He calculated two different lines in that clip, and both of them are losing badly so castling was absolutely the best choice. I spent 30 minutes trying to figure out what the hell he was trying to calculate and realizing both ideas were totally losing was such an amazing payoff
If i sat at a chessboard with hikaru and he started the match by saying "i have mate in twelve moves" i would just shake his hand and thank him for the game.
@@Lunaholic94He doesn't calculate the best moves. He calculates the exact moves you will make, including that random h3 you hoped would throw him off.
I mean, since they play blindfold chess so much and clearly can, I wouldnt be surprised to hear hikaru and magnus come up to each other irl and just play a game without a board, or even get on call and just say moves to each other and have one be like ooooooh and no one knows whats happening
It's like the compilation of Magnus beating Botez in 30 seconds over and over and over again. The difference between incredible and the very best is just mind boggling.
@@FatherPun like two big ass grown men sitting down in front of a chess board, looking at the board and each other for like 2 hours and then shake hands on a draw w/o any moves.
Levy is actually at master level. His ELO is about 2200-2400, he is very strong compared to most people. He also can play blindfolded so he can visualize. But, in a recent video he did confirm his foresight is about 10 moves in the future. Vs (arguably) the second best player in the world now GM Hikaru who draws an entire matrix of 20+ future moves. So all in all I think Levy does understand what he says ... To about 70%.
I say if you are at least 1600 definitely give the puzzle at 3:02 a try, it’s a very satisfying feeling to hear Hikaru saying the exact same thing you have been thinking for the past 5-10 minutes in 10 seconds
This really shows the amount of talent chess grandmasters have. This is just a visual representation with arrows. Imagine doing all of this in your head!
I kinda do that at a waaaaaay lower level myself sometimes. Calculate something for over a minute and decide "screw it I'll do a passive move and let opponent think about it instead"
@@trickygamer555 Yeah, if you spend like ten minutes going deep in a variation and figure it doesn't work, a quiet move is normally best. Your opponent has probably already figured out their response to all the most forcing moves anyway, so if you play one of them they'll flip the clock straight back over to you.
It's hilarious watching Levy, who is better at chess than 99.99% of humans who have ever existed since chess has been a thing, get totally blown away by Hikaru. It really shows the difference between a great chess player and the best chess players in the world.
Bro became a villager on 3:08 "Huere, Huere, hueue, Huere hueue, hueue huere, Huere huere, there there takes huere Huere takes huere huere huere and you JUST win the game"
I wonder if he realizes that drawing arrows does not help us understand anything Edit: yall are just having a one-way argument with ghostwitch and it's really funny
It’s performative. The dude obviously knows what he’s talking about but it really just feels like he’s trying to impress the audience with his intellect
@@ghostwitch644 well he wouldn't be a very good streamer if he didn't put on a show for his audience. And if you go on twitch, hikaru has the biggest chess channel on the platform.
best thing is that he goes, "Right?" every now and again. talking to themselves of course but still kinda funny also, if we count saying letters as words, Hikaru says roughly 25 words in 3 secs from 2:13
Magnus probably has the similar or even higher level of chess concept compared to Hikaru, I respect all of the GM chess players, and I've seen several games that Magnus has played, every time when he's spending lots of time to think how to play the next step , once his calculating done,you know he's gonna win the game,it's incredible but I think he's calculated thousands of possibilities in the match.
I know how Levy feels. Been in the same place. Just not in chess. But in Math class. Most of my classmates are academically brilliant. I'm somehow transferred into the class. Completely blank. Only headaches.
Need to tell your teacher bro. They won't know that you don't get it until the test reveals you don't get it. Too late then wouldn't you agree? Help them help you!
@@turbo8628 Nah. There's a reason for that. I'm like the top student of the bottom class. Transferred by the school to elite class. So I've turn into like average guy. I try to oppose the decision but my parents wants me to stay there. Therefore, I've only one option. To carry through. Well at first, I'm pretty average in everything else, but because I don't want to feel like imposter I struggle not to become the lowest ranking student in that class. At the end, my academy score are good... I guess. Btw, I'm shy & introvert person. Couldn't even bring myself to ask permission to go to toilet.
"I don't know what's going on. I'm just gonna castle..." is the most, and maybe only, relatable thing in this whole video lmao
Also the part where Levy said "the arrows make it hard to see what's going on"
lol
He calculated two different lines in that clip, and both of them are losing badly so castling was absolutely the best choice.
I spent 30 minutes trying to figure out what the hell he was trying to calculate and realizing both ideas were totally losing was such an amazing payoff
here, there, everywhere is also relatable as well
Lol, I'm the 10,000th like!
If i sat at a chessboard with hikaru and he started the match by saying "i have mate in twelve moves" i would just shake his hand and thank him for the game.
That should be an actual strat
Haha if he counted mate in 12 you'd still have to make the best moves to survive that long 😂
@@Lunaholic94He doesn't calculate the best moves. He calculates the exact moves you will make, including that random h3 you hoped would throw him off.
@@kurocon6235 TIL
I would at least ask for a draw😅
It's simple really, just take take take takes takes check check check takes takes check check takes mate
Nah, too complicated. I'm just gonna castle.
Wrong, actually it’s here here here check takes takes check here here takes check mate
yes yes yes yes yes
while looking at the ceiling like 🤔
oh but what if he plays g6?
I mean, since they play blindfold chess so much and clearly can, I wouldnt be surprised to hear hikaru and magnus come up to each other irl and just play a game without a board, or even get on call and just say moves to each other and have one be like ooooooh and no one knows whats happening
Yeah GM's basically do that all the time during pop up interviews on tournaments when they are asked to analyze some game
This is actually a legit thing that is done in some grandmaster circles for many games
I want to watch this now
Wdym they do it in interviews when analysing games. It's common. I even do it unconsciously haha.
It's like there's a board in front of you.
even i can do that and i'm not a regular chess player :D
"I think its knight c3 no?"
*looks up*
God: "yes👍 "
Hikaru: "right ok"
They look up to see the board in their head and what they calculated
@@Albanian1government Thanks Sherlock
@@Albanian1governmentr/woooosh
@@calvinooi1407 bro stop with the reddit shit it's full of pornography
@@cliffz9545Thanks Epimetheus
For those who think Hikaru is bullshitting half the time. 3:15. If you replay back each move he drew. It lines up perfectly and wasn't just random.
He is definitely not bullshitting. Sure sometimes he jumps between lines and you can get lost but it's all legit.
He for sure isn't bullshitting. Like, if you slow it down you can kinda understand what he's drawing. It's just he draws way too many arrows.
Well obviously 😂 He's not the 2nd rated chess player in the world for no reason
For those who thinks Hikaru is bullshitting, they don't watch hikaru.
He's not, but that pawn going downwards is so fking cool
I love the clips with Levy, a great chess player in his own right, because it shows just how insane Hikaru’s scribblings are
It's like the compilation of Magnus beating Botez in 30 seconds over and over and over again. The difference between incredible and the very best is just mind boggling.
no bro, levy definitley udnerstands whats going on, hikarus much better, but its reallly not to the point where he dosent know what they mean
@@jaydenk8081 levy can visualize very well as well he can play blindfolded very well too
my name is william levy
Fuck art class man 😂
Hikaru : *insane statistical analysis*
Me : "I'll just put this dude forward and see what happens"
That's a strategy too tho
If hikaru gave us homework it would be worth 23 years for a average chess man
beat buffed acheron
@@eyeofcthulhu526 Nah I’ll beat Slaughterhouse tho
@cracked Beat a impossible level made by a 9 year old. You can't beat a little Timmy level
@@crackedchess beat narcton diablo x
@@crackedchess beat silent circles
Hikaru not roasting Levy and actually taking his thoughts into consideration is wholesome
Plot twist: he actually has pre moves drawn on the ceiling 😆
@@karlwithak1835 Yup
😂😂
Can he reach it???🧐🧐🧐
@@海浪-s1z a chair, a stool, a ladder works too
@@海浪-s1z NO
1:01 Love how Levy has absolutely no idea what is happening on the screen
I wanna see Hikaru and Magnus communicate using on only arrows
Surely this exists somewhere on the internet
Sherlock Holmes and Moraiaty fight.
A whole ass game played with arrows only
@@FatherPun like two big ass grown men sitting down in front of a chess board, looking at the board and each other for like 2 hours and then shake hands on a draw w/o any moves.
next with premoves
1:06 "its hard to see with all the arrows on the screen"😭😭😭😭
He's literally like 20 steps ahead of us at all times
"You were two steps behind"
"So its the same type of stand as star platinum,pucci...NOW YOU WERE TWENTY STEPS BEHIND"
he is 20 steps ahead but only in a single sequence/steps of moves xD
correction, he is already thinking about the next game after 2 moves since he knows every possible line lmao.
U mean 2^20 ?
Then yes
I mean, he *is* a gm
Levy pretends to understand what is happening. Hikaru pretends to be confused
Dude legendary
Really shows the skillgap between master tier and god tier chess
Levy is actually at master level. His ELO is about 2200-2400, he is very strong compared to most people.
He also can play blindfolded so he can visualize. But, in a recent video he did confirm his foresight is about 10 moves in the future. Vs (arguably) the second best player in the world now GM Hikaru who draws an entire matrix of 20+ future moves.
So all in all I think Levy does understand what he says ... To about 70%.
@captainp.2721 it's a joke ik that he is a strong IM
His smirk while pretending😂
That "BRUUUUH" at 2:42 completely destroyed me holy
Bro this Nakamura guy really thinks he’s Hikaru with these arrows
W Comment
Fr
Nah, dawg. Hikaru got this guy beat no problem.
I mean come on who does he thinks he is.
Fr why does he think he's Hikaru 💀💀
Hikaru: *speaks chess*
Levy: *trying his best to understand what is the point of the bishop promotion*
*pretends to be confused*
*pretends to be not confused*
Pretends to be not confused by the mess he made but actually pretends to be confused by using small fraction of his power
I say if you are at least 1600 definitely give the puzzle at 3:02 a try, it’s a very satisfying feeling to hear Hikaru saying the exact same thing you have been thinking for the past 5-10 minutes in 10 seconds
I can barely spot a knight forking my rooks
whats your elo
1100
I don't even know how chess works
I literally missed 3 mate in 1 in my last match- 😭😭😭 at 900 elo
You guys know how the horsey moves????
Me: drawing arrows to make myself feel smarter during a chess game. Also me: blunders my queen on the first move of my prepared sequence.
"the bishop is the imposter what is that?" Had me dying
0:47 Hikaru: *drawing arrows to solve the puzzle* Crackedchess: Camel.
Hikaru completely discombobulates Levy then proceeds to say " we didn't even consider Queen D3" and kill him off
0:13 I don’t know what’s going on.. 😄😄😄
And then castles.
Killed me.
Lols at Levy's "it's hard with all the arrows on the screen"
This really shows the amount of talent chess grandmasters have. This is just a visual representation with arrows. Imagine doing all of this in your head!
That clip of Hikaru doing God level of calculation and drawing arrows only to ignore everything and just castles is just the best
I kinda do that at a waaaaaay lower level myself sometimes. Calculate something for over a minute and decide "screw it I'll do a passive move and let opponent think about it instead"
I saw from another comment that apparently he was calculating two ideas and they were both losing
@@trickygamer555 Yeah, if you spend like ten minutes going deep in a variation and figure it doesn't work, a quiet move is normally best. Your opponent has probably already figured out their response to all the most forcing moves anyway, so if you play one of them they'll flip the clock straight back over to you.
Are brain is designed to play only chess
All GMs speak this universal language to some degree but Hikaru has just practiced for over 3 decades.
Bro actually pull 5D chess for real
2:37, that must be one of the best "bruuuh's" I've ever seen.
makes me wonder how many lines he must be processing like this every time he takes a while to think in classical tournaments
It's hilarious watching Levy, who is better at chess than 99.99% of humans who have ever existed since chess has been a thing, get totally blown away by Hikaru. It really shows the difference between a great chess player and the best chess players in the world.
Levy seems like a child in comparison to Hikaru xd as you said, this completely insane if you know how good Levy actually is.
@@DarthShpan levy is unironnically one of the worst 2600 rn in chess. If u watch his streams he loses most games
@@Batman00386 form is temporary, hes still 2600+ and an IM
@@metalflames4 IM isn’t an actual title he just has it cus he’s popular
@@Batman00386 ???hes been a im since before he was a UA-camr lol.
Fide doesn't just chuck titles at popular people,that's not a thing.
You know you're cooked when Hikaru states he has a revelation
3:10 was the craziest shit I‘ve ever seen
Makes me imagine facing him messing up on turn 4 then him premoving to victory on turn 10
Here here here there there there 😅😅😅
why cant the queen check the king and instead takes the bishop?
@@armin3057because the bishop is checking the king as well as attacking the queen
Bcz the bishop is actually checking opponents king so he must kill the bishop
In 1:21 Hikaru didn't calculate, he asked the ceiling if it is correct
He asked God lol
man this hikaru guy seems kinda good at chess, maybe he should play some tournaments
Yeah, he can improve his defense
Nah I've never lost against him
true
He seems strong but he was never able to beat me
Neither that Norwegian dude
Bro really said
"➡️↗️➡️↘️⬇️↙️↙️⤵️↪️↘️↗️↕️⬆️🔄🔃↖️↔️↔️⬆️↪️⤴️⬇️↕️🔙🔛➡️↘️⤴️↔️↘️☯️🚷➡️↘️↗️↘️➡️↗️🔀🔁🔂✖️➕️➿️🈵️🈹️🈲️⬇️↗️↩️↙️↗️ and then you win the game"
nobody:
people in school: (terrible)
people in games: (brain defies the laws of psychics)
The arrows speak for themselves.
"I don't know what's going on. I'm just gonna castle. I don't wanna think too much."
Hikaru is just like me fr
Hikaru figuring out the best way to microwave a hot pocket:
Why is there chess pieces in my arrowboard?
I need hikaru drawing arrows for two hours straight
Press the loop button
Bro sees mate in 24
Bro became a villager on 3:08 "Huere, Huere, hueue, Huere hueue, hueue huere, Huere huere, there there takes huere Huere takes huere huere huere and you JUST win the game"
Fr same though 😂😂
This looks like the special education class.
I wonder if he realizes that drawing arrows does not help us understand anything
Edit: yall are just having a one-way argument with ghostwitch and it's really funny
It’s performative. The dude obviously knows what he’s talking about but it really just feels like he’s trying to impress the audience with his intellect
@@ghostwitch644 correct
@@ghostwitch644 well he wouldn't be a very good streamer if he didn't put on a show for his audience. And if you go on twitch, hikaru has the biggest chess channel on the platform.
@@jimai808 Good for him, I guess. Doesn't really change anything about my original point
"Doesn't really change anything about my original point" 🤓
3:25 yes yes yes very good
This one was my favorite
oh hi I met you on scrims
I love how Hikaru just looks at the ceiling or on the wall and it just says ye ur right
He got all possible moves drawn in the ceiling, he just checks it
@@Eneko88 *the library of alexandria*
i need hikarus gambit
bro is literally the engineer drawing schematics without any consideration for the people who have to actually do the plumbing and sh*t
Laughed my ass off at this 😂 Great comp
Gothamchess one soon.
l4be me up daddy
best thing is that he goes, "Right?" every now and again. talking to themselves of course but still kinda funny
also, if we count saying letters as words, Hikaru says roughly 25 words in 3 secs from 2:13
The way he looks at the ceiling reminds me of the Queen's Gambit
Same, I just finished watching that.
"Idk whats going on im just gonna castle"
Best hikaru sentence.
0:46 really cracked me up 😂😂😂
bro doesn't think in steps, he thinks in heatmap.
the cool thing is he can do this fast which means that those arrows he draws are already in his head beforehand.
It's insane that this is exactly how a GM's mind works with Chess. While everyone else has that same look that Levy's giving at 1:16 😂😂😂
Stockfish Evaluation: +1.24
Hikaru: M169
I am just convinced that hikaru has a fishstock bot in the ceiling
This is why none of us will ever be GMs 😂, these calculations are ridiculous.
Hikaru arrows makes things harder than it looks if i had to draw arrows alwais i think of rerounding a knight it would be 5 to 6 arrows just by that
Levy trying to understand wtf is happening with all the arrows is hilarious! 😂
"Its easy, just look at the mate in 107"
"The bishop it the imposter what is that" -GothamChess
Sometimes levi looks like a new kid playing chess when he was with hikaru.
“So here here here here here here here here there there there there there there there takes take and you win bro”
It's always mind blowing when you see hikaru doing that but
It always makes me wonder what kind of a monster magnus is to ba able to beat this guy
Magnus is the GOAT in a sport with an ancient community and extremely skilled competition, you have got to respoect him
Magnus probably has the similar or even higher level of chess concept compared to Hikaru, I respect all of the GM chess players, and I've seen several games that Magnus has played, every time when he's spending lots of time to think how to play the next step , once his calculating done,you know he's gonna win the game,it's incredible but I think he's calculated thousands of possibilities in the match.
Magnus is the type of guy to look at all those arrows and say hmm interesting
Then make one move that shuts it all down
hikaru: TAKES TAKES TAKES QUEEN A4 ROOK C3 G4 A7 Ke3 Bce2
levy: yeah i think the rook is on e4 {pretending to know whats going on}
the bishop at 0:07
3:00 gotta love when he just premoves an entire 10 turns
3:45 music in the background goes hard
Hikaru's Op: Pown e4
Hikaru: (counculates) I checkmate in 72 turns with 3 queens. Oh wait. no night h4 on turn 42... You win gg
Honestly one of the best chess edits I’ve seen, this is hilarious (well done 👍)
The fact that he can pick the best move for both sides for multiple consecutive moves for multiple lines is crazy!
2:07 Idk why but this pictures made me laugh so hard 💀
same i was dying sm 💀
Him: Here here here here
Me: wait where was the 3rd one again
HE IS DRAWING THE ILLEGAL SIGN AT 3:36
ah yes the austian painter
"Just ask her out, stop overthinking it"
My brain:
I know how Levy feels. Been in the same place. Just not in chess. But in Math class. Most of my classmates are academically brilliant. I'm somehow transferred into the class. Completely blank. Only headaches.
Just wait till bro gets to integration
Levy is capable of following this stuff, just not when there's lines on the board for three different 15 move calculations at once lol
@@mardev2967nah, you can still somewhat understand. Wait till real analysis where the whole board is just pure symbols
Need to tell your teacher bro. They won't know that you don't get it until the test reveals you don't get it. Too late then wouldn't you agree?
Help them help you!
@@turbo8628 Nah. There's a reason for that. I'm like the top student of the bottom class. Transferred by the school to elite class. So I've turn into like average guy. I try to oppose the decision but my parents wants me to stay there. Therefore, I've only one option. To carry through. Well at first, I'm pretty average in everything else, but because I don't want to feel like imposter I struggle not to become the lowest ranking student in that class. At the end, my academy score are good... I guess. Btw, I'm shy & introvert person. Couldn't even bring myself to ask permission to go to toilet.
2:08 Did Hikaru really just say fossilise the king?
0:22 Me doing all this just for my opponent to go h3 💀
I was laughing really hard watching this! Couldn't stop laughing. I like the edits when the guy says, "BRUH!"
Mans playing 4d chess while my brain cant comprehend normal chess
2:04 Bro just colored the whole board
This was a very well-edited video! Thank you for making it; I laughed a lot 😁
its funny cause he doesnt even need the arrows; hes just drawing them so that we can keep up
I like the “continues drawing arrows”
Funny
These super GMs and their minds, man. Met Wesley So back in 2018 and he talks like these too.
Hikaru literally describes how my grandmother went to school.
3:38 - 3:44 the background is a perfect example of what Hikaru is
Poor levy having to pretend at all times to have a single idea in his brain
I love seeing Levy playing along😂
I don't know what's going on, I'm just gonna castle
Every chess player when they confuse themself
this is how he gets mate in 16
2:02 the best
Gotham is a master at making him add more arrows to the screen