Grandmaster Solves Master-Level Puzzles 

Highly recommend pausing, trying to solve, then letting Danya explain AFTER you’ve thought about it for a while yourself.

I feel like my ELO rises every time I watch one of your videos. No one else can explain a high level puzzle to a 1100 and have it make perfect sense

I think this is a much better series for youtube only, and this will only help your channel growth. I know many people look forward to these including myself, and I just wanted to say thanks. Thanks Danya for streaming, teaching, commentating, and being the best bullet player. 😃

I am loving this series, the way you take us through every puzzle logically is amazing to watch even if I'm a sub 1000 scrub

this is a BRILLIANT series please make these at least once per week. i would love to see you solve 3000-3500 puzzles

17:46 wow, that was quite a puzzle! Very complex.

7:59 Master-level puzzle from what is most likely a game between two 600 rated players

Amazing content, you make the tactics seem completely elementary! I love your style of asking the right questions - obviously for less talented players, a challenge is coming up with the right questions in each position, but the way you logically and methodically solve these is just brilliant and crystal clear.

Despite watching him clearly explain and solve every puzzle I still conclude that this is black magic.

Great way to start my weekend! I'm loving the speedrun series, your way to share your thoughts and knowledge is very instructive. Glad to see you're starting some RU-vid only series too! I understand content creation is not your first priority but every single one of your uploads is so enriching, can't stop watching.

You're a phenomenal teacher, this series is extremely instructive. Keep up the good work

Love this series. You make these puzzles seem so easy!

Loving these so much man cheers, please please do more

Danya you are the best! Thank you so much for all the instructive content you provide. This series, like all the others, is nothing short of amazing

It was very neat when you mentioned the Queen pin at 19:22. But what really blew my mind was the concept of wasting the opponent's tempi at 20:45, that is absolutely insane!!

Please do more of these! Awesome series thank you Danya

Absolutely loving this series!

Best chess coach on youtube. love your stuff and love this series. Doing hard puzzles with no coach is frustrating, but trying them and then following up with your explanations was really fun and informative

Well done Danya! This series is absolutely amazing, very well explained and we all hope more of such content is coming in the future ! :)

Daniel this series is awesome, so instructive and yet entertaining! Please do more of these :)

Great way of explaining the complex positions. Wonderful series...

A lovely idea, well presented and - as always - instructional. Cheers Danya.

Your Awesome Daniel, your videos are so good, I learn a lot from them, keep up the good work, soon you will get to 1 million subs!!!!!

Love your content, thank you a lot, keep it up.

Hi Daniel, I'd been doing chess puzzles for ages with kinda slow progress but after watching this series sometimes when I do puzzles I remember some of the patterns you analysed and I feel sometimes I can even hear you say "The most attractive move might not be the right move"... thanks! It's helped me in so many puzzles already :)

Most helpful chess videos available on RU-vid..kudos to you

Man you can't imagine how I appreciate these kind of videos. How many time I have been struggling in solving a single problem? Thinking about 40mins and still get it WRONG. Although I cannot exactly fully copy what you have done, but I saw you really find the solution first (full series of moves) then answer, not just try this move and that move and explain every detail we should pay at attention for. really appreciate for that.

this was very instructional. great video

Yay more puzzles! Love these!

I LOVE this series!

Great stuff Danya, keep it up!

Amazing teaching!

Just wanted to say you do a great job at explaining/teaching.

It's nice to hear your thought process

Followed you since you started this channel. One of the best content creators on RU-vid and Twitch overall.

I like also like puzzles where you are in check to start with. Thanks Danya!

2nd puzzle was very instructive. I did see the main solution of Qh6 and Qg5 but I thought about calculating Qh6 Kg8 and Rh4 threatening mate on h7 and h8. But black plays Rd1+ Kh2 and then Nf3+!!. If you capture gxf3 then Qf2# and Rxf3 leads to Qe1+ Rf2 Qe5!. Blacks Queen gets back in time to defend the mate. Interestingly if you play Rd1+ Kh2 and then Qg1+ then white is winning because after Rf2 black no longer has the e5 square for the queen. A clearance for defence.

Great content, could watch this for hours

Thanks for this video. I learned a lot.

Thank you, Grand Master Naroditsky. Sharing your analysis like this is just so awesome....!!!! You enlighten where darkness reigned.....!!!!

I don't usually care for puzzle videos, but you explain your thinking so well I can't stop watching

this has become my favorite series here on RU-vid. i really like this series. this helps a lot. i believe this series will help him getting more and more subscribes.

I just got back into chess after 20 years and LOVE this content. You've got a gift for teaching my friend.

Your organisation of the bookshelf is making my brain implode!

YAY! THIS SERIES IS AMAZING!!

Love that last puzzle

another great one!

My favourite series!

A very interesting video, please make more videos like this! :)

Let's go! Love this series

Totally awesome . I paused before every problem, thanks, enjoyed. feels great to practice the calculation & visualization skills with some counter intuitive themes. 19:20 reminds me of the game Shankland vs Xiong , wow cool tactics.

Really enjoying these. Please keep making them and just cycle through puzzle ratings.

Always great content Danya!

Amazing content… as usual. Thanks

Great content Danya!

These videos are awesome!

I love the slight pauses in the beggining of these 😂

keep making this kind of videos, your approach is extremely useful for beginners

The best chess series on RU-vid! Please continue...

MINDBLOWING DANIEL! I would watch these high level puzzles explained all day, for not being able to solve them by myself.

Wow this is great! Daniel makes it sound so easy :)

Thank you for sharing. Since I tried solving puzzles, my game improves. I am becoming sharper to tactics and even create themes that I am familiar with.

You always learn something new, idk why I never thought of going for a higher value piece in a situation where both queens are hanging, so simple, yet I always would have just jumped to take his queen first in that situation!

Danya speaks very eloquently. Probably one of the best explainers I've heard for any subject.

I had no idea that the famous wrong color bishop endgame is nuanced! You learn something new every day, honestly when you reached the position I'd thought you'd just dismiss it by quickly mentioning why it's clearly a draw, then backtrack and look for an extra tempo or something, amazing stuff man

Congrats on 200k

Amazing once again

Just noticed you got to 200k subs congrats!

Looking forward to the Grandmaster Solves Grandmaster-Level Puzzles video!

That sixth puzzle with the skewer and passed pawns was a great learning experience! I saw the moves but failed to calculate that black's king could've moved up and caught up with the pawn.

We need many more. It shows us GM thinking, candidates move selection and tactics.

I could watch videos like this every days forever.

this is the elo i get for my daily puzzles, and ive seen a few of these before, and danya's explanations are very clean and easy to understand

I can watch it all day long. Even though I've managed somehow to get my puzzle rating to 3000, I'm still finding this video extremely educational.

Great stuff :)

You gotta go back and do each level for multiple parts, such a great series. Beginner puzzles part 2 next?

Please keep doing these

This is the videos we want :)

0:01 Intro Timestamps below This could spoil the difficulty You've been warned 1:18 Puzzle 1 3:55 Puzzle 2 7:59 Puzzle 3 11:18 Puzzle 4 15:24 Puzzle 5 17:46 Puzzle 6 24:08 Puzzle 7

That Ba7 idea is beautiful, I never would have seen that

very interesting and useful

Thanks for the content Danya, just wanted to point out the possibility of stalemate at 23:40 if Bb6+ Kc8, after which repeating Ba7 would be the only move that avoids a draw. Perhaps Kb7 would be safer than moving the bishop immediately, may be helpful for some newer players!

Great video

That was terrific. Thanks! And wow, I even managed to solve that last problem. 🙂

That serie made me subscribe to your channel. Highly instructive for a lower rated player like me.

This makes it look easier than it actually is

such a good teacher

Love this series. I definitely see Danya's subs going Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

More advanced content please! This is awesome. Seriously; not everyone can stream advanced content. You do it well, and not just because you're a GM.

I think you produce the best content ever!!!

Dear Daniel: please continue

great video :D

Thank you Danya

Daniel makes this look so easy lol.

Digging this. I started playing chess a couple of months ago and to be honest I enjoy puzzles more than anything. I just broke 1500 puzzle rating yesterday. My rapid rating is horrible by comparison, but I love the problem solving aspect of puzzles.

improving my chess and vocab

Plot twist. Daniel designs these puzzles. That's why hes able to solve them so effortlessly 😂

I'm a 1500 on lichess, the highest tactical rating I had was 2209, I really enjoy puzzles from 1800 and above, but 2300 puzzles are too much, I will maybe find the first couple of turns in the calculation but then stuff up the continuation. This has been enlightening. Subbed

solving the puzzles is impressive but just as impressive is doing this in one take!

These videos are terrific. More of the same, please and thank you.