I have played this gambit many times, and often my opponent loses because he didn't invest in nuclear missile defence systems. Always be prepared for nuclear warfare before playing chess
Funny enough taking the pawn is worse than taking the bishop cuz if you take the pawn Nc6 traps the queen (followed by Ne8). Just bring back the queen instead of taking stuff if they play e4. Hope this helps :)
I actually discovered this move on my own by accident a few weeks ago. My opponent thought it was so impressive that when I had a mouse slip and fucked up taking the queen, he blundered on purpose so I could have my moment
3:39 just as a warning, this is sort of risky. In the rare event that this whole thing works, assuming that your opponent has fallen for this entire scheme up until now and then decides to awaken their inner 6th sense and git gud, then after taking the pawn Nc6 is a poisonous trap that wins the queen back after Nd5. Impossible that you’ll have gotten this far and then they play this, but now you know.
“You underestimate the power of my chess you fool!! I must only respond with a simple inverted Estonian guard to complete counter your misuse of the frog foot offensive(played from black, var.3 with revision)!!” Is how I imagine chess players to think
3:40 Don't take the pawn because after Nc6 Your queen can't go anywhere, black can then force you to give it up for a knight with Ne8 on the next move. I checked this with stockfish so I can guarantee it is a blunder, Instead you should retreat.
3:39 Do not take the pawn on c7! Nc6 traps your queen! I have been playing this variation for years and ran into this very early on. Just move your queen back, Qd1 or Qd3+ are both good.
@@mauriciofuentes7638 nuclear fallout gambit is actually reverse gambit, after first strike you get big material advantage, but when your pieces would land on poisoned squares you'll end with radiation illness and possibly die
Don't listen to Levy at 3:38,capturing the pawn on c7 is a terrible blunder. Because after you capture c7, black develops his knight to c6, and after black plays that move you can't move the queen anywhere to escape from the other knight coming to e8 or d5 capturing the queen, and then you just lose.
Yeah I'm baffled here. You are up a queen and your king stands all alone in the middle. Just castle him and play some quiet development moves and you are almost guaranteed to win. No need to grab material while your king is literally covered by a single pawn.
I just saw this video and tried to implement in my game...the opponent fell for it and in the chat he wrote "I literally just saw Gotham's video about this line"...I was like "Sorry missile recipient"
3:40 Don’t take the pawn. If you take the pawn, Black can play Nc6 and your queen has no safe squares. No matter what you do, Black can play Ne8 next move and win the Queen back. What you should do is play Qd3+ to get your queen back to safety.
When i was a kid. I can play chess without seeing chess board. I must remember any step and place of each items of me and the opponent move. So i coulf play chess in sleeping even i am not karparov or Russian. Thank you.
_The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't._ _In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was._ _The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error._
I just had been a missile recipient once in similar fashion and since then I have stopped attacking pawn😁🤪. Good to see ICMB and the way it works. Good video brother. God bless you with 500k subs. 🙏
After playing against this gambit and my opponent blundered his queen, I was fortunate to win and I was eager to check what this gambit is. It was really like a missile was launched at me. What a wonderful gambit to fall for especially if you are playing against it for the first time. Gotham and his Wonderful gambit repertoire.
I love your video! It's such a good explanation of the Tennison Gambit, just wonderful content. I do have a question however. Currently, I'm like a 700 player so I might be stupid IM AWARE but hear me out. At 3:38 you say instead of the move Qxc8, you should play Qxc7. I believe this is a mistake like Qxc8, because Black can then play Nc6, which, with a very beautiful geometry, traps your Queen, making every move she has a tragedy. Then Nd8 or Ne5 pulls the trigger on the one space she had left. Instead, I think White should adopt a "take the money and run" approach to the Tennison Gambit, where they play Qd3+, Qd2, or Qd1 to just get their Queen out of Black's territory. Just my thoughts, thank you!
3:39 actually, computer says taking pawn is blunder as it traps the queen after Nc6, the queen can't move let say you castle O-O then Ne8 attacking the trap queen
I played Kings Gambit and arrived at this position with one pawn difference. In bullet, losing a piece might not lose a game, but the horror of losing a queen that early in the game makes one forget the two pieces in comp.
"Black is within 2000 km of my missile silo; this is black's first mistake, and the game is already over for him."
Needed reference
"Yes, it is me, Vikram Rahul Abishek Pranav Rajesh"
@@blender9596 Carlsen trembles before his name
And there's just nothing to be done.
@@JoshuaSobel hikaru looks DOWN under his presence
I have played this gambit many times, and often my opponent loses because he didn't invest in nuclear missile defence systems. Always be prepared for nuclear warfare before playing chess
I forget about guerrilla warfare often but I'm almost immune to Icbms/nukes cause of advanced laser systems called excalibur
@@D.b._Lord Yeah but if they counter with Galm 1 you're screwed.
@@syaondri Usually it doesn't last long so you have to end borders almost right after
@@spacemarine9081 But then you can hit them with an Ohio or Virginia class submarine and then it's checkmate.
And don't bother with investing in CIWS unless you want to add in an electromagnetic pulse with the nuclear blast. Really bad for online chess games.
“If you want to sacrifice three pawns for dubious compensation.”
I would like that very much.
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I happened to read this right as he said it
Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make
-Mikhail Tal
AlphaZero moment
"Tennison Gambit Intercontinental ballistic missile variation" sounds so badass yet so sophisticated
"with a garnish of parsley"
*brought to you by uber intercontinental food delivery
minor spelling mistake
750th like
levy : "i just saved you"
me : "yes you're right, thank you sir"
Funny enough taking the pawn is worse than taking the bishop cuz if you take the pawn Nc6 traps the queen (followed by Ne8). Just bring back the queen instead of taking stuff if they play e4. Hope this helps :)
@@Kaoskarlthe queens not trapped
Hmm maybe it is i looked a little deeper, i had my consumer mode on sorry
@@Kaoskarl don't bring the queen back to d1 tho, Qd3+ is top engine move following e5 from black, if bishop blocks then Qg3+
@@sijenkai3928 Qxc7, Kc6, Kc3, Ke8 --> Queen can either take the Knight or Bishop, at the end both looses the Queen.
I love the opponent's name "Missile Recipient"
Holy shit i just noticed it 😂
Just noticed that too. Lol
He likes his meat delivered around the back
XDDDDD
400th like granted good sir
Levy: Do you like aggressive openings?
Me: yes yes!
Levy few seconds later: You can turn this into the London
Lmaoo
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
LOOOOOL this is perfect
🤣🤣🤣🤣 true.
London 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
Every time I try to develop my pieces they keep getting taken out by a heavily modified shopping trolley
I protect from them with my anti MBT Laptop Pc
Its all a plot from the mailboxes
I thought this was a joke until my bycicle was stolen
You are in a field.
This is getting ludicrous! You people should start drinking some actually normal water.
I actually discovered this move on my own by accident a few weeks ago. My opponent thought it was so impressive that when I had a mouse slip and fucked up taking the queen, he blundered on purpose so I could have my moment
You will be impressed when a RT-2 Topol-M heading where you are.
@@LongTran-em6hc you watched that too 😂😂😂
why would you not just click the squares to avoid all mouseslips....
@@anomaly3215 I actually turned off clicking the squares because that's when I have mouse slips. Click and drag is way better.
@@Mad-Lad-Chad my mouse is so fucked bc of minecraft pvp it just releases randomly so i only use clicking
3:39 just as a warning, this is sort of risky. In the rare event that this whole thing works, assuming that your opponent has fallen for this entire scheme up until now and then decides to awaken their inner 6th sense and git gud, then after taking the pawn Nc6 is a poisonous trap that wins the queen back after Nd5. Impossible that you’ll have gotten this far and then they play this, but now you know.
Nd5 gets stopped by Nc3 before. Ne8 allows Qd8 without getting forked
edit: I'm dumb lol
@@halbgefressen9768 d8 is guarded by the c6 knight lol
@@halbgefressen9768 homie if you're so confident then just check with an engine, it'll immediately say that you're wrong
This works often
I'm not gonna lie, I would have taken that bishop.
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"If only we had ICBMs back in the day." - Sun Tzu
"Freakin Asian" - Stalin
Gandhi, when he finishes the Manhattan Project: Interesting...
Didn't you say that yourself?
@@avroraflorestina2314 "3/4ths of yo country is in Asia Commie"
-Sun Tzu
“All warfare is based...”
- Sun Tzu
Ah yes, the RT-2MP2 Topol m cold-launched three-stage solid-propellant silo based intercontinental ballistic missile variant of the Tennison Gambit
Bruh😂🤣
I’ve been waiting for someone to make a video on this forever
Or if you’re a beginner to chess,you can use a guided anti-tank missile like the BGM-71 TOW from a M3 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle
@@lt_darkseekerantique3911 or you could just use the bow and arrow. No? Oh, OK.
@@lordeddardstark9124 how about a Davy crocket?
9:38 "What is that? That is the ugliest set of pawns I have ever seen"
Well young sir... you have not seen everything I have then
I think I once played a game where there were four pawns on one file, alternating white and black. 😅
@@jacobfreeland6881 i did one where there were 9 on a file
@@jacobfreeland6881 bro how 😭
@@jacobfreeland6881?!
levy:icbm doen't work always
me who threatend the opponent by launching an actual icbm: laughs in conversion of energy
😂
When you have the free move where he did shoo to the knight do Nc3 and you queen is defended
So much for the intercontinental ballistic missile
Lol
AYO WHAT THE FUK
"Reverse Jalalabad"
I am 100% convinced that most of these names are made up and chess players just use them to intimidate each other
“You underestimate the power of my chess you fool!! I must only respond with a simple inverted Estonian guard to complete counter your misuse of the frog foot offensive(played from black, var.3 with revision)!!”
Is how I imagine chess players to think
Jalalabad is an actual place
@@rhatala27 Was born in Jalalabad lol
@@rhatala27 yes, but is "Reverse Jalalabad" an actual chess strategy?
@@litkeys3497 Any chess strategy with "reverse" is just that you force your opponent to play this strategy
"Once he blunders his queen, you gotta send the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to flex." -Sun Tzu, The art of war
to feel your best
icbm gambit is now canon to the omori lore
"I think Im gonna sneeze." - Ah Tzu
@@sotirigamez5781 that was funny xd
_this blunders a woman_
Just played this against someone and on chat the just said: 'levy????'
That pfp I’ve seen it before many times
you must've forgotten the missile then if they thought it was him
@@shinyrayquaza9 You won't know if there was missile if he doesn't tell you, especially when you wear headphones
3:40 Don't take the pawn because after Nc6 Your queen can't go anywhere, black can then force you to give it up for a knight with Ne8 on the next move. I checked this with stockfish so I can guarantee it is a blunder, Instead you should retreat.
3:40 Levy says to take the pawn after instead of the bishop. After taking the pawn, Nc6 traps the queen lol. Stockfish then gives the position -3.
I faced this about a week ago, I lost so I decided to try it myself, succeeded then took the bishop and lost my queen straight back
3:39 Do not take the pawn on c7! Nc6 traps your queen!
I have been playing this variation for years and ran into this very early on. Just move your queen back, Qd1 or Qd3+ are both good.
Maybe he was joking when he said that but yeah
yep
bro yust castle... then take the material when your rego is safe
1. Nf3 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Ng5 Nf6 4. d3 exd3 5. Bxd3 h6 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Bg6+ Kxg6
8. Qxd8 e5 9. Qxc7 Nc6 10. Nc3 Ne8 * for those who want to know how
@@pipododo6269 11. Qxc8
The knight on e6 blocks the rook so when black moves in for the check they can't grab your Queen any more.
I prefer the North Korean opening: The Thermonuclear Missle Gambit.
I think asteroid gambit is better
@Bob Bob same thing
Anyone else struggle to master the nuclear fallout gambit? I can't seem to get it down.
@@mauriciofuentes7638 nuclear fallout gambit is actually reverse gambit, after first strike you get big material advantage, but when your pieces would land on poisoned squares you'll end with radiation illness and possibly die
@Bob Bob Hydrogen bomb is the casual way of saying Thermonuclear Bomb.
3:38 if you take the pawn, Nc6 traps the queen
Good eye
I see
yes, GM Igor expained in his video how this is a big blunder from GothamChess
what about Qa5? i know its not the best move in position but it would escape
@@BZ123taken yeah, thats the right thing to do, retreating the queen in a safe square is the best move
2:27 me playing this:
my opponent: QUEEN D5
funny thing is, that video is what makes chess videos start popping up in my recommendation and that's how I found your channel.
Levi (0:34): I'll put it in the description, you can watch it after.
Me: Someone's not telling the truth.
Here
m.th-cam.com/video/E2xNlzsnPCQ/w-d-xo.html
@@jiralishu Thanks for the link!
@@angadbanerji8848 what if it was a rick roll
@@artsypoppy6872 People have memorized the rick roll link, this is def not the rick roll.
@@vyssequeeve Yeah, if you see dQ it means don’t click
Don't listen to Levy at 3:38,capturing the pawn on c7 is a terrible blunder. Because after you capture c7, black develops his knight to c6, and after black plays that move you can't move the queen anywhere to escape from the other knight coming to e8 or d5 capturing the queen, and then you just lose.
To my opinion this comment should be pinned
It’s worse than Qxc8 lmfao 🤣
I don't think so... If Nc6, play Bd2, and then there are no checks... So if Nd5 or Ne8, Queen can escape via Qd8, as the rooks are still blocked
@@ambiverter qd8 still loses the queen because the knight on c6 is covering that square.
Yeah I feel like you should just come back to d3 with the queen and check the king so you don’t lose a tempo
3:40 Do Not Take the pawn
Your queen will be trapped after knight c6
Oh it is like Top chess gambit?
U literally spoiled the only trap I knew, now none will fall in this again
Just learn another trap . Easy unless your an idiot who can't memorize more than 5 moves.
try learning literally any other trap
At 3:51, Qxc7 is a blunder as well, since Nc6 followed by Ne8 from black forces you to give up the queen and black is winning -3.87
Yeah I'm baffled here. You are up a queen and your king stands all alone in the middle. Just castle him and play some quiet development moves and you are almost guaranteed to win. No need to grab material while your king is literally covered by a single pawn.
That's right
After Nc6 then Qg3... easy
Bro there is a black pawn which is blocking g3 you didnt notice that. If you take that pawn then the knight will take queen
@@naphackDT if black plays e5 after you take the queen, don't castle lmfao play Qd3+ instead
I just saw this video and tried to implement in my game...the opponent fell for it and in the chat he wrote "I literally just saw Gotham's video about this line"...I was like "Sorry missile recipient"
3:40 Don’t take the pawn. If you take the pawn, Black can play Nc6 and your queen has no safe squares. No matter what you do, Black can play Ne8 next move and win the Queen back. What you should do is play Qd3+ to get your queen back to safety.
Stockfish hates the opening but loves the middle game.
Korean Game: World War Variation: ICBM Gambit
USA thought they had the fork on north Korea’s nukes but North Korea had Qh4 check
69 likes! I would like the comment, but I don't want to ruin the number
@@CitoVorleone It's fine now
@@mawillix2018 Saw it, now I liked the comment so that we can get closer to 696 likes
I just recently played this; the opponent just straight up resigned after the Bishop check
*He knew*
You made someone ragequit a chess game, with a meme.
this name turned a meme video into a legitimate strategy, I...
The thing is that until an actual missile pops out its just a real chess tutorial
Well this is just tennison gambit. Just Called Another thing
Can't believe in 3 years he never remembered to actually link the video in the description.
im shaking my smh right now
The video was actually just predicting the future, it's not a messed up board. It's a board sorted by chatgpt
No one:
Levy: *INTERNATION WAR CRIME BANNED BY THE GUINEVA CONVENTION CHESS OPENING*
To it, the geneva convention is merely the geneva suggestion
Happy Birthday Levy!
Heyy There Cuber buddy!
And are you Indian?
@@cuberchez818 Yea
is it his bday? Happy Birthday!!!
Happy birthday, Levy!
@@cuberchez818I think u are also a Indian. Even me too. I am also a Indian
Remember that if you are a begginer you can use an anti-tank guided missile instead
When i was a kid. I can play chess without seeing chess board. I must remember any step and place of each items of me and the opponent move. So i coulf play chess in sleeping even i am not karparov or Russian. Thank you.
Qxc7 is a blunder which comes after Qxd8 because of Nc6 by black
"I'll put the link to the video in the description"
The video description:
3:43 knightc5 knight e8 is comeing and whites queen cant get out. if you take the pawn black is better. you just have to move the queen back
"... if you really love the Stafford Gambit"
* Eric Rosen has entered the chat *
ever heard of the albin countergambit nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine variation
Levy at 3:45 u can’t take the pawn because after Knight C7 the queen is trapped
3:41 Taking the pawn on b7 black plays knight c6 and traps your queen lol Levi u fool what are you teaching us !!??
XD
3:16 i feel like i got called out...
In an odd chain of events, that video got me back into chess and led to me discovering both Eric Rosen, and this channel
Nice
In 03:38, taking the pawn actually also loses the queen because after Nc6 the queen is trappeded and Ne8 is coming next.
_The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't._
_In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was._
_The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error._
I’m hard stuck at 900 and I’ve had a lot of these potions in 90% of the games I play. Thank you, you absolute legend
I just had been a missile recipient once in similar fashion and since then I have stopped attacking pawn😁🤪. Good to see ICMB and the way it works. Good video brother. God bless you with 500k subs. 🙏
3:24 really thankyou 😊❤
To add a bit of flair, after taking your opponent's queen, shoot them with a NERF Titan AS-V.1
RT-2PM2 «Topol-M» cold-launched three-stage solid-propellant silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile
When you said "Scandinavian" three times, I half expected John Bartholomew to appear behind you
One time I played a game with someone so bad that I was able to get three queens.
"I dont have to win the games, I just have to make youtube videos"
Ded lol
3:48 levy:instead take the pawn
Me: thinking that taking the pawn is way bad than the taking bishop
Don't you hate it when a sukhoi su-35 takes out your queen
"I call this the intercontinental ballistic missle Gambit"
13th century denizen: "a what?"
7:50 middle finger
After playing against this gambit and my opponent blundered his queen, I was fortunate to win and I was eager to check what this gambit is. It was really like a missile was launched at me. What a wonderful gambit to fall for especially if you are playing against it for the first time. Gotham and his Wonderful gambit repertoire.
03:42 Don't take the pawn either after 8. e5; after 9. Qxc7, black plays 9. ... Nc6! and the queen is trapped.
Chess in 2069 be like: Oh no, he played the supernova with extra cheese gambit.
Thank you Gotham Chess!! I went from a SOLID 400 to 600 in only two weeks!
"I don't want to spoil it so I'll just explain the entire video"
0:08 all of the above
I really like how you explained many different variations and what could happen. I dominant think I’ll remember them all but they were cool to see.
3:41 After black plays Nc6, white will not be able to avoid the move Ne8, trapping the queen. Great job Levy
Black ped to d5
This is his first mistake and the game is already over for him.
I love your video! It's such a good explanation of the Tennison Gambit, just wonderful content. I do have a question however. Currently, I'm like a 700 player so I might be stupid IM AWARE but hear me out. At 3:38 you say instead of the move Qxc8, you should play Qxc7. I believe this is a mistake like Qxc8, because Black can then play Nc6, which, with a very beautiful geometry, traps your Queen, making every move she has a tragedy. Then Nd8 or Ne5 pulls the trigger on the one space she had left. Instead, I think White should adopt a "take the money and run" approach to the Tennison Gambit, where they play Qd3+, Qd2, or Qd1 to just get their Queen out of Black's territory. Just my thoughts, thank you!
3:39 actually, computer says taking pawn is blunder as it traps the queen after Nc6, the queen can't move let say you castle O-O then Ne8 attacking the trap queen
Or if you are a pro in chess you could use a RT-2PM2 Topol-M SS-27 RS12M1 RS12M2.RS-24 Yars: MIRV-equipped Russian ICBM missile
3:39 don't take the pawn, black can trap the queen with Nc6
c3?
@@bensilver4yes
this is actually called parnav rajesh's nuclear gambit
Hi Levy, could you please carry on with your D4 and black pieces rating climb, I really loved those 😄
You can get that fork on Mokele Mbembe Alekhine Defence, and it's more intuitive as well
I LOVE THIS GAMBIT
3:39 "You should just take the pawn" Meanwhile that being a blunder (Because the Queen will get trapped after a few moves)
Nc6 and queen is trapped
Me performing this strat in the school library: Target aquired
I played Kings Gambit and arrived at this position with one pawn difference. In bullet, losing a piece might not lose a game, but the horror of losing a queen that early in the game makes one forget the two pieces in comp.
Happy Birthday Lev. May you so live long that even our next generations can enjoy this awesome chess content.
this kind of suits the "the bishop from 100 miles away" meme but it's the queen
3:09 And the queen as the rights to transform into topol-M icbm
9:38 I believe that's the Tetris Defense, I-block Variation.
oh nice, a chess tuber covering ape society's vid
Insane tutorial by GM Vishal
no its RT-2PM2 < Topol-M> cold-launched
three-stage solid-propellant silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile
When the pawn moves to e6, you can play queen to c7, bc if they try to check the king with bishop to
B4, you can block it with queen to c3
Aahhh Yes the classic intercontinental balistic missile gambit, I've been using this gambit a lot and it actually works!
#icbm
4:21 "as long as" sounded like gru
Tf is a reverse Jalalabad
😂😂😂😂😂
Damn ! 50 years playing chess an only now discovering the Tennison gambit. Love the way you speed through the proper defence for it.
Taking the pawn traps the queen too