he has only heard the phrase so he thought it was 'Slowly but Shirely' this whole time and was as confused as a 1000 hanging their queen for 4 moves in a row.
@@nivnavion yer that’s why lol. It’s a joke! People started calling him Levi ironically as a funny bit. Relax and look for your funny bone. I think it’s the big one in your leg.
I'm guessing you saw his twitch where he explained that if it doesn't do well he can't keep making a particular series? I really like this kind of content
I agree, though I think it’s primarily because he uses a longer time control so there is more time for explanation in comparison with Hikaru who basically exclusively plays blitz but yes if hikaru made an equivalent of a Sensei speed run it won’t be nearly as good
@@Kokurorokuko Hikaru is not a teacher. However, his walkthroughs of his own games are absolutely unmatched, and shows that Hikaru is miles ahead of Danya in pure chess.
@@tonyliu9493 I would definitely not recommend watching hikaru if you want to learn chess in the range of 700-1300 elo. Most of the time I see his content as entertainment.
As a kind of intermediate player I loved this! I am amazed at the kind of moves you guys can find. Maybe even play each other couple times and then analyze with Danya where you went wrong? These studies not only help me too but I also like seeing you 2 collaborate and get Levy closer to GM. Also Danya's teaching is perfect, I couldn't ask for better explanations. His way of thinking just fits mine perfectly
What Danya said about "Going back to the last time you had a choice" is exactly describing the concept of "Depth First Search" in computer science. You go deep, evaluate, and if you want to back up then you only back up to the last choice.
@@riccardofiori828 already how they work :) they use DFS and other related algorithms... basically different ideas to decide on the best trees of moves to traverse.
@@riccardofiori828 Alpha/Beta, stockfish's algorithm, is actually an enhanced version of A* search. There are five main subclasses of the "search" algorithm, DFS, Breadth first (BFS) where you explore all possible choices before moving to the next depth. There's also UCS, Uniform Cost Search, where the "cheapest" paths are explored first, and Greedy Search, where only a heuristic is used and the closest to the destination is explored first. A* search uses cost and heuristics, to search the best nodes first. Minimax is the two player version of A*, where the algorithm attempts to maximize the score for one side, and minimize the score for the other. Alpha/Beta includes Pruning on top of minimax, which can drastically help search times by removing entire branches from the search, just like a human might.
@@riccardofiori828 they generally use a similar principle, but depth first search alone will take too long even just looking a few moves ahead. Adding alpha beta pruning will help, but only so much. AB pruning intuitively is discounting a certain sequence of moves because you already know you found something better. I think the easiest functional chess engines would use a combination of depth first search (minimax with AB pruning) and some heuristic function to evaluate positions, so that you can limit your search to a few moves at a time. The function could be as simple as the value of the pieces remaining, or could somehow incorporate more positional information Your intuition about depth first search building a tree is perfect :) It’s the best way to solve a lot of 2 player games that have a relatively small set of game states
I watch Levy to learn new ideas, and then I watch Danya to bring those ideas to a higher level. This crossover reminds me of the old Hikaru/Levy content, except Danya is a nice guy who wants to actually teach Levy, rather than roast him the way Hikaru did.
@@viniciussouzamartins8423 Levy and Hikaru would stream together often, in the past. Hikaru acted like a mentor or big brother; but he was kind of mean toward Levy, and it threw off the good vibes a lot of the time.
the hate comments are funny to me as they always pop up in the first few minutes. The haters spend so much time typing a meaningless comment right after you posted. This is one of the first times I've been early and honestly it breaks my heart because I know that those are the comments you see first. Levy you are amazing and you made my rating shoot up like a rocket. You made my day by posting. 💙💙💙
I love seeing this collab between my two favorite instructional chess gurus! I’m among the many that go to both of you for fundamental chess, but I get my “tricky and aggressive” content from Rosen. He is like a gambit master, but it’s not great to be THAT aggressive for my level if I can’t make up my own gambits on the fly with “a funny line”
I'm actually really happy that I thought of bishop takes pawn tactic. I don't know if I would of found it in a game, but glad I saw it. Great video btw Levy. Really like the teacher student dynamic you and danya have.
@@Meer17251 most of it is on native speakers Most people who learn English as a second language write better, although not imperatively I think it's in large part thanks to the fact that not native speakers would take their English lessons more seriously but feel free to correct me.
@@moving_knight Non-native speakers generally learn a second language primarily academically, so they learn the grammar and syntax correctly from the ground up. Native speakers learn intuitively as children and so often don't actually understand their own language academically.
Please make this a series, this is just so good! You're my two favourite chess channels, this is super informative, it's nice to see the structure of an actual lesson. Oh, and we also get the rare footage of Levy listening to someone :P
I must say I didn't get everything since you guys say moves so quickly. It really helps to quickly play it out. But even though this is way above my head as a chess player, it is very motivating to see youu get coached like this! Hope to see more of this!
And it's better for casual viewers to just let it go at their pace. Possibly could edit in a board for future videos. I'm assuming Levy has some editors.
Dude, this is great. So great. A GM training an IM. How is every amateur chess lover not getting a little fresh with this? A fly on the wall GM training with easily two of the best English language chess communicators out there.
I wouldn’t worry ab the beginners because when I was a beginner I enjoyed watching higher level chess. It’s almost like watching professional sports players
Don't know if you're gonna see this, but I have a question regarding that type of study; How do you go about this in a real game? What I mean by that is... This is a study, and just like 'chess puzzles', we know there's that "magical solution" to find. But if we happen to play a game that lands in this exact position (without knowing this study), then we don't know that "magical solution" exists. It may or it may not exist. So how do you find the balance between "I'll check every single crazy-looking move like Bishop to b5 until I find something!" with "Ok, maybe there's just nothing crazy to do in this position"? Because often, there is no such crazy solution (because games aren't all puzzles designed to have something crazy in them), and you can't just spend an hour analyzing every single silly looking move until you find the 'magical solution' that may not even exist. So is it an instinct thing, like "I have many pieces converging to the king so there has to be something, I'll spend 30 minutes to find it"? But if you find nothing, then you just give up and lost that 30 minutes? I have an easy time solving (most) puzzles, but when it comes to games, when you don't know if there actually is a 'puzzle' to solve or if it's just a normal game where there's no crazy move to be found, I tend to struggle knowing when to look for that move, and when to just give up the search and just 'play solid'.
Please do more videos like this! I found this video eye opening and useful and would love to digest a whole series like this and improve my sight and calculations OTB. Dayna is always a treat to watch, hoping for more of this!
I love this stuff, Levy! Examples of the distinction between the ways the strongest amateurs select moves, and how GMs select moves are two lessons for the price of one.
What synergy, it's more of a S&M relationship where Hikaru is constantly trying to humiliate Levy, while Levy's trying to please Hikaru and compliment him for having the privilege of being humiliated and degraded by him. It's just ridiculous and I'm glad it finally ended, the whole dynamic of these two was just becoming more disgusting by the day. Danya on the other hand is much more mature than Hikaru, who is literally a 12-year-old girl trapped in an almost full-grown man's body, beyond chess, totally underdeveloped, both emotionally and mentally. Not to mention the pedagogical aspect, where Danya is just much better educator and much more pleasing and humble as a person.
This is one of Levy’s best videos ever! ALL the positions were educational & required deep strategical thought - rather than knee-jerk off the cuff moves. Exactly the type of positions that confuse players like me & many need more of. Please more videos like this! Cheers!
I LOVED this video as a 900 player. I've seen a lot of you teaching us, and thats helpful. I loved the slowdown a bit and trying to see lines myself and then me being way off and slower than you, but still getting valuable thoughts in and getting solutions naturally from you and naroditsky.
The knight thing in the first study reminded me of a clip I saw of Ben Finegold solving a position with a knight that somehow defended every square of a row through forks, again trapping a knight. This puzzle was apparently one that Gotham had struggled with the prior, though I haven’t seen the clip of Levy struggling with it.
19:35 that ties in with the first one also, where the b pawn for black is the difference between a draw and a win. very interesting, i probably need to pay more attention to that sort of thing.
I’d watch dozens of videos of this. Really entertaining. I’m planning to go watch Daniel’s half when it’s posted and I never go to cross-promoted channels like that.
Shame on you levy
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PIN OF SHAME LOL
Pin of shame, I guess?
Pin of shame.
Levy once heard a phrase 'slowly but surely' and took it close to his heart. But then he forgot the second part of it...
he has only heard the phrase so he thought it was 'Slowly but Shirely' this whole time and was as confused as a 1000 hanging their queen for 4 moves in a row.
Let le y apply some ice to that burn
😂
Slowly but surely ooga booga
Second part?
Yes Levi gets a chess lesson… this is the content we want… Levi for GM. Let’s gooooooooo
Levy*
Why do people still call him levi 😔there’s literally a whole Gotham city video dedicated to the people who write his name incorrectly
@@DeJay7 LVVVEEY
@@DeJay7 *Levi
@@nivnavion yer that’s why lol. It’s a joke! People started calling him Levi ironically as a funny bit.
Relax and look for your funny bone. I think it’s the big one in your leg.
I LOVE this content. It is the most instructive out there. Hopefully it gets big views and Levy can continue being okay with making it.
I'm guessing you saw his twitch where he explained that if it doesn't do well he can't keep making a particular series? I really like this kind of content
What kind of content?
It’s very instructive but it’s also very advanced. More keen to Danya’s audience
Check out Andras Toth!
This is the collab we all been waiting for!
Best crossover episode ever
Former US #1 and #2 baby
Love Danya for his sensei speedruns. Very good educational content.
IMHO, His play-by-play” commentary is unmatched.
I agree, though I think it’s primarily because he uses a longer time control so there is more time for explanation in comparison with Hikaru who basically exclusively plays blitz but yes if hikaru made an equivalent of a Sensei speed run it won’t be nearly as good
@@nivnavion Hikaru is a bad teacher
@@Kokurorokuko Hikaru is not a teacher. However, his walkthroughs of his own games are absolutely unmatched, and shows that Hikaru is miles ahead of Danya in pure chess.
@@tonyliu9493 I would definitely not recommend watching hikaru if you want to learn chess in the range of 700-1300 elo. Most of the time I see his content as entertainment.
Unlike Levy, I have never lost to a GM, so I must be better than him.
same
same
Not relatable
I have lol. Ran into a few of them when they were doing the chess played quick speed run. Got destroyed lmao
I played against Hikaru once on his stream and got rolled, resigned after 12 moves, lmao
As a kind of intermediate player I loved this! I am amazed at the kind of moves you guys can find. Maybe even play each other couple times and then analyze with Danya where you went wrong?
These studies not only help me too but I also like seeing you 2 collaborate and get Levy closer to GM. Also Danya's teaching is perfect, I couldn't ask for better explanations. His way of thinking just fits mine perfectly
What Danya said about "Going back to the last time you had a choice" is exactly describing the concept of "Depth First Search" in computer science. You go deep, evaluate, and if you want to back up then you only back up to the last choice.
If you have to design a chess engine, i think you should go exactly for this kind of idea
@@riccardofiori828 already how they work :) they use DFS and other related algorithms... basically different ideas to decide on the best trees of moves to traverse.
@@MeMe-nm7jr yeah, i imagine that it was so, it's cool because it's quite natural to see the sequence of possible moves like a tree :)
@@riccardofiori828 Alpha/Beta, stockfish's algorithm, is actually an enhanced version of A* search. There are five main subclasses of the "search" algorithm, DFS, Breadth first (BFS) where you explore all possible choices before moving to the next depth. There's also UCS, Uniform Cost Search, where the "cheapest" paths are explored first, and Greedy Search, where only a heuristic is used and the closest to the destination is explored first.
A* search uses cost and heuristics, to search the best nodes first. Minimax is the two player version of A*, where the algorithm attempts to maximize the score for one side, and minimize the score for the other. Alpha/Beta includes Pruning on top of minimax, which can drastically help search times by removing entire branches from the search, just like a human might.
@@riccardofiori828 they generally use a similar principle, but depth first search alone will take too long even just looking a few moves ahead. Adding alpha beta pruning will help, but only so much. AB pruning intuitively is discounting a certain sequence of moves because you already know you found something better. I think the easiest functional chess engines would use a combination of depth first search (minimax with AB pruning) and some heuristic function to evaluate positions, so that you can limit your search to a few moves at a time. The function could be as simple as the value of the pieces remaining, or could somehow incorporate more positional information
Your intuition about depth first search building a tree is perfect :)
It’s the best way to solve a lot of 2 player games that have a relatively small set of game states
Levi: No hints
Danya: *proceeds to give a hint right after*
“Don’t think to the end of the line, first think about the most recent time you had a choice” - that’s gold
So much respect to Daniel for helping our guy out here on his quest for GM 🙏
Never going to happen.
@@Etherglide damn
I watch Levy to learn new ideas, and then I watch Danya to bring those ideas to a higher level. This crossover reminds me of the old Hikaru/Levy content, except Danya is a nice guy who wants to actually teach Levy, rather than roast him the way Hikaru did.
what does happen between them?
@@viniciussouzamartins8423 Levy and Hikaru would stream together often, in the past. Hikaru acted like a mentor or big brother; but he was kind of mean toward Levy, and it threw off the good vibes a lot of the time.
Totally. Pedagogically, Daniel is superb, and in terms of personality, I much prefer him to Hikaru. This is a collab I've long waited for!
@@ZarazXero not gonna lie, had to look up pedagogical but I'm glad I learned a new word.
@@Hailiums Glad I could help! 😄
12:30 i almost fell of my chair, OO GA BOO GA and the laugh from Danya killed me 🤣🤣🤣
0:47 levy flexing his gains is hilarious
The fact that you call them gains is hilarious :P
@@Sejdr considering he is a chess player they are kinda gains for that demographic
@@Sejdr the fact that you can't acknowledge progress is not hilarious but quite a shame
@@juristankiewicz4720 Hey Fanboy, Chill before you burst an artery. It was a joke!
@@Sejdr I thought jokes were funny not just condescending?
What an awesome collaboration. Love both of these dudes. Such gentleman and so fun to watch/listen to.
the hate comments are funny to me as they always pop up in the first few minutes. The haters spend so much time typing a meaningless comment right after you posted. This is one of the first times I've been early and honestly it breaks my heart because I know that those are the comments you see first. Levy you are amazing and you made my rating shoot up like a rocket. You made my day by posting. 💙💙💙
Pretty sure they do it on purpose to get pinned
@@Marco-sm9bu Or they are just fed up with all his lies and clickbaits
@@PhilL30tard0 free entertainment. seethe, mald, cope
@@pkermen I just unsubbed and life goes on if you call this entertainment then good for you…luckily there are other chess youtubers
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡
I love seeing this collab between my two favorite instructional chess gurus! I’m among the many that go to both of you for fundamental chess, but I get my “tricky and aggressive” content from Rosen. He is like a gambit master, but it’s not great to be THAT aggressive for my level if I can’t make up my own gambits on the fly with “a funny line”
If you like Eric Rosen, you will love Jonathan Schrantz. The gambits he comes up with are insane!
Love Danya. Quality chess player, human, and teacher. Hope y’all can do this sort of thing again.
I'm actually really happy that I thought of bishop takes pawn tactic. I don't know if I would of found it in a game, but glad I saw it. Great video btw Levy. Really like the teacher student dynamic you and danya have.
Would’ve? As non English speaker you guys really make it hard to learn by reading comments.
@@acpliego Half of english speakers don’t know how to write/spell properly, so good luck to you👌
@@Meer17251 that’s exactly my point
@@Meer17251 most of it is on native speakers
Most people who learn English as a second language write better, although not imperatively
I think it's in large part thanks to the fact that not native speakers would take their English lessons more seriously but feel free to correct me.
@@moving_knight Non-native speakers generally learn a second language primarily academically, so they learn the grammar and syntax correctly from the ground up. Native speakers learn intuitively as children and so often don't actually understand their own language academically.
Please make this a series, this is just so good!
You're my two favourite chess channels, this is super informative, it's nice to see the structure of an actual lesson.
Oh, and we also get the rare footage of Levy listening to someone :P
I've been waiting so long for this!!!!!!!!! Please upload more content with danya it's great to see you guys collab and it's entertaining
The fact that this entire serious could have been done in Russian is hilarious to me
I had to laugh so hard when you said:"Uga, Buga!!" haha
Nice high quality video. Loved it. Hope you will keep recording this kind of training! Cheers
Levy I love when you do training positions and games every once in a while
Also thanks for making ur videos without you I never started playing chess
I played it as a kid but never at any kind of competitive level. Then during the Covid Armageddon I discovered Lichess and Chess.com
I really liked the collab with Danya and with this type of improve your skills idea!
I would like to see more from this.
That's a really good content there! Would like to see more instructing videos like this with gms!
This is interesting. I could keep up with the first 2 lessons, but the last was unbelievably hard. I would honestly love to see more of this!
This was super fun to watch! And the video on his channel too. Nice to both see Daniel's enthusiasm and Levy being so humble and willing to learn.
I must say I didn't get everything since you guys say moves so quickly. It really helps to quickly play it out. But even though this is way above my head as a chess player, it is very motivating to see youu get coached like this! Hope to see more of this!
And it's better for casual viewers to just let it go at their pace. Possibly could edit in a board for future videos. I'm assuming Levy has some editors.
Levy for recaps and memes, Danya for lessons, Hikaru for the pro plays, random chess channels for chess puzzles. Thats chess TH-cam for me.
A father for actual over the board games
Please more like this. I find it so helpful when players better than I am (much better in this case) talk through their thinking processes.
Dude, this is great. So great.
A GM training an IM. How is every amateur chess lover not getting a little fresh with this?
A fly on the wall GM training with easily two of the best English language chess communicators out there.
Great collaboration Levy and Danya. Very informative. Thank you both.
A series of this would be great. Not a lot of content on TH-cam of an IM and GM doing a study, and it provides some really interesting perspective.
I wouldn’t worry ab the beginners because when I was a beginner I enjoyed watching higher level chess. It’s almost like watching professional sports players
I would watch an hour of this combo a day if it was available.
Absolutely do more. I love Daniel and you both as chess players and teachers.
Levy flexes in the beginning to assert his dominance
Levy is kind of smart clumsy elder cousin who's somehow never annoying
levy is that weird uncle that is somehow good at chess
Daniel is just so very smart and articulate. Have you seen him playing the one minute games? I can’t even watch as fast as he can play.
Don't know if you're gonna see this, but I have a question regarding that type of study; How do you go about this in a real game? What I mean by that is... This is a study, and just like 'chess puzzles', we know there's that "magical solution" to find. But if we happen to play a game that lands in this exact position (without knowing this study), then we don't know that "magical solution" exists. It may or it may not exist. So how do you find the balance between "I'll check every single crazy-looking move like Bishop to b5 until I find something!" with "Ok, maybe there's just nothing crazy to do in this position"? Because often, there is no such crazy solution (because games aren't all puzzles designed to have something crazy in them), and you can't just spend an hour analyzing every single silly looking move until you find the 'magical solution' that may not even exist.
So is it an instinct thing, like "I have many pieces converging to the king so there has to be something, I'll spend 30 minutes to find it"? But if you find nothing, then you just give up and lost that 30 minutes?
I have an easy time solving (most) puzzles, but when it comes to games, when you don't know if there actually is a 'puzzle' to solve or if it's just a normal game where there's no crazy move to be found, I tend to struggle knowing when to look for that move, and when to just give up the search and just 'play solid'.
This is by far the best content I seen I love to see the different between a IM and a GM on positional thinking
Such a great lesson. Would love to see more of this and see an IM turn into a GM.
That GM thing... just simply forget it.
More videos like this. Pls it was really educational and fun to watch
I love seeing these two legends together. Next will be the chess boxing match hopefully. I'd pay to see it.
Please do more videos like this! I found this video eye opening and useful and would love to digest a whole series like this and improve my sight and calculations OTB. Dayna is always a treat to watch, hoping for more of this!
18:25 this one guy in chat "I literally don't understand anything you're talking about and I love it" pretty much sums up me watching GothamChess
Great video, would absolutely love to see more of this kind of thing
Levy - dude. This was awesome. So awesome. Felt like I was getting a lesson from a GM. Thank you. Do more of this!
"Ooga booga 2 pawn more than 1 pawn" fucking got me
My two TH-camGods together! The perfect way to close the weekend. Thanks boys
I love this stuff, Levy! Examples of the distinction between the ways the strongest amateurs select moves, and how GMs select moves are two lessons for the price of one.
I LOVED this. Please more Levy lessons with Danya!
9:50 - Words of wisdom from Danya
Please do more of this!! Some of the best content you've put online
THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME. Thanks to Levy and Danya for putting this together!
Love our favourite gm and im, i hope this will become a series
I wish you and hikaru would make the occasional collab again. I loved the synergy between you two
What synergy, it's more of a S&M relationship where Hikaru is constantly trying to humiliate Levy, while Levy's trying to please Hikaru and compliment him for having the privilege of being humiliated and degraded by him. It's just ridiculous and I'm glad it finally ended, the whole dynamic of these two was just becoming more disgusting by the day. Danya on the other hand is much more mature than Hikaru, who is literally a 12-year-old girl trapped in an almost full-grown man's body, beyond chess, totally underdeveloped, both emotionally and mentally. Not to mention the pedagogical aspect, where Danya is just much better educator and much more pleasing and humble as a person.
Daniel "I love domination studies" Naroditsky
This is one of Levy’s best videos ever! ALL the positions were educational & required deep strategical thought - rather than knee-jerk off the cuff moves. Exactly the type of positions that confuse players like me & many need more of. Please more videos like this! Cheers!
I LOVED this video as a 900 player. I've seen a lot of you teaching us, and thats helpful. I loved the slowdown a bit and trying to see lines myself and then me being way off and slower than you, but still getting valuable thoughts in and getting solutions naturally from you and naroditsky.
Please keep making these, my favorite series yet. It's exciting to see you improve
I didn't know I had been waiting for something like this! Very fun to see a GM teach another very high rated player
4:53 this is also called backtracking, with the most notorious example of it being a backtracking sudoku solving algorithm
Very cool collaboration! Do more of these! Love instructive content!
9:51 thanks Danya! Good stuff
I like the content and would like to see more of it. It´s instructive to see how you really strong players approach positions and studies.
I loved this lesson. Please do it more frequently
The knight thing in the first study reminded me of a clip I saw of Ben Finegold solving a position with a knight that somehow defended every square of a row through forks, again trapping a knight. This puzzle was apparently one that Gotham had struggled with the prior, though I haven’t seen the clip of Levy struggling with it.
This was solid information! Great lessons and perspectives. I hope you can do more videos like this as well.
As an intermediate player, I really love when you mix in this kind of content.
I want more content like this in the future about pawn structure and punishing bad moves
I watch both of your channels as well. Glad to see the collab
Peak content right here. Watching you think through positional studies with Danya is super informative and I love the chemistry!
This was an incredible session! Def would love more of this!
My two favorite class channels I am in heaven. Hope to see more collaborations in the future, this is awesome!
Daniel is my favorite person to watch for instructive content, I’m glad you two are collaborating! Makes for an instructive and entertaining video!
Thoroughly enjoyed this series!! So excited for the next episodes now.
Awesome collab. Love both the channels and the content together is equally fantastic.
1:12 did Danya mocked Hikaru???😂😂
My absolute favourite chess tubers in one video, love it
"I thought uuga buuga"
-Levy Rozman
Really enjoyed this. Great to see the difference in how GMs and IMs see the game
Yowza, went straight over my head. Hit a brick wall and it was all down hill from there. More please.
Really love this kind of content and can't wait for the rest of those videos!
Definitely would love more content like this! Thanks for the great video, Levy and Danya.
my two favourite chess teachers cooperating made my day
You got this Levvy. You will overcome your demons.
19:35 that ties in with the first one also, where the b pawn for black is the difference between a draw and a win. very interesting, i probably need to pay more attention to that sort of thing.
Levy Please do this stuff more. Even though i have a beginner mind and cant comprehend these tactics, i jst love watching this content.
This is an amazing video. One of your best. Daniel is a great teacher and you are showing some impressive humility.
I watch Daniel when I want to go from 800 to 1300 and Levy when I want to go from 1300 to 800
It's so cool how danya got the optimal position set up on that second study instantly. I want to study endgames to get to that level
THIS is the intermediate content I’ve been dying for on this channel! Thank you Levy and thank you GM Naroditsky
Amazing content, very interesting to see you and Danya talk through complicated positions.
Please turn this into a series
Amazing content. Such advanced calculations from a super humble and cool gm with tons of good advice. Loved this vid. Ty Levi for making this happen.
I’d watch dozens of videos of this. Really entertaining. I’m planning to go watch Daniel’s half when it’s posted and I never go to cross-promoted channels like that.