HE WON AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

After day 4 of the candidates I'm sure of three things: 1) Hikaru is shook. 2) Nepo is showing why he's won back to back candidates. 3) Pragg is fearless.

levy: every game is a banger the first game: draw by repetition

We all gotta agree to one thing. Levy is hands down the best narrator of these chess gameplays. There is something unique about the way he analyses the games which keeps us hooked throughout. Even his haters visit his channel and hop on the comment section to get his attention.

Wait, really, leading candidates for 32 rounds is actually crazy 😂

0:41 Hikaru Vs Pragg 5:00 Humpy vs Salimova 9:26 Anna vs Lei 13:00 Nijat vs Alireza 15:50 Kateryana vs Tan 19:09 Fabiano vs Gukesh 23:57 Vaishali vs Goryachkin 24:35 Vidit vs Ian Nepo You are welcome

The original title is "He won again (23 exclamation marks)"

Everybody 2021: Ian is not the favourite Ian: Wins the candidates Everybody 2022: Ian is not the favourite Ian: Wins the candidates Everybody now: Ian is not the favourite Ian: ..

Nepo! Nepo! Man deserves to be world champ if he makes it out of candidates for third time in a row. Much more impressive to win round robin tournaments against the best consistently than a one v one match up. Which BTW Magnus agrees as I think of one his demands was for worlds to be a proper tournament.

nepo vs liren rematch is happening

Ian is just a candidate slayer, unbelievable play

It's insane that Nurgyul is a teenager with essentially the same OTB rating as Levy, and she's performing so well at the Candidates.

When grandmasters make a crazy looking move: perfect, excellent! When I make a crazy looking move: blunder, mistake, idiot, dumb, stupid.

Candidates Nepo is consistently stronger than World Championship Nepo. That's a problem.

I fell asleep watching this after the candidates, and got stuck in a dream limbo state where you and Hikaru kept exchanging bodies with each other, followed by me making the "Bro think he's Hikaru"-joke over and over again. It was absolutely horrifying. Thank you, Gotham.

Vidit sticking his rook between all the pawns was quite the throw. And he used 3 turns to get it there!

Nepo is the king of candidates. He made it clear

Levy is an undercover GM - *GM who lost to Levy*

I really like that when you put numbers on the thumbnails. Makes the events easier to follow with the algorithm

Ian deserves it more then anyone ever

Really love the recaps of the candidate`s tournament. Great balance of information and entertainment IMO. Thanks for covering it so well :)

The fact that Ian was always firsts, after 32 games on candidates tournament, with the best players in the world in that moment is actually insane. Hope he'll get the chance for rematch against Ding, I believe he deserved it.

I bet my soul that there will be this one npc that says something along the lines of “I liked my own comment.”.

Double majoring in comp sci and astronomy your videos are the only thing that helps me calm my mind at the end of the day. So thank you and keep up the vids haha

Nepo going to win again and choke at the world championship

You’re Great Levy Love the Intensity of your Recap you are definitely Original Great Style especially how you Broke that Nepo Vidit game down Much Thanks

Man your commentary is so good. Keep on keeping on brother

Ian Nepomniachtchi for the candidates three-peat 🎉 I hope this time he wins the world championship

First time I’m following a chess tournament. The commenters are doing a fantastic job. But as a new player to the game I really appreciate these recaps, It’s like rewatching a good movie after decade you remember some but not all and you can enjoy it in another way.

Thanks for the daily reviews. The best, as always!

that humpy vs nurgyul game was nuts dude omg😭

Love your videos. Would love to see updated standings

Something about the candidates just brings the beast out of Nepo

i lost my high school chess tournaments in the final every year to my friend who is really good. after watching and learning from levy i can finally say i got my revenge and beat him 3-0 this weekend. hardly a triumph but revenge is revenge. thank you levy. keep inspiring.

21:10 Ra3 had two ideas - pushing c4 and taking back with the rook (after Rc3) so that the queen still guards a4, and rotating the rook over to f3 or g3 after the knights land on f5 and h4 to begin a king-side attack.

I loved the explanation for the ending of the Muzychuk vs Lei endgame. Very instructive on the correct way to do that king chase. It is so counterintuitive. Also appreciated the breakdown and background of the Berlin endgame for the last match.

Another fantastic breakdown of the games. Thank you! =]

Nepo turns on some super powers for the canidates

In Gukesh Caruana Ra3 follows the linear development and initiave principles. Namely white doubles with Ra3 and Ra1 threatening to win the game with axb5. Against this play it is likely that black will need to play Rb8 and concede the A-file which the engine no doubt values for space.

Levy never fails to annoy hikaru while he doesn't even know him nor has the capability to get attention from him.

Thanks so much Levy for showing the woman’s games as well most other you tubers are just concentrating on the big boys so Happy to see Salimova come back with a Win after her loss to Praggs sister

my favorite time of the year for gotham content

Just imagine Nepo's career if the world chess champion was the winner of some kind of world championship tournament.

The best of this round was peter Leko talking about the "evil" and "evolution" bar

As a newly chess player, you have kept my interest in this extreme sport, as well as helping me gain new insight on a better gameplay. Love the analysis keep up the good work!

Nepo is a monster!

Was waiting for this, some of the women's games were INTENSE today.

I started watching your videos about a month or 2 ago when I was a mid 400 rating now I am a 849 rating in rapid I can honestly say thanks to you and your Vienna game, I'm on my way to the 1000s my best game according to stockfish I played at a 1450 rating ... Can't wait til I get there!

didn't know chess could be so tense i was shaking as levy was breaking down neo vs vidit

Autobahn existing and levy saying driving is an american thing

Bro hikaru is not really in the mood 3 draws and a lose Thats really bad

Still awake just to watch your recap video Thank you levy ❤️

Леви, спасибо за очередной обзор, да ждём интервью с Яном!

Babe wake up, cracked out Harry Potter has another video

Can you please put time stamps so I can watch my favorite game analysis without needing to skip through 10 games to see which is which?

I wish you were in big tournaments like this

Can I just say how much I love the unnecessarily excessive number of exclamation points on this video. IDK why it makes me laugh so much but Levi you're hilarious

its been 17 seconds, I dont watch chess, why do I see this.

Hope nepo does well against pragg

Levy never fails to make a boxing analogy

Ian's game was really mind blowing! He shows always really great perfomances in the candidates games! Seems he is saving all his preps for this matches!

Levy never fails to be Levi

I really want that caro kann course

I already watched the candidates tournament live but I'm sill here out of respect for you 🥰

Keep up your content man! I love watching your videos and use some of your tips and have helped me sharpen my game. Thanks man! 😊

Agh, interview with Nepo, can't wait

Next video=OMFG HE IS BACK🫡🤯🥶

Yooo I love your content! Keep up the great work and maybe GM will come soon enough.

Ian v. Vidit made me think of a couple high level UFC Sambo players, grappling for a small advantage while the ref actually lets them work.

*Levi after both players move their E pawns to the center:* Grass is a type of plant with narrow leaves growing from the base. A common kind of grass is used to cover the ground in places such as lawns and parks. Grass is usually the color/colour ‘green’. Grasses are monocotyledon herbaceous plants. The grasses include the "grass" of the family Poaceae. This family is also called Gramineae. The family also include some of the sedges (Cyperaceae) and the rushes (Juncaceae).[1] These three families are not closely related but all of them belong to clades in the order Poales. They are similar adaptations to a common life-style. The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns (turf) and grassland. Uses for graminoids include food (as grain, sprouted grain, shoots or rhizomes), drink (beer, whisky), pasture for livestock, thatching thatch, paper, fuel, clothing, insulation, construction, sports turf, basket weaving and many others. Many grasses are short, but some grasses can grow very tall, such as Bamboo. Plants from the grass family can grow in many places and make grasslands, including areas which are very arid or cold. There are several other plants that look similar to grass and are referred to as such, but are not members of the grass family. These plants include rushes, reeds, papyrus and water chestnut. Seagrass is a monocot in the order Alismatales. Grasses are an important food for many animals, such as deer, buffalo, cattle, mice, grasshoppers, caterpillars and many other grazers. Unlike other plants, grasses grow from the bottom, so when animals eat grass they usually do not destroy the part that grows. This is a part of why the plants are successful. Without grass, soil may wash away into rivers (erosion). *THIS IS A JOKE dont shame of pin me* idc if i said it wrong either /\

HIKARU IS NOT CARING!!!🗣🗣🗣

I don’t remember if you did this last time, but the giant round numbers on the thumbnails are super useful. Good idea.

I'm happy that both Nepo and Fabi are doing well

For future reference at 5:50 MST on April 7th, 2024, the title to this video was "HE WON AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Bro thinks he’s Hikaru Nakamura💀💀☠️

Ian only has 2 modes 1: Candidate Monster mode 2: Will not win the WC mode

I love the mad scientist hair, total wild man.....!!!

Socks to bed = requirement for proper sleep

Why are men and women split?

Ian is insane, he can find ideas nobody else can

the Vidit vs Ian game reminds me of that Leila vs Stockfish game where Leila trapped its rook

I liked my own comment AND reported myself

I liked my own comment.

Awesome recap, Levy 👋. Nepo have been leading the Candidates in the last 32 rounds and he is also a gifted ... chess player, just like Judith, Kasparov, yours truly and MANY more talented ... GM's. Absolutely Amazing 😍! Thank you for sharing, my Friend xxx

Levy never fails to notice a move was never played in the entire history of chess.

*I liked my own comment*

I hope levy writes another book for those who are ready to go past intermediate

Nepo will go down in history as that dude who tried and tried for glory, but always failed before the very end

Scores back! I feel heard! 😂👍🏾

Day 4 of skipping the women's games

I didn't like my own comment.

Nepo keeping Ding as the world championship by winning candidates then losing to Ding would be such a plot twist

that rook jail (Vidit v. Nepo) is quite similar to the one in the match between chess engines that you covered some times ago! basically the same case, that's sick

Hey Levy, is there anyway you could make shorts about who won and didn’t? Not all of us have time to sit through all these recaps and I’d love to just hear who won and how

Nepo is literally him in the candidates

I think there should be an official candidates stream where there isn't an evaluation bar. Alot of people are so quick to jump on some players making it feel like these decisive but unclear and tricky moves without engines should be automatic no brainer moves.

This is funny. I follow NBA, football and there are so many channels but here is chess and it is what I watch. Well done!

Watching half of these draws come down to 1 mistake in the end game makes us really appreciate how Magnus was so dominant. Dude was known as the greatest end game player for a reason.

ive always said way before this video how good and underrated ian is. and everyone else just said hes no magnus, which tells nothing.

I just watched all parts and this is published right in the moment

From playing chess to relive stress to chess giving me stress