Magnus Carlsen: 3850 Elo 

“How do we know he’s not cheating” “Sir he’s better than our engine”

According to Carlsonfish, Stockfish had an accuracy of 96% in this game.

Not gonna lie, learning that chesspanda123 isn't an actual panda that learned how to play chess broke my heart.

This proves that Magnus isn't a cheater. If he was cheating, he would be playing way, way worse.

Imagine getting a 2850 ELO estimation, and losing by 1000 elo

3 Magnus videos in a row??? Are we in heaven??

A 1000 estimated elo difference. Insane

Playing those types of moves are beyond calculation for any human. Magnus played that on pure instinct. His vision and killer instinct are second to none.

Levy: * Looks at Magnus * Also Levy: I can milk you

Me when I play pawn e4: "That's right, I'm ELO 4000, Levy said so himself!"

also he was explaining every move, reading chat, laughing, not even looking at the screen for half the time. an absolute alien.

The fact that magnus was streaming, talking and joking with chat while playing this game.

"The king's house was on fire; he was trying to break out. The bishops, standing guard in front of the windows, accidentally held them shut." What a perfect and incredibly worded metaphor.

I love how brutal the game review makes it sound. "... White _overpowered_ Black in the middlegame". The word suits what happened in the game perfectly. Magnus was simply on another power level and he couldn't be stopped. Not even by someone as strong as their opponent. It perfectly encapsulates how Magnus goes around winning these types of games. An interview I recall where Magnus got annoyed at the reporter, they said something like "you sort of struggled this game, are you worried?" Magnus replied something along the lines of if the opponent doesn't make any mistakes there's nothing he can do about it and that it felt like they were oversimplifying/being disrespectful towards what happens in there during the games. You can't expect him to do this every game, but holy crap it's impressive.

The burning king metaphor was brilliant, is crazy to me how i just see a bunch of pieces and you see a story developing in front of you.

Watching Magnus play reminds me of Federer in his prime... casually responding to everything his opponent throws at him before unleashing a disgusting move like d6. Like a ripped backhand down the line, knocking the wind out of his opponent and following up with a devastating, unstoppable checkmate. Simply sublime.

It's fantastic to see Magnus play a game like that. Awe inspiring. For a 3 minute time control, once that got past the opening I was actually quite impressed with the way Yu Yangyi responded as black, only to be crushed before getting anywhere near an endgame. I would not be surprised if he had sat there for the next hour thinking "what happened?"

"...but White was on another level." Even Stockfish respects Magnus.

Magnus got an accuracy of 97.4% (probably higher with a better depth of stockfish) in an online 3 minute game, which rivals the WORLD CHESS CHAMPION FINAL GAMES

gotham is so good at narrating he makes chess like a romantic poetry

Magnus is a one punch man of our world, the last thing he needs is a robo friend

Magnus speaks for himself

And he was just chilling last couple of months playing poker, this guy is just something else. I mean wow

Magnus's Fide Blitz rating is 2850, Yu Yangyi (who is 2770) played estimated at that level, and still performed an estimated 1000 elo worse. Absolutely crazy.

If Magnus is 3850 ELO. Levy is out of luck on becoming a GM💀

levy: what’s wrong with magnus? magnus: and i took that personally mf

levy: i will disable the eval bar also levy: turns the bar on after every move

I love how he casually said, 97 accuracy, that’s insane (if it ran at a higher depth, it would be a bit higher probably)

One of the few times where raw human intelligence outshines machines, and it's from the GOAT

Did you know that Magnus means strongest? Levy on the other hand means "the devoted" or "the faithful". So that explains a lot.

Completely insane. It must be his training with AlphaZero, or he is just having fun and being creative on the board. Probably his retirement from the WC took away all the stress and gave him the liberty he needed to produce these awesome ideas

Whats wild is his accuracy rating is actually higher, the "inaccuracies" are just him being better than the engine.

I was so happy to finally reach 1100 this week

Magnus Blitz Immortal. Unreal.

0:50 Levy, you missed a perfect opportunity to say “Magnus Opus” and I couldn’t be more disappointed

The aura of the video is making my spine shiver, and oh boy let me just say that Magnus carlsen the goat is just has some magnificent abilites in the beautiful game of CHESS.

To think that magnus is literally outsmarting stockfish is just hillarious

Imo, this is one of the best commentaries from Levy. I love the game itself, the lines shown, and him explaining the concept and why certain things are that way. This video is why I still believe his game analysis is still the best.

Love the Magnus content. Always great to see how the top players move. Are you going to be playing in anymore tournaments? My favorite videos last year was you personally describing your own thought process and moves. It’s great to see the thought processes behind such high level chess.

i speak for everyone when i say we love the magnus content

the greatest feeling i’ve experienced from a game if chess was i took their queen and forked the rook and king with my knight all in 1 move

That is absolutely incredible foresight by Magnus. I struggle to envision what'll happen two to four moves ahead, this dude is legit setting up 10+ moves in several variations. So fun to watch

the analogy about the bishops keeping the windows was cool

4 days ago, GothamChess "what happened to Magnus Carlsen" Magnus took that personally

Levy's so quiet and chill in this you'd think he was recording a short just before this.

As a kid, I was at my Grandma's house playing through the opening of a chess game from a newspaper on a board, watched by her white cat Lulu. I moved the White King's Bishop to b5 putting the Black King on e8 in check, the cat reached out her right paw and tapped the Black bishop on c8 to b7, blocking the check, which was the next move. True as sunrise over Japan in the morning.

I'd love to know magnus' thought process in this game. How far out does he see these things? Is it partial adaptation along the way or is he really planning multi piece synchronized attacks this many moves away? Unbelievable, reminds me of alpha zero games

I really like not having the elo bar. Made the game more suspenseful and got more of an aha moment when finding out why the move he did was good.

crazy how you can extend a 3 minute game to 17 minutes

they gotta just make a super gm title already and the requirement be "beat or draw a fellow gm using the magnus carlsen gambit"

Magnus was just in the hyperbolic time chamber during his break

I love the washed-out board for showing variations! It makes the tangents much easier to follow. Please continue doing it! Love your videos

13:31 best way to put an outstanding play from Magnus

Love the MMA and Pippen/Jordan mentions in the last videos

A video with Levy's dog is really a great idea. Would love to see him teach his dog the Vienna or London

Its not just his chess genius but having the self confidence, guts and wherewithal to play those moves. His ability to be so deadly and lasered focused is what really separates him from the rest. This how a person becomes the GOAT by beating an opponent on a level that is artistic genius.

I love watching your content when it just came out, Levy.

10:17 Bxa5 is the best move.. Qf3 Bb1 Bxa5 Qxa5 d6 is also playable, but immediate d6 results in Nb7

It Is such an honor to be witness of great performance from Carlito Magnissimo. He is the GOAT

Stockfish better start improving on their chess or magnus gonna become the new engine

really love that levy trynna explain things to us by basketball

A suggestion. The hypothetical moves increases the brightness of the chess board which can be jarring. Maybe another colour scheme to signify the difference or if that messes with the coherence of the video, maybe no change at all?

Bro at this point i am convinced there is not even a doubt that magnus is the goat

That is the most insane thing ive seen!!! 3850 elo what?!!!!!

i find it funny, that after the rook escapes and black takes the pawn you can play qb7 which looks brilliant kinda fails after qb6 by black. however there is another brilliant move there, which is d7, "giving" up the queen 2nd time which is stopped by rf8. i honestly was shocked that such a crazy line gets refuted

I was not fully paying attention to the elo and thought it was quite normal (just blanked and forgot 2800 would be normal). But holy hell. That is just next level

magnus is one of the greatest athletes of all time IMO

i remember watching this game and reviewing it immediately after seeing magnus playing top moves instantly lol. That elo estimate was mindblowing, even stockfish bows down!!

Just watch the 88 accuracy game with sarana. Manus made 3 brilliant moves😂

At 12:19 queen b7 is an amazing move forking rook & bishop cuz rook can’t take cuz then back rank mate

I love the parts without the eval bar, more of that please!

Stockfish: *sweats nervously*

You: 50 elo

always nicely done and a pleasure to watch Honest chess analysis with a lightness of touch Levy makes it fun

Hi there i have a doubt regarding how stockfish operates sorry my English isn't very good but I'll try my best to explain my doubt so please bear with me now let me elaborate , so at around 8:46 levy says taking with knight is the worst of the three but magnus still plays it and later plays a move which although not a lot of time but stills considering it calculates endgame right from the first move stockfish did take time to analyse what magnus played after knight takes rook , so here is my doubt as it was the worst move did it not even consider moves made after this move because it was the worst move and it looks for the best possible moves all the time if anyone does know why please let me know thank you and have a great rest of your day.

You can play the best game of your life and find creative brilliant moves , but stockfish still hits you with 3 inaccuracies and 2 blunders

Hey Levy, your chess videos rock! YOU rock too! Never stop

Damn I was just rewatching Levy's magnus videos.

Stockfish: inaccuracies 2 Magnus: i never miss

I love how even if the titles are clickbate I still enjoy this humorous/best chess RU-vidr

That was so phenomenon, i can't hardly grasp the situation but thanks to gotham chess explaining move by move made it interesting to watch, definitely my idol even though he ain't a gm yet gon wait for that title for levy to earn

At 12:21 Magnus had a brilliant move bc magnus Qb7 Rook takes Queen and Magnus's Rook is gonna slide to E8 and thats check mate. But if they dont take the Queen instead make another move, Qcb8 the bishop cant block because the rook slides in and checkmate or the Queen block and then Queen takes Queen bishop takes Queen and Rook checkmate

Magnus has trespassed into the domain of the gods

At this elo he shouldn't be just a GrandMaster but a GigaOmegaAlphaTeraMaster(G.O.A.T.Master) i swear....

Stockfish: yeah no that doesn’t- WAIT A MINUTE

I would like to see magnus and levy interact some day

i won a game with the cicilian defense and i had a 99.3% accuracy. it was a short game tho

Levy is so into Magnus Carlsen at this point in his videos

I love videos that follow what Carlsen is up to, the greatest chess player of all time keep em coming

Eric rosen plays this too with Stafford variation

Swear I thought it was a clickbait again

This video is a banger dude 🔥🔥🔥

The idea of Qd5 was to play Bc4 hitting ft mate..thats why Yu Yangyi defended with Bg6

This was an insane game, when magnus played qd6 i just smiled because that is a nasty move

Guys I got 2 brilliant moves today! Anyways I hope that you reading has a good day!❤

Levy, seems like you've stopped covering a lot of these top events, I miss the recap videos. I get it, if Magnus is playing you get a million views. Would be cool if you covered more of the GCT :)

13:06 yea because stockfish thought panda would play good, he dind't so the stupid plan worked

i like that the screen looks different when you're showing an example instead of the game being played

There's no way Magnus doesn't pull a Fisher and goes completely insane in later years

Magnus the king of chess