I rate how classy Danya's titles and content are. No clickbaiting or full caps titles or in your face thumbnails. So refreshing. Makes his content look so much nicer to browse
I think there is an entire instructional that I've not seen on identifying quiet moves in attack. How to see them, how to know you won't lose impetus, how to know they are effective? I'd love that.
I recommend to everyone to set a chess board infront of them and play the lines danya explains. It helps a lot to remember them in live or online games.
Hey Danya, on something you said in this game “players often struggle to play closed positions” - maybe you could do a speed run where you focus on play on closed positions (so deliberately go for closed positions), because I think most amateurs are, as you correctly evaluated, very deficient in this manner
Very informative. What is remarkable is to see all the importance given to developing the pieces as efficiently as possible during the opening phase. I didn't see any remarks about a potential attack. In my gaming, I often attack a weakness as soon as it becomes available and it often causes me problems later, because my development is not completed or my pieces are not developed harmoniously. I will pay particular attention to this in my next games. As my great-grandfather used to say, thank you infinitely!
One of the main things which taught me about the importance of piece development was refuting dubious sacrifices in the opening phase of the game. I would look up with an engine where I went wrong, what engine wanted to do and engine always wanted to get the pieces out as quickly as possible, I noticed that by far my best bet in such situations was to get my pieces developed as fast as possible while not blundering anything dumb.
I remember when playing the London there was a line where I would take on b7 and temporarily be up a pawn. That variation worked against players up to certain rating but I could pinpoint exactly at which rating level players started punishing my greedy play and getting great initiative after which I would be lucky not to lose fast. I remember when playing tournaments on lichess I would judge whether to take on b7 in such positions based on the rating of my opponent. I don't remember where the line was but I know that when I saw my opponents were below a certain rating treshold I would play Qxb7 otherwise I wouldn't. This all tells me that in order to get better at chess you need to face opponents that will actually punish your mistakes.
@@danielward7008 what I meant is that I can succeed to exploit a weakness (pawn on b2 🙂). But, then, the lacking of my development often causes me problems later. Basically, I will concentrate more on my development on the opening phase. Regards.
As per your request Danya, after the move f6, the latest Development version of Stockfish gives 0.00 after 22k table base hits, 5.2 billion nodes, and Depth 57. It goes Nh4, Qd3, Bf2, Ne4, Nxe4, dxe4, Nxf5, Qxd1, Raxd1, Bxe6, Nxe7, Kxe7.
I always liked closed positions better. To me it's easier to reason out what to do. In open positions I can just attack something but it's much harder to evaluate.
I think this is one of your best speedrun games demonstrating closed vs open positions, and the concept of opening up the cetner. The game was kind of just closed and boring until you made an explicit effort to open up the center, sacking a pawn and anti-positionally capturing away from the center, which beginners like myself are super hesitant to do. But once the center opened up your superior development and piece activity just absolutely dominated the board. The engine position with the white king getting smothered in the middle of the bored surrounded by his pieces is just outrageous.
If you're talking about dxc4, there's nothing anti-positional about that. I think you're thinking of the specific case of recapturing an exchange away from the center when you have a choice between taking with, say, the b and d pawn since taking with the former would have supported a future push of the d pawn. But there's nothing intrinsically unprincipled about capturing away from the center in general, e.g. when there's pawn tension as in this game or when you're recapturing if there's no choice between pawns.
Hi Daniel, love the videos as always - as a teacher of chess there's really no-one better. After this speedrun, and in line with your endgame series as more advanced instructional content, I'd love to see a video or two where you go over "think line a GM" type concepts; controlling squares, targeting long-term weaknesses, that sort of thing - basically stuff that to you is second nature, but isn't even on my (or a lot of other players') radar. Thank you!
Love you Danya, but I think it's time to retire that little bullshit 'distributing the covid vaccine' analogy, as if it's in anyway comparable to climbing Mount Everest...
Man the preview at the start is kind of spoilery, because you can see the board for a long time and memorize the position. It would be nicer if it would be blurred or hidden.
C4 was a huge desicion I would be uncomfortable making that move. Like why are opening the center? We have to calculate multiple forcing moves by black and then evaluate the resulting position. I would keep closed and try to force a kingside attack.. And probably lose lol
When you have that much pwnage going on in a game, you are actually obligated to do a shit ton of troll moves per C.c ToS. Pretty sure black resigned because they suspected a healthy dose of that was bout to be unleashed. Anyway, do be sure to go about doing lots of requisite trolling as you make your way up the ratings ladder so you can lock down that OG reputation you so very much deserve. Make them forever fear you and forever remember your exalted gangster greatness.
Pretty decent playing on fantasy variation, but there is couple tricky lines if you like to develop more effectively as white. Let black take pawns from e4 and f3, after dxe4 Kc3, exf3 Nf3, probably there is coming normal bishop pinning, but just move Be3 to protect d4 pawn, when black takes BxNf3 and take it back with queen Qf3 then black do some developing moving and just bring white bishop on 3rd rank. PS. there is reason why you need to protect that d4 pawn for end game, coming with brilliant move around move round 15 or so.. Nice and powerful develop for white. +3.1 for white by stockfish 15
I appreciate you so much for the analysis this game was incredible and super fun to try to figure out the best moves. I hope you arent experiencing people saying that your analysis is boring I find that some of the best parts of the speedrun. Keep up the great content
Lol he probably resigned early and reported for cheating. Honestly, this is probably one of the best speedrun videos for lower rated players. We haven't seen it a lot where they failed to develop and you blast open the center and win. Really sub-1400, this is one of the most common strategies to win. People just waste too much time not developing.
It was explained to me that Its called the fantasy because if the pawns are exchanged a certain way in the middle, white gets two pawns in the center and an open f file for his rook when he castles short. So its a "fantasy position" for white as he gets two pawns in the center and a semi open file for his rook.
Even if he had an engine open the whole game what's the problem? He's instructing not competing. All the opponents of the speedrun get their ratings points back anyway.
@@TimJapan well I see where you're coming from, but at the same time, the teaching included in any chess lecture you watch will have been thoroughly prepared using books and engines. As long as he understands the moves he is explaining and explains them well I'm not sure I'm bothered whether or not he came up with them on the spot.
It's an opening repertoire. In previous fantasy variation videos he has explained the theory from Black's perspective too. If you're not satisfied, go pick some opening book or training and do your homework.
Once the opponent resigned, Danya said: Its +11. So he was using an engine or just people from the chat is feeding him engine moves and engine evaluations?
24:51 black just resigns it's +11 in this position.... lol he literally just exposed that he watches the engine the entire time and nobody's even going to notice... he literally reads the engine and then tries to explain the engine... what a joke
I think this channel would be more popular if the name was simpler. "Gothamchess" is a snappier name than "Daniel Naroditsky" and easier to remember / type.
