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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GothamChess
November 14, 2023 at 12:33 pm
Thanks for inviting me AGAIN Wired, lots of fun!
Venice Bishnoi
November 14, 2023 at 12:35 pm
hi gotham
Antonio Bălțatu
November 14, 2023 at 12:35 pm
you re welcome
Wayward Chess
November 14, 2023 at 12:36 pm
hello mr gotham
Xuân Duy Phan Trịnh
November 14, 2023 at 12:37 pm
Hi goffam
Claude Belizaire
November 14, 2023 at 12:37 pm
Goatham
Grant Thompson
November 18, 2023 at 1:43 am
levy is awesome!
L borate
November 19, 2023 at 10:34 am
Levy it’s called min max alogrithm.
Enzo CARLO-LIU
November 20, 2023 at 8:36 am
First time I see him comment
Drew camm
November 20, 2023 at 3:27 pm
Hey we all know u intended that pun
Rongma Marak
November 21, 2023 at 4:28 am
The rooooook
UpdateFreak
November 16, 2023 at 11:18 am
“Chess notation is actually quite easy”
“The Knight is N, not K”
A k
November 16, 2023 at 11:24 am
i think the most famous move is pawn e2 -> e4
David Marks
November 16, 2023 at 11:50 am
But GORDON RAMSEY says you’re a food blogger.
Savior Unkind
November 16, 2023 at 12:46 pm
Byrne vs Fischer 1956.
17…Be6
Shannon Jones
November 16, 2023 at 12:46 pm
Levy forgot to mention that the games at the park are where so much trash talking happens!
Also, i know Levy keeps saying that there’s no correlation between chess and intelligence but it’s so hard to not have chess make me feel like an idiot most of the time.
Harry Crab
November 16, 2023 at 12:48 pm
en passant was actually created at the time when pawn could move twice. to speed up the game
Lohengrim Dominguez
November 16, 2023 at 1:14 pm
Why is a food blogger talking about chess?
Shadowmancy91
November 16, 2023 at 2:22 pm
For the “most famous move”, I also thought of FIscher, but his queen sacrifice is what came to mind.
Rules changes- shatranj is a really neat version of chess with some very detailed strategic differences. Modern chess is this game with a few updates, such as having a Queen who can travel the board instead of an Advisor (because no king could ever have more than one queen).
Cathsaigh
November 16, 2023 at 2:39 pm
You can’t talk in high level official games. I’ve seen enough chess hustler videos to know that yeah you can trash talk during chess.
Cathsaigh
November 16, 2023 at 2:40 pm
En passant mates are more satisfying than smothered mates.
Teodor Dragan
November 16, 2023 at 3:06 pm
Totally agree with the smothered mate point. I just love it (still waiting for a game where I can do it😢 )
Kataang101
November 16, 2023 at 3:28 pm
Chess boxing is actually fun to watch
arno schallenbergh
November 16, 2023 at 3:39 pm
most satisfying mate i the EN PASSANT CHEKMATE obviously.
Emeraldnickel
November 16, 2023 at 4:11 pm
WIRED never fails to pay Levy’s household expenses.
David S
November 16, 2023 at 4:23 pm
its not twitter anymore
SausageMcMuffin
November 16, 2023 at 4:25 pm
I’m in utter shock Levy didn’t use the bongcloud to explain chess notation.
yannick
November 16, 2023 at 4:52 pm
they be inviting anybody
Mathemagical55
November 16, 2023 at 5:51 pm
Bxh2 wasn’t a good move but it wasn’t a one-move oversight!
alefbepete unknown
November 16, 2023 at 5:56 pm
1:03 en passant checkmate left the chat
Paul Timson
November 16, 2023 at 6:05 pm
Nigel Short , not my favourite player? played a game in which he moved his king through the field to get a checkmate. That was insane. Who would even consider it.
Jimmy Hawks
November 16, 2023 at 6:23 pm
This Levi guy seems awfully polite, I wonder what he’s like on his own channel
ralf dsouza
November 16, 2023 at 6:56 pm
The ultra rare rock mate.
Jakob Egger
November 16, 2023 at 6:57 pm
Misleading title. Where is the chess pro?
v01dv01d
November 16, 2023 at 8:25 pm
Title need a clarification : Levy was never a pro, and not anymore a competitor.
“Chess streamer” is what fits best here.
Christoph Friedle
November 16, 2023 at 8:42 pm
then I got defeated by a bunch of 9 year olds haha
Gyan Marco Role
November 16, 2023 at 10:09 pm
If he is very sad, can he make fish tacos?
Abu Fella Fans
November 16, 2023 at 10:25 pm
Discover Islam ❤
Бэbl
November 16, 2023 at 10:34 pm
🥚
Peter Winters
November 16, 2023 at 10:43 pm
I plan to learn how to make toast one day
Octeract [SG]
November 16, 2023 at 10:58 pm
Stockfish has lost to humans. Jonathan Schrantz has a few videos of him beating Stockfish with wild attacking openings. It takes a lot of preparation and even some luck, but it’s precisely because of the reason Levy stated—bots can only see so far ahead. Their vision is usually perfect within their calculation depth, but bots have no knowledge or understanding to make decisions that look beyond that. Even though we sometimes joke about chess bots being stupid or smart, they actually have no real intelligence at all—not Stockfish, not Leela, not Torch, not even GPT 4.
Peter Ingraham
November 17, 2023 at 12:58 am
Don’t know Schrantz, but that almost surely wasn’t Stockfish on its max, brutal, win the tournament settings. Super-GMs back in 2005-2010 were getting their clock cleaned by Rybka consistently, and modern Stockfish annihilates the best AIs of 2010 even on equivalent hardware to the era (e.g. a cellphone or the like). Google seems to indicate Schrantz isn’t even titled, so… yeah, something fishy is going on here.
Dnoobd
November 16, 2023 at 11:13 pm
i watched the previous one and thought that this guy was chill. little did i know
SoSage369
November 17, 2023 at 12:08 am
Levi’s comment on smothered mate being the most satisfying checkmate is straight up false. It’s hitting the forced en passant checkmate
Abirvaab chatterjee
November 17, 2023 at 12:37 am
Wait I thought Knight was K?
Nishyanth Kumar
November 17, 2023 at 11:18 am
no, K represents the king
FreeSoftware
November 17, 2023 at 1:05 am
00:22 In the thumbnail, this looks like a freakin’ camouflage shirt – five-star general Rozman giving some chess lectures. Only fruit salad is missing _ha.. ha.._
mrnnhnz
November 17, 2023 at 1:39 am
I feel you could’ve been a lot clearer about en passant. The main thing you didn’t say was that that take move, if you choose to perform it, MUST be the very next thing that you do after the pawn-up-two move.
Nishyanth Kumar
November 17, 2023 at 11:17 am
wdym? you have to take anyways, it’s forced
mrnnhnz
November 17, 2023 at 1:32 pm
@Nishyanth Kumar nope. You can choose not to take the pawn. But you give up the right to take it en passant if you don’t take it straight away.
Spase Geek
November 17, 2023 at 1:59 am
He isn’t considered a pro.
Mini Mino
November 17, 2023 at 5:50 am
I believe the most satisfying mate is using a bunch of horse like what hikaru did or a bunch or bishop or a bunch of rooks
Tom S
November 17, 2023 at 6:04 am
En passant is a pawn taking an attack of opportunity
Nishyanth Kumar
November 17, 2023 at 11:15 am
new response just dropped
I am not Bob Dylan
November 17, 2023 at 6:53 am
Hans Niemann catching strays again 🤣🤣🤣
Fik Booze
November 17, 2023 at 7:08 am
Hans Niemann play weird way
Dirkus17
November 17, 2023 at 8:36 am
1. e4 probably. Everybody knows this one.
Tempo
November 17, 2023 at 9:09 am
I can hear the thumbnail 😂
NeZCheese
November 17, 2023 at 12:39 pm
Google en passant
GenZGondorian
November 17, 2023 at 12:49 pm
Why does it say “Chess pro” when I know for a fact this is a food blogger
Sampath N
November 17, 2023 at 12:55 pm
chess pro????// hahahahaha
SIGMA
November 17, 2023 at 2:21 pm
Wired is a Jumble Word for WEIRD 😂
Andrew
November 17, 2023 at 4:26 pm
But what is a good chess book? 😉
martosss
November 17, 2023 at 8:18 pm
wait … if you promote a pawn to a bishop, you might still have to use the special notation since you’d get a second piece… same goes for queens? In fact, you might have 2 queens on the same file and 2 queens on the same rank as the queen you’re intending to move… notation is so easy!
greenmtnman
November 17, 2023 at 8:29 pm
Two of my favorites, combined. This was fantastic
valorant acc
November 17, 2023 at 9:13 pm
kasparov karpov the goat
Redstoner
November 17, 2023 at 9:58 pm
bishop knight checkmate is so satisfying
Critiquespert
November 17, 2023 at 10:16 pm
This guy knows what he’s talking about. He should be a chess player
Canonical Critic
November 17, 2023 at 11:09 pm
Why is YT pushing him so hard as an expert. He isn’t even a GM. He’s like a rent-a-chess player. Agamador is way better because he doesn’t clickbait like levy just for fake hype.
Luke Tolbert
November 17, 2023 at 11:28 pm
Most satisfying mate is en passant checkmate followed by bong cloud checkmate, long castle checkmate, short castle checkmate, and as Anna suggested, checkmate with pawn aka Uber pawnage.
BdgJarvo
November 18, 2023 at 2:29 am
Remember dewa kipas, your biggest rival?
J K
November 18, 2023 at 2:33 am
I hate this guy so much im going to unrecommend wired. Hasnt been a good outlet in about 20 years anyway. Bye
Pranav K
November 18, 2023 at 3:54 am
Rozman is the best
Yui
November 18, 2023 at 4:38 am
I tried en passant in front of my 1500 elo friend and he laughed it off since we’re just having fun
mmm
November 18, 2023 at 4:53 am
1:01 bro forgot about the en passant mate
Shemaiah Gaza
November 18, 2023 at 5:58 am
Best Chess Streamer!
Dave Cradle
November 18, 2023 at 7:25 am
One tiny, teeny edge-case correction. Regarding notation “you only need to do this for knights or rooks as bishops can’t be on the same colour…” …unless you promote a pawn to a bishop of the same colour. 🙂
De
November 18, 2023 at 10:04 am
1 minute in and we are throwing shade at hans!!!
This is gonna be a good one
Alexander Devell
November 18, 2023 at 10:46 am
Hello
Bound
November 18, 2023 at 12:48 pm
Wow! Great job on the WIRED graphics team on making him look so realistic! GothamChess almost looks like a real person in this video!
Kemal
November 18, 2023 at 6:40 pm
Lmao people asking levy what he’s thinking about Magnus/Hans drama on twitter. I mean really? He milked that drama way more than anyone else in the world, he has like 59 videos on it.
-WoF- DarkNewton
November 18, 2023 at 7:59 pm
9:24 – I will promote to a bishop just to spite you.
JeskidoYT
November 18, 2023 at 9:42 pm
14:55 its like quitting a casual match on multiplayer game
GoldenHorncall
November 18, 2023 at 10:48 pm
“And then I lost to a bunch of nine year olds” real
meanraax
November 18, 2023 at 11:57 pm
imagine you can ask IM about something with chess and you ask about something so ridiculously simple easy and trivial as chess notation.. just wtf
Gwilo Viou
November 19, 2023 at 12:26 am
Why is YT treating him like such an authority? Not even a general manager, he is. He is akin to a chess player for hire. Because he doesn’t employ clickbait as Levy does for phony hype, Agamador is far superior.
TAB
November 19, 2023 at 12:20 am
1:06 wrong. En passant checkmate >>>>>
Gwilo Viou
November 19, 2023 at 12:24 am
I appreciate you being such a fantastic representative of the game, Levy!
Sohanur Rahaman
November 19, 2023 at 12:59 pm
isn’t caro kann your favorite opening
Sohanur Rahaman
November 19, 2023 at 1:03 pm
7:35 bro is talking about stockfish vs torch game
It's Me, Asparageese
November 20, 2023 at 12:22 am
We all know the most famous chess move is sacrificing THE ROOOOOOK
KeraTuan
November 20, 2023 at 2:09 pm
1:08 bro the most satisfying chackmate by a landslide is bishop+knight+king endgame checkmate. I think two knights and a king against a king and pawn is probably even better but it never happens so my point stands.
gaylord
November 20, 2023 at 3:44 pm
that’s not a chess expert that’s levy
TENTACLE father
November 20, 2023 at 4:01 pm
Thats my dad
Dennis Morales
November 20, 2023 at 4:34 pm
Dropping a comment just for Algorithms we ❤ Gotham
Gusarapii
November 20, 2023 at 4:59 pm
“then i lost to a bunch of 9 year olds 😭”
S1rtenL1aPlatypus
November 20, 2023 at 11:07 pm
Everyone knows the best checkmate is en passant mate, reasons 1: it’s funny. reason 2: its very rare. reason 3: if you’re opponent says you’re cheating you can simply tell them to google en passant.
JediJess1
November 21, 2023 at 4:58 am
Allow me to offer another satisfying mate; same as Anna’s setup, but with En passant
Logically Aqua
November 21, 2023 at 5:43 am
5:32
Pronte
November 21, 2023 at 8:51 am
ok but how does the knight move?
Del Aa'se
November 21, 2023 at 9:33 am
09:20 The information here is, lets say, incomplete; which is understandable as its virtually impossible to complete chess. Not in a lifetime and certainly not in 15 odd minutes..
Thought I might add that pawn captures do require that you indicate the origin file (exf6 = pawn e takes on f6). And pawn promotion to a bishop that results in two bishops of the same color for a player, or to a queen to yield more than one queen for a player, does result in similar “complications” like for the Knights and Rooks.
Gil Vasquez
November 21, 2023 at 11:08 am
I challenge whoever says that Levy is not a professional to a game of chess. They don’t give IM titles to anyone.
USMC13
November 21, 2023 at 6:33 pm
“Chess matches with trash talk!” Sounds like a skit on Chappelle’s Show 😂
J
November 21, 2023 at 9:46 pm
“there is no correlation between chess and intelligence…. except in my case”
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO that’s a good one ngl
rotcehb
November 22, 2023 at 1:36 am
This comment may be trigger people but chess reminds me of Dark Souls.
The only way to learn is by constantly dying and retry. You have to do many choices in the moment and you have to marry your choices because once you start an action, you cannot do anything until the animation is off (in other words: if you choose to drink a potion you cannot do anything until the animation ends, the same if you dodge or make an attack).
In the 1st game you cannot just blindly attack, you need to unserstand when yo do something
OJMay
November 22, 2023 at 3:41 am
“The average really good chess player probably doesn’t know how to make toast”
Dalton Giddings
November 22, 2023 at 11:43 am
Levy forgot that he was also a food blogger
Anon Akkor
November 22, 2023 at 12:27 pm
niceeeeee hahahahaaaaaaa…… 9:25 niceeeee hahahaaaaaa
Fens Jeios
November 22, 2023 at 10:47 pm
That’s levy, not a chess expert.
Uno - The Official Card Game
November 22, 2023 at 3:16 pm
Aww, he got to say and author. Adorable
Fens Jeios
November 22, 2023 at 10:46 pm
I appreciate you being such a fantastic representative of the game, Levy!
Camila Nabuco Barbosa
November 23, 2023 at 5:23 pm
Levy is awsome!
Paweł Kęcerski
November 23, 2023 at 6:04 pm
Nah, the most satisfying mate is 0-0#
ninjaman
November 23, 2023 at 6:34 pm
13:43 what about the gold coin game, marshals queen sacrifice, i thought that’s what he was gonna say