I know noone will believe this, but I actually got hit by a parked car. What's worse, it was my own car. It's one of my most embarrassing stories that I love to tell people because it's so fun to tell people I got ran over by my own parked car 🤣🤣
1:30 I live how Levy actually studied the position to find the worst moves, when he presented Bh6 i was like laughing my arse off. I was thinking maybe we should develop a reverse chess engine that puts all the efforts and computing power available to find the absolute worst moves for each side, it could serve like as a "Guess The Elo" engine. I mean there is literally no point in using stronger engines to analyse 800 ELO games, so you could just flip up the reverse chess engine and have tons more of fun
Maybe there’s a setting on the engine to make it show the moves it thinks is worse, basically making it suggest moves to be guessed 69 on guess the elo
Like how is this 800 elo. Looks like 400 elo game to me. How did the turkish player get to 800 elo playing this terribly. Im myself nearly 900 elo and been 900 elo for shorth times sometimes, but never seen 800 elo as terrible as the white player is, when this game would be absolutely easy win for me playing against that white or black player. They both totally terrible, when I think white is around 400 elo and black is around 600 elo actually with the level of their playing.
I'm having issues too. My opening is solid, my endgame is good. My middlegame, I suddenly play like Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. WTH, I don't know. I'll fix it eventually.
21:05 "And unfortunately folks I have to tell you there were absolutely no more plot twists in this game, the queen was lost, black promoted, came back, traded and proceeded to very swiftly and very promptly deliver a final blow on move 69, STALEMATE on the side of the board and umm... well... what more is there to say?" That was what I wanted to hear
Whenever Levy says something along the lines of "I can't explain this next move in exchange for all the money in the world", I can always guess what it is. Don't know what that says about my chess capabilities.
@@infinemyself5604 Nah no chance. If they were sub-500, that would be somewhat plausible (although not really, as even then you'd still be giving away 6 points of material for 5), but they are 800s lol. They know how the horsey moves. I think my theory is more convincing. The bishop only had one retreat square, and it was the most remote square accessible to that bishop. It makes sense that they couldn't find it ─ after all, the "3-square invisibility rule", which states that every square more than 3 squares distant from the piece that just moved is invisible to all sub-1000 players, is a thing for a reason lol.
@@cynicanal111 Btw I know I'm late, but as a higher-rated player, I can also almost always guess what the low-rated player was thinking. If anything, being higher-rated probably makes it easier for me to do so.
Hey Gotham, just wanted to say hi from Northeast Wyoming. I started watching your videos back in 2019 and it helped me fall in love with chess again. Today, I helped run a chess tournament for about 100 elementary school kids. This is not something that kids around here get access to very often, if ever, and I never would have had taken this risk if it weren’t for your awesome content. Thanks for inspiring us cowboys to appreciate chess. Have a great week!
Nah fam, he's doing something right, he's trying to learn, he's just eliminating all the options that don't work first, he clearly knows what he's doing. He took calculated risks, but boy oh boy is he bad at math.
4:50 literally me. When i see my opponent moving random pawns i go like, mahn, he must be planning something so I'll just reinforce my defense by dislocating my own pawn structure 👁️👄👁️
yeah, I tend to overthink stuff and just calculate useless knight moves. I started stoping doing that and started to use check list then went up on ratings
You know I just figured out something. I always figured that bar on the left was to evaluate who has the advantage, but it just dawned upon me that it just says whose turn it is.
11:40 "How are you gonna buy a supercar and drive a Toyota?" ~ Levy Rozman Easy!! Buy a 2012 Lexus LFA Nürburgring Edition, which is a Toyota supercar!! 😎
20:30 is what got me. This is completely inexcusable. The fact the thought was there to use the King as a defensive piece...and then you just...don't? What? Fml
12:21 I have a explanation to that move so it to get some value . Yes I do know bishop to e4 is the best but he at least got a check and got some value even though it's a one move and doesn't bring any value except a check .
20:30 black not taking the queen makes me think he botted his way to 800 but he kept switching back and fourth between the bot and his skills to not get caught and this was one of the games he was playing with his skills
as a 1600 sometimes the most fun thing to do in chess when you feel like ragequitting is create another account and destroy people for a few games until you reach 1600 again
A hoodie colour recommendation for Levy Olive: Lose at Chess Olive: Guess the elo Olive: Super GMs blundering Olive: Levy BLUNDERING Pink: None of the above
12:04 what I think happened is that they thought their bishop and the knight was hanging and they think knights are more valuable than bishops because of the fact that they traded bishops for knights in the past. Rather that or they thought they were setting up a fork.
Levy. I love you. You're a smart good man, and you remind me a lot of my best friend from University. Your content is awesome, glad you love UFC, and I support whatever you do. Personally I'm slightly stronger of a player so I really enjoy your analysis of chess tourneys etc. I miss when you used to cover openings all the time lol. But like I said, anything you do I support. You've made me a better player and you've given me the simulated feeling of a "chess friend" ❤️
At 4:40 black can sacrifice the knight to d4 white will take it with pawn and black play queen to c1 check and white can do anything but then black take pawn on b2 with queen and the rook is trapped isn't it?
at 17:50 when he blunders the rook, i laughed because i would do the same. meaning that i never saw the hanging rook and would lose a rook to the most stupid thing ever
That was one of the most informative disasters I have ever seen. My wife was wondering why I was laughing hysterically at a chess game. Thanks for the educational comedy.
For it to calculate stuff like mate in 18 it needs to literally check every possible answer by the opponent 18 moves deep which requires millions of calculations, it probably will find that but not in 3 seconds
Brilliant content Levy, keep up with the good work! Can you do a video on Italian game and how to deal and play the Giuoco piano? Nice jokes and explanation too! You really make me laugh.
12:31 I think he wanted to get the king in that position so he could line up his rook with his knight, give a check to the king with his knight, and take the queen with his rook which is a very goofy plan cuz the queen defends everything
Hey Levi, I’ve been watching your videos for a while and I barely started playing chess last week and I’m only at 190 but so far I’ve learned a lot from your videos, thank you and have a great day
Here’s the thing levy, while watching the chaos unfold, you show us patterns and strategy to get us out of losing positions which I find incredibly helpful. Also cleaning up their openings is very helpful as well. But yes I love the chaos
I have to admit I was critical to this bloke back in some first vid I saw, but today when not watched some chess for a while, I come across this and I'm tired, and i literally was laughing so much I cried.. a lot... I mean they create content to create content but an IM roasting 800s , this is just priceless :D the expressive exaggeration reminds me of when I was a kid too.
It's funny how the black dark squared bishop was just sitting there on the chessboard until way later in the game. Bishop: ''Yo, king, I've been serving you for years, man, why won't you develop me?'' Black king: ''Eh, just figured that knights are better than bishops.'' Bishop: ''You move me to any square I'll give you a blessing and an open line for attack!'' Black king: ''You will? Alright! Bishop to e7.''
If 1... c5, Black's advantage actually almost evaporates after 2. d4. White challenges Black for center space and can start developing and making up for lost time. It looks like 2... exd4 3. cxd4 Qxd4 wins a pawn for free, but after 4. Bb2 Qb4+ 5. Nc3, White really starts to get some compensation in the form of development. Going back to after 1... c5, if White captures en passant with 2. bxc6, that re-opens the bishop's attack on the queen. That's a special kind of attack, the yoink-I-took-your-cover-away attack. (Note that the typical definition of discovered attack states that the piece in the way has to move out of the way, not be captured, so this wouldn't count under that definition.) Even if the queen weren't threatened, I don't think freeing the bishop would the right thing to think about. The bishop doesn't really have a future on b7 or a6; it'd rather go to d7 or e6. So overall, 2... bxc6 by Black is not the way to go. Black should instead play 2... Qxc6 and maintain a moderate advantage.
Chaos is a ladder
Get ready for this to have 1,000 likes
My brain went to North Korea
ez
And lichess is better
@@glarus4008 North Korea to my went brain
18:23
I like how even the engine got confused and the eval bar didnt move for a while
it needed a few seconds to comprehend what even transpired
Imagine bugging stockfish with ur moves
Stockfish: what wtf was that
Stockfish: I- wh- bro.
stockfish quite literally went "mfw"
“Getting hit by a parked car” is now firmly in my repertoire of analogies. Thank you sir!
I know noone will believe this, but I actually got hit by a parked car. What's worse, it was my own car. It's one of my most embarrassing stories that I love to tell people because it's so fun to tell people I got ran over by my own parked car 🤣🤣
heard this in a yo mama joke 😂
@@corwinek6438 well, go on, tell us
@@corwinek6438 well, story time when?
@@corwinek6438 I am guessing you forgot your breaks and your car rolled over and hit you?
Levy: "No more unexpected plot twists"
Black: *Proceeded to find the quickest king and queen mate on the board as an 800*
@darknightoftroy True but a typical 800 always stalemates this endgame.
@Stamblock It may seem that way but it's not i have been there before
@darknightoftroy guy ended the game on move 69. You really think it was luck?
@darknightoftroy My brother, have you ever heard of "memes"?
@@phase0400 No? I do believe most 800 can checkmate with a King and Queen.
13:31 "It's like getting hit by a parked car" - levy on letting your opponent fork your queen with the only developed piece
Lol
lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣
lol
I have in fact been hit by a parked car before. (I was quite literally walking with my eyes closed).
1:30
I live how Levy actually studied the position to find the worst moves, when he presented Bh6 i was like laughing my arse off.
I was thinking maybe we should develop a reverse chess engine that puts all the efforts and computing power available to find the absolute worst moves for each side, it could serve like as a "Guess The Elo" engine. I mean there is literally no point in using stronger engines to analyse 800 ELO games, so you could just flip up the reverse chess engine and have tons more of fun
So you are saying "when you see a bad move, look for something worse"?
Awesome idea.
You can play Bh6 and think it's a bad move, but if the opponent also looks for the worst move they won't take it, so it's actually a good move.
Maybe there’s a setting on the engine to make it show the moves it thinks is worse, basically making it suggest moves to be guessed 69 on guess the elo
That is a dumb idea
Levy Rozman: *I AM DONE*
Everyone: How many times are we gonna teach you this lesson old man?
lol
Like how is this 800 elo. Looks like 400 elo game to me. How did the turkish player get to 800 elo playing this terribly. Im myself nearly 900 elo and been 900 elo for shorth times sometimes, but never seen 800 elo as terrible as the white player is, when this game would be absolutely easy win for me playing against that white or black player. They both totally terrible, when I think white is around 400 elo and black is around 600 elo actually with the level of their playing.
@@jout738 im 900 and no one study endgame so it end up with 9blunders only in endgame
@@jout738 yeah man u are right, I'm also nearly 900 but this game seemed to me like these guys were 500 or less.
@@jout738 swear man, i'm 600ish elo and i don't make this subtle blunders .. they probably smurfing 200 elos
These always crack me up. I keep thinking "how bad can you be?", But then i go review my own 800-900 game and... I'm not any better
I'm having issues too. My opening is solid, my endgame is good. My middlegame, I suddenly play like Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. WTH, I don't know. I'll fix it eventually.
Peter is definitely GM as he correctly calculates to mate Hemri in 69 moves
Now 420 likes, your welcome
1.4k likes and 1 reply? Imma fix that
1.5k and 3 replies
1.6k and 4 replies
1.7k likes and 5 replies
12:18 He thought his knight and bishop were forked, and forgot his pawn protected the knight.
Levy: “There were no more plot twists”
Also Lev: “…on move 69”
"A final blow move 69"
*insert lenny face*
Nice
Nice
Nice
"The best strategy is no strategy." - Sun Tzu
"OH MY GOD, JUST MOVE YOUR KNIGHTS!" - Also Sun Tzu
White's Kingside Knight sat out most of the game, like "Nah, not today, not yet, maybe later......."
"Delivers a final blow on move 69 checkmate" perfect ending
Me who f*cking gets the 69th like
shenanigans!
Perfect ending or happy ending?
@@currywurst7229 but I get the 420th
@@kritikjain694 ofc happy 😊
21:05
"And unfortunately folks I have to tell you there were absolutely no more plot twists in this game, the queen was lost, black promoted, came back, traded and proceeded to very swiftly and very promptly deliver a final blow on move 69, STALEMATE on the side of the board and umm... well... what more is there to say?"
That was what I wanted to hear
i expected a stalemate on the end but holy he actually did it
actually a clean queen vs nothing endgame all things considered
impressive name
On move 69 no less
@@lazydk2654 nice
Literally same
18:07 “I’M GONNA GO MAKE A QUEEEEEEEN!”
Levy is done with this until he finds another such game. The cycle shall continue.
Lol
We don't Talk about Bruno no no no. We do talk about Guess the Elo lo lo lo
someone give this man a pin of fame
*will
It’s like an addiction disease - you know that you have to stop it but you can’t :D
Whenever Levy says something along the lines of "I can't explain this next move in exchange for all the money in the world", I can always guess what it is. Don't know what that says about my chess capabilities.
As a low-rated player myself, when he says that, I frequently not only guess the move but also guess what the low-rated player was thinking.
@@cynicanal111 What was he thinking with that bishop check? That the bishop was trapped and he was losing it anyway?
@@maxkho00 they probably thought that it was protected by the knight - they stretch their mental L, happens sometimes when you are low rated
@@infinemyself5604 Nah no chance. If they were sub-500, that would be somewhat plausible (although not really, as even then you'd still be giving away 6 points of material for 5), but they are 800s lol. They know how the horsey moves. I think my theory is more convincing. The bishop only had one retreat square, and it was the most remote square accessible to that bishop. It makes sense that they couldn't find it ─ after all, the "3-square invisibility rule", which states that every square more than 3 squares distant from the piece that just moved is invisible to all sub-1000 players, is a thing for a reason lol.
@@cynicanal111 Btw I know I'm late, but as a higher-rated player, I can also almost always guess what the low-rated player was thinking. If anything, being higher-rated probably makes it easier for me to do so.
"i have to tell you, there is no more plot twist"
5 secs later
"Proceed with very swiftly and very promptly to deliver a final blow on move 69"
Black finding a check rather than a stale mate was the shocking part for me lol
i'd say it's actually a very unexpected plot twist to not draw with queen and king vs king in this series.
I just gave you like 69
I was really expecting a stalmate, as is tradition.
😂
Hey Gotham, just wanted to say hi from Northeast Wyoming. I started watching your videos back in 2019 and it helped me fall in love with chess again. Today, I helped run a chess tournament for about 100 elementary school kids. This is not something that kids around here get access to very often, if ever, and I never would have had taken this risk if it weren’t for your awesome content. Thanks for inspiring us cowboys to appreciate chess. Have a great week!
i love that
Yeah, I went to an elementary school to play with the kids there a few months ago
I'M SO DEAD AT 18:21
LESSON✅
ENTERTAINMENT✅
10/10✅
21:06 There was a twist, I was genuinely expecting a stalemate.
When you're 800 and an IM says that your most logical move was e4 on the first move you know you're doing something wrong
Well, better than if he said that about h3 on the first move...
"you know you're doing something wrong". Yes, playing chess, probably
@@SylarisYT I was going to say that when I saw this lol
Nah fam, he's doing something right, he's trying to learn, he's just eliminating all the options that don't work first, he clearly knows what he's doing. He took calculated risks, but boy oh boy is he bad at math.
13:51
I love how you're roasting them
4:50 literally me. When i see my opponent moving random pawns i go like, mahn, he must be planning something so I'll just reinforce my defense by dislocating my own pawn structure 👁️👄👁️
Curiously, the pawns defend better standing their grounds.
yeah, I tend to overthink stuff and just calculate useless knight moves. I started stoping doing that and started to use check list then went up on ratings
20:33
i love how the eval bar was like stuttering in utter disbelief
You know I just figured out something. I always figured that bar on the left was to evaluate who has the advantage, but it just dawned upon me that it just says whose turn it is.
@@DSW_314 Yes that was obviously a joke.
18:07 this is the best thing I've ever heard from Levy
Facts!!!
I'm feeling utterly demoralized today. This makes me feel like less of a failure. Thank you.
You got this! Wishing you the best!
11:40 "How are you gonna buy a supercar and drive a Toyota?"
~ Levy Rozman
Easy!! Buy a 2012 Lexus LFA Nürburgring Edition, which is a Toyota supercar!! 😎
You're not done yet Levy. Your suffering (and our entertainment) at the hands of chess noobs will be never end
8:36 could be check mate if back made wrong moves because Qb5 if you block with the Queen, Queen takes Queen and its checkmate
somehow, people always manage to push the boundary on how to make the eval bar get an aneurysm.
20:30 is what got me. This is completely inexcusable. The fact the thought was there to use the King as a defensive piece...and then you just...don't? What? Fml
This has nothing to do with chess but I am going through a tough time and wanted to thank you levy for making me smile
Sorry to hear that, keep going forward bro , good luck
Hope things get better for you really quickly.
Keep going man
Tough times make us tough
Thanks everyone it means a lot that people who don't even know me care
@@notachaldaiou6632 You feel better now?
Sometimes I do hit parked cars..... While walking lol 😂
I will watch this while drinking tea. This game will improve the flavour of my tea.
Setting up for a spit take or few?
Same.
17:25 My uncle when I ask him what would happen if I ever ran away from the house:
Are you okay?
@@isavenewspapers8890 no
Levy i am from Colombia and now i improved my english AND chess because of you, thanks a lot buddy!
I hope you dnt hang blinds like him bro
He does speak very clearly, congratulations man :)
You made fewer errors in your post than most Americans would have!
crazy. you know what the word "boobs" means?
12:21 I have a explanation to that move so it to get some value . Yes I do know bishop to e4 is the best but he at least got a check and got some value even though it's a one move and doesn't bring any value except a check .
Remember: learning what *not* to do can be just as valuable as learning what you should
"you make tour opponents look like geniuses" This is probably my favorite part of the video lmao
Lvyee: On move 69, the game ends.
Me: Wow what a number. This game deserves this coincidence.
nice😄
@@miau_1247 you don't watch Gotham City do u
20:30 black not taking the queen makes me think he botted his way to 800 but he kept switching back and fourth between the bot and his skills to not get caught and this was one of the games he was playing with his skills
4:49
"And you go full booga yourself"
-GothamChess
as a 1600 sometimes the most fun thing to do in chess when you feel like ragequitting is create another account and destroy people for a few games until you reach 1600 again
A hoodie colour recommendation for Levy
Olive: Lose at Chess
Olive: Guess the elo
Olive: Super GMs blundering
Olive: Levy BLUNDERING
Pink: None of the above
16:58 That's not gg, that's eee
I'm so sorry
Keep the fun up, the chaos is so fun that it doesn't fail to make me laugh
17:33 LMFAOOO I'M DYING💀💀
Here we go again.
Aah shit
heads-up ur first
4:11 I once managed a similar feat, only it was not a hypothetical move and I hung a queen by it. Just placed it in front of the pawn for taking.
12:13. 500 rated and I understand this move tho I would NEVER play it, the in tent was too check the king too save both pieces
Huh? Both pieces? Only the bishop is undefended.
Typical 500 elo stuff. You are forgetting how pawns attack/defend.
Rules work differently when you are 800. Always move king out of danger even if bishops are hung.
One donkey understands another
Wait the knight was defended? Either you saw it wrong or I did and I don’t remember the position lol
im currently on 200 elo even with the ability to not see a hanging piece i still want to punch whoever controlling black at the endgame
Lvyee: "How are you gonna buy a Supercar and drive a Toyota?"
Toyota: "This world is so cruel. Please someone kill me."
12:04 what I think happened is that they thought their bishop and the knight was hanging and they think knights are more valuable than bishops because of the fact that they traded bishops for knights in the past. Rather that or they thought they were setting up a fork.
Levy. I love you. You're a smart good man, and you remind me a lot of my best friend from University. Your content is awesome, glad you love UFC, and I support whatever you do.
Personally I'm slightly stronger of a player so I really enjoy your analysis of chess tourneys etc. I miss when you used to cover openings all the time lol.
But like I said, anything you do I support. You've made me a better player and you've given me the simulated feeling of a "chess friend" ❤️
11:22 you can hear Levy mind's slowly breaking apart.
242nd day of translating Levy's titles into Neapolitan: "Aggiù fatt rocia ner cu chest"
11:22 “Black moves a pawn” 😭😭
21:20 nice
Levy saying we would rather watch chaos on the board is so true, but I always play chess while I watch Levy
19:39 You get so mad at black for missing what looks like checkmate with Rf1, but do you think these 800s really know how to mate with king and rook?
Look for checks
@@jasperandchess7 Rd2 lmaoo
At 4:40 black can sacrifice the knight to d4 white will take it with pawn and black play queen to c1 check and white can do anything but then black take pawn on b2 with queen and the rook is trapped isn't it?
there were no blunders, the man simply wanted to end on move 69. which is quite nice.
Well played.
at 17:50 when he blunders the rook, i laughed because i would do the same. meaning that i never saw the hanging rook and would lose a rook to the most stupid thing ever
That was one of the most informative disasters I have ever seen. My wife was wondering why I was laughing hysterically at a chess game. Thanks for the educational comedy.
Missed Opportunity at 16:06 it isnt a (K)Nightmare its a rookmare
Ain't no way this is 800, I play 500 more intelligent than this
13:30 it's like getting hit by a parked car XDD
The best content creator ever. Keep up the hard work Levy!
Levy moves the bishop to a bad square me panicking having fast breaths dying then says oh yeah that was a mis clicked
18:56 wow, -72 :O why is it not mate in X?
But, that was a nice game!
Cause it couldn't get to move 69 that way
The engine takes a while to make sure there's mate.
For it to calculate stuff like mate in 18 it needs to literally check every possible answer by the opponent 18 moves deep which requires millions of calculations, it probably will find that but not in 3 seconds
"Will that happen? No, of course not. Black is going to literally move backwards." Bro I'm fucking rolling on the ground rn
Brilliant content Levy, keep up with the good work! Can you do a video on Italian game and how to deal and play the Giuoco piano? Nice jokes and explanation too! You really make me laugh.
At the higher beginner level it can actually be really difficult to understand and punish weird/bad openings.
What better way to learn than learning what NOT to do?
21:17 i was hoping you would say “swiftly deliver, on the side of the board … a stalemate”
Learning from others mistakes, and beeing entertained is nice
"When you get influenced by your oponent behaving like an oogabooga chess player and you go full booger yourself" had me rolling🤣
Sry Levy but i dont believe they played such a bad opening but he managed to mate with queen and king so perfectly
Opening? The whole game except the last few moves.
18:32 i thought he was going to say GMs
although thats probably also true...
Another amazing game for us to hype over. Amazingly perfecto
12:31 I think he wanted to get the king in that position so he could line up his rook with his knight, give a check to the king with his knight, and take the queen with his rook which is a very goofy plan cuz the queen defends everything
Love ur contents Levy. Keep it up dude.
“It’s like being hit by a parked car.” I LOLed.
Hey Levi, I’ve been watching your videos for a while and I barely started playing chess last week and I’m only at 190 but so far I’ve learned a lot from your videos, thank you and have a great day
Here’s the thing levy, while watching the chaos unfold, you show us patterns and strategy to get us out of losing positions which I find incredibly helpful. Also cleaning up their openings is very helpful as well. But yes I love the chaos
"Sometimes you go full bouga yourself and you never want to do that" is my new favorite out of context saying. Thanks Levy!
2:14 Your opponent Never know your plan if you don't have one ~ White pieces
I used to play like this when i learnt " how the pieces move"
These guys should be 8 times less than their rating
I was waiting for him to say “just kidding, it’s stalemate” or smthn lmao 21:31
yo its mr. p
I have to admit I was critical to this bloke back in some first vid I saw, but today when not watched some chess for a while, I come across this and I'm tired, and i literally was laughing so much I cried.. a lot... I mean they create content to create content but an IM roasting 800s , this is just priceless :D the expressive exaggeration reminds me of when I was a kid too.
10:11 That was definitely a slip
WHEN HE HUNG THE QUEEN I LOST MY MIND LOLOLOL
“We don’t even know what garages are” that’s accurate 😅
It's funny how the black dark squared bishop was just sitting there on the chessboard until way later in the game.
Bishop: ''Yo, king, I've been serving you for years, man, why won't you develop me?''
Black king: ''Eh, just figured that knights are better than bishops.''
Bishop: ''You move me to any square I'll give you a blessing and an open line for attack!''
Black king: ''You will? Alright! Bishop to e7.''
it would be hilarious if the pawn got pushed to attack the queen at 12:15 and forked themselves
5:55 can black go c5? Cuzco if en pesant then b takes c6 opening up the Bishop
If 1... c5, Black's advantage actually almost evaporates after 2. d4. White challenges Black for center space and can start developing and making up for lost time. It looks like 2... exd4 3. cxd4 Qxd4 wins a pawn for free, but after 4. Bb2 Qb4+ 5. Nc3, White really starts to get some compensation in the form of development.
Going back to after 1... c5, if White captures en passant with 2. bxc6, that re-opens the bishop's attack on the queen. That's a special kind of attack, the yoink-I-took-your-cover-away attack. (Note that the typical definition of discovered attack states that the piece in the way has to move out of the way, not be captured, so this wouldn't count under that definition.)
Even if the queen weren't threatened, I don't think freeing the bishop would the right thing to think about. The bishop doesn't really have a future on b7 or a6; it'd rather go to d7 or e6. So overall, 2... bxc6 by Black is not the way to go. Black should instead play 2... Qxc6 and maintain a moderate advantage.