Going to start posting more shorts! Let me know what you think.

Ok

Figured it thanks

I have no idea about chess, but why was the white knight in a way? It couldn't have intervened no? Or? :)

My 5yr old son loves it "The ROOOOOK" his favourite part! And yes he mimics you on that part 😂

The shorts are funny

No way in a million years I would’ve found that

@Ghost right 😆 I’ve got my puzzle rating up to 2000 but my elo is like 1200 for games

I would have never even thought about sacing the rook for a mate.

​@Jack Lawrence make room for queen to do work because the knight was defending decently.

No way in a million years I wouldn’t have found that. So obvious

I can wait!

I have no idea what’s going on but your reaction to the combination of moves tells me it’s like one of those great moments in sports and chess is a sport because you use you mind in an exercise form.

Me either! I swear I wish I was aware enough to know what he’s talking about! 😂

@Dragondude30 TECHNCIALLY... all sports are just "children's games" that big boys get paid to play...

​@Dragondude30 sports can be physical, mental, or a mix of both. Saying chess isn't a sport is like saying no-bake cakes aren't a food.

​@Dragondude30 it's a sport, but not a physical one. It is classified as more of a mental sport because unlike other games, which require you to coordinate your muscles physically, you coordinate your hands and brain together to use game-winning tactics and strategies.

@Dragondude30 What the hell are you on about sucking them off, I'm telling you a fact, one of the most acknowledged committees for sporting events has determined chess is a sport and that's final, also nice one trying to delete this comment before I saw it just to feel good abt urself, have fun crying abt saying chess isn't a sport

No way he came up with that on the spot. They should check his ass more often.

Lol

O lord🤣🤣🤣

I don’t play chess but even I realized this is genius after watching 3 times

​@Ibraahim Nuhaadh🤡

"this is beyond science" 🤣

@Ibraahim Nuhaadh I'm sure he may not appreciate it at the depth you THINK you do... but his comment still has far more value than yours. Do not squelch someone who is interested in something...you could destroy a champion before it is ever even born...

@Ibraahim Nuhaadh weirdchamp bucko

No

"It's about sending a message. And it's about sacrificing the Rook"

"To sacrifice THE ROOK" I love when levy does that voice

Facts

​@John der Don ikrr

"THE ROOOOK!"

Ikr

That’s because you’re a weibo

Love Magnus - he is a living legend

I don't even particularly care about chess, but this video makes me feel the way I think people who care about sports must feel when their team does something cool.

If I ever did that by a chance, I would've went for queen😂

I used to be able to see 3-4 moves ahead when playing chess. Magnus can see the entire game play out with each move. He is amazing.

@Chewie … There’s a video online of him playing 10 games at the same time with his back to the boards. His memory is amazing. He eats, sleeps, and breathes the game.

yeah he can beat 99% of the population with his eyes closed, has the ALL the pieces memorized in his head

This is a historic moment on the channel, Levi's first short on this channel

What happened was magnus sacrificed his queen rook and bishop to block the king by his own pieces so knight can give checkmate.

first vid I see of him, looks like it works

@Ultimate Chad @Ultimate Chad

@EclipsianFlav don't even know what this shit is lmfao But now that I've Googled it I can definitely confirm you're a part of it

@Ultimate Chad and u support NAMBLA 💀

That loop was FLAWLESS

And it literally doesn't change whether or not the rook is sacrificed.

This is really really awesome. Genius

I have a real question because I love chess, can a rook move diagonally across the board?

Oh my GOD! This man is insane!

This takes “Happiness is temporary” to a whole new level.

​@FiminteQ W man.

Whole new levy

@Black Guy I do.

@Daniel Roy Roig nobody cares

Im the 3k like

I keep watching this to find a last minute way out.. No gooooo. I have to see this full game.

Magnus didn't just win, he embarrassed his opponent.

Wow this helps a lot with understanding chess moves.

This makes me want to get back to playing chess and be the most feared opponent, discombobulate anyone in my way!!!!!!!!!

good luck

I was watching this game live and even the commentators, Peter Leko couldn't find the rook sacrifice.

​@Ned Cassley I'm wondering this exact thing

@Mika Merklinger still can't see the point of the rook considering the attack he made could be brought exactly in the same way

​@Guruh Adi Putra Then pawn takes Queen. Decisive advantage for black. At their level, it is an automatically win.

@Blaisem ur broken, fuck all this optimal lines shit. use common sense and you will understand. You see a rook, its not defended, you think about taking it, you second check and wonder why would he do that, you make sure that there is nothing stopping you from taking it, you take it thinking Magnus made a mistake. Not taking free material if u are sure its fine, is plain stupidity. You are never going to play vs someone who could actually find a mate like this, so just take it. Suspicion isnt a factor in chess, the only things that matter for you to make a move are where the pieces are and how much do you have on the clock. If you really found that "better" line, go see a chess engine vs chess engine game, its pure absurdity. Dont always look at the evaluation bar for reference. It looks into the future too much and it misses the fact that you arent a computer, neither is your opponent. TLDR Everyone plays what makes sense to them, the engines dont have sense, dont trust the engine, cuz if a super gm falls for this, so will every other chess player in the world ever

@Ned Cassley I went through like 5 comment chains trying to figure this out, and every single reply explaining it didn't capture the full picture. The key missing idea for me was that the defense we saw in the video is not optimal, because the knight recaptures the rook. If the knight didn't recapture the rook, then we would see a different defensive line play out that would stop the mate. In this better defensive line, the rook on f4 is essential. Not because it finds mate, but because it secures a +1.5 advantage for black. However if the knight recaptures, then the better defensive line is not an option anymore. This is where I was getting hung up, because I saw that better defensive line but didn't understand how the rook on f4 still made it losing for white. Here's the long story with engine analysis assuming optimal play from both sides (Stockfish 15, D20): If Magnus doesn't offer to sac the rook on f4, then after 1. Qxb3+ Ke1 2. Nc2+ RxNc2 3. QxRc2, White can play Be3 for Luft and be perfectly fine (Stockfish says +0.4 for white). White lost the exchange and a couple of pawns, but won the black Bishop, and white is now defending f4 with its black bishop. The key moves here are RxNc2 and Be3 for Luft to stop any forced mate or losing position. This is the winning defense that, if Magnus didn't take on f4 with the rook, would have completely shut down the attack we saw. However, if Magnus does offer the rook sac on f4 before Qxb3+, then white has 2 choices: either Nb3xRf4 to recapture the rook (shown in the video) or move the queen to save the queen (e.g., Qh5). If Nb3xRf4, then after 1. Qxb3+ Ke1 2. Nc2+, white can no longer play RxNc2 because of 3. Qb1+ Rc1 4. QxRc1#. The knight is not on d3 anymore to defend Rc1 to block Qb1+. On the other hand, if white doesn't play RxNc2, then the line in the video plays out and white is also in forced checkmated. So it's forced mate either way, because white recaptured the rook. Now, if white _doesn't_ recapture the rook sac but instead saves the queen with Qh5, then after 1. Qxb3+ Ke1 2. Nc2+ RxNc2 3. QxRc2, white does still successfully stop the mate. Unfortunately, the problem is that white can no longer play Be3 for Luft, because the black rook is still on f4 covering the f2 Luft square. White is instead forced to play pawn to e3, chasing black's rook on f4 back and giving the white king Luft on e2. At this point white has lost the pawn on f4, the bishop on f2 is pretty bad, and the king has a huge weakness on the light squares, giving black a +1.5 advantage. That's all. No mate. In summary, _if_ white defends properly, then all that Rxf4 accomplishes is to get a free pawn and induce a weakness in white's position. It's not mate, just an incremental advantage of +1.5. It should _not_ be a Rook sac, because white recapturing the rook is a blunder that leads to mate.

That was such a good play. Straight bamboozled him into that checkmate.

The rook sac changed literally nothing about the smothered mate sequence since Qxb3+. This video was misleading.

1) u don't have to take the bait when u get check move the king in the next move create a opening for king to move outside 2) take the bait, remove Bishop u'll get check from queen move the king,then after getting check from knight, sacrifice rook in next move create a opening

This man is a GENIUS

He could have done the exact same thing without sacrificing the rook. Am I missing something?

while I had my mind blown by that move, I'm also wondering what would be the counter/defense for it. FYI: I'm no expert or any good with chess, just very curious on random things.

from other comments, the only way to not lose that was to take the rook with the queen and sacrifice it.

U can still kill the rook in the 2nd last move with pawm

Levy could easily move to Hollywood

it's just beyond our mind to think of that combination.

Watching Magnus play chess must be like watching Pollock paint. It makes no sense until it does and then you realize you were 50 steps behind absolute genius. Thank god for YouTube so I even know about him. My childhood love of chess has really been rekindled over the past few years due to him.

Yeah except one's a master at chess and the other one might as well be s******* on canvas

Yeah but only a four-year-old is impressed by a pollock work. Real art is difficult

@Khan4lulu Haner holy shit Dunning Krueger effect caught in in the fucking wild

@Khan4lulu Haner pawn f4 take queen. Now you don't lose the way a better player might have lost, but you're going to lose. Your move. My queen is going to wreck you.

@Adam Christensen qween to f4 to take rook

Tbh you can see through the rook sac pretty quickly. Maybe if that was pulled in blitz but I mean, it's pretty telegraphed.

Dope. Keep it up with these clips YouTube

The Matrix move!💪😎

You could instead of rook on the last move, king would have saved

All those sacrifices for the win, damn, amaxing

But wait why did he sacrificed the rook ? Sorry if it's a silly question i don't get it lol

Amaxing

Bishop, rook and the queen for a smothered mate lol so sick

Wait! Rook can move diagonaly?

the possibilities of that happening is nearly 1% like wtf its badasssss

Surely that same thing can be done without the rook sacrifice tho

He's definitely a good player.

As someone who has never played chess, this is absolutely fantastic.

@jrmy198523  Brother it was sarcasm. I couldn’t understand the video a bit. I am sorry I think I conveyed my message inappropriately.

@Flowzwtf my point is that he really doesn’t know how fantastic it really is. You could watch any master of any craft do what they do and appreciate it but you will never know really how masterful they are until you yourself have taken part of said craft. Obviously. So I could ask you the same question, but I think I already know the answer.

@jrmy198523 are u dumb

​@jrmy198523 because this is a video about how fantastic it is

Dude makes it fantastic with his display,but that is pretty sick play

What if instead of taking the rook with the knight, he takes it with the queen? Just a chess rookie here thinking

He sees the mate in 7 while I can't even get a mate in one 😭😭

The crazy part was the rook sac was him actually missing mate in 6. The smothered mate sequence from the first Queen check doesn't change whether or not that rook, pawn, or knight were on their original squares.

way above my skill level brilliant

That move is up there with Deandre Jordan on Brandon Knight

knight + bishop or knight + queen and pawn + rook structure is always a smothered mate.

I wonder if a chess engine can find this combination.

This is one of the best that I have seen.

I like your funny words, magic man

I’ve literally never played chess in my life but I keep watching these videos. I don’t know what’s happening

It’s cause Andrew tate randomly in the fucking algorithm

To put it simply, there are bad, average, good, and great pieces. This grand master gave away 1 average, 1 good, and 1 great piece each, if the opponent fall for its trap by taking the first 2, that's a guaranteed win for him.

Ikr

It looks like he made the enemy use their own pieces against their King to block their path so his Knight can Checkmate their King

Don't worry, we chess players got even less idea of what is happening

Всё гениальное просто!..👌🪗🥊🌏🇷🇺

Wtf that's actually very insane

I don't know why anyone would ever take a piece Magnus is sacrificing

Because if you don’t it’s check mate in 3 anyways.

Because if you decline or take it, you're in so much trouble dude.

Cos if you decline you're in even worse shape than if you take it 🤣

because if you dont take hes up a piece and u cant beat magnus when he is equal, how would u beat him when ur down a piece

In order not to lose

Well, the chess speaks for itself. :-D

It is crazy that a good chess player easily can figure out the 10 next steps beforehand. I think in like 2-3 steps

Yo that is legit 200iq. I’m on the 4th watch tryna fully digest it…

If you like deep reading and machine like sequences like that, you might dig the game Go.

Yesterday I somehow escaped king being killed 3 TIMES AND WON

It's like using bait to bait and sacrificing the bait to trap the king

I barely know chess but that is genius

This is the best chess commentary ever

I understood nothing except the win and it was epic

Can’t believe they sacrificed Magnus Carlsen. Truly a chess moment of all time.

All it takes is one comment, and i don't have 8finish this sentence.

@Po Chuy Ma intentional joke

You are using the wrong grammar. Did Magnus Carlson really get sacrificed? Did he die? Did he go to jail? 😂😂😂 LOL! That's OK. I know what you meant. Thank you for making my day! 👍

Nah 💀

can’t believe you guys are still using this joke

That was nasty🤣🤣

Jesus, I have no clue how people can see that far ahead in chess

He like to think outside of the box for fun since the game has a finate amount of moves but he use more unique that only he could do

Damn thats genius

I needed to watch it twice in order to understand it that's actually insane, if that happens to me I'll actually play along the plan and I didn't even know what happen. Actual beast.

The rook sacrifice changed literally nothing about the smothered mate sequence since Qxb3+. This video was misleading.

Someone PLEASE help me. What did getting the knight off D3 accomplish? Doesn't this set of moves work to mate even without the rook sacrifice?

What if the Queen took the rook?

When ever GM sacrifices watch out there is mate you havent seen yet

Let's place him against a CPU on max difficulty

The absolute enthusiasm of Levy is contagious!

He essentially baited the fuck out of his opponent but it was insane

Non chess players be like : So what he did was amazing or Very dumb????

I don't know but when a sacrifice happens purposely. I would often look for the reason whys the sacrifice happens.. His counterpart maybe thinking otherwise

Theres no need to sac the rook? He can do that combo anyway

I like how the Knight cover forced white to use his rook to take the sacrificed queen, thus preventing any escape when the Knight did the checkmate.

what if the Queen take the Rook?

What if Queen takes the rook?

Bruhh, that was insane

im super confused couldnt he do that without sacrificing the rook? what is white's knight protecting? Nvm i understand it, it protects the rook when it blocks the mate after rook takes knight

Such a banger to start a short era on this channel.

I dont see any reason why he sacrificed that rook he could have done the same without- Please sumone tell me what im missing🥺

@Chandler Ryan There's a pawn on g5 that will take back the Queen, making a losing trade of a Queen for a Rook which any decent player will convert let alone Carlsen. Technically it's a better move than taking with the Knight because it loses slower, but I'd guess that the opponent just didn't see that taking with the knight led to a mate in 5.

@Chandler Ryan If the queen takes the rook, then the queen is captured by the pawn and Magnus trades a rook for a queen and a pawn --> easy win.

​@RDO Music then why take with the knight? What about the queen right next to the rook? What If that takes it instead?

The Knight is an important defender of the Rook on c1. Removing it allows the checkmate to happen. If Carlsen didn't sacrifice the rook, then after Queen takes b3, King to e1, Knight c2 and Rook takes c2, Queen to b1 is no longer checkmate (unlike the line Levy showed) because the Rook can move back to c1 where it is defended by the knight, blocking the checkmate. Without the knight, the rook can no longer block Queen b1 checkmate because it isn't defended so the Queen could just take it.

Way aye Levy! Thx 🙏🏻♾ d 🤙🏻✨

That’s a stockfish play if I’ve ever seen it

He doesn't have stockfish, he has fresh sharks.

I still don’t understand why sacrifice the rook!! He could have done the same without sacrificing the rook if I am not mistaken

this short started a chess obsession, been playing like 8 hours a day lmao

If he didn't sacrifice Rook in that way, his opponent is Dead already!

Bruh use the unpredictable and it's very effective

What moves got the rook in position?

what if queen takes f4?

i dont play chess but damn that one is good

Lol everyone protecting their queen then there's this dude

What if the white took the rook with the white queen?

Chess enthusiasts be like: "Taking the bishop leads to a Modjillio manuver, which then smoothly transitions into a double-triple-leap-fakeout attack, forcing the other bishop into a difficult position in which they must cast expecto patronum. This, however, completes the ancient chess ritual created by the grey knights, which in turn causes the enemy king & their player to be permanently banished from this plane of existence."

What if the queen took the rook tho

What happens if the queen takes?

Magnus is that good, he be worrying about your game instead of his.

Now can he beat Andrew or his father?