Grandmaster SpeedRuns Chess - Improve At 1000 Rating! 

Excellent explanations, I've watch tons of chess videos over the past few years and typically I get lost in the reasoning behind certain moves. But the way you explain your logic and thinking has been super useful for me.

Great format! Keep it going Simon! I love that you recently started posting more on RU-vid. You will definitely go up in views and subscribers, due to the great content, it's just a matter of time.

Subbed - this is insane content. I love Daniel Naroditskys speed run and have watched every single one of his videos, and I can truly say you are just as good at teaching and explaining your thought process, really good teacher. hope to see more of these style videos

I love chess speedruns, but I also like these "speedruns" as well. More of a walkthrough or a slowrun if that's a word yet. All good stuff, lots to learn and take away from this series. Thanks!

Love your videos Simon. Put that compliment in your pipe and smoke it son.

I don't know why this guy not have 1M Subs ... He surely deserves that... This series is lit 🔥.

The ginger GM is the GOAT. Best streaming chess teacher on the tube! Thank you sir. ❤

I'm going as Ginger Gm for Halloween. Harry and Barry will be on my shoulders, orange beard and black lion mane.

This is by far the most useful series of chess videos I've ever seen. Well done Simon. Brilliant

Simon, I love how you talk through the ideas. You’re an excellent instructor. Greetings and a new subscription from Nova Scotia.

You're my new favourite chess channel ginger!

Good stuff. That second game was a work of art I must say, really showing the value of patient play.

That was fun to watch, Simon. Quite an espacade! 😜

Thanks Simon for this useful video. I love your content and presentation style. I'm in this rating range and the themes you're exploring here are just what I see (and miss) in my own games. More, please!👍

@GingerGM This video is the perfect speed and perfect coverage of ideas/moves, etc. I would find a course (at this speed) where you play the *same* openings all the way up more valuable (at my level) than some of the more in depth opening courses on your site (or chessable). The reason being - often I find that I know some really good lines (that a great player might play against me) -- but I'm not always familiar with some of the earlier places people go wrong. Thanks for the video.

your videos and explanations are great

Was the knight trapped at 21:30?

Another great video saved to watch again and again, until my 2 brain cells understand relearn chess again. Thank you Simon.

Very nice chess lesson Simon ! Thanks. I like how you stuck with your handle too! Your Nice calming voice to listen to here in the morning is perfect after a couple of big blitz arena all knighters lol. I unbelievably nabbed the 2nd place on tiebreaks in 5/0 blitz arena from 1648 players And they weren't all lower rated players. Even some of them are playing like bosses. A couple of incredible queen endings !! with much stronger opponents was out of this world. I misplayed and lost a couple of these games but got a draw in 1 even a rook up but my king was trying to escape amazing geometry .Great experiences there but 5/0 is super exhilarating at times. After playing in 3/2 blitz tonight wow much more difficult for me. Was a lot more settled and stodgy feel but accurate moves or death by 2 seconds , was really not as much fun 5/0 tbh but 21 out of/623 for 3/2 aint bad for me 43 years old stroke and motorbike crash survivor, many moons ago. Yes the checkmate chess puzzle book in the hospital jump started my brain to be able to read and write and type again.. very thankfully .. I like to use white and red pieces recently as the black pieces keep falling into my blind spots. This new neon pieces helping my board vision . A lot less blunders .5 /0 is the highest form of chess and even better online. It was the first main blitz I loved to play over the board back in the day. Your standard Neo pieces and green board really suits your style here on this video. Chess .com should introduce fully customizable pieces as long as they resemble each piece obviously. I mean customizable by color option too, as long as they have the same tint and tone. Could also have play your own pieces and color MODE would be cool too. I like when you get us the viewer exciting by building up to get excited to seek a game straight after your lesson is a good idea. Make an arena 5/0 tourney someday and let us know your fans and followers & subs could join. Thanks keep up the great work . If you guys are lucky I can upload 2nd half of Silver finish in the 5/0 arena or in parts from 2 nights ago. To think I almost gave up the tourney after 1st couple of losses. And not giving up. The pumping dark techno music really helped with getting back on the horse !!. As others start to lose focus in the second hour of arena I start to relax a bit too. . Have fun chess . those queen rook and pawn endings Wow !!! thanks !! ( please share your good chess banter everyone ) If you enjoy this typical day in an average adult improver`s chess life. thank you and hope you all find amazing moves too :D

These videos are great. Really well explained, very entertaining. I can't wait until you get up to 1500-1600!

Ginger GM: "he played very well for his rating" His brain: "bad game bro" Edit: love your series man, very inspired! I got up to rating 1600 because of your simplified explanations

Thank you Simon. I find your instruction clear and valuable. You have an excellent relatability, which is hard to find in other players of your standing.

How can you talk so much and play beautifully! To be honest, every word you said is so helpful for beginners. I sometimes get lost with some of other you tubers with their explanation. I always thought I was not good enough to follow them. In fact, you are the best at teaching chess. Thank you without end. 😍

Thank you Simon. You keep the fun in chess. So important. Love your work

5.09 Ne2 is unsound, as black has ...Ne7, blocking the white rook and allowing the black king to escape to d7

1. When tension between pawns in centre, respond in the way that restricts your opponents pieces the most and allows yours to move more freely 2. Don’t put your pieces in opponents territory without thinking it through 3. Stop doing artificial attacks (think about the best responses to your moves) 4. Assess your pieces and try to exchange with opponent’s better pieces. 5. Attack fianchetto’d bishops with king castled by advancing h,g pawn 6. Accept queen exchange when up a pawn

Best explanation from any GM I’ve ever seen From a fellow ginger thank you my good Sir 👍 Ps. That mate in the first game with the Queen sac was so cool

Simon, a little late to the party perhaps, but I think you might be the champ when it comes to explaining things for us mere mortals. As a GM I know you're dumbing it down, but that is such an appreciated talent. I love Gotham, and I appreciate the seriousness of Dan Heisman, but you hit it pitch perfect. That's it, just wanted to share the love.

great series, Simon, very educational and just the right time format

#forthealgorithm

Incredible series. A great help for someone who plays chess as a hobby but wants to grow beyond 800, like me.

MY RATING LEVEL! Thanks for making this

Does anyone know if any speed run videos where he plays the Dutch? Hoping someone can help me. Its exactly what I need

I enjoy Simon's explanations very much as he makes it simple for lower level player like me to be able to follow even though he is a Grandmaster.

These getting jebaited is so funny 😂 😂 I'm also 1000

I love how you damn GMs just see shit like queen sac mate in 3s in just a few seconds. Lol lovely first game.

The tip about waiting for your opponent to lose games. Super insightful.

The best

in 31:08 instead of exchanging queens Qxd5 is better and both black's central pawns are gone

Seem so easy and obvious looking at you playing, not the same when I play!!

We are so fortunate to live in a time when 4, influential and great chess players each post amazing and similar chess content, such as demonstrating the highs and lows of progressing through chess elo.

finish on that last game with the king coming in........ lovely stuff

Easily the best educational speedrun series out there. Fantastic, patient explanations with genunine respect for the opponent. Loved your explanation on how to deal with hippo-type setups.

What about speed run at level 600 or should I just find another hobby?

why did he play Kb1 and then h3? doesnt the knight guard a1 anyways? ( in the first game )

Great video mister Williams, i will show it and translate it to my nephew who is learning to play and is rated 1000 in rapid on his internet account.

When you think you're out, you're in.... when you think you're in, you're out.

The speed runs are great, you and Danya are my favourites.

Simon, Narodistsky and agadmator. How I roll

Great content mate, are you about to make an around 1500 rating speedrun?

Chess has alot to do with remembering when I listen to GM Ginger

22:20 how dare you not attempt the smothered mate

ok is your beard dyed because that is a breathtaking shade of red

is it normal to have different colour of beard and hair? never seen that before

thanks for the tips this is why i can get better:)

you make it look so simple and ez wtf

I’m going to name my baby “baby loser”

More of these lower levels please. Really useful

In the first game after your Kb1 black can spice things up with a5! The point being that a3 is met by c6 and now axb4 leads to a big plus for black after axb4 and white can't meet the dual threats of bxc3 and Qa5. At a minimum black has opened lines for a dangerous attack while white's kingside attack is still a long way off. This queenside attacking theme surfaced in a recent PowerPlay Chess video in which Magnus (black) beat Nepo rather convincingly. Of course it's a safe bet that a 1000 rated opponent will not work out the correct continuation even if his/her initial impulse is correct. 🙄

Please turn off Slack when recording these videos! The notifications make things very confusing watching on a work computer. 😉 Otherwise, cannot fault this video. Great series.

Good on ya m8! Keep it up! Love em

Good work fella, keep it up

Really great stuff Simon! Though I think you might have been a bit quick to accuse him of being a sore loser. Us 1000s need time to check to see if there is a way out of the tactic, and emotionally process what just happened. Also tbh it's a little bit rich to accuse an opponent of being a sore loser when you tricked him into thinking he was playing someone his own rating. Anyway love the content, thanks for this great vid!

Great. Thank you!

Amazing as usual Simon!!

Thanks for the free lessons!

Great content. Loving these lower ranked games. Could you please play Black Lion and Dutch against these lower ranked opponents so we can see how they work at this level? (Love your courses!). Was very happy that you the in a Jobava London at the end!!

Really helpful Simon thankyou! I am around this rating level and see a lot of my own mistakes in the opponents you are playing...you illuminate useful principles to follow and why they are important

Love this format!!

30:20 ESPIONAGE it is 🙂

Excellent series.

I no longer receive notifications of Simon's videos, even though I have been subscribed for a long time and selected the 'All' option on the little bell. I used to receive notifications every time. Now I don't get any.

This is great. I really enjoy your explanations during the games. Thanks GGM!

I am already looking forward to the next part of this series. Thank you very much again!

I would love to see some dutch stonewall from you Simon! Thanks for the video. Lots of great tips.

I love this Speedrun Mr Ginger, I'm 1455 rated

loving the format, describing each move and ideas behind thanks for your work) p.s. these sounds of slack notifications scaring the shit out of me lol

Thanks, Simon for this useful video. I love your content and presentation style.

Do 1700 rating ++

Could be a good idea make tematic speed run, the same opening to learn some lines, thanks.

You make it look too easy! Great strategic battle plans. Love it!

Thanks so much

VVN THX !!!

33:56 4

Looking forward to the later uploads especially

SIMONE!!! TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice video.

Thank you

Nice Video

Great !!!

Lovely stuff , informative and well explained

super

Great video Simon, thanks!!

I can't find #6 in this series.

Great video, please do more in this series soon

Great series, thank you!

Great content thanks!

Why can't any Brits ever pronounce words that begin with "th" properly?! They always use "f" in place of the "th". It's quite annoying!

Im 2000 blitz and I still love to watch those videos, thank you Simon!

early today :)