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The ability to watch a 2600 GM walk through a game of chess is something that can’t be taken for granted. This series is literally one of the most helpful chess tools ever created
Becoming a Super GM is probably more difficult then becoming a very rich entrepreneur. Also, it is much more useful I think. Listening to rich people rarely makes people rich lol.
Kudos to this opponent playing this to the end so that we get the education all the way to the end. Very good sportsmanship and as always, great teaching by Danya
I think this is my favorite elo to watch. No obvious blunders by the opponent (with the exception of a poor opening idea) and just good understandable, methodical, and instructive play, but not such a high level that the tactics are beyond a lower-level player's grasp. Great content as always!
This was my favorite game so far; Kxd7 was mindblowing, and then the buildup against the d pawn and slow positional crush was very satisfying. Want to see the analysis!
I like watching Danya's video with Stockfish on a 2nd screen, you can see how strong he is as he is literally playing the first or second line of the computer every time and explaining why. Definitely the best chess streamer/teacher all over the Internet by far
I dont know if u read this Danya, but as an 1800 casual player you are the only GM that consistently manages to make me understand your WHOLE games. Credit where credit is due.
I love this series, very instructive. It’s seems to be so easy with Danya commentary 😂 in my games I always blunder at some point, but still it’s helping me to getting familiar with some positions and understanding them, I’ve applied some patterns in my games from those videos. Getting High level knowledge from top player is amazing, thank you for your work 🙏🏼
Didn't know about your channel earlier. But a GM making things clear in such a way and a totally instructive video like this deserves lot of applause. 👏👏👏 Thank you sir. I'll regularly watch your channel and twitch channel too now to develop thinking process in Chess.
Honestly honestly it’s no question that you’re a world class player, but the fact you are also world class at teaching is so rare for those who are the best at what they do in almost any field!
I usually pride myself on guessing moves/lines right as or before Danya plays them, but I don't think I'm alone in not even considering Kxd7 with the idea of Kc6 to follow. I probably would've taken with the rook, controlling the file and preparing to double rooks after I developed the dark square bishop. Weirdly enough, stockfish seems to prefer taking with the bishop (but it also doesn't like the Nd7 move offering the knight trade, preferring instead Nh5 to kick the knight away one move later with f6.) To me, it was abundantly clear how strong the king on c6 made the position for black, defending a well-placed pawn that limited white's counterplay, without ever being in danger of much more than an empty pawn check that was quickly captured back. Excellent and illustrative game!
Yea kxd7 makes a lot of sense when you look at the board for some seconds, but obviously its the difference between him and us that he even considers it in rapid
Watching him move the queen around for the very last move searching for checkmate and finding it so quickly blows my mind. I tried to slow it down to .25x and wipe my mind of the position and came back to see if I could keep up in calculating and I flat couldn't do that nearly as quick as him. Blows my mind
day 33 of saying you're kickbutt danya. You're the master of chess tutorials and line instruction. My chess game has improved drastically thanks to you, and I love your stream. Thank you for uploading!
When he says..Getaaaadafff there.. Am trying to improve simply by your videos and i must say I have learned more than any other resource.. Can't thank you enough for this man ❤❤❤
It’s so fascinating to see that endgame where he just casually blitz his way to checkmate A reminder that he’s toying w/ us & could crush you whenever he feel like it. GMs are built different
Cool game I was following the game with the help of stockfish. Sure, there were some small errors from the black side but the opening was very educational and thought us how to deal with those silly "sidelines" that opponents like to employ to distract us. Thanks!
Amazing game, Danya. After watching videos like this I feel like donating to you. However, I couldn't find a link for donation on your video description. I would recommend you to add links for donation in all of your masterclass videos. Thank you for these lessons. It's overwhelming in a positive way! Love your teaching
@@PROJECTJoza100 It depends on what time control you are talking about. He is a Super GM at really fast time controls. And in classical, he is a very strong GM: GM starts at 2500. His current rating (from Wikipedia) is 2623, with a peak at 2647. The boundary for Super GM is today taken to be 2700, so he's closer to that than to GM. Anyway, given that these are 10 minute games, I would think he likely is Super GM in the 10 minute format. (But it's a very uncommon format at higher levels.) Anyway, here is an 80 game fast time-format match against Magnus where Danya wins half the games. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--gspiFARqto.html Even if Magnus was having a bad day, Danya's has to be in Super GM land in that time format to achieve such a thing.
@@Blitnock sure, you could argue that he is super gm in fast formats, but I thought and heard people say super GM only when referring to classical games.
Lmao. It's not dangerous at all for black. It's just that the main lines end up very simple and equal and it's hard for either side to get an attack so it's kind of a drag and no-one likes playing it. Sort of like the french exchange.
Beginners: look for free pieces Intermediate: look for possible pressure and checkmates Advanced: look for positional game and traps, tricks Masters: gaining space advantage, punish inaccuracies, play solid GrandMaster: let your opponent to loose game even with the best moves
He is hyping up weak opponents for some reason. When he plays good opponents, he is mostly silent and focused. This is like watching a pro fighter spar a toddler while giving commentary - woah! This toddler is for real! His punches are lightning fast! He almost knocked me out there, you can never be too careful!
Damnnn, kxd7 looked like a terrible blunder to me, absolutely astonishing that you played it and made it work. Thanks for the upload Danya, apreciate it.
I think it's actually two rooks vs knight and bishop. After Nd6+ Kc6, White takes the bishop. Since White played Nd6+ instead of Rf1, Black can now win Whites Rook on d1 without sacrificing.
@@stilleswassermaximalist What if Nxf5 Rh1+, Kf2 though? The rook isn't lost but I believe the white bishop will soon be with Kf2 Rh2+, Ke1 Rxf1+, Kxf1 Rh1+ I didn't check with engine though so I might be wrong
I think this represents the mindset of a lot of beginners who play the alapin. They play it to "avoid theory" but he just got crushed because he didn't know alapin opening theory.
I just love this series, there is really nothing out there that compares to this in terms of quality of the analisis and how easy and logical it all seems
It’s crazy how positions like this you don’t win anything, there’s not many tactics but the pressure just keeps mounting and mounting then once one thing falls a few moves later it goes from even material to up 13 points. Insane.
I mean his opponent played fairly well for his rating, and the 1800s you verse do make the same mistakes, you just aren’t as strong as danya so you’re not always playing the best move to apply maximum pressure and make your opponent fumble
Playing the pawn to f4, would I be right in saying that this is like stepping into the enemies territory which can be double edged and might need some more consideration
The way you described his opening moves I expected complete steamrolling and not a slow positional endgame :( Maybe trading queens was a mistake in a hindsight?
Hey Danya, i just want to say (in a totally friendly way), that sometimes, the tonality of your voice reminds me of Sam Harris. There was one time i was listening to your voice in the background whilst doing something and i thought i was watching a Sam Harris video.
Just want to ask one thing, does all GMs who mostly rank in the Top 10 of international chess events, are fully into competitive chess? I mean to say do they work somewhere else too? Like their own business or a high position in some company??
top 10 players are full time chess players. they maybe have some things they do on the side, certainly magnus has his companies but to stay at that level they have to dedicate most of their time to studying the game. they certainly dont have a "normal" 9 to 5 job somewhere else in addition to their chess carreer.
