This Is REALLY Sad... 

Yeah. Imagine being 2300 and to just critique everyone better using ONLY ENGINE. Levi would’ve started chocking these positions bc all he does is use computers. Little true relative Knowledge compared to other streamers

Levy was tired of people skipping to Magnus so he switched it up on us.

"Listen if you leave" - Clicks away. Felt guilty, came back... GJ Levi.

Poor Nepo. He’s won the candidates tournament twice. He’s probably going to be the official world chess champion. Yet he knows Magnus is undisputedly better.

"Biggest win for Hans Niemann in his career" little did he know how soon he would be saying those words again

"Anyone who is

Petition to rename the Bogo Indian to Bozo Indian!

I felt incredibly seen when you called out the other-tab-homework-doers 😳

One way to make it more interesting is to stop giving 1/2-1/2 for a draw. Like, make a win worth 2 or 3 pts, and a draw be 0-1

Sad Gotham face... someone needs to make a meme for you poking Magnus with a stick, "come on, do something."

Give players a pick/ban phase for the openings they plan on playing for each game. You can't play an opening that the opponent picked, MOBA style!

Better than banning certain openings would be to make draws a little bit less worth it. Instead of half a point for each player, it only gives a quarter of a point to each player. So if you're losing you still wanna clutch the draw, but you also might risk it for the biscuit and play for a win.

Regarding banning opening, why not make it like league of legends where each side gets a ban phase? Like you can ban one of your opponent's openings per game or something.

That Nepo game was absolute * chef's kiss * wizardry. Almost as brilliant as Magnus' win in the first round.

Seriously, if Nepo wants to win the WCC, all he has to do is revisit all of his lost games against Magnus. This chap just eviscerated the kid Magnus himself touted to be he next Challenger to the throne. Go Ian!

We don't care whether the games are exciting. We care whether YOU are exciting. That's what keeps us clicking the "like" button! 👍

Let's look at the game between Niemann and Carlsen. 13. Rfd1 instead of the correct Bxf6 21 c4 - sacrificing a pawn for very little compensation 28 g4?? 30 a4 instead of Bxc4 Niemann also didn't play the most accurate moves to bring home the point. Carlsen lost because he played badly in this game and not because of any computer-like brilliance from Niemann.

That's crazy how one player has sacked a piece and is on the verge of checkmating his opponent and the position is 0.00. And then the game is over on the very next move lol

If he had a rating of 2300 and beat someone with a rating of 2800 - it is not impossible. I beat someone 700 points higher than me. After picking myself up off the floor when it happened I thought I doubt that will ever happen again but all it requires is one slip and anything can happen. He may be a cheat or he may be someone who had a great game. If he is innocent, I hope they apologise to him because to beat someone 100s of rating points higher and then to be sullied by cheating accusations is not good. I hope the truth comes out

Hans' chess speaks for itself

Been saying for years. A draw should be counted as a loss. Play to win or stay home.

"Everybody pause, bring it back here, because I know you have me on another tab 'cause you're doing homework or something". That's so accurate. (Minus the "other tab" part.) I love distracting myself with your videos, Levy ❤❤

"Oh, you do pay attention, you just don't remember" I don't come here to be attacked like that, Levy

Any super GM playes chess: Levy: and that is why i am stupid.

Magnus is the greatest innovator in VHESS,. He made Bc4 and D3 and e4e5 positions popular then Everyone followed. Same as London System, same as Shevssnikov (sp) same as Catalan, etc he has done so much for Chess that if he didn't exist Chess would be so boring today. He is copied more than computers...no one has ever been better, someone will be cause he has raised the bar so high it's unbelievable.

Ah yes, chess, the only game you stop winning when you get good

Just curious. Does anyone actually leave after or skip to a Magnus game? I always watch Levy's videos in full, his commentary is peak entertainment.

Levi, I love you late night videos where you shoot from the hip and just call it like you see it; complaining when you see the Berlin, calling out a boring game from Magnus, etc. You bring the flavor to an otherwise boring stuff

I'm kind of sad to see that the top chess players will often just draw like the first game ended. Since Grandmasters will likely recover the loss in ELO, what's stopping them from just going for it? I'm kind of low rated myself so if anyone has an explanation I'd like to hear :)

There is a simple solution used long ago in soccer. It may not be perfect but it helped a lot. All you have to do is raise the value of the points for a win so that a draw is unprofitable.

honestly I think banning openings is genius, you'd just have to figure out how to classify what counts as a certain opening. I also think the flipside would be pretty cool, like if there were tournaments where you only played the dragon for example, but the twist is that you don't know what the opening is until you show up

Does everyone really think Hans magically prepared to play vs an opening that magnus has never used in a game the same morning of the game?

I was waiting for this recap . Thanks levy

"Don't leave." Sry Levy, but I have to do my Duolingo lessons first.

Levy your channel has really helped me improve in chess. Thank you so much for being the best chess RU-vid creator.

Levi you’re the most charismatic chess streamer I’ve come across. Super entertaining and educational. I watch you not just to improve my chess and derive entertainment… but see how I can boost my own charisma and conversation since you make a board game (the best that ever has existed) super super interesting haha. Nice job

Its 2:55 in Europe and i dont have anything to do, u saved me levy ❤️

Levy's thoughts on the Berlin neatly correlate with an article from 1985, I read, on 8x8 russian checkers, where top players could predict outcome of the game after 2-3 moves. Article was promoting change in rules to the 10x8 checkers instead of 8x8. Maybe at some point we will see 10x10 chess.

Amazing episode. Made the boring ones entertaining and the entertaining ones exhilerating. That mosquito analogy was beautiful.

"Never play f6" - the finest of golds even if its the winning move

My personal take regarding berlin/draws: Give black .6 and white .4 for a draw, to account for first-move advantage. Now, the berlin and similar openings are no longer good, because a draw for white is now a sub-par outcome

My solution would be to ban draws. If they draw a game then just make them keep playing until they don't draw a game.

Watching your videos at 4am hit different :)

Nepo the mosquito is the most hilarious thing i could imagine tonight

Well done Hans! That was incredible!

i like how levy's brain completely just smoothed out while explaining the fabiano vs leinier endgame at 14:00 - 15:00 lol we love you levy

Aaaah yes the daily Levy milking magnus in the thumbnail lol

In my perfect opinion, Magnus is a very decent chess player, but he can't play at the highest level all the time. He is not me (Stockfish).

Gotham thinks that first game was really sad. I’m just waiting for him to upload the title for the Niemann vs Hans match.

Levy! Your one of the best Chess RU-vidr!

I think Fisher random solves many of the problems of deep prep with memorization and boring draws.

Petition for Levy to take the "which chess player are you" quiz on chess personality

SOMEONE: How is your Elo in Chess? Me: MICROSCOPLY LOW

I love late night Levy recaps He’s so brutally honest it’s hilarious

the fact Levy predicted what I was doing in the intro

Didn’t know Harry Potter knew this much about chess

Nepo is literally my fav player of all time after this World Championship match. I mean everybody knew that he is a god of complicated positions (even Magnus after a game with Alireza at Candidates said that you just dont go with Nepo into some crazy Najdorfish positions because hes the best out there in such), but now when he put so much effort in training heavy piece endgames he's just great. Wouldnt be surpriced if he reached like 2830 or something.

Instead of water, I enjoyed a coffee break

I never understood why everyone hates on the thumbnails, I always just tap on the notification🤷‍♂️

he said don't leave by the way as I was about to but you've got to listen to levy so am still here

Hey Levy loving these recaps; how about going over every one of Fabi's games from the 2018 Candidates? He really is underrated like you said

What I don’t understand: this is what I expect from classical chess. Too many draws. But just a few weeks ago we had the Olympiad and there were tons of exciting games every day. Why was so much fun chess played during the Olympiad?

Almost 4k views in 8 minutes, must be doing something right 😁 KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK LEVY

Like, black has a microscopically low… Wait, that’s not what I meant to say, no, that’s really-that's-gah, that is-I did not mean to say the word "low." I meant to say, "microscopically," uh, "worse position than white," I don’t know why I said, uh... Whatever, you know, now you can clip that, you know, you can clip me saying "microscopically…" you know, overlay it on, you know, whatever you wanna do. Anyway, um, black has a microscopically slightly worse position than white.

1:16 I find it rather insulting to those above you in strength when you insult their skill by implying they have 0 skill in the game compared to the 2 people currently highest rated in the world

If the top tournament organizers stopped inviting players who played the Berlin I suspect the problem would take care of itself

Great video! Watched it twice.

9:24 Levy you wizzard!! I was doing homework while listenig the recap on another tab

Banning the Berlin is interesting. I think it would be fun to have a tournament computer chess style where you get white and black with the same opening.

Let me pass you the knowledge against mosquitos: When you hear that buzz wait for it to get a tiny bit closer then immediately light up the room (with a flashlight or with main lights). They will immediately land on a wall and not move since their instinct is to camouflage. And since it was near you it will certainly land on a wall close to you or the bed. Then kill it. Haven't been bitten in 5 years with that technique.

A possible solution to boring top level endgames would be to meake stalemate be a win instead of a draw

3 for a win, 1 for a draw. They had this problem in soccer and fixed it, why can't chess do it too? incentivize attacking play.

GothamChess is about to add drafting to competitive chess 💀 each player bans an opening/response before starting the game

Levi with a spot on monokuma voice at 11:08

Let’s be realistic though, Carlsen is an incredible player but he’s not that much better than everyone else to always go for wins as Black.

I always find it funny that you think correspondent's chess players use engine based analysis when most players that play correspondents chess just want a long time to look at the board play out a bunch of possible positions and then send back their move it's for people that like chess but don't necessarily want to play a whole game all in one sitting

No pain, no gain. Thanks for the entire recap Levy!

7:26 I hear this as "miscroscopic ELO" and.. yeah it happens.

Mahmedyarov offering his pawn three times is basically saying "pull my finger".

The entire point of chess is that it's purely the player's knowledge and decision competing. If you start banning openings then there is no game anymore, you're just pretending. Talk about making changes to Chess once someone has actually reached the top. The complexity of chess means we're not even close to that.

Nepo owns Alireza just as Magnus owns Nepo lol

"Anyone who is under 2800, doesn't know how to play chess." Does that mean that 1400's are "half way there"? 🤔

nepo just did a magnus on alireza

They should switch to 960.

Idea for a new series: guess the player. The concept is that you watch a game without knowing who played it and then try to guess which player played the game

Isle of Man am from there and wasn’t even aware it was hosting top chess matches. It’s looking good by the way, they did up the Glen walks and forest parks, sea is crystal clear, kayaking you can see all the way to the sandy sea bed at the base of Devonian sand stone cliffs and boulder beaches….

My men just continues to post videos at 10pm like is evening. Goat

"Now the next game, dont leave by the way" cracked me up

The rule should be to penalize more for a draw make closer to a half L than a half W

I think you fix chess by changing the tournament scoring. 1 point for a win, -.5 points for a draw.

what sad? you think magnus can score 9/9? with black? No one risks anything with black OR white against Magnus. They all want draw. how Magnus can risk something in this game. He can try to draw with black / win with white.

Give black .75 and white .25 points for a draw to discourage white allowing draws.

chess patch 1.01 : * Playing Kxd8 is no longer legal, if its the only move then mate is declared. for giving noobs a better chess experience * en-pessant removed for giving noobs trouble * stalemate while having more than 10 point advantage is also mate for giving noobs trouble * The arbiter may interfere at any point and decline a move by a player if twitch chat votes against it for being boring

Watching levy while doing homework Levy:I KNOW….😂

A win is a win.

This is microscopically sad.

Well converted endgame by Nepo there, beautifully played~ On the other game, I've played some games where I played long castle with the stacked b-c, or f-g pawns, it looks a bit scary and shaky considering you put your king out in the open in front of the line of the rook and queen like that, but it's very much holdable with decent play, I even castled into a queen a rook and have to run my king inside the barrier of my doubled pawns lol... Definitely an interesting and adrenaline rush but you get compensated greatly with very strong attack because your other pieces are very active and the moment your opponent stop threatening your king, it'd be very hard to defend! Recommended for players who don't want to play boring chess, but it's tough to play it on higher ELO (only on certain circumstances; e.g., your passive king's side, or your opponent's active queen's side (counter intuitive enough right? Lol) you purposely castle into opponent's active queen's side, and clog off that side and they can never have any audience with your king lol 🤷🤣)

9:25 I actually was doing accounting homework when you said this. I now have put off homework for 20 minutes and regret nothing

you know the best analogy that i can give you? this doesn't happen really is other sports, let me tell you about the one other sport I'm aware of, this is not me highlighting my insecurities, this is just a honest statement about every other sport. I am just capable enough to talk about chess but let me embarrass myself and relentlessly talk about things i have no real knowledge in, im not weak, i like mma, lets talk about it.

"Who's zoomin' who?" (Aretha Franklin)