My exact thoughts! Had he said I hallucinated that a6 wins a piece for black, I panicked and played Qb3 while completely forgetting that my Bishop is hanging I would have believed him. Especially because he played a bunch of moves in that game that weren't top stock fish moves. But his answer as to why he played Qb3 just dig him even deeper.
Don’t forget when you made a bad move: Took long time: you took THAT LONG to think and you STILL HANGED A PIECE?!?! Took short time: THIS is why you should think before you move, THINK, *THINK*
Sometimes engines think that if you don't take it, after the "best line" the opponent would have a 0.1 advantage, as oppossed to forcing a draw on move 15 where it's an even zero. But why even play chess at that point?
@@pairot01 lmao if u could play at this level, u would play for money lol to be chess millionaire doing paid simuls against like 1000 ppl etc while being WC and all around champion and the only human who can compete with engines, you would be playing to be a millionaire dude. And don't even say u won't 🦝
He should have said I hallucinated that a6 wins a piece for black, I panicked and played Qb3 while completely forgetting that my Bishop is hanging. I would believe that explanation especially because he played a bunch of moves in that game that weren't top stock fish moves. But his answer as to why he played Qb3 just dig him even deeper.
I played many sacrifices in my life, but rarely did I play such a quiet move as a sacrifice, where I am not even sacrificing by smashing my piece into the opponents territory into the pawns in front of the king, I am not even leaving my piece hanging by moving forward. This sac wasn't like that, this is a backwards queen move which leaves a piece en prise, and it is a backwards move because you want to transfer your queen on another side of the board, I mean it is just ridiculous and it is not even like he had a lot of piece into the attack, the attack simply worked even without putting bunch of your pieces in the position to attack the enemy King. I played over 10k games, so I don't remember them all but I would not be surprised if I have never played a sacrifice like this.
Yeah but the kind of people that cheat like this do so because they are ridiculously narcissistic and want people to think they are just an incredible player. He submitted a game he cheated in because he wanted praise. These are the worst kinds of people. Then the next guy just made 2 accounts to play himself. And the next one was definitely just smurfing and botez gambiting like he thinks he's hikaru or something lol bunch of cornballs in the gte
@@DeadSezSo Praise means nothing if you know you didn't play the game legitimately. Praise only matters if it is for something that you have done. Even if he tricks others, he knows he didn't play the game legitimately. I don't buy your explanation. Maybe that's me projecting how I think on others but I don't see how others praising you would make you feel good if you know that they are praising you for something that you haven't actually done. If he wanted praise he would have sent some of the games that he played legitimately and that he played well (assuming he plays some games legitimately in the first place, if he doesn't then I don't know how he is rated only 1000).
The recap at 17:06 shows Qb3 took almost 3 minutes. While the rest took significantly less. My man ran stockfish on 50 depth to find a 1 brilliant move in the game for content.
Winner takes 6-8 seconds on every move. Levy and commenters: Cheater! Winner takes almost 3 minutes and makes a good move. Levy and commenters: Cheater!
@@rosiefay7283 Lmao the every in the first one is rather important don't you think. Even when there is one legal move or one move that doesn't immediately hang your queen if you spend a couple seconds on it, the same as you spend on every move, you are cheating. Either you really are braindead or just intentionally are arguing in bad faith, couple seconds every move is cheating as fuck.
@@MIDO44444 No 1000 would understand or grasp the concept of sacrificing the bishop to preserve a strong attack. I doubt they’re even sure that the bishop sac is good and calculate all those lines so intuitively for a lower rated player it’s best to play safe and retreat the bishop of course.
2:20 "The bishop pinned the queen to the king with no protection what so ever." Of course the bishop is against protection when the queen is pinned to the king. What would you expect?
Dude I played a 2000 in a rapid tournament the other day who had me on the ropes for 30 moves (I'm 1500) and then just hung a rook in 1 move. I still lost because I was in huge time trouble but it just shows that even properly high rated players blunder badly from time to time.
"How good are you at endgame? Come on, rook all the way down you know it" White : makes the ideal move Gotham : *starts making aggressive primal satisfaction noises*
There are other suspicions, but idk if it DOES feel like the biggest engine move - there are worse ones. As a 1600 rapid Qb3 feels risky at first glance with potentially interesting chances, because the black king already can't move back to f2, and exf5 opens up the g-file for the Queen, with potential gxf5 f4 Rg1 Qg3 threats. I might've spent time calculating it during a rapid game trying to see if I could make it work. That being said, I don't think I'd have gone through with it. The weird thing here is a 1000 seeing that, and if they actually did see it, they wouldn't be giving such a vague "activity/space" as an answer lol. And the juxtaposition of being able to play moves like Qb3 (and Ne5 in the opening), but then playing Bg5 instead of d6 potentially followed by f4 which was far more obvious and would have completely shut down the kingside and kept the King in the open.
@@Kernel15I'm a 1500, and I won't play Qb3. (Unless I accidentally hung my bishop) If I were to sacrifice my bishop, probably Rg1 instead of Qb3. Looks more interesting after exf4 gxf4, opening up the g file for the rook. (That is just from glancing the board.)
@@Abedchess That's definitely fair, but that being said, you're not doing anything with just a rook on the open g file. You'd still need another attacker over, and the Queen is the fastest
@@Kernel15 Yes, had he actually seen anything, he would have said I want to put my queen on the g file after my opponent accepts my Bishop sac. But even if he said that Levy would be like wtf an 1000s didn't just do that.
33:34 Carlsen vs Nakamura in Round 3 of the Zurich 2014. Nakamura had a winning position against Carlsen, blundered on move 37 with a pawn push that looked very powerful but gave away all the advantage, simplified to an endgame where Nakamura was up a Knight but down five Pawns, 6 to 1. It was too many Pawns and Nakamura lost, from a position where he was more than +8.
No 1000 rated player would play that move unless they had a deep understanding of the consequences that followed and there are a lot of interesting lines that had to be calculated. The actual reasoning itself is complicated so it’s funny when a cheater tries to articulate the reasoning behind their moves.
@@faznaz7455 Many 1000 rated players would play that move, not because it's a really strong move but because they would've forgotten that the bishop was under attack and tunnel visioned on attacking. His reasoning was what was sus as f
@@TromboneMaster95 exactly. Had he said “I forgor 💀” like a normal person, it wouldn’t have been Sus at all. It’s interesting that cheaters never try to make themselves look dumb, only trying to say “oh yeah I’m very smart” which puts them. Interesting stuff.
You should've seen my friend literally learning how pieces move against me, losing 10 games in a row and then play 3 games flawless all of the sudden 👀
Same thing with me. I was much better than this one person, but then they suddenly pulled out multiple flawless games in a row where I stood no chance. Im a 1600 lol. I am still suspicious
OMG .. that player who submitted his first game ever .. classic! His answer to why he improved shoulda been something like "I watched John Bartholomew's chess fundamentals series " lol
it sucks that everyone still thought the game was fake. it's probably the first time someone submitted their first game to guess the elo and no one believed him
33:52 computer understands that BMimg your opponent by underpromoting is technically a better move than just making a queen, due to the psychological effects
I like how Twitch chat just constantly "taunts" youtube over not having music, when I can literally pull up any song recorded in human history and listen to it at any moment, because thankfully there is no music included in the video.
I once played my grandpa as a 600 and realised in the end that I capture no pawns despite being equal pieces. The amount of embarrassment I felt was immeasurable, later that day I won having one Pawn while he had 7 (never won again until I reached 1450)
Every time Levy says "It's your favorite show on RU-vid," I for a half-second think, "Sweet, I love How to Lose at Chess," and then I remember I clicked on a Guess the Elo video.
Ratings really change between playing time limits. I hate when my opponents resign in a 5 minute game when they loose their Queen early. Hay there is lots of time for me to screw up and loose mine as well! I'm also used to loosing my queen so playing without one is normal for me. I will almost always trade Queens.
I think the queen hang was a premove error. I know in bullet I often try to premove pawn recapture but instead end up premoving pawn forward one square lol
qb3 is so amazing. investing in those 3 pawns, primarily the e pawn, investing in the f5 square, its a wonderful sacrifice for only the best of play-- oh he's a 1000.
19:23 This move actually isnt bad in this instance. White could've gone to b6 forking the rook and bishop, forcing black to move the rook to a7 because a6 is covered by the bishop. Then white plays d8 forking the queen and the rook and when the queen moves white takes the rook. So this could've been a brilliant move, although being 600 that probably wasn't going to be played.
Actually after Knight b6 black could’ve just take the bishop and after white take the rook it would be trapped in the corner. If white take c8 instead of rook then black play Qc7, again, trapping the Knight.
22:05 why would you resign here? Looks like a forced draw to me. Attack the knight with the king, then attack the bishop with the king when the knight moves. If the opponent's pawn gets too close, take it. If the opponent's king gets close enough to stop you from taking the knight, play c4, c5, cxb6+, win the bishop, Kb8, a8=Q just as your opponent promotes, and queen vs. queen is always a draw as long as you don't hang something. If the opponent takes your c-pawn it's stalemate. Edit: Never mind, apparently Nd7 just wins. I tried the position against stockfish, and Nd7 prevents the king from returning to b8, then the Black king and the knight can force you even farther from the bishop through zugzwang, and it's actually like -57. Still, I think it takes a lower rating to see the defense strategy I suggested than to see how to stop it, and in any case as long as you have a plan to try to swindle the game, you should still force your opponent to earn the win. Even when I'm dead lost, I usually only resign in two situations: 1) I'm pressed for time (as in I need to go do something else soon), don't see a way my opponent can blunder the win away and don't see a way that my opponent can end the game quickly, or 2) I don't have a plan, not even a "shuffle my king and hope to get stalemated" and continuing to play is no fun anymore. I really wish more people found checkmating people actually satisfying instead of getting insulted when the opponent doesn't resign. Like, I get it if you resign when you're down twenty pieces, but at the same time I find checkmating extremely satisfying, it's good endgame practice, and I figure if you didn't resign when you were dead lost and it was mate in two, why resign when it's mate in one?
To begin, I'm sorry if I've misunderstood your comment at any point. It took me some thought to understand. I think the move sequence that your first proposal is referring to is something like 1. Kc7 Nc4 2. Kb8 Nb6 3. [pass] Kd6 4. c4 d4 5. c5+ Kc6 6. cxb6 d3 7. Kxa8 d2 8. Kb8 d1=Q 9. a8=Q. This confused me for a few reasons: 1. I thought the idea was that Black would just loop their knight between c4 and b6, so it didn't seem like they'd have any time to move their king or their pawn. For it to work, I had to give them an extra move, hence the "[pass]". 2. When you say "taking the knight", I think you mean "attacking the knight". 3. I think you meant to attach the check symbol to the move c5, not cxb6. In the hypothetical line I provided after White passes their third move, Black has a winning advantage all the way until after their 6th move: - Move 3: 3... Kd8 4. c4 Nd7+ 5. Kxa8 Kc8 6. c5 d4 7. c6 Nb6# - Move 4: 4... Nd7+ gives White two options: 5. Kc8 dxc4 and Black promotes and wins, or 5. Kxa8 Kc7 followed by a similar mate as before. - Move 5: 5... Kxc5. This frees up c7, so it's not stalemate. Black promotes and wins. - Move 6: 6... Bb7; Now 7. a8=(any) is forced, and after 7... Bxa8 8. Kxa8 Kxb6, Black promotes and wins. To be fair, maybe that's not what you envisioned; Black's 5th move was up for interpretation, after all. For instance, if Black had played 5... Kd7 instead of 5... Kc6, that would've already been a draw, as the Bb7 trick wouldn't work. As for Nd7, I don't think that's zugzwang. Zugzwang is when a player whose turn it is would prefer to pass their move, but I don't think that applies to White here. Black can just play d4 and bring their bishop out so that it always has an eye on a8; then, their king and knight can win White's other pawn and assist in the promotion of the black pawn. I agree that playing for swindles is a good idea. "Never resign," as Levy puts it. Also, I can imagine it can be somewhat annoying when someone resigns one move from being mated, and I understand that. It can seem mildly bad-mannered, as it sorta implies that they were willing to resign but waited until the last possible moment to do so.
I'm a 1500, and if I wanted to sacrifice my bishop, Rg1 looks more reasonable than Qb3 at a glance. I probably would never play Qb3 even if I wanted to sacrifice my bishop
@@kbk239 Yea I understand why Qb3 is reasonable. I'm just saying that purely looking at the position, the first move ( to sac the bishop) which comes to my mind is Rg1. I would probably have missed Qb3.
Watching Levy slap that guy around for saying take out the staged game was hilarious. I need a compilation of all the times he’s just verbally assaulted someone in chat 😂
lining up the queen and bishop to cut the king off would be the only reasonable answer. They damned themselves by saying "it just seemed right". they spent almost 3 minutes on that move and the reasoning is "it just seemed right".
look the same en passant and losing the queen happened a few days ago and I was raging. Kinda regret I didn't play it tho, it could've been the best meme ever.
0:36 😮Todays video is brought to you by the square B-6 and the letter W. I Can't wait till Snuffleupagus and big bird tell us how the horsey moves. Tomorrow we go to the factory to learn how Crayons are made! 😮
It really makes you wonder to what extent cheating is really an issue. It's going to be just like in shooter games, where you have the blatant wall hack/god mode/aim bot abusers but also the subtle hackers. The ones that tune up the aim assist a little bit. The ones that use a recoil control device. Someone could easily not use an engine to find moves, but to pre-move check if it's not a blunder/mistake before playing the move. How would they even detect that? They'd have to think you're just a pretty good player that doesn't blunder much. They often rationalisr it as "Well I'm just learning...".
I am convinced that it was a smurf who was giving odds, a3 is way too ridiculous, a3 gives up the Queen 2 different ways because it undefends the Queen as well and it is a move near the Queen, maiking sure that opponents focus will remain on that part of the board so that it is guaranteed the opponent would take the Queen.
I also thought it's from the Botez Gambit speedrun. In another comment someone said it might have been a mouseslip while premoving a pawn recapture after offering a queen trade.
