"You have to play the board" - only a tiny sentence, but so tremendously important. How many games have I lost because I wanted to make something happen or didn't want to admit my advantage had disappeared!
When you start to consider pushing pawns to make squares available for your other pieces, you know you’re levelling up. A simple concept on the face of it, but it just doesn’t occur to beginners. My brain feels slightly larger after every Danya master class. Best content on UA-cam.
The board setup at 26:00 is a great example of what separates the good players from the great players. Danya has piece activity on every part of the board and has complete control no matter what the next move is. King is ready to move up incase of check, bishop is ready to fork in two different locations depending on opponents next move, pawn is ready to promote, queen is attacking and defending at the same time, and there are about 5 different ways to checkmate the opponent in the next few moves. Meanwhile, the opponent can really only move the queen to one or two squares to attempt to defend. It amazing just how active all Danya's pieces are and how much he throws at the opponent on every corner of the board. Absolute masterclass
@@justsomeprofile4969 yup, but it wasn't like that ~2years ago and that's why people still think "brilliant move" is cool. it isn't anymore, at least not as much and it's pretty common ;/ i prefer the old "rules" of a brilliant move for sure. it actually had to be "brilliant", not just visually sacrifising a piece...
You just have to give up material (even for mate in 1) and it’ll say it’s brilliant. I think it’s to get beginners to buy premium by stroking their egos with it
im trying to find this speedrun where danya played a 2200 named like brad, and the position was losing for danya and then he saved it... I can't seem to find it, can someone link me if they know?
e4 e5 is a landmine for black in general and that's why I don't play it. There are so many openings with so many dangerous sidelines in which you can get blown off the board. I am also 1800 btw
i always feel like this is so much better for black because it feels like the huge lead in development is a way bigger advamtage than the doubled queenside pawns
These excellent videos are always made more instructive when you face tough competition. Excellent job explaining how the specific pawn trades would lead to different endgames and how you evaluated the winning chances in each!
Amazing as always Sir, Have you considered making a course on chessable? You have an amazing teaching style making a course lets say on the Ruy Lopez and explaining the ideas in the opening what to do in the middle game.....
Danya have you ever thought about making a course for Chessable? Your style of teaching would be perfect for a long form opening course and it would definitely be successful
In the position at 48:49, the knight is not technically lost because of Ng6 Bxg6 Kf6 with a fork. But after Bf7 Kxg5 Bxd5 white should have a pretty easy win anyways.
If black goes Ng6 then white can take with their e5 knight…even if they take with the bishop black can’t go from Kd6 to Kf6 in one move…and if he could it wouldn’t be a fork after bxg6 because the knight defends the bishop and the pawn defends the knight
Just to elaborate a bit more...you can search a database in Chessbase by pretty much any criteria: names or dates, positions, material count or even specific moves. To find these examples he will have searched by position. You just place a king, bishop and queen in the final checkmate arrangement around the three fianchetto pawns and it returns all the games that featured such a position. You can tell it to include horizontal and vertical mirror images (ie: where the position occured on the opposite side of the board or with opposite colours) or even exclude games which featured some other specific criteria. I have a love/hate relationship with Chessbase - it's slow, clunky, unintuitive and horribly dated...but the search function and basic database management tools are brilliant.
People are entitled to disagree with me but I think this is an account that will eventually get banned for intermittent cheating. I say that from looking at the account by the way. They are way way over .500 in rapid, and 2000 rated. In faster time controls they are my rating (around 1300), and the abandoning and taking time in weird spots, I just don't think this is a proper sportsmen. Good game by Danya regardless, if the guy simply resigned instead of being a dbag I wouldn't have even looked at the account.
I may be late to the party, but at the end if Bxh7 black has fxg3, and then after Nf5 and white's bishop taking, it becomes very drawish... White cannot capture the knight because he can't stop the pawn from promoting...
It's good to do lots of easy puzzles to facilitate quick pattern recognition and there's no harm in having a timed/competitive element. If it feels more like a game than work that has to be a bonus. Of course, it's also crucial to solve more difficult puzzles and work on proper calculation/visualisation skills - I use chesstempo and books/studies for that - but I believe both types of puzzles are helpful.
Audio complaints again... whenever you punch the table it makes an obnoxiously loud bump, At least with headphones. For instance 24:30 Not to take away from the content of the video at all
Yeah, but the rook doesn't have to capture the pawn. It can go back to defend or the queen can capture the pawn instead (assuming you mean c6). Plus this way you get the passed a pawn.
I've sold these videos in remote parts of the world for millions!!! Thanks. When you say, "tickle the bishop" it rehashes many bad memories from their youth.
i think we all know the feeling of contemplating life in a lost position
Especially when you know you had a dead equal position 10 moves earlier
@@gelatinousjoe7979 whenever I get in those situations (Im 1400 so it happens a lot lol) I just sit there like damn I really just lost this game huh
@@michaeljazzchazz couldn't be further from the truth 500 elo higher (1900)
@@gelatinousjoe7979 t
I think this feeling is universal regardless of elo.
Danya on day 1 of the speedrun: "In this speedrun we are playing solidly"
Danya on day 120 of the speedrun: "late night YOLO"
"You have to play the board" - only a tiny sentence, but so tremendously important. How many games have I lost because I wanted to make something happen or didn't want to admit my advantage had disappeared!
Ah yes, one of Socrates's lesser known pearls of wisdom at 12:10
correct timestamp is 12:10
12:10*
yeah that's the joke g
"Every pawn is a passer if you're brave enough" - Abraham Lincoln
@@ClassicMist360
That' the time stanp
When you start to consider pushing pawns to make squares available for your other pieces, you know you’re levelling up. A simple concept on the face of it, but it just doesn’t occur to beginners. My brain feels slightly larger after every Danya master class. Best content on UA-cam.
The best educational chess content on UA-cam. Thank you as always Danya!
That Wesley So game was fucking nuts. You can feel the 2700++ ELO there, god damn.
Right?!? Painful to watch, had to be brutal to face…
Hope you get rich rich rich from doing all this great work Danya! You sure do deserve it, buddy 🙏
@@A51838 he's already rich, but is he rich rich rich?
💀💀💀
"A pawn is better than no pawn" - Socrates
The board setup at 26:00 is a great example of what separates the good players from the great players. Danya has piece activity on every part of the board and has complete control no matter what the next move is. King is ready to move up incase of check, bishop is ready to fork in two different locations depending on opponents next move, pawn is ready to promote, queen is attacking and defending at the same time, and there are about 5 different ways to checkmate the opponent in the next few moves. Meanwhile, the opponent can really only move the queen to one or two squares to attempt to defend. It amazing just how active all Danya's pieces are and how much he throws at the opponent on every corner of the board. Absolute masterclass
Lel
Really informative and detailed explanation coming from u man. Much appreciated, thanks!
Nice, I was hoping for another Ruy video
Just listening to this guy explain how he considers candidate moves is gold!
Needed this vid before bed, thanks man
Thanks for the eductional and entertaining content. I really appreciate this as a beginner-intermediate!
Nice pfp
Danya has a way of explaining things that even my lowly rating can understand, it's quite the gift.
Can you enable “super thanks” on your channel? I feel dirty consuming this content for free
43:43 Casually passed up the fact that Qc2 was a brilliancy
sacrificing the queen or mostly any piece for a checkmate is always a brilliant move
@@justsomeprofile4969 yup, but it wasn't like that ~2years ago and that's why people still think "brilliant move" is cool. it isn't anymore, at least not as much and it's pretty common ;/ i prefer the old "rules" of a brilliant move for sure. it actually had to be "brilliant", not just visually sacrifising a piece...
You just have to give up material (even for mate in 1) and it’ll say it’s brilliant. I think it’s to get beginners to buy premium by stroking their egos with it
You know it’s a good content when you realize you just watched 50 min video on youtube uninterrupted
Thank you, Danya. I play this line all the time and the tips are appreciated.
I really enjoyed the lesson. Thanks for doing this.
1:09 "...literally a gazillion sidelines..."
Not a quillion; not a gillion; not quite a frillion...literally a _gazillion_ .
Love u bro
im trying to find this speedrun where danya played a 2200 named like brad, and the position was losing for danya and then he saved it... I can't seem to find it, can someone link me if they know?
ua-cam.com/video/ofUcXj4ArHA/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/ofUcXj4ArHA/v-deo.html&ab_channel=DanielNaroditsky you are welcome .)
As an 1800 that knows very little theory I believe this line is too dangerous to play, so many ways you can go wrong
e4 e5 is a landmine for black in general and that's why I don't play it. There are so many openings with so many dangerous sidelines in which you can get blown off the board.
I am also 1800 btw
i always feel like this is so much better for black because it feels like the huge lead in development is a way bigger advamtage than the doubled queenside pawns
These excellent videos are always made more instructive when you face tough competition. Excellent job explaining how the specific pawn trades would lead to different endgames and how you evaluated the winning chances in each!
my best notification iswhen danya upload..
Thanks for your videos!
Bro it's 11, stop making me stay up lmao
love these videos!
Amazing as always Sir, Have you considered making a course on chessable? You have an amazing teaching style making a course lets say on the Ruy Lopez and explaining the ideas in the opening what to do in the middle game.....
Danya have you ever thought about making a course for Chessable? Your style of teaching would be perfect for a long form opening course and it would definitely be successful
Amazing, as always sensei!
My two favorite modern day masters is naroditsky and radjabov.....I like their style of play.... thank you for this broadcast
In the position at 48:49, the knight is not technically lost because of Ng6 Bxg6 Kf6 with a fork. But after Bf7 Kxg5 Bxd5 white should have a pretty easy win anyways.
If black goes Ng6 then white can take with their e5 knight…even if they take with the bishop black can’t go from Kd6 to Kf6 in one move…and if he could it wouldn’t be a fork after bxg6 because the knight defends the bishop and the pawn defends the knight
He never plays Ruy from white side. :(
Thank you Danya!
how does Danya get perfect examples from chessbase?...like how does he find the games with that specific motif or idea?
He probably is expert on using the search functions. Like writing sequence bishop B1, queen C1 or something like that
@@jonnenne Yeah, good point. He also undoubtedly had a pretty insane chess memory, as most high level grandmasters seem to have.
he remembers the idea and recreates the sequence on a board after which chessbase engine gives you the games that have that setup.
wow thanks guys! @Jonnenne @Jim Smith @Aeradill
Just to elaborate a bit more...you can search a database in Chessbase by pretty much any criteria: names or dates, positions, material count or even specific moves. To find these examples he will have searched by position. You just place a king, bishop and queen in the final checkmate arrangement around the three fianchetto pawns and it returns all the games that featured such a position. You can tell it to include horizontal and vertical mirror images (ie: where the position occured on the opposite side of the board or with opposite colours) or even exclude games which featured some other specific criteria.
I have a love/hate relationship with Chessbase - it's slow, clunky, unintuitive and horribly dated...but the search function and basic database management tools are brilliant.
a gazillion thanks for the detailed explanation
Thanks Danya!
I remember watching this live with the whole AT&T thing lol
great video.
5:29 what the hell is going on here???
yes can someone explain
Does anybody else imagine danyas voice I I head when they are playing their own games to try and play accurately lol
I’d have to watch this again to follow a bunch of it (or at least try🤞)… tough sledding but definitely worthwhile🙏
38:40… instead of moving the pawn to a2, wouldn’t bishop d3 check have pushed the king back to g1 meaning you could go Qc1 checkmate…?
At the end for white would bishop a5 work? If not whats the follow up?
I think after the line you saw, Bd3+ forces the king away from the defense of the bishop on f1?
@@ElijahStormblessed thanks!
love speedruns
wesley is unreal
Why not Nxe7 instead of Qxe7 please? Btw, looked at your game vs Luke, nice one! Interesting engine mating idea 34.... Rb4-g4 followed by Qe3-h6 mate!
I followed his advice dropping back the bishop back cause it’s a long range piece and got mated in 1
3:30 - "tickle the bishop" lol
thanks
People are entitled to disagree with me but I think this is an account that will eventually get banned for intermittent cheating. I say that from looking at the account by the way. They are way way over .500 in rapid, and 2000 rated. In faster time controls they are my rating (around 1300), and the abandoning and taking time in weird spots, I just don't think this is a proper sportsmen. Good game by Danya regardless, if the guy simply resigned instead of being a dbag I wouldn't have even looked at the account.
12:34 im doing this to often lol
21:51
What:s wrong with bishop f5
im here cos of gotham chess levy but m staying cos og GM DANYA THE SENSEI
Just what I needed after dropping 10 games in the Ryu in a row
22:49 You didn't explain Qb2 here
I may be late to the party, but at the end if Bxh7 black has fxg3, and then after Nf5 and white's bishop taking, it becomes very drawish... White cannot capture the knight because he can't stop the pawn from promoting...
still waiting for a Latvian Gambit! ;) Anyway, great content by a good man
30:18 let's take a luft
Timed puzzle rush is genuinely horrible for trying to learn chess. Strictly for fun. Survival is ofc somewhat different.
It's good to do lots of easy puzzles to facilitate quick pattern recognition and there's no harm in having a timed/competitive element. If it feels more like a game than work that has to be a bonus.
Of course, it's also crucial to solve more difficult puzzles and work on proper calculation/visualisation skills - I use chesstempo and books/studies for that - but I believe both types of puzzles are helpful.
Thoughts on the Jaenisch gambit in the Ruy?
Were you about to make a jiu Jitsu reference?!
Yes Qe6 is the move
the bf1 bh3 mate is not forced though, white can play Kg2 and lose the queen
Audio complaints again... whenever you punch the table it makes an obnoxiously loud bump, At least with headphones. For instance 24:30
Not to take away from the content of the video at all
Only real ones know this video exists (if danya or the editor is reading this, this video is not in the playlist)
18:20 before taking the pawn can't we just move our own pawn and when the rook captures we can skewer with the bishop
Yeah, but the rook doesn't have to capture the pawn. It can go back to defend or the queen can capture the pawn instead (assuming you mean c6). Plus this way you get the passed a pawn.
Listening to mics to generate targeted ads should be illegal.
Jajajajaja pawn is better that no pawn
what opening is this?
I think taking with the queen on c3 is bad
50 minute video 🤤😍
there was no rook on a7
Love from pakistan
I've sold these videos in remote parts of the world for millions!!! Thanks. When you say, "tickle the bishop" it rehashes many bad memories from their youth.
who is Hentai Peter1?
hi
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