I have recently shifted from Gotham chess to Danya insofar as learning is involved. Gotham will always be the goat in terms of entertainment, but I feel once you hit a certain stage, Danya’s videos are SO instructive! I have only just started watching his videos and I think he will be the difference in making a push to 1500! My highest ever rapid is 1491. Wish me luck!!
@@brianwalker2201 Thats a fine goal, idk what methods you have been using to study , i had gotten to 1881 and then procceeded to drop to 1700 as i wasnt able to play or study for 2 months and somehow just lost every info i had or so, If you want we can always hook up together, i stream at least 2 times a week, and its always fun to play and learn with others, if you are interested lemme know ill share the link
I have a couple of Gotham courses, including the caro which I’m enjoying playing. RU-vid is probably my main source of learning. Gotham, Danya Hikaru etc. watching them play and analyse games is a great way to learn. Also anna cramling, she’s so positive and really quite instructive. I gave a couple of books but find them hard to stick with. Yeah sounds great, what’s your twitch or RU-vid
Agreed. I think Gotham is fine for beginners and lower intermediate players. But once you hit mid to upper intermediate, then you benefit more from looking into creators like Rosen and Naroditsky for instructional purposes.
Oh my, imagine a series similar to what Levy has done, Danya showing us all his games from the OTB tournament with his reasoning for the lines, that would be absolutely fantastic
@@MartinBalaz89 That would be awesome! I like Levys videos too but Danyas style of explaining helps me understand way better. He doesnt make a move and justify it by telling his next move/ideas, but instead shows why he made the made the move and how does it affect the game. He sort of reads the board on what type of move the current situation needs, which can help seeing the type of position youre in. I feel like looking at the game like that really opens up your braing for pattern regocnition! Looking at the board as a whole instead of single lines has saved me from plundering many times recently.
I would have never thought that the elephant gambit could be so classy, yet Danya delivers it in style. Plus every move is just so easy to understand with his teaching methods!
I am a lifelong QG player and finally i get the answer ive been searching for!! As a 1000 elo player i see this opening all the time. Ive watched countless tutorials and this is the first time anyone has suggested bishop d3 as a response in the opening. Thanks for everything danya love this content even though most of it goes right over my head as a 1000 elo player.
I love your Stafford refutation. I've worked on it a lot myself also and it's literally the deepest opening prep I have (for white). I still don't always win going into it. White ends up a pawn but is still quite passive and with an undeveloped queenside, so black gets decent play if they maintain the activity.
Yep, the "magic line" makes it actually dangerous to play The system with just e5 is a bit easier, you can see how Chessmaster completely destroys Eric with it in one of his last videos
@@NaoshikuuAnimations yes that's what I always do against the Stafford if you play e5 black has no compensation for the pawn and none of the usual stafford tricks work
@@maximix5447 there are a few tricks but fewer, so easier to dodge! Thinking of e5 Ne4 d3, which black can ignore with Bc5 because taking the knight loses the queen, dxe4 Bxf2+ Kxf2 Qxd1
@@NaoshikuuAnimations That's what I usually try to meet e5 with and I've won quite a few games that way... people at my level seem to assume they've dodged everything after e5 so they start playing seemingly "natural" moves like d3 again. That said if they know about that trick then they'll just go d4 instead of d3 and be completely fine
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="190">3:10</a> "you should always be looking for ways to improve on the initial ideas you come up with" also Duda not playing 27. Rxd8 in his last game vs Karjakin :)
I just notice you have timestamps in the description, to put in chapters, make sure you add the timestamp <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="0">00:00</a>
Tbf Hou Yifan declined it and took the Petroff a tempo down just to not risk playing into a tricky gambit she probably had never seen. I wonder if Dubov could have won had she accepted.
awesome stuff Daniel...! I am so glad to have found your videos. I find your content more useful to me an intermediate player, than others who mainly provide for beginners. I am very grateful and will purpose to watch every video of this masterclass, with pen and notebook in hand. thanks again for the awesome content
thank you for the videos.. love your stuff. you are putting out exactly what i need . please continue doing instructive videos. best chess lessons online for intermediate players and up
Hey Danya, when the position was to be transformed into fried liver, you could have demonstrated a traxler as well, need to see your take on it and the way you play it
Hey Daniel! Great video man! Noticed at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="457">7:37</a> you had knight takes rook check then picking up the bishop for free! Wouldn't have seen that without your tremendous teachings!
At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2076">34:36</a> I wonder how Danya pulled up that Sultan Khan - Menchik game so fast. Did he already have it in his databse and know exactly where it was? If so, I wonder what that particular database was organized for. Specifically for examples of that Nf5 motif or something more general? Or did he do some kind of quick thematic search in Chessbase that is beyond my knowledge of how to do? Basically just wondering how he's organized his various model game/motif example and/or how he manipulates Chessbase so adroitly.
He teaches full time and streams on top of that, so I'm guessing that Sultan Khan game was one that he refers to often when teaching, which allowed him to recall it instantly and quickly open it up.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a> the rule of pragmatism. Enough advantage exists to win the game, now just be pragmatic with the approach to win
I was thinking something in the lines of when you are clearly winning, you want to reduce variance and ask the question of how do I lose. So focus on safety, simplifying (both the position and the material), etc. What a good name for a rule like this is I do not know...
A rating only derives meaning when you compare it to a second rating from the same pool of players. "1700" doesn't actually represent a fixed amount of chess ability - the number is completely arbitrary. It could just as easily be 170 or 17000. And a 1700 bot =/= 1700 human anyway. That's just the creator's guesstimate of its strength. It's not a real rating because it's a fixed number that doesn't change after winning or losing like a real elo rating would. It's also not possible to lower the elo of an engine while having it play in a humanlike manner. The only way to make them weaker is to instruct them to make these inexplicable, jarring blunders. It's nothing like playing an actual person with a joined up thought process. Even if you play a weak chess player you can at least imagine the thought process behind their moves. Elo-capped bots may as well be moving randomly. That's why most people will advise you to just play against other humans. I really dislike the way chess.com encourage people to play these so-called bots. i think it's detrimental to new players, hobbles their improvement and encourages the anxiety you sometimes see people have around playing real people. Like all sports and games chess is a social activity at heart. In any case, 700 is a pretty typical rating for someone who is not an experienced chess player. If you're interested in improving play regularly and solve tactics puzzles every day; you'll be 1200+ in no time. The good thing about being at the lower end of the rating scale is that you can make a lot of improvement for relatively little effort!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="456">7:36</a> that confused me for awhile why he didn't go for the rook first. I wish he explained that trade more.
@@user-st6to8kh7e The next move would have been bxf3 and then he would've technically lost two pieces for that rook, but it took me like 50 seconds to figure that out whereas he probably already knew from years of chess drills.
@@thegreatarchive-a8801 Ah true, forgot about bxf3. It's always with this game that something looks obvious, but then there is another layer of complexity on top
At 7.32 when the bishob captures knight, he missed an opportunity, instead of capturing bishop with te quen, he should have captured the rook with check and then picked up the bishop.
At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="455">7:35</a>, isn’t Nxf3 first a better move? You win the rook instead of the bishop? Someone let me know if I’m wrong
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="549">9:09</a> Danya doesn't even care. I mean, he's up a queen, and his opponent doesn't resign until now, that's just bad sportsmanship. I mean premoves like Nc3 are fine, but delaying resignable positions, you don't do. Yea, he doesn't even care, chat! He literally doesn't care!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="58">0:58</a> Did he just really say _"I'm worried because I'm not sure what the theory is there"_ when playing against someone almost 1000 points lower rated? xD
I think Danya really tries not to consider rating when he plays chess. In reality, it really doesn't matter what your opponent's rating is when you are trying to play the best move all the time. He is also a theoretical player, and he does usually rely on memorizing opening theory from what I've seen in his past videos.
For Black, I wonder if instead of Rook a to e8, why not Rook takes on f4? Wasn't the f4 pawn defended only once yet threatened by the black rook and the black queen?
Minor request if anyone cares.. can you mention by how much people are winning/losing when talking about mistakes after? Like how many points ahead/behind someone is. Just curious. And discussing what the best engine move is and why sometimes if it's uncommon would be cool.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1546">25:46</a> Is d5 playable here? Can white hold on to this position? It’s what I normally play, I’m not sure if it’s correct
According to the lichess engine, d5 is playable but not the best. Black will plan on contesting the center with c6, and White no longer has a c-pawn to reinforce the center. In addition, White relinquishes control of the c5 square, allowing Black's dark-square bishop to control that square in the future. In the end, it appears about equal in that line with d5.
At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="446">7:26</a> wouldn’t bishop take knight into knight take rook with check, then queen take bishop been a better sequence?