Day 1 of translating Levy speaking russian: 0:31 'frantsuzskaya zasheetah' is french defense 24:11 That's just completely fucked up… How can you play Ba5 when protect- …your Queen is protecting the Bishop, and then you're placing your King in front of the Queen like this. How can you play like this? Freak, that's just completely fucked up… What's this move? How! *And why is the king running back and forth?* to the right, to the left, freaking dancing!
Computers know nothing about chess, low ELO players know nothing about chess. Therefore, low ELO players are actually computers. That's the reason why nobody understands their moves
I have never watched a chess game in my life and I thought I would try and watch this, didn't even know what ELO means and I am in TEARS of laughter. Is this why everyone is waxing lyrical about chess recently? so funny and entertaining.
Basically all you need to know about Elo: - For every 400 points of difference, the odds of winning become 10 times better in favor of the higher rated player (i. e. 800 vs 400 have odds 10:1, 1700 vs 900 have odds 100:1 and so on) - After every game you gain or lose points based on the outcome and the difference in strength, aka losing to a weaker opponent punishes you harder than losing against a stronger one (similar with winning). Your opponent also loses (or gains) the exact same amount as you, so the winner effectively takes some points from the loser.
Content idea: Can you beat a rating 600, rating 1000 and rating 1400 where at least half of your moves are pre-moves? and which was the hardest opponent? Obviously, 1400 is better than 600, but 600 is waaay harder to predict and makes you prone to blunders.
I played chess when I was a teen (never in a club). I started again after watching agad and now you. And this series, after a good laugh, made me reconsider how I play. The basic checklist is wonderful, my tunnel vision is less and less a problem. It probably doesn't mean much to you, but thank you :)
Had to comment to say that this was my all time favorite Guess the Elo you've ever done. The sponsor fake out was great and the passionate rant was incredible. Good look at your tournament.
I'm 1930 and I couldn't care less what openings you recommend. Your instructive materials (tournament recaps, GM preps, pro game coverage) is great and that's all I need
You know you're chain blundering when Levy starts speaking Russian while reviewing your game hahahah I loved this episode. Game 3 was absolutely insane!
34th day of translating Levy's titles into Neapolitan:"Iscritt, sit a vita mij" thank you Levy you're a vita nostr too (usually Neapolitan singers say "you're my life" when they want to show their love towards their fans)
Hello Levy I just started playing chess some weeks ago and you've helped me a lot, I just wanted to thank you for that. All the best on your upcoming tournament btw.
Started chess about 3 months ago, thank you so much for such amazing content. I can now say I'm hooked! Good luck for your tournament and I can't wait to watch some GM GothamChess videos! FYI I'm still terrible at chess but I'm learning lol
@@rogg0224 450 rapid, was playing blitz for a month before I watched a video of Levy explaining why thats a bad idea and have moved to 10 min games, I just make stupid blunders, I am getting a lot better after learning the caro kahn and larsens opening
@@haydenjones8625 try to learn the ponziani opening or kings gambit its realy good against player bellow 1000 elo because most of them dont know how to respond
@@muhamadikhsan9152 Thanks a lot 👌 I'll do some research...I think one of my biggest problems are blunders...I move to quickly and don't assess correctly 👎
I'm 1800 in rapid and I really enjoy your content. You're my favorite chess streamer and youtuber. I like Gotham not showing main lines that I know, but sidelines that are absolutely amazing and fun to play.
You are by far the best Chess youtuber. Not only are you incredible at the game but you manage to be amazingly entertaining and lively about your commentary. We all love your videos
As a solid 1600 with little opening knowledge watching the 1700-1800 game, I agree whole heartedly with you gotham. No point into into main lines at my level, I dont have the time or energy to memorize 15 main lines 20 moves deep each. Instead, I get some positions I'm typically comfortable with, learn the themes and brawl on the board
@@Stien58_ actually its youtube that goes brrrrr (Just in case you dont know I updated youtube and it has a thing on every non-english comment that trasnlates it)
At 8:50 when you counted the checkmating patterns it made me think of this. Teach checkmating patterns by analyzing positions with multiple checkmates. This way it is much easier to cleanly separate out different patterns and learn them by comparing them to others, all within the same position.
Coming from a 1750 rated FIDE player, that rant about Levy not making content for higher rated players, bro, he's funny and entertaining and can play chess, what more do you need!?
Bringing out the gender-neutral knights, and the gender-neutral bishops, castling the gender-neutral king, and attacking with the gender-neutral queen.
22:31 "I really want a pawn break here." And if there was the pawn break there Levy would go "Hello! What do I always say about opining up the center? Castle the King. If you haven't castled you have no business opening up the center!"
Okay, first of all, that was a move he recommended before the fact, so your comment doesn’t even make sense. Secondly, castling before opening the center is about not letting your opponent attack you. But there is no attack. The black bishops and knight can’t do any damage, and the black queen has relocated to northern Siberia.
@@isavenewspapers8890 My comment is insight in how many new players are thinking, point being to demonstrate human ability to achieve flawed logic by overgeneralizing common advices. I see a lot of negative comments by people who struggle with exceptions.
Levy you probably won't see this but have you considered adding polls in twitch chat with some kind of points payout (i think theres ready-made software) where your twitch subs can vote on the elo and win/lose points. Those points could be special emote unlockers 🤔
Thinking about it seriously. You covered GM blunders, so maybe Guessing the ELO could be a good way of paying attention to the basics In order to prepare for your upcoming tournament. Also, I'm really looking forward to watching all of your championship's recaps! I love them!
The part you said about the King's Indian (game 3) is very true lol. I'm 1600-1700 in rapid and play the King's Indian because some day I was like ''let's play the main opening after 1.d4 as Black and now I'm stuck with an opening I actually have no clue about. I'm blitzing out the first 10 moves and hope my opponent blunders something. Other than that I just have to hope to see a tactic for myself. Seriously kids: don't teach yourself the KID unless you know exactly what you're doing. Try to go into some Queen's Gambit (accepted) lines as Black or Caro-Kann.
hey levy, i'm 1900 and i watch all of ur videos and brought all of ur courses... we all love u and thanks for teaching us...it's just simply awesome❤️🔥🔥🔥
There's some openings that Levy is consistently either for or against beginner/intermediate players playing (Vienna, Sicilian, etc.). But there are a few openings, such as the King's Indian Defense or the Ponziani Opening, where I've seen him be strongly on both sides over the years. He advocates for playing the KID in his book, but rails against it in this episode and a previous one
at 26:20 if black en passants he will lose the queen because the knight at e2 takes the pawn, if the black knight takes back white takes the rook at h8 and theres no way to protect your queen, if you block with a bishop, the rook takes, and if king takes it, second rook to h8 and take the queen
I used to enjoy these videos but recently they have become more about advertising the sponsors than any real content. The amount of time wasted on todays sponsor was criminal
I never like videos on youtube. This series has been the only exception. It is worth the sign in hassle just to communicate that we as a community enjoy this series.
Hi Gotham, HAD AN IDEA FOR CONTENT! loving the vids. I started playing chess as a kid and thought i was good until i started playing online, now i'm in my 30's. My younger brother always beats me so i started watching streamers (basically just you and Eric) 6 months ago and i now watch your vids as part of my regular youtube watching. The E4 rating climb is great for someone like me who is trying to gain experience in one specific opening before moving on to another and developing a repertoire. But as i'm playing the Vienna at the moment (after watching your vienna vid) i mostly concentrate on those games in the e4 rating climb. So i had a thought, guess the Elo is awesome so for instructional purposes, what if you did a guess the Elo and/or game analysis of a bunch of subscriber games for each popular opening. If you've already had this idea and its in your courses then thanks for the vids anyway. Marley
Dude, I’ve been playing for like a week and you helped get me from 170 to 350. Now I have a problem of getting up to 400 then back down to 300 and staying in that range. It was fun but now losing so much is just getting depressing lol.
i know its hard, but remind yourself that losing is the ONLY way to get better at chess. You're going to lose. You're going to lose more than you ever thought possible. over and over. In streaks and in scattered games. And every time, you analyze that game and see what you did wrong. And slowly, steadily, you will stop making those mistakes. And while you lose, you study openings. You study lines. You study an opening that beat you and get yourself a weapon against it. You watch levy vides about stopping early queen attacks and danger levels. There is no way forward in chess except through loss. You have to prove yourself wrong in chess, and often its the other player who does it for you.
What Levy means in Game 3 is that most ppl (below 2000 and especially below 1600) just play KID or Grunfeld or that kind of stuff because when they are low rated they just google for a good opening and then they read the Wiki article and it reads "The Kings Indian is a HYPERMODERN chess defense" and they think "WOAH ey boy I'm a hypermodern guy, I gotta learn this!" and thats why they think its automatically good. And then they play this opening from 1000 rating on up until forever. They learn 8-10 moves of theory by heart which makes them look like 2000s (as Levy suspected in the opening) but as soon as their theory stops they have literally 0 clue what they are doing and every follow-up move is a huge blunder. And they dont understand that this is not how you should learn chess (because you dont learn something if you play 10 perfect moves but then blunder 6 times in a row). You are way better off playing "simple" openings that create similar positions over and over again where there are just some very slight differences and you can now figure out what move to change to adjust to that. And eventually when you really know what you're doing in general with simple openings, then you can approach these modern openings because even when you are out of theory you will have a feeling which piece could belong where and what your strategy in general could be. And then you analyze the games and you might see oh that was a slight inaccuracy, I shouldve played this instead or I should have played these 2 moves in the opposite order because this and that (but you dont blunder 6 times in a row and have absolutely no clue what youre doing like white here).
What a loser
Pin OF Shame LOL
Why would you berate yourself in front of everyone?
@@feelsdankman211 xD
7
Pin of Shame
"How bad was the game?"
"Well, Levy started flipping out in Russian, so...."
"Ooh, that bad..."
English language doesn't have such bad words to fully describe the pizdets that was happening over the board :D
Russian was the best of this content.
Idk why I really love when somebody calmly use Russian to swear
U have an L
Wait, does Levi speak Russian? I always thought he is just making up fake Russian. Lol
Gotham: *Gives us more than 1 Guess the Elo per week*
Viewers: It's... Impossible
No, It's necessary
*Loud organ music starts playing*
Viewers: That's impossible.
Levy: _Improbable._
@haneame08 you do know we can just search up perverse things instead of being scammed, right?
@@aneesh7038 its a bot. I saw the same comment of another account in another video
@@aneesh7038 i reply th-cam.com/video/Con_LRIOUck/w-d-xo.html
That sponsor was so good. I used to skip these sponsor ads in between, *BUT NOT ANYMORE*
this video is sponsored by: him. subscribe.
@haneame08 I dont understand your life
Imagine if he puts a pin of shame on ur comment cos u skip da ads
I was really about to watch the whole sponsor😂😂😂
He skipped the sponsor ads for us
Day 1 of translating Levy speaking russian:
0:31 'frantsuzskaya zasheetah' is french defense
24:11 That's just completely fucked up… How can you play Ba5 when protect- …your Queen is protecting the Bishop, and then you're placing your King in front of the Queen like this. How can you play like this? Freak, that's just completely fucked up… What's this move? How! *And why is the king running back and forth?* to the right, to the left, freaking dancing!
Thanks for the translation.Non Russian speaking people are thankful for the translation to understand the comedy.
I only understand the pizdec blin thanks to comrade boris
The translation is even funnier than I thought
Сам ты лох
Pin this youtube person!
love the sponsor, gonna order one right now
What a great sponsor ad read
Levy will pin you… 🤓
Me too
🤣🤣
I hope they sponsor more channels
"Don't let your opponents predict you, make your own opening" - Sun Tzu, a 200 elo player.
Botez Gambit: Exchange Variation
pawn blunder gambit: declined
pawn h4 rook h3
@@elbow_xd like a crab dragon
mustve been what white was thinking of when they played a delayed. bongcloud in the final game💀
A guy in the Twitch chat of levy, wrote I sat on my balls and the worst part is that not a single person gave him the sympathy he needed.
Timestamp
Timestamp?
Timestamp pls
I am so sorry but it was from another guess the elo video.
If I find it I will tell you guys with timestamp.
I didn't quite get all of the "today sponsor is so good" but after using their product for a while I can confirm it's the best thing in my entire life
lmao
@@DiamondZapIkr
that King's Indian Defense game was CLEAN
Computers know nothing about chess, low ELO players know nothing about chess. Therefore, low ELO players are actually computers.
That's the reason why nobody understands their moves
Absolutely, just like 1*0=0 and 2*0=0 hence 1=2😂😂
great logic
nobody understands them 😒 😞 🖤 💔 💀 🤘
i like your logic
With that logic:
All cats have 4 legs
My dog has 4 legs
Therefore My dog is a cat
"Rosen sub, you gotta play f3 so they don't play the Stafford"
As a Rosen sub myself i can say, it's funny cause it's true
Levy:- "Sack the damn rook on c4"
Rook be like:- what have I done :/
Rook: What is my purpose
Levy: you sacrifice yourself for a better position
*Yeah rook is the choosen one*
Pure gold when he went full 'Mother Russia'
24:11
21:02 samay roasted in chat lmao
I have never watched a chess game in my life and I thought I would try and watch this, didn't even know what ELO means and I am in TEARS of laughter. Is this why everyone is waxing lyrical about chess recently? so funny and entertaining.
Welcome to the community
Elo is basically chess power level
Basically all you need to know about Elo:
- For every 400 points of difference, the odds of winning become 10 times better in favor of the higher rated player (i. e. 800 vs 400 have odds 10:1, 1700 vs 900 have odds 100:1 and so on)
- After every game you gain or lose points based on the outcome and the difference in strength, aka losing to a weaker opponent punishes you harder than losing against a stronger one (similar with winning). Your opponent also loses (or gains) the exact same amount as you, so the winner effectively takes some points from the loser.
Gotham guess the elo is great, might even make u want to play chess lmao
@@pocarski Me who beat a 1200-rated player while being an 800-rated player (unrated match) in a 10-minute game:
Levy ignoring his sponsor is incredibly based
What do you mean? the sponsor was there
based on what
@@echratus definitely 100% was there can confirm totally not a scam
he contractually cannot ignore a sponsor.
sponsored by John Cena
Content idea: Can you beat a rating 600, rating 1000 and rating 1400 where at least half of your moves are pre-moves? and which was the hardest opponent?
Obviously, 1400 is better than 600, but 600 is waaay harder to predict and makes you prone to blunders.
I'd love to see this
Nice one
Crazy amount of content even before the tournament
@haneame08 This comment has japanese, english, russian and chinese...
There is a lesser known variation in the French defense, in which you simply resign.
The rating gambit, in which you resign after 1.e6 as to avoid playing against all their baguette croissant bullshit
@@urierez1260 I can’t anymore
Ironically my opponents tend to follow the "never resign" rule even when I play the French defense advance Nimzowitch variation
I thought this was the most well known variation of the French
@@MorganMindfulnessidk bout everyone else but i am *extremely* experienced with this variation
I am 150 elo and that knight move really hit me on a whole new level.
thank you for your input, Nikola Tesla
Shame for a person like Nikola to be 150 elo
@@delvindenni2432 chess is hard
Which one?
thanks, Nikila Tesla.
"You're telling me that's 1700 rated player hangs a fork on move 10"
171770???
@@snacqk6550 hung a piece on move 10
3 GUESS THE ELO IN A WEEK? LET'S GO!!!
lets goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
@@tejpatel6652 jomboy would appro
I played chess when I was a teen (never in a club). I started again after watching agad and now you. And this series, after a good laugh, made me reconsider how I play. The basic checklist is wonderful, my tunnel vision is less and less a problem.
It probably doesn't mean much to you, but thank you :)
"Not everyone is as talented and as handsome as I am" - Levy Rozman
The confidence
I think you might have meant Levi Roseman.
IM Rozman
its Levi
@@mccluskeyp it's levy, go check his about section.
That was the best sponsor, i don't even skiped. I will buy this now
Обожаю когда Леви говорит по русски
Очень непривычно и абсолютно прекрасно
Помню свой шок когда первый раз узнал😂😂
Ich spreche nicht Russisch, also werde ich Deutsch sprechen. Ich hoffe, dass ok ist.
Откуда он его знает? Он же американец?
@@abeke5523 его родители русские евреи, которые переехали в Америку, где он и вырос.
17:55 I am not sure anymore if Levi is watching a chess game.
When gotham is so kind that he skip the ads for you hahaahahah😂
@haneame08 wtf
@@weegomo just another weird bot
@haneame08 to be fair yih aren't wrong about the TH-cam thing
Had to comment to say that this was my all time favorite Guess the Elo you've ever done. The sponsor fake out was great and the passionate rant was incredible. Good look at your tournament.
We're at a point that we don't skip ads anymore, the ads skip us
Levy acting like a proud dad is the best thing about Guess the Elo
I'm 1930 and I couldn't care less what openings you recommend. Your instructive materials (tournament recaps, GM preps, pro game coverage) is great and that's all I need
2:30 rook b1 rook b1 make a move that makes no sense
That move literally is crazy
Why on earth would you play that
Actually it makes sense cause you get control of the file and can take the b7 pawn *WAIT* this is a joke? WELP YOU CAN R/WOOOOSH ME NOW
because it targets pawn and controls semi-open file
“That’s what you dad sounds like” and “permanent helium overdose” 😂😂 I’m laughing hysterically after hearing that.
24:13 лучшая часть видео, для особых ценителей;))))
Забавно, что Леви не запикивает русский мат в своих видео. Инетерсно, как ютуб оценивает двуязычные видео в этом вопросе.
@@Andikl1 какой мат, не понимаю о чём ты, нет тут никакого мата...
You know you're chain blundering when Levy starts speaking Russian while reviewing your game hahahah I loved this episode. Game 3 was absolutely insane!
Honestly only reason I check TH-cam everyday hoping you uploaded a new video ! Thank you for the content!
Levi entertaining the audience like usual. Keep up the good work!
34th day of translating Levy's titles into Neapolitan:"Iscritt, sit a vita mij" thank you Levy you're a vita nostr too (usually Neapolitan singers say "you're my life" when they want to show their love towards their fans)
1st day of fra m'è fatt schiattà
@@ferd1871 ahahhahahha
Beutiful, me love pizzaeaters like u boss, boss me also mangiapizza. Dai Gotham sai inglese, spagnolo e russo, vogliamo anche l'italiano
Hello Levy
I just started playing chess some weeks ago and you've helped me a lot, I just wanted to thank you for that.
All the best on your upcoming tournament btw.
@haneame08 Done, reported.
Bro the last few games where so good really nice to see people who actually know how to play in this series 😂
Started chess about 3 months ago, thank you so much for such amazing content. I can now say I'm hooked! Good luck for your tournament and I can't wait to watch some GM GothamChess videos!
FYI I'm still terrible at chess but I'm learning lol
Whats your rating
@@rogg0224 450 rapid, was playing blitz for a month before I watched a video of Levy explaining why thats a bad idea and have moved to 10 min games, I just make stupid blunders, I am getting a lot better after learning the caro kahn and larsens opening
@@haydenjones8625 try to learn the ponziani opening or kings gambit its realy good against player bellow 1000 elo because most of them dont know how to respond
@@muhamadikhsan9152 Thanks a lot 👌 I'll do some research...I think one of my biggest problems are blunders...I move to quickly and don't assess correctly 👎
@@haydenjones8625 or the english opening
I'm 1800 in rapid and I really enjoy your content. You're my favorite chess streamer and youtuber. I like Gotham not showing main lines that I know, but sidelines that are absolutely amazing and fun to play.
"Welcome back to your favourite series" yes
You are by far the best Chess youtuber. Not only are you incredible at the game but you manage to be amazingly entertaining and lively about your commentary. We all love your videos
I love when Levy gets so upset he starts speaking Russian. All I understood was pizdec and that's all I needed to know.
most convincing sponsor i've ever heard, bought a 1year membership right away
Loved the sponsor bit
As a solid 1600 with little opening knowledge watching the 1700-1800 game, I agree whole heartedly with you gotham.
No point into into main lines at my level, I dont have the time or energy to memorize 15 main lines 20 moves deep each.
Instead, I get some positions I'm typically comfortable with, learn the themes and brawl on the board
Жду эпизод полностью на русском! Чувствую, мы всё ближе к этому с каждым выпуском.
Most of his audiance wont know what hes saying, therefore sadly your dream wont come true
@@stealthy3974 google translate go brrrr
@@Stien58_ actually its youtube that goes brrrrr
(Just in case you dont know I updated youtube and it has a thing on every non-english comment that trasnlates it)
Он хорошо знает русский хотя у него плохой акцент
@@P.sherman45 the system they use is the same as google translate, but I suppose its in testing still cuz it cant translate many languages
At 8:50 when you counted the checkmating patterns it made me think of this. Teach checkmating patterns by analyzing positions with multiple checkmates. This way it is much easier to cleanly separate out different patterns and learn them by comparing them to others, all within the same position.
"I would like to thank the sponsor of today's video..."
instant like earned
Man I wish more youtubers would do their sponsors like you do Levy
Levy knows we skip the sponsors, so he skipped them himself
Not gonna lie, this sponsorship is so good that it's the first one I haven't skipped, levy you da best
I can't believe I made it into a Gothamchess video!
I didn't play a game, i just got the shout out when Levy said big fat non-binary center
*Me gets inspired by watching guess the elo and goes to play some games*
*also me 20 minutes later* : Loses 50 rating points
Coming from a 1750 rated FIDE player, that rant about Levy not making content for higher rated players, bro, he's funny and entertaining and can play chess, what more do you need!?
When I reach that level (if I do) I'd still watch levy too
The legendary series of Gotham that keeps me watching him til' today lol. So damn funny
I love to start my chess games by getting a big gender-neutral center
Based
Bringing out the gender-neutral knights, and the gender-neutral bishops, castling the gender-neutral king, and attacking with the gender-neutral queen.
good luck for your tournament, Levy! All 1 mil of us are cheering for you
22:31 "I really want a pawn break here."
And if there was the pawn break there Levy would go "Hello! What do I always say about opining up the center? Castle the King. If you haven't castled you have no business opening up the center!"
Okay, first of all, that was a move he recommended before the fact, so your comment doesn’t even make sense.
Secondly, castling before opening the center is about not letting your opponent attack you. But there is no attack. The black bishops and knight can’t do any damage, and the black queen has relocated to northern Siberia.
@@isavenewspapers8890 My comment is insight in how many new players are thinking, point being to demonstrate human ability to achieve flawed logic by overgeneralizing common advices. I see a lot of negative comments by people who struggle with exceptions.
Levy you probably won't see this but have you considered adding polls in twitch chat with some kind of points payout (i think theres ready-made software) where your twitch subs can vote on the elo and win/lose points. Those points could be special emote unlockers 🤔
Or make him do something on stream with those points
Man that fourth game was gorgeous
Thinking about it seriously. You covered GM blunders, so maybe Guessing the ELO could be a good way of paying attention to the basics In order to prepare for your upcoming tournament.
Also, I'm really looking forward to watching all of your championship's recaps! I love them!
Levy's got some Cristiano Ronaldo like abs
I don't even play chess, you're just fun to watch and you're the only chess channel I watch because you are the best chess channel.
Sudden full on rant in russian I am subbed and this gets liked. 10/10
This is one of the most funny comentaries I've ever heard =)))))))) thx, needed it today
Why is the chat losing their minds about levy "necking" himself, they are being so weird over a joke
Neck
Isn't that twitch chat in a nutshell?
The part you said about the King's Indian (game 3) is very true lol. I'm 1600-1700 in rapid and play the King's Indian because some day I was like ''let's play the main opening after 1.d4 as Black and now I'm stuck with an opening I actually have no clue about. I'm blitzing out the first 10 moves and hope my opponent blunders something. Other than that I just have to hope to see a tactic for myself. Seriously kids: don't teach yourself the KID unless you know exactly what you're doing. Try to go into some Queen's Gambit (accepted) lines as Black or Caro-Kann.
Получил кайф от небольшого комментария Леви на русском, теперь хочется полный такой стрим. Но, как обычно, такого никогда не будет, увы.
Keep asking him maybe he will do it just for 1 day, full russian stream for all his russian fans !
@@P.sherman45 unexpected insertions of bad words are much funnier 😂
hey levy, i'm 1900 and i watch all of ur videos and brought all of ur courses... we all love u and thanks for teaching us...it's just simply awesome❤️🔥🔥🔥
Love you too
9:02 Well done 'Exalted Fox'. Your mother would be proud of you!
1702 missed en pessant check
That sponsor bait in the beginning put a big smile on my face. I was eating, so I stopped to grab my mouse and then the video started. Love you
"This game was like two drunk anti-vaxxers fighting it out in the parking lot and both losing"
Levy is truly a modern poet
There's some openings that Levy is consistently either for or against beginner/intermediate players playing (Vienna, Sicilian, etc.). But there are a few openings, such as the King's Indian Defense or the Ponziani Opening, where I've seen him be strongly on both sides over the years. He advocates for playing the KID in his book, but rails against it in this episode and a previous one
Day 4 of translating Levy's titles to Spanish:
"Los Amo, Suscriptores!"
Γιατί όλοι μεταφράζουν τον τίτλο;;;
at 26:20 if black en passants he will lose the queen because the knight at e2 takes the pawn, if the black knight takes back white takes the rook at h8 and theres no way to protect your queen,
if you block with a bishop, the rook takes, and if king takes it, second rook to h8 and take the queen
Russian guess the elo please
Out of sheer excitement, I spilled coffee on my newly bought carpet, and now I have an everlasting souvenir of Levy.
Приятно слышать и смотреть .Обожаю твои видео.
0:28 when sponsor's cheque didn't clear
I used to enjoy these videos but recently they have become more about advertising the sponsors than any real content.
The amount of time wasted on todays sponsor was criminal
I could say the same
Orthoschnapp Gambit.....best name for a chess opening! I love this channel. Entertaining and educational,
First viewer...😜... Love guess the elo
I never like videos on youtube. This series has been the only exception. It is worth the sign in hassle just to communicate that we as a community enjoy this series.
Levy my order just arrived and I LOVE IT! 5 stars it improved the quality of my life as expected.
Thanks levy for this funny content. Helps really to forget my paranoia
I love you, subscribers, also known as Levy giving crazy eyes for 27 minutes straight
Hi Gotham, HAD AN IDEA FOR CONTENT! loving the vids. I started playing chess as a kid and thought i was good until i started playing online, now i'm in my 30's. My younger brother always beats me so i started watching streamers (basically just you and Eric) 6 months ago and i now watch your vids as part of my regular youtube watching. The E4 rating climb is great for someone like me who is trying to gain experience in one specific opening before moving on to another and developing a repertoire. But as i'm playing the Vienna at the moment (after watching your vienna vid) i mostly concentrate on those games in the e4 rating climb. So i had a thought, guess the Elo is awesome so for instructional purposes, what if you did a guess the Elo and/or game analysis of a bunch of subscriber games for each popular opening. If you've already had this idea and its in your courses then thanks for the vids anyway.
Marley
I just binge-watched every episode of Guess the Elo. Please sir, may I have some more?
Dude, I’ve been playing for like a week and you helped get me from 170 to 350. Now I have a problem of getting up to 400 then back down to 300 and staying in that range. It was fun but now losing so much is just getting depressing lol.
i know its hard, but remind yourself that losing is the ONLY way to get better at chess. You're going to lose. You're going to lose more than you ever thought possible. over and over. In streaks and in scattered games. And every time, you analyze that game and see what you did wrong. And slowly, steadily, you will stop making those mistakes. And while you lose, you study openings. You study lines. You study an opening that beat you and get yourself a weapon against it. You watch levy vides about stopping early queen attacks and danger levels.
There is no way forward in chess except through loss. You have to prove yourself wrong in chess, and often its the other player who does it for you.
The black’s g file in game 3 was amazing 🤩 I have never seen so much material loaded on one file including the king and queen! 🤣
2:24 room b1 rook b1 what the hell are you doing
What Levy means in Game 3 is that most ppl (below 2000 and especially below 1600) just play KID or Grunfeld or that kind of stuff because when they are low rated they just google for a good opening and then they read the Wiki article and it reads "The Kings Indian is a HYPERMODERN chess defense" and they think "WOAH ey boy I'm a hypermodern guy, I gotta learn this!" and thats why they think its automatically good. And then they play this opening from 1000 rating on up until forever. They learn 8-10 moves of theory by heart which makes them look like 2000s (as Levy suspected in the opening) but as soon as their theory stops they have literally 0 clue what they are doing and every follow-up move is a huge blunder. And they dont understand that this is not how you should learn chess (because you dont learn something if you play 10 perfect moves but then blunder 6 times in a row). You are way better off playing "simple" openings that create similar positions over and over again where there are just some very slight differences and you can now figure out what move to change to adjust to that. And eventually when you really know what you're doing in general with simple openings, then you can approach these modern openings because even when you are out of theory you will have a feeling which piece could belong where and what your strategy in general could be. And then you analyze the games and you might see oh that was a slight inaccuracy, I shouldve played this instead or I should have played these 2 moves in the opposite order because this and that (but you dont blunder 6 times in a row and have absolutely no clue what youre doing like white here).
5:58 I got my first dose of pfizer yesterday! :)))))
Only a little bit of pain in the injection site and a very weak headache that's already gone
May I ask you where are you from?
17:35 and 24:08 had my laughing so hard ahahah Gotham is the best at chess channel at everything :)