I would just like to comment on how it is extremely impressive that, despite having 3 other completed speedruns, and being deep into this 4th, the last few uploads have been truly some of the best, most instructive, entertaining, and most honed of all speedrun videos on youtube. (and yes I am including speedruns from other chess content creators as well). It is apparent that Danya has really tweaked the format and approach to almost a perfected state. The chess community is truly blessed to have the Sensei as one of it's predominant public figures. 🙏❤🙌
For real. I happened to play a GM in a 15 minute game by incident, as he had only played 1 or 2 rapid games on Lichess. I won an exchange and felt like king, then his bishops completely wrecked me.
@@MasterJack2 traiditional Chinese chess training style is to never resign, always let ur opponents mate you, its also a show of respect to play out a game.
in all seriousness the discipline in not just chasing exciting-looking ideas without knowing whether they work is very impressive and something to aspire to
Opponent rated 2000 but defended like a 2300. What a wonderful game this one was. Also, I really appreciate you changing the time to 15 mins for the higher rated opponents. It's really helpful.
Such an exquisite game! Among the most deep and complicated games you've played this speedrun. Honestly, hats off to your opponent who played just absolutely stellar defense, finding so many amazing resources. A chess game is authored by two players, after all :)
An hour of my favorite chess streamer, teaching me something I desperately need to learn, and the video is an hour long? Am I dead and in heaven? Or am I alive and finally found the happiness I always wanted before a work day and the worst work day of all time, MONDAY. Ode to-fucking-joy homies.
This was one of the best speedrun games ever. You demonstrated perfectly how to play for Initiative in pawn-down or IQP positions. And the best thing was the tenacious defense of the opponent who made it really hard for you to convert the winning position
I don't care that the concept wasn't exactly the same.. How insane is it that someone in the chat asks about a move, and Danya shows him that it would blunder mate and immediately thinks of a similar mate that happened in a game almost TWENTY years ago!! That's just insane 😮
Danya was literally a world champion in the under-12 division when he was 11, so it's funny to hear that sort of thing when we all know he's a fantastic GM
I’ve been working my way backwards through the speed runs being a late finder of this channel and I have to say that this game and analysis is probably the best so far. Bravo.
I think it was pretty easy to spot if you're fixated on chasing the queen around, but it seems like displacing the queen was a secondary motive for Danya so he analyzed other moves first.
I'd love to see one of these with Chess 960! See how he approaches totally novel positions right from the start. It would be great because as a relative beginner, I don't know any of the opening theory that usually already gets Daniel in a winning position.
I never get to catch these live so thank you for uploading them consistently, and just wanted to say thank you for this series. I watch whenever I can and feels so good to be able to predict moves. I am definitely better than I was before this series started, and it's thank to your wonderful teaching skills for everyone from beginners to advanced players - I've gone from around 600 blitz to 900, and am about 1200 in rapid (I play a lot less rapid). My next goal is to start playing OTB at my college's chess club, even though I still suck and there are millions of people better than me, I have the confidence to try and improve more. Thanks again
The explanations following the game form one of (if not the) best explanations of how high GM level chess is. He calculated all of those variations in a couple of minutes total. Meanwhile, he shows how these are all filled with crazy tactics. Just realise, he’s listing all of these rejected lines because 5-10 moves down the road there’s a crazy tactic that I couldn’t even spot when looking at the position and given a minute or so to think. And for Danya, it’s just one of the many, many variations that he has to go over in his head. Absolutely insane.
intuitively it makes much more sense for me to take the bishop (2:57) but I would have a hard time reasoning why exactly that seems better to me and this is what I am working on right now, I'm about to reach 2000 at standard chess (std fide) I hope
My mind is blown by the depth of the analysis as well as the quality of play during the game. This speed run has challenged me to think deeper and reinforced how much I don’t understand about chess.
After the cheating bot match sensei had to play against and then the discussion about the sinquefield drama, it feels nice to be back on track with our regular teaching and an hour game i might add
I’ve seen hundreds of danya videos and this was the first time I saw a move immediately and he took a long time to spot. The move was Bc2. I’m getting better!
Daniel, I think you're the best educational chess streamer on TH-cam, no contest. The explanation for why such a normal looking move like nc3 is inaccurate is brilliant. You've really made my game much better these last few months. Thank you for all your hard work!
An incredibly rich game. The tension between the Caro being so solid but only if you play correctly. The measured play by Danya was pitch perfect as an educational video.
After watching this game....I think I'll never go above 1800-1900 🥺.....I'm feeling very sad ... i gave everything to this game for 2 yrs and I don't think I'll ever reach this level.....feels like crying
@Aaditya Gaming you have to remember that he is one of the best in the world at this. Honestly you watch this and understand it, start trying to apply the thought process, even at your own level. I don't think you can arbitrarily draw a line at 1900. Actually I mainly just play very fast time controls but I noticed after watching some of this, I was noticing tactics in my games I wasn't before.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out that Danya is *the* most liked and respected content creator by their followers, truly perfected an entire gender on TH-cam, nobody has a single thing to complain about, this man must be protected at all cost
I really appreciate taking a moment to remind viewers not to spend so much time looking at two almost equivalent moves trying to figure out which is better. I'm only 1700-1800 but I still often find myself low on time because when I felt like I was ahead, I worried about find that 'one' crushing blow, and end up in endgames that I just don't have the time when I need it. Great instruction, sir.
Methinks GMs are born, not made. Most were probably childhood prodigies. Some Experts have bragged to me about never opening a book, while I've spent literally thousands of hours on theory and analysis with meager results.
Great game, I play the Caro-Kann as well so the opening theory section was very helpful. I had also briefly seen Bd6 to maybe try to trap the queen but figured that both adjacent light-square diagonals were open and that would never happen. Interesting how the mind works like that.
I play 15|10 far more than 10|0, I'm excited to watch this video and see how we use the extra time to make more accurate moves and more thorough explanations
I'm quite late to the party (the speedrun was literally a year ago), but great game anyways. Btw, I think the ...Rxf3 sac at 1:12:24 actually works... I calculated 1...Be5, threatening to take the rook and then the knight, so 2. Rc1 (2. Ne4 loses to 2...Bxe4 3.Rc8+ Kh7 and white has to move the queen) Qg5+ 3. Kf1 (3. Kh1 Qf4 and mate is unstoppable.) Bd3+ 4. Ke1 Qg1+ 5. Kd2 Qxf2+ and black wins the queen. Edit: Should've continued watching lol. The video literally mentions that later hehe.
I saw bishop B2 and trapping the queen after the rook trade with bishopd5 fairly quickly. I was wondering if it worked and why you weren't seeing it, then I realized you probably are doing a ton more calcultions then my 1000 elo brain can see. I also missed the pawn block, and after you recapture can't he take the Rook?. I'm 19 min in. These are so exiting to watch.
Loving the speed run playlist! At 27 minutes you play … Bf5. Instead, can’t you win the Knight on c3 due to mate threat? … Qxc3; Qxc3?! Rd1+; Ne1 Rxe1# (therefore Q cannot recapture. Same logic for Qxc3; Rxc3?!.
I get the 4...Nf6 5...Bg4 idea you mention at the beginning of the game. But why not go with the natural 4...Nc6 and then 5.c3 Nf6 and 6...Bg4? Is there a wrench White can throw into this plan?
Great game, but I was a little disappointed that the answer to "handling the IQP" was "sac the IQP for activity". Is this always the answer? What about using the open files or fighting for the square in front of the IQP? This video doesn't really deliver on its promise imho.
After he offered that IQP the prophet never let down the pressure for one single move, constantly jabbing... I'm astonished by his mastery. Great defence by his opponent but not enough
Fantastic game, i am also a Caro player so especially enjoyed it also because of that and the complexity of this position is really nicely explained here. Great video
I think the caro kann is interesting but it just feels so slow and positional compared to other e4 defenses. Too much theory and doesn't feel as open to creativity like others
Hello Danya, huge fan, you've made me fall in love with chess. I was wondering if you could answer a few questions: 1. Any tips for using engines as a beginner? 2. How many chess books have you read? 3. How many hours a day do you chess?
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I love how the title is "Handling the IQP" ... and then Danya just sacs it.
Lmao I was thinking the same 😂
Hey its certainly handled
I saw "Handing the IQP" ngl
I guess that’s how you handle it 😅
@@logicallylazyyea that's the only way . 😂
This is probably the best game of the speed run so far
yup, my favorite game easily
As a caro player that’s learning this e5 line, I agree
Without question
Amazing analysis by grand master naroditsky
At 27:05, why not a sac the queen with QueenC3 and then RookD1 forcing mate?
One of the very few TH-camrs who doesn’t, at all and never, insult the intelligence of his audience. Thank god for content like this
One of the few than can captivate an 800 elo all the way through 2000+ elo.
Which chess TH-camrs insult the intelligence of their audience?
@@mikecantreed do you want me to make a list of them?
Yeah especially for chess Danya, Levy (Gothamchess) and Eric Rosen are great because you can take away something from every video
Ben finegold comes to mind. “If you want to see a bad game go upstairs, if you’re at home, look at one of your own games.”
I would just like to comment on how it is extremely impressive that, despite having 3 other completed speedruns, and being deep into this 4th, the last few uploads have been truly some of the best, most instructive, entertaining, and most honed of all speedrun videos on youtube. (and yes I am including speedruns from other chess content creators as well). It is apparent that Danya has really tweaked the format and approach to almost a perfected state. The chess community is truly blessed to have the Sensei as one of it's predominant public figures. 🙏❤🙌
There's something with GMs being able to make use of their bishop pair with such class and harmony. A work of art.
A masterpiece
For real. I happened to play a GM in a 15 minute game by incident, as he had only played 1 or 2 rapid games on Lichess.
I won an exchange and felt like king, then his bishops completely wrecked me.
This a a great example on how to use the bishop pair. I can’t use them to save my life
@@yesyoeable i only played an fm in my online games hhhh
What is your rating btw? Or was it in a swiss tournament?
@@strikercool911 I'm 2000-2100 rapid. His rating was provisional and I joined his rated game on the lobby.
Babe wake up new Danya vid 🥳
Babe is already watching. You're late.
Again?
I see this comment on every video
Opponent was very impressive this game. Great game to watch!
Absolutely love when the opponent comes to compete, so much more entertaining and instructional
he was very good but a little petty there at the end but again he is free to do whatever with his 15minutes.
@@MasterJack2 traiditional Chinese chess training style is to never resign, always let ur opponents mate you, its also a show of respect to play out a game.
Yeah great defense, i swear i can smell the opponent sweating from my monitor, poor guy
The struggle to find the tactics was incredible. The constant shutting down of his own lines was super inspiring
in all seriousness the discipline in not just chasing exciting-looking ideas without knowing whether they work is very impressive and something to aspire to
One of my worst fears is to wake up on day and find a video of Danya announcing he is not gonna do speedruns anymore
What r ur other worst fears
Yoohh 😂@@cjackdc
Opponent rated 2000 but defended like a 2300. What a wonderful game this one was.
Also, I really appreciate you changing the time to 15 mins for the higher rated opponents. It's really helpful.
Great game! It's amazing how for most of the game white was only lagging behind by a single tempo, but that made all the difference.
Such an exquisite game! Among the most deep and complicated games you've played this speedrun. Honestly, hats off to your opponent who played just absolutely stellar defense, finding so many amazing resources. A chess game is authored by two players, after all :)
An hour of my favorite chess streamer, teaching me something I desperately need to learn, and the video is an hour long? Am I dead and in heaven? Or am I alive and finally found the happiness I always wanted before a work day and the worst work day of all time, MONDAY. Ode to-fucking-joy homies.
Amen
unusually long
lmao
An hour long video that’s an hour long?! Get outta here!
Daniel is genuinely the best chess content creator. No fake hype, no filler, no boasting, all skill and respect.
Also check out GingerGM 👍
Absolutely incredible game, brilliant attacking ideas and excellently defended by the 2000, bravo!
This was one of the best speedrun games ever. You demonstrated perfectly how to play for Initiative in pawn-down or IQP positions. And the best thing was the tenacious defense of the opponent who made it really hard for you to convert the winning position
Plus a Caro-Kann game, we know you like it !
Even though this one was more open than positionnal
I don't care that the concept wasn't exactly the same.. How insane is it that someone in the chat asks about a move, and Danya shows him that it would blunder mate and immediately thinks of a similar mate that happened in a game almost TWENTY years ago!! That's just insane 😮
Carlson can also do that, needless to say. We witness true genius.
I love how Danya says stuff like "most of the grandmasters..." as if he isn't almost a super GM himself
Danya was literally a world champion in the under-12 division when he was 11, so it's funny to hear that sort of thing when we all know he's a fantastic GM
I’ve been working my way backwards through the speed runs being a late finder of this channel and I have to say that this game and analysis is probably the best so far. Bravo.
I saw the queen trap idea in 17:50 before Danya and I thought I must be stupid and missing something because he didnt mention it for 2 minutes lol
I saw it quite early too but ditched it cause I didnt see any follow up after b4.
I think it was pretty easy to spot if you're fixated on chasing the queen around, but it seems like displacing the queen was a secondary motive for Danya so he analyzed other moves first.
This was the most entertaining game out of all the speed runs. Amazing game
You are using an AI generated image in the thumbnail
I'd love to see one of these with Chess 960! See how he approaches totally novel positions right from the start. It would be great because as a relative beginner, I don't know any of the opening theory that usually already gets Daniel in a winning position.
This might be the single most instructive chess video I’ve ever seen
I never get to catch these live so thank you for uploading them consistently, and just wanted to say thank you for this series. I watch whenever I can and feels so good to be able to predict moves. I am definitely better than I was before this series started, and it's thank to your wonderful teaching skills for everyone from beginners to advanced players - I've gone from around 600 blitz to 900, and am about 1200 in rapid (I play a lot less rapid). My next goal is to start playing OTB at my college's chess club, even though I still suck and there are millions of people better than me, I have the confidence to try and improve more.
Thanks again
How to handle the IQP. Just sack it on move 6
One of the best analysis I have ever seen, thank you
The explanations following the game form one of (if not the) best explanations of how high GM level chess is. He calculated all of those variations in a couple of minutes total. Meanwhile, he shows how these are all filled with crazy tactics. Just realise, he’s listing all of these rejected lines because 5-10 moves down the road there’s a crazy tactic that I couldn’t even spot when looking at the position and given a minute or so to think. And for Danya, it’s just one of the many, many variations that he has to go over in his head. Absolutely insane.
That sort of visualization, memory, and calculating ability is what separates GMs from mere mortals.
I found all of his top moves first time around🎉
Call me caro kann connosieur
intuitively it makes much more sense for me to take the bishop (2:57) but I would have a hard time reasoning why exactly that seems better to me and this is what I am working on right now, I'm about to reach 2000 at standard chess (std fide) I hope
My mind is blown by the depth of the analysis as well as the quality of play during the game. This speed run has challenged me to think deeper and reinforced how much I don’t understand about chess.
Inject these videos straight into my veins
Very instructive sensei, I can't wait to take all this knowledge and crush 😉hikaru..
Dude. This was an insane game for 2k rating.
After the cheating bot match sensei had to play against and then the discussion about the sinquefield drama, it feels nice to be back on track with our regular teaching and an hour game i might add
Saw that Bc2 queen trap a mile away and was getting so frustrated lol idk if i got lucky or Danya was j blind lol
I’ve seen hundreds of danya videos and this was the first time I saw a move immediately and he took a long time to spot. The move was Bc2. I’m getting better!
what's your rating?
Not that good according the computer 1:16:10
Daniel, I think you're the best educational chess streamer on TH-cam, no contest. The explanation for why such a normal looking move like nc3 is inaccurate is brilliant. You've really made my game much better these last few months. Thank you for all your hard work!
Very good verbal skills while he is playing.. Earned a sub
White was just behind one single tempo!
Danya shows the reason WHY he is a GM!! Pure class.
25:19 “Gosh it’s so hard”
That’s how I feel about life 🤷♂️
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID
I'm so happy, I'm only 1400 but I saw the queen trap with bc2 bd6 in less than 5 seconds 😊
25:27 is exactly how I look…. After i blunder my queen.
Great content as always Daniel.
At 11:57 why is the bishop next to the queen untouchable? I don't get it.
Bh2+ then rook takes
Amazing play by your opponent. Loving the game so far
An incredibly rich game. The tension between the Caro being so solid but only if you play correctly. The measured play by Danya was pitch perfect as an educational video.
The more and more I watch GM naroditaky more I realize how priceless these series are. Thank you for these simply the best chess channel on youtube
You mean it's like the Game of Thrones plot- except it didn't fizzle out in the end
Handling the IQP > Game of Thrones
I lost my absolute shit at 54:30.... HE DID THIS IN HIS HEAD
And he can probably study or play several games simultaneously without sight of a board. Phenomenal.
I'm sorry Levy... guess the elo isn't my favourite series here on youtube anymore 😔
Crazy defense by white, great game
After watching this game....I think I'll never go above 1800-1900 🥺.....I'm feeling very sad ... i gave everything to this game for 2 yrs and I don't think I'll ever reach this level.....feels like crying
@Aaditya Gaming you have to remember that he is one of the best in the world at this. Honestly you watch this and understand it, start trying to apply the thought process, even at your own level. I don't think you can arbitrarily draw a line at 1900. Actually I mainly just play very fast time controls but I noticed after watching some of this, I was noticing tactics in my games I wasn't before.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out that Danya is *the* most liked and respected content creator by their followers, truly perfected an entire gender on TH-cam, nobody has a single thing to complain about, this man must be protected at all cost
I'm so proud of myself. I found bishop C2 and bishop D6 trapping the queen almost instantly
Lol nice!
this calculation was deep. deeper than sea
I really appreciate taking a moment to remind viewers not to spend so much time looking at two almost equivalent moves trying to figure out which is better. I'm only 1700-1800 but I still often find myself low on time because when I felt like I was ahead, I worried about find that 'one' crushing blow, and end up in endgames that I just don't have the time when I need it. Great instruction, sir.
Been there, done that!
Best chess series on YT.
I will never be this good and visualize past 2 moves😄
Methinks GMs are born, not made. Most were probably childhood prodigies. Some Experts have bragged to me about never opening a book, while I've spent literally thousands of hours on theory and analysis with meager results.
Should link to the game at Lichess in the description!
How to handle IQP?
Danya: Sac it! 😆
This was an inspiring game
The title of the video should be "Dominating with the Bishop Pair"
What a game. Amazing video.
Great game, I play the Caro-Kann as well so the opening theory section was very helpful. I had also briefly seen Bd6 to maybe try to trap the queen but figured that both adjacent light-square diagonals were open and that would never happen. Interesting how the mind works like that.
Very interesting game. I often struggle to keep this tiny initative going. End up a pawn down in an endgame.
So instructive! A big thank you to Danya and also his opponent for playing such game
I play 15|10 far more than 10|0, I'm excited to watch this video and see how we use the extra time to make more accurate moves and more thorough explanations
I'm quite late to the party (the speedrun was literally a year ago), but great game anyways.
Btw, I think the ...Rxf3 sac at 1:12:24 actually works... I calculated 1...Be5, threatening to take the rook and then the knight, so 2. Rc1 (2. Ne4 loses to 2...Bxe4 3.Rc8+ Kh7 and white has to move the queen) Qg5+ 3. Kf1 (3. Kh1 Qf4 and mate is unstoppable.) Bd3+ 4. Ke1 Qg1+ 5. Kd2 Qxf2+ and black wins the queen.
Edit: Should've continued watching lol. The video literally mentions that later hehe.
Real hero is IQP... Without his sacrifice, we wouldn't have got this great content at all.
One of the best games yet. Sweet jesus danya, how do you find these moves???
I saw bishop B2 and trapping the queen after the rook trade with bishopd5 fairly quickly. I was wondering if it worked and why you weren't seeing it, then I realized you probably are doing a ton more calcultions then my 1000 elo brain can see. I also missed the pawn block, and after you recapture can't he take the Rook?. I'm 19 min in. These are so exiting to watch.
Loving the speed run playlist! At 27 minutes you play … Bf5. Instead, can’t you win the Knight on c3 due to mate threat? … Qxc3; Qxc3?! Rd1+; Ne1 Rxe1# (therefore Q cannot recapture. Same logic for Qxc3; Rxc3?!.
Please play more Catalan
What an incredible game!!!
I get the 4...Nf6 5...Bg4 idea you mention at the beginning of the game. But why not go with the natural 4...Nc6 and then 5.c3 Nf6 and 6...Bg4? Is there a wrench White can throw into this plan?
greatest speedrun game
Great game, but I was a little disappointed that the answer to "handling the IQP" was "sac the IQP for activity". Is this always the answer? What about using the open files or fighting for the square in front of the IQP? This video doesn't really deliver on its promise imho.
These always come out when I need to go to sleep, but I always stay up to watch them😅
After he offered that IQP the prophet never let down the pressure for one single move, constantly jabbing... I'm astonished by his mastery. Great defence by his opponent but not enough
One of my favorite speedrun games! Incredible game.
Why bg6 ?! Why not bxb1 just winning or even easier bd1, and instead of bf4 just rxf3 and qxf3 gg, but anyway nc game
Top tier content
Why couldn’t the opponent take Bd3 at 10:52
Bh2+
Man, this was just beautiful. Thanks, Danya!
If Handling the IQP is this complicated for a player as strong as Danya, I am going to avoid it for my entire chess career.
Fantastic game, i am also a Caro player so especially enjoyed it also because of that and the complexity of this position is really nicely explained here. Great video
54:25 I don’t see why not save the white bishop, ring the dark square bishop back in, and launch a stronger mating attack.
Been waiting for more naro kann, thank you!
I think the caro kann is interesting but it just feels so slow and positional compared to other e4 defenses. Too much theory and doesn't feel as open to creativity like others
26:45 Whats stopping you from saccing the queen for the knight allowing rook to come in the back rank ?
I was wondering if you could kill the knight with your queen at 27:00 and then backrank checkmate with rook
I really hate these positions where it looks very bad for one side but none of the tactics work to convert the advantage
The screen tearing on your face cam is disgusting. Please fix it. You might need to manually tell it to capture at 60 or 30 fps.
At 27:05, why not sac the queen with QueenC3 and then RookD1 forcing mate?
Awesome game
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On about minute 27, can't you just capture the knight on c3 with queen?
Hello Danya, huge fan, you've made me fall in love with chess. I was wondering if you could answer a few questions:
1. Any tips for using engines as a beginner?
2. How many chess books have you read?
3. How many hours a day do you chess?
the thing i don't understand is why daenerys killed women and children in king's landing after the battle had been won.
Opponent played every move he said after he said it. Maybe he was listening in?