Hikaru and Levy Struggle to Survive in Puzzles 

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Ahah, you look like IM Levy Rozman.

@@legueu no IM Levy Rozman

@@manawearblack Dammit, I got played.

okay Levy

Thats how you throw away a win. Also, they could attack ur king and other weaknessess

@@greengoblin9567 r/whoosh

What to do when already castled

@@pancakes9648 resign

@@pancakes9648 uncastle

Lol too relatable

Haha so perfect. I've been there

except levy knows how to do most of the work, but he knows it would get finished faster if he just holds the flashlight

There isn't nearly enough screaming for that to be true. :(

@@Purin1023 i'm sorry dude you wanna talk about it

Yeah bro.....Me too

Me too

lm 1500-1600 player and still absolutely same lol

ion even understand shii but was always like go ahead man i got yo back 😭

@@animaaad Tbf, even some 2000s+ look like noobs against Hikaru 😅.

🤣🤣

Nice Agadmator reference

Wait is this in the video?

@@NoobSharkey no

So is levy but he does it in his head

I think that picture is actually in Hikarus emojis that subs can use. I wondered where it came from till I watched this

Nah I can mate him

@@cadentodor6507 😳

@@cadentodor6507 When the impostor is sus!😳

@@cadentodor6507 ... as the actress said to the bishop 😏

And just because another person is better doesn't mean the other is anywhere near bad

I’m bearing good news, commenter

@@t474kwhat?.

​@@t474k may we hear them?..

​@@t474kbro got shot by an arrow before relaying the good news

@@t474k 6 months later, still waiting for the good news

the first set of all of the puzzles

You guys are good

@CAVEMAN lol what? The west has produced the most Nobel Prize winners and produces creative thinkers than robots in eastern rigid education.

@@traplover6357 That’s because it’s mostly based in the west and not many people from the east gets nominated...

@@traplover6357 insert Obama rewarding himself meme

Omg. That’s fucked up😂. Gotham is cool too

Jordan Goh ok, but there are statistically more research innovations coming out of the west. While that may change in our lifetimes, currently that still stands by a sizable margin.

underrated comment holy duck

Holy 😂🤣🤣🤣

Hahahaha

Yep

Dayumm hahaha

meh, Levy is on the same level as us compared to Hikaru

@@Michael-vf2mw Levi isn’t as good as hikaru but that doesn’t mean he’s on the same level as us, hikaru can lose a game against Levi whilst he could beat on of us with his eyes closed...

@@Michael-vf2mw levy (2460 peak rating) is the same as us against hikaru (2700) -1000 elo player

@@spoopymug6760 Might have been a bit of mild hyperbole... I have beaten an IM, but it was a once-in-a-lifetime fluke. (I'm roughly 1900-2000 strength) That fluke wouldn't have happened against Hikaru. More accurate would be to say that the difference between Hikaru and Levy is similar to the difference between Levy and a strong amateur, or expert. I'm sure there are some experts in the chat here.

@@spoopymug6760 That would probably depend on the T/C. I'm pretty sure I could give Levy a run for his money in a 5-min game if he were blindfolded. Against Hikaru, not so much. I'm assuming that blindfolding is equivalent to about a 400 point handicap.

Lmaooo

WTF?!? This is what GM Hikaru Nakamura's brain is processing when trying to solve complex chess puzzles. He's keeping track of all those arrows. Levy is an IM International Master and he admits he has no idea what's happening anymore. lol

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never expected you to be into ches

@@revioliravioli4833 yaaa got into it recently

Very nice 👌

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Qa1 wins a rook (even if we trade queen) so I solved the puzzle! Computer: no, you have mate in 27 search again.

Yep, different leagues. And people be bitching about how Levi isn't doing 100% of the calculating

@Anthony Wang it drops over time?

@@Tyler-bp4md no

For real. Dude is an IM for a reason and has beaten GMs in the past

he just doesnt take it as serious as hikaru... he is more than capable of thinking...

Yea hikaru was having tough time there

Actually Black is still slightly winning in that line because black has the 2 rooks vs queen and knight imbalance as well as 3 passed pawns over white on the g,f,and e files as well as whites queen being on a1 and their knight on it’s home square. All this going against white and amazingly it’s only about -1.0 in blacks favor, but it’s technically winning for black regardless. As cool as Levi’s line is, it’s wrong. The reason dxc3 doesn’t work in this puzzle is after Bxd8,cxb2, white has the nifty move Bf6, threatening Qxg7# as well as blocking blacks f pawn from advancing, which ,no offense to Levi, is an even sicker line than Rh8+. Whether black checks with their rook first or not, black will be forced to take on f6 with their bishop to stop the mate on g7 (if g6, Rh8# is checkmate), which still blocks their f pawn. Now when white plays Qh3, there is no f5 or f6 for black. So black either must play Rd8+ followed by g6 so their bishop covers the h8 square, allowing white to get both their king and knight off the back rank so Rxa1 is possible after bxa1. This leads to a queen, rook, knight vs rook, rook, bishop and 3 passed pawns imbalance, so white has an extra rook in this case. Or if black doesn’t go for the Rd8+, g6 line, they can instead play Bh4, sacking their bishop in order to free the f pawn. The issue with this is after Qxh4, f5, Qh7+, black now has to always keep their king close to the g7 pawn since there is no bishop defending it. If black tries to run towards the queenside, white will have Qxg7, defending the a1 square after bxa1. Regardless of what line black chooses, white will manage to force a draw. Very cool puzzle to examine.

There is a point when you do chess puzzles where the difficulty goes from basic tactics to complicated lines and it feels impenetrable. For instance, you fail the puzzle because you made a wrong move, you look up what the right move was supposed to be, and that move brings up even more questions and further confusion. You dig even more and find it was best move because arrows all over the board like the clip at the start of this video and decide you should maybe go to the liquor store and see what's on sale.

@@stoutlager6325 what about ppl who are underage they buy the strongest grape juice box

Poor guy’s been playing chess in the ceiling for decades and now he’s going to hear this forever

He has stockfish in the ceiling noob.

@@englishmuffinpizzas true ;-;

@@darkdrageon No, he has Alpha0 in the ceiling, duh.

Queens gambit reference :>

That’s so true🤣🤣🤣

me too but i found that rook takes rook

I'm a bloody 300 but after a while at 10:37 think I found why queen a1 blunders, in that it wasn't covering the e2 Bishop moving to c4 and checking allowing the other Bishop to trade and lets the Queen and rook move together to mate.

I found the Queen b7 move around the 1 hour mark before they said anything about it and I'll never be more proud 😅

Played the yup like 5 times it was so satisfying.

@@tannerweinheimer7839 same xD best moment of the stream imo

It sounds like one of the transition sountracks from Vsauce videos wayyy back

I would have liked the comment but its already at 69….

@@todaysneed7251 it doesnt budge

Same 😂

and then he says "Oh, I'm a genius"

A very large part of being good at chess is realizing how bad lines are and when to stop considering them. This looks very complicated but when you have tens of thousands of hours of practice youre just visualizing the board 3 to 4 moves ahead of what youre imagining it. Then seeing a simplified form of the board 3 to 4 moves later. Even bobby fischer said this. You chase lines mentally then just let them loose when they "feel" bad.

@@TheTiltedOne looking at this comment makes me realize I’ll never be good at this game

Time stamp?

@@vipchesschannel3164 2:11:30

Seriously?! Interesting, where did you learn that?

@@RMichaelHimself He was there

@@RMichaelHimself uhm do u know what "history" means? There would be no past,no history if we knew nothing about it

@@alialekberov4001 all he asked was where he learnt that, he didn’t say anything about history?

@@RMichaelHimself I learnt that from agad covering interesting puzzles and sharing tidbits of chess history

Someone who doesnt like how hikarus tryies to show off with arrows and looking at the ceiling etc

Are we supposed to like that?

@@bear5197 y not

I get this reference

the "wake up levy" was savage

He literally said "clip that" lol I'm dying

AHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

LMAOOOOOOOOO I AMMMMMM DYINNNNGGGG 🤣🤣

lol

it should be kekw

Watch tenet lol

100%agree. Even i checked imdb, tried watching inception, dint u derstand a single thing

@@thecoolring6431 It was so hard to understand anything in tenet

lol

I skipped to it and I thought it was paused😂

Did you even get it 😂

how.

If it makes you feel better I struggle more on sub 500 puzzles than 900+

Good luck with your chemistry modules bro

thats a non issue, im sure levy and hikaru know their standing with eachother

I couldn't even figure it out with scribbling on a screenshot I had to take it into the chess app and simulate it! 🙈 he just conceptualizes the whole board in his head and then runs the simulation I wonder how do they see the board it must be like reading words in a book

I did the same! How do they visualize like that, it's crazy

*5%

Gotta get that brain food to burn on full gears and keep up with Hikaru

I also saw it that day

@BalwanSingh03 I think it is white rook f4, black queen f4, white queen h1, black queen f1, white rook e1 forcing a queen capture.

By that way everything is forced