I rate how classy Danya's titles and content are. No clickbaiting or full caps titles or in your face thumbnails. So refreshing. Makes his content look so much nicer to browse
I think there is an entire instructional that I've not seen on identifying quiet moves in attack. How to see them, how to know you won't lose impetus, how to know they are effective? I'd love that.
I recommend to everyone to set a chess board infront of them and play the lines danya explains. It helps a lot to remember them in live or online games.
Very informative. What is remarkable is to see all the importance given to developing the pieces as efficiently as possible during the opening phase. I didn't see any remarks about a potential attack. In my gaming, I often attack a weakness as soon as it becomes available and it often causes me problems later, because my development is not completed or my pieces are not developed harmoniously. I will pay particular attention to this in my next games. As my great-grandfather used to say, thank you infinitely!
One of the main things which taught me about the importance of piece development was refuting dubious sacrifices in the opening phase of the game. I would look up with an engine where I went wrong, what engine wanted to do and engine always wanted to get the pieces out as quickly as possible, I noticed that by far my best bet in such situations was to get my pieces developed as fast as possible while not blundering anything dumb.
I remember when playing the London there was a line where I would take on b7 and temporarily be up a pawn. That variation worked against players up to certain rating but I could pinpoint exactly at which rating level players started punishing my greedy play and getting great initiative after which I would be lucky not to lose fast. I remember when playing tournaments on lichess I would judge whether to take on b7 in such positions based on the rating of my opponent. I don't remember where the line was but I know that when I saw my opponents were below a certain rating treshold I would play Qxb7 otherwise I wouldn't. This all tells me that in order to get better at chess you need to face opponents that will actually punish your mistakes.
@@danielward7008 what I meant is that I can succeed to exploit a weakness (pawn on b2 🙂). But, then, the lacking of my development often causes me problems later. Basically, I will concentrate more on my development on the opening phase. Regards.
Hey Danya, on something you said in this game “players often struggle to play closed positions” - maybe you could do a speed run where you focus on play on closed positions (so deliberately go for closed positions), because I think most amateurs are, as you correctly evaluated, very deficient in this manner
Hi Daniel, love the videos as always - as a teacher of chess there's really no-one better. After this speedrun, and in line with your endgame series as more advanced instructional content, I'd love to see a video or two where you go over "think line a GM" type concepts; controlling squares, targeting long-term weaknesses, that sort of thing - basically stuff that to you is second nature, but isn't even on my (or a lot of other players') radar. Thank you!
I think this is one of your best speedrun games demonstrating closed vs open positions, and the concept of opening up the cetner. The game was kind of just closed and boring until you made an explicit effort to open up the center, sacking a pawn and anti-positionally capturing away from the center, which beginners like myself are super hesitant to do. But once the center opened up your superior development and piece activity just absolutely dominated the board. The engine position with the white king getting smothered in the middle of the bored surrounded by his pieces is just outrageous.
If you're talking about dxc4, there's nothing anti-positional about that. I think you're thinking of the specific case of recapturing an exchange away from the center when you have a choice between taking with, say, the b and d pawn since taking with the former would have supported a future push of the d pawn. But there's nothing intrinsically unprincipled about capturing away from the center in general, e.g. when there's pawn tension as in this game or when you're recapturing if there's no choice between pawns.
As per your request Danya, after the move f6, the latest Development version of Stockfish gives 0.00 after 22k table base hits, 5.2 billion nodes, and Depth 57. It goes Nh4, Qd3, Bf2, Ne4, Nxe4, dxe4, Nxf5, Qxd1, Raxd1, Bxe6, Nxe7, Kxe7.
I always liked closed positions better. To me it's easier to reason out what to do. In open positions I can just attack something but it's much harder to evaluate.
C4 was a huge desicion I would be uncomfortable making that move. Like why are opening the center? We have to calculate multiple forcing moves by black and then evaluate the resulting position. I would keep closed and try to force a kingside attack.. And probably lose lol
When you have that much pwnage going on in a game, you are actually obligated to do a shit ton of troll moves per C.c ToS. Pretty sure black resigned because they suspected a healthy dose of that was bout to be unleashed. Anyway, do be sure to go about doing lots of requisite trolling as you make your way up the ratings ladder so you can lock down that OG reputation you so very much deserve. Make them forever fear you and forever remember your exalted gangster greatness.
Pretty decent playing on fantasy variation, but there is couple tricky lines if you like to develop more effectively as white. Let black take pawns from e4 and f3, after dxe4 Kc3, exf3 Nf3, probably there is coming normal bishop pinning, but just move Be3 to protect d4 pawn, when black takes BxNf3 and take it back with queen Qf3 then black do some developing moving and just bring white bishop on 3rd rank. PS. there is reason why you need to protect that d4 pawn for end game, coming with brilliant move around move round 15 or so.. Nice and powerful develop for white. +3.1 for white by stockfish 15
Man the preview at the start is kind of spoilery, because you can see the board for a long time and memorize the position. It would be nicer if it would be blurred or hidden.
Lol he probably resigned early and reported for cheating. Honestly, this is probably one of the best speedrun videos for lower rated players. We haven't seen it a lot where they failed to develop and you blast open the center and win. Really sub-1400, this is one of the most common strategies to win. People just waste too much time not developing.
Even if he had an engine open the whole game what's the problem? He's instructing not competing. All the opponents of the speedrun get their ratings points back anyway.
@@TimJapan well I see where you're coming from, but at the same time, the teaching included in any chess lecture you watch will have been thoroughly prepared using books and engines. As long as he understands the moves he is explaining and explains them well I'm not sure I'm bothered whether or not he came up with them on the spot.
Love you Danya, but I think it's time to retire that little bullshit 'distributing the covid vaccine' analogy, as if it's in anyway comparable to climbing Mount Everest...
Once the opponent resigned, Danya said: Its +11. So he was using an engine or just people from the chat is feeding him engine moves and engine evaluations?
I think this channel would be more popular if the name was simpler. "Gothamchess" is a snappier name than "Daniel Naroditsky" and easier to remember / type.
It's an opening repertoire. In previous fantasy variation videos he has explained the theory from Black's perspective too. If you're not satisfied, go pick some opening book or training and do your homework.
24:51 black just resigns it's +11 in this position.... lol he literally just exposed that he watches the engine the entire time and nobody's even going to notice... he literally reads the engine and then tries to explain the engine... what a joke
I appreciate you so much for the analysis this game was incredible and super fun to try to figure out the best moves. I hope you arent experiencing people saying that your analysis is boring I find that some of the best parts of the speedrun. Keep up the great content
It was explained to me that Its called the fantasy because if the pawns are exchanged a certain way in the middle, white gets two pawns in the center and an open f file for his rook when he castles short. So its a "fantasy position" for white as he gets two pawns in the center and a semi open file for his rook.
I rate how classy Danya's titles and content are. No clickbaiting or full caps titles or in your face thumbnails. So refreshing. Makes his content look so much nicer to browse
Shoutout to Danita’s opponent. Feel like this 1700 played a really strong game and gave us a great fantasy variation.
He jacked the game on move 2 with the weak ass horse move lol
@@southerncharity7928 Still an incredible defender. He plays like me lol: bad openings, but awesome on defense.
@@southerncharity7928 if Magnus were to play that moove you would c*m instantly
@@marlon7555 he ain’t Magnus, my guy
@@trequoragainst me I would punish you immediately for playing a terrible opening. Opening is very important. Don’t neglect it my guy.
I think there is an entire instructional that I've not seen on identifying quiet moves in attack. How to see them, how to know you won't lose impetus, how to know they are effective? I'd love that.
I recommend to everyone to set a chess board infront of them and play the lines danya explains.
It helps a lot to remember them in live or online games.
lichess analysis board is also nice for that
Good stuff
That's a good recommendation, I'll try that to make the learning experience more active than passive.
Another way is to listen, remember and apply. Without a board. For more advanced players
ouuu this title is juicy. Im a simple man I see danya and I click
Very informative. What is remarkable is to see all the importance given to developing the pieces as efficiently as possible during the opening phase. I didn't see any remarks about a potential attack. In my gaming, I often attack a weakness as soon as it becomes available and it often causes me problems later, because my development is not completed or my pieces are not developed harmoniously. I will pay particular attention to this in my next games. As my great-grandfather used to say, thank you infinitely!
Yeah, an attack will usually fail if there are more defenders than attackers. Always develop.
One of the main things which taught me about the importance of piece development was refuting dubious sacrifices in the opening phase of the game. I would look up with an engine where I went wrong, what engine wanted to do and engine always wanted to get the pieces out as quickly as possible, I noticed that by far my best bet in such situations was to get my pieces developed as fast as possible while not blundering anything dumb.
I remember when playing the London there was a line where I would take on b7 and temporarily be up a pawn. That variation worked against players up to certain rating but I could pinpoint exactly at which rating level players started punishing my greedy play and getting great initiative after which I would be lucky not to lose fast. I remember when playing tournaments on lichess I would judge whether to take on b7 in such positions based on the rating of my opponent. I don't remember where the line was but I know that when I saw my opponents were below a certain rating treshold I would play Qxb7 otherwise I wouldn't. This all tells me that in order to get better at chess you need to face opponents that will actually punish your mistakes.
@@danielward7008 what I meant is that I can succeed to exploit a weakness (pawn on b2 🙂). But, then, the lacking of my development often causes me problems later. Basically, I will concentrate more on my development on the opening phase. Regards.
His choice of words gets my attention going, every time
Hey Danya, on something you said in this game “players often struggle to play closed positions” - maybe you could do a speed run where you focus on play on closed positions (so deliberately go for closed positions), because I think most amateurs are, as you correctly evaluated, very deficient in this manner
Hats off to your consistency
I already have more than 100 videos of yours in watch later from previous speedruns
Hi Daniel, love the videos as always - as a teacher of chess there's really no-one better. After this speedrun, and in line with your endgame series as more advanced instructional content, I'd love to see a video or two where you go over "think line a GM" type concepts; controlling squares, targeting long-term weaknesses, that sort of thing - basically stuff that to you is second nature, but isn't even on my (or a lot of other players') radar. Thank you!
Villain
I think this is one of your best speedrun games demonstrating closed vs open positions, and the concept of opening up the cetner. The game was kind of just closed and boring until you made an explicit effort to open up the center, sacking a pawn and anti-positionally capturing away from the center, which beginners like myself are super hesitant to do. But once the center opened up your superior development and piece activity just absolutely dominated the board. The engine position with the white king getting smothered in the middle of the bored surrounded by his pieces is just outrageous.
If you're talking about dxc4, there's nothing anti-positional about that. I think you're thinking of the specific case of recapturing an exchange away from the center when you have a choice between taking with, say, the b and d pawn since taking with the former would have supported a future push of the d pawn. But there's nothing intrinsically unprincipled about capturing away from the center in general, e.g. when there's pawn tension as in this game or when you're recapturing if there's no choice between pawns.
26:09 there was no reason for taking this weird, aggresive sip from the can💀😂
As per your request Danya, after the move f6, the latest Development version of Stockfish gives 0.00 after 22k table base hits, 5.2 billion nodes, and Depth 57. It goes Nh4, Qd3, Bf2, Ne4, Nxe4, dxe4, Nxf5, Qxd1, Raxd1, Bxe6, Nxe7, Kxe7.
I love the games around this level. Thanks for another awesome speedrun!
Woot I’m watching the premiere for once! Truly a “fantasy” most times…
Must watch as much as possible before work
You got my attention with the words "rich", "position" and "secrets"!
your videos are so nice falling asleep to
Doing the same thing rn lol
I always liked closed positions better. To me it's easier to reason out what to do. In open positions I can just attack something but it's much harder to evaluate.
"Nd2, it's a Frankfurt airport move." I'm using this metaphor from now on
A lesson in practicality in complex positions
Danya's intro is turning into a christmas tree
This is clever Danya. Well done.
You seriously could charge for this content; these videos are a valuable chess improvement resource
Amazing game ... thanks a ton for this fantastic video.
Finally got to 1500 at blitz today. Thanks Daniel, you are amazing
Been binging all speedruns and finally caught up
Super class, merci
another great speedrun from the prophet 😃
very nice game
Great video, thank you!
thanks
Word guy
Word of the day
Cavalier - showing a lack of proper concern
I liked “a priori” ☺️👍🏽👏
Danya - I am simple player
Than what about me?!😶
C4 was a huge desicion I would be uncomfortable making that move. Like why are opening the center? We have to calculate multiple forcing moves by black and then evaluate the resulting position. I would keep closed and try to force a kingside attack.. And probably lose lol
Didn't see any comments about this but shout out to the opponent. 1700 put up a decent fight against the danya beast.
I love being teased by these openings 😊
When you have that much pwnage going on in a game, you are actually obligated to do a shit ton of troll moves per C.c ToS. Pretty sure black resigned because they suspected a healthy dose of that was bout to be unleashed. Anyway, do be sure to go about doing lots of requisite trolling as you make your way up the ratings ladder so you can lock down that OG reputation you so very much deserve. Make them forever fear you and forever remember your exalted gangster greatness.
I'm blown away by Danya's greatness. I am however underwhelmed by Danya's gangsta side.
@@GERBILSAURUSVids Class act for sure.
Pretty decent playing on fantasy variation, but there is couple tricky lines if you like to develop more effectively as white. Let black take pawns from e4 and f3, after dxe4 Kc3, exf3 Nf3, probably there is coming normal bishop pinning, but just move Be3 to protect d4 pawn, when black takes BxNf3 and take it back with queen Qf3 then black do some developing moving and just bring white bishop on 3rd rank. PS. there is reason why you need to protect that d4 pawn for end game, coming with brilliant move around move round 15 or so..
Nice and powerful develop for white. +3.1 for white by stockfish 15
Is there a list of openings from this Speedrun based on your opponents first move? Would love a study guide. Been learning the dragon 🐲
The way danya plays is like a painter paints
Awesome
Does Daniel play any other lines against the Caro outside of the fantasy variation? Any videos on advanced variation or panov?
Previous speedrun he play e4 c6 nf3 d5 e5 and if bf5 then nd4 Bg6 e6
Idk what this line called tho
Sometimes he recommends the goldman variation
39:45 DISCOMBOBULATED
39:23 how is that knight forking king and queen? Won’t it be just taken by the bishop?
then the bishop on d3 will capture the queen
Can someone explain why black playing c4 early is a bad move? I am confused as to why black shouldn't just play this move somewhat early
Danya ❤
I am always terrified at the prospect of losing b2
Danya is the best!
Man the preview at the start is kind of spoilery, because you can see the board for a long time and memorize the position. It would be nicer if it would be blurred or hidden.
It is crazy that black has probably got away playing like that in other games
Lol he probably resigned early and reported for cheating. Honestly, this is probably one of the best speedrun videos for lower rated players. We haven't seen it a lot where they failed to develop and you blast open the center and win. Really sub-1400, this is one of the most common strategies to win. People just waste too much time not developing.
funny he says theres no queen trap here then the engine finds about 5
maybe you can play the opening a bit faster to have more time the critical position. the opening is easier to diskuss afterwards
Getting close to 1900 😁
Distributing the covid vaccine on mount everest 😂
We see danya starts thinking AFTER sacrificing the B pawn. Is this really a good example for us mere mortals? Me think no.
Pawn ISLANDS
Will You Play Panov attack in next opportunity for me? ❤️
This move could end up being a mistake...But I don't think it is!
🎉🎉🎉
What a complicate position
why does he say frankfurt airport
Have we even had a game against the French yet?
how he know it was +11 so fast?
Probably because the engine automatically starts analyzing when the game ends
Wait, Danya, how do you know the EVAL so fast?
Why did he say it's plus 11 1second after your opponent quit? I'm confused, and it was plus eleven as well, I ran it through the engine.
Because he opened the engine as soon as the game ended
@@pranavjoshi2968 He did that fast then
Even if he had an engine open the whole game what's the problem? He's instructing not competing. All the opponents of the speedrun get their ratings points back anyway.
@@jackbicknell4711 You're kidding, right?
I would be REALLY disappointed if that was the case.
@@TimJapan well I see where you're coming from, but at the same time, the teaching included in any chess lecture you watch will have been thoroughly prepared using books and engines. As long as he understands the moves he is explaining and explains them well I'm not sure I'm bothered whether or not he came up with them on the spot.
Hi
Robust
Second
Calls himself a “simple player”. Uses words like “a priori”.
first
your videos are sooo quiet, why not increase the volume a bit?
More like the Caro Yawn
Love you Danya, but I think it's time to retire that little bullshit 'distributing the covid vaccine' analogy, as if it's in anyway comparable to climbing Mount Everest...
Once the opponent resigned, Danya said: Its +11. So he was using an engine or just people from the chat is feeding him engine moves and engine evaluations?
The eval bar shows up when the game ends
He was definitely using an engine. How can a 1700 player play like a super GM
@@rayshido1908 She was asking whether Danya was using an engine. The other guy did not play like a GM at all, Qxb2 is clearly appalling.
I understood, the joke was referring the fact that he is playing on a 1700 elo account like a gm because he is
@@JohnsonSmithson It doesn't show up instantly does it?
I think this channel would be more popular if the name was simpler. "Gothamchess" is a snappier name than "Daniel Naroditsky" and easier to remember / type.
Living up to your name
Gotham posts alot of click bait thats why he's more popular. Daniel is for serious chess players which there's less of
Always from the White's perspective :/
no
It's an opening repertoire. In previous fantasy variation videos he has explained the theory from Black's perspective too. If you're not satisfied, go pick some opening book or training and do your homework.
@@musical_lolu4811 Funny. The point is he always plays Fantasy from White's side. The content, in general, is catering to you, so enjoy it.
24:51 black just resigns it's +11 in this position.... lol he literally just exposed that he watches the engine the entire time and nobody's even going to notice... he literally reads the engine and then tries to explain the engine... what a joke
Don't be silly.
Bro 🤣🤣🤣
When a game ends the board usually goes into analysis mode and shows the engine evaluation
Lol 🤡
Both your character as well as your IQ are showing and it isn't flattering.
I love new titles: long, informative, with opening tag. Tnx!
I appreciate you so much for the analysis this game was incredible and super fun to try to figure out the best moves. I hope you arent experiencing people saying that your analysis is boring I find that some of the best parts of the speedrun. Keep up the great content
I wish the opponent hadn’t resigned so soon. We wanted to play it out!
lol we have the same name but i have more y
has Danya explained the history why it's called the fantasy variation rather than being named after some chess master?
It was explained to me that Its called the fantasy because if the pawns are exchanged a certain way in the middle, white gets two pawns in the center and an open f file for his rook when he castles short. So its a "fantasy position" for white as he gets two pawns in the center and a semi open file for his rook.
It IS named after a chess master, Maroczy Variation is how lichess calls this