The BEST Beginner Chess Opening
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0:00 Intro
1:20 The Moves
9:52 Game 1
16:15 Game 2
Moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 (3… Bc5 4. d4 exd4 5. cxd4 Bb4+ 6. Nc3) (3… d5 4. Qa4 dxe4 (4… Bd7 5. exd5 Nd4 6. Qd1 Nxf3+ 7. Qxf3) (4… f6 5. Bb5 Ne7 6. exd5 Qxd5 7. d4) 5. Nxe5 Bd7 6. Nxd7 Qxd7 7. Qxe4+) 4. d4 exd4 (4… Nxe4 5. d5 Ne7 6. Nxe5 d6 7. Bb5+ c6 8. dxc6 bxc6 (8… Qb6 9. cxb7+ Kd8 10. Nxf7+ Kc7 11. bxa8=N+) 9. Nxc6 Nxc6 10. Bxc6+ Bd7 11. Bxe4) 5. e5 Nd5 (5… Qe7 6. cxd4 d6 7. Bb5) 6. Qb3 Nb6 7. cxd4
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Why did black d6? Nxd5 seems more, like, what an angry low level player would do
Levy and his love for changing titles 😂❤
I've been using this modified Ponziani style (this isn't the actual Ponziani btw) since early 2022
Pin of shame is stupid.
Dang this is very helpful
what about when you are black
7:11 en passent baby
gothamchess i don’t know if you understand how badly i love you and your content. everything from the topics to your delivery is perfect. your chess videos have not only gotten me better at chess but thanks to you my bond with my father is now closer. every night we spend hours playing chess and after every loss i come to watch your videos
Congrats!!!
"I'm allergic to how bad black's position is" ha ha!! What a legend.
Hello Levy, you probably wont read this but i wanted to thank you for making me improve at chess so much these past few months. I had a tournament today and if it wasn’t for you i wouldn’t have gotten 1st place on my team. Thank you.
I like watching gotham stomp 1200s bc it actually rly educational.
Congrats bro! I voted for you because you asked nicely in one of your videos this week. You deserve it.
I lost 150 elo today was 1550 now 1400 chess is hard
Congrats on best chess streamer at the streamer awards! I honestly knew u would get it.
What a coincidence I was about to ask Levy to make a video on the Ponziani, this man is also reading minds
bro someone played b6 vs me now i get nothing
" Get rid of the Italian, Spainish, Play this".
Levy reading my mind O.o
Bro did you just update chess!?
Did this and on move 3 had to improvise ended up trapping his queen and winning every other peice except dark squared bishop and a few pawns.
Amazing video Levy
lemme guess…it's the Grünfeld Defence
Wow I tried this a few times and lost 50 points. Changed my life, thank you
I think Levy focuses a bit much on openings. I'm 1950 ELO, and I usually have no idea what he's talking about in terms of opening lines, as I just play based on the principles:
1. Fight for control of the center (usually with pawns)
2. Get your knights and bishops out, move them once only each
3. Castle
4. If you see a hanging pawn, do a quick check for queen forks before taking it
5. Don't let your opponent play the fried liver…that's the one trap you need to know, as it's so popular. This is the one exception to needing to know a line.
Hey, can I play a chess match against you? I'm only around 400 elo but I wanna play against a grandmaster in chess to get better and eventually beat Magnus Carlson
Me resisting the urge to en passant at 7:13 😭
holy shit! Gotham actually has an accurate title???!!!! Good job!
Levy should do a series where he takes a bunch of edibles and takes on his subs. Guaranteed we can knock him down a good 800 elo with some high thc gummies.
Don't play this beginners it's bad play the ruy lopez
Bro why dint he take pawn with bishop on h7 and then night check fork queen
After a couple beers I reckon
I could have Levi at chess
Man, switching to blitz instead of rapid is unfortunate.
After this i‘m hopefully able to beat my dog at chess 😢
at 920 you don't get a queen back, queen takes pawn??
Levy, watching your content is like sacrificing the queen: you hate to do it, but who knows, you might get something out of it.
Have you considered wearing a bag over your head to make the videos easier to watch?
In this position, he sacrificed HIS DEVELOPMENNNT
I only know king's pawn then both knights out opening, this is new to me I will give it a try for sure
I've been using ponziani unintentionally for ages lol
how can i send my game to you
I picked up playing the ponziani as my main opening for white and am just under 1300 on lichess after about 2000 games. I learned about it originally from Eric Rosen about a year to a year and a half ago. (I know I'm trash)
The Ponziani Scheme
Has levy made a video on symmetrical positions? I got bodied by multiple copycats today
Bro, I played that so many times, stoned.
I don't get anything about openings except bongcloud so I'm using forever I guess
taking a rook with a pawn while promoting to a knight and forking king and queen will just get you banned for cheating sub 1200
What's a grandmaster's favorite scam?
A Pawnzi scheme
I just learned the Vienna. Is it useful for me (800) to learn/practice this?
I destroyed someone with this opening and they raged at me lol
7:18 no you have to en passant