Teaching Myth Chess For PogChamps 3 

Levy's an impressive coach, and Myth's an impressive student. I'm impressed!

Please do a guess the rating series where you watch games without knowing their rating and guess the rating of the players!!!

"The game has very little to do with intelligence, it's just how many times you repeat something and practice it" - GothamChess Jan 2021

Levy restraining his powers for an hour straight

he reached my level of chess in 56 minutes :FeelsBadMan:

Let’s fucking go my boy levy’s blowing up

I cant believe he saw f5 that’s crazy. This guy may not have had lessons, but hes played before. A beginner wouldnt see f5 46:26

11:35 "I didn't even know that was a thing" Myth seriously sounds like xQc here

That Levy Rozman dude got some talent, one day he might become as good as Gotham Chess.

When you’re so early Gotham hasn’t pinned a hater...

myth's chat spamming him to play rust during the whole lesson makes his stream too painful to watch

i couldn’t stop laughing at chat’s terrible advice the entire video

Myth is a cool guy, very smart and if he bundlers he can just pull his xqc impression

"Doesn't it means it's checkmate?" Oh xQc vibes

This was a great video Levy! Really enjoyed this one, I love the total beginner lessons. Also Myth is cracked.

Loving all the content levy, only recently started playing chess properly after watching your videos very helpful and enjoyable, also got my first win in 8 moves yesterday. :D

I'm genuinely impressed by how well you explained your lesson. It felt great watching because this is exactly how I would want something new explained to me. Great job!

Congratulations on 400k levy!!!! Well deserved!!

“Hanging a king is not allowed” Anish Giri playing chess for ants: *am i a joke to you*

With Levy, Hikaru, Anna and Daniel pumping out quality content constantly I always end up watching a chess video no matter what I was doing previously.

Levy has picked up 50k youtube subs in the past 10 days... insane

What a great collab of 2 of my favourite streamers. Myth picked up a lot of concepts very quickly, cant wait to see him in the upcoming pogchamps 👌

Four hundred thousand subscribers Levy. Congrats man. You're an amazing coach and a brilliant commentator.

Original title: Is myth the best beginner chess player?

Hey Levy, I enjoy your videos very much ever since the algorithm brought them to my attention. I'm also following you on twitch and I appreciate the content. A small suggestion I would give is to make an ending to these videos. I would love to hear your post analysis and another summary at what were the most useful concepts, or just a close up saying bye would be great for me. Hope to keep watching great content. Thanks for posting these!

I watched almost an entire hour of a lesson, and it was so good! Levi you might be the only legitimate challenge to my number one watched RU-vid NL

So far ive only seen poki and myth's lessons, but it honestly make me really happy to see how well theyre responding to lessons and how into it they seem. Im super excited for pogchamps 3

So many large content creators are joining the chess revolution. Great news for all communities!

Me: *sees levy's new video* *visible happiness*

Thanks for posting this. It was very helpful.

Levy:"Chess has nothing to do with intelligence" Me:"I know. I lost to Leela with 1 node lookahead"

What I really love about Levy's way of teaching/videos with beginners is that even though I'm a bit experienced, but mostly a casual player, I still can pick up and learn something from this and it's not just another video for people who are relatively new to the game

Let's go you reached 400k!

Showing him the Wayward Queen attack was veryyy important! Learned that the hard way! lol

That was a nice lesson. (Great teaching style)

This was a fantastic first chess lesson. A great mix of demonstrating fundamental chess principles and asking the student questions/to make their own moves to get them involved and see/adjust their thought process, while also creating situations to introduce key concepts but still keeping the lesson focused and not overwhelming them with too much info. All while being encouraging, upbeat, and funny. The other Pogchamps coaches with less teaching experience could def learn from this. Also Myth helped by being such a good student.

Great Coaching!

What a great coach, perfectly asking the right questions at the level a student can solve them.

45:54 I think myth was mostly seeing he could push up the f pawn, eventually threaten the bishop and then _maybe_ that would lead to an opening for his rook somehow along the f file. I'm not sure he necessarily saw a way to get any of his rooks to g6. Still a VERY nice move for someone's very first lesson. Even having the intuition to see that you can activate the rook without moving it is impressive.

I love how Levy explains stuff for the most part, but (and this goes for every chess teacher ever, not just Levy) why even say to beginners that kings are not allowed to put themselves in check? Or that a pinned pawn isn't allowed to move because it would put the king in check? Just say "if I do this, my king gets caught on the next move" even if that's not literally what the rules say. As long as it doesn't change the decision making process, it's better to have fewer rules to think about. Freeing up some mental space for your student matters both in the short term (because there's a lot of rules to think about in the beginning) and actually also in the longer term, because they're not building an unnecessarily cluttered mental structure. Future knowledge builds on existing knowledge, and if they have an unnecessarily cluttered understanding of how the pieces move, this adds some "weight" whenever they try to construct new knowledge building on that knowledge. For example, I'll guarantee you they'll be a little bit quicker to learn mating patterns if you drop the "allowed" rules. The worst thing that can happen is that they try to make a move that would put their king in check, get confused when the board won't let them, and then realize that oh, hold on, I would lose on the next move if I did that, I don't want to do it anyway.

Has anyone told you that you are a great chess teacher?

Really love hearing you teaching someone!

Could you make a video about Polish Opening?

"The average human has over 100 billion brain cells" ... I see what you were going for Levy but... lmao (he ninja edited it, was billion before :D)

Saw this on stream, but just wanted to say that the video title is perfect. Props to whoever came up with it!

Hi Levy! Can you make a video about punishing pawn pushers

Fascinating to watch a beginners level lesson, I was impressed when he realised that the h-file is a bad place for a knight due to limited movement options. I also didn't realise PC3 was a thing already! There's a black hole of my time on the horizon!

Yes I’m watching this trying to get better! This new guy sees things I don’t 😂😂

20:46 GMs: I think not ima repeat this mans game 7 times over

new to competitive level chess. This is a s very informative video for a 700. Thank you

9:48 at that point i was screaming MYTH MOVE KNIGHT g5 AND BISHOP c6 AND ITS A BEAUTIFUL FORK

At this quick of a pace, levy will probabbly teaches myth the fried liver and even traxler counterattack.

Dude how many times is that title changing? The lesson was awesome though. Happy I could watch live.

Do you do lessons in general or is it normally streamers and whatnot

I used to watch myth all the time , he’s actually a fkn smart cookie this is sick to watch

CONGRATS ON 400K

Congrats on the 400K subs

hey gotham !! Sorry i asked this question before but i really want an answer do you recommend as a way to learn transitioning from openning to middlgame ny picking an opening for black and one for white study their theory and play blitz games with em?

This is really good @gothamchess. I remember how I got into chess, the story is that my favorite dota streamer gorgc was getting a lesson from yours truly Hikaru Nakamura. I just watched him them couple of times then I got hooked to chess

Early congrats on 400k Levi!

Idk why but after myth moved pawn to e5 I immediately thought bishop to b5 check and then I realized there’s 0 protection

woahh congrats on 400k levy wasn't the race to 200k vs Rosen just yesterday? 😂

I have a question. At 5:28, is Qa4+ a good move? I know Levy had just said that random checks aren't good, but it also attacks the unguarded bishop. They then have to respond with Nc6 (the other legal moves lose a bishop, but the knight guards it), but then if you play Bb5, pinning the knight, is that not winning material? If they break the pin by Bd7, or even a King move, Bxc6 wins a knight for free, right? If they take back with either the pawn or the bishop they blocked the pin with, then Qxa5 wins the bishop. Either way you're up a piece. Does this actually work, or am I missing something?

Sick moves for a beginner, impressive!

Tbh i learned a lot ! Great coaching

Ive just started out playing chess (queens gambit got me hooked) and I’m nearly rated 700.... anyway I just won my first game where the computer said that I had 0 blunders 0 mistakes and 0 missed wins !!! All thanks to you Levy and your great coaching 👍🏼👍🏼

Wow. Seriously impressive. I hope we get a Myth vs Poki game 👀

What a great lesson!

Every chess pro treats their celebrity student like geniuses for knowing the rules of chess lul

Anyone know how they're both highlighting and showing the moves to each other? I'm trying to do it with a friend and we can't find a way.

Hey gotham can you do a video 9f how to win from 600 to 800 beacause i keep tilting to 650ish and i want to know how to dominate them and get up to 800 and i can manage from there

4:22 *hikaru's bongcloud speedrun intro plays*

Omg this is nuts, two of my favorite content creators ever

Giuoco piano is like saying i Am not going full tryhard mode on ny opponent

honestly levy you are the reason i didn't give up on chess after i found no real intrest in my country for chess when i was young just thank you man XD

He's insane wtf lol

Hey I’ve been wondering something for a couple of days now, will the tournament’s name stay the same with the whole PogChamp ordeal going on?

Myth wanted to play Ke2, must've been watching Hikaru

7:20 Levy: Sadly, cheesing people will not work. *Throbbing flashbacks* Levy: Uh, all the time.

Bro is really out here making moves.

Impressive first lesson wow

No levy You can't castle at 35:55 You have to play B4

11:42 the sounds of learning

2k till we hit the 400,000! So close, glad to see Levy blow up like this!

Thank you for posting free chess lessons I am extremely grateful

You are a great coach Levy.

Definitely let him know that he can't castle through check, a lot of beginners don't know that

400k congrats

i would recommend them to study the classics : Hafu, xQc, Fuslie, and so on

At this rate I am convinced that levy is gonna hit a mil subs before the end of year. Let's freakin' gooooo!!!!

7:15, you mean the good ol' moist mate,

6.00 check w the queen and get the bishop breh

Dude myth hella strong teach him the vienna

Can’t wait for PogChamps 3 to start!

Watched a lot of myth in 2018 when fortnite was actually a good game, I had no idea you 2 had a collab. I watch all your videos now Levy you are so well spoken and entertaining!!! I could watch you two all day, both have such a kind soul

when you're so early you watched Gotham change the title

1:01 the poor guy who said "who is myth" his name is in dark blue

I feel a Myth vs. Poki match coming up

Myth is going to be a GM before he knows it! Great job, man! And you got an epic teacher!

20:27 the moment when Myth realizes how insanely indistinguishably complex chess is