Oh my, imagine a series similar to what Levy has done, Danya showing us all his games from the OTB tournament with his reasoning for the lines, that would be absolutely fantastic
@@MartinBalaz89 That would be awesome! I like Levys videos too but Danyas style of explaining helps me understand way better. He doesnt make a move and justify it by telling his next move/ideas, but instead shows why he made the made the move and how does it affect the game. He sort of reads the board on what type of move the current situation needs, which can help seeing the type of position youre in. I feel like looking at the game like that really opens up your braing for pattern regocnition! Looking at the board as a whole instead of single lines has saved me from plundering many times recently.
I have recently shifted from Gotham chess to Danya insofar as learning is involved. Gotham will always be the goat in terms of entertainment, but I feel once you hit a certain stage, Danya’s videos are SO instructive! I have only just started watching his videos and I think he will be the difference in making a push to 1500! My highest ever rapid is 1491. Wish me luck!!
@@brianwalker2201 Thats a fine goal, idk what methods you have been using to study , i had gotten to 1881 and then procceeded to drop to 1700 as i wasnt able to play or study for 2 months and somehow just lost every info i had or so, If you want we can always hook up together, i stream at least 2 times a week, and its always fun to play and learn with others, if you are interested lemme know ill share the link
I have a couple of Gotham courses, including the caro which I’m enjoying playing. RUclips is probably my main source of learning. Gotham, Danya Hikaru etc. watching them play and analyse games is a great way to learn. Also anna cramling, she’s so positive and really quite instructive. I gave a couple of books but find them hard to stick with. Yeah sounds great, what’s your twitch or RUclips
Agreed. I think Gotham is fine for beginners and lower intermediate players. But once you hit mid to upper intermediate, then you benefit more from looking into creators like Rosen and Naroditsky for instructional purposes.
I would have never thought that the elephant gambit could be so classy, yet Danya delivers it in style. Plus every move is just so easy to understand with his teaching methods!
I am a lifelong QG player and finally i get the answer ive been searching for!! As a 1000 elo player i see this opening all the time. Ive watched countless tutorials and this is the first time anyone has suggested bishop d3 as a response in the opening. Thanks for everything danya love this content even though most of it goes right over my head as a 1000 elo player.
awesome stuff Daniel...! I am so glad to have found your videos. I find your content more useful to me an intermediate player, than others who mainly provide for beginners. I am very grateful and will purpose to watch every video of this masterclass, with pen and notebook in hand. thanks again for the awesome content
I love your Stafford refutation. I've worked on it a lot myself also and it's literally the deepest opening prep I have (for white). I still don't always win going into it. White ends up a pawn but is still quite passive and with an undeveloped queenside, so black gets decent play if they maintain the activity.
Yep, the "magic line" makes it actually dangerous to play The system with just e5 is a bit easier, you can see how Chessmaster completely destroys Eric with it in one of his last videos
@@NaoshikuuAnimations yes that's what I always do against the Stafford if you play e5 black has no compensation for the pawn and none of the usual stafford tricks work
@@maximix5447 there are a few tricks but fewer, so easier to dodge! Thinking of e5 Ne4 d3, which black can ignore with Bc5 because taking the knight loses the queen, dxe4 Bxf2+ Kxf2 Qxd1
@@NaoshikuuAnimations That's what I usually try to meet e5 with and I've won quite a few games that way... people at my level seem to assume they've dodged everything after e5 so they start playing seemingly "natural" moves like d3 again. That said if they know about that trick then they'll just go d4 instead of d3 and be completely fine
3:10 "you should always be looking for ways to improve on the initial ideas you come up with" also Duda not playing 27. Rxd8 in his last game vs Karjakin :)
Tbf Hou Yifan declined it and took the Petroff a tempo down just to not risk playing into a tricky gambit she probably had never seen. I wonder if Dubov could have won had she accepted.
Hey Daniel! Great video man! Noticed at 7:37 you had knight takes rook check then picking up the bishop for free! Wouldn't have seen that without your tremendous teachings!
thank you for the videos.. love your stuff. you are putting out exactly what i need . please continue doing instructive videos. best chess lessons online for intermediate players and up
I was thinking something in the lines of when you are clearly winning, you want to reduce variance and ask the question of how do I lose. So focus on safety, simplifying (both the position and the material), etc. What a good name for a rule like this is I do not know...
At 34:36 I wonder how Danya pulled up that Sultan Khan - Menchik game so fast. Did he already have it in his databse and know exactly where it was? If so, I wonder what that particular database was organized for. Specifically for examples of that Nf5 motif or something more general? Or did he do some kind of quick thematic search in Chessbase that is beyond my knowledge of how to do? Basically just wondering how he's organized his various model game/motif example and/or how he manipulates Chessbase so adroitly.
He teaches full time and streams on top of that, so I'm guessing that Sultan Khan game was one that he refers to often when teaching, which allowed him to recall it instantly and quickly open it up.
Hey Danya, when the position was to be transformed into fried liver, you could have demonstrated a traxler as well, need to see your take on it and the way you play it
@@realinformhunter The next move would have been bxf3 and then he would've technically lost two pieces for that rook, but it took me like 50 seconds to figure that out whereas he probably already knew from years of chess drills.
@@thegreatarchive-a8801 Ah true, forgot about bxf3. It's always with this game that something looks obvious, but then there is another layer of complexity on top
According to the lichess engine, d5 is playable but not the best. Black will plan on contesting the center with c6, and White no longer has a c-pawn to reinforce the center. In addition, White relinquishes control of the c5 square, allowing Black's dark-square bishop to control that square in the future. In the end, it appears about equal in that line with d5.
A rating only derives meaning when you compare it to a second rating from the same pool of players. "1700" doesn't actually represent a fixed amount of chess ability - the number is completely arbitrary. It could just as easily be 170 or 17000. And a 1700 bot =/= 1700 human anyway. That's just the creator's guesstimate of its strength. It's not a real rating because it's a fixed number that doesn't change after winning or losing like a real elo rating would. It's also not possible to lower the elo of an engine while having it play in a humanlike manner. The only way to make them weaker is to instruct them to make these inexplicable, jarring blunders. It's nothing like playing an actual person with a joined up thought process. Even if you play a weak chess player you can at least imagine the thought process behind their moves. Elo-capped bots may as well be moving randomly. That's why most people will advise you to just play against other humans. I really dislike the way chess.com encourage people to play these so-called bots. i think it's detrimental to new players, hobbles their improvement and encourages the anxiety you sometimes see people have around playing real people. Like all sports and games chess is a social activity at heart. In any case, 700 is a pretty typical rating for someone who is not an experienced chess player. If you're interested in improving play regularly and solve tactics puzzles every day; you'll be 1200+ in no time. The good thing about being at the lower end of the rating scale is that you can make a lot of improvement for relatively little effort!
0:58 Did he just really say _"I'm worried because I'm not sure what the theory is there"_ when playing against someone almost 1000 points lower rated? xD
I think Danya really tries not to consider rating when he plays chess. In reality, it really doesn't matter what your opponent's rating is when you are trying to play the best move all the time. He is also a theoretical player, and he does usually rely on memorizing opening theory from what I've seen in his past videos.
9:09 Danya doesn't even care. I mean, he's up a queen, and his opponent doesn't resign until now, that's just bad sportsmanship. I mean premoves like Nc3 are fine, but delaying resignable positions, you don't do. Yea, he doesn't even care, chat! He literally doesn't care!
For Black, I wonder if instead of Rook a to e8, why not Rook takes on f4? Wasn't the f4 pawn defended only once yet threatened by the black rook and the black queen?
At 7.32 when the bishob captures knight, he missed an opportunity, instead of capturing bishop with te quen, he should have captured the rook with check and then picked up the bishop.
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Now that Danya's accepted the wild card to the US Championship in October, I'd love to see some videos about how a GM does tournament prep!
Yeah let’s just give away prep before tournament!!! Not too smart, but yes, we would love to see it
I was thinking we could possibly see some of the "how" without the specific secrets of the "what" :)
@@mtnation2923 He said _how_ danya preps, not _what_ he preps
Oh my, imagine a series similar to what Levy has done, Danya showing us all his games from the OTB tournament with his reasoning for the lines, that would be absolutely fantastic
@@MartinBalaz89 That would be awesome! I like Levys videos too but Danyas style of explaining helps me understand way better. He doesnt make a move and justify it by telling his next move/ideas, but instead shows why he made the made the move and how does it affect the game. He sort of reads the board on what type of move the current situation needs, which can help seeing the type of position youre in. I feel like looking at the game like that really opens up your braing for pattern regocnition!
Looking at the board as a whole instead of single lines has saved me from plundering many times recently.
I have recently shifted from Gotham chess to Danya insofar as learning is involved. Gotham will always be the goat in terms of entertainment, but I feel once you hit a certain stage, Danya’s videos are SO instructive! I have only just started watching his videos and I think he will be the difference in making a push to 1500! My highest ever rapid is 1491. Wish me luck!!
So ? no update? what is your rating now? :D
I got to 1500 on the dot 😂 down at around 1450 again now. But I know I can play at that level now so I want to be 1600 by end of the year
@@brianwalker2201 Thats a fine goal, idk what methods you have been using to study , i had gotten to 1881 and then procceeded to drop to 1700 as i wasnt able to play or study for 2 months and somehow just lost every info i had or so,
If you want we can always hook up together, i stream at least 2 times a week, and its always fun to play and learn with others, if you are interested lemme know ill share the link
I have a couple of Gotham courses, including the caro which I’m enjoying playing. RUclips is probably my main source of learning. Gotham, Danya Hikaru etc. watching them play and analyse games is a great way to learn. Also anna cramling, she’s so positive and really quite instructive. I gave a couple of books but find them hard to stick with.
Yeah sounds great, what’s your twitch or RUclips
Agreed. I think Gotham is fine for beginners and lower intermediate players. But once you hit mid to upper intermediate, then you benefit more from looking into creators like Rosen and Naroditsky for instructional purposes.
I would have never thought that the elephant gambit could be so classy, yet Danya delivers it in style. Plus every move is just so easy to understand with his teaching methods!
"When you're up a queen you already know you're gonna win the game anyway"
You underestimate my power
Ah, the long-awaited Netflix sequel!!
“The game is over“
I wish I could say something with this kind of confidence ever
Opponent: *looks at the board*
Danya: "yeah that is a mistake and he will be in trouble pretty quickly"
I love it 😂
I am a lifelong QG player and finally i get the answer ive been searching for!! As a 1000 elo player i see this opening all the time. Ive watched countless tutorials and this is the first time anyone has suggested bishop d3 as a response in the opening. Thanks for everything danya love this content even though most of it goes right over my head as a 1000 elo player.
Your way of explaining how to deeply understand a chess game is really impressive and fanstastic, thanks a lot!
Thank you Daniel! Because you bring people up to another level, literally -- with these awesome lessons!
"You're telling me a 1600 hung a piece on move 6?"
Coulda trapped a man's queen
Look i saw rook a4 i just didnt like it
Thank you for the uploads. Just watching these videos wants to make my try playing, everytime
The advice for the Queen's Gambit was phenomenal! I wish you played it more often.
These videos are the highlights of my day !
*opponent doesn't go into the Stafford Gambit* "BOO THIS MAN" - Half Baked.
I just notice you have timestamps in the description, to put in chapters, make sure you add the timestamp 00:00
awesome stuff Daniel...! I am so glad to have found your videos. I find your content more useful to me an intermediate player, than others who mainly provide for beginners. I am very grateful and will purpose to watch every video of this masterclass, with pen and notebook in hand. thanks again for the awesome content
I love your Stafford refutation. I've worked on it a lot myself also and it's literally the deepest opening prep I have (for white). I still don't always win going into it. White ends up a pawn but is still quite passive and with an undeveloped queenside, so black gets decent play if they maintain the activity.
Yep, the "magic line" makes it actually dangerous to play
The system with just e5 is a bit easier, you can see how Chessmaster completely destroys Eric with it in one of his last videos
@@NaoshikuuAnimations yes that's what I always do against the Stafford if you play e5 black has no compensation for the pawn and none of the usual stafford tricks work
@@maximix5447 there are a few tricks but fewer, so easier to dodge! Thinking of e5 Ne4 d3, which black can ignore with Bc5 because taking the knight loses the queen, dxe4 Bxf2+ Kxf2 Qxd1
@@NaoshikuuAnimations That's what I usually try to meet e5 with and I've won quite a few games that way... people at my level seem to assume they've dodged everything after e5 so they start playing seemingly "natural" moves like d3 again. That said if they know about that trick then they'll just go d4 instead of d3 and be completely fine
3:10 "you should always be looking for ways to improve on the initial ideas you come up with" also Duda not playing 27. Rxd8 in his last game vs Karjakin :)
9:47 - Actually Dobov played the stafford gambit against Yifan just recently and won with it.
Tbf Hou Yifan declined it and took the Petroff a tempo down just to not risk playing into a tricky gambit she probably had never seen. I wonder if Dubov could have won had she accepted.
@@dsrguru Accepting the gambit is without question stronger.
Hey Daniel! Great video man! Noticed at 7:37 you had knight takes rook check then picking up the bishop for free! Wouldn't have seen that without your tremendous teachings!
@Nathaniel Beggs Didn't see that LOL nice
@Nathaniel Beggs it’s still a better move though because he would’ve won the rook over the bishop
@@Jschlick100 but u would give two pieces for the rook instead of giving a knight for a bishop.
@@steff8057 it was a pon and rook for two knights, which I’m pretty sure is good simplification at that point in the game🤷🏻♂️
More speedruns on queens gambit please. Try to cover the queens gambit declined in one of the speedruns also!
Way to keep pumping out the content. Much appreciated.
Thank you so much for doing QG!
WOW really didn’t expect to see you here. I enjoyed your solo Bedwars videos
@@jacokyle0160 lmao thanks surprised somebody recognized me
@@Gqtor Yes good to see you!! How long have you been playing chess?
8:49 "Thank you hotmomlo..." lol
You are a gifted teacher! Thank you.
That foreshadowing at around 3:50 is insane man
thank you for the videos.. love your stuff. you are putting out exactly what i need . please continue doing instructive videos. best chess lessons online for intermediate players and up
day 27 of saying you're the best danya! You seemed in a great mood this episode. it was really nice to watch. always a pleasure
Daniel: takes queen
Daniel:"and it's over"
Opponent: *"I didn't hear no damn bell"*
Another thrilling game where Daniel wins the queen by move 10
Opponent plays first move.
Daniel: that's a terrible mistake. White is completely lost here.
8:34 nice premove smart guy lol
incredible content
Superb Quality- thanks Danya
Daniel Naroditsky
Eric Rosen was so excited! And then he wasn't...
5:00 the rule of pragmatism. Enough advantage exists to win the game, now just be pragmatic with the approach to win
I was thinking something in the lines of when you are clearly winning, you want to reduce variance and ask the question of how do I lose. So focus on safety, simplifying (both the position and the material), etc. What a good name for a rule like this is I do not know...
What shall we do ? H6 get outta here 😂😂😂
Another blaster. Brilliant chess education, there is no better.
At 34:36 I wonder how Danya pulled up that Sultan Khan - Menchik game so fast. Did he already have it in his databse and know exactly where it was? If so, I wonder what that particular database was organized for. Specifically for examples of that Nf5 motif or something more general? Or did he do some kind of quick thematic search in Chessbase that is beyond my knowledge of how to do?
Basically just wondering how he's organized his various model game/motif example and/or how he manipulates Chessbase so adroitly.
He teaches full time and streams on top of that, so I'm guessing that Sultan Khan game was one that he refers to often when teaching, which allowed him to recall it instantly and quickly open it up.
Bruh ur content is so good I feel like I’m robbing you by watching.
Thanks for the video as always
You should play with an eye tracker sometime. I think it would be neat to see how fast you go from piece to piece when you are analyzing.
Hey Danya, when the position was to be transformed into fried liver, you could have demonstrated a traxler as well, need to see your take on it and the way you play it
he has said beforehand that the traxler is not a good gambit because it is refuted simply when white takes f7 with the bishop instead of the knight.
Yeah, I was hoping for a Traxler too. Thanks for the Bxf7 refutation. After looking at Bxf7, Black's position is not so nice :(
YAAAAS!
"Knights can bite on granite, too"
- Daniel Naroditsky 2021
When he started the garry impression but then changed his mind
Thank you GM Danya
At 7:35, isn’t Nxf3 first a better move? You win the rook instead of the bishop? Someone let me know if I’m wrong
Bishop takes knight. So you give two knights for the rook
@@steff8057 the first knight took a pon though so it’s 6 for 6
Stafford is one of those openings like the traxler which is pretty rare but and specialist can win 90%+ of the games just with prep
7:36 that confused me for awhile why he didn't go for the rook first. I wish he explained that trade more.
I guess he just wasn't paying much attention as he was talking
@@realinformhunter The next move would have been bxf3 and then he would've technically lost two pieces for that rook, but it took me like 50 seconds to figure that out whereas he probably already knew from years of chess drills.
@@thegreatarchive-a8801 Ah true, forgot about bxf3. It's always with this game that something looks obvious, but then there is another layer of complexity on top
Ah the declined delayed Russian elephant gambit, I'll have to remember that
18:58 you didn't mention why you choose Bg5
I think that move prevent e-pawn push because white can gain a knight(e5pin)
@@MUNNOT yeah i also thought that's the only reason
Two games in one video? It's a good day.
Would love another video in your dubious gambits series
I use to play the Stafford because of eric but moved to the sicilian because of you
Very instructive game 🦾
7:25 didn't understand why Danya didn't play +xNf3
I was wondering if at 6:18 rook e8 would also be a good move
I don't think it's bad, but you are weakening the defense of the f7 square, which may be targeted by White's bishop and rook at some point later on.
Literally every move except Qxd5 here is a good move and is completely winning
I play the elaphant gambit professionally for years plz play it more
Sammy Reshevsky told me, "When you see a good move, sit on your hands, and look for a better move."
eric rosen should be proud
The computer on 1200 used to destroy me every time with the elephant Gambit when I was first starting out
25:46
Is d5 playable here? Can white hold on to this position? It’s what I normally play, I’m not sure if it’s correct
According to the lichess engine, d5 is playable but not the best. Black will plan on contesting the center with c6, and White no longer has a c-pawn to reinforce the center. In addition, White relinquishes control of the c5 square, allowing Black's dark-square bishop to control that square in the future. In the end, it appears about equal in that line with d5.
Best tuition i've come across.Thanks.I can beat bots at 1700 (but not often)but i'm 700 at playing humans, whats going on?
A rating only derives meaning when you compare it to a second rating from the same pool of players. "1700" doesn't actually represent a fixed amount of chess ability - the number is completely arbitrary. It could just as easily be 170 or 17000. And a 1700 bot =/= 1700 human anyway. That's just the creator's guesstimate of its strength. It's not a real rating because it's a fixed number that doesn't change after winning or losing like a real elo rating would.
It's also not possible to lower the elo of an engine while having it play in a humanlike manner. The only way to make them weaker is to instruct them to make these inexplicable, jarring blunders. It's nothing like playing an actual person with a joined up thought process. Even if you play a weak chess player you can at least imagine the thought process behind their moves. Elo-capped bots may as well be moving randomly. That's why most people will advise you to just play against other humans. I really dislike the way chess.com encourage people to play these so-called bots. i think it's detrimental to new players, hobbles their improvement and encourages the anxiety you sometimes see people have around playing real people. Like all sports and games chess is a social activity at heart.
In any case, 700 is a pretty typical rating for someone who is not an experienced chess player. If you're interested in improving play regularly and solve tactics puzzles every day; you'll be 1200+ in no time. The good thing about being at the lower end of the rating scale is that you can make a lot of improvement for relatively little effort!
7:32, why'd you take the bishop instead of NF3x and then take the bishop?
Oh nevermind, I just looked back and the bishop could take. I'm dumb. :P
0:58
Did he just really say _"I'm worried because I'm not sure what the theory is there"_ when playing against someone almost 1000 points lower rated? xD
I think Danya really tries not to consider rating when he plays chess. In reality, it really doesn't matter what your opponent's rating is when you are trying to play the best move all the time. He is also a theoretical player, and he does usually rely on memorizing opening theory from what I've seen in his past videos.
At what time you're usually streaming danya?....I want to watch it live too 😊
At 7:26 wouldn’t bishop take knight into knight take rook with check, then queen take bishop been a better sequence?
I thought the same thing at first but the bishop can move back and take the knight
@@mattjuve5720 oh I see, thank you
Gut
5:06 Maybe call it "situational prioritization"?
nice elephant, good to know
Heated your opponent didn’t take😤
Danya, I was just about to go to sleep... Now I need to keep myself awake for 40 more minutes 😴
9:09 Danya doesn't even care. I mean, he's up a queen, and his opponent doesn't resign until now, that's just bad sportsmanship. I mean premoves like Nc3 are fine, but delaying resignable positions, you don't do. Yea, he doesn't even care, chat! He literally doesn't care!
7:25 why not take the rook first with check and then pick up the bishop?
Bishop takes knight then
Are there any games in any speedrun where daniel plays the queen's gambit declined or accepted as black?
For Black, I wonder if instead of Rook a to e8, why not Rook takes on f4? Wasn't the f4 pawn defended only once yet threatened by the black rook and the black queen?
No No 3.Bc4 is some good shit. Very fun.
2 games let’s go
At 7.32 when the bishob captures knight, he missed an opportunity, instead of capturing bishop with te quen, he should have captured the rook with check and then picked up the bishop.
No, the bishop could have recaptured while escaping the threat.
@@anthonypassarelli5534I had the same misconception until i read this. Thanks
What's wrong with 5. nc3 e5. 6. nf3. White is preparing to recapture with the queen and has a development lead in the queenless middle game?
7:21 And now we have the Botez Gambit speedrun to prove that. 🙂
Jeez that first player played really poorly for his rating.
Queens Gambit?
Second game
finally my favorite opening. Does anyone know where can I watch his other queen's gambit speedrun?(if he has one)
Should be oh my lands 1200
You've mastered the Hikaru repeat the Hikaru repeat
Hey Danya could you please please play a catalan later I love that opening and want to see you play it
👍👍👍
In game 2 what happens if black plays
5… Nc6 attacking the d4 pawn again? What do you do?
I giggled like a schoolgirl at 25:14
Boom goes the dynamite bitches
25:00 Boosh
I am struggling at 1000Elo , but the first game was very weak from white .
I have yet to see how this is a queen's gambit
How is there a book that thick on a random gambit? :o
Hey my man danya, can you do a vienna? th gambit and the system with the other line.
He has two videos I think. One of them he misclicked and blundered a piece.
"there is a lot more material on gambits than playing against them"
ironic
Damn I wanna see him play a ragozin so bad
"for a gm it would be unthinkable to risk the Stafford Gambit" well that aged poorly