One thing that really can't be overstated about your videos is how much they benefit from your consideration of your viewers. Most people making content *in general* don't really think about this, much less people making educational content, where it is essential. Meanwhile, you actively think about your pedagogical style and iterate upon it in a way that I haven't seen many other people do, including *actual professors* that I've had. The fact that you are this thoughtful about the needs and preferences of your viewership on RUclips/Twitch of all places while also being one of the best chess players in the world is kind of insane, your viewers truly appreciate it and we don't take it for granted
No need to apologize for taking your time, the KID deepdives are my favourites. It never seizes to baffle me how you can go into such depths about a seemingly very suboptimal line. I've probably played a few thousand games online in the KID myself and never seen this, so the fact that you know this much about it truly shows your encyclopedic knowledge of it! Very excited for the chessable course!
@@noone-ld7pt"Seizes" is also a word, but it means to grab/take hold: eg "he seized my hand" = "he took hold of my hand". It can also be used figuratively: "I seized the opportunity" = "I grabbed the opportunity". "Cease" means to stop, which is what fits in your sentence: "it never stops to amaze me". (I like your attitude! It would be easy to get defensive in response to a one-word comment that corrects you. I also know plenty of native English speakers who don't write as well as you do.)
It's funny how Danya sees straight forward, early opponent mistake into straight forward (for him) conversion games as a boring "meat and potato" thing. For me, as a 1300-1500 ish player, I find them to be by far the most instructive and easiest to follow. 2-3 move tactics are my current max comfort zone so it feels a possibility to emulate this type of conversion with more classy moves like unaligned the bishop and pawn...and seeing how to best punish these opening errors is going to live with me and improve my game! Love it thanks Danya, please more kings Indian!
I normally don't comment on things, however. The way you conduct these speed runs giving the audience time to come to the best conclusion while you run through different ideas is genuinely incredible. Even just from the first game , you talk about how we would "instinctually want to develop the bishop" however then you describe a "tactically winning position" making us stop to consider that better moves could be played. You're truly an incredible teacher and I've enjoyed these videos throughout. Thank you Daniel.
Thank you so much for making this material available online. The lucidity of your explanations are a delight to follow - perfect balance between generalities and their applications in concrete situations.
It's nice to hear simple explanations behind moves. Realizing memorization is the main part of chess I get tired of hearing main lines, side lines I've learned to appreciate just the basic essence of the game thanks to Daniel.
@@SleepyTimeMD The Candidates Tournament. The winner challenges the World Champion later this year. Danya is doing commentary for it on chess24. Not every round, but he's there.
Wow! Awesome chess analysis, I wish I could be like you when calculating! Was watching your videos and it slowly revamping my chess skills! Although it makes me nose bleed at times when you can easily see plans, conversion, tactics and not seeing it on my end.Will keep watching all your videos! Keep it up and thank you!
The puzzle you showed at 40:30 was awesome! It took me a minute of feeling stupid as I had no idea where to start (the Qc4 idea fizzled out quickly). I then realised I had to find a check (as otherwise I would give up the b2 pawn and force a queen trade, or move my queen away and suffer an attack down 2 rooks), and honestly the moves came quite nicely!
Hey Danya, glad to hear that you are doing a chessable course. I'm not a Kings Indian player. But, will definitely consider buying the course this year to show support :)
Really enjoy the depth you go into with the Kings Indian lines. I've been flirting with playing the Kings Indian against 1.D4 and your videos and explanations are incredibly helpful
Hey Danya. I just want to say I love this content. Best chess creator out there by far so thanks for that. One question, could you briefly talk about chess anxiety in a video sometime and how one overcomes it. Thanks
To be honest, Danya has the best content and I really just wanted to thank him for sharing all this knowledge for free…. That shows humanity is still here and Danya is a symbol of that
Thank you Danya for releasing some more Kings Indian content.. I tend to trick people into playing the Weiss Variation Austrian Attack in the Pirc when they think they're about to play the Kings Indian, but recently it seems everyone stopped playing the Kings Indian. Like it went out of style, and I wana keep my Austrian Attack sharp!
I love the KID explanations! You mention all of these different systems that white can adopt and I was wondering if you plan to cover all of them in your chessable course. If so, I would definitely purchase it
Notes for revisit; 6:12 Imp concept; 9:23 Art of self-pin; 13:51 look for better; 52:24 , 4:03 history repeats itself; 53:21 bishop pair or the permanent weakness?
Hey Dayna. Love your channel. Would you consider doing a video guide to using chessable to study a new opening? It’d be great to see how you use the resources to learn
I agree, I'm not sure what the exact follow-up would be, but my intuition says that Black would have compensation for the exchange. Either Qe7+ or taking immediately would be my guess
Honestly laughed so hard at the Golden Corral joke 😂😂😂, especially as I was imagining Danya loading up a plate 🍽️ and eating 5000 calories while considering a 10th move variation of the KID. 😂
At 23:25 you kinda dismissed the line with Nh5, Qxh5. But after that, the white queen takes the knight on d6 that's now hanging. I was puzzled by this. Turns out, you have to notice that after Bg4, the white king struggles to get out of the center because the bishop is hemmed in. You do eventually regain the material, but for a while, white goes up a full knight. Anyway, I just thought it was worth noting how complicated that line gets.
Dont mind me just passing by-oh wait hold up wrong era here humans made the artifical intelligence that nearly destroyed them oh shoot it isnt safe around here bye
Hey Daniel, how did you manage to study at a university and simultaneously study chess? How did you keep up the level of your game? How did you find time for all of it? How DID you study?
Danya, when you flashback to a previous game you had a similar position from as a kid, can you have your editor use the sound effect from Kung Fu: The Legend Continues when Peter has flashbacks to his time at the Shaolin Temple? That would be cool. Good vid as always.
40:45 "if you name the mating move I'll know you'll have calculated the whole combination". Actually, I got 1. Nxf7+ Bxf7 2. Bc7+ Kxc7, but here I calculated 3. Qc4+ Kxb6 4. Qc5+ Ka5 5. b4# But this is wrong as 3. Qc4+ can be met with 3. ... Nbc6 or Nec6 which if played results in a lost position for white. I completely missed this in my initial calculation! So yes while I did get the final move b4#, my combination was wrong, and I was super lucky that Qe5+ works. TLDR: getting the final move won't always mean your whole combination is right (do like the comment so it gets upvoted and so that Danya sees and clarifies it. Editor: if you see it be sure to point this out to him!)
16:29 "h4 has been essayed quite a bit..." Well, no thanks to none other than YOU, Danya! In the US Chess Championship 2017, where you dropped that nuke of a novelty. Oh I remember alright.😂
If I may suggest, often in your videos you do analysis in Chessbase, which has virtually no documentation whatsoever. It would be nice if you would do some basic instruction on how you perform many of the searches and analysis you do with it. Also, I'm betting you know a zillion lesser known tricks with it and it would be highly instructive if you'd throw those ideas in a video or two. Thanks for all you do!
2 questions: (1) What's the target range for your upcoming Chessable course, and (2) What is the target date for its release? Thanks. I thoroughly enjoy your explanations.
Totally awesome chess lessons Thanks ! Double rook sac is it safe ? wow that was a great exercise ! I love finding double exchange sacs don't you ? and the knights and bishops escort the pawns for a down down landing.
I'm around 900-1000 rated myself in different modes and at 10:10 I woul've pretty instinctually traded the light square bishop for the knight. I'll explain myself, but could someone more advanced explain to me why the light square bishop is better placed at e6? I think I would start just simplifying the position if I'm 2 pawns up already. I know I'm giving up the bishop pair, but black has 3 connected pawns and one of them is passed against 2 isolated pawns on the queen's side, an extra center pawn and opposite coloured bishops, so would trading still be a solid move in this position at this elo level?
Trading the light squared bishop for the knight would result in an opposite coloured bishop game. If your opponent manages to get the rooks off the board then it’s an opposite coloured bishop endgame which are very drawish. Besides your light squared bishop is pretty good on e6 bc it exerts pressure on the pawn on c4
Thank you sm Danya for these informative videos but I have a little recommendation if you would like to accept it ! Why you not introducing us to new lines like 99% of the videos you play e4 and e5 of c5 as black like it's okay but we need to more videos about jobava london for example more videos about new responses for e4 rather e5 and c5 like Alekhine defense for example you get my point ? I hope I see more videos about new untraditional responses to popular opening in the future videos
I just stalemated my opponent after being up 9 points of material, 1 square away from promotion, and 37 seconds on my clock... pain... I played a very accurate game too. Besides my stalemating move I had only 2 inaccuracies and 3 good moves the rest of my moves were either book, excellent, best, or great moves. These speedruns are very helpful though thank you though
You are genuinely deserving.
Best chess teacher on youtube by far
Shout-out to you. What a legend.
One thing that really can't be overstated about your videos is how much they benefit from your consideration of your viewers. Most people making content *in general* don't really think about this, much less people making educational content, where it is essential. Meanwhile, you actively think about your pedagogical style and iterate upon it in a way that I haven't seen many other people do, including *actual professors* that I've had. The fact that you are this thoughtful about the needs and preferences of your viewership on RUclips/Twitch of all places while also being one of the best chess players in the world is kind of insane, your viewers truly appreciate it and we don't take it for granted
So true. Although, I had to google pedagogical, that’s one I haven’t heard before. Very enjoyable to say, 10/10 👌
No need to apologize for taking your time, the KID deepdives are my favourites. It never seizes to baffle me how you can go into such depths about a seemingly very suboptimal line. I've probably played a few thousand games online in the KID myself and never seen this, so the fact that you know this much about it truly shows your encyclopedic knowledge of it! Very excited for the chessable course!
Ceases*
@@CarsunGeorge ahh thanks! that makes more sense, english is obviously not my first language :)
@@noone-ld7pt"Seizes" is also a word, but it means to grab/take hold: eg "he seized my hand" = "he took hold of my hand". It can also be used figuratively: "I seized the opportunity" = "I grabbed the opportunity".
"Cease" means to stop, which is what fits in your sentence: "it never stops to amaze me".
(I like your attitude! It would be easy to get defensive in response to a one-word comment that corrects you. I also know plenty of native English speakers who don't write as well as you do.)
Suboptimal my ass. It is what you make of it
It's funny how Danya sees straight forward, early opponent mistake into straight forward (for him) conversion games as a boring "meat and potato" thing.
For me, as a 1300-1500 ish player, I find them to be by far the most instructive and easiest to follow. 2-3 move tactics are my current max comfort zone so it feels a possibility to emulate this type of conversion with more classy moves like unaligned the bishop and pawn...and seeing how to best punish these opening errors is going to live with me and improve my game! Love it thanks Danya, please more kings Indian!
Same
As a 13-1500 player you should easily be able to calculate 5 moves ahead, or even more depending on how forced the moves are
I love how enthusiastic Danya always gets when he talks about the Kings Indian. Shows a true love of the opening and the game
Watching danya speedrun.. the best thing a man can do with pants on.
😮
Pants are still optional though, right??
2nd best thing pants off
@@sixtyninefromsixtonine Wow you guys must really like showering huh?
AYO
Damn... 1 hour Danya video at exactly my rating range. Couldn't have asked for a better weekend present! You rock!
“Take the bishop, take the rook, you’re at Golden Corral”
😅 I love that line
Line was funny enough on its own but had me cracking up when he followed up with "I've never been to Golden Corral, idk why I said that."
I normally don't comment on things, however. The way you conduct these speed runs giving the audience time to come to the best conclusion while you run through different ideas is genuinely incredible. Even just from the first game , you talk about how we would "instinctually want to develop the bishop" however then you describe a "tactically winning position" making us stop to consider that better moves could be played. You're truly an incredible teacher and I've enjoyed these videos throughout. Thank you Daniel.
Wow, another insightful breakdown from Naroditsky! The way he explains complex concepts makes learning chess so much fun.
Absolutely correct 👍
Thank you so much for making this material available online. The lucidity of your explanations are a delight to follow - perfect balance between generalities and their applications in concrete situations.
It's nice to hear simple explanations behind moves. Realizing memorization is the main part of chess I get tired of hearing main lines, side lines I've learned to appreciate just the basic essence of the game thanks to Daniel.
Dune 2 was the peak of excitement and anticipation for me until I learned Daniel is cooking up a KID Chessable course
Oh snap, didn't expect a video while the candidates were going on.
Was going on? 🤔
@@SleepyTimeMD The Candidates Tournament. The winner challenges the World Champion later this year. Danya is doing commentary for it on chess24. Not every round, but he's there.
Today is a rest day?
It's always a good day whenever you upload
Keep up the 5 minute games it's awesome ! Great content like always
Very excited for your kings Indian course!
Because of your videos I got to 1500 blitz, was 1500 rapid before, now I am confident that I can get to 1700 rapid easily. TY❤, keep it up.
Wow! Awesome chess analysis, I wish I could be like you when calculating! Was watching your videos and it slowly revamping my chess skills! Although it makes me nose bleed at times when you can easily see plans, conversion, tactics and not seeing it on my end.Will keep watching all your videos! Keep it up and thank you!
The puzzle you showed at 40:30 was awesome! It took me a minute of feeling stupid as I had no idea where to start (the Qc4 idea fizzled out quickly). I then realised I had to find a check (as otherwise I would give up the b2 pawn and force a queen trade, or move my queen away and suffer an attack down 2 rooks), and honestly the moves came quite nicely!
Hi Danya, I'm really enjoying this - thank you as always and good luck with the new course.
always a good day when danya posts
you’re playing a candidates game in such settings. this truly is a masterclass. it truly is. wow, Daniel
Jobava London and Daniel just pushed me past 1400 today. Really happy with this! Summer goal of 1600 is one step closer!
Hey Danya, glad to hear that you are doing a chessable course. I'm not a Kings Indian player. But, will definitely consider buying the course this year to show support :)
Really enjoy the depth you go into with the Kings Indian lines. I've been flirting with playing the Kings Indian against 1.D4 and your videos and explanations are incredibly helpful
Danya has the best comment sections on the internet. Such admiration and positivity for Danya and his videos.
thanks
Hey Danya. I just want to say I love this content. Best chess creator out there by far so thanks for that. One question, could you briefly talk about chess anxiety in a video sometime and how one overcomes it. Thanks
Thank you Danya. that's the only money i have left of my savings.
My evenings are always great whenever daniel makes a video
Yes !! And more Kings Indian please.
I only binge watch his kid videos. Thanks a lot man. You are the best.
To be honest, Danya has the best content and I really just wanted to thank him for sharing all this knowledge for free…. That shows humanity is still here and Danya is a symbol of that
Your explanations are so great that I saw Bd4 just before you played it.
Thank you Danya for releasing some more Kings Indian content.. I tend to trick people into playing the Weiss Variation Austrian Attack in the Pirc when they think they're about to play the Kings Indian, but recently it seems everyone stopped playing the Kings Indian. Like it went out of style, and I wana keep my Austrian Attack sharp!
Can't wait to get his king's indian course. Really looking forward to it
Thnx for the efforts naroditsky ❤
Great video!
You are now my most favourite teacher ❤❤❤
Damn bro you’re pretty good for a 900
This is very helpful as someone about 1000 rated working on learning the KID to play against d4.
I love the KID explanations! You mention all of these different systems that white can adopt and I was wondering if you plan to cover all of them in your chessable course. If so, I would definitely purchase it
Btw, not me thinking Bc6+ was checkmate at 40:30😅
This is perfect!! Tysm❤
Cant wait for the chessable course!!!! Lets gooo
I can't wait for your King's Indian course.
My favourite chess person. Thank you Daniel. ❤❤❤ from India.
Notes for revisit;
6:12 Imp concept;
9:23 Art of self-pin;
13:51 look for better;
52:24 , 4:03 history repeats itself;
53:21 bishop pair or the permanent weakness?
Yay five minute game, SOMETHING! FOR! EVERYONE!!!
Perfect video!
Thank you!
Thank you for touching on the e5 qb6 lines in the fantasy. I was hoping you would as they seemed quite testing.
Hey Dayna. Love your channel. Would you consider doing a video guide to using chessable to study a new opening? It’d be great to see how you use the resources to learn
You might want to watch The Naroditsky Method, he touches upon the topic there
23:25 I think the expectation after Qxg5 is Qxd6. The black queen is tied down to protecting the d6 knight.
I agree, I'm not sure what the exact follow-up would be, but my intuition says that Black would have compensation for the exchange. Either Qe7+ or taking immediately would be my guess
Danya you’re a starrrr 🎶🗣️🎤🎶⭐️🌟
thanms
love uuu ty sm for this
Honestly laughed so hard at the Golden Corral joke 😂😂😂, especially as I was imagining Danya loading up a plate 🍽️ and eating 5000 calories while considering a 10th move variation of the KID. 😂
Just in time for dinner. Success!
At 23:25 you kinda dismissed the line with Nh5, Qxh5. But after that, the white queen takes the knight on d6 that's now hanging. I was puzzled by this. Turns out, you have to notice that after Bg4, the white king struggles to get out of the center because the bishop is hemmed in. You do eventually regain the material, but for a while, white goes up a full knight.
Anyway, I just thought it was worth noting how complicated that line gets.
Im 1300 and I always struggle against these early pawn pushes to my side of the board so Im excited to see how he dismantles this! 2:55
why are there time travelers in the comments
someone posted the unlisted video on r/chess. i myself watched it yesterday.
Early viewing access for Patreon subscribers.
Might be time to change that profile picture
Dont mind me just passing by-oh wait hold up wrong era here humans made the artifical intelligence that nearly destroyed them oh shoot it isnt safe around here bye
Theyre cuties
Hey Daniel, how did you manage to study at a university and simultaneously study chess? How did you keep up the level of your game? How did you find time for all of it? How DID you study?
Danya, when you flashback to a previous game you had a similar position from as a kid, can you have your editor use the sound effect from Kung Fu: The Legend Continues when Peter has flashbacks to his time at the Shaolin Temple? That would be cool. Good vid as always.
Looking forward to the Chessable course
I would really love for the next speedrun to base on Slav + Caro, the ultimate 1..c6 repertoire. Still, loving this content as well
40:45 "if you name the mating move I'll know you'll have calculated the whole combination".
Actually, I got 1. Nxf7+ Bxf7 2. Bc7+ Kxc7, but here I calculated 3. Qc4+ Kxb6 4. Qc5+ Ka5 5. b4#
But this is wrong as 3. Qc4+ can be met with 3. ... Nbc6 or Nec6 which if played results in a lost position for white. I completely missed this in my initial calculation!
So yes while I did get the final move b4#, my combination was wrong, and I was super lucky that Qe5+ works.
TLDR: getting the final move won't always mean your whole combination is right (do like the comment so it gets upvoted and so that Danya sees and clarifies it. Editor: if you see it be sure to point this out to him!)
14:38 Danya "I'm not gonna mate in the most efficient way" naroditsky (*mates in 8 seconds*)
16:29 "h4 has been essayed quite a bit..."
Well, no thanks to none other than YOU, Danya! In the US Chess Championship 2017, where you dropped that nuke of a novelty. Oh I remember alright.😂
I like to play a3 44:31 they often take the pawn on b2 and you play knight a4 after trapping the queen, a common trap in the jobava london
If I may suggest, often in your videos you do analysis in Chessbase, which has virtually no documentation whatsoever. It would be nice if you would do some basic instruction on how you perform many of the searches and analysis you do with it. Also, I'm betting you know a zillion lesser known tricks with it and it would be highly instructive if you'd throw those ideas in a video or two.
Thanks for all you do!
thx
"I've never been to Golden Corral, I dunno why I said that" 🤣
Well you have now!
2 questions: (1) What's the target range for your upcoming Chessable course, and (2) What is the target date for its release? Thanks. I thoroughly enjoy your explanations.
Watched good video
Totally awesome chess lessons Thanks ! Double rook sac is it safe ? wow that was a great exercise ! I love finding double exchange sacs don't you ? and the knights and bishops escort the pawns for a down down landing.
Great lesson. Good to know how to destroy the stonewall !
I love kings Indian videos of danya
Wake up babe new danya speedrun vid just dropped
Hello Danya! Great video as always. The KID is my strongest opening and I want to get even better - do you know when the Chessable course will drop?
I'm around 900-1000 rated myself in different modes and at 10:10 I woul've pretty instinctually traded the light square bishop for the knight. I'll explain myself, but could someone more advanced explain to me why the light square bishop is better placed at e6? I think I would start just simplifying the position if I'm 2 pawns up already. I know I'm giving up the bishop pair, but black has 3 connected pawns and one of them is passed against 2 isolated pawns on the queen's side, an extra center pawn and opposite coloured bishops, so would trading still be a solid move in this position at this elo level?
I think naroditsky recommends you be 3 points of material up before you can start trading down without taking into account positional factors
Trading the light squared bishop for the knight would result in an opposite coloured bishop game. If your opponent manages to get the rooks off the board then it’s an opposite coloured bishop endgame which are very drawish. Besides your light squared bishop is pretty good on e6 bc it exerts pressure on the pawn on c4
Hey Danya, I appreciate these so much. Could you please play the Scheveningen? Thanks
Hour long Danya vid🔥
godmode activated
Thank you sm Danya for these informative videos but I have a little recommendation if you would like to accept it !
Why you not introducing us to new lines like 99% of the videos you play e4 and e5 of c5 as black
like it's okay but we need to more videos about jobava london for example
more videos about new responses for e4 rather e5 and c5 like Alekhine defense for example you get my point ?
I hope I see more videos about new untraditional responses to popular opening in the future videos
Me: Jesus that was a masterpiece of sustained attacking chess.
Danya: Okay so a meat and potatoes game.
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤😊😊😊
Is your King's Indian course going to be theory or strategy? Ill be buying it either way was just curious
Danya!!!
I can't wait for the KID course (if reasonably priced)
"We're at Golden Corral" 😂🤣
What are your thoughts on the Beefeater?
I bought a Dutch defence course but kid seems more my style.
I just stalemated my opponent after being up 9 points of material, 1 square away from promotion, and 37 seconds on my clock... pain... I played a very accurate game too. Besides my stalemating move I had only 2 inaccuracies and 3 good moves the rest of my moves were either book, excellent, best, or great moves. These speedruns are very helpful though thank you though
Big D Naroditsky
Best chess player ever
Hey Danya, any idea of when the KID course will come out? I've been perusing chessable courses but would love to buy yours!
Whens the chessable Kings Indian Defense course? I wanna throw my money at it.
How about Nd5 at 29:27?
2:08 which course?
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