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*Looks at puzzle for 0.1 seconds* "Ahh, this is a good checkmate pattern"

5:45 the legendary side-file mate

Stockfish: Ng5 is the only move that wins Danya: How about Nxd6? Stockfish: No, you are wrong, you will instead draw (0.0) A few seconds later Stockfish: Wait, I think you are right! Me: I love how you can casually find the alternative move and stockfish didn’t even see it

Tip: pause the video and try doing the puzzle first. When you get it wrong, and Daniel explains how to do it, it should stick easier than just passively watching the video. Also, try to make generalisations about how checkmates or captures are occurring - 'this only happened because we drove his king onto the same file as our other pieces', 'this knight fork happened because the pieces were a long-L distance apart', 'this checkmate happened because we cleared the path for an Opera mate (rook + bishop)', and so on. If you can learn the names of different checkmate patterns, that's also something that might them easier to spot.

Love that you're comfortable with showing your mistakes

Hi Danya, would you make a video of climbing with a specifc opening? I would love to watch you playing just King's Indian Defense (against d4) or Caro Kann Defense (against e4) when you are playing Black. Other than that, a huge thumbs up for you videos so far, they are highly educational and fun to watch! :)

I just found your channel and I want to predict it now: You will be the best and biggest channel in the perspective,as no one,at least I don't know anyone who does this,teaches on RU-vid for free and explains all the important parts.Other channels are great too,but they only recap other top GM games, while showing some interesting parts of the games,and here you are,a GM himself teaching us,new---advanced players!I have been watching your videos for 2 hours now,and I saw a notification pop up.Thank you so much for your efforts!Much love from Kazakhstan👍🔥

I thought I get caught up if I get one puzzle wrong. But after watching Danya being affected. I feel relaxed now.

Wish I had such free access to chess coaching in my childhood... I don't have much time now to devote to study nor watch these kind of videos or play the beloved game of so many people on the planet...

Thank you so much for all the educational content you've been putting out lately! It's helping me improve quite rapidly :)

The content you’ve been putting out recently has been amazing easily my favorite person posting chess content to learn from!!!

Saw portions of this live on stream yesterday and then hopped back to RU-vid to rewatch today. Amazing stuff, I love these videos

This is so satisfying to watch. And I feel like I learned quite a lot. Thank you Danya!

Danya, I was stuck at a survival score of 28 for a while. After watching your puzzle videos I set a new high of 38. Thank you!

More and more of these Grandmaster puzzle solving videos please! I love the whole series of videos on this difficulty level

You probably cannot imagine how I appreciate you being just OK with your mistake, I generally get tilted and than get a x-streak.

I'm still trying to break the 30 mark, this video sure does help a lot. Thanks Danya.

Love this!! I know you are already doing other videos but whenever you feel like doing another of these I'll watch for sure!!

Absolutely loved this video! Really helps me better understand levels of tactical thinking, both in-game and while puzzle solving. I'm especially greatful for the endgame detailed explanation at 15:45 !

I love the puzzle series, I was wondering if you could share your “mental checklist” of your observations of puzzle positions, I imagine it could be very educational!

i really liked this video actually one of the best chess channels, entertaining, educational and good positivity always we really dont deserve this man

Came in with the instant puzzle rush best after watching this... Previous was 34, I'm now on 37 and yet to fail one *touches wood* Needless to say im going to be agonising over every single puzzle from here on in. Ty danya, insightful and entertaining as ever

Thanks Daniel! This was very informative and entertaining.

Danya - amazing video as always! One thing that is difficult for me (as a ~1600 rated player), is that for the tougher problems I spend a lot of time analyzing lines which are not obviously wrong to me. It seems your ability to "only look at one or two near-correct lines and choose between them" is a definite GM advantage ;) Of course this takes practice, but any thoughts/comments/attention on how to better identify the correct lines could also be helpful for mid-range players would be much appreciated. Thanks for all the great content, keep up the amazing work!

Yesss this is so so good, amazing that the one Daniel got wrong was still technically an alternative solution lmao

Thank you, Grand Master Naroditsky.....!!! That was very instructive and fun....

Best player/teacher combo out there, another brilliant vid Cheers Dude

i love the way ypu explained, so easy to understand and very relax and charming

ive improved so much from your videos! dan's the man

Thanks for the content Danya! Love the puzzle content especially. Really sort of lifts the veil for the thought process and how you analyze situations. Dropped by your Twitch chat for the first time last night! Had a good time despite being sleepy af. Do you have any EU friendly timezone streams?

I like how rustic the cockpit background looks and how he's able to talk chess while taxiing the airplane. Thanks for the lesson captain.

Great video, immediately went from 31 to 38 as my pb thanks to you

47:00 i feel that. Justice. I even had a puzzle that relied on the computer making a massive blunder AFTER your first move, but the solution wasn't optimal play for me the player. Seeing stockfish catch up after a few seconds that vindicates your alternate solution... My Puzzle Rush problems are shared. :)

That was fun. Thanks. Glad you found redemption on that one tricky knight problem.🙂

Can't thank you much. Very very informative. It's better than just watching games or puzzle rush.

Great content, man. Thanks for the lesson

I really like these puzzle solving. One thing that would even be better is calculating the whole sequence before even doing the move and says why a move of the sequence is better than the other and how do you lean towards one or the other

Great series. I think it'd be awesome if you got a guest of lower ELO to solve them with. So you can teach the method of solving puzzles when you don't see the solution instantly.

Great video! I hope u can make a video showing the philador and lucena positions

Amazing. Great teaching ability❤

You are a fantastic communicator!

Love this series but i would like to see some more speedrun 😃

When Danya gets an x in puzzle rush it's because the puzzle was wrong.

Thanks a lot, it's extremely helpful

Best puzzle rush video so far

Loved this!

Thank you ! Great work Danya well done, you found the first key !!. "sharp as a tack !" with your new discovery of the "alternate solutions" phenomena, it introduces some interesting numbers. When Danny or whoever arranges new batches of over 2200 puzzles to be created . The computers be like "your going to make us analyze an extra 20(128) moves per hundred puzzles And you want it done bye the morning !?" Computer tells his other computer colleagues " they have no idea how much work we do !! lol How are they generated ? Analyzing or spotting alternate solutions is a key chance for the evolution of chess. It shows although computers have immense brute force power. As shown by some endgame studies... engines do have blindspots ! Does Alphazero have blindspots It lost some games against Stockfish but could be unrelated and simply poor opening choice. Because wasn't alphazero using a different program with different capabilities. Does the newest version of Stockfish have blindspots well its highly likely. There is a chance some bright kids (humans) will find ways to find ways to find engine blindspots !! & destroy, & crush them or win by a Slim margin or by tricky materiel odds mate. Even engines need time. Because we have all felt cheated by at least 1 puzzle. When we probably already calculated something winning. But it wasnt winning in the fastest possible way. SO why waste time on high level puzzles with several "alternate solutions" I wana learn how to endgame in blitz.

Danya's so powerful that even when he's wrong he's right

Thanks a bunch for this video👍

Once they called him,"The Prophet" now.. he is... "The Redeemer". Quality content.

Love your videos!♥

You’re the best

Pure gold. Danya is my new favorite chess streamer. no idea why he wasn't on my radar before. Also, congrats on beating Fabi - total badass

Watched this live, may watch it again.

always good, awesome

i just got the popcorn ready

5:38 *holds up test tube* Finally.... back file checkmate...

love the series, do from 50 til ur max vid,

Can you do a whole video showing lots of different checkmate patterns similar to that Bodens mate at 24:30?

Danya trying to get it wrong has a higher accuracy than me playing seriously.

“this gonna get more calculationally heavy” on the first puzzle i saw right away (after the first easy ones)

Loved this👌🏻👌🏻😘

According to stockfish 14 at depth 35, Nxd6 is only +7 and Ng5 is +50.

I’ve always thought his videos are long . I tried watching one and i didn’t even realize 49 minutes has passed

"Let me try to get it wrong" Gets it right.

Geez. That second puzzle was a surprisingly difficult to spot mate in 1 for 200 elo.

Daniya we want the oh my lands masterclass back that which was amazing series'

Hi. Thanks for puzzle videos. they are good. plz don't forget the speed run.

mate i love you beast mode

This is amazing content

YES! MORE PUZZLES

37:30 a rook can't stop a pawn duo on the 3rd or the 6th promoting, that was one of the easiest ones

Managed to fail on 17, 27, and 31. This is my normal run, so nice to see puzzles after this stage. Maybe 35 is my best, certainly not 40.

44:28 This is incredible to me. "This is exactly what we saw on puzzle #10". Did he actually remember every puzzle up until that point and would be able to recount them in order or was this just some sort of coincidence?

I love puzzle solving

Very nice. It would have been good to see the rating of each puzzle though, in larger font. Maybe I missed it on the screen while watching from mobile.

Like this type of videos

I hope our favorite Stanford Grad is doing well these days!

"JUST practice a million of them" - Danya

I felt so inspired after this video so I went to play a puzzle rush only to get 19 correct

I love the Puzzle Video but I really miss Speedrun too :'(

I correct Stockfish 3 times per puzzle rush just like Danya did on Puzzle 43.

YESSSSSSS DANYA!!!

I do puzzle rushes every day at least one, my record is only 47. But one thing i would say, opposite to what you say, the more complicated it gets, the less i follow my instinct and the more i try to see the win for sure before i play the move because my instinct will be wrong too often. Started playing chess in 2021 so my instinct is limited though.

46:46 instinct >>> 😂 Also 46:44 you almost went g3 which was probably correct

(almost) Every puzzle can be solved with the checklist of "checks, captures and attacks"

Viewing this once helped me break my record (a modest 37, but I got 30 in a row!). If I keep viewing this, maybe I might to 40? or dare I say, 50?

All those stockfish Stanley's in the chat find moves quick

Sounds like a stupid question, but what software do you use to create those arrows used in analysis?

As a German-speaking person, my highlight of the video is Danya saying "make some Luft"

can u please do more videos of puzzle survival rush or videos with puzzles with ratings between 2000 and 2800

What do you think about the lichess puzzles?

I often blunder the royal pin

Well, Dania is officially my favourite chess tutor now) Thank you very much!

*Gets one wrong to show he is human. Just to later refute the engine to give a second solution * Me ShakesHead ..

king

There was a moment where he finished a puzzle while he was in the process of grabbing a piece and it moved to the next one, resulting in him grabbing a black Knight and moving it around by accident. Thank god it was white to move lol

I reached it in my D27 vid, literally from 21 to 29 is harder than 32 to 40

Yes yes yes yes yes!!

the last 5 puzzles are somehow as easy as the first 5 but the 1200-2000 puzzles were harder!?