"It's never too late to get mated even though you're up a full queen. You know something about that don't you?" -Levy doing a psychoanalysis of my entire chess career
Me and Milton live in the same area in Sweden, and we're just 1 year apart, so we played many times in local tournaments as kids. It feels bizarre to watch him play at world class level.
@@VARMOT123 We played over many years, but the first time we played I think I was around 1200, and he 1400. The last time we played I was 1700 and he 2100.
Yes. Never resign even when your down a full queen as your opponent might always hang backrank. (Happened to me once, has always been my best game ever :)
Built a solid foundation of pawns, withstood an extra queen, totally mesmerizing game. Your commentary, worthy of award, highlights its rightful status.
Today, I played my first OTB tournament and won Gold medal, Just wanted to share it with Gothamchess community.. And yes, keep posting these wonderful Chess content, Levy. It helps a lot.. (It was not a big tournament, just a local tournament in my City.. but still it's my first. So 😀)
12:51 i liked the forking idea of bishop c2 with the idea of forking the knight and the rook, but I realized that after Bc2 black can play Rxe1 check and after Kg2 the horsie moves out of the way
The funny thing is, you can't tell if "this game" is a 600 elo blunder-fest or a high level tactical-shootout this comment no longer makes sense because Levy changed the title
As a 1000 that blunders a lot... I can absolutely tell. PS: I have a duck video, a chicken video, a video where i am begging for money on Twitter... Also a patreon
decent idea for a new series: Move a pawn in a position one square to turn it from losing to winning or vise versa. I know that I would benefit from such excercises as those pawn moves can be tricky in some situations, and could be fun!
Questionmark, watch the board on 22:18. Can't you just sacrifice the rook at this point (rd5). If black takes, then queen takes and you are putting pressure on the knight and the rook. If you move one of the two, the other one falls and you can't defend the knight due to the pawn on g4. If black doesn't take, well then you simply won a pawn and you can move your rook anywhere, the double attack remains with a discovered attack with the queen.
Crazy game!! "sometimes when you don't know what to do, you do too much" - story of my chess life. Brilliant connection to Levy's Chess Steps videos. In fairness, no human sees G4. Going to be tough to top this one. That said, this is likely a series of its own - Games of the Year??? Great content, thanks!
I disagree, G4 is not that hard to see, you just push a pawn out of danger. The problem is that you undervalue that move and think it's pointless, even risky unless you calculate enough.
From video recaps, I feel like many high level players lose games by playing too offensive and not defending their pieces. But I guess they need to, if they want to win. It's not like how we play at 900-1000 elo, where if you don't blunder anything and play solid, the opponent will self-destruct at some point and blunder a piece so you can win easily.
Traitor to the homeland, surrender immediately! We outnumber you 161660-1! All of us watch every single millisecond of Levy's videos and show our understanding of them by hanging every piece by move 6! Surrender immediately, and we will leave you unharmed. /s
Losing ELO points is a definite concern. Two titled players were in the GM bar and one said to the other, "I used to be a contender for the world crown and then I had a conversation with Levy. Now I'm taking chess lessons from Finegold."
3:15 I really don't understand why black wouldn't go for this.. It's two doubled and isolated pawns, but white still have to take them. And white has a queen side just as bad as black, it has only one pawn there...
In every endgame you'll be losing: if you hang on defending all the pawns (admitting that is even possible to defend all of them as they are so badly placed) you're gonna get a situation in which every single pieces you have will be stuck defending a pawn, and white will just have to slowly improve his position to the point that for you will be hard to even find a move, you'll get overwhelmed. So, you'll have to give up them and find some kind of active plan to hold on to a draw, but white, playing accurately will just have to pay a little bit of attention and will take measures. At the end he will be just one or two pawn up in an endgame, hence completely winning
@@robertotraverso4834 Thanks, this clarify a lot. When I said that white still have to take them I was not thinking in hanging on to the pawns, but rather that white would have to waste a lot of moves to take them, while black could develop normally and achieve an equal position, if not better. But your comment focus on the endgame, and makes a lot of sense that black will be losing. If black loses all queen side pawns, and gets the B pawn from white, white is a clear pawn up.
@@cowwithoutlegs7932 Below 1000 is probably impossible; both sides played with a lot of precision, and, in my opinion, Levy would've rated them ~2100 ELO.
What I find incredibly hilarious is that fine line between an absolutely absurd looking idiotic lower ELO move and an absolutely absurd looking brilliant GM level move. I, an 1150, saw that position where you needed to push the G pawn as white for winning chances and thought, “Man, I’m only an 1100. There’s no way I’m gonna find the fancy mate. Im probably just going to end up blundering my second queen if I try something top level. I’m just gonna I push this G pawn out of the way of the Knight and Rook attack and then pray.” But that makes sense in a way. I feel like, as a novice, you tend to make a lot creative and/or ambitious moves that lose you the game on the spot. To start to climb higher, you need to eliminate those ambitious moves, play more solid, and see the very precise moves you need to win. But how do you win when you get to the level where everybody is playing perfectly solidly? You gotta make ambitious moves again LOL rely on the noob strat except this time you find the absurd looking moves that are *GOOD* instead of the ones that lose you the game instantly! As an 1100, I would have never gotten to the position discussed and I would have probably lost the game even after playing that move in that position, but I found the move only because I’m an 1100 with no confidence and decided that moving a pawn out of danger and stalling for a turn was better than blundering my queen immediately and ending up becoming the next hit single from created from guess the ELO. “Queen D6, Queen D6. What the hell is that move? What do you think you’re doing? How do you hang a queen there?”
Very well written and yes, i agree. Being at the peak of an art or sport boils down to the ability to fully express yourself through that art form. There is excellence, being able to make very solid moves, then there is genius, finding your own way to solve problems. Learning the game or just any art or work, should be about giving yourself the knowledge to express yourself in the most breathtaking fashion. You will be remembered.
Every time Levy says that he should edit something out but doesn't, I further believe that he does not know how to edit it out and is just trying to cover it up. Hehe
G4 is a quiet, brilliant move. You just push a pawn out of danger. Tho it's a hard move to make, you can think it's a risk of losing it or it doesn't do much. It needs the calculation to make it worth it.
6:10 you‘re not telling me an IM played knight takes knight. I‘m an intermediate and even I see that that‘s an inaccuracy, black‘s knight was no threat whatsoever because pawn takes comes with a tempo on black‘s other knight
The Engine seems to like the rook sacrifice for that D Pawn 23:09 Idea being 3 pawns and Queen vs 3 Pawns and rook and knight. More active squares for queen and difficult to advance with black. It gives a +8 valuation...
I once won a classical game where I legit blundered a full piece in the middle game. I was 2100 USCF and my opponent was over 1900. He didn't make any obvious mistakes either.
I swear your videos always seem like you're just speaking really high level to try to pretend you understand everything about chess. Just stop man.
PIN OF SHAME!!!
Pin of shame
Pin of "SHAME"
Already!!
PIN OF SHAAAAAAAAAAAME
"It's never too late to get mated even though you're up a full queen. You know something about that don't you?" -Levy doing a psychoanalysis of my entire chess career
Haha…I know…I was like….woah okay I’m listening, I’m listening!
yes yes i have done a mate to my dad without my queen LOL
just how casually he delivered that ice cold line... lolllll
I definitely wouldn't lose ELO points if we spoke. Perhaps I should come on your podcast to further discuss this game.
That was an impressive game
comments for upvote
Hi
Podcast hype?
I really hope this podcast happens
Me and Milton live in the same area in Sweden, and we're just 1 year apart, so we played many times in local tournaments as kids. It feels bizarre to watch him play at world class level.
What were your ratings when you played ?
Tell him he messed up.
@@VARMOT123 We played over many years, but the first time we played I think I was around 1200, and he 1400. The last time we played I was 1700 and he 2100.
@@0xf7c8 He played a great game, unfortunately his opponent played a greater one
@@lopadia You knew him? Wow! Tell him hi from a random guy on the internet :D
"It's never too late to get mated, even when you're up a full queen."
I feel attacked.
cheeky but fair lol
It phyically hurt me. :-D
Yes. Never resign even when your down a full queen as your opponent might always hang backrank. (Happened to me once, has always been my best game ever :)
"You know what that's like, don't you?" -- Levy
"It's ugly but it kinda does the job"
Glad to finally be recognized in a Gotham Chess video!
Am I allowed to laugh😭
Pin of Chat
Lmfao brilliant.
@@World_of_Deepspace permission granted
not realistic - i don't even do the job
"Rook is gonna beat the knight any day" disagrees in 600 ELO
900 elo also 😂😂😂
Me who has 161660 ELO yet still hung a piece on move 6:
@@nishyanthkumar i see what you did there
@@lpain9528 I dont
Can we all just appreciate the fact that Levy made a heart for all of us at 16:26 apart from showing the variation ?
Good observation
@@tejasrahulms4271 Thank you so much 💫
we got mated 🥰
noticed that too hahaha
@@myms9681 👍
Levy: When titled players speak to me they tend to lose 1 elo point per minute.
Hikaru: 👁👄👁
😂😂
we've might have found the reason hikaru's isn't a world champion
me: Levy stop acting like a genuis so called GM
Levy: " *beep* you"
David Smerdon should add this game to his book (the complete chess swindler: how to save points from lost positions), a legendary swindle for the ages
An update on his chessable course would be nice!
My favorite book from my favorite author.
Allowing your opponent to make a queen while in a losing position knowing you will win is the ultimate do your worst moment.
8:06
Levy: I’m not criticizing the player, I’m criticizing the move.
The Move: I didn’t decide to go there!
Built a solid foundation of pawns, withstood an extra queen, totally mesmerizing game. Your commentary, worthy of award, highlights its rightful status.
Today, I played my first OTB tournament and won Gold medal,
Just wanted to share it with Gothamchess community..
And yes, keep posting these wonderful Chess content, Levy. It helps a lot..
(It was not a big tournament, just a local tournament in my City.. but still it's my first. So 😀)
Congrats. That's huge
Name of the tournament
@@onlyonly2336 Not any big tournament, just local tournament in my City 😀
@@vashishthshukla9013 Nice win!
congrats bro!!
No other channel has me clicking as soon as i get the notification. Appreciate the content Levy!
Pin of Truth
True
No like really!
No channel has you clicking as soon as you get the notification. You appreciate the content
That's cause sexual connections are undervalued in today's society. 🕊️
The appearance of the eval bar was the first sign that something was off
12:51 i liked the forking idea of bishop c2 with the idea of forking the knight and the rook, but I realized that after Bc2 black can play Rxe1 check and after Kg2 the horsie moves out of the way
The funny thing is, you can't tell if "this game" is a 600 elo blunder-fest or a high level tactical-shootout
this comment no longer makes sense because Levy changed the title
You can. Even if its a joke, its a dumb one
@@nikita5917 it’s not that serious relax
@@nikita5917 maybe you’re the dumb one here
@@nikita5917 Duuuude come on man why bring shame over our beautiful name
As a 1000 that blunders a lot... I can absolutely tell.
PS: I have a duck video, a chicken video, a video where i am begging for money on Twitter... Also a patreon
This popped up in my recommended 10 months later, in November. We all know how Hans’ growth aged.
like fine milk
12:42 Not getting mated IRL is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
"its never to late to get mated even when you're up a queen. you would know something about that"
...
Emotional assault
"6, 9...it's a *nice* imbalance"
Ah, Levy, you man of culture
Lmao, I was gonna comment the same thing! Glad someone else knows good culture when they see it
17:31 for everyone wondering
I had a game where 5 brilliant moves were played, of course they were all by my opponent but I digress.
do you have a link to that game?
Im happy to watch hans gain respect and fans and recognition. Hes obviously got a very bright future
Who's hans?
LMFAO
1:28 that’s the type of move that levy would roast his viewers for on guess the Elo and when GM’s play it it’s like…
Yeah that’s logical
😂😂
the fact than en passant is forced already makes the game way better
"pawns are the souls of chess" - françois-andré danican philidor
"It's never too late to get mated even though your up a full queen. You know something about that don't you"
Seems like Levy knows me 😂😂
the most integral pawns of all time!!
Clicked faster then Levy fixing his lamp
i thought we were going to see a single digit elo game
decent idea for a new series: Move a pawn in a position one square to turn it from losing to winning or vise versa. I know that I would benefit from such excercises as those pawn moves can be tricky in some situations, and could be fun!
“En passant is forced” he knows the way of anarchy chess😱
I'm a little confused. Is en passant forced now?
@@shenkathirraj he is just making fun of those must-en-passant players.
@@andome2 oh okay😂😅 thanks
Questionmark, watch the board on 22:18. Can't you just sacrifice the rook at this point (rd5). If black takes, then queen takes and you are putting pressure on the knight and the rook. If you move one of the two, the other one falls and you can't defend the knight due to the pawn on g4.
If black doesn't take, well then you simply won a pawn and you can move your rook anywhere, the double attack remains with a discovered attack with the queen.
"And the Black king moves to the H colulmn, safely behind his pawns "
"On the 8th rank, right?"
...
"... _right?_ "
12:18 You actually made talk trash about them for no reason damn🤣🤣
"6 to 9, it's a nice imbalance"
"It's never too late to get mated even if you re up a full queen"... Damn man i felt that..
chess speaks for itself
“6, 9, it’s a nice imbalance.”
I don't have to do anything. I'm watching this game because I WANT to. Check yourself, Gotham.
You're too late, another comment already got pinned.
@@WilliamSanders1111 Dang. I wasn't rude enough I guess.
Man literally ended the game by castling on the opponents side
Crazy game!! "sometimes when you don't know what to do, you do too much" - story of my chess life. Brilliant connection to Levy's Chess Steps videos. In fairness, no human sees G4. Going to be tough to top this one. That said, this is likely a series of its own - Games of the Year??? Great content, thanks!
I disagree, G4 is not that hard to see, you just push a pawn out of danger. The problem is that you undervalue that move and think it's pointless, even risky unless you calculate enough.
From video recaps, I feel like many high level players lose games by playing too offensive and not defending their pieces. But I guess they need to, if they want to win. It's not like how we play at 900-1000 elo, where if you don't blunder anything and play solid, the opponent will self-destruct at some point and blunder a piece so you can win easily.
The game speaks for itself
16:26 "You know something about that don't you"
HEY QUIT PUTTING MY PERSONAL BUSINESS OUT THERE ON THE STREET
I'm just a minute in, but Levy looks so excited to show this game to us, it's so wholesome!
You know your depressed when you look at 16:27 and call it the love heart checkmate.
For those who won't watch through the entire length of Levo's videos
12:15
You're welcome ;p
Traitor to the homeland, surrender immediately! We outnumber you 161660-1! All of us watch every single millisecond of Levy's videos and show our understanding of them by hanging every piece by move 6! Surrender immediately, and we will leave you unharmed.
/s
Losing ELO points is a definite concern. Two titled players were in the GM bar and one said to the other, "I used to be a contender for the world crown and then I had a conversation with Levy. Now I'm taking chess lessons from Finegold."
Say hi to r/anarchychess!
"It's not too late to get mated even when you're up a full queen. You know something about that don't you" Levy follows my games!!
At 22:24 I think the idea behind ..Rg2 is to prevent Qxd5, because black now has ..Rg1+, Ke2 (only move) Nc3+, forking the queen on d5.
Levy: “it’s never too late to get mated, even if you’re up a full queen! … you know somethin’ about that don’t you?” 😏
Me: “yes” 😔
Hans pulling a move like his frozen brethren. He acts like your average guy in a rough position, then takes everything you love.
Levy how do you not have a signature opening move called Levy-o-sa
Lololoololol1🤣🤣🤣🤣
3:15 I really don't understand why black wouldn't go for this.. It's two doubled and isolated pawns, but white still have to take them. And white has a queen side just as bad as black, it has only one pawn there...
In every endgame you'll be losing: if you hang on defending all the pawns (admitting that is even possible to defend all of them as they are so badly placed) you're gonna get a situation in which every single pieces you have will be stuck defending a pawn, and white will just have to slowly improve his position to the point that for you will be hard to even find a move, you'll get overwhelmed. So, you'll have to give up them and find some kind of active plan to hold on to a draw, but white, playing accurately will just have to pay a little bit of attention and will take measures. At the end he will be just one or two pawn up in an endgame, hence completely winning
@@robertotraverso4834 Thanks, this clarify a lot. When I said that white still have to take them I was not thinking in hanging on to the pawns, but rather that white would have to waste a lot of moves to take them, while black could develop normally and achieve an equal position, if not better. But your comment focus on the endgame, and makes a lot of sense that black will be losing. If black loses all queen side pawns, and gets the B pawn from white, white is a clear pawn up.
I would love to have seen this game in "guess the ELO"
imagine he guesses below 1000 because of how chaotic this game was🤣
@@cowwithoutlegs7932 Below 1000 is probably impossible; both sides played with a lot of precision, and, in my opinion, Levy would've rated them ~2100 ELO.
Gotham complementing me on staying through the video
1 min later: you lost while up a queen
Time for my daily dose of chess
“That’s why he’s in the video and I’m making the video.” Lol love it Levy. No one teaches chess as cleverly as you. Keep on doing what you do.
Much love Levy, appreciate your grind as always
17:30 "6-9 it's a NICE imbalance"
What a stupendous game. Your commentary made it feel like I was watching a hockey game or something. So exciting. Thank you!
12:42 ‘all he needs to do is not get mated. Easier said than done.. Well..-“ cuts himself off
129th day of translating Levy's titles into Neapolitan: "E vrè sta partit"
Lol
Wow
when he said "when you up a full queen and still get mated you wouild know about that" I felt that lol
First one here
And i improved my game because of YOUR guidance
LOVE FROM INDIA 💓
What I find incredibly hilarious is that fine line between an absolutely absurd looking idiotic lower ELO move and an absolutely absurd looking brilliant GM level move.
I, an 1150, saw that position where you needed to push the G pawn as white for winning chances and thought, “Man, I’m only an 1100. There’s no way I’m gonna find the fancy mate. Im probably just going to end up blundering my second queen if I try something top level. I’m just gonna I push this G pawn out of the way of the Knight and Rook attack and then pray.”
But that makes sense in a way. I feel like, as a novice, you tend to make a lot creative and/or ambitious moves that lose you the game on the spot. To start to climb higher, you need to eliminate those ambitious moves, play more solid, and see the very precise moves you need to win. But how do you win when you get to the level where everybody is playing perfectly solidly? You gotta make ambitious moves again LOL rely on the noob strat except this time you find the absurd looking moves that are *GOOD* instead of the ones that lose you the game instantly!
As an 1100, I would have never gotten to the position discussed and I would have probably lost the game even after playing that move in that position, but I found the move only because I’m an 1100 with no confidence and decided that moving a pawn out of danger and stalling for a turn was better than blundering my queen immediately and ending up becoming the next hit single from created from guess the ELO. “Queen D6, Queen D6. What the hell is that move? What do you think you’re doing? How do you hang a queen there?”
Very well written and yes, i agree. Being at the peak of an art or sport boils down to the ability to fully express yourself through that art form. There is excellence, being able to make very solid moves, then there is genius, finding your own way to solve problems. Learning the game or just any art or work, should be about giving yourself the knowledge to express yourself in the most breathtaking fashion. You will be remembered.
You’re welcome for hanging around. Thanks for the game breakdown! I always stay the full video :)
Every time Levy says that he should edit something out but doesn't, I further believe that he does not know how to edit it out and is just trying to cover it up. Hehe
I think at 13:05 Black is better because of jsut the material advantage even if white queens. Through 1)a7 Bd6 2)a8=Q Bxc7
anyone else addicted to levy saying get outta here as if it were your daily coffee intake? cause same
We want 'How to draw an exchange down position (including Bishop vs Rook or Night vs Rook
That final position looked like black castled on the wrong side of the board...
3:15 ohhh the powerful CACA pawn setup
Not gonna lie, I thought this was going to be a guess the elo with two 300 players at first.
I’d be so pissed as Milton, poor guy 😂
5:14 Thanks for providing me with a great tag line for my CV
I really like these longer analyses if single games I hope you do more of them
1:28 Hans played the delayed banana bread, you love to see it
Hans really just castled his king on his opponent's side...
Can someone please explain to me why at 18:41 after KE2 black didn't play RG2 and win the queen? What am I missing
Please anyone explain
Rf2 just seems fine for white. Black can try to promote but I think White just drops the queen back to the bottom row
Dude literally just saw the queen promo and went "Imma build a box"
Hans was provocative even before the scandal!
22:22 QxD5 with the threat of RxE6 sacrifice?
Give Magnus the White pieces in that endgame. He would more than get revenge against Hans.
G4 is a quiet, brilliant move. You just push a pawn out of danger. Tho it's a hard move to make, you can think it's a risk of losing it or it doesn't do much. It needs the calculation to make it worth it.
6:10 you‘re not telling me an IM played knight takes knight. I‘m an intermediate and even I see that that‘s an inaccuracy, black‘s knight was no threat whatsoever because pawn takes comes with a tempo on black‘s other knight
levy: "im a gm lol i know evrything about chess" LOL
12:15 I left to go do something and closed out and watched it the next day, now I feel attacked
Hans wins the game:
Everyone: BEADS? 🤨
Lol “hangry” 4:01 😂
8:45 Pretty sure a pawn can take that rather than a knight. That knight would be just hanging
3:30 holy mackerel!
The Engine seems to like the rook sacrifice for that D Pawn 23:09
Idea being 3 pawns and Queen vs 3 Pawns and rook and knight. More active squares for queen and difficult to advance with black. It gives a +8 valuation...
"six, nine, it's a nice imbalance"
nice
snatching victory from the jaws of defeat!
Haha levy talking trash to certain people at the 12 minute mark had me cracking 🤣
I once won a classical game where I legit blundered a full piece in the middle game. I was 2100 USCF and my opponent was over 1900. He didn't make any obvious mistakes either.
so did i but im 950
any game where the black king ends up on h1 is one worth watching lmao