700 Elo Chess - 19 BLUNDERS!! 

It is funny how embarrassing USA culture is that you can't even put something on the profile picture that is not disgusting.

"When there is mate in one, look for a better move"

Im a 500 ELO and sometimes the way we win is that we just kinda wander into checkmates

"OOOOH! Me, Attack Rook!" I've never felt so attacked and I'm not even a rook.

low elo chess is like war, but the tactician is incredibly drunk

Low elo chess is surprisingly more entertaining than high elo chess

As someone who is rated at approximately this level, it's useful to see what was played (and what I honestly would probably have played) vs. what is the better move. I know you make these low rank videos more for entertainment, but I actually get a lot of value out of them. Thanks Levy!

I would learn so much if Gotham critiqued my game but i would also cry

As 200 ELO this makes me feel good

Their rating means nothing to them. In their minds they were fighting to the death with best moves every time. White went home after that win, smacked his wife on the tush, and opened a bottle of champagne. “Tonight, we celebrate!!!”

Everyone was so focused on high level chess gameplay, it's really the lowest level chess gameplay that we wanna see

4:26 I LOVE THIS PART 😂

The funny part is that the two players are actually insanely intensed in this match like a match btw Hikaru and Magnus

Levy: You ever win a game by accident? Me an insomniac playing at 3am: OH yeah its all coming tog-wait I won?

Nice timestamps Gotham. Really gotta love the intensity of the Magnus-Hikaru game

I started playing chess yesterday and on my first game did only 13 blunders so I'm chillin

7:20 is single handedly your best joke ever.

16:53 This is the definition of “when you have mate in 1, look for better”

Thanks Levy! I'm pleasantly surprised that I not just won the GLE lottery but also featured in a standalone video! (I played white in this game) Few notes from what I can recall from my line of thinking, in case anyone was wondering (AMA!): - 5:32: I had some success in Scandinavian with this bishop and rook setup (usually winning a queen or something with a discovery) so I was tunnel visioned to clear e-file for the rook than anything else. - 7:09: I saw Rxb1 loses a2 pawn but Bxb1 can still protect so I went for it, didn't even look one step further after Qxa2, which ofc was the thing I was trying to do all along. - 11:37: Starting from here I missed most of black's queen backrank mate, wasn't aware that moving my bishop out is a way better idea. - 14:20: Believing black was doing some sort of rook sac idea that I didn't see, I decided to not give what they wanted, but I realized immediately after Qd8+ that was stupid 😂. I wonder if I recalled the rule of "2 more attacking pieces" at that moment I would see that was just a clear rook blunder. - 16:15: Can confirm, you won the million dollars. - 19:39: My brain isn't functioning, and I have this tendency of not giving what my opponent would obvious expect me to do. - 20:24: I just eyeballed that my king was more active, can probably stop those pawns after a queen trade, and I have queenside pawn majority, which was all an illusion. Have been struggling but I'm now motivated to put more efforts to not "fake learning", and review my course lines. Love your videos, keep it up! And/or find more success in your Chess career, whichever works better for you ;)

Such a good story! Felt like I was watching a movie!

This is really interesting to watch when you're 700 Elo. The whole match I was like "But how could that have been a better move?!"

Imagine them drawing and both being like. That was a high level game.

Learning by low elo players' mistakes make you improve way more than studying a gm. It is way harder to implement the playstyle from a gm than avoiding basic inaccuracies a 800 plays.

I really need to find more 700s like this lol, I’m at 600 but I’ve never seen a 19 blunder game, 2-4 each is normal

i almost died laughing at this commentary

"What an intense game! I can't wait to show Levy how well we both played for people of such low ELO!" *gets roasted to oblivion*

20:53 almost broke my heart when i heard it was gonna be a draw. but thank god that was only a joke

The queen moving one space at 16:00 instead of checkmate is something I’ll never forget

The funniest thing is I thought most of the 700 elo moves before they made it cause I would do it only to be ridiculed how stupid I am

"Full Oooga-Booga mode!!" What a game!! Props to the sub who submitted this one! Been there. The comp score comes up, you review the game and 6 mistakes, 4 blunders, and 3 missed wins later you're muttering "what a stupid game". Next day you're at it again. Yep, been there. Great content - entertaining and fun!

2:02 The amount of times ive lost my bishop like that is more than my ELO.

i remember discovering chess 2 years ago when i was eight , now im 10 and ive learnt so much from gothamchess . im most likely around 900-1000 ELO and im trying to get better at chess so badly

I'm around 500 elo rn but this was worse than my games. I know it's easy to think I'm over estimating myself but I paused consistently trying to see what I would play and I spotted about 2 of the early checkmates. I don't think these guys were actually 700 elo.

700 elo players with gotham : doesn't know en passant, doesn't see Mate in 1, blunder there queen and blunder mate 100 elo players with me : know en passant, see mate in 519 , know there openings , know double checks , legally 100M IQ

4:18 I'm dead 💀💀

10:59 “because you put the stupid bishop here” I’m dead!!!!

16:35 chess players not mating where have I heard that one before 😂

Chess humor at it's finest. The world needs more videos like this. It's funny because it's true, and because I'd have made many of those moves.

THIS IS FUNNY!! Good content Levy, I'm rated about 700 and have never laughed so hard. "The queen has 2 paths one is mate and the other picks up a pawn" 😂😂 I hope to see more of this!

5:30 check mate is possible with Qb3

I’m am approximately 1,300 and if a 700 to 800 played , Queen D1 I would’ve start suspecting too 😂

Are we all just ignoring the devastating burn at 16:39?

16:36 “both sides can mate each other but nobody wants to do it” pretty much sums up my love life

“You want to avoid having the king and queen on the same diagonal” *demonstrates a “better” move by putting king on the same diagonal as the queen*

I’m not here for the game I’m here for the reaction

3:29 "This is definitely the best move" *eval bar starts going down

I'm 800 and I'm happy with myself that I saw that mate in 2 at 5:50

8:52 deez knights🤣🤣🤣

"No 700 plays that". Me who forcefully makes myself 700 to troll all low elo players

I just surpassed 800 and now this makes me feel like i should be 1500 lol

2:10 "This is why you don't premove your opening" Flashback to yesterday's GC clip

I love how he just slips in jokes about lasting 4 minutes💀

Three stages of a 300 Elo game: (1) opening: normal moves, (2) middle game: chaos breaks out, (3) endgame: the player with the material lead blows the game.

I don't even play chess but I watch his videos because his narrating and explaining voice is very comforting. It feels like I know very niche stuff without knowing any opener whatsoever.

"I am wearing black today because I feel like I am attending a chess funeral"😭 0:57 Classic Levy🤣🤣🤣

I imagine Stockfish has developed depression from watching all these games.

I think I'd miss a lot too when it comes to being pressured by time (rapid chess).

3:02: "I love the way white is handling this position" 3:09: "I hate this, white is now completely winning" the duality of chess. Love it.

"Checks, captures, attacks" - good for a clean 200 point boost.

Personally me being a newer player, I'd move the other bishop to C5 or D6. The idea is as the game goes on it's attacking the king when not in real danger Hell even doing G4 a block down threatens their bishop/queen if they move the knight. Hell as he points out it lets the knight retake or drive in when it would be a much more questionable move if the bishop with threatening real pieces if the knife moved.

at 13:44 is a really good play because its mate when you move the rook up'

4:25 AYO 🤨

5:25 7:55 10:45 Me being a 400 (who blunders queens often and also finds brilliant moves): "wait, even I saw that for white"

13:45 The eyes of disappointment 😐

best part of the video. Levy: who doesn't love "Biryani" CORRECT PRONOUNCIATION yessssssss

Man i haven‘t laughed this hard in quite some while haha *goes back to getting mated in 2*

191st day of translating Levy's titles into Neapolitan: "E scacc re 700 elo è assurd"

4:11 "You're gonna need that skill for other things in life" 16:38 "I'm in the minority on that one"

“when i have 15 queens I should turn them to pawns”

These low elo series can help me alot!!!! I've actually starting to realize my mistakes because I also did these things in a real match. I guess I watch too much GM players that's why I'm stuck under 1000.

I love the way the eval bar keeps swinging from one end to the other every 2nd move

yeah same i defeated my dad by accident, when i looked at my knight not knowing that blocking the f7 square and rook on e8 checkmate without my knowing and not planning it.

“Then ooga booga mode kicks in, OoOoOh me attack rook” 😂😂😂

Thank you for the timestamps! Really useful. Grandelius - Pichot was a blast!

The truly funny thing is this is what GM level chess looks like to Stockfish.

4:50 "one simply does not attack things oonga boonga"👌

12:00 "report them for cheating and they're banned hours later" 😂😂😂

The eval bar was giving a nice visualization of Levy´s heartrate while presenting this game

You got to love the fact you named the games after grandmasters

4:31 "ooh me attack rook" I'm crying 😭

Levy failing for over 16 minutes to FINALLY come up with a mating pun is almost as much of a blunder as the stuff we saw on the board XD

I think it would be an interesting idea to also feature games where people around this rating (500-1300) play really high level games. That’s what’s so great about some of these guys: they can play atrocious games but also really good ones.

Overload tactics are not easy to see, that one was the least beginner level blunder of the game

this only makes me confident about my games

7:24 white thought they’re playing Fischer random placing both bishops besides each other 😂😂😂

As someone rightly said ' When you players plays a perfect game it's mostly a draw'.

14:13 yeah, it's not a mouse-slip. It's definitely an extra attack on the bishop while forgetting that pawns can be a threat. Happens quite a lot to some people. :">

When i saw Levy crack his back before the chaos began, i remembered i can crack my back too and did it, its like when the opponents king castles and you remember and castle too lmao

As a 200, 13:37 was actually M1, you don’t throw rook for a check there, just move ur queen into that spot the pawn created and it’s mate

2:04 This actually a well known chess opening, it's called "the Londun gambit".

4:13 "i don't think I will"

POV you see a move that levy talks about and they should do:”A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts”

I had a Mr Singh at my high school. He was the coolest teacher ever. I’d turn up to class stoned and so would he and we would greet each other awkwardly knowing what we were up to

14:45 Just take the rook Scoob

The funniest part of this video for me (a 700) is I’m literally making the same mistakes in my head as I try to analyze as Jav did lol

The think with 700s is they know opening but then ramdom moves afterwards

4:18 “i hope you lasted longer than 4 minutes, you’re gonna need that for other skills in life” can someone add that to a levy out of context montage pls

This is making me realize how important being strong at openings are, I’m at like 500 and I instantly saw the mate in 2 and I would do a lot of the moves you mention after the opening, but I am just awful at openings

That "White here goes:oh my! I haven't blundering in several moves" Part was just great

7:17 got me rolling on the floor 😂😂😂