A Grandmaster Solves Chess Problems | Puzzle Rush Survival, Part 3 

The heroic lightbulb moment at 30:41 was beautiful

Yesterday I successfully completed my first 1k+ puzzle. When I inevitably become a GM and write a book, it will be dedicated to Daniel.

This is the greatest puzzle rush of all time

WOOHOO WE LOVE DANIEL YEAH HACK YEAH

I'll just add my own enjoyment of this series to the pile. Glad to see everyone else loving these as much as I do.

Danya is the hero chess needs. The calm presence of rationality amongst masses of techno music and repeating themselves 658 times for no reason. And some humility as well.

This series is just the best. This is the closest you can get to GM thought process and daniel does a wonderful job of eloquently explaining and deconstructing these complicated ideas better than anybody in the chess community. Love the series daniel, and can’t wait for more.

You're the best. These videos are both entertaining and helpful, I watch every single one.

Daniel is like, "It's okay to take as much time as you need, make sure that you fully explore every move and every line. As long as you think logically it doesn't matter how long it takes." and then comes up with an ingenious line in LITERALLY 10 SECONDS. Bruh Grandmasters are just built different.

You learn this from grandmaster turbofisto? Not surprise at all

The last puzzle was beautiful, i managed to find it with a board editor after trying to make a checkmate with the black-squared bishop on f2. Very inspiring series Daniel, keep them coming!

pedagogically speaking, this the best chess content on yt hands down. thanks danya

This is exactly the kind of video I love to watch. Solving DIFFICULT tactics puzzles SLOWLY whilst EXPLAINING the thought process behind it all. Looking forward to part 4!

I've gone from 800 to 900 since I started watching this series. I really underestimated the patterns that puzzles help you learn and you breaking these puzzles down has really helped me understand chess more. Thank you Daniel you the best :)

I have been loving this series, it's very instructive! With your help I was able to beat my record and solve 45 problems in puzzle rush survival! Keep up with the good work!!

I solved #45 before you did it!! I’m so happy rn (:

I didn't solve the last problem, but I DID see the idea of sacrificing the bishop to lure the black pawn into the pin. I just couldn't see how to go on from there. These videos are truly amazing!

Love how you always share your thought process and explain everything, you’re the best bro don’t stop !

Absolutely brilliant, thank you for the ongoing content Daniel

Daniel just churns out gold. Clarity of thought is so impressive in his lessons and analyses.

You have a true talent to explicitly state the inner workings of your mind. This kind of meta-analytic chess teaching is incredibly useful. Giving this blueprint of thought to the uninitiated is a treasure no expression of gratitude can match! Loving the series so far, keep it up Danny!

One of the most insightful tactic videos I’ve seen on RU-vid. Thanks

Thanks Daniel, loving the RU-vid content. Your passion is contagious 👍🏻

This is my favorite video of yours this far. Well done 👍

Very helpful to watch your thought process. Thanks!

Incredibly good stuff thx for the share Daniel !!

It is honestly an art form how he breaks down these concepts

Great videos man. Appreciate your instructions

Keep this series going LOVEE ITTT

I love this series! My favorite yet!

Brilliant series, thanks Daniel.

This is an incredible series, super useful to learn problems and the game in general, thanks Daniel :)

Great video gm, really helpful please keep them coming.

You have a serious gift for chess explanation. I am only a beginner, but you helped me engage with some pretty high level problems. You are very descriptive and methodical when it comes to seeing all the relevant aspects of a position. Thanks for this series.

That last puzzle was beautiful!

Amazing!!!! Keep up the good work!!! Love your content!

Thank you, Daniel. You are truly a great teacher. Very much appreciated.

Mr. Daniel, this is absolutely flawless job! Thx a million for it.

Very helpful series. Thank you for the help:)

Amazing video Daniel! These videos are very helpful and intructive keep up the good work

I’m not somebody who ever makes comments on RU-vid videos, but I couldn’t help myself. These videos are SO awesome. Thank you so much. As a beginning-to-intermediate player, these are invaluable. I love the explanation and it is helping me to become a better player. Good for you! Thanks for giving back to the community.

That last puzzle is something else. Really cool solution.

Reeeally instructive and entertaining contend thank you Daniel!!

The last puzzle in this section was the first one I couldn't solve. An unusual an beautiful checkmate indeed! I'm looking forward to even harder problems and learning from your thought process.

Dude that last puzzle was amazing

Always helpful videos Danya :) Love from Italy

Very informal series, great content! Never learned so much from chess videos.. Thx

Really instructive video to improve chess ability and creativity. Thanks Daniel!

This is awesome that we can all watch a GM explain us chess puzzles while eating cereal at 10:16 on a Tuesday night. Gotta love the internet. Also, thank you Daniel!

спасибо, Даня, очень интересно слушать ваши комментарии, действительно помогает лучше разобраться в своих мыслях во время игры

What a great puzzle at the end. All the good stuff in one.

Thanks Daniel! That was fun and educational!

that last one was tough seems like it should be rated higher than 2397

Excited for the next 6 or 7 videos

6:40 I didn’t know you could change the arrow colors! And to answer your question, the different color arrows definitely helped with visualization, at least for me, you’re really making full use of all the tools at your disposal to teach!

This is really great!

hahahahaha "give myself 15-20 seconds of thought" Oh man. If only that's how much time I would need to spend. Thanks for the video. You make this look way too easy. Woof.

that puzzle 44 really did a number on me

Note: Most chess engines nowadays do check every move once, but quickly ignore bad-looking moves in search of better ones. The method most commonly used is "alpha-beta pruning", which keeps looking at a line until it is hopelessly unrecoverable or provably worse than another line. The reason they do this is to get more time to check deeper into more promising lines and only come back to the seemingly-dubious lines later. Otherwise, they'll spend too much time trying to see the benefit of hanging their queen instead of finding a forced mate. Great videos, you have earned my subscription!

U are a magician at chess, teaching and entartaining. Great content, keep it up!

Good video, enjoyed it very much.

Love ur videos bro

I managed to solve puzzle 46, mainly doing what you have suggested, but with one more factor of thinking. I realized that all the moves that try threatening checkmate with the bishop or with the other knights threat only one kind of move, and in this kind of position, black can promote every kind of piece, so likely he would be able to block a check, black has 2 rooks when the position is open, so he would be able to block a lot of squares, and lastly he can sacrifice his rooks with checks on my king. These realizations made me understand that there are only two ways this puzzle will be solved. 1, there is a square which is hidden from the rooks and all of black's other pieces, from which I will be able to deliver the checkmate. (after a careful observation, c3 for a bishop and c2 for a knight are the only options). 2, there is a move in this position that threatens 2 things or more at once, which is the kind of move that very often, 1 move isn't enough to stop. thinking about it, I realized that in such a position only checkmates can be a threat, so after another careful observation, only the moves nf4 (ng2# and nd3#) and ne3 (ng2# and nc2#) are optional. nf4 I quickly disqualified, because in order for nd3# the happen, the bishop will have to move somewhere which still keeps an eye over e2 and f1, and that square doesn't exist. So ne3 was the only option. Now, I was left with an a lot easier question to answer: how do you get the knight to e3? I break the pin and play it. How do you break the pin? I put a piece in between the knight and the king. what piece can you put on a square between the king and the knight? the bishop! with a check! it has to be captured (only move) and then black's own pawn will break the pin! so ne3 is now available! that was my thinking process, I hope it was helpful for you to see another perspective, and maybe danya can use some of my thinking to explain more methods... Hopefully I was helpful! thanks a lot for these series! As a 2050 FIDE, Im very excited about the next videos in this amazing series. Keep up the great work!

that last puzzle was beautiful

32:15 I literally gasped as you explained the construction, because my first thought when you pointed out the knight was that it’s pinned (which is why I was trying to mate with the dark square bishop) but as soon as you pointed out the knight mate construction I saw how the dark square bishop isn’t needed and can be sacrificed to allow the knight freedom. I haven’t finished watching the solution but I’m guessing it’s Bc3+, bxc3 so the unpinned knight can travel to g2#, which is beautiful. Love how you were able to explain your “lightbulb” moment so well that we’re able to have lightbulb moments too haha.

way better than last video!

Just in the short time you’ve been making these videos my chess.com rating went up 60 points. I really feel like this is the reason, puzzles always eluded, me but I am finding myself solving them and actually using tactics as opposed to stumbling into them if I’m lucky.

Thanks for this video Danya! My record literally went from 23 to 32 after I watched this

i have very found memory of thath second to last problem.it was daily problem in chess.com someo 3 months ago.me and my friend(who was just getting started with chess) were solving it some 15 minutes,decomposing it step by step, fell of joy when we solved is one of my best memories related to chess

00:00 - 41 02:31 - 42 07:38 - 43 10:52 - 44 17:21 - 45 22:37 - 46

I just went for perpet on 46. I was happy with settling for a draw given the material difference... until I saw that beautiful checkmate. Very difficult sacrifice idea to find!

Crazy how much more confident daniel got making videos in the span of a year

The last one was a BEAST. I thought about King D2, which in the end leaves white with a pawn to promote, but this is much cleaner solution!

The last problem was unbelievable

This man took a early 2000’s sitcom approach to the amount of commercials placed in a 30 minute show

7:36 after Kg2 Rg1+ Kh3 Rxg3+, white's knight on c3 is hanging. So white isn't really a piece up, and it looks difficult for white to win there. I might be evaluating the position wrong though. Last puzzle is absolutely beautiful!

love the video, thanks! on the sidenote, it's a bit quiet, had to crank up the volume and next video almost gave me a heart attack. if ya'd get some quality microphone it would improve your content even further. lots of love from central europe

Good stuff :) very entertaining

The last puzzle was awesome. Was able to get the answer but I am 100% sure that I will NEVER EVER see it in a real game and Daniel would probably see it every single time.

The last one was insane. I could not figure out the key idea of sac'ng the bishop in order to block up that file. I think it's because I didn't expect the difficulty to ramp up so much, so I was only looking for more obvious lines.

I actually got the 30:00 puzzle, maybe lucky hehe! Really cool video sir!

That last problem was beautiful and eye opening and how you handled it gave me incredible insights! Keep up these high quality videos Daniel we love it 😁

Brilliant !

Daniel the GOAT

Now this is real chess. Thanks Danya. Now I understand why I've never gotten past 40 (yet). I would never have thought of some of these moves.

Daddy Daniel has blessed us with another one

AWESOME!

I failed to solve my 46th problem in puzzle rush today after spending about 20 minutes looking at it. Nice to know even Danya has to think a bit at that level.

Best chess teacher on RU-vid

I am so proud that I found the solution for the last puzzle... I paused my video when danya told he has to think

The last one is so hard, I completely did not see the sequence before Danya explains

So proud of myself when I saw Bc3!! on number 46

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

Awesome!

I start liking this guy

Hi, I truly appreciate this serie and love your way of teaching chess. You are a true blessing for such piece of 1000's crap as me. But could you please increse the volume in your videos? I have hard time hearing what you say on some devices... Thank you for your work!

7:33 Qxd7 Re1+ Kg2 Rg1+ Kh3 Rxg3+ hxg3 Qxc3 white is not up a piece.

That last problem blew my fucking mind

Very instructive and I appreciate your content. I just think you got it before closing your eyes and saying "I got it" :) Your "I got it" moment didn't feel like really being glad for solving a problem, you just added some fake joy to it, 'cause the real joy you felt seconds ago when you really "got it". Closing your eyes and pretending you got it while not really looking at the board just made it more dramatic :P

Thanks Daniel, maybe one day I'll climb out of the 400 trench