This is the greatest chess performance I've ever heard about... Dude was playing blitz in a classical game and didn't make a single mistake and completely dominated a very strong player. HOLY SHIT.
Rajabov walked into amazing prep from his opponent. No way Theodorou could sacrifice all that material in a minute if he didn't know the line and the variation exactly.
Yep, it was not Theodorou playing, it was a computer. Exactly what Fisher was talking about. High level chess is just memorization, and should be, instead, exlusively played with chess960
@@Niko-ku2crI was thinking of that quote as well. What a spectacular beat down. No hope for the rest of us if people can memorise and prepare that deep all the way to mate.
Fun fact: Nikos got his 3rd norm and his GM title by defeating none other than our boy Gotham back in September 2021 at the Labor Day gm/im invitational. 😅
I think the game is amazing but to be clear this is called preparation and his opponent walked directly into it. Hikaru usually mentions in his games he wants to get his opponents out of their "preparation" and make them think themselves, otherwise he will be playing stockfish which happened this game.
But to be fair, this level of prep for such an utterly ridiculous, sharp opening is still incredibly risky and therefore uncommon at the highest level of play.
That had to all be prep of some kind. Having almost all of his starting time while black used over an hour is absolutely insane. This dude is incredible!
It’s definitely possible. He forced black out of their prep almost immediately and then used blacks own time to consider uncertainties in the position. It’s not like his brain only work on his turn
@@Epidombe both Tsolakidou's crazy sacrifice and Theodorou's insane memorization were beautiful, I'm happy that those two Greek players got internationally recognized by media, because they are worth it :)
@@discat907 1. starting the game as white, getting first-move advantage 2. moving the pawn two squares 3. developing a piece to the center of the board 4. putting the opponent in zugzwang by forcing them to make a move 5. causing the opponent to disconnect through advanced subliminal psychology
In several centuries this will still be a historic game. Theodoru will be remembered as the man who had stockfish's accuracy while playing at the speed of a bullet game.
To be clear, it's not like he turned off his brain for the hour black took. He spent just as long thinking as Teimour did. The only real distinction was that he was playing white and got to control the tempo of the game.
Its called prep, smh. Radjabov had the misfortune of walking directly into it. But sure, the line that the computer found really is visually amazing. A modern romantic game.
This is what Bobby Fischer warned about. Man beats a guy rated over 100 points above him at the GM level because he memorized a computer line. There was nothing Radjabov could’ve done unless he also had the same line memorized, which he obviously didn’t.
It's easy to see he made all his moves in only a minute and conclude he was just going through a predetermined pattern, but you need to remember he didn't just shut off his brain for the hour black took. GMs are extraordinary at chess, but even they can't memorize every single permutation in a 20-move sequence.
> There was nothing Radjabov could’ve done unless he also had the same line memorized, which he obviously didn’t. LOL. Radjabov could've played any other line. It was literally entirely within his control. Radjabov walked into the trap thinking his opponent would be insufficiently prepared for such a ridiculous line, and Theodorou took an incredible risk by preparing for this line, which paid off.
@@GeekProdigyGuy This response doesn’t make any sense. He couldn’t have known for certain what Theodorou did or didn’t memorize, for all we know Radjobov could’ve picked another line that was memorized and we’d be having the same conversation. The point is Radjobov couldn’t have known what he was getting himself into and its mostly bad luck that he happened to play a line where he set himself up to play against Stockfish basically. Obviously if Radjobov knew he wouldn’t have picked that line.
@@georgekromidas5097 AFAIK, this is known to be an incredibly sharp sort of opening littered with zillions of subtle traps. So, if you don't choose early on to play a variation that closes off the craziness, you're wagering your preparation and adaptation against the opponents. His opponent was prepared too and had the right lines, but what you're overlooking is that his opponent won on the metagame: white's preparation was a direct attack black's ability to be prepared, by having ready an arsenal of strong, but *uncommon* lines
Another argument for why Fischer Random 960 is better than classical and should replace classical as the most important event. This was basically Stockfish vs Radjabov, not Theodorou
It would be way more difficult and time consuming to prep for chess960. At least 10x difficult than prepping for normal classical chess.@@ДенисИванов-э9у
@@TheReddaredevil223I cant fathom being able to learn prep for Fisher random past the fourth move, even to the most gifted minds, and that is only possible because the response to every move in the opening tends to be symmetrical.
To all the guy in the comment section, who call this game interesting, while mentioning Kramnik: Theodorou used Stockfish. Not during the game, but before. This is not forbidden. He just had to remember his prep...
I was in the same chess club with Nikolas something like 16 years ago.(We were both 6-9y.o.)and i remember despite being relative good among other players my age and specially in Rethymno,Crete(the town we grew up)he was the first guy that humbled me in my life.I remember losing 10 matches in a row to win 1 or something like that.Im glad he managed to get the grandmaster title and end up being well know.Really great kid aswell as far as i remember.
Even though the lines aren't exactly the same, this feels distinctly like traxler counter attack. You also sack the bishop on f2/f7 respectively. After which, white/black's queenside are almost always useless on their starting square
Same thought. When he has an active bishop and there is a threat of fork on the other, it looked weirdly like a strange relative of the traxler Except i didn't see that the best move is the queen instead of the knight
Yeah I would not want to play against a line that looks too similar to the Traxler Countergambit. Without knowing the theory you end up getting absolutely folded because of how ridiculously difficult it is to find the best move each time. Playing against a Traxler player is a nightmare.
Traxler is a beast opening I always play it when I get the chance I right away tough traxler when I saw the line just funny that it was done with white
Not to downplay the dude, he was awesome, but look at his time usage. This was clearly a high-depth computer line that he found and really picked apart. So, yes, his opponent was 130 points higher rated at 2745 but this is well beyond what a 2745 is qualified to handle in a timed game. You need to get computers well over 3000 to even see it, as evidenced by the regular stockfish in this recap.
Saying this disqualifies the time Theodoru spent thinking during the hour his opponent took to think. Yes this game is obviously at least half preparation, but it’s not certain it is all preparation
@@TrueWodzu That's a largely meaningless distinction. The more moves that can be analysed, the deeper it sees lines, and the more accurate at seeing the best line it becomes: therefore higher elo level. The computer only has that elo because it has that depth.
@@rowanmales3430 @rowanmales3430 No, that is not true. If ELO would be tied only to the depth then an engine from year 2000 would not solve this, but having enough time any engine would solve this. Engine's ELO is a metric measured against other engines in time constrained game. So the time is critical factor here. An engine with ELO 1600 would solve this having enough time to calculate all the lines.
That was incredible, GothamChess has become my favorite channel and I don't care. Thank you for your dedication and enthusiasm, and for explaining this dark wizardry to us people who barely know how the horsies move
Just picked up your book at Barnes and noble and let me just say I’ve never been more excited to read in my life. Love your stuff man you’ve taught me so much
@@turnermarius4471Theodorou got 30 seconds inkrement per move. And he actually didn't think at all. It was all prep. He found this line at home and just remembered it...
@@MK06086 I could remember this lines. That's not the reason why Theodorou is a GM. The reason is, that he can calculate and evaluate the position better than me, if he gets out of prep.
We can argue on the time since black spent more than a hour thinking so Theodorou could've expected his moves but still - very, very impressive game from white!
Wow, great game! Feels like Teimour basically walked into whatever traps Nikolas had prepped before the game. One thing makes me wonder, how bad would be move Ng5 at 7:00? While maybe not as game-ending as Qc5, it looks like the best way for black to get out of that would be trading queen and bishop for white's bishop, knight and a rook and black king is still in the middle of nowhere.
This is why Fisher said computers ruin the game. You really think that he thought of all those moves in 60 seconds? No, he memorised them, un impressed. Chess960!!!
He had the advantage of really surprising his opponent thus allowing him to think on his opponent‘s time. He must be really good at logical thinking because most people would be scared to sac a piece for a pawn and wouldn‘t even consider it. He on the other hand simply evaluates whether or not it‘s objectively correct. He is incredibly incredible.
The number of "what the f--" moments I experienced when I watched this video is out of the ordinary. Exceptional game, the latter moves and variations are truly brilliant.
Its a nice game, but the interesting part was the build-up Levy did there, presenting Theodorou' play as totally unbelievable, yet giving us all the hints that it was all 100% engine's prep.. It started when Levy mentioned that the first 2 brilliancies white played, were actually Theory that was played before, and concluded when he showed us that Theodorou didn't think at all during that game, regardless of the complexity of the positions and the accuracy that they required (and that he delivered 100%). That's like shouting that it was all engine-prep without actually saying it..
Я удивлен как много дурачков наивных в комментариях.. Insane game!!! Absolutly brilliant play!!! Хеллоу друзья, это линия движка, которую он тупо запомнил и исполнил на практике, это не его игра , а игра движка. Без раздумий делал такие прекрасные ходы, да?.
Hey Levy, I'm only 600-700 blitz and played 99.4 accuracy last night! It helps that my opponent blundered a queen-king pin on move 7 and shortly resigned. 😊
The level of this game is actually insane. This man won this game of classical chess with 100% accuracy and 4 brilliant moves. On top of that, he did it with only 66 seconds of game time while his opponent used over an hour. And even on top of that, he finished and won the game handily while being down 10 points of material. I have no reason to believe that this isn’t the greatest chess game in all of history.
That has to be humiliating for the losing player. Not only you lost, your opponent was basically playing blitz while giving you the luxury to think and completely mopped the floor with you. Incredible!
I mean, let's call this what it is. Theodorou isn't some genius that played this brilliant game in 2 minutes, he had completely calculated that game before it even started. Radjabov just failed to get out of the path that he had already calculated. It doesn't seem like Theodorou had to do any thinking on the day of, just remember the path. I could see this game as a good argument for why computers ruined chess.
Same, I am failing to appreciate this game because of that fact. Still, it's a great performance because it shows what you can achieve with good preparation.
Unpopular opinion: It is really impressive... but not worth "legendary game" status as it's just a guy who memorized moves from the computer.. he didn't do the thinking himself 😮💨
6:00 That position isn't actually that bad, since Qe7 shuts down the attack. You can give a discovered check, but the king just retreats to g8 with the safety of his rook, and Qf7 is prevented by the black queen. You can still do it, but all that's gonna happen is you'll trade queens, then lose a bishop and be down two pieces with a failed attack, at which point black can just start developing naturally. Unless I'm missing something, that position is a bit sharp, but manageable.
I got a 100% accuracy against the French. It was rhe variation where the beeshop discovers an attack on the queen with a check on B5 with the black quuen on d4. Funniest premove in history
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This is the greatest chess performance I've ever heard about... Dude was playing blitz in a classical game and didn't make a single mistake and completely dominated a very strong player. HOLY SHIT.
it was almost bullet chess vs classical. missed by 6 seconds. that sounds kinda insane if you put it like that.
How is this the greatest chess performance when this dude didn't play chess at all, he just remembered the whole opening his opponent fell into
@@Valok don't forget about extra time after each move, so not really
@@birdybird222 That is a fair point.
@@TheBeelzboss And thinking on his opponents time
Man straight up memorised all of Stockfish's lines
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The time Radjabov spent making moves Theodorou spent calculating his next moves, that’s chess for u.
@@zaydmerhab6167Yep, that's why he said all
That's how he's good
Rajabov walked into amazing prep from his opponent. No way Theodorou could sacrifice all that material in a minute if he didn't know the line and the variation exactly.
just look at the time, Theodorou is gaining time on every move when radjabov is clearly spending several minutes on every move
Prep that went all the way to a checkmate.
Yep, it was not Theodorou playing, it was a computer. Exactly what Fisher was talking about. High level chess is just memorization, and should be, instead, exlusively played with chess960
this is not a typical occurance lol. Unless humans can routinely perform to this level, I disagree
@@Niko-ku2crI was thinking of that quote as well. What a spectacular beat down. No hope for the rest of us if people can memorise and prepare that deep all the way to mate.
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I think the game is amazing but to be clear this is called preparation and his opponent walked directly into it. Hikaru usually mentions in his games he wants to get his opponents out of their "preparation" and make them think themselves, otherwise he will be playing stockfish which happened this game.
Modern Chess in a nutshell
Magnus does that quite often too, i think.
But to be fair, this level of prep for such an utterly ridiculous, sharp opening is still incredibly risky and therefore uncommon at the highest level of play.
That position at 7:35 looks like 25 moves into a 600 elo game.
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@@ThePi314ManYour name is very fitting.
That had to all be prep of some kind. Having almost all of his starting time while black used over an hour is absolutely insane. This dude is incredible!
It’s definitely possible. He forced black out of their prep almost immediately and then used blacks own time to consider uncertainties in the position. It’s not like his brain only work on his turn
Although that is true you do get to use the time your opponent is taking off their own clock to think aswell
I’m surprised black ran out of prep. It’s a sharp line that every Petrov player should know.
@@Fishy_17 yeah but one thing is to know the line, and another thing is to know it at that depth. Even low-depth stockfish didn't know the line.
@@divagaciones1628 Still doesn’t justify why I knew the line better than they did.
Props to Theodorou for playing such an amazing game!!
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Congrats to Theodorou for finally having an opponent fall into the line he found and memorized God knows how long ago.
@@joelsmith9442someones mad
@@Epidombe both Tsolakidou's crazy sacrifice and Theodorou's insane memorization were beautiful, I'm happy that those two Greek players got internationally recognized by media, because they are worth it :)
That's not very impressive. I once had a 100% accuracy game as well. It went 1. e4 and the opponent disconected
You had me in the first half
Did you play at least 5 brilliant moves
@@discat907 1. starting the game as white, getting first-move advantage
2. moving the pawn two squares
3. developing a piece to the center of the board
4. putting the opponent in zugzwang by forcing them to make a move
5. causing the opponent to disconnect through advanced subliminal psychology
@@brightblackhole2442 you're so right
It's that right maybe you re right you re so right are you winning at chess or nah
Radjabov was on the receiving end of some absolutely insane prep. He straight up walked head first into a buzz saw. What an incredible game.
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@@videnviit sounds like one, doesn’t it?
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you Capitalize Everything Except For Names Like "levy" or Words in Begginings Of Sentences ;)
Kramnik is working on stats about the likelihood of such performance
Levy never fails to clickbait the audience by assuring no clickbait
Yeah but at least this time it isn't clickbait
Bro hasn’t watched the video yet
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@@deweiterhe isn’t even pinned dude
1:27 People forget how good Levy really is.
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5:35 you want my rook? Here, take a bishop too
Dude had the whole game memorized... And Radjabov fell right into the trap
Totally insane. One of the most beautiful attacking games I've seen in a long time. It's almost like a game played 100+ years ago.
Props to the kidnapper for letting Levy make a video while being held hostage in his bedroom
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In several centuries this will still be a historic game. Theodoru will be remembered as the man who had stockfish's accuracy while playing at the speed of a bullet game.
He gets time added per move but it's not far off. Still extremely impressive!
Well, he trained with stockfish so yeah, of course he has stockfish accuracy. Boring game.
@@sadiqabbaszade4789 If you've ever been online you've trained with stockfish.
To be clear, it's not like he turned off his brain for the hour black took. He spent just as long thinking as Teimour did. The only real distinction was that he was playing white and got to control the tempo of the game.
Wow the fact he did it with 1hr 28mins left on the clock is unprecedented...amazing game!
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Terrible and unimpressive game when it comes to chess playing skills, memorisation?, sure but is that what chess is about? Fisher was right lol
Its called prep, smh. Radjabov had the misfortune of walking directly into it. But sure, the line that the computer found really is visually amazing. A modern romantic game.
@@Niko-ku2crisn't memorization part of chess skills? Pretty sure even Fischer memorized main lines.
@@pianissimo7121 no, our boy Niko over here makes up his moves as he goes and refuses to think while his opponent's clock is ticking!
This is what Bobby Fischer warned about. Man beats a guy rated over 100 points above him at the GM level because he memorized a computer line. There was nothing Radjabov could’ve done unless he also had the same line memorized, which he obviously didn’t.
It's easy to see he made all his moves in only a minute and conclude he was just going through a predetermined pattern, but you need to remember he didn't just shut off his brain for the hour black took. GMs are extraordinary at chess, but even they can't memorize every single permutation in a 20-move sequence.
> There was nothing Radjabov could’ve done unless he also had the same line memorized, which he obviously didn’t.
LOL. Radjabov could've played any other line. It was literally entirely within his control. Radjabov walked into the trap thinking his opponent would be insufficiently prepared for such a ridiculous line, and Theodorou took an incredible risk by preparing for this line, which paid off.
@@GeekProdigyGuy This response doesn’t make any sense. He couldn’t have known for certain what Theodorou did or didn’t memorize, for all we know Radjobov could’ve picked another line that was memorized and we’d be having the same conversation. The point is Radjobov couldn’t have known what he was getting himself into and its mostly bad luck that he happened to play a line where he set himself up to play against Stockfish basically. Obviously if Radjobov knew he wouldn’t have picked that line.
@@georgekromidas5097 AFAIK, this is known to be an incredibly sharp sort of opening littered with zillions of subtle traps. So, if you don't choose early on to play a variation that closes off the craziness, you're wagering your preparation and adaptation against the opponents.
His opponent was prepared too and had the right lines, but what you're overlooking is that his opponent won on the metagame: white's preparation was a direct attack black's ability to be prepared, by having ready an arsenal of strong, but *uncommon* lines
Another argument for why Fischer Random 960 is better than classical and should replace classical as the most important event. This was basically Stockfish vs Radjabov, not Theodorou
Nah you make it 960, these crazy gms will learn prep for all of them. Maube not as deep, but still enough to destroy anyone who didn't learn as much
@@ДенисИванов-э9у This comment is stupid on so many levels I don't even know where to begin...
It would be way more difficult and time consuming to prep for chess960. At least 10x difficult than prepping for normal classical chess.@@ДенисИванов-э9у
@@TheReddaredevil223I cant fathom being able to learn prep for Fisher random past the fourth move, even to the most gifted minds, and that is only possible because the response to every move in the opening tends to be symmetrical.
this is absolutely an all time classic game only sad part is no GM will ever be able to use this prep bomb again
To all the guy in the comment section, who call this game interesting, while mentioning Kramnik: Theodorou used Stockfish. Not during the game, but before. This is not forbidden. He just had to remember his prep...
"Pirates are Inefficient" not something anyone expects to hear in a chess video
I was in the same chess club with Nikolas something like 16 years ago.(We were both 6-9y.o.)and i remember despite being relative good among other players my age and specially in Rethymno,Crete(the town we grew up)he was the first guy that humbled me in my life.I remember losing 10 matches in a row to win 1 or something like that.Im glad he managed to get the grandmaster title and end up being well know.Really great kid aswell as far as i remember.
Should've made friends with him lol
@iRyuzen well I moved out with my parents far away so we couldn't be good friends anyway haha
I actually had a game where I preformed like this. But instead of 4 brilliant moves, mine had 0, and I only got a 60% accuracy rating.
2:12 Latvia mentioned RAAAAAAAH‼‼‼
Even though the lines aren't exactly the same, this feels distinctly like traxler counter attack. You also sack the bishop on f2/f7 respectively. After which, white/black's queenside are almost always useless on their starting square
Same thought. When he has an active bishop and there is a threat of fork on the other, it looked weirdly like a strange relative of the traxler
Except i didn't see that the best move is the queen instead of the knight
See this is why I say people shouldn't criticize this as being prepared... the principles and components will translate across countless games.
Yeah I would not want to play against a line that looks too similar to the Traxler Countergambit. Without knowing the theory you end up getting absolutely folded because of how ridiculously difficult it is to find the best move each time. Playing against a Traxler player is a nightmare.
@@yuurai fr. Low depth engine sometimes can't even find the best lines for traxler (they find a suboptimal line and criticize it), let alone humans
Traxler is a beast opening I always play it when I get the chance I right away tough traxler when I saw the line just funny that it was done with white
This is a Van Der Loo tier constructed game played out in an actual chess tournament. Its incredible. Great job to Nikolas!
bro's on his trip, but we can't have the video a day later, what a real one
Levy never fails to act natural while being held hostage
levy never fails to try his captor's patience by avoiding the attacks directed at him
Interesting and unlikely performance! *Kramnik starts typing quickly in the shadows*
This was obviously prep. This as nothing to do with cheating...
Not to downplay the dude, he was awesome, but look at his time usage. This was clearly a high-depth computer line that he found and really picked apart. So, yes, his opponent was 130 points higher rated at 2745 but this is well beyond what a 2745 is qualified to handle in a timed game. You need to get computers well over 3000 to even see it, as evidenced by the regular stockfish in this recap.
Saying this disqualifies the time Theodoru spent thinking during the hour his opponent took to think. Yes this game is obviously at least half preparation, but it’s not certain it is all preparation
spoken like a true kravnik
It is not the computer ELO that counts here, it is the depth of moves it analyses.
@@TrueWodzu That's a largely meaningless distinction. The more moves that can be analysed, the deeper it sees lines, and the more accurate at seeing the best line it becomes: therefore higher elo level. The computer only has that elo because it has that depth.
@@rowanmales3430 @rowanmales3430 No, that is not true. If ELO would be tied only to the depth then an engine from year 2000 would not solve this, but having enough time any engine would solve this. Engine's ELO is a metric measured against other engines in time constrained game. So the time is critical factor here. An engine with ELO 1600 would solve this having enough time to calculate all the lines.
That was incredible, GothamChess has become my favorite channel and I don't care. Thank you for your dedication and enthusiasm, and for explaining this dark wizardry to us people who barely know how the horsies move
20:45 All I can say to this is: *in Russian accent* very interesting /s
Games like this remind me why I love chess. I may not be very good, but the knowledge that someone can play so perfectly makes up for it
Just picked up your book at Barnes and noble and let me just say I’ve never been more excited to read in my life. Love your stuff man you’ve taught me so much
Congrats Levy, you didn't clickbait and it was a good video.
When he talked about the time spent at the end, all I could do was say, "Oh my god" out loud. That was an amazing game, thanks for sharing it.
Here comes the 14th world champion about to say this guy cheated with "100% accuracy, interesting."
Beat me to it. 😂
How can you play 100% game and 4 perfect moves in 66 sec.? not even magnus can do it.
@@turnermarius4471Theodorou got 30 seconds inkrement per move. And he actually didn't think at all. It was all prep. He found this line at home and just remembered it...
@@commentwarriorcan you do it? I don't think so, that's why he is the GM
@@MK06086 I could remember this lines. That's not the reason why Theodorou is a GM. The reason is, that he can calculate and evaluate the position better than me, if he gets out of prep.
We can argue on the time since black spent more than a hour thinking so Theodorou could've expected his moves but still - very, very impressive game from white!
5:36 - what I would do in a bullet game because it "looks kinda like a traxler"
Levy is so good at clickbating that his title doesnt even need to be clickbait for it to be clickbait.
6:56 they did, it is just myth that they made people walk a blank
Hi Gotham, I remember watching you when you had just 100k subs! I can say with certainty that, Gotham never fails to include Gotham in his videos.
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Why do people keep commenting this? Can anyone explain
@@thomas11eleventmi guess someone started the trend in a video a few months ago and now its an epic meme in the gotham community
This is preparation being applied flawlessly.
as accuracy i can confirm that i am indeed 100%
Levy straight up teleported back to his hotel room in London. His kidnapper not done with him yet
This was a phenomenal game, I wonder what kramnik has to say about it 😂
In b4 Kramnik makes Theodoru his new target for status updates.
Levy always fills us up with traditional clickbait inside our endo skeletons
20:23 Very interesting (which I recently learned means CHEATER) 🤣
Levy was 100% accuracy with his analogies this video.
my man studied that line and the moment it appeared he was like "this is my moment to appear in anotheer gothamchess video"
Man i miss this guy. Back in January he was the most popular chess creator out there. Good luck Levy!
I do too.
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@@P1OODthat’s his name if i’m not wrong.
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@@dark_scavenger0154 its Levy lol
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Wow, great game! Feels like Teimour basically walked into whatever traps Nikolas had prepped before the game.
One thing makes me wonder, how bad would be move Ng5 at 7:00? While maybe not as game-ending as Qc5, it looks like the best way for black to get out of that would be trading queen and bishop for white's bishop, knight and a rook and black king is still in the middle of nowhere.
This is why Fisher said computers ruin the game. You really think that he thought of all those moves in 60 seconds? No, he memorised them, un impressed. Chess960!!!
Earned my like and respect. Thank you for publishing such an instructive and entertaining content that doesn’t contain click bait. ❤️Levy.
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I swear to god I found it. To unpin the king and activate various threats + attack the horse. So proud of myself
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He had the advantage of really surprising his opponent thus allowing him to think on his opponent‘s time. He must be really good at logical thinking because most people would be scared to sac a piece for a pawn and wouldn‘t even consider it. He on the other hand simply evaluates whether or not it‘s objectively correct. He is incredibly incredible.
Clearly prep he's just remembering moves he studied
Levy never fails to clickbait us
Levy never fails to advertise his chess courses even if he's held hostage
Bro beat a gm with a prep
Wait till Kramnik sees this..
The number of "what the f--" moments I experienced when I watched this video is out of the ordinary. Exceptional game, the latter moves and variations are truly brilliant.
I bet Kramnik thought this game was interesting
Queen sac for black 11:49
Still a bad position
Its a nice game, but the interesting part was the build-up Levy did there, presenting Theodorou' play as totally unbelievable, yet giving us all the hints that it was all 100% engine's prep..
It started when Levy mentioned that the first 2 brilliancies white played, were actually Theory that was played before, and concluded when he showed us that Theodorou didn't think at all during that game, regardless of the complexity of the positions and the accuracy that they required (and that he delivered 100%).
That's like shouting that it was all engine-prep without actually saying it..
16:08 bananas
Я удивлен как много дурачков наивных в комментариях.. Insane game!!! Absolutly brilliant play!!! Хеллоу друзья, это линия движка, которую он тупо запомнил и исполнил на практике, это не его игра , а игра движка. Без раздумий делал такие прекрасные ходы, да?.
This full game was home prepared by the help of computer actually.
Levy never fails to sell out
This has to be the best game ever
Props to Theodorou for memorizing stockfish lines!
This feels like a stafford gambit for GM
Levy never fails to fail to fail us eternally
Hey, I'm greek and just in case you want to know the D in Theodorou is pronounced "Th" like the "Th" in though, great video btw!
levy never fails to use numbers in his titles
Don't let Kramnik find out about this.
For me its clear
Hey Levy, I'm only 600-700 blitz and played 99.4 accuracy last night! It helps that my opponent blundered a queen-king pin on move 7 and shortly resigned. 😊
This is very simaler to black opening called, traxler, knight sacrifice line. Just he did it with white later on
Traxler opening is my favorite black opening wich you also sacrifice the bishop and the rook
The level of this game is actually insane. This man won this game of classical chess with 100% accuracy and 4 brilliant moves. On top of that, he did it with only 66 seconds of game time while his opponent used over an hour. And even on top of that, he finished and won the game handily while being down 10 points of material. I have no reason to believe that this isn’t the greatest chess game in all of history.
Levy never fails to clickbait us once again
PIN OF SHAMEE
That has to be humiliating for the losing player. Not only you lost, your opponent was basically playing blitz while giving you the luxury to think and completely mopped the floor with you. Incredible!
I mean, let's call this what it is. Theodorou isn't some genius that played this brilliant game in 2 minutes, he had completely calculated that game before it even started. Radjabov just failed to get out of the path that he had already calculated. It doesn't seem like Theodorou had to do any thinking on the day of, just remember the path. I could see this game as a good argument for why computers ruined chess.
Same, I am failing to appreciate this game because of that fact. Still, it's a great performance because it shows what you can achieve with good preparation.
I wouldn't downplay Theodorou's performance. The game shows that he did a amazing preparation for this line.
Similar to the Traxler Counterattack in the Two Knights Defense.
Crazy how he knew the refutation of the opening while his opponent had no idea
Unpopular opinion: It is really impressive... but not worth "legendary game" status as it's just a guy who memorized moves from the computer.. he didn't do the thinking himself 😮💨
Levy never fails to be held in hostage
INTERESTING. as Kramnik would say.
Levy never fails to never fail! ❤
You’re saying he always fails… switch the double negative 😅
@@squibbyslays DING DING DING! You caught my irony! 🤣
Got me flashing back to TLC vs every semi-pro team in South America, losing in kills pretty much every game but winning on objectives.
Levi never fails to never not never clickbait
6:00 That position isn't actually that bad, since Qe7 shuts down the attack. You can give a discovered check, but the king just retreats to g8 with the safety of his rook, and Qf7 is prevented by the black queen.
You can still do it, but all that's gonna happen is you'll trade queens, then lose a bishop and be down two pieces with a failed attack, at which point black can just start developing naturally. Unless I'm missing something, that position is a bit sharp, but manageable.
I got a 100% accuracy against the French. It was rhe variation where the beeshop discovers an attack on the queen with a check on B5 with the black quuen on d4. Funniest premove in history
I feel bad for the queen being attacked by a bee-shop :D