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Atta boi

Same 😅

This is somehow wholesome asf

Been there done that

I’m proud of you

He controlled the center with his mind…. And pp

I miss his hypermodernists talk.

You’re funny

@@PROJECTJoza100 14:56

@@andretirta9801 Sure, but he didn't actually give the whole talk about how hypermodernists first showed up and got laughed out of the playing halls etc.

Same here!

and to think that danya is probably going easy and streaming at the same time is frightening. GMs really are monsters

why " guy "? Couldn't it have been a girl? Chess players are shamelessly sexist

@@abdullahibrahimhassan7301 is always like 3am too, I blunder before noon

@@momenmoataz7545 eye roll.

It was uploaded a minute before you commented this, why blow smoke up his ass?

It was alright

As long as his fake Russian accent is improving I'll be here for impressions :)

Not Danya, but if you feel like it's improving your chess I'd say go for it. I just started it and I'm 1600 (lichess so 1400 chesscom probably) and I'm getting beat (which is to be expected for a new opening) but I feel like my chess is getting better

You might want to re-check the meaning of the word 'vlog' :)

Probably missed some move, it's definitely losing for black

Wouldn’t black just capture the pawn, c takes b4?

@@coopersanders2340 but then axb4 and the knight is still under attack with no safe squares and to add insult to injury the a file is now open for white's rook.

@@RealJoux oh I see… for some reason I was thinking of 3:36 when that pawn was still on a2. In this case, remember the b2 pawn is pinned to the rook - however, I agree it still doesn’t look good. Seems like black gets a rook and a pawn for two minor pieces which isn’t great, but white does not end up with a rook on an open file. I’m wondering if he saw this and there’s something deeper we don’t see, which seems to happen more often than not. I’d be interested in an engine eval here.

@@coopersanders2340 True, but even with that trade black is horribly worse, you can check easily on an engine. Danya just missed a move somewhere when he was talking quickly, there's not a deep reason why this is playable, it just isn't.

as measly 1700 lichess i'd recommend to check out caro-kann

Sicilian is harder, I second what Иван Чевелев wrote, the caro-kann is fun and easier to learn/understand : basically, you'll have to know good answers (main ideas, first 10 moves that you like) against the advance, the exchange and the classical variations, then you can focus on rarer formations such as the Panov, Fantasy, Van der Wiel, Mindeno and Goldman...

The Sicilian offers more than the Caro Kann, honestly. CK is easier sure but can be drawish - which isn't a bad thing. You'll lose games in the Sicilian, especially when first learning it, but you'll also WIN a lot more than you would with the CK

Same issue

Most players, especially the London players, either get forked in the center with prepared e5 -> e4 push, or they castle kingside and get stormed on the kingside. Most challenging play to deal with as a KID player at that level is when your opponent castles queen side and storms on the kingside. But that can be dealt with as well.

@@lonewolf6327 it is temperamental tbh though but it was one of the first openings I really spent time with but I could never get anyone to walk into anything when I started reaching 1000 and just generally got wrecked through being constricted to death or something similar so assumed it was around that rating that the problem was 😂

nice profile

Not the benko gambit, but Tal is famous for his benoni defense. One of the best benoni players for sure.

Go to chess base and look at the games in the benoni and sort by elo

@@xx-vg5fj same to you

Super rich opening and if you know how to play it also a lot of fun.

Same, but i learnt because the name sounded cool. Now i just play random stuff and enjoy the game. Rated around 1600 but opening are really weak because i didn't learn a single opening.

Try slav defence...its equally good

@@drmumtazalikhan ya, slav is actually very good opening with lots of easy ideas. Might fall into some tricky lines but it's not like KID, we should be able to figure it out.

I have used KID for a long time under 1600 and it has worked REALLY well

You don't play the Caro against d4 though like the siclian they need to play e4. so what do you do against d4? I play Queens gambit declined cause I suck at KiD it's too cramped for my liking haha

@@crazyboysince1998 I play the slav against d4, but I haven't studied it yet. The positions tend to be intuitive enough though

@@jammerlammer546 And it's indeed more similar to the caro

same here.

your comments alone make me think that u are must be above 2000 rated player 😳

@@bongcloud nope, not even close. You play a bunch a games and start seeing patterns. Just 1600-1800 online.

@@khaluu2000 a scary 1600-1800 then 😳

Same, that's why I switched to the grunfeld

@@bongcloud you got this man. Trust me, at 1000 you dont leave any hanging pieces and can catch your opponents hanging piece. By watching all of Sensei’s video and absorbing it and practicing, you’ll surpass this level in no time. 1200 you have a good solid fundamental understanding established. (The most fun level to play at in my opinion) 1300-1400 you have tactics and come up with some neat ideas. (Sacrifices and Gambits happen here a lot) 1500 you have a decent end game and are familiar with openings. 1600-1700 you start to have a game plan of goals you would like to have. Like strong squares and weak squares, good exchanges. (I tend to underestimate some potential of pieces and my ratings fluctuate like crazy at the bullet/blitz level here) 1800 you finally take advantage of momentum a lot better and find a lot of good moves. (I have trouble here due to time pressure and incorrect executions of techniques) 1900 you are very competent at finding the best move if given time and probably are one of the strongest now at a club level. You understand what your opponent is doing most of the time (chess commentator agadmator is at this level I believe) 2000 you’ve finally hit Candidates Master and maybe National Master soon or something.

Pirc starts with 1. e4 d6; the Kings Indian starts with 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4

I’d say it’s better to be comfortable in many types of positions and play many different openings so you can learn more tactics etc. versus only playing one opening that may limit your exposure to certain themes. Also I think he mentioned that successfully playing the KID requires knowledge of lots of different ideas that might be unintuitive or violate some common principles

Yeah playing it a lot is another way to go about learning the ideas, but I bet you lost a high percentage of games with it in the beginning. I played with someone who was about 1700 and I saw him play the kings indian against someone a few times and just new this guy had no idea what he was doing playing the kings indiain. So we agreed that whenever I played e4 we would both agree to go into the kings indian. First 15 games I had like 13 wins 1 loss and 1 draw. I am about 1850. He got better though, maybe since I played exclusively the bayonet attack and he learned the theory on it, so yeah if you learn the theory which is very large and know a lot of the ideas it is playable. I think at the armature level it is also a lot more fun to play, these days it is unreal how at the highest levels most of the games after d4 are the queens gambit declined, which frankly I find a little boring. I play the slav which is more interesting than the quees gambit declined IMO.

Same with me, I think it's about a case by case scenario. In my situation I decided to make my opennings repertoire around 1000 elo and I was inspired by the games I saw with it, mainly some games from Kasparov and Hikaru. I also made my opennings diverse beacause I felt like it was too boring to try to play the same against London, moderns, English, etc Same with the white side. I also try to learn from different videos (both about the KID and random blitz games) that I watch, all with different opennings as well and I feel like I am not going in completly blind.

It’s possible but a passive option and more related to a philidor structure rather than a kid

18:22 he explained it lol

@@joeyblogsy what’s your rating? I have been studying the KID and nbd7 or na6 are typical moves I see

If you’re serious then focus on reading books and not what opening to play. But…I doubt you’re really that serious

Yeah those are great

@@sir_Edguhh somehow i doubt this is good advice

@@emrevurgun8328 okay. Go play some opening you don’t understand for shit. But ay…as long as he’s having fun right? Lol so much for serious tho imo

it's likely your opponents at 1400 may not know how to challenge the KID. at 1700 chess com I get crushed whenever i play the KID, even though I know the basic principles well enough.

Hope he'll manage in 2-4 years to do that :)

@@TymexComputing i love Danya but i am sorry to say it's almost impossible

@@user-yz2xl1tu6t I was hoping he will finish school in 2-4 years and start accomplishing the task :)

Not really this the first time I've seen him play this on a speedrun in a long time. And he's at the 1900 rating so he does recommend it to his viewers who are at that rating. He has videos for the other ratings

Jordan Peterson

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