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One of my favorite series on any form of TV, including Netflix, cable, RU-vid, etc. I love it for several reasons: 1) It’s educational and extremely well taught, so I’m learning stuff every video. It explains all the fundamentals of solid chess play in an easy-to-watch manner. 2) It’s outright entertaining. I get to see players at my skill level get absolutely crushed - you know, the same guys I usually struggle against. I get to watch one of the best blitz players on earth 3) It’s relaxing. Most importantly, these types of chess videos are pure ASMR. Great to watch while laying in bed or unwinding after a long day. Something so peaceful about chess vids, especially these ones.
Before I started playing chess I was already watching videos of masters playing against 1000 to 2000 rated players and I thought wow this is easy, I can do that as well. I remember thinking that I would be immediately rated at least 1400 after I watched these videos. I would watch titled players point out mistakes that 1200 rated players were making and I would be like yeah these guys are really stupid. Imagine my shock when I started playing chess myself and 900 rated players were wiping the floor with me. Needless to say I didn't get the 1400 rating when I started playing chess, instead my rating was 600.
Just food for thought here... If you did play a GM, I'm assuming you would get crushed, right? (if not, sorry). I would highly recommend analyzing any game where that happens. There's really only a few things that could have caused this (generally): 1. You played obvious blunders (relative to your rating range), in which case you should review them so as to avoid similar ones in the future. 2. Your opponent was cheating. 3. You ran into one of the smurf GMs from the horde that are dominating the 10 minute pool. IMO, all of the above are worth reviewing :)
You should always analyze your games whether you win or lose, knowing winning and losing motifs in that result in your openings separate good and bad learners
I personally like the accelerated panov attack especially at my elo of 1300-1400. I've found literally 0 people prepared for it and it's made my caro-kann winrate go from an abysmal 31% to positive.
Agreed, becomes more like Scandi lines with an isolated queen pawn. Also get a cheeky queen pin sometimes after the 2 pawns are traded off and 5.Nc3 Qc6, 6.Bb5
Hey Danya, you are the most instructive GMs here on youtube for beginners. Love your videos. I have a request. Can you show how to nerf the Trompowsky as Black.
Most people that play the Caro-Kann really shouldn't. People have somehow gotten the impression that it's a beginner-friendly opening from Gotham, but it's actually terrible for beginners.
@@SerLaama No people should play it even if it isn't beginner friendly. Its better for people to enjoy chess with openings they like rater then playing stuff that they don't enjoy
@@SerLaama Eh, it's not worse than learning the French or e4, e5 positions. I do really well with the classical and advance CK, recently the Breyer variation has been giving me some trouble, but I generally get good positions before I blundermaster the game away.
As a black Caro-kann, Panov at., Accelerated Panov and Panov-Botvinnik are been a pain in... to deal with. Then, GM Naroditsky says 1:30 "And now this leads to one of the most well-studied and most famous structure of all time: The IQP (Isolated Queen's pawn)".
I remember 'inventing' this one in a blitz game then looked up the moves, iirc that game went well. But sometimes my instincts to bust open the centre feel premature and noobish (and I suspect, often are). I'm still developing the instinct for when to strike in the centre in eg. king's indian positions. I remember having an idea to gambit a pawn against the caro-kann too (this move is apparently called the von Hennig gambit) - that iirc did NOT go well
Same. I just felt like let's go c4 since this position looks exactly like the queen's gambit and the general idea is also similar. I was pleased to see later on that it was the top engine move and since then I've always played the Panov attack agay the exchange Caro Kann
"It was the winter of despair, it was the summer of ??, but sure the Dickens quote" Eternal shame on you. I am German, but I assume even many educated Germans know that these are the first two lines from the opening soliloquy from Shakespeare's Richard III: Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
Awesome- learning so much here. Thanks! I love playing the Caro so I’m Gonna have to work on black’s respose to the panvov now. I usually play the 2 knights attack when I face the Caro with the white pieces. Loads of scary traps and quick checkmates if black doesn’t know the line.
Ik that feeling, one time I was on fire and went from 1260 to 1397 in one day, Ive dropped to 1350 since, but I guess Im just bad at blitz, half of my blitz games are lost because of time. I enjoy longer time formats
happens to the best of us. i find that my rating drops when i'm blitzing out chess games one after the other without much thought. sometimes you just need a break and some perspective. let's face it, ratings are meaningless and we're not gonna be GMs, so let's just enjoy the game
Omg man, I've watched every one of your youtube videos multiple times and have been subbed to your twitch since the dawn of time: Who was editing your videos during this time? Seriously we need to go back to this. I don't like all the cutting out of dead air, it takes away from all the character. People are now missing out on youtube
I usually find myself transposing into the panov attack through the english or when I play 1.e4 c6 2.c4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.d4. I don't know if that's any better or worse but I've found great success regardless.
This video can be summed up by the classical artist known as Ludacris, where with his proverbial lyrics wrote : 'When I move, you move, just like that.'
Hey danya, could you make a video about the naro cann, Ive heard about ir from you earlier and have even see you play one game with it. I was really interested but couldn't find any videos.
Lot of top players do a "speedrun" where they make a new account and try to get to a certain rating with it, often teaching as they go. Note that they message chess.com about their new account and after they finish the speedrun everyone that lost to the GM gets their points back.
