How Good Is Gothamchess??

Levy won the first game, lost the next two.

next game in about 1/2 hr

Bruh he's a 2300 IM; that's weak. This thread is asking the question, "how good is gothamchess," the answer is, he is about the level of a strong FM or weak IM.

still better than me. I think I can learn from him...wait I did. 

2300 is not weak. You do not learn calc from a nuclear physicist. Quite honestly, you  (anyone reading this) will probably not be as good as him. If you were, you would not be reading this. 

this has so many downvotes its kinda sad

lol IM Pfren. your quite funny yourself I must say.

I would say he is good at hiding his true skills. so the only way to find out is play him yourself

He's an IM. Even a weak IM is a very strong player. 

He could be hampered by his streaming schedule, or his still new marriage. He's also has a few bumps in his personal life which would affect him negatively.

Or maybe he's topped out, and this is the best he's ever going to be. (Shrug) It is still very high, and he's making good money streaming, so try to keep the sympathetic crying to a minimum. 

typical forum troll

He’s a IM, so pretty good

decent

Popular things always lack intellectual value.

Recreation is fun by nature. People don't watch Levy because he challenges them intellectually. Most people use up that energy to maintain their work and social lives. In their down time they want something easy and dumb... like Levy.

"This is crap which explains why so many people like it" is true for all sorts of things in life. You're probably too young to know that yet.

3 wins 3 losses and a draw- last 2 games today

game  8 in a couple of minutes

You sound like such a sour crotchety old f*

Easy to tell you wouldn't have any friends.

Lets examine that then shall we?

1 - "Popular things always lack intellectual value."

This is sometimes true and other times it's not true. So this statement is 100% false as it's not always the case.

2 - "Recreation is fun by nature. People don't watch Levy because he challenges them intellectually. Most people use up that energy to maintain their work and social lives. In their down time they want something easy and dumb... like Levy."

This borders on being correct, however I rock climb and do endurance cycling as a form of recreation and for a healthy lifestyle. While it's fun, it most certainly is not easy. Also saying "and dumb.. like Levy" instead of specifying his content is just what a friendless a-hole would do. 

3 - ""This is crap which explains why so many people like it" is true for all sorts of things in life. You're probably too young to know that yet.""

This one is true, as it does apply to all sorts of things in life. However it doesn't apply to a lot of things too.

These chess forums are a nightmare, I haven't seen so much wankery in a long time. Even reddit is better and that place is a cesspit. Good luck with eachother y'all.

It's not valueless if you enjoy it.

Bertrand Russell appreciation?

Sure, people put energy into their hobbies. For you it might be rock climbing. For others it's chess, and those people do things like read books and go to tournaments.

Like I said, after work, social, (and we can include hobbies), people don't have the mental or physical energy for much else. It's one reason politics is such a joke i.e. 99.99~% of people don't care as long as their day to day life isn't screwed up.

Anyway, I watch garbage on YouTube to relax too. Everyone has some mindless entertainment they enjoy. Levy is mindless entertainment.

For example... there was some popular TV show way back before you were born... I think it was CSI Miami?

Might have been a different one, but anyway, it was really popular, and there was some article about how the producers made the show... and they said on purpose the characters, plot, and dialogue were simple enough that a person could follow the whole story without looking at the TV. That was one of the benchmarks they aimed for.

Or you might take reading for example (books or articles). Professional authors can write really well, but to sell well you have to purposefully keep things simple and dumb.

That's not an insult to movies or books or Levy, it's just human nature that we don't have infinite energy. We spend our energy on things that matter most, and that's a good thing. With what little energy we have left over we watch people like Levy

I can save you time...here's a formula for almost all CSI/Law and Order/Bones/Criminal Minds whatever shows:

Step one:  pick an new grisly way to kill someone

Step two:  have a morgue scene with something icky

Step three:  show some angst from the cast members

Step four:  go interview witnesses...bonus points if witnesses are strippers, who must always be interviewed at their work location

Step five:  push one theory and make it most plausible

Step six:  drop hints for another theory and make it implausible without a certain piece of information

Step seven:  arrest and interrogate suspects, bonus points for rogue cops who passionately violate people's rights to get "the truth", because the system can't hold them back from getting Justice...(never, ever show a violation that turns out to be dead wrong ...)

Step eight:  cast member feel good scene where the survivors are happy and moving on with their shattered lives, thanks to our heroes

I never watched a lot of them, but man, step 7 really annoyed me once.

The bad guy did bad things to kids, and the cop in question had a young daughter... which supposedly made it ok that he (the cop) breaks into this guy's apartment and beat him up... luckily it was the right person... but even then it was extremely illegal, like what the hell... but we as the audience are supposed to forgive it since he has a photogenic white girl daughter. (Nothing bad happened to the cop's family, it's just the fact that he's a dad.) Fking gross.

But that's what I get for turning my brain on while watching the show