"We all love clicking game review and letting it show us how brilliant we are" "243 blunders"

@bingobeego

4 ай бұрын

WHAT AND HOW

@Oranookies

4 ай бұрын

"In the 10 move"

@scappley1735

2 ай бұрын

it's more impressive to win with 243 blunders than 2 brilliant moves

@dj_koen1265

2 ай бұрын

@@scappley1735 it takes 2 to blunder to win a lost game

@fernovo4303

2 ай бұрын

@@dj_koen1265 ive gotten 11 blunders and won💀

21:32 the reason the pawn marching forward is a brilliant move is because it inspires a whole KZread video

@sirakses

8 ай бұрын

😂

@murademinli3001

8 ай бұрын

İ think it is because it gives a knight an escape route

@NeroGrimmlock

8 ай бұрын

@@murademinli3001 That's what I was thinking. It covers Nc2. That's all I got though.

@Slav4o911

7 ай бұрын

It's because this pawn is getting close to become a queen. Also by sacrificing the rook queen gets in a very good position to destroy the white, by controlling the best diagonal and on the other end of the diagonal are all white pieces there for the taking.

@NeroGrimmlock

7 ай бұрын

@@Slav4o911 Just because it's on the 3rd rank, it's not much of a queen threat. I don't think that's it at all.

This is heartbreaking. At 1278 ELO I only last week reached the peak of my chess career receiving my first Brilliant move. Now Sensei says my brilliant move means nothing 😭😭😭

@joaquinquintos6542

11 ай бұрын

I reached mine at 500 I was so proud and now it means nothing 😢

@Takashi.....

11 ай бұрын

he isn't saying that brilliant moves meant nothing

@JajaofAbuja

11 ай бұрын

@@Takashi..... Lol. You had to explain.

@Takashi.....

11 ай бұрын

@@JajaofAbuja bruh he isn't saying brilliant move are not brilliant he is just saying that some brilliant move does nothing

@Takashi.....

11 ай бұрын

@@JajaofAbuja also every brilliant move does something good for future or in present as you can see at the bishop brilliant move is does benefit to white

It is definitely elo based. I had two brilliant moves in a row, but when I checked the game again after going up around 200 elo, suddenly only one of them was brilliant.

@thyblackpanther

10 ай бұрын

It is prob elo based but every time that u run a game review,even of the same game the results can change slightly

@bigfootsburneraccount9160

7 ай бұрын

​@@thyblackpanthertrue it once said I made zero blunders in a game but later changed to one

@asinineintentions7773

7 ай бұрын

@@bigfootsburneraccount9160 yeah i frequently finish games and it's like "SIX BLUNDERS" and then i open review and it's like "0 blunders 4 mistakes :)"

@whatdoinamethischannel9749

6 ай бұрын

The higher the rating the harder brilliant moves are to attain

@Thatonegamer182

3 ай бұрын

Im only 400 and never got any but I got a lot of great moves

Levy a few days ago: “I solved chess” Levy today: “chess is fascinating and endless”

@sachinsomasundaram7093

10 ай бұрын

Then you never solve chess to the fullest.

@Kitsune_Chess1

8 ай бұрын

Lmao

@matveyfuks

8 ай бұрын

Loop

@Alex-hb7im

6 ай бұрын

yea it's called click baite

I remember when I told my 200 elo friend about game review and first time he used game review his opponent made 3 brilliant moves and those "brilliant" moves were taking 3 pawns with a queen. Edit: so a lot of people think that when he took the pawns with a queen there was a piece hanging and I didn't see it, but no literally nothing was hanging he took 3 FREE pawns

@Thetravelingmonke

11 ай бұрын

One brilliant move i had was moving a pawn, it did literally nothing didnt attack or open anything up it just gave a brilliant for free

@KingJinzo2125

11 ай бұрын

I had a brilliant move once that was nothing but developing my knight from its starting position

@paper2979

11 ай бұрын

@@Thetravelingmonke welcome to the chess engine, it’s bad

@P7RO1

11 ай бұрын

I had a brilliant move where I castled long.

@xsemisx

11 ай бұрын

Could you do better?

I think pawn to d3 is a brilliant move because it gives an escape square for the knight which was otherwise trapped in the corner

@borysthecuber7339

10 ай бұрын

Great move

@rock21611

9 ай бұрын

It also gives the bishop a view of the knights current position.

@afailureiwanttobefamousy-sn1vl

7 ай бұрын

I also see checkmate im pretty sure

@afailureiwanttobefamousy-sn1vl

7 ай бұрын

On this part 2:28

@darknessdragon270

7 ай бұрын

Still, you're blundering a rook

You don’t need to be at a disadvantage to get a brilliant move, it just needs to be a forcing and creative sacrifice. Great moves, however, occur when any other move is bad, so some are easy to find and others difficult. I would say that a third of the brilliant moves are also great moves

@shaunthedcoaddict1656

10 ай бұрын

Sacrificing queen = great move 💀

@MistaMyers

10 ай бұрын

@@shaunthedcoaddict1656 Sacrificing rook for checkmate in 1 = Good ☠

@Augcabi

10 ай бұрын

​@@shaunthedcoaddict1656are you sayong its a great move or the dark blue single ! (best award u can geet imo)

@Memeened

8 ай бұрын

Knight sacrifice threatening fork= good SKULLEMOJIIII

Had a brilliant move yesterday. Thanks Levi, can always count on you to break my heart.

@Eric_Reborn

11 ай бұрын

If he didn't tell you the truth he'd be doing you a disservice leading you into more and more confusion

@marcoapetre1495

11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😆😆

@BagelsGamingOnline

11 ай бұрын

It's the least he can do when you can't even spell his name right...

@Dummigame

11 ай бұрын

Levi 💀

@christhegreat5966

11 ай бұрын

Levi 🤡

The weirdest thing though is that a few years back, a brillant move actually was a move that wasn't even seen by Stockfish at first. Only after a few second of looking at the position and realizing that "your move" was better than "Stockfish's top choice" it was deemed brillant. Those were some of the best times because it actually meant you played a really really good move and it felt absolutely awesome to get one. Nowadays you just leave your pieces hanging and all of the sudden you are a genius. Kinda sad

@Zulk_RS

11 ай бұрын

How is it even possible to make a move that is better than Stockfish's top choice? Is it something like a depth thing? Or is it more like the "Stockfish best move" is a very computer move that is only the best if you play like Stockfish but is otherwise bad in a game between two humans?

@chesscrush

11 ай бұрын

@@Zulk_RS it's a move that stockfish misevaluates and only with time it realizes that's it's really really good. Didn't happen very often but when it did it felt amazing

@Catman_321

11 ай бұрын

How does that work though? Doesn't stockfish determine the quality of a move in the first place? Or do they use a different engine/higher depth to see what happens

@supC_

11 ай бұрын

They should bring this back. Made way more sense than the current system.

@brendancobb9414

11 ай бұрын

Stock fish is set to a cheers in depth. So if it calculates 18 moves down the line and says A is the best move, but you play B, now 18 moves down the line is 1 more move than before. So if the evaluation changes with that extra bit of depth, the move is deemed brilliant.

Dude. I gotta say, where were these 300-500 elo when I was climbing... No one is nearly this lost when I was playing

@Nightly_Night

24 күн бұрын

Nowadays 1000s literally get estimates of 1600 on game review. I think the ratings r doing the opposite of inflating and now the lower ratings r way stronger

@turujeeanimation445

3 күн бұрын

why this so relatable

I'm old school and view the "brilliant" exclam (and especially double exclam) as requiring much more than an immediate tactical combo. It has to be something unbelievable, incredibly difficult to spot during a real game, and "surprisingly" effective. Something like Kasparov's Rxd4 in his immortal game is what's required.

@64chess

11 ай бұрын

I think there should be one additional level of !!! and ???. A move like Kasparov’s should be “legendary” and quite literally be nearly impossible to achieve for a human. ??? should be any incredibly obvious blunder that throws away an otherwise completely winning game into a now easily lost one.

@igorswies5913

10 ай бұрын

that's what brilliant moves were before an update

@mateussilva635

8 ай бұрын

@@64chess Instead of inflating even more categories those legendary moves you mentioned should be brilliant instead. Like a 0.0001 percent stuff.

@JC-ox8yl

8 ай бұрын

At the end of the day it's an algorithm it will never be fully accurate and precise. For example I sacrificed a bishop in the hopes my opponent would take with the queen and not the king which made sense due to not castling yet, allowing me to get a fork on the king and queen. The computer regarded my bishop sacrifice as an inaccuracy. You see.

@igorswies5913

8 ай бұрын

@@JC-ox8yl trading a bishop for revoking your opponent's castling rights isn't always a good deal, I'd say it rarely is

I think 21:32 is brilliant because the pawn makes a safe square (c2) for the knight to escape (while losing the rook)

@sidroblox398

11 ай бұрын

but isnt saving the rook better than saving the knight tho..

@ae-co5ue

11 ай бұрын

​@@sidroblox398 stockfish probably thinks that a knight next to the opponents king is more valuable than a rook doing nothing

@GDTheRedTiger

11 ай бұрын

its only brilliant cuz its one of the top (i think 3) moves and it sacrifices material

@sierpinskibrot

11 ай бұрын

@@sidroblox398 if bishop takes rook you lose 5pts of material but take back 3 (-2 overall), if you let the knight ve taken you lose 3 points overall

@kalestra4198

11 ай бұрын

@@sidroblox398 but you are not only saving the knight, you are also capturing the bishop (if we assume black knight would be captured it’s -2 material while saving black knight is +1 material advantage)

I think the reason d3 at 21:12 is a brilliant move is because it helps the trapped knight on a1 escape.

@alejandroviciedo8817

11 ай бұрын

agree

@poopoo69000

11 ай бұрын

That’s what I’m thinking

@stEv3900

11 ай бұрын

Also note that the knight is close to the king and more useful than the hanging rook. The rook is not contributing enough to black's advantage and therefore it's better to lose it. A 1234 elo can guess this.

@SCoraccioIV

11 ай бұрын

I think it's white takes rook, queen g5, bishop e3? to stop the mate(?), queen takes bishop on e3, knight e2 to hope the queen walks into the trap, queen takes knight, king cant take or move, mate. Or something, the line seems like the only thing that makes sense.

@Blinkers2007GameDev

11 ай бұрын

@@stEv3900 yeah but it shouldn't be that brilliant because you could probably save the rook and still save the knight level. It wasn't worth being brilliant

I believe that, considering it's a game between 300s, move d3 (21:12) is considered a brilliant move because of the fact that there are ways that the player with the black pieces can still checkmate the opponent by not taking the bishop on a8. The move sequence would (possibly) be like this: Bf2 d3 Bxa8 Bc3 Nxc3 bxc3 Rh4 Nc2 Kc1 Qg5+ Kb1 Na3+ Ka1 Qc1# Alternative: ... Ka1 c2 Bd4 Qc1# But, only if something like that happens. Of course, there's probably another sequence of moves available that would lead to a checkmate, but that's for the 300s to try and find which will never happen :D

It's been my experience that the easiest way to get a brilliant move evaluation is to sacrifice a piece offensively to crack open the king's position.

My friend and I were once playing a game of chess and when we checked the review it said that me castling was a brilliancy, so now any time one of us castles we yell "brilliant move!"

@paleposter

11 ай бұрын

as you should

@Redskies453

11 ай бұрын

THE ROOOOOOK jumps the king and he moves two which is cool and now I'm safe badabing badaboom

@tylerdurden-ch8ip

11 ай бұрын

as the chess god intended

@Mysza404

11 ай бұрын

I remember I once got a brilliancy from castling, because I wanted to prevent a pawn from becoming a queen. I found the match recently and now it's only an excellent move.

@ninemars5124

11 ай бұрын

My first ever brilliant move was castling as well. I just played it because I didn’t know what else to do lmaooo

When you see the elefant gambit, you know it’s either played by a 500, or it’s just Hikaru disrespecting his opponent

"Suddenly you're barely better, but then your opponent blunders all their pieces and they lose anyway" - Levi 2023

21:12 I can’t explain the brilliant move rating, but I can say it does 2 things: 1) protects the active knight and gives it a space to escape from the corner. 2) It is a passed pawn that would limit the mobility of the king. Ironically, in an analysis, the recommended move for white is Bishop g3. I really can’t explain it.

Not only is the algorithm for brilliant moves connected to the ELO of the player, the estimated ELO at the end of the game is as well. For example, take the game Magnus played a couple weeks ago that estimated he played at a 3400-level. If you copy the PGN and remove the ELO for both players from it and run it through the Game Review again, it will say he played at a 2500-level.

@ahmedsalah-vt1mt

11 ай бұрын

Yes the Estimated elo is connected to players elo but *no* brilliant moves are not I tried playing games (that other higher and lower players had brilliant move in) move by move from 0 and it still gave me the same result

@GrandIens

11 ай бұрын

I LOVE YOU!!! FINALKY SOMEONE WH UNDERSTANDS I'M TIRED OF SEEING NOOBS FLEXING THEIR BRILLIANT MOVES THAT ARE JUST DISCOVER ATTACKS AND THEN SAYING “OH LOOK STOCKFISH THINKS IM -- ELO OMG”

@firstlast8858

11 ай бұрын

If the estimated elo is tied to your existing elo... Doesn't that kind of defeat the point?

@GrandIens

11 ай бұрын

@@firstlast8858 Exactly

@GrandIens

11 ай бұрын

@@ahmedsalah-vt1mt from what elo?

Levy never fails to make us unexist. Edit: how did i get 1.7k likes lol

@user-re7ep5jb6u

11 ай бұрын

Pin of shame before it's even pinned?

@Drogon7102

11 ай бұрын

​@@user-re7ep5jb6uno

@notspookee8548

11 ай бұрын

Pin of unexisting

@Anonymous-dh2ze

11 ай бұрын

Pin of disappointment

@JustSomeUserHereOnYt

11 ай бұрын

Pin of shame?

22:32 I think the reason d3 is awarded "brilliant move" is because it allows the black knight to escape from the corner (by moving to c2 on the next move)

I got a pawn protected by a horse forking two Queens then got mated

One time I played Queen to G3 and got a brilliant, and for some reason people began throwing gold coins on my board. Weird stuff.

@dupiglupi2355

11 ай бұрын

Hey i think someone stole your story im not sure who tho

@luckysnakerivals3220

Ай бұрын

master beiber????? are you the guy named freddie??? :0

8:04 BISHOP B2222222......😂😂😂 man I can't 😂😂

8:03, The thing about this move is that it's brilliant if you actually had the right plan, the ai wasn't actually trying to sack the rook but rather wanted to sacrifice the bishop for the knight and after that you can simply move the queen before using the rook to threaten both bishops, even if black knew your plan after sacrificing the bishop and moving the queen it still puts you in a very good position since you now control the center.

I once got three brilliant moves in a game , two of which were pawn moves and the third was an unintentional rook sacrifice but the only move i really calculated thoroughly trapping the queen and winning it losing a bishop in the plan

I remember when I told my 200 elo friend about game review and first time he used game review his opponent made 3 brilliant moves and those "brilliant" moves were taking 3 pawns with a queen.

@EM-kn9im

11 ай бұрын

bobby fischer esque player right there 😂

@honchkrowabcd

11 ай бұрын

i bet his opponents knight was hanging the entire time but if ur friend took it his opponent could somehow checkmate him or something

i think pawn push is brilliant because it allows you safely remove your more active piece from the corner(the knight) to safety while ignoring your less active piece(the rook)

At 20:42 yes black was up as the white one called Elizabeth died😂😂

A 1600 elo play somehow managed to do a better rook sac than levy has. I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THAT WAS POSSIBLE

@amr_hassaan855

11 ай бұрын

I swear I am 1900 and still shocked that 1600 has found such a move, insane

Love your content, you shouldn’t quit you’ve inspired so many people to play chess including me

@aldocort3418

11 ай бұрын

But you're a basketball fanatic!😂

@nicholasbinsar1673

11 ай бұрын

He won’t quit. He makes too much money from yt

@Swish_prodz

11 ай бұрын

@@aldocort3418 but I like chess too lol

@joshuahietala5174

11 ай бұрын

@@aldocort3418 So is Levy

@WRSHP

11 ай бұрын

@@aldocort3418what’s the problem with b-ball?

I guess 22:04 is a brilliant move because it's enabling the night at the corner to escape safetly because the king cannot capture it while it is protecting by a pawn

I think part of the algorithm is that brilliant moves are moves that are given as *terrible* moves by the engine on a shallow search depth but then turn out to be the best one for that scenario at a much greater depth. It's trying to mimic how humans see great moves, ones that look unintuitive or just bad at first glance but then turn out to be amazing when you think them through.

I think the last brilliant move is considered as such, cause it provides a safe escape for the knight

@phantomshitter

11 ай бұрын

Thats what Im sayin

The last brilliant move was probably because it helps the knight escape from being trapped, Knight to c2 and then move out of there because pawn protects that knight which means king can’t take? Idk I’m thinking it out as a 560 ELO myself

@witheringhs7766

11 ай бұрын

this would make sense... if the rook wasnt hanging on a8 lol

@abear8504

11 ай бұрын

I was thinking maybe like ignore the bishop taking your rook. Move your bishop c3 to sacrifice the knight take to push your b pawn to c3 and then push that pawn up to c2 check then d2 check protected by Queen and guarantee a promotion?

@NandaArtnesta

11 ай бұрын

as a 4850 elo I can confirm thats a brilliant move, yes bcause the knight is more valuable to supress the opponent's king in the future,, even me I will let my opponent take the rook, cause i dont need the rook in that position,, already winning position,, the white's bishop is a valuable defense for white and will make black's attack take more time for winning,, so just trade it with rook

@oishiine6781

11 ай бұрын

Imo the point is actually Qf6, which hits the bishop on f2 and the b2 square, allowing Qb2 with tempo. White is essentially getting mated.

@scottwhitman9868

10 ай бұрын

@@NandaArtnesta totally legit elo

21:35 not only it puts an important pawn on a safer square, it protects the knite. I think it was supposed to be a Very good move (!) than briliand (!!)

4:06 I love the subtle plug of his course

Idea for game 2 @ 8:33 : Bb2 is brilliant because the following moves are Bxf7+, unpinning your rook and allowing the queen to develop into the game, and because black lost the queen, white gets a massive advantage. Bb2 is developing the dark squared bishop and blocking an attack on the rook, so that black has no counterplay against Bxf7+ (Kh8 is bad because it lines up with the bishop on b2)

5:09 bro Levy what is that sound💀

@mafiatanmay3503

2 ай бұрын

💀 *SUS* 💀

8:01 is one of the reasons I love watching levy vids

8:05 bruh Levy tryna flex his muscles and be Hulk 🤣🤣🤣

13:29 My favorite part of a chess game, when my opponent gets diarrhea in the middle of a match

8:05 I think the brilliancy there was that the bishop sees g7 at 8:56. If it wasn't on b2, then Re8 could be met by ...Nc7, Qxf7 Kh8, since Qxg7 mate is only possible because the bishop is on b2.

@Electronem1

11 ай бұрын

Bishop seeing g7 is a positional advantage and not a "out of the box" idea, so it def doesnt deserve the brilliant annotation

@conallprince6471

11 ай бұрын

I don't know what that sequence of moves is, because for example there is not a knight that sees c7, but Bb2 also blocks Bd4 which threatens a rook.

"One of them is not even 600. I'm simply rounding up..." - LOL

I received over 20 brilliant moves before reaching 1000, just 6 months after i started playing. Half of these i didn't bother saving because i felt like i did not deserve it, although i do think it would be funny to somehow re-visit them one day.

6:45 Black wants to develop the rook by teleporting

Just yesterday had a brilliant I didn't quite understand in the position, it seems interesting now to look at this as how to evaluate on how it applies in the actual game, thanks Levy!

12:03 legendary mcdonald comment lol

At 436 I got my first brilliant move and I actually saw it. Was a knight move around mid opening that GUARANTEED the queen. It was beautiful

"Oh hey, I got my first brilliant move-" Levy: BRILLIANT MOVES ARE A LIE.

i never get tired of your videos, and the blunders the players do, the brilliants... just keep up the good wok man

I think the last one was a brilliant because moving the pawn ensure the safe return of the knight, protects the passed pawn from being taken that is threatening to promote while sacrifing their own rook to create an attack . I'm sure black definitely didn't think all of that and completely forgot their rook was hanging but i guess at the level of stock fish its the best move that maintains an advantage even after a rook sacrifice and creates an attack

at 8:45 where the rook sack comes in with the queen check, maybe that b2 bishop move was considered brilliant bc it kind of helps set up checkmate a few moves ahead? could be wrong though

For the brilliant move in the fourth game the olgorithm count Ba6 as a bishop sacrifice hence counting it as a brilliancy

Thanks for letting us pick the next video! BTW I had my first brilliant move recently (700 rated) and it turned out to be a placeholder move while I spend more time thinking. I did not use that brilliant move to its full potential.

Thank you…. I really needed video like this because sometimes I was thinking really hard why some Of my move are brilliant without any justifiable reason…

THAT HAIRCUT BRO THATS SO 😂❤

You should still do the 50 year old man who beat hikaru and magnus! That will be great

@me_at_ball

11 ай бұрын

agreed

@ErrolTownsend1

11 ай бұрын

Yeah agreed 👍

@petricaleksa

11 ай бұрын

thats probably about vishy anand, boring

@FranXiT

11 ай бұрын

He should DO HIM? 🤨

@advaitkamath8442

11 ай бұрын

@@FranXiT 💀

Yo Gotham, I love your videos and you’ve helped me improve my chess game so much. Thank you. ❤❤

They actually quite a few months ago changed how brilliant moves show up, usually it was a strong positional move or a winning sacrifice but now it is such that a brilliant move is just a sacrifice of a piece if the evaluation does not change much

8:01 his roar is something made my day:)))))))

I've been looking forward to this one so much 😂 thanks Gotham!

21:20: It is probably a brilliant move because you are losing material with the rook and bishop trade on a1, yet it is still the best move according to the computer.

The important part of brilliant moves is that the evaluation doesn't drop, meaning that it's the top or one of the top engine moves that includes a piece sacrifice.

levy may not be pregnant but he never fails to deliver

@soggos732

11 ай бұрын

may

@aldocort3418

11 ай бұрын

This comment may not be original, but it never fails to make us laugh!

@xxs1lentk1ller30

11 ай бұрын

@@aldocort3418 nah

@SEBithehiper945

11 ай бұрын

Touch grass, please!

@JuanSus-ld4gy

11 ай бұрын

@@aldocort3418 your sense of humor is very bad

21:21 I think it saves the knight but I'm not sure. I don't think it should be brilliant though

I got a brilliant move for just playing the fried liver, that’s when I knew the metrics were broken

Got back to back brilliants in

I love the part when Levy said "it's bozo time" and bozoed all over the board

@notdumbboi5027

11 ай бұрын

When I saw that I bozoed all over my room

@giacomoswift2975

11 ай бұрын

moai🗿

I once played a game against an opponent who played a "brilliant" move against me, the game was a hard struggle with low king safety for the both of us and a lot of loose pieces. I actually won that game and thought I would get a brilliant move after finding a beautiful tactical defense, where after my king was checked I sacced my knight to force the queen on an akward square and expose her to several tactics if he chose to take the it. For some reason that move ws considered a ok move by the engine at low depth, and tried to argue that my opponent was better after keeping the pin on the knight and trying to expand on the king side. After analysing the line, it appear that the plan actually went nowhere. What's more the engine said at much higher depth that my move was the only winnng one for me.

There should be three types of move notifications, brilliant moves- this move puts u in a winning position from a losing position, blunder moves- puts u in a losing position from a winning position, and slick moves- which are moves that enter you into a mate in 3 scenario. All other moves are neutral. That would solve all the interpretive issues in question. However in post game it is very handy to be able to see a statistical breakdown of each move you made and how it stacks up with other games where that move was also played.

In first match at 3:00 pawn × h6 is one option

Fun fact: if your opponent plays the Damiano and you take with the knight you get a brilliant move. At least at 870 it does

22:41 I think I've worked it out: opens the diagonal for the bishop.

@oishiine6781

11 ай бұрын

Even better: it opens the diagonal for the queen. Imagine you had a queen on b2. White would be slaughtered. d3 allows you to play Qf6, attacking the bishop on f2. If the bishop moves or is defended, you play Qb2! and white is getting mated or losing everything. It's a nice move, actually.

@NottGabbe

10 ай бұрын

I see what you mean. But black still was already winning. And the bishob would not help in mating

I think in last game pawn to d3 was brilian because it helps knight in the corner get back in the game

the algorithm probably detects if you sacrifice a piece and it just so happens to be the best (or 2nd best) move

8:10 😂😂

Levy is revealing his real identity of a greek god with that new cut 👀

The d3 in the last game is a brilliant move because after Bxa8 Qf6 it clears the diagonal for the queen which allows Qb2 and for the queen to then threaten checkmate. After Qf6, stockfish gives this a forced mate in 19. Yeah, probably not something a 300 would think about.

I think it might be because you can save the knight on a1 after retaking the bishop (on the 300 elo brilliancy)

My 300 elo friend once got a brilliant move for taking a pawn that was "guarded" by a knight (which was very obviously pinned to the queen) and yes the guy took with the knight and lost their queen

You can always rely on Levy to make you flabbergasted with his stare and the haircut

@Begula17

11 ай бұрын

How are you everywhere

@SouthMexico

11 ай бұрын

levy has the most devious, scrumptious, vietnamese war, and flabbergasted haircut. truly enough power to start the taiping rebellion.

@paper2979

11 ай бұрын

@@Begula17 that’s what I’m saying

21:30 The plan is to not even take back when the bishop takes and just plant your queen on f6 and threaten checkmate. Granted it's mate in 9 so the 300's would never find it, but it is a forced checkmate rook sacrifice. The one and only response is to bring the bishop back to f3 after capturing the rook, then queen b2, knight g2, pawn takes knight check, king moves to e1, queen takes knight check, king takes pawn, queen takes rook. This series leaves white down on the exchange 5 points, two knights and a rook for rook and pawn, just to avoid mate. Of course its still mate in like 30 moves, but plenty of time for another blunder to swing the game all the way back.

"which makes us all feel very warm and nice inside" 12:28 is hilarious, love that analogy

Imagine going home from a long day and seeing Gotham upload a video. My heart can't be happier.

@pi_man3

11 ай бұрын

My reaction to somehow getting 1.7k likes in 12hrs (my second most was 42 over a long time, idk how i got it)

Brilliant moves are the single greatest achievements in my life, dont do this to me

In one of my calculus classes we needed to do an online homework, and I was so done with trigonometry I just put 2/3 as the answer and it happened to be right. Brilliant move!!

On the WHY...I am too lazy to study the position for too long but the pawn allows the Knight to get out while he is otherwise trapped.There is also literally no way to remove that pawn.There is also a 3 sequence move involving the blk Q G5>C1 supported by B to B2.Escape sq would be E2 but is blocked by the pawn.

Just because the player doesn't know it was a brilliant move doesn't mean it wasn't a brilliant move.

Thank you! You’ve taken my elo from barely 500 to almost 1300

whenever i do manage to get a good sacrifice to then check mate i also think it’s going to be brilliant but i’ve yet to get better then the great move so far

I think pawn to d3 is a brilliant move because it gives an escape square for the knight which was otherwise trapped in the corner AND save the pawn and if bishop takes then queen takes and this is the best attacking position what you can make.

I get burnt out on chess all the time even though I love it, but then I watch one of Levy's videos and it completely regenerates my passion for it. Thanks, man

22:16 Their silence is deafening

I just can't get over that BEESHOP BEE TWOOOOOOO face

The ratings of moves is indeed based on ELO. I suspected it for a while, so I uploaded the same PGN of a game multiple times, but changed the ELO rating. Suddenly a move which was earlier considered a "Great Move" was later rated Good or even a inaccuracy.

Great video. Advanced math tests are usually not four option questions in my experience, but I get your point :)

I did a game review and found my opponent did a brilliant move and that move was just moving the king from check and the move was the only move the opponent can play (how its brilliant 😅)

@xekind

4 ай бұрын

Sometimes not falling over and dying at the chess board is considered brilliant