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I like how he can see all this in his mind, however complicated it gets. I have to look at the board, and still miss most of it. Need to work on my mental chessboard.
@@codeaccuna I'm 1200 but it's still very useful to see him play all the way up to 2000. He makes the analysis simple with analogies and humour. Which made it fun to watch, even when I didn't know much about chess
I love Dana, no one else tries to explain every single detail like him which i think is important for people to truly understand certain concepts. Please keep doing this type of content!!
"It doesn't diminish the search for beauty, it merely enhances our ability to aprciate it" This could be the whole point of the game in general imo. Wise!
20:50 Note for future: prevent mass trades, more pieces = more tactics. Preventing trades means making moves ahead of time that lead to a better position for yourself, rather than "running away" from them when they actually occur
Nothing inspires me to go lose chess rating like an awesome video like this one. I doubt Danya reads YT comments especially on videos from 9 months ago, but man I recently discovered your content and absolutely love it. Thanks for the teaching!
wow, huge thank you for this tremendous amount of work you put in your videos, watching and calculating all this lines along with you was really fun and instructive, and i think this is so far the best serie in speedrun, we definitely need one more try on nimzo-indian defense in next speedruns.
Or begging for some Nimzo content since this one went to other (QID) direction... (I think the title is a bit misleading - it goes against the number one tip "Make sure your title matches your video content")
28:52 the beginning of a great analysis with wonderful mating patterns. A very good illustration to the “the threat of a move is more damaging than the move itself“. I also couldn’t stay cool and just take the pawn (first on d4 or then on d3) with the queen. It never even occurred to me as an option while I was watching. Who cares about the measly pawn when all black pieces are involved. Amazing play.
Wanted to thank you for this video and the Catalan one I played a 1750 in my clubs inaugural tournament I’m a 1146 and I did some research on my opponent and he played into my Catalan thinking it was gonna be QG not the Catalan and basically crushed him and im still hanging in there with the black pieces playing this nimzo line you showed I don’t know if I am better because my prep ran out and he played say different but thank you for your content it’s the best content for learning of everyone’s out there cheers
Loved the video. You've helped my game so much. I no longer blunder my queen by move 7, I'm up to move 12. Edit: That knight checkmate was dope. I really underestimate the knight and try and trade it for a bishop.
I would never go into a chess game and plan on trading knights - you need to read the position, and make trades specific go to the game you're playing. Takes some time to learn, but knights can be much much better than bishops sometimes
@Lehmän Kulli69 his account was closed for cheating. Not all cheaters do it 100% of the game. Just when it's for enough ahead that they feel they can finish themselves. Then they get into such a mess they can't survive. Some people are really good at secretly cheating and it takes 100s of games for them to get caught.
Thanks for this video. Really good teaching, appreciate you sharing your knowledge, the enthusiasm and the effort you put into this. Its a really appreciated and a joy to watch.
@@Shome2049 Nah, even 1400s can play an amazing game every once in a while. Although it's sadly very common these days, I don't think assuming that every good game played by a lower-rated player involves a cheater is a fair mindset.
This was great! I have been learning the Nimzo to get out of queens gambit positions but often I still end up with the queens gambit. Now I see that I need to look at the queens Indian!
I would hesitate to pick up the QID. The Alphazero vs Stockfish 8 match in 2018(?) showed a near refutation of the QID and nowadays pros don't play it at the top level anymore. This is not to say that the QID won't work at our level (Danya just showed it is!), but why sacrifice your own improvement by learning a slightly inferior opening, when you're already learning the best option?
@@michaelf8221 Bruh. The fact that openings are unsound at a top engine level doesn’t really mean anything- almost half of the masters I’ve played in tournaments play the QID
The account AKSHAY01210 has been closed for cheating. He probably started using his engine after Danya gave him a scary sacrifice and stopped just long enough for checkmate.
I only looked it up because it already seemed pretty obvious he was cheating. He goes from average to super good to average very sharply in this game. @@Rundik
One thing that amazes me about high-level players, especially but not exclusively GMs, is not only the ability to calculate complex multiple lines several moves deep (impressive enough in itself), but the SPEED with which they can do so. I understand that comes from thousands of games, thousands of hours of analysis/study, pattern recognition, etc. But amazing nonetheless.
14:16 you could have sacrificed your rook by taking on e1 because the knight was the lone defender of the g2 square and both your bishop and queen were looking at it (the queen would be after h2+) queen g2 would be mate after that
Black is winning after 1. … Rxe1 2. Qxe1 Qh2+ 3. Kf1 Qxg2+. But because of prosaic reasons, not because it’s mate. After 4. Ke2 Nde5, Black is seriously better since White will keep loosing material.
14:03 you missed a beautiful mate with rook takes e1 I think, cause after queen takes e1 ther is queen h2 check and after king f1 queen takes g2 check king e2 there is bishop f3 and it's mate right?
2000 player here, not forced mate but you win back the queen and big material advantage, checkmate will soon follow, very nice spot! What rating do you have? That was a nice tactic :)
I’m 1700 in rapid anyway I noticed there is no force mate cause after king d2 the position is stuck and white I think can create quite a few conterplay cause black has back rank problems
Chat: Hi, Daniel. Try out the Greek gift. It looks possible. Daniel: Wow, great find. Yeah, it may just be possible. I trust you guys. Chat: Ohhh shit... he followed our suggestion. He's gonna lose, right?
26:50 --> after f3 and f5, white has Bg5 deflecting the queen from e7 and opening the vision of the rook which now protects the knight. and if Qxg5, then Bxb7, and white is doing well. or am I missing something? 28:05 --> seeing that Qe7 no longer works, if Qe8 had been played, then we cannot employ this tactic anymore but we can trap the bishop with g6.
I really enjoyed the exploration of all the attacking options and exploring the opponent's defenses of those attacks. I enjoy when Danya does something that isn't theoretically necessarily sound to put him in a difficult position to find a way to continue attacking. Danya style all the way!
13:14 ( without seeing actual conclusion) would rook takes E1 with check followed by Queen H5 then Queen D5 followed by potential Queen G2 be a probable mate line?
Yes It is, you have a nice tactical eye! In this position, black has a forced mate in 2. After you play Rxe1 check, it doesn’t matter what your opponent covers with (Bf1 or Nf1) bc Qh2 is mate. Notice that if he covers with a knight (Nf1), he cannot recapture the queen bc of the pin. (NOTE: this is only assuming white doesn’t find the move Qd2)
14:08 rook takes e1, queen takes back e1, queen h2. king f1, queen takes g2, king e2, bishop f3 looks like a forcing checkmate right? Am I missing something? edit: King escapes d2 and my theory falls apart
Wow... btw after Nxg4, if he had simply taken your pawn on d3 with his queen, Stockfish at debth 30 says this is 0.0. Unbelievable just how close this 1400 got to drawing a SuperGM!!!!
Thanks for your teachings Danya-san. I've learned quite a lot from you, even as a lowly 1600. Thank you for sharing your knowledge for free. I truly appreciate it
42:23 isn't QxNg3 crushing? If they don't take the Queen you get a piece, and if they do than you take Knight, Bisho, and Queen with your Knight, almost all with check
I want to say it’s an Indian setup but isn’t specifically a Nimzo without Nc3 Bb4. This was a Queen’s Indian. It’s strange seeing people in the comments saying they learned the Nimzo here or they love the Nimzo like they didn’t even watch the video lol Danya titled it that way though
