HIKARU vs LEVY: EPIC CHESS
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Epic chess when you're being humiliated for 30 minutes in a row?
Yeah man, I believe you
Pin of shame!
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The chess is still epic. His title stand strong :)
It's even better now that we know this has absolutely no effect on him
Trashtalking an IM by a player with no elo 😂😂😂
Hikaru did a normal opening?! If I was Levy, I'd take that compliment to my grave.
*Hikaru sees Levy, plays bong cloud*
Hikaru and Magnus tell you what they think of you with their first move.
@@johnwest7993lmao😂😂😂😂
@@johnwest7993 then thats a lotta of respect he has for Levy
"Taking something to your grave" means that you would never tell anyone. You wouldn't want anyone to know that Hikaru played a normal opening against you?
There was a meme in Hikaru Subreddit, where you think hes taking a long time to make a move, but hes actually just thanking his subs. Overall was an amazing game
and in this position, levy sacrifices... THE SUB! the point is, if hikaru takes, he loses on time!
17:35 "again Hikaru found the best move." Kramnik: "Interesting"
Underrated comment. 😅
Intieristing
Damn this is a legendary comment
I’m really glad to see Levy having more confidence in his games vs some of his other videos. Levy gives his opponents their respect but he doesn’t give himself the respect her deserves. As long as you’re playing another human, there is always the possibility of winning. I’m glad Levy stuck with his gut more and didn’t overthink his moves as much this game. I’m happy to see that
28:54 bold of you to assume he’s not cybernetic.
The fact that Levy didn't play Caro Kann against Hikaru is just sad😭
Because Hikaru made fun of him for playing Caro-Kann before
@@okkkkkk97pretty sure the first time he won against Hikaru he played caro kann could be mistaken though
he didn't play the caro kann because hikaru didn't play e4
@@karimhatem1321 he did play e4
@@jeanbriones1190 he clearly played rook f5 as first move
Loved your breakdown of the game and the way you explain your decision-making process. The self-awareness and authenticity throughout the game is encouraging for everyday players and beginners trying to navigate their own games.
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Let's all thank today's sponsor for keeping us alive. Thank you air and thank you Levy for reminding me to breathe today, I almost forgot
Bro I just got out of surgery and I was all stressed out and this reminder was perfect
Blink
I forgor
You are lucky you didn't. I actually forgot yesterday but def didn't today 🧟♂️ 🤪👻
"That was such an aggressive infiltration of air in my nose"
GothamChess, The Air Sponsored One
I’ve never been more entertained watching chess. Something about this was my favorite video he made. Going over all the situations and blunders
As a low rated bad chess player, when playing higher rated opponents think about how embarrassing it'd be for the higher rated player to lose
Everyone talking about how mentally hard it is for levy to play against hikari as he's the second highest rated blitz player , very very accomplished in many ways this and that . Think about how stressful it must be for hikaru to not lose to levy as levy definitely would make a big fuss in the community if he won against hikaru
Lightning already struck once
HIkaru is in Levy's head and he knows it.
Levy never fails to be surprised by the first move
This video was the most enjoyable that includes analysis. I dont even play chess seriously but only for fun, the way you explained everything was very informative. Usually i cant understand youre analaysis but this was enjoyable. Thanks Hikaru.
I used to watch your 10 minute opening videos and now you are a huge youtuber and author! So happy to see your success :)
it really is great to see magnus featuring other chess players on his channel
I would love to se a video of you emphasising the speed of these blitz/bullet games, and how you calculate multible moves ahead without spending time on the clock! 😊
You mostly play on instinct, based on what you know about the position, and take the most time on moments where you feel you might be better if you find the right move or tactic, which is again based on a feeling/intuition
It's like playing guitar or any instrument for that matter or if you don't play any, think of it like driving a car manually. In the beginning, you'll think about what gear to put the car in and you sometimes even forget what gear you in but as you drive more and more and become experienced, it all becomes naturally and you don't think about gears while driving. It is similar here as chess has become second nature to them.
Great match Levy! I watched Hikaru's video of the same game and love the different ways you break down the whole thing.
I think levy saw the video before he made his own...
Just saying...
Awooga... It really feels nice to see Levy playing some chess again.
Levy can u continue making chess opening content
@@AgentSmith-16384 what is bro smoking
@@AgentSmith-16384Bro's on some next level shit. This is the creativity Bobby Fischer was searching for.
@@AgentSmith-16384bro escaped the Matrix
I want a Bird opening video
@@derkommissar4986 me too actually
"Playing against Hikaru for me, is like having a dentist appointment". LMAO
Thank you for allowing such an amazing sponsor to help you play Hikaru
Levy: Hikaru isn't an indestructible cyborg
Hikaru's thumbnails:
29:00 levy never fails to mention magnus
Magnus never fails to not let levy fails to mention magnus in his nakmora's vedio
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its nice to see this game in both this video and hikaru video to see both of their point of view. like the one where the queen was almost trapped both of them got excited/scared for a second
Definitely down for the Scandi course. By far my favorite e4 opening for black.
E5 and sicillian a million times superior
@@KianOntong13for low-mid elo, scandi throws ppl off and is very strong, even tho e5 and sicilian are theoretically better
@@vybzone in bullet Scandi can be fun i guess, especially more fun than the French
Try ware opening... Really throws people off even at the 1400 level
The Sicilian I see against my e4 maybe 30-40% of the time. Almost never see the Scandi. That's why I like it. Puts half the players I play against on defense from the 1st move.
Bro didn't played his best opening against one of the best players
Bro got scared
Levy against his own bot: I wOuLd NeVeR PlAy tHe FrenCh
Should be proud of this game, held your own for most of the game against one of the best blitz players
Hikaru never fails to put levy in his videos
This will never end will it?
@@aweebthatlovesmath4220
No
No.@@aweebthatlovesmath4220
That's a Magnus joke.
He actually did before levy.
Hikaru wasn’t thinking for 20 seconds. He was laughing while calculating how to humiliate you
The sneeze at 3:03 was brought to you by our sponsor air.
Bro still can’t stop including magnus in his videos
Less anxiety, more confidence.! 😊 well Done on the game, gg
Levy is the type of guy to bless himself after sneezing
Famous last words “Hikaru can’t mate me with no queen”
My man Levy not just killing it with his content lately but also over the board!!! More power to you 😊
ngl been bindge watching you through one of the worst moments in my life and your ironically joking air sponsor is so amazing for me rn thank you for that
This was a really good effort levy. One day you're gonna be able to see all these tactics even against hikaru. We're proud of you as usual
i don t believe that you are not a cyborg
Absolutely epic breakdown. Enthralled. More of this please.
Let’s join forces the next time you play Hikaru. Our combined elo will be just enough to overpower the bastard💪
I love watching this high level analysis. It's SO cool seeing wild plays.
Levy is a real one for always covering/pushing small up and coming chess players 🎉
Very good game Levy! It was both instructional and entertaining. Thank you for bringing such amazing content to the chess community ❤
Gotta admit man, I have no idea how to play chess nor do I care to learn but your videos are entertaining and enjoyable to watch throughout. Congrats on that.
Levy, love your content. just keep doing what you're doing and you'll eventually get to 10 millon subs
Great opportunity for a joke at the beginning of the vid when he was talking about the dread of playing against Hikaru. He said it was like going to the dentist where he just needs to "sit...and be brave, and whatever." I would've died if I heard something like "lie back and think of the London system"
15:25 this move wasn’t Hikaru it was Magnus messing with Levy😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉 GREAT GAME MAN
I wonder how much of a boost Hikaru gets from the intimidation generated from merely seeing his name as an opponent.
8:10 Hikaru is actually 4th in blitz right now behind Nihal, Danya and Magnus
Rating fluctuate all the time. In ability, he's top 2, sometime outright best in the world
THE 499 ELO DIF JUST LIE ABOUT YOUR ELO AND MAKE IT 500
Hikaru's respect for Levy: sees Levy, plays bong cloud
Excellent Video!!!!! love to see more of your games analysis with the best players!!
Great content!
"I'm not a cyborg" - Levy
Sounds like something a cyborg would say.
At 9:40 video time, being equal with Hikaru is an accomplishment... certainly nothing to sneeze at! Congrats bro!🎉
playing at this level against such opponents is like playing volleyball at a beach but my side is sprinkled with land mines
stressful
Putting a 3 min game in a 30 min video and calling urself "freaked out " fells so wrong to me for some reason😢😢
0:59 I already know he lost.
'I am not a cyborg' is what a cyborg would say
Levy "I'm an agressive player"
Also Levy: "I'm playing passive"😂
Very cool getting to see how people the IM and GM level play. Great game!
Great stare, almost seemed genuine
23:16 bro repeated himself 💀
Blud realy thought he was magnus fr💀
3:02 the karma for the bad air sponsorship joke, infiltrated levis nose XD bless him
I swear when you watch gothamchess explain one game, it feels like watching 20 different games because he gives different alternate interactions of the one game for each move. When he resets back to the current progress of the match I just think, “wait, none of that actually happened?”
""Maybe I won" 🤣
2:40 careful Levy, Hikaru already reacted to a video where you said the same thing and it was about a quick mate 😂
Hi @GothamChess,
Could you find out percentage wise how many bullet/blitz/rapid end in out of time.
Maybe divided in elo categories and white or black position.😊
Might be a great next vid.
Thanks a lot!
Would love to see the Anish game too if you decide to cover it Levy, hope you do!
That game was pure content 😂
@@khoanguyenquangminh1525 I played Anish Giri and I won my game!
Levy :- "breaths"
Hikaru :- you shouldn't do like that, you had 9 holes in your body but you still choosen this
Amazing, you got this bro 👏
Great game and yah keep your confidence up. Listen to your guts and just go all in for their kings 🤴 💪
reminds me of how Hikaru said that you always try to draw a game rather than going for the win and that's a fatal mistake for someone trying to be a chess master.
Bro made a 30 min video for a 3 min Blitz🙃
Very nice video from Gotham. For some reason, his energy at the beginning of the video translates into some higher level strategic concepts that just LAND. The communication about potential plans in just the first couple minutes are eye-opening for me (a bum crap chess player & fan). I actually understand what Levy means about certain plans now. Excellent, excellent job.
🎉 1:02
LEvy never fails to talk 25m about a 6-10m game
Bro is IM (INTERNATIONAL MASTER) and said hes not one of the best of the world. Mate you are a worldwide master, master means one of the best and International means around the world.
Always trust levy to get the most out of any available magnus content 0:50
3:01 for hikaru
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the bot said, "youre mating me? oh no no, uno reverse card, checkmate."
thank you for telling me to breathe. i am now manually breathing.
Magnus hasn’t been in a thumbnail in 5 videos
Did they break up?
*plays a brilliant game
Levy- this will be my tomorrow's video
Hikaru- welcome back everyone for TODAYYYS video
Levy never fails to change the title of the video.
Might actually be some A/B testing on what functions better, settling for a different one than was shown to you first time around.
13:53 how about knight takes e5 and in bishop takes then bishop h6
Hikaru spending 2 sec at all that moves is just wild😮 8:34
Props to levy for reiterating that he is not a cyborg
if you do single game analysis would be cool if you put a link to the game analysis in the description so we can explore alternative lines on our own
levy lost the moment he saw hikaru's name pop up. He lost the mental battle and felt like rather than thinking of winning he was playing for a draw.
3:03 .... i thought: "Which brings us to the sponsor of the todays video" [running air ad]
Dude you went head to head with one of the best in the world! You did extremely good!
Chess pieces stats:
King
Damage: 1
Range: 1
Movement: Any Direction
Health: 1
Queen
Damage: 1
Range: Unlimited
Movement : Insanity
Health: 1
Bishop
Damage: 1
Range: Unlimited
Movement: Diagonal
Health 1
Knight
Damage: 1
Range: L Shape
Movement: L Shape
Health: 1
Special Skills
A Knight is the only piece that can jump over pieces
Rook
Damage: 1
Range: Unlimited
Movement: NESW
Health 1
Pawn
Damage: 1
Range: Diagonally 1 square
Movement: 1 square forward
Health: 1
Special Skills
When a pawn reaches the end of the board it can promote to any major piece except for the king.
When a pawn moves for the first time it has an option to move 2 squares instead of one
I think it's time for a new trend in levy's comment section
I picked up Levy's book at B&N tonight and am excited to delve into it after hearing all the great reviews. Great game against #2 champion.
levy never fails to make my day with every video he posts
I'm so lucky air sponsered this video... I hadn't breathed in ages
Levy never fails to keep me and Magnus in his basement (please let me out it's so cold)
Oh dear god no