Am i stupid or every episode is like: 400 ELO chess enjoyer: "I will move this pawn" Gotham: "Yea, it will be high elo game, it is south berlin, ukrainian variation, gambit"
8:47 ~400 with just 3 blunders? WTF. No wonder Magnus retired. I'd be scared too. Back in my days players at 400 level would hang a queen and the opponent wouldn't take it.
I remember when I was 400 playing an online game next to my friend who was 600, the opponent hung their queen and he said “That’s how you know he’s 400”
That was back in our day, now every 400 has this list of achievements: -Knowing every opening trap in existance so you can't trick them -Knowing at least 5 defences that will crush whatever opening you will play -Playing an opening that makes you lose to forced mate in 34 unless you sac your queen after the first 5 moves -Having a sixth sense so they can feel when your queen is blundered -Being able to find 20 move combinations to cash in on your weaknesses of the position -If you survive the opening, they'll make sure to set a field of traps where if you do one worng move you just get obliterated in every inimaginable way -Activating a seventh sense to make sure they know when you blundered your queen, which probably will happen if you, by a miracle still have one -Destroying whats remaining of your position using simple tactics your tiny brain can't even begin to understand -Reach the endgame and knowing how to solve any position with 8 pieces or less on the board in any position -If you're cheating or you're magnus carlsen and reach this level, he will activate terminal level and destroy the world. Congratulations, you lost 11 elo points Also he took your soul
White in the first game was a smurf. I've watched my 400 friend play online, it's a miracle if either side can avoid hanging pieces for four moves in a row, saccing a bishop for mate is way, WAYYYY above that level.
I agree with one of the chat comments. They stated that no chess engine would give you moves for a knight/bishop checkmate when you still have six pawns on the board. It would have calculated a mate in fewer moves by pushing the pawns.
A 1300 can definitely know how to mate with bishop and knight. I learned it at 1300 myself. But the rest of the game wasn't played on 1300 level. Also it is very rare to see a 90 vs 80% evaluation on that level. Basically black played a fantastic game, but white was apparently even better. Now, it could have been a 1650 that couldn't stop playing after being completely wasted one night, and this is his start of the rating climb. Trying to research that possibility, giving him the benefit of the doubt, I could not find his account, which makes this thing rather shush, a couple of days after the stream.
This episode had everything. Hilarious mistake by Levy, probably the greatest game in GTE history, and easily the best ending to a video in Levy’s catalogue. 10/10 GTE will never die! Liers will kicked off
@@p1xelated306 You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!!
For those who don’t know, Bishop and Knight mate is actually very easy, there’s a very cool pattern which you can learn in a few tries. Even though it’s rare, it’s worth learning cause it improves your notion of controlling squares with your pieces
In defense of G4 I studied the Bishop/Knight Mate with chessable because I had it 2 times otb and didn't know how to checkmate which drove me nuts and I'm also not +2000. Edit: I remember there sitting and thinking about Silmans Endgame course where he writes that he won't cover that endgame because it occurs so rarely 😂
Strange thing to think about, but the N+B checkmate opportunity occurs in about 1 in 6000 games...but, if you think about it that means 1 in 36 million 2 game pairs result in BACK TO BACK N+B endgames (and that doesn't even account for games close in proximity...like one then another 10 games later, etc). So it's rare, but in the age of internet chess with so many games happening, it's not THAT rare. Happens to somebody. It also doesn't account for "near misses" where knowing it could help you confidently play the best moves. For example, I witnessed an OTB game where a 1900 admitted he very reluctantly went into the correct endgame of bishop knight and pawn vs rook because if his opponent just sacrificed the rook for the pawn he had no idea what to do.
@@faznaz7455I mean you have to decide to learn it.no one does it for you. If you don't want to become a titled player you probably don't have to. Especially if you only play blitz
@@andrerodrigues2877 As I have said I watched a few of gothams opening videos and practised them against bots. I definitely do not really know them well but still know a few basic openings.
Levy, played chess for the first time in November of last year at the age of 25. Thanks to your videos, I finally hit an 800 elo today. I know that’s not much but I’m really proud of it and I wanted to say thank you. Your videos have been such a huge help and keep me interested in chess.
My soul gets crushed when I hear Gotham's sentences. 1st game: "doesn't know how to play the London, must be a 900" bruv Im a 1100 blitz and I occasionally straightup blunder whole pieces in one move 😭
I feel like there's so much variance at lower levels. I have an account that I only play on my phone and I'm 900 blitz. In the PC account I'm 1100 blitz. Only difference is that I'm more concentrated on the computer
@@kalin962 I don't know why this happens, but I also have this big diference when playing in different devices. My advice for anyone trying to improve is stop playing with a phone
I like how Levy keeps his cool in the Stockfish game when he learns that the player is 1300, he never says out loud that he might be cheating, and then uploads a video on YT in all caps "STOCKFISH IN GUESS THE ELO" hahaha
50 episodes of Guess The Elo and i’m pretty sure I have rewatched every single one like 5 times. This series never gets old. We could go on for 500 more episodes and it will never get boring. Better than anything on Netflix.
Just want give a HUGE thank you to @gothamchess- FINALLY hit 1000 rating after over a year of slowly gaining points from 600 😅😅 I know it's nothing to be proud about, but achieving goals and making progress and just enjoying the game has been awesome. Thanks for the fantastic content- danger levels, tempo, initiative and so many more concepts pop up during games in a way that only your content has delivered- simple and easy to remember. Keep up the GREAT CONTENT!
In defense of game 4, i dont remember who said it (Kasparov or Magnus) study lategame not openings - knowing how to mate with everything thats possible to mate with is better than knowing just a few openings out of all possible. As long as youre principled you can trade down to lategame and win there
I started watching Gotham chess 8-9 months ago (Dec 2021), back when I was a 600 elo dude and Levy's Guess the elo helped me gain 100 to 200 points every month and I reached 1500 in May 2022 (about 5 months). Thanks for the great content.
As a 1000, I can say I can mate stockfish with a knight and a bishop because I learned the pattern once. Also the capture chain at 23:38 isn't tough to see at all, there are many other things that seemed trivial for you that were tough.
I was so worried you werent going to make another gte episode so I decided to watch every previous gte episode again UNTIL I SAW THIS. Thank you levy posting another gte episode because i really need it.
Every time I see Levy go over bad players at my ELO, I always ask, "Where are these terrible players when I'm playing?" Then I realize, "Oh, they're probably me."
I can buy that a 1300 rated player knows the Bishop and Knight mate, as a 1600 rated player that is wasting their time learning the Two Knights vs King and Pawn endgame. Great episode. I love how you handled the mistake in game 2 and all of the games were entertaining to watch.
We play to fast at that level because we've all lost on time in a winning position and its the WORST feeling in the world. So we play 10 minute games and play like its bullet for the first 40 moves :)
I learned the bishop and knight mate basically when I started and learned mating patterns (latter mate, king and queen, king and rook etc), just for fun (I started as an adult). So I was able to beat Stockfish with bishop and knight as an 800 or so. I see no reason why a 1300 wouldn't be able to learn it. It's not really necessary at that level, but also not wrong to study that endgame for two hours and be able to do it. To me, it was just the ambition to learn it when everybody in the UA-cam videos I watched said it was hard.
It's the 80 vs 90% accuracy which is really shush. Basically black defended like a 1700, so it is pretty incredible that white beat him like he was a 2000.
"Y'all let me say this out loud?!" Of course they do, coz they want content BTW huge congratulations to you Levy for GTE 50! It has been such a long time watching your videos. Hope we reach a century of GTE episodes soon!
16:30 The main reason why I do 10 minute games but dont take too much time in them is because I am doing it casually or I dont want to worry about a time pressure
12:37 clearly he played Kh8 sacrificing his rook to Bf8 so he could bait Bg7 and provoke a rook move, because it would be rude to win while forking a King, Queen, and Rook all at once. That would totally devastate his opponent causing him to quit chess, and no more chess means no rematch. Big brain play by Gotham Sub to not only win the game but also maintain rematch chances.
that exact idea at 22:48 you explained in one of your og tartakower videos and you GUARANTEED id win a game that exact way. Well I actually did not to long ago, thank you levi
Just a heads-up that technically this is the 51st episode. Try searching "guess the elo 14" and you'll see another episode that isn't counted and is not on the playlist.
Classic Levy sharing his embarrassment. It helps us feel good about our embarrassing moments too. Thank you Levy! Great content. I’m in the Army so this is great to watch when I want to think about literally anything else except being here ♥️
In levi's defense, a lot of people tend to play a lot better than their elo suggests but they have issues like watching out for tactics effectively or blundering something stupid which justifies them having that elo, except that doesn't happen every game and he gets the games it didn't happen in.
I personally prefer how to lose at chess because you go more in depth, but gte is super entertaining, super helpful, and taught me things like c4 in the symmetrical London and cxd4 in the 2….Nf6 QGD to get a massive center and a tempo. I would love to see more opening videos, your Caro video won me so many games because it was so detailed and well done, I’d love a similar video about the King’s Indian, QG, and Slav that’s more in depth
When I teach people to play chess, I start with how to win endgames. First, Rook + King vs King. Then Queen + King vs King. Then 2 Bishops + King vs King. Bishop + Knight vs King. Various ways to force a pawn promotion. Learning endgames is the fundamental of chess - it is rare to win earlier than that when you are new to the game, because you will not see the winning sequences. Most games will be you getting ahead (or behind) in pieces, then trading into an endgame. Only after someone has "mastered" simple endgames do I even set up the full board and start teaching any openings. And usually before that, I have them learn basic tactics; pins, skewers, forks, x-rays, marauding, trapping, danger levels, etc etc. So it is quite believable, to me, for someone to know the Bishop + Knight mate.
I started watching Gotham chess 7-8 months ago before I even started playing chess and now I started playing chess and I’m a 600! And I can beat my dad lol. Anyways, Thank you so much for teaching me to love chess as much as I do now.
The knight and bishop mate must be legit because an engine would give a quicker mate as he still had other pieces on the board, so I think the whole game is legit
I can still do bishop and knight cause my trainer furiously made me learn it 5 years ago, after my teammate failed to convert that endgame in a tournament game. Ive since stopped playing regularly and have become terrible at chess now but that shit has been imprinted in my brain :D
I suggest you check the Olympiad board 4 game in a match Singapore - Lithuania with actual mate delivered on the board on move #32 with Lithuanian GM nicely sacrificing material on the way there.
Thx for clarifying the mistake at 13:40. I sat there for 1 min and was like omg there is nothing after the queen sac what does he see... am I really that stupid. But then you said that you made a mistake and that made me feel very good again
Am i stupid or every episode is like:
400 ELO chess enjoyer: "I will move this pawn"
Gotham: "Yea, it will be high elo game, it is south berlin, ukrainian variation, gambit"
You just described typical chess commentary.
Sometimes it's either he's sarcastic or that person follows theory.
That's the ongoing joke of this series. He analyzes low-elo games in the same style as he would analyze a GM game.
@@humanflysquirrel i mean he says that when both players follow theory in like first 3 moves.
@@adams00134 I know. It's pretty funny, isn't it? This is my favorite series on all of UA-cam.
8:47 ~400 with just 3 blunders? WTF. No wonder Magnus retired. I'd be scared too.
Back in my days players at 400 level would hang a queen and the opponent wouldn't take it.
I still do that at 1000 sometimes lmao
FlyingMussle from game 1 is now 1105.
I remember when I was 400 playing an online game next to my friend who was 600, the opponent hung their queen and he said “That’s how you know he’s 400”
That was back in our day, now every 400 has this list of achievements:
-Knowing every opening trap in existance so you can't trick them
-Knowing at least 5 defences that will crush whatever opening you will play
-Playing an opening that makes you lose to forced mate in 34 unless you sac your queen after the first 5 moves
-Having a sixth sense so they can feel when your queen is blundered
-Being able to find 20 move combinations to cash in on your weaknesses of the position
-If you survive the opening, they'll make sure to set a field of traps where if you do one worng move you just get obliterated in every inimaginable way
-Activating a seventh sense to make sure they know when you blundered your queen, which probably will happen if you, by a miracle still have one
-Destroying whats remaining of your position using simple tactics your tiny brain can't even begin to understand
-Reach the endgame and knowing how to solve any position with 8 pieces or less on the board in any position
-If you're cheating or you're magnus carlsen and reach this level, he will activate terminal level and destroy the world.
Congratulations, you lost 11 elo points
Also he took your soul
Not gonna lie these are the games people give me at 600 and I'm constantly getting my ass kicked
White in the first game was a smurf. I've watched my 400 friend play online, it's a miracle if either side can avoid hanging pieces for four moves in a row, saccing a bishop for mate is way, WAYYYY above that level.
yeeeeah 100 %
both of them were no 400 if u ask me
more like levy guessed
they didn’t sack a bishop for mate, they lost a bishop and then found mate
eh, they could have found a complicated puzzle and then used it. Its not really something that takes skill to do
Not so sure about that. If he look up a lot of london tutorials, then that bishop lives to get sacked lol.
As a 400 that was just a lucky game not really a smurf lol, I have watched wayy to many Gotham chess videos which really doesn't make me smurf level.
I agree with one of the chat comments. They stated that no chess engine would give you moves for a knight/bishop checkmate when you still have six pawns on the board. It would have calculated a mate in fewer moves by pushing the pawns.
A 1300 can definitely know how to mate with bishop and knight. I learned it at 1300 myself. But the rest of the game wasn't played on 1300 level. Also it is very rare to see a 90 vs 80% evaluation on that level. Basically black played a fantastic game, but white was apparently even better. Now, it could have been a 1650 that couldn't stop playing after being completely wasted one night, and this is his start of the rating climb. Trying to research that possibility, giving him the benefit of the doubt, I could not find his account, which makes this thing rather shush, a couple of days after the stream.
@@thezetes changed my name after I started receiving messages from gotham viewers
Exactly. If anything that proves it was not an engine
Ya or you just edit the board so you can get a sick GTE episode and make engine mate with knight and bishop
@@houstonastros3723 or you just learned it the previous day and wanted to flex it
14th greatest ever invention is good enough
What are the top thirteen?
@@kayleighlehrman9566 idk about top 13 but i know 14th greatest is gte
@@kayleighlehrman9566 -
1. Bread
2. Butter
3.Jelly
4. Peanut butter
5. Meat
6. Cheese
7. Tomato
8. Lettuce
9. Bacon
10. Mustard
11. Mayo
12. Pickles
13. Avocado
@@matthewcaimbeul8722 what about chess as a whole
@@Purple1szed Chess was a discovery it was not invented 🙂
Levy in the beginning of every game ¨Nice, ok, not bad.¨ Levy by the 10th move: ¨Quit chess permanently you donut¨
Truly the Gordon Ramsay of chess.
I am 500 but practiced bishop knight checkmate pattern against stockfish just to flex in endgame.
I'm 1200 and fvcked a ladder mate up so badly my opponent made a queen and won. We are not the same
@@nilsschumann3625 lmao
impossible, if you know how to checkmate with knight and bishop you gain 1000 elo points by default, welcome to 1500 land
@@IkaroJesse how do you think *im* rated 1500
cant believe i see a jake lizzoo thing here of all places
it's the 50th Episode of GTE, what an incredible journey it has been! Thanks for everything, levy ❤️
No way 50th episode!!! Thanks for pointing that out
Someone has been counting (not in a mean way)
actually, this is the 51th episode, there’s another episode which is not on the playlist, best 500 elo player on earth search that
@@jj848bedwars8 this is the 51th episode 😒
Pin of love?
This episode had everything. Hilarious mistake by Levy, probably the greatest game in GTE history, and easily the best ending to a video in Levy’s catalogue. 10/10 GTE will never die! Liers will kicked off
wtf is liers?
What mistake?
@@alon3304 Qxe2 in game 2
@@mecazor it's a reference to Tigran L. Petrosian response to Wesley So calling him a cheater
@@p1xelated306 You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!!
For those who don’t know, Bishop and Knight mate is actually very easy, there’s a very cool pattern which you can learn in a few tries. Even though it’s rare, it’s worth learning cause it improves your notion of controlling squares with your pieces
I live in fear of appearing in one of these episodes as 'Random Noob'
In defense of G4 I studied the Bishop/Knight Mate with chessable because I had it 2 times otb and didn't know how to checkmate which drove me nuts and I'm also not +2000. Edit: I remember there sitting and thinking about Silmans Endgame course where he writes that he won't cover that endgame because it occurs so rarely 😂
Strange thing to think about, but the N+B checkmate opportunity occurs in about 1 in 6000 games...but, if you think about it that means 1 in 36 million 2 game pairs result in BACK TO BACK N+B endgames (and that doesn't even account for games close in proximity...like one then another 10 games later, etc). So it's rare, but in the age of internet chess with so many games happening, it's not THAT rare. Happens to somebody.
It also doesn't account for "near misses" where knowing it could help you confidently play the best moves. For example, I witnessed an OTB game where a 1900 admitted he very reluctantly went into the correct endgame of bishop knight and pawn vs rook because if his opponent just sacrificed the rook for the pawn he had no idea what to do.
I mastered the bishop and knight mate at 1200 but that’s because my coach really hammered it into me.
@@kaizoisevil is it embarrassing that I’m 2300 blitz and i still don’t know B+N mate out of laziness😭
@@faznaz7455I mean you have to decide to learn it.no one does it for you. If you don't want to become a titled player you probably don't have to. Especially if you only play blitz
I once had only a Bishop and Knight left when I had 10 seconds left on the clock with no extra time and opponent resigned lol
Damn. Those guys in the first game literally played the game of their lives.
nah, just smurfs
@@sofiana580 as a 400 they really weren't smurfing, they might have just watched a lot of yt videos and played bots.
@@knockemout1271 no way 400 knows any bit of an opening
@@andrerodrigues2877 As I have said I watched a few of gothams opening videos and practised them against bots. I definitely do not really know them well but still know a few basic openings.
@@knockemout1271 but then they would not be 400 lol
When gothamchess said, "Before that let's thank our today's sponsor", I thought gotham would mean him again like he did it regularly
I was expecting the move b3 or something
I know I keep expecting it, but he’s starting to get sponsorships now which is cool
Levy, played chess for the first time in November of last year at the age of 25. Thanks to your videos, I finally hit an 800 elo today. I know that’s not much but I’m really proud of it and I wanted to say thank you. Your videos have been such a huge help and keep me interested in chess.
W bro keep it up
That's awesome, Seth!!
Chad
watch daniel naroditsky if you want to learn, and watch levy for entertainment
Keep going you got this
My soul gets crushed when I hear Gotham's sentences. 1st game: "doesn't know how to play the London, must be a 900" bruv Im a 1100 blitz and I occasionally straightup blunder whole pieces in one move 😭
It's blitz, happens on every level!
I feel like there's so much variance at lower levels. I have an account that I only play on my phone and I'm 900 blitz. In the PC account I'm 1100 blitz. Only difference is that I'm more concentrated on the computer
@@kalin962 I don't know why this happens, but I also have this big diference when playing in different devices. My advice for anyone trying to improve is stop playing with a phone
"After c4 it's gonna be a unique game"
OH NO! Interesting chess! London players can't have that!
this is that one series that i can never get tired of
I like how Levy keeps his cool in the Stockfish game when he learns that the player is 1300, he never says out loud that he might be cheating, and then uploads a video on YT in all caps "STOCKFISH IN GUESS THE ELO" hahaha
50 episodes of Guess The Elo and i’m pretty sure I have rewatched every single one like 5 times. This series never gets old. We could go on for 500 more episodes and it will never get boring. Better than anything on Netflix.
Add up ☝🏽☝️🔝..
For me, gte is in the hall of fame of youtube content alongside best of the worst and internet historian stuff
How old are you? Just gauging the age of people who enjoy GTE.
@@morganhowie4419 13 weeks old
@@decent_random rookie numbers I’m 2 days old
It's funny that Levy NEVER considers the possibility of a smurf or just someone who's good at chess that is climbing the ranks.
Wow you are smart
Levy: Great my favourite opening.. The London System.
Caro-Kann: Et tu Levy? :(
Et Tu means “and you”?
@@alerted0 its a reference to brutus' betrayal of caesar
London for white, Caro for black
@@hljebibunt7549 I got that part just now
@@alerted0 It is supposed to mean "you too?"
Just want give a HUGE thank you to @gothamchess- FINALLY hit 1000 rating after over a year of slowly gaining points from 600 😅😅 I know it's nothing to be proud about, but achieving goals and making progress and just enjoying the game has been awesome. Thanks for the fantastic content- danger levels, tempo, initiative and so many more concepts pop up during games in a way that only your content has delivered- simple and easy to remember. Keep up the GREAT CONTENT!
What the fuck are you saying dude, "its nothing to be proud about"??? You SHOULD always be proud of your progress and your hard work. Congratz bro.
In defense of game 4, i dont remember who said it (Kasparov or Magnus) study lategame not openings - knowing how to mate with everything thats possible to mate with is better than knowing just a few openings out of all possible. As long as youre principled you can trade down to lategame and win there
I started watching Gotham chess 8-9 months ago (Dec 2021), back when I was a 600 elo dude and Levy's Guess the elo helped me gain 100 to 200 points every month and I reached 1500 in May 2022 (about 5 months). Thanks for the great content.
That's 900 points😱 congrats!
Lol no it didn't, and you know it. You just wrote this comment to show off.
@@maxkho00 There are a lot of instructive moments in these episodes
@@maxkho00 oh c'mon it's not that unlikely
@@smrtfasizmu6161 Debatable.
I felt there was something wrong with Qe2, but was like nah man, I trust him
Yeah :D After few sec it was like ... wait a sec, then the knight hangs :D
Lmao same thing
As a 1000, I can say I can mate stockfish with a knight and a bishop because I learned the pattern once. Also the capture chain at 23:38 isn't tough to see at all, there are many other things that seemed trivial for you that were tough.
I was so worried you werent going to make another gte episode so I decided to watch every previous gte episode again UNTIL I SAW THIS. Thank you levy posting another gte episode because i really need it.
Every time I see Levy go over bad players at my ELO, I always ask, "Where are these terrible players when I'm playing?"
Then I realize, "Oh, they're probably me."
0:19 15th greatest invention is levy
I would say he's been practicing his endgame and saw a chance to try it (bishop knight mate)
I can buy that a 1300 rated player knows the Bishop and Knight mate, as a 1600 rated player that is wasting their time learning the Two Knights vs King and Pawn endgame. Great episode. I love how you handled the mistake in game 2 and all of the games were entertaining to watch.
2:09 sponsor skip
We play to fast at that level because we've all lost on time in a winning position and its the WORST feeling in the world.
So we play 10 minute games and play like its bullet for the first 40 moves :)
old episode but wow what rock have I been under in my meta? I don't see bishops in prison, just 1e4 fireworks
his own pawns are in the way so the bishop is stuck in the corner
I swear I just got some déjà vu at like 6:55 my brain tells me I saw that like years ago but it was uploaded 6 months ago lmaooo
Just when you thought you had seen everything in GTE, out comes the Bishop Knight mate
We can die peacefully now
at 12:31 doing take take her isn't checkmate because the pawn is no longer pinned to the king so it just hangs a queen
i said that prematurely as he corrected the mistake no less than a minute later
I learned the bishop and knight mate basically when I started and learned mating patterns (latter mate, king and queen, king and rook etc), just for fun (I started as an adult). So I was able to beat Stockfish with bishop and knight as an 800 or so. I see no reason why a 1300 wouldn't be able to learn it. It's not really necessary at that level, but also not wrong to study that endgame for two hours and be able to do it. To me, it was just the ambition to learn it when everybody in the UA-cam videos I watched said it was hard.
It's the 80 vs 90% accuracy which is really shush. Basically black defended like a 1700, so it is pretty incredible that white beat him like he was a 2000.
The reason why i still play chess is because levy’s guess the elo exists. I hope more episodes keep coming more consistently. Love you levy!💙
"Y'all let me say this out loud?!"
Of course they do, coz they want content
BTW huge congratulations to you Levy for GTE 50! It has been such a long time watching your videos. Hope we reach a century of GTE episodes soon!
24:25 I hope its not stockfish bc OH MY, what a beautiful flex, I love this checkmate net
The reaction to the 4th game was hilarious
„Wifey made a Hot Dog btw imma go“ - wise words from a wise man
Levy is too handsome and sexy to be good at chess. And it shows.
16:04 He's grinding games
That's why ladies and gentlemen, learn your Bishop Knight mate :D
in dutch necking would probably be the same as the Australian one
Your hard work and perseverance have paid off. Congratulations for 50 Episodes of GTE, a.k.a, the most famous series in chess ❤❤🔥🔥.
apparently this is the 50th GTE episode and it still feels as new, this series never disappoints
Haven't watched the episode yet. Haven't commented on a UA-cam video in months. But, that thumbnail is AMAZING.
Stockfish wouldn't reccomend Bishop Knight mate, stockfish would promote to a queen and checkmate.
16:30 The main reason why I do 10 minute games but dont take too much time in them is because I am doing it casually or I dont want to worry about a time pressure
I sometimes play 10 min, because the endgame calculations can easily be half that time.
the laugh at 13:39
12:37 clearly he played Kh8 sacrificing his rook to Bf8 so he could bait Bg7 and provoke a rook move, because it would be rude to win while forking a King, Queen, and Rook all at once. That would totally devastate his opponent causing him to quit chess, and no more chess means no rematch. Big brain play by Gotham Sub to not only win the game but also maintain rematch chances.
Add up ☝🏽☝️🔝
that exact idea at 22:48 you explained in one of your og tartakower videos and you GUARANTEED id win a game that exact way. Well I actually did not to long ago, thank you levi
Add up ☝🏽☝️🔝
Happy 50 episodes to you, happy 50 episodes to you!
Happy 50 episodes of Guess the ELO...
Happy 50 episodes to you!
Just found this series a few weeks ago and I lost it laughing at this thumb nail 🤣🤣🤣
On 13:33 can’t you just take a knight with a pawn and there’s no threat?
Ikr im so confused
Yes. That's the point.
That third game was beautifully half controlled creativity.
Just a heads-up that technically this is the 51st episode. Try searching "guess the elo 14" and you'll see another episode that isn't counted and is not on the playlist.
You mean to tell me there's a secret GTE episode just sitting there on UA-cam?
@@ravecrab the Rook b1 secret episode
13:26 Exactly i was so confused when you said that tactic.
h2 isn't pinned right? what am I missing here?
You should do a guess the elo competition against some other youtubers and see who is the one that guesses better
He does. You are missing out on some content my friend!
Add up ☝🏽☝️🔝,,
Everyone involved was heroic but Scrotal Recoil had the shiniest armor
wow not a pin of shame for once.
25:25 people start to resign at ~800ish but still not too common until ~1500-1750
suggestion: reverse guess the elo. you find out their ELOs and guess which moves they make
in the first game is a mistake,it’s not a forced draw because the bishop can block on c2
Classic Levy sharing his embarrassment. It helps us feel good about our embarrassing moments too. Thank you Levy! Great content. I’m in the Army so this is great to watch when I want to think about literally anything else except being here ♥️
bro in that second game all three checkmating pieces were hanging. gorgeous.
edit: just noticed the queen isn't hanging. still cool that 2/3 were tho
Always love Guess The Elo
Thanks Gotham
In levi's defense, a lot of people tend to play a lot better than their elo suggests but they have issues like watching out for tactics effectively or blundering something stupid which justifies them having that elo, except that doesn't happen every game and he gets the games it didn't happen in.
Spell his name right, and he can smell an 1100 from across the room!
Was that the first ever Bishop + Knight Checkmate in GTE HISTORY?
13:25 when you stare too long into the void, the void stares back into you.
I personally prefer how to lose at chess because you go more in depth, but gte is super entertaining, super helpful, and taught me things like c4 in the symmetrical London and cxd4 in the 2….Nf6 QGD to get a massive center and a tempo. I would love to see more opening videos, your Caro video won me so many games because it was so detailed and well done, I’d love a similar video about the King’s Indian, QG, and Slav that’s more in depth
When I teach people to play chess, I start with how to win endgames. First, Rook + King vs King. Then Queen + King vs King. Then 2 Bishops + King vs King. Bishop + Knight vs King. Various ways to force a pawn promotion. Learning endgames is the fundamental of chess - it is rare to win earlier than that when you are new to the game, because you will not see the winning sequences. Most games will be you getting ahead (or behind) in pieces, then trading into an endgame. Only after someone has "mastered" simple endgames do I even set up the full board and start teaching any openings. And usually before that, I have them learn basic tactics; pins, skewers, forks, x-rays, marauding, trapping, danger levels, etc etc.
So it is quite believable, to me, for someone to know the Bishop + Knight mate.
I started watching Gotham chess 7-8 months ago before I even started playing chess and now I started playing chess and I’m a 600! And I can beat my dad lol. Anyways, Thank you so much for teaching me to love chess as much as I do now.
600 is nice! Maybe you hit 2600 one day 👏👏.
@@awmdanger9677 That went from 0 to 100 real quick.
@@awmdanger9677 Also, this comment is giving Misha v Karpov vibes.
"Your like my dog" 30seconds late oooooo you put his bishop in jail niceeee 🤣🤣🤣
I was playing his checkmate in my head and was just staring at the pawn…
14th greatest invention is very good
I wait for your videos everyday Levy...it makes my day...lots of support from India 🇮🇳
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Holy crap. The bishop and knight checkmate was dope. Gigachad
I’m a going to fly for you 26:44
Loved the benji analogy
That 4th game was amazing, am I the only one who thinks it's legit? Feel bad for the players if everyones accusing them of cheating if they aren't
The knight and bishop mate must be legit because an engine would give a quicker mate as he still had other pieces on the board, so I think the whole game is legit
When he said my dog takes 1 bite and the he goes IM GONNA SEE THE NEIGHBOURS BFURBFUFHDUR
The thing is, game 4 is probably not a cheat because stock fish wouldn’t tell him to do the bishop knight mate
He cheated, a 100% just not in the end game
He can set-up a position without the pawns
Guess the Elo gas the best thumbnails
finally a video without Magnus in the title
For whatever reason I read the title as "Magnus in guess the elo"
That 4th game was something else.
I can still do bishop and knight cause my trainer furiously made me learn it 5 years ago, after my teammate failed to convert that endgame in a tournament game. Ive since stopped playing regularly and have become terrible at chess now but that shit has been imprinted in my brain :D
That bishop knight flex mate though.
"Lock that bishop up like some other certain bishops we should" (or something like that)
O_O
That last Game was fucking brilliant
I suggest you check the Olympiad board 4 game in a match Singapore - Lithuania with actual mate delivered on the board on move #32 with Lithuanian GM nicely sacrificing material on the way there.
"The dark-squared bishop will never see the light of day again"
Thx for clarifying the mistake at 13:40. I sat there for 1 min and was like omg there is nothing after the queen sac what does he see... am I really that stupid. But then you said that you made a mistake and that made me feel very good again
4:02 Yes, some people are corrupt, don't let a rotten apple spoil the bunch.
Bro boxed his bishop like a fish