Hahahahaha. Omg dude! Thank you so much for your suggestions! I went back over 300 points in blitz because I was tilted. I've been getting my points back slowly but surely. I'm also reading the book you mentioned!! The Lars Schandorff one on the caro-kann. I'm on page 20. I appreciate your insights and videos on chess.
Some of my takeaways: 1. Two games a day max 2. Do your puzzles (15/15 if possible, 60 percent is good, set aside an hour). 3. Don't do TOO many puzzles. Don't do too much. 4. Stick to one opening 5. Sometimes you need a break. Don't always be playing. Everyone gets tilted and that's okay, just gotta take a break.
@@nichijou2406 He said if you're in a slump you do only 2. The idea when not in a slump is to play few enough games where you actually have the time to analyze them and fix your most egregious mistakes. Note down why you lost as well as missed opportunities and after a while you will see a pattern. Good luck!
This next person is from France 32 years old, works in finance Plays really bold, yeah he always got plans Chess on the PC, doesn’t wear pants. (I’d go on but I feel like it would be disrespectful to Ernest. I’d need someone to comment another bar if I’m gonna keep going.)
This next person is from France 32 years old, works in finance And he's down in the dumps Cause his games in a slump, He's just throwing his pawns 'cross the board, And he knows that he's scorned and ignored, But he won't just give up Even when he's down a rook Cause he's got in within him to be The most meanest chess G On this earth, and he's cursed, With this urge to just spurt some bizarre moves that work, And white's king fell, so it helped To relieve this tension within him But still The next day when he picks up the pieces he'll say He's just bored with this game that he plays every day I guess that's why it's called a board game!
Can you read music? If not I'd learn. Could be an equivalent to puzzles. A great player told me "Try to read a piece of music everyday." Each piece you read could be like a chess puzzle with it's own challenges that test all parts of your musicianship.
14:03 Levy is probably the most considerate, open-minded teacher i have ever seen in my life. Which is rare, especially on the internet, especially on Twitch.
"you're the strenght you were, you'r just underperforming" that's exactly what i neededd to hear, thanks you very much also on the topic of puzzles, i LOVE them, but although i'm at 70% pass rate i just can't progress because of the 5 puzzles daily limit for non-diamond users
wow, steady improvement through 2 games a day on longer time controls with lots of puzzles. I wish I had chosen this path instead of hypnotically playing rapid chess to the verge of utter self loathing.
This is a fantastic video. I’ve been hanging around 1500-1600. I’d like to improve. I have already started implementing your methods. Quality over quantity. Thanks.
Nice for Levy to point out that taking a break might be a good thing. I had my first +150 point drop from +1400 to 1250 a few days ago and would've probably gone even further down if I'd continued to play in full tilt. After regrouping it took me half a day to gain back over 100 points.
I also love that, not only does he teach chess, most of the things he teaches applies to life skills as well. For example, take a break. Many people don't understand that.
‘You don’t just jump in the water before you learn how to swim, right?’ Tell that to my father who was thrown into the water by my grandfather in order to learn how to swim.
@@mihailwarsavski8849 No. Usually, you learn how to swim pretty quickly. It will take practice to learn swimming strokes, but treading water is easy to learn. As long as the water is not wavy or your obese, you'll be fine.
I've been doing exactly this, got sick and it hit my performance, was on a major losing streak so took the pressure off and started doing the puzzles which I love. Started winning games again. Great advice.
I didn't even know you could look at all your previous games in explorer! I think it's so cool being able to see what lines were played and what win % you've got with them
Just add "pdf free" after whatever book you want and use good discernment when clicking the links. I found a russian torrent with over 4000 chess books in a pdf and am set for life.
Thank you so much, Levy. I was doing a lot of the same things as the 1600, but I'm starting to see quantifiable improvement from your advice. Cut back on empty games, stopped rushing puzzles, and tuned up my openings. Man, it is wild. I feel like I'm spotting way more tactics, feeling confident throughout entire games start to finish, and my puzzle rating is way higher than it has ever been by a huge margin. I'm a 40 hr/week manager but finding times for good, focused practice daily. I have been stuck around 1600-1800 for about 5 years and suddenly I'm absolutely crushing at my level. Waiting for a new peak!
I felt the examples were extreme excepting Levy’s own experience. I truly appreciated the info he shared about his own issues and how he overcame them. I’ve been stuck at the same rating for 3 years. You often see people achieve a certain rating and then drop back. It’s very common. Maintaining a rating is a different story.
Hey Levy, just found this video. In 2017-18, I got hard into chess and was rated around 1100. I finally came back this year and have been stuck around 750. I decided to pick one opening for white (London) and two for black (Sicilian Dragon and Budapest), focusing on eliminating blunders and playing solid moves, and have gone up from 750 to 850 in the last month. I finally have my passion for chess again and hope to keep climbing the ratings.
I felt very called out by this video. Made a few changes (more puzzles, slower puzzle solving, 30 minute games instead of 10. 3-5 games a day max [I was doing 10+]). Had 3 games in a single day with no mistakes. I genuinely feel that this has helped get me out of my rut. Thanks, Levy!
Unbelievable! thanks Levy love from Dublin... I'm just at that point in my chess life now at 46 that, that advice is absolutely perfect for where I'm at. Thanks man your my new favourite, you've taken over Varuzhan Akobian by a long shot, no easy task.
I’m stuck at 720 at the time of watching, but I’ve only had the account for 3 days, and I don’t do puzzles enough. I do, however, have a brilliant understanding of the openings, I just need to practice looking for the best possible moves in the mid-game
I’ve realized that if you play a lot it’s not going to be fast good or efficient but my goodness you’ll get there it took me a month to go from 350 to 400 but it worked practice really doesn’t make perfect but you’ll get their
Good suggestions. It also applies to puzzle rating. When you see your rating falls，you always want to climb back and that time is most prone to mistakes.
@@mohanadbakain282 I don't use chess.com that much but i think it's this one: www.chess.com/explorer and in Master games select your games or any player's
Nah man. A small glass of whiskey to loosen up after a days work will do wonders. It allows me to unwind and not overstress about chess. A good payoff for the small amount of alcohol i consume imo.
I had been stuck at about 1100 for 2 and a half months when this video came out. I followed Levy’s instructions, started doing more puzzles, learned some openings that take my opponents out of my comfort zone and really stuck with them, and started analyzing my games, and lo and behold in the past month I climbed about 150 ELO in rapid and I don’t feel quite as stuck. Levy, if by any chance you’re reading this, thanks for being such a great teacher, content creator, and entertainer. I love all of your content and I wish I had more ways to support you than ad revenue and subbing on TH-cam and following on Twitch.
The hippopotamus defense system is excellent for beginners and intermediate players. It is simple to incorporate but has basic options with variables that can be learned overtime to react to your opponent's moves. The hippo syste is great because it keeps you from blundering pieces. You can play the hippo system for either white or black. The hippo system allows for strong counterattack chances in the early middle games.
Fun fact i came across on his hashtag on Instagram: It's a gift from a fan and it's like a queen piece with the Batman emblem. He presented it in a video as well!
I remember when I started out I was at 540 Rapid Rank and then I went down to 300… I was frustrated! And now I’m at 640 rank, I consider myself an okay chess player but I’ve started taking chess more seriously, I got the Modern Chess Openings book I watch videos almost every day, and I noticed when I watch a chess related video and play a game I do so much better!
I like to have a good mindset about chess. Even the pros sometimes make mistakes. Only difference between you and Magnus Carlsen is when you blunder, Magnus doesn't. Magnus and other masters may be able to formulate plans better and see more moves ahead compared to you, but who wins a chess game isn't the "better"player. You can be good until the last 10 moves or last 15 moves and not make a mistake, but then you say, blundur your queen or your rook or you miss checkmate. You can make really good moves but blundur constantly, and the rating doesn't show that you are good as you actually are. I think this happens when you're playing someone lower rated than you, I think when people are playing others that are lower rated, then they're lowering their guards down. Or as Ben Finegold puts it "You can't relax in chess, you always have to be focused". Hope this helps some of you!
I started at age 9 way before the internet. I just played friends, but I did study a lot in my teens. I had no idea there was such a thing as tournaments back then. Then came the Fischer boom. I started tournaments at age 20 and played off and on for 6-7 years. My peak rating was 1905. Decades later I took up chess to teach my kids and now I coach in a school. Thinking about tournaments again and wondering if getting to FM is a realistic goal.
I have a question that maybe my fellow beginners have as well: how can we *study* a new attack, defense, or whatever? For instance, I am 1100-1200 and after this video I watched the Traxler Counter-Attack video. How can I effectively prepare it in a controlled environment, before jumping with the wolves in real games? In actual games, I can remember maybe 10% of the video I just saw, so I find myself in unfamiliar positions very soon and I just lose. What would be a good way to practice, say on chess.com?
I really don't know I'm like 1600-1700 and asking myself the same question. The only truly helpful thing I've found is to play daily games--that way you can study while you're playing and you retain much better. Other than that I really wish I knew
I’m really impressed with you and your content. I’m 58 and like you said have very little time to spend on the game so I need to maximize my benefit. Great tips. Thanks and see you on Twitch
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I really said “drink some food” 😂
The gothamchess bot is evil
Eat some wine 🍷🍷
Serious chess players don't have time to chew, it's more a checkers players thing ;)
14:22 drink some food LMAO
Hahahahaha. Omg dude! Thank you so much for your suggestions! I went back over 300 points in blitz because I was tilted. I've been getting my points back slowly but surely. I'm also reading the book you mentioned!! The Lars Schandorff one on the caro-kann. I'm on page 20. I appreciate your insights and videos on chess.
magnus is the most stuck of us all
poor boy, maybe he should study more openings
Magnus is pretty good he should be a pro player.
Dude has been stuck at #1 for a decade he definitely needs to watch this video
Maybe magnus needs to properly study his ENDGAMES.
I remember good old Kaspy stuck for 23 years if I am not mistaken... damn that dude needs to take some break and learn back the fundamentals.
"2 games per day max"
Me who just started 4 days ago with 200 games: this is fine
holy shit thats a lot
@@stubmytoe bullet maybe
lol yeah
@@korkunctheterrible4302 bruh same shits addicting
When you're starting out, don't try to be good. Don't try to be bad, either, but it's okay to enjoy yourself for a bit.
GothamChess: make sure to complete 15 puzzles a day
Me on the free subscription: “I don’t think I have the facilities for that”
Puzzle rush
That's the Problem, to get better you have to pay...
Joachim Przibylla $5 a month is too much to spend on a hobby? It’s like 15 cents a day
Just use lichess man
What happens when you get stuck at puzzles too? I've been pretty consistent with my puzzles but i seem to have hit a ceiling there too
I don't get stuck at any rating. If I want to change my rating, I just loose 10 games on the run. solved :)
What happens when you reach 100 elo?
That’s bad man. Stuck means trying to go up. Up is GOOD
@@theredstonehive I win a lot
Thx for the advice
Or become a fish in stock
Some of my takeaways:
1. Two games a day max
2. Do your puzzles (15/15 if possible, 60 percent is good, set aside an hour).
3. Don't do TOO many puzzles. Don't do too much.
4. Stick to one opening
5. Sometimes you need a break. Don't always be playing. Everyone gets tilted and that's okay, just gotta take a break.
Thank you for Sharing
Thank you 💕
@@Argha_Majumder why is two maximum?
@@nichijou2406 He said if you're in a slump you do only 2. The idea when not in a slump is to play few enough games where you actually have the time to analyze them and fix your most egregious mistakes. Note down why you lost as well as missed opportunities and after a while you will see a pattern. Good luck!
4. Can I use the Bird opening? 🤪
Levy was right. This GothamChess guy is pretty good.
Pretty good guy may become a rated player if he works harder
I feel like he would be a good IM
@@migs6674 maybe even win a few games against some gm and super gm too😂😂
You have the best name known to man
😉
Can we just appreciate that in '03 Levy played 69 games and won 69% of them
Seems like something he would do on purpose just for the lolz.
Nice
nice.
69th like lol
Nice
"Sometimes you need a break" I took a 40-year break.
How's it going in your return to chess
I took two months break 😀
@@theexistentialist.5530 I turn into an asshole when I'm losing. It's not cool. But I am getting better.
@Naman 14 years dude
I haven't taken a 40 year anything.
Oh my bad I thought the title said "Suck At Chess? Click here."
Me too 😂
Same. Thats why I clicked.
i literally realised beacause of you lool
I thought he got the grammar wrong
Bruh same
"This next person is from France
32 years old, works in finance"
Levy spitting those bars
This next person is from France
32 years old, works in finance
Plays really bold, yeah he always got plans
Chess on the PC, doesn’t wear pants.
(I’d go on but I feel like it would be disrespectful to Ernest. I’d need someone to comment another bar if I’m gonna keep going.)
Damn he is 32 years old
he will soon get bold
I can't spit or actually rhyme
Chess is my hobby so it's fine
I'm so bad at it😂😂
@@user-we4vg9ur5e yes you are
Pb(NO3)2
white in color
This next person is from France
32 years old, works in finance
And he's down in the dumps
Cause his games in a slump,
He's just throwing his pawns 'cross the board,
And he knows that he's scorned and ignored,
But he won't just give up
Even when he's down a rook
Cause he's got in within him to be
The most meanest chess G
On this earth, and he's cursed,
With this urge to just spurt some bizarre moves that work,
And white's king fell, so it helped
To relieve this tension within him
But still
The next day when he picks up the pieces he'll say
He's just bored with this game that he plays every day
I guess that's why it's called a board game!
these are excellent lessons for learning anything new. i'm facing similar plateaus in guitar at the moment and it's all applicable.
Make sure to play 15 guitar puzzles a day and try to spend a lot of time analyzing your guitar battles
Workout puzzles not really helping me 😢
@@fylo2007 add some guitar gambits too!
Can you read music?
If not I'd learn.
Could be an equivalent to puzzles. A great player told me "Try to read a piece of music everyday."
Each piece you read could be like a chess puzzle with it's own challenges that test all parts of your musicianship.
I dont get stuck instead i just play chess whilst watching movies and lose at least 200 points
This is why I dont play drunk anymore
Same I was reading article while I was playing and dropped 50 points.
lol same, I listen to music and watch TH-cam while playing chess lol
@@christiandenbutter5597 That's what 2 accounts are for so you can have a drunk and sober rating lmao
@@christiandenbutter5597 drunk and hungover chess will always be met with a heroic rating redemption arc upon sobriety
14:03 Levy is probably the most considerate, open-minded teacher i have ever seen in my life. Which is rare, especially on the internet, especially on Twitch.
Please pin this comment. It is wholesome and true.
? That says a lot about your choice of streamers, tilting is a common thing
I'm not stuck at a rating, I'm steadily declining :)
Same
Yeah, stuck at 1400-1500 for about 2 years
“Drink some food” - Levy Rozman, 2021
"you're the strenght you were, you'r just underperforming"
that's exactly what i neededd to hear, thanks you very much
also on the topic of puzzles, i LOVE them, but although i'm at 70% pass rate i just can't progress because of the 5 puzzles daily limit for non-diamond users
@@Zaynersyy oh thanks i didn't know that
platinum and gold members also get unlimited puzzles.
@@Zaynersyy The difficulty is automatic according with your level.
@@Zaynersyy Sorry, I was a mistake (but I remember it how I say (I think they change that) ).
@@Zaynersyy You always can use the chesstempo's trainer too.
wow, steady improvement through 2 games a day on longer time controls with lots of puzzles. I wish I had chosen this path instead of hypnotically playing rapid chess to the verge of utter self loathing.
Yo that’s what I did too
"suck at chess? Click here"
This was made for me.
Stuck
this guy shows 1100 ELO as bad while im at 264........................................................
Edit : 192 elo now....
@@unknownalsounknown4238 ME
@@unknownalsounknown4238 im about 600 but i started playing weeks ago so id say im fairly good.
What page does he use to check % win rate and moves?
"I probably swallowed a pawn every now and then" is somehow unsurprising coming from Levy
As a 55 year old relative beginner this is one of the most useful chess videos I have ever seen. Thank you!
Levy : Focus on one opening
Me : Imma just pretend I didn't hear that
Tbf I do one opening but different variations
So I love the sicilian but learn and play different kinds
"A lot of inventing, is what I call this."
Whoops.
This is a fantastic video. I’ve been hanging around 1500-1600. I’d like to improve. I have already started implementing your methods. Quality over quantity. Thanks.
How are you now?
I don’t know what I would do without GothamChess
Everything u already do except good chess. It's not that hard
Neither do i
Lol you’d be with agadmator I suppose
What about eric rosen
@@lostgaming7608 didn't know levy did early morning services like that. Must feel nice to have levy wake u up every morning. Good job.
Legend has it there’s still a pawn at the bottom of Levy’s stomach
**wheeze**
I love that Levy wraps his lessons back into life. You can take what he says and apply it to nearly anything.
"you dont swim before you know how to swim"
5th grade I jumped into a 10ft deep pool just to fit in. I learned how to swim that way
When I was 3 I jumped in the 5 feet. Almost died but I did it. I didn't know how to swim then lol
5:00
How do you open that page?
@@nathanp928 when i was 10 i jumped off a boat into the ocean and that's how I learned to swim.
When I was 9 I jumped off of the 5th floor of my apartment and that's how I learned to fly
When I was 10 days I jumped off a plane with nothing else and that's how I learnt parachuting
Nice for Levy to point out that taking a break might be a good thing. I had my first +150 point drop from +1400 to 1250 a few days ago and would've probably gone even further down if I'd continued to play in full tilt. After regrouping it took me half a day to gain back over 100 points.
“if you want to improve at chess you have to pick one opening” has the same energy as “if you wanna get good at SSB you have to pick a main”
ah yes, I've yet to get out of my 100 rating as a 2 day beginner
Honestly I would make a new account lol
How tf did u drop 700 points in two days? I mean if u started on chess.com
In 2 days as well
@@konradkukuka2500 If you choose 'beginner at chess' it starts you at 400
@@ryanm2628 Oh okay
Me watching gotham: wow! I guessed almost every best move!!
Me playing a game: haha blunder go BRRR
I play the Botez Gambit regularly too
So I'm not alone
Same
“10-15 puzzles a day”
*cries in poor*
Lichess
@@rev6215 kek
Laughs in lichess
Laughs in chesskid’s cheap subscription
@@rev6215 ...ftw!!
14:22 "drink some food"
🪦🪦✌️✌️
I also love that, not only does he teach chess, most of the things he teaches applies to life skills as well. For example, take a break. Many people don't understand that.
14:23
Levy: “Drink some food”
“Maybe chess is something you do for 10 minutes while you sit on the toilet at work “...... lmao 😂 so funny but so true
Busted
Lol
Lol
‘You don’t just jump in the water before you learn how to swim, right?’ Tell that to my father who was thrown into the water by my grandfather in order to learn how to swim.
Did he die?
@@mihailwarsavski8849 No. Usually, you learn how to swim pretty quickly. It will take practice to learn swimming strokes, but treading water is easy to learn. As long as the water is not wavy or your obese, you'll be fine.
@@justicecountryman4060 " usually you learn how to swim quickly". No. It took me one month. Literally one month and I didn't even learn it perfectly.
I've been doing exactly this, got sick and it hit my performance, was on a major losing streak so took the pressure off and started doing the puzzles which I love. Started winning games again. Great advice.
Levy- “Focus on ONE opening”
My Brain- “Study French,Dutch,Nimzo, Caro, but FOCUS on the Alekhine!”
I..
Don't know most of those...
@@safariknight3239 That’s ok, all you need to know is that the Alekhine Defense is like the “Soviet Bongcloud” for black. What do you like to use?
I play Italian a lot and go for fried liver.
@@thesupersisters6415 Fried Liver is my favorite dish to serve!
Levy! I broke 1,200 on rapid (880 to 1204 since April 2020). I credit you as my unofficial trainer 💪Thank you for your content ❤️
I didn't even know you could look at all your previous games in explorer! I think it's so cool being able to see what lines were played and what win % you've got with them
Gotham - "Drink some Food"
Me - "Finally something I can succeed at!"
Great video btw
"You can knock someone out in 5 seconds"
is Levy a fan of Jorge Masvidal?
“And then he bet me 10 games in a row and adopted me”
-Levy Rozman 2021
o
"Quality before quantity", applies to my situation 100%. I'm grinding problems by the hundreds instead of studying them. Thanks for the tip!
"Ooh! A book on the caro khan!"
*$100 on Amazon*
*cries*
Hi, can you write down the name of the book please
@@LestherGui For sure! Its called: Grand Master Repitoire 7: The Caro-Kann by Lars Schandorff
@@kenjikale6416 thank you, and have a nice day😁
There's plenty of Karo Kahn videos on TH-cam for free.
Just add "pdf free" after whatever book you want and use good discernment when clicking the links. I found a russian torrent with over 4000 chess books in a pdf and am set for life.
Thank you so much, Levy. I was doing a lot of the same things as the 1600, but I'm starting to see quantifiable improvement from your advice. Cut back on empty games, stopped rushing puzzles, and tuned up my openings. Man, it is wild. I feel like I'm spotting way more tactics, feeling confident throughout entire games start to finish, and my puzzle rating is way higher than it has ever been by a huge margin.
I'm a 40 hr/week manager but finding times for good, focused practice daily. I have been stuck around 1600-1800 for about 5 years and suddenly I'm absolutely crushing at my level. Waiting for a new peak!
14:22 "DrInK sOmE fOoD" -Gotham Chess 2021
"You dont swim before you swim" -Levy 2021
im 1250 and im training for a tournament so im watching this its very helpful.
congrats on a mil.
*Me: Increases rating in 500 elo in rapid
Also me: Stucks at 900 in blitz since I began playing*
big facts dunno why that happens i guess time matters a lot more
Blitz players are tryhards
Lol same, I've been playing blitz since I was 800elo in rapids and I was 900 in blitz. Now I am 1150 in rapid and 900 in blitz. Those guys are tough
Learn gambits
1000 blitz myself, 1400 rapid happens quite often i guess
I felt the examples were extreme excepting Levy’s own experience. I truly appreciated the info he shared about his own issues and how he overcame them. I’ve been stuck at the same rating for 3 years. You often see people achieve a certain rating and then drop back. It’s very common. Maintaining a rating is a different story.
Hey Levy, just found this video. In 2017-18, I got hard into chess and was rated around 1100. I finally came back this year and have been stuck around 750. I decided to pick one opening for white (London) and two for black (Sicilian Dragon and Budapest), focusing on eliminating blunders and playing solid moves, and have gone up from 750 to 850 in the last month. I finally have my passion for chess again and hope to keep climbing the ratings.
So what happened
Me:Finaly something to improve my game.
levy: "take a brake"
I felt very called out by this video. Made a few changes (more puzzles, slower puzzle solving, 30 minute games instead of 10. 3-5 games a day max [I was doing 10+]). Had 3 games in a single day with no mistakes. I genuinely feel that this has helped get me out of my rut. Thanks, Levy!
This video, especially the beginning advise, is top top quality. Thank you for your time and effort on these tutorials dude.
I actually red : " Suck at chess" , and was like, that sounds like a great video for me.
13:20 "I slept chess" whoa Levy, I know you said love to the game, but let's not go that far...
we are convincing our selves that we are studying by playing, that hit me like a slap to the back of the head, thank you!!!
Unbelievable! thanks Levy love from Dublin... I'm just at that point in my chess life now at 46 that, that advice is absolutely perfect for where I'm at.
Thanks man your my new favourite, you've taken over Varuzhan Akobian by a long shot, no easy task.
"Drink some food."
-GothamChess 2021
I’m stuck at 720 at the time of watching, but I’ve only had the account for 3 days, and I don’t do puzzles enough. I do, however, have a brilliant understanding of the openings, I just need to practice looking for the best possible moves in the mid-game
10:42 Agadmator is proud of that one
Earnest does 4 puzzles a day taking about a minute total, but this Gotham guy 'Don't do this! Way to many puzzles!' 😂
I dont think he saw that.
That was from the heart, You really care about us "Little People" Thanks for doing this one!!!
"A book on the Caro-Kann made me love chess again."
Why am I not surprised, Levy?
Hey TH-cam Levy's forcing us to watch his videos.
Then don't click this. th-cam.com/video/GHMjD0Lp5DY/w-d-xo.html
Yeah
F to me
“It’S hOw YoU gEt BeTtEr”
blink twice if you need rescuing
5:00
How do you open that page?
I’ve realized that if you play a lot it’s not going to be fast good or efficient but my goodness you’ll get there it took me a month to go from 350 to 400 but it worked practice really doesn’t make perfect but you’ll get their
*drinking smoothie*
Levy: "Drink some food"
Me: Finally...success!
"Drink some food" - Levy Rozman, 2021
Good suggestions. It also applies to puzzle rating. When you see your rating falls，you always want to climb back and that time is most prone to mistakes.
My experience says: don't drink and play chess. It will cost you hundreds of elo points.
Nothing better than Red wine and bullet chess
@@borrell1482 5:00
How do you open that page?
@@mohanadbakain282 I don't use chess.com that much but i think it's this one: www.chess.com/explorer and in Master games select your games or any player's
@@borrell1482 thanks
Nah man. A small glass of whiskey to loosen up after a days work will do wonders. It allows me to unwind and not overstress about chess. A good payoff for the small amount of alcohol i consume imo.
You are not a stupid guy. You teach really well!!! I am at 1000 and also trying to improve
"Drink some food, have some wine" no Levy it's have some food drink some wine.
This dude is a great chess teacher. Right to the point every time without bullshit filler
Thank you so very much, Levy! I stuck in chess, but I drank some food and feel better!
In fact, the best motivational video so far.
Drink some food 🤣
I come here for the learning, but that dry humor is superb: "kind of a stupid guy, but has some pretty good content". Well played.
3:59 damm 97.8 accuracy is nuts in a blitz game at 1200
at any rating its important to remember .... DANGER LEVELS
"no 3 minute games"
Never felt so attacked in my life. ahahahaha
I had been stuck at about 1100 for 2 and a half months when this video came out. I followed Levy’s instructions, started doing more puzzles, learned some openings that take my opponents out of my comfort zone and really stuck with them, and started analyzing my games, and lo and behold in the past month I climbed about 150 ELO in rapid and I don’t feel quite as stuck. Levy, if by any chance you’re reading this, thanks for being such a great teacher, content creator, and entertainer. I love all of your content and I wish I had more ways to support you than ad revenue and subbing on TH-cam and following on Twitch.
How about doing one or two puzzle rush "survival" mode per day? The difficulty of the puzzles always ramps up to the point where they get too hard.
You don't get enough puzzles at your level. Most of the puzzles will be too easy and some will be too hard.
Try Daniel naroditsky video on puzzle survival. He has made one where he explains harder puzzles of 40 and survives from 0 to 50 as he explains
@@musique-ef3rz Well only 3 will be too hard. There will be easy ones, but these will be solved more quickly so is it really a problem?
I read it as "Suck at chess? Click here"
thats why i clicked.
The hippopotamus defense system is excellent for beginners and intermediate players. It is simple to incorporate but has basic options with variables that can be learned overtime to react to your opponent's moves. The hippo syste is great because it keeps you from blundering pieces. You can play the hippo system for either white or black. The hippo system allows for strong counterattack chances in the early middle games.
Levy is the best there is in chess,he should make one video on the petrov defense.
I just realized why he has Batman in the background.
Fun fact i came across on his hashtag on Instagram: It's a gift from a fan and it's like a queen piece with the Batman emblem. He presented it in a video as well!
@@pavlosgkoulelis5041 oh cool I did not know that!
I remember when I started out I was at 540 Rapid Rank and then I went down to 300… I was frustrated! And now I’m at 640 rank, I consider myself an okay chess player but I’ve started taking chess more seriously, I got the Modern Chess Openings book I watch videos almost every day, and I noticed when I watch a chess related video and play a game I do so much better!
Levy: "'It's everyday bro' In the words of Logan Paul"
Jake Paul: "Am I a joke to you?"
Hopefully both are
I like to have a good mindset about chess. Even the pros sometimes make mistakes. Only difference between you and Magnus Carlsen is when you blunder, Magnus doesn't. Magnus and other masters may be able to formulate plans better and see more moves ahead compared to you, but who wins a chess game isn't the "better"player. You can be good until the last 10 moves or last 15 moves and not make a mistake, but then you say, blundur your queen or your rook or you miss checkmate. You can make really good moves but blundur constantly, and the rating doesn't show that you are good as you actually are. I think this happens when you're playing someone lower rated than you, I think when people are playing others that are lower rated, then they're lowering their guards down. Or as Ben Finegold puts it "You can't relax in chess, you always have to be focused". Hope this helps some of you!
I started at age 9 way before the internet. I just played friends, but I did study a lot in my teens. I had no idea there was such a thing as tournaments back then. Then came the Fischer boom. I started tournaments at age 20 and played off and on for 6-7 years. My peak rating was 1905. Decades later I took up chess to teach my kids and now I coach in a school. Thinking about tournaments again and wondering if getting to FM is a realistic goal.
Levy: You need to do your puzzles atleast 10 to 15 a day
Non-premium users: _am I a joke to you_
Levy really said: "drink some food."
Really great video, only 5 mins in and Ive already got some sort of idea of a good routine to improve to the next level. This guy deserves some subs
9:20 may we never forget what he said
🤣🤣
bro got the wrong paul brother as well
I have a question that maybe my fellow beginners have as well: how can we *study* a new attack, defense, or whatever? For instance, I am 1100-1200 and after this video I watched the Traxler Counter-Attack video. How can I effectively prepare it in a controlled environment, before jumping with the wolves in real games? In actual games, I can remember maybe 10% of the video I just saw, so I find myself in unfamiliar positions very soon and I just lose. What would be a good way to practice, say on chess.com?
Bots
I really don't know I'm like 1600-1700 and asking myself the same question. The only truly helpful thing I've found is to play daily games--that way you can study while you're playing and you retain much better. Other than that I really wish I knew
Play unrated, play with a friend, play a bot, don't play bullet/blitz/rapid.
Agreed - can we get this comment bumped?
I just get a chessboard (digital boards work) and move the pieces through the lines. Hope this helps. :)
First I thought the tile was insulting me because I read "Suck at chess?" And I was. "Yeah kinda..." and clicked on it anyway. 😂
Person: I have studied quite a bit of this opening, and I feel like-
Levy: 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗡 𝗔 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗜𝗧
I wish I could give more likes
Defo ‘drink some food’
Haha great vid Levy tho!!
Great tips. I'm going to try doing more puzzles and try doing more research on openings.
I’m really impressed with you and your content. I’m 58 and like you said have very little time to spend on the game so I need to maximize my benefit. Great tips. Thanks and see you on Twitch