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Levy I just crossed 2,000 this week. It means a lot to me and I want to thank you since you were the first one who I found when I got into chess during COVID. Now I’ll be following while you achieve your goal and become GM!
Hey man any tips? I want to reach around 1600 elo and know the basic stuff for improving I guess. Play puzzles, rapid over blitz, analyse games and I only play 2 openings that I study every day. Could you tell me what you think was the most important step for your improvement? Thank you and big congratulations!!
@@Oliver-2103 it’s a bit hard to say because everybody has different things that work for them (I barely do puzzles tbh, but that is one of the more classical methods). A couple things that helped me personally: (1) watching/paying close attention to Levy’s recaps of top level play. Even though you can’t play like a GM he explains really clearly what they’re thinking and trying to do. I remember specifically one game where I saw Caruana make a plan to reactivate a bishop that was restrained for the whole game before that, and it made a lightbulb go off. I’ve had a few of those moments. (2) Watch higher level videos of your specific openings (most importantly the way to play general positions, rather than memorized moves). Even into the 2000 level people do not know the “why” of how their openings are played. (3) branch out your RUclips content-there are so many knowledgeable players online that can help you level up, poke around because you can learn something from all of them even if they don’t have the most views. Bonus tip: GTE seems like it’s just a fun series but I still learn so much to this day because Levy drops gems in the midst of explaining a mistake. Danya’s speed run is much the same way. Hope that helps! Good luck man you can totally do it.
@28:58 found something I’m proud of. Gotham had rook g6 and there’s a fun line. After Fxg6, there’s Qxh6+, kg8 forced, then Hxg6. Position is only around -1. I mean obviously the engine just squeezes a better position (Black plays re8 and just calmly continues their attack) but white has an eventual g7 and a monster knight. Would be fun to see humans play it out.
I found the opening, it’s the Sodium Attack,it changes the bot’s elo to like 200 as well as the next times you play it it will continue to play like a 200 and keeps saying, “Brain Broken”
@@Omarmohamed-tk6up i think it might’ve been showing performance ratings because it shows levy’s rating as 2547 which isn’t his actual rating obviously edit: i have no idea why it would do that though
People don't understand the difference between a low ELO bot and a low ELO human. A low ELO bot can still find crazy good moves, they just blunder constantly. They're bad in a more artificial sort of way, where they can still find the best moves they just also intermittently hang their queen. This is one reason why playing low ELO bots when you are low ELO doesn't actually get you better at chess, because the ELO scale for bots is just about how frequently they hang pieces, they're yet to make them accurately reflect humans at each ELO, they're just bots that will win roughly as often, doesn't mean they actually play the same.
iirc eugene is a goodwill hunting reference. It's about this janitor at MIT who turned out to be super smart. Looking at the poster, Eugene and Will Hunting have the same mop of hair
Man I love the pacing of your words. I sent this video through a vocoder and used it to jam over a little sequence. It was pretty funny how the spacing of your words lines up over a beat. Anyways. Keep being a suave intellectual, Gotham Chess.
Tx Levi for the laughter. 24:50 I was on the floor. It is just so hilarious that such a good player like him get hit with a brilliant move that he couldn’t see coming a mile away. His shocked face is just so funny.
12:54 I like to analyze Gotham's games as I watch him play and I gotta say this might be the craziest thing I've seen in a while. According to the engine (stockfish 16 at depth 30+), taking the queen in this position IS NOT even the best move, but even more shockingly; it's not even in the TOP 4 moves the engine wants to play. The engine is so confident that white HAS to give up the queen on their own that it just ignores it I don't think I've ever seen a position so bad that losing your queen isn't even your biggest problem (excluding my own games and obvious checkmates of course)
26:08 Levy with a stats degree should know that the probability of making the right first move is 5%, so theoretically he must play 20 white games to win 1.
Just saying the move to break his mind is the sodium attack and that’s just moving one of your knights on the first move also he says weird things so that’s how you can tell
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you boutta oil up bro?
@@JiviteshBakshi ...
Pain of sponsor?
Pin of sponsor
Fentanyl
"I'm gonna open up the position and then I'mma oil up." - Levy Rozman, 2024
362 likes and zero replys, damn
word of the wise
He's finally oiled up
@@mohammedalobadi589glad you said it, so I didn’t have to 🤣👍
9:18 He just oiled up
"Maybe it's a4?"
Nope, Levy, I don't think it's a4.
@digiscream Lol I did the same thing
The move is na3
0:00 Video Starts
9:17 Levy oils up
31:20 Video Ends
thanks man i really needed this
@@scooby8561 …
Thanks dude, couldnt remember where he oiled up and now i dont have to search for it.
I needed this so bad
😂😂😂
"How you like those apples" means that this janitor is definitely a reference to the protagonist of Good Will Hunting
yup!
How do you like them apples*
Or Death Note (but I hope not)
@@Legan320 nah, he also talked about Red Sox which is a reference to a dialog in the movie, so def not Death Note
When I played Eugene, he said he had to see about a girl after the match
Original Title: Why I oil up in chess positions
@@CrankyEditz hell yeah
twas actually "Eugene."
9:15 for those looking
" "a little bit of that and a little bit of this" ahh edit "
"with glutes stretched" ahh title
The correct way to beat him is to play 1:Na3 - Sodium attack
Did not work
@@Dimeind same. I'm on mobile maybe it's pc/web only?
@@julian7801 worked for me, he should start saying “chess……..”.
It worked on PC
it worked lol
Levy I just crossed 2,000 this week. It means a lot to me and I want to thank you since you were the first one who I found when I got into chess during COVID. Now I’ll be following while you achieve your goal and become GM!
🎉
Hey man any tips? I want to reach around 1600 elo and know the basic stuff for improving I guess. Play puzzles, rapid over blitz, analyse games and I only play 2 openings that I study every day. Could you tell me what you think was the most important step for your improvement? Thank you and big congratulations!!
@@Oliver-2103 im 2000 and I think most of my improvement was from watching loads of chess yt just for fun and entertainment
@@hayhorca915 what you watch????
Please tell
@@Oliver-2103 it’s a bit hard to say because everybody has different things that work for them (I barely do puzzles tbh, but that is one of the more classical methods). A couple things that helped me personally: (1) watching/paying close attention to Levy’s recaps of top level play. Even though you can’t play like a GM he explains really clearly what they’re thinking and trying to do. I remember specifically one game where I saw Caruana make a plan to reactivate a bishop that was restrained for the whole game before that, and it made a lightbulb go off. I’ve had a few of those moments. (2) Watch higher level videos of your specific openings (most importantly the way to play general positions, rather than memorized moves). Even into the 2000 level people do not know the “why” of how their openings are played. (3) branch out your RUclips content-there are so many knowledgeable players online that can help you level up, poke around because you can learn something from all of them even if they don’t have the most views.
Bonus tip: GTE seems like it’s just a fun series but I still learn so much to this day because Levy drops gems in the midst of explaining a mistake. Danya’s speed run is much the same way.
Hope that helps! Good luck man you can totally do it.
I think Eugene is inspired by Will Hunting (janitor at MIT) in the movie Goodwill Hunting.
That’s what i was thinking
Maybe inspired by magnus tho kinda looks like him
Indeed, that’s what i thought
pretty obvious from the apples line
Yeah. That bot is wicked smart.
9:17 quote of the year
Levy oiling up 4k
31:08 maybe you should try to beat the bot one more time again 🙂
Levy never fails to brutally beat a janitor
He literally failed doing that this video lol
And in chess, too!
and Eugene SACRIFICED THE ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK
@@ctaplliekjiacchuk6478 The rook sac was personal
@@ctaplliekjiacchuk6478 The rook sac was personal
@28:58 found something I’m proud of. Gotham had rook g6 and there’s a fun line.
After Fxg6, there’s Qxh6+, kg8 forced, then Hxg6. Position is only around -1. I mean obviously the engine just squeezes a better position (Black plays re8 and just calmly continues their attack) but white has an eventual g7 and a monster knight. Would be fun to see humans play it out.
The move is 1. Na3
@CatSurfer it worked, but I still lost. I think he is above a 400 elo level, lol
I beat him with this, thanks.
Why is this comment NOT number 1???
@@gianlucatartaro1335 Because i didn't comment this the nanosecond the video came out
I think Eugene is a Good Will Hunting reference to Matt Damon's character working as a janitor at MIT.
24:48 "Bro actually thinks he's Hikaru"
AOOOUUGGHH
0:01 Literally me i only play against bots i get too stressed out when playing a real game
@@ChessPlaysReal ye but you have to play against real people to improve
Same 🙌
@@charles6238 not really no
0:33 Levy reveals his secret janitor prep
20:51 Is when he starts playing eugene.
Thx
Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, Eu-geeeeene…please don’t take my queen just because you can…
I also thought the same when I saw this name written in the comments
The sodium attack is Eugene's weakness. He instantly become a horrible bot after you do it
9:17 AYO nah levy don't get to excited
@@ryxzn1 fr tho 9:18 no way said parents oiling up is when u COOK with the frying pan...
💀
I found the opening, it’s the Sodium Attack,it changes the bot’s elo to like 200 as well as the next times you play it it will continue to play like a 200 and keeps saying, “Brain Broken”
25:42 you can see eugene's elo.
Saw that 😊
@@Omarmohamed-tk6up i think it might’ve been showing performance ratings because it shows levy’s rating as 2547 which isn’t his actual rating obviously
edit: i have no idea why it would do that though
@@RushTornad0it says 2457
his elo is hanging out?
@@thekraken4265 typo mb
31:20 video ends
Btw the opening that breaks eugene is the sodium attack with Na3
yes i found it too
❗️
It still plays like an engine
Oh it does not work on mobile
Wow yeah, I’m like 700 and beat him no problem. The dialogue switch is cool
0:11 but not all chess bots are the same
People don't understand the difference between a low ELO bot and a low ELO human. A low ELO bot can still find crazy good moves, they just blunder constantly. They're bad in a more artificial sort of way, where they can still find the best moves they just also intermittently hang their queen. This is one reason why playing low ELO bots when you are low ELO doesn't actually get you better at chess, because the ELO scale for bots is just about how frequently they hang pieces, they're yet to make them accurately reflect humans at each ELO, they're just bots that will win roughly as often, doesn't mean they actually play the same.
0:02 Chess bots
0:03 is fun
0:04 Nice way to practice
0:05 as well so
@@logandoran4333 9:18 I’m gonna oil up
0:07 actual human beings
Nah "i'm going to oil up" is crazy
9:16 Levy never fails to oil up
What ?
That's actually what he said 😂😂
Chad being 575 Elo and playing like a master lol😂 he was legit better than the next two bots higher than him
Chads gonna chad.
Virgin 3500 overengineered bot vs 500 Elo chad bot
Just started reading your book, How to Win At Chess. Always great to see RUclipsrs expand to other media.
Eugene... Levy. So Eugene named his kid Levy. Now it's canon that Levy is named after Eugene Levy.
had to scroll way too far to find this. thought it'd be top comment for sure.
@@shausable I'm beginning to think people don't know who Eugene Levy is.
I thought for a second that Eugene Levy was his dad's name... "Wait, THAT Eugene Levy?!" but then I realized no, it would be Eugene Rozman. Whew
btw if youre wondering the move is nb3
8th year senior (PhD), probably ~30 yrs old - actually not very uncommon
Your personality was really shinning today Levy! Loved the video!
iirc eugene is a goodwill hunting reference. It's about this janitor at MIT who turned out to be super smart. Looking at the poster, Eugene and Will Hunting have the same mop of hair
"bro ACTUALLY thinks he's Hikaru"
he says as his defense crumbles in one move
0:00 the video starts
Incredibly insightful, thank you
I would have never known that without you
oh thanks brother
You know how to drink water 💦
thanks
If you play knight A3 for your first move, it breaks the bot and he forgets how the game works
"I'm gonna openup tge position and then i'm gonna oil up"💀💀💀
Man I love the pacing of your words. I sent this video through a vocoder and used it to jam over a little sequence. It was pretty funny how the spacing of your words lines up over a beat. Anyways. Keep being a suave intellectual, Gotham Chess.
0:34 urban legend
9:16 Parents now: gabriel, could you oil up with the chicken
thenk you for featuring 80000 hours, it helped me switch career to more fulfilment
Levy, a little advice, for the disabling move : Eugene doesn’t like SODIUM
people call him Eugene but whenever he tells his name to people he pronounces it "Evgeny"
The move is knight a3, after that play normally, so try e4 and the bot just breakes, hope this helps Levy and viewers
You can beat Eugene by playing the sodium attack
You're really great Gotham, keep it up for ever or as long as you want
0:46 "And Before we jump into the games today"
Tx Levi for the laughter. 24:50 I was on the floor. It is just so hilarious that such a good player like him get hit with a brilliant move that he couldn’t see coming a mile away.
His shocked face is just so funny.
Levy's dad beats him and forces him to sleep outside 😢
4:29 d5 was best because you can take on h3 if he move the h3 knight, there is checkmate.
You should have told him about the song “Dupe - CTM” when u called him 😅
I bought your book and I can't say enough good stuff about it! Congrats on all of your success and your legacy will now live on forever!
24:42 Eugene did the thing
for who's wondering the move is knight to b3, the sodium attack, bot says it's his only weakness
Chess Titans hardest level still holds the first position 🗿🗿🗿🗿
I never thought i would have the patience to watch 30 min long chess videos as a casual chess player. Levy really is a good RUclipsr
Levy is the only titled player to always lose to one of the lower rated bots cause he always messes up the colorst at least once
Please make a part 2 of 'How To Win At Chess' for ratings 1200-2000 with more depth in endgames, tactics, calculations, openings etc.
Levy never fails to milk multiple man
Me: MY BRAIN! just don't imagine it.
i wish Levy one day would milk me🥺
Yujin is unbreakable, she is the most talented
Most engines are just tacticians on steroids. You can beat them by playing positionally. But the problem is you also must be a positional monster! 😂
the move is knight to a3 (na3) sodium attack
Bro said oil up
After a long time this was the best levy video. I had a pretty good laugh.
Eugene
12:54 I like to analyze Gotham's games as I watch him play and I gotta say this might be the craziest thing I've seen in a while. According to the engine (stockfish 16 at depth 30+), taking the queen in this position IS NOT even the best move, but even more shockingly; it's not even in the TOP 4 moves the engine wants to play. The engine is so confident that white HAS to give up the queen on their own that it just ignores it
I don't think I've ever seen a position so bad that losing your queen isn't even your biggest problem (excluding my own games and obvious checkmates of course)
Gothamchess never fails to make me lose rating
21:04 got to be one of Levi's funniest moments❤.The accent😂😂
2:06 the video really starts
Or just watch the add to get him his money
@@pininja4981 he gets money regardless of whether we skip no?
Btw the opening that breaks eugene is the sodium attack with Na3
14:02 Eric Rosen would be proud.
I was losing it with laughter when you were getting boxed in with that rook looming. Knight and queen moves were needed
Mickey mouse laugh at 25:10
Ngl, for a moment i thought he was talking about Eugene Torre💀💀
Original title: "Why nobody celebrates my birthday"
No it isn’t it was “Eugene.”
No it was: "MAGNUS IS GROOMING LITTLE CHILDREN???"
LMAOOOO
Classic Gotham, I audibly laughed at the triple fork at the end!!
"Eugene" 🤓
The move is Na3 the sodium attack
Original title: "Eugene"
Thanks so much Gotham for this amazing Video!
26:08 Levy with a stats degree should know that the probability of making the right first move is 5%, so theoretically he must play 20 white games to win 1.
I assume those 4 are e4 d4 nc3 nf3 (or maybe you mean c4 not nc3) but there are more than that such as those listed, b3, and g3.
Theoretically, 20 white games guarantees that he finds the right move. Practically, he will probably find the right move in less than 20 guesses.
Wrong he could move every pawn and it mighta been a horse the whole time
@Theor.y there's 20 moves on the first move of the game including the pawns and knights thats why they said 20. 16 from the pawns, 4 from the knights
@@Theor.y that's what he's saying, 16 possible pawn moves and 4 possible knight moves to start the game
Hahaha 😂 😂! You make me smiley 😊 😊! I love the end of this video. Thanks again Levy
under a minute
Here
You should've called me up i'd handle it tbh
24:49 i'm surprised levy didn't go "and he sacrificed... THE ROOK!"
How is taking an undefended pawn a sacrifice? What?
Only when he does he replay of games. Not when he's playing Live and not when he's getting beaten by a janitor.
@@thuroria7631 not undefended, pawn takes rook at 25:11
The sodium attack starts with Na3 hope this helps ❤
Na3 did the trick...
1. Na3 {The Sodium Attack $2 My only weakness $1 NO $3 $3 $3 $1} 1... Nf6
{Brain...broken...} 2. e4 c5 {...me forget...how chess...} 3. d3 e5
{...chess...chess...} 4. Nc4 Qe7 {...chess...} 5. Bg5 b5 6. Ne3 Nh5 7. Bxe7 Bxe7
8. Qxh5 {...huh. What's going on, here $2} 8... Bf8 9. Nd5 c4 10. Nc7+ Kd8
{...chess...} 11. Nxa8 f6 12. Qf7 c3 13. bxc3 a5 14. d4 b4 15. cxb4 Bxb4+ 16.
Kd1 Ba3 {...chess...} 17. Rb1 Rg8 18. Qxg8+ Ke7 19. Qxg7+ Kd8 20. Qxf6+ Be7 21.
Qh8+ Bf8 22. Qxf8# {Checkmate $1 That was fun. Let's go to a Sox game sometime,
eh $2} 1-0
Just saying the move to break his mind is the sodium attack and that’s just moving one of your knights on the first move also he says weird things so that’s how you can tell
0:01 Ladies and ladies
Wut?
Stopping people from saying "Levy never fails"
Stopping people from saying "Levy never fails" always fails
Levy never fails
21:03 Anatoly 😂😂 just cleaning here 😂😂😊😊 no problem 😄😄
New milking cow for Levy just dropped💀
the opening is Na3, Nc3, e3, then d4
Watch out Levy, My boy's wicked smart.
0:01 Ladies and gentlemen