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@largewallofbeans9812

5 ай бұрын

Ok

@flox1078

5 ай бұрын

Ok

@SouthMexico

5 ай бұрын

pin of dhame

@mimiaumeow

5 ай бұрын

u sure promising 100% accuracy is legal?

@krishnapillaibaskaran8847

5 ай бұрын

Selfpin of acknowledgement of pin of shame by the pin of shamer himself

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.

@Valok

5 ай бұрын

it was almost bullet chess vs classical. missed by 6 seconds. that sounds kinda insane if you put it like that.

@birdybird222

5 ай бұрын

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

@thehexagon_yt

5 ай бұрын

@@Valok don't forget about extra time after each move, so not really

@TheBeelzboss

5 ай бұрын

@@birdybird222 That is a fair point.

@mapl3man237

5 ай бұрын

@@TheBeelzboss And thinking on his opponents time

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.

@chazopie238

5 ай бұрын

just look at the time, Theodorou is gaining time on every move when radjabov is clearly spending several minutes on every move

@whocares2277

5 ай бұрын

Prep that went all the way to a checkmate.

@Niko-ku2cr

5 ай бұрын

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

@GodleyBeast

5 ай бұрын

⁠this is not a typical occurance lol. Unless humans can routinely perform to this level, I disagree

@gm2407

5 ай бұрын

​@@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.

Man straight up memorised all of Stockfish's lines

@RaniaIsAwesome

5 ай бұрын

Exactly.

@theminecraftjester1738

2 ай бұрын

@@zaydmerhab6167???

@entertainingvideos1351

Ай бұрын

Anal beads.

@Stegosaurus_a_freak_of_nature

Ай бұрын

The time Radjabov spent making moves Theodorou spent calculating his next moves, that’s chess for u.

@almscurium

Ай бұрын

@@zaydmerhab6167Yep, that's why he said all

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. 😅

@NaN_000

4 ай бұрын

😅

@sirdresac8158

2 ай бұрын

Lol

@MoaiArmy._.

24 күн бұрын

Mrbeast

@anirudhsingh2228

17 күн бұрын

oohh

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.

@joykenn9772

5 ай бұрын

Modern Chess in a nutshell

@Goggarin1991

5 ай бұрын

Magnus does that quite often too, i think.

That's not very impressive. I once had a 100% accuracy game as well. It went 1. e4 and the opponent disconected

That position at 7:35 looks like 25 moves into a 600 elo game.

@honda_maniac

5 ай бұрын

😂

@N0Xa880iUL

5 ай бұрын

Fr

@ThePi314Man

5 ай бұрын

Elo, like time, is a flat circle.

@Benny_-pb5lb

5 ай бұрын

😂😂

@TheoP-qq6sv

5 ай бұрын

​@@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!

@XYZeNxghtmxre

5 ай бұрын

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

@GoldenKid24K

5 ай бұрын

Although that is true you do get to use the time your opponent is taking off their own clock to think aswell

@Fishy_17

5 ай бұрын

I’m surprised black ran out of prep. It’s a sharp line that every Petrov player should know.

@divagaciones1628

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Fishy_17

5 ай бұрын

@@divagaciones1628 Still doesn’t justify why I knew the line better than they did.

We All Love when Levy Doesn't Clickbait Us Edit:my bad yall im not good at making proper sentences

@videnvi

5 ай бұрын

Is that a song title?

@specter_376

5 ай бұрын

@@videnvi ?

@kelvinthetemp

5 ай бұрын

@@videnviit sounds like one, doesn’t it?

@AndrzejGieraltCreative

5 ай бұрын

I'm deeply intrigued by the thought process behind deciding which word to capitalize

@anunluckyguy7586

5 ай бұрын

you Capitalize Everything Except For Names Like "levy" or Words in Begginings Of Sentences ;)

Props to Theodorou for playing such an amazing game!! From a fellow Greek Cypriot🇨🇾🇬🇷

@Epidombe

5 ай бұрын

Thats two beautiful games by greeks in the past week. Good job to you guys 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

@fireice_

5 ай бұрын

eyy im greek cypriot too :)

@joelsmith9442

5 ай бұрын

Congrats to Theodorou for finally having an opponent fall into the line he found and memorized God knows how long ago.

@whysoserious286

5 ай бұрын

@@joelsmith9442someones mad

@tiletapper4ever

5 ай бұрын

​@@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 :)

Levy never fails to clickbait the audience by assuring no clickbait

@Siinc__

5 ай бұрын

Yeah but at least this time it isn't clickbait

@platinumprod.

5 ай бұрын

Bro hasn’t watched the video yet

@deweiter

5 ай бұрын

Pin Of Shame

@NoBatteriesLOL

5 ай бұрын

Gothamchess aka Levon Aronian, never fails to upload videos sometimes

@realwhoasked

5 ай бұрын

@@deweiterhe isn’t even pinned dude

Props to the kidnapper for letting Levy make a video while being held hostage in his bedroom

@RomaRybakov

Ай бұрын

Ahaha

1:27 People forget how good Levy really is.

@mohammedspondon7449

5 ай бұрын

Pin of love?

Kramnik is working on stats about the likelihood of such performance

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.

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.

@ThiefOfNavarre

5 ай бұрын

He gets time added per move but it's not far off. Still extremely impressive!

@sadiqabbaszade4789

5 ай бұрын

Well, he trained with stockfish so yeah, of course he has stockfish accuracy. Boring game.

@ThiefOfNavarre

5 ай бұрын

@@sadiqabbaszade4789 If you've ever been online you've trained with stockfish.

@roguebarbarian9133

5 ай бұрын

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.

Dude had the whole game memorized... And Radjabov fell right into the trap

Wow the fact he did it with 1hr 28mins left on the clock is unprecedented...amazing game!

@OdonChess

5 ай бұрын

yea

@Niko-ku2cr

5 ай бұрын

Terrible and unimpressive game when it comes to chess playing skills, memorisation?, sure but is that what chess is about? Fisher was right lol

@junkid3559

5 ай бұрын

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.

@pianissimo7121

5 ай бұрын

​@@Niko-ku2crisn't memorization part of chess skills? Pretty sure even Fischer memorized main lines.

@BobbieTheFish

5 ай бұрын

​@@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!

The quality of the commentary really does the work! Very focused and polish!

@user-ev1cu3lp5j

5 ай бұрын

its in english)

@sss-kj6fg

5 ай бұрын

ahahaha 💀💀💀

@Sherlock289

5 ай бұрын

He'S AmErIcAn

this is absolutely an all time classic game only sad part is no GM will ever be able to use this prep bomb again

5:35 you want my rook? Here, take a bishop too

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

@user-uj2mt6nv2g

5 ай бұрын

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

@TheReddaredevil223

4 ай бұрын

@@user-uj2mt6nv2g This comment is stupid on so many levels I don't even know where to begin...

@jigsaw5976

4 ай бұрын

It would be way more difficult and time consuming to prep for chess960. At least 10x difficult than prepping for normal classical chess.​@@user-uj2mt6nv2g

@LasCosasDeBrunin

2 ай бұрын

@@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.

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.

Levy never fails to act natural while being held hostage

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..

Interesting and unlikely performance! *Kramnik starts typing quickly in the shadows*

@kekkek1911

5 ай бұрын

This was obviously prep. This as nothing to do with cheating...

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.

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.

@roguebarbarian9133

5 ай бұрын

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.

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

Absolutely loved it Levi. So much more to learn from this type of content

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

This is a Van Der Loo tier constructed game played out in an actual chess tournament. Its incredible. Great job to Nikolas!

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...

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.

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.

@AliceYobby

5 ай бұрын

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

@alveolate

5 ай бұрын

spoken like a true kravnik

@TrueWodzu

5 ай бұрын

It is not the computer ELO that counts here, it is the depth of moves it analyses.

@rowanmales3430

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@TrueWodzu

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

Just wanted to say thanks for your videos, I'm recovering from a concussion and the game and your advice has helped tremendously.

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

@abyssmage6979

5 ай бұрын

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

@abominationdesolation8322

5 ай бұрын

See this is why I say people shouldn't criticize this as being prepared... the principles and components will translate across countless games.

@yuurai

5 ай бұрын

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.

@drakebilowski7557

5 ай бұрын

@@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

@coolboredom

3 ай бұрын

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

Crazy how he knew the refutation of the opening while his opponent had no idea

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

This is preparation being applied flawlessly.

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!

as accuracy i can confirm that i am indeed 100%

love that "Bishop takes h6" with silencer will try to make it meme

What a Brilliant performance and what a fantastic video, Levy! Very cool reviewing this games in depth, more of this! 👀 Bravo, Keep it up! Best

Here comes the 14th world champion about to say this guy cheated with "100% accuracy, interesting."

@Joe-og6br

5 ай бұрын

Beat me to it. 😂

@turnermarius4471

5 ай бұрын

How can you play 100% game and 4 perfect moves in 66 sec.? not even magnus can do it.

@kekkek1911

5 ай бұрын

​@@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

5 ай бұрын

​@@kekkek1911can you do it? I don't think so, that's why he is the GM

@kekkek1911

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

Levy was 100% accuracy with his analogies this video.

Glad to see levy not click baiting finally

Love the levy for leaving us in a realm of click bait

Earned my like and respect. Thank you for publishing such an instructive and entertaining content that doesn’t contain click bait. ❤️Levy.

Levy when he is honest: 0-0 Today's stare 9.8/10.7

5:36 - what I would do in a bullet game because it "looks kinda like a traxler"

This game was genuinely insane

Wait till Kramnik sees this..

So this is what would happen if a GM play against a modern computer

Congrats Levy, you didn't clickbait and it was a good video.

I always love when Gyatthom chess posts.

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.

@platinumprod.

5 ай бұрын

As Gotham I can confirm I was included in Gotham’s videos

@thomas11eleventm

5 ай бұрын

Why do people keep commenting this? Can anyone explain

@waz1y

5 ай бұрын

@@thomas11eleventmi guess someone started the trend in a video a few months ago and now its an epic meme in the gotham community

Levy never fails to fail to fail us eternally

Much love Levy, huge fan of the book!

I am really happy to see another gotham video that includes a greek person. Im from greece and chess isn’t so popular as in the rest of the world and I hope these videos encourage more greek people to chess

levy never fails to use numbers in his titles

This was a phenomenal game, I wonder what kramnik has to say about it 😂

This feels like a stafford gambit for GM

Don't let Kramnik find out about this.

@kayquealbuquerque7213

10 күн бұрын

For me its clear

Levy never fails to sell out

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.

Theodorou was on speedrun mode in this game😂😂

What a superb opening!! What a superb game!! I am glad you did a video on this one Levy!!

Levy never fails to advertise his chess courses even if he's held hostage

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.

Failbait never clicks Levy to us

Clickbait never fails to Levi us

@electricmcpro8814

5 ай бұрын

true

@stovepipefrog

5 ай бұрын

@@electricmcpro8814so true

I bet Kramnik thought this game was interesting

i had analyzed this position for my game prep since i always go d4 against petrov and saw till an early variation of repetition draw, never knew it was this poisonous.

Levy straight up teleported back to his hotel room in London. His kidnapper not done with him yet

Levy never fails to clickbait us

Levy always fills us up with traditional clickbait inside our endo skeletons

2:12 Latvia mentioned RAAAAAAAH‼‼‼

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.

Πάμε ρε Νικόλα! Γερά με πυγμή! 💪🏻

Levy never fails to clickbait us once again

@RemiDiaz-vm5ww

5 ай бұрын

PIN OF SHAMEE

"Interesting" - Vladmir Kramnik

bro's on his trip, but we can't have the video a day later, what a real one

Man i miss this guy. Back in January he was the most popular chess creator out there. Good luck Levy!

@im.rishabh_ofc

5 ай бұрын

I do too.

@P1OOD

5 ай бұрын

"Levi"

@dark_scavenger0154

5 ай бұрын

@@P1OODthat’s his name if i’m not wrong.

@im.rishabh_ofc

5 ай бұрын

@@dark_scavenger0154 levy rozman

@OBITO999YT

5 ай бұрын

@@dark_scavenger0154 its Levy lol

Levi never fails to never not never clickbait

This game felt like a reverse Traxler. Wild!

this is a top 10 game ever played. beating a perennial top 10 player with literal stockfish-level accuracy and 4 brilliant moves. also, he only used a minute of his time. absolutely incredible game.

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?.

Props to Theodorou for memorizing stockfish lines!

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.

@CBC_gamboa

5 ай бұрын

Clearly prep he's just remembering moves he studied

The time usage may be the most incredible part of this game honestly. That’s insane

Levy never fails to be held in hostage

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. 😊

He did THAT in one minute 😂

Great win, also must been prepared for this line. Probably knew all this game.

Levy never clickbait’s us to fail at chess with Magnus.

As a Greek I'm very proud!

Okay this is such an amazing opening. I really want to look into this more to maybe be able to play it.

It's an incredible performance and it goes to show how far a good preparation can get you. The best is if you can get your opponent into these razor sharp lines, like unforgiving territory, and while you know the path(-s) he is blind.