1. e4 e5 “Okay, so he goes e5. Now a lot of people here would just lazily develop the knight to f3, but we actually have a move here that poses a lot of practical problems for black and is borderline winning for white. The move is Ke2, and do not worry I will explain this more thoroughly after the game. Now you might look at this position and say, ‘isn’t this weakening our king and blocking in our pieces?’ And while that may be true, you guys need to start thinking long term. In the endgame, it will be a huge advantage to have our king activated in the center. Furthermore, black has no threats here, he is not going to checkmate us any time soon, the king is perfectly well defended on e2. Now he does have a nasty little defensive resource he can try here, let’s see if he finds it. Wow, Ke7 he finds it. Now guys, I don’t wanna hear any baseless accusations, we will check with an engine after the game. It’s not unthinkable that a 1500 finds this move. No black has not equalized, we just need to play clinically to secure our advantage.”
Danya’s reaction to every move his opponent plays “yah, I saw this and if you calculate 3 moves further…” My reaction to every move his opponent plays “Damn, thats a good move, I didnt see that” 😂
I often find myself not wanting to watch the analysis after the game, because I don't play the opening, but I watch it anyway and never regret it, because I learn so much anyway that it's totally worth it. Great work Danya!
My mind is still boggling from all the insane complications in this game! The Belgrade Gambit was definitely not on my radar, but this fascinating video convinced me that maybe I should look into it.
Qf3 "This may be a bad move" (It was a losing move, but the opponent missed how to take advantage) c3 "This isn't the best move" (It actually is, good job) Oh man, that ending. Literally even until the opponent moves too fast and blunders Re1. Brutal stuff
You are such a good teacher. I have my very first chess competition this week and I am flat out watching your videos. Thanks a million for all this content 🙏
"f4 is an advanced move". I have never been so proud of myself, thats the first move I have ever thought of that Daniel approved of. 700 elo here I come! 😂😂
@@Vandalgia I hope you are not trying to be mean, but keep in mind that F4 was the right move in two positions. One during the game itself, one during analysis of mating attack towards the king with the black's knight being pinned on F6. There it was undisputed best move.
@@luukmeulmeester5002it's crazy how you can be wrong when you literally have the video at your disposal. He said f4 is a move that a low elo player would play because they don't understand the positional ideas of other lines, but a strong player might play it because they see the nuances of f4 as well as other lines and realize why it's truly good
It's amazing watching you at times. There were multiple times in this game where I was sure you were out of resources and Black was going to consolidate...but no, you continued walking that razor sharp line through to the end.
Hey Danya, if the opportunity comes up in a future game I would actually love to see you play the Scotch Four Knights at this higher level. It's my opening of choice and I'd love to see how a great player like you handles it against quality opposition. It actually doesn't come up very often in your speedrun - most of your opponents haven't played into it.
Wow this may be my favorite game you have shown, and I've seen almost every video you have made. I realize finally that GMs don't see as much as I thought they did. At least this game no longer feels impossible any longer. 🙂
My favorite line at 11:45 is ...Bg4, Qd2 Bf3! (if gxf3, Nf3+ wins the Queen!), Bc6+ Nxc6 And you've successfully deflected the knight and eliminated the dangerous N + B combo. Eval is 0.0 after all this. Crazy line :)
Wild I thought he was going to lose! Equal position and his opponent has an extra minute and a half.. calculating that c3 move to “trap” the bishop in that sort of a time period was insane!
@@brbcrew9957 why not? he has very little coverage of that i get that you try to sound cool and all disagreeing with the crowd but the reality is if we wont tell what we want danya wont give it to us that often
At the higher ratings Daniel prefers to play his main repertoire so he plays the Belgrade gambit. Yet after Black's first move (...h6) he is out of prep. 😆
Note that at 13:01 if after White's Ne2 Black tries the flashy ...Qf3, White cannot take because there is a snap mate in 2, but just plays Rg1 leaving Black with the problem of what to do next.
Question: For most of my chess life i have played the london system. But now that i reached 2000 fide elo, i feel like i need a more tactical opening, because it fits my playstyle better. I feel like the Belgrade Gambit looks really interesting to me, and I quite like the positions resulting out of the opening for white. My question is if the Belgrade gambit is an opening that is fine to play as my main repertoire at a 2000 elo level.
Hi Danya, could you play your real e4 repertoire against the main main openings (e5, c6, e6, c5). I'd love to get an insight at what is played by superGMs and the reasons for it. Thanks!
19:54 what about Bc6 Rb6, Bd7+ Bd7, THEN e5 since the pawn is now pinned? not sure exactly what that accomplishes if im honest but it looked interesting
47:05 In the London system there is a trap with knights on e5 and g5, winning the f7 pawn, and if black is not careful, also the h8 rook Eric explains it here: th-cam.com/video/_g1xMZhGOuc/w-d-xo.html
Once I literally had my resign button open because the opponent had a blindly obvious forced mate. Then he immediately stalemated me. That's the moment where I really said to myself: "You know what. They are too bad to Mate let's never resign." The dude was 2100 mind you. Sometimes your opponent is just confused
Man, the audio has been so scuffed for the last two videos. It sounds like Danya has put a bunch of weird filtering in place, and it's really making the audio bad :(
@@yessir6427 I mean, sure lol - don't get me wrong, I definitely appreciate the content and the effort that goes into it. I'm more just noting that there's been a distinct change in the quality of the audio in the last few videos, and, for me, that change is negative. Just giving feedback so the chess can get the presentation it deserves!
awesome ! I've had some amazing wins and spectacular loses with the Belgrade. As a 1600 I got a 2100 with it once. GM Boris Alterman has some great lectures on the internet chess club about it. If white knows what he's doing h6 is almost losing. GG the fact Danya is playing the belgrade made my heart melt ! kind of joking ! good joking WP!
Everytime I hear "this is a good opening for intermediate chess players", I automatically think, ok so that means it's not really a good opening. Could you delve into this more, explain the difference between a top level opening and an intermediate level opening? I watched plenty of GM's openings, and they play plenty of different openings, so I am a bit confused. I want to play the best possible opening repertoire, and not an opening that says, 'hey I am just an intermediate, give me a break.'
The point of intermediate openings is that you don't have to memorize loads of theory and play conceptually complex and difficult to navigate positions. Intermediate openings being 'worse' usually doesn't matter as the difference in eval is negligible if you cannot maintain a similar quality of play throughout the game under a certain level. I myself play the Grünfeld even though I am definitely not at a level where it's objective quality matters; rather I just like the opening and the combative positions that stem from it, which could also be achieved in other intermediate openings.
In your longer thinks... instead of skipping ahead 5-10 seconds.... why not fast forward .. this way we still hear your process but it does the obvious, move faster...
Hey, don’t hate me for this but, is it just me or does any one else love…. Wait for it…. “WHITE CASTLES!”, huh! Get it. “white castles!” 🍔 - carry on, I’m sorry😅
I guess at that level there are certain openings that are just plain drawish or bad if you know what you're doing. Or is it still really a matter of taste?
certain sub-openings are definitely drawish by force. when the best move is known by both sides for too long, and these sub-openings simply require earlier piece trades in order to not be worse, its drawish.
Why don't you consider sticking to a given rating level and play like 10 games before moving up. You said yourself that around 1700 or so, there's like one main concept that seems to arise out of every game that can give you a staging-off point for instruction.
@@glichasasha750 me neither, there are plenty of good puzzle assets online. It'd be a waste of Danya’s skills. I want him focused on the things he's already identified as good teaching targets, not silly puzzle videos.
@@sumnerhayes3411you're braindead, or you haven't watched his old puzzle videos. They're the best thing on the channel other than the unfinished endgame course
1. e4 e5
“Okay, so he goes e5. Now a lot of people here would just lazily develop the knight to f3, but we actually have a move here that poses a lot of practical problems for black and is borderline winning for white. The move is Ke2, and do not worry I will explain this more thoroughly after the game. Now you might look at this position and say, ‘isn’t this weakening our king and blocking in our pieces?’ And while that may be true, you guys need to start thinking long term. In the endgame, it will be a huge advantage to have our king activated in the center. Furthermore, black has no threats here, he is not going to checkmate us any time soon, the king is perfectly well defended on e2. Now he does have a nasty little defensive resource he can try here, let’s see if he finds it. Wow, Ke7 he finds it. Now guys, I don’t wanna hear any baseless accusations, we will check with an engine after the game. It’s not unthinkable that a 1500 finds this move. No black has not equalized, we just need to play clinically to secure our advantage.”
This is gold, im cracking up
@@DanielNaroditskyGM I must confess, I stole it from an old video. It had me in pieces though
😂😂😂
finally, danya copypasta
ı thought this copypasta getting old
Danya’s reaction to every move his opponent plays “yah, I saw this and if you calculate 3 moves further…”
My reaction to every move his opponent plays “Damn, thats a good move, I didnt see that” 😂
I often find myself not wanting to watch the analysis after the game, because I don't play the opening, but I watch it anyway and never regret it, because I learn so much anyway that it's totally worth it. Great work Danya!
My mind is still boggling from all the insane complications in this game! The Belgrade Gambit was definitely not on my radar, but this fascinating video convinced me that maybe I should look into it.
Really enjoyed the video as always Danya. Greetings from Belgrade 😁
Qf3 "This may be a bad move" (It was a losing move, but the opponent missed how to take advantage)
c3 "This isn't the best move" (It actually is, good job)
Oh man, that ending. Literally even until the opponent moves too fast and blunders Re1. Brutal stuff
Thank you Daniel I really appreciate your speed run games and learn a lot from them. Keep up the great content.
Thanks for this lesson, from Belgrade, we like it here revival of this opening.
You are such a good teacher. I have my very first chess competition this week and I am flat out watching your videos. Thanks a million for all this content 🙏
"f4 is an advanced move". I have never been so proud of myself, thats the first move I have ever thought of that Daniel approved of. 700 elo here I come! 😂😂
I know you're joking but to be fair he said that that would be the move that a low elo player would come up with, lol.
@@Vandalgia I hope you are not trying to be mean, but keep in mind that F4 was the right move in two positions. One during the game itself, one during analysis of mating attack towards the king with the black's knight being pinned on F6.
There it was undisputed best move.
@@michalrehacek3462 not at all. I'm not in the position to mock other players as I'm low elo myself, lol.
@@Vandalgiahe said that qf3 would be a low elo move and f4 an advanced move( if i remember correctly)
@@luukmeulmeester5002it's crazy how you can be wrong when you literally have the video at your disposal. He said f4 is a move that a low elo player would play because they don't understand the positional ideas of other lines, but a strong player might play it because they see the nuances of f4 as well as other lines and realize why it's truly good
It's amazing watching you at times. There were multiple times in this game where I was sure you were out of resources and Black was going to consolidate...but no, you continued walking that razor sharp line through to the end.
Hey Danya, if the opportunity comes up in a future game I would actually love to see you play the Scotch Four Knights at this higher level. It's my opening of choice and I'd love to see how a great player like you handles it against quality opposition. It actually doesn't come up very often in your speedrun - most of your opponents haven't played into it.
love your videos danya, thank you!
LETS GOOOOO DANYA!! Sure im gonna love this one
Wow this may be my favorite game you have shown, and I've seen almost every video you have made. I realize finally that GMs don't see as much as I thought they did. At least this game no longer feels impossible any longer. 🙂
Was watching this video earlier today and used this in my game to get to 1100 for the first time, thanks Danya!
My favorite line at 11:45 is ...Bg4, Qd2 Bf3! (if gxf3, Nf3+ wins the Queen!), Bc6+ Nxc6
And you've successfully deflected the knight and eliminated the dangerous N + B combo. Eval is 0.0 after all this. Crazy line :)
I've already seen the entire video!! Amazing work. Cant believe the game ended like that
wow really impressive of you to see it on 75x speed! I can only handle 30x or so...
@@symmetricpositivedefinite thanks, keep practicing and you'll get there
This is pure gold
Awesome Video 🎉 Brilliant Explaination 😊
Wild I thought he was going to lose! Equal position and his opponent has an extra minute and a half.. calculating that c3 move to “trap” the bishop in that sort of a time period was insane!
This is my new favorite Danya chess video. 👍😊
A suggestion for Danya; can there be more videos on positional puzzles?
how about videos featuring games of black grandmasters. this is youtube so blacks doing things other than crime should be fine.
No
@@brbcrew9957yes
@@brbcrew9957 why not? he has very little coverage of that i get that you try to sound cool and all disagreeing with the crowd but the reality is if we wont tell what we want danya wont give it to us that often
@@justarandomanimegirlpassin5341 I agree. Some people like being contrarian just for the sake of it
Great game! Thanks for sharing your expertise on it.
At the higher ratings Daniel prefers to play his main repertoire so he plays the Belgrade gambit. Yet after Black's first move (...h6) he is out of prep. 😆
He did not say Belgrade gambit is his main repetoire. He was referring to spanish when he was ralking in the beginning instead of playing the Scotch
He should invent an algorithm that helps him learn every possible move in chess
You need really need to study main lines as you become intermediate. 3. I'm completely out of prep
I think you need to rewatch that part bud.
@@TheAluvisify: I don’t think so 😂
Great video Danya! :)
The more I watch these videos the more I understand the need to study and do my Calculation training.
Note that at 13:01 if after White's Ne2 Black tries the flashy ...Qf3, White cannot take because there is a snap mate in 2, but just plays Rg1 leaving Black with the problem of what to do next.
Thank you so much
Be7 is the move I've studied. I feel like I've seen Nb4 in a fever dream.
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Great video
This was a game full of action loved it
Wow crazy game and even crazier complications
just saw the title. hyped for this
Did not disappoint
“As long as an opening is reputed to be weak it can be played.” -Tartakower
always great
Excellent
In "Play the Open Games as Black" by Emms, he recommends two lines and I much prefer the 5... Nb4. It's always fun.
I wish we could start a Go fund me for Daniel to create an intensive, on video, bridging course between 1700 and 2000 rating
Question: For most of my chess life i have played the london system. But now that i reached 2000 fide elo, i feel like i need a more tactical opening, because it fits my playstyle better. I feel like the Belgrade Gambit looks really interesting to me, and I quite like the positions resulting out of the opening for white.
My question is if the Belgrade gambit is an opening that is fine to play as my main repertoire at a 2000 elo level.
Hi Danya, could you play your real e4 repertoire against the main main openings (e5, c6, e6, c5). I'd love to get an insight at what is played by superGMs and the reasons for it. Thanks!
Danya u r freaking awesome
I keep hoping to see a(nother) example of Danya's response to 1.d4 c5
19:54 what about Bc6 Rb6, Bd7+ Bd7, THEN e5 since the pawn is now pinned? not sure exactly what that accomplishes if im honest but it looked interesting
47:05
In the London system there is a trap with knights on e5 and g5, winning the f7 pawn, and if black is not careful, also the h8 rook
Eric explains it here: th-cam.com/video/_g1xMZhGOuc/w-d-xo.html
You're awesome danya
"I'm just as confused as you are." Oh sweet, sweet child.
The best way to beat Danya, play into a losing position with so many beautiful continuations, forcing Danya to flag 😂
This gambit is so cooooooool
When I blunder I always remind myself that if I can make this mistake then so can my opponent at the same strength so I don't need to give up
This is exactly what I say to myself too, and half the time my opponent DOES blunder back and I end up winning!
Once I literally had my resign button open because the opponent had a blindly obvious forced mate.
Then he immediately stalemated me.
That's the moment where I really said to myself: "You know what. They are too bad to Mate let's never resign."
The dude was 2100 mind you. Sometimes your opponent is just confused
I vote we name the two move series opening tactic such as the Noah's arch trap, the alley oop.
Man, the audio has been so scuffed for the last two videos. It sounds like Danya has put a bunch of weird filtering in place, and it's really making the audio bad :(
Sounds fine on my MacBook Pro speakers but im guessing your listening with headphones
@@bryangarciafilms same here
who cares , 15 years ago we all watched 360p videos and didnt give a shit
@@yessir6427 I mean, sure lol - don't get me wrong, I definitely appreciate the content and the effort that goes into it. I'm more just noting that there's been a distinct change in the quality of the audio in the last few videos, and, for me, that change is negative.
Just giving feedback so the chess can get the presentation it deserves!
Sounds fine on my Sennheiser Orpheus/HE 1 headphones but I'm guessing you're using Mac speakers
Wild game
Oh my goodness it’s a thousand o’clock but I caught the video.
Gonna be a ton of people playing the Belgrade Gambit after this
This game was nuts
Cool!
When Danya uploads a video, you watch DANYA!!!!!
Got 'em in the thumbnail 😂😂😂
After Nd7, did you consider a4 to make Bc6 stronger?
55:14, can t the white queen just take the pawn, then the knight is dropping?
Still waiting for the grunfeld defense analysis
can you play against mangus age 10 once in the magnus play app
It look fun❤
Can you do the Irish gambit.
awesome ! I've had some amazing wins and spectacular loses with the Belgrade. As a 1600 I got a 2100 with it once. GM Boris Alterman has some great lectures on the internet chess club about it. If white knows what he's doing h6 is almost losing. GG the fact Danya is playing the belgrade made my heart melt ! kind of joking ! good joking WP!
I just love you
wasn't this exact game played already in another speedrun video?
Fire haircut dude
My man was out of theory on the first move of the gambit
Крутяк 💥
fork x-ray eyes
ok!
Everytime I hear "this is a good opening for intermediate chess players", I automatically think, ok so that means it's not really a good opening. Could you delve into this more, explain the difference between a top level opening and an intermediate level opening? I watched plenty of GM's openings, and they play plenty of different openings, so I am a bit confused. I want to play the best possible opening repertoire, and not an opening that says, 'hey I am just an intermediate, give me a break.'
It’s fine playing intermediate openings and doesn’t affect improvement to much
The point of intermediate openings is that you don't have to memorize loads of theory and play conceptually complex and difficult to navigate positions. Intermediate openings being 'worse' usually doesn't matter as the difference in eval is negligible if you cannot maintain a similar quality of play throughout the game under a certain level. I myself play the Grünfeld even though I am definitely not at a level where it's objective quality matters; rather I just like the opening and the combative positions that stem from it, which could also be achieved in other intermediate openings.
Chess School is waaay cool. 🎉🎉
Qe6?
"totally natural simple line" lol
hes checking chess engines
Lol he's talking to his chat
In your longer thinks... instead of skipping ahead 5-10 seconds.... why not fast forward .. this way we still hear your process but it does the obvious, move faster...
Sleep or Danya… okay… sleep not yet
Anybody has compressed daniel speedrun videos?
Hey, don’t hate me for this but, is it just me or does any one else love…. Wait for it….
“WHITE CASTLES!”, huh! Get it. “white castles!” 🍔
- carry on, I’m sorry😅
Audio is a bit off
I guess at that level there are certain openings that are just plain drawish or bad if you know what you're doing. Or is it still really a matter of taste?
Four knight isn't really drawing except maybe some lines. It gets complicated.
certain sub-openings are definitely drawish by force. when the best move is known by both sides for too long, and these sub-openings simply require earlier piece trades in order to not be worse, its drawish.
hi danya!!!
Hey Danya,
on Minute 31:38 you forgot the fork with the Night on e7.
That allows Qxf3 and Daniels attack fizzles, he literally explained this 2 minutes earlier
please fix your mic quality Danya!
Why don't you consider sticking to a given rating level and play like 10 games before moving up. You said yourself that around 1700 or so, there's like one main concept that seems to arise out of every game that can give you a staging-off point for instruction.
*advanced*
wow
God loves you all ❤
Who else wants a speed run but only with russian school boy moves?
I think that speed run wouldn't get beyond 2000 level tho
@@yeehaw693why not
tbh, I thought this is an old video.
you want to reach 500k subs in six months, but when is the start day?
Punch opponent in the face is winning on the spot
Who else wants puzzle solving videos?
Me
Not me
@@glichasasha750 me neither, there are plenty of good puzzle assets online. It'd be a waste of Danya’s skills. I want him focused on the things he's already identified as good teaching targets, not silly puzzle videos.
@@sumnerhayes3411you're braindead, or you haven't watched his old puzzle videos. They're the best thing on the channel other than the unfinished endgame course
Ne
hasn't quite reached the 500k subs yet 😕
Well it’s clear what part of opponent’s game needs some working on
Greetings from Belgrade Danya :)
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