I think a lot of their utterly inexplicable moves seem to come from a position of both players being terrified to leave their pieces next to any enemy piece even when defended, but perfectly happy to leave pieces completely hanging as long as they arent physically nearby to the piece that attacks them
Been teaching my girlfriend chess. I've had to point out many times that just because pieces are near another piece, they don't directly cause a threat. So honestly this checks out
I'd actually like someone to create a chess evaluator that makes a win probability taking into account the fact that if you blundered before you might blunder again. The stockfish zebra stripes evaluation doesnt really tell you anything about who might actually be winning.
8:24 "Black had all of the ingredients necessary to bake the cake. Instead, Black, you know, blew up the kitchen! And the whole house." Just totally killed me
I once lost to somebody because I didnt understand what the hell they were doing, they even said after it was over they were making random non blunders to confuse me.
himagainstill Well, Rook b2 at 9:00 allowed to stay the same, but honestly that doesn't disprove your point at all. He said it himself. It was the top engine move and yet his positioning was *_so_* bad that it caused *no* (visible) improvement. *_truly_* one of *the games* of all time
You gotta love a game where every move a player makes plummets their own chances of victory by at least like 40 percent, each time. The prediction bar in these is one of the most fun parts to watch.
What i learnt from Gotham in 2022 Never control the center Blunder a queen Start with b3(white) When u don't know what to do just move pawns Buy gotham's courses Excited to see what I learn the next year
Can we just quickly appreciate the fact that santiago offered us a game that makes him look really bad, just so we can gobble something u for fun at the end of the year? He is truly a champion.
@@TactfulWaggle black is better at 2:26. at 2:26, I think will be hard for white to find perpetual ideas in the coming moves without white losing on time.
@@techoutsider5631 interesting, I would assume it would be a good strategy to attack the king with unprotected pieces early on, so they have to take your pieces
That won’t work, stockfish assumes you will play the best move afterwards and will misevaluate, im working on a chess engine for fun, and I could try changing that to make worst moves
I would really love to see a video of two 500 players starting their openings (maybe about 10 moves in, each) and then two Masters picking it up where they left off. I think it would be great to see how to fix a awful opening
At this point I'm convinced that the entire game post move 20 was both players playing perfect reverse stockfish moves - The moves that would benefit the opponent the most. GENIUS content creation idea by the way Can someone on the internet test this ?
@@duncathan_saltyeah but in that video he doesn’t actually show the algorithm fighting. He just shows the scores of Worstfish which, as to be expected, loses almost every single time
Basically both players have some very good move available and play something other than that for the back 20. It jumps back and forth because it's another opportunity to play a similarly strong move with neither die taking their opportunity
That wouldnt completely be the worst case since the move is considered bad expecting the opponent to play the best move, so unless your opponent is really good, Sometimes, it might be an ok move or a good move
I have a chess Elo -129 and I can also confirm that these people are actually insane. I don’t know what my friend was talking about mr Levi. They actually finished the game
I’m a 1500 and I can never manage to find almost any of these moves even when deliberately looking for them. I doubt 2 top super grandmasters would find these moves even if they tried their best ( or should I say worst ? ) 😂
"White resigned the game in an equal position" Yesterday some guy resigned against me 1 move after I made a blunder that gave him an 8 point lead. So yeah... that happens in the 600's
I swear to god this is true. I was playing a 900 elo guy and he resigned after i tried to sacrifice my knight AND HE COULD HAVE FORKED MY QUEEN AND KING. he was down a queen but he could have won the advantage. BUT HE RESIGNS HERE. FOR NO REASON. i was astounded. when i did the review he literally had a 12 advantage...... that move was a blunder.
Me not knowing chess but slowly learning while watching these videos and getting destroyed by the 3200 level ai at the same time has been the best part of my week the past two weeks
If you're a beginner, you're going to learn more playing actual players, doing puzzles and learning opening principles than you will from the 3200 engine. Chess isn't really a game that can be figured out with trial and error and just seeing your opponent play the best move in a position isn't enough to understand why it was done. You can't simply watch Stockfish games and learn to think like Stockfish, you need to start from the ground up if you want to improve.
19:39 M35? That sounds really fun, kinda like a puzzle Edit: I put that exact position into lichess and it says it's actually M13. Smh. Edit: The checkmate route contains a KNIGHT PROMOTION!! That's absolutely crazy!
@@joefawcett7166 a bad *human* move, to clarify, which is indeed more important because nobody nor their mother even thinks about playing like stockfish
@@kaeljadondavis2779 Exactly, but white actually gained an advantage from trading rooks, I think because the king becomes even more exposed by black recapturing with the rook and having no real prospects of an attack
You guys are like a couple of arguing art experts trying to analyse a turd like it was a da Vinci painting. 😁 Well the geometry of this brown curve here...
Very interesting game. I'd love to see more low elo chess. I think one of the biggest challenges of analyzing lower elo games for an audience is striking that balance between being entertained by and critical of some of the bad moves but not being outright demeaning to the players involved. I've seen other youtubers struggle with this as well. It's a difficult line to walk.
You may be confused, but this is actually a highly skilled version of chess where every move after turn x *must* be a blunder. Edit: including the result(?!)
Happy new year Gotham, you've been an almost endless source of entertainment, education and wisdom and helped me through some rough times last year just being you, keep doing what you're doing. And of course happy new year to all good wonderful fans too. To a happy healthy and prosperous 2023 folks.
This year has been an amazing experience. Thank you Gotham for getting me back into chess, from Guess the Elo, to the legendary chess games, to videos like this. I have climbed from 500 to 1300, and I'm still going up and up. Thank you man for an amazing 2022 both with your content and my chess progression. Here's to an amazing 2023!
I started playing Chess end of October last year and been watching Gotham's videos for almost that length of time. I have been playing chess for 2 months now and this game is legitimately a head scratcher for me
@@mastershifu1294 Have you watched Kung-fu Panda? Once matser shifu found out that tai-lung was heading to get the scrolls, he decided to train Po. And he at the end of his monolog he asked Po *"Do you want to learn kung-fu!"*
The thing I really realized about chess is that at the end of the day a lot of people don't like to play it cause it seems like it's about whether you are more intelligent than the person in front of you or not. But it's really just a game. Brilliance shows up if you just get invested and games really become fun when you realize a hard earned loss can also be incredibly illuminating. Thanks to you Levy for getting me invested. Happy new year!
One of the dumbest people I know is in the 2000s elo. Beats me at chess all the time. Bro can't figure out how to sign in to his email by himself, change a tire on a car or cook a meal without burning it but can curb everyone we know on a chess board. Chess is 100% memory and pattern recognition. True intelligence is far more than that. Not to say that chess is full of stupid people but people conflate skill and training with intelligence. Like thinking that just because someone is a doctor or lawyer they must be super smart, when really those jobs take more dedication than intelligence.
I'm so bad at chess, if I saw this without commentary I would probably believe it's top level big brain chess that I can't comprehend. Very entertaining commentary though
One could be forgiven for thinking that the black-and-white bar on the left side simply tells you which player's turn it is. Thank you for this ELI5 chess match.
I've seen some newer players recently and honestly, it's very hard for them to end the game. They can't recognise mating patterns or even know "simple" executions like a ladder mate (which personally I think should be taught to someone super early, day 2 at the latest). Then they get frustrated and either stop caring about the match or just resign online cause you don't really lose anything for doing so. It might also have to do with the fact that the endgame is the part you'd have experienced the least at that point.
I've been a regular on this channel for almost 2 years - February next year will be the second, and I'm really happy to see all of the growth you got from tiktok. It would be amazing for chess to be mainstream again, and this is a step forward.
I doubt you can force a loss in chess. I imagine it easy to draw against an AI that plays perfectly to force it’s own loss because it would need to force your checkmate move by Zugzwang, which is nearly impossible to do.
as a 200 elo, i do checkmate 1000 elo bots in that manner sometimes(just trade important pieces with bots such as nelson, then he probably blunders, and you have extra queen/rook).
A fun mode for chess I had is that the kings "power" (if you checkmate the king game over) is applied to a random piece and you have to find out what it is and checkmate that piece. You can take the king, move it, lose it whatever you want, because you need to protect your "chosen" king and find and check the enemies. If that exists already, my bad.
Interesting... But who decides (or how is it decided) which random piece is your new "king"? And how (and/or when) does each player learn which piece is their and/or their opponent's "chosen king"? Because they would have to, in order to know when they are mated... I am not nitpicking. :) Just curious about these specifications, because your idea is nice, but sounds very vague - there would be hundreds of possible versions of the rules, this way. :P
@@ChristomirRackov when the game begins, your king, which is randomly selected, is marked red or so. Same for the opponent. E.g. your king is rook a1 and the enemies king queenside bishop. You obv only know what piece your king is
13:23 The physics behind Ra1 is absolutely stunning. I guessed this brilliant move on my fourth try and I can totally see why. White defends the pawn that is under attack by the opposing rook so the knight can become more active.
that was my first impression when i saw the board, my first thought was rook A1, but after looking at it for more than a second, the knight already defends it, and anything the knight is gunna do to 'be more active' will probably lead to a swift demise anyway.
Just one problem: how? That knight only has one safe square and it's backwards, and then from there the only safe square is to go right back to where it was. This is ignoring the fact that the knight is unprotected and under attack by the queen.
i love these videos, I started playing chess a week ago, and and i remember things like "you want to be dominant in the middle" and stuffs like that, and i managed to start with real book openings by not even knowing them, just following the guidance of the divine Gothamchess.
Sometimes stockfish gets kinda weird,i dont know what they calculated but there was a time I moved my knight somewhere without undefending any of my pieces but I had an attack involving my move,stockfish considered it blunder reasoning for losing materials Edit:forgot to mention stockfish best move was trading queens
Those two be like:
Damn, This guys good.
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I think a lot of their utterly inexplicable moves seem to come from a position of both players being terrified to leave their pieces next to any enemy piece even when defended, but perfectly happy to leave pieces completely hanging as long as they arent physically nearby to the piece that attacks them
What
You are right. That’s how beginners tend to think!
That happened multiple times so I think you're onto it
Been teaching my girlfriend chess. I've had to point out many times that just because pieces are near another piece, they don't directly cause a threat.
So honestly this checks out
@@456death654 Is the sentence too complicated for you?
I love how every move puts the advantage squarely into the opponent’s hand
It's like that game with the two stockfish programmed to only blunder battling each other
It is like they were playing ping pong with the diff scale on the left.
When you are 0 ELO chess actually you are infinite ELO chess, because to know always the worst move requires actual skill.
- Aristotle
facts
Hmm, so would it be possible to have a game where both players try to get checkmated, while simultaneously trying to not checkmate their opponent...
@@SharatS That would be a hilarious game to see good players try.
I mean, there's AntiChess. Perhaps they would be awesome in that?
It is hilarious that stockfish gave advantage to the opponent after almost every move.
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The eval bar is having a stroke
Stockfish was having arrythmia...
I waited my entire life for this ruclips.net/video/vC0roEkkKkQ/видео.html
I'd actually like someone to create a chess evaluator that makes a win probability taking into account the fact that if you blundered before you might blunder again. The stockfish zebra stripes evaluation doesnt really tell you anything about who might actually be winning.
8:24 "Black had all of the ingredients necessary to bake the cake. Instead, Black, you know, blew up the kitchen! And the whole house." Just totally killed me
"Baking a cake" is an old Anarchist term for making bombs! So more than one level here being expressed! :)
@@BlazingTorch-ow6qj + Yellow cake (the cake they're probably baking) is an old term for uranium
The timing on that was impeccable
Your enemy can't read your mind, if you don't have one
-Sun Tzu
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facts
You dropped a piece you complete idiot
-Levy Rozman
I once lost to somebody because I didnt understand what the hell they were doing, they even said after it was over they were making random non blunders to confuse me.
LOL
You know you're looking at an immortal game when you get to move 4 and then every single move tilts the eval in the wrong direction.
Elo bar be having fun at the down tower ride fr😂
himagainstill
Well, Rook b2 at 9:00 allowed to stay the same, but honestly that doesn't disprove your point at all.
He said it himself. It was the top engine move and yet his positioning was *_so_* bad that it caused *no* (visible) improvement.
*_truly_* one of *the games* of all time
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@@ivoryas1696 [[BIG SHOT]]
You gotta love a game where every move a player makes plummets their own chances of victory by at least like 40 percent, each time. The prediction bar in these is one of the most fun parts to watch.
They're actually not playing chess, they're playing tennis with the eval bar. The worse your move, the better the serve
Just watch the last 5 minutes or so a 2x speed, eye on the eval bar. It's so funny xD
I won a game with no mistakes, inaccuracies, or blunders yesterday, and that's solely because I played someone who was as good as these 2.
Hey, being better than trash is something to be proud of. At least you aren't the worst.
Boss, you killed a child
Boss, I did the same thing to a 27 year old man as a child
I did the same thing but just because he fell for scholars mate
@@just.someguy5145 Boss I’m 1600 I haven’t seen scholars mate in 2 years
What i learnt from Gotham in 2022
Never control the center
Blunder a queen
Start with b3(white)
When u don't know what to do just move pawns
Buy gotham's courses
Excited to see what I learn the next year
Always trade pieces (especially the queen)
Always don’t pp on the pp
B3 is not a bad opening, f3 is
how could you forget trading the king
Always sacrifice rook so that its *THE rooook* moment
Can we just quickly appreciate the fact that santiago offered us a game that makes him look really bad, just so we can gobble something u for fun at the end of the year? He is truly a champion.
@@scottwarren4998 I'm.. Sorry but what are you saying?
@@TactfulWaggle black is better at 2:26.
at 2:26, I think will be hard for white to find perpetual ideas in the coming moves without white losing on time.
He didn't know that it makes him look bad.
he didn't know that it was really bad. he probably thought that it was a battle of titans
Put two stockfishes that both always make the worst move possible for actual 0 elo chess. I'm very intrigued by what that game would be like
there is a variant called losing chess where both sides try to make the worst move.
@@techoutsider5631 interesting, I would assume it would be a good strategy to attack the king with unprotected pieces early on, so they have to take your pieces
@@Fartacus44 the meta is *resigns from convo*
That won’t work, stockfish assumes you will play the best move afterwards and will misevaluate, im working on a chess engine for fun, and I could try changing that to make worst moves
@@rogervanbommel1086 isn’t that the point? it makes the worst move, knowing the opponent can counter with the best move.
Going full circle from the best chess to the worst chess. Truly retrospective of 2022
*worst chess to the best chess
how???
@@notnotalwen4891 the rapid and blitz championships had some of the best chess, and now this. So it's from the best chess to the worst chess
@@DDP-Gaming he is being sarcastic
Worst chess is never bad.
I would really love to see a video of two 500 players starting their openings (maybe about 10 moves in, each) and then two Masters picking it up where they left off. I think it would be great to see how to fix a awful opening
The 500 rated players would be in the middle of blundering all their pieces, and the grandmaster with the least pieces blundered always wins
@@cluelessmango768 the game switches when stockfish says it's even.
But it's even with perfect defense. For a human, the eval bar would probs look very different.
This makes me both feel way better, and way WORSE, about my own chess... considering that's right where my ratings are.
Same
u problably play in the same way
Same here but if you play against someone online it is like they are above 1500 elo
Same
@@glauberbispo8922 damn fr?
Honestly I am just impressed that Stockfish found a mate in 35. 19:40
The way the engine is set up, it evaluates all candidate moves to the desired depth
But for the most promising moves, it calculates deeper
I played analyzed a game the other day where stockfish found mate in 57
it is easy to find them when you start playing forced checks leading to checkmate
However no human let alone these two would be likely to find a mate in 35
@@zionfultz8495 no they would actually find getting mated in 35 but manage to not give a damn
I feel attacked
Same
You ever wonder why the rook resembles a salt/pepper shaker
Just a thought
@@coreyford3556 or is it the other way around?
Hey don't feel bad, you suck at cooking, not chess
@@coreyford3556it resembles a castle.
At this point I'm convinced that the entire game post move 20 was both players playing perfect reverse stockfish moves - The moves that would benefit the opponent the most.
GENIUS content creation idea by the way
Can someone on the internet test this ?
Hbu
look up "Elo world" by tom7 aka suckerpinch
@@duncathan_saltyeah but in that video he doesn’t actually show the algorithm fighting. He just shows the scores of Worstfish which, as to be expected, loses almost every single time
Basically both players have some very good move available and play something other than that for the back 20.
It jumps back and forth because it's another opportunity to play a similarly strong move with neither die taking their opportunity
That wouldnt completely be the worst case since the move is considered bad expecting the opponent to play the best move, so unless your opponent is really good, Sometimes, it might be an ok move or a good move
Levy in 2022: 0 Elo Chess
Levy in 2023: - 50000000 Elo Chess
but whatever, happy new year!
No comment? 172 likes ? Let me fix
Can't wait for Infinity elo chess
The worst game possible is already here
As a player with 147 elo, i can confirm that these people are very good at chess.
Edit: why tf does this have 100 likes it wasnt even that funny lmao
I have a chess Elo -129 and I can also confirm that these people are actually insane. I don’t know what my friend was talking about mr Levi. They actually finished the game
Yesterfay took me 3 games to beat Martin but I'm a 690 elo
@@yellsoi brooo
In playing for 3 months now and Im still not past 900 yet
Somewhere around 870 at the moment
@@nagatubimaru i started playing in July 2020 but I am still 560🫠😶😶😶
I was losing my mind at these moves and then I checked the video and there was still 13 mins left. How did it take so long for someone to win this
No one won this game. Someone just lost less
@@sonofablastoise3651 🤣
Analyzing the worst possible move to make takes time bruh. They didn't accidentally make good moves by playing quickly.
White resigned mate...
A 0 elo game would actually be a top tier April Fool's joke from Magnus and/or Hikaru
YES
Happy April Fools day.
lol
I’m a 1500 and I can never manage to find almost any of these moves even when deliberately looking for them. I doubt 2 top super grandmasters would find these moves even if they tried their best ( or should I say worst ? ) 😂
14:14 my man’s drinking out of a flower vase.😊
nothing will beat that one episode where accuracy was just "face"
When?
@@ender_expert1391 the video was called this game broke the internet or sumtn
@@ender_expert1391 found it ruclips.net/video/fnbMn_f5m1s/видео.html
@@ender_expert1391 "Worst Chess Game You've Ever Seen" on October 4, 2022.
@@axisred2301 lol
"White resigned the game in an equal position"
Yesterday some guy resigned against me 1 move after I made a blunder that gave him an 8 point lead. So yeah... that happens in the 600's
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I swear to god this is true. I was playing a 900 elo guy and he resigned after i tried to sacrifice my knight AND HE COULD HAVE FORKED MY QUEEN AND KING. he was down a queen but he could have won the advantage. BUT HE RESIGNS HERE. FOR NO REASON. i was astounded. when i did the review he literally had a 12 advantage...... that move was a blunder.
probably had to take a dump
I just started playing chess recently, and an opponent resigned when they were 6 points ahead after I made a blunder 💀
Once an opponent resigned to me when they had mate in one.
6:51 bro had nothing to compliment it on💀 “it is a move, it is a legal move for sure”
i love watching these cuz they make me feel good about my chess
They teach me how to not be an idiot 😅
Yeah, I don't think I played THAT BAD at age 10 when I was just starting learning chess...
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Me not knowing chess but slowly learning while watching these videos and getting destroyed by the 3200 level ai at the same time has been the best part of my week the past two weeks
i love seeing how long i can last against the 3200 engine ai dude
Training against the 3200 elo engine is like trying to learn boxing by fighting a bear. You're not gonna learn shit you're just gonna die
@@caralho5237 yea it’s fun haha
@Caralho as long as I see good or excellent move I know to do it next time and not do the blunder. Trial and error till I win lmao
If you're a beginner, you're going to learn more playing actual players, doing puzzles and learning opening principles than you will from the 3200 engine. Chess isn't really a game that can be figured out with trial and error and just seeing your opponent play the best move in a position isn't enough to understand why it was done. You can't simply watch Stockfish games and learn to think like Stockfish, you need to start from the ground up if you want to improve.
I like how every move swings the favor in the opponents direction
Its like they completely forgot that you win by attacking the king not by capturing all the pieces
Yeah that's probably what they were doing lol
It’s actually impressive how they avoided every single mate like that 😂
I love how he just casually drinks out of a vase 14:10
19:39 M35? That sounds really fun, kinda like a puzzle
Edit: I put that exact position into lichess and it says it's actually M13. Smh.
Edit: The checkmate route contains a KNIGHT PROMOTION!! That's absolutely crazy!
Amazing
Amazing ageed
@@cheddarsunchipsyes8144 i just ate some sun chips
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for me it gave M11 and no knight to be seen :/
10:25 "A rook trade isn't great here"
Stockfish going from +5 to +3 after Levy's line: "I disagree... I disagree."
It goes from 4.5 to 5.0, and it's only because the black king is so exposed. Giving your opponent the open file is an objectively bad move
@@joefawcett7166 a bad *human* move, to clarify, which is indeed more important because nobody nor their mother even thinks about playing like stockfish
@@kaeljadondavis2779 Exactly, but white actually gained an advantage from trading rooks, I think because the king becomes even more exposed by black recapturing with the rook and having no real prospects of an attack
You guys are like a couple of arguing art experts trying to analyse a turd like it was a da Vinci painting. 😁
Well the geometry of this brown curve here...
@@joakimquensel597 no im just in that phase where i find a new word/phrase and am looking for ways to use it ("everybody and their mother" lol)
19:33 “Black plays a3. It is now plus 70….but not if you play this move” and repeat
I’m a simple man
Levy notification
I click
I blunder my queen
Inspirational story
So beautiful
Botez Gambit
*Chef kiss
I get my king and rook forked in 4 moves 🤲🏼
I love it when every move made massively improves the position for the opponent
Very interesting game. I'd love to see more low elo chess.
I think one of the biggest challenges of analyzing lower elo games for an audience is striking that balance between being entertained by and critical of some of the bad moves but not being outright demeaning to the players involved. I've seen other youtubers struggle with this as well. It's a difficult line to walk.
10:15 Gotham explains several very probable moves
Crook Lvl 1 player: How about no.
The favourite thing in Levi's videos is the first millisecond, sometimes he just looks into my soul.
It’s Levy
Ppfffttt
At this point Levy should just name himself to Levy Ackerman.
*Levy 😑
this shit is as bad as the "perfect chess is a draw" bullshit. Stop it you unfunny dopes.
I so deeply enjoy seeing the bar turn the opponent's colour every time one of them makes a move.
You may be confused, but this is actually a highly skilled version of chess where every move after turn x *must* be a blunder.
Edit: including the result(?!)
Happy new year Gotham, you've been an almost endless source of entertainment, education and wisdom and helped me through some rough times last year just being you, keep doing what you're doing. And of course happy new year to all good wonderful fans too. To a happy healthy and prosperous 2023 folks.
happy new year
18:28 "and now it's back to minus a MILLION because it's MATE." the way he said this made me laugh so hard
This video, like many others you provide for us, makes me feel better about my horrible chess playing 😂 happy new year everyone !
When did I give you permission to show my ga- oh this isn't really 0 elo.
underrated
But it feels like it
Stockfish:Please just let it end!
Players: It's over when we say it's over
This year has been an amazing experience. Thank you Gotham for getting me back into chess, from Guess the Elo, to the legendary chess games, to videos like this. I have climbed from 500 to 1300, and I'm still going up and up. Thank you man for an amazing 2022 both with your content and my chess progression. Here's to an amazing 2023!
I started playing Chess end of October last year and been watching Gotham's videos for almost that length of time. I have been playing chess for 2 months now and this game is legitimately a head scratcher for me
"Stockfish is going to die looking at this game" 😂😂😂
22:45 white resigns out of boredom? frustration? lack of braincells?
The evaluation bar is putting in some work in this episode
The white analysis bar moves like a piston after every move 😂
You were right. I would never in a million years have guessed Ra1 at 13:24.
I guessed a4 😂
@@prplt ye i knew 500s wil defend a pawn
I was literally looking for the worst possible move and didnt find that one
How does someone not checkmate in the end? You could literally knock over a piece and it would roll into a checkmate
You could throw the pieces at the board like darts and they could land in a checkmate
I want to learm kung-fu!
You could shit on the board and it would be checkmate
@@Lego_Huracan_SuperTrofeo tf does that mean?
@@mastershifu1294 Have you watched Kung-fu Panda? Once matser shifu found out that tai-lung was heading to get the scrolls, he decided to train Po. And he at the end of his monolog he asked Po *"Do you want to learn kung-fu!"*
stock fish played tennis with itself during the endgame💀💀
The thing I really realized about chess is that at the end of the day a lot of people don't like to play it cause it seems like it's about whether you are more intelligent than the person in front of you or not. But it's really just a game. Brilliance shows up if you just get invested and games really become fun when you realize a hard earned loss can also be incredibly illuminating. Thanks to you Levy for getting me invested. Happy new year!
At the end of the day, its not that funny, is it. An orphan couldve died.
One of the dumbest people I know is in the 2000s elo. Beats me at chess all the time. Bro can't figure out how to sign in to his email by himself, change a tire on a car or cook a meal without burning it but can curb everyone we know on a chess board.
Chess is 100% memory and pattern recognition. True intelligence is far more than that. Not to say that chess is full of stupid people but people conflate skill and training with intelligence. Like thinking that just because someone is a doctor or lawyer they must be super smart, when really those jobs take more dedication than intelligence.
@@nameredacted7622 absolutely true
@@nikolaimartiskainen4128 pretty easy to make orphans though.
thats every 1v1 / team game
Always happy to see another Santiago from Argentina make it big, VAMOS ARGENTINAA
Yeah, this video makes me feel attacked
Argentina, papá. Siempre nro 1 en todo.
@@nicolasrusso9786 Claro, el 1 viene de Elo 1 JAJAJAJA
(Es de broma por cierto, yo vivo en argentina)
@@krysisavertedel 1 viene de un dolar por 27000 pesos argentinos
@@nicolasrusso9786numero 1 en tirarse a la verga
This both hurts my brain but also makes me feel so much better about all the blunders I made tonight
I'm so bad at chess, if I saw this without commentary I would probably believe it's top level big brain chess that I can't comprehend. Very entertaining commentary though
Bro I was on a journey of 1400, after watching this I lost 100 Elo Just simply mind blowing🤐🤐
14:13
Levi is a plant, apparently, and gets his hydration from his vase.
One could be forgiven for thinking that the black-and-white bar on the left side simply tells you which player's turn it is.
Thank you for this ELI5 chess match.
The fact that both people still played better than I ever will be able to 😭
nothing will EVER be funnier than the stockfish eval plummeting
This is the greatest video of all time, also a great way to end the year with the last video of players with non-negative elo
I am like 700 rated but cant help but feel guilt laughing thru the whole video
same im 830 but would never in a million years have done this even if i was 400 which i was at one point
If Stockfish was a person he would be like: "oh, eh ,oh eh, oh, eh, oh"
I've seen some newer players recently and honestly, it's very hard for them to end the game. They can't recognise mating patterns or even know "simple" executions like a ladder mate (which personally I think should be taught to someone super early, day 2 at the latest). Then they get frustrated and either stop caring about the match or just resign online cause you don't really lose anything for doing so. It might also have to do with the fact that the endgame is the part you'd have experienced the least at that point.
Surprisingly this series made me better at chess than how to win at chess series
Learning mistakes is better than learning how to win
Maybe the real 0 ELO was the friends we made along the way.
Levy staring at me at the beginning of his vids is the most eye contact i will get in forever
I've been a regular on this channel for almost 2 years - February next year will be the second, and I'm really happy to see all of the growth you got from tiktok. It would be amazing for chess to be mainstream again, and this is a step forward.
Bro is drinking out of a vase lmao
Levi in 2025: I found the first -10000 elo chess game
@Eye Me too!
It's gonna look like 10000 elo, so bad that it cycles back into being good
I doubt you can force a loss in chess. I imagine it easy to draw against an AI that plays perfectly to force it’s own loss because it would need to force your checkmate move by Zugzwang, which is nearly impossible to do.
Levy in 2026: I found the first -9999999999999999999999 rAteD cHEss gAmE
no beginner sees protected queen checkmates
no beginner sees any checkmate that doesn't involve 7 queens
as a 200 elo, i do checkmate 1000 elo bots in that manner sometimes(just trade important pieces with bots such as nelson, then he probably blunders, and you have extra queen/rook).
We’ve returned to World War I chess.
Unnecessarily massive amounts of death for four centimeters.
It's funny how after each move both players give the advantage to the opponent. I just died laughing this clip
I can’t it’s too funny. Gothams commentary when he’s just so fed up is the best.
7:36 "A fascinating, absolutely brilliant idea" 90% chance black had no idea what you were thinking
The good part of this video is that I know everyone is just as confused as I am.
A fun mode for chess I had is that the kings "power" (if you checkmate the king game over) is applied to a random piece and you have to find out what it is and checkmate that piece.
You can take the king, move it, lose it whatever you want, because you need to protect your "chosen" king and find and check the enemies. If that exists already, my bad.
also, the game ends if only your "king" is left so you cant stop avoiding checkmates using queen or so forever
That would be great, imagine putting your old king in check 8 times whilst your new king is perfectly fine
Interesting... But who decides (or how is it decided) which random piece is your new "king"?
And how (and/or when) does each player learn which piece is their and/or their opponent's "chosen king"? Because they would have to, in order to know when they are mated...
I am not nitpicking. :) Just curious about these specifications, because your idea is nice, but sounds very vague - there would be hundreds of possible versions of the rules, this way. :P
The mode should be called Kingposter
@@ChristomirRackov when the game begins, your king, which is randomly selected, is marked red or so. Same for the opponent. E.g. your king is rook a1 and the enemies king queenside bishop. You obv only know what piece your king is
the way he stares at the camera for 1 second looking at everybodies soul and speaks... Love Levy content
This had been the best rollercoaster ride I have ever been on. Thank you Santiago, Mawee and Levy.
🤣 "I don't know what this does. I don't really care to be honest." 14:44 🤣
Man just tired at this point
the 2 players are like lovers who doesnt want to hang up the phone
"you win"
"no you win"
"no you win"
no youuuu win"
"noooo you win"
13:23 The physics behind Ra1 is absolutely stunning. I guessed this brilliant move on my fourth try and I can totally see why. White defends the pawn that is under attack by the opposing rook so the knight can become more active.
that was my first impression when i saw the board, my first thought was rook A1, but after looking at it for more than a second, the knight already defends it, and anything the knight is gunna do to 'be more active' will probably lead to a swift demise anyway.
Just one problem: how? That knight only has one safe square and it's backwards, and then from there the only safe square is to go right back to where it was.
This is ignoring the fact that the knight is unprotected and under attack by the queen.
We need a "flip" counter, of how many times stockfish flips between which side is winning
i love these videos, I started playing chess a week ago, and and i remember things like "you want to be dominant in the middle" and stuffs like that, and i managed to start with real book openings by not even knowing them, just following the guidance of the divine Gothamchess.
Too happy to hear you have recovered
Stockfish was like : I don't get paid enough for this 😂
🤣
Sometimes stockfish gets kinda weird,i dont know what they calculated but there was a time I moved my knight somewhere without undefending any of my pieces but I had an attack involving my move,stockfish considered it blunder reasoning for losing materials
Edit:forgot to mention stockfish best move was trading queens
I have never seen a plus 70 before, incredible presentation
My chess coach one said about opposite side castle positions, "It's about who gets there first-est with the most-est".
This guy would be good at Tohou, he managed to avoid all 100 checkmate opportunities.
These videos are surreal. You start out in physical pain until you reach a point where you just accept it and it simply becomes ridiculous
At 13:05 when you said "If I gave you ten guesses, you would never guess this next move" I just guessed exactly what I would have done and I was right
I was thinking bishop takes centre pawn.
Actually this move was kinda understandable, how are u supposed to know that knights can move backwards
“Brilliancies and blunders, not only on the chess board, but in real life.”
*Foot e5 blunders a wrist bone.*
Goddamn this was a wild ride. I laughed, I cried, I lost my temper.