Danya is sooooo underrated. Nakamura is not educational at all, sorry but I can’t instantly calculate 7 moves of theory instantly. Rosen is just chill, like the Bob Ross of chess. Levy is good I enjoy his content & is educational but Danya is just more off the cuff knowledgeable
I've started with Levy and thanks to him I got from 800 to 1200. Because of Daniel I was able to escape 1200 and reach 1300. And I just started watching him. Great content.
I think its better when you play random opponents. Subs believe that your moves are perfect and are scared to refute them, which makes it hard for you to prove why they are good. Still fun though.
Doubt it. Subs aren't scared to refute them. They just do not know the theory behind/do not remember it, so they panic, which is what people do at their elo: play a seemingly good move that is not critical, entering a worse position out of the opening. Also, middlegames are extremely complex. People that is below 2000 probably have an idea on the plans but can't tell the difference between the best move and a mediocre one without explanation. This is why this series is so good though, it teaches soooo much
@@lluism200 Disagree. Although this was an opening blunder, most subs get playable positions, but get crushed when a critical moment arrives. Most of the times you can see 1500+ making 1000 blunders, which is clearly due to the fact that they feel the pressure of playing Danya.
Subs are not scared to refute moves but we do know he's a GM and it's scary playing him and we panic. Becasue of the ELO level and lack of positonal/theory knowledge, that's where most of us fall. We're in a position that we're not used to and we don't know what to do. I played the Karo cann against him. It was petrifying, despite the supportive community+ Danya, there was a point where every step was just 1 more step towards defeat (and we know we're going to lose before we begin, it's about the hanging on that counts). The element that was amazing was the amount of feeedback you get from playing and there's always an instructive moment. If he's playing people from the pool - they have the same trouble without knowing he's a GM, as at these particular levels there's less positions/ tactical or theoretical nuance.
@@ryanboyd4770 Like you said "its about the hanging on that counts." Opponents try to hang on instead of refuting his plans. Unfortunately IRL opponents are not going to play like this. My point is that to understand why a certain moves works you have to understand how to play when someone "calls your bluff". When people assume that Danya's moves can not be refuted, we do not see why they can not be refuted. This series is still educational, but i prefer when he plays vs randoms.
@@3amBetting A fair point. I think though, and I could be mistaken, in that he plays what he considers the best move for that position. In order to refute Danya's moves, I think you've got to be in the same league either tactically/ positionally. You're right though (hopefully I haven't taken your words incorrectly) in that when playing him - you'd automatically assume that what he's playing is correct. At the minute I'm just going to keep on hanging on :) :)
Man, you make chess seem so simple the way you explain it. Then I go play a game and there's no simplicity to be found! Ha ha. But I think that just means you're a better teacher for we beginners than, say, most of the other streamers I've seen. Just wanted to say "thanks," and I'll be sending other noobs your way.
Love your videos bro you are a great NATURAL teacher in addition to being a great player. I see a lot of great players but they don’t teach as good as you. They say the correct move ,which helps, but don’t explain the situation or why the move is good or why another move is bad like you do. And games are all different and can’t memorize every game. But you explanations make sense and stick in my head no matter the situation. I learned so much from you and have been winning more because I know the correct way to navigate. Keep up the great work! And maybe if you could do a video on so “DOs and Donts” for an intermediate player. Some rules that helped you progress from 1000 rating as you were coming up. You prolly see common mistakes all the time with 1000 rated players. If you have time and want to. But love your channel your great
I have 2 superpowers (learning difficulties 😆) & certainly Daniel's explanation is far clearer & easier to follow, to ponder on & get inspired!! My friend & opponent loves to play the Indian defence & this video gave me great insight into possible threats & how to act proactively. Thank you so much Daniel
All I wanted for my bday was a series from Danya about different openings, and here we are. This dude is hands down the best chess content creator on RUclips today! PS: Danya, could you please add all these openings videos to their own playlist please???
Absolutely beautiful game in the Kings Indian Defense! I am trying to play it for some months now, and I got some good results with it. But never so clean as you make it look. Its not that easy to play it, because its very risky and you need to know your stuff.
I think a better explanation than the "gold vs cash" metaphor, is simply the "permanent vs temporary advantage" distinction. Or to be really precise, some forms of superiorities are much easier to maintain than others. A lead in material is usually better than a leader in piece development. Moreover badly placed pawns are often harder to get rid of than badly placed pieces. The reason white's lead in development is not worth much in this game, is not just because it can't be converted into something more concrete (material or mating attack). It's also because black can't be prevented from equalizing in development. A lead in development can sometimes be "more permanent", if the opponent can be prevented from developing.
Naroditsky is the best chess teacher on youTube , he explained the motive behind every move, just loved it. I have got to know many things which I used to do wrong while playing this opening.Just want him to upload the master class of every opening and if he does so I am sure, I will achieve the rating of 2000 soon as I am 1800 now.
@@tomasscholtus That science guy was joking. The joke is that every time Daniel plays King's Indian, he explains that it is a hyper-modern opening, almost to the point that it is a meme now. You are welcome.
Is there a reason white doesn't just play dxc5 at 1:47? Is it because the pawn can easily be captured by the queen later on or more about avoiding doubled pawns, etc?
This is so much better than any other "educational" chess video out there. Explains every single move thoroughly. It's just so obvious even for me as a 1000 rated player !
Chess masters 50 years ago: Well i am much better here because he can't prevent either Bxb2 or the positionally undesirable loss of the dark squared bishop, and that is the advantage of c5. Chess masters today: this bishop is a gigachad
Do you think you could try out the Nimzo-Indian (or Queen's Indian, depending on White's response) against 1. d4 sometime? I love the King's Indian but we see it a lot and I think it'd be cool to see a different system at play
I really appreciate this speedrun and I would gobble up another one. Especially if you spent more time playing 1100-1200 players. The simple rules you taught me in the first speedrun have caused me to improve greatly
Please do a 10-minute speed run using, as much as possible, only one or two openings for white and one or two openings for black. These are absolutely invaluable. Thank you very much for putting these on!
After he misses that he can trap the bishop at 5:08 you say we have to come to terms with losing one of our minor pieces, but can't we play Qb6 then Qb2? Wondering why you didn't play this. From what I can tell engine seems to think giving up the knight and Qb6 are both okay.
if OP had try to win the bishop with the knight, and after Nxd5, cxd5 Bg7, then OP could push d6. This was something that Daniel himself avoided. How would the game continue from that ? 17:06
Hey Danya. I’m not sure if you will see this because this was a while ago. But instead of nxd5 to get the bishop out would you consider sacking on a2 for the reasoning of getting an outside passed pawn? This was my intuition and also you have the bishop eyeing a1 long term
Kings Indian is probably the only opening that I can never get through a middlegame with. I always get trampled and checkmated easily. I prefer the Caro or the sicilian because when I play those openings I seem to win a decent amount. Its not that the openings bad I'm probably just bad with the opening
These 10 minutes speed runs are good and educational. But the earlier 5 minutes speed runs with randomly paired opponents were much more exciting than Daniel playing his subs. They all seems to get into a losing position very early on, even with 10 minutes on the clock.
Gold is not intrinsically valuable, its value (like USD/Bitcoin) is all in its capacity to facilitate exchange. Maybe the distinction Danya was meaning was ‘use value’ vs ‘exchange value.’ Food, shelter, and tools all have intrinsic use value. Everything else has exchange value, with the differentiating variable therein being how easy the process of ‘exchange’ is (everyone takes and wants USD, fewer people want other currencies, fewer people want gold, Bitcoin, Etherium, etc.)
@ test text I think what Daniel is tryna to say is that gold is valuable because it is a store of value. Meaning unlike fiat currency, the gov't can't just inflate it's value anything they feel like it. Gold in 1935 and 2021 are worth the same. (I didn't know this until recently)
i feel like naroditsky is so underrated, compare to levy or eric rosen or nakamura, he explains things so much better imo
Eric Rosen isn't really meant to be educational, neither is Hikaru.
Levy is really really good in his planned videos but less good at educational stuff than Daniel off the cuff (but very entertaining).
Try John Bartholomew's Standard Chess series. He explains the ideas behind his moves really well. One of my favorite educational content
Danya is sooooo underrated. Nakamura is not educational at all, sorry but I can’t instantly calculate 7 moves of theory instantly. Rosen is just chill, like the Bob Ross of chess. Levy is good I enjoy his content & is educational but Danya is just more off the cuff knowledgeable
I've started with Levy and thanks to him I got from 800 to 1200. Because of Daniel I was able to escape 1200 and reach 1300. And I just started watching him. Great content.
Me: making a random move.
Sensei Danya: He's playing a Duz-Hotimirsky Ilyin-Zhenevsky Makagonov-Bondarevskiy variation, but in a weird way.
Lmaooo, so true, dan is a genius
@@collinanderson6865 Sorry to break it to you but Smyslov variation in the king's indian is pretty popular.
I thought the exact same thing lolol
"This bishop is a gigachad" - Daniel Naroditsky, Chess grandmaster
Lmfao
8:53
The hyper modernists are turning in their graves knowing that Danya just made a king’s Indian video without mentioning them
lmfao
Hahaha
@Nash Oscar shhh 🤫
the analogy king back at it again
I think its better when you play random opponents. Subs believe that your moves are perfect and are scared to refute them, which makes it hard for you to prove why they are good. Still fun though.
Doubt it. Subs aren't scared to refute them. They just do not know the theory behind/do not remember it, so they panic, which is what people do at their elo: play a seemingly good move that is not critical, entering a worse position out of the opening. Also, middlegames are extremely complex. People that is below 2000 probably have an idea on the plans but can't tell the difference between the best move and a mediocre one without explanation.
This is why this series is so good though, it teaches soooo much
@@lluism200 Disagree. Although this was an opening blunder, most subs get playable positions, but get crushed when a critical moment arrives. Most of the times you can see 1500+ making 1000 blunders, which is clearly due to the fact that they feel the pressure of playing Danya.
Subs are not scared to refute moves but we do know he's a GM and it's scary playing him and we panic. Becasue of the ELO level and lack of positonal/theory knowledge, that's where most of us fall. We're in a position that we're not used to and we don't know what to do. I played the Karo cann against him. It was petrifying, despite the supportive community+ Danya, there was a point where every step was just 1 more step towards defeat (and we know we're going to lose before we begin, it's about the hanging on that counts). The element that was amazing was the amount of feeedback you get from playing and there's always an instructive moment.
If he's playing people from the pool - they have the same trouble without knowing he's a GM, as at these particular levels there's less positions/ tactical or theoretical nuance.
@@ryanboyd4770 Like you said "its about the hanging on that counts." Opponents try to hang on instead of refuting his plans. Unfortunately IRL opponents are not going to play like this. My point is that to understand why a certain moves works you have to understand how to play when someone "calls your bluff". When people assume that Danya's moves can not be refuted, we do not see why they can not be refuted. This series is still educational, but i prefer when he plays vs randoms.
@@3amBetting A fair point. I think though, and I could be mistaken, in that he plays what he considers the best move for that position. In order to refute Danya's moves, I think you've got to be in the same league either tactically/ positionally. You're right though (hopefully I haven't taken your words incorrectly) in that when playing him - you'd automatically assume that what he's playing is correct.
At the minute I'm just going to keep on hanging on :) :)
Best part of the day: Danya uploads!
Man, you make chess seem so simple the way you explain it. Then I go play a game and there's no simplicity to be found! Ha ha. But I think that just means you're a better teacher for we beginners than, say, most of the other streamers I've seen. Just wanted to say "thanks," and I'll be sending other noobs your way.
Trawling through older speedrun sessions, and this one is an absolute gem 💎. Legendary as always Daniel!
Daniel never stop doing this videos, you’re the best
Love your videos bro you are a great NATURAL teacher in addition to being a great player. I see a lot of great players but they don’t teach as good as you. They say the correct move ,which helps, but don’t explain the situation or why the move is good or why another move is bad like you do. And games are all different and can’t memorize every game. But you explanations make sense and stick in my head no matter the situation. I learned so much from you and have been winning more because I know the correct way to navigate. Keep up the great work! And maybe if you could do a video on so “DOs and Donts” for an intermediate player. Some rules that helped you progress from 1000 rating as you were coming up. You prolly see common mistakes all the time with 1000 rated players. If you have time and want to. But love your channel your great
the 5 minute speedruns are always fun when daniel gets under time pressure, so i'd like to see it again eventually
What I love about this is the full explanation of the logic behind the moves. great video.
Daniel I started chess last week and I'm ADDICTED to your videos. Big up playa
Thank you for all the clear and free explanations, you're the best Danya!
Advantages can be compared to Gold, Cash and Money.
Can't wait for the Philosophy Speedrun to Yoda level 3000
I was searching for this the whole day waiting for a kings indian video to pop but couldn't find one, thank you so much daniel
Daniel* you edited this comment already may as well fix his name
@@jl3799 i did, thanks for pointing it out
I have 2 superpowers (learning difficulties 😆) & certainly Daniel's explanation is far clearer & easier to follow, to ponder on & get inspired!! My friend & opponent loves to play the Indian defence & this video gave me great insight into possible threats & how to act proactively. Thank you so much Daniel
All I wanted for my bday was a series from Danya about different openings, and here we are. This dude is hands down the best chess content creator on RUclips today!
PS: Danya, could you please add all these openings videos to their own playlist please???
Absolutely beautiful game in the Kings Indian Defense! I am trying to play it for some months now, and I got some good results with it. But never so clean as you make it look. Its not that easy to play it, because its very risky and you need to know your stuff.
Excellent instruction and highly informative as always. Thank you for this series.
I think a better explanation than the "gold vs cash" metaphor, is simply the "permanent vs temporary advantage" distinction. Or to be really precise, some forms of superiorities are much easier to maintain than others. A lead in material is usually better than a leader in piece development. Moreover badly placed pawns are often harder to get rid of than badly placed pieces.
The reason white's lead in development is not worth much in this game, is not just because it can't be converted into something more concrete (material or mating attack). It's also because black can't be prevented from equalizing in development. A lead in development can sometimes be "more permanent", if the opponent can be prevented from developing.
Don't even need to watch to know it's good content. Thanks for the consistency!
Naroditsky is the best chess teacher on youTube , he explained the motive behind every move, just loved it. I have got to know many things which I used to do wrong while playing this opening.Just want him to upload the master class of every opening and if he does so I am sure, I will achieve the rating of 2000 soon as I am 1800 now.
Im so confused because I dont know what kind of opening the kings indian is. Why is daniel hiding this crucial information?
It was developed by the hyper modernists, who like absolute mad lads gave their opposed the full centre to undermine later
@@tomasscholtus That science guy was joking. The joke is that every time Daniel plays King's Indian, he explains that it is a hyper-modern opening, almost to the point that it is a meme now. You are welcome.
Stop trolling open browser n ud kno
Is there a reason white doesn't just play dxc5 at 1:47? Is it because the pawn can easily be captured by the queen later on or more about avoiding doubled pawns, etc?
I really like your style of teaching by asking questions. Proper educational methodology. Thanks for the content, it's really helpful
This is so much better than any other "educational" chess video out there. Explains every single move thoroughly. It's just so obvious even for me as a 1000 rated player !
Chess masters 50 years ago:
Well i am much better here because he can't prevent either Bxb2 or the positionally undesirable loss of the dark squared bishop, and that is the advantage of c5.
Chess masters today: this bishop is a gigachad
Do you think you could try out the Nimzo-Indian (or Queen's Indian, depending on White's response) against 1. d4 sometime? I love the King's Indian but we see it a lot and I think it'd be cool to see a different system at play
The scream though at 1:47
Thanks!
10 minute speed run!!! I enjoy the explanations more!
Please make more speed run with kings Indian. I seem to struggle a lot with kings Indian yet still its my love of my life.
9:00 Bishop the Chad
This person helps to make your move better particularly in positional way
The best part of waking up is Naro on your phone😃
I really appreciate this speedrun and I would gobble up another one. Especially if you spent more time playing 1100-1200 players. The simple rules you taught me in the first speedrun have caused me to improve greatly
What s your elo now ?
Please do a 10-minute speed run using, as much as possible, only one or two openings for white and one or two openings for black. These are absolutely invaluable. Thank you very much for putting these on!
always great content on the king's indian!
Hey Danya can you post you bullet match yesterday with Magnus? It was too late for me to catch all live
opponent moves:
Daniel: okay see this is where he messed up
lol
Very nice video as always sensei danya, thank you!
Whenever I play chess now I have Daniels voice in my head narrating my position.
After he misses that he can trap the bishop at 5:08 you say we have to come to terms with losing one of our minor pieces, but can't we play Qb6 then Qb2? Wondering why you didn't play this. From what I can tell engine seems to think giving up the knight and Qb6 are both okay.
@@angussteele4728 It's Nb3, not Knb3 :)
The ten minute speedrun would be amazing
Fantastic. I have a good sense of how to proceed vs e4 but not always d4 👍
Amazing informative stuff!
😯 from finally the mystery of the King Indian defense explained that can't wait
Just when I thought I was going to sleep...
Nice speech. Quality instruction.
if OP had try to win the bishop with the knight, and after Nxd5, cxd5 Bg7, then OP could push d6. This was something that Daniel himself avoided. How would the game continue from that ? 17:06
i love these educational videos great work...👍👍
I wish I knew your channel before. Great explanation.
You're a star, Daniel.
Best chess instructor on the internet
oh god the gruesome knife and fork is going to stick with me, lol
What if white takes the c pawn after black moved c5 pawn break?
Hey Danya. I’m not sure if you will see this because this was a while ago. But instead of nxd5 to get the bishop out would you consider sacking on a2 for the reasoning of getting an outside passed pawn? This was my intuition and also you have the bishop eyeing a1 long term
3:40 what if he attempts to fork?
Sensei what books or courses do you recommend for KID?🙏🏼
Thank you for these videos. Can you explain your choice to play the Kid over the perhaps more en vogue grunfeld?
4:16 why not Qa5?
Great! The prophet is definetely reading comments
Gigachad Bishop - GM Daniel Naroditsky 😂
as Levy says: "PP on the PP" (put pressure on the pinned piece)
10:13 Just knows it's move 18.
It is 2 AM and I have arrived.
What happens if white plays dxc after c5?
Queen check will regain the pawn, but also the same tactic that was played in the game still would work, so it wouldn’t change much
Hikaru being more popular than Danya is a fucking tragedy
The knive and the fork technique could lead to the steak gambit
Kings Indian is probably the only opening that I can never get through a middlegame with. I always get trampled and checkmated easily. I prefer the Caro or the sicilian because when I play those openings I seem to win a decent amount. Its not that the openings bad I'm probably just bad with the opening
this bishop is a giga chad
The match is not complete Danya... It ended abruptly
He probably resigned in the final position idk
These 10 minutes speed runs are good and educational. But the earlier 5 minutes speed runs with randomly paired opponents were much more exciting than Daniel playing his subs. They all seems to get into a losing position very early on, even with 10 minutes on the clock.
Me: plays the Caro-Kann almost every game with black
Me after this video: ALL PRAISE THE KING'S INDIAN
??? Caro kann is primarily a E4 response and KID is primarily a D4 response.
you know that you can play both, right? :)
Daniel what are you drinking that it makes you twitch
danya can we get a pirc defense. i got no good videos onthe pirc on youtube.
Yes, I've seen this one already on Twitch, but isn't repetitio mater studiorum? ;)
*est
@@PathToPrestige No, 'est' would be misplaced here, as the verb 'essere' (to be) had been already used in the sentence ;)
Marvelous stuff. Still I wouldn't be me if I didn't count Danya's merithorical mistakes in game and analyses: 3.
Can anyone find them?
Merithorical? Wym?
12:00
King's Indian is definitely a good opening, but I still prefer the Queen's Cowboy. It has better tactical opportunities
How to support you?
I know you're watching Danya 👀
The first guy was worse than the people I play against at 600 elo
I literally bought the book the quote is from last week
kings indian is always fun x2
Everyone at 1200 range plays e4 so I can never play the kings indian
Based and grammarpilled
I wish i was this good
I vote for resetting your rating and doing a proper 10 min "speed"run. Would be extremely grateful either way though.
I commented before finishing the video.
Gold is not intrinsically valuable, its value (like USD/Bitcoin) is all in its capacity to facilitate exchange. Maybe the distinction Danya was meaning was ‘use value’ vs ‘exchange value.’ Food, shelter, and tools all have intrinsic use value. Everything else has exchange value, with the differentiating variable therein being how easy the process of ‘exchange’ is (everyone takes and wants USD, fewer people want other currencies, fewer people want gold, Bitcoin, Etherium, etc.)
@ test text I think what Daniel is tryna to say is that gold is valuable because it is a store of value. Meaning unlike fiat currency, the gov't can't just inflate it's value anything they feel like it. Gold in 1935 and 2021 are worth the same. (I didn't know this until recently)
I think the point is that you can simply print more fiat currency. You can't simply print more gold.
I'd prefer a 10 minute speed run if you're taking a pole.
How does 1700 player play this bad?
exactly dude...i'm 1000 rated and my opponents do pretty well against kings indian defence..!!!
@@himanshukamble957 aye im 1400 and same its hard sometimes
I'm a mini naroditsky, I play KID and sicilian
daniel always does some absurd analogy lol fork and knife?? made more sense in chess terms
Please do another 5+0 speedrun! :)
Брат, ты красава
it would be nice to have a non-sub 10 minute speedrun
Keep it 10 plz