I love how that single a3 move caused the opponent to go from equal to drowning in custard in one move. You can just imagine them thinking "oh I learned about prophylaxis from that TH-cam guy, time to put it into action". Danya's expression and voice change at 2:35 is also hilarious.
a3 wasn't what drowned them; not even allowing the centre fork trick drowned them. It was their response to the centre fork trick that killed their position.
I'm around 1700 as well and i used to never see accelerated dragons at my level and ever since you started the speedrun its like every other game is an accelerated dragon game, you are quite popular i guess :D
the combination of doing puzzles everyday and your insanely good explanations have me spotting some of the tactics before you point them out! :) thank you for being the best chess educator out here danya
Thanks so much Daniel. Especially dealing with the e4 trouble was one reason I went back to regular dragon with d6 protecting the e4 push. Got to look for your video on the Moratsy Bind.
I truly cannot thank you enough for these amazing instructive videos. The Accelerated Dragon is something new I have been playing so these ideas are gonna be implemented. Thank you very much for everything you do Sensei. 🙏🏽
You're, by far, the best chess teacher on the internet. I have been following your speedruns since your first posted them. Thanks for everything Daniel.
0:40 I guess people don't like to play the open Sicilian because of bad experience. I remember my time as chess newbie developing an intense fear and hate towards open sicilian. Because (open-) sicilian players are always ahead in the theory anyways -> often resulting in losing games for white. So the META-Game is to "torture" the sicilian player with the alipin or closed sicilian in hope the sicilian player lack theory in these openings.
I know exactly why this is happening. People often play not only 15+10, but also 10+0 and they pretty much experienced time lose. Yeah I say it's habit. They play 15+10 just like when they play 10+0
12:25 isn't the more clinical move Be5 here because it poses the most direct threat? It attacks the white knight which defends the white rook so if we had an extra turn, we would take the knight, removing the defender of the rook. If white trades rook, we queen for free. If white moves the knight, we take the rook for free. At the worst, we gain a full rook. I'm not saying that f5 isn't winning, just that it takes more time to create a legimate threat so I wonder why Danya didn't mention it. Perhaps he just missed it, but if he did, then I would be very proud of myself since that move was the first that came to mind to me once I tried looking for a better move than immediately queening.
Nice game ! Hope we get an open accelerated when whites Queen comes out early to attack blacks h8 rook. That would be a good line to go over. Thanks sensei Danya !
I like how Danya allows the opponent to grab a meaningless a pawn cause you know white was licking his chops at the sight of that hanging pawn for about 3 moves in a row
What to do if my opponent pushes against my kingside early in the dragon? Can't castle queen side as my first move pushes forward a queens pawn, this weakening the king if I castle queen side, this is my biggest problem.
Does the Centre Fork trick just help give that side a better position as material wise the other side get the pawn back. Just not sure if it’s always worth playing it when available?
At 3:30, the knight is protected by a pawn. So based on your 'is a pin dangerous?' rule, this in my head seems like any other bisschop-knight pin in the opening. Which nuance am I missing in that rule of thumb?
There are 2 attackers on the knight, so you would lose a pawn if it wasn’t defended again. And the bishop taking would be a fork and win the rook. Hope this helps
On the rise past 1000 rating and i feel out of my element watching 1700 games, but it's still super instructive to see the proper sequence of moves that helps get an advantage. I've yet to stop watching any of the speedruns! Thanks for the instruction Danya!
many GM would stop, after black take our knight in c6, it will good for us. And never tell how to punish white after taking it. Many people take the knight and our position crumble from there. Yes we have major pawn in centre but can't push pawn and bishop have no square to develop.And we are one piece down in the board due to inactive.
Then you should thank them for being so nice as to give you the center. After they take your knight you play D5 with tempo and chase the knight away, then you play e4 with tempo and chase the other knight home to g1. Congrats you have a commanding lead.
I think the opponent played a3 because they were worried about ...Na5 after Bc4 and wanted a square for the bishop. Not saying it is good, just stating my thoughts.
Omg this is so good I wish i knew you in real life i would be a better player I have one question is it memorization or you know all this moves by heart i ask this because if I would study this opening accelerated dragon there’s so many variants an i think it would be so hard to remember do you have any suggestions on how to get better at remembering or is just main lines
Search "yasser seriawan accelerated dragon". He gives a really good explanation for *why* each move gets played. If you know the motivation behind the moves, you aren't "memorizing an opening", you're understanding the ideas behind it and acting on them. Then even when someone goes off the beaten path, you still have a plan for what you should do
Get a diary book and work out the lines, read up the moves from other grandmaster games and find out why the move is played, or reason out for yourself why it's played. Also, you can draw out the chess positions in your diary, simplified if you like to just a 3 x 3 or 4 x 4 position. Judit Polger mentions this in one of her books.
i encounter a lot of people randomly playing a3 with white in some many positions where it isnt good and it makes me angry really, i mean what could be going in people's heads? such a dumb move. i guess they want to restrict the knight but play like that is only acceptable below 1000 in my opinion
That is actually a line against the Sicilian. It is called a3 Sicilian or Sicilian Defense: Mengarini Variation. Gothamchess suggests this line for black as it throws people off by surprise. But with correct play, black Is fine. It has some similarities with the wing gambit.
@@andremarques1088 yeah most thigns like that are playable. especially in amateur play but im just not fan of it since there are far more reasonable openings and in slower games white should loose like half the time.
İ hope you wont just finish speedrun by the time you hit around 2200 like the speedrun before. Because the high rated games are the most beneficial ones for me( i guess for all of us) and we would like to see 1700-1800+ games for a longer period. There are more theory lines, more advanced maneuvers, players dont lose to 1-2 move tactics immediately and of course there is more room for analyse after game
Danya: "Now I know a lot of you are thinking rook B1 but that's a blunder"
Me, thinking rook B1: 🙄
Rook B1, Rook B1, make a move that makes no sense...
😃
That move literally is crazy...
Daniel, if you are reading this, I hope you're well. Thank you for the content. Very informative.
This is the most formal TH-cam comment I've ever read. Nice and wholesome.
Why should he not be well?
Change it to “Since you are reading this” because he will read it at the same time that he reads it
@@BRNRDNCK huh?
“I hope you’re well”: hilariously threatening
Thanks!
I love how that single a3 move caused the opponent to go from equal to drowning in custard in one move. You can just imagine them thinking "oh I learned about prophylaxis from that TH-cam guy, time to put it into action".
Danya's expression and voice change at 2:35 is also hilarious.
a3 wasn't what drowned them; not even allowing the centre fork trick drowned them. It was their response to the centre fork trick that killed their position.
that move isn't even prophylactic, it doesn't do anything, there's no bishop coming there to pin knight
Castles or pawn a3? Lmao
I'm around 1700 as well and i used to never see accelerated dragons at my level and ever since you started the speedrun its like every other game is an accelerated dragon game, you are quite popular i guess :D
That's how I feel down at 1200 when Eric Rosen was playing the Stafford Gambit. Everyone was playing it and losing.
Danke!
Starting to understand why Danya's opponents don't like playing into the Accelerated Dragon.
I can never get enough of your instructional Chess videos! Absolutely elated everytime I see that notification pop up like "YES! A NEW VIDEO!"
This is the best video i've seen of you with the accelerated dragon. I will save it and rewatch it dozens of times.
the combination of doing puzzles everyday and your insanely good explanations have me spotting some of the tactics before you point them out! :) thank you for being the best chess educator out here danya
The line at the start of analysis (that begins with e5) is pretty amazing. Thanks Danya ❤️
22:00 Judas bishop takes d7 checking his own king 😔
This got a laugh out of me 😂
Thanks so much Daniel. Especially dealing with the e4 trouble was one reason I went back to regular dragon with d6 protecting the e4 push. Got to look for your video on the Moratsy Bind.
I truly cannot thank you enough for these amazing instructive videos. The Accelerated Dragon is something new I have been playing so these ideas are gonna be implemented. Thank you very much for everything you do Sensei. 🙏🏽
Love the content! It's helping me improve vastly!
You're, by far, the best chess teacher on the internet. I have been following your speedruns since your first posted them.
Thanks for everything Daniel.
He makes it so clear. Imagine if he taught 'sex ed' in high school...
"Now, this move I call the 'accelerated piston'..."
0:40 I guess people don't like to play the open Sicilian because of bad experience. I remember my time as chess newbie developing an intense fear and hate towards open sicilian. Because (open-) sicilian players are always ahead in the theory anyways -> often resulting in losing games for white. So the META-Game is to "torture" the sicilian player with the alipin or closed sicilian in hope the sicilian player lack theory in these openings.
Incredible as always Danya thanks for these vids
22:00 Bishop takes d7 with CHECK!!!!
I watched this live for the first time today. Nice close game. Especially trading with tempo and logic to open the middle while ahead in development.
Wonderful and informative as always Danya. Keep it up 😀😀
Yet another brilliant video from a brilliant player. Thank you 👏 👌
Love the tactical lines shown in this video. Super sick
Such a great video Daniel.
This video is so helpful for me, whose goal is to find clear and practical guidance.
Great details, thanks Danya. Already winning some extra games off the back of this lesson!
It's crazy how sharp this line is. By move 10 already have an advantage with black.. love the great content Danya
Great video as always Danya. Your ability to explain and demonstrate concepts goes beyond chess and is appreciated in every way
I don't understand why people play a 15 min+ game and then use only use only 2 minutes of their time and loose.
Well keep in mind that they are thinking while danya is talking
I know exactly why this is happening.
People often play not only 15+10, but also 10+0 and they pretty much experienced time lose.
Yeah I say it's habit. They play 15+10 just like when they play 10+0
Some players like to play but don't like to think
Awesome video as always! Thank you for helping us become better!
Best educational chess content by far, and its all free. I love Danya.
I'm absolutely convinced that by now my cat recognizes your voice 😅 I love your content, thank you!
Hey Danya. Love your videos! :)
Would it be possible to make a long video (or video's) on your opening recommendatinos of this speedrun?
You make it look so easy, then I go and hang all my pieces in the process 😁
Interesting analysis!
I've been trying to learn the accelerated dragon and this is super helpful!
Hyperaccelerated is pretty fun too, so many people play Qxd4 after cxd4 and get rekt.
"This is like minus plus" - Daniel Naroditsky
18:00 correct & add to study rep
Wow, always impressed by Danya’s clinical precision. Opening, middle game, endgame, every little mistake is exploited perfectly. 👍
Titled players are something else man. I've even seen FMs being crazy lethal on the board, squeezing all hope. But GMs are on another level.
12:25 isn't the more clinical move Be5 here because it poses the most direct threat? It attacks the white knight which defends the white rook so if we had an extra turn, we would take the knight, removing the defender of the rook. If white trades rook, we queen for free. If white moves the knight, we take the rook for free. At the worst, we gain a full rook. I'm not saying that f5 isn't winning, just that it takes more time to create a legimate threat so I wonder why Danya didn't mention it. Perhaps he just missed it, but if he did, then I would be very proud of myself since that move was the first that came to mind to me once I tried looking for a better move than immediately queening.
Nice game ! Hope we get an open accelerated when whites Queen comes out early to attack blacks h8 rook. That would be a good line to go over. Thanks sensei Danya !
Thanks Danya!
Thanks! I never knew what to do after the exchange and e5. I would play d6 and white would castle queen side.
You killed it!
Great video, thank you!
How to study the theory?
Should we mug up all the variation?
Can anyone tell me why white did not castle at time 7:55 before the queen trade ?
Daniel went into full GM mode here...
omg... the post game analysis blew my mind.... I pity the fool who plays e5 in my next game.
What does "minus over plus" mean? I guess it's shorthand for a bad eval?
white is much worse.
It means Black is much better
+- means White is much better
+= means white is slightly better
= means .... equal
same if - (minus) is at starting then black is better
+- = white is winning, -+ = black is winning.
Wow e5 f5 is simply soul-crushing. Textbook submission.
Please more accelerated dragon!!!!
"Nothing insane" that was pretty insane, I would have botched that pretty badly
Finally! Someone who plays the open sicilian
Ikr! Above 1800 everyone plays open Sicilian and I found out today i was playing it incorrectly
@@VivekGawande1 I reccomend watching his first speedrun, it has a ton of accelerated dragon content
And then immediately plays a non theory move,
I like how Danya allows the opponent to grab a meaningless a pawn cause you know white was licking his chops at the sight of that hanging pawn for about 3 moves in a row
I hope Daniel plays the Caro-Kann in the next speedrun :)
Nat Geo voice: Now we can see how the python squeeze the life out of his prey hinch by hinch
the opponent got blown off the board 😂
Best serie ever
What to do if my opponent pushes against my kingside early in the dragon? Can't castle queen side as my first move pushes forward a queens pawn, this weakening the king if I castle queen side, this is my biggest problem.
If your opponent pushes early on the side of the board, he's neglecting the center, to which you can then strike in yourself.
Conventional wisdom says that an attack on the flank should be responded to by an attack in the center
Thats the point of the accelerated dragon. To save a tempo for playing ...d5. If they pawn storm early then just play ...d5 and open the center.
I like sicilian and i have question for Danya ? i usually play this dragon when opponent play e4, follow f4 to protect my kingside is it good ?
Does the Centre Fork trick just help give that side a better position as material wise the other side get the pawn back. Just not sure if it’s always worth playing it when available?
Awesome video Danya! Just got to ask if it's just me that hears the audio quite low, anyone experience the same issue?
Ah another night where Danya sings me to sleep
i never knew how powerful the accelerated dragon could be, i thought it was just something to prepare for bxa1
Wow that was so precise it was like chess surgery
Do you have a book? I feel like you'll write a good one
At 3:30, the knight is protected by a pawn. So based on your 'is a pin dangerous?' rule, this in my head seems like any other bisschop-knight pin in the opening. Which nuance am I missing in that rule of thumb?
There are 2 attackers on the knight, so you would lose a pawn if it wasn’t defended again. And the bishop taking would be a fork and win the rook. Hope this helps
On the rise past 1000 rating and i feel out of my element watching 1700 games, but it's still super instructive to see the proper sequence of moves that helps get an advantage. I've yet to stop watching any of the speedruns! Thanks for the instruction Danya!
i would like to see someone try the grand prix attack vs your acc dragon
I often think that when these games are one sided at this level it's because the player isn't cheating.
thanks
many GM would stop, after black take our knight in c6, it will good for us. And never tell how to punish white after taking it. Many people take the knight and our position crumble from there. Yes we have major pawn in centre but can't push pawn and bishop have no square to develop.And we are one piece down in the board due to inactive.
I am excited to see a chessable course for accelerated dragon.
Eugene Perelshteyn just published one for hyperaccelerated.
@@DarkSideChess That'll do. Thank you very much
Hi daniel do you have any courses I can buy ?
22:50
This is quote an anomaly of people not playing open Sicilian
Makes we want to try the Sicilian
nice
W chess content
Absolutely obliterated
daaaamn 😂
Plays player named Anita and assumes it’s a girl/woman.
A bold assumption, Rebecka.
Lol
i love you man
How does simple logical play crush a 1700? This must mean I’m not able to play simple logical chess. Maybe some day if I watch more of these vids.
22:12
25:02 every time i try this with black they just sac the bishop with check and then take my knight
Then you should thank them for being so nice as to give you the center. After they take your knight you play D5 with tempo and chase the knight away, then you play e4 with tempo and chase the other knight home to g1. Congrats you have a commanding lead.
I think the opponent played a3 because they were worried about ...Na5 after Bc4 and wanted a square for the bishop. Not saying it is good, just stating my thoughts.
There is so much grand pixel,rossolimo as well as alapin mengarini...najdorf is safe
Omg this is so good I wish i knew you in real life i would be a better player
I have one question is it memorization or you know all this moves by heart i ask this because if I would study this opening accelerated dragon there’s so many variants an i think it would be so hard to remember do you have any suggestions on how to get better at remembering or is just main lines
Puzzles
Search "yasser seriawan accelerated dragon". He gives a really good explanation for *why* each move gets played.
If you know the motivation behind the moves, you aren't "memorizing an opening", you're understanding the ideas behind it and acting on them. Then even when someone goes off the beaten path, you still have a plan for what you should do
th-cam.com/video/13Y4QR_-Upc/w-d-xo.html
Get a diary book and work out the lines, read up the moves from other grandmaster games and find out why the move is played, or reason out for yourself why it's played. Also, you can draw out the chess positions in your diary, simplified if you like to just a 3 x 3 or 4 x 4 position. Judit Polger mentions this in one of her books.
Me who only ever plays the Caro Kann - hmm defs won’t make this mistake😂
As a 1800 player, I knew the move was Kb8, not Kd5 😃😂 ( white trick to push e6 in the opening )
And this is why people play other moves on move 2 and 3
i encounter a lot of people randomly playing a3 with white in some many positions where it isnt good and it makes me angry really, i mean what could be going in people's heads? such a dumb move. i guess they want to restrict the knight but play like that is only acceptable below 1000 in my opinion
That is actually a line against the Sicilian. It is called a3 Sicilian or Sicilian Defense: Mengarini Variation. Gothamchess suggests this line for black as it throws people off by surprise. But with correct play, black Is fine. It has some similarities with the wing gambit.
@@andremarques1088 yeah most thigns like that are playable. especially in amateur play but im just not fan of it since there are far more reasonable openings and in slower games white should loose like half the time.
@@emrevurgun8328 I know but if you are Sicilian Player you have to deal with that find a way to counter it .( I also play the sicilian)
Literally everyone plays the open sicilian against me I dont get it 😅
İ hope you wont just finish speedrun by the time you hit around 2200 like the speedrun before. Because the high rated games are the most beneficial ones for me( i guess for all of us) and we would like to see 1700-1800+ games for a longer period. There are more theory lines, more advanced maneuvers, players dont lose to 1-2 move tactics immediately and of course there is more room for analyse after game
Maroczy coming soon 😃😃😃
Thank you based Даня.
Levy been talking smack homie, 'bout time Danya gave him that smoke and teach him what a beat down feels like from a super GM 👊
🎉🎉🎉
Danya, we need courses from you! Take my money!! 😂
Am I stinky, yes or no?
If you have to ask…
Go take a shower bro