Finally found a chess expert that makes sense to me. I've tried countless other sources, but Levy's calm, no panic explanation of the "why" behind every move just click for me. Thank you!
@@JR-jz4ts lol yeah Daniel seems like the person who skipped chess club to hang out with cool kids from school. Also I'll recommend Agadmator his match coverage is really instructive and fun.
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just tried the Smith Morra Gambit for the firsts time today and totally checkmated my opponent... Thanks for the lessons... I'm surprised at how well you can articulate your move decisions in 3min games... been playing on chess.com for about 2 years now and just broke the 1500 barrier this month in now rapid (10min games) thanks be to your Gotham guide.
That second guy was complete garbage. Didn’t know anything! Oh wait.. that was me lawlz. Appreciate the game! I actually had a really nice win in classical the next day applying the idea of moving the pawn to defend the bishop. Lots of things I learned from the game overall though!
Never thought I would watch 2 hours straight of chess gameplay but the ease with which he smokes these dudes while thinking out loud is very entertaining.
@@xa-1274 Best way to refute this allegation is to push onward with an extreme capture-fest, takes-taking down 'takes takes' one 'captures captures' at a time
Note to self: If I ever have the chance to have a drink with Levy, take off one shoe and stick an alka seltzer in my mouth before saying hello. Then leave, to avoid police.
"It's very rare to beat someone rated 1200 in 13 moves." That's the Smith-Morra for you. It's so easy to blunder your queen or checkmate if you don't know what you're doing against it.
30:20 We love your voice, Levy. Infact, if you had music playing while I was watching, that'd be a bit distracting for me. So I'm glad I'm part of the youtube clan.
I think everyone benefits by being involved in your tutorials and actively calculating. Asking what the right move is does a lot for that. Thank you so much!
47:52 Really instructive how Levy's instinct pointed out there was something here but he couldn't quite pull the trigger. 17. Bc7 instead of h3 actually blows Black apart. The point is to push the rook off the d-file in order to capture on c6 and then e7 and Black can't respond with Rxd1. I looked briefly at this 1200 using stockfish and tbh it seems legit. They defended well (Qe8 for example to not blunder e7 bishop immediately), but their moves were logical and not engine #1 choice and some were mistakes that Levy just didn't take advantage of. I suspect this person played about as accurately as the earlier 1200s that were destroyed in 15-20 moves, the major difference being Levy just didn't play as sharply here.
When you hear "this is the best move and here's why," you know you're about to be hit with some knowledge. Loving the rating climb series, lots of good things to gain from this.
Hey Levy! Really enjoying your opening-climb series. I was wondering, any future plan on doing one with the black pieces with your e6/b6 system? I would surely watch that. Looking forward!
Thank you so much for this video. As a ~1000 rated player this is arguably the most helpful chess video I've ever seen. I've been struggling to understand opening principles in the Sicilian and the Caro Kann forever, and this video was incredibly helpful
At 1:15:55, if you had taken the knight on d7 with your rook and then he would have had taken d7 back with the rook, then you could take the bishop on e7 with your bishop, if he took back with either of his rooks there's a backrank checkmate by the queen and if he ignored the bishop, he obviously can't move his king so you could give a discovered check by moving your bishop to b4
Hi man Thanks for the video Here 8:55 you could play this: 1_B×h6 , ..... 2_Bb6 , Qd7 3_Bb5 And that's a queen trap i guess In first move he can't take because of his rook
Love your streams/videos so much man!!! Would love to see the Fantasy Caro Kann at some point (if you get another caro player) as it is pretty underrepresented in the chess twitch/YT world! Thanks so much for everything you do for the community!
It's because of these 1.e4 Only games that I've understood how to maximize a Rook+Pawn vs Rook endgame. Managed to walk my pawn all the way to the top, trap his rook, and he traded the rook for the pawn. Gave me the breathing room I needed to mate him with R+K. Thanks!
Levy, us players in the 1000-1500 range lose sight of what is protecting what, once there is a lot going on in the board. That’s why we look like we just completely collapse after starting out so well.
1:09:27 Ne6 if Qe7 knight forks king and rook on c7. If Qc8 than d6 is free pawn. So The best move for his queen is Qb8 but still has pretty good chances to blunder
32:32 I could be wrong but isn't the knight able to fork the bishop and rook and win a piece out of it along with black just being a little better in the position despite the ruined pawn structure?
48:30 if takes with the bishop on c6 and bagtakes with his bishop you take his rook and then the bishop ore if he taked with his bishop your rook you have a mate in two
Completely agree with you on chess.com lessons, I have been doing them on my phone and the amount of content is absolutely insane, definitely worth the investment
Gotham can you please make an opening video on the Smith Morra Gambit. I get a lot of sicilian openings against me and I loved what you did in your E4 series.
I love sicilians ever since I started playing chess professionally I had book from Bobby Fisher about how he played najdorf I started loving the opening as well as the dragon and the russolimo for now
Your subs have a lot of varied openings, playing on lichess 1. e4 e5 is like 80% of my games as white xD Btw these are great, they rlly help me improve and i've finally hit 1400 on lichess blitz! :D
@@MrOoblek I think he could have actually had a decent chance at trapping the queen because there's a threat behind that move, not just grabbing a pawn. Say black makes a silly move line h5, then Bb6 his the queen and I think it's trapped if he plays Qd7 with Bb5. He might be able wiggle out with bxa6 after Bb6 though. Pretty complicated
I have to mention that the lower ranks are miles better in 10 minutes. They are usually less experienced so they don't have the intuition to play on really low times. But when they have enough time to make sure there are no mistakes they play a lot better. This is also why I find it interesting only when you reach 1500+. they can play proper games in 3 minutes.
At 29:10, why can't the King go to E7? Why does the bishop have to capture the threatening D6 Knight? I feel like I'm missing something but can't see it.
Hello. I think at 47.40, if you would have taken the Knight with White Bishop, you would have either won material or you would have won with checkmate. Case 1 -: If Queen takes white bishop back, then you simply win the black Bishop Case 2 -: If White bishop takes back white bishop, you first take the Rook with a Rook, then there are two cases A- he takes with black bishop back , and you win with checkmate after exchanging queens B- he takes with Queen back and you win the Black Bishop even if queens were traded Please let me know what you think of it. I tried to think through what you were thinking.
At 1:11:35 didn't Black have rook takes knight? And if check just pick up the other knight? And black is winning. Or am I blind to something else? Great video as always, even if I'm late lol.
Finally found a chess expert that makes sense to me. I've tried countless other sources, but Levy's calm, no panic explanation of the "why" behind every move just click for me. Thank you!
Try Daniel Naroditsky. He doesn't have so many videos, but he explains the why very well too.
@@leadnitrate2194 Not bad, but I'll stick with an entertaining PG-13 version in GothamChess.
@@JR-jz4ts lol yeah Daniel seems like the person who skipped chess club to hang out with cool kids from school. Also I'll recommend Agadmator his match coverage is really instructive and fun.
my game has improved cause of this master.....excellent explanation of ideas....
Hey he finally pinned a positive remark comment.
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Play Ruy Lopez
I don’t mind all the ads
@@keerthivasanr8865 He can play the Ruy Lopez if they play e5, but as we saw, they kept play Caro Kanns and Sicilians.
Levi how much does your course cost? And do you recommend being a certain level before I take it? Thanks
just tried the Smith Morra Gambit for the firsts time today and totally checkmated my opponent... Thanks for the lessons... I'm surprised at how well you can articulate your move decisions in 3min games... been playing on chess.com for about 2 years now and just broke the 1500 barrier this month in now rapid (10min games) thanks be to your Gotham guide.
Subs: My move is actually making him think for a while!
Gotham: *_*talking to the chat about how he's about to mate them*_*
LMFAOOOOOOOOOO
😳
That second guy was complete garbage. Didn’t know anything!
Oh wait.. that was me lawlz. Appreciate the game! I actually had a really nice win in classical the next day applying the idea of moving the pawn to defend the bishop. Lots of things I learned from the game overall though!
I don't know, you did great
Good on you man :)
Your name is dope. I loved kingkiller.
Never thought I would watch 2 hours straight of chess gameplay but the ease with which he smokes these dudes while thinking out loud is very entertaining.
This isn't TH-cam Levy. This is Twitch Levy pretending to be TH-cam Levy
Not capping
19:53
Levy: "Putting my knight there doesn't do anything"
Also Levy: puts his knight there immediately
After further investigation I see that, that is indeed what happened
I liked the part where he played 1. e4 , also for the lols I will now go through this video and find all moments where there was a captures captures
Game 1 0:51 1:18 1:51 2:18 3:20
Game 2 10:28 11:57 13:35 13:48 13:50 14:13 14:59 15:13 15:39
Game 3 19:17 19:37 24:02 24:09 24:38 24:42 25:03 25:35
Game 4 28:36 28:40 29:08 31:05 31:18
Game 5 34:38 35:48 36:25 37:52 37:58 37:59 38:22 38:41 39:23 41:42 42:43 42:52 42:56 43:01
Game 6 43:47 43:54 45:52 46:03 51:21 51:40 52:54 53:22 53:57 53:58
Game 7 57:50 58:00 1:00:47 1:02:44 1:02:54 1:02:55
Game 8 1:07:02 1:07:42 1:11:19 1:11:32 1:11:43
Bonus 31:07 You always look for *captures* 43:53 Takes takes, that's not a check...it's also not a *CAPTURES CAPTURES*
DONT!!! He called you psychotic for saying takes takes 100k times!
@@xa-1274 Best way to refute this allegation is to push onward with an extreme capture-fest, takes-taking down 'takes takes' one 'captures captures' at a time
it was in this positionerino agadmatorino 100k captures captures at a time
⁰0000000000n
You are LEGEND helping the community grow! More strength to you brother!
My chess repertoire:
Try to scholar mate.
If failed, resign
"Everyone's entitled to their opinion, even if yours is wrong" Levy Rozman, 2020
I love this man ❣️
Light so hard at 48:35 I legit was thinking god knows what to do yeet a pawn up. Man does exactly that 😂😂
I love this guy, he explains the logic behind every move. a generous master who teaches not only for money. Im learning a lot man.
But not grammar 😂
Haha your funny
One of the best quotes about chess is . "chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance"
9:16 ME IN THE WASHROOM HAVING UPSET STOMACH 😂😂
YOOOOO LMAO 😂😂🤣🤣😂🤪🤪😤💩
Note to self:
If I ever have the chance to have a drink with Levy, take off one shoe and stick an alka seltzer in my mouth before saying hello. Then leave, to avoid police.
"It's very rare to beat someone rated 1200 in 13 moves."
That's the Smith-Morra for you. It's so easy to blunder your queen or checkmate if you don't know what you're doing against it.
"Learn the game, have fun..." the advice I never knew i needed to hear till now
30:20 We love your voice, Levy. Infact, if you had music playing while I was watching, that'd be a bit distracting for me. So I'm glad I'm part of the youtube clan.
I think everyone benefits by being involved in your tutorials and actively calculating. Asking what the right move is does a lot for that. Thank you so much!
38:08
Twitch chat: “d5 hanging”
*no piece even on d5*
Gotham: “i don’t even know what that means...”
lol twitch chat with big brain -200iq plays again
I have watched many chess tutorial videos but each of them lacked enthusiasm and correct way of educating. You are the best chess coach, i must say.
12:32 - 12:40 really cracked me up xD very instructive and entertaining indeed
I love how chill levy is in this video
55:00 Levy is lucky I'm not a DJ because I would IMMORTALIZE this sound he makes at the 55:00 mark "Wraa'ah D5"
18:55, pure gold
47:52 Really instructive how Levy's instinct pointed out there was something here but he couldn't quite pull the trigger. 17. Bc7 instead of h3 actually blows Black apart. The point is to push the rook off the d-file in order to capture on c6 and then e7 and Black can't respond with Rxd1.
I looked briefly at this 1200 using stockfish and tbh it seems legit. They defended well (Qe8 for example to not blunder e7 bishop immediately), but their moves were logical and not engine #1 choice and some were mistakes that Levy just didn't take advantage of. I suspect this person played about as accurately as the earlier 1200s that were destroyed in 15-20 moves, the major difference being Levy just didn't play as sharply here.
Man this notif came right when my math class started
Now I’m sorely tempted
When you hear "this is the best move and here's why," you know you're about to be hit with some knowledge.
Loving the rating climb series, lots of good things to gain from this.
All these Caro Kahns are inspired by your teaching Levy. Be proud.
30:21 Wait, you guys on twitch listen to music while watching these?
Yes
Hey Levy! Really enjoying your opening-climb series. I was wondering, any future plan on doing one with the black pieces with your e6/b6 system? I would surely watch that. Looking forward!
8:50 was taking the pawn on a6 with the bishop a good move there?
I think that this move was meant when chat suggested that a6 was hanging
It was very decent, but Bb5 might give you a bigger advantage
Thank you so much for this video. As a ~1000 rated player this is arguably the most helpful chess video I've ever seen. I've been struggling to understand opening principles in the Sicilian and the Caro Kann forever, and this video was incredibly helpful
At 36:00 you CAN play Qb3, since Nc6 is met by cxd5, and Nxd4 is unplayable because of Qa4+ forking the king and knight
No background music in TH-cam is a blessing
I have spent about 13 hours today watching your videos. Among the best you can get. Thank you & respect from England 👍
There's a reason why Levy has 1.03M subs. This is the best chess channel in this vast TH-cam universe. Everything is well explained. Thanks Levy.
After watching this video, I climbed from 1180 to 1350 in two days. Thanks for the content!
Nothing stopping us youtubers from having a music tab open as well. Great content! Also, content that doesn't put me to sleep :D
I wish this would put me to sleep! Instead I close my eyes and zone in and out playing chess.
At 1:15:55, if you had taken the knight on d7 with your rook and then he would have had taken d7 back with the rook, then you could take the bishop on e7 with your bishop, if he took back with either of his rooks there's a backrank checkmate by the queen and if he ignored the bishop, he obviously can't move his king so you could give a discovered check by moving your bishop to b4
8:08 look at that beautiful line of pieces
Nothing .. just some personal notes✌️
1:02
2:25
At 1:05:59 after Bxf3, Bxf7 is mate, right?...did u miss it levy?
That's true, after bxf3, bxf7 king has to go e7 and then qe6 mate
He doesn go for that. He tries to play like a 1200 player would.
Hi man
Thanks for the video
Here 8:55 you could play this:
1_B×h6 , ..... 2_Bb6 , Qd7 3_Bb5
And that's a queen trap i guess
In first move he can't take because of his rook
Love your streams/videos so much man!!! Would love to see the Fantasy Caro Kann at some point (if you get another caro player) as it is pretty underrepresented in the chess twitch/YT world! Thanks so much for everything you do for the community!
@12:25 Bb5🤣🤣🤣 Good name for a cover band!
Sometimes I’d like to see you make a blunder mid game and then what you might do to recover from that loss of material.
It's because of these 1.e4 Only games that I've understood how to maximize a Rook+Pawn vs Rook endgame. Managed to walk my pawn all the way to the top, trap his rook, and he traded the rook for the pawn. Gave me the breathing room I needed to mate him with R+K. Thanks!
Levy, us players in the 1000-1500 range lose sight of what is protecting what, once there is a lot going on in the board. That’s why we look like we just completely collapse after starting out so well.
24:00 - Or just do knight to E6 and get his queen
1:09:27
Ne6 if Qe7 knight forks king and rook on c7. If Qc8 than d6 is free pawn. So The best move for his queen is Qb8 but still has pretty good chances to blunder
That first game check mate was genius. Ima have to use that one
2:35 i think the best move (not considering luck) is qh5 followed by nf7
Love this series, keep it up!
32:32 I could be wrong but isn't the knight able to fork the bishop and rook and win a piece out of it along with black just being a little better in the position despite the ruined pawn structure?
Why am I addicted to this series? Why am I addicted to your channel? I don’t even play chess...
Fun series to watch
48:30 if takes with the bishop on c6 and bagtakes with his bishop you take his rook and then the bishop ore if he taked with his bishop your rook you have a mate in two
9:17 he could play bxa6 because of the pin on the rook.
41:50
"Oh sorry, I skipped a move"
Weird flex but ok..
1:10 1.Knight to e5
2. Bishop takes queen
3. Bishop to f7
Mate
Completely agree with you on chess.com lessons, I have been doing them on my phone and the amount of content is absolutely insane, definitely worth the investment
Gotham can you please make an opening video on the Smith Morra Gambit. I get a lot of sicilian openings against me and I loved what you did in your E4 series.
13:03 black to play e4. Can somebody explain me why he didn't play e4 attacking both bishop and knight? Vampire tactics
I love sicilians ever since I started playing chess professionally I had book from Bobby Fisher about how he played najdorf I started loving the opening as well as the dragon and the russolimo for now
35:34. Computer says Qb3 immediately is best. If ...Nc6, you can play cxd5 and then he can't play Nxd4 because you have Qa4+ to pick up the knght.
Just for the record Levy, I've never seen you're style as any other chess player.
This is my favorite series.
Super cool video can’t wait to watch the next one
your dry wit cracks me up i love it!!!
Your subs have a lot of varied openings, playing on lichess 1. e4 e5 is like 80% of my games as white xD
Btw these are great, they rlly help me improve and i've finally hit 1400 on lichess blitz! :D
very good video concept and delivery Sir.
At 9:25, can't he just grab the a6 pawn too?
Yeah with his bishop cuz the rook's undefended. I don't know why Levy never talked about it.
@@MrOoblek I think he could have actually had a decent chance at trapping the queen because there's a threat behind that move, not just grabbing a pawn. Say black makes a silly move line h5, then Bb6 his the queen and I think it's trapped if he plays Qd7 with Bb5. He might be able wiggle out with bxa6 after Bb6 though. Pretty complicated
@@12jswilson Yeah
Very entertaining man!
your "welcome back" at the beggining is always cut off.
Loving the series
20:00 is a2 pawn bigger than all other ones?????
This serie is realy awesome. Love it
I have to mention that the lower ranks are miles better in 10 minutes. They are usually less experienced so they don't have the intuition to play on really low times. But when they have enough time to make sure there are no mistakes they play a lot better.
This is also why I find it interesting only when you reach 1500+. they can play proper games in 3 minutes.
Levy, I'm super impressed! Do you still give in person lessons?
Everyone I play against goes e4 e5. All this Caro-Kann is just a display to impress you Levy 😂
"Woh! Why is he pre movin" ...maby he thinks if he moves fast enough he'll time out a IM. LOL
I have to say this was a great video. Thank you Gotham.
Amazing vid!!1
Very nice plays
On 9:20 did you see the move bishop to a6. Or did you like bishop to b6 better
Aaahaha! Levy's imitating the GothamChess guy!
Levy is best chess instructor
At 29:10, why can't the King go to E7? Why does the bishop have to capture the threatening D6 Knight? I feel like I'm missing something but can't see it.
He could've gone Ke7 but that gives up castling rights so it's preferred to trade a bishop for a knight to preserve that right
Good job. Keep it up. Very nice to watch!
55:00 Here if anyone needs a replay button
When i got destroyed :) ggs Levy i had never seen a Scotch in my life
Queen can take on c3 ore not? 1:10:53
Hello. I think at 47.40, if you would have taken the Knight with White Bishop, you would have either won material or you would have won with checkmate.
Case 1 -:
If Queen takes white bishop back, then you simply win the black Bishop
Case 2 -:
If White bishop takes back white bishop, you first take the Rook with a Rook, then there are two cases
A- he takes with black bishop back , and you win with checkmate after exchanging queens
B- he takes with Queen back and you win the Black Bishop even if queens were traded
Please let me know what you think of it. I tried to think through what you were thinking.
39:42 i loled so hard 😁😁😆
This stuff is really instructive🔥
Wohooooo!! Love this kind of content! Thank you so much!
At 1:11:35 didn't Black have rook takes knight? And if check just pick up the other knight? And black is winning.
Or am I blind to something else?
Great video as always, even if I'm late lol.
24:12 Ke6 would have been devastating
At 10:05 levy couldve played Kb5 and he wouldve either won an exchange by trading the knight for the rook or if the pawn captured won the queen
Love these. Keep it up