The length of the video doesn't matter Danya, we can just pause it and come back to it if we can't watch all in one sitting. Thank you for the awesome master class
I’m sure I speak for everyone here when I say you’re one of the greatest teachers out there, chess or otherwise. I cannot express my gratitude enough for the amazing effort you put into these videos. There really is no more fitting nickname than “sensei”. Keep up the exemplary work and know that all of us yellow belts appreciate your passion and dedication so much!
Notes from both videos (in case anyone wants to copy them to her/his personal notes): 1- Do not capture unnecessary pawns. 2- Do not step away into checking zone of your opponent's passer. 3- Simultaneous promotion is NOT equal to a draw. 4- Use your king to force the enemy king into the checking zone, or to prevent the enemy king from stopping your pawn. 5- Prepare for pawn races by pushing the prospective passer beforehand. Bonus Rule: You don't always have to participate in a pawn race! 6- Waiting move sacrifice: Giving away a pawn in order to generate additional waiting move. 7- Mowing the lawn: Trading the pawn(s) that obstruct the pathway to a weak pawn or set of pawns, which are often located on the other side of the board. 8- Moving your opponent's pawns: One or multiple pawn sacrifices aimed at shifting your opponent's pawn(s) in a favorable direction. 9- Inducing weaknesses: A type of breakthrough or trade with the aim of creating a more accessible weakness or breaking down a pawn chain. 10- Corresponding squares: Two squares (x,y) are corresponding squares if moving the king onto the square x forces the opponent to occupy square y.Crucially, the defending side must maintain that order (king steps onto square y only after the opposing king steps onto square x) to avoid Zugzwang. 11- Keep the pawns back: If anticipating a pawn race, keep your weak pawns (i.e., the ones your opponent will capture during the race) as far away from your opponent's king as possible to extent the time it takes for your opponent to promote.
Ok when Danya said he was gonna be consistent, I did not think he meant like 2 videos in 2 days. Amazing content always love your work. Hopefully these endgame masterclass will help me get more towards 2000 rating.(I'm 1700 rated right now) Thanks❤️
12:40 position is named Trebuchet which is lost for the playing side. Danya, many many thanks for these informative and well-explained videos. Please keep doing this.
Worry less about the length of the video. It's clear you go to great lengths to convey these concepts as concisely as they allow; the ones of us who are here to learn are glad to watch a video of any length as long as you're not wasting time - which I haven't gotten a single sniff of thus far. These are complex topics and, personally, I would hate for you to cut yourself short and not thoroughly and clearly explain yourself MUCH more than I would be worried about watching a video for an hour and a half. We are all just so grateful that you are putting this content out for free for us to enjoy and study. I know everyone says this but seriously, this is such incredible stuff. Please keep up the amazing work
Why is A5 the corresponding square to F5? Shouldn't it be B5? It seems like if White steps onto F5 and black had the ability to step onto A5 then white can just claim distant opposition with E5 and eventually shoulder the black king. This video is awesome, just want to make sure I understand :)
You're right, that was a mistake! Should be f5 -> b5. The way I should have explained it, b5 is controlled by White's pawn so stepping onto f5 essentially forces Black to move onto a mined square, since the corresponding square is inaccessible.
Im going to be playing in a major tournament in April! These have taken me from a 1700 player with zero endgame knowledge to a 1700 with a good bit of endgame knowledge, and tons if unearned confidence! 😂 I love these simple and memorable "pawn-cepts"!
56:55 I believe the corresponding square to f5 is b5 (or whatever square would theoretically be to the left of A5), but f5 is still the correct move as b5 is covered by the c4 pawn and thus black's king cannot occupy the distant opposition regardless.
GM Naroditsky, thank you for these videos, not only one learns chess, one like me, whose English is not my first language, can improve and learn proper and cultured English, my sincere gratitude. Please keep'em coming!
I appreciate how Daniel cares about explaining chess in a way that a low-skilled player can understand and enjoy. I will return to finish watching. (I do wonder what the analytics look like when he checks them on the back end of his videos!)
These are by far the most useful, instructive, clearly explained, and balanced between theory/concepts and practical applications I’ve ever found. Holy shit Danya is an amazing teacher and even more amazing player!
In the coresponding square example the corresponding square for f5 was b5 I thought. Since the squares corresponding to the ones on the f file lied on the b file. In that case 1.f5 would also be the correct move since b5 is covered by the c4 pawn. Amazing content by the way. When I tried reading Dvoretsky, this corresponding square stuff seemed much more unclear. I stopped when he wrote about something called a 'major line' which I could not understand clearly from the subsequent examples and thought I would come back to the book later😅
51:32 Opposition (direct, distant) is a special case of corresponding squares (or if you want to put it differently, corresponding squares are a generalisation of opposition)
THANKS SO MUCH DANYA!!! I'll watch and practice the endgame videos again and again to digest everything (not a complete beginner, but had never chess lessons in my life) so that I am prepared for next video. This endgame series is gold, I think it is going to become a huge educational classic just like the endgame books, but in youtube/video format. Thanks for being our Sensei _/\_
This is incredible thanks a ton for these. That Persson-Ragger/moving the opponent's pawns example was really instructive, I would have never thought that position was drawable, but now I have added this "chucking the pawns to force a drawn king pawn vs king endgame" idea to my toobox for seemingly lost positions.
I love these. It's so much less daunting having your vids than buying/reading a volume. It's tremendously helpful for me as endgames are starting to matter a lot more. Edit: Can you do some on rook endgames in the future? I know they're theoretically very dense and complicated so it might take a while, but that would be very much appreciated
really instructive video and many thanks Daniel for sharing these concepts. For me, I'm really bad in end game techniques. This lesson gave a good understanding of the basic ideas. Keep up your great work and vids and looking forward to the next video. Cheers!
Terrific stuff :) been loving going through these videos for the second round, which I highly recommend everybody does! Thank you for giving these lessons, Daniel :) I love how pawn endgames have become my favourite "minigame" in chess!
Thank you for making these videos. They are by far the best and most instructive on youtube. Just fun observation I made: I think the second game was actually already covered in a previous video.
You explain this in the best way possible... my brain is still melting but I have no doubt that this is the most understandable way. I should really start playing this game
The pawns--black and white--minded squares The kings opposed moves charted there After mowing the lawn Their trousers were gone And the kings continued to glare Btw, these videos go fast.
wow all of the videos in this series are fantastic but this one is really the most informative chess video ive ever watched, won so many more games with just a basic memory of these concepts
I just played an endgame where I had passed pawns on both the a and h files. Thanks to Danya and this amazing series, I spent the endgame excited and geeking out about having super wide trousers 😂 I love the terminology.
"Danya" is rapidly becoming my favourite chess player: an incredibly strong GM, humble, a great communicator and above all an excellent teacher. Thank you so much for these instructive videos♟️
The corresponding squares study was awesome! I was wondering what happens if white messes up and allows black to occupy the corresponding square, and then white tries to go back to e5, hoping black would also follow with Ka5. That would be a mistake because white can again play Kf5 and win. Turns out (I used the engine) black has to go Ka7/Kb7, and then if white goes Kf5, black has to be really careful to be in a position where they can occupy the corresponding square no matter where white goes. Amazing!
This is crazy good. I am going to watch the whole series again as its not trivial to comprehend everything in one go. Thank you Danya. Hopefully you hit 300K subs soon and then go on towards 1M subs sometime in future.
In position 46:26 white to move: We don't necessarily have to go for the king side pawns ig bcoz we can play Kb3 and black has to play h5 after which we can play Ka3 and black has no more waiting moves and would have to retreat the king and give us the queen
48:10 Inducing weakness by undermining opponent pawn chain via pawn sac in endgame probably deserves a moniker. How about calling it An Incantation when done to improve accessibility to a weakness. As in "Come closer my pretty." That too is a worthy namesake in and of itself. Either should prove valuable as an excellent reminder.
10:37 ''And here, as we were discussing, Grob plays the most resilient move, he plays g4. This is a super resilient resource.'' Spoken by a true man of culture.
This videos are absolutely amazing. It is much appreciated. I will try to advertise the channel and the series in my chess club. Keep up the work please.
