For those like me who never heard of this at 17:54: 'In my book Secrets of Practical Chess, I introduced the term “collinear move” to describe a move such as this, in which two opposing pieces face each other, and one slides along the line of attack without capturing the enemy piece. For some reason such moves are very easy to overlook." - John Nunn
I've been binging your speedruns these past few days and I gotta say this episode is the best one so far. Energy, excitement, substance, depth. The appreciation you're showing for the many variations is so contagious! I got some really fun blitz games of my own out of this, cheers!
This tutorial speaks colossally to my missing link!! For the love of God; Naroditsky is by far, the best online chess teacher, by a long shot, wide open. Take the plunge! I play in the spirit of this style and usually loose on time in blitz but it always so sharp and I’m so close: this helps substantially! Hall of fame one of the greats: you are forever in my humble book! Thank you bruv
You know you're good at chess when you close your eyes to calculate your moves... Meanwhile I'm over here staring at my screen drawing arrows forgetting to blink.
Eyy finally first! Just wanted to say I really appreciate the amount of effort you put towards your course, even to the extend of adding extra lines because of the recent Jobava London speedrun.
I’d love for you to do a series going over classic games that those without coaches may have never been exposed to, such as the Rubinstein game here. Thanks as always for the great instruction!
I just started studying chess again for the first time in years. I have studied the Yugaslav Attack Variation of the Sicilian Dragon extensively. This feels so natural for me. Thanks again Daniel
Not gonna lie, these higher elo videos sort of intimidated me as an 1100 blitz player but these attacking concepts were incredibly practical and helpful!! Daniel is a national treasure. Protect him at all costs
The course is in video format with explanations and everything or (as I've seen on Daniel's site) a set of .pgn files with matches to study, but no explanations? Thanks! ;)
Wow.. as a fairly good(2200+ rapid on Lichess) Jobava London player myself the amount of attacking ideas I got from this video 🔥🔥😤😤.. can't wait for the next vid 😎... don't knock yourself forgetting some lines this just shows us what to do when we don't remember..keep calm and play on..🔥
Danya, you once said in a speedrun video (maybe 1 year ago or so ?!), when playing the Jobava London, something like "this is a great opening to play, but make no mistake, I do not recommend it for lower rated players". Now you recommend your course not only for intermediate and master level players, but also for beginners with a rating above 1000 - what made you change your opinion? Can you please give your reasoning, why it might still make sense not only as a surprise and somewhat tricky opening, but maybe also as a good basis for longer-term development of good fundamentals and positional play - THANKS! 🙂
I think it’s connected to the violation of the d4 opening principals, because you deprive yourself of possibility to play pawn to c3. And it could backfire pretty quickly if you are not prepared. So, because of this, white has to compensate with active play instead of simply consolidating the d4 pawn with c3. And the positions which occur in the Jobava are quite complicated sometimes. :p
Jobava is definitely in my repertoire & one of my fav’s. I may be a little late to this vid but have to say, I totally understood everything you were explaining. This is a golden nugget of great info for anyone who is wanting to study the game. I can only imagine your course must be outstanding 🤘… Anyone out there that can tell me how they liked the course?
With the "unexpected pawn recaptures" at 55:00, one good example is in game 2 of the Nepo vs Ding WCC. Ding didn't expect gxf6 and the rook on g8 ended up being decisive. A "bad example" is Tal trying to do that on Game 3 of his WCC vs Botvinnik lol but even he said he knew it was bad in his analysis
At 2:35 isn't it a bad idea of starting the pawn storm before your opponent castles because they haven't committed to one side yet and can just castle queenside?
Castling queen-side is one of the best ideas for black, but it only provides equality even after the exchange sac. You just get a lot of time to create a complicated position, in addition to being able to win another pawn in some lines. A minor piece and 2 pawns for a rook and activity is pretty good.
I always thought the London was kind of a boring opening, but that was actually a really tactical and fun game! I may need to look into that course lol
Hey, Danya. I appreciate what u doing, I think we should actuually be paying u for this😅.. I've read ur books and have been following u ever since. But just one question, why have u not covered the World Championship? That would've been really awesome!
By the way I play this EXACT set up and push my pawn again for it to be taken by their knight and I sac the rook for a double exclam everytime. Beautiful checkmating ideas and black has to play very precisely.
My biggest problem with playing the Jobava is that I end up playing against the French, Caro Kann and Pirc defense... I play E4 as my main opening, so it keeps transponsing to those lines.
You mean can you play it after 1. d4 d5? Sure, you can play 2. Nc3 and blacks best response is to play Nf6 transposing. The reason most players would play Nf6 is to stop 3. e4, which is very powerful
It's called the Chigorin defense. It's not considered the best and many beginners kinda just stumble into playin this because they don't know better, but like most openings, if you study it and understand its tactics and ideas, it can work well.
In my opinion, this is the best Chess content on YT and it's free! I'm also an e4 player and I've just bought the Jobava course (which I might not even use!) just as a way of thanking Danya for the great work he is doing here. I'm also sure, that if the course is a success, there'll be other interesting courses to follow.
I was an e4 player since ı started playing chess. And ı got to 2200 on Lichess with it. Since the course published ı'm now a d4 player :D It's just too good 😄
Love watching the videos but one has to analyze these lines because sometimes, even GMs show you things that are like "Huh???" 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bf4 g6 4.e3 Bg7 5.h4 h5 6.Nf3 O-O 7.Qd2 c5 8.Ne5 Nc6 9.f3 cxd4 10.exd4 Qb6 11.O-O-O Bf5 12.g4 hxg4 13.h5 gxh5 14.fxg4 hxg4 15. Qh2 Rfc8 16.Bd3 Bxd3 17.Nxd3 Nxd4 18.Ne5 and GM Naroditsky casually throws down: 18...Nf5 19.Qh2 and black is crushed (clearly). Why would black play 18...Nf5, which is a horrible move? Instead: 18...Nxc2! and I don't think white is crushing black here at all. Example line: 19.Qxc2 d4 20.Nd7 Qc6 21.Ne5 Qb6 22.Nd7 dxc3 23.Nxb6 cxb2+ 24.Kb1 Rxc2 25.Nxa8 Rc8 and black looks fine here, maybe even has something to play on for. Overall, a great video series with the speedruns, love watching the stuff but we need to be a bit more discerning, Mr. "Made Ivanchuk Cry!" 😁
I have been thinking about picking up the Jobava, but honestly watching Danya struggle to find the best moves after analyzing it for 50+ hours has sort of convinced me that this opening is a bit hard to play.
E4 vs d4 is a matter of preference. Both have their "good and bad" openings and it depends on the types of positions you like to play. For example, i prefer e4 over d4 because the e4 positions can be more sharp and theory heavy. D4 is pretty positional and tend to bore me (not saying its bad) . Regardless of if you play e4 or d4 you still need to go further an choose an opening.
Another brutal attack - which is always fun to watch - but really the game was ruined by the blunder ... Rac8. Black played too quickly, which is a lesson in itself, thx.
Never thought I'd be talked into playing the Jobava but here we are
It’s a cheat code. I switched to it ~6 months ago and I’m winning nearly 60% with it. Intermediates just don’t know how to handle it
The Jobava is absolutely broken at 1500 😅
@@JakeLemasterGuitar I got to 2300 rapid only with jobava london. It's my main repertoire in otb classical chess too.
@@worsethanjoerogan8061 Yeah but KG is also absolutely broken at 1500 ;p It simply doesn't says much.
@@Ramin23402300 Lichees?
No streamer has helped my ELO grow like Naroditsky. Thank you so much, you are the best teacher on RUclips
What's you elo?
Even after selling the course Daniel can’t help giving some for free 😂
What an amazing guy !!
I don't disagree but that's not necessarily a valid point. Showing off some of what the course offers is great marketing and not charity
@@soupisfornoobs4081So you do disagree then!? 🫢
For those like me who never heard of this at 17:54:
'In my book Secrets of Practical Chess, I introduced the term “collinear move” to describe a move such as this, in which two opposing pieces face each other, and one slides along the line of attack without capturing the enemy piece. For some reason such moves are very easy to overlook."
- John Nunn
Cool! Thx a lot :)
Why does he pronounce it co-lin-EAR isnt it co-linear?
@@jmn4276 whatever.
@@jmn4276 He says collinear, just does it quickly
29:43 "very good sussy baka got it" XD
I died when I heard that, especially the way he said it.
Daniel is the best GM for learning Chess, love these theory speed run videos
I've been binging your speedruns these past few days and I gotta say this episode is the best one so far. Energy, excitement, substance, depth. The appreciation you're showing for the many variations is so contagious! I got some really fun blitz games of my own out of this, cheers!
Love the Jobava course!
This tutorial speaks colossally to my missing link!! For the love of God; Naroditsky is by far, the best online chess teacher, by a long shot, wide open. Take the plunge! I play in the spirit of this style and usually loose on time in blitz but it always so sharp and I’m so close: this helps substantially! Hall of fame one of the greats: you are forever in my humble book! Thank you bruv
You know you're good at chess when you close your eyes to calculate your moves... Meanwhile I'm over here staring at my screen drawing arrows forgetting to blink.
Try to close your eyes and visualise the pieces! The more you practice, the better you ll become at it!
Eyy finally first! Just wanted to say I really appreciate the amount of effort you put towards your course, even to the extend of adding extra lines because of the recent Jobava London speedrun.
This was a phenomenal video
I’m going to save this and rewatch it
Super informative! Thanks Danya!
I’d love for you to do a series going over classic games that those without coaches may have never been exposed to, such as the Rubinstein game here. Thanks as always for the great instruction!
I just started studying chess again for the first time in years. I have studied the Yugaslav Attack Variation of the Sicilian Dragon extensively. This feels so natural for me. Thanks again Daniel
Not gonna lie, these higher elo videos sort of intimidated me as an 1100 blitz player but these attacking concepts were incredibly practical and helpful!! Daniel is a national treasure. Protect him at all costs
As always, very informative. Thank you!
Bought the course. Worth it👍
The course is in video format with explanations and everything or (as I've seen on Daniel's site) a set of .pgn files with matches to study, but no explanations? Thanks! ;)
Your interview with Sagar Shah is gold, learned so much .
Yes!!
I won't remember anything, but there it was easier to appreciate.
thanks for the incredible course and incredible video we owe you many elo points
Your videos are really instructive!! Thank you!
Wow.. as a fairly good(2200+ rapid on Lichess) Jobava London player myself the amount of attacking ideas I got from this video 🔥🔥😤😤.. can't wait for the next vid 😎... don't knock yourself forgetting some lines this just shows us what to do when we don't remember..keep calm and play on..🔥
how old r u?
Incredible. Really love this opening. I am going to enjoy playing this.
Excellent explanation. Very clear
Danya, you once said in a speedrun video (maybe 1 year ago or so ?!), when playing the Jobava London, something like "this is a great opening to play, but make no mistake, I do not recommend it for lower rated players". Now you recommend your course not only for intermediate and master level players, but also for beginners with a rating above 1000 - what made you change your opinion? Can you please give your reasoning, why it might still make sense not only as a surprise and somewhat tricky opening, but maybe also as a good basis for longer-term development of good fundamentals and positional play - THANKS! 🙂
I think it’s connected to the violation of the d4 opening principals, because you deprive yourself of possibility to play pawn to c3. And it could backfire pretty quickly if you are not prepared. So, because of this, white has to compensate with active play instead of simply consolidating the d4 pawn with c3. And the positions which occur in the Jobava are quite complicated sometimes. :p
I recommend it solely because of the Jobava trap on C7 with the knight. D4 Be4 Nc3 Nd5 Nc7+ really easy line and has won me a ton of games up to 1200
Jobava is definitely in my repertoire & one of my fav’s. I may be a little late to this vid but have to say, I totally understood everything you were explaining. This is a golden nugget of great info for anyone who is wanting to study the game. I can only imagine your course must be outstanding 🤘… Anyone out there that can tell me how they liked the course?
Brilliant to watch, fascinating
Never thought I'd hear Daniel say sussy baka in this lifetime, but you live to see something new everyday.
❤ Todah Rabah Dan for your video!
Great video! Thank you so much! ❤
Always great content
So much of this goes way over my head, but it's still fun to watch
Yay more jobava london!
This is nothing short of epic. I’ve been playing Jobava London since Hans Neiman’s course came out, but Danya’s and Bortnyks course is a game changer.
MORE VIDEOS ON THIS. Bought the course love it
Hello 👋
Amazing content
With the "unexpected pawn recaptures" at 55:00, one good example is in game 2 of the Nepo vs Ding WCC. Ding didn't expect gxf6 and the rook on g8 ended up being decisive.
A "bad example" is Tal trying to do that on Game 3 of his WCC vs Botvinnik lol but even he said he knew it was bad in his analysis
Excellent title and thumbnail
Wow, that Rubenstein play against the backward c pawn was AMAZING!
thanks love
this might be the best game ive ever seen on the speedrun
That Queen H2 variation to target c7 is clean
Not gonna lie, the more I watch these speed runs, the more I’m thinking that there are a few inaccuracies in Simon Williams’s Jobava course .
We love you Dayna!!
So comforting to see GMs also forget lines and miss things. Me with my measly 1000 elo crying every time I make a silly mistake and lose the position.
At 2:35 isn't it a bad idea of starting the pawn storm before your opponent castles because they haven't committed to one side yet and can just castle queenside?
Castling queen-side is one of the best ideas for black, but it only provides equality even after the exchange sac. You just get a lot of time to create a complicated position, in addition to being able to win another pawn in some lines. A minor piece and 2 pawns for a rook and activity is pretty good.
legend
I always thought the London was kind of a boring opening, but that was actually a really tactical and fun game! I may need to look into that course lol
This is the Jobava London not the ‘London System’ which is different and yes- boring.
The jobava London is misnamed. It's not really anything to do with the London and should be viewed as a completely different opening
how do u deal with ur opponent shoving his pawns down ur throat? i usually just end up folding
Would it be possible to add chat to the videos? I like when twitch chat says "hi yt" at the beginning
His opponent was so ready for this lol
Yeah I studied modern defence that day wish I knew I was playing danya
Buy their Jobava London course - so complicated not even GMs can remember it!
Hahaha so true. I love Danya but this video is not a good advertisement for Jobava lol.
Not even the guy that made it and studied it can remember it. its even worse
I mean this is just so so good
Never seen a guy who's more humble to his followers than danya .
Love this opening, but I've had people play Nf6 then d6. What do you do then?
12:00 should absolutely think about centralizing the c3 knight via e2-d4
Hey, Danya. I appreciate what u doing, I think we should actuually be paying u for this😅.. I've read ur books and have been following u ever since. But just one question, why have u not covered the World Championship? That would've been really awesome!
It’s not shilling if you put the work in and believe in what you’re selling; that’s just good business
Opponent: ...makes a move...
Danya: *explains eight different lines,* "Clearly our opponent has studied this opening"
By the way I play this EXACT set up and push my pawn again for it to be taken by their knight and I sac the rook for a double exclam everytime.
Beautiful checkmating ideas and black has to play very precisely.
Can you play Nb5 instead of e3?😊
love watching you make guys bust danya
Can I enter the Jobava file in chessbase? Not only lichess and chessable. Thanks. 😊
16:03 why not play kh7 and after rook takes queen play rc7?
g5 works i think. It frees up the d5 square for the knight if it moves and white may be barely in time to get out of the d file pin.
Better teacher for the Jobava London, than Mr. Jobava himself.
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Look at that lovely book case of knowledge,real chess player with real books.
I think that because Daniel is so approachable, sometimes you forget the fact that he is a GM, and he really knows his stuff.
Where can i interact with you online when you play these games?
My biggest problem with playing the Jobava is that I end up playing against the French, Caro Kann and Pirc defense... I play E4 as my main opening, so it keeps transponsing to those lines.
For me, a French player, it's just a win-win, haha.
How can I contact you Daniel..plz reply...
Why is he using the name of the opening without Rapport?
Can i play it with the reverse order? D4d5 ?
You mean can you play it after 1. d4 d5? Sure, you can play 2. Nc3 and blacks best response is to play Nf6 transposing. The reason most players would play Nf6 is to stop 3. e4, which is very powerful
It's called the Chigorin defense. It's not considered the best and many beginners kinda just stumble into playin this because they don't know better, but like most openings, if you study it and understand its tactics and ideas, it can work well.
You can also look into the Baltic defense.
29:40 the voice just drops after he said sussy baka like he was disappointed in the name
Me after learning tons of theory in e4 lines to be prepared for the speedrun and then seeing d4 😖
In my opinion, this is the best Chess content on YT and it's free! I'm also an e4 player and I've just bought the Jobava course (which I might not even use!) just as a way of thanking Danya for the great work he is doing here. I'm also sure, that if the course is a success, there'll be other interesting courses to follow.
I was an e4 player since ı started playing chess. And ı got to 2200 on Lichess with it. Since the course published ı'm now a d4 player :D It's just too good 😄
I play vs modern defense h4 as early as 3rd or 4th move it rly creates a lot of problems (thats 1600-2000 online elo)
Shh! I'm a Modern player and I don't want people to know this!
How can we buy the course?
In description
Wish the next Speedrun would be about 1.d4
59:20 ba2?
i'm now 15 and i started learning chess 2-3 years ago and now i'm 2400-2500 can i become a GM soon ??
No.
2400 fide?
Danya, good job taking Eric Hansen to the cleaners with the Jobava.
Love watching the videos but one has to analyze these lines because sometimes, even GMs show you things that are like "Huh???"
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bf4 g6 4.e3 Bg7 5.h4 h5 6.Nf3 O-O 7.Qd2 c5 8.Ne5 Nc6
9.f3 cxd4 10.exd4 Qb6 11.O-O-O Bf5 12.g4 hxg4 13.h5 gxh5 14.fxg4 hxg4 15.
Qh2 Rfc8 16.Bd3 Bxd3 17.Nxd3 Nxd4 18.Ne5 and GM Naroditsky casually throws down:
18...Nf5
19.Qh2 and black is crushed (clearly).
Why would black play 18...Nf5, which is a horrible move?
Instead:
18...Nxc2! and I don't think white is crushing black here at all. Example line:
19.Qxc2 d4 20.Nd7 Qc6 21.Ne5 Qb6 22.Nd7 dxc3 23.Nxb6 cxb2+ 24.Kb1 Rxc2 25.Nxa8 Rc8 and black looks fine here, maybe even has something to play on for.
Overall, a great video series with the speedruns, love watching the stuff but we need to be a bit more discerning, Mr. "Made Ivanchuk Cry!" 😁
Shill away man. If you start spruiking Pepsi I might find it a bit on the nose but your own chess course that you made, go for it!
finally ... london :)
Is it any coincidence that Yubaba from spirited away and Jobava of the chess London are Giga-Chads and have similar names. I think not.
Anyone know what Dani charges for lessons or if he even does them? Think.. if his free content is this good....
Has anybody noticed that Daniel looks like jake gyllenhaal??
I love your videos btw
Haven't seen Jeffrey Xiong for a while; what's he up to?
Bro is mot advertising his course well, both times he makes a mistake in the opening
Clickbait title wtf Danya :D! Love ya!
i can see the galaxies and beyond now
Imstil deciding on buying the course or not
I have been thinking about picking up the Jobava, but honestly watching Danya struggle to find the best moves after analyzing it for 50+ hours has sort of convinced me that this opening is a bit hard to play.
38:45 I doubt Rubinstein watches on youtube
Why is your official recommendation to play 1.e4 if the Jobava London is such a fantastic opening? Why not recommend 1.d4 then? I am a bit confused.
E4 vs d4 is a matter of preference. Both have their "good and bad" openings and it depends on the types of positions you like to play. For example, i prefer e4 over d4 because the e4 positions can be more sharp and theory heavy. D4 is pretty positional and tend to bore me (not saying its bad) . Regardless of if you play e4 or d4 you still need to go further an choose an opening.
@29:42
Hello Danya, can you give me a discount on the Jobava course, I am interested to buy it but its a little to much right now, thank you ❤
Another brutal attack - which is always fun to watch - but really the game was ruined by the blunder ... Rac8. Black played too quickly, which is a lesson in itself, thx.
Jobava speedrun ?!
Wtf is the Obama London
Ligma balls