I don't know if anyone has said this but Danya is like the Bob Ross for chess. Just very relaxing, very wholesome, and lots to learn. Him giving lessons to a live twitch audience is such a cool concept and phenomenon. Hope it keeps going for a long time
that's not a speedrun vidoe , that's a masterclass, daniel you're a legend , if everyone does his job as good as you the world would be a different place
This FrankfurtAirport speedrun is my favourite of any you've done so far, Danya. Maybe because you're more experienced as a streamer/TH-camr, maybe because of the theme of playing solid, deliberate moves, maybe because even the lower-rated games have been relatively blunder free so there's been more to think about, but either way every video has been so instructional. Thanks so much for these videos.
Couldn't have said it better myself! I'm eternally grateful for the legend and sensei that is Daniel Naroditsky. I started learning chess two years ago now, and Danya has been one of the most influential and instrumental pillars of education and exposure that I have encountered.PERIOD. This Frankfurt, truly is, in a class of it's own above the rest though, I quite agree!
@@Tburt-mx5kg I actually think it has more to do with all the chess content that’s available these days. If you’re rated above 1500 I can’t speak on that because I tend to get knocked back down whenever I get that high lol, but I think people just know a lot more than they used to so 1300’s are a lot better now than they used to be. I know I got a lot better over the last year from watching videos like these
I've been going back and forth between old speedruns and the new ones. Daniel is definitely getting better and better at them. More time on a game, way more precise in the explanations and a definitive logic on how he wants to build the whole speedruns. It's a true chess curriculum now. Thank you for this content !
Thx to GM Danya for this series🙏 Being a beginner his comment around 4:55 about “in such positions” is valuable because I usually have no clear idea what the phrase means in context (what factors make the position such a position). Thinking along with the commentary is very helpful.
I thought I heard from a lot of strong players that the grunfeld is not really recommended unless you have a very high rating, say 1900+ or even higher. I'm guessing Daniel doesn't agree with that take?
On a similar topic, he said previously that he disagrees on the "beginners shouldn't be studying theory" take, which is the main purpose of this speedrun
Ok just leaving this here: I was literally so shocked that you are considering recommending the Grünfeld. I've played it a bit myself and even though everyone speaks against it, I found it was my favorite response to 1. d4, very enjoyable to play because of the open center and the clarity of the position. But in the past you've spoken against it, and more recently I've found myself following your opening recommendations having more success with them, so I thought, "he's probably right, I'll leave the Grünfeld to the side until I'm 2000 or sth and then we'll see, maybe the King's Indian or the occasional QGD will fit me better. It's not like I'm gonna have a curated repertoire in the Grünfeld from Danya so as not to get lost in all the tons of theory 🙄". And yet! Lol, so I'm pretty excited, I'm hoping you end up going for it.
You truly neednt worry about Dan with low time, he is actually literally one of the top bullet / hyper bullet players in the world. To him, 15 seconds vs a sub 3000 rated player is essentially jhust as much time as a full on classical game.
Grunfeld fans unite! It's my favorite tool vs. d4, I'd like to thank you so much for the speedruns... it's helped me move from 1700 to 2100 just from some opening changes and tactical ideas. What do you recommend in the Grunfeld vs. 4. Qb3? I've had trouble beating it but I've had success using it as white and would love common tips/tricks and would love to see you try it out as white as well
Danya, I’d love to see you playing the Caro Kann in some games against E4. I know It isn’t your main reccommendation, but it is a quite interesting opening.
if you play the alapin as White to avoid the open sicilian, it makes no sense to me that you play the open sicilian as Black with one tempo less, that is 1.c4 e5 followed by 2...Nf6 and 3...d5, which is the same as 1.e4 c5 followed by 2.Nf3 and 3.d4
To be fair, he IS one of the world's best bullet players. 18 seconds is a pretty long time for Danya, especially since he's already calculated the rest of the game by this point.
Thanks for the video! Im currently biting on granite at frankfurt airport (im distributing the covid vaccine) so this helps to pass the time. In such positions all you really can do is wait.
Can somebody explain to me how it comes that lower rated players have become so regularly good lately? I notice it not only with Danya, but also in my opponents.
9:13 I'd like to see you play out moves that the audience suggests that still work as a good move. Especially at these lower levels. Or moves that you see a lot of audience members suggesting but don't negatively impact the game even if it does make it a little more challenging. Because this is the move that most people will choose in a real game so it would be great for you to go down that road. And instead explain the move that you would have chosen and give us the rundown on it after the game is over. This way more of your audience members get a real world example of what they'd be most likely to use as their move.
I think it's best to include KID in the repertoire instead of Grunfeld since you're basically an expert of the former and it's kinda hard to find good material on it, it's also easy to transpose into it regardless of white's setup which makes it really versatile imo, I always try to play it against d4 but often get crushed because I don't know the theory at all lmao
I struggle a lot against the English, i feel like it's a rock solid opening for white like the London (which i play myself and therefore i know how to face it) and often i get outplayed! Can't wait to see the future videos on the other lines against the English! For now the only stystem that i learned to face it is 2. Bb4, exchange the Bishop and play against bad white's dark square bishop!
When your opponent has 7 MINUTES left and it's time for the end game Daniel still educates his twitch chat on your inevitable defeat, considering a pre-move only takes 0.1 seconds you actually got 269 moves left at that point. In online chess, people seem to be afraid of running the clock for more than a minute and as their opponent, I appreciate it :)
Danya you are a legend. So much depth of instruction and commentary that helps the budding player. All this, consistently, after a long, hard day's work. Much appreciation from the UK, my brother.
Kudos to the opponent! The English does lead to some truly beautiful Positional games, and this guy held out against a GM who wrote a book about Positional Chess. Also, 30:15 is a wonderful summary of the chess community 😂❤
No other GM I know of is so generous with their knowledge in the way Danya is. This is truly golden learning material, and one can tell he wants only to teach and to help us. His focus on the game isn't disturbed by the fact he's streaming. I'm grateful beyond words.
he explains chess with really good analogies, thank you dania, that shows how much you deeply understand chess that you can relate to real life examples, concepts of management in bussiness to as centralization and descentralizacion, structered and unstructured positions, its just amazing!, love to see people who can do this and also explain it. Keep it up!
Around 16:00, I never heard you mention what happens after Nc5 Nxe3 Nxe6. It looks very similar to me to the analysis you did a little later for Ng5 Nxe3 Nxe6, but are there any differences?
I'm a 1400 in rapid 10 minute. I keep losing on time in winning positions.. opponents like to just close the position and barely think, having trouble breaking them down though.. I would win if it were 15 minute. suggestions on improving the speed of my attacks?
This is the only TH-cam site that I "like" before viewing..! I'm a fan of the speed runs but I prefer the initial 10 minute format over the current 15 minute. A bit less talk and more playing..!
Hello Sir, thank you for all the great videos. One question for anyone to answer. I thought when facing the English with black that it was the same as a sicilian colors reversed, if you play e4 first. So I would normally play Alapin. But I looked it up and apparently I'm playing a qgd slav winawer counter gambit. Is this just a different name of the same thing? Is just having colors reversed force a name change? Or am I just a dumb human who messed this up? Appreciate the help from anyone. Peace
I love hearing the verbose explanations for learning purposes, but I keep thinking it must be tilting the shit out of his opponents when he takes forever to make a move that would normally never take so long if the verbosing wasn't happening. Personally when I play and this happens (my opponent takes forever to make an obvious move) it always tilts me and induces snap plays that I usually regret. I would bet money that a lot of the games in lower ELO where Danya's opponent blunders a piece in ridiculous fashion was likely the tilt they're experiencing from waiting so long for each move by Big D. Of course Higher ELO players are refined to not feel this tilt and logically use their patience to play proper, but I bet the low ELO players start to see the clock get low and play on hoping the clock runs out, completely un-aware that their actually facing a high-level GM LOL.
After you've watched the Sensei play 1 min blitz you stop worrying about him loosing on time when his clock gets to 15 seconds....That is a 15 minute clock for him.
Do you have courses like the ones Gotham sells? Would love to know where they are or if you have plans for some in the future. I enjoy learning from you. Thanks for your content.
I feel like just watching this has taken my chess game to another level even though I mainly play puzzles. Maybe I'll try to play some 5min games more in the future. Respect! 🔥
This was my favorite speed run game in a while! I was afraid that the b6 knight might be vulnerable to a4-a5 and was also scared to move my b8 bishop due to white's fianchettoed bishop and Q-side pressure, but it turns out these fears were unfounded and that I was seeing ghosts in the position. Really rich game as Danya said!
Danya ramping up the frequency of the content and I am here for it. The Only person on TH-cam for which I will religiously watch every single video. All that is missing is a podcast hosted by Danya and Yasser or Danya and Hess!
Is it just me or do the people in the speedrun play super super well for their ratings. I usually see people lost in 15 moves or some crazy shit happening at that rating.
I don't know if anyone has said this but Danya is like the Bob Ross for chess. Just very relaxing, very wholesome, and lots to learn. Him giving lessons to a live twitch audience is such a cool concept and phenomenon. Hope it keeps going for a long time
he even has curly hair ^^
nah thats yasser
Also Yasser
Also Rosen
That's Rosen. Although in this case Ross would be painting wild gambits.
His voice help me to get asleep. That's a complement
that's not a speedrun vidoe , that's a masterclass, daniel you're a legend , if everyone does his job as good as you the world would be a different place
Agreed. Pretty straightforward argument that this is currently the best free chess content out there. Really enjoyable stuff.
@@williamschrader5977 it's also better than many paid courses
Is that you, Joe Biden?
I love the distinction you make between controlling and occupying a square. That really rang a bell for me.
You gotta hell of a vocabulary, my friend. Engaging, educational, inspiring. Thanks again. Well done
for real. he just finds the perfect word for every moment
I mean he is a Stanford University graduate after all.
He's a high IQ individual for sure
Just letting know how much we appreciate this series.
👏
This FrankfurtAirport speedrun is my favourite of any you've done so far, Danya. Maybe because you're more experienced as a streamer/TH-camr, maybe because of the theme of playing solid, deliberate moves, maybe because even the lower-rated games have been relatively blunder free so there's been more to think about, but either way every video has been so instructional. Thanks so much for these videos.
Living off borrowed time the clock ticks faster
Couldn't have said it better myself! I'm eternally grateful for the legend and sensei that is Daniel Naroditsky. I started learning chess two years ago now, and Danya has been one of the most influential and instrumental pillars of education and exposure that I have encountered.PERIOD. This Frankfurt, truly is, in a class of it's own above the rest though, I quite agree!
"never underestimate people's power to mess things up" story of my life
Ah yes
You can never count out the stupidity factor xD
Diarrhea?
Is it just me or have these opponents been playing *extremely* well for this rating range
@@Tburt-mx5kg I actually think it has more to do with all the chess content that’s available these days. If you’re rated above 1500 I can’t speak on that because I tend to get knocked back down whenever I get that high lol, but I think people just know a lot more than they used to so 1300’s are a lot better now than they used to be. I know I got a lot better over the last year from watching videos like these
its just you, 1400 rapid now is not what it was 1 year ago
@@justsomeprofile4969 what does that even mean? Unless the ratings were recalibrated, that makes no sense.
@@jeffersonparsons5519 ELO rating is always relative to population's overall strength. If everybody gets better, ratings stay the same.
Not really, were you expecting White to be lost in 10 moves? He basically hung a piece and the rest didn’t matter
Got too stressed as Danya kept explaining in full detail as clock ticked down! 😂
Checkmate, that's the tactic!
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
In such positions, it would be unthinkable not to subscribe.
the limit of his skill rating goes to infinity as his times goes to 0
35:18 You can almost hear what the other player is saying at home, " 1300, my ass, that's total engine play."
I've been going back and forth between old speedruns and the new ones. Daniel is definitely getting better and better at them. More time on a game, way more precise in the explanations and a definitive logic on how he wants to build the whole speedruns.
It's a true chess curriculum now.
Thank you for this content !
Thx to GM Danya for this series🙏
Being a beginner his comment around 4:55 about “in such positions” is valuable because I usually have no clear idea what the phrase means in context (what factors make the position such a position).
Thinking along with the commentary is very helpful.
I thought I heard from a lot of strong players that the grunfeld is not really recommended unless you have a very high rating, say 1900+ or even higher. I'm guessing Daniel doesn't agree with that take?
On a similar topic, he said previously that he disagrees on the "beginners shouldn't be studying theory" take, which is the main purpose of this speedrun
It's not about people's 'takes', it's about chess understanding.
This is your best speedrun so far. You make it fun to learn positional chess. That is truly an amazing feat
Ok just leaving this here: I was literally so shocked that you are considering recommending the Grünfeld. I've played it a bit myself and even though everyone speaks against it, I found it was my favorite response to 1. d4, very enjoyable to play because of the open center and the clarity of the position. But in the past you've spoken against it, and more recently I've found myself following your opening recommendations having more success with them, so I thought, "he's probably right, I'll leave the Grünfeld to the side until I'm 2000 or sth and then we'll see, maybe the King's Indian or the occasional QGD will fit me better. It's not like I'm gonna have a curated repertoire in the Grünfeld from Danya so as not to get lost in all the tons of theory 🙄". And yet! Lol, so I'm pretty excited, I'm hoping you end up going for it.
This vid is quality content. My anxiety tho when the clock kept going red, i knew you wouldnt lose but i was worried nonetheless.
You truly neednt worry about Dan with low time, he is actually literally one of the top bullet / hyper bullet players in the world. To him, 15 seconds vs a sub 3000 rated player is essentially jhust as much time as a full on classical game.
@@PitzkeMP yeah haha i knew he wouldnt lose but i was worried still. it's just anxiety lmao thank you for your reassurance !
Danya I think yours is easily the best chess learnin' on the YT
Grunfeld fans unite! It's my favorite tool vs. d4, I'd like to thank you so much for the speedruns... it's helped me move from 1700 to 2100 just from some opening changes and tactical ideas.
What do you recommend in the Grunfeld vs. 4. Qb3? I've had trouble beating it but I've had success using it as white and would love common tips/tricks and would love to see you try it out as white as well
Just as I was binging your speed run videos, you drop another banger! Haven’t even watched it yet but I still know it’s a banger
Thank you so much, your analyze is so clear and rich, your videos are great for anyone wanting to get better at chess
Danya, I’d love to see you playing the Caro Kann in some games against E4.
I know It isn’t your main reccommendation, but it is a quite interesting opening.
very educatuinal as always. It's great to understand the thinking process and the deep analysis of the games and positions. Thank you
Singulark played a very good game being a 1400+ player.. Specifically this kind of positional chess.. Very good game..👍👍
Honestly a phenomenal game by the opponent
if you play the alapin as White to avoid the open sicilian, it makes no sense to me that you play the open sicilian as Black with one tempo less, that is 1.c4 e5 followed by 2...Nf6 and 3...d5, which is the same as 1.e4 c5 followed by 2.Nf3 and 3.d4
😮 calmly explaining moves in the middle game with 18 seconds left on the clock!? What. A. Legend.
To be fair, he IS one of the world's best bullet players. 18 seconds is a pretty long time for Danya, especially since he's already calculated the rest of the game by this point.
You must be new here.
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Thanks for the video! Im currently biting on granite at frankfurt airport (im distributing the covid vaccine) so this helps to pass the time. In such positions all you really can do is wait.
Can somebody explain to me how it comes that lower rated players have become so regularly good lately? I notice it not only with Danya, but also in my opponents.
What is crazy is that this was the last hour of an almost 4 hour stream.
Omg I would looovee Speedrun videos on the Grünfeld
9:13 I'd like to see you play out moves that the audience suggests that still work as a good move. Especially at these lower levels. Or moves that you see a lot of audience members suggesting but don't negatively impact the game even if it does make it a little more challenging. Because this is the move that most people will choose in a real game so it would be great for you to go down that road. And instead explain the move that you would have chosen and give us the rundown on it after the game is over. This way more of your audience members get a real world example of what they'd be most likely to use as their move.
Thanks!
THANK U DANIEL SENSEI!!!
i watch speedrun then i fell confident i start playing game and blunder a piece in 1 move with white!
It's 3am in Brazil.
SleepRun
Chess Grandmaster and a Wordsmith Grandmaster ta boot ;)
Love me some FrankfurtAirport.
You two should collab. Poker and chess are two overlapping communities
You know you're playing well when Danya checks your archive
This series definitely has a lot of meat on the bone.
Loving the noobs telling Danya what moves he's missed. 🤣 He's here to teach, not smash! Lol
I think it's best to include KID in the repertoire instead of Grunfeld since you're basically an expert of the former and it's kinda hard to find good material on it, it's also easy to transpose into it regardless of white's setup which makes it really versatile imo, I always try to play it against d4 but often get crushed because I don't know the theory at all lmao
I struggle a lot against the English, i feel like it's a rock solid opening for white like the London (which i play myself and therefore i know how to face it) and often i get outplayed! Can't wait to see the future videos on the other lines against the English! For now the only stystem that i learned to face it is 2. Bb4, exchange the Bishop and play against bad white's dark square bishop!
This might be the best speedrun game so far. I said wow multiple times. Moving the correct rook, to induce the fork, was brilliant.
When your opponent has 7 MINUTES left and it's time for the end game Daniel still educates his twitch chat on your inevitable defeat, considering a pre-move only takes 0.1 seconds you actually got 269 moves left at that point.
In online chess, people seem to be afraid of running the clock for more than a minute and as their opponent, I appreciate it :)
Your Russian accent is way better than mine 😂
Per usual, great work Danya!!!!
Danya you are a legend. So much depth of instruction and commentary that helps the budding player. All this, consistently, after a long, hard day's work. Much appreciation from the UK, my brother.
still waiting danya to playing kings gambit..
These are just so great Danya. So great. Just inject it into my veins. Love it.
33:35 "What do we do now?" Well...I know what I do...a highly inappropriate NSFW dance. Don't judge me!!
I love how you explain each move and how you think your moves through!
Kudos to the opponent!
The English does lead to some truly beautiful Positional games, and this guy held out against a GM who wrote a book about Positional Chess.
Also, 30:15 is a wonderful summary of the chess community 😂❤
Hey big guy danya. Great vid! Phenomenal work! Keep it up
No other GM I know of is so generous with their knowledge in the way Danya is. This is truly golden learning material, and one can tell he wants only to teach and to help us. His focus on the game isn't disturbed by the fact he's streaming. I'm grateful beyond words.
0:28 clipping*****
ABC, Always Be Coaching, even in a won position. Thank you for another outstanding video.
Subtitle gang - the move 95 really seemed to be OP for black in this game - props to Danya for noticing it
Late night speedrun hits different
27:00 Damn Jeffrey Xiong is 2700. There are some very strong American GMs these days.
like 10 minutes into in-depth analysis - "that was a short elevator pitch" - man, your elevators sure are slow.
Nice Video. as a 1700 was very informative for me as I have a bad score against the English.
Dude woulda resigned cause he probably thought he'd win on time not realizing who he was playing lol
You talk entirely too much bro .. gawwdddd damn . 😂😂😂😂
Damn, Danya uploaded 18 hours ago? Why I don't get a notification??
Dude you make it look so simple and systematic. Just play principled moves and let the opponent make a mistake.
Ummmm was I the only one who heard it? 😅 love u though, i watch every single of ur videos
love this content danya :D would be awesome to see some more opening lab videos as well i love those
Ive tried the QGD, the slav, the KID , and honestly i dont like them all. I hate 1.d4
he explains chess with really good analogies, thank you dania, that shows how much you deeply understand chess that you can relate to real life examples, concepts of management in bussiness to as centralization and descentralizacion, structered and unstructured positions, its just amazing!, love to see people who can do this and also explain it. Keep it up!
i learned so much watching this video, thank you!!
I like your russian accent. Its better than my own actually :D Keep doing this series, I like them.
Probably because he‘s fluent in Russian
@@SahnigReingeloeteti think op is Russian
Why Nb6 instead of more natural Nf6 in the opening?
bro literally called every white's move. Legend!
This was exhilarating, my goodness! DN is thee best
Around 16:00, I never heard you mention what happens after Nc5 Nxe3 Nxe6. It looks very similar to me to the analysis you did a little later for Ng5 Nxe3 Nxe6, but are there any differences?
I'm a 1400 in rapid 10 minute. I keep losing on time in winning positions.. opponents like to just close the position and barely think, having trouble breaking them down though.. I would win if it were 15 minute. suggestions on improving the speed of my attacks?
This is the only TH-cam site that I "like" before viewing..! I'm a fan of the speed runs but I prefer the initial 10 minute format over the current 15 minute. A bit less talk and more playing..!
Hello Sir, thank you for all the great videos. One question for anyone to answer. I thought when facing the English with black that it was the same as a sicilian colors reversed, if you play e4 first. So I would normally play Alapin. But I looked it up and apparently I'm playing a qgd slav winawer counter gambit. Is this just a different name of the same thing? Is just having colors reversed force a name change? Or am I just a dumb human who messed this up? Appreciate the help from anyone. Peace
I love hearing the verbose explanations for learning purposes, but I keep thinking it must be tilting the shit out of his opponents when he takes forever to make a move that would normally never take so long if the verbosing wasn't happening. Personally when I play and this happens (my opponent takes forever to make an obvious move) it always tilts me and induces snap plays that I usually regret.
I would bet money that a lot of the games in lower ELO where Danya's opponent blunders a piece in ridiculous fashion was likely the tilt they're experiencing from waiting so long for each move by Big D.
Of course Higher ELO players are refined to not feel this tilt and logically use their patience to play proper, but I bet the low ELO players start to see the clock get low and play on hoping the clock runs out, completely un-aware that their actually facing a high-level GM LOL.
Me: *thinks* maybe Be6?
Danya: Some of you may be tempted by Be6, but no
Me: Oh, well maybe c6?
Danya: Not c6 either
This always happens
After you've watched the Sensei play 1 min blitz you stop worrying about him loosing on time when his clock gets to 15 seconds....That is a 15 minute clock for him.
Do you have courses like the ones Gotham sells? Would love to know where they are or if you have plans for some in the future. I enjoy learning from you. Thanks for your content.
I feel like just watching this has taken my chess game to another level even though I mainly play puzzles. Maybe I'll try to play some 5min games more in the future. Respect! 🔥
Yeah Daniel it feels really bad to tell you this but you've gotta remake this whole video because you were peaking
In chess, that is 🤓
Very instructive and I actually improved just by watching your speed run videos. Thank you very much Daniel
This was my favorite speed run game in a while! I was afraid that the b6 knight might be vulnerable to a4-a5 and was also scared to move my b8 bishop due to white's fianchettoed bishop and Q-side pressure, but it turns out these fears were unfounded and that I was seeing ghosts in the position. Really rich game as Danya said!
english is really complicated line. i often lose to this opening
Danya ramping up the frequency of the content and I am here for it. The Only person on TH-cam for which I will religiously watch every single video. All that is missing is a podcast hosted by Danya and Yasser or Danya and Hess!
Is it just me or do the people in the speedrun play super super well for their ratings.
I usually see people lost in 15 moves or some crazy shit happening at that rating.
TH-cam sounds fine for the most part, some videos you were quiet or my phone is just old but no cutting in or out or anything
Still waiting for Danya to face what 99% I face. Response to 2. E5
I thought the Grunfeld was an opening beginner/intermediate players shouldn't play?
Danya I would love if you played the Grunfeld! It's my favorite opening
I second all the other positive comments. Thank you, Danya 🙏
Thanks for the great lessons! I'm watching this series in sequential order, and the audio has never sounded better!
I love how Danya explains the concept of video games on TWITCH!
Great content as always! I really felt it when you said "everyone is good nowdays" I salute everyone. Chess is awesome