Chess Pro Answers More Questions From Twitter (ft. GothamChess) | Tech Support | WIRED
Levy Rozman returns to answer more of the internet’s burning questions about the game of chess. What does he make of the Carlsen vs. Neimann controversy? What’s the greatest chess move of all time? How are chess bots able to analyze an entire game? Levy answers all these questions and much more!
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Chess boxing doesn’t sound right to me. By that description, Mike Tyson could’ve learnt the first few moves of the English opening and then be 4000 elo no problem
I don't like resigning. Especially if there's not much time on the clock. To be fair, there have been times when I probably SHOULD have resigned because the level I was playing at and the position I'd ended up with… Yeah, I wasn't going to win or draw. If I DO resign, I tend to offer a handshake and say well played.
I like how every single chess video is
"Hello, I'm FIDE/National/International/Grandmaster, so, Hans Niemann-"
JUST GIVE HIM A BREAK OH MY GOD😭
Pardon me for saying it but you look very much like Daniel Radcliffe
intersting video im trying to get to 1000 and i have your book @Gothamchess
when i used stockfish it did a blunder
9:20 you may also have to do this with pawns. If you have doubled pawns pushed up to the opposing side and they push their pawn two spaces, you have the opportunity to either en passant or take normally with the pawn behind. Who am I kidding, en passant is forced.
Nah saying an eleven year old with ANY type of preparation would beat Capablanca is crazyyy 💀💀💀
Can a humam beat stockfish?
Ah come on, get a real chess player.
This guy is funny. I like him.
Most famous move in chess history? e4, probably.
levy must've been so excited to put author in his intro
You might need to specify which bishop you are moving if you promote a pawn to a bishop.
Actually Fischer just miscalculated getting that bishop to safety after capturing a pawn, it's not like he didn't see it getting trapped. He was just one move too late to evacuate it.
En passant!
Love Levy, but the notion that there's no correlation between intelligence and chess is almost certainly wrong. I mean, he's correct that a large amount of chess is pattern recognition, but even that is affected by intelligence because people with high IQs have better memories and are able to recognize patterns faster. Of course, IQ can't compensate for the time/study/effort one must put into the game, but people with high IQs have a big initial advantage when it comes to learning most anything, and that includes chess. "Not being able to make toast" (in his example) has nothing to do with intelligence, but experience. I'd wager a lot of chess grandmasters are autists who tend to hyper-focus on something at the expense of ignoring more practical matters, and that's also correlated with high intelligence.
“….And author” 😏
Non-professional guess (before watching): 1. e4
imagine Magnus Carlsen doesn't participate in world chess championship just to test Hans Niemann if he capable to be world champion and not actually lucky or cheating
Pretty sure these are some other chess updates.
You used to be able to promote to any piece. Well this didn't exclude a piece of the opposite color, and there are some puzzles where that actually wins you the game because the opponent cannot capture his own piece.
I also believe you used to have the option of not promoting. So if you pushed your pawn to the 8th rank, you could keep it a pawn. Again, there would be hyper specific use cases for this implementation of the rules, but similar to other underpromotion puzzles, there are definitelty instances where not promoting would win/draw the game.
Why isnt smothered mate a stalemate? There’s no legal moves for the king.
I have always wondered whether offering to shake hands might be offering a draw, not resigning. In fact, a cunning player who knows his position is lost might offer his hand, and if the opponent shakes then claim that he was proposing a draw and that the opponent has agreed the draw.
lets goo levy
Man this Levy guy sounds like he knows a lot about Chess. He can explain things pretty well too. He should write a book for people learning chess.
9:20 Google underpromotion to bishop
Dont invite fkin fascists over
Awesome advice. Your elo is not your ego.
Levy, first off love your videos!! But… how can you answer to “How is chess boxin a thing?” Without first giving props to WuTang Clan for originally coining the phrase. Not hating, but I think leaving out the cultural reference negates what may have inspired the actual occurs de as a “thing”….
If it were never named, would it have actually come to existence?
Btw did you see Lex Fridman’s chess game with RZA? What were your thoughts if so. Also I think that game and interview may have sparked Lex’s great interest in the game.
Thanks again for all the great content and education!
Levy never fails to promote the up-and-coming Youtuber WIRED
This truly is the thumbnail of all time
Interesting choice for the most famous move, I would’ve said Morphy’s checkmate at the end of the Opera Game, but now that I think about it there were most definitely way more eyes on that World Championship
Q: What do you consider to be the most famous chess move in history?
A: Well, there was this one time when a player sacrificed THE ROOOOOOOOOK!!!!!!
"My peak is 2430… and then i lost to a bunch of 9 year olds" i can see the pain behind that look
again!
levy never fails to be in a wired video
"What is your favourite piece?"
"THE ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK!!!"
That chess set looks amazing. where can I get one??
the comment section is like one of levy’s video-but it’s a wired video 💀
Where’s the pro?
there was a lot of theory behind the fischer capturing the poisoned pawn if you were to look deeper in analysis. it was a blunder of course but he calculated a sequence that could free the bishop if i could recall.
12:23 Why "allegedly"?
That’s not a chess pro.
6:53 Bro forgot Martin 💀
He didn't say best checkmate is en passant? :0
How good would Capablanca be with modern training tools? Same good as he was in the 1920s, because Capablanca was lazy and didn't train.
I'm going to teach this to my kids, thanks. I don't really play that much but need to chauffeur the students to tourneys.
Not a pro
There was a guy who told me to resign while i was playing a chess game online. Said something like I should be like the professionals. I told him I'm not a professional, and while I didn't win, I did stalemate him which is good enough for me lol
The Capablanca question is a bit unfair. You're kinda asking how good would Capablanca be at chess if he knew about his entire career, which, at this point, is a huge part of how modern players study openings and end games and "positional play". Sure, computers take a lot of the guesswork out of some of those positions, but Capablanca games are how young chess prodigies are taught to think about the game.