I've only had one cheater so far. His best accuracy before this game was 16 percent. He did this bizarre opening really quickly and then played on an even interval. Once he had promoted two queens he resigned. It was weird, but I guess he didn't want to be caught. He may have even seen it as practice of sorts.
The principle of finding and recognizing weak squares and weak pawns is huge. It applied when GM Naroditsky played 1300s and it applies when he plays 2000s. Love this series!
This video was instructive in that a computer can actually waste 10 moves in the opening, let the GM opponent fully develop and yet beat him eventually. That's just madness for a 1400 player to comprehend.
the biggest thing for me is how he playes a rook sacrafice that you wouldnt play unless you already knew how to respond to every move and knew it was forced checkmate then he procedes to think about dayas move for 3 secounds like it suprised him
He was never close to beating this chump! Just because the engine says that he was up it doesn't mean anything if the player is blind to all the winning moves. hahaha
No quite opposite of that...it shows that even if you make horrible blunder just to not catch from anti ban system of chess.com and engine is showing -6 advantage than still you will lose if engine itself will play the rest of the game so the engine is never in trouble
@@kiddosir No, it doesn't show that. We are watching one example of a gm that is talking to a chat while calculating. First of all, this sample is far too small to conclude anything. Second of all, full force danya on his own would have won this, I have no doubt in my mind so would have any sufficiently good gm. But... but... in sacrificial positions, you have to play extremely accurately because every move matter (as dany says prepare slow, attack fast). If you are playing against a normal human, an innacuraccy might be ok because defending this is still very very complicated. But against an engine every move needs to be optimal. Daniel still blundered though.
Daniel, thank you for your integrity and prudence, making this speedrun informative despite dishonesty by your opponent. Ironically, I suspect this speedrun segment will get a ton of views.
Wait a minute. I’ve played people who start off playing horrible moves and I’m like “Man my position is just overwhelming better than theirs and they hung a piece. This is will be easy.” And I somehow end up not only losing but getting destroyed. I previously never suspected cheating because they played so poorly to start but when Danya said “I hate when they start like this because that usually means they’re going to suddenly play better.” I realized that that’s probably what was happening to me. I’ll never understand why people play just to cheat. What do they get out of it?
@@speaker1449 Ever heard of cheating at chess because it is fun? Not like your life is boring just because you cheated at an online game for a couple of hours.
@@pokahman236 do you like cheat at chess on a daily basis? Why you getting so offensive over my oppinion? Hb this would you rather watch a player who has been playing for years and talking about how he learned why hes making the moves he is and his personal life or watch a robot play a board game for you?
@@peterdevlin3295 i would not regret, i can create another one xD however i am going to play my moves fast somehow and not take 3 sec on engine move but some more than im gonna lose the game in time trouble playing like 2000 so he wont even report me :p
especially with the recent boom in chess popularity i've seen a lot of chess related content but i gotta say for me personally this series is the most intriguing educational and fun to watch
Using Daniel principles (play slow moves, develop your pieces, grab space on the flanks etc) I literally toyed around with a 2100 on lichess, (I wasn’t able to convert a the critical moment but that is still a feat !)
I think Danya picks the opponents for this so the guy would have to have a legit account for Danya to accept to play him, so it was prolly the first time he used an engine on the account. its crazy the lengths people will go for 5 minutes of attention and then no one gives a fuck about them, idk if they think people will be impressed but it just seems like a waste of your time.
For the love of me. I have no idea why would someone cheat. That rating number is just a number if it doesn't represent your true skill. And if you cheat, you know that you are not 2400 ELO. So you are just lying to yourself. And that is just sad.
i don't think this person cheated beginning moves wherent computers favourite and he made some blunders that got him -6 that even against best engine daniel should win if he sees right ideas
@@jannickackermans2449 The beginning moves were made with the computer turned off. This seems to be what the cheaters do to try and avoid the automatic detection algorithms so it looks like your accuracy isn't too high.
You know you play against an engine when you make no bad moves but you find yourself in a position with not too many options and that is exactly what Daniel was having in that game which explains why for the first time you see him without a clear plan. It was educational though watching a GM against a bot .
This video makes me feel like I encountered a cheater the other day. I'm still a very new chess player, so I assumed my opponent was just toying with me in the beginning, then got serious and beat me, but it was suspiciously like Daniel's game. Either way it doesn't really matter to me much, but it is a bummer to encounter that type of thing.
At very low ratings that kind of thing is super common. Lots of decent chess players make a new account and steamroll low rated players to get to their actual rating. New accounts are a great way to try out crazy openings without sacrificing your rating. Plus some people get off on the kind of flexing that comes from beating up kindergarteners (think Anakin Skywalker)
@@trequor Yea, that's why I wasn't sure if it was a cheater or a good player. Either way it's kind of a dick move to do that to an amateur if you ask me.
3:37 not easy to refute his moves. Lol I love this kind of obvious hinting. High level Chess players are like poets when it comes to accusing someone of cheating without saying it out loud. Other classics are like "he is playing way above his rating" and "I cant believe he is X rated"
Love it -- it seems like there has been a rapid shift in willingness to discuss this among streamers lately (I had long noticed a sort of reluctance to discuss it because Chess(.)com and Lichess very strongly discourage discussion of it). The sport is better in the long-run, even if the userbase of these sites is pruned.
Although it should be noted that the vast majority of engine-users are much subtler -- this is the only kind of cheater whom Lichess/Chess.com say exists.
@@griffinbur1118 how could you know such a thing? Even just using the simple engine that comes pre-packaged with Windows you could beat most players without them even knowing that you were an engine.
I was disappointed to see speed run videos when I'd enjoyed the coaching videos so much. Then I watch a speed run video and realized I enjoyed it more than the coaching videos 😂.
Levy Rozman doesn't know what innocent until proven guilty means. He calls nearly every random player who beats him a cheater, and then gets chess.com to ban them. The last time I saw him cry cheater on stream, he didn't even show the game analysis. I like the way Danya handles it.
It's such a rare virtue to have these days, but we need it more than ever. We should all follow his example when it comes to one's attitude towards a suspicious and accused person.
The blatant cheating proof is at 22:18, when he plays the incredible f6 in exactly 5 seconds (black cannot take the pawn, because then there's a rook sacrifice into a mating attack which is far from obvious)
It's his upbringing. Daniel may be Russian, but he is a sweet summer child of San Francisco's sunny shores. Stockfish is laid bare to the Siberian winter for weeks on end. It is hardened within the freezing kiln of true suffering.
If he opened like that, and continued to play badly, it wouldn't be cheating, then, would it? The opening alone isn't evidence of cheating, it's the fact he played 95% accuracy after the opening.
He closed his own account on December 17 2020, the same day this match happened. He probably realized that something was coming for him, so he closed it. You'd never close an account with absurd wins and a current membership
@@Nnm26 No he is not. That would put him in competition with legit best typers in the world like Sean Wrona. I can believe that he can peak for a few seconds at that speed with easy text, but not hold an average for many many races.
Reminds me of an encounter between Magnus and a cheater on Chess24. Magnus actually managed to draw that game somehow. He got lucky though, since he managed to trade all the pieces.
Still learning from this awesome speed run. On the last game, why did the opponent resign with the queen move d4? What am I missing? Wouldn’t his next move take your queen?
@@odysseus1220 it was in 2000, and 1994 ibm or some other computer beat Kaspy in a blitz match and in 1997 beat him in classical. So they were strong enough in 2000
