Danya: Makes best chess content on TH-cam Also Danya: I apologize for this embarrassing trainwreck of content I've brought shame on my whole family please forgive me
Because of your teaching: I look for c5 and f5 pawn breaks, I try not to take first and preserve the tension, I gang up on backward or isolated pawns, I look for where an opponents piece is going, and best of all I look for discovered attacks for or against me. Thanks
I love watching you play lower levels. Watching you explain why their move isn't the best for two minutes while your opponent would be thinking they have you stumped.
@@justsomeprofile4969 If I am on move 4 and the other player takes 4 seconds I also assume the other player is either stumped or cheating... Or is a GM doing a speedrun and I am about to get stomped. lol.
Really appreciate your mindful commentary; from your very in-depth explanation about concepts (like your explanation of attacking pawn chains) to even always saying "his or her" whenever addressing your opponent. I think that's very thoughtful.
I should really learn the tromp; in this game danya basically got moved order from the King's Indian into a London main line setup, but with tempo for white. I can see why Levy also plays it. I know the H pawn can be weak but the postion seems at least easy in a way to play.
I love all your videos regardless of what your opponent does. Even that recent game where your opponent went for Scholar's Mate was super interesting when you explained that even Naka has played 2. Qh5
No apology necessary. It is good to see how you deal with people how don't know the theory and throw at you moves you didn't even think about. That throws me about sometimes :D
Great game!!! Great series and instruction as usual. You are an amazing coach and one of the literal best chess players alive. If at any point you would be willing to play the Jobava London I would greatly appreciate that as it is one of my main openings I am working on. I also love when you play the Buddapest. Thank you, have a great holiday season.
@Daniel Naroditsky I have been watching your tutorial videos for quite some time and was wondering if you would be willing to do an in depth guide of the ruy lopez (Spanish opening)? I am trying to expand my opening repertoire and find that your instructional videos have really helped me become a better chess player and I really take to the way you teach. This would be greatly appreciated and I would love to know your thoughts.
Danya I think you underestimate how many of us are at lower levels and appreciate the help with getting out of them. Sounds like the higher level people are the loudest and need to wait lol
Is it possible to re-watch Twitch streams from this series? I tried to find them, but only found a handful of recent videos and some older highlights. How it works there?
Was ..bxg3 better for us at 20:30 instead of taking the pawn? Threatens mate, and if white castles, blunders the knight we just captured because of the pinned F pawn, so after castle we could safely play exd5 (which was played first in the vid instead of bxg3)
They're simple games but they don't suck ok he's 1000 maybe instead of intentionally blundering a piece (previous run) maybe more instructive to move into the trap?Point is he wouldn't play like that if he didn't win at this level. Maybe bs idk Thanks for the videos. I can feel more passion in endgame videos & honestly humbling to find out you didn't know what you don't know Edit: maybe instead of blundering in play natural losing move to consolidate & counter punch. We all do it at our respective level
@@rakhatthenut3815 well, Danya made a timestamp of when the first move happens, but yt interpretation of that is "everything between that and next timestamp is therefore first move", which is a reasonable but not necessarily correct assumption
"One-move-itis!!!!" Thank you for putting a name to this thing, now I can remind myself and try to stop doing it all the time. You are hands down the best chess teacher on here!
I got a nimzo Indian course made by a 2700 grand maester on chessable, and I’ve spent 10 hours studying the course and fueled by the power of space repetition, I AM UNSTOPPABLE! And you show up to the tournament and you play bishop g5 that you looked at for 30 min in the d4 Gotham course and your opponent loses in 20 moves
Danya, you aren’t just the best educational chess content on the internet; you are one of the best teachers I’ve seen in anything. You seem to make poignant and succinct points out of any scenario, even mundane ones. Watching principled chess shred gimmicky chess shows novice players the benefits of understanding concepts instead of memorizing lines. Always look forward to your content.
i'm pretty sure Danya is for memorising lines tho - he only plays theory in these speedruns (except when he intentionally blunders :P), he encourages us to do it qute often - especially if we want to play certain openings, he always points out different theoretical lines. i also don't like memorising in chess, but let's not be delusional. i memorised some lines by playing them against a strong computer with suggestions and overall by playing only 1 opening for each side lol ngl, i started to crash my friends IRL since i've done that, although, i still know very little relatively and i do it for over a year now so maybe it's not a good way.
@@thatguy5233 Memorizing lines will always be a part of chess but it doesn’t seem to be a focus of his speed runs. Courses I have bought are sometimes just memorize these lines to get these positions. I feel like Danya is instructive of why I’m doing what I’m doing so it seems intuitive when I’m doing it. As a GM he also has most major lines memorized to some degree and when you play blitz it is more dependent on memorization because you need to bust out your opening. Just my thoughts though.
Great vid as per usual! You might want to consider removing King's Indian from the title of this one though. I get that it's the general recommendation for this speedrun, but in this one pretty much none of the classical King's Indian moves were played I think, just a suggestion though! Also, I am super hyped to see you use he KID throughout this speedrun as it's my favourite opening and I am sure I will learn a lot! :)
Great speedrun as always!, but please don't remind me the c***** vaccine anymore 🤣seriously though 😅not something I want to hear in the middle of chess... enough hearing it from tv and so on. Thanks so much _/\_ appreciated!
I remember when starting chess attacking pawn chains was an impossible task. Sometimes I'd get completely blocked or lose some pawns just because or got into horrible position with backward pawns etc. This topic could easily be whole video IMO.
around 25:40 i often run into these center pawn cubes in QGD type positions. It's skipped over quickly how to best handle that, or what order to take in. Any recs?
8:53 I actually enjoy when the games at this level progress along unconventional lines sometimes. My rating is around 1200 and I often find that my opponents at this level divert from main line theory in strange, tricky ways. So it’s useful for me to see a GM thinking through unconventional structures like this
You can't help it if your opponents are playing badly, I'm just happy you're making new speed runs, best thing on youtube and my chess has improved so much from your content, thank you!
You have played many gambits in these speedruns, like Queen's Gambit, Smith Mora, Danish, etc. Please do a gambit-only speedrun, with both black and white. It will be awesome. ❤
Are you kidding? 1100 elo use the trumpowsky attack? Wow! People are so good these days? He even knows to play h4. That’s like theory. Does Levy got a course on this or smth?
Seems that after h6 white could have played Nh4 anyway, since if Black plays hxBg5, White follows up with NxN! if QxN, then h5xg5! both attacking Black’s Queen & unmasking a discovered attack that wins Black’s rook, netting White the exchange for his bishop. Further, if instead of hxg5 white castles kingside first, to protect g2 & remove his rook from the h file, White smashes Black’s kingside with NxN and if Black replies gxNf6, then White has Bh3 attacking Black’s rook & White’s Queen & rook will soon swarm Black’s broken kingside. Great respect for DN, but seems this tactically tricky shot Nh4 was overlooked by both players.
For the love of God, please change that awful green color scheme on the board. There's seriously not any option you could pick that's worse than this one.
I really don't understand how people can really complain. We were all there at one point or another and a bunch of people are there right now. Ya'll know the higher elo games are coming. Peeps just gotta chill.
@@SchokoKekseFTW it's a term Danya uses to refer to a manoeuvring square, or a square you use to get somewhere else - i.e, moving a knight to f1 in order to get to g3
19:33 White has Nf3 and if you take it you could get forked by the other knight to move to c4 after white takes your pawn on d5. I thought white's move of the pawn to e4 at 17:17 was trying to set up a fork and was quite a good move.
One of the greatest (recent!) games ever to demonstrate the hazards of early castling (especially with the h-pawn hook) is Aronian vs. Kramnik from the 2018 Candidates tournament. Kramnik played the caveman-like 7...Rg8! and slaughtered Aronian brilliantly.
I’m a beginner and it’s super helpful how you point out that certain “good opening principles” like not blocking your own pieces, not moving the same piece multiple times, etc. shouldnt always be blindly followed but should be thought of more as a solid guideline, since things can change depending on the specifics of the game
These videos remind me of the videos of the jujitsu black belts going into a gym and pretending to be a white belt and tapping unsuspecting blue belts out. The blue belts always start with a lot of confidence and you see it slowly fading away as theyre being dominated and they just can't comprehend what's going on lol... Let's go Danya!!! Hoping you do well in the Aimchess tournament. I'm rooting for you.
Danya: Makes best chess content on TH-cam
Also Danya: I apologize for this embarrassing trainwreck of content I've brought shame on my whole family please forgive me
To be fair, this video was much better than the previous ones in the series. He wasn't wrong. 🤷♂️
bahaha so true
😭 so accurate
Please forgive me i have a family to feed my sister had to amputate her arms and legs to be able to feed us tonight
Danya:
"That's a GREAT move by our opponent but it doesn't actually do anything or threatens anything!"
Because of your teaching: I look for c5 and f5 pawn breaks, I try not to take first and preserve the tension, I gang up on backward or isolated pawns, I look for where an opponents piece is going, and best of all I look for discovered attacks for or against me. Thanks
Yea but how much rating have you lost?
@@mikecantreed ?
I love watching you play lower levels. Watching you explain why their move isn't the best for two minutes while your opponent would be thinking they have you stumped.
how do you know what the opponent is thinking?
@@justsomeprofile4969 If I am on move 4 and the other player takes 4 seconds I also assume the other player is either stumped or cheating... Or is a GM doing a speedrun and I am about to get stomped. lol.
@@binnieb173 depends on the opening though.
As you said, you can’t control who you play but people at various levels get something from it. Always learning something 👍👍
Your undying love for Danya speedruns is to die for. I have seen your comments from the very first speedrun he produced. Much respect, bruh!
@@kennethkakande what a lovely comment. Thanks for taking the time to write that.
Really appreciate your mindful commentary; from your very in-depth explanation about concepts (like your explanation of attacking pawn chains) to even always saying "his or her" whenever addressing your opponent. I think that's very thoughtful.
Deep theory. Digestible and very instructive. I can't believe this is free. Such DVDs cost fortunes. Thanks GM Danya
That's what they used to call them, before tapes, I think
Absolutely love this kind of content! So instructive
"b4 is not a threat, it's our opponents idea." Danya 9:34
I should really learn the tromp; in this game danya basically got moved order from the King's Indian into a London main line setup, but with tempo for white. I can see why Levy also plays it. I know the H pawn can be weak but the postion seems at least easy in a way to play.
Would love to see how you play the Blackmar Diemer
Danya is absolute legend
Loving the content... can't wait for Stansted Airport if you ever get round to that.
I love all your videos regardless of what your opponent does. Even that recent game where your opponent went for Scholar's Mate was super interesting when you explained that even Naka has played 2. Qh5
No apology necessary. It is good to see how you deal with people how don't know the theory and throw at you moves you didn't even think about. That throws me about sometimes :D
Great game!!! Great series and instruction as usual.
You are an amazing coach and one of the literal best chess players alive. If at any point you would be willing to play the Jobava London I would greatly appreciate that as it is one of my main openings I am working on.
I also love when you play the Buddapest. Thank you, have a great holiday season.
At 20:17 Danya said "what else is on the menu?" and I immediately got a food advert
@Daniel Naroditsky I have been watching your tutorial videos for quite some time and was wondering if you would be willing to do an in depth guide of the ruy lopez (Spanish opening)? I am trying to expand my opening repertoire and find that your instructional videos have really helped me become a better chess player and I really take to the way you teach. This would be greatly appreciated and I would love to know your thoughts.
So grateful for your videos!
Please please please bring back the old board theme and piece set!
Danya I think you underestimate how many of us are at lower levels and appreciate the help with getting out of them. Sounds like the higher level people are the loudest and need to wait lol
Is it possible to re-watch Twitch streams from this series? I tried to find them, but only found a handful of recent videos and some older highlights. How it works there?
Was ..bxg3 better for us at 20:30 instead of taking the pawn? Threatens mate, and if white castles, blunders the knight we just captured because of the pinned F pawn, so after castle we could safely play exd5 (which was played first in the vid instead of bxg3)
No. Engine eval gave danya's way .5 better for black.
@@thumbsmeup99 thanks for checking
Road to a million subs. Let's keep it going guys!
Man I was so excited at the thumbnail I thought finally the vomit theme was abandoned :(
Bravo!
i have the chessable course that i got for free of the art of the attack. probably the best thing i took from this video is to start it ASAP
Thx for reccomendation
17:24 made me laugh
Until that blunder happened it seemed like they were pretty good for 1100.
It doesn't matter that some of these games may be very one sided. We still learn a lot.
How would’ve you reacted to the move c3 instead of Be2? With the idea of Rc1 if Qxc3
blue board and base pieces pliz
Danya is awesome
First games were interesting. And not only for beginners.
D4 DYNAMITE TROMPOWSKY
They're simple games but they don't suck ok he's 1000 maybe instead of intentionally blundering a piece (previous run) maybe more instructive to move into the trap?Point is he wouldn't play like that if he didn't win at this level. Maybe bs idk
Thanks for the videos. I can feel more passion in endgame videos & honestly humbling to find out you didn't know what you don't know
Edit: maybe instead of blundering in play natural losing move to consolidate & counter punch. We all do it at our respective level
This is how instructional chess videoes should be . Not clickbait titled shorts from a wanabe grandmaster.
What would Claudia's elo be considered, on aimchess? Just wondering roughly about what it would be
Only asking bc it says advanced. I'm not advanced, but I just curb stomped her lol
At least 3 or 4, I'd think
@@davislast7891 lol thx
Is this series a parody of chessbrahs speedrun? Is that why you went and grabbed a book? Are you accusing them of cheating?
Being at a lower elo, I really appreciate you taking the time to go through your thought process on these speed runs. Learning a lot. Thanks.
"That blunders a knight and our opponent immediately resigns" 💀
Just want to say that if Daniel made a Chessable course based around the Accelerated Dragon and the KID I bet it would sell like mad.
i like how yt marks everything from 0:45 to 20:45 as "first move"
It is not yt, it is who published the video
@@rakhatthenut3815 well, Danya made a timestamp of when the first move happens, but yt interpretation of that is "everything between that and next timestamp is therefore first move", which is a reasonable but not necessarily correct assumption
@@TEMHOTAOKEAHA "my fav youtuber cant do mistakes... its youtube!!!m!!m!m"
@butdeer ok W
"One-move-itis!!!!" Thank you for putting a name to this thing, now I can remind myself and try to stop doing it all the time. You are hands down the best chess teacher on here!
10:20 I always appreciate when you can relate esoteric Chess lessons to fundamental Jenga theory
I got a nimzo Indian course made by a 2700 grand maester on chessable, and I’ve spent 10 hours studying the course and fueled by the power of space repetition, I AM UNSTOPPABLE! And you show up to the tournament and you play bishop g5 that you looked at for 30 min in the d4 Gotham course and your opponent loses in 20 moves
You're just saying the exact gotham words
You should have bought gawain jones‘ kings indian course instead, that has a chapter on the trompowsky 😊
The whole comment is theory - played before xD
Grand Maester Pycelle?
-Gotham Chess
17:26 "....e4 that's a great move by our opponent ...but it doesn't actually do anything...." LMAO - understated comedy is the best.
Danya, you aren’t just the best educational chess content on the internet; you are one of the best teachers I’ve seen in anything. You seem to make poignant and succinct points out of any scenario, even mundane ones. Watching principled chess shred gimmicky chess shows novice players the benefits of understanding concepts instead of memorizing lines. Always look forward to your content.
i'm pretty sure Danya is for memorising lines tho - he only plays theory in these speedruns (except when he intentionally blunders :P), he encourages us to do it qute often - especially if we want to play certain openings, he always points out different theoretical lines. i also don't like memorising in chess, but let's not be delusional. i memorised some lines by playing them against a strong computer with suggestions and overall by playing only 1 opening for each side lol ngl, i started to crash my friends IRL since i've done that, although, i still know very little relatively and i do it for over a year now so maybe it's not a good way.
@@thatguy5233 Memorizing lines will always be a part of chess but it doesn’t seem to be a focus of his speed runs. Courses I have bought are sometimes just memorize these lines to get these positions. I feel like Danya is instructive of why I’m doing what I’m doing so it seems intuitive when I’m doing it. As a GM he also has most major lines memorized to some degree and when you play blitz it is more dependent on memorization because you need to bust out your opening. Just my thoughts though.
@@jdevries415 that's true. i misunderstood or something. i just wanted to share my way of memorising so it's not so boring xd
Great vid as per usual! You might want to consider removing King's Indian from the title of this one though. I get that it's the general recommendation for this speedrun, but in this one pretty much none of the classical King's Indian moves were played I think, just a suggestion though!
Also, I am super hyped to see you use he KID throughout this speedrun as it's my favourite opening and I am sure I will learn a lot! :)
Great speedrun as always!, but please don't remind me the c***** vaccine anymore 🤣seriously though 😅not something I want to hear in the middle of chess... enough hearing it from tv and so on. Thanks so much _/\_ appreciated!
I remember when starting chess attacking pawn chains was an impossible task. Sometimes I'd get completely blocked or lose some pawns just because or got into horrible position with backward pawns etc. This topic could easily be whole video IMO.
around 25:40 i often run into these center pawn cubes in QGD type positions. It's skipped over quickly how to best handle that, or what order to take in. Any recs?
8:53 I actually enjoy when the games at this level progress along unconventional lines sometimes. My rating is around 1200 and I often find that my opponents at this level divert from main line theory in strange, tricky ways. So it’s useful for me to see a GM thinking through unconventional structures like this
You can't help it if your opponents are playing badly, I'm just happy you're making new speed runs, best thing on youtube and my chess has improved so much from your content, thank you!
You have played many gambits in these speedruns, like Queen's Gambit, Smith Mora, Danish, etc. Please do a gambit-only speedrun, with both black and white. It will be awesome. ❤
Danya, one of the best GMs in the world currently: sorry that the games have been one-sided! :(
I expected this would be against Gotham
Are you kidding? 1100 elo use the trumpowsky attack? Wow!
People are so good these days? He even knows to play h4. That’s like theory. Does Levy got a course on this or smth?
Yes , it's his favorite Adult opening, for kids it's the Vienna.
Seems that after h6 white could have played Nh4 anyway, since if Black plays hxBg5, White follows up with NxN! if QxN, then h5xg5! both attacking Black’s Queen & unmasking a discovered attack that wins Black’s rook, netting White the exchange for his bishop. Further, if instead of hxg5 white castles kingside first, to protect g2 & remove his rook from the h file, White smashes Black’s kingside with NxN and if Black replies gxNf6, then White has Bh3 attacking Black’s rook & White’s Queen & rook will soon swarm Black’s broken kingside. Great respect for DN, but seems this tactically tricky shot Nh4 was overlooked by both players.
For the love of God, please change that awful green color scheme on the board. There's seriously not any option you could pick that's worse than this one.
"White was losing" 😅
My mind working overtime trying to understand how to progress as black
8:05 awwww ... I mean, I think it's a nice Naroditsky-ism in the same way that "never play f3" is more well known than Ben Finegold is.
People are complaining that a GM is beating 800-rated noobs a little too easily?! What's wrong with you clowns?
BTW if you get that Quantum AI Elon Musk ad do know its a scam . Don't understand why YT never takes it down
I really don't understand how people can really complain. We were all there at one point or another and a bunch of people are there right now. Ya'll know the higher elo games are coming. Peeps just gotta chill.
at 16:50 could white not have responded with knight c4 forking the queen the bishap. Then queen c3 check, and offer a queen trade.
I always knew H4 in the trompowsky as the raptor attack
"I know Levy scores"
12:57 Dayna: it’s a simple calculation
My dumb 1200 ass: 🥵😮💨
Loved the game and your explanation. As always they were crystal clear.
Have I watch too many video if I instantly know what Frankfurt airport means.
Enjoyed ever game - enjoy your speed run ❤️ I love kings indian
What does it mean?
@@SchokoKekseFTW it's a term Danya uses to refer to a manoeuvring square, or a square you use to get somewhere else - i.e, moving a knight to f1 in order to get to g3
Hey, there is an unpleasant echo in your recording, please fix this, otherwise amazing content
Why are you even apologising my man
We love you ❤
Yes! I was hoping for another speedrun video! Amazing as always
You do not need to apologize for making incredibly good educational chess videos!!
Best place to learn chess for intermediate players
GM playing a 800:
I'm sorry if the game has been one-sided.
D. Please change your board colour to something brownish. That green is so tough on the eyes 👀
19:33 White has Nf3 and if you take it you could get forked by the other knight to move to c4 after white takes your pawn on d5. I thought white's move of the pawn to e4 at 17:17 was trying to set up a fork and was quite a good move.
Wouldn't be much of a game if you could control your opponents moves!
Thank you for all the energy and time you put into these videos! Best chess content on youtube hands down.
Isn't this the opening Levy beat Danya in recently in blitz?
Another great job Danya…much appreciated
coming back after two years x2 sir
Danya: simple calculation, we can safely take on B2, no problem at all
Me: my head hurts
One of the greatest (recent!) games ever to demonstrate the hazards of early castling (especially with the h-pawn hook) is Aronian vs. Kramnik from the 2018 Candidates tournament. Kramnik played the caveman-like 7...Rg8! and slaughtered Aronian brilliantly.
"Again, because the centre is closed, not every piece needs to be distributing the COVID vaccine"
I love this line so much
Hi Daniel im 1300 can i play with u soon
Feed us Danya , been 3+ days
It isn't tempo to turn knight back?
9:20 Agadmator would be pleased.
all good Daniel we understand!
2:08 Isn't this the Raptor variation?
I’m a beginner and it’s super helpful how you point out that certain “good opening principles” like not blocking your own pieces, not moving the same piece multiple times, etc. shouldnt always be blindly followed but should be thought of more as a solid guideline, since things can change depending on the specifics of the game
Okay this video is kinda hilarious to me - I'm 1300 rapid, play mostly 15|10, and I've got three games against this guy lol. Love the vids as always
Lol just noticed the username
Watching this instead of going to class
These videos remind me of the videos of the jujitsu black belts going into a gym and pretending to be a white belt and tapping unsuspecting blue belts out. The blue belts always start with a lot of confidence and you see it slowly fading away as theyre being dominated and they just can't comprehend what's going on lol... Let's go Danya!!! Hoping you do well in the Aimchess tournament. I'm rooting for you.
Fantastic analysis. You have a brilliant way of explaining concepts and positions so the lay person can understand. Thank you very much.
Just reached a new ceiling of 1500 rapid need to work on endgames; really enjoying the endgame series.