20:00 Analysis - Follow Daniel on Twitter at / gmnaroditsky - Daniel streams regularly on Twitch at / gmnaroditsky - Daniels Discord / discord #speedrun #grandmaster #naroditsky
In order to transpose into the Stafford, you have to follow up bishop C5 with saying "I insist" or the opponent won't play it. Works for Rosen every time
Seems like every single video someone in his chat cries "cheater", but if the opponent plays below their rating, they cry "noob". Like you only have a very narrow window of skill otherwise the chat goes retarded.
The way chat screams "cheater, cheater!" So obnoxious. Computer cheaters play moves that have a "smell." There's just something about a cheater that is really clear to someone who has played for a while. If Danya says the dude wasn't cheating, I 100% believe him.
As he said, most people were actually not making cheating accusations. Also, with skilled players using an engine, it can often be very hard to detect. They have a good intuition for moves that look human or natural and won't just mindlessly play the top engine move every turn. Mostly, they use the engine to look for tactics and give them a general idea about the best approach (i.e. when/where to attack).
@@sparkygtynes He also admitted immediately after that that he does sometimes make insinuations before checking with an engine. The important thing though is that he doesn't make accusations PUBLICLY before checking. However, the reason he checks at all is that concept that certain moves and lines 'smell' wrong. If he didn't have that sense, he wouldn't check for cheaters at all (or he might be so paranoid that he checked every time an opponent made a good move).
I love it when Danya gets in trouble with only seconds left on the clock and he goes into "beast mode". That is when the GM comes out, and we get to see how a GM manages unclear positions under time pressure. Very instructive.
Interesting as always Danya, I don't remember seeing a pawn endgame in a long time in this series, but they're always so tricky and sometimes counter intuitive
Agreed. The three knights aspect of this game is oversold by the title. It's really about the clever kingside attack played by his opponent and the really rigorous pawn endgame lesson Danya gives.
Remember: when Danya says "let's calculate" the correct response is to look away from the board. You can check out the inside of your shirt, or the ceiling, or your hands, but never the board itself!
It's just amazing how easy to do certain plays.. with 40 sec on the clock and a seemingly complex rook and pawns ending position, you just close your eyes and think for a couple of seconds. Just impressive. I wish you all the best. And REALLY THANKS for sharing this with us humans. Cheers
24:00 WOW!! The foresight by Danya's opponent! R4g2 looked weird at the time, but it was critical in vacating the square for the bishop in that tactical sequence. This 1300 is impressed by the 1800 Danya played!
Hate to be that guy but this isn't foresight, all he had to do was see Nb6 followed by Be6 Bg4 doesn't work because there is a rook there. Not very impressive but seeing that as Black is much harder.
I like this one. I remember watching this one live. Watching it again, doesn’t seem nearly as suspenseful as I remembered it live 😂😅, or maybe I’ve just gotten accustomed to being much more confident in Daniel’s ability to just rout ppl at will For sure some very cool ideas by that 1800 and strong chess. This game really helped me kinda pick up that idea of not worrying as much about ruined pawn structure in front of my king and how to use it to my advantage by sidestepping the king and planting rooks on the open file. Really cemented the idea in my head a lot more, I remember using this idea to win as black in a King’s Indian shortly after watching this live.
When I drew against gothamchess most of the chat were accusing me of cheating, it wasn't a great feeling, especially since I was so proud of the accomplishment at the time. So I appreciate the mentality of not accusing people of cheating when not warranted. :)
No, it adds the game into _his own_ archive so he can easily find it again later. When that happens (and it's happened many times during the speedruns) it's basically Daniel's tell - it means that he's suspicious of his opponent. Tbh him doing it so often on stream really takes the wind out of the "thou shalt not accuse" moralising. (to clarify - I agree with his advice to not accuse other players willy nilly. It's just a shame he doesn't completely hold to it himself)
@@cpf2566 Being suspicious of someone is not the same as accusing someone. He wants to get his facts straight before making any accusation and he’s being responsible with chat by telling them to stop accusing without being 100% sure
@fujiapple96 while these are fun i fell the ones he wins in the opening are far more instructive as they teach us how to punish bad opening play by our opponents
@@BlastS01 I like these better, you can learn how to punish opening blunders by just doing free puzzles but middlegame defense while attacking with instructive commentary is very rare
I have a friend who got banned for cheating and it's kinda a bummer because she was HORRIBLE at chess (like literally raw beginner), but she's also one of the craziest smartest most neurotic people i know, so she bought a book on the sicillian, studied for a weekend, and started DEMOLISHING her 400 level peers with 98% accuracy (hard not to when it's just a blunderfest) but her account got closed because obviously she went from averaging 20-30% accuracy to 8 straight wins with 90% accuracy
Thanks for the amazing content! Watching the speedrun really helps me improve at chess. Yesterday I started at a chess club and made a draw against a dutch GM at an simultaneous game.
1. Material. 2. More pass pawns, which side has OUTSUDE pass pawns 3. Active king 4. Extra pawn moves in reserve to create zugzwang 5. Pawn breakthroughs., allowing king to make inroads
Watching the opponent play the opening exactly how I would and hearing Daniel refer to him as "boring," makes me want to learn a new opening. Guy had a good game.
At 17:10 "It is scary when a top player accuses you of cheating and you know that you didnt cheat, because you know thay they have authority and weight" And that, my friends, is called foreshadowing.
@@zappyFPS im sorry us peasants dont have the same godly sense of humor that someone such as yourself has,why even bother talking to us mortals? im sorry you felt so offended by the lack of humor that you needed to take time out of your day to write something unnecesary,offensive and just straight up rude,must've been hard,how about instead of telling people to shut up,you just follow your own advice? if you dont like a comment,just move on with your life unless you feel like you have something to say
@@willhblob1171 4 months since this comment, but I just checked with an engine and Stockfish 14 NNUE says Nd5 is +5.5 at depth 30, or "absolutely crushing" as Daniel would say. Pawn on f3 is poisoned. Check with stockfish :)
After you play for a while and build up your visualisation skill it becomes easier to calculate in your head any time you need to consider further than one or two moves. That's why top players so often look away from the board, or close their eyes, during OTB games. The best analogy I heard was to imagine someone asking you to perform some mental arithmetic: "start with the number 16 then add 9, now divide the result by 5, now add 13, subtract 12" and so on. It would be a bit of a distraction if you had to stare at a huge number 16 while you were doing it, right? When we're told to calculate 16+9 I think most of us "forget" the number 16 and replace it in our head with a 25. That's basically what chess players are doing when they look away or close their eyes. This is something you can train surprisingly quickly with deliberate practice just by forcing yourself to recreate positions in your head. At first you'll find it really hard and will be limited to the simplest sequences but it quickly gets easier.
Came here after seeing Levon spend five minutes to miss mate in 1. Doesn’t matter chess level anyone can miss a move or potentially find an amazing move higher levels just are more consistent.
this happened against me I am 1800 rated player and was playing against 2600 rated on lichess titled player in simul I beat him as he went into my prep opening theory and lost 2 pawns in middlegame then chat started accusing me and that titled player even blocked me even though the moves were natural. But since I didn't get banned for it I am good
Meanwhile, I'm just BARELY beating Stockfish 3. It claims to be a 1400... but I'm just not buying it. 😂 You hang your queen THAT many times, and you don't get to call yourself a 1400. Still. The recent Caro Khan video has helped. I'm trying to get some basic openings memorized and ready for when I play real Peepo's. I'm getting my ass handed to me by 1250's 😥
Day 36 of saying you're seriously legendary Danya, love your content and your play. You're creative and principled at the same time. Easily the best chess channel on youtube.
I just wanna know what to play in 3 knights for black. I dont think this is the right video for that because after black Bc5. White has the fork trick with knight takes e5. Of course white missed this obvvious tactic.
A friend's account got closed mistakenly, because he played a game while having his analysis board open on another tab and he played the opening he had on the analysis board.
Doesn't sound like a mistake at all. Whether he knew it was there or not, whether he checked it or not, if you play a game of chess with an opening written inside your forearm you'll be labelled a cheater
No - looking at an opening book is definitely cheating lol. A study is effectively a personalised opening book. It's cheating to look at any external documentation/receive any outside assistance whatsoever during a live game.
I think it's only low rated players who accuse people of cheating like that. They can't comprehend someone making good moves who isn't a GM but the reality is that 1800s are pretty good chess players, if you're 1800 you're probably in the 80 or 85 percentile probably and once you get into the 2000s, we're talking about 90-95 which makes you pretty damn good. Usually a GM is going to see moves before you unless you yourself are a GM, but it's not impossible. If you're making move after move that a GM doesn't see THEN it becomes suspicious.
Qxf3,white for sure has compensation for the pawn but he probably wasnt worried about Nd5 even if it might be the best move(i havent checked with an engine if it is or not)
