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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2022
- Levy Rozman answers the internet's burning questions about the game of chess. What's the best opening? How do you become a grandmaster? Was the Queen's Gambit an accurate show? What's the worst move you can make in chess? Is it harder to play with black pieces than white? Levy answers all these questions and much more!
Check out Levy's RUclips channel: / @gothamchess
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Editor: Chris Davies
Expert: Levy Rozman
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Audio: Brett Van Deusen
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Thank you WIRED! Hope you all enjoyed the episode 😊
Hahaha i did bro you're great
Second comment
Dude you're so great for the game of chess. It's so awesome to have a drama loving, clickbaiting view fiend making a huge deal about every little controversy in chess. It might be incredibly annoying and purely superficial, but it appeals to the masses and that's what important.
Amazing job man!!!
On fire lately my guy.
Twitter: How do I get GM?
Levy: I guide others to a treasure I cannot possess
I need this comment to blow up.
he reached IM then plateaued. There is no going up for him, his brain is just not able to do it.
@@xl000 yeah, because becoming a grandmaster as an adult is near impossible, and Levy has enough other time commitments that he can't put in the time and effort to making it. He's still extremely good at chess.
@@xl000 thats not exactly true. He said himself he could become a GM, but it would take so much dedication to improving that he would have to stop doing what he does and focus solely on becoming a GM. He doesn't consider the sacrifice worth it, so he is happy (and making more money doing what he is doing instead of pursuing a GM title).
oh that's mean. that's mean spirited.
when levy was talking about cheating and said “or elsewhere” bro that smile he knew exactly what he was doing
I was looking for this comment
lmfaoooo exactly
LMAO I DIDNT THINK HE WOULD GO THERE
Beat me to it lmao
What what in the rook
2:04 "Magnus has an incredible stamina. He will go on for 5, 6, 7 hours." is a statement easily taken out of context.
Ayo?
"And squeeze water out of stone at many of his positions"
lmao
@@arthurmont-morency5027 "he has extremely good instincts and end game technique"
@@pablo506"he has massive co..."
“[Some cheaters] have had vibrating devices in their shoe or elsewhere”
Very glad to hear Levy snuck this little gem of a backdoor reference.
That joke really filled me with pleasure
@@amitthehuman Nice one 😂
"backdoor" reference
heh, backdoor.
Well there's a current chess player accused of having done that, putting in a rectal device to cheat. So yeah there's that. Mind you, those are allegations nothing is proven.
As a 900, Levy going 16 minutes without calling me a bozo is the best Christmas present I could ever have asked for -- thanks Wired!
😂😂
Jesus Christ is the propitiation for the whole world's sins. They that believeth and are baptized (with the Holy Spirit) shall be saved; but they that believeth not shall be damned. Those led by the Holy Spirit do not abide in wickedness. 👍🏾
*God is ONE manifesting himself as THREE;* the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Bless him! *For these three are one.*
As I am led by the Holy Spirit, nothing I state is a lie, but the truth of God. Anyone who tells you differently is misinformed or a liar. They do not know God, nor led by him.
Anyone who *claims* to be a Christian and is against what I am doing, and where I am doing it; the Holy Spirit does not dwell within them, they lack understanding. They know not God, read his word, and their religion is in vain. Do not hear them, they will mislead you, the lost cannot guide the lost.
i feel you man
@@Call_Upon_YAH bot
@@Call_Upon_YAH God isn't real lol
it’s so weird seeing levy so calmly talk about chess after so much of him calling people bozos in funny accents
"Oh you're schewpid"
"And he sacrifices, the ROOOKK"
I have rarely in my life seen someone answers questions so clearly and directly. I don't believe there is a better way to answer these questions.
Very articulate man
Levy may not be GM level in Chess as a player, but as a teacher, he's unmatched.
Bro got brilliant moves in speech
Yeah
good editors bro..
@@LiveWatched lol since when did editors became proficient speakers or chess players 😅
This recent recognition and inclusion of Levy in other big channels truly brings a smile on my face
He’s like everywhere nowadays. Man must be so busy the past few weeks.
Same
@@trevorjamesconsideracion1982 Besides here, the commentating and the chessboxing commentating, did I miss something else?
@@davidmikan7925 Lex Fridman’s podcast
@@davidmikan7925there was a video by WIRED about cheating in chess
That little smile at 2:54 when he said "...or elsewhere."
He wasn't going to say it, but he was thinking it. We all were.
First thing I thought!
"...butt, uh..."
lol
hans
The smile speaks for itself
One thing I love about chess is that when you lose it isn’t because you were unlucky, it was because you made a mistake somewhere. That causes you to learn what your mistake was and improve
The lag is annoying tho, and I always get bad matchups
@George G. matchups remain a good excuse though
@George G. i mean tbf over the board games arent as readily accessible to people in comparison to playing chess on a phone/computer
Tate follower I see
Did u always have this philosophy or are u saying what Tate said lol
Lol love that Contrapoints had a question about "theory" 🤣 props to whoever chose that question, it's very on-brand
LOVE THIS! Spreading the joy of chess! 💚
Cringe
@@saifeee871 Your comment was cringe.
@@saifeee871 eyo shut up
whooo!
chess
So proud of Levy for the traction he’s gained in the chess community!
HAHAHAHA NERD
@@AluminumTiki @Philip J. Fry Bro your last name is fry 💀
@@bigboggabinks8466 its a fictional character XD
Proud??? You should ask yourself: “is this traction deserved?” The answer is No. he got famous because he was close to hikaru early in 2020. Plus his vids are not special at all , So many better chess entertainers but unfortunately they lack the visibility
@@lemontiger7189 you should probably go tell him that get pin of shame 💀
Great to see his cyborg mode being activated after he reads questions about chess puzzles. Everything goes smooth and articulate in his speech and then goes "yeah, I solved it." You can see the chess machine-glare in his eyes when he says that. 😆
In fairness, he already learned it before. He's studied more chess than most people have ever thought about chess. And he's only an IM. Imagine what Carlsen has in his wild brain.
Levy: chess openings are named after places or people
*Hikaru: allow me to introduce… THE BONGCLOUD*
Anna Cramling: "The Cow"
"Magnus has an amazing stamina, he can go for 6-7 hours at a time and can squeeze water out of the rock in many positions" -- Levy Rozman, 2022
Squeeze WHAT? 😶🌫
@@Sebastian-zj6mq I think it's a reference to the Biblical story where Moses beat his staff on a rock and water poured out of it. In case you're actually wondering.
AYO 😳
lmao this is so funny🤣 How does he know!
The analogy being that even in the most difficult and hopeless circumstances, you can find a way to succeed/solve the problem. Because in the story Moses had to take care Israel would survive, even though God had forbidden him to beat his staff on a rock, instead wanting him to wait for a divine sign to find water. But the point is that Moses succeeded in creating a solution.
2:50
"Or elsewhere," Levy said with the faintest chuckle.
Like how he had to remain professional when saying it
@@Tugu420Almost made me spit something
Quite fun to see @ContraPoints randomly asking a chess question.
Seriously, I was listening in the background then heard Levy say "At Contrapoints asks..." like hol' up, what??
Fun fact: Shah is usually head of the village or a king, while "mat" translates to died, so checkmate means "your king is dead"
Proud of Levy. He’s branching out
Sorry mate, that's adult Harry Potter.
Why are Jews so good at Chess?
ayo?! 🧐😏🥴🤨📸📷📸
@@DannerBanks the resemblance
@@Counter-Intuitive there’s a few different cultural factors that contribute to it, it’s like asking ‘why are Russians so good at chess’
Levy solving the puzzles before he finishes his sentence is so funny to me
He finished it before he even opened his mouth 😂
Can someone explain to me why this isn't stalemate? I assume it's because the king is obligated to take itself out of check by taking the Queen but that would put it into check with the rook 🤔
Edit: this is to do with the first puzzle!
@@Jimanfi2304 A king cannot put itself into check, it is not a legal move. So a stalemate is defined as when the king is not in check, but the player has no legal moves that do not put their own king in check. A checkmate (as shown in the puzzle) is when the king is currently in check, and the player has no legal moves to get the king out of check. So because the black king is currently put into check by the white queen, and cannot take the queen without putting itself into check again by the white rook (as well as not being able to move anywhere else to get out of check), black is checkmated.
It was already solved is why. He'd already had the composition commited to memory. Still impressive, of course, just for a different reason.
@@theamazingincrediblespider9689 Yeah for sure. Any IM level player is going to have most famous compositions or classic "outside the box" 2-3 move checkmates solved and committed to memory....That said, the only thing I'd add is that just because he had already solved it in the past doesn't mean he just immediately knew the answer, there was probably still a degree of "solving" going on, just much faster/much easier... I liken this to solving a riddle you've already heard before. You might not remember the answer immediately, but as you think through it for a second it comes back to you.
I like how he's not a grandmaster, but he's more iconic than most grandmasters.
He's like Naruto. A genin-ranked shinobi, but more wholesome than any of the ninjas in Konoha hahaha.
Yeah he has more subs than Magnus 💀
@@amazinggamerx1they said iconic not best
He should be a Honorary GM
I never paid much attention and I always thought that he was a GM till now
10:30 I've always preferred the knight over the bishop for the reason that the knight is capable of (eventually) covering every square on the board, while the bishop is limited to its starting color.
IOW, the knight can cover twice as many squares.
Not really, that’s not really a good reason, using that logic, king would be better bishop but obviously that’s not true
@@fos1451 agree, but still I think knight> because only the knight can do it
Well it’s basically that, the knight can move in any square, but it’s not very mobile
While the bishop can only move in light/dark squares but is very mobile
So it’s basically mobility or ability
The knight is the only piece whose path cannot be blocked
providing it has an available square to land on. The bishop
has longer spatial range. Like the queen and rook, but unlike them is only confined to it's own square color.
Because these 3 pieces have greater range of mobility, their
paths can be blocked by a well
protected opposing piece, whereas the knight can totally avoid this dilemma.
the bishop can threaten far more squares than the knight
This guy was a great commentator in the chess boxing event
so you didnt know him before?
@@seblewongeltima3101 issa joke i think
@@seblewongeltima3101 i mean, if they didn't what's wrong with that? Just means more people are learning about levy.
@@brent4674 I mean… it’s not a *joke*, he did an excellent job commentating Ludwig’s chess boxing event.
There has been more than one chess boxing event in history.
Levy is such a good ambassador for the game. I've never heard him talk about chess for a general audience before these videos, but he is doing a great job.
Jesus Christ is the propitiation for the whole world's sins. They that believeth and are baptized (with the Holy Spirit) shall be saved; but they that believeth not shall be damned. Those led by the Holy Spirit do not abide in wickedness. 👍🏾
*God is ONE manifesting himself as THREE;* the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Bless him! *For these three are one.*
As I am led by the Holy Spirit, nothing I state is a lie, but the truth of God. Anyone who tells you differently is misinformed or a liar. They do not know God, nor led by him.
Anyone who *claims* to be a Christian and is against what I am doing, and where I am doing it; the Holy Spirit does not dwell within them, they lack understanding. They know not God, read his word, and their religion is in vain. Do not hear them, they will mislead you, the lost cannot guide the lost.
@@Call_Upon_YAH Not Christian, but you're a perfect example of why people hate Christians
This guy is such a wonderful teacher. I am no good at chess, I'm fascinated by it but my brain can't handle playing it. I was sitting here nodding along as he was speaking as if I was in a lecture and he was the professor. He is so intelligent and knowledgeable in his craft as well as explaining in an accessible and exciting way. I've already seen so many comments on his articulation and I couldn't agree more. It seems like he's as good at teaching as he is at playing chess!
Unrelated, but the thought that there are still any games of chess that have yet to be played is mind-boggling to me. This game has existed for nearly 1500 years! My little pea brain can't fathom the idea that we're not even close to exhausting even just the first 5 full moves' possibilities. that's fascinating
When he said that there are games where a new move is played in the first 5 moves, he is solely referring games played by top rated players. These players usually stick to the same format of moves because they aren’t comfortable exploring new territory at the highest level.
@@godooner8683 At turn 5, googling shows, over 800k unique positions. Over 9 million at turn 6. Soooo.... Is he wrong? After accounting for people taking the same path as those before them (which you state) this would mean a minimum of that many games played with an assumed average of many, many more played.
@@godooner8683 No the real reason to be unique by turn 5 is that the opening moves chosen were not the most commonly played. This gives more likelihood of earlier unique positions. Usually around turn 10 or so it does become unique or very close to it (something like 10 games in database that has billions of games).
He showed the Caro-Kann defense on his board, but it was very difficult to see. Wired did not show it. On the virtual board they only showed the beginning two moves and not the pertinent part.
I love how Levy says that he is bad at doing analogies and then just casually pulls the best chess analogy I’ve heard
He's just very awkward and "self-conscious", and thinks very little of himself
@@thesynergisticcomposer6718🤓
after 2 hours of googling and hours of editing...
@@laszlobandi6456 He didn’t need to Google that. Even garbage, bottom of the barrel players like myself can easily see the similarities between the players and animals he chose.
you forgot to mention that the computer got into Gary's head with a move that made no sense in game two. Gary started questioning himself because of that move and basically fell apart. It was later discovered the computer wasn't thinking so far ahead that gary couldn't imagine it's strategy as he thought, but that the move was caused by a bug in the program. True story. So the real question is when did computers actually get better at chess than humans.
I argue making a move to throw off your opponent is actually a skill.
Having a bug like that be implemented intentionally and making it a feature would really make it all ascend.
It reminds me of my style of playing - I don't know wtf I'm doing and so does my opponent. Somehow I win a bit more than I lose.
"Better" is very subjective here.
Sure, computers evaluate a lot of 15+ moves ahead way faster and consistently. Humans can definitely be thrown off as mentioned. However, the flaw in computers is that their moves are calulated on probability. This means predictable. Knowing what your opponent will do before they do it can be an advantage, albeit, still difficult to exploit against a computer.
if you actually look at the line, it was very theoretical slightly offbeat line, which other GMs had put into the computer recently.
Computers used to be very material driven, instead of more initiative driven
@@thesun5275 it didn't make a move to throw off the oppoment though, the opponent threw himself off. You are rewriting the story to assume the computer did this intentionally and strategically when in fact it was simply a mistake.
I saw this video when it was just posted and I had no idea about Hikaru or about Levy. Now that I've seen tons of videos with them this video showed up again. Watched it again, and I have to say, it's a different feeling watching.
Thank you WIRED, thank you Levy. Great content, and awesome thumbnail on the world chess championship recaps.
Nice, thoughtful and calm delivery; professional production. Well done!
I love listening to an expert talk about their craft. I never would have thought of a chess move as "fascinating," but hearing Mr. Rozman discuss chess was like getting a glimpse into a cool new world.
As simple as a game like chess is to play, you soon discover it is incredibly complex as you go.
@@AdderTude and when you start playing, then there is no coming back. welcome, you are addicted.
@@mohitwanjare7951 yeah I never thought I would be playing chess this much. I just played 1-2 games online and started watching chess videos. Now I am playing chess and watching chess videos instead of sleeping 😂. It actually feels like more than just a board game. It is like a video game with graphics,or reading a book.
woah thats so deep
Rozmans youtube channel is an awesome channel to watch chess content on.
Very educational, he often reviews games, reviews his viewers games, gives insight and plays and gives tips himself. Also he's really entertaining to watch.
Dude the fact that Levy is everywhere now is so dope. Well deserved
100%, though I shed a tear when he basically said "morphy is a false idol"
I'd much rather see Daniel Naroditsky than Levy in pretty much every possible scenario.
@@nomathic7672 i wouldnt
@@sankeethganeswaran3024 I honestly can't see why anyone other than kids would prefer Levy over Daniel Naroditsky. Daniel is better than Levy in every aspect other than being childish and annoying.
I was always impressed by great chess players like Garry Kasparov. He was invited to come to my country in the early 90s I think it was. he then played vs the Faroese Chess national team. He played all 8 players at once in a quick/speed chess match. so all 8 players sat at their tables and Garry would walk around moving pieces as the timer ran down. Since it is quick/speed chess, there is no "check", if you don't notice your king is in danger, you lose. He won 7 of the matches and the last one was a draw with a 5-minute clock.
I wonder what the stupidest move is called. By that, I mean, that white starts with the pawn to F3, black then moves the pawn to E5 and then white moves the pawn to G4. This is the silliest move anyone can do in Chess because that is checkmate in 2 moves for black when they move the queen to H4. I'm sure this white opening has a name, what is it called?
Fool’s mate
I'm not really into chess but i love these videos learning about it. Your simplistic style of video with white background and the awesome giant chess piece are perfect i love it
When England had no GMs, I was at Leeds University and our chess club had a Yugoslav GM that noone in the general chess community knew was there. He was freakishly good and surpassed an IM by a long shot. We went to play in the Edinburgh Open that year and he easily defeated 5 active and former British champions in Tal-like style. That year England got its first GM - he was about to be kicked out of college for not studying and playing chess, but when he became a GM the university gave him an honorary degree instead.
Nice story! That's typical, about to get kicked out then they realised the positive attention.
@@benedictineonchessable lmao
@@akera300 Paul Buswell?
@@TomJones-tx7pbPaul Swellbush
What was his name?
Levy the LEGEND - So happy for him getting the recognition he deserves and doing bigger and bigger things. One of the guys at the forefront of making chess so accessible & engaging to so many
He (through the magic of the YT algorithm) brought me back to chess after 25 years.
Right? This plus commentating Ludwig’s chess boxing event, he’s getting a lot of great exposure
@@michaeljay7949 cool
Jesus Christ is the propitiation for the whole world's sins. They that believeth and are baptized (with the Holy Spirit) shall be saved; but they that believeth not shall be damned. Those led by the Holy Spirit do not abide in wickedness.
*God is ONE manifesting himself as THREE;* the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Bless him! *For these three are one.*
As I am led by the Holy Spirit, nothing I state is a lie, but the truth of God. Anyone who tells you differently is misinformed or a liar. They do not know God, nor led by him.
Anyone who *claims* to be a Christian and is against what I am doing, and where I am doing it; the Holy Spirit does not dwell within them, they lack understanding. They know not God, read his word, and their religion is in vain. Do not hear them, they will mislead you, the lost cannot guide the lost.
Love this! So eloquently explained.
Today’s stare was exceptional, almost no blinks at all 10/10
So happy for Levy to be the one who answers these questions on Wired! Well deserved.
😮😮
Jew privileges
@@ryantwitter343 Say what now?
@@literalgarbage8014 Jewish privilege. Often falsely disguised as white privilege.
@@ryantwitter343 prejudice isn't funny
Love that little hesitation when he’s talking about how to cheat at chess in person. When he says “Vibrating device in your shoe or elsewhere”
We all know what match he’s talking about 😏
I think a better way to put the value of Knight vs Bishop is that their value depends on the board state and positioning. Closed boards favor Knights, open boards favor Bishops. A piece that is well positioned is worth more than a poorly positioned piece.
My guy straight up reads a question regarding a puzzle of some sort and not even half a second after says ‘I found it.’ This is why I love this man 💀
Levy is legit carrying the chess community on his own, crazy.
ikr i got into chess because of him
Seriously? Forgot about Hikaru, Magnus, Botez chicks...
@@VitorRodrigues-sn3wt Tbh Agadmator and thechesswebsite are the OG carries
@@smaragdchaos nop
@@kanavkohli794 I take it you weren't there before the chess boom in 2020. Thechesswebsite and agadmator absolutely carried the chess scene
So glad to see Levy becoming mainstream, such a funny and real guy. I highly recommend everyone to pick up chess and enjoy his content
Levy's been mainstream on RUclips for years with his channel GothamChess.
@@rosiefay7283 He meant, outside of "chess youtube".
He has more than 1 Million subscribers 💀
What a great video! You know so much about chess, and you express it really understandably!
Wow, so cool to see levy on the video to listen to the chess pro answer some questions
The intersection of WIRED, GothamChess, and ContraPoints is absolutely wild
@@neemnoa303 it is better than people knowing nothing about those concepts. if they get intrested they can read and come up with their own stuff. it is what they should have done to start with
@@neemnoa303 True, early content was amazing, then Contra kinda went of the rails.
@@neemnoa303 Entertainment for narcissists? I really don't understand that language here. Most of the Contrapoints videos I know of aren't even that philosophical - it's about a subject and as her name states she provides counterpoints to common right wing talking points in the subject and also sprinkles in her own experience.
@@neemnoa303 I’ve literally never met anyone who claims that contrapoints aligns with them being “into philosophy”, and if those people are, it’s not contrapoints’ fault for their misunderstanding of her content and what philosophy is. I can’t help but feel you didn’t like a couple videos and took it personally.
@@neemnoa303philosophytube is genuinely really good though. Idk what problem you’d have with her.
Never seen Levy be this well-behaved haha
lMaO fr fr dude
At 15:17 I just imagined his usual style of commentary... "THE ROOOOOOK!!!! H6!!! OMG COMPLETE DESTRUCTION, THE END OF THE WORLD!!! *moans* YOU ONLY SEE THIS ON ONLYFANS AND IN CHESS PUZZLES!!!"
@@MeltedHugoomg did he actually say that??
completely agree!
A bishop can control more squares but a knight's offensive/defensive capability can be seemingly impossible to counter at times.
Only another knight can move like a knight.
good video! very informative. would love another episode with him!
Levy: "I'm not very good at analogies"
Also Levy in GTE and How to loose at chess: *makes crazy comparisons and analogies nobody would ever think abt*
right lmao most of gte’s commentary is analogies
@Edwardian23 "I was just threatening to slap you, but you drove off a cliff amd set yourself on fire" was one that really got me laughing non-stop for a good five minutes
bro really said that after he uttered the words "He can squeeze water out of a rock in many positions"
When worlds collide, I never thought I'd see Contrapoints and Gothamchess interact. Did a double take when I heard her name.
yes!
they have been wired
@Bill Gates Reading Mein Kamf Give her some wine and have Levy tell an ableist joke and it's the collaboration of the century
My heart is warmed, it's a Christmas miracle!
Same! And she mentioned theory. Cant be a coincidence hehe
The "yeah, I solved it" made me chuckle 😄
I feel like the best way to improve quickly as a starter is to watch a good bit of chess and try to implement that in your games and study openings and not just ph I have to put these here because levy told me to no figure out the purpose of the opening or defense
Levy teaching Contrapoints chess would be something I'd watch for days.
The crossover we didn't knew we need
That was a plot twist if a life time
I thought I was going crazy when I heard Contrapoints!!
Absolutely
@@Yivia bro same i was like @contra points ??? and i switched tabs to make sure it was really her account
This guy is great. I'm not really into chess but I watched the whole video because he explained everything so well
If you want other content by you'll learn so much and actually get way more into chess than you think you will. I didn't used to be and then I started watching him and between his instructional content and just down right funny content you can find something you'll like that he creates. I would recommend giving him a shot cause he explains just as well on his channel!
Go check out his “How to Lose at Chess” playlist, instructive yet funny reviews of beginner games. The guy honestly takes his content seriously so it really is worth while.
I love that Levy reads the hashtags along with tweet lol
It's so bizarre to see Levy acting professionally after you watch his streams.
This was my first intro to Levy, my mind was blown when I saw the streams for the first time.
Why, what happens in his streams??
@@OddlyAnimated1203he's an entertainer. And entertainers act in weird ways to entertain people.
@@luongmaihunggia Ahhh, alright I get it now. Thanks for the explanation.
@@OddlyAnimated1203 ruclips.net/video/JAX_-wZhRMI/видео.html
I'm not a chess fan but this guy did a really good job giving brief, thorough, and interesting answers. I learned lots of things for questions I never thought to ask.
On his channel he has a lot of instructive videos (and a lot of not-so-instructive videos lol). Highly recommend
You can follow him on Twitch too
13:25 sarcifices....THE ROOOOOOOOK
I run into that last scenario a lot more than I should because I forget to develop pieces after castling (on either side)
This guy is really good, he should start his own youtube channel.
bro he already has its GothamChess its the pinned comment
@@Denortion youmissedthejoke...
@@Denortion r/wooosh
@@tijnmaassen5152 No way I'm just supposed to assume it's a joke he literally didn't express that in anyway 💀👍
@the CAT Like you're one to talk, playing roblox 👏
Already learned something in the first 30 seconds. In German, the word for checkmate is "Schachmatt" which is pronounced very similar to the Persian way. Schach is also the name of chess in German, i.e. the king's game, although it's not the title of royalty here.
Chess should be more popular
Same goes for Scandinavian countries :)
Same for Poland - szach mat.
scrolled down to find this comment.
the "Zugzwang" really surprised me, lmao
Looks like a word, that has no real 1:1 translation
In romanian it's șahmat
So well articulated - easy to see why he's the leading RUclipsr on chess.
Never seen levy so calm
seeing him almost burst out laughing when talking about vibration cheat devices was great
“in a shoe or…. elsewhere” hehehehe
@@elvisidedevbo what?
🍑🔌
@BLVCK CVT It's a reference to an actual story. Easily butthurt I guess.
14:35 the way he simply said "yeah I solved it." Before he even finish the question is hilarious😂
lol yeah no discredit to levy but that puzzle is famous so he’s probably seen it multiple times before and remembered the correct move.
@@nathanmermilliod3135 True. But at his level, he would probably solve it just as fast anyway. Watching strong players solve puzzles of that level is pretty fun, they always spot the solution at a single glance. I don't think you could design a mate in 2 problem in such a way that a master needs more than 5 seconds to solve it.
@@andeolevain I’ve seen one where the first move appears to blunder a bishop 7 different ways, all of which lead to mate on the next move. Agree that it’d be super rare though
@@andeolevain These puzzles in the video, yea he would solve very quickly. But there are some mate in 2 problems that are very hard that would definitely take more than 5 seconds
I'm 1500 rated and it took me the same amount of time as Levy
i love how he goes "yeah, i solved it" so confidently lmao
It's funny how different names can be. In German, the knight is named "Springer", which means jumper and the bishop is named "Läufer", which means runner. The rook is just named "Turm" which simple means tower and a pawn is named "Bauer", which literally means farmer. Only king and queen are named the same.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
More useless facts: In Ukrainian, the names for pieces are like this (obviously translated back to English):
The pawn is "soldier"
The knight is "horse"
The rook is "tower"
The bishop is "elephant"
King and queen are still king and queen
@@bettercalldelta The bishop is "elephant"? Who came up with that name? 😅 That's probably the last thing that would come to my mind when I see that figure.
@@xcoder1122 idk who named it like that, all the other names make sense but the bishop doesn't
My face when Contrapoints is randomly among the people asking.
Also, if one can say that Bobby Fischer is the best due to the sheer, but short dominance, then one can say it about Morphy, and Bobby Fischer agreed with that and considered Morphy's lead over contemporaries higher than his own.
Levy has been on fire lately. Two major publications asking for his chess opinions and the chessboxing commentary... just, wow.
about the checkmate thing, in my language it is literally sah matt too and it felt so good hearing levy say it lmao
6:11 I think they are occasionally named after other things... the bongcloud comes to mind
Fun trivia about rare chess moves: In 2019, RUclipsr Tom7 analyzed the lichess match database and determined that that the rarest fate for any piece in the game is for white's F-pawn to die on A7. In all the games analyzed, this occurred after the pawn promoted, but A7 is diagonally aligned with F2, so it is technically possible - if extraordinarily unlikely - for the F-pawn to reach that square as a pawn, using five captures.
But then, because of symmetry, it should be equally as unlikely for the C-pawn to die on H7, shouldn't it?
Not at all, because the board isn't symmetric. The F-pawn rarely moves too far afield in the midgame because it's dedicated to defending the king after castling, while the C-pawn is much more likely to move.
@@curtmack Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation.
@@curtmack But wouldn't that make f more likely than c? Because you're probably gonna play either c4 or c3 making c2 takes d3 (the first necessary move for it to go to h7) impossible, whereas the f pawn is much more likely to stay still and you'll at least have f2 takes e3 at some point. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the c pawn even getting to h7 has never even happened.
2:55 Other places, lol
proceeded by a little giggle
2:09 I really like what he said there
"people have had vibrating device in their shoe or elsewhere" had me dying laughing.
It’s crazy how insane a tabletop game can get with only 32 total pieces
Even with only seven pieces left, the game is still crazy.
@@kusharyThe computer says it’s solved. In some amount of time to think.
@@puppypuppybobbin Yeah I know. Even then, the game is still super complicated.
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I'm not a chess player and I still found this wonderful and entertaining
That sums up Levy’s entire channel perfectly.
You should get into it then. It’s fun and it’s a really good mental trainer in my opinion. You will start off slow but you have to get through it. Good luck.
@@mightyleonard7600 dude don't push it..
great video! good vibes and plenty of info ^_^
Woww I have never seen Levy so calm...
Contrapoints and GothamChess is such a crazy crossover
Omg I love it!!!!!
I mean, she can already play the piano beautifully, on top of being a brilliant Philosophy Communicator, essayist, drag queen extraordinaire, talented comedienne... Now she wants to excel in chess too? Isn't that... like... rude?
@@Pedro_Larroza literally none of what you have said is true 😂also, he would never excel in chess
@@GuitarBloodlines You must be right, I mean... I'm not the one monitoring mentions of her under random, scarcely voted comments in videos completely unrelated to her range...
@@Pedro_Larroza You have extremely low standards if you think a generic blue/red bad philosophy youtuber is somehow a brilliant communicator, no comments the rest since those are really your opinion, which is simply bad.
4:20 ContraPoints!
2:50 I could hear the restraint as he tried not to mention Hans Niemann and where “elsewhere” means 😂
Levy was the one who got me into chess
Odd that he didn't mention that castling historically wasn't always a recognized legal move. It's relatively new to the game as an international standard, though we are approaching the time when it's been around for half the lifetime of what could be called modern chess despite the lack of a consistent rule set across the globe until just the past couple of centuries. There were a lot of variations to it that weren't standardized until "recent" times.
Very informative, not odd considering it wasn't a question he was asked, but informative nonetheless
En passant is also not an OG legal capture, but makes sense once you realize that initially moving a pawn 2 squares was also not an OG legal move.
Real oldschool chess players remember when the Queen could only move one space diagonally.
@@LoudWaffle advisor gang
A joy to watch!
I chuckled when he said that the number of move permutations considered by chess engines could be "in the millions". That's indeed true, but one time I spectated an engine tournament game between Stockfish and Leela, Stockfish was evaluating about 1.3 Billion board positions each turn. There's a game between Komodo and Berserk happening now where Komodo looked at 14 Billion board positions during one turn, but spent almost a minute doing so.
Those are extraordinary circumstances, though, they use a dual-socket AMD machine with 256 threads and half a terrabyte of ram. "in the millions" is a good answer.
computers be computing
How many positions need to be evaluated to solve the ultimate Mate-in-X puzzle of finding the best first move to be hard coded into the engine algorithm.
@@johndododoe1411 The number of available permutations is higher than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. It's still a stretch for our computers to calculate.
14,000 million is still in the millions
ContraPoints Natalie being interested in chess is just made my day a little bit.
I love the way this guy explains chess. He's clearly thought about and helped a lot of people learn chess before and had super sticky explanations for everything seemingly off the top of his head.
10:06 I haven't played in a while, but when I did (I still wasn't very good), the knight was always a blind spot for me, both offensively and defensively. The comments Mr. Rozman made here honestly make me feel a lot better about that.
i loved watching a deep dive on the deep blue match.
3:00 Levi goes back to being Levi. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember Levy at 100K subs. Look at him now. Truly the world's best chess teacher.
World's best Chess teacher? I wouldn't call him that, although Chessly is pretty great, and credit where it's due. But he's the chess world biggest entertainer and spokes person, gateway. And he's the best at what he does.
@@lewismaddock1654 I initially found him as a teacher that's why I said it. As off now I guess yeah. Chess entertainer is what you would call him.
Ok who Am I fighting today in the name of Danya “The sensei” Naroditsky? Jk levy is awesome.
Wow rofl I wasn't expecting Contrapoints to make a cameo at 4:25
Very familiar with theory
The beauty of checkmate scenarios is that the oppo must move.
In the last tournament the best opening turned out to be Philidore defense (not sure how to write in English) the person who played it lost 0 games out of 3 where he used it in and he overall didn't lose a single game and have drawn 1 in that tournament.
Somethings important to note about castling are:
- you forefit your right to castle if either your king or the rook you wish to castle with have moved.
- You cannot castle if the king's path crosses a check
You also cannot castle to get out of check.
You also cannot castle into check.
@@garrylarry890 yes, which would cross with a check, wouldn't it.
if you promote a pawn on the e file into a rook, you cannot castle using that rook.
@@kaja3932how would you castle vertically anyway + nobody would promote to rook
Weird seeing Levy without his guess-the-elo energy, but kudos. Very well-deserved!