I really like the idea of emphasizing playing boring positions and middlegame fundamentals. It will be much more helpful for my level than the fancy wins!
Me too. I tend to do better by playing solidly, but that can eventually lead into positions where there are no tricks. Watching Danya play a whole game really helps.
Neeeever. No 1400 plays like that with that speed. Maybe in a daily 14-day game, but not in a 10m taking no longer than 20sec per move and finding the best moves.
1400 rapid can pull off fairly precise and drawish games like these, it doesn't seem outlandish to me. It's not like he had any edge at any point, Danya intentionally neutralized white most of the time and traded down. Once actual technique got involved, the dude collapsed. It's textbook QGD.
I really love the way you analyze key moments and walk through your ideas. This series is so insightful for newer players like myself. Thank you for your work.
Thank you so much for this! You seem worried that we're gonna get bored with speed runs. I should say (and I would wager it's the same for many people) I would'nt get bored even with a perpetual speed run. Can't thank you enough for this stuff ...
Defending the rook infiltration was so instructional - I always moved my pawns - please give us more of these general ideas (so I have an excuse for not learning openings).
Hey Danya, I am sure that a lot of people tell you that you are an amazing teacher but thanks to those videos (and agadmator's) I've reached my goal of 1400 in a year and I plan to continue playing so, please, never stop pumping those bad boys out cuz they are extremely helpful!
As an intermediate player (~1500) your content helps me so much - the way you talk through opening moves and questioning yourself has influenced the way I study chess. Has helped me to connect so many dots in chess game and I'm finally getting over my damn plateau! Much love Daniel!
love your speedruns. i love that you play 10 minute (not something faster) and take your time explaining it during the game and also go over some of the lines you thought were important after the game. several IMs and GMs do speedruns, but they just don't do it quite like you
Hey Danya, I mentioned this on your server a while ago, but: It would be an amazing resource for beginners to have a book (or a less involved format like a Lichess study, ebook, or maybe even Chessable course) with games analyzed and annotated by you WITH BEGINNERS AND INTERMEDIATES IN MIND, in the spirit of Logical Chess Move by Move or even Best Lessons of a Chess Coach. You're have a natural ability to explain even complex ideas in a very understandable and concise manner, and I feel like a game collection with simple, general-purpose annotations (of games understandable to beginngers/intermediates; maybe even consisting of beginner games) by you would be a boon the chess community. Have to imagine with your established audience it would sell quite well, too. I certainly would buy a copy or two. I know "write a book" is roughly a million times easier said than done, but I really struggle to find up-to-date game collections to recommend to newer players, so I thought I'd put this idea out here.
I think this series focusing on maximum educational value is going to blow up the channel. I love when you grind out those pawn up end games, I find it super instructional. If you want to make games that most people want to watch, try for e4 games, just go e5. For d4 games, just go d5. This is what almost everyone plays, and those are super educational. You could call it the e4-e5 d4-d5 classical climb the rating ladder series, it would be super instructive.
This series has the most informative and helpful by far, Thank you! I feel like it's 800-1400 that really need this level of instructional advice so having games in this range is brilliant.
I don't think the ending to the game was anti-climactic at all, mainly because I learned something about the endgame. You converted your passed pawn into a kingside pawn majority by tricking your opponent into going after your rook extremely effectively. Many players in the 1000-1400 level would make the mistake of thinking they have to go all out with the king in the endgame to prevent the pawn from promoting. Even the move Rb1 served the double-purpose of making space for your pawn + allowing White's King to continue advancing towards your passed pawn and rook instead of forcing him to continue defending the pawn on f2. Great instructive game!
I will forever watch these speed runs even if you did the same thing over and over. However these traditional slow play is very enjoyable to watch and helpful
Love this format!! You setting your matchmaking to get very high opponents is great for us! We get really instructional stuff where the opponent does not blunder and in this way you gain 100 points an episode thus keeping the lower rated portion short and sweet
As a ~1500 i think the reason he played good moves is bc some of us are good at midgame & some openings, but we don't know or understand much how to play endgames. (lack of study, midgames are the funniest part imo) Thanks danya!
The Speed Run is baaaackkk!!! SHE’S ALIVE!! Thank you Danya. You’ve made a 40yo man (tomorrow) very happy. Make them forever. Pretty please. I’m here for it.
Love this! Daniel is one of the few chess RU-vidrs who can explain master level concepts in a way that lesser players can easily understand. Openings, middle games, end games, tactics, position. I wasted so much time trying to learn this things on their own. Daniel not only teaches these things, he teaches you how to put them all together!
Always find it really strange when your chat suggests someone is cheating in a simple position like this. I'm like 1200 and have played 98% games in simple positions. We didn't pose any crazy problems (our strategy was to play simply after all) and the opponent didn't make any weird-looking moves. There's no reason to think they aren't legit.
Because completely impossible to equalize a gm with such low rated player even gm playing simple move . Unless other player also gm made dummy account. You got high accuracy because you also playing with low rated player .
Me, literally a 1600: hmm, I'd play c6 here, idk. Danya: the move I learned here that I played up until 1600 was c6, so let's go with that. Me: *surprised Pikachu face*
I had a very similar game with this just recently. I'm 1100, white was playing London and I play as black. It was a very positional game, I kept baiting the opponent to create a weakness, exploiting them, and force them to trade every now and then. It lead to a knight and a rook end game with my pawns completely intact with no weakness, no infiltration point, with my rook occupying the only open file in the game with and I was up 4 pawns. It was somehow a boring game with no tricks and fancy moves, but it's one of my best game due to how solid my play is throughout the entire game.
The only reason to really prefer White's position (reached around 7 minutes) is that White has the very typical 4-2 against 3-3 pawn structure, which I think slightly favours White in the endgame. But everything is so solid that if Black plays well, White really has to be a Carlsen-level positional squeezer to get anything out of that, I think. I love reaching these sorts of positions as Black. Often these quiet, solid pawn structures can provide very quick and violent pawn breaks. This system kind of reminds me of the Lasker variation of the QGD, but the knight goes to e4 instead of d5.
Thank you so much for caring about your community. That's that's why I gifted 69 subscriptions in twitch multiple times. You deserve it. You work very hard and you deserve to get paid for what you do.
He was running towards a scary looking passed pawn. Not a good decision but one that's not obvious either if you don't have Danya telling you what he should do. It was more bad time management than anything. He should have thought longer there. The rest of his play was great.
@@DudeTastic13 they are 1400 for a reason. If they stopped blundering pawns they’d be easy 1800 or even 2000. If they stopped blundering altogether they’d be 2300+ easy lol
This guy plays like me: "Oh, that's a really good move. Yeah, this guy is good. Oh my, what is he doing? He just blundered 3 of his queens. Alright, I'm going for a win now!" :D
why is it the 3rd speedrun whereas in the playlist section I see "The Sensei Speedrun", "Masterclass Speedrun", "Beginner to Master Speedrun" AND "SpeedRun"? :) seems like the 4th one?! I've only watched 1 so far edit: btw this is amazing content, keep it up! :D
1:45 One of the things I never hear explained is how the Bishop and the it's at Bishop and the dark squares can go out and and take the Queen after after checking the king. But the difference is with grandmasters and regular players or even masters and regular players is that if that move works On that game, then maybe it'll work in other openings. And they'll always be checking all these different types of moves that work on different Openings. And if you're new you're always just trying to remember that this opening does this and this opening does this period instead of taking the moves and applying them in every game.. I'm thinking about can you actually use that move and that came.. Versus someone who is trying to memorize the board. Which is why memorize the board. Which is why memorizing the board Isn't always the greatest idea Openings. And if you're new you're always just trying to remember that this opening does this and this opening does this period instead of taking the moves and applying them in every game.. I'm thinking about can you actually use that move and that came.. Versus someone who is trying to memorize the board. Which is why memorizing the board Isn't always the greatest idea
Could you use some commas, it was a bit hard to understand what you were saying lol. Also when you wrote ".." are those ellipsis? "..." It's always three period points not two, just to avoid the confusion as well.
Want to see Duras gambit. my favorite pet line after people started being able to know theory to my scandi trap (blackbourne kloobuster gets destroyed by bishop trading for knight)
Do you have a video discussing h6 in the qgd? It feels like this is a great example where inserting h6 Bh4 would have helped black as a free tempo for luft.
