Just some advice for you, if you feel you can not say something positive, please just scroll to other videos. You’re not forced to watch the video or even attending this class.
Levy In a 3 min blitz game: In Mexico, there are crickets in HUGE populations Me in a 10 min rapid game: OMG I gotta hurry I only have 10 minutes OH NOOOOOOO
@@FallenFromGlory This is Chess, even if there's delay they can still snipe, unless is a whole minute delay, but judging from the chat I think delay is only a few seconds Also Levy constantly check from stream snipe by explaining a wrong move so he really don't have to worried
To the guy who asked in the chat: the openings have names based on where it was first played, the person who made it popular, the city, etc. There is no consensus. The Indian part comes from the country where it was played (notice that the pawns move just 1 square, that's because they were used to older version of chess in India, where there was no quick start for the pawns and they had to move one square at a time), and the Kings part comes from the fact that he moves his pieces out and on the kings side, later castleling there. At least this is what I was once told. Edit: I just saw that somebody wrote the same answer in the chat, so I just wasted my time. I am going to leave the comment to remind my future self of his past mistakes.
I was just wondering this, and I hate reading chat in most twitch clips cuz it's usually scrolling too fast so I just never look. Remember, giving redundant information in multiple places isn't useless, it increases coverage. Thank you!
@@Cocxy69 "hungs" isn't a word. "hung" is a word so he could say "hung/hangs queen at 3:42" as in "He hung/hangs his queen at 3:42". Saying "he hungs his queen at 3:42" doesn't make sense because "hungs" isn't the past tense of "hung" since "hung" is already past tense...
@23:17 It's called King's Indian because it was famously played by Indian players in international chess, coming from a background in Indian version of chess during British rule. In Indian version of chess the two square pawn move as well as king-rook swap castling was not allowed (in Indian castling, King could move like a knight once in the game, and that was used to manually bring the king to the other side of the rook), so fianchettoing the King's bishop was the way you controlled the centre. You can observe the same in Sultan Khan's games as he belonged to the British Colonial era in India. Learning the two step pawn move would be, I suppose, more inconvenient to such players, because it would demand a change in their well practiced understanding of openings, so they went for the move that would be allowed in both their native variant of chess as well as international chess.
I just started playing after maybe 20 years of not playing, and soon realized my lack of opening repertoire and fundamental opening blunders were costing me big time. So I added this King's Indian, paid more attention to using pins and forks, and feel like I'm really making some serious progress now. Thanks for the great content!
32:50 "Is it cheating to always avoid the best move that an engine gives you?" "What an ethical conversation" bro had me dying while bringing up a solid question
Haha ikr 800 gang rise up. Also jokes aside Chess has so many levels it's depressing. Love the game and i had a 57 move 93 accuracy game earlier with no mistakes or blunders, and to the former 300 me that would seem amazing, but when IMs talk about 1200s like children and i see 1200s as gods XD
@@randomyoutubeaccount6906 Chess really shows how much more the human mind is capable of. When you're a beginner or intermediate player, you look at professional games and have no idea how they manage to think about so many things in such short amounts of time. But then you look at their IQ numbers, and they're... normal. They don't actually think super fast, they think *_efficiently_* . It's really interesting to think about
@@randomyoutubeaccount6906 And you feel the changes, right? A long way to go, obviously, but you see things that you would never even think about before. I'm rated around 1100 myself, but feel like i have a couple hundred more if i stop playing late at night when i'm tired. Most people at this rating fall for super simple baits, it's not even funny anymore. Like, i would be winning the game like a god, and then just blunder a piece and sit there, looking like that Mike Wazowski face swap meme
@@bobwitney4084 now that I'm 1200 rated. 800 rated players look really weak compared to 1200. There are a lot of errors 800 rated players make that lose their queen immediately. If a 1200 lose their queen, it's likely a misclick
WHOA wth, is this a sign from god? I was studying my chemistry and I just started with frequences and wavelengths, took a break, opened this video, and saw this. Just wow
@@hammurabitheawesome674 maybe, but d4 can be exciting, I've been messing around with trompowsky and catalan stuff and it can be a lot of fun and tactics
@ivanfuentes858 I assume he meant accuracy. Which is a game by game thing. If the opponent plays badly its easy to get that. I literally just looked at a game where i played at 96% and I'm 1000.
I don't even know if you'll ever see this Gotham, but this is probably my favorite video of yours. I'm now 900 ELO Rapid thanks to your kings indian series. It's also really nice how this video seems more calmer than newer ones. Thank you for making chess entertaining for the masses.
I went from 600-850 I’ve played for 5 months while bored at work. Your content is awesome man, started to learn openings in the last two weeks. Cheers. I play the London and kings Indian and just try not to blunder and develop lol
So pumped. I play chess since I was 6 yo. My father taught me and we still play. He was a former Moroccan champion. I gave up for quite some years but got back at it for the last year and your videos helped me a lot improve my game. Keep it up
I just want to say for any youtube viewer who's thinking of getting the openings course, I got the openings course for 1. e4 and I could not be happier with the results. Just knowing how to respond to e5 and c5 has ramped up my win/loss ratio when playing black and white. Levy focuses so much on overarching ideas in the opening that you can't help but get better at facing any opening. Also, Vienna game is overpowered.
"I hallucinated that my rook was here..." Story of every single endgame of mine ... xD Does someone know how to disable "move by klick"? That kills me basically 20% of my games. Especially when I klicked the Queen before xD
I’m like 90% sure you can’t disable the clicking feature, I know if you right click, it will unselect ur pieces. You can also, shift to turn squares green when right clicking.
I've lost count of the number of times I clicked on my king to castle short, then decided to move my other rook first, triggering an accidental long castle. :^(
3:15 is knight g4 just winning for black? You threaten fork on f2, while also attacking queen with black bishop. If queen d2 or e3 to protect pawn and fork, pin with black bishop, which is protected by g4. Correct me if I’m wrong but knight g4 just wins that game no?
I love these series because I'm like 1100 and I can see what openings work well in this lower level rating area. Keep up the great work man(and sweatshirts too)
I'm having a hard time learning from these videos because I never know if you're checking for a stream sniper or not. Its very confusing and difficult to follow when I'm not sure, so please don't do this so much. These videos are great and I want to continue to watch.
13:51 If this guy actually planted his queen's knight properly on d2, isn't the fork countered by bishop g5 pinning the knight to the queen. If pawn push to e4 then bishop or knight takes will save the blunder?
I just cant fathom why twitch people are so hostile, irritating and disrespectful. I mean how can you even say something about a person who is working so hard to improve your game. Every time this man tries to make the videos as playful, funny and entertaining as possible so that you learn, so that your minds gets a bit sharper. Please guys, stop creating nuisance and start appreciating his hardwork and if you can't then just shut up.
Would someone be able to explain to me how bishop to G3 was not a blunder by Levy? For me it seems as though he can take the bishop with the king. Am I missing something? Timestamp at 12:51
10:25 Hallucinating. I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that. I hung a Queen on a8 the other day because for some reason I thought my a-pawn wasn't there and the queen was supported by the rook.
This is how I felt playing the Kings Indian. Every game ended up in these huge complicated tension filled mid games and I couldn’t convert constantly bc I’m trash lol
Levy is a funny bastard. I think he has a personable intelligence that makes him not only brilliant at chess, but would also make him an interesting guy to sit next to on a flight.
Mah boi levy! I've watched and rewatched all your e4 climbs. Probably my #1 favourite real-life scenario chess videos. Can't wait for more of these for black.
Wow, as a relatively new player, I find this type of video extremely helpful. I especially like the way you instruct while at the same time encouraging your subs. You have a way of criticizing that sounds like encouragement instead of criticism.
I just gotta say that I've faced 900's that were better than some 1300's and even some 1500's, seriously, some people online rated around 1000 are genuinely really good, at least for their rating. So that these low level players did well for themselves doesn't really shock me.
IVE SPOTTED A GENIUS MOVE AT 2:42 . If you move the knight to g4, hitting the Queen with the bishop and looking to fork at f2, the only reasonable move to protect f2 and moving the Queen out of danger at the same time is Qd2. Then you follow up with bishop to h6, wich is then PROTECTED by the knight and pins the Queen to the King. Insanely proud that i found this as a 1200 rated player and Levy did not lol :)
@@Ch33s3r Then probably something like Qf6, supporting Bxf4 on the next move with royal skewer. So he still can't take the loose Knight but has to unpin himself.
First 3 games, we saw that Levy struggled and constantly mentioning "this is difficult position" "this guy playing well". It isn't like players happened to play very well or somehow always end up in difficult position, it shows how bad King's Indian is...Compare this to "e4" climbing ladder part 1. Dramatic difference. Also, for all the games against very low rated player, there wasn't significant "benefit" of playing King's Indian at all.
Beware Levy, some of them are 400+ on Blitz but are actually 1400+ on Rapids. I could see you were having some small difficulties mid-game and I can assure you, some of your opponent ratings were much much more higher.
At 4:10 Levy says "That's a mistake because he had discovered check, and he could take my rook." I don't see how that wins a rook at all. If he takes the bishop with the king, his rook on d8 is safe because the queen and other rook still defend it. Am I missing something there?
If he played rook to d6. White playes bishop to f7. Then he is forced to take the bishop with his rook/king. Then black captured his rook on d6. And Levy cannot take back with his queen because there is another rook on D1 protecting. That's what I think anyways
Hi Twitch! Kings Indian defense has been a godsend imo. I tried caro kann and sicilian but i'm too much of a scrub at developing correctly when they're familiar with the position.
Two thumbs up, great content, good presentation. A very well thought out approach, Kings Indian. Tried tested and verified, not just by me but also, by real chess professional players in the know, like our host.. This is one, recommend for the black side, friends and family. Peace ✌, Love and soul. Yours truly, the people's choice, OG Reggie B.
Ur vids help a lot, I know you're not cheating because chess analyzers rarely think of tactics. your gift is knowing where to put your pieces at various stages. you blunder less than a normal person that's for sure. but your vids have helped me a lot thanks
So I just watched this, and pushed e5 against London....it was glorious and an easy win. Have subbed your Twitch as a thankyou - I truly believe you're one of the best RU-vidrs I've seen. Keep it up dude x
2:51 doesn't Ng4 win a rook and a pawn for a knight here after knight takes on f2, white can't go Qd2 to protect it because Bh3 pins the Queen to the king?
