Levi have you ever considered that the reason you are not a grandmaster is because you don't take en passant every time the opportunity presents itself?
@@spenceradams584 As an Australian I can confirm that you’ve missed the joke here and for that you deserve all 3 of my daily crikeys so here they are: Crikey Crikey Crikey
God Levi is so quoteable “ some days you wake up and somedays you just get murdered that’s life” and “when ever people use to go on wars over religion, and corn”
@@endoflevelboss yo, asshole, I shared my fucking opinion. Even if you don’t like when people quote on comments there other ways of saying without being a complete fucking asshole.
@ゴゴ Joji Joestar ゴゴ I find no problem with them tbh. For me, the comment section is a place where people literally comment (duh). They found that particular part of the vid funny, so they timestamped them and share what they think about it
I mean, they actually couldn't, Gengis Khan was known to not have a clue how to siege a city, in fact when he sieged down Beijing (I don't remember if it was that city or not) he had no idea what to do, so he tried to reditect a river to bring the wall down, he then got his own army flooded and had to go home. Ironically, it was the chinese who taught them how to siege down a city when some of them defected to the mongols, just as Sun Tsu said "The chance to defeat your enemy is given by your enemy" (Or something like that).
@@胡高平 Exactly. In fact, because pawns are female, and because they can actually underpromote to rooks, bishops, or knights, it follows that all of these must be female as well. *So everything on the board is female, except the two kings*
For one of these you should include a straw poll or some other way for chat to guess as a collective whole, and see how you do in a head to head vs chat
to be fair, I was expecting that to be what people in that elo would call the pieces. . . like how were two 1180s playing that badly. :/ (no hate, but bro... checks, captures, and attacks. Every move.)
“You never try to destroy an entire castle with one horse.”~ levy. This is true, but with all the amazing last stands in history ... do you really want to tempt fate that someone hasn’t already tried it.
Don't let this video distract you from the fact that Levy has his twitch chat caged and they're suffering, we must help #StopTwitchAbuse (5:39 read chat)
The guy who played white in game 3 is the type of guy who is a diehard e4 player but here bae says she only dates hard core d4 players only. You gotta do what you gotta do
Ah that's an interesting sideline Levy went for in the making of the video, deciding to go for the "blindfold to cover eyes" variation of the "hide you are stoned as fuck" game!
I look up to you Levy, im just a 15 year old fan from the UK but you are still a massive chess inspiration to me. You brought me up from 600 to 1200 in 4 months. Got mad love and respect for you bro, keep up thr awesome content
Thanks Gotham for all your help and entertainment during this pandemic! Because of you, I've gained 1100 points in the past few months. You are by far the best chess TH-camr out there (along with Hikaru and agadmator), and thank you for putting in the effort to deliver these daily videos! Happy Mother's Day!
it really is the best series, levy is becoming more and more entertaining. I see he's inspiring a bit for chess brahs style but it's fine, he's becoming more charismatic and less cringey from video to video
I love this series, you're making me want to actually learn chess instead of just goofing around with friends. Also continue being just straight up savage, I am a huge fan lol For reals though, thank you so much for this
Levi: Don't get into that magnus sicilian chessable marketing stuff Me: Nodding in agreement after buying Anish's Winawer course, the e4 comprehensive repertoire, and the KID
All the boys out there will remember that game where Kasparov mobilized his diagonal on b6 activating the queen and hanging a knight; definitely the game of the century.
“Sometimes you wake up and just get murdered”
Levy
I mean, if you wake up and get murdered, be concerned if it happens again
It do be like that sometimes. John from 3 streets over just comes and murders me. He knows necromancy so we gucci
"That's life"
No, Levy, that's death.
Well he does live in New York.
Funniest reply section ive seen
Levi have you ever considered that the reason you are not a grandmaster is because you don't take en passant every time the opportunity presents itself?
Levy :p
levy from attack on black’s castle with one horse
anarchy chess 101
Aware it’s a meme but I highly doubt that Levy’s ever had an en passant scenario in OTB tournaments since he became an IM
AltCtrlSpud?
Causes of war:
-religion
-corn
-one king’s nephew had an affair with the other’s daughter
-real estate
Oil
Oil ( now a days)
I think corn qualifies as real estate, oil, food etc...
@@Neelinmact Oil is food for machines and corn is food for humans. So, when you think about it, same thing really :)
"If you take the pawn the video's over."
Levy giving off some real dad-of-4-on-a-long-road-trip vibes with that one.
500 likes. thank me later
819 likes. thank me later
@@Accelerat270 851 likes, thank me later
@@lifeenjoyer9699 850 likes. thank me later
@@Accelerat270 852 likes. thank me later.
“Crikey I’m just gonna play Queen to B8 and just see what happens on the diagonal” is the most Australian chess player quote I’ve ever heard
Lol
mate
Petition to officially call a quadruple pawn stack "The Hydraulic Press"
Yes
yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
"Sometimes you wake up, sometimes you get murdered. That's just life"
Nice
why'd i read that as sometimes you get " Mustard "
Sounds like a anime title or a manga title
Sometimes you wake up and still get murdered.
Sounds like another boring tuesday in Colombia right now
@@Lunatic.Anodyne more like a light novel title
Levy: "IF YOU PLAY PAWN TO A5, THIS VIDEO IS OVER"
Me: *frantically checks how long the video has left*
Did the same thing lol
@@deidaplays Can you imagine if the end card just came up right there?
"Every Australian has to say "Crikey" 3 times a day" - Levy, as an Australian I can confirm this statement
If you think people constantly say that in Australia your not Australian
@@spenceradams584 no as an Australian hes right
@@jacksonryder7839 mate I’m literally Australian myself
@@spenceradams584 As an Australian I can confirm that you’ve missed the joke here and for that you deserve all 3 of my daily crikeys so here they are:
Crikey
Crikey
Crikey
@@alphaqwell2027 when?
Levy is basically the Gordon Ramsey of Chess at this point.
"What did you think of the midgame, pretty good I thought"
"It's *RAW!!* "
I was waiting for a Ramsey voice in this one, there were a few good moments in it.
"Are you an idiot sandwich?"
Donkey?!
@@DanielFoerster lol
“TH-cam is superior”
-Levy, during that one episode where Twitch kept making the same joke over and over
@@zikangjiang1815 any askers?
@@unknowncaller2597 not me
@@unknowncaller2597 not me
@@unknowncaller2597 their is a higher chance the real slim shady stands up than the person who asked because no body asked
shutup dude it's not even funny you annoying kid
"sometimes you wake up and you just get murdered"
Levy, that's just a New York thing
Or a London thing depending on where you are from
That's just life.
God Levi is so quoteable “ some days you wake up and somedays you just get murdered that’s life” and “when ever people use to go on wars over religion, and corn”
People on TH-cam who quote what they just heard in the comments like everyone else's ears fell off are the apex of retards.
@@endoflevelboss yo, asshole, I shared my fucking opinion. Even if you don’t like when people quote on comments there other ways of saying without being a complete fucking asshole.
@@endoflevelboss ugh
@ゴゴ Joji Joestar ゴゴ
I find no problem with them tbh. For me, the comment section is a place where people literally comment (duh). They found that particular part of the vid funny, so they timestamped them and share what they think about it
@@CheddarBro couldn't even take a second to "hink". The irony is superb.
"Sometimes you wake up and just get murdered"
Wise words coming from an even wiser man......'s sidekick
like literally, probably yes but literally cha..?
PepeJam *I saw, Rook a4* PepeJam *I just didn't like it* PepeJam *you are not a physic* PepeJam *you're Hikaru's sidekick* PepeJam
Has more subscribers now... so who is the boss of who?
@@suo_wei_ren_zhe_jie_xin_chenhuh
"You can't move your knight back because of your ego" I was dying from laughter lmao
So many moments in this... the blindfold, the necking, the English accents, the... attempt at an Aussie accent, the joker applause. Oh, such content!
only thing missing is him making a song about how one of the players make a terrible move.
@@Brugar18 like hanging a piece on move 6?
"the ... attempts at a posh accent and an Aussie accent" FTFY.
Gotham: "You cant bring a wall down with just a horse"
mrconnor372 from chat: "The Mongols!"
Best reference in a chess video I've seen lol
Hahaha, I hear you 😂
I mean, they actually couldn't, Gengis Khan was known to not have a clue how to siege a city, in fact when he sieged down Beijing (I don't remember if it was that city or not) he had no idea what to do, so he tried to reditect a river to bring the wall down, he then got his own army flooded and had to go home.
Ironically, it was the chinese who taught them how to siege down a city when some of them defected to the mongols, just as Sun Tsu said "The chance to defeat your enemy is given by your enemy" (Or something like that).
we all love crash course :)
@@aranayunsombrero9548Are you the random nerd?
💭
🤔
5:02 "Sometimes you just wake up and sometimes you get murdered and that's just life."
I may have just found my senior quote...
YO HE ACTUALLY PROMISED ME SOMETHING IN THIS EPISODE!!!
@@zikangjiang1815 ok
@@zikangjiang1815 stop.
@@zikangjiang1815 it feels like this guy is a bot
@@zikangjiang1815ⁱ ˡⁱᵗᵉʳᵃˡˡʸ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ᶜᵃʳe
Your name sounds like I could order it at an Indian restaurant
10:14 Gotham expressing the sentiment of every teacher ever. “I didn’t teach you to do that!” “That’s a you problem!”
We just gon pretend the man didn't wear a pepe blindfold at the beginning huh? That's how we're gonna play it? Alright Levy. I see you
He doesnt see u tho
Its just you have never seen him without glasses. Its how his eyes look like.
He sure doesn’t
@@aviren340 bruh lol
@@BRONZE_OFFICIAL ok bud
"I don't know what gender you consider your pawns"
- IM Levy Rozman
Pawns are female cuz they can be promoted into queens
No they're all trans
Pawns change between queens (she/her)
Bishops (they/them)
Knights and rooks (it/its)
wait but who takes their queen in a war.
that piece must be named commander-in-chief !
@@胡高平 Exactly. In fact, because pawns are female, and because they can actually underpromote to rooks, bishops, or knights, it follows that all of these must be female as well.
*So everything on the board is female, except the two kings*
Ah yes the three causes of war: religion, corn, and affairs.
Not just any affairs. The nephew of a king having an affair with the daughter of another king. That's important.
Watching Levy wrinkle and unwrinkle his forehead when he zooms in on his face is the most entertaining part of any gothamchess video
Time stamp ?
Time stamp?
Time stamp?
Time stamp?
time stamp?
Levy's pure joy at 13:18 is hilarious and wholesome at the same time
“Some times you wake up and get murdered, that’s just life”
-Levy “IM” Rozman
“IM” ??
@@charbelbeaini9776 International master. Having it in quotations is really moronic though since it's true
16:53 The “no absolutely not ” just fucking killed me
It was so perfectly timed, after like 2 minutes of gushing over a good student
I love how Levy’s TH-cam titles open up so many opportunities of creating memes
“You never try to destroy an entire castle with one horse! Never!”
Odysseus: Hold my arrow
Thanks for everything levy! 1 mil here we come!
Ben Sheepshero
12:46 I actually am impressed because that man was supposed to walk in and just take one, but somehow he managed to grab an extra just before leaving.
Therapist: Don't worry, Mickey Mouse Levy isn't real. He can't hurt you.
Mickey Mouse Levy: 13:19
Underrated comment
this is actually the best comment ever LMAO
@@Lance6338 agreed 😂😂
33:33 “this weird stuff in the opening smells like intermediate players that think they're good at chess.” I would not say that sentence if i was levy
0:14 Yes, that’s exactly what I’m thinking, man in the creepy mask.
25:55 is the best moment of my life
clicked faster than a game of ultra bullet
same OMG
Looking like Andrew Tang
@@zikangjiang1815 NO!!!
I want to see somebody submit an ultrabullet game
@@hhfilms892 GOOD IDEA
12:57 I bet that was a premove that intended to check but white castled
Nothing better than watching GothamChess at 3 am
Amen
relatable
5am ;-;
For one of these you should include a straw poll or some other way for chat to guess as a collective whole, and see how you do in a head to head vs chat
"Now you not only lose the horse, but you also lose the pointy hat" lmaooo
to be fair, I was expecting that to be what people in that elo would call the pieces. . . like how were two 1180s playing that badly. :/ (no hate, but bro... checks, captures, and attacks. Every move.)
Gotham: "d4, no, absolutely not."
*turns on engine*
d4 top computer move 16:53
“You never try to destroy an entire castle with one horse.”~ levy.
This is true, but with all the amazing last stands in history ... do you really want to tempt fate that someone hasn’t already tried it.
12:43 HAHAHAHA
levy raging is sooo amusing I LOVE IT
Therapist: British levy doesn't exist he can't hurt you
British levy: 19:55
I think it was Dr Seuss that said:
What is this? WHAT IS THAT?
Levy sat, in his flat
Poor 600s he did taunt,
Viewers addicted to en passant.
9:15
trojan horse: im about to end this mans whole career
Levy is so damn quotable, like you could write a book filled with just some random shit levy said and I'd buy it and I feel like he knows it
i can’t lie, Levy you’re actually really funny. please don’t stop making content
Levy: my alergies
also levy: I can smell it I can smell your eloo
8:50 "Why do people think that one horse can attack a full castle?"... Levy forgot about the infamous example of the Trojan Horse
9:09 actually, in medieval wars there was a popular tactic called "skirmishing" when small cavalry units harassed the enemy
Don't let this video distract you from the fact that Levy has his twitch chat caged and they're suffering, we must help
#StopTwitchAbuse
(5:39 read chat)
I absolutely love the feel of old levy videos, even the twitch chat is so much nicer.
Was having a depressing day and the beginning of the video made me smile :) thanks levy
Levy's accent sprinkling out at 16:30 because of how proud he is is such a teacher thing
19:52 that british accent was spot on mate oh my word
The guy who played white in game 3 is the type of guy who is a diehard e4 player but here bae says she only dates hard core d4 players only. You gotta do what you gotta do
Me, whenever I get unnecessary blockable check : STAPH IT... GET SOME HELP
“That is called necking - I deserve it”
Omg I can’t even 🤣🤣🤣
Clicked faster than Hikaru premoving a forced mate
@@zikangjiang1815 nah
@@zikangjiang1815 hey that's not going to happen.
9:10 Levy is gonna lose his shit when he sees Iliad.
At exactly 10:41 I decided to pause the vid and play some chess, I then went down 60 ELO and spend the next 2 hours going back up 40 ELO
17:00 The ability to recognize when you're wrong is pure wisdom. And the exercise of physically punishing ourselves is something we should all learn.
Ah that's an interesting sideline Levy went for in the making of the video, deciding to go for the "blindfold to cover eyes" variation of the "hide you are stoned as fuck" game!
30:04 Random Nerd probably wanted to go for the Hippopotamus Defense but decided to stop midway because of Gotham Sub's super center control.
The legendary quadruple stack. This is like hydraulic press. Now you feast. The queen is like Pac-Woman.
Out of context it sounds much worse.
Levy: "This game proves that you can be 1180".
Me, a 1400: "Pls, no"
18:13 - "Future self. I'm sure you passed and your car is fixed by now
I look up to you Levy, im just a 15 year old fan from the UK but you are still a massive chess inspiration to me. You brought me up from 600 to 1200 in 4 months. Got mad love and respect for you bro, keep up thr awesome content
26:02 never ever pause a GothamChess video
"Two more squares, it's right there..." A new line for the rap
"You can't destroy a castle with just one horse!"
Levy has clearly never played Breath of the Wild
well.... thats a video game dude. In real life, you die. Grow up and put down the video games.
@@maddawgzzzz well.... That's a joke dude. In real life, you have to know some cues. Grow up and understand social speech.
Great episode man! Love the energy and i lol’d a bunch of times throughout the episode lmao keep up the good work I’m learning a bunch!!
Thanks Gotham for all your help and entertainment during this pandemic! Because of you, I've gained 1100 points in the past few months. You are by far the best chess TH-camr out there (along with Hikaru and agadmator), and thank you for putting in the effort to deliver these daily videos! Happy Mother's Day!
8:04 I'm Discombobulated
Levy: "Let's see now how to learn after you have paid for the content"
Levy, immediately after: *OK No Absolutely Not*
it really is the best series, levy is becoming more and more entertaining. I see he's inspiring a bit for chess brahs style but it's fine, he's becoming more charismatic and less cringey from video to video
It’s 2.34am but I’m still gonna watch this instead of going to sleep
5:49 for me
"Sometimes you just get murdered, and that's just life."
Yeah, dude, you definitely live in NYC.
Imagine loading up all your pawns in the knight, jumping to the opponent’s side of the board and unleashing them 😂 there’s your Trojan horse
12:44 ROFL!! Man, I almost fell out my chair seeing that
🤣🤣🤣
"causr every Australian has to say crickey 3 times a day"
Me, a NZ'er, died laughing
Queen Elizabeth going off when Levy calls her pacwoman
On this episode of Levy slowly losing his braincells because of blunders....
13:10 maybe black premoved thinking white wouldn't castle? I dunno
This is the perfect timing. I just handed in a 4000 word essay for my uni course so although it’s 2:30am I’m watching this now
Best of luck g.
4000word essay. I am curious what was the topic.
The pinned essay but elaborated more haha
Pshhhh 4000
“Sometimes you wake up and sometimes you get murdered and that’s just life.”
- GothamChess 2021
I want a guess the ELO where Levy is blindfolded and the moves are read to him
i didn't know this series was incomplete until you said this.
When Levy did the intro masked, that's what I expected
Copied
13:25 when Levy said “blind spot” his camera went all fuzzy😂
lmfaooo i was doing my homework on game 4 when you said that at 27:20
I love this series, you're making me want to actually learn chess instead of just goofing around with friends. Also continue being just straight up savage, I am a huge fan lol
For reals though, thank you so much for this
So close to 1m, let’s get there by the end of summer
He’s easily getting there by June, have you seen how fast the channel has grown
@@thebus3181 I haven’t, I’m a new avid viewer as well as chess player lol, but I’m glad he posts chess content, helped me learn a lot
@@TheRealSpleech A week ago he just reached 900k, he got 20k in a weeks so he can easily get to 1m in the next 4 weeks.
"if you take the pawn the video ends here"
me *sweats profusely and checks how many minuets are left in the video*
19:53 Garry Kasparov with an english accent
Levi: Don't get into that magnus sicilian chessable marketing stuff
Me: Nodding in agreement after buying Anish's Winawer course, the e4 comprehensive repertoire, and the KID
6:55 Alekhine's opening?
5:02 which, y'know happens sometimes you wake up sometimes you get murdered
Everything in this video gives me a mental breakdown
And I love it
Why man
Idk man
All the boys out there will remember that game where Kasparov mobilized his diagonal on b6 activating the queen and hanging a knight; definitely the game of the century.