Harry Kane and Michael Olise take up GothamChess's chess invitation

The football guests join a twelve-upload week that also finds Levy Rozman inspecting some decidedly impractical chess tables.

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HARRY KANE vs GOTHAM CHESS BATTLE

Harry Kane and Michael Olise have a different kind of positioning problem in GothamChess's latest collaboration. In "I MET HARRY KANE (Chess 1 v 1)," Levy Rozman meets the footballers and plays chess with them, adding a sporting crossover to a busy run of uploads.

The new encounter is already among the channel's fastest-moving videos, alongside "How to Play Chess," which currently draws the most daily views. "Huge Problem" rounds out that busy trio. The titles range from straightforward instruction to ominous understatement, very much within Rozman's usual register.

But the week's most watched upload is "WHY," with roughly 1.6 million views, and its problem isn't a difficult opponent. It's furniture. Rozman reacts to an Instagram slideshow called "THE ART OF A CHESS TABLE," where attractive presentation keeps colliding with the requirements of actually playing chess. Kings and queens occupy the wrong starting squares, one set has pieces all in a single color, and an extremely elongated table leaves him bewildered.

Viewers continue the inspection in the comments, discussing board orientation, the placement of the royal pieces and a board they count as six squares across. Others focus on the countdown before Rozman's close-up entrance.

GothamChess added roughly 70,000 subscribers over seven days, although channel-wide daily views are currently well below their usual pace. For a channel calling itself "The Internet's Chess Teacher," this week's teaching assignment includes a useful preliminary: make sure the designer has supplied a playable board.

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The videos drawing views on GothamChess right now

WHY1,646,061 views · 2026-10-23 Huge Problem1,427,541 views · 2026-10-27 How to Play Chess1,306,174 views · 2026-10-29 Great Man ❤️882,553 views · 2026-10-28 Subscriber showed me this chess match. I'm not making videos anymore. 771,657 views · 2026-10-25

The numbers

Here is GothamChess's week in subscribers, views and uploads.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

GothamChess

58,747,425

Legends of Avantris

33,519,295

Avatar Legends

4,405,199

Critical Role

3,873,776

TeamFourStar

3,644,389

Prince Vegeta

867,241

UnrealEntGaming

819,776

Geek & Sundry

599,103

Gigguk

212,151

subscribers

8,360,000

▲ 70,000 in the last 7 days

total views

6,506,181,773

views per day

4,238,619

typical day: 10,781,933

first-day views of each video posted this week

WHY

970,730

Huge Problem

818,209

How to Play Chess

1,130,705

Great Man ❤️

734,521

Subscriber showed me this chess match. …

431,237

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

GothamChess

8,360,000

TeamFourStar

4,470,000

Gigguk

3,620,000

Avatar Legends

3,400,000

Legends of Avantris

2,940,000

Critical Role

2,890,000

Geek & Sundry

2,400,000

Prince Vegeta

1,970,000

UnrealEntGaming

1,420,000

As of October 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.