Gotham, thank you so much. I really mean it. I started as a beginner watching your channel and now im advanced/intermediate and I can tell myself that i’ve improved rapidly. Just watching your videos helps everyone and your an amazing teacher. I’ve been watching you for over a year now and I couldn’t be more thankful. Thank you Gotham.
@@nivnavion as a 2000 I can confirm that as I climbed the ranks, I didn’t feel like I "got good", I just noticed that I was less bad than for example a 1600. I feel this keeps going until you’re Magnus 😂 and he is just a bit less bad than the top 10 players
Also, I really appreciate making these fun chess videos. Not always grandmaster, but you can throw in to spice up some hobby chess. As a bullet chess junkie I really appreciate it!
it's a good way to start to study theory. instead of (as a beginner) picking up the italian or vienna or scotch where you're kinda stepping into a deep pool of theory, there are a handful of immediate trap lines that you can learn, there are one or two longer lines to learn, and it opens into a pretty fundamentally solid position. if you master these traps and a couple variations, you'll be ready to learn something with a little more depth. then you can pick up the scotch gambit or vienna gambit or fried liver, and start to learn more traps and more robust theory.
Vienna is pretty simple, I don't see why you used it as an example. Something like the Spanish or the Sicilian I thought were way more common theory heavy openings
@@soupisfornoobs4081 True. I guess it's complex compared to the wayward queen 'theory', because you do have to do slightly more different things than just attacking f7 over and over again.
@@soupisfornoobs4081 yeah i just wouldnt reccomend the spanish or sicillian for beginner or low intermediate players because it's so theory dense. The vienna has a handful of lines you should know if you want to play it. Somewhere between the wayward queen and something like a spanish
Igor Smirnov made a video 2 weeks ago on how to punish the 4 move checkmate and it's a great watch after this one to counter your friends who do this lol.
thanks dude. Like 2 months ago, i started playing chess after 6 years again. I started after seeing a short of you, and i loved it. I learned a lot, so much, that i won against the everyone at school (including teachers), thanks to you.
Got back into chess a couple weeks ago after many many years off. Quit some other phone games so have time, really like your channel. I'm trying to get up to 900, I sometimes beat 1000's but man I can't imagine 2400 it's like trying to comprehend the size of the universe.
@@OfficialSera i felt for this trap for a long time because i didn't know how to prevent it, then my brother told me how and now when someone does me this i'm like "are you dumb?"
thanks for making this video, i play Alekhine's Defence a lot and I've managed to get like 5 free queens on move 2 in the last couple of days from people premoving this opening
Levi you are just amazing. I started to play chess 6 years ago, but just for fun, and this year, i joined the school chess team. Thanks to you, i learned a BIG AMOUNT of cheff stuff and that is really unbelievable. Between today and yesterday, you took 20 000 subscribers, that's amazing dude. ❤️
Thanks for the video Levy! Now I can get 10 match in a row where everyone plays this opening as white without actually knowing the whole thing and blundering their queen!
Hey Levy, I started playing chess expecting to be bored of it in a week during the early days of the queens gambit release. Now I've been playing this game regularly for the past 2 years. What really get me into the game was watching a lot of chess content (you, hikaru, botez sisters, the champions chess tour) and developing a surprising passion for playing the game. Your early tutorials and opening videos was pivotal for this change. Though I sucked at winning using what I learnt from your videos, I loved trying things. I would never have continued with chess if o hadn't seen those videos and learn new openings. I think the new boom is amazing and I would love to see more of such videos that would help these new players grow. Trust me the only reason that kept me going 2 years ago was the fact that I started to gain elo and play competitively (fyi I went from 300 to 1600 on rating in rapid). Please bring out more these (GTE and champions chess tour recaps as well) and cement this growing community. Thank you Levy!
I've played hundreds of blitz games online at this point and it still urks me as a new player when someone pulls the queen out early, because it's sort of like running a 5k race against someone you consider your equal, and they start the race at a sprint. It's confusing, and you're suddenly not sure whether they're faster than you, or they're going to crash and burn. It can demolish your psychology around the situation.
I remember 1 game in a chess class. It was back when I was a kid, the other player essentially opened 1 side of their board(queen side I believe), meanwhile I raced either my queen or my Rook behind their line, as they left their king trapped without defense. It was check with only 1 piece and like 15 moves. Nether of us were particularly good, but I am damn proud of managing to see that position.
I would consider it an 8.2/10 personallly My reasoning is that when the stare went into my own soul there was a hint of a feeling that something was behind me, along with the obvious feelings you described here.
this vid came at the perfect time i just played 5 games and all of them went for the traditional 4 move mate, thanks for all the content and the advice/tips!
It is a little funny because this is the opening I came up with just playing causally, and it is interesting to hear someone actually articulate the chess theory behind why it works.
Levy spoiling an entire generation of beginners. ;) Maybe you can follow up with a video on how to defend against the wayward queen one day? At some point I found the surprise weapon 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4.Qf3 f5 - which looks really suspicious for black, but after the natural-looking 5.exf5 moves like Nd4 and d5 become remarkably effective. Also, against this type of play it's just good to have a surprise weapon of your own.
Thank you so much for this video (and all others). I got into chess because of The Queens Gambit but not really until I found your channel last December. You make chess that much more interesting and I really appreciate it ❤
with 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 I thought you were about the teach the "mate of the felt" on a physical board: you tell your opponent: "my king has not felt, does your king have none too?" and after your opponent verifies touching the king, you kindly remind him that he should move the piece he touched. Then the game ends with 2. ... Ke7 3.Qxe5#
all i wanna say is that ive been watching your yt videos and twitch streams since the beginning of the quarantine and i cannot describe how happy and proud it makes me to see you and your channel grow.everything that i have learned at chess is from you and i cannot thank you enough for making me love this game improve at this game and for all the laughs you have offered me.chess is literally the only thing keeping me together right now so THANK YOU FOR THAT LEVYYYY that quick stare was so refreshing btw TEN OUT OF TEN as always
I know that it's off topic but let me talk a bit more about mittens for a second, for those who started a game with mittens but never finished it and didn't start a new game with another bot, those still can play mittens. For example, I still have 1 full game with mittens left even after it's gone, mittens is white and the only move in the whole game made is pawn to d4 by mittens, if I wanted I could play now the full game, but ofcourse I don't want one of the last mittens games be wasted on me so it's gonna sit there for now.
what i saw is that sometimes the best way to relieve pressure is to apply it almost NO ONE in the lower levels will be willing to sacrifice queens also mental atrition is a valid tactic you literally do useless moves that make the enemy do a mistake
thanks for making this video. everyone at 400 elo is now playing this but they never play it correctly and i had two players blunder their queens just this morning alone xD
When Hikaru Nakamura used it all those years ago, Hans Ree called 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 a "provocative but quite sensible move". I've seen Magnus Carlsen on both sides of this variation in blitz. The main reason why it's not so bad is Black has to make concessions to stop the Scholar's mate (...g6 and ...Bg7 boxed in by the e5-pawn isn't ideal).
I typically play a Bishop's opening with an immediate follow up of Qh5, prepping the Scholar's Mate. What I do next obviously depends on what my opponent does, but I pretty much always press the attack on f7 with my bishop and queen and other pieces as long as possible. That often puts me in the position shown at 4:50, but I don't think I've ever really thought about Ne2 here. I'm usually trying to activate some of my pieces on the other side of the board.
Easiest and most secure counter I use is just moving the queen in front of king and develop knight to chase white's queen away. Then just continue developing.
As Black I have tended to meet 2.Qh5 with the gambit 2...Nf6 3.Qxe5+ Be7 that is covered early in the video. I've had good results with that, but perhaps you need to know what you're doing in order to get decent compensation, as opponents who play 2.Qh5 have often said to me that usually when they face 2...Nf6 they end up with an extra pawn for not a lot.
Its funny, when learning music theory you start by learning all the rules of music up until the 18th or 19th century, and then you get to the end of music theory in school and began to learn how to break every single one of those rules.
Only bring your Queen out early like that if you are below 1000 rated, above that you'll be at a disadvantage because they can develop their pieces while attacking your Queen essentially getting a free move.
Just so you know when you uploaded this video around this time I played in 900 and 10 people in row play this and I was like " why are they doing this and all of them " i think this is could be the reason
honestly I mostly wanted to watch this video to learn how to play against it. I find losing against an early queen to be incredibly frustrating and while I'm not checkmated in 4 moves, the position always feels difficult
