I can’t even tell you thrill of hanging your queen, blatantly, realizing it immediately, sitting there waiting for your opponent only for them not to take it but sometimes blunder themselves, I love being a 500
Pretty sure Andrea is joking, but then again she seems like one of those women oozing confidence that legitimately thinks she can box against a fully grown male , then proceeds to get one hit KO-'d. Levy would "checkmate" in one in the ring. She's have a better chance in chess ironically.
@@zraagkraan1268same, i hit 1600 2 weeks ago and already close to 1700. 1600’s are trash, I don’t know what it is, they play too much blitz and don’t have deeper calculations apparently
Same. However I'd say it only really happens when I've played 30 rapid games already and its 3am. If I played one or two games in a day I'd never hang. 1800 as well.
Yeah I’m 1730 but I typically only do that when I play a bunch of games in a row and get tired of calculating and I just say f it we ball and see what happens or when I’m playing blitz but that’s common to make mistakes
It's not even a question of hanging in general, but do you hang them to rook 1 square away? It's not bishop across the board. It's not even a knight moving back.
Right. I played a game against a 2150 a few weeks back and he blundered a bishop. If I'd spotted it, I'd probably have got a draw (which ain't bad for a 950 :) )
Those A pawns in the last game 🤭 Just sitting there, having a blast while a chaotic yet rivetting battle ensues around them. I pictured them as the old geezers from the Muppets sitting on their balcony trolling all of em.
They are just smoking joints, listening to some cool tunes and having time of their life. Chad pawns don't care about any war going or some kings and queens.
It's probably been said a million times before , but the main problem with guessing the ELO without knowing the time control is that 1500 rapid is the equivalent to something like 1350 blitz and even less in bullet. So in game 1 Levy really isn't far off at all if he assumed it was blitz. Really, Levy ought to know the time control before making his guess.
@@cl3matis I wanna see that sacred game where the opponent f-d him up THAT BAD with this move. Imagine if Levy posted this. Screw the chess drama that's what we wanna see
In the lawsuit video another comment got more likes than yours even though you posted it before, but it seems in this video you'll actually succeed :')
21:52 "I only watch Naroditsky because he makes me feel like I'm at professor office hours at Stanford University." The one-liners from this man are unreal
Levy opened with the right hook opening, andrea responded with the risky "I could take you" gambit hanging herself (as she may be taken) but Levy declined and played the "who asked" counterattack
@@papadkumar2669 yeah I know but she's not even great at it to begin with like it's just horrible that she needs to challenge in people in France it's embarrassing to the chess community
i feel people from high elos don't quite understand the crazy plays that sometimes happen in our low elo games :D i have stuff like game 2 en masse in my games history, the tactics are there but mostly we oversee hanging pieces or immediate checkmate threats bc we are too focused on our own attack
Levy, i really love how you make fun of these beginners - seriously, you making obvious what the sub 1000 players might have thought makes me smile every time. And i learn a lot - this really helps detect "false" thinking in chess !
Two corrections for you: First, the 2.f4 move order is still the Grand Prix Attack as demonstrated in Hodgson and Day's book on that opening circa 1980. Second, Bc4 is the optimal placement for the bishop when Black commits their d pawn too early with ...d6. If they don't commit the d pawn before White moves the bishop, THEN it is best to play Bb5.
Did you miss the part of Levy's channel where he tells people to simply play solid chess and not try to perfect every single move because they're not GMs and they don't know how to think like a GM? Bc4 is optimal. For a GM. Not for the average person who doesn't know what to do from there.
@@joefoulger3510 that doesn't mean that Levy giving conflicting information should be ignored Also the 2. f4 thing is significant because after d5 black is slightly better (or at least equal), which is why grand prix starts with Nc3. Kinda surprised he didn't mention that to be honest
@@Ben-ff6hc You still don't understand the point. It doesn't matter if black has a 0.1 advantage after d5. The average person playing chess doesn't know what to do with that advantage. So instead of trying to memorize every single "optimal move," just focus on good fundamentals and improving your game
@@DaviniaHill this is just going to boil down to semantics, even within the countries you're speaking of each region has its own different accent some even incomprehensible between neighbouring cities! Clearly when British accent is used it's speaking to a class of accents.
@@DaviniaHill who asked you about your input? Should the common person distinguish if the bloke has a Leicester accent or an Oxford accent or what? Literally nobody cares.
I always considered myself a Good Chess player but watching you and the other GMs and IMs has been super humbling and rekindled my interest in the game. I Love how personality's like you and Andrea make the game more fun. The personalities and stories of people is what give chess relevance and soul.
You were criticizing black in the 2nd game but as it turns out every key move of his was better but the fact that he missed the follow up everytime though is a different matter🤣
I have to admit that I often have trouble following the chess, but the commentary is fantastic. Always makes me laugh, even when I don't have a hope in hell of understanding what's going on
I’ve been hanging around the 800-900 elo for a while, and I gotta say, this is the spot where people are trying learn things and trying new things all the time. I can believe a random game being that crazy
17:10 just a bit of context for this. Gotham isnt wrong regarding his statements but his conclusion is kinda off. I used to just play rapid until 6 months ago when i was stuck around 1300 and decided to play some bullet for the lulz. After over 1.5k bullet games I ended up at around 900 elo where i still am today (peaked at a bit over 1k though). I then went back to rapid and peaked ~1600 and actually stayed there longer than i thought i would but dropped back down to 1500 recently. so yes, I usually only play rapid and not bullet and my peak rapid rating is 1600 but that doesnt mean that my bullet rating in the video was total bs. id say over 1.5k games is enough for 900 to be pretty accurate.
Years back I played in tournaments and was rated at the top around 1700. I wasn't good with openings at all. But this game where you guessed 1K - I was sure right away that these guys are better than me and/or better than I was. I was guessing 1800.
Every time I see some of these 1000+ games I wonder why am I only encountering what seems to be GM-smurfs with 80%+ accuracy and complete knowledge of all opening lines in 700s.
For realllll not always but as a 250-300 player at the moment sometimes I'll play 70% accuracy and be like oh yeah that's great for me but LOOK AT THEM WITH 83% WTF
Educating a whole generation with great chess knowlodge and great humor. Thank you so much. Keep up the boxing! (Focus on footwork!, like dancing the salsa)
I don't know her enough but i think the "i could take" you was meant in a funny way. But i don't know the history you guys have so idk :) Other than that awesome video. Had reeeaaaaalllyyyy good laughs all throughout ❤️🔥🙌🏻
Yeah I mean he’s also doing it in a satire manner, he’s not really bashing on her but making jokes (even if they aren’t funny it’s still an attempt at humor)
Boxing tips Footwork: needs the most work, that short clip looked very flat. Balls of your feet. Jab step needs to be with your jab. Then step hard for the hook. Then back out. Range: You start in like that you'll get clocked. Start out. Find range with the in with jab steps. Drill that a lot first. Proper shoes would help. Power: It looks like you are timid. Using all arms instead of committing with the body. That hook is your power. You step in correctly but gave up. Put your weight in by pivoting hard. Stance looked good and basic ideas were there. Got a bit too wide at times. Keep it up.
@@Justpassingby204 Basically, I played badly as white against sicilian, but didn't want to lead with d4. So, when black played c5, I went on a gambit. Most players didn't know the line, take the free pawns which then allows white to be super aggresive on the queen side, while maintaining a strong centre. It's a cross between the Wing gambit & Smith-Morra gambit.
@@hideous_taco_michael_zacki If I had access to all the chess gurus on youtube back then, probably would have tried Najdorf or Dragon against open sicilian, but there's so many options...
Please don’t talk smack about andrea botez, just because she still falls victim to fools mate almost everyday that doesn’t make her a bad chess player. And just because she doesn’t know how the knights move that also doesn’t make her a bad chess player
Thing about ranking systems in any matchmaking game: There are such small factors that make a player better or worse than their opponent. For a whole game their weakness can be hidden, and for other games it can be entirely about their weakness. It's not always easy to see what rank someone is.
I’m curious if anyone else has the same experience as me. I’m over 1800 rapid and can’t even crack 1600 blitz, even when I play 5+5 which is very similar to the 10+0 rapid that I play. I’m not sure if it’s just a mental thing for me or if there is a gap there for everyone else. The 1500 rapid player in the first game for example, would then be around 1300 blitz, which would make much more sense. Maybe I’m just going crazy though. Thoughts?
That's opposite of me, I play at 1600 blitz, but rapid and classical progressively get lower. I do analyze but the moves are mostly instinctual and only rarely do I find an actual better move with more time (I'm quite sure and stockfish agrees that there are better moves but I just don't find them) so for me the longer time controls only help my opponent.
29:30 i think the main reason people resign is because theyre mad that they made a blunder or missed smthg and they dont feel like playing that game anymore
On the 1500 dude's game: after 1...a6, instead of 2.Bc4, I think 2.Qh6 instead. If 2...axb5, then 3.Rf4 and I don't see how the player with the black pieces is supposed to stop 4.Rh4 and then checkmate on h8 right afterward. There is a way to interpose a move that stops white from playing .Rf4 (.Qh6 first though, like he said in the video) and it's ...e5, but now .Bc4 and to .d5 next (.Bd5) and the bishop sits in this little nook left after the earlier ...e5. Good video.
