Ahh, yet another Danya bedtime chess lesson. Thank you, Sensei.

9:15 - When You've hovered Your queen over f2 square, I've got "Oh gosh! He's going to blunder his queen the way I sometimes do" :D

And so began the “too much champagne speedrun.” Get you to 1 mill subscribers in no time

Danya playing chess as black: White plays 1.e4 Danya: already an inaccurate move by the opponent lets see how we punish it

I never write comments, but listening to you explain Chess Is the second most impressive thing. The fact that you look like a Good human being Is the First for me, and I Hope you are Happy and having a Good life. And I'm sure it's hard in a world full of egomaniacs like Chess. So thank you very much Mr Daniel for tour job and for your kindness, (even against obvious cheaters) saluti dall'Italia ;)

Danya is almost human and almost blunders his queen... 😂

I was hoping for that queen blunder so hard

These amazing Chess videos deserve so much more recognition than they currently have!

Danya I love all of your content, it's so educational while still being captivating. I remember opening an episode of your speedrun as a little 1200 and now having watched them all I've hit 2000 for the first time. I can't thank you enough for all your hard work and teaching ability

Thanks for sharing your wonderful teachings visually!

Thank you, awesome to watch. Pure zen. Sensei

Daniel, your content and teaching is my best way to improve my chess with looking for tactics and opening ideas. I strive to be such a strong player like you

Great video! I'm excited for the next installment of the endgame series

GM Naroditsky, thanks for the great videos. Very instructional. Please keep them coming!!!!

I love your videos, keep going!

Thanks for the analysis Danya :)

Love your speedrun videos, it's great to see you decisively punish the positional mistakes that us beginners make! A small point: at 17:30 white could meet ...f5 with exf5.

Hi Danya! I wanted to thank you a lot for your previous video, in which you showed your favorite setup against 1...b6. There's a guy at my chess club who's at my same level of chess skill more or less and he always plays b3/b6 on his first move. He's quite proficient in those kind of openings and so I often struggle against him. Last night I had the white pieces against him, I tried your setup and I got an absurdly dominant position out of the opening. I'd have won quite easily if I hadn't blundered a knight ahah. I was able to win it back and eventually I won the endgame in a time scramble. So, thank you very much, Sensei. Your content is as useful as enjoyable!

Fantastic commentary. In the final example game I immediately felt e5 then f5 had to be the idea just by having seen the other game and having it explained. A super grandmaster trainer :) e4 in the actual game caught me off-guard. While making chess look easy Naroditsky still processes tons of calculations in his head while talking. Just exceptional both as a player and trainer. Unbelievable he lets us have this for free on KZfaq.

I recommend your channel to everyone I know that's even barely interested in chess. Keep it up!

An exceptional video for waking up on a beautiful saturday, thank you danya.

Thank you for the lesson.

This is some really good chess instruction!

9:15 I was completely with you playing queen there and then literally the SECOND I noticed the knight you were like omg what am I doing lmaooo

9:15 is something I thought I would never see, guess Daniel is a human after all.

Hey Danya! I love your videos and can't stop watching your speedruns. I also wanted to ask you if you could do an unsound opening speedrun in contrast to your russian / safe-play kind of speedruns (There's no speedrun on youtube with the wayward queen attack for example). Especially with your analysis and explanations during the game this would be very fun to watch. Maybe you could show at some point what the main drawbacks are or how to get away with such openings. Thank you for your content!

If you were curious about Nxh7 instead of Bxh7 11:32, black has Qf2 (engine actually says Nxb2 is a draw), threatening mate with Qd2, basically forcing the Queen trade and black’s winning

Watching Ben Finegold has programmed me to immediately think of steinitz - von bardeleben whenever I see a clearance sac

Man, you're an excellent teacher. Probably half my rating is thanks to your videos.

For me Daniel is the best for teaching chess. I find I learn so much from watching his videos.

What I like about Danny is he speaks up his thought process ad explains why moves are good and bad. Thank you

The stockfish idea of forcing the queen away from the central pawn to force your opponent to give up an exchange absolute scumbag maneuver.

Love the speedrun Danya. Is the next vid in the endgame series coming soon too?

Daniel almost playing the Botez Gambit.

Finally one on the Budapest!

yes! sensei danya with another post! ☺️

13:04 NF1 omfg?!? would of never even considered that. i gotta remember that idea

Does anyone know why Danya had been swigging champagne before this game? 09:16 is hilarious 🤣

the usual chess lesson by daniel

Danya cutting loose with champagne and gambits, I love it

Thanks sensei

Thank you as all ways Sensei Danya! I will now go back to making Chess Gains!

Wake up honey! Danya posted again!

Like Hikaru says when questioned about why his opponents play so badly against him, "it's because they feel the power of a move and freak out"

You should do a video on positional sacrifices like that pawn sacrifice

Good to supplement your theory with the declined gambit

After nxe3+ and ke2, there's a super instructive move of nxg2, hitting the discovered checking queen with an follow-up insurance move: rf2. Anddd, Qh3 after nxg2 blunders a royal fork

Hey Danya! Love the video, one small thing: @1:45 In case of Bg5 here, I think it might not be best to go Bxf2 as you say, but instead Ne4 threatening mate, doing the good ol' oh now my queen, and attacking the bishop. I've played it a couple of times and I think practically this one is better than Bxf2.

Like before watching as usual

daniel naroditsky

Love the Frankfurt airport metaphor.

You make great content, and I've learned a lot from you. Probably haven't made a youtube comment in at least 6 months, so this is sincere.

I love his Guess the Elo impression, so true haha

BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!

Fastest click when Danya uploads

Yesss

Danya, to do video chapters via the description you need to list the first chapter as well. :)

Plz do anything with double neighboring pawn tension ie QGD semi tarrasch

8:28 What about Bd3 instead of Bc2 and after Q moves then Bxe3+ and when the R blocks, Rxf1+, Rxf1 Bxf1? and then taking the other R for the other B

Which is the app that Danya uses to show us other games? Can I get a database with lots of games like his?

most UNDERRATED content on youtube!

Hello can you help me? Pause the game at 10:45 - if he takes H7 with the knight instead of the bishop doesn't he fork Danya's Queen and Rook?

Baka mitai briefly started playing in my head when you had hold of that queen there. But nope. Record scratch and music stopped.

Danya almost going for a Botez Gambit 🤣

When you played knight f8, wouldn't black have taken the knight with the rook. You then couldn't have played rook e6 forking the king and queen, as the queen would have taken (with check). Any response to that check would be met with the opponent capturing your rook on f8 with their own rook mating you on the back-rank. I think the only move for advantage then would be taking the f1 rook first, unless I'm missing something of course. Also I think playing re8 to protect your back-rank was a pretty significant blunder, as you could you instead played g6 trapping white's bishop on f7. If white's queen played c6#, you'd have freed up the g7 square for your bishop. Amazing video, I watch them all religiously!

Started watching danya and hikaru heavily a week ago and went from 1200 to 1500 in 2 days xd

@10:47 why not knight h7 fork queen and Rook?

Not gonna lie I saw that queen f2 was a blunder but before he realised I thought it was part of the plan and there was a tactic that he seen. But nope he nearly went full 1100 and hung the queen haha funny stuff

Can someone why he couldn’t take that bishop with the king after the castle move? I’m not seeing it

2 glasses of champagne like

10:34 doesn't Nh7 fork the queen and the rook or am I missing something?

Why bishop C2 wins the exchange? What prevents white king from capturing the bishop? I must be missing something important here

Botezing your queen would have been next level content. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m glad you didn’t lol

How did he castle if bishop is interrupt??? Bug or what?

Indonesia here!

Danya almost transitioned into Hikaru's Botez gambit lol

How was white able to castle through the bishop attack?

Two big takeaways for my beginner self. This once again reinforces the idea that players with solid ratings just don’t know basic opening responses (the response move 2) and a newer concept for me… I just noticed that GM Danya and other higher rated players on KZfaq will say something like “I don’t remember how this goes but let’s see here…” and they verbalize out loud the steps they go through in their head to arrive at a likely solid move in an opening they can’t remember. Why that’s a biggy to me is because the “basic opening principles” are definitely not what’s being used to reason with - they’re simply too vague to apply.

8:17. Was it worth it for your opponent to look at capturing the bishop and rook in exchange for the queen rather than just trading bishop for rook?

15:42 Am I bad for laughing at the guy who suggested re4? 😂

how far can u get with a grob borg speed run? lol

Is champagne chess more elegant than cheap beer chess?

10:12 *cries in 1300*

I think Qf6 was not the best. White gets a lot of counterplay after Nf4 with tempo instead of Bd3 and there’s no e4 by black in that position 🤔

what's he celebrating?

In 12:15,why didn't you just take the pawn with the knight in G2? He couldn't take of course with his queen because of rook f2 and it is game over...

Can someone clone Daniel so that we can have videos each and every day?

Some moves cure cancer, other moves cure boredom lol

I'm not first. I'm not last. As Cody Jinks sings, Somewhere in the middle's just fine.

*Opponent long castles* Danya without hesitation: "there's the blunder." *Me staring at position for 2 minutes trying to find the mistake* Edit: oh that was obvious. And that's why I'm a 1300

My 7-year old son jumped off the couch screaming at the tv when you almost hung your queen. I proudly told him he just saw something a grandmaster missed…Champagne not withstanding…Also, he did not understand why black didn’t take with knight instead of bishop forking queen and rook during black’s attack. I think you said white had a check to get out of it?

Knife f1>knife f5

budapest and almost botez gambits

Great but please don't abandon these Endgame videos.

we can not kill any birds in our time:)

I mean… it‘s not like accepting the gambit is terrible for White, I don‘t understand why people just don‘t accept gambits it was the same with the Danish Gambit 🤔

So disappointing when people let time run out instead of trying to move

first

Oh boy I would bm this guys so hard. I would add time for him until he either clicks the surrender button or I promote all pawns and sac every piece just to mate him with a funny bishop move or smth. Fuckin hate these kind of players who dont resign and let the time run out.