Never, EVER Resign In Chess
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Engine analysis report for white:
0 mistakes
0 blunders
24 missed wins
honestly missed wins are more infuriating that blunders
wld be better if there was 69 missed wins
@@Comment27560 no.
@@Comment27560 no.
@@Comment27560 stfu inappropriat as*
13:30 Levy "There are 6 options for White's king to move."
Me "No Levy, Kf4 is still check."
what was that lmao
Definitely a neck slap
Carlsen would now say: "how does a rook move, Levy"
?? just sac the king to win?
Kf4 is legal, as Rf4 leads to h8=K next move and white still has a king.
Never, ever resign because Levy might be proud of you if you make the biggest comeback ever
Is that an Attack on Titan reference?
@@charlesjue4962 no
Didn't expect to find you here lol
@@askeladden5764 Hahaha, hello mate! Hope you're having a fine day.
I might do physics but in my free time I like to comment silly stuff 😅😂
@@YourPhysicsSimulator Yeah, me too 😂 Great seeing you here though:) Hope you're having a good day
"Snatching a draw out of the jaws of victory" best line ever!
It's chess literature.
Eric Rosen moment
13:28 Kf4 is clearly the best move in this poaition
asserting dominance on the rook
@@plagiats thats reverse psychology, your 300 brain wont get it, levy knows da moves
Poaition?
Lol I was wondering how the king could move there
I saw King F4, I just didn't like it, you are not a psychic, you Hikaru's sidekick
13:28
"there are 6 options for white's king to move. 5 of them continue the game. 1 does not."
Yeah, f4 lol
9:56 “there _are_ no more checks…”
Yeah, Qd3 lol
Resigning: *Exists*
Beginners: We don’t do that here.
You never know when you'll win through time or the opponent counter-blunders. They've won me so many games.
As a beginner in anything it makes sense to never quit a game mid way. You can learn the entire time and the point isn’t always even that you will win that game. You might learn something to help later on when you actually improve.
@@korkunctheterrible4302 I don't know man being up 7 points of material and still forced to continue the 15 min game with 10 seconds increment is a pain. I'm 1650 rapid.
@@parkerbrady2617 Yeah, like hikaru and other super gm's do all these challenges where they try to win with a huge material disadvantage... and more often than not they win. How are you supposed to learn how to play like that if you always tap out as soon as you're down material? lol
@@calamity1189suck ithehe -beginer
Gotham’s joke about elo ~800 early pawn pushes being “preparation” spawns a new video series: Gotham commentates beginner chess games as if they were played by grandmasters.
thats basically the pogchamps videos :D
That sounds like fun indeed! 🤣
Thats basically pogchamps its kinda funny to see how it all started. Commentators: ye I like trade of queens here because black has more active rook and is down a tempo, bishops are on nice diagonals and after this and that its winning. Player: hungs mate in 2.
YES
“Next black plays the brilliant move f6 immediately after castling because why not”
9:57 Levy : There are no more checks
Qd3+ : Am I a joke to you?
Not to forget Qa5 check
@@yehyuqii Wich was the best move
@@yehyuqii give some respect to Qb6 and Rxc6 too
Yes, actually…
That check does nothing though. It just lets the king move back and you’ll probably just end up repeating
The “because you trust your opponent will finish/win the game” (I forget the exact wording) is hilarious to me because I had a game where I only had a King remaining. The other guy had a Rook and King. I didn’t surrender, and he TYPED TO ME IN THE CHAT that I was being disrespectful for not just resigning in this position as he continually failed to mate me correctly with this set up. 1200s by the way. :)
He ended up flagging and it was a draw.
I know that sounds disrespectful to some, but think about this: if he didn’t know how to mate with Rook and King, why should I just resign? If he didn’t learn how to win the game, then it wasn’t a won game. It’s why you always study how to win in an endgame.
I definitely resign in end games where the opponent is clearly showing they have the knowledge to finish the game even if it will take 20 more moves. I’m not in the interest of wasting people’s time just because they “might” make a mistake. But when the dude is moving his Rook around all over the board letting you run wherever you want, might as well go for a draw LOL
I actually hate when people resign against me because I actually don't always have the mate patterns memorized - I still need to learn and experiencing it is so important.
@@alexandriawescott9600 Same! I won 4 games in a row the other day, and 3 of them were resigns halfway through the match. I tell my brother this all the time. He's watched me throw games where I clearly had an advantage, and yet he will still resign against me when he blunders his queen or something. Like, if he thinks he's that much better than me, then why would you ever resign?
Yeah dude was bitter he didnt know instead of taking it as a chance to practice his endgame
@@alexandriawescott9600 same! I've started playing a few days ago, and even if i lose i still take the chance to learn how they got a checkmate and try to apply it later. I still need to work on my endgame, sometimes I'll be doing really good, but I dont know how to checkmate with certain pieces
The people who get super mad at me for not giving up are the best. The absolute best.
My favorite of all time was a 3 minute game where I blundered a bishop as white on move 20 or so, which made my entire position collapse. Black, instead of just mating me, decides to spend several turns making another queen. And in doing so, opened his king up to perpetual check. Oops, 1/2 - 1/2.
The guy was FURIOUS. Like fifty messages in chat about how I cheated, I had no respect, I was an idiot, he spoke more languages than me (really), and most of all, that he had won fair and square. My response?
"Says draw on my screen, friend."
Then it devolved into him insulting me in various languages to prove how smart he was. So yeah. Never resign. You don't just improve your chess, you also get free performances from the ego monsters.
My apologies fellow viewers.
I mean there is just overwelming evidence, they have to be!
The whole game was theory
@@holdenmilne9549 hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh u are funny
@@ahmedbounader5593 Yes
"Is this theory?"
"It is never too late to hang a mate, or the illusion of it"
"Snatching a draw out of the jaws of victory"
Levy you're brilliant
the second one is not original
@@valinorean4816 it might be. "Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" wouldn't be though.
If there's anything the Rosen Trap™ and Gotham's "Lose at chess" series has taught me, it's to always look for stalemates and my opponents to blunder
If you're in a bad position and under 1500, just try to make moves that force your opponent to make choices. the more choices, the more likely they are to blunder. It's actually pretty crazy that it works so much.
@@descendency I think it works at any level in blitz and bullet chess...always look for Rosen trap
I'm circa 1000 and had so many games that should be a checkmate and it's a stalemate
Also remember that if you blunder your opponent is the same rating as you.
@@descendency that's just my strategy in general. Make the game super complex and it's a guaranteed fun time and you'll get better at tactics.
Resigning is the polite thing to do between experienced players when it's clear that you can't draw. You often don't get any breaks in a tournament, so don't waste anyone's time. But if there's a chance you won't lose, make your opponent show you. If they're in time trouble, play it out to mate: clock management is part of the game, too.
Dawg have you never encountered someone who pre moves to beat you on time. Online changes things imo
*"Putting bishops in jail would actually be a good thing for society"*
-
GothamChess, 2021
savage
“Wild, savage, complicated and aggressive move” -The Pope
Truly a man of the future.
it wasnt a joke tho
@@eliasvonderthannen9426 Indeed
"Why win, if you can draw?" - Giri, Anish
peaceful chess 😌
Me: *blunders a queen, resigns and switches tab to YT*
Gotham: Never, EVER resign in chess!
Me: bruh
Same
See Mine’s a lil different , i switch tab to PH
Cuz i gotta get that frustration and irritation out . 🤷🏻♂️
@@vigneshr9983 -_-
@@vigneshr9983 what is PH? Is it physics? 😅 Cus that's what came to my mind after seeing it
Edit- I understood what it means 😅 now
yeah I just resigned like two of my games right now lmfaooo. Do you ever get in a mental state where you are just blundering everything and cannot play chess to save your life?? Cuz that's where I am right now rippp some days are great and other days are bad
Never ever resign
GM's: Yeah this is mate in 57 no matter what
*resigning Sound*
13:23 there are only 5 squares that the king can move to because of the rook check :)
Was looking for this comment
17 of 18 dislikes from people that can't believe Levy missed that and demand better from their boy
1 dislike from a bishop at 6:17
@@Robert_DeVille *would* be blunder if the game lets you play it.
iNtErNaTiOnaL MaSTer
dunning krugerr
13:24 Levy: highlights Kf4 as an option to escape the check.
Rook standing point-blank from the king: am i a joke to you?
The rook is intimidated by the King's tenacity and immediately defects.
"The Gods of Chess saw fit to serve me these pieces. And despite their flaws, I shall play them, even unto death!"
excellent love it may i use this comment in future ?
@@gcf7131 Of course :-)
@@marklondon9004 thank you Sir S!
I'm extremely low rated, but I still feel bad to flag someone or wait for them to blunder after they have an absurdly winning position. Maybe I should think of it more as a rated learning exercise for the both of us.
No mercy. It's just Chess.
@@langletprolet8378 it ain't over till it's over
Every perfectly played game ends in a draw.
just casually watching this video after levy resigns 2 of his games in the tournament...
I was just searching for another Gotham analyzing a low elo game, keep it up 👍
These are great
there's more than 1 Gotham?
@@sophieli6915 yes
Are you from the future, this is the first video of this series!
Levy has the best chess quotes out there: "Why did the Chess Gods bestow upon you a FULL set of pieces, only for you to move like four of them?!"
I just drew a game where opponent was up 7 points of material.
Never resign.
7 points isnt a lot
@@DoubleAAce Yes it is.
@@DoubleAAce If you think 7 points isnt a lot then youre below 500
Ive had a few nice stalemates. One game with only king vs. 2 queens, a bishop and a pawn (down 22 pts) and one with king and pawn vs queen, rook, knight and 3 pawns (down 18 pts) Can work up until a certain rating but above 11-1200 I think you will rarely see this.
@@msgbbx1860 be real you’ve probably lost 7 points up before
Yep, just started playing chess 3 weeks ago. I told myself I would never resign and that works wonder, there are a few games where I down a queen or pieces worth more than 10 points but due to other players blunder I was able to win. Below 1500 you should never resign.
It's incredible the way he explains the game like it's a high level game🤣
It isssss idiot
What makes a high level game?
Keyword: “Below a certain rating.” Well spoken. Many experienced players seem to miss that caveat…
Can we all please be proud that he did not edit his mistake of showing 6 squares where king could go when there were only five. 13:20
Was 6:16 a subtle attack on the Catholic Church lol?
subtle?
Can we take a second and respect the fact that levy uploading videos literally everyday?
No
It's his job but it still good to have his content 😀
@@rahulkhanduri2471 POV: You're that one person who joins the party uninvited and says "Oh friend! I see, you forgot to invite me. No problem, I'll invite myself."
@@list9016 no
‘Putting bishops in jail would actually be helpful for society’
That sent me down the hallway laughing.
Same 😂
After that first game titled Never resign, every never resign game is just down the hill
Levy: Never ever resign in chess.
Me: Then what?
Levy: Quit chess
You’ve made my chess game good enough to beat my friends! We aren’t very good (~450 elo) but I have more fun now :)
It's all about the fun factor dude
With the amount of games, where I managed to draw or even loose when I had like a 20 point material advantage in endgame and potentially a mate in a couple of moves on the board...don't resign folks, not while you're bellow 1500
Nothing beats the feeling of that win on time when your opponent has rook and king to your king and can't quite remember how to convert.
You'd have to have at least one Pawn for that to be a win. If not, then it would be a draw
No... Rook & King vs King is a win.
@@Galcian2 yea but if your opponent flags, then its a draw by timeout vs insufficient material. If you have at least 1 pown when their time runs out, you win.
he was afraid of being of being checked.
Here before that 1 kid started blessing everyone
i hate it when i take someones queen and they just resign immediately like cmon man i wanna playyyyy
Here is an idea: separate these from the other low elo games and make it a series of it's own called 'Never resign'
there aren't enough of them to make a series, though, and I imagine it would get pretty boring
@Ivystar You're absolutely right mate. There can't possibly be enough low elo games where someone misses a win to make a series
@@djordjemaletic5667 i'm sure there are a lot of blunderous games in 800 to 1000 ELO especially. Even at 1200, I play with a lot of miss wins when I come back and analyze my past games.
Super GM in disguise! He snatch a draw out of the jaws of victory! I love these words
8 years ago when I was still playing on the board chess. I was around 1400 and playing against a 1900 rated player. I was in a dead lost game. I was thinking about resigning but used 5 moves to set a trap that I did not really believe in. I placed my rook as if I blundered it and he took it with the only piece that prevented me from mating him. He could have won a million ways easy but I guess he did not look for danger.
"Snatching a draw out of the jaws of victory" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😂😂😂
I have seen guys resign when one of their pieces gets pinned.
😅
This game just physically hurts me
13:42 ah yes kf4 into check continues the game
you're killing me. Finding the complex strategy in nothing is amazing
2:22 I was expecting Kd7 when he said "worst possible move" lmao
Levy can't fathom the strength of us 700s 💪 I was thinking about that too 😂
ah yes, another bongcloud enjoyer
5:45 .. Fell from my chair.. That almost killed me
Ummmm ... 6 options at 13:35 ??? One of those is illegal
At least 80% if not 95% of the people I play wouldn’t make this many mistakes with an advantage. 1200.
Even for GM, I find it desrespectfull to end the game the moment you realize your opponent outsmarted you. A lot of beatifull checkmates are never played out because of this. There is only one reason in my opinion for resigning -> After a blunder.
even then there is still a chance. I lost a Queen to a pin in the opening. Took the Knight, then pinned his Bishop to his King. I set up a fortress around my King, attacked him with both Rooks and my two extra pieces, won one of his Rooks and won the game.
Also won a game with Bishop, Knight and 3 Pawns against a Rook and Queen by forming a wall around my King and just marching everything up, got a Queen and he just resigned.
Or when your opponent is low on time but completely winning and you want to be a gentleman about it.
6:20 Heil Gotham! I thought people who were guilty should be in jail, but in the end Hitler is also allowed to express his wishes.
6:10 Putting bishops in jail would actually good for society 😆🤣🤣😅😂
Man i totally agree on that 😁
Resigning is a sign of an honorable player that respects the game and the effort that goes into it. Trying to flag your opponent on time when you're clearly losing is disgusting. Better to lose honorably than to "win" using such lazy tactics. People who do this obviously do not give a damn about getting better at chess and only care about winning and boosting their rating (and probably their ego). Teaching people to do this will just discourage those that actually are putting in time and effort to getting better. Why bother training when you can just play fast, blunder everything, and still somehow win?
Disgusting?? 😂😂…. At the master level, sure, and especially in classical time controls, and important games. But get real.
Sub 1200, (or even 1400 or 1600), and at fast time controls, attempting to flag and/or get stalemated is part of the game, and you should use them as weapons against people who will succumb to them.
“Why bother training”? So that you can ensure you will win a game, and be able to checkmate an opponent properly, who does not resign, and make sure you don’t stalemate under time pressure. And so that you can play fast enough to not lose the game on time either, when you’re well up on material.
This is especially true for opponents near 800 who most times don't know the basic checkmates like king and 1 rook, king and queen, 2 bishop, etc
Also i remember playing against this guy who almost defeated me, then was very very VERY toxic in chat. He promoted 2 queens even having so much material to checkmate my lone king. He tried to checkmate me (couldn't even checkmate with 3 queen) and ended up stalemating me XD
Managed to draw one game as my opponent promoted 5 queens
Snatching a draw, out of the jaws of victory! 🤣🤣
0:54 Thats how i always play with my friend lmao. We got some crazy chaotic positions most of the time, its really fun.
Cencer for those who wants to become a gm after this you may hung yourself .
There was this daily game I played, I was completely winning, around -8. I hung a rook and a bishop went to +7. A few moves later he hung his rook back and went to -1. And went to -60
What does the evaluation going to -60 or -250 means?
Does it mean : Black has a checkmate, but i will not try finding its exact way since it eats too much data
"Putting bishops in jail would actually be a good thing for society", Levy Roseman.
Actually, Magnus Carlsen tweeted- "Snatching a Draw from the jaws of victory." on Anish Giri's game after he drew the game in a winning position. Gotham knows where to use what😂😂
"Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" has actually been around a while.
It's a super common saying in the chess world
I can see how proud you are of your student.
6:17 My god, that was incredible.
I saw this thumbnail right after I resigned due to a queen capture; I pressed resign at the exact moment my opponent blundered its queen
This was enjoyable but nothing can beat the first one (having mate in 1 and instead giving opponent mate in 1)
God bless 'em as they ascend Mt. Improvement but meanwhile, watching 800's play chess is more fun than going to the zoo.
What I have learned from your videos so far:
- There is a thing called development. It is a name for randomly moving knights and bishops.
- The thing where you can't move some piece beacuse the other player would take some better piece is called pinning.
- One of the best first moves is moving the pawns in the middle. That is a London start I think.
A queen can be developed too, I think?
When your mom comes and says to stop the phone in the middle of the match with one move from promotion
13:24 I would want to play Kf4 in that position but didn't know if it was a legal move, thanks for reasuring levy :>
4:15 I'm gonna guess the player's brain went "If I go there I FORK THE QUEEN AND ROOK" and got a nitro boost of dopamine, so they just acted on it immediately.
13:38 kf4
Explain me one thing. They are 800 hundred and play like this, meanwhile I am 500 hundred and every single one of my opponent plays at least two times better... How
Your opponents make the same mistakes as the players in this video. It’s just a lot harder to see your opponent’s mistakes in-game than when someone is pointing out the mistake. Just take a second to look whether or not one of your or your opponent’s pieces are hanging. Take your time to look your rating will increase a ton.
this never resign series just keeps getting better. There must be great never resign games from the history of OTB classical chess too. Thanks
I had a game where it was back rank mate in 1 with Rh8#. He stalled the game and moved his queen so i could take it and drew lmao
6:30 After Levy said that black saw the bishop diagonal, an ad popped up saying "I think that is the sexiest thing possible"
Ffs ads
“Snatching a draw out of the jaws of victory”
Another joke mocking Catholics. I'm not Catholic, but for fucks sake
Has he done so before?
@@bromponie7330 there’s at least one insult every other video. It got old after like a month of him doing that nonstop. Idk abt now, but when I wrote the comic he made jokes a lot.
When I was 800 I didn’t know either that a pawn could help to checkmate
13:25 there are 5 options, king cannot go to f4.
The closer I get to defeat, the more aggressive and erratic I play in the hopes that my opponent will be thrown off and miss a tactic...
Me, getting my rook and queen forked on move 6, proceeding to throw my laptop out the window: Ah yes, Levy said never resign. *proceeds to throw it out anyway* (technically I didn't resign hehe)
but how much laptop cost maybe cheaper for you to just to "finish the game" a quote from young guns the movie
bruh i was crying when he castled out in the open LMAOOOOOOO
I've never seen an 800 play so poorly. Amazing game!
Sending games to levy by 800s has become their new way of getting the game analysed
13:26 Levy can play illegal moves. Must be a benefit of being an IM.
illegal master
With that haircut it looks like you're in the process of mutating into a knight piece
for me it's just about respect for the other player, and i'd rather play another game with my time
Same. There's no enjoyment (for me) in playing on if I'm a gazillion points of material down, and I'm just tilting. Resign with dignity, take five minutes out, and start afresh with a new game.
@@davidrobins1021 NEVER !! As long as my King has legs he will move until he is stopped.
Thank you for being a respectful sport. I'm so tired of fighting a prolonged endgame when I'm two pieces up and my opponent just keeps hoping I'm going to get an aneurysm and die while playing so they can win, and these videos aren't helping the cause lmao
Sir, this is a WENDY's! Here we do not respect our opponent, and at the most resigns by letting the clock run out....
@@lukajevtovic8250 Bingo. Failing to resign in a totally lost position is a sign of a sick ego trying to steal a game....on the other hand, if you are playing for money...
There are two types of low ELO players:
People who resign the moment they see the opponents' queen.
And people who somehow win or draw with a king, a knight, and three pawns against everything their opponent has.
13:24 Levy says there are 6 options. Including an illegal move, apparently?
13:24 when Levi goes from being our chess Guru to thinking like an 800
"Putting bishops in jail would actually be a good thing for Society" - levi 2021
does he mean in irl
@@list9016 yes on account of all the kid fucking
6:17 "putting bishops in jail would actually be a good thing for society"
I was totally not prepared for that one ^^
I don’t know what is worse when playing with a sore loser:
People who spam “Accept Draws”
Or
People who keep making a move the second before they get auto-resigned
I was playing a 3|2 game today and my opponent offered a draw. He had a king and bishop. I had a king, queen, bishop, and pawn one step away from becoming another queen. I couldn't tell if he was seriously offering a draw or if he mouse slipped and hit the offer draw option instead of the resign option, but I believe I said "get the fuck outta here with your draw offer."
'Putting bishops in jail is a good idea.'
*Immediately looks up early life*
Bingo.
getting 2k views in 5 minutes is how you can define a master😁
love your content gotham❤️🙏🏻
I 99% of the time play chess puzzles but this makes me want to start playing actual chess to get out of my 800 elo