I'm surprised it took this long to see an opponent going hail mary with their Queen and that it occurred at this level of play. I'm at 600-700 and I would say turn 2 queens make up 40-50% of the games that I encounter. It is because these players get rewarded frequently enough with blunders, so they keep doing it and never improve.
And this was an incredible lesson too. Must are, but this video is amazing. He explains so many things in such a natural and logical way. Thank you Danya!
A child who just learned how the pieces move and that the queen is the strongest, more like. I don't think they realize pawns can move two spaces on first move even.
Yea I really appreciate it. These video's are basically my life at the moment lol. It's the only content I'm really digging. I binged the other series.
Learning or just experimenting with different openings has helped me immensely in learning chess. Learning the ideas and not the lines is the important thing. That’s where the knowledge boosts your chess IQ.
I love how in chess the more you do it you start to pick up on things that would never accord to you a month prior there's always something new. Ngl tho I think I'm addicted to playing because I can be so angry and say I hate the game then next thing I know I'm in another game haha. Your vids have been the best for helping me improve I'm only 600 but speaks to your teaching ability that I can follow what you're explaining. Honestly you're a god send, since I found this channel I see all sorts of weaknesses against my opponents. I hope to be 1000 next year I know I'll never be a gm or anything but its just fun to learn and improve thanks for the content
I'm 900 rapid now. I played some 500 in blitz at 4 in the morning though and blundered lots and the guy called me a noob and an idiot etc bla bla bla said I ain't on his level 😂 guy was 500 and I don't really concentrate in blitz at 4 in the morning. Anyway you get some dick heads on chess com who think they're magnus carlsen or something when they're 500
Danya: no one will try and memprise their way to chess mastery. Max deutsch: im developing a machine inside my brain to remember the solution to every possible chess position. Where is the world champion?
Hey Danya ive been watching your videos over the last couple of months and i have to say they are always a treat to watch and i get hyped every time. Personally my favorite videos of yours are the collabs with Charlie but your chess "slowrun" was also amazing and i enjoyed every episode i watched. I hope you keep up the content and when im done with all the schoolwork i might even check out your livestreams. Love from germany youre my fav chess player
A quick bullet point recap of the key concepts you use in each video would help us remember much more of your helpful teachings. Even if it was always similar tied to your values for a master chessplayer, the framework would help us grasp your train of thought, and channel our inner sensei while playing.
Hikaru and Levy did put various variations of the Advanced Caro Kann in the garbage tier list for, and this is important, beginner players 800-1300. However they put one variation of it in unbreakable so the short and the long of is the Caro Kann good is "it depends" (on a number of factors including player level).
12:23 One thing I was taught as a beginner (whether it's correct or not I don't know) was not to make moves that help your opponent develop, which is one reason I'd be hesitant to play Bg4 here. Should that influence my play in a situation like this?
I realize this is super late, but Bg4 does not help white’s development. The queen is unable to retake because the bishop is guarded by the knight on f6. The move pawn f3 blocks the development of white’s g knight.
about provoking f3 with the bishop, I understand what you mean about provoking weakness, I think the problem with me anyways is seeing why f3 is a weakness. I think that is a high level concept. You say it's a weakness and I have no idea what you're talking about lol. I know it's a weakness when the king has castled, but I don't know the rules about beforehand.
I feel like i'm close to that "trying to memorize whole lines" mostly with the Najdorf or KID thinking to comfortably have an advantage in the middle game even though im quite bad, so yea the moment where i forget what to do next often isn't as scary of a feeling that i thought by my rating lol
It would be cool to see you put together a curriculum of openings for ranges of ratings. I'm still struggling around 600-700 and would love to know what would best develop my skills up to 1000-1200.
2:10 I check with computer and Nf6 and Qe2 is top engine move. What's not top engine move is continuing the caro with d5, instead they want you to play e5 first to prevent white playing e5 ( you still play d5, but after e5).
Whats really hard to grasp for me is not how good GMs are in chess, its not even the fact that they can calculate 10 or 20 moves ahead, its not their knowledge of the game either, whats amazing to me is how they're so relaxed with couple minutes on the clock, and yes i understand that since they're used in playing 1minute chess having 3-4 minutes must feel like a lifetime, especially against a much lower rated player, but its just amazing to me, when i consider that something like 6-7 out of 10 games i lose, are due to time when i have a winning position. Their speed on decision making is something i cant wrap my head around.
I think the point is that most people don't use Frankfurt airport because they want to go to Frankfurt; they use Frankfurt airport as a hub on the way to somewhere else in Europe.
i was literally about to search your channel to watch todays new video, and you posted in the exact second i did that edit: also i was first. 0 views 0 likes 0 comments
Yeah, Ive heard the opinion "openings teach openings; endgames teach chess" many times. I get where they are coming from, but in online rapid/blitz on the beginner levels, you barely even get to proper endgames! The game is decided either quite early, or even if it gets to an endgame one side likely has a huge advantage by that point. So I feel like openings and tactics are the two crucial things in this case. However, at some point you definitely have to start focusing on endgames, calculation skills and deeper positional concepts, as well. Maybe starting early with those can be advantageous, and I get that people may be scared that beginners will just memorize some tricky lines, get quick wins that way but never actually obtain a real understanding of the game.
Opponent: "Muahaha, my opponent is using all of his time thinking about my last amazing move. Surely, I will win this game" Daniel: "Now, chat, this is completely winning but let's take some time to analyze all of the weaknesses in my opponent's position."
@@dipa313 Never understood the hate for Frankfurt airport tbh. Feels like more of a meme. I live close to the airport, have been there many times. Yes, it's big and that can be confusing, but that's true for many airports. I definitely don't think ti's ugly though. It's functional and an airport. Sure, it's no Changi Airport, but it's mostly clean and you can find anything you need there. Off the top of my head Heathrow Airport is an absolute nightmare (especially Terminal 3), to the point where Frankfurt airport looks like an actual holiday destination by comparison. Most former Soviet airports are also awful to look at and if you are around during tourist season you'll find the worst passengers in the world there and often you aren't sure whether security procedures actually get taken seriously. Charles de Gaulle airport is also terrible and Denver International Airport is probably literally cursed by that blue horse statue in front of it. Might look like petty local patriotism for an airport on my end, but imo Frankfurt gets a bad rep for no reason. And it's a self-fulfilling prophecy too because people arrive there with the pre-conception that everything there is bad, so the second they don't feel respected enough or are inconvenienced somehow, it affirms their bias. Way back when I was younger, I had an internship at one of the organizations in the airport and my then boss showed me a binder of the "funniest" complaints from passengers. Ranging from tourists calling Germany a N*zi state for following security procedure to tourists saying they will never fly through Germany again because the police at customs didn't smile back at them. All I ever hear about the airport are complaints but I never had any problems there. If you know where to go and follow the rules, you can speedrun to the gate in half an hour without saying a word.
Beginners 100% should not be playing the Danish. Easy wins in the opening don't teach you much about chess. Winning in the short term for its own sake is meaningless if you actually care about improvement.
The point of gambits at the beginner level is not to win on tricks it’s to get open and tactical positions to teach fundamentals, tactical positions, and attacking. Maybe something like the fried liver is not good for beginners because that is purely playing for tricks but gambits like this are actually very good for improvement
The Englund is bad if they know what they’re doing and there are many other gambits to get a developmental advantage without the downside of the englund
