King's Indian Climb Begins | Black Pieces Rating Climb Part 1: 800+

Now that the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz + 9LX with Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, etc has ended, I'm beginning another rating climb video series aimed to give you a black pieces repertoire playing the King's Indian Defense and e6/b6 setups. Useful links below regarding openings courses, joining the Discord community, and watching live!

0:00 Introduction + King's Indian Games
31:55 e6/b6 Setup Games + one final King's Indian Game

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[geckogeico]

What a moron. I learned nothing from this video.
(I also disliked the video according to Twitch chat's instuctions)

[mist]

Levy In a 3 min blitz game: In Mexico, there are crickets in HUGE populations
Me in a 10 min rapid game: OMG I gotta hurry I only have 10 minutes OH

[erikelrojo]

he hangs his queen, ok well there is the 400 kicking in" lol

[ridegreen]

The honesty is appreciated. Blunder a queen, move on and continue teaching. That’s how chess needs to be taught

[n]

Levy: "This is the strongest 400 I've ever played with"

Hungs queen on 3:42 "Well there's the 400 kicking in"

[arpanagarwal]

@23:17 It's called King's Indian because it was famously played by Indian players in international chess, coming from a background in Indian version of chess during British rule. In Indian version of chess the two square pawn move as well as king-rook swap castling was not allowed (in Indian castling, King could move like a knight once in the game, and that was used to manually bring the king to the other side of the rook), so fianchettoing the King's bishop was the way you controlled the centre. You can observe the same in Sultan Khan's games as he belonged to the British Colonial era in India. Learning the two step pawn move would be, I suppose, more inconvenient to such players, because it would demand a change in their well practiced understanding of openings, so they went for the move that would be allowed in both their native variant of chess as well as international chess.

[XsK]

To the guy who asked in the chat: the openings have names based on where it was first played, the person who made it popular, the city, etc. There is no consensus. The Indian part comes from the country where it was played (notice that the pawns move just 1 square, that's because they were used to older version of chess in India, where there was no quick start for the pawns and they had to move one square at a time), and the Kings part comes from the fact that he moves his pieces out and on the kings side, later castleling there. At least this is what I was once told.

Edit: I just saw that somebody wrote the same answer in the chat, so I just wasted my time. I am going to leave the comment to remind my future self of his past mistakes.

[johnvuillemot]

Wait...levy just complimented our being mean skills. This is so wholesome.

[calluma]

These are the most hardcore <1000 players I've seen.

[muhammadx]

10:48
I was waiting for
" oh...no...my queen" moment lol but it was an actual blunder hahahah

[ZCT]

I just started playing after maybe 20 years of not playing, and soon realized my lack of opening repertoire and fundamental opening blunders were costing me big time. So I added this King's Indian, paid more attention to using pins and forks, and feel like I'm really making some serious progress now. Thanks for the great content!

[TheDungeon]

Oh man I love these climbing series, cant wait to watch this one. Keep up the amazing content.

[josiahpeebles]

32:50 "Is it cheating to always avoid the best move that an engine gives you?"
"What an ethical conversation"
bro had me dying while bringing up a solid question

[samjam]

I absolutely love this premise for a series! Would love to see more where you just stick to the same opening, really learn a lot :)

[CAKBOSS]

I don't even know if you'll ever see this Gotham, but this is probably my favorite video of yours. I'm now 900 ELO Rapid thanks to your kings indian series. It's also really nice how this video seems more calmer than newer ones. Thank you for making chess entertaining for the masses.

[tuckersossaman]

“Okay well THERRREEES the 400 kicking in”

[abhayvora]

I just want to say for any youtube viewer who's thinking of getting the openings course, I got the openings course for 1. e4 and I could not be happier with the results. Just knowing how to respond to e5 and c5 has ramped up my win/loss ratio when playing black and white. Levy focuses so much on overarching ideas in the opening that you can't help but get better at facing any opening. Also, Vienna game is overpowered.

[devanpy]

wtf these are the strongest 700 players ever 🤣 and then they immediately blunder under time pressure... exactly like me

[joejitsu]

10:40 You hallucinating that your Bishop was protected was proper funny. It’s great to
see that masters blunder too 👍

[redataoussi]

So pumped.
I play chess since I was 6 yo. My father taught me and we still play. He was a former Moroccan champion.
I gave up for quite some years but got back at it for the last year and your videos helped me a lot improve my game. Keep it up