ANONYMOUS BANNED GM REVEALED!!!!!!!

I was excited for Levy when he announced he was going back to OTB chess to win the GM title but now its just the same cheating, 100 ELO, clickbait as usual... 🤮🤮🤮

This whole opening is "you play stupid, drag your opponent down to your level, and beat them with experience."

One thing is 100% sure: Yesterday I did not know who Brendan Jacobson is. Today I do.

NO he shouldn't do the match. He has nothing to prove. Hikaru can have fun speedrunning botez gambit but other grandmasters can't just sack an exchange? There is literally no proof he cheated. He won his games thanks to tactics and mistakes from Danya.

I don't think an in-person matchup where Brandon has to play his opening makes much sense. The main reason the opening is so successful is because it gets the opponent into unfamiliar positions. If Naroditsky could spend time studying the lines, I'm sure he would win since the opening is objectively losing. If Naroditsky wins after prep it would not necessarily prove that Brandon was cheating.

But a match between Brandon Jacobson and Danya where Brandon plays the same opening won’t be reflective of what happened. Danya’s gonna have time to go over the lines and analyze it deeply, but when they played those blitz matches, Danya wasn’t prepared for it which is why it was so effective.

I almost feel like playing an opening in which you start off with a losing position and then coming back and winning repeatedly would trigger the anti-cheat by itself. It would just see "This person is somehow coming back from completely lost positions over and over again which is a statistical anomaly."

I mean if someone has full mastery over a weird line in a blitz game they surely will have an advantage over their opponent because they will be in time control through out the game, and the fact he mentioned that chess is the only game where grown man bithc about teenagers and ruin their career is legit tbh.

It's comical to me that playing low accuracy games with little time between moves to allow for optimal engine calculation could possibly result in a cheating ban.

The proposition is unfair to Brandon since Danya can prepare for all the tricks

The problem with an in person match is that Danya can then study for that opening which means Brandon loses a lot of his opening prep advantage. Also it would suggest Danya is accusing him which he is not

i just simply cant believe that someone would cheat on an anonymous account and then reveal their true identity at the expense of their reputation for NO REASON AT ALL if they werent completely innocent. i just refuse to believe someone would do that.

the rematch doesn't make sense coz danya would have immediately looked at the lines after the match. The advantage of the opening is the shock factor because nobody else would be sane enough to analyze that. It's literally a one off opening to play tat would work only once with a top super gm after which they'd analyze the lines and it'd be normal service.

Vih_soh is secretly vsauce

Magnus Carlsen plays meme openings all the time and nobody panics. One teenager learns to play one meme opening well, and everyone loses their minds!

I don't think the in person match makes any sense. Becaues Danya knows it's coming now. That's why it worked originally because it was a total surprise. Even though they played so many games he didn't take a few days to study the position.

Getting called a nerd by a fellow professional chess player speaks

24:55 nice idea but I don't think you can really recreate the circumstance since Naroditsky could prepare and also the element of tilt would not really be recreatable

I think it could make a lot of sense in low time games someone having complete knowledge over a weird line. It makes your opponent think a lot more and lose time, and then you have more time to think in end game. I don't know if that translates to high elo games, but it could defiantly work in lower elo games

From a totally layman perspective on chess, I think it's hard to beat this setup in low time because rooks are late-game pieces, while bishops are instrumental in attacking in the early game. One side gives up a late game advantage for an early and middle game advantage. Not only is the one without a rook technically up a piece for most of the opening, they have time advantage and development advantage. I think that's why it's so hard to initiate and defend early attacks, you lack a bishop and your opponent is basically up a piece and three moves ahead.