Levy Rozman ‪@GothamChess‬ on his road to GM and winning the New York event with 8.0/9

Levy Rozman is the biggest Chess YouTuber in the world with over 5 million subscribers. He is trying to do something truly special - he is aiming to become a GM. His rating back a month was 2322 and now he has pumped it up to 2370. He played an amazing tournament in Spain and missed his GM norm by a whisker and now in New York, he played at the 1000GM 2024 IM invitational 2024 and he performed at an Elo of 2581 scoring 8.0/9. In this interview IM Sagar Shah tries to understand Levy's thinking about the road to GM journey as they go over the critical moments in his games. Support Levy's journey towards his GM title:   / about   Timestamps: 0:00 - Levy wins New York IM 0:47- Why Levy decided to play this tournament 1:50 - How is Levy doing so well 2:30 - Hikaru and Danny Rensch video 2:56 - Levy's coach 5:12: How did Levy choose his coach 6:53 - Road to GM series 7:48 - Can't wait to suffer painful defeats! 8:45 - So many people following this journey 9:47 - A book on this journey? 10:38 - Levy's Patreon 13:21 - Focus during tournaments 13:58 - Levy's schedule 15:50 - Levy's blitz and bullet 17:10 - Next tournaments 19:15 - Story of an Indian kid 20:00 - Coming to India 22:14 - the support team 24:00 - New mindset 25:40 - Game 1 vs Poliannikov (2238) 27:58 - New and Old Version of Levy 28:58 - How much is Psychology 30:20 - Game 2 vs Brain (2135) 33:26 - Game 3 vs Novik (2409) 38:24 - Opponent's feel worried? 39:14 - new idea in Caro Kann 40:28 - Game 4 vs Lee (2297) 43:24 - Top notch positional understanding 47:04 - Game 5 vs Yoo (2288) 50:17 - Game 6 vs Savanovic (2351) 52:41 - Game 7 vs Nguyen (2206) 55:00 - Best below 2400 Caro Kann player 55:26 - Game 8 vs Kretchetov (2088) 58:59 - Game 9 vs Rajmohan (2062) 1:02:45 - Insane calculation 1:06:44 - Hikaru's recaps 1:09:25 - Conclusion Video: ChessBase India #Chess #ChessBaseIndia #levyrozman ---------------------------------------------------------------- ◾Support young talents via HelpChess Foundation: https://helpchess.org/ ◾Review us on Google: https://g.page/r/CZ5T1PaLM-7WEBE/review ◾Chess Shop: https://chessbase.in/online-shop/ ◾ChessBase India on amazon: https://amzn.to/2vv0XXy ◾Contact us: http://chessbase.in/contact Most important links of ChessBase India: https://linktr.ee/chessbaseindia