The Best Tactic In Chess History

The Pearl of Poznan from 1931.

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[dlucas]

It starts like a "guess the elo" video. It ends like a "and that's why Magnus is considered the endgame wizard" video.

[adamdettelbach]

I don't have anything insightful to say but I just wanted to say I love this channel and it's responsible for my complete lack of productivity at work. Keep up the good stuff Levy!

[igorbednarski]

it's hard to find anything about these players, but I did manage to get Tylkowski's first name - Roman.

[jhavus]

"Knights are a little bit less flexible, you kinda know where they gonna go"
i like your funny words, magic man

[stealthinator]

nobody:
chess engines: woah, Ke2 is brilliant. couldn't have thought of that. damn

[TheChessGiant]

That rook and knight might be the two saddest individuals I've ever seen on a chess board...

[calebcox]

0:10 Wait a minute, this isn’t GothamCheckers?

[matthewer]

2:45, " you kinda know were the knights are gonna go, they're less flexible"
Meanwhile in game, hop....hop....hop, okay i think if I move my king here, I won't get forked. Gets forked.

[sillyshark]

Levy you should find a game played before en passant was created where a guy lost cause he can't en passant

[fpl_cricket]

I love how Levy introduces the video as a meeting of great chess minds and proceeds to present us with a 1930's Guess the ELO

[balakay]

Now I’m gonna wait for Levy to cover UNO or checkers as a joke. Maybe a good April fools vid idea…..

[johnchessant]

None of the moves before the combination, by either player, were blunders. Their goal was to be featured in a Gotham video 90 years in the future.

[marcosettembre]

22nd day of translating Levy's titles into Neapolitan:"A meglij combinazion rind a storij re scacc"

[jopfeber]

Absolute genius game, please keep on going with analysing these games

[jetinismail]

It’s really a missed opportunity not to name your channel GothamCheckers

[not-the-main-character]

What a brilliant game! Except for when it wasn't

[stonebrunermer]

I'm really glad he's here to explain this because otherwise I'd just be like "haha he blundered a rook and a bishop what an idiot"

[brianweisel]

No joke my favorite tactic I've ever seen. I've watched this 4 times. GL in your GM journey Levy.

[abj]

The combination is amazing. However, it's entirely possible the game is a fiction, even though it was published in a Polish magazine around that 1931. And remarkably the core combination happened a second time. All this I learned from the wonderful Chess Curiosities blog by Tim Krabbé. Anybody who loves weird and wonderful chess, feel free to get lost in all the weirdness he collected.

[potatoo]

The last thing left to say after that combo is Polska górą