11:36 - green spell instead of freeze was mate 32:35 - not mate because you spell your king and bishop their queen haven't played yet but the green spell essentially turns pieces into the canon piece from Chinese chess, which is my fav
@bpzr you can't. You can only play chess 960 on mobile, and you are able to play when choosing which colour you are against a bot, you can choose custom
Black wins by playing Qe4 instead. White has no freeze spell and king can't escape e-file. On black's next turn green spell to e3 and queen captures the white king.
I love this variant so much. It allows for some crazy wacky tactics and its just awesome. Like how Eric Rosen quickly discovered that the Scandinavian Defense is just about the worst opening you could play as Black because it immediately transposes into a Botez Gambit xD
@@LostPleir d5 is too late. There’s only 6 moves that don’t hang mate after e4 (or e3) and those are: a6, c6, Nc6, g6, e6 and e5. Nc6 is bad, g6 loses a piece I think, and a6 is also pretty bad (although it is rather tricky if white tries to punish it and I’ve won a few games with the move, and beat a 2000 with it). Caro, french and e5 are all fine, just watch out for the light-squared bishop.
Hello levy Big fan Just wanted to let you know at 11:36 you could've just jumped over the pawn and take the king Also when you were analysing the game at the end at 32:34 after Qc4# you could jump over your king with the bishop and take his queen. Thank you
Feel like reactive spell counterplay is the way to win in this mode. In the position at 31:30, white can play queen a4 while freezing the black queen. This threatens to take the king (with a jump spell) and the black queen on h4. Black has to address the threat to his king by either moving or blocking, either of which would end up loosing a queen.
@@bobbyspicer5041 You say that like trading queens, jumps and freezes, winning a rook while activating your own, and neutering black’s attack all in the span of 3 moves isn’t the best option available.
@@trapezoidedI think you can take the d7 pawn with queen to check and stall for freeze recharge, though then freeze, knight c3 bishop b5 is still losing.
After black plays queen to h4, white can play queen to a4, counter-threatening to take the king with a jump spell, and the black queen. Black has to either move the king or block, and lose their queen.
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Its actually crazy how literally 3 games in Gotham almost saw an amazing checkmate, just that he didn't realise the bishop, but with a little bit more, that's it he'd already be becoming a master
31:55 instead of moving the knight, you can freeze the queen, then pawn to b4 since you can jump potion the rook to take the queen and you win a bishop
29:40 freeze the king and you win. simple. no matter what they move, you can take the king. it doesn't matter if you get checked because you take the king, and if pawn blocks you jump over the pawn.
7:00 this is actually one of the main ways to cheese and even a decent opening, although I'd play 1.e4. Black actually only has a few responses, since Qh5 is a huge threat: - Bb4 is the main move, resulting in a symmetrical position after c3 c6 cxb4 cxb5 - g6, preventing Qh5, playable, but maybe a bit passive - Bd6, with the idea to play Kf8 after Qh5, looks awkward, but might be playable - Be7 with the same idea as Bd6, but I think Bd6 is better - Ke7 looks very questionable, but might not lose with precise play, the advatage is that black saves a freeze All other moves lose after Qh5.
I imagine providing a rage spell would be game breaking: allowing one of your pieces to make two moves in a single turn...so perhaps that's why they didn't dare to add it. It's still quite amazing though how freezing and jumping doesn't break the game.
This actually seems like a very fun set of extra rules. Would never want it to be too serious but it'd be very fun if a couple good players cooked a few openings for this
Levy if you're willing to play unique chess you've got to try shotgun king, a rougelike chess game. It's obviously very different from chess, but the way it incorporates chess mechanics is very interesting!
The answer to Qh4 (and freezing g2) is probably just to freeze h4 and play b4. You don't need to retreat the knight to f3 to threaten the queen because the rook is already threatening the queen with a jump spell. This guarantees the queen is lost and is likely the reason your opponent didn't play it.
In the heavily analyzed position at the end of the video you could easily avoid the attack by freezing the queen then playing b4 to neutralize the Bishop tricks while simultaneously guaranteeing that you win the queen with the Rook after you jump your pawn on h2 on the next move
There were updates in the 1800s including instant promotion and some rules on stalemate. Before that, there was the castling rule, before that it was changes to how the pieces moved. Warhammer chess allows combat along with traditional moves.
Great insights and analysis as always, Levy! Your videos really made chess a lot more famous, accessible and so much more enjoyable. Keep up the fantastic work!
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1, you shouldnt attack the queen with the knight, instead go Qa4, where the rook is blocked from jumping by the bishop 2, jump the king with the spell like everyone else is saying to take their queen
but there's also the risk of creating unbeatable openings. for example if white starts e4 and opponent plays e6 then Qh5 with a freeze surrounding g7 is an extremely powerful move. i haven't gone through all of the lines, but so far it seems like its just straight up lost for black
it can, im not 100% convinced. i've ran a few games doing that opening gambit and i think there are some viable, if not outright wining responses. its possible its less that that offense is actually stronger, its just much more complicated and easier to make a mistake in defense. so like..with perfect play it may not actually make a difference, but obviously most players aren't perfect. and its REALLY easy to mess up vs certain openings @@pierrecurie
20:15 nice free pawn bro. It is feeling real nice at a6 with a bishop staring into its soul and if you take their bishop with your bishop, the opponent uses a jump spell on a7 and the rook jumps over the pawn and kills your bishop and also develops his rook
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Ok
Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that these type of comments are getting pretty annoying
How is this comment has 107 likes?
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@@essensaelite ???
32:34 Queen to C4 actually isn't game over because you can use a spell to let your bishop jump over the king to take the queen
Woa ur RIGHT, I was convinced he'd lose too
YES!! someone else saw it and said something
Exactly
I was in so much pain seeing levy just completely ignore the fact HE can jump over his OWN PIECES. the queen can chase but it ain't safe!!
the bishup
11:36 - green spell instead of freeze was mate
32:35 - not mate because you spell your king and bishop their queen
haven't played yet but the green spell essentially turns pieces into the canon piece from Chinese chess, which is my fav
That's JUMP SPELL
Fr jump spell, my valks are already crying at that nomenclature
At 29:30 also freeze the enemy king
oh my god i kept screaming (not literally, i was quite the whole time) at the screen for him to take the king with the jump spell!!
@@superfaststevelevy completely forgot about the jump spell the entire time 😫
All this time ChatGPT was playing Chess 2.0
That’s legit funny😂
(That sounds weird but it actually made me laugh so yeah)
Beat me to it
3.0
Fr
Chat GPT invented SpellChess
This is actually a legitimately cool varient! It was especially fun watching GOTHAM make such ridiculous blunders for once while he was learning 😆
How do I play on mobile?
@@bpzrit's not available on mobile unless you login from a search engine
@@bpzrтолько через сайт
@bpzr you can't. You can only play chess 960 on mobile, and you are able to play when choosing which colour you are against a bot, you can choose custom
In the last game after Qc4 you could’ve done jump potion on the king and take the queen with the bishop
exactly what i was looking for, atleast someone noticed.
Black wins by playing Qe4 instead. White has no freeze spell and king can't escape e-file. On black's next turn green spell to e3 and queen captures the white king.
I thought this comment was a joke until i saw the video 😭
Timestamp?
@@william_shakespeare32:34
I love this variant so much. It allows for some crazy wacky tactics and its just awesome. Like how Eric Rosen quickly discovered that the Scandinavian Defense is just about the worst opening you could play as Black because it immediately transposes into a Botez Gambit xD
It’s even worse than that. Scandi is mate in 3 with Bb5 followed by Qh5.
What about the modern variation with Nf6?
@@LostPleir d5 is too late. There’s only 6 moves that don’t hang mate after e4 (or e3) and those are: a6, c6, Nc6, g6, e6 and e5. Nc6 is bad, g6 loses a piece I think, and a6 is also pretty bad (although it is rather tricky if white tries to punish it and I’ve won a few games with the move, and beat a 2000 with it). Caro, french and e5 are all fine, just watch out for the light-squared bishop.
Thank you for introducing me to the world of botez gambits
Ah thats so sad... I thought this would be Oats Jenkin's Chess 2
Hello levy
Big fan
Just wanted to let you know at 11:36 you could've just jumped over the pawn and take the king
Also when you were analysing the game at the end at 32:34 after Qc4# you could jump over your king with the bishop and take his queen.
Thank you
@@D4RK8244 so wrong
@@sakshamsaini6894agreed
@@sakshamsaini6894 nah
@@D4RK8244wrong
@@D4RK8244so wrong
Feel like reactive spell counterplay is the way to win in this mode.
In the position at 31:30, white can play queen a4 while freezing the black queen. This threatens to take the king (with a jump spell) and the black queen on h4. Black has to address the threat to his king by either moving or blocking, either of which would end up loosing a queen.
They would play pawn to b5 and you can take their queen but then they would take back with rook, you take their rook and only end up with 1 extra rook
@@bobbyspicer5041 You say that like trading queens, jumps and freezes, winning a rook while activating your own, and neutering black’s attack all in the span of 3 moves isn’t the best option available.
@@bobbyspicer5041+5 advantage is better than nothing, even in spell chess.
being out of freeze first basically auto loses given any check on the king can insta lose the game
They could save the queen with a jump spell, right?
At 32:35 you are actually not lost, you just use the phase through spell on your own king and take their queen with the Bishop from f1
oh yeah, but i assume queen to e4 is lost for white tho?
i just wanted to comment that i guess ur a coc player as well if u spoted that :D
Jump spell
@@trapezoidedI think you can take the d7 pawn with queen to check and stall for freeze recharge, though then freeze, knight c3 bishop b5 is still losing.
After black plays queen to h4, white can play queen to a4, counter-threatening to take the king with a jump spell, and the black queen.
Black has to either move the king or block, and lose their queen.
32:34 you can actually use the jump spell on the king and take the queen with the bishop and you would be fine
Exactly
You smart 🙀
Or after Qh4 freeze queen and put the pawn on b4, then take queen with rook using a green spell on h2 pawn)
Came here to say the same thing
@@TheMrProK yep
11:37 Overjumping the pawn and taking the king was instantly in my mind... Funny games :D
Same, I was screaming at my tv when he didn’t play that move
Same😢
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Geometry Dash:
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Levy : Video games get updates every few weeks.
Geometry Dash who hasn't got an update in 6.5 years : BRO WHAT
hey uh... bro? check geometry dash. you'll uh, you'll be surprised
FRFR
@liamplayz461 2.2 is released now but whatever
@liamplayz461 Also how did you find my comment HOW?
@@StavanShah-ST54just scrolled a little bit
Its actually crazy how literally 3 games in Gotham almost saw an amazing checkmate, just that he didn't realise the bishop, but with a little bit more, that's it he'd already be becoming a master
What are you yapping 💀
@@casper14301 bro i write shit like this all the time when im struggling to sleep he probably has his phone in bed or smt
@@DoctorBones1 yeah it's fine just funny as hell to read haha
@@DoctorBones1 Nahhh bro I wrote that at like 3am with one hand and one eye closed
@@plasmaflippy9376why were you typing with one hand 🤨🤨
32:37 I’m not sure if it is a valid move, but you can put the green spell on your king to take the queen with the bishop
Levi, at 32:33 after the queen move you can cast a jump spell on the king and after that the bishop behind the king would take the queen.
Bro are u magnus carlson or what?
Bro levy should see this
Reply from your original account magnus
Yeah but queen e4 instead is gg
@@arkochattopadhyay8875Yeah but everyone else found that magnus
11:36 BRO JUST TAKE THE KING
32:40 it isn't lost, because bishop takes queen with green spell on the king
Levy is simply enjoying the game. What a great change of pace.
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11:35 Gotham not using the jump spell on the pawn and taking the king is killing me.
😂
THANK YOU
At 32:36 you can put a jump spell on your king and take the queen with the bishop on f1, still a very bad position if they don't move the queen to c4
well that only works bc c4 was wrong. Qe4 was mate for black
32:37 jump spell on king and bishop takes queen
The thing is, queen h4 ain't a threat. Because when it seems like mate, the Bishop will say: Goodbye Black King.
31:55 instead of moving the knight, you can freeze the queen, then pawn to b4 since you can jump potion the rook to take the queen and you win a bishop
1. e3, e5
2. Nf3, Bb4
3. c3, Ba5
4. Nxe5
(4. b4)
4... Qf6
(4... Freeze@g2 Qh4
5. Freeze@h4 Nf3
(5. Freeze@h4 b4)
5... Bxc3
6. Ke2, Qc4+
7. Jump@e2 Bxc4)
29:40 freeze the king and you win. simple. no matter what they move, you can take the king.
it doesn't matter if you get checked because you take the king, and if pawn blocks you jump over the pawn.
they can freeze your piece that is checking the king
@@superfaststevethey were out of freezes
Looking for a comment saying this
absolutely everybody was talking about 32:35 but i was looking for this comment@@superfaststeve
32:31 Gotham says that Qc4 is game over
WHEN YOU CAN JUST TAKE THE QUEEN WITH THE BIIIIIISHOP!!!
I was gonna say omfg thank you
8:17 bro is baffled. Flabbergasted. Bamboozled.
10:58 A Spellmate!
Does that make sense? I hope.
Nice
Haven't even reached that far into the video, but the term Spellmate is simply awesome, and it needs to have some kind of solid definition.
8:12 amazing Levy shocked face here 10/10 no notes
Levy's stare was truly one of the stares in history
Looks a bit like trumps mugshot
@@kotnascher3763💀
He is going to sacrifice your soul
It made me feel like my rook was going to sacrifice it’s
That stare that says "I hope I don't look like I totally sold out for tripe content"
Bro missed mate in one😂11:45 jump spell
So ChatGPT wasn't playing illegal moves, he was jusr playing this
Pls don’t tell me I was the only one that thought spell chess was like a spelling test but it’s chess…
32:02 insted of Nf3, Qa4 threatening the king whith jump and the frozen queen seemed nice
Yes, both b4 and Qa4 just winning on the spot
12:44 Levy laughing looking at the invisible chat. Cool habits
“I’m eating everybody can’t stop me now” 10:00
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At 32:39 Gotham overlooked bishop on f1 to jump his own king to take the queen, no?
Bro chess 2 came out today and nobody told me there hasn’t been an update in years
7:00 this is actually one of the main ways to cheese and even a decent opening, although I'd play 1.e4. Black actually only has a few responses, since Qh5 is a huge threat:
- Bb4 is the main move, resulting in a symmetrical position after c3 c6 cxb4 cxb5
- g6, preventing Qh5, playable, but maybe a bit passive
- Bd6, with the idea to play Kf8 after Qh5, looks awkward, but might be playable
- Be7 with the same idea as Bd6, but I think Bd6 is better
- Ke7 looks very questionable, but might not lose with precise play, the advatage is that black saves a freeze
All other moves lose after Qh5.
I imagine providing a rage spell would be game breaking: allowing one of your pieces to make two moves in a single turn...so perhaps that's why they didn't dare to add it. It's still quite amazing though how freezing and jumping doesn't break the game.
Instant blunder when trying to figure out mechanics levy finally understands low elo
32:37 put the green spell on ur king and use the bishop and take the queen
I played it three times, each time they captured my king, I have not played since.
Levy panicking then hanging a clean bishop in a winning position is so on brand 😂
Can we appreciate how Levy never fails to clickbait(entertain) us?
34 likes and no replies wait lemme fix that
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Tf2 looking in superiority 0:01
Tru
4:06 if bro took the pawn he could have forked
Analysis at the end: u could put spell onto the king and take the queen with ur bishop my friend
This actually seems like a very fun set of extra rules. Would never want it to be too serious but it'd be very fun if a couple good players cooked a few openings for this
Levy if you're willing to play unique chess you've got to try shotgun king, a rougelike chess game. It's obviously very different from chess, but the way it incorporates chess mechanics is very interesting!
Seconding this idea!
Yes!
I love that game!
There's also Ouroboros King, another roguelike which is mechanically a lot closer to regular chess.
The answer to Qh4 (and freezing g2) is probably just to freeze h4 and play b4. You don't need to retreat the knight to f3 to threaten the queen because the rook is already threatening the queen with a jump spell. This guarantees the queen is lost and is likely the reason your opponent didn't play it.
In the heavily analyzed position at the end of the video you could easily avoid the attack by freezing the queen then playing b4 to neutralize the Bishop tricks while simultaneously guaranteeing that you win the queen with the Rook after you jump your pawn on h2 on the next move
32:40 you could just take the queen with the bishop
There were updates in the 1800s including instant promotion and some rules on stalemate. Before that, there was the castling rule, before that it was changes to how the pieces moved.
Warhammer chess allows combat along with traditional moves.
Pretty sure the last patch was in the 1970's when they disallowed vertical castling.
In the position at 32:40, you could use the green potion on your king and take the queen I think. Great video, you never dissapoint
That's JUMP SPELL
Also at 32:00 there's Qh5 and freeze the opponent's Queen
no it's the green hoppy hopper@@themulticourse2460
I was so stoked Oat Jenkin's Chess 2 was an official format now, but my hopes were crushed.
18:30 here in chile kefir is called "yogur de pajaritos", which translated mean bird yoghurt
hard to see but position in 32:37 is completely winning for white bcoz you can put a jump spell on the bishop and take black queen
12:52 Legend has it, if you say Cheese, you summon the cheese master himself, Orange Juice Gaming.
Don't bring OJ into this💀💀
@@mikedrxp why not?
Yea why not?
(Why am I just randomly Coming in here 🤦🏻♀️)
The first millisecond of him staring at us is the best part of the video 😂😂
Lol
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It's funny seeing Levy learn something new, and at the same time, during second game (starting 8:00, 9:20) quickly turning into Frank 😂
Botez Gambit: Rook Jump Variation
11:39 blunders mate in one
3:40 his shocked reaction was priceless
33:10 interested to see how Levy is going to cast his spells offline...
Great insights and analysis as always, Levy! Your videos really made chess a lot more famous, accessible and so much more enjoyable. Keep up the fantastic work!
oats jenkins' chess do be number 1
in 32:40 if he played that u put greenspell in your king and take the queen with the Bishop
I like how Gotham started playing this variant and he’s already mastered it.
It's interesting how much the dynamics of the game change with the addition of two simple spells!
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cringe af
@@JacobsKrąnųg Don't care NPC's comment.
@32:40 green spell on the king and take the queen maybe?
a nice feature would be that if you castle without using spells you get a free spell or maybe a mini-freeze potion which freezes just a piece.
Agreed. Having some means of "earning" additional spell uses via earlier restraint from using them would present interesting strategies.
great and fun content, i was so sad when you didnt find checkmate in one by jumpspell on your pawn and rook to h7 at 11:52
I was literally shouting at him to jump and take 😂
9:55 this is really wicked
this video changed my life Levi, very excited for this new chess dlc
1, you shouldnt attack the queen with the knight, instead go Qa4, where the rook is blocked from jumping by the bishop
2, jump the king with the spell like everyone else is saying to take their queen
doesnt anyone notice that youtube thinks its the game "CHESS 2:THE SEQUEL" WAS THERE EVER A GAME LIKE THAT
Finally, the sequel we needed.
This makes chess even more interesting and tactical. Really makes you triple think your moves.
but there's also the risk of creating unbeatable openings. for example if white starts e4 and opponent plays e6 then Qh5 with a freeze surrounding g7 is an extremely powerful move. i haven't gone through all of the lines, but so far it seems like its just straight up lost for black
@@sillyking1991 The new abilities supercharge offense, which gives a big adv to 1st player (white).
@@sillyking1991 i think that just blunders a queen they just attack the queen with a counter freeze not 100% sure tho
It's for fun only, a Circus attraction if you will, nothing more nothing less. Nothing educational about it.
it can, im not 100% convinced. i've ran a few games doing that opening gambit and i think there are some viable, if not outright wining responses. its possible its less that that offense is actually stronger, its just much more complicated and easier to make a mistake in defense. so like..with perfect play it may not actually make a difference, but obviously most players aren't perfect. and its REALLY easy to mess up vs certain openings
@@pierrecurie
Watching Gotham refer to the jump spell as a "green spell" causes me immense pain inside
I actually love this....there are many chess modifications out there and this one is simple yet interesting
11:36 you could've use jump spell and rc6
It's about time! I've been waiting hundreds of years to finally get a chess sequel!
8:06 300 elo moment
It wasn't 300 elo cuz the bishop was frozen
I think that using a mana system and special spells for each cards would be complex, but very fun
Levy practicing the Botez Gambit.
20:16 i think he forgot about the bishop lol
I love how levy never clickbates us
11:40 isn’t jump spell on pawn mate with rook?
Yup.
Can we appreciate how Gotham never clickbaits us ❤️
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Meanwhile Gotham Games:
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No, I'm breaking the chain..
I think a Queen charge or PEKKA Smash + Bats could work well.
We've waited 2000 years for an update to our game and it finally came.
16:00 EAT THE BISHOP WITH THE ROOK USING THE SPELL
11:40 make the pawn invis and take the king
15:00 qh4 is taken by RookH4 with spell on h2
qh4 would freeze the rook
Can we take a moment to appreciate how Levy never fails to search our souls?
20:15 nice free pawn bro. It is feeling real nice at a6 with a bishop staring into its soul and if you take their bishop with your bishop, the opponent uses a jump spell on a7 and the rook jumps over the pawn and kills your bishop and also develops his rook
No his Oponent can put a jump spell on the pawn on e3 and take the King using his Queen After he takes back with his bishop