The man who beat the chess GOAT

This man is a machine. An actual machine. He has made a passing interest in chess into one of my main hobbies in less than six months. Witty, insightful and damn enjoyable to watch. Not to mention his relentless upload schedule, if you haven’t subscribed yet, do it. He deserves the love.

Now I truly appreciate it when he says the time of recording XD

Thank god for Gotham. This man got me and many others into chess, arguably the main reason for the chess boom. The more i learn about this incredible game the more it draws me in, I love this historic events videos too. S/O Levy.

Literally russians playing each other and calling it "world championship"

Damn

Kramnik is the best ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

great content Levy. Gary's stubbornness on Berlin Defense has cost him the match.

I just learned a juicy fact that made me give Kasparov the side-eye. Apparently, to take down the world champion back in the day, you had to beat him decisively. Meaning, if the game ended in a draw, he would stay in his throne, no tie breaks allowed. So, I gotta ask, how many games did the dude draw and how many did he actually win to keep that precious title of his? Can you imagine if this nonsense happened in any other sport? 🤔

Kramnik played so strongly seemingly not even because of his technique and battle plans (both solid as titanium) but because he simply knew what he had to do to take out Kasparov specifically. Truly a chess champion, his winning record against Garry Chess is well, well earned.

Levy when Kramnik plays h4: Great move creating a good lock in the position

Levy if his sub did the same move: "WHAT KIND OF DEGENERATE HUMAN BEING DECIDES TO PLAY H5 WHEN HIS DARK SQUARE BISHOP ISN'T DEVELOPED"

John 14:21

I remember that match and Kasparov mentioning the Berlin defence. Thanks for making this video in such an interesting and understandable way!

“unbreakable, known as the berlin wall”

buddy

Is there an Anand vs Kramnik 2008 match? If not can you make a video please.

Y en passant is not possible?

why does kasparov play into the berlin endgame? whats wrong with him? why does he not just play d3 instead of castling?

why kasparov did not go for italian if he could not break the berlin? he tried english and got neutralized... ruy lopez got neutralized by berlin.. why he didnt try the italian?

great work

Fischer was right some kasparov games are pre-arranged, kasparov not even try lol

Damn, man. Your pronunciation of Russian names is really good. Respect

Kramnik: holds a position down 2 pawns against one of the greatest players of all time
Me:* loses up a queen against someone with the username "lolurmom"*

"Too many Russians with the letter K in their last name!"

Russian K's Are Tight

There’s an important lesson to take from this set. Even if you’re insanely tilted and playing against the most boring openings in chess, don’t resign because you might end up getting analyzed in a gothamchess video 20 years later.

I wonder what exactly the reasons were that Kramnik 'dismantled' Kasparov relatively easily and that Karpov never got this far, even though Karpov and Kramnik had similar playing styles.

Was it primarily better opening preparation by Kramnik? Was it because in his match versus Kramnik, Kasparov was the 'old' one? Was Kramnik just lucky to get a "short" match? (Obviously, in their first match, Karpov was leading 5-0 and would have won the match if the format had been the same.)

Whatever the reasons, both of them were fascinating and brilliant players.

I know this off-topic but Kramnik is 6'5"?! Wow.

Still a great video

Do who dethrowned kramnik

Hey, Levy. Do you actually have all of these games memorized? It sure looks like it. I guess that the moves don't show up on the screen in your videos, but I never see your eyes darting back and forth between the board and some move chart, so I was wondering. You certainly have 5.72 million openings memorized - so i figure, what's few dozen more moves on top of 100s of memorized opening variations in a few couple 1000 famous games or so.

Garry Kasparov would've won after 1.e4 e5 2. Ke2

No bro you're not "average" compared to these guys, you are literally like an "insect" compared to these guys, like how most of us are to you. Even the analysis is too complicated for most average players and by average I mean sub 1800.

Kramnik is an underrated player, I mean he defeated Kasparov and became world champ and nobody really talks about him that much.

This is an outstanding review of the seminal moment when Kasparov was beaten,not just in match play, but for the World Championship

😀

Minus the irritating voice, content is good

In the game where Kramnik defeats Kasparov with White and wins his second game, and he has played Qe7 and Kasparovs resigns, why couldn´t Kasparov play Kh8-g8?

"Kramnik, Kasparov, Karpov - so many Russians with K!" - uh, yeah, and Caruana, Karjakin and Carlsen don't make situation any easier, it almost seems like if you last name starts with this sound you have some unfair advantage

I love it when Russians build the Berlin Wall. (Cold War joke)

Who were their seconds helping them with the preparation?

Kasparov.the most overrated player in history

Stop that clapping thing..!!

Ironically, when Kasparov played the Berlin defense himself with black against Judit Polgar, she defeated him.

Ahhhhh i remember this because of GM Simons story of Kasparov v Kramnik, where Kramnik goes for Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Berlin again, and Berlin to Wear Kasparov down

Rxb7 was a novelty? Come on, I invented this move, actually in any position, just that I usually lose a piece doing so.

I love how political Chess is. It has no reason to, but it is.