I really appreciate GTE because the analysis is more directly relevant to the kinds of games I play than the analysis of, like, Carlsen-Nepo. It's fun to watch analysis of high-level chess, but the tactics there are so far beyond what I can follow that it barely helps my game. Seeing shit like this, though, where Gotham is like, "Okay, you win by this forced simplification, it's not the best, but it makes things easier if you're 900" - yeah, that's what I need.
Not gonna lie, Levy's content was what helped give me the confidence to go and try chess a while back; seeing the goofy moves and knowing that screwing up is part of the game made it easier to start wading into the murky waters of chess. I'm still a trash tier player, but I love the content.
That second game... I respect anyone willing to make a defeat this bad public. The only thing that would make this game any better would be if black underpromoted to a Rook.
This makes me feel bad. I sometimes promote to a rook when I'm scared of stalemate (yeah, I'm that trashy), I hope my opponent doesn't take it as a sign of disrespect.
@@Sarah-oj7bh if you're scared of a stalemate when promoting, just take a couple of seconds before promoting to look at the squares the king can go to when you do promote, and if it would be in check or not. If it has no free squares and it wouldn't in check, either underpromote or wait a bit.
@@kamaririvera676 Thank you, but I know theoretically how to avoid a stalemate. It's more that mating with rook and king is very straightforward, no thinking required, with a queen you have to pay attention a bit. It's still trashy to rather avoid that situation than think a moment about something that's not so complicated after all, but yah, that's how I roll I guess.
@@Sarah-oj7bh You can mate with queen and king using the exact same method as rook and king mate, and you will most likely never stalemate your opponent that way, even better - you likely won't lose your queen because your opponent's king can't move near it. I always use the same checkmate method regardless of whether I have a rook and king or queen and king vs king.
@@Sarah-oj7bh yep, my chess coach taught me that when you were clearly winning, always promote to a rook to avoid any chance of a weird stalemate. Anyone who actually knows about chess should not view it as trolling.
I once met a 2000 lichess player while after 11 moves all of his pieces are on the back rank, and they still have 6 pawns on seventh rank, while I finished my whole development. 2000 players so bruh...
I keep thinking we've seen every possible kind of game plot twist in these episodes, and then someone comes along and invents a brand new way of throwing a won game
No Levy, I've never seen a 1600 dead lost on move 5 before. I did, however, see a 1660 hung a piece on move 6. A 1600 RATED PLAYER HUNG A PIECE ON MOVE 6, 1600 RATED PLAYER HUNG A PIECE ON MOVE 6, THIS GUY IS 1660 AND HE HUNG A PIECE ON MOVE 6; 16, 16, 60 and he hung a piece on move 6! Didn't see a trapped queen, could've trapped the man's queen. Didn't trap the man's queen, could've trapped the man's queen, this man had Rook a4 like 3 moves in a row, didn't even see it. Like when I see the queen come here this is the first thing I think of. Damn. Damn. Damn damn damn. Well at least this dude has potato in his name because... he played like a potato. He played like a potato.
I know you said you wouldn’t expect a 1400 to accept the Vienna Gambit, but I’m 1700 and have had many people accept my Vienna Gambit. It’s kind of embarrassing
@@valimaa1006 The Vienna Gambit is what’s shown in the first and last game did this video. It goes 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4. Accepting it with 3… exf4 is really bad for black because it walks into e5 which forces the knight back to g8. In most lines, white wins the pawn back so white just enjoys a lead in development and control of the center and black has no compensation.
I must arrest my self again and again when i see this guess the elo games because i often laugh about the same mistake i often do my self. Its always so much easier to see things when you are not playing your self. At least i learn something too, even if i forget more then half of it when i play.. lol
First time seeing "minutes ago" on a GothamChess video, never though so many people watch in the first 15 minutes. God I love this community even more now.
21:13, this brings back stupid memories. Once me and my friends were playing chess and i yelled the same thing out loud in excitement. (We dont really call chess pieces here 'pawn' or 'rook' we just call them made up names.) Then after a moment my friends start laughing their ass off, like I've said something dreadful
i started learning dutch many years ago and now everytime i face a dutch person in chess i always start a little convo in the chat. i truly believe it throws them completely off their game, espesically with the american flag lol
Gotham: "If you win this game on back rank mate... I mean... your opponent would literally need to give you the firearm and the instruction manual to shoot." Opponent: "Hold my beer."
I love how the Guess the Elo games, starting from the beginning, just get progressively worse at being nice to his subs that submit games. Going from almost coddling at the very start of the series, to just "You're absolute trash." Absolute banger of a series and really makes me want to start playing
It's funny, as someone who just got into chess (3 weeks ago), I make all these mistakes from a random chess tournament winner... In other words... My self esteem is plummeting
@@mikejameson7678 jheez mate calm down. He probably couldn’t care less himself. And let’s be honest, we both know u failed ur GCSEs so badly that ur now a brick layer
I love when levy rasts his viewers. So hilarious 😂 "Ooh me pin your knight" 🤣🤣🤣 Not gonna lie I use this in chat every time someone pins me especially if I have that tactic where bishop sacs itself for check then check with knight the take the bishop he thought was pinning with
29:08 To be fair, it looks like Ng5+ from white creates a real mating threat, and certainly wins a rook at the very least. Other than the material loss it's probably an empty threat, but I don't think naturefreak simply blundered his queen, rather he made a conscious decision to sacrifice it rather than (he thought) possibly get mated.
@Paul Harrison You're right that I felt like there was a huge mating threat from Ng5+ ... but I didn't see the queen at all. I was laser-focused for like 25 seconds on the bottom left quadrant of the board, trying to figure out if I let the fork happen, what would I do. Move away from the Rook, and Qxe6 and all hell breaks loose ... Kf6 hangs the h7 pawn and gets me forked AGAIN ... I chose not losing it! And completely missed my Queen. Oops.
Next time you have a sponsor for GTE, pretend like you are about to start the next game, and say “b4!…we get to the video, it’s time for a word from our sponsor.”
8:10 - like my proudest game of chess. I had a king and a rook, my opponent had just made 2 queens and was marching to make a third. I moved my rook to the top of the board. To him it looked like I was preparing to hopelessly gobble pawns in a game I should've already resigned. He ignored me and gave me several free moves. and I mated him while he was up probably 30 points of material. we were ~700 elo at the time.
Levy: The game is over, you resign, it's simply over Me, an intelectual: wEll TeHniCaLLy itS oNly +3 wcHIH MeaNS bLaCC sTill hAs a CHanccE to CreaTE coUnTer plAY anD WIn tHe Game
7:56 OMG THAT WAS THE THE BEST THING I EVER SEEN IN YOUR CHANNEL AHAHAHAHAHAHAH I'm high af I can't stop laughing at it ahahahahahaha so much winnig and mated like that ahahhahaha best thing ever
idea: someone needs to secretly submit one of Levy’s games and then we can watch him trash talk himself for 10 minutes
The problem is he will most likely remember it
pretty sure that happened... i could be wrong tho
that's kind of smart.
It was tried once, but someone snitched
@@James-vc1kc that's impossible to remember every single online game
I really appreciate GTE because the analysis is more directly relevant to the kinds of games I play than the analysis of, like, Carlsen-Nepo. It's fun to watch analysis of high-level chess, but the tactics there are so far beyond what I can follow that it barely helps my game. Seeing shit like this, though, where Gotham is like, "Okay, you win by this forced simplification, it's not the best, but it makes things easier if you're 900" - yeah, that's what I need.
Grand Theft Elo
Same here
@@TheRealFlenuan can't unread it now lol
You should check out Daniel Naroditsky's speedruns
@@user-uh1dw7is5y Oh for sure, his stuff is great too. more instructive in some ways, but less entertaining lol. tradeoffs!
Not gonna lie, Levy's content was what helped give me the confidence to go and try chess a while back; seeing the goofy moves and knowing that screwing up is part of the game made it easier to start wading into the murky waters of chess. I'm still a trash tier player, but I love the content.
That is really wholesome :)
Yh levy content for me was too that made me come back
You're honest. That's more important than playing top level Chess.
We all same ngl
Same tbh
That second game... I respect anyone willing to make a defeat this bad public.
The only thing that would make this game any better would be if black underpromoted to a Rook.
This makes me feel bad. I sometimes promote to a rook when I'm scared of stalemate (yeah, I'm that trashy), I hope my opponent doesn't take it as a sign of disrespect.
@@Sarah-oj7bh if you're scared of a stalemate when promoting, just take a couple of seconds before promoting to look at the squares the king can go to when you do promote, and if it would be in check or not. If it has no free squares and it wouldn't in check, either underpromote or wait a bit.
@@kamaririvera676 Thank you, but I know theoretically how to avoid a stalemate. It's more that mating with rook and king is very straightforward, no thinking required, with a queen you have to pay attention a bit. It's still trashy to rather avoid that situation than think a moment about something that's not so complicated after all, but yah, that's how I roll I guess.
@@Sarah-oj7bh You can mate with queen and king using the exact same method as rook and king mate, and you will most likely never stalemate your opponent that way, even better - you likely won't lose your queen because your opponent's king can't move near it. I always use the same checkmate method regardless of whether I have a rook and king or queen and king vs king.
@@Sarah-oj7bh yep, my chess coach taught me that when you were clearly winning, always promote to a rook to avoid any chance of a weird stalemate. Anyone who actually knows about chess should not view it as trolling.
Gotham: your biggest fear should be appearing on "Guess the Elo" as a random noob
People who play on Lichess: I don't have such weaknesses
Even Anna Cramling appeared as "Random Noob"
@@xwtek3505 oh when was that? I wanna watch it.
@@Euruzilys 1902
@@Euruzilys Ep 3, third game
As a Lichess player I can confirm this.
Mad respect to Game #2 Guy for submitting such a catastrophic L.
The 1660 that hung a piece on move six can finally be at peace now that another 1600 lost in only 5 moves
I'm 1700 lichess and the first time I played the dutch defense I got checkmated on white's sixth move
@@psymar what is a durrtch devfense
@@kingnoob5037 think Sicilian but against d4
I once met a 2000 lichess player while after 11 moves all of his pieces are on the back rank, and they still have 6 pawns on seventh rank, while I finished my whole development. 2000 players so bruh...
@@psymar was it the Bg5 h6 Bh4 trap?
“Omg I hate you, you are such a piece of garbage” - Levy Rozman 😂😂😂
sounds like something Gordon Ramsay would say
I felt genuine pain in the 2nd game.
Yes 🤣🙂🙂🤣🤣
The last reason to get babbel was seriously the one that convinced me the most.
What was the reason?
@@JungleRice literally just watch the video
@@JungleRice so you can trash talk your opponents in their native language.
The fact that levy is on fire? Me too
Trash talk someone speaking Swahili, I dare you to challenge a Kenyan so you can do that
That Porsche, yacht, and private jet vs bicycle on the highway metaphor was brilliant. Levy is a poet. A poet of the 64 squares.
The best series on RUclips
oh totally!
No it’s not
Yes it is
@@chesslover5436 k
well, in chess.
Suggestion: have your sub tell you the time control that was used for the game. I think that’s a huge part of Guess the ELO.
The second game made me literally laugh out loud, hahaha that made my day thank you for your content levy you brighten my day every day
Guess there's a new saying now:
It takes 10m to play a game, and 2s to blunder.
Dead. That second game. The emotions, the laughter. I'm done.
I keep thinking we've seen every possible kind of game plot twist in these episodes, and then someone comes along and invents a brand new way of throwing a won game
That back rank promoted queen mate is ridiculous hahah
Mate that second game is absolutely insane.... How did the player simply not take with pawn? HOW?!
They premoved since when it seemed there weren't any threats maybe?
30:34-30:39 idk why this was so funny to me, but I almost cried of laughter
That and 14:45
I laughed so hard at the second game, people in the bus were looking 😅
14:55 - That chat freeze for couple seconds is something
No Levy, I've never seen a 1600 dead lost on move 5 before. I did, however, see a 1660 hung a piece on move 6. A 1600 RATED PLAYER HUNG A PIECE ON MOVE 6, 1600 RATED PLAYER HUNG A PIECE ON MOVE 6, THIS GUY IS 1660 AND HE HUNG A PIECE ON MOVE 6; 16, 16, 60 and he hung a piece on move 6! Didn't see a trapped queen, could've trapped the man's queen. Didn't trap the man's queen, could've trapped the man's queen, this man had Rook a4 like 3 moves in a row, didn't even see it. Like when I see the queen come here this is the first thing I think of. Damn. Damn. Damn damn damn. Well at least this dude has potato in his name because... he played like a potato. He played like a potato.
I've seen Anna Cramling hanging her queen vs a 1100
34:31 "and kids... respect your parents. They're the only thing you have."
that's hilarious
I love how genuinely upset, discusted, and offended he was at game 2.
I feel the same, inexcusable
189th day of translating Levy's titles into Neapolitan: "Indovin l'elo è crashat"
ahah some consistency
That kinda sounds like Hindi
41:44: You are telling me that a, 1600-RATED PLAYER LOST A GAME ON MOVE 5
161620
1:32 Trashtalk my opponents? I’m sold
27:44 let’s be honest we have all been in a losing game and randomly gave a check and it was mate lol
And I think that's why low Elos always give a check if they see a check.
The first game actually made me choke with laughter, that was fucking awesome.
That was my game bro! Glad it made you laugh 😁
@@Ogido98 you’re a legend! Great content!
@@Ogido98 You are awesome, I really enjoyed the game!
I know you said you wouldn’t expect a 1400 to accept the Vienna Gambit, but I’m 1700 and have had many people accept my Vienna Gambit. It’s kind of embarrassing
I am 1250 and I don't even know whaz viena gambit is
@@valimaa1006 now that is embarassing
@@valimaa1006 The Vienna Gambit is what’s shown in the first and last game did this video. It goes 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4. Accepting it with 3… exf4 is really bad for black because it walks into e5 which forces the knight back to g8. In most lines, white wins the pawn back so white just enjoys a lead in development and control of the center and black has no compensation.
@@skinnybonesjonestheallseei74 I am 1550 and this is the first time I have ever heard of it
I'm 1701 and you don't know what you're talking about.
Gotham, with the Porsche 911, great analogy, I have experienced that first hand lol. And it’s not that hard to do lol.
I must arrest my self again and again when i see this guess the elo games because i often laugh about the same mistake i often do my self.
Its always so much easier to see things when you are not playing your self.
At least i learn something too, even if i forget more then half of it when i play.. lol
Same thing here, mate. I laugh a lot at Levy's remarks after blunders and then: "oh, wait..."
First time seeing "minutes ago" on a GothamChess video, never though so many people watch in the first 15 minutes. God I love this community even more now.
I played the Sicilian once was a non titled player and Levy Rozman came to my house and took my kneecaps out with a pipe
He did you a favour
you already said that
39:55 black just aimlessly moves his knight for 6 straight moves 💀 💀
👍 the series, should also bring back low elo games they're fun to watch
He doesn’t know the elo before games are watched, so that is impossible
@@chauncyquest2779 No he means just picking out games between really bad players and making a show of it
@@Jartran72 the “Carlos magnuson” games 😎
15:07 the reactions in the chat are way better than the commentary 😂👍
21:13, this brings back stupid memories.
Once me and my friends were playing chess and i yelled the same thing out loud in excitement. (We dont really call chess pieces here 'pawn' or 'rook' we just call them made up names.)
Then after a moment my friends start laughing their ass off, like I've said something dreadful
Love how you advised Black in Game 1 to throw all pieces at the enemy king when down material but White used it to win
"people are reactionary" yeah levy that does not mean what it seems like it means... you're not that wrong though lmao
Even on really bad days like today your content can always improve things just a little bit. Thanks Gotham
That crash was extremely funny
Game three at 27:50 there's a comment that said "always check it might be mate". That shit had me ROLLING, funniest comment I've ever seen off twitch.
"Very very dangerous time now in days to crack any sort of humor."
My respect for you just increased ten fold, and I already had a lot of respect.
Game 2 just had me going
"No way
No way
...
No way"
For like 30 seconds lmao
I've seen a 1660 hang a piece on move 6.
i started learning dutch many years ago and now everytime i face a dutch person in chess i always start a little convo in the chat. i truly believe it throws them completely off their game, espesically with the american flag lol
Levy's facial expressions are 90% of the reason I watch this channel
New game: guess the next "guess the elo" thumbnail.
Levi: push pawns
Random noob: push a pawn
*gets mate*
Levy: *pikachu meme*
39:15 I think that was a YOLO move.
Not the case of "head empty, no toughts" but "head filled with: YOLOOOOOOO!!!"
“That wasn’t even in the script” he says as he reads from the script
15:15 I literally nearly fell off my chair!
Gotham: "If you win this game on back rank mate... I mean... your opponent would literally need to give you the firearm and the instruction manual to shoot."
Opponent: "Hold my beer."
I love how at 17:50 chat and levy both guessed correctly even though they had so different elos ha
Levy with the decent taste in automobiles. Okay, respect.
One of the best episodes, I would love if you make a tierlist of the best guess the Elo episodes ranking them by disappointment.
I have an idea: a bunch of smaller less known chess streamers get together and play a tournament and levy commentates the games
This would be so good!
@@maddies_he4rt haha indeed, it's an idea I had for a while, as I'm a small chess streamer myself
So like pogchamp of underdogs
Levy does not know that we 1300s often try to think of sophisticated positional ideas and then play a move that hangs a piece
I wanted to skip the babbel advertisement but it was actually good and convincing and you made me watch all of it
30:26-30:40 this is one of the funniest levy moments ive ever seen i love it XD
HOLY no cap I was legit watching hikaru thinking when will gotham make a guess the elo and here it it is! Thank you chess Jesus.
I love how the Guess the Elo games, starting from the beginning, just get progressively worse at being nice to his subs that submit games. Going from almost coddling at the very start of the series, to just "You're absolute trash." Absolute banger of a series and really makes me want to start playing
It's funny, as someone who just got into chess (3 weeks ago), I make all these mistakes from a random chess tournament winner... In other words... My self esteem is plummeting
41:47 I literally sang "A 1660"
New series idea: guess the best moves in a position
so just chess?
lmao
14:59 most loudest laugh I have ever laughed! What a bruh moment that was😂😂😂
first
Rip
No one cares
Stfu Ethan, how about you get a real accomplishment in life?
@@mikejameson7678 jheez mate calm down. He probably couldn’t care less himself. And let’s be honest, we both know u failed ur GCSEs so badly that ur now a brick layer
@@gabrielcarver9715 No, I didn't. But cool comeback - especially considering you didn't notice the _very_ exaggerated satire.
5:31 sir that is a knight 😂
I love when levy rasts his viewers. So hilarious 😂
"Ooh me pin your knight" 🤣🤣🤣
Not gonna lie I use this in chat every time someone pins me especially if I have that tactic where bishop sacs itself for check then check with knight the take the bishop he thought was pinning with
31:51 Always funny when Levy use this accent lmao
40:22 a move so terrible he cannot comprehend it's existence and disintegrates
You can get MORE EXPENSIVE than a Porsche, but you CANNOT get BETTER than a Porsche. Pursue the dream Levy!
@18:32 the 750 brilliant move tho LMAOO
i live for levy's baby talk. "to prevent the fawk" 😂
41:20
Every time I play the Vienna gambit I see it, Levy
15:30 snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
This guy wore like 4 different sweaters in the first minute lol. All no logo plain colour sweaters. Gotta love Levy
"Its not a bad move, Its just a bad move" - Levy 2023
Makes sence
25:30 "accidental forced mate" really sounds like a crime lmao
29:08 To be fair, it looks like Ng5+ from white creates a real mating threat, and certainly wins a rook at the very least. Other than the material loss it's probably an empty threat, but I don't think naturefreak simply blundered his queen, rather he made a conscious decision to sacrifice it rather than (he thought) possibly get mated.
But he can just move his queen to f6 and prevent the queen loss, the mate and the fork
@Paul Harrison You're right that I felt like there was a huge mating threat from Ng5+ ... but I didn't see the queen at all. I was laser-focused for like 25 seconds on the bottom left quadrant of the board, trying to figure out if I let the fork happen, what would I do. Move away from the Rook, and Qxe6 and all hell breaks loose ... Kf6 hangs the h7 pawn and gets me forked AGAIN ... I chose not losing it! And completely missed my Queen. Oops.
Next time you have a sponsor for GTE, pretend like you are about to start the next game, and say “b4!…we get to the video, it’s time for a word from our sponsor.”
26:44 that was the hardest I laughed the whole episode. Belly laughing!
37:23 nice reference to Flobot
Thanks, I am learning slowly I hope I will reach there this is something I have been looking for I just need more about this from you
21:06 "I mean it's not a bad move, it's just, it's just a bad move"
“Me want Horse real bad” I’m in tears. Put that on a shirt.
8:10 - like my proudest game of chess. I had a king and a rook, my opponent had just made 2 queens and was marching to make a third. I moved my rook to the top of the board. To him it looked like I was preparing to hopelessly gobble pawns in a game I should've already resigned. He ignored me and gave me several free moves. and I mated him while he was up probably 30 points of material.
we were ~700 elo at the time.
Levy: The game is over, you resign, it's simply over
Me, an intelectual: wEll TeHniCaLLy itS oNly +3 wcHIH MeaNS bLaCC sTill hAs a CHanccE to CreaTE coUnTer plAY anD WIn tHe Game
13:45 I think black didnt take the rook because of Qxf6
I’m watching this with very bad internet and when it freezes levy’s expressions are almost always just as entertaining lol
7:56 OMG THAT WAS THE THE BEST THING I EVER SEEN IN YOUR CHANNEL AHAHAHAHAHAHAH I'm high af I can't stop laughing at it ahahahahahaha so much winnig and mated like that ahahhahaha best thing ever
36:35 "clash of trash"🤣
34:01 Gotham Parenting 101 👍👍👍
31:46 “aHa goThAm yOU IdiOT bISHOP C3 By eNGinE TOp engInE MOvE”
"Avoid king eye contact"
-Levy 2083
36:02 the legendary fibonacci spinny rock
Folks I was having my tea watching at 12:16 and my poured my tea on myself 😂😂
Me at 300 elo pulling all kinds of faces at these games knowing full well I hung my Queen in my last 10 games
*_".... you gotta avoid eye-contact with the King"_*
That was damned funny, well done, Sir!
I love how the eval went from +60 to M in 1 for black in the 2nd game