moves ahead

For what it's worth, I got really into chess videos and I realized early on it's a whole lot of memorialization and plain WORK. If you don't enjoy the process of finding patterns and learning openings it's gonna be a bit of a drag. Best way to at least start is to brute force an understanding of one opening like the guy above me said and if that sucks then maybe it's not for you

Learn 1 opening and play it a bunch and learn as much as you can. For example the best opening for beginners imo is the danish gambit

5:30 I’m watching this while playing chess lol Edit: I blundered my queen

LMAO

Happy Thanksgiving, levy. I am grateful for your content, especially on such a rough day

Levy is so entertaining you can just listen to him read out random ingredients off a menu and laugh

14:20 he just started telling a story of the violence, of a polish beast (as a polish person, i feel proud of him :D)

@arhiA co ty tu robisz jak🍜

@PogMinecrafter Dang I had no idea Jan enjoyed minecraft

Thx!

Levy it's often said that you're a great chess player but you're also an exceptional entertainer. Major kudos, you have my respect.

Happy Thanksgiving Levy. I found you from your interview with Lex. You inspired me to take up chess again... After 50 years 😋. I am American, retired and living in Egypt. You are talented and I love your personality, fun. This was a great game. Thanks again for the inspiration.

I’ve been playing for 6 years and still only like 700 Elo 😭 but every time I watch your videos I learn, so thank you I beat a 1100 elo in a tournament yesterday thanks to you and your teaching

Happy Thanksgiving Levy! I am thankful that you take the time and effort to have this channel and your twitch streams. You make an endlessly complicated game which can be explain in many different complex ciphers into something clear and easy to understand. I love how you make it comprehensive for your audience, and I can also say for sure that my game has improved since I started watching your channel a year ago. Thank you very much 😊

Dude you got it... I'm watching this while coding. Had to rewind to re-hear the question @5:14 and answer you. I'm gonna go with protecting the king and things you've captured.

Same here lol

Chess, like history, is as interesting as the teacher makes it. I appreciate the pithy, engaging explanations by Levy. I started playing this week after watching a variety of game recaps, ect for the last couple of years. It's more difficult than it looks when you have to decide what happens next.

What elo are you at now?

That's always the tough part.

Thank you, GothamChess, for helping me get back into chess. I love your videos, especially videos like these. Keep up the great work!

Hi Levy, love your content: tournament recaps, guess the elo, going through high and low level chess games.. all of it. But I sometimes miss content you used to produce more often in the past, namely, historical chess games and opening, middlegame and endgame strategical advice. Would love to see more of those types of videos as well. Keep up the good work

What an incredibly entertaining video. I love chess but I suck at it, and when someone can explain this stuff to me, it's pure gold.

Hey Levy i have to thank you for making chess one of my new hobbies these past few months i been loving your funny commentary and instructive content like openings (i just play vienna and caro thanks to you) and recently i got a huge milestone for me, getting to 800 and a brilliant move because i always play no brain style and wanted to try harder you know and keep climbing the rating ladder, thank you levy you are really helping me in this journey

Bro you're just so real. A real chess lover, a real streamer, a real connect creator, a real commentator, a real fan others and....and (simply) a real dude. Love the ways you present the beauty of chess!

I saw this live and I jumped in my chair when I saw Duda do this. Bad manners from Giri not even letting Duda finish though

@kindlin i can see that

@Ja Yesterday i got called stubborn because i refused to resign even though I was clearly losing lol

@Ja It's like SC2 or any other tightly controlled game. You know you lost sometimes, and you can tap out. People, especially early into watching SC2 (like myself years ago), are often really confused why the person GG's out of the game when it looks like they had plenty of opportunity. But they know, based on thousands and thousands of games, that unless the opponent makes a huge mistake they already lost. And in a tourney setting, it's often better to just let the game go and start fresh on the next map. Football? Physical sports? Anyone can trip, sneeze, get glare in their eyes, you name it, and the whole thing can turn around. In mental games, not making yourself face the inevitable defeat can be the difference between getting worn out and winning the next game.

@saimon174666 You also have no concept of high level chess lol

@Ja I was being sarcastic. It's up to your own discretion, finishing game or resigning anytime is your choice. Only thing I would call bad manners in chess is leaving the game without resigning (which had been done in classical as well!)

Man, This Video made me so freaking hyped. Every time that Levy was going wild I was just going crazy myself bc those moves were incredible

Gotta love those brilliant, hard-to-find moves Bxc2+ and Bxd3+

Wow, that 11 move mate is one for the anthology collections. Superb!

I discovered your channel about 1 week ago, and it got me into chess. Still 400, but I think your analysis of games helps my thinking process. Whatever you do keep posting!

Thanks for the laughs Levi. I love your commentary

Your videos are always making my day better.😀 Thank you Levy

Bro has the fortnite pfp

Levy your hard to understand at my level, but you are super fun to watch. Thanks for another passionate video!

Consistently the best chess creator. Thanks for the content Levy.

Another fun line: after f6+, if giri had played Kg8, Duda sacrifices with Bh7 to get the king in a position to get mated by the queen, and if Kh8, Ng6 forces Giri to take the bishop and get mated with Qh5+ Kg7 Qh8+ Kf7 Qg7+ Ke8 Qe7#. Duda calculated all of these lines with 2 minutes on his clock before sacrificing the rook, this man is just insane.

I started playing this may and I’m already at 1300 because of you, thank you man :)

Whenever I see a move in a game when levy tells us there’s a crazy move I feel unbeatable but I’d never see that if you hadn’t told me and it was a real game

For legal reason, very funny video Levy. Your entertainment ability is magical :)

Sometimes you just love to enjoy an amazing mate from some high level players, so good.

suddenly i remembered a game where Dubov found checkmate in 13. these guys are beast

Got into chess about 4 months ago and i love your vids Levy. The energy of THE ROOOOOK! So awesome. Appreciate the humor as well keep it coming bro 🤙🏾

I dont celebrate thanksgiving but i want to thank you for the extra good chess content and positivity Also, why arent you making recaps of the recent games fabi vs giri

Man, I started playing chess seriously in the past 20-30 days and I found your channel. You were not only so damn good with the knowledge but your commentary is so hilarious. In fact, initially, I watched your videos only because I want to laugh lol.

You’re the most entertaining chess content creator. Your humor mixed with chess knowledge is unmatched.

Thank you to gotham, got me into chess a year and a half ago and I just today broke 1700!!! I have loved watching you grow aswell and can't wait to see were my chess and this channel go! Much Love from San Diego ❤️

Hey Levi, thanks for being so charismatic, if it wasn’t for you chess would be so boring, I love your content so much, thanks to you I’m about to break 1000 elo, you’re the best chess teacher in youtube and you make chess fun, thanks for being who you are!

Gotta love the way Levy explains what he explains

This dude is so amazingly good at describing what to do in chess situations

Thank you Levy! awesome coverage.

Good god!! The dopamine rush I got from this checkmate got me running on all 3 legs!! Cheers to JKD, Anish and Levi for bringing us this amazing chess game. Now I gotta add happy thanksgiving to y’all… for legal reasons apparently

I missed Kg6 defense but I actually found the right combination. Feels good man.

It’s things like this that make me realize how deep the game of chess is beyond what I can even comprehend

Thank you so so so much leavy You always motivate me for getting better

Levy thanks for introducing me to chess. I’m 1300 as I was when I found you and still hang pieces. ❤️

Vigorous, engaging commentary. Spot on. I'd call mate in 11 if I set up correctly.

Hey for everyone considering an e4 or d4 course allow me to regale you with the differences. e4 is much more in depth and specific, it will be more powerful imo and catch people less prepared than d4. However, there are not many overlapping ideas. Every move can make a whole different variation and it takes a lot of studying. d4 is much easier to learn and throughout Levy says “if you forget and just get your set up you’ll have an okay position.” It’s a lot more idea based and still has some cool traps but is less aggressive feeling. Both are good, but if you’re busy I’d recommend d4, if you’re more dedicated, I’d recommend e4, or you can choose which ever one you’ve learned from videos to get a deeper understanding.

@Kit I don’t but I think Levy is working on an English course that probably uses the Reti move order

@Flatbread42 do you know of any reti courses at all? I love the opening cuz the only moves I see rn are 1. d5 or moves that let me get the english for free

As a London player this advice is sound.

@Tjitse Koster oh yeah, 100%, I’m just talking ab Levy’s courses. I tried e4 and it was just a lot given me being in school so I switched to his d4 course and am having success with it. But yeah, the Vienna is pretty cool.

It's good advice, but if you're looking for a relative easy to learn opening with E4, I suggest the Vienna. Yes, there are many different variations, but at the beginner level, many will fall for the Vienna gambit and the position kinda plays itself after that. You can still lose, but they will be quick games, so you will learn fast. Just my two cents. Also, the Queens Gambit has a lot of compliated variations also, and that's a D4 opening. For a solid D4 opening, just play the London.

Happy Thanksgiving! I returned to Chess because of you and started playing the Vienna (partly because I live there). Thanks for your great content.

gotham, you're probably the reason I still play chess. I don't think I would have kept playing for so long if it wasn't for your content, it would probably just have been a phase that would have died out at about the same time as the queen's gambit hype.

Another fantastic video , thanks Levy

I find it both hilarious and fascinating how we're all impressed and shocked at this 11-moves checkmate and Stockfish found it in two seconds like it's the most obvious thing in the world.

i think that has to do with stocfish running on a cpu and not a brain but im not really sure

Your excitement at the end was so very great. Cheers!

Thankful for your channel. I would not have even noticed the brilliance without your shared insight each step of the way. It is fun to watch a passionate expert reveal how they view the game. Keep ‘‘em coming.👏

Man sometimes I see tactics implemented perfectly against world class opponents and I remember my calculations that made me lose my queen in three moves.

This is just awesome 👌 what a forced combination..that too in 11 moves!! Genius

these videos give me insurmountable amounts of joy

Yo the chessly is really good. It's like his openings videos but interactive and more detailed.

There Is just something so special about it when you see that double !! In your chess analysis

Your videos always makes me feel better about chess. Thank you levy ❤️

incredible game! Thanks for the recap 🔥

I just started learning chess today. Legit today thanksgiving 2022. Been wanting to learn but never had access to a board never got taught. Found your beginners guide. Excited to learn thanks

Levy opens by giving us valuable advice on life using chess, then does great analysis of the game.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Day 1 watchers, and happy Belated Thanksgiving to everyone for the next 364 days!

Next level working-a-holiday spirit, thanks Gotham.

Thanks Levy for the work and dedication you put into your videos and the chess community. You bring joy and knowledge in a striking manner. Have yourself and all subs a wonderful Thanksgiving! Stay Blessed!

I always appreciate how well you are pronouncing every player’s name ❤

*It's easy to make ten blunders in a row.* *Ten brilliant moves is a rarity indeed!*