yep, same here ^^ I registered on chess.com after watching him and Hikaru for a couple of days and went straight to 1050 thanks to "Checks, captures and attacks"
The move at 4:54 where the bishop takes the queen... how does that win the puzzle? What is the main line to win the match from there? I wish it was explained because I can’t seem to find it.
17:35 and it was in this position, that IM Levy resigned the game, as there is nothing more to be done here. Black plays Bg5 and it’s just completely winning for black - Agadmator
i was confused on this puzzle why don’t you just take the bishop before he moves his queen and then take the rook, rook can’t take because you unpin the knight and then knight takes queen and you are up a bishop AND a rook
Can't sleep rn coz my stupid ass brain keeps wondering about how many times Levy said the phrase "Checks, captures, and attacks" to himself in his entire life
17:09 In this position the reason why gxh6 works because you make way for the queen to captures the e6 pawn and it gives a discovered check from the rook, if the king goes to h8 it's possibly mate in a series of moves.
As much as I loved the instructional value of this video, nothing beats witnessing the pure joy levy felt when he saw the wicked move at the end. This man absolutely LOVES the beautiful game of chess.
17:09 In this position the reason why gxh6 works because you make way for the queen to captures the e6 pawn and it gives a discovered check from the rook, if the king goes to h8 it's possibly mate in a series of moves.
Did you know that once he was scrolling through the chess section of twitch looking for small channels and stumbled across GothamChess? He then proceeded to tell his wife that this guy is gonna be the next big thing, and now look where he is! This is a true story, you can even ask his wife! (But actually don’t ask his wife)
@@largenaq2935 you might not believe me but I did something like that, I am no big chess player but I searched for good chess videos and most videos on top were trash, his channel was somewhere low in there, took a lot of digging and finally found it. He had 20k subs which is very less for his talent.
@@kateyb9362 1 : Play the game Keep practicing 2 : Learn the checkmates Know how to checkmate with king and queen vs king, king and rook vs king, king and pawn vs king, scholars mate, backrank mate, two rook mate, etc. 3 : Checks, captures, attacks The thing mentioned in the video, look for checks then captures then attacks 4 : Scholars mate Many people would do the scholars mate against you. Watch gotham's stopping early queen attacks video to see how to prevent it. 5 : Opening Principles a - Control the center The 4 middle squares (d4, d5, e4, e5) should be controlled by you meaning you should have atleast one piece attacking those squares b - Develop your pieces Put all your pieces in the middle of the board (4 and 5 rank) except the queen because it is extremely valuable. c - Castle Just castle as quickly as possible d - Prevent Prevent the opponent from doing these (in no particular order)
17:37 I’m not sure if it’s correct but if you take the pawn with check, king moves to h8 and you take the pawn on e5 with the queen with check again, king moves to h7 and it’s mate with the queen on g7, I think
Levy is so simplistic for his lessons, so that it isn't hard to understand, especially for beginners at chess it's actually easy to learn from gotham chess. Yeah! Levy!!
Love your content man, recently got back into chess and I've being struggling to improve until I found your channel. Every video you do I am able to learn something.
Failed puzzle 21 at 17:34 is pawn on g5 takes on h6 which opens the check with the rook on the g file. Then if king to h8, Queen captures the pawn on e5, king h7, Queen g7 mate. If king to h7 after the initial rook check then, rook to g7, king to h8, queen captures the pawn on e5 mate. There may be some bishop block in there depending on the sequence, but it still ends in mate.
While I love doing puzzles, I am quite a slow player. The problem with puzzles is this - if I treated every move like it was a puzzle, I would timeout every game. Of course with practice I get faster, and I try to tell myself, "look for checks, captures, and attacks" before every move, but by move 10, my timer is becoming an issue.
I think this was one of my most favorite videos. (Also because pausing was fruitful, some kind of add which I usually didn't experience) It felt you were very natural and in a funny mood here. Then to err once and be mad about it made it more attractive to watch, and then the ice on the coffin is to analyze that one game, (and get mad about that golden Bf5 which was indeed godlike) and you even covered what to do if Kh7 which I wondered about (wonderful then I don't have to build it up here).
This may be the most stupid question in the world but why spend time "taking stock"? I can't see how it effects how to approach the puzzle? I tend to acknowledge threats first, then move on to checks, captures, attacks etc.
Step 1: look at the opponent's king's position Step 2 : anlyse if it can be checkmate, if not then its either you draw the game or you make your materials equal Step 3 : count materials if equal Step 4 : do what IM levy taught in the vid
Lets just take a pause here to thank You Big Time for Your outstanding generosity to the Community! Such Host Demeanor and Generosity, Community Spirit along with Reasonable Charges for Excellent Instruction Courses needs to be recognized with the Might of Appreciation out here that is to rarely expressed. So, I'm expressing it now. Thank You & thank You Big Time for a most beneficial format mixing it up to the Benefit of all on the Team. I'm a lifelong hooked Fan. ... ps: Absolutely Love the Games shared between You & Erick, they are Outstandingly enjoyable!! ... Blessings to YA #1 from Oregon .. Mike, AKA Chess Barron.
I love how he always pronounces the names as they would be pronounced in the person's native language, he totally nails it, even though this time it was probably 'Alvarez with an accent on the first syllable
17:30 because of Queen C5 and Queen G1 Checkmate. I think the point is to move the rook so that you can't be checkmated, to E1 maybe for free Pawn and Bishop
15:42 is complicated to newer players cuz they might think they can take the rook with bishop with a discovered check to then win the queen but then they forget the white queen can just take your queen.
First one I missed. I actually saw your idea, but then tried to make bf3 for discovered check work, but now i realize that I can still lose my queen. Derp...lol.
I learned how to play chess over fifty years ago. I can't help but think that if the internet existed then, I would have been a better chess player. Now, my brain is old and fried. Desperately attempting to reach 2200 vis puzzles and to date, pathetically unsuccessful. You kids should take advantage of your young brains and new tech.
that puzzle at 17:30 is nasty as hell, i spent 30 minutes tryna solve it. and i still am not entirely sure why but i’m pretty sure it’s take the pawn, discovered atta k, king has only one move that doesn’t lead to force mate but get you set up for unstoppable mate pretty sure.
I do well at puzzles because I KNOW THEY ARE PUZZLES so I look for things I wouldn't when I'm playing a game, also no time pressure when doing puzzles.
17:36 I cannot believe I solved one that he missed. That definitely makes up for the 3 or so I missed earlier in the video. Edit: and even the several more I missed afterwards...
I've been working on my puzzles and haven't been doing very well. Thank you for the video. I'm going to see if I can properly study the puzzles now! I think I need to improve my eye for what happens on the board.
17:26 I’m 2000 in puzzle and I paused and stared at that one for a good minute and felt like an idiot for not seeing the idea, glad levy took the hit for me.
Puzzle 32, 28:31 Black King on c4 cannot take white Queen on b4; because kNight on c6 is guarding that (b4) square, even though that kNight is ultimately-pinned with white King on g7 by the black Queen on b2(?) It seems like the black King (c4) should be allowed to take the white Queen on b4; because, the kNight cannot legally move, no? Is there really such a rule? The chess.com program appears to agree that it is a rule as it gives a green-circle+check-mark-of-approval on the Q after the move Qb4!
At 34:30, when Bg5, why not Rxg5? If takes, you hang mate, if pawn takes pawn xg6, Qxg6 with check and the king’s only space is Kh8, and then Qg7 is mate. Or am I missing something here?
Please answer me Levy! @24:59 puzzle.. why not just queen takes light squared bishop with check, king moves, take other rook, sacrifice queen and gain back for the knight is no longer pinned. Also if check blocked by rook, take the rook with check and same process! Why not that, it seems more intellectual! (though I'm just 900😂)
@@robertofortunato6647 😶 Oh shit! not good I'm really a bad chess player lol! But had my king not been in check, i guess it would have been a brilliant move
My problem with puzzles is that i think way to hard. Like "ok, i know how i can kill his bishop, but what next? oh, that's it? that the entire puzzle?"
for the puzzle at 17:30 is it not just gxh3+, Kh8, Qe5+, f6, Qxbe7? im not very good yet so im probably wrong but i believe white has a promising position here no?
You're actually right, the engine expects "1. gxh6+ Kh8 2. Qxe5+ f6 3. Qxe7 Rf7 4. Qxf7 Qf8 5. Qxb7" after taking the bishop black has to give up the rook in order to not get mated
04:53 why did the black queen didn't captured the bishop and on 13:56 why Ra1 isn't a checkmate as king can't move can somebody explain this - Beginner
13:20 well but there was a knight fork on g6 (after bishop f7)! Winning the rook. So that would have made me capture with the bishop. Of course a mate is better :-) Anyways I feel the puzzles should give half points for making the first move right, somtimes there are 4 follow up moves, it's harder to get them all right rather than just one, especially in a puzzle battle this seems unfair. perhaps you can give some feedback to the site to improve it, you seem to be working close with the site owner. Btw the explanation video is well appreciated, really great content.
The move at 4:54 where the bishop takes the queen... how does that win the puzzle? What is the main line to win the match from there? I wish it was explained because I can’t seem to find it.
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"Checks, captures, attacks" brought me from 600 to 1000 puzzle rating in 24 hours. Listen to this man, he is a genius.
yep, same here ^^ I registered on chess.com after watching him and Hikaru for a couple of days and went straight to 1050 thanks to "Checks, captures and attacks"
Thats not his idea tho, it's something everyone knows
@@monarier7200 clearly not?
SAME i just got an instant 8 streak(thats tge max i can get without paying for premium)
My rating before I used Checks captures and attacks was 350 but now it’s 1200
Levy sees a chessboard for 0.5 seconds
Levy: ahh the famous scandanavian trap
Because it is easy to spot these kind of moves.
It’s awhhhh
Not ahhh
The move at 4:54 where the bishop takes the queen... how does that win the puzzle? What is the main line to win the match from there? I wish it was explained because I can’t seem to find it.
@@MrHamm1234 your just up a queen for bishop. A huge material lead which you can use to eventually win.
Step 1: Check for nasty discoveries
Step 2: Put on Morphy head
Step 3: Captures captures
Hey agadmatarinho
Lol
TAKES TAKES***
Step 4: Captures
Where is the new video
17:35 and it was in this position, that IM Levy resigned the game, as there is nothing more to be done here. Black plays Bg5 and it’s just completely winning for black - Agadmator
Exactly Bg5 was very solid
ERROR
Levy.exe has stopped working
Lmao he missed Qxe5+
he was not playing a game he was solving puzzles
@@santanubaral5203 don't take my jokes too literally 😉
Look for moves that’ll make levy go “That’s disgusting!”
17:42 LITERALLY MY REACTION EVERYTIME I DO PUZZLE
Same 😂
26:03 “You’ve successfully found the worst move on the whole board” 😂😂😭😭
The Gordon Ramsay of chess.
As did I xD
And I was so proud...
i was confused on this puzzle why don’t you just take the bishop before he moves his queen and then take the rook, rook can’t take because you unpin the knight and then knight takes queen and you are up a bishop AND a rook
OH YOU’RE IN CHECK IM SPED
chatter: "knight g5 looks good"
levy: "knight g5 is literally the worst move on the board"
17:42 for a moment I thought it was my internet connection
Can't sleep rn coz my stupid ass brain keeps wondering about how many times Levy said the phrase "Checks, captures, and attacks" to himself in his entire life
Golden achievement unlocked: Say "checks, captures and attacks" to yourself 1,000,000 times
17:09
In this position the reason why gxh6 works because you make way for the queen to captures the e6 pawn and it gives a discovered check from the rook, if the king goes to h8 it's possibly mate in a series of moves.
Thank you, Travis Scott!
As much as I loved the instructional value of this video, nothing beats witnessing the pure joy levy felt when he saw the wicked move at the end. This man absolutely LOVES the beautiful game of chess.
17:09
In this position the reason why gxh6 works because you make way for the queen to captures the e6 pawn and it gives a discovered check from the rook, if the king goes to h8 it's possibly mate in a series of moves.
Anish Giri brought me to your channel, really happy to be here...great stuff 🤘🏻
Did you know that once he was scrolling through the chess section of twitch looking for small channels and stumbled across GothamChess? He then proceeded to tell his wife that this guy is gonna be the next big thing, and now look where he is! This is a true story, you can even ask his wife! (But actually don’t ask his wife)
@@largenaq2935 you might not believe me but I did something like that, I am no big chess player but I searched for good chess videos and most videos on top were trash, his channel was somewhere low in there, took a lot of digging and finally found it. He had 20k subs which is very less for his talent.
@@sjegannath6295 i am following gotham chess since he has 300 subs lol
@Eni Gjinaj your comment was clever
25:55
me: NG5, NG5, NG5
levy: that is literally the worst move on the board
me: yeah... yeah, thats why im 900 elo
Lmao
Lol
come on I am 700 and I could still solve that puzzle
10:16 this man just turned into a bird
I nearly jumped
on 17:35 .... gxh6 discover check, black goes Kh8, then Qxe5+ check, then f6 blocks the queen check, after that Qxe7 takes a free bishop
"Oh! I'm so bad at chess!" - Levy Rozman, IM
...then there's me who's stuck at ~800
me who’s still in the 200s 😂
@@kateyb9362
1 : Play the game
Keep practicing
2 : Learn the checkmates
Know how to checkmate with king and queen vs king, king and rook vs king, king and pawn vs king, scholars mate, backrank mate, two rook mate, etc.
3 : Checks, captures, attacks
The thing mentioned in the video, look for checks then captures then attacks
4 : Scholars mate
Many people would do the scholars mate against you. Watch gotham's stopping early queen attacks video to see how to prevent it.
5 : Opening Principles
a - Control the center
The 4 middle squares (d4, d5, e4, e5) should be controlled by you meaning you should have atleast one piece attacking those squares
b - Develop your pieces
Put all your pieces in the middle of the board (4 and 5 rank) except the queen because it is extremely valuable.
c - Castle
Just castle as quickly as possible
d - Prevent
Prevent the opponent from doing these
(in no particular order)
@@Gamer-uf1kl 6 : Google en passant
17:35 The reaction XD
17:35 I believe the solution is gxh6 check Kh8, Qxe5 check Bf6, QxBf6 check Kh7, Rg7#
people:slow down a lil bit give us time to solve
*meanwhile hikaru speed solving puzzles
Bottom line, he started like us
@@victormutuma3827 real bottom line : u must be fun at parties
@@rohithjacob4699 Maybe
Hikaru solves the puzzle faster than I can even figure out which color is mine. FeelsBadMan
@@victormutuma3827 false
17:37 I’m not sure if it’s correct but if you take the pawn with check, king moves to h8 and you take the pawn on e5 with the queen with check again, king moves to h7 and it’s mate with the queen on g7, I think
Most helpful chess video I’ve ever watched! Everyone preaches practicing tactics, but you’re the first person to teach how to solve them.
Me casually when solving chess puzzles : *Stares at the other king*
17:37 when I blunder mate in 1 on my first tournament match in a drawing position
17:35 i came here thinking i was bad at chess but seeing levy making mistakes at the 20th puzzle like me gives me at least some consolation
Loving the pivot from «Oh He wouldn’t have seen that!» to «Oh yeah maybe he would have» 👌🏼👌🏼
Levy is so simplistic for his lessons, so that it isn't hard to understand, especially for beginners at chess it's actually easy to learn from gotham chess. Yeah! Levy!!
Love your content man, recently got back into chess and I've being struggling to improve until I found your channel. Every video you do I am able to learn something.
28:20 Or.. you can just go Ng5,
and
hang mate in one again!
Hahaha
Failed puzzle 21 at 17:34 is pawn on g5 takes on h6 which opens the check with the rook on the g file. Then if king to h8, Queen captures the pawn on e5, king h7, Queen g7 mate. If king to h7 after the initial rook check then, rook to g7, king to h8, queen captures the pawn on e5 mate. There may be some bishop block in there depending on the sequence, but it still ends in mate.
i like how 'free queen ' was an entire puzzle
While I love doing puzzles, I am quite a slow player. The problem with puzzles is this - if I treated every move like it was a puzzle, I would timeout every game. Of course with practice I get faster, and I try to tell myself, "look for checks, captures, and attacks" before every move, but by move 10, my timer is becoming an issue.
"What am I, Alexandera Botez?!"
It's very rare that I literally LoL like this
I think this was one of my most favorite videos. (Also because pausing was fruitful, some kind of add which I usually didn't experience) It felt you were very natural and in a funny mood here. Then to err once and be mad about it made it more attractive to watch, and then the ice on the coffin is to analyze that one game, (and get mad about that golden Bf5 which was indeed godlike) and you even covered what to do if Kh7 which I wondered about (wonderful then I don't have to build it up here).
Thanks Levy! Puzzles were one of my biggest challenges, after i watched this my solution rate went up from 2% to 80%
Deflection, queen sacrifice into horse fork, checked forced moves, etc
13:54 "there is BLOCC"
This may be the most stupid question in the world but why spend time "taking stock"? I can't see how it effects how to approach the puzzle? I tend to acknowledge threats first, then move on to checks, captures, attacks etc.
Step 1: look at the opponent's king's position
Step 2 : anlyse if it can be checkmate, if not then its either you draw the game or you make your materials equal
Step 3 : count materials if equal
Step 4 : do what IM levy taught in the vid
15:36
I made sure to pause the video and try to find the solution. I managed to do this one myself!
Well done
Lets just take a pause here to thank You Big Time for Your outstanding generosity to the Community! Such Host Demeanor and Generosity, Community Spirit along with Reasonable Charges for Excellent Instruction Courses needs to be recognized with the Might of Appreciation out here that is to rarely expressed. So, I'm expressing it now. Thank You & thank You Big Time for a most beneficial format mixing it up to the Benefit of all on the Team. I'm a lifelong hooked Fan. ... ps: Absolutely Love the Games shared between You & Erick, they are Outstandingly enjoyable!! ... Blessings to YA #1 from Oregon .. Mike, AKA Chess Barron.
I just did 33 in puzzle rush today, that was my best yet.
"Protecting from escaping" - Levy 2020
I aspire to be so good at chess that I end up complaining about how bad I am
I love how he always pronounces the names as they would be pronounced in the person's native language, he totally nails it, even though this time it was probably 'Alvarez with an accent on the first syllable
As a mexican I noticed that, it’s cool he puts the effort
17:30 because of Queen C5 and Queen G1 Checkmate. I think the point is to move the rook so that you can't be checkmated, to E1 maybe for free Pawn and Bishop
10:05
Me: hey this is kinda tricky
Gotham: it’s this.. duh
Me: yeah duh so *easy*
checks captures attacks 18:12 u didn't see the check on e5 lmao
15:42 is complicated to newer players cuz they might think they can take the rook with bishop with a discovered check to then win the queen but then they forget the white queen can just take your queen.
First one I missed. I actually saw your idea, but then tried to make bf3 for discovered check work, but now i realize that I can still lose my queen. Derp...lol.
I learned how to play chess over fifty years ago. I can't help but think that if the internet existed then, I would have been a better chess player. Now, my brain is old and fried. Desperately attempting to reach 2200 vis puzzles and to date, pathetically unsuccessful. You kids should take advantage of your young brains and new tech.
I know the feeling!
You are sooo right!
Mate - watched half of your video, went and did my daily puzzles and got 100%! Thanks
Thanks levy enjoyed a lot
that puzzle at 17:30 is nasty as hell, i spent 30 minutes tryna solve it. and i still am not entirely sure why but i’m pretty sure it’s take the pawn, discovered atta k, king has only one move that doesn’t lead to force mate but get you set up for unstoppable mate pretty sure.
Really enjoyed this!!
32:45 is worth making into a GIF 😂😂😂
levy is great GIF material
I do well at puzzles because I KNOW THEY ARE PUZZLES so I look for things I wouldn't when I'm playing a game, also no time pressure when doing puzzles.
33:18 this is still winning for levy as he can just take bishop with rook on g5 because the pawn can’t move or checkmate with queen surely
17:36 I cannot believe I solved one that he missed. That definitely makes up for the 3 or so I missed earlier in the video.
Edit: and even the several more I missed afterwards...
Sometimes advanced players look so much for complicated things they completely forget about the obvious ones
17:35 levy was suggesting pushing the pawn and i was just like "TAKING DOES WORK QUEENS CAN MOVE HORIZONTALLY"
6:15 AHHHH SO DIFFICULT
me in 0.1 seconds: Qxf1, Kxf1, Ra1
I've been working on my puzzles and haven't been doing very well. Thank you for the video. I'm going to see if I can properly study the puzzles now!
I think I need to improve my eye for what happens on the board.
17:26 I’m 2000 in puzzle and I paused and stared at that one for a good minute and felt like an idiot for not seeing the idea, glad levy took the hit for me.
Can u make a video on nimzo Indian defence . Ur queens Gambit video has helped me a lot I win with it almost everytime.
Ya
I think we need a showmatch: Teran Alvarez vs Levy :)
8:58 - What about Ke3?
you make sure to take the pawn without losing the knight. and you can promote your pawn safely after that
Ke3 is losing, because it allows the bishop to attack h7 timely, preventing promotion.
At 20:37 would Be7 followed by Kf6 not also work?
Puzzle 32, 28:31 Black King on c4 cannot take white Queen on b4; because kNight on c6 is guarding that (b4) square, even though that kNight is ultimately-pinned with white King on g7 by the black Queen on b2(?)
It seems like the black King (c4) should be allowed to take the white Queen on b4; because, the kNight cannot legally move, no?
Is there really such a rule? The chess.com program appears to agree that it is a rule as it gives a green-circle+check-mark-of-approval on the Q after the move Qb4!
29:54 makes Danger Levels sound like a band name.
This helped out a lot. I only picked up on trying to find a check while playing. After watching this video, I went from 1400 to 1800 in one day.
I'm a beginner here.
And this video brought me to 1600s in puzzle.
20:10
Levy: you have to make a checkm-
Me: done I solved it it’s ne5
This video is great, I'm suprised I got so many of these right, I've been doin tactics puzzles an hour a day trying to get better 👍
More of these please, so helpful
At 34:30, when Bg5, why not Rxg5? If takes, you hang mate, if pawn takes pawn xg6, Qxg6 with check and the king’s only space is Kh8, and then Qg7 is mate. Or am I missing something here?
Please answer me Levy! @24:59 puzzle.. why not just queen takes light squared bishop with check, king moves, take other rook, sacrifice queen and gain back for the knight is no longer pinned. Also if check blocked by rook, take the rook with check and same process! Why not that, it seems more intellectual! (though I'm just 900😂)
Because Qxd5 is not a legal move since your king is in check by the black queen on h4
@@robertofortunato6647 😶 Oh shit! not good I'm really a bad chess player lol! But had my king not been in check, i guess it would have been a brilliant move
17:30 - h6+ Kh7 Rg7+ Kh8 Qe5 (delay) Rf7+ Kg8 Qg7#
Well played, it's a good video
Gotham @ 5:35 ... the pawn would just take the knight
Queen a3 checkmate
My problem with puzzles is that i think way to hard. Like "ok, i know how i can kill his bishop, but what next? oh, that's it? that the entire puzzle?"
Yesssss another puzzles video
Might be late, but at 24:55 he could’ve taken bishop, then rook, and depending on the person he could’ve had mate or the opponent’s queen
17:47 so new Levi philosophy of playing chess "solve 20 puzzles and 1 wrong and you're terminated" 😄😄😄😄😄 the funniest WHAT!!!??? ever seen 😄😄😄😄😄
His chess puzzles: Oh no my queen!
My chess puzzles: Forced mate in 10.
This a joke btw his tips r really gud u should listen to this man
33:41
disgusted face but very pleased inside lol
for the puzzle at 17:30 is it not just gxh3+, Kh8, Qe5+, f6, Qxbe7? im not very good yet so im probably wrong but i believe white has a promising position here no?
You're actually right, the engine expects "1. gxh6+ Kh8 2. Qxe5+ f6 3. Qxe7 Rf7 4. Qxf7 Qf8 5. Qxb7" after taking the bishop black has to give up the rook in order to not get mated
My pride when I saw the mate on the puzzle that Gotham got wrong 📈📈📈📈
Great video! I used your tips and increased my puzzle score from 363 to 808 in three days.
You would have increased that much in 3 days anyway. No offense. You should thank him for igniting your love for chess
04:53 why did the black queen didn't captured the bishop and on 13:56 why Ra1 isn't a checkmate as king can't move can somebody explain this
- Beginner
13:20 well but there was a knight fork on g6 (after bishop f7)! Winning the rook. So that would have made me capture with the bishop. Of course a mate is better :-) Anyways I feel the puzzles should give half points for making the first move right, somtimes there are 4 follow up moves, it's harder to get them all right rather than just one, especially in a puzzle battle this seems unfair. perhaps you can give some feedback to the site to improve it, you seem to be working close with the site owner. Btw the explanation video is well appreciated, really great content.
Me, spotting Ng5 at 25:50 thinking I’m a genius.
Levy: First of all, you just hung mate in one.
Me 1200 daily struggling to get past 1150 puzzles:
So at 17:30 the correct option would it have been pawn takes at h6, rook checks, king moves to h8, queen takes pawn on e5 check? Gained 2 pawns?
If anyone sees this ignore he goes over it in the end lol
The move at 4:54 where the bishop takes the queen... how does that win the puzzle? What is the main line to win the match from there? I wish it was explained because I can’t seem to find it.
Useful. Thought I might have to watch this a few (hundred?) times to really get it all 😅
@17:36 Gotham is experiencing a moment of my 1600 life and it makes me feel less stupid at screwing up puzzles.
Sometimes the puzzle is just opening, and I feel like I just don’t know enough opening theory to solve them
The puzzles are never openings...
@@KingstonCzajkowski they are sometimes
@@disguisedcat1750 Every once in a while, but they don't require opening theory. They're puzzles.
If your playing puzzle battles just look for a check and make sure its defended
what a genius 🤯🤯
17:35 haha, that reaction was epic, bro! WHAT??
i love this channel, i genuinely got better at the game because of levy
Everytime I get aggravated with Levy I'll play 17:37 of this video and say, come on Levy, I knew that one lol. Haha, love your content though man.