In this video, Levy Rosman did not, in fact, neglect the stare. He purposefully removed it to make the statement that all things are finite in this universe, and we should treasure the things we have and the people we love dearly. I give this statement a 10/10 in lieu of the usual stare score
I have actually accidentally discovered this months ago thinking "Imma try doing the Vienna with Black" and nobody expected it, now your video will prepare everyone. Thanks
Dude, I sometimes play London with black (and also switch up move order every now and then). Once people realize what I'm doing they take much longer pauses between moves.
You probably won't see this Levy, but I'm a huge fan of your videos! I'm actually the head instructor at my school's chess club, and my students love you. If you ever have the time, or need an opponent for a video like this, I'd be happy to play! My kids would go berserk and I think they would all pay attention for once, lol. Edit: thx so much for the likes!
I’m around 1150 ELO and I always find it funny how I can prepare effectively against a majority of my opponents simply by studying lines that counter whichever opening Levy has most recently posted a video about. You’re influence is greater than you know, Levy!
You are also winning because people are using whatever is the new flavour of the week instead of sticking to what they practiced for hundreds of games at least.
True. This line shouldn't be played if your opponent has studied it. And which you can't know before getting a game, so these lines shouldn't be played at all beyond a level of 1000-1100. Ofcourse you can play it if you want to stay noobie forever
As a proud owner of E4 New York style, I love how it is literally the Vienna with black. He mentioned the original set up is similar (with white obviously having the extra bishop move), but a lot of the later moves and ideas are really similar
I use the vienna as well and thought the same thing. Only difference is when I play with black I usually do a queens side gambit instead but I'm going to try this instead.
Thank you for your videos! They accompany for over 2 years now and motivate me to improve at chess and keep following the world around it. I plan on playing in tournaments in the future. Today I even visited my first chess tournament and I’m still smiling ^^ I went to the women’s grand prix in munich and seeing all those players so close was amazing and exciting (I was wondering whether you’d cover them or not🙈)! So thank you again for everything you do for this community! ☺️
I heard there’s some balancing issues. but at least I’ve heard that it addresses the whole 1v1 issue the game has had for the last…. 1400 or so years? hopefully it gets a better reception for the single player portion than OW2 got
Omg the stare on the thumbnail. Such a profound look, makes me contemplate about life and the woulda coulda shoulda's. OMG you're gonna me me cry! 10/10
In watching a precious GTE vid, Gotham decried his sub for playing exactly this, saying "I don't know what Gotham Sub is doing. Maybe they think they're playing a Reverse-Vienna Gambit, cuz this is kinda like the Vienna, but this is 'poopy buns.' All this move does is lose a pawn. You can't play the Reverse Vienna; that's not how chess works." A year later he makes a video over this exact gambit. I simply love the fact that we have additional video evidence of Gotham growing as a person. Love all of your vids, GC. (I also just happened to be watching older GTE videos (favorite series on YT, indeed) and recognized the structure of the gambit, having recently watched this video not too long ago.)
I started playing chess few months ago, knew how pieces move since I was a kid, but never really got into it. I started just playing and it was terrible. And just when I was about to give up thinking it’s just impossible to win Levy just pops out in youtube. And here I am, going from 300 elo to 580 in last two weeks. Thank you Levy for theese incredible lessons!
Newish subscriber, tried this out today at 700 elo and got a resignation in 13 moves from the opponent, thank you very much for the beautiful educational content Levy!
Fifty years ago I earned a USCF rating of 1650, but haven't played tournament chess since. I really enjoy your videos and your humor. Learned a lot from you and scraped off some rust. THANX👍
I seriously can't thank you enough for this video. I've been looking for an opening for the black side for like a week now since I saw that I always win in white but rarely win when I'm black. Good thing you made this video and I'll be happy to memorize the lines 😂
Very cool. Good to see some live games with this. I have been watching Igor Smirnov's videos on this opening for the past two days on repeat. There are some nasty nasty traps beyond what you covered here. Very happy to find this gambit for both the italian, and the ruy lopez.
went from 600 to 1200 just playing this and Vienna The dark bishop pinning the knight to the queen on g5 happens all the time at my level, but I don't recall any times when the knight went there
You solved a centuries old game that couldn't be solved for hundreds of years, I clicked on a Gotham Chess video at under 10k views, so I think we are in the same league.
But in general gambits are only useful at low levels because anyone with some decent experience won't accept them - and that's when most gambit users get totally lost. Like I've seen 500s playing Queen's Gambit - what the hell are you guys doing if you only know first two moves of it?
OG fans will recognize this opening where we saw it for the first time. It was on a guess the elo episode where black was playing a reverse Vienna Gambit and Levy was pretty mad at that saying “chess doesnt work like that” 😭😂😂
Whenever every Grand master got their titles and was feeling good about themselves, they would never thought that one day chess will be solved by an international master...
Man next video like this include the Goring Gambit for white. It’s a dynamic opening that’s very high risk high reward and has lots of traps. Great video btw
I used to play the Rousseau gambit a lot and after doing some analysis I found a variation where white is fine after taking The maves are e4 e5, Nf3 Nc6, Bc4 f5, exf5 e4, Nd4!! If you take the knight ...Nxd4, Qh5+ if ...kh2, Qf7+ and you are losing if g6 then ... fxg6, Nf6 g7+, Nxh5 gxh8=Q and you are down an exchange
If you're looking to improve, play caro kann against e4, nf6 e6 against d4, and e4 ng3 bc4, play for c3 b4 a4 nd2 against bc5, nf6 play ng5 and fried liver
He inserted a SECRET STARE in the video. Replay the first second of the video rapidly, preferrably using the arrow key. This ingenius move earns an 11/10.
In case anyone wants to play something similar against the Spanish, that f5 variation is called the Schliemann and it's what IM Andras Toth recommends in his beginner's E4-E5 repertoire on Chessable. There's also an Eric Rosen youtube video on it. Pretty spicy stuff.
The great thing about the Schliemann is it's straightforward. I once tried it in an online simul vs an IM. Like move 9 he says something like "I think Qe2 is good for White here but I don't remember why", which I took as a validation of my opening play having been out of book since move 4.
"I play againt one 1000 and one 1800 elo player so we're covering a lot of the target audience fro the opponents you're going to be playing..." Me, a 200 elo: *You overestimate me*
I passed out at work today and the guy in the ambulance was intrigued by my enjoyment of chess and wanted to get into it so I sent him your way, you can thank me for the sub later. Love your content!
I discovered this guy through uTube shorts (I admittedly get lost in there for daaaaaaaaaaaaaaays, but I digress), just letting you know I love your videos Levy and have somewhat improved my weak chess game. Appreciate what you do bro. :D
Bro, i am not subscribed for that long, but you are like a quality Video machine. Everyday you post a new Video with interesting Topics. Just amazed how deep you can loose yourself in Chess. Thanks for your Videos. Big Fan
I’m a fairly new chess student, but want to make a point about bishop to G5. Pinning knights and taking is a (slight) sac for the sake of disrupting pawns. Blacks king side pawns were whacked at the open by pawn to F5 so the bishop sac is not necessary. Maybe the bishop would have been more useful on E3? Or a fianchetto since the light square bishop is also aimed at black’s king side and it’s really up to white whether the center gets opened. Idk.
I'm glad I don't need to follow this advice any more, after a couple of good wins I am now rated 9,287 - I play a lot of the London system as white, and as Black I play the Einstein-Rosen defence that actually allows me to move my rooks (and sometimes a bishop) to the 0th or even the -1st rank behind white's pieces, it involves folding space and time, but once you've practiced it a few times, it is easy.
Honestly Gotham is the only chess streamer I can watch more than 1:30 second long videos of, and I’m always watching him, he makes chess cool, can make an entire video and story about a chess game making it entertaining, honestly for me has done more for chess than anyone
I love how even a weak player like me saw the bishop attacking the rook… but like chicken nuggies, i also forgot abt it a few mobes later and was surprised by the next moves by levy the goat.
I"m never going to play this opening but it's important to stay up to date with these videos so I can be prepared for every unrated player to play this next tournament
Yesterday I was experimenting my opening to try the vienna but from the black side, coz vienna suits me, and now I see this video, and i didn't knew this was a thing....
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As a King's Gambit player I immediately analyzed the same thing without the knight on C6 and the white bishop out and it turns out its called the Latvian Gambit and the eval is about the same.
The Rousseau gambit has for a long time been a personal favorite of mine. I'm a little sadge levy is teaching it to the masses, but proud that the opening is gotham approved.
I havent played chess since middle school. Was always "decent" among my peers but none of us really took it serious. i would usually beat my dad as well. I say all that "irrelevent" stuff because i wish there was someone who could have made LEARNING chess not as boring or job like as your videos, back then. Keep up the great content.
I wish that Levy would have gone more in depth on using this against the Ruy Lopez since that is not only the better opening for White (according to Stockfish) but also more common for White. I feel that not being able to fork White's pawn and knight via d5 meaningfully alters the approach Black should take.
