So true what Danya says about "why don't 1700s make these blunders when I play them?" Thing is, a) they probably do, but many people at that level just don't notice or capitalise, and b) 1700s are less able to exert such long-term pressure on a position. The way Danya immediately noticed that Nf6-Nh5-Nf4-Nxd3 left White with a backward pawn that was so weak it crippled White's entire position was very instructive.
As you said. I'm a 1700 elo player and I definitely would have, at some point, played Ne4 and allowed the trade who closes the center, the fact Danya didn't was key in allowing him to keep putting the pressure up. Little things like this are probably what stands in my way toward the 1900-2000 elo range, we have to remember that when Danya plays at our range he's actually playing a wide margin above, at the very least he's a "whatever his elo is at the point of the speedrun he's at who doesn't make the mistakes players of that elo typically do"
Exactl! Its hard for a GM to turn their brain off, so they will always play at their level, making players of whatever rating they are playing appear weaker.
That's exactly it. Just playing more critical lines, applying more pressure and forcing the opponent to find the right move often leads players to crumble. They won't crumble if you just play passively. That's the main thing I noticed when climbing, many 1500-1600s are more focused on trying not to blunder than actively pushing the position towards its limits.
@@laidbackstrat9491 as a 1600 player I can say that avoiding mistake is the mindset at this elo. Like any other 1v1 game (tennis/ping pong/..) chess is a "loser-game" (at novice level) where you win by making less mistakes. Strong players's strategy are the opposite. I notice that the reason for my loss ain't because I out of book at move 5 but rather because I make a horrible positional move in mid game or blunder a passed pawn in the endgame. Also when opp starts to pressure I tend to run out gas and start panicking
Congrats Danya on an unbelievable performance in the just concluded Feb '23 Lichess Titled Arena. 55 minutes late and still managed a win over a very strong field, including Alireza. As far as I know no one has ever pulled that off. Truly truly impressive!
You know, its not Naroditsky if he doesnt mention russian school boy at least once. All russian school boys are now transforming themselves in a new Lada.
Hey Dana, you probably won't read this, but your Puzzle series (GM-Puzzles, Intermediate Puzzles etc.) was effing amazing, because it is incredibly instructive to follow your thought process while you're yourself actually looking for the solution! It would be such a gift to the community if you could do some more of those! Also: thank you for doing what you do, we love you.
One of the tips of the book “Teach like a champion” is: Don’t apologize. No boring content for me, really helpful and I am trying to follow your recommendations. Even the Sicilian and I have played French and Caro for years. Your content is gold. You are an amazing teacher since you were 15.
I Fuck with Danya he just beat magnus in like 50 bullet games so he’s good I’m done and he’s engine rating in bullet ain’t a nare folk finna say he ain’t decent go head and try
It’s always a good feeling when a move that you think is good gets suggested by the man himself, even if it’s a bad move! Keep up the good work 😊 22:45
Hey Danya! An example that might be useful for that last question is a trap in the Karpov variation of the English. After 1. C4 E5 2. G3 Nf6 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. Nc3 Bc5 5. Nf3 d6 6. D3 0-0 7. 0-0, the mainline is 7... h6! preventing Bg5 pinning the knight. If black doesn't realize the danger and develops the c8 bishop first, chosing to play h6 later if needed, the trap is starting. The continuation (for example) 7... Bf5 8. Bg5! h6 9. Bh4 g5?? leads to 10. Nxg5! hxg5 11. Bxg5 , which is already +3 for white as the pin is impossible to remove or work around, and Ne4/Nd5 to exploit it is deadly (wherever the opposing light squared bishop can't take the knight) . Furthermore, the queen is coming in to the attack to h5 herself and that is an awfully naked king that is stuck there thanks to his rook. And he can't even move the f pawn to allow other pieces to defend, as the pinned knight is on f6! It's a slaughter. It's one of my favorite opening traps in the English and I've won a few tournament games off of it alone. People playing on principles alone (never retreat the pinning bishop into a fianchetto pawn structure) and possibly expecting a slow positional game out of an English often don't sense the danger.
Thanks so much Sensei Danya! Currently binging all your videos and absorbing as much as I can. You have pretty much single-handedly inspired my renewed interest in chess. Thank for all your informative and entertaining content.
I'm pretty intermediate maybe sligthly above that but i actually love when the analysis gets as deep as possible and the theory as branched out as possible
re the first few minutes when you are talking danya. this is perfect content for improvers. you are providing the best educational chess content on the internet imo and please do continue. thanks cos i really appreciate your stuff.
im glad someone asked that clarifying question at the end of the game about why you say "you should see this move immediately" , I think your explanation was very good and made me feel better, its one of the things I sometimes get discouraged from watching gothams videos, he seems to enjoy pointing out how stupid the average player is (I think a lot of chess streamers/youtubers forget or dont know the majority of us are under 1100) , and I don't think you're like that, thank you for everything you have been teaching me the last couple weeks, and I will try to become someone who can see those moves immediately.
This is true. Levy tends to entertain more than teach. Danya explains every freaking move. I've watched some videos several times to get the point of something he said. Overall, Danya teaches the best. So impressive.
Danya "seems" nice and kind, but on the chess board he is bloodthirsty. "I'm sad my opponant blundered his rook" Not because he feels bad for him, but because he wanted to "squeeze the life out of him" 🥵🥵🥵
For those wondering about the continuation it's Rxc5 then Nxf3+! which forks the queen and the king, and the g2 pawn is pinned because of the other rook. White's best move in the resulting position might be to just take the bishop on a1 and be down an exchange after NxR+ (instead of Rxc5)
Hello, would you recommend the Grunfeld / Indian defence for players around 1300/1400 elo, or is it too complicated? I very rarely face main lines, and the plans can change quite a lot depending on white's responses...
Between you and remote chess academy I am learning so much. Im at 1300 bitz now. I know that it not great but I started at 700. I had a hrad time making it to 1000 but after watching all these videos im between 1150 and 1330 my highest rating. Hopefullu I can make it to 1700 in blitz which is my goal. I dont like 20 minute games because so many guys stall if they hang a rook or are losing. Also blitxz just seems mor efun.
I would suggest 10-minute games. I used to exclusively play blitz and I ended up getting stuck at around 1300 ELO. Once I started playing 10-minute games and actually calculating I jumped up to 1600 rapid AND blitz within a few weeks. Rapid is the best (after classic) for developing your chess. Blitz is too fast-paced to really learn in my opinion.
Wow, last I saw you were at 312k subs; this channel is growing like weed. You are one of the best chess teachers of all time, because you also know how to talk. Meanwhile Nakamura rants about how pineapple doesn't belong on pizza while narrating his blitz games. ;)
@@mortalkombaty7960 Hikaru is a glasses & headphones, adolescent clown who started his channel sooner; he's not half the teacher DN is. Compare them minute by minute video by video. DN could teach chess at Harvard and prolly other subjects there too with his clear, measured, poised style. A natural.
@@DexterHaven and how do you explain that that clown always destroy Danya when they play against each other. It must hurt you that that clown is far superior chess player than Danya. Hikaru s career is way superior. Please name me a single meaningful tournament that danya won in his classical chess careee. A real tournament not a shitty one
"And white panics". Man, you weren't joking, the eval went from just over -1 to -7. "I wouldn't say that we're winning, my guess is we're about -1.5" Heh...
@@Majora96 Which I suppose shows the brutality against playing someone rated that much higher than you. Even if you play sound and positionally for some time, they know everything better than you and won't have the same time pressure. Your time, meanwhile, that you have probably had to use extensively just to be able to play without blunders, is tick tick ticking away...
@@johndavidallison7601 ohhhh 😃 I'd watch it for sure if you wanted to share! Otherwise I'll be looking for them cause most probably I haven't watched them (I only started to re-learn chess one year ago).
so @4:30 I tend to get these positions where the knight is on g4 or bishop c4. What is the best response to those types of moves ? And are they big threats when calculating lines in the Indian defense ?
Daniel with Your knowledge please could you (or someone)tell who in 60s and 70s used to play the Colle successfully before Susan Polgar ? Love Your vids. Great stuff as always;)
Perhaps sometimes one may also take an inferior piece because it will be of superior strength in the endgame; for instance, as the grandmaster explained, bishops can be superior to knights when it comes to dealing with passed pawns.
Hi Danya, I have a question about the position. At around 30 minutes, White blunders the rook by panicking and pushing his pawn to f4. What would have happened if White used his queen-bishop battery to attack your fianchetto bishop with bishop e3 to h6? What is the response in that position?
I’m not Danya, but the classic move in that scenario when the bishop + queen battery tries to trade off the fianchetto’d bishop AND the rook has moved (so there’s no longer a skewer) is to simply move the black bishop back to h8
Hey Danya, love the speedrun as always, just wanted to say tho, design wise the last video's thumbnail (IQP Strategy) took the military propaganda vibe to an unpleasant level imo. 'Collateral murder' always comes to mind when I see some armed forces geezer using a computer - don't like to think of you in that context! All the best though, thank you for the content :)
“A way that allows us to accumulate pieces on the kingside and prepare an attack on the kingside” literally gave me chills. This is the classic KID danya we’ve been missing.
Did the opponent know he was playing Danya? He was so passive and timid with his little 1. e3 opening. It's as if all he was hoping for was some kind of honourable loss.
Dayna said if the white knight was on F3 then f4 wouldnt have been a bad move but thats not possible to knight would have been preventing the pawn from moving to f4
cant wait for the multi pawns v knight I got an endgame (won on time with the pawns) and I fin ished it against teh computer. winning position but drew
if you want entertaiment go to Naka o Gotham but if you want to learn chess ,,, Daniel!.. I was stucked in and out of 1500. then a few month ago I start it to watch Daniel and now I'm playing in and out of 1700.
So true what Danya says about "why don't 1700s make these blunders when I play them?" Thing is, a) they probably do, but many people at that level just don't notice or capitalise, and b) 1700s are less able to exert such long-term pressure on a position. The way Danya immediately noticed that Nf6-Nh5-Nf4-Nxd3 left White with a backward pawn that was so weak it crippled White's entire position was very instructive.
As you said. I'm a 1700 elo player and I definitely would have, at some point, played Ne4 and allowed the trade who closes the center, the fact Danya didn't was key in allowing him to keep putting the pressure up.
Little things like this are probably what stands in my way toward the 1900-2000 elo range, we have to remember that when Danya plays at our range he's actually playing a wide margin above, at the very least he's a "whatever his elo is at the point of the speedrun he's at who doesn't make the mistakes players of that elo typically do"
Exactl! Its hard for a GM to turn their brain off, so they will always play at their level, making players of whatever rating they are playing appear weaker.
That's exactly it. Just playing more critical lines, applying more pressure and forcing the opponent to find the right move often leads players to crumble. They won't crumble if you just play passively.
That's the main thing I noticed when climbing, many 1500-1600s are more focused on trying not to blunder than actively pushing the position towards its limits.
@@laidbackstrat9491 as a 1600 player I can say that avoiding mistake is the mindset at this elo. Like any other 1v1 game (tennis/ping pong/..) chess is a "loser-game" (at novice level) where you win by making less mistakes. Strong players's strategy are the opposite. I notice that the reason for my loss ain't because I out of book at move 5 but rather because I make a horrible positional move in mid game or blunder a passed pawn in the endgame. Also when opp starts to pressure I tend to run out gas and start panicking
also as seen here in the video, he always knows the best opening to respond
33:30 "Do not be afraid by the appearance of a queen... There are no mating constructions"
- GM Naroditsky 2023
GM Narorizzsky
He didn't even say that, bruh
@@rakhatthenut3815 He said it, just in a few sentences.
ayooo
siGMa Naroditsky
Nothing better than picking up your phone and seeing a new speed run video dropped by Danya. Cheers!
Whyd @danya say tough times?
Congrats Danya on an unbelievable performance in the just concluded Feb '23 Lichess Titled Arena. 55 minutes late and still managed a win over a very strong field, including Alireza. As far as I know no one has ever pulled that off. Truly truly impressive!
You know, its not Naroditsky if he doesnt mention russian school boy at least once. All russian school boys are now transforming themselves in a new Lada.
“Proximity doesn’t equal activity.” More gold from the master.
Hey Dana, you probably won't read this, but your Puzzle series (GM-Puzzles, Intermediate Puzzles etc.) was effing amazing, because it is incredibly instructive to follow your thought process while you're yourself actually looking for the solution! It would be such a gift to the community if you could do some more of those! Also: thank you for doing what you do, we love you.
One of the tips of the book “Teach like a champion” is: Don’t apologize. No boring content for me, really helpful and I am trying to follow your recommendations. Even the Sicilian and I have played French and Caro for years. Your content is gold. You are an amazing teacher since you were 15.
These last few episodes have been the exact openings I play. So nice
Danya the GOAT teacher, casually talking about tormenting opponents while giving dense instructive commentary.
Daniel NaroPIMPsky 💯
Daniel KNIGHTPINSky
I Fuck with Danya he just beat magnus in like 50 bullet games so he’s good I’m done and he’s engine rating in bullet ain’t a nare folk finna say he ain’t decent go head and try
Daniel NaroPIMPsky
I first read NaroSIMPsky don't do this to me
Daniel NaroTHICCsky ❤️🔥
After watching so many different chess RUclipsrs, I must admit you are by far my favorite
It’s always a good feeling when a move that you think is good gets suggested by the man himself, even if it’s a bad move! Keep up the good work 😊 22:45
My man, I LOVE the long lost game analysis. When I see a 1hour+ video I cheer.
Thanks for the content!!
Hey Danya! An example that might be useful for that last question is a trap in the Karpov variation of the English.
After 1. C4 E5 2. G3 Nf6 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. Nc3 Bc5 5. Nf3 d6 6. D3 0-0 7. 0-0, the mainline is 7... h6! preventing Bg5 pinning the knight.
If black doesn't realize the danger and develops the c8 bishop first, chosing to play h6 later if needed, the trap is starting. The continuation (for example) 7... Bf5 8. Bg5! h6 9. Bh4 g5?? leads to 10. Nxg5! hxg5 11. Bxg5 , which is already +3 for white as the pin is impossible to remove or work around, and Ne4/Nd5 to exploit it is deadly (wherever the opposing light squared bishop can't take the knight) .
Furthermore, the queen is coming in to the attack to h5 herself and that is an awfully naked king that is stuck there thanks to his rook. And he can't even move the f pawn to allow other pieces to defend, as the pinned knight is on f6! It's a slaughter.
It's one of my favorite opening traps in the English and I've won a few tournament games off of it alone. People playing on principles alone (never retreat the pinning bishop into a fianchetto pawn structure) and possibly expecting a slow positional game out of an English often don't sense the danger.
Just want to say im enjoying your vids. Entertaining, informative, and companied me throughout lunch. Best of luck to you master daniel 💙💙
Great speedrun as always, Danya!
RUclips's best chess teacher making unnecessary apologies.
After waching Danya videos i got 1950 raiting (was ~1800 for like month). Its crazy progress imo, Danya helps to impove chess skills a lot. Thank you.
We are not worthy, Danya. This was a f-ing Master class. The squeeze was real.
There is no time in history normal people like us had access to this kind of expertise in any kind of area.
I used to play the Colle a lot, you can get some vicious kingside attacks with it. The specific variation here was the Colle-Zukertort
As usual, thank you so much !! Awesome video
Thanks so much Sensei Danya! Currently binging all your videos and absorbing as much as I can. You have pretty much single-handedly inspired my renewed interest in chess. Thank for all your informative and entertaining content.
Yess these are so rewarding and enjoyable to watch!
I'm pretty intermediate maybe sligthly above that but i actually love when the analysis gets as deep as possible and the theory as branched out as possible
re the first few minutes when you are talking danya. this is perfect content for improvers. you are providing the best educational chess content on the internet imo and please do continue. thanks cos i really appreciate your stuff.
im glad someone asked that clarifying question at the end of the game about why you say "you should see this move immediately" , I think your explanation was very good and made me feel better, its one of the things I sometimes get discouraged from watching gothams videos, he seems to enjoy pointing out how stupid the average player is (I think a lot of chess streamers/youtubers forget or dont know the majority of us are under 1100) , and I don't think you're like that, thank you for everything you have been teaching me the last couple weeks, and I will try to become someone who can see those moves immediately.
This is true. Levy tends to entertain more than teach. Danya explains every freaking move. I've watched some videos several times to get the point of something he said. Overall, Danya teaches the best. So impressive.
Wow! great to catch the premier. Thanks Daniel
Loved this game, very informative
Thanks!
Real talk, this is top three best Danya videos. Bravo!
Will watch this as warmup for when I wake up and go hunting some points
26:19 Daniel’s thoughts on white’s position.
36:30 Danya: I'm not suggesting that you suck...but you suck!
No one draws arrows like Danya and Hikaru takes takes takes. 😍😍
Takes takes takes my virginity
Danya "seems" nice and kind, but on the chess board he is bloodthirsty.
"I'm sad my opponant blundered his rook"
Not because he feels bad for him, but because he wanted to "squeeze the life out of him" 🥵🥵🥵
Lol.
Best speedrun video yet. Kings Indian > grunfield
At 35:20 there is also the slightly worse but very beautiful Qc5!
For those wondering about the continuation it's Rxc5 then Nxf3+! which forks the queen and the king, and the g2 pawn is pinned because of the other rook. White's best move in the resulting position might be to just take the bishop on a1 and be down an exchange after NxR+ (instead of Rxc5)
Thank yo for this amazing instructional video
Hello, would you recommend the Grunfeld / Indian defence for players around 1300/1400 elo, or is it too complicated? I very rarely face main lines, and the plans can change quite a lot depending on white's responses...
Between you and remote chess academy I am learning so much. Im at 1300 bitz now. I know that it not great but I started at 700. I had a hrad time making it to 1000 but after watching all these videos im between 1150 and 1330 my highest rating. Hopefullu I can make it to 1700 in blitz which is my goal. I dont like 20 minute games because so many guys stall if they hang a rook or are losing. Also blitxz just seems mor efun.
I would suggest 10-minute games. I used to exclusively play blitz and I ended up getting stuck at around 1300 ELO. Once I started playing 10-minute games and actually calculating I jumped up to 1600 rapid AND blitz within a few weeks. Rapid is the best (after classic) for developing your chess. Blitz is too fast-paced to really learn in my opinion.
I have been waiting for this
Thank you GM, learnt a lot.
Wow, last I saw you were at 312k subs; this channel is growing like weed.
You are one of the best chess teachers of all time, because you also know how to talk.
Meanwhile Nakamura rants about how pineapple doesn't belong on pizza while narrating his blitz games. ;)
And yet Hikaru have 5x more subs than Danya. Hikaru crushed Danya last bullet chess championships 12.5 to 5.5
@@mortalkombaty7960 Hikaru is a glasses & headphones, adolescent clown who started his channel sooner; he's not half the teacher DN is. Compare them minute by minute video by video. DN could teach chess at Harvard and prolly other subjects there too with his clear, measured, poised style. A natural.
@@DexterHaven and how do you explain that that clown always destroy Danya when they play against each other. It must hurt you that that clown is far superior chess player than Danya. Hikaru s career is way superior. Please name me a single meaningful tournament that danya won in his classical chess careee. A real tournament not a shitty one
@@mortalkombaty7960 You say "always" as if DN never beat him. That's BS. I just saw a game recently where Hikaru lost to DN, silly.
@@DexterHaven Hikaru is a superiro chess player than Danya. The truth hurts but is true
very instructive session - a lot of great "babbling" !!
"And white panics". Man, you weren't joking, the eval went from just over -1 to -7.
"I wouldn't say that we're winning, my guess is we're about -1.5" Heh...
White was also way down on time, got < 3 minutes and his play collapsed.
@@Majora96 Which I suppose shows the brutality against playing someone rated that much higher than you. Even if you play sound and positionally for some time, they know everything better than you and won't have the same time pressure. Your time, meanwhile, that you have probably had to use extensively just to be able to play without blunders, is tick tick ticking away...
Wish we could get those classic kings Indian speedrun vids back😢
aren't they on youtube? (I'd like to see them too!)
@@ruthxk7844 yeah I have a playlist of them all
@@johndavidallison7601 ohhhh 😃 I'd watch it for sure if you wanted to share! Otherwise I'll be looking for them cause most probably I haven't watched them (I only started to re-learn chess one year ago).
@@ruthxk7844 should be on my channel
@@johndavidallison7601 thanks!!
Best chess content on YT 🙌
These videos are great
Hello, may I ask when does Danya stream this speedrun serie? I was unable to find any kind off schedule for it, thank u
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The best chess content creator of all time !!! ♥️
Thank you based Даня.
once again, when Danya speaks Kings Indian, we should all listen. the guy knows these lines better than probably anyone on the planet.
Daniel ur looking healthy, thx for the great content ❤
great vids, hope you can release eventually a KID complete course, would instantly get that! keep it up with the videos:)
so @4:30 I tend to get these positions where the knight is on g4 or bishop c4. What is the best response to those types of moves ? And are they big threats when calculating lines in the Indian defense ?
Daniel with Your knowledge please could you (or someone)tell who in 60s and 70s used to play the Colle successfully before Susan Polgar ? Love Your vids. Great stuff as always;)
God bless you Mr. Naroditsky
I would pay well to take personal lessons from this man but something tells me he’s fully booked
Wow... Daniel has switched up into a higher gear now that the opposition is getting stronger.
Thank you
Hi Daniel! until what rating will this speedrun last? Thanks for the content!
That's professionals only. Love it.
Perhaps sometimes one may also take an inferior piece because it will be of superior strength in the endgame; for instance, as the grandmaster explained, bishops can be superior to knights when it comes to dealing with passed pawns.
Hi Danya, I have a question about the position. At around 30 minutes, White blunders the rook by panicking and pushing his pawn to f4.
What would have happened if White used his queen-bishop battery to attack your fianchetto bishop with bishop e3 to h6?
What is the response in that position?
I’m not Danya, but the classic move in that scenario when the bishop + queen battery tries to trade off the fianchetto’d bishop AND the rook has moved (so there’s no longer a skewer) is to simply move the black bishop back to h8
Ok great, thank you!
awesome. love the speedrun vids.
what is the support in tough times he is referring to? did something happen?
Daniel Premovesky!!
Hey Danya, love the speedrun as always, just wanted to say tho, design wise the last video's thumbnail (IQP Strategy) took the military propaganda vibe to an unpleasant level imo. 'Collateral murder' always comes to mind when I see some armed forces geezer using a computer - don't like to think of you in that context! All the best though, thank you for the content :)
7:35 what are the differences in types of positions so we can figure out what we prefer
thanks
Ayo we’re here now instead of twitch?! Nice!
This still looks a twitch stream. I think this is just a RUclips premier video and not a livestream on RUclips
Are there any openings or moves that are named after people from the 2000's era to now?
The Dubov Tarrasch comes to mind
'proximity doesn't equal activity"-Danya 2023😄
“A way that allows us to accumulate pieces on the kingside and prepare an attack on the kingside” literally gave me chills. This is the classic KID danya we’ve been missing.
“So we’d be playing the Pirc up a tempo”
…So you’re telling me…we’d be playing a Pirc with perks?
Someone literally played this against me 5 minutes ago and I completely destroyed him
Did the opponent know he was playing Danya? He was so passive and timid with his little 1. e3 opening. It's as if all he was hoping for was some kind of honourable loss.
Don't worry, the explanations and analysis is why we're here.
Felicitaciones por tu triunfo hoy en lichess xD
Any chance of you playing b3?
Tak!
Danya is the GOAT!
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Dayna said if the white knight was on F3 then f4 wouldnt have been a bad move but thats not possible to knight would have been preventing the pawn from moving to f4
If chatgpt was playing white it would be a good move.
Nice to see a Kings Indian.
Algo baby
Colle was Belgian and with b3 it is called Colle-Zukertort.
cant wait for the multi pawns v knight I got an endgame (won on time with the pawns) and I fin ished it against teh computer. winning position but drew
Proximity does not equal activity 🔥
If the knight had been on f3, then how to play f3-f4, LOL? Or even f2-f4? (08:35).
“We’re not gonna win in 2 moves”
Win: is in 2 moves
What does "Frankfurt Airport" mean?
Let’s gooooo
0:16 what tough times?
At the beginning when he thanks everyone for support in tough times, did something bad happen recently?
Nothing specific, just referring to tough times economically across the world.
@@DanielNaroditskyGM Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for all the excellent chess content by the way.
N on c6 is a defensive beast on move 15
30:14
if you want entertaiment go to Naka o Gotham but if you want to learn chess ,,, Daniel!.. I was stucked in and out of 1500. then a few month ago I start it to watch Daniel and now I'm playing in and out of 1700.
“…it’s not like we’re going to win the game in two moves.”
White blunders two moves later.