I don't remember many games (and by that I mean I only know four), but the ones I do know I learnt by playing them over and over otb and in my head because I liked them. If you get excited enough about a game it'll probably stick.
Its not that hard. Im only 1300 but when i joined a local chessclub and started playing long games for hours i also could remember the entire game. It helps if u enter all games in the analisys board online later and talk the game through afterwards
After Anderssen's death in 1879, Wilhelm Steinitz published a tribute in The Field in which he annotated Anderssen's two most famous games, the Evergreen and the Immortal Game against Lionel Kieseritzky. Steinitz wrote, "An evergreen in the laurel crown of the departed chess hero", thus giving this game its name.” Allegedly.
The thing I love about the Opera Game is what Levy hinted at - chess wasn't anywhere near as well understood at the time. Morphy was figuring out what most chess players now take for granted. He singlehandedly brought chess to the next level, then retired from chess at 22, because he felt it was a frivolous pursuit. Possibly chess's most enigmatic figure.
Chess engines rate him at 2400, but his best opponents rate only at 2100. In fact, no one approached 2400 until Capablanca, nearly 70 years later. His mother wanted him to focus on his legal practice, but that was not where his head was. His family was rich, so he muttled at lawyering and kept his head down (after a stint of military experience during the Civil War). He was not enthused about the military, not enthused about being a lawyer, not enthused about women and relationships, became "disagreeable" in his 40s, and died of a supposed stroke at age 47.
Honestly. these videos are so entertaining. From the incredible storytelling to the fact that anyone of any skill level can watch this and still follow along. I have never played a single game of chess in my life and don't know any of the theory, but I still feel the excitement and suspense from start to finish. Thank you for making chess so accessible and fun to everyone!
They say a perfect chess game ends in a draw, but I think game 3 is a better example of a perfect game: white checkmates black while black has mate in 1.
The second game is absolutely incredible. Black had the whole army, with the exception of the loss of just 3 pawns, while white had sacrificed both rooks, the queen and a bishop. e5 was crazy to find out. That's a game that really looked unreal. Wow
In fact, judit polgar and boris spaasky both played the bc4 line and happily moved their king to f1 so this isn't one of those "back in the day" situations (ok back in the seventies and eighties maybe)
My first chess computer program was Chessmaster 2000 in 1983 on an Apple Iic. I still remember that it had an option where you could call up a few old game, including "Evergreen" and A's "Immortal".
When Levy said there wasn't gonna be any crazy queen sacs for insane mates with the last game, I was skeptical of how awesome it would be, but I think that's the most beautiful game of Chess I have seen in my life!
@@nextgenfootball69420 Karpov would crush your family's honour in 10 moves or less you bozo, you are probably sub 1k elo to make such a moronic assumption.
These games were insane. Thanks for opening my eyes to the world of chess. There's so much potential in this game and so many stories to tell. You really created a niché for yourself being a great chess player and a great storyteller. Hats off to you
Loved this episode even though I knew most of the games. Would love to see this continued. Especially Bc I feel like older games before so much theory and engines the attacks were so belligerent and are fun to watch
No list is going to cover everything perfectly, but Kasparov vs. Topalov is yet another fantastic game. I once had the opportunity to ask Kasparov about his personal favorite game, and he selected his game vs. Topalov. If I caught him on a different day, he may have selected his game vs Karpov instead. Both of these games are considered his "immortals", and it's hard to select the "best" one.
Been waiting for a vid like this forever! Thanks for all your grind and effort Levy, you're a legit asset to the game and community of chess and we appreciate all your work!
@@alexethan7469 Bots? These are clearly Real Women(TM) who want to get to know you now. Seriously though they were lightning fast. RIP for the poor bastards who actually click those links.
As for the evergreen, steinitz at the time said it was Anderssen' best game and, like a laurel crown, would have remained evergreen and never fade. A bit over dramatic maybe, but he was definitely right Edit: had to wiki who said it
Hi Levy, not sure if you get notified but I keep watching this video again and again. I'd really appreciate if we get more game compilations or individual game reviews like the Mamedyarov vs Giri/Rapport and the Wei Yi one. The best videos to watch imo
AMAZING AMAZING COMMENTARY!!!!! One of the best videos on chess games I have seen in a long time. Great job Levy!!!! It's nice that you posted these games of the masters. It was very refreshing to watch. I will revisit this clip in future... Thank you!!!
These games were absolutely incredible! Also, I believe the two men in game 4 have opening variations named after them: The McDonnell Attack in the Sicilian Defense (e4, c5, f4) and La Bourdonnais Variation in the French Defense (e4, e6, f4)
A nice trivia about The Immortal Game is that it is the the game Sebastian and Tyrell are playing in the film Blade Runner, and, without spoiling too much, Roy Batty's quest to defeat death in that film mirrors the sacrifices of the white pieces.
@@ThePapaja1996 Although they never played each other directly, (not even when Steinitz visited Morphy in New Orleans as Paul sadly refused to even discuss chess with him!), there's a fascinating indirect comparison between them through Anderssen. While Adolf didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell against Morphy, he actually had a positive score against Steinitz up until 1866 and an about even lifetime score after he got older! Which speaks volumes about Morphys incredible strength, and that without ever studying the game for even a minute, talk about some natural talent there.... it's unsurpassed to this day... imagine what could have become of Morphy's playing strength had he put similar effort into studying the game like e.g. Bobby did, who lived and breathed chess almost 24/7. And with today's resources... it's beyond imagination, how strong he could have become, who knows, he might have been able to challenge Leela?.. well, maybe not quite, but for sure he could be beyond 3000 ELO today :)
That's what happens when you're so much ahead of everyone in your time. It wouldn't surprise me if these guys were actually pretty good players who just didn't know any theory since it was such early times.
@@Lothar445 they were casual players. Morphy played them after being invited to the opera with them, but he wanted to win as fast as possible because he wasn't facing the stage while playing.
Idk why but morphy is so fascinating to me. To me he is the greatest. The fact he’s so old and yet out of all the chess players in history his name is still brought up as one of the best even by people who don’t want to give him credit.
The choices you made are amazing, i am a big fan of Morphy and De la Bourdonnaise, i never knew the games you showed of Anderssen, i will have to watch them again. I think i would have put a game from Tal and probably the 1956 Fisher Byrne game (i think that's my all time favourite tho)
Levy, I noticed a similar use of the Octopus Knight on d3 in the Fischer-R. Byrne game in the 1963 US Championship. In fact, Byrne has his Queen and Rook aligned up identically behind the Knight as in the Kasparov game. The knight in this case did not stay there long but was used with lethal effect as a sac on f2 with the game ending at around move 21. That Fischer went 11-0 in this tourney speaks to his prowess at the time. Fischer has a way of burning the Byrne Brothers (pun intended).
What I admire about Anderson is that after losing to Morphy he improved his own game and gave Steinitz fits in their world championship match. That to me is an even greater accomplishment than these two epic games. Loved the video Levi
To me Morphy's Opera game is the Titanic of chess games. So simple yet so epic. It's the most iconic chess game in my eyes. Whoever is silly enough to criticize a Morphy's move during that game as sub-optimal forgets that these moves are golden, much superior and more artistic than any other engine move and these golden moves make what this game is. A masterpiece.
Stienetz said "Morphy should have played Qxb7, and not was sub par play". Lasker also said the same. This lead to one of the most Gangster Chess quotes of all time "Qxb7 is a *BUTCHER'S* Move! Morphy is an Artist!"
Ty for this video, I'm new to chess and your explanations alone helped me improve my approach to strategy. Also, the tree does make a sound if no one is around to hear it. Simply because sound waves exist despite no one being around to perceive them.
Those games were absolutely stunning! The brilliancy of some of those moves was truly impressive! I never knew chess could be so beautiful, thank you Levy!
That has never occurred to me in the past: watching so many videos from a single YT channel. Levy, your passion for chess worth much more than you could ever imagine. These were fantastic games! 🤩
I think this list is brilliant, but it's missing one more. The 17 pawn moves game shows the incredible power of solid pawn structures and taking space.
I'm just starting to learn chess strategy because my son is getting into it. This video was at the perfect level for me. I appreciate how you worked through the moves a little slower but mostly that you explained why those moves were made. Grwat video.
Classic games are fun for us noobs. There is no way I can understand GM's moves today. Like I see a move and the GMs be like *moves king from g1 to h1 because of pin in the next 7 moves* like gtfo bro
What is truly fascinating about the Immortal Game is that it's not a perfect game for White, unlike the Evergreen, in which Anderssen's only dubious move was 17.Nf6+. Anderssen made lots of mistakes as well in the Immortal, but for how chess was analysed (without engines, of course) back in the day, it appeared like a supreme gem in the history of chess. White often lost advantage in that game: 18.Bd6 is a mistake. Kieseritzky didn't see the Queen sacrifice and thought that 20...Na6 was the correct move to prevent mate on c7, but if you put the position on any engine, it will show you that moving the Bishop, thus creating an escape square for the King, leaves White with just a small advantage, given by the opportunity to win back the sacrificed material. It really teaches a lesson on how chess changed: pre-Lasker/Capablanca chess was just a different thing from the cold-blooded Cold-War Sicilians and stuff.
At 31:44 If you're interested, the plural of octopus is octopuses in English, oktopodes in Greek, and octopedes in Latin. Octopi is not a word in any language. The reason being, the -i plural is only for 2nd declension masculine nouns with -us as a suffix e.g. gladius (sword) radius, populus etc. -pus is a morpheme meaning 'foot,' not a -us suffix. This means it is pluralised to feet i.e. pedes.
You always post diverse and quality content, like going over past chess games and then all your series plus reviews of the world championship like damn
For me, playing chess is about the experience of seeing patterns and visualizing outcomes. There were moves in these games where I didn't know what was about to happen. Thanks Levy, you're a great guide.
You could have done like 5 + bonus with that amazing game with the King run with King up one square mate (sadly i don't remember who played it), that would have been perfect
new to competitive chess and i just started to really watch these videos. dang that second game got me some type of way. didn't know chess can be that agressive!
I think you should have added the game with the king walk, the game of the century by Bobby Fischer, some game by Mikhail Tal and the game from Garry Kasparov with the insane calculations.
I love chess and all but I have never been entertained in a chees game before till i saw this vid and the last game was fascinating. Beautiful game by Kasparov
You should make a part 2 for this with games like steinitz vs von bardeleben and byrne vs Fischer. There are so many games as good and famous as those in the video
I think the 5-th game should have been the game between Kasparov VS Topalov whith the double rook sacrfices. This is widley considered as the best game of all time and Kasparov said that this is the best game he ever played.
31:46 it actually is octopuses. The ruling on whether the word gets changed to "-pi" or "-uses" simply depends on whether it's Latin or Greek in origin.
Hey Gotham, can you please do a video on 'how to convert opening advantages into a win, in the middle game'? I struggle with that at times. My rating is 1500 and I can tell i have won the opening battle, but I still somehow play into a position where opponent somehow equalizes and my advantage is gone. It's frustrating.
I've been working night shifts and just watching your videos. They teach me a lot of ways to use pawns, use the h/a pawns and how to use diagonals that do not cross the center. Thank you for being a nice talkative dude. Would love to play sometime! On a side note, I expected you would put a Mikhael Tal game on here, as you were a big fan of him in another video
Levy always pins a negative comment. So here goes.... Levy is so bad at chess he would've attempted the scholar's mate on the first movie of harry potter if he was casted as harry.
5:50 funny, I was having a mathematical discussion about the origins of mathematics while looking at this idea and yeah, assuming a typical forest I think it does, you no one may hear it, but the vibrations when hitting the ground will change the state of the atoms of electrons in both, the ground and the tree, by the vibrations it will make from the change in energy, and even if it is for a tiny fraction, the states were altered which leads puts for certain that it made a sound which is just vibrations from impact.
Chess before computers!! Daring and creativity showing the magic chess can be. Going to replay this video the next time I see two SGMs agree to a tournament draw after 8 moves. Thanks for the hard work!!
Stunning video! Not only does this thing have amazing games but the blow-by-blow descriptions help modest chess players appreciate the battle of titans. Very well done. I have goosebumps.
well yes, it does make a sound, if we are defining sound as particles vibrating in air, even if no one is there, the falling of the tree will still physically affect its environment, its impact will produce a sound because the pressure exerted on the air around the falling tree is physically affected by the tree creating waves of vibrating air particles which moves outward from its center affecting the surrounding environment
Valid point, although even if you define sound like that, you can only hypothesize that it must have made a sound, not knowing the time it would happen. There is no way to test this, since it would not satisfy the question's requisite of no one being there to hear the supposed sound. I don't believe that hypothesis is a prediction, in conclusion. Also, if you define a sound more abstractly, how most humans would define it, the question answers itself. In more detail, a sound is something that is heard, but no one heard the supposed sound of the tree falling, so it's not a sound.
I'm standing on a technicality, basically: time. Saying a tree has fallen is different than saying a tree fell. When you examine the fallen tree you conclude to the first statement, time unspecified. Consequently, you can't know the sound that could have been made either, since the type of sound is a function of time of fall (because of chaos theory, a system like this is sensitive to initial conditions) which is unknown. So if you don't know these, how can you confirm the 'sound'.
And all of that is after forgetting the simple fact that the question is impossible since it is highly likely that the tree falling would affect at least one person. As you said, vibrating air particles move outward affecting the surrounding environment, and at least a human, even infinitesimally. To summarize, the premise of this question is wrong.
As per stockfish in game 3 whites move Nf6+ is a blunder and takes white from a +6.5 to +0.8 , however black gives it back with another blunder with Qxf3 . Black is probably lost with white showing +2.75, but the final nail in the coffin for black was playing Nxe7. Ofcourse the alternate moves in these situations are very hard to find, I would imagine, and probably even today only the best of the best can find the correct moves. Over all very beautiful games
Great video dude! I think I've seen most of these games at one point or another but I love how you presented them all and how you strung them together. Thanks!
i love how you always say in the latter parts of the video 'if we had enough patience to stick this far'. bro. youre the goat in chess youtube, your viewers are most likely goat in chess youtube watching too. haha. cheers from hk bro. awesome stuff. hope to learn here
The Morphy game was in a book I had on chess I had as a kid named "Check Out Chess". (And wow, I've only just now realised, 27 years later, the pun on the word "check" !!) It finished the description of the game with "Of course, Morphy does not just give away queens for nothing. Can you see why he wanted the black knight moved? Can you see the checkmate?" Rd1-d8 checkmate (it used full algebraic notation)... "Now Morphy could turn around and watch the opera!"
Wow....these games are givinge chills with the outside of the box thinking these men used. It makes me feel like a monkey cause im just sitting here knowing dam well my brain could have never EVER thought in such a way
Ok ok ok... Kasperov's game plan of not using minor pieces to do the taking even when it's perfectly possible is amazing. Out of the 5 recaps, Kasperov's is the best here.
27:48 I may be wrong but the final explanation seems wrong so it threw me off a bit bc it was McDonnell's turn to play. But it did come to the same conclusion of check mate. I used to play chess with my dad growing up and for some reason got interested in the game again. Really enjoying your vids. Thanks for putting them out!
I'm always impressed how people can remember full games of other people or even their own.
I remember one, e4 e5 Qh5 Ke7 Qxe5
@@akusalonen7512 xD
Its ez for me because of the insomnia, when you're awake at 3 a.m, there's nothing better to do
I don't remember many games (and by that I mean I only know four), but the ones I do know I learnt by playing them over and over otb and in my head because I liked them. If you get excited enough about a game it'll probably stick.
Its not that hard. Im only 1300 but when i joined a local chessclub and started playing long games for hours i also could remember the entire game. It helps if u enter all games in the analisys board online later and talk the game through afterwards
After Anderssen's death in 1879, Wilhelm Steinitz published a tribute in The Field in which he annotated Anderssen's two most famous games, the Evergreen and the Immortal Game against Lionel Kieseritzky. Steinitz wrote, "An evergreen in the laurel crown of the departed chess hero", thus giving this game its name.”
Allegedly.
There’s that, but also, “evergreen” has the same meaning as “immortal,” from a certain point of view.
Googled then you copy and pasted
@@Snceday1so what lmao this was 2 years ago
24:05 LCMDLB is extremely lucky that en passant wouldn't become a forced move until later in chess history.
a man of culture u are!
We hadn't scaled up brick production as a society yet. A real lifesaver that this game happened when it did.
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@@sucamchi9872 holy hell!
im mad he didnt play it
The thing I love about the Opera Game is what Levy hinted at - chess wasn't anywhere near as well understood at the time. Morphy was figuring out what most chess players now take for granted. He singlehandedly brought chess to the next level, then retired from chess at 22, because he felt it was a frivolous pursuit. Possibly chess's most enigmatic figure.
@@balisticSkip 🙄
Greco was even more
@@balisticSkip No, Levy is correct
Chess engines rate him at 2400, but his best opponents rate only at 2100. In fact, no one approached 2400 until Capablanca, nearly 70 years later.
His mother wanted him to focus on his legal practice, but that was not where his head was. His family was rich, so he muttled at lawyering and kept his head down (after a stint of military experience during the Civil War). He was not enthused about the military, not enthused about being a lawyer, not enthused about women and relationships, became "disagreeable" in his 40s, and died of a supposed stroke at age 47.
@@balisticSkip Hey boring person, make sure you're, you know, not wrong when you correct someone.
Levy I want to thank you for your videos. Since watching, my rating has gone from 1200 to 800 in a week!
Nice
Uh 1200 to 800? Fellow r/anarchychess user?
LOL
400 point difference! truly insane
backward -knight- rating move
Honestly. these videos are so entertaining. From the incredible storytelling to the fact that anyone of any skill level can watch this and still follow along. I have never played a single game of chess in my life and don't know any of the theory, but I still feel the excitement and suspense from start to finish. Thank you for making chess so accessible and fun to everyone!
Yeah I'm surprised too. I found out that as long as you know the rules, you know enough to enjoy watching a game of chess.
Did you start playing?
@@jatoja88 yes, I’m not very good but I try!
They say a perfect chess game ends in a draw, but I think game 3 is a better example of a perfect game: white checkmates black while black has mate in 1.
That’s a terminology conflict
20:37 In game 3 after re7+, what if black play kd8? Then black will win!!
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nani
@@mootezbenzekri7806 rxd7, and king can't run from the d rank
@@mootezbenzekri7806 Then simply Rxd7+ Kc8 Rd8+ Kxd8 Bf5+ Qxd1 Qxd1+ Nd4 Bh3 Re8 cxd4 and White is simply winning
The second game is absolutely incredible. Black had the whole army, with the exception of the loss of just 3 pawns, while white had sacrificed both rooks, the queen and a bishop. e5 was crazy to find out. That's a game that really looked unreal. Wow
No actually
Yet it's knight A6 instead of bishop C6 on 14:44 what lost this game, everything before was okay and led to a solid black win.
8:25
Levi: "They would move the their king as early as move 4"
Hikaru and Magnus playing the bong cloud: "OUR goals are beyond your understanding"
Communists!
In fact, judit polgar and boris spaasky both played the bc4 line and happily moved their king to f1 so this isn't one of those "back in the day" situations (ok back in the seventies and eighties maybe)
My first chess computer program was Chessmaster 2000 in 1983 on an Apple Iic. I still remember that it had an option where you could call up a few old game, including "Evergreen" and A's "Immortal".
the octopus knight being so powerful it was worth 9 points of material. That is insane.
should be a boss battle
The most powerful octopus knight to ever live
@@jordanmcmorris5248
In America, you give up Knight for rook.
In Soviet Russia...
Levy's obviously sick at chess but his presentation and teaching skills and his blatant enthusiasm really make these videos. Really fun 36 minutes!
C'mon bro i am sure he is most likely at the very least amount the top 3% of chess players you don't need to be so cruel
Isn’t he like 2400? Way lower than 3%
When Levy said there wasn't gonna be any crazy queen sacs for insane mates with the last game, I was skeptical of how awesome it would be, but I think that's the most beautiful game of Chess I have seen in my life!
Look up kasparovs immortal game. Absolutely stunning
For me it is either Ivanchuks immortal against Kasparov or Capablanca vs Marshall. Both are so damn beautiful.
nah i couldve played that game on blitz, it wasnt as great as andersons
@@nextgenfootball69420 Karpov would crush your family's honour in 10 moves or less you bozo, you are probably sub 1k elo to make such a moronic assumption.
@@woodys9841 shush it, reiTurd, 1'll checkm8 yo M0m in the back ranks
These games were insane. Thanks for opening my eyes to the world of chess. There's so much potential in this game and so many stories to tell. You really created a niché for yourself being a great chess player and a great storyteller. Hats off to you
There are slick checkmate and then there is the "3 Pawn End Zone Rush" checkmate that game 4 had. Very wicked.
I just love watching him explain ideas behind their moves, Such enthusiasm and personal like he is playing himself
Loved this episode even though I knew most of the games. Would love to see this continued. Especially Bc I feel like older games before so much theory and engines the attacks were so belligerent and are fun to watch
Take a look at Estrin vs Berliner if you haven’t seen it. Kingscrusher has a nice video of it.
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No list is going to cover everything perfectly, but Kasparov vs. Topalov is yet another fantastic game. I once had the opportunity to ask Kasparov about his personal favorite game, and he selected his game vs. Topalov. If I caught him on a different day, he may have selected his game vs Karpov instead. Both of these games are considered his "immortals", and it's hard to select the "best" one.
Been waiting for a vid like this forever! Thanks for all your grind and effort Levy, you're a legit asset to the game and community of chess and we appreciate all your work!
Agreed.
Lol the bots already
@@alexethan7469 Bots? These are clearly Real Women(TM) who want to get to know you now. Seriously though they were lightning fast. RIP for the poor bastards who actually click those links.
Game 4, wow. That was so much fun.
Mr. Hornblower, how are you alive
As for the evergreen, steinitz at the time said it was Anderssen' best game and, like a laurel crown, would have remained evergreen and never fade.
A bit over dramatic maybe, but he was definitely right
Edit: had to wiki who said it
hello i just wanna ask about the third game go to 16:43 black can fork the king and the rook with bxc3 ??
@@skys-_7242 - no because then white will take the Bishop on c3 with the Knight.
Hi Levy, not sure if you get notified but I keep watching this video again and again. I'd really appreciate if we get more game compilations or individual game reviews like the Mamedyarov vs Giri/Rapport and the Wei Yi one. The best videos to watch imo
4:19 Imagine Morphy actually calling them bozos
@@melaniee___1486 what the fuck was that
@@uwerlmi6120 bots my man
The fact the kasparov game isnt called Dark Knight is a shame
AMAZING AMAZING COMMENTARY!!!!! One of the best videos on chess games I have seen in a long time. Great job Levy!!!! It's nice that you posted these games of the masters. It was very refreshing to watch. I will revisit this clip in future... Thank you!!!
Great compilation. One of the best Gotham videos ever. It is a fun to watch and when Levy is in a good mood his comments are great. Well done!
These games were absolutely incredible! Also, I believe the two men in game 4 have opening variations named after them: The McDonnell Attack in the Sicilian Defense (e4, c5, f4) and La Bourdonnais Variation in the French Defense (e4, e6, f4)
A nice trivia about The Immortal Game is that it is the the game Sebastian and Tyrell are playing in the film Blade Runner, and, without spoiling too much, Roy Batty's quest to defeat death in that film mirrors the sacrifices of the white pieces.
Anderssen: one of the best chess players ever
Anderssen's opening: one of the best too
Morphy made him look pretty weak though
@@worsethanjoerogan8061 Morphy made everyone look weak
Wunder if Williham steinitz should stand a chans to Paul Murphy
@@ThePapaja1996 Although they never played each other directly, (not even when Steinitz visited Morphy in New Orleans as Paul sadly refused to even discuss chess with him!), there's a fascinating indirect comparison between them through Anderssen.
While Adolf didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell against Morphy, he actually had a positive score against Steinitz up until 1866 and an about even lifetime score after he got older!
Which speaks volumes about Morphys incredible strength, and that without ever studying the game for even a minute, talk about some natural talent there.... it's unsurpassed to this day... imagine what could have become of Morphy's playing strength had he put similar effort into studying the game like e.g. Bobby did, who lived and breathed chess almost 24/7. And with today's resources... it's beyond imagination, how strong he could have become, who knows, he might have been able to challenge Leela?.. well, maybe not quite, but for sure he could be beyond 3000 ELO today :)
@@worsethanjoerogan8061 He didn't. Morphy just won a few games against him by memorising some openings
The last game reminds me of engine games, they maximize the piece activeness with outstanding ideas.
Top tier content, Gotham. Hard to mess up a video about such amazing games but as always you bring so much contagious enthusiasm. We need a sequel.
Please
When the Queen took at d7 at 20:50 I was staring in disbelief with goose bumps
First game: "White played a solid game, but black was just moving pieces without a plan... They must be 800, 900 top"
Guess the elo lmao
That's what happens when you're so much ahead of everyone in your time.
It wouldn't surprise me if these guys were actually pretty good players who just didn't know any theory since it was such early times.
@@Lothar445 they were casual players. Morphy played them after being invited to the opera with them, but he wanted to win as fast as possible because he wasn't facing the stage while playing.
Those Immortal and Kasparov vs Karpov games were amazing.
The last game reminds me of some of the recent Leela games: sacrifice a pawn for initiative and saying "that pawn hurts you more than me".
Kasparov was so far ahead of his time
Idk why but morphy is so fascinating to me. To me he is the greatest. The fact he’s so old and yet out of all the chess players in history his name is still brought up as one of the best even by people who don’t want to give him credit.
The choices you made are amazing, i am a big fan of Morphy and De la Bourdonnaise, i never knew the games you showed of Anderssen, i will have to watch them again. I think i would have put a game from Tal and probably the 1956 Fisher Byrne game (i think that's my all time favourite tho)
I just realised i should have actually said Byrne Fisher as Bobby was playing with black 🤦♂️
@@tipemotions Game of the Century or the other one vs the other Byrne?
U cant put a game of Tal for "beginners must know" coz his games are too complicated. Brilliant but too complicated 🙃
@@RMF49 game of the century 👍
Levy, I noticed a similar use of the Octopus Knight on d3 in the Fischer-R. Byrne game in the 1963 US Championship. In fact, Byrne has his Queen and Rook aligned up identically behind the Knight as in the Kasparov game. The knight in this case did not stay there long but was used with lethal effect as a sac on f2 with the game ending at around move 21. That Fischer went 11-0 in this tourney speaks to his prowess at the time. Fischer has a way of burning the Byrne Brothers (pun intended).
31:20 "It [the knight] isn't going to eat its friend." Good to know, Gotham.
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What I admire about Anderson is that after losing to Morphy he improved his own game and gave Steinitz fits in their world championship match. That to me is an even greater accomplishment than these two epic games. Loved the video Levi
To me Morphy's Opera game is the Titanic of chess games. So simple yet so epic. It's the most iconic chess game in my eyes. Whoever is silly enough to criticize a Morphy's move during that game as sub-optimal forgets that these moves are golden, much superior and more artistic than any other engine move and these golden moves make what this game is. A masterpiece.
Stienetz said "Morphy should have played Qxb7, and not was sub par play". Lasker also said the same. This lead to one of the most Gangster Chess quotes of all time "Qxb7 is a *BUTCHER'S* Move! Morphy is an Artist!"
Ty for this video, I'm new to chess and your explanations alone helped me improve my approach to strategy. Also, the tree does make a sound if no one is around to hear it. Simply because sound waves exist despite no one being around to perceive them.
Those games were absolutely stunning! The brilliancy of some of those moves was truly impressive! I never knew chess could be so beautiful, thank you Levy!
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"You were paying attention but you forgot because chess is hard".
Damn dude..
That has never occurred to me in the past: watching so many videos from a single YT channel. Levy, your passion for chess worth much more than you could ever imagine. These were fantastic games! 🤩
Broooo the three musketeer pawns are the real mvp!!!! Absolute savage!!!!!
I think this list is brilliant, but it's missing one more. The 17 pawn moves game shows the incredible power of solid pawn structures and taking space.
I'm just starting to learn chess strategy because my son is getting into it. This video was at the perfect level for me. I appreciate how you worked through the moves a little slower but mostly that you explained why those moves were made. Grwat video.
Definitely is a must video on this channel, love the classics
my guy u have not even seen half of it
Classic games are fun for us noobs. There is no way I can understand GM's moves today. Like I see a move and the GMs be like *moves king from g1 to h1 because of pin in the next 7 moves* like gtfo bro
What is truly fascinating about the Immortal Game is that it's not a perfect game for White, unlike the Evergreen, in which Anderssen's only dubious move was 17.Nf6+. Anderssen made lots of mistakes as well in the Immortal, but for how chess was analysed (without engines, of course) back in the day, it appeared like a supreme gem in the history of chess. White often lost advantage in that game: 18.Bd6 is a mistake. Kieseritzky didn't see the Queen sacrifice and thought that 20...Na6 was the correct move to prevent mate on c7, but if you put the position on any engine, it will show you that moving the Bishop, thus creating an escape square for the King, leaves White with just a small advantage, given by the opportunity to win back the sacrificed material. It really teaches a lesson on how chess changed: pre-Lasker/Capablanca chess was just a different thing from the cold-blooded Cold-War Sicilians and stuff.
Awesome video! Would like to see this series continue with more historic games!
That opera game was mad. Sacrifices everything for a win
I was literally a biggener at chess.... after watching your videos i am now a grandmaster in clickbaiting
At 31:44 If you're interested, the plural of octopus is octopuses in English, oktopodes in Greek, and octopedes in Latin. Octopi is not a word in any language. The reason being, the -i plural is only for 2nd declension masculine nouns with -us as a suffix e.g. gladius (sword) radius, populus etc. -pus is a morpheme meaning 'foot,' not a -us suffix. This means it is pluralised to feet i.e. pedes.
You always post diverse and quality content, like going over past chess games and then all your series plus reviews of the world championship like damn
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I really love these games and your videos are amazing. Keep up with the good work brotha
Virgin knowing a famous instructive game between two of the best players in the world
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CHAD knowing the first game where you beat your dad
For me, playing chess is about the experience of seeing patterns and visualizing outcomes. There were moves in these games where I didn't know what was about to happen. Thanks Levy, you're a great guide.
You could have done like 5 + bonus with that amazing game with the King run with King up one square mate (sadly i don't remember who played it), that would have been perfect
Short-Timman 1993
@@caseywhieldon2506 ty man
@@caseywhieldon2506 nope it is Edward Lasker vs George Alan Thomas (1912)
new to competitive chess and i just started to really watch these videos. dang that second game got me some type of way. didn't know chess can be that agressive!
I think you should have added the game with the king walk, the game of the century by Bobby Fischer, some game by Mikhail Tal and the game from Garry Kasparov with the insane calculations.
That would be Kasparov-Topalov with the double rook sac.
He did a video there he talk about that game.
@@ThePapaja1996 but he also did a video on the opera game
@@abj136 Not necessarily. There is another game of Kasparov beating Karpov in a wc match where the video is entitled 'Kasparov's insane calculations'.
I love chess and all but I have never been entertained in a chees game before till i saw this vid and the last game was fascinating. Beautiful game by Kasparov
You should make a part 2 for this with games like steinitz vs von bardeleben and byrne vs Fischer. There are so many games as good and famous as those in the video
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27:00 Queen captured Bishop then rook c8 this is a best move for white.
3:42 best voicecrack
I think the 5-th game should have been the game between Kasparov VS Topalov whith the double rook sacrfices. This is widley considered as the best game of all time and Kasparov said that this is the best game he ever played.
Anderssen was a truly chess genius, absolute amazing games!
31:46 it actually is octopuses. The ruling on whether the word gets changed to "-pi" or "-uses" simply depends on whether it's Latin or Greek in origin.
Hey Gotham, can you please do a video on 'how to convert opening advantages into a win, in the middle game'? I struggle with that at times. My rating is 1500 and I can tell i have won the opening battle, but I still somehow play into a position where opponent somehow equalizes and my advantage is gone. It's frustrating.
I've been working night shifts and just watching your videos. They teach me a lot of ways to use pawns, use the h/a pawns and how to use diagonals that do not cross the center. Thank you for being a nice talkative dude. Would love to play sometime!
On a side note, I expected you would put a Mikhael Tal game on here, as you were a big fan of him in another video
keep up the interesting content man, it is greatly appreciated :D
Watched two of these games in levys latest video too the same day how chess evolved over time
This was fun. I am relatively new to chess, so yes, these games are a real treat and now I want more. Thank you!
16:54 I've heard about the Evans gambit two days ago by watching a video who tells us to crush weak opponents and make them cry by using that opening.
Levy always pins a negative comment. So here goes.... Levy is so bad at chess he would've attempted the scholar's mate on the first movie of harry potter if he was casted as harry.
Thats not how it works.
5:50 funny, I was having a mathematical discussion about the origins of mathematics while looking at this idea and yeah, assuming a typical forest I think it does, you no one may hear it, but the vibrations when hitting the ground will change the state of the atoms of electrons in both, the ground and the tree, by the vibrations it will make from the change in energy, and even if it is for a tiny fraction, the states were altered which leads puts for certain that it made a sound which is just vibrations from impact.
Chess before computers!! Daring and creativity showing the magic chess can be. Going to replay this video the next time I see two SGMs agree to a tournament draw after 8 moves. Thanks for the hard work!!
Stunning video! Not only does this thing have amazing games but the blow-by-blow descriptions help modest chess players appreciate the battle of titans. Very well done. I have goosebumps.
Beautiful games and commentary
Idk how but Anderson was definitely using stockfish
Liked before I even started watching. I needed a story time with gotham for too long now!
4th game was in favour of white with queen takes D2
well yes, it does make a sound, if we are defining sound as particles vibrating in air, even if no one is there, the falling of the tree will still physically affect its environment, its impact will produce a sound because the pressure exerted on the air around the falling tree is physically affected by the tree creating waves of vibrating air particles which moves outward from its center affecting the surrounding environment
Valid point, although even if you define sound like that, you can only hypothesize that it must have made a sound, not knowing the time it would happen. There is no way to test this, since it would not satisfy the question's requisite of no one being there to hear the supposed sound. I don't believe that hypothesis is a prediction, in conclusion. Also, if you define a sound more abstractly, how most humans would define it, the question answers itself. In more detail, a sound is something that is heard, but no one heard the supposed sound of the tree falling, so it's not a sound.
I'm standing on a technicality, basically: time. Saying a tree has fallen is different than saying a tree fell. When you examine the fallen tree you conclude to the first statement, time unspecified. Consequently, you can't know the sound that could have been made either, since the type of sound is a function of time of fall (because of chaos theory, a system like this is sensitive to initial conditions) which is unknown. So if you don't know these, how can you confirm the 'sound'.
And all of that is after forgetting the simple fact that the question is impossible since it is highly likely that the tree falling would affect at least one person. As you said, vibrating air particles move outward affecting the surrounding environment, and at least a human, even infinitesimally. To summarize, the premise of this question is wrong.
Take a breath Einstein
As per stockfish in game 3 whites move Nf6+ is a blunder and takes white from a +6.5 to +0.8 , however black gives it back with another blunder with Qxf3 . Black is probably lost with white showing +2.75, but the final nail in the coffin for black was playing Nxe7.
Ofcourse the alternate moves in these situations are very hard to find, I would imagine, and probably even today only the best of the best can find the correct moves. Over all very beautiful games
Great video! I've seen some of these before, but your explanations are entertaining and informative. Thanks.
though i've seen these games before, they never cease to amaze me! cool presentation!
Can we just acknowledge that this guy has been making vids for us for only a year now?
@Kilfa Nara shut up everyone gets a seizure reading ur messages and spam
Great video dude! I think I've seen most of these games at one point or another but I love how you presented them all and how you strung them together. Thanks!
This video was perfectly balanced in the amount of humor and instructive content. Well done Levy!
i love how you always say in the latter parts of the video 'if we had enough patience to stick this far'.
bro. youre the goat in chess youtube, your viewers are most likely goat in chess youtube watching too. haha. cheers from hk bro. awesome stuff. hope to learn here
19:55 IM FUCKING DEAD😭
The Morphy game was in a book I had on chess I had as a kid named "Check Out Chess". (And wow, I've only just now realised, 27 years later, the pun on the word "check" !!) It finished the description of the game with "Of course, Morphy does not just give away queens for nothing. Can you see why he wanted the black knight moved? Can you see the checkmate?" Rd1-d8 checkmate (it used full algebraic notation)... "Now Morphy could turn around and watch the opera!"
Who's watching this in 1897
I think Fischer vs Donald Byrne (The Game of the Century) deserves to be here
Wow....these games are givinge chills with the outside of the box thinking these men used. It makes me feel like a monkey cause im just sitting here knowing dam well my brain could have never EVER thought in such a way
9:33 everybody gangsta until the bishop switches colors
BEST VIDEO EVER BY LEVY
20:10 Rd1 is the key attacking move, sacrificing the knight. This is the hard move to find! To set up a complete checkmate. Chef's kiss
Ok ok ok... Kasperov's game plan of not using minor pieces to do the taking even when it's perfectly possible is amazing. Out of the 5 recaps, Kasperov's is the best here.
*Kasparov
27:48 I may be wrong but the final explanation seems wrong so it threw me off a bit bc it was McDonnell's turn to play. But it did come to the same conclusion of check mate.
I used to play chess with my dad growing up and for some reason got interested in the game again. Really enjoying your vids. Thanks for putting them out!