Composing a study like this must be like writing a piece of music or a poem - you keep going over it and over it until all the rough edges are worn away and true beauty emerges.
Your content has been super helpful and I've been studying more chess in my free time lately. Gone up 200 points from 1200-1400 in the past month! Thanks again for the insightful videos!
Was curious so I plugged this into current Stockfish. It took it >2 minutes on my 8-core computer realize this position wasn't draw-ish! I think it's incredible that we can get a crisp explanation in 14 minutes of a position that the strongest chess program spends over a trillion clock cycles to solve.
it turns out in positions like this stockfish 11 (classical) finds the solution quicker and it doesnt have nnue and benefits from the faster search speed. Still on a 16 core processer takes over a minute
@@Nathan-co4hk On Lichess it is Stockfish 14 and on my computer it found a win instantly if you change multiple lines to just one line and you max out everything else like CPUs and Memory.
@@zackarysemancik5491 Unless you're analyzing an imported game (rather than a position; which is the case here) then no. Lichess doesn't, in fact, use "cloud analysis"...
Nice video 👍I just appreciate the fact that you take your time to educate your viewers. I learn alot from you . And I am glad to be a subscriber on your channel that way I never miss out the good stuffs.
greetings here I'm a huge fan of earning more money, and I think everyone should have a side hustle. side hustling can allow you to earn that little bit of extra money that can help you achieve your financial goals faster - whether it's paying off student loans or saving for retirement.
True actually, we all know that successful people don't become victorious overnight. What most people see as a glance wealth, a great career purpose is the results of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone reading this will be successful in life.
That's the difference a more experienced player, they will take hours to just solve it, without looking at hints, usually puzzles you never move anything until you solve it, it's the whole point of puzzles it helps calculation, visualization and sometimes tactics refinement. If you are doing puzzles pick something above your level and do not move until you find the solution.
the thing is you prolly wont ever solve the real difficult ones and even easier ones are prolly on GM level. but thats not the idea behind those composed studies. the idea is to get more creative and fill your brain with those unusual patterns so you get used to find more creative ways to play and find tactics even in the most dry wastelands of endgames . you want to take 5-20 mins on each study and then check the solution
Forgot to mention, when doing critical lines, combine your ideas and then calculate it, you might see a pawn move before the queen, or viceversa, puzzles like these are really hard to do and will take you hours, even days but having hints kinda ruins it.
Interesting fact: Stockfish (in lichess) finds the solution. But when I change the initial position with the black pawn in a4 instead of a5 (which leads to a forced checkmate in 12 instead of 13), Stockfish doesn't find the solution until I show it the move Bc7.
Very intersesting ! but i think with those types of studies, classical chess engines won't find the solution unless the pgn of the solution of that particular study is pasted or coded within the engine. So I think the engine was just taught the solution with the pawn on a5. It's like the very famous study that Tal solved (Plaskett's Puzzle).
@@hellopleychess3190 it's too specific. I want a guide to studying chess itself. right now it really feels like there's nothing i can do to improve and chess is just too complex for me to learn without a some kind of guide. Right now, it's like asking me to become an engineer without ever going to school. There's loads of books and videos I can easily access for free... but as an average person, can I really utilize these things well at all on my own? I need someone who has already gone through it to help me get through it. otherwise ill be spending like 5 years just to get to 1500 elo while someone else who had actual guidance might get way further in exponentially shorter. I'm not excessively passionate about chess to become amazing at it, nor am I a genius who lacks the need for certain types of practice. I don't pick up on complex things without a good way to learn them. And i'm not saying that i'm searching for some get good quick type thing as it doesn't exist, but what i am looking for is some kind of path, and it really doesn't feel like there's a single youtube channel that has one, so i guess me next option is to start looking at books and hoping they aren't as useless as these videos in setting principles for improvement rather than whatever this is
Great vid danya! Could you maybe do a video on how to analyze games to get most out of it? It would really help a ton because i hear every where that you should analyze games but nobody really says how to do it
I love endgame studies because it opens your mind to improve your calculation, the first moves i looked at was Bc7 Qg4 and Bxa5 im not an avid study solver i just look at every possiblity and danya does great with his explanations So here is the tip, Look at every move possible even the "stupid" ones
Hey this is the best chess video I have seen. I do not think that chess studies necessarily follow your rule about what constitutes a study, but with your train of logic in mind I feel I have gained knowledge to assess studies which is an invaluable grain of mind to have added to my thought process. I can see how saying studies should follow one conclusive pattern of logic is inherently valuable. I do not know how to justify this appreciation further but suffice it to say I feel like a good critique has been spelled out for me to a great degree and I like that. You have provided me a concrete thinking skill I feel I can use for myself without your advice whatsoever that I wouldn't have come to myself nearly as quickly. Sincerely thank you! You have give me a very minor but improving and positive character quality as a person.
I think what I mean to say is that I can see your questioning process here and how it finds results and i have learned from it and i appreciate that sincerely thanks.
Also the game itself especially when you speed through it is kind of thought provoking Be5 looks like a straight up computer calculated brilliancy to me Like yes according to sound logic it is the only coherently forcing, winning move But is it an engine move? Did a human find it. It takes processing to figure this out for sure.not just to ascertain the answers to the questions, but also I feel like concluding that there is only the one correct move is a real win in and of itself. Depending on how much time is factored in a human could probably just intuitively play that, I would never in a million years though find I had just the right situation of king pawn and Bishop to wage an attention strategy of zugzwanging your opponent this is the work of sheer wizards to me. I have taken it for a purely human game but the players it sounds like are nobody's this could have been like stockfish leela maximum depth cheater vs like a strong GM for all I know, or stockfish vs leela, or two players from 1989 in an otherwise uneventful tournament. It is a good game. Like you need to go through 1 move justifications then 2 move justifications then 3 This is a deep game dude I have thought about it a lot.
This is what some people mean when they say chess is an art. The problem is that unlike music or a painting, you need to have an understanding of the game to be able to see this as beautiful.
I agree that music might be easier to appreciate than chess when you don't understand it, but I can relate to that same feeling when listening to music. It's a whole different experience listening to music when you know music theory. So much goes unnoticed by an average listener I would say
1. Qd6 Kg8 2. gh+ Kh8 Black doesn't really threat Qe6+ here because white can take and go Kg6, and then mate with the bishop. I mean 3. Ba5 and it isn't absolutely clear how to draw it for black
actually hype over a chess puzzle.. the prophet explained the final subtlety, perfecting the bishop's move order, and i was grinning like an idiot. sign of a good teacher?
saw GMDN in the corner for the first time and literally thought of "GM DEEZ NUTS" before i thought of "GM Daniel Naroditsky". somethin wrong with me man 😂
Wow, I never saw a teacher better fit for me, You dont joke around too much like Levy, You are not as stale a Eric, You are more exciting than Hikaru, You have a Great accent, And You are a GM! Thanks A LOT Could you make some Opening Videos like all important variations of Openings. I would Rly love some Caro Kann Videos Thanks a Lot :)
@@Xionite007 Because Levy panders to the lowest common denominator, not because his content ranks alongside polished educational material like Danya's.
@@pizzashark7067 true this much content might not be on his paid course as well. Personally it puzzles me why danyas channel isn't as popular as levys or hikaru.
This study is mate in 13 for white. I'm running an i7 processor with16gb ram, and Stockfish 15 at depth 60 cannot find the mate. Says +0.00 and gives Qd6+ Kg8 gxh7 as the top line. Amazing study! Stockfish looking rather silly.
The definition of cooked? It's cooked! After bishop takes queen a1, stockfish moved knight to b5 and if king moves to e6, knight to c3 blocking checkmate! And winning the game.
I really need these studies, the puzzles aren't really helping me out neither is analyzing. I'm starting to get to the rating where positional chess is becoming more important and necessary
Yes, indeed. But these studies force you to think more broadly than you otherwise would. Finding impossible moves in these studies challenges your understanding of chess moreso than any normal game could, which is why they're beneficial to your development.
They may not learn any specific concepts or patterns, but I think learning to slowly and methodically think through a position can be really helpful for low rated players who may be used to rushing through things.
So another word? The very first solution, which is the best solution. You choose not to do, and you go through this alone, foolishness. Queen takes night, then Bishop moves. Bishop moves to make check. Take the quein come long-drawn-out. Scenario to make no sense.
Composing a study like this must be like writing a piece of music or a poem - you keep going over it and over it until all the rough edges are worn away and true beauty emerges.
Your content has been super helpful and I've been studying more chess in my free time lately. Gone up 200 points from 1200-1400 in the past month! Thanks again for the insightful videos!
Was curious so I plugged this into current Stockfish. It took it >2 minutes on my 8-core computer realize this position wasn't draw-ish! I think it's incredible that we can get a crisp explanation in 14 minutes of a position that the strongest chess program spends over a trillion clock cycles to solve.
it turns out in positions like this stockfish 11 (classical) finds the solution quicker and it doesnt have nnue and benefits from the faster search speed. Still on a 16 core processer takes over a minute
@@Nathan-co4hk On Lichess it is Stockfish 14 and on my computer it found a win instantly if you change multiple lines to just one line and you max out everything else like CPUs and Memory.
@@mihirlalbeharie4459 yeah, but lichess used cloud analysis.
Stand on the shoulders of giants.
@@zackarysemancik5491 Unless you're analyzing an imported game (rather than a position; which is the case here) then no. Lichess doesn't, in fact, use "cloud analysis"...
How in the literal hell do people come up with these puzzles?? They work so beautifully and there are zero flaws somehow!
Love.
I'm guessing maybe they work backwards?
@@joeyhanan4482 I'm guessing maybe you have no friends
@@turtle_fps this seems unnecessary :(
@@turtle_fps clearly projecting your own problem on someone else lmao
My chess skills have gotten rusty since I've started college, it's nice to have these super instructive videos. Keep up the great work!
When it is explained it looks simple, but I wouldn't have the first idea how to do any of this on my own.
I watched SCC live yesterday; the play was spectacular and so was your commentary
Nice video 👍I just appreciate the fact that you take your time to educate your viewers. I learn alot from you . And I am glad to be a subscriber on your channel that way I never miss out the good stuffs.
greetings here I'm a huge fan of earning more money, and I think everyone should have a side hustle. side hustling can allow you to earn that little bit of extra money that can help you achieve your financial goals faster - whether it's paying off student loans or saving for retirement.
True actually, we all know that successful people don't become victorious overnight. What most people see as a glance wealth, a great career purpose is the results of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone reading this will be successful in life.
that's one of the most brilliant things i've ever seen. And your effortless explanation made for a wonderful video
Oh it's Naroditsky's birthday today? Have a great one, Danya.
Daniel at what level is it expected to solve this study without hints? How long would it take you to solve a puzzle like this?
That's the difference a more experienced player, they will take hours to just solve it, without looking at hints, usually puzzles you never move anything until you solve it, it's the whole point of puzzles it helps calculation, visualization and sometimes tactics refinement. If you are doing puzzles pick something above your level and do not move until you find the solution.
the thing is you prolly wont ever solve the real difficult ones and even easier ones are prolly on GM level. but thats not the idea behind those composed studies. the idea is to get more creative and fill your brain with those unusual patterns so you get used to find more creative ways to play and find tactics even in the most dry wastelands of endgames . you want to take 5-20 mins on each study and then check the solution
Forgot to mention, when doing critical lines, combine your ideas and then calculate it, you might see a pawn move before the queen, or viceversa, puzzles like these are really hard to do and will take you hours, even days but having hints kinda ruins it.
I'm 1800 and it took me 30 minutes to solve this puzzle on my own without hints
@@dayg1127 Did you find all of the defenses that Danya outlined at each critical point?
Oh man, love me some new content right before bed. Thanks Danya
Great analysis and easy to understand for beginners. Thank you for the help. Love the content!
That was fun! I look forward to your next study video!
What a fantastic study! I would love to see more study analyses like this :D
This study is honoustly art
Interesting fact: Stockfish (in lichess) finds the solution. But when I change the initial position with the black pawn in a4 instead of a5 (which leads to a forced checkmate in 12 instead of 13), Stockfish doesn't find the solution until I show it the move Bc7.
Very intersesting ! but i think with those types of studies, classical chess engines won't find the solution unless the pgn of the solution of that particular study is pasted or coded within the engine. So I think the engine was just taught the solution with the pawn on a5. It's like the very famous study that Tal solved (Plaskett's Puzzle).
This isn't how to study chess, it's how to solve chess studies.
that's also studying chess
@@hellopleychess3190 it's too specific. I want a guide to studying chess itself. right now it really feels like there's nothing i can do to improve and chess is just too complex for me to learn without a some kind of guide. Right now, it's like asking me to become an engineer without ever going to school. There's loads of books and videos I can easily access for free... but as an average person, can I really utilize these things well at all on my own? I need someone who has already gone through it to help me get through it. otherwise ill be spending like 5 years just to get to 1500 elo while someone else who had actual guidance might get way further in exponentially shorter.
I'm not excessively passionate about chess to become amazing at it, nor am I a genius who lacks the need for certain types of practice. I don't pick up on complex things without a good way to learn them.
And i'm not saying that i'm searching for some get good quick type thing as it doesn't exist, but what i am looking for is some kind of path, and it really doesn't feel like there's a single youtube channel that has one, so i guess me next option is to start looking at books and hoping they aren't as useless as these videos in setting principles for improvement rather than whatever this is
@@Solbashio th-cam.com/play/PL8N8j2e7RpPnpqbISqi1SJ9_wrnNU3rEm.html
th-cam.com/video/mjZKRoNuAvY/w-d-xo.html
Levi can help you with that he will give you a path you can and his the best at explaining so..
Great vid danya! Could you maybe do a video on how to analyze games to get most out of it? It would really help a ton because i hear every where that you should analyze games but nobody really says how to do it
I love endgame studies because it opens your mind to improve your calculation, the first moves i looked at was Bc7 Qg4 and Bxa5 im not an avid study solver i just look at every possiblity and danya does great with his explanations
So here is the tip, Look at every move possible even the "stupid" ones
Happy birthday from Greece!! I admire you so much!!!! Great content btw, thank you very much!
I feel the need to comment because the algorithm needs to know about this!! Love this content so much!
I was expecting how to study your own games, but this was a fantastic video. Thank you danya!
Hey this is the best chess video I have seen. I do not think that chess studies necessarily follow your rule about what constitutes a study, but with your train of logic in mind I feel I have gained knowledge to assess studies which is an invaluable grain of mind to have added to my thought process. I can see how saying studies should follow one conclusive pattern of logic is inherently valuable.
I do not know how to justify this appreciation further but suffice it to say I feel like a good critique has been spelled out for me to a great degree and I like that. You have provided me a concrete thinking skill I feel I can use for myself without your advice whatsoever that I wouldn't have come to myself nearly as quickly.
Sincerely thank you! You have give me a very minor but improving and positive character quality as a person.
I think what I mean to say is that I can see your questioning process here and how it finds results and i have learned from it and i appreciate that sincerely thanks.
Also the game itself especially when you speed through it is kind of thought provoking
Be5 looks like a straight up computer calculated brilliancy to me
Like yes according to sound logic it is the only coherently forcing, winning move
But is it an engine move? Did a human find it. It takes processing to figure this out for sure.not just to ascertain the answers to the questions, but also I feel like concluding that there is only the one correct move is a real win in and of itself. Depending on how much time is factored in a human could probably just intuitively play that, I would never in a million years though find I had just the right situation of king pawn and Bishop to wage an attention strategy of zugzwanging your opponent this is the work of sheer wizards to me.
I have taken it for a purely human game but the players it sounds like are nobody's this could have been like stockfish leela maximum depth cheater vs like a strong GM for all I know, or stockfish vs leela, or two players from 1989 in an otherwise uneventful tournament. It is a good game.
Like you need to go through 1 move justifications then 2 move justifications then 3
This is a deep game dude I have thought about it a lot.
I hope you can use my comment to justify your criteria for "real study" I am rated 1500 and hope to improve drastically.
This is the equivalent of Kaizo but in chess !
great video , i like puzzle solving but this video made me appriciate them much much more. You are a great teacher. Thank You
Matous was a Fide Master I believe - his obituary is very interesting
In that first puzzle I did not see Qc8 but I did identify in my calculation that the king would hide on h8, so glad I at least spotted that.
I solved in 10 mins without hint and I can not believe it
This is what some people mean when they say chess is an art. The problem is that unlike music or a painting, you need to have an understanding of the game to be able to see this as beautiful.
I agree that music might be easier to appreciate than chess when you don't understand it, but I can relate to that same feeling when listening to music. It's a whole different experience listening to music when you know music theory. So much goes unnoticed by an average listener I would say
Would love to see more videos like this, this is so beautifull
I’ll have to take a draw and start a new game. I play to relax
Wow. This is simply art
This is a very good video.
I had no idea this world of chess existed. Love your channel!!
Great material, as always!! Thanks, Danya!!
Super!
This is amazing to look at. What a journey to getting to the solution.
1. Qd6 Kg8 2. gh+ Kh8
Black doesn't really threat Qe6+ here because white can take and go Kg6, and then mate with the bishop.
I mean 3. Ba5 and it isn't absolutely clear how to draw it for black
Thanks for this grand study, master overview.
This is easily the most beautiful study I've ever seen.
I'm so proud that I got this on my own
great video. absolutely blew my mind
Brilliant study!!!
please make a opening guide
I like this grand study master overview :D
Wow studies and puzzles are really interesting in chess!
14 minutes of gold.
actually hype over a chess puzzle.. the prophet explained the final subtlety, perfecting the bishop's move order, and i was grinning like an idiot. sign of a good teacher?
saw GMDN in the corner for the first time and literally thought of "GM DEEZ NUTS" before i thought of "GM Daniel Naroditsky". somethin wrong with me man 😂
Wow, I never saw a teacher better fit for me, You dont joke around too much like Levy, You are not as stale a Eric, You are more exciting than Hikaru, You have a Great accent, And You are a GM!
Thanks A LOT
Could you make some Opening Videos like all important variations of Openings.
I would Rly love some Caro Kann Videos
Thanks a Lot :)
More patient and rigorous explainer than Hikaru
@@livinglogically8180 Exactly
@@livinglogically8180 not ass much of an asshole as hikaru and not as jarring and egotistical as Gotham (love Gotham anyways though)
@@terroristsnakecat4830 Ye I love Gotham too, But I learn chess way better with Daniel :)
Please more Caro Kann and English opening vids thank you :)
I believe danya can surpass levys content on TH-cam
its already much better lol. been that way
True but levy is more successful in yt and twitch he's the 3rd highest earning chess player
@@Xionite007 Because Levy panders to the lowest common denominator, not because his content ranks alongside polished educational material like Danya's.
@@pizzashark7067 true this much content might not be on his paid course as well. Personally it puzzles me why danyas channel isn't as popular as levys or hikaru.
levy just appeals to a different lower rated audience
Cheers mate happy birthday
Very cool! Thanks for that!
Holy Cow! It will take me a century to solve this.
Thanks for explications. That were really good.
incredible content that could be very helpful !
Sometimes I wonder if it is legal to watch these lessons for free🙂
Loved this study. I've seen it before.
We need more of these
After Be5 found I thought I am done! 😅😅
GRAND STUDY - Master Overview
This study is mate in 13 for white. I'm running an i7 processor with16gb ram, and Stockfish 15 at depth 60 cannot find the mate. Says +0.00 and gives Qd6+ Kg8 gxh7 as the top line. Amazing study! Stockfish looking rather silly.
I am amazed by this
Grand Study Master Overview!
Happy belated birthday Dana!
The definition of cooked? It's cooked! After bishop takes queen a1, stockfish moved knight to b5 and if king moves to e6, knight to c3 blocking checkmate! And winning the game.
Nope, after Bxc3+ Qxc3, White has f8=Q mate.
@@Rocky64 yes thanks for saying I'm stupid. After I posted the comment I quickly realized. But I'm not gonna delete it.
"Grand study master overview" c:
thank you GM daniel
Damn this is the beauty of Chess
Amazing explanation
"Studies have strict solving...standards." Danya
How to study test.... memorize what stockfish tells you
this is actually sorcery
THANKS GM Danya
Happy Birthday Danya 🎈🎂
Thanks for this bro
I really need these studies, the puzzles aren't really helping me out neither is analyzing. I'm starting to get to the rating where positional chess is becoming more important and necessary
Absolutely stunning
Happy Birthday from India sorry for wishing a day late according to India. Love your lessons
I find studies usually to be ridiculously difficult and very impractical in view of real chess situations.
Yes, indeed. But these studies force you to think more broadly than you otherwise would. Finding impossible moves in these studies challenges your understanding of chess moreso than any normal game could, which is why they're beneficial to your development.
Happy birthday from.the Netherlands
That is probably a thing people should do above a certain rating. Doubt it has as much impact on low rated players as high rated players.
They may not learn any specific concepts or patterns, but I think learning to slowly and methodically think through a position can be really helpful for low rated players who may be used to rushing through things.
how the heck should I see all these in a rapid game?
I’m sure I’m being oblivious, but Danya didn’t cover it in the video - after Qd6+ Kg8 gxh7 Kh8 why isn’t Be7 winning?
Hey Danya, I hope you don't forget the endgame series that you started!
What’s the name of the song that’s playing in the beginning?
This was beautiful 😍
More Accelerated Dragonis speedruns please!
Is the song dancing queen by abba?
Grand study master overview
Fantastic!
This is so cool.
Great video (except for the title - a chess study isn't studying chess). Would love to see more content on compositions like this one.
I watch so many chess videos and I play so much chess but i get regularly outplayed by 1100 and cant get past 1200
such mastery.
So another word? The very first solution, which is the best solution. You choose not to do, and you go through this alone, foolishness. Queen takes night, then Bishop moves. Bishop moves to make check. Take the quein come long-drawn-out. Scenario to make no sense.
amazing danya
So how is study different from puzzle?
Qa3 instead of NC7 ?
Isn't this just a long puzzle? Why call it a "study"?