Master Class | Ending The Englund Gambit | Chess Speedrun | Grandmaster Naroditsky
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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they didn't blunder the piece, they continued to sacrifice in the spirit of the gambit, escalating to gambiting the queen and then the game. truly inspiring.
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A wise man once said “let me put my mouth where my money is”
What that's mean?
@@christopherescobar2548 did you watch the video?
@@JB_inks im watching it
Proceeds to consume wallet
@@christopherescobar2548 quite early on he gets the expression the wrong way around
6:27 Danya with the Young ELO - Gotham Chess "I saw rook a4, I just didn't like it" reference. He's not a psychic. He's Hikaru's sidekick. And AGAIN at 8:54 "didn't see a trapped queen, could've trapped a man's queen." The PROPHET is on FIRE today!
Being r/anarchychess member really does that to you. Pipi
What a reference!
please don't remind us of that atrocity.
@@JM_-ix7yh Pipi
@@yudeoyude852 Are you kidding ???
Englund gambit is scary for people who've never seen it. Gets old pretty quickly tho
Yeah, at this point I get annoyed with myself if I manage to lose to it in a bullet game. I'm not especially highly rated either.
yeah lol its probably the worst gambit tbh
I can’t believe that a near 2000 player is still playing in this line when you have to remember like 5 moves to gain a big advantage. How do they win with it?
it's cuz gotham recommended it, despite it being shit. honestly not sure why he did that, it probably works at the lower level tho!
@@petergriffin8767 Na, he just made a video on it for you try it for fun, not recommending. He says, “it’s objectively losing.”
As Ben Finegold would say, "I wouldn't recommend it, unless you're playing me"
I fear the day when Ben will not be in this world to bless us with his joke. He is just a fine gold.
Finegold also says choice of openings don't matter when you're trying to get better at chess.
@@georgebush6002 Because winning and improving are two different things.
I have gone from 1200 to 1400 from the time this speedrun began. Your videos help people all around the world more than you know, Danya! Keep it up! Best chess content ever!
Wow!! Watching these brought me from 1150 to 1200 lol. But now any player in the 1200s seems like a GM to me 😂
Im 1200 too. How long it takes to 1400? 😂
a 1100 here :(
@@flowerinkplant not much all you need is to stop blundering then you will get to 1500 quite easily. Tactics help a ton too. Im 1600 btw
@@StephenRahrig 1200s are good! From my experience, several of them are considerably underrated.
Bro the quality here is insane, your crazy to not be charging people for these videos and I cannot express how happy I am that they are free.
Legends say, watching or even liking Lord Danya's speedrun videos boost your rating by 100 points instantaneously.
Only if you are subscribed tho. Found this out the hard way 😉
Mate, I'm not commenting ever on videos but I just hit 1300 after being hardstuck 1200 for 5 months, I've been binge watching hard every bit of your content 2 or 3 time per videos, and I can't thank you enough for making me so addicted to get better at chess.
I'm a slow learner but hopefully I'll get there, you deserve all the success you are getting :)
You actually see the Englund a lot at the 2000-2300 level. I have the same spirit. It's my biggest joy to crush unsound chess openings. As soon as they realize their pet lines don't work because they are just lost is a great thing. When you play the shocking moves like Qxc3, and the person literally continues to play like it's nothing has to be a real downer
I like the term "pet lines"
@@markrichardson2512 gives it a nice homely feel when your baby that you've been nurturing gets crushed haha. Poor baby
You do?
@@reddd-77 I do what?
The only GM I ever played (Ben) he played the Englund vs me and I got crushed. Thanks for the memories :D
They can play bongcloud and normal player still get crushed. +3 is not enough for normal player vs GM.
Great video. Thanks for teaching. Your explanations are right to the point. Excellent content.
Great reference / resource video Daniel, thank you so much!
I loved this deep dive into the Englund, it was SUPER instructive. Hoping for more deep dives in the future
So happy you made this one; I despise the Englund. 1. d4 e5 just looks so wrong, I feel like it should lose every time.
Daniel, you win games against 2000 like if they were 1300 :') (14 moves in!) It is really impressive and, at the same time, very instructive: theory and strategy-wise. Thanks for these amazing videos and contents! Cheers
To be fair, this guy played like an absolute buffoon
yeah, this line of the Englund gambit is especially bad tbf. each time my opponent goes into it i'm overjoyed as it's probably the deepest theory i know
Recently got really back into chess. Both love you and Hikaru streaming educating and playing each other. Thanks for educating us lowly beginner players.
This is the only streamer I don't click away when they say they're "ending" an opening
Another Banger man-great stuff! best chess teacher on youtube
Danya! Thanks for your intelligent and clear explanations of chess strategy. It's invaluable, and I'm consistently stunned we get it for free. Thanks a thousand times.
Such a gentleman. He talks very politely and nicely.
I really enjoy and value the methodical explanations as a beginner. At this point understanding is the real point more than learning openings by wrote so much, while recognizing that I’m playing some opening or other in every game whether I know it or not 😆🤷🏻♂️
This line of the englund is the only dubious opening I score 95% of the time against
thank you so much, daniel! i've played against this move so many times but didn't know how to continue after Qe7, i would just push the pawn to e6
Haha...my favorite opening..the englund gambit. Im a d4 player and as soon as i see 1...e5 its a guaranteed victory for me. These englund gambit players fall apart instantly as soon as their trap doesnt work, and its so satisfying to crush them.
I loved doing this with the Stafford when I used to play the Italian. Seeing 2..Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nc6 made me elated with joy, I loved crushing staffordites
Its a free pawn
@@blazoraptor3392 ya. I fell into their trap a couple times in different variations... i got so mad i cranked up my stockfish and memorized some good amount of engine lines to destroy these cheap tricksters.
@@nyiil fo' sho. Once I played a game that went like this: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nc6 4. Nxc6 dxc6 5. f3 (My favorite continuation recommended by IM Andras Toth, stops Ng4 and prepares c3 and d4 where I have a massive center) Nxe4 6. fxe4 Qh4+ 7. g3 Qxe4+ 8. Qe2. Black resigned because his queen is pinned to his king and can't take my rook. In other words, he sacked his knight for no reason whatsoever, and he's forced to trade queens down a full piece
Lol doubt it
how dare u make this video. The englund gambit is a masterpiece and you should respect it's extremely solid and non-dubious nature.
Even my cat jumped from my desk when Danya showed the crushing brilliancy Be2!!
Great analysis once again
daniel ur streams r goated kepp it up
You've done an excellent job Prophet Daniel!!!
Daniel, thanks for the very informative video! My name is Daniel too, great name! I'm inspired to be a Grandmaster now...(long way, I'm 1700 USCF atm). Thanks again, man! Keep it up!
Casually checkmating the queen
Always a pleasure to see the Englund gambit getting rekt
hands down best chess teacher online.
I watched this video when it first came out but then forgot the theory today and lost. I watched the video again and next game got another Englund gambit and check mated my opponent in 17 moves. thanks
20:15 who the hell plays the Englund in a correspondence game?
9:02 "The queen is trrrrrrrrrrrrrrupped" _ Danya 2021
Thanks for roughing up hikaru at bullet so he could hit 10,000. Also thanks for this great "openings in just the right amount of detail" series too. :)
There's a course on chessable to play against the Englund that costs about $1.99. I think that tells you how good the Englund actually is.
The Englund is objectively losing. A lot of GMs would play it in official tournaments if it's even good. As a 1. d4 player, i get really annoyed by someone playing the Englund. Sometimes, I would throw my opponents off by transposing into a Danish gambit or just play f4 to defend the pawn.
@@Muhammad_Nuruddin it's so easy to smash the Englund, I usually get a smile when they play it. I always feel it must throw my opponents off when I can whip out the responses to their moves faster than they are playing their own moves.
Dear Daniel,
Your a very gifted teacher😏. On rare occasions you meet people who is "on the right spot" and sociaty as a hole benefit, and so do you. From my spot there gonna be a thank you😏.
Fantastic. I learnt some Englund theory!
Absolutely love the Englund, not even rated 700, but it is so nice to play against it
"I saw knight g5, I just didn't like it"- Danya inspired by Young ELO
I once replied to the englund gambit by immediately transposing it into a danish gambit. It was exhilarating to take my opponent out of his comfort zone like that and win with a crushing attack.
Its still a fun opening in 3/0 .2/0 .or 1/0. Nothing slower. Otherwise I completely agree. Not all my opponents are as booked up as you Danya. But thanks very much for the lesson on how to play this on the white side.
How does a 2000 Elo playing the Englund stumble and blunder a piece in move 5 while my 1200 Elo opponents know this line by heart and destroy me
Alekhine played in Surabaya, Indonesia?? Wow, never crossed in my mind.
Love this
I don’t know what it is, but queen traps, especially those in the middle of the board and that aren’t opening tricks, are so many times more satisfying and cool than checkmate
I normally play just Nc3 on move 4, and that always takes black out of their prep. The first three moves they always just blitz out expecting 4.Bf4 to then play 4...Qb4+, but this line that I prefer can (and has done so in a few games for my part) lead to a funny mate in just 10 moves:
1.d4 e5
2.dxe5 Nc6
3.Nf3 Qe7
4.Nc3 Nxe5
5.e4 Nxf3+
6.Qxf3 Nf6
7.Bg5 h6
8.Nd5 Qxe4+
9.Qxe4+ Nxe4
10. Nxc7#
where over a 100 games featuring players above 2000 has ended this way on lichess. In total, 390 games have ended like this. But next time i will try this line that you played here...
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Wonderful! Thanks -m great lesson - I have subscribed…
liked the young elo references
My favorite opening to play against as white. Instant rating gain
'Do I look like I care about pawns in a position like this? With a knight that is this dominant, a king that is this weak; a center that is this....uhm...center?!'
basically a quote 19:53
He says a center that is this um, superior?
@@manawearblack .....yes. and?
@@immaleaf4964 So your quote is wrong?
@@Doc92IDH does the comment say it's a quote or does it heavily imply that it's not a quote
@@immaleaf4964 get out of your basement. you misunderstood what he said, happens. now stop doubling down on your mistake
dude is really good at chess
After 9...Bxe5 10.g3 is also the best move along with e4 and e3
18:45 Why isn't Qg5+ just winning on the spot? Its appears that all of blacks responses to it just lose?
Wow, a 1900-player playing Englund! Really bad luck that the opponent is a GM, but I wouldn't expect to see mainline/trap of this over 1500...
Danny is little of point at 11:45.
Fritz Englund died 1933, shortly after he had sponsored a thematic tournament (Stockholm, late 1932) were all games had a starting position after: 1.d4 e5 2. dxe5 Nc6 3.Nf3 Qe7 4.Qd5. Alekhine was far from the first to play it, as he played it after Fritz Englund had died. It was a latvian guy, who first publish a article on the gambit and 4.Qd5 was his mainline, same guy also established the Latvian Gambit but I don't remember his name..
Sorry sir... that's actually called: The undefeated opening!!!
Ah the Englund gambit. Named after Mister...
I'm shocked a 1900 plays like this. I play 1200s on bullet and they refute this line exactly like Naroditsky does.
I only watched 8 minutes at first.....and that was enough for me to trap a queen and win a game
15:35. Why not take the knight with the rook? Queen captures with check taking the rook in the end corner again.
20:45 Would Nf6 be a strong move in this position? Edit: Nvm the pawn on g7 isn't pinned.
just tried this one as white, opponent maybe misclicked instead of Qa5 went Qa4, then he forgot about knight fork on c7, and then resignation. thanks for teaching!
Chat seems confused because GothamChess has made some clickbait-ish titles about the Englund Gambit in the past, slightly misleading people about its effectiveness, when it's not very good, except to bamboozle beginners who've never seen it before.
The reason GothamChess is one of the the biggest chess channels on RUclips is because he leaned into the clickbait last year - 'DESTROY d4 with the Englund Gambit' is essentially no different to 'Ben Shapiro SMASHES leftist with FACTS and LOGIC'. These absurd titles get clicks, regardless of how unsound the content is.
@@GMBethHarmon And absurd faces! Looking through the thumbnails on Gotham's channel really gives an indication how effective that technique must be.
Daniel was really too nice here. This line in the Englund is objectively garbage.
@@GMBethHarmon I agree that the title is very clickbaity, but Levy himself says more than once in that video that the ENglund is objectively better for white. I hate clickbaits like that too, but if you click on it and watch the video you have to get over the misleading title
the Englund is really good against people who pre-move the first three moves of the London.
opponent: casually plays e5-f6
Danya: ok so the game is essentially over, which crushing move ends the game?
Gotham recommend 6... qa3, Narodistsky "thats very very bad" lol
Lmao he quoted young elo - 6:27
GothomChess and Hikaru did a whole stream on rating gambits. They put Englund in "1 trick pony". Which was just 1 tier above "total trash".
Goddamnit now I have to learn something else against D4
Wonderful analysis of the game as usual.
On a sidenote, I notice you're correcting yourself when saying "him", and changing it to "they", which is wonderful! As with most games, chess can be a bit of a boys club, and just being inclusive in speech can go along way!
really good game,
Oh my god thank you for this video even tho i am an e4 player with advice you provided in this video i am praying for my next opponent who will play the englund 😂😂
... How are you going to play against the Englund if you're an e4 player...?
If i know my opponent plays englund or in some not important game maybe i will play d4
Always a gentleman. The Englund is garbage.. I was thinking that before you said anything about it being bad lol faced it loads of times. First time I played Bc3 and lost the rook but never happened again haha
9:10 Qxa1, Qxa1, C5 forking the two minor pieces was playable for black?
if that happens. what can play Bc4 and then after black captures either piece bd5 gets played and black has no way to defend the rook on a8. Because after Rb8, Qxa7 comes and white gets the rook and probably the light squared bishop as well
20:48😂😂
"Put my mouth where my money is" I hope you don't keep your wallet in your back pocket.
Can anyone share what program Danya is using when he is showing his tournament games? I don't think he used it in this particular video, but he used it in a few of his videos from this series.
It looks very nice.
It's called Chessbase. It's very expensive (if you buy it legitimately) - and the UI is based on old MS Office programs (yuck) so it feels dated, is unintuitive and takes some getting used to...but it's invaluable for anyone who takes chess seriously.
That said, it's primarily a database management tool, with a chess GUI bolted on, so unless you're going to maintain your own database (or use their "Megabase" - that's what Daniel is searching and citing from when he talks chess history), use it a lot for reference, do lots of your own analysis and/or maintain your own opening files it might not be worth the effort. You can perform almost all of the same functions by combining a lichess study with the free online master databases like openingtree (or lichess/chesscom). The main draw of Chessbase is the ability to manage much bigger databases that you can customise/update them yourself. Also the convenience of having everything in one place.
Common advice is that it's not necessary for untitled players but I personally think it's great and it's played a big part in my improvement and general enjoyment of the game. You might be the kind of person who keeps detailed opening notes/files...or who enjoys a deep dive into stats/data...or you use the free online databases and wish they had more games or you could dig into the data or individual games beyond the bare bones winrates, or if you play a lot of OTB chess or you regularly analyse your own games in depth...that kind of player would definitely find it useful.
In all if these speedrun vids I think about what moves I could see myself making and what moves I would never think of. I never would’ve seen Qc1
But now that he’s shown the logic behind it, I’m sure it is an idea that you could implement in your own play. If the queen has only one escape square, try to take it away.
@@caroditsky oh absolutely. But I want to get to the point where I see moves like that more intuitively. And even the whole thing leading up to it like targetting the queen, looking for escape squares, etc-Yeah I can learn to think like that but even as he led us down that path I still couldn’t see the move. My move when he asked us was Bc4 followed by Ra1, which in retrospect instantly blunders the bishop before getting to do Ra1 lol
Do you think it comes down to more pattern recognition or some other skill?
How do you "ask yourself the right questions"?
good on you for starting to say "their" instead of "his" all the time
No disrespect to Gotham, but how does Danya not have 1M subs?? Much better teacher than Gotham.
I agree that Danya is the better teacher and player BUT Gotham for me is more entertaining. Both channel deserves a million subs.
Because 95% world pop isn't highly intelligent. Stupidity and scandalism sells.
I also feel like Gotham's social media strategy "sells out" more than Danya's does. Danya's channel's earlier thumbnails had more of Daniel's face in it and stuff. Whereas, EVERY video on Gotham's channel has Gotham making a stupid fucking face. -- For subscribers, I believe the thumbnails (& to some extent, titles) don't matter; but the recommendation algorithm cares. So ... sell out and make stupid faces.
@@allangumiran8327 Gotham is entertaining for sure. Guess the ELO is off the chain.
Gotham's also been at it for a bit longer than Danya. Before the whole Indian cheater thing - Gotham would stream nearly every day to 10k followers making him one of the biggest names on Twitch. This naturally carries over to RUclips. His legion undoubtedly pushed the videos and ultimately resulted in a million subs. I think Danya will get there eventually. If he keeps this up I could definitely see him reaching such heights in a year or so.
I hear you, and you're not wrong, but like...at 500, I'm gonna run into a lot of novice Londons who aren't prepared for e5 and not a lot of people who know the critical counter-Englund lines 🤷♂️
Hey Danya when I play white instead of playing bishop f4 in the opening I’ll go knight c3 and once they take my pawn I’ll play knight F5 which almost ALWAYS blunders the queen or the rook at my skill level
I have played the englund gambit for years and it is indeed a terrible opening.
SIZE dominance!
As a London player, I’ve won a ridiculous number of games at the 1100 level because people do this constantly and give me a free winning position
Probably the only opening named after a Swedish person/place
Yey! I knew all of those moves in the Englund gambit! 😃 Thanks to my own games and analysis.
thanks for Englund opening....I had a nightmare on that
These videos cure depression
I can't believe players around 1900 actually play this. It just feels like countering this is easy to understand and pretty intuitive plus - as you said it's an awful gambit that leads to a poor position for black.
I feel like if you're 1200 or below (assuming 10 + 0 time control, less rating for faster time controls) - you might - MIGHT be able to get away with it. But once you get into the 13 - 1400's you can forget about it. In that rating range people have seen it, have used it themselves, and have come to learn it's just a crap opening so why bother?
People get a few wins with it and become convinced it's a good opening. It's funny since the refutation isn't even a hard line to remember.
Fine
This makes me want to play Englund, atleast I have an excuse for my rating then
The prophet is the best
Rated 1900+ yet playing the Englund Gambit? It's either assuming your opponent is dumb/unprepared or hoping that one always plays against dumb/unprepared opponents.