Smith-Morra Gambit | Deep Dive Breakdown!! | The Sensei Speedrun | GM Naroditsky 

Fuck yeah. So true.

Also check out Andras Toth (ChessCoach Andras) if you haven't. Danya is still probably #1 but Andras is a phenomenal teacher too.

@@jonathanhenderson9422 tyy

same i bought the book as well!

I bought the book as well. Pro tip: If you play on lichess and analyze your morra games the easiest way to do that is by opening esserman's lichess games by putting "Massterofmayhem" username into the opening book. That way you can see what Marc does even against some more rare moves

​@@anton5646 so we need to visit his profile and analyse his games or is their a easy way like to know what he plays against what just like analyse mode in lichess which shows most played moves ?

​@@KrishnaSharma-mg8rta bit late but yeah you can use the opening book in analysis and use his username to see his games

Yea morra is scary

Keep trying...one day the sac will succeed!

Hey That’s a good idea

@@reaganmartin4668 Hey I agree

Yeah i’d rather him not play 960 if he doesnt have to. He’s got a finite amount of time to allocate. Remember he’s got to coach, prep for tournaments, do collabs with chess youtubers, edit videos, write articles for the new york times, and just have some downtime himself. Fun suggestion, just not something he may have time for is all

I vaguely remember danya saying he's not a huge chess 960 fan

@@khaluu2000 he mean instead of some of the things you mentioned

me too but is 300 pgs

The book ( _Mayhem in the Morra_ ) is excellent, probably the best monograph ever written on the Morra.

A fellow man of culture.

@@Tophbbq hey aren't you that guy who lost to borp

He finished around 2200 on the other 2

He planned to go to 2300 this time, he said on stream

Unsure of the full line, but I think similar to some other spots, black has Qa8 to push for a queen trade that isn't wanted with this attack. Whites queen is undefended, so if it recaptures rook recaptures out of the attack and if white moves to decline the trade then black has space to have the rook escape where the queen was on b8

But it sounds unnatural and feels unnatural in the mouth. That's why it isn't catching on despite all the cultural engineers pushing it. Singular "his" or "her" works just as well and doesn't feel weird to say. Context will tell us if the gender is important.

@@trequor lmao alright bud. go back to whatever delusional life you life that trying to speak respectfully about an unknown opponent's gender is "cultural engineering" fucking stooge

That's why Black should play 2...Nf6: It ain't worth it to allow the Smith-Morra. Some people never learn, so go teach them, Max!

He does more of that at the lower speedrun levels -- would recommend checking out the

I think these high-level games are still really interesting and instructive

Nah there's already way too many low rated instructive videos out there. We need more videos for people stuck in the 2000-2200 range like me.

Morra is a minefield, there's a lot of seemingly natural developing moves that actually loses for black. Study the Morra and you will realize how many winning sacrifices the Morra has. There is a reason he's 2000 while you're still stuck at 800.

Because everything pales in comparison to tactics below master level. It doesn't matter if you don't develop pieces, have no strategic understanding, play passively, if you don't ever blunder and capitalize on opponent's blunders. This is very rarely the case; things are not so black and white. But it is very reasonable to see people who don't play principled moves as often, but are tactically sharper. Also, after every 400 rating points, chess becomes a completely new game. 800s vs 1200s vs 1600s vs 2000s vs 2400s etc. So don't be misled by how easily Danya destroyed him. He is very strong and rightfully deserves the 2100 rating.

you realize they played one of the most accurate lines that exists against the morra until pretty deep, right? h6 was probably the first time in the game black played a move that was even close to a serious inaccuracy

According to stockfish Danya only gets an advantage after black played f5 and gave away the pawn. Black played accurately in the opening. It's just that, as Danya explained, these positions are very difficult to defend even if objectively they are equal or even better for black

You’ve seen Danya’s speedruns, and how quickly he can crush players who play badly? He'll say “It’s time to step on the gas pedal” or “punish black's inaccurate play" or whatever.