Attraction, clearance, overloading, ya wtf is this guy thinking. Especially wooden shield, you can't play chess if you don't that one. When I teach kids that's the very first thing I show them. Lazy ass Gotham chess, never puts any effort in these videos. Always leaving stuff out, sheesh.
0:30 Opening 0:43 Theory 0:54 Rap God 1:04 Novelty 1:27 Gambit 1:44 End Game 2:23 Fortress 2:47 Middlegame 3:02 Piece Activity 3:24 Advantage/space 4:19 Attack 4:48 Pawnstorms 5:18 Counter Play 5:35 Sacrifice 6:35 Threat 7:09 Weakness 7:43 Battery 8:11 Rook Lift 8:43 Tactics 9:10 Tempo 9:43 Dynamic 10:12 Positional Play 10:23 Closed Position 10:50 Open Position 11:06 Blockade 11:45 Complex 12:23 Outpost 13:00 Initiative 14:20 Trades/Exchanges 15:16 Compensation 16:07 Pawn Structure (Please watch the entire video if you want to get better at chess, this is if you already know the basic ones or want to go back to specific ones)
Thanks for the index, I love this kind of detail. I have a question as a chess noob and I'm asking here to decrease the chance of elitist trolling: During the "Weakness" section, at 7:30 Levy made a valid point but moved a knight like a pawn. Am I missing something? Or am I just being too detail oriented?
@@stephenburke5121 He wasn't focused on the position or where the knight was but rather was focused on the concept of weak squares. But I do see how that could be confusing.
Hi Gotham, love your style of teaching. I’ve learned practically everything from your videos and chess.com. I would love to see a video where you can just walk through a few games with your thought process. I’ve seen a few from you but I mean something more basic. I’m at a point where I know an opening, some tactics and have a weak end game. When playing I feel like there are just so many ways to think about a move. Meaning: Do I defend, attack, set-up, trade, advance, gain the center, count the attackers, etc. That’s chess I understand but it seems to me like the basics and then some lore practice and reading can help someone like me put it together. There are strong gaps in my play that I think needs some “Basics” attention. I’ve had games where I beat a 1400 bot but lose to an 800 bot exemplifying my gaps. Playing live chess against friends over a board I rarely ever win. That’s another suggestion, can you help look at an over the board game? It’s much harder to see the pieces and figure out what to do. On a screen where it’s at the top to bottom angle it’s much easier. Thank you much for your effort a d great content, much appreciated.
Your videos are really instructive and very entertaining to follow. Found you from Samay's stream and subscribed still now....best entertaining chess videos.....after Samay...:)
I definitely feel like there should be a follow-up to this video "30 Chess MEME Terms EVERYONE Must Know" containing the classics such as JUICER, bing bang boom, and more.
You may have mentioned it, but I would really appreciate a video on common tactics (both in middle game and end game). Awesome video and I love you channel! Keep up the amazing content!
How about opening minor piece placement? More specifically, when to play Nc3 vs Nd2 or Bf4 vs Bg5 (obviously not when its a blunder). I think that would be very instructive and I know that I could probably benefit from that.
Passed Pawn: a pawn that never queens. (cf. Isolated Pawn). Patzer: a good-natured term with which you describe anyone you can beat; but an insulting epithet when used by certain wise guys to describe you. Pawn-Snatcher: a defensive genius. Perfect Game: a way of describing all of one's victories. Petrosian: See Grandmaster draw. Pin: a sharp move. Planning: The period of time where in the beginning you are hoping for a mate, by the middlegame you are hoping to have an advantage, by the endgame you are hoping not to get killed, and by the next morning you are hoping that they will not laugh at you. Positional Sacrifice: a move so profound that if the annotator isn't your friend he calls it a blunder. Principles of Chess: an archaic term; shown to be useless by Mikhail Tal. Problem, Chess: any chess position that could never occur in an actual game. Professional Chessplayer: anybody who cannot make a living at chess (cf. amateur). Rating System: an objective method of ranking chess players which does not take into consideration the inherent beauty of a rose. Reshevsky, Sammy: an eighty-year-old chess prodigy. Resigns: a way of terminating a game, unknown to weak players. Round-Robin Tournament: a competition in which you cannot talk the tournament director out of pairing you with someone you are afraid of. Ruy Lopez: a Spanish bishop, usually placed on b5.
Sacrifice: any piece left en prise. Seventh Rank: discovered by Nimzovich. Sicilian Defense: a defense originated by members of the Mafia, embodying their highest principles. Simultaneous Exhibition: a demonstration of ego, where one individual seeks to display his chess prowess by beating 40 beginners simultaneously. Sportsmanship, Good: concealed hatred for a victorious opponent. Strategy: any idea longer than one move deep (cf. Tactics). Swindle: the only way anyone can be defeated. Swiss-System: a pairing system full of holes, like some other Swiss products. Tactics: a one-move threat (cf. Strategy). "The board is set up wrong": quote invariably heard mentioned by any chess player when watching any movie or television show which shows a chess set. Theoretical Novelty (TN): A new or long forgotten move which always causes a master to get excited Trap: Something you saw but forgot about until you fell into it. Unclear Position: 1. a position where both players have absolutely no clue as to what is going on. This usually results in a draw. 2. A term describing the position at just about any point during my last game. Weekend Tourney: a tournament for which a player travels 300-500 miles in order to be paired with players from his home town. White-square Weakness: a term usually given to describe the state of the lighter colored squares surrounding my king (cf. Black-square Weakness) White: since recent Supreme Court decisions, not so big an advantage as it once was. World Champion: a title that is lately being given to a number of players, some of which haven't played a single game in years. Win: to make an enemy. Won Game: any game you lost. Woodpusher: a way of describing one's play so as to make opponents overconfident. Zugzwang: from the German 'move compulsion', there is no simple English equivalent of this word. It generally means if I make any move I lose, which is how many of us play.
You missed a few important ones: botez gambit, bongcloud, juicer, wooden shield, en pissant, blunder, left handed checkmate, clickbait and of course T H R O B B I N G
Can you please make a video about a pattern to steer the middle game for intermediates. my statistics dictate that i have a good openings and endgames but really really bad middlegames
I'm surprised opposition wasn't included since it's practically a must for king and pawn endgames. Then again, I suppose you can't really cover why it's very important in 30 seconds.
Really enjoyed this video :) You could go through the other words you didn't want to include in this video maybe. Also I'd enjoy watching a breakdown of the chess meta through the centuries, maybe you could make an episode for each century even! :3
Instead of using complex (consisting of many different and connected parts) you could have used complex (a group of similar buildings or facilities on the same site) to explain the definition and pronunciation much easier.
But Levy, a battery IS the thing that you put into an electronic device, the term stems from how a chess battery looks like the way a real battery is built out of layers of metal, duh
Wow. I just watched the video with basic chess terminology and now i am able TO CRUSH EVERYONE... Honestly , the amount of clickbait that this channel deliver is insane..
This can be things you shouldn't say at a tournament / play in a match of chess. This can also be a video from a content creator pov. Basically, keep the train going of that 30 (thing) concept, because UA-cam. It is just fun to watch. It would be nice if you put some 'streamer terms' or memes into those lists.
I mean, the actual term used is Zwischenzug for the point he's getting at in that video, but it doesn't translate very well to people poking around youtube for something to watch.
31 terms?! This is outrageous! I clicked on this video under the assumption that there would be 30, but you betrayed my trust and gave me 31! How dare you!
You should've included "Bing, bang boom" and "takes, takes, takes"
What about the glorious “Captures, Captures.”
I'm a really a fan of "Check, Check, Check, Check, Check..."
don't forget "take the juicer" ohh wait...
No mention of the wooden shield. Shame.
@@hitathighs no
no
get out
Uninstructive video, didn't go over wooden shield
no fossils and juicers either
Nice meme :)
underrated
indeed wheres the cactus attack
Attraction, clearance, overloading, ya wtf is this guy thinking. Especially wooden shield, you can't play chess if you don't that one. When I teach kids that's the very first thing I show them. Lazy ass Gotham chess, never puts any effort in these videos. Always leaving stuff out, sheesh.
0:30 Opening
0:43 Theory
0:54 Rap God
1:04 Novelty
1:27 Gambit
1:44 End Game
2:23 Fortress
2:47 Middlegame
3:02 Piece Activity
3:24 Advantage/space
4:19 Attack
4:48 Pawnstorms
5:18 Counter Play
5:35 Sacrifice
6:35 Threat
7:09 Weakness
7:43 Battery
8:11 Rook Lift
8:43 Tactics
9:10 Tempo
9:43 Dynamic
10:12 Positional Play
10:23 Closed Position
10:50 Open Position
11:06 Blockade
11:45 Complex
12:23 Outpost
13:00 Initiative
14:20 Trades/Exchanges
15:16 Compensation
16:07 Pawn Structure
(Please watch the entire video if you want to get better at chess,
this is if you already know the basic ones or want to go back to specific ones)
Thanks a lot.. Guys give this guy some love
We salute u brother!
Thank you!
Thanks for the index, I love this kind of detail. I have a question as a chess noob and I'm asking here to decrease the chance of elitist trolling: During the "Weakness" section, at 7:30 Levy made a valid point but moved a knight like a pawn. Am I missing something? Or am I just being too detail oriented?
@@stephenburke5121 He wasn't focused on the position or where the knight was but rather was focused on the concept of weak squares. But I do see how that could be confusing.
"If, for example, White lost a queen on the net move, that might be a novelty" Nope, just another game for me :)
if white doesnt lose a queen by move 10 its novelty for me.
Terms you could have defined: Material; Value/Evaluate; Develop; Open File
Very comprehensive and fun to watch video. Thank you Levy 😊
Hi Gotham, love your style of teaching. I’ve learned practically everything from your videos and chess.com. I would love to see a video where you can just walk through a few games with your thought process. I’ve seen a few from you but I mean something more basic. I’m at a point where I know an opening, some tactics and have a weak end game. When playing I feel like there are just so many ways to think about a move. Meaning: Do I defend, attack, set-up, trade, advance, gain the center, count the attackers, etc. That’s chess I understand but it seems to me like the basics and then some lore practice and reading can help someone like me put it together. There are strong gaps in my play that I think needs some “Basics” attention. I’ve had games where I beat a 1400 bot but lose to an 800 bot exemplifying my gaps. Playing live chess against friends over a board I rarely ever win. That’s another suggestion, can you help look at an over the board game? It’s much harder to see the pieces and figure out what to do. On a screen where it’s at the top to bottom angle it’s much easier. Thank you much for your effort a d great content, much appreciated.
Thanks for the video levy. What was the kasparov game you mentioned?
Woah the opening part was like a rap
Great! I learned "Complex" and "Initiative" from this.
Keep the grind levy I improved a lot from watching your videos from 1200-1400 rating in rapid in chess.com thank you
Your videos are really instructive and very entertaining to follow. Found you from Samay's stream and subscribed still now....best entertaining chess videos.....after Samay...:)
I didn’t blunder my queen i sacrificed for more space
Outer Space Gambit
I realy like the editing of this video! Very nice and gives your videos the perfect touch!
haven’t watched the video yet but am assuming “en passant” makes an appearance
Holy hell
Surprisingly not.
I definitely feel like there should be a follow-up to this video "30 Chess MEME Terms EVERYONE Must Know" containing the classics such as JUICER, bing bang boom, and more.
You may have mentioned it, but I would really appreciate a video on common tactics (both in middle game and end game). Awesome video and I love you channel! Keep up the amazing content!
How about a video about types of tactics like fork, skewer, remove the defender, etc.?
Thnx lewy
Very helpful video for a beginner like me
Thanks so much! I've been tryibg to get into chess but I don't understand most terms
Love the content, as always - any plans for a video on tactics?
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This is likely the most instructional video on chess that I have seen today
Chess term 30-Compensation and Pawn structure 😂😂
So,31 terms
0:54
levy must be a gud gud rapper
can you go over fork, pin, some other cool terms you use like swishenschuke, and others?
How about opening minor piece placement? More specifically, when to play Nc3 vs Nd2 or Bf4 vs Bg5 (obviously not when its a blunder). I think that would be very instructive and I know that I could probably benefit from that.
video on caro kann opening ..30 mins like the Scandinavian ..please
Passed Pawn: a pawn that never queens. (cf. Isolated Pawn).
Patzer: a good-natured term with which you describe anyone you can beat; but an insulting epithet when used by certain wise guys to describe you.
Pawn-Snatcher: a defensive genius.
Perfect Game: a way of describing all of one's victories.
Petrosian: See Grandmaster draw.
Pin: a sharp move.
Planning: The period of time where in the beginning you are hoping for a mate, by the middlegame you are hoping to have an advantage, by the endgame you are hoping not to get killed, and by the next morning you are hoping that they will not laugh at you.
Positional Sacrifice: a move so profound that if the annotator isn't your friend he calls it a blunder.
Principles of Chess: an archaic term; shown to be useless by Mikhail Tal.
Problem, Chess: any chess position that could never occur in an actual game.
Professional Chessplayer: anybody who cannot make a living at chess (cf. amateur).
Rating System: an objective method of ranking chess players which does not take into consideration the inherent beauty of a rose.
Reshevsky, Sammy: an eighty-year-old chess prodigy.
Resigns: a way of terminating a game, unknown to weak players.
Round-Robin Tournament: a competition in which you cannot talk the tournament director out of pairing you with someone you are afraid of.
Ruy Lopez: a Spanish bishop, usually placed on b5.
Sacrifice: any piece left en prise.
Seventh Rank: discovered by Nimzovich.
Sicilian Defense: a defense originated by members of the Mafia, embodying their highest principles.
Simultaneous Exhibition: a demonstration of ego, where one individual seeks to display his chess prowess by beating 40 beginners simultaneously.
Sportsmanship, Good: concealed hatred for a victorious opponent.
Strategy: any idea longer than one move deep (cf. Tactics).
Swindle: the only way anyone can be defeated.
Swiss-System: a pairing system full of holes, like some other Swiss products.
Tactics: a one-move threat (cf. Strategy).
"The board is set up wrong": quote invariably heard mentioned by any chess player when watching any movie or television show which shows a chess set.
Theoretical Novelty (TN): A new or long forgotten move which always causes a master to get excited
Trap: Something you saw but forgot about until you fell into it.
Unclear Position: 1. a position where both players have absolutely no clue as to what is going on. This usually results in a draw. 2. A term describing the position at just about any point during my last game.
Weekend Tourney: a tournament for which a player travels 300-500 miles in order to be paired with players from his home town.
White-square Weakness: a term usually given to describe the state of the lighter colored squares surrounding my king (cf. Black-square Weakness)
White: since recent Supreme Court decisions, not so big an advantage as it once was.
World Champion: a title that is lately being given to a number of players, some of which haven't played a single game in years.
Win: to make an enemy.
Won Game: any game you lost.
Woodpusher: a way of describing one's play so as to make opponents overconfident.
Zugzwang: from the German 'move compulsion', there is no simple English equivalent of this word. It generally means if I make any move I lose, which is how many of us play.
Awesome video. Learned a lot from this one
You missed a few important ones: botez gambit, bongcloud, juicer, wooden shield, en pissant, blunder, left handed checkmate, clickbait and of course T H R O B B I N G
6:12 shots fired at Alex Botez 🤣
Number 1: a pawn
A pawn is an alternate name to a juicer
Good video Levy I enjoyed it, happy purim my man :)
To the battery I would add Alekhine's gun. Where you have 2 rooks and a queen that attack the same file. Scariest thing in chess
how am i to know what "bing bang boom" means when levy doesnt include it in his chess terms video
Can you please make a video about a pattern to steer the middle game for intermediates. my statistics dictate that i have a good openings and endgames but really really bad middlegames
Levy, you forgot about pins and castle
I'm surprised opposition wasn't included since it's practically a must for king and pawn endgames. Then again, I suppose you can't really cover why it's very important in 30 seconds.
Surprised development isn't there but its a subset of the opening
Really enjoyed this video :) You could go through the other words you didn't want to include in this video maybe.
Also I'd enjoy watching a breakdown of the chess meta through the centuries, maybe you could make an episode for each century even! :3
I am a beginner yet I know 29/31
I really need to learn to memorize openings
Thank you so much levy
You are my hero for embracing chess as well as for noobliftting me😅
Love the content, spice it up with some titles in the timeline next time, then it's perfect!
Why are Levy's Highlighted squares so color-saturated?? When I highlight a square it always looks so light and transparent
How about a video on street chess terms, including bup-bup-bup for a pawn becoming a queen, lol?!
Instead of using complex (consisting of many different and connected parts) you could have used complex (a group of similar buildings or facilities on the same site) to explain the definition and pronunciation much easier.
1:00 Then Bd3 Bxd3 Qxd3 e6 Bf4 Qa5+ Bd2 Bb4 c3 Be7 c4 Qb6 (Main line). And so on..
But Levy, a battery IS the thing that you put into an electronic device, the term stems from how a chess battery looks like the way a real battery is built out of layers of metal, duh
I got #31 for you. My positions are not "#26 Complex" mine are "#31 Mess"
0:54 No offense, but I don't speak Chinese but I think Levy apparently knows.
btw Chinese is a great language i just don't know how to speak it lol
What is the definition of Juicer? It seems to be thrown around a lot
What about bishop and bishop batteries if u underpromote
Bong Cloud better be in the top 10
0:55 eminem who?
Where was 31? XD I thought you were gonna talk about the "Wooden Shield" or "Juicer"
the famous "oh no my queen"
En passant = En croissant
Jajjajajaj I love your dinámic concept. Just for the ones who really want to improve, dinamics is the encounter of space and tactics advantage.
"Danger Levels"
where is the lobster pincer
Great video !
Where are all the weird foreign words?
the one with the farmer is my favorite.
Wooden shield = queen attacks 4 pieces
Dude I watched 1 of your opening videos and then proceeded to go on a 21 win streak
I want more like this
I was expecting to hear about Yoyos, Wooden shields and Juicers. Maybe next time 😮
Wow. I just watched the video with basic chess terminology and now i am able TO CRUSH EVERYONE...
Honestly , the amount of clickbait that this channel deliver is insane..
13:45 brb imma go and by a new cpu for my brain
Hey, where's the missile?
You'd include these but not the term that guarantees a win?
What about the term sharp? I am 1500 on chess.com and playing for 6 months, and only recently found out what the term means in chess
People seem to say checkmate alot too.
Video idea : How to study grandmaster games?
One of your best videos
I just wanted to know the difference between mistakes and blunders
mistake: doing something stupid
blunder: doing something *_really_* stupid
After "initiative", I thought you will follow up with "combination"...
30 things not to do while playing chess (if it's to easy, make it 50 or something)
This can be things you shouldn't say at a tournament / play in a match of chess. This can also be a video from a content creator pov.
Basically, keep the train going of that 30 (thing) concept, because UA-cam. It is just fun to watch. It would be nice if you put some 'streamer terms' or memes into those lists.
Juicer needs to be added
where is the "assassin" knight?
At 0:55 I thought here is a new eminem
What is the 31st Term?
Me hoping Theory is one of the 30 terms
I have been clickbaited, but I did, in fact, enjoy the content
0:55 *eminem enters the chat
What’s a pawn?
Gotham uses cut in his video
Me : *impossible*
UA-cam Gotham is so wholesome but twitch Gotham is savage and calls you trash. I love both.
Twitch levy does indeed hit different
honestly I love that. We get to see a very professional, gameplay-oriented side of him here, and his inner gamer on Twitch.
@@lp4969 Both, both are good
Here b4 the pin
Yt Gotham and Twitch in 1 sentence.
Yt:
You! You're worth more than a queen!
Twitch:
Ok that move makes you look 750, get good.
If Juicer is not on this list, we riot.
Or AWPS
That's true
Ok time to riot
Ight we riot?
“The juice is whatever you make it. It can be anything. Nobody can define what it is for you, you know what the juice is."
Unwatchable, he didn't go over juicers
True
Wait no. he actually has a separate video on these: lobster pincer, wooden shield, fossil, and juicer of course etc
Lol
@@pinkrey4277 IIRC, that video didn't have juicer either.
@@pinkrey4277 what's that video called?
“When u blunder ur queen for a bishop, that’s not a sacrifice”... I’ve never felt so called out in a Levy video
It’s tactics bad ones but tactics.
@@gamingwithglasses4544 winning ones*
my stupid computer gives up it queen for just a pawn all the time
When I started I basically knew all the terms from the video but didn't know "blunder" (although I blundered a lot and still do).
That's a Botez gambit
I left immediately after term 30, so disappointed that you would try to clickbait me into learning 31 chess terms
he even tried to be sneaky and used 30 twice. the nerve of some people.
@@robinbrown6530 Imagine gotham doubling a number in the middle of the list.
lol it's fine you learn more
You forgot "Danger Levels." Some noob on Twitch has been pushing it. You should probably make a video about it.
Levy does have a video on danger levels already
@@amenproducer7864 He knows. This is making fun of the pinned comment where the commenter accused Gotham of pushing for terms such as Danger levels.
@@amenproducer7864 he was joking
@@amenproducer7864 r/whoooosh
I mean, the actual term used is Zwischenzug for the point he's getting at in that video, but it doesn't translate very well to people poking around youtube for something to watch.
I better see ice skater, fossil, wooden shield, throbbing checkmate and queen's trifecta in this video
Lobster pincer
Bim bam boom
you forgot pawn cube and pawn diamond. the dreaded one two punch.
It's called a patented ice skater
Assasin and butcher's blade also
I’m very familiar with “blunder” 😔
😂😂😂
Sorry Levy, but you forgot one of the most important chess term, “pawn cube”!If you get one then you are guaranteed to win! 😁
how come there be 94 likes and no comments
@@szymonadamek1269 there's 2 comments actually
Make it 3
I’ll comment to your comment. 😁👍
5
Me: ''Yeah I Know these words!''
Levy: ''Zugzwang''
Oh..
that one actually wasn't said this vid but it'll probably be added in the follow up vid
30 Other Chess Terms EVERYONE Must Know
Zug and Zwang, interesting
Zugzwang is styiodaatvhhraawtykjh. Thanks!
Zugzwang is a position wherein whatever you play will only worsen your position. Just saying if you didn't know already :)
baka mitai
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31 terms?! This is outrageous! I clicked on this video under the assumption that there would be 30, but you betrayed my trust and gave me 31! How dare you!
This is going on r/unexpectedfactorial
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“And it is in this position that we have a completely new game” or “takes, takes, takes”
"and ___ is perfectly good here"
“there’s actually 31 terms. you’ve been clickbaited”
unsubscribed. unfollowed. reported. banned. muted. cancelled. i’m calling the police
Truly shameful
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