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IM Levy Rozman ( ‪@GothamChess‬ ) and GM Hikaru Nakamura play blindfold chess vs subscribers
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@GMHikaru 3 года назад

Hello Everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that the rest of the ScrubStomping Speedrun will be on More GM Hikaru. We had too many videos to release at once and we decided to finish the speedrun over there. Part 6 and 7 are up over there. Part 6 is ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AAgeR6xWShw.html - don't forget to drop a sub over there as once we're at 50K subs on More GM Hikaru I'll do a speedrun with eyetracker to 3200 - that's always been a request and I'm hoping I get to do it for everyone. Thanks for all the support!

@stockfish2866 3 года назад

Oh my god I am your fan Especially your premoves

@inemanja 3 года назад

Hello Everyone to you too!

@Coco-qz7fn 2 года назад

IIf these guys are scrubs i'm trash..lol

@gregorm1178 Год назад

@@stockfish2866 l0

@upplsuckimcool16 3 месяца назад

Not being able to calculate things while driving is a known human limitation, you should look it up, it's actually pretty interesting and strange.

@christophe2570 3 года назад

I like how Hikaru still looks up or to the side to calculate even if his blindfolded..

@cosmosDiv 3 года назад

really good example for heuristics

@jasperkra-caskey2048 3 года назад

Engine on his blindfold that only activates if he looks up

@Trathien- 3 года назад

@@jasperkra-caskey2048 the ONLY logical conclusion

@AydenA 3 года назад

it's actually a common tactic for humans in general. Looking up does some science stuff to our brain and we remember better basically.

@MincraftPwnzer 3 года назад

You mean to tell me GMs dont actually see the pieces on the ceiling?

@someguyok6246 3 года назад

"I can't do blindfold chess while driving" i dont think i can drive with a blindfold either

@descendency 3 года назад

I'm so sad Levi missed that. That was a pro-level of deadpan from Hikaru.

@shamalamadingleberry7203 3 года назад

@@descendency He meant he just can't visualize a game of chess and drive at the same time. Not actually doing blindfolded chess

@petermuno1235 3 года назад

monkaSteer

@gabiblack 3 года назад

@@shamalamadingleberry7203 it's a joke dum dum

@shamalamadingleberry7203 3 года назад

@@gabiblack it honestly isn't. Hikaru was serious about not being able to do chess in his head while doing tasks such as driving, missing levy's implication completely.

@adfavelas 3 года назад

Such precision on the ending of the 1st game. When he explained Re7 instead of Qf7... Daaang! That's why he's a SuperGM

@emilianofernandez7399 3 года назад

How tf did he calculated all that in a second?

@EisonDoesEverything 3 года назад

@@emilianofernandez7399 past experience

@benyzamora9773 3 года назад

You forget that Bishop e6, Rook takes Bishop and check, King d6

@MrGreenBeanBeenBeanin 3 года назад

Countless hours of studying books of opening and positions combined with constant chess since the age of like 5. Couldn't be me.

@gilangramanda3643 3 года назад

He saw clearer than me on 500 mg of caffeine

@emilsadykhov123 2 года назад

Hikaru’s victim blunders: “oh, I didn’t see that move!” Hikaru: “dont worry, I didn’t either”

@nishantkeni447 7 месяцев назад

I like how you called him a victim 😂😂😂😂 tho at the same time its an honour to be playing against these legends

@Massaphan 3 года назад

Hikaru or Levi: "How did I not see that?" Everyone else: ...

@jkingenglish 2 года назад

@nope8247 Год назад

@@jkingenglish just dabs🤣🤣

@Heisenberg_962 Год назад

Underrated

@knivesin2727 3 года назад

My best strategy For white: Queen’s gambit For black: Sicilian For blindfold: Botez gambit

@xeraphyx7903 3 года назад

a gambit is not a set or fixed thing. it is a situation based trap for your opponent to fall in. you must have multiple gambits and attacks up your sleeve ready for any scenario. and if the opponent does not fall for it, it is up to your skill and experience tow in.

@mickrobertson7782 3 года назад

@@xeraphyx7903 Somehow I get the feeling you don't know what a Botez Gambit is

@dhruviyer7743 3 года назад

@@xeraphyx7903 r/woooooosh

@EJS-jj8py 3 года назад

@@jamesl.8853 exactly

@batrongordeg 2 года назад

@@xeraphyx7903 Botez gambit is blundering the Queen.

@alexanderpaulino1995 3 года назад

Hiraku could prolly premove a whole game blindfolded

@kr3xy140 3 года назад

That would be a nice new gamemode

@connorrose3283 3 года назад

"Hiraku" Dollarstore Hikaru

@andreerfabbro 3 года назад

playing black: 1. e4 ... ok i won

@gamelogic2235 3 года назад

I feel like he did that during his first game lol

@darkultron4856 3 года назад

before his oppooentn even moved

@erosmandici6214 3 года назад

Hikaru: *looks up at the ceiling with a blindfold* Levy: *wears glasses with a blindfold* Nothing wrong here I guess.

@egaotamagao 3 года назад

Nothing can stop hikaru to see to stockfish ceiling

@helenaborovcak6495 Год назад

I mean it just feels weird not wearing glasses and it would be hella wrong to be still with head and blindfolded while thinking

@noobiechessjxwyspl Год назад

It’s so he can’t see clearer

@afj810 Год назад

look at ceiling is more blood to brain and glasses are like google glass and have stockfish built in

@kaitlynmoul7857 15 дней назад

@@noobiechessjxwyspllmaoo took me a second to get this! Once I did it made me cackle

@kekwe3088 3 года назад

'Actually levy you are wrong' has to be one of hikarus favorite sentences

@vx3666 3 года назад

19:05 Hikaru counting material blindfolded blows my mind

@Nmc01236 3 года назад

Came to comment this, realized I was 4 months too late, liked your comment

@deathmeter7243 Год назад

@@Nmc01236 1 yr ago… yo u still play chess?

@Nmc01236 Год назад

@@deathmeter7243 lol, yeah, every now and then

@warlord212 Год назад

@@Nmc01236 2 yrs ago do you still play chess

@Nmc01236 Год назад

@@warlord212 yessir

@noahlamb2839 3 года назад

Hikaru: played more like a 1600 than a 1200 Levi: *calls a 1300 a 300*

@Vesdus 8 месяцев назад

To be fair, he played like a 300.

@alexanderying1558 3 года назад

27:28 Levy: I‘ve played like multiple masters who can‘t visualize. Hikaru: What? Me who can‘t win against 1000s: Wow, what a noob

@snes09 3 года назад

6:38 blew my damn mind

@kyen2390 3 года назад

@@artemis477 pretty sure u didnt have a blindfold on nor did you set it up

@artemis477 3 года назад

@@kyen2390 no I didn't have a blindfold on but I'm sure I would have been able to see it anyway. It's visualising the board in your head instead of right in front of you, which makes it similar, just more difficult to concentrate

@zaxgn 3 года назад

@@artemis477 that's the point bruh

@karlcossaboon7072 3 года назад

@@artemis477 cuz we are normal people not chess gods lmao also good job for seeing that

@artemis477 3 года назад

@@karlcossaboon7072 well fair enough and thank you

@seantobin2162 3 года назад

“Better to be white than black” 57:16 hikaru nakamura, 2020 😂

@nickdawg1014 3 года назад

Canceled

@KelpyJee 3 года назад

This joke was so foul 😂😭

@hyalinduelist2527 3 года назад

Chat:"cmonbruh"

@Jartran72 3 года назад

He is not wrong.

@eliaskjrbo8142 3 года назад

@@Jartran72 Touché

@lulerogaming1694 Год назад

Hikaru: "I cannot do blindfold chess when I'm driving" Let's pause on this for a moment. I'm surprised Levy didn't jump on it.

@7cpm293 Год назад

Proves chess players are smart in chess only

@planetsheen1020 Год назад

@@7cpm293 I don't understand the joke, do you guys think he means actually having a blindfold on while he's driving?

@7cpm293 Год назад

@@planetsheen1020 when you drive with a blindfold you will crash

@Andy.3 Год назад

@@7cpm293 you do know that blindfold chess doesn't require you to have a blindfold right? 😂. It just means that you can't see the pieces

@7cpm293 Год назад

@@Andy.3 ok

@Tom_is_Wise 3 года назад

Hikaru: Shows where he thinks Levy will move by hovering the piece or drawing arrows Levy: Makes a different move Me, who has no idea what the difference is between the moves or what they accomplish: "Lmao what an idiot"

@evahelie7207 3 года назад

Same

@Trathien- 3 года назад

The difference between the moves is that they are made by different pieces Hope this helps ☺️

@shiro298 3 года назад

@@Trathien- That isn't always the case :)

@matthewsharp1357 3 года назад

@@Trathien- not only that. but also they go to different places.

@Tyler-bp4md 3 года назад

@@shiro298 do the pieces not remain the same throughout? like you could track the moves back to the starting position and see that its the kingside knight for example.

@badrabbit2313 Год назад

48:09 “We should just sit at a table without the board and pieces and just say the moves” Proceeds to laugh in high IQ

@AlanGonzalez-ev6ur Год назад

Hes 101 iq

@deathmeter7243 Год назад

@@AlanGonzalez-ev6ur That’s average. To be exact that’s 1 above average.

@geetarijal3007 Год назад

@@AlanGonzalez-ev6ur this guy thought iq was capped at a 100😂😂😂

@tugzplays Год назад

Bros actually right he’s 102

@forsenstunlocked5967 Год назад

@@deathmeter7243100 iq isn’t average, it’s slightly above average. I couldn’t find an exact figure but I’m pretty sure the average iq is somewhere between 95-100 worldwide

@slapdagger5693 3 года назад

At 41:45 blindfolded Hikaru corrects Levy holy shit

@howardlam6181 Год назад

And blindfolded Levy corrects Hikaru on the "forced checkmate"

@WaterYaDune 3 года назад

29:57 Eric Rosen would be proud of that Oscar worthy performance

@y1ink 3 года назад

Hikaru randomly pissing himself laughing is hilarious

@user-xr8ci1bh1s 3 года назад

I love how hikaru just laughs at random things lmao

@djderie 3 года назад

13:24 When you see mate in 1 but it's actually a botez gambit

@entrace1 2 года назад

This is insane. Like 6:32. Just insane how good Hikaru is even blindfolded. Its crazy. And Levy is like "wtf" meanwhile :D

@eoghan.5003 3 года назад

28:54 the problem with blind war (or whatever we'd call it) is that you'd have to give lists of where pieces are whenever a move gives new information.

@amirbahrun3098 3 года назад

52:50 Hikaru trolling Levy lmao

@SeaShrimp 3 года назад

This blindfolded guy is really good, he should play in tournaments...

@ahcryz2543 3 года назад

S U P E R GM

@gc-wb5xy 3 года назад

@@ahcryz2543 hikaru is a grandmaster and levy is im

@ahcryz2543 3 года назад

@@gc-wb5xy Hikaru Is super grandmaster, none bringed levy in

@gc-wb5xy 3 года назад

@@ahcryz2543 what's super gm I thought gm is the highest title

@ahcryz2543 3 года назад

@@gc-wb5xy Grandmaster that reached 2700+ rating.

@BattousaiMatt 3 года назад

56:16 out of context is hilarious

@syl3r Год назад

Hikaru says "yeah, yes, yes, yeah" lot cause he's pre moving levy's statements

@nasreddinechajaadine6441 Год назад

The pre-move mate in Hikaru’s first game is pure genius! It just made me laugh so loud.

@fruitygranulizer540 Год назад

@roro good for you mr. grandmaster

@marcjameslevesque 3 года назад

Blindfolded chess always kills me...in a good way. I feel really confident until e4 is played on the first move and then it's too nerve racking. 👍

@bass7883 3 года назад

KingslayerHD is reconsidering life right now

@moistsimba 2 года назад

See I don't see why people dislike Levy so much. He's just very honest, and he's even more critical of himself so it's not like he's being hypocritical

@snes09 3 года назад

52:48 hilarious hikaru troll

@jys5219 3 года назад

How many of you view my content ONLY on youtube?

@gm2407 3 года назад

Hikaru: The only time I cant do blindfold chess is when I'm driving. Levy: Hikaru: The only time I cant do blindfold chess is when I'm driving. Levy:

@user-rh6pi1qo4w 3 года назад

Time stamp?

@gm2407 3 года назад

@20:30 says it once, gets no response plays the game, says it in a different way, then still gets no response.

@joedorben3504 3 года назад

22:38 Hikaru, after sac'ing a bunch of pawns for dubious, if at all existent, compensation, and still winning due to his opponent blundering 2 pieces, an exchange, and a *queen*, all almost consecutively: "I thought that guy was a 2000" All 2000s everywhere: "Am I a joke to you"

@davidramirezrodriguez3373 3 года назад

Well, yeah

@gustavopinedaxd Год назад

the queen was probably on purpose as a trick hoping his blindfolded opponent didn't see anything, and since it's a 5 min game the fork exchange blunder is understandable +2000s are trash

@pen_g_win1027 Год назад

Anyone 300+ higher rated seems like a chess god until you reach that level and realize how not perfect it is

@Random_guyOnInternet Год назад

Levy : "The Gidens Widen Hagen Gambit" Hikaru : "The Wat??" Levy : "a b c d" Hikaru : " Oh yea yea i know that one" timestamp : 18:00

@user-bs1zg9nk3g Год назад

I always love seeing Hikaru and Levi's collaborations, they have good dynamics

@wadevenerdi1060 3 года назад

When Hikaru put his blind fold on again and Levy was putting his on... I was thinking, this is about to be epic!

@neat2014 3 года назад

56:32 Hikaru: 1.D4 Gotham: 2.Bishop...

@germaincasse 3 года назад

I'm the guy at 44:42, that was such a pleasure :)

@kyota9712 3 года назад

Congrats man

@gunnarscherman1563 3 года назад

Good game my dude, you played very well

@000PontusLoeksFan000 3 года назад

Wow!! What an honor that would be!! I look forward to seeing the game!!

@germaincasse 3 года назад

@@000PontusLoeksFan000 Hikaru said I was really good 👉👈

@kelvinmulungu 3 года назад

@@germaincasse the pointy shy hands are never not cute

@ruthxk7844 2 года назад

Amazing! It's very relaxing to see you playing blindfolded - you both speed it a bit down, and gives more time to internalize... now I feel I wanna learn to play blindfolded chess...

@davep7176 Год назад

"Can't do blindfold chess whilst driving..." Well you done well driving while blindfolded let alone trying to play chess as well.

@selimselimi909 3 года назад

Did he say he cant do blindfold chess while driving 💀

@betsegg 3 года назад

Well can you?

@analuizafelixdesouza6336 3 года назад

Only like a thousand times

@jacksonglasser6743 3 года назад

Shoutout to ludwig for buying high and selling low lmaoooo

@DeadSezSo 2 года назад

That blows my mind that hikaru saw two different mates and instantaneously understood one was forced and went with that one so he could premove

@Breelik 3 года назад

a ruling just came in guys hikaru is officially considered a chess engine and is banned from pro play. Man this new tech just keeps getting crazier and crazier.

@dipswewon4701 10 месяцев назад

very interesting to hear them talking about queen's gambit 2 years after it came out, knowing that it had such a big impact on chess

@wonderwind2716 Год назад

it's actually funny when Levy said "queen h takes f3 check" because it's rare when you have 2 queens and you need to specify which queen to move

@jordarrr 3 года назад

9:23 best sponsorship shoutout ever. Them other streamers should learn from this

@StevenSenjaya 2 года назад

oh I love their collab so much I hope they will do this again even though it's unlikely

@pahaihminen1 Год назад

Who misses Hikaru and Levy collabs?

@vexztrinnity 10 месяцев назад

@ermmwhatdatuna 8 месяцев назад

me 😭😭

@RustyKlowbi 3 года назад

Blindfold Everyone: Hikaru: Sleep Mask Levy Rozman: Fantasy Night Club Mask

@med7at10 Год назад

24:14 I think Hikaru would've said "Like women" or something but he pulled the break before he gets canceled 😂

@pres6829 Год назад

levy: i hit 2988 yesterday ! hikaru: *unimpressed* mhm

@hassansadhan7021 9 месяцев назад

its so surreal hearing them talk about Queen's Gambit as it came out, the thing that slingshotted their careers in entertainment and they didnt even realize just mentioned it so casually around 8:30

@ballskin 4 месяца назад

nah, it was covid lockdowns. that show didn't do anywhere near as much to elevate them.

@alexeylebedev5350 7 месяцев назад

Soooo... 2 GMs can play chess even without a board or pieces by just talking to each other?

@cxpKSip 10 дней назад

Levy is an IM, but yeah.

@user-rx8qd3qu7q Год назад

I always love seeing Hikaru and Levi's collaborations, they have good dynamics. 19:05 Hikaru counting material blindfolded blows my mind.

@mustelidify 3 года назад

Hikaru chuckling at Levy's blindfold is cracking me up 🤪

@ivanveselov9183 Год назад

The most epic moment of all time is when Levy asks Hikaru if he had already seen that new show called Queen's Gambit. That was the beginning of an epoch

@eriszuny 10 месяцев назад

10:50 I legit can't stop laughing, lmao 😅

@phillipcroukamp1825 Год назад

Here's me blundering pieces with my eyes open😶‍🌫️

@stevemcintosh9381 3 года назад

Hearing Hikaru ask "have you heard of that show 'The Queen's Gambit'?" and then levy talking about how the trailer seemed accurate, but he's not sure about the correlation of substance abuse and chess is so fucking wild months later, knowing that they've both talked about how good the show was, and how much it boosted the chess boom even more. That was a really crazy moment

@DaisyZhangAI Год назад

Yup, I’m thinking the same thing in 2022!

@Pfillep 3 года назад

The title should be: Hikaru reads mind of Gothamchess.

@b-hawk 3 года назад

Hikaru: "Have you heard of Queen's Gambit" ... proceeds to see their channels explode.

@biscuitladd7979 3 года назад

41:30 Hikaru is like stfu levy I’m check mating him

@siddhantkotak5094 Год назад

I like how Hikaru is trying to premove the levy''s move

@mabo2469 3 года назад

I would like to see a game where both Hikaru and another GM play against each other blindfolded

@TechKaboom 3 года назад

“Have you seen the show The Queen’s Gambit or something?” If they only knew... 😝 8:25

@andrewr8800 3 года назад

I just watched this entire thing and I don’t regret a second of it

@Ressel_ 3 года назад

This is quite interesting.. For some reason.. i learned something. Levi is strong because he learns to play the game, basically studying the game like a book. memorizing all those stuffs and all.. Hikaru on the other hand.. is something else. He made some unorthodox moves, and.. i dont know what to call it, other than talented genius.

@gustavopinedaxd Год назад

the reason is hikaru likes to bully weaker opponents by playing objectively bad openings and lines and tricks sometimes since he's stronger he'll win

@alejandroseal3513 Год назад

@@gustavopinedaxd pov magnus with the kings march playing GMs

@crusaderACR 11 месяцев назад

@@gustavopinedaxdHikaru once mentioned in a stream that he likes to get off preparation or book chess quickly so he gets to play "true chess" with his opponent. Magnus does the same sometimes. Part of the reason Bobby Fischer actually went insane was that he thought that chess was devolving into who can memorize the most openings and lines, instead of pure skill. So I'd say it's that. Hikaru wants to go his own way, making up an entirely new opening every time as soon as he can

@jaguldom 3 года назад

6:37 Me: "Yea this is complicated there might be a checkm.." Hikaru: 6:38

@richwarega2584 3 года назад

That forced mate calculation at the end of game 1 was awesome.. When you can see that sequence that quickly, you can even play on 5 boards blindfolded.. big fan of Naka the speed demon!!

@samayahone3497 Год назад

Not being able to visualise is a known thing, some people literally do not have the ability to see images in their head.

@guacamolelover454 3 года назад

sekiro thumbnail 👀

@moofta7219 3 года назад

I thought nobody would notice

@theharpy6644 3 года назад

1:05:44 when you want to try new stuff with your gf

@TheseusDaKing 9 месяцев назад

I laughed too much at the Ludwig catching the stray at 9:30

@fnaelga 3 года назад

19:04 when you count pawns blindfolded... you must be dreaming pawns at night.

@xfreference5055 3 года назад

I love how they absolutely humiliated the second guy

@Kelvinheng 3 года назад

1:43 kudos to him for not playing en passant

@JamesConley1234 3 года назад

You guys are my favorite two chess players. Y'all are both hilarious lol so glad I found your channels.

@darwindunn8812 3 года назад

Hikaru- “I can’t play blind chess when I am driving.”

@kroxmetic5126 Год назад

by seeing the thumbnail i personally thought this was sekiro......

@ciberoyuncu7459 3 года назад

1:13:09 Levi: thinking soo deeply Hikaru: just solving it for a seconds :ASDASDASd

@vaibhavsrivastava9417 3 года назад

How good do you have to be to be sad about not finding the optimal premove mating sequence

@7thknight970 2 года назад

6:36 Hikaru : Saying his magic spells better than Harry Potter's , Levy : Wow.... XD

@coreyburton8 3 года назад

Seeing hikaru laugh so hard that he had to move off camera 😂

@TheCharskeBros 3 года назад

6:36 watch levis face XD hes like "im not blind howd he see that so fast

@damianmackie7612 Год назад

But the van geet actually has some interesting lines, it’s just similar to the alekhines defence and Mexican defence where the is lots of slow manoeuvres to create and target weaknesses. Also you can’t really call the reti an opening. It’s like calling e4 an opening. There is so many lines that come from it, all with different names. There’s the kings Indian attack, the potato, lots of transpositions into d4 openings along with the c4, the classical variation with b3, the old Indian attack with d3, a transposition into the tennis on gambit with e4, the prisoner gambit, and e3 looking to play c4 later. The list goes on. To classify the reti as its own opening is absurd

@dog.b74 Год назад

nice sekiro thumbnail

@Wtahc 3 года назад

is anyone gonna talk about how well the 1200 played

@connerfinch2744 3 года назад

I know right, im like 1330 and that dude would smoke me

@Baseball181 3 года назад

Hikaru so busy laughing poor lev falling behind in time😂

@MrMoptop47 3 года назад

Come for the Sekiro thumbnail, stay for the God level play POG.

@Shadowwind4 Год назад

41:44 when the guy with the blindfold has to correct the guy without the blindfold. Hikaru is a god amongst men

@TheBioethicist 3 года назад

Stuff like this shows how much skill just comes from reps. Just reps. Talent has to be there to get to IM or GM level, clearly, but all that talent won't do anything without like tens of thousands of games of practice.

@peterwuuuuu 3 года назад

helps that they have a photographic memory to play blindfolded

@yashagarwal2410 3 года назад

Hey Hikaru, you should check out 'Thinking fast and slow' by Daniel Kahneman (Nobel prize winner for behavioural economics). He explains very nicely as to why we can't do multitasking when we are engaged in somewhat complex or engaging tasks..like driving and visualizing chess simultaneously. Great book on making better decisions. Highly recommended. P.S. I'm a big fan of yours and love the content, especially made by you & Levy together.

@littlekittyskulls Год назад

oh my god, this is so impressive? being able to keep track of 32 pieces, each with unique moves, across 64 squares, visualizing every move, remembering every piece's position, being able to still see the best moves to checkmate someone?? like holy shit . theyre on a whole other level of chess i'm speechless

@animantus4293 3 года назад

I'm barely over 1340 elo and have already won my first blindfold game. Hard to believe what you guys say, that some GM cannot visualise.

@animantus4293 3 года назад

@@garbanzogarbanzo2760 No, I'm kind of returned to playing chess after a long time and had only 2 tournaments OTB, so my elo is quite low. My lichess ranking is above 1800.

@juliansexton8668 3 года назад

I believe it. I'm around 1400 and I can beat weaker players while I'm blindfold. What helps me is I'll play a chess game in the morning, analyze it, then try and replay it in my head when I take a shower. Do that enough and you can keep up with a fresh game in your head.