This speedrun is about solid fundamentals and building good habits. Finally decides to play the most solid opening chess at the GM level. Thank you based Danya for the content.
Hey Danya, I've always liked the speedrun and thought it has tremendous value. There is far too little slow chess being played by strong titled players explaining their thought process. This series is my favorite chess series on youtube and one of the only places I feel like I'm still learning something nearly every video (I'm getting close to my National Master title). I honestly wouldn't mind if you continued indefinitely. It's a really great resource for both beginning players and more experienced ones and will always be one of the first resources I recommend to my students.
Valuable as ever: that concept of not grabbing the d4 pawn when you've got less space to work with is a real eye-opener, and it felt like a few things clicked into place for me there and then! I always struggle with knight outposts, I feel like I over-value them a lot of the time and trade for a worse structure too quickly.
The speedrun series is what drew me to your channel and I continue to enjoy it immensely. It has helped me improve my chess more than almost any other chess content on YT save actual deep dive analysis vids of specific openings. I would love having 2-3 games per video but I understand that it can be quite difficult to fully analyze each one. So I hope you keep going with this series and we can look forward to many more speed runs in the future, maybe from the next one you can start it at a mid level rating like 1500 so we skip to players who at least slightly understand opening and middlegame theory. Thanks for everything Danya!
Thank you so much for this speedrun, Daniel. It’s definitely the most instructive series I’ve encountered, alongside John Bartholomew’s Chess Fundamentals videos. Cheers!
I am a new viewer and I think these videos are amazing. I have been watching this speed run for the last few weeks and I often hear you speak about the fabled previous two speed runs. I have not watched those yet, but I absolutely think there is great value in this speed run. I came upon this series after I started reading a book that covers the four knights scotch opening. I was looking for some practical examples of that and I found the speed run videos where you played it, and I was completely blown away by how instructional these videos are. Now I have just been watching the rest of them. Thank you!
Man, its ridiculously satisfying when understanding locks in over how to evaluate a position in the moment. Can't thank Daniel enough for the practical look into GM thinking. Such a tremendous help to my understanding and enjoyment of the game.
🙌🙌 Danya. Love walking through the logic with you. Your insights are always helpful, this kind of thing especially so. Getting out of bad situations is something I find myself doing often 🤷♂️
Love the speed runs Danya, I learn so much from each one. And I liked when you kept notes on what you wanted to talk about after the game. In this one you said it would be very instructive to talk about why Nxd4 wasn’t a good move, but I think you forgot
Wow, super-helpful game, particularly dealing with that rook-queen setup on the a-file. And even though it was for instruction, you can just sense Daniel's discomfort playing a bad move on purpose, LOL
The speedrun is my favorite series on youtube period. Each episode has so much instructional value. I would be more than happy to see more speedruns in the future. Maybe another 5 minute or even 3 minute. My blitz skills need a lot of work.
Hey Danya, just wanted to let you know I'll never get tired of this content! Even if you explain something you've said before, it's still very educational and we often see a combination of concepts at work that make every game interesting
I think this is the most instructive speedrun so far. Not because the others werent instructive, but this one is based on chess principles, and it's something fundamental even advance chess players need to have ingrained in their minds.
you're my favorite teacher the quality is just on a superhuman level, i think being writer is the one important reason, you're able to conceptualize and verbalize ideas faster and better than others.
Thanks for the video, I really enjoy these speedruns. Even when the openings are repeated multiple times there's so much to say that it can't be done in a few videos. I was really happy to see you didn't retire the series but restarted it. I also look forward to when you get to around my rating (1800-1900) and do these "recover from bad position" games. On another note, you probably won't see this comment, but I was curious why you weren't worried about damaging your pawn structure by playing Nc6? Was the value of removing the knight from that square truly worth it? It'd never occur to me to do that I'll be honest because I hate damaging my pawn structure.
00:40 "Disclaimer, I haven't used it before, I might end up getting crushed but I don't think I will" *Always Sunny In Philadelphia theme song begins to play* *DANYA GETS CRUSHED BY A NOOB*
I like seeing you play these “bad positons,” but it’s hard to do it in a way that’s reasonable. Bong cloud is definitely fun, but my absolute favorite was when you played against the scotch and hung the f7 trap
6:32 I dont think a 1400s can see that move. I think he thought danya would put pressure the pawn by bringing the rook. So he was also preparing the rook. Lol.
Would it be possible to suggest an opening with more unorthodox pawn positions, and active piece play for black? I would love to see a benko gambit, or even a benoni of some sort?
One thing I'd like to see is how to deal with a weak king. Like a castled king where the knight on f3 or f6 is taken and is then recaptured with the g pawn rather than another piece. I could be up 2 pieces and still blunder some mate in these positions.
Is that your attempt on being funny Lukasz? Or is your reading comprehension that of someone from kindergarten. Where in the title did it say he'll be playing the london? Pathetic...
I still remember the first time someone played the bongcloud against me it was like 2009 I thought it was some mathematical joke now it's in everyone's repertoire
But the goal of chess is to play Ke2. White has an advantage because it's much easier for white to play Ke2 than it is for black to play Ke2. In fact, it takes black at least 7 moves to achieve Ke2.
Instead of doing piece sacs, I think Danya should do more of these types of blunders where you are clearly worse and probably losing against perfect play, but the game shows how to fight from behind.
I think it would be really interesting to just do what you said with playing suspect openings like the Wade or Jaenisch rather than intentionally blundering a piece. It would have the dual benefit of introducing people to offbeat openings and explaining their ideas while simultaneously showing how to recover from tenuous positions.