I always wonder why I'm able to know the right move when you're playing but struggle to do it in mine. You're very good at directing our attention through your commentary to make us see bigger concepts than we otherwise would have
12:00 when danya switches headsets, it's like he's transposing into one of his multiple personalities... like that dude from the movie Split. He changes his tone and thought-pacing lol
On players panicking when they see a piece on their side of the board: I did when I was really low rated, but once I hit like 1200 or something it was more like my mouth would start watering when I saw a lone piece on my side of the board. I always look for tactics and development with tempo. I think I increased my confidence because so many low rated players are so aggressive and they move pieces into enemy territory and I just remember this one time where this guy played for one of those cheap 3 or 4 move checkmates and I just kept developing my pieces with tempo. I love when players go for that stuff.
Danya and John Bartholomew have such instructive content. I like to watch Hikaru just because I think it's good to watch really great players play and you can sometimes emulate them if you understand an idea, but none of those guys have content out there for free that you can easily watch that is anywhere near as instructive as this. I also just think that Danya has a great way of simplifying his thought process in a way that's very easy for me at least to understand. I'm loving that end game tutorial at the end of the video specifically and how you mention the idea of the rook playing check so that the king can guard the pawn. I need to start watching out for stuff like that, as it happens much more often than I'd like to admit in my own games.
I wish there was a Danya on youtube for other games too so I could see the reason behind plays and counterplay for other possibilities than what happened in the match. We need more Danyas in the world
I love these speedrun videos so much! I wish every teacher was like Danya. Also really appreciate Twitch chat's participation! I rarely catch the stream when he does these but when I watch the videos and a question comes up for me often within seconds someone seems to have asked the same thing in chat and Danya is already addressing it :)
Been checking out series vids on this channel & this episode in particular hit home by explaining how to think about the opening moves because imho too often basic principles are not enough. 🙏
In game 1 of this video, when it's asked about "Bishop takes Knight on G8". I was thinking- Prep that move first, with Queen D. C3. That way after Bishop takes. He either trades his rook for the bishop, or its mate in 1 with Queen F7
Watching your videos makes me feel like I'm injecting Intelligence Serum directly into my veins. I can literally feel my brain swelling like a balloon. Or maybe that's just my head getting bigger...
Jump with glee. They usually don't go all the way through taking your pawns because they feel like something is up, but if they take all the way, you get a very nice attacking posture with both bishops and the queen once you involve her.
@@dbufi everyone 'knows' the KG is bad, but I'd love to see the average viewer of this channel actually show why. Everyone thinks they're that good, but few really are.
Here it’s actually not that good, as queen takes a-file and threatens forking our very important b7 pawn and giving back rank mate. After taking rook e1 with check, we have no more useful checks and have to make some Luft for a king. On the next move, queen gives a check on a8 and takes b7 pawn As the result, we are still a pawn up, but now it’s harder to win this position
@Ayan Niaz I think playing against the bots that are set to specific rating is not a good idea. It would be great if you practice winning won positions against best bots, playing against the top engines with piece/pawn odds or playing the top engines directly. Rating levels are set according to humans so bots must play human-like but that is very hard concept to apply. So they program the bots to blunder randomly. Sometimes it blunders a piece, sometimes it does a suboptimal move which has MASSIVE difference.
