Me: (sees Nd7) Oh, gotta play Bg5! Danya: I know a lot of you are thinking, let's play Bg5. I don't love that move. Me: Uh, yeah. Pfft. What a horrible move! _Black castles_ Me: Ooh, Bh6, boom! Danya: And now, very important _not_ to play Bh6... Me: OK, I'm done.
haha, it comes with experience. This is not the firts time this pattern has shown up on the speedrun incredibly. Next time your pattern rocognition will kick in and youll know those moves are bad because of the geometry.
I know, jesus. It's kinda unmotivating in a way lol. It's like, "okay i can see myself maybe getting to that place too! Oh wait... this was when you were NINE, Danya? Yeah, nevermind"
I saw that a lot when I was playing rapid around 1700 to 1800. Most of the guys were 2000+ in blitz but only 1600-1800 in rapid, and I won a lot of games against them when they played too fast and didn't do anything that made sense
I usually play 15|10 and blitz out every move in 2 or 3 seconds but when I play 10 minute games I still struggle with time. The reason for that is simply that I think on my opponents time which in a fast game is also smaller so I would need more of my own time. Also sometimes I just need more time for a move when I'm struggling to find a way to make progress.
it's annoying sometimes because it almost seems like people do this to show off and/or apply psychological pressure (and i often cave in to the latter and lose even though the opponent has been making idiotic moves)
@@dmsalomon poor Damiano gets associated with a terrible opening when his major contribution to it was saying (in Italian) "this is bad, don't play it."
It looks solid because he didn't make many moves on danya's side of the board. You can see at 3:20 he has almost a hippo setup. I know danya is humble and congratulates opponents for playing well, but objectively this was very bad. Black never had any intentions of playing for an advantage. Play like this against a high rated player (2000s even) and you are guaranteed to be crushed. Just look at the results of e4 b6 (owen's defense) d4 in lichess masters database. Sure you can play this in blitz I guess hoping the opponent can't figure out the right attacking idea with little time (at this level it is pretty hard after all). To note that this style of play is not like hypermodern (or even the way you play these types of openings), black never went for counterplay with f5, c5, e5 or d5, unless they were prompted to after losing a pawn.
@@gnikdroy Even if he plays a system his level is fairly high as you see by the way he defends with his knights. That doesn't mean he is a good player, just good in this position. Having played the french for some weeks I faced exchange french a lot where I played g6 f6 Nf8 a lot and it is just solid af. White could try to mass his pieces on the kings wing but could never break through + I knew from analyzing such positions with an engine. The downside of playing that passively is: 1 it gets boring 2 you don't really improve. The upsides: 1 no brain required 2 easy games. So both ways have merits.
@@paulgoogol2652 That retreating knight move is definitely a higher level move depending on what your definition of "a higher level move" is af course. But you do have to understand that you can't guess someone's chess strength by one move in one game. Adding on that a player rated 700 will have a different perspective on a 1500 than a 2000 rated player. A combination of a lot of none confrontational moves and a few stupid moves gave me a lot more intell about his strength. Keep in mind that this is one game which isn't nearly enough to guess someone's strength given that it's litterally imposible to even do such thing in the first place. Believe me when I tell you that if you see my 5 best games you'll think I'm a grandmaster and when you see my 5 worst games you'll think any elderly guy from you're local bingo club can beat me every game.
@@paulgoogol2652 I don't play the french myself but I do have a pretty good amount of experience with those positions so I could give you some tips with that french line. You can try to attack the middle and the queens side in those positions. You would need to learn a lot of ways to do that affectively though which you can do in a number of ways including just gaining experience by playing a lot of different positions and anylising them afterwards. A benefit with openings like the french is that learning ideas is much more important than learning specific lines. Don't get to attached to those ideas because every position is unique and sometimes you need to break the rules.
As a religious Owen’s/Nimzo-Larsen player this is incredibly good content. The way Danya defends the e4 pawn is perfect and frustrates any queen side fianchetto player. Opponent taking the knight for the bishop in this opening isn’t my preference. I like to bring the bishop home and transition.
While I find it annoying I understand why some players blitz out moves and play for time advantages. But when you're 5 minutes ahead and facing a mating attack surely Black should spend some time to think?
Dayna, if you're reading this, i would love a video about analysing games, and how analyze your own games. Also, if I'm already here, i love the channel, I've watch every video of the last 3 speed run (the Caro khan ones are my favourite) keep making videos!
GM Danya’s commentaries reveal a general tendency. These players, who are at a level I hope to reach, all too often don’t know the basics of the opening that they chose to play. No strange lines or unusual responses involved. And when GM Danya explains why certain opening moves are suboptimal or extraneous or inaccurate or just plain wrong, it shows how players with solid ratings don’t seem to understand the thinking that GM Danya is using. I’m grateful for the content beyond “opening principles” riddled with exceptions like Swiss cheese🙏
Hi danya, this will be my first request on this channel but I would really appreciate it if you made a video on the Reti Opening: Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack variation, Thanks.
@@jimmymcnulty4759 it is not about rating my friend they don't know they are playing against a 3000 bullet player. Online rating is only important to show your level and 1600-1800 level is the level where you start to study openings and middlegame ideas. I personally could get hard times to get even +5 one day and Danya could easily crush them and it is still interesting that a GM is this strong. Don't underestimate this level, they put great resistance when they don't know they are playing against a strong GM, when they think they are playing someone on their level, the psychology affect flies up. It still comes amazing to me that a player who solved chess could outplay these "about to learn" level in 20 moves and I don't look to this just for numbers, it is about the play strength and numbers usually shows it right. But usually, not always. As I would expect Danya to defeat a 1800 with not having a hard time, I don't expect to see 20 minutes videos (half time analysis) always when we see 1700 level on the speedrun. So perhaps it is not about the rating, think for a moment if you can :d
