I've heard people talk about how chess it beautiful and that at the grandmaster level the players are almost conversing with the pieces, but I haven't experienced that until watching some of your videos more recently. Keep up the fantastic work. This was a magnificent video.
Great video, like this direction of content dealing with more general purpose tactical or strategic ideas rather than specific openings (not that opening videos are bad, there are just a lot of them already done). Would love to see a few videos on chess weaknesses. Specifically spotting weaknesses in your opponent's position, how to effectively provoke weaknesses if they don't have any yet, and how to take most advantage of those weaknesses. Keep up the great work Levy, you're a real gift to the chess community.
10:09 As impressive as being the number 2 for decades is, this description sells Karpov short. He did more than fight Kasparov for the world championship for 20 years. Before Kasparov was the world champion Anatoly Karpov was the world champion, gaining the title by winning the candidates in 1975 (Fischer was a no-show so he won by forfeit) and defending his title succesfully against Victor Korchnoi twice.
oh, i know Emanuel Lasker, he's a distant cousin of Edward Lasker who played an immortal game by forcing the opponent into a position where he could checkmate him with castles
“Bauer“ ist the German word for pawn in chess (in everyday language it means farmer). R.I.P., poor guy 😢 (Early Death at the age of 30). It's a sad thing if you're only remembered because you lost once a game against a world champion. 👍🙋
Umm no... He played the f4, The Bird. The "Sicilian for White" would be the English, c3. In "Lasker's Manual of Chess" his section heading literally says "English Opening or Sicilian on the First Move. 1.P-QB4" (That's 1.c3 in algebraic in case the ROYAL CHESS ACADEMY doesn't do descriptive notation).
Idk why these videos appeared on my timeline, but I'm glad. I haven't played chess since high school and even that was against a comp. I never heard these terms and was deep into these strategies. I'm now super fascinated and want to learn more.
I literally feel as if I'm getting a bit of your knowledge throughout each video. When you asked why the rook lift wasn't a good idea I answered "time" just as you did and I got so hype because I actually absorbed some knowledge. I feel like I wanna take fucking notes I feel so passionate right now.
I really enjoyed this instructional analysis of the famous Lasker-Bauer double bishop sacrifice. I would love to see Levy analyse the fascinating Greek Gift sacrifice in Colle-O’Hanlon, 1930. I offered a Greek Gift in a recent 10-minute game arising from a London System. The computer doesn’t like it (it doesn’t like Colle’s sac either!) but it is difficult for Black to defend, especially in a 10-minute game. 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 e6 4. Nd2 c5 5. c3 Bd6 6. Bxd6 Qxd6 7. f4 Nc6 8. Bd3 O-O 9. Ngf3 c4 10. Bc2 b5 11. Ne5 Rb8 12. g4 b4 13. g5 Nd7 14. Bxh7+ Kxh7 15.Qh5+ Kg8 16. g6 fxg6 17. Nxg6 Rf5 18. Qh8+ Kf7 19. Nf3 Kxg6 20. Rg1+ Kf7 21.Rxg7+ Kf6 22. Rxd7+ Kg6 23. Qg7+ 1-0
So often black castles over to the side where the enemy pawns are pointing, with no defenders over there but plenty of attackers hovering, knowing full well that these kinds of attacks exist. There must be a better reason than "you're just meant to castle as soon as possible". What I'd love in these sorts of videos is an explanation of why staying in the centre or waiting to castle long would actually be worse for them than the attack that they know is coming.
For a player just really getting into chess, I love your content! Very straight forward and very informational. Thank you for your time, work, and knowledge!
I'm really enjoying your content Levi. I thought it was nice of you to respond to a hater without stooping to their level. Such class is an inspiration to us all.
Yes! Puzzles appear all the time in your games. The truth is when you solve more puzzles you get pattern recognition for them which helps you in: 1. calculation, 2. visualization and most importantly, 3. realizing which moves allow tactical opportunities for your opponent and not playing them... So many times why tactics are necessary to reject certain moves. Usually people above 1500-1600 don't blunder tactics here and there, but it's important for you to figure out if you are blundering a tactic or not... 4. Tactical moves develop your intuition, so at first it looks solving tactics is a pain but it gradually gets easier and easier... Hope this helps. :)
Thank you! I played chess for a while thinking that you got good at it just by understanding how the pieces move and playing. Recently though I started studying theory and different openings. Thank you for responding, I’ll study puzzles and see how they help me in my games!
Fun word fact: prophylactic comes from a greek word "προφύλαξη" (pro-fi-la-xi, fi like fiddle, xi more like "ksi"). Pro is a prefix that means before (for example prehistoric) and filaxi is greek word for guarding. So it literally means guarding before danger.
Okay, so I figured out my problem: my attacks are too slow and not forcing enough. I'll try to incorporate these lessons in my games. Thanks Levy, awesome video.
how to mate at 14:34 if the king does move to G8? Queen to H5 results in black knight to F6 which attacks the queen and blocks the queen from moving to H7.
So i was pondering up on the question: How to we decide who is the better robot Magnus or Hikaru? So i came up with a three round idea: Round one: They play hyberbullet blindfold chess against eachother. Round two: They have a wrestling match Round Three: They play rock paper scissors
the game feat. lasker, is actually in a chess book i bought along ago. it's hard to find these soft spots, when you are not really used to it. normally you develop a sense of things as you progress with the game. hint: sacrificing pieces for "seemingly" nothing, is not one of them
This reminds me of Kasparov-Portisch where Garry had white in a queens indian and played Bxh7+ followed by Bxg7 two moves later and won with a nice attack.
I would love if u made a video about queen side attacks. I feel like I know how to attack on the king side, but its much less clear how to convert a queen side attack.
11:30 That G7 pawn was a messenger from Vishy Anand say " hey man you need to resign, believe me HE WILL HUNT YOU LIKE A PREDATOR"..... i mean look at that pawn how did he even get there?! HAHAHA
I used to live chess when I was younger but fell off, I’m tryna get back into it anyway I can and it’s so exciting because this seems like such a large world
I had a similar game yesterday where I made the sacrifice but whiffed on the continuation, and my rook and queen spent the next few moves hunting down the king who ran all the way to the other side of the board before being mated. Super tricky to do this right in the heat of the moment, especially if you are playing blitz games.
Absolutely loving the content. I'm a garb ~750 on chess.com, but just started studying chess theory and have been watching a ton of your videos. Keep it up man. Favorite streamer / content creator 🤘🏼
You are awesome! I’m Nee to the channel, (3 weeks) and your approach in many of your videos has broadened my mind in how I play now. It’s very much appreciated!
Thanx for the video Levy. Id like to say that i was helped a lot by the climb videos you made. The way you analysed the games was very enlightening. Hope to see more climb rating videos.
Thank you for the continuing great chess content. More of you playing chess and telling us what you are thinking on each move. So instructional and is radically improving my game. Thank you.
Levy- As a real beginner, I love that these exist to refer back to over time but I really benefit from conceptual videos, like the how to study and checkmate pattern videos. I'm curious if it'd be possible to make a 'how to play solid' video. I've seen you on stream say "I could go for this attack or I could just stay solid", and from context I know generally what that means but it may be beneficial to have it broken down and detailed.
Your gaining tons of subscribers dude, this does put a smile on my face.
same bro
Gotham is the boy. Queens gambit is only putting a spotlight on the boy
My favorite part of this comment is that no one felt they needed to be annoying and correct grammar
@@thoop6795 You're. 🤓
@@thoop6795 I felt it, it's actually looks dumb to write your
Lasker was also a very famous mathematician (he is the one in the Lasker-Noether theorem in commutative algebra)
Hey!!!
You are cool
Is it me or the more I watch Levy his hair gets fluffier?
Because hair grows you know...
What about the super Saiyan hair
Yep...hair grow
@@yunghive4771
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It's some impressive lettuce
Me : blunders a bishop
Also me : thats a legendary sacrifice 😂
Me: blunders king.
Also me: king sacrifice go brr
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@@camo_hunter hm?
I owe you atleast 400 rating points
Edit-If I could I would
Pay him
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I've heard people talk about how chess it beautiful and that at the grandmaster level the players are almost conversing with the pieces, but I haven't experienced that until watching some of your videos more recently. Keep up the fantastic work. This was a magnificent video.
Noobovich watching levy: Finally a video by Gotham chess under 15 minutes
Still not under 15 minutes
under 15 and 32 seconds
You guys aren't getting the joke
I’m starting to think Levy kidnapped Hikaru’s editor
Emanuel lasker Be like:
Haha Bishop's go brrrrrrr
0:35 bruh the guy could have gotten checkmated by the kianu reeves gambit
7:28
love how u had to clarify
Damn Levy is a content machine!
Took 11 months but hey, you did make it
Great video, like this direction of content dealing with more general purpose tactical or strategic ideas rather than specific openings (not that opening videos are bad, there are just a lot of them already done). Would love to see a few videos on chess weaknesses. Specifically spotting weaknesses in your opponent's position, how to effectively provoke weaknesses if they don't have any yet, and how to take most advantage of those weaknesses.
Keep up the great work Levy, you're a real gift to the chess community.
Imagine if his channel was called "Levychess"
its you again huh?
its you again huh?
10:09 As impressive as being the number 2 for decades is, this description sells Karpov short. He did more than fight Kasparov for the world championship for 20 years. Before Kasparov was the world champion Anatoly Karpov was the world champion, gaining the title by winning the candidates in 1975 (Fischer was a no-show so he won by forfeit) and defending his title succesfully against Victor Korchnoi twice.
This one really resembles a stonewall attacking pattern but without d4 pawn and with active dark-squared bishop
Wanted to thank you for my improvement in chess over the last month. I’ve gone from a 1500-1850 in the last month alone! It means a lot to me.
How? I'm stuck at 1200
@@drx5226 He didn’t. Unless he’s talking about lichess
@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 yeah he is talking abt lichess😂
Exactly what I was looking for Levy, a London opening immediately attacking their king. You are the Greatest!
Regular Players: Greek Gift Sacrifice
Emmanuel Lasker: *2 Bishop Sacrifice*
oh, i know Emanuel Lasker, he's a distant cousin of Edward Lasker who played an immortal game by forcing the opponent into a position where he could checkmate him with castles
Day 11 of telling levy that he is great
Edit-Thanks you guys.... I have never gotten so much likes in any of my comments. 😘😘😍😍
Honestly such a good channel
Indeed!
cheloap
i love people who just randomly send out love to youtubers
@@residentsleeper828 I do like this legend. He is just awesome and best coach in the world you would ever get
“Bauer“ ist the German word for pawn in chess (in everyday language it means farmer).
R.I.P., poor guy 😢 (Early Death at the age of 30). It's a sad thing if you're only remembered because you lost once a game against a world champion.
👍🙋
Lasker played Bird (for White) opening
Umm no... He played the f4, The Bird. The "Sicilian for White" would be the English, c3. In "Lasker's Manual of Chess" his section heading literally says "English Opening or Sicilian on the First Move. 1.P-QB4" (That's 1.c3 in algebraic in case the ROYAL CHESS ACADEMY doesn't do descriptive notation).
@@benjaminjordan3223 Yeah!! Thanks!! Sorry I 4got
It’s either way too late or too early to learn chess but I’m here anyway
Its never too late or too early to learn chess
@@loremipsum1789 it’s too early if chess hasn’t been invented yet
@@matthewmcgee1434 it's Big Brain time.
Idk why these videos appeared on my timeline, but I'm glad. I haven't played chess since high school and even that was against a comp. I never heard these terms and was deep into these strategies. I'm now super fascinated and want to learn more.
"YOU GIVE BLACK THYME, NOT THE HERB"-----> DEATH HAS REACHED ME.
I like the shorter videos, makes it easier to find time to watch them and come back later to find things when studying
I like this shorter format between longer vids. It's nice to just grab a quick idea every now and then!
I once did the bishop sacrifice and created a successful king hunt UNTIL I BLUNDERED MY QUEEN TO THAT KNIGHT 😭😭😭😭
I literally feel as if I'm getting a bit of your knowledge throughout each video. When you asked why the rook lift wasn't a good idea I answered "time" just as you did and I got so hype because I actually absorbed some knowledge. I feel like I wanna take fucking notes I feel so passionate right now.
6 months coming up, hyped for the video on closed positions
Still waiting for the closed positions' video
Here since 2k subs , your growth has been exponential, all the best for the future Levy !!!!!
Title: Legendary attack
Thumbnail : Ninja attack
Video: Pawn attack
Game : What the hell is happening
Gunna
I think this is one of the best videos you've done. Your passion for the game really shines through your words. I loved it
I really enjoyed this instructional analysis of the famous Lasker-Bauer double bishop sacrifice. I would love to see Levy analyse the fascinating Greek Gift sacrifice in Colle-O’Hanlon, 1930. I offered a Greek Gift in a recent 10-minute game arising from a London System. The computer doesn’t like it (it doesn’t like Colle’s sac either!) but it is difficult for Black to defend, especially in a 10-minute game.
1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 e6 4. Nd2 c5 5. c3 Bd6 6. Bxd6 Qxd6 7. f4 Nc6 8. Bd3 O-O 9. Ngf3 c4 10. Bc2 b5 11. Ne5 Rb8 12. g4 b4 13. g5 Nd7 14. Bxh7+ Kxh7 15.Qh5+ Kg8 16. g6 fxg6 17. Nxg6 Rf5 18. Qh8+ Kf7 19. Nf3 Kxg6 20. Rg1+ Kf7 21.Rxg7+ Kf6 22. Rxd7+ Kg6 23. Qg7+ 1-0
A few timestamps (mostly for me) that you can reference:
12:57 London opening
13:49 2 Knights against French w/ Greek gift
This was absolutely awesome. Stuck to one concept and gave a bunch of examples. Please do more like this!
So often black castles over to the side where the enemy pawns are pointing, with no defenders over there but plenty of attackers hovering, knowing full well that these kinds of attacks exist. There must be a better reason than "you're just meant to castle as soon as possible". What I'd love in these sorts of videos is an explanation of why staying in the centre or waiting to castle long would actually be worse for them than the attack that they know is coming.
For a player just really getting into chess, I love your content! Very straight forward and very informational. Thank you for your time, work, and knowledge!
Levy needs a tan
"January 12th 2021" me: "hah that was like 2 months ag-"
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04:26 In Italy we have other kinds of "prophylactic" moves
Is it me at 6:49 , that Levy's legendary feels like Barney Stinson teaching chess. Legend.. wait for it "Dary" 😂
I don't know why but Levy reminds me of Barney Stinson alot not just here! 😂❤️
Strangely he too is from NYC
I'm really enjoying your content Levi. I thought it was nice of you to respond to a hater without stooping to their level. Such class is an inspiration to us all.
Do puzzles actually help you with your normal games?
Yes! Puzzles appear all the time in your games. The truth is when you solve more puzzles you get pattern recognition for them which helps you in:
1. calculation,
2. visualization and most importantly,
3. realizing which moves allow tactical opportunities for your opponent and not playing them... So many times why tactics are necessary to reject certain moves. Usually people above 1500-1600 don't blunder tactics here and there, but it's important for you to figure out if you are blundering a tactic or not...
4. Tactical moves develop your intuition, so at first it looks solving tactics is a pain but it gradually gets easier and easier... Hope this helps. :)
Thank you! I played chess for a while thinking that you got good at it just by understanding how the pieces move and playing. Recently though I started studying theory and different openings. Thank you for responding, I’ll study puzzles and see how they help me in my games!
@@chessbitz6846 the last game I played in the end game I saw pretty much the same concept as a recent puzzle I saw. A fork that went into a skewer!
Love these shorter ones that I can watch between things or during a quick meal. Keep it up Levy!
it took a year for him to make a closed games video. haha
Fun word fact: prophylactic comes from a greek word "προφύλαξη" (pro-fi-la-xi, fi like fiddle, xi more like "ksi"). Pro is a prefix that means before (for example prehistoric) and filaxi is greek word for guarding. So it literally means guarding before danger.
I love the fact that you make chess look very simple
Okay, so I figured out my problem: my attacks are too slow and not forcing enough. I'll try to incorporate these lessons in my games. Thanks Levy, awesome video.
on the grind
"Yo dude don't let me go" best king point of view
how to mate at 14:34 if the king does move to G8? Queen to H5 results in black knight to F6 which attacks the queen and blocks the queen from moving to H7.
So i was pondering up on the question: How to we decide who is the better robot Magnus or Hikaru?
So i came up with a three round idea:
Round one: They play hyberbullet blindfold chess against eachother.
Round two: They have a wrestling match
Round Three: They play rock paper scissors
Gotham you are a legend. After watching this won my next 2 games with the Greek gift and the bishop sacrifice/Queen mating pattern. You da man
Great tutorial for learning attacking skills in Chess.
I thought it was the original immortal game of Andressen after I saw the title
I generally end up sacrificing my king so…… that wasn’t legendary bishop sacrifice for me
as a classical dutch player, i recently started playing 1.f4 with white to great success.. what a treat this video is!
I'd love to see Levy break down a Mihkail Tal sacrifice
the game feat. lasker, is actually in a chess book i bought along ago. it's hard to find these soft spots, when you are not really used to it.
normally you develop a sense of things as you progress with the game. hint: sacrificing pieces for "seemingly" nothing, is not one of them
It's good to see an example of why Lasker was champion for 27 years
Such an impressive game only the f pawn was exchanged for white in the entire video.
7:42 cant you play Rxg5!, then Kf8 Qxh8! and youre still winning?
I was looking for this comment.
1:35 spoiler: you don't have one, i'll come back in 2 months
finally a game with the Bird opening where black doesn't respond with the From's gambit
How do I beat the kings Indian defense
Gotham Chess has the BEST chess vid thumbnails out of all ches YTs I know.
You earnt a sub.
This reminds me of Kasparov-Portisch where Garry had white in a queens indian and played Bxh7+ followed by Bxg7 two moves later and won with a nice attack.
I would love if u made a video about queen side attacks. I feel like I know how to attack on the king side, but its much less clear how to convert a queen side attack.
11:30 That G7 pawn was a messenger from Vishy Anand say " hey man you need to resign, believe me HE WILL HUNT YOU LIKE A PREDATOR"..... i mean look at that pawn how did he even get there?! HAHAHA
Once made a mate in 2 rook sacrifice, got in a happy mood for a whole week!
I absolutely love your videos, the beauty of the game cannot be worded better. You sir are amazing!
When Jan Timman is featured in a game, he always loses. He's good enough to be a meaningful challenger but never good enough to win.
Alekhine Vs. Drewitt 1923 Portsmouth
The book of the 1924ny tourney is excellent for attacks by some of the greatest Masterson the early 20th century.
I used to live chess when I was younger but fell off, I’m tryna get back into it anyway I can and it’s so exciting because this seems like such a large world
I had a similar game yesterday where I made the sacrifice but whiffed on the continuation, and my rook and queen spent the next few moves hunting down the king who ran all the way to the other side of the board before being mated. Super tricky to do this right in the heat of the moment, especially if you are playing blitz games.
Next video:
The King Sacrifice
At 10.36 when Levy says you cannot stop mate.. well technically you can by playing f6
Absolutely loving the content. I'm a garb ~750 on chess.com, but just started studying chess theory and have been watching a ton of your videos. Keep it up man. Favorite streamer / content creator 🤘🏼
These videos are really amazing. So much well spoken information in a small time frame
You are awesome! I’m Nee to the channel, (3 weeks) and your approach in many of your videos has broadened my mind in how I play now. It’s very much appreciated!
I really enjoyed the reference to Rorschach's legendary quote!
Hey Levy, one concept I'd like to see you cover is when you should bring your king out of hiding
Literally just used that queen check on the g file to lock in the king into a rook lift to win a game. Thanks Gotham!!
Thanx for the video Levy. Id like to say that i was helped a lot by the climb videos you made. The way you analysed the games was very enlightening. Hope to see more climb rating videos.
Concept for the next video: levy vs hikaru checkers: loser drinks orange juice
drinks orange juice after brushing their teeth
10:55 that is one hell of a rook lift
4:12 whole century roast lol
I love how he always does his videos in one take
Sacrificing 2 bishops to get to the rook and queen endgame.
Thank you for the continuing great chess content. More of you playing chess and telling us what you are thinking on each move. So instructional and is radically improving my game. Thank you.
Levy pls do a detailed opening video for the Caro-Kann defense as you have done for the Scandinavian ,etc.
Thank you Levy, for everything you have done for us.
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Levy- As a real beginner, I love that these exist to refer back to over time but I really benefit from conceptual videos, like the how to study and checkmate pattern videos. I'm curious if it'd be possible to make a 'how to play solid' video. I've seen you on stream say "I could go for this attack or I could just stay solid", and from context I know generally what that means but it may be beneficial to have it broken down and detailed.
If black has the misfortune to get Greek gifted, kg8 is the move to stay alive
We need a video on how to find a coach/what to look for in a good coach