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"GM Levy Now." passes half a million views as Levy Rozman faces Gata Kamsky and Dmitry Gurevich.
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GM Levy Now.
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- 0:19Rozman opens a three-minute blitz game with the French Defense.
- 5:05An awkward position and unusual opposing moves leave him increasingly frustrated.
- 8:06A new game pairs Rozman with Grandmaster Gata Kamsky.
- 11:48Rozman weighs giving up a rook to complicate the position; the game's resolution comes at 13:42.
- 15:23Post-game analysis highlights his queen placement and the players' accuracy.
- 16:08Dmitry Gurevich is next, with the endgame taking shape at 18:48.
Gotham Games posted nine uploads, but its busiest new clip finds Levy Rozman having a particularly uneven day at the board. "GM Levy Now." is a stream excerpt, not a grandmaster-title announcement, and its opening game hardly supplies a coronation.
"Today's a French kind of a day," Rozman says as he adopts the French Defense. His opponent's unusual moves then become a mounting source of frustration: Rozman struggles to coordinate his pieces before eventually resigning in disbelief.
The next encounters bring more familiar names and rather different problems. Against Gata Kamsky, Rozman considers giving up a rook for complications and finds repeated knight checks that secure a draw. Against Dmitry Gurevich, whom he introduces by recalling a poor head-to-head record, he picks up extra pawns and reaches a winning endgame advantage. It is a small tour of blitz chess's emotional range, preserved on GothamChess's official third channel for full-game clips.
The upload has passed roughly 508,000 views and carries the most momentum among the channel's videos. "This is what 3000 Elo does to you." is the next most active, while "Levy Shows Why He Still Isn't a GM." supplies the week's conveniently contrary title. In the comments on the top upload, thumbnail jokes dominate, though one viewer draws a comparison with Emanuel Lasker's practical, time-consuming problems for opponents.
Gotham Games added 5,000 subscribers over the week, a brisk contribution to its monthly growth, even as daily views currently sit below their usual level. Nearby, Chess Vibes and Gotham Clips had unchanged subscriber counts for the week; Brantzen Poker had a particularly busy viewing week. Gotham Games, meanwhile, is just short of the six-hundred-thousand-subscriber mark.
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first game reminds me of Lasker games. Practical moves that aren't crazy strong but makes your opponent use a lot of brain power and time to find a way to win.
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The videos drawing views on Gotham Games right now
- Channel
- Gotham Games
- Subscribers
- 598,000 ▲ 5,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,157,950
- Videos published this week
- 9
- Video published
- November 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 507,683
- Views on its first day
- 283,339
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Which opening does Rozman choose in the first game of "GM Levy Now."?
Rozman adopts the French Defense and announces that it is a French kind of day.