I just found your channel and I want to predict it now: You will be the best and biggest channel in the perspective,as no one,at least I don't know anyone who does this,teaches on UA-cam for free and explains all the important parts.Other channels are great too,but they only recap other top GM games, while showing some interesting parts of the games,and here you are,a GM himself teaching us,new---advanced players!I have been watching your videos for 2 hours now,and I saw a notification pop up.Thank you so much for your efforts!Much love from Kazakhstan👍🔥
@@Mati-zc2ym Yeah but let's be honest,Daniel does more videos and has a lot of series dedicated for teaching all aspects of chess,endings,tactics,puzzles,etc.And for some reason Daniel's way of explaining is very calm and effective,whereas Levy tries to teach in his own way,not saying it doesn't work but it is made a little bit chaotic and funny for the viewers
Stockfish: Ng5 is the only move that wins Danya: How about Nxd6? Stockfish: No, you are wrong, you will instead draw (0.0) A few seconds later Stockfish: Wait, I think you are right! Me: I love how you can casually find the alternative move and stockfish didn’t even see it
He does always caution us against just defaulting to the engine. At the end of the day you're playing humans who will see and play the game in a human way
Tip: pause the video and try doing the puzzle first. When you get it wrong, and Daniel explains how to do it, it should stick easier than just passively watching the video. Also, try to make generalisations about how checkmates or captures are occurring - 'this only happened because we drove his king onto the same file as our other pieces', 'this knight fork happened because the pieces were a long-L distance apart', 'this checkmate happened because we cleared the path for an Opera mate (rook + bishop)', and so on. If you can learn the names of different checkmate patterns, that's also something that might them easier to spot.
Hi Danya, would you make a video of climbing with a specifc opening? I would love to watch you playing just King's Indian Defense (against d4) or Caro Kann Defense (against e4) when you are playing Black. Other than that, a huge thumbs up for you videos so far, they are highly educational and fun to watch! :)
Danya is/was currently doing a speedrun where he plays a variety of openings. If you want a series like that, maybe check out Hikaru's channel he did many of these series in the past. Hikaru doesn't explain as much/good as danya imo but you still learn a lot. Hope it helps you! 😁
@@mikey22355 I would argue that opening study is far beyond beginners or low ELO players (I’m not high rated just practical). Puzzles like this probably do a lot to enforce pattern recognition, and win more games than a solid opening
Wish I had such free access to chess coaching in my childhood... I don't have much time now to devote to study nor watch these kind of videos or play the beloved game of so many people on the planet...
Absolutely loved this video! Really helps me better understand levels of tactical thinking, both in-game and while puzzle solving. I'm especially greatful for the endgame detailed explanation at 15:45 !
I love the puzzle series, I was wondering if you could share your “mental checklist” of your observations of puzzle positions, I imagine it could be very educational!
@@maximrighetti8633 While I agree with you, I do think that most grandmasters started out with a kind of mental checklist of things to look for, and after doing/spotting them so many times it became a matter of just intuitive pattern recognition. But for amateurs it would definitely be helpful to have a conscious mental checklist for most of these puzzles where their intuitive pattern recognition hasn't kicked in yet. Right now I can solve ~2500 rated puzzles, but it often takes me 5-10 minutes because I just have to brute-force calculate my way through them, and it would be nice to have a list of mental shortcuts in terms of knowing what kinds of things to look for.
@@jonathanhenderson9422 i don't believe such shortcuts exist(since i think it's just pattern recognition achieved with practice), but if they do I'd like to know them too
@@blackkimchics yeah that's obvious, i think Jonathan was referring to something else since what you just said it's elementary for someone who can solve 2500 rated tactics
Came in with the instant puzzle rush best after watching this... Previous was 34, I'm now on 37 and yet to fail one *touches wood* Needless to say im going to be agonising over every single puzzle from here on in. Ty danya, insightful and entertaining as ever
Yeah, I found when getting close to a personal best it just gets more and more stressful. But it's a good feeling to hit a new high and once you do, it's a confidence boost for future puzzles.
47:00 i feel that. Justice. I even had a puzzle that relied on the computer making a massive blunder AFTER your first move, but the solution wasn't optimal play for me the player. Seeing stockfish catch up after a few seconds that vindicates your alternate solution... My Puzzle Rush problems are shared. :)
i really liked this video actually one of the best chess channels, entertaining, educational and good positivity always we really dont deserve this man
Danya - amazing video as always! One thing that is difficult for me (as a ~1600 rated player), is that for the tougher problems I spend a lot of time analyzing lines which are not obviously wrong to me. It seems your ability to "only look at one or two near-correct lines and choose between them" is a definite GM advantage ;) Of course this takes practice, but any thoughts/comments/attention on how to better identify the correct lines could also be helpful for mid-range players would be much appreciated. Thanks for all the great content, keep up the amazing work!
Thank you ! Great work Danya well done, you found the first key !!. "sharp as a tack !" with your new discovery of the "alternate solutions" phenomena, it introduces some interesting numbers. When Danny or whoever arranges new batches of over 2200 puzzles to be created . The computers be like "your going to make us analyze an extra 20(128) moves per hundred puzzles And you want it done bye the morning !?" Computer tells his other computer colleagues " they have no idea how much work we do !! lol How are they generated ? Analyzing or spotting alternate solutions is a key chance for the evolution of chess. It shows although computers have immense brute force power. As shown by some endgame studies... engines do have blindspots ! Does Alphazero have blindspots It lost some games against Stockfish but could be unrelated and simply poor opening choice. Because wasn't alphazero using a different program with different capabilities. Does the newest version of Stockfish have blindspots well its highly likely. There is a chance some bright kids (humans) will find ways to find ways to find engine blindspots !! & destroy, & crush them or win by a Slim margin or by tricky materiel odds mate. Even engines need time. Because we have all felt cheated by at least 1 puzzle. When we probably already calculated something winning. But it wasnt winning in the fastest possible way. SO why waste time on high level puzzles with several "alternate solutions" I wana learn how to endgame in blitz.
I really like these puzzle solving. One thing that would even be better is calculating the whole sequence before even doing the move and says why a move of the sequence is better than the other and how do you lean towards one or the other
Great series. I think it'd be awesome if you got a guest of lower ELO to solve them with. So you can teach the method of solving puzzles when you don't see the solution instantly.
44:28 This is incredible to me. "This is exactly what we saw on puzzle #10". Did he actually remember every puzzle up until that point and would be able to recount them in order or was this just some sort of coincidence?
Thanks for the content Danya! Love the puzzle content especially. Really sort of lifts the veil for the thought process and how you analyze situations. Dropped by your Twitch chat for the first time last night! Had a good time despite being sleepy af. Do you have any EU friendly timezone streams?
@@abioolayoyledegil8698 I thought about that but after Qf7+, Qc7 Qxc7+, Kxc7 then black still has d2! The king controls d8 so the rook can't get behind the pawn and the white king is too far away from the pawn. Black will promote.
@@Joachimhuby Ok then after blocking check with Queen Qc7 white can take rook i missed that and there is no backrank mate white's rook defends back rank
It's probably a good line to check and rule out. One interesting line I looked at after the check was Bb8 rxb8, Kc7 and white has no good way to stop promotion and so probably just captures your rook.
Very nice. It would have been good to see the rating of each puzzle though, in larger font. Maybe I missed it on the screen while watching from mobile.
I do puzzle rushes every day at least one, my record is only 47. But one thing i would say, opposite to what you say, the more complicated it gets, the less i follow my instinct and the more i try to see the win for sure before i play the move because my instinct will be wrong too often. Started playing chess in 2021 so my instinct is limited though.
@@NotaPlagueDoctor300 55, reached it 3 times. Was so happy when i solved a 3000 elo problem :D, i always do in survival mode though so sometimes when it gets super hard i spread it on 2/3 days and come back to it when my brain wants to work :)
can you please do some history of chess type videos? your intellectual nature and ability to explain complex nuances would make it super interesting, thanks man
Hey Danya, I had an interesting situation at my first OTB tournament this summer. Wanted to ask you about it. I'm 20 years old and I was playing a 13 year old boy who had played many OTB tournaments. He got up from the board almost every time it was my move, and when he didn't, he swung his legs under the chair and looked around the playing hall and was generally fidgety. During several of my long thinks during the game, he randomly said "adjust" and "adjusted" pieces that weren't even misplaced. He occasionally played "air piano" on the table (lightly tapping the table as if he was on a piano) which distracted me further. We played evenly for 30 moves, and when I blundered, he excitedly made the winning move, jumped up from his chair, and walked off pumping his fist and whispering "Yes! Yes!" to himself. I found all of this to be highly distracting and irritating. I also found it humiliating to lose to a kid, especially one who couldn't sit still. I never complained to the arbiter because I didn't want to seem petty about the game or look like I expected a child to meet social expectations for a somewhat mature environment. Should I have done anything differently?
It's actually really cool. You can still just push the pawn, that is play e7. And if black plays Rxe1 followed by white playing Rxe1, you still have your rook behind the past pawn.
Hard puzzles can be like that. Sometimes the difference between correct and incorrect is a small difference in eval. Sometimes the puzzles are poorly designed and the 'correct' answer is arguably worse than the 'incorrect' alternative you played.
*Looks at puzzle for 0.1 seconds* "Ahh, this is a good checkmate pattern"
Hahaha I was about to comment the same and this was the first comment I saw
i saw it too just affter 5-6 seconds :D im 900-1000 elo. ofc he will see it in an instant. he as done like 100k+ puzzles in his life D:
5:45 the legendary side-file mate
Love that you're comfortable with showing your mistakes
and showing his vindication in the end :)
What mistakes haha
@@Antondmt1 he missed the rook was hanging
@@hellopleychess3190 didn't matter
@@Antondmt1 28:02 missed that it's not check mate
I just found your channel and I want to predict it now:
You will be the best and biggest channel in the perspective,as no one,at least I don't know anyone who does this,teaches on UA-cam for free and explains all the important parts.Other channels are great too,but they only recap other top GM games, while showing some interesting parts of the games,and here you are,a GM himself teaching us,new---advanced players!I have been watching your videos for 2 hours now,and I saw a notification pop up.Thank you so much for your efforts!Much love from Kazakhstan👍🔥
Other channels only recap GM games? Ok true but Levy teaches us openings and review noobs' games ;)
@@Mati-zc2ym Yeah but let's be honest,Daniel does more videos and has a lot of series dedicated for teaching all aspects of chess,endings,tactics,puzzles,etc.And for some reason Daniel's way of explaining is very calm and effective,whereas Levy tries to teach in his own way,not saying it doesn't work but it is made a little bit chaotic and funny for the viewers
If i had to compare I'd say Daniel has more instructive content while Levy's is more entertaining. And i love both of them.
@@Mati-zc2ym yeah but naroditsky is a better teacher
@@aluminiumknight4038 *better teacher for players rated
Stockfish: Ng5 is the only move that wins
Danya: How about Nxd6?
Stockfish: No, you are wrong, you will instead draw (0.0)
A few seconds later Stockfish: Wait, I think you are right!
Me: I love how you can casually find the alternative move and stockfish didn’t even see it
when was this
@@joeyvonfeldt1979 ta
Quite literally found a brilliancy lol
The Prophet strikes again x)
He does always caution us against just defaulting to the engine. At the end of the day you're playing humans who will see and play the game in a human way
Tip: pause the video and try doing the puzzle first. When you get it wrong, and Daniel explains how to do it, it should stick easier than just passively watching the video.
Also, try to make generalisations about how checkmates or captures are occurring - 'this only happened because we drove his king onto the same file as our other pieces', 'this knight fork happened because the pieces were a long-L distance apart', 'this checkmate happened because we cleared the path for an Opera mate (rook + bishop)', and so on.
If you can learn the names of different checkmate patterns, that's also something that might them easier to spot.
Hi Danya, would you make a video of climbing with a specifc opening? I would love to watch you playing just King's Indian Defense (against d4) or Caro Kann Defense (against e4) when you are playing Black. Other than that, a huge thumbs up for you videos so far, they are highly educational and fun to watch! :)
Would be nice.
Danya is/was currently doing a speedrun where he plays a variety of openings. If you want a series like that, maybe check out Hikaru's channel he did many of these series in the past. Hikaru doesn't explain as much/good as danya imo but you still learn a lot. Hope it helps you! 😁
Yeah a single opening mini series would be really good at a lower elo
@@mikey22355 I would argue that opening study is far beyond beginners or low ELO players (I’m not high rated just practical). Puzzles like this probably do a lot to enforce pattern recognition, and win more games than a solid opening
Alex Banzea did this
Wish I had such free access to chess coaching in my childhood... I don't have much time now to devote to study nor watch these kind of videos or play the beloved game of so many people on the planet...
I thought I get caught up if I get one puzzle wrong. But after watching Danya being affected. I feel relaxed now.
Absolutely loved this video! Really helps me better understand levels of tactical thinking, both in-game and while puzzle solving.
I'm especially greatful for the endgame detailed explanation at 15:45 !
The content you’ve been putting out recently has been amazing easily my favorite person posting chess content to learn from!!!
Thank you so much for all the educational content you've been putting out lately! It's helping me improve quite rapidly :)
You probably cannot imagine how I appreciate you being just OK with your mistake, I generally get tilted and than get a x-streak.
I love the puzzle series, I was wondering if you could share your “mental checklist” of your observations of puzzle positions, I imagine it could be very educational!
I think it comes to pattern recognition, after you solved lots of puzzles you don't use any mental checklist, you just see
@@maximrighetti8633 While I agree with you, I do think that most grandmasters started out with a kind of mental checklist of things to look for, and after doing/spotting them so many times it became a matter of just intuitive pattern recognition. But for amateurs it would definitely be helpful to have a conscious mental checklist for most of these puzzles where their intuitive pattern recognition hasn't kicked in yet. Right now I can solve ~2500 rated puzzles, but it often takes me 5-10 minutes because I just have to brute-force calculate my way through them, and it would be nice to have a list of mental shortcuts in terms of knowing what kinds of things to look for.
@@jonathanhenderson9422 i don't believe such shortcuts exist(since i think it's just pattern recognition achieved with practice), but if they do I'd like to know them too
Checks, captures, attacks, and threats.
@@blackkimchics yeah that's obvious, i think Jonathan was referring to something else since what you just said it's elementary for someone who can solve 2500 rated tactics
Danya, I was stuck at a survival score of 28 for a while. After watching your puzzle videos I set a new high of 38. Thank you!
Yesss this is so so good, amazing that the one Daniel got wrong was still technically an alternative solution lmao
Came in with the instant puzzle rush best after watching this... Previous was 34, I'm now on 37 and yet to fail one *touches wood*
Needless to say im going to be agonising over every single puzzle from here on in. Ty danya, insightful and entertaining as ever
Yeah, I found when getting close to a personal best it just gets more and more stressful. But it's a good feeling to hit a new high and once you do, it's a confidence boost for future puzzles.
47:00 i feel that. Justice. I even had a puzzle that relied on the computer making a massive blunder AFTER your first move, but the solution wasn't optimal play for me the player.
Seeing stockfish catch up after a few seconds that vindicates your alternate solution... My Puzzle Rush problems are shared. :)
Saw portions of this live on stream yesterday and then hopped back to UA-cam to rewatch today. Amazing stuff, I love these videos
I'm still trying to break the 30 mark, this video sure does help a lot. Thanks Danya.
i really liked this video actually one of the best chess channels, entertaining, educational and good positivity always we really dont deserve this man
This is so satisfying to watch. And I feel like I learned quite a lot. Thank you Danya!
5:38 *holds up test tube* Finally.... back file checkmate...
More and more of these Grandmaster puzzle solving videos please! I love the whole series of videos on this difficulty level
Love this!! I know you are already doing other videos but whenever you feel like doing another of these I'll watch for sure!!
Danya - amazing video as always! One thing that is difficult for me (as a ~1600 rated player), is that for the tougher problems I spend a lot of time analyzing lines which are not obviously wrong to me. It seems your ability to "only look at one or two near-correct lines and choose between them" is a definite GM advantage ;) Of course this takes practice, but any thoughts/comments/attention on how to better identify the correct lines could also be helpful for mid-range players would be much appreciated. Thanks for all the great content, keep up the amazing work!
Best player/teacher combo out there, another brilliant vid Cheers Dude
Thank you, Grand Master Naroditsky.....!!! That was very instructive and fun....
Can't thank you much. Very very informative. It's better than just watching games or puzzle rush.
Pure gold. Danya is my new favorite chess streamer. no idea why he wasn't on my radar before. Also, congrats on beating Fabi - total badass
Great video, immediately went from 31 to 38 as my pb thanks to you
ive improved so much from your videos! dan's the man
Thank you ! Great work Danya well done, you found the first key !!. "sharp as a tack !" with your new discovery of the "alternate solutions" phenomena, it introduces some interesting numbers. When Danny or whoever arranges new batches of over 2200 puzzles to be created . The computers be like "your going to make us analyze an extra 20(128) moves per hundred puzzles And you want it done bye the morning !?"
Computer tells his other computer colleagues " they have no idea how much work we do !! lol How are they generated ?
Analyzing or spotting alternate solutions is a key chance for the evolution of chess. It shows although computers have immense brute force power. As shown by some endgame studies... engines do have blindspots ! Does Alphazero have blindspots It lost some games against Stockfish but could be unrelated and simply poor opening choice. Because wasn't alphazero using a different program with different capabilities. Does the newest version of Stockfish have blindspots well its highly likely. There is a chance some bright kids (humans) will find ways to find ways to find engine blindspots !! & destroy, & crush them or win by a Slim margin or by tricky materiel odds mate. Even engines need time.
Because we have all felt cheated by at least 1 puzzle. When we probably already calculated something winning. But it wasnt winning in the fastest possible way. SO why waste time on high level puzzles with several "alternate solutions"
I wana learn how to endgame in blitz.
i love the way ypu explained, so easy to understand and very relax and charming
I like how rustic the cockpit background looks and how he's able to talk chess while taxiing the airplane. Thanks for the lesson captain.
I really like these puzzle solving. One thing that would even be better is calculating the whole sequence before even doing the move and says why a move of the sequence is better than the other and how do you lean towards one or the other
Can you do a whole video showing lots of different checkmate patterns similar to that Bodens mate at 24:30?
On Puzzle 24 (15:23), why do we take the knight instead of immediately checkmating with the queen?
it's check against black
because we are in check
Oh, oops
Thanks Daniel! This was very informative and entertaining.
That was fun. Thanks. Glad you found redemption on that one tricky knight problem.🙂
Great series. I think it'd be awesome if you got a guest of lower ELO to solve them with. So you can teach the method of solving puzzles when you don't see the solution instantly.
Once they called him,"The Prophet" now.. he is... "The Redeemer". Quality content.
44:28 This is incredible to me. "This is exactly what we saw on puzzle #10". Did he actually remember every puzzle up until that point and would be able to recount them in order or was this just some sort of coincidence?
all chess GM have a photographic memory and it still amazed me too
@@aribowoabduljabbars.8775 more like photographic chess memory ^^
Danya's so powerful that even when he's wrong he's right
Chuck Noroditsky
Thanks for the content Danya! Love the puzzle content especially. Really sort of lifts the veil for the thought process and how you analyze situations.
Dropped by your Twitch chat for the first time last night! Had a good time despite being sleepy af. Do you have any EU friendly timezone streams?
Best puzzle rush video so far
Is 23:44 really so straightforward? What happens after Qf7+, Qc7 Qxe8, d2? How do you stop the pawn from promoting?
If Qc7 then white have Qxc7 with check and after that just rook takes rook and white will be up a rook
@@abioolayoyledegil8698 I thought about that but after Qf7+, Qc7 Qxc7+, Kxc7 then black still has d2! The king controls d8 so the rook can't get behind the pawn and the white king is too far away from the pawn. Black will promote.
@@Joachimhuby Ok then after blocking check with Queen Qc7 white can take rook i missed that and there is no backrank mate white's rook defends back rank
It's not but it is if you always look for checks:
Qf7+ Qc7 Qxe8 d2 Qe5+ Kh7 Rd1 Qc1+ Qb1
@@Mati-zc2ym Thanks. This is the solution.
46:46 instinct >>> 😂
Also 46:44 you almost went g3 which was probably correct
Great video! I hope u can make a video showing the philador and lucena positions
at 31:48 i'm not seeing why Qxd8 is a bad option? just because the attack runs out of steam? but it seems like a good trade to me
Black has the bishop for three pawns after Qxd8. After Rxf6, Black at best is three pawns down.
Amazing. Great teaching ability❤
According to stockfish 14 at depth 35, Nxd6 is only +7 and Ng5 is +50.
I agree that Ng5 is objectively better, as I clarified in the video - but generally +7 is sufficient to qualify as a solution.
You’re the best
Your*
@@jakebrowning2373 What?! Are you trolling? It's definitely "You're the best". As in "You are the best". Made me laugh anyway :-)
@@Joachimhuby :)
“this gonna get more calculationally heavy” on the first puzzle i saw right away (after the first easy ones)
When Danya gets an x in puzzle rush it's because the puzzle was wrong.
Great content, man. Thanks for the lesson
37:30 a rook can't stop a pawn duo on the 3rd or the 6th promoting, that was one of the easiest ones
At 15:25, did you really need to take the knight? Couldn't you place the queen on g2 defended by your knight for checkmate?
The knight put him in check but if it wasn’t check you would be right
Danya trying to get it wrong has a higher accuracy than me playing seriously.
Well, Dania is officially my favourite chess tutor now) Thank you very much!
You are a fantastic communicator!
I’ve always thought his videos are long . I tried watching one and i didn’t even realize 49 minutes has passed
I felt so inspired after this video so I went to play a puzzle rush only to get 19 correct
do another tomorrow and you will probably get over 25!
@@jelmerbouma213 love the positivity, thank you
33:00, why not calculate the rook check in that position after Bxe5?
It's probably a good line to check and rule out. One interesting line I looked at after the check was Bb8 rxb8, Kc7 and white has no good way to stop promotion and so probably just captures your rook.
Very nice. It would have been good to see the rating of each puzzle though, in larger font. Maybe I missed it on the screen while watching from mobile.
Love this series but i would like to see some more speedrun 😃
Thanks a bunch for this video👍
15:21 why take the knight.. why not mate on b2
Geez. That second puzzle was a surprisingly difficult to spot mate in 1 for 200 elo.
I do puzzle rushes every day at least one, my record is only 47. But one thing i would say, opposite to what you say, the more complicated it gets, the less i follow my instinct and the more i try to see the win for sure before i play the move because my instinct will be wrong too often. Started playing chess in 2021 so my instinct is limited though.
do you still do puzzle rush? what's your highest record as of now?
@@NotaPlagueDoctor300 55, reached it 3 times. Was so happy when i solved a 3000 elo problem :D, i always do in survival mode though so sometimes when it gets super hard i spread it on 2/3 days and come back to it when my brain wants to work :)
Loved this!
Thanks a lot, it's extremely helpful
24:53 rook takes first also works right?
bishop could block and you have a new set of variables to consider. Go for the most limiting moves because theyre easier to calculate
If rook takes first, b×c3 N×a2 B×a2 Kb2 and you're losing because the king protects a3.
No, Bishop blocks and the king gets the b1 square if knight takes
"Let me try to get it wrong"
Gets it right.
What do you think about the lichess puzzles?
Managed to fail on 17, 27, and 31. This is my normal run, so nice to see puzzles after this stage. Maybe 35 is my best, certainly not 40.
Love your videos!♥
27:37 but what next in case of rf1?
qh4+ rf2 qxf2#
can you please do some history of chess type videos? your intellectual nature and ability to explain complex nuances would make it super interesting, thanks man
Hey guys on puzzle 23 after white knight moves queen g2 is checkmate right ? Why would we need to capture the horse with the pawn ?
Dude, you are in check there. You must take knight
@@milannesic5718 thanks I don't know how I missed that!
In puzzle 23, why did you take the white knight? Wasnt it already mate with Qg2?
The white knight had him in check so he has to respond to that first
Wait why was there checkmate at puzzle 8 when knight moved to d3
Daniya we want the oh my lands masterclass back that which was amazing series'
love the series, do from 50 til ur max vid,
Loved this👌🏻👌🏻😘
Type 2 undefended piece?
Sounds like a stupid question, but what software do you use to create those arrows used in analysis?
As a German-speaking person, my highlight of the video is Danya saying "make some Luft"
Viewing this once helped me break my record (a modest 37, but I got 30 in a row!). If I keep viewing this, maybe I might to 40? or dare I say, 50?
That website is he using for chess?
can u please do more videos of puzzle survival rush or videos with puzzles with ratings between 2000 and 2800
will the speed run return?
5:15 Back File Mate or Side File Mate?!?!?
47:57 what if Bxf5
Nxf7
Hey Danya, I had an interesting situation at my first OTB tournament this summer. Wanted to ask you about it.
I'm 20 years old and I was playing a 13 year old boy who had played many OTB tournaments. He got up from the board almost every time it was my move, and when he didn't, he swung his legs under the chair and looked around the playing hall and was generally fidgety. During several of my long thinks during the game, he randomly said "adjust" and "adjusted" pieces that weren't even misplaced. He occasionally played "air piano" on the table (lightly tapping the table as if he was on a piano) which distracted me further. We played evenly for 30 moves, and when I blundered, he excitedly made the winning move, jumped up from his chair, and walked off pumping his fist and whispering "Yes! Yes!" to himself.
I found all of this to be highly distracting and irritating. I also found it humiliating to lose to a kid, especially one who couldn't sit still. I never complained to the arbiter because I didn't want to seem petty about the game or look like I expected a child to meet social expectations for a somewhat mature environment. Should I have done anything differently?
Very interesting
always good, awesome
Watched this live, may watch it again.
Why doesn’t black have Re2 on puzzle 14 after the trade of pawns?
It's actually really cool. You can still just push the pawn, that is play e7. And if black plays Rxe1 followed by white playing Rxe1, you still have your rook behind the past pawn.
i just got the popcorn ready
*Gets one wrong to show he is human. Just to later refute the engine to give a second solution *
Me ShakesHead ..
Hard puzzles can be like that. Sometimes the difference between correct and incorrect is a small difference in eval. Sometimes the puzzles are poorly designed and the 'correct' answer is arguably worse than the 'incorrect' alternative you played.