finally a deep throretical opening played by danya.....so tired of unfounded antipositional chess like the "Sicilian" or "Italian Game"

I’m glad the speed run has finally reached serious GM-level openings.

This speedrun is about solid fundamentals and building good habits. Finally decides to play the most solid opening chess at the GM level. Thank you based Danya for the content.

Danya: *Starts a new youtube opening series* Also Danya: *BONGCLOUD*

Hey Danya, I've always liked the speedrun and thought it has tremendous value. There is far too little slow chess being played by strong titled players explaining their thought process. This series is my favorite chess series on youtube and one of the only places I feel like I'm still learning something nearly every video (I'm getting close to my National Master title). I honestly wouldn't mind if you continued indefinitely. It's a really great resource for both beginning players and more experienced ones and will always be one of the first resources I recommend to my students.

I love how the statement about the battery on the diagonal (10:59) turned into the checkmate (15:38).

Best chess teacher on the internet.

When Daniel takes on c4 he opens up the position When I take on c4 I allow the opponent's bishop to develop naturally and occupy a key diagonal

Such high level opening theory, to no surprise Danya shows us how its done

Valuable as ever: that concept of not grabbing the d4 pawn when you've got less space to work with is a real eye-opener, and it felt like a few things clicked into place for me there and then! I always struggle with knight outposts, I feel like I over-value them a lot of the time and trade for a worse structure too quickly.

The speedrun series is what drew me to your channel and I continue to enjoy it immensely. It has helped me improve my chess more than almost any other chess content on YT save actual deep dive analysis vids of specific openings. I would love having 2-3 games per video but I understand that it can be quite difficult to fully analyze each one. So I hope you keep going with this series and we can look forward to many more speed runs in the future, maybe from the next one you can start it at a mid level rating like 1500 so we skip to players who at least slightly understand opening and middlegame theory. Thanks for everything Danya!

I am a new viewer and I think these videos are amazing. I have been watching this speed run for the last few weeks and I often hear you speak about the fabled previous two speed runs. I have not watched those yet, but I absolutely think there is great value in this speed run. I came upon this series after I started reading a book that covers the four knights scotch opening. I was looking for some practical examples of that and I found the speed run videos where you played it, and I was completely blown away by how instructional these videos are. Now I have just been watching the rest of them. Thank you!

A great teacher explains complicated concepts in an easy and effortless manner.

I love these videos. Especially the rapid format. Please keep these runs going. Been watching since before oh my lands

Thank you so much for this speedrun, Daniel. It’s definitely the most instructive series I’ve encountered, alongside John Bartholomew’s Chess Fundamentals videos. Cheers!

Love the speed runs! Thank you!👍🏻

Most helpful series on the internet. Thanks Daniel! Sharing how you evaluate these positions is a master class at any level, with any opening.

Speedruns are great. I learn so much from these. Thank you very much!

Loved it Daniel, thank you!

Awesome video as always Danya. This series will never get old for me!

Wow, these videos are awesome. Thanks Daniel!

Man, its ridiculously satisfying when understanding locks in over how to evaluate a position in the moment. Can't thank Daniel enough for the practical look into GM thinking. Such a tremendous help to my understanding and enjoyment of the game.

So valuable to be walked through what your thought process should be by a GM. Doesn't make it easy when on your own, but still helps so much.

Def still going well. Every game in this run is insanely instructive. Keep it going all the way Sensei!

You can tell Danya felt his Russian coach's scorn when he said a "traditional bongcloud"

I really like this series, I subscribed because of it.

Love these videos, keep it up!

Definitely not getting boring, the speedrun is the best series on KZfaq keep it up :)

I love the speedruns!

Best way of starting the weekend, thanks sensei!

🙌🙌 Danya. Love walking through the logic with you. Your insights are always helpful, this kind of thing especially so. Getting out of bad situations is something I find myself doing often 🤷‍♂️

Danya please dont stop, your content is really good, in fact the best thing i could learn from

These series helped me go from 800 to 1290-1300. Absolutely great analysis and teaching. Best chess series on KZfaq.

Thanks Danya, always taking notes after watching your videos and I have 50+ tips now.

Thanks Danya! Don't ever stop speed-running! Always something new to learn!

Nice video as usual.

Really instructive!!

Love the speed runs Danya, I learn so much from each one. And I liked when you kept notes on what you wanted to talk about after the game. In this one you said it would be very instructive to talk about why Nxd4 wasn’t a good move, but I think you forgot

Never stop the speedruns please!

You are amazing sensei 💥💥💥💥💪 Speed run is really so helpful for me to improve my chess I love this series a lot 💖💪

The only educational bongcloud opening video on the internet.

Danyas face seems so strange without headphones, I’ve been so used to them LOL

Hey Danya, just wanted to let you know I'll never get tired of this content! Even if you explain something you've said before, it's still very educational and we often see a combination of concepts at work that make every game interesting

18:40 yes keep continuing! This speedrun is incredibly valuable and instructive. Can't wait to see how you demolish players at my level.

Wow, super-helpful game, particularly dealing with that rook-queen setup on the a-file. And even though it was for instruction, you can just sense Daniel's discomfort playing a bad move on purpose, LOL

The much awaited opening vid

This is the content we want. So good.

I went from 1600 to 2000 watching Danya and studying my games.

dont ever end the speedruns. best chess channel on yotuube

“Don’t think there’s an algorithm to playing a position” Engines: I beg to differ

Danya playing the bongcloud just to feel something

I think this is the most instructive speedrun so far. Not because the others werent instructive, but this one is based on chess principles, and it's something fundamental even advance chess players need to have ingrained in their minds.

Danya: Knights are honestly not the end of the world Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: We'll see, mate. we'll see

It's literally beneficial, I hope you never stop it.

Thanks for the video, I really enjoy these speedruns. Even when the openings are repeated multiple times there's so much to say that it can't be done in a few videos. I was really happy to see you didn't retire the series but restarted it. I also look forward to when you get to around my rating (1800-1900) and do these "recover from bad position" games. On another note, you probably won't see this comment, but I was curious why you weren't worried about damaging your pawn structure by playing Nc6? Was the value of removing the knight from that square truly worth it? It'd never occur to me to do that I'll be honest because I hate damaging my pawn structure.

Daniel “we pound at the centre” naroditsky

thanks danya

interesting, thanks

The speedrun is my favorite series on youtube period. Each episode has so much instructional value. I would be more than happy to see more speedruns in the future. Maybe another 5 minute or even 3 minute. My blitz skills need a lot of work.

Finally, he's ascending.

My dude, Danya, the answer is always YES.

Shocker the gm with twice the rating as his opponent did not get into trouble after playing one bad move in the opening. I am as amazed as you Danya.

"sometimes it's just about looking around the board and saying ok I'm gonna blunder my queen"

Thank you for the speedruns! I started watching from last summer's speedrun. You helped me go from 400 to 1400.

I like seeing you play these “bad positons,” but it’s hard to do it in a way that’s reasonable. Bong cloud is definitely fun, but my absolute favorite was when you played against the scotch and hung the f7 trap

I will watch speed runs even if it is for the thousandth time. It is just great.

They should have a bong loud tournament with gms as black against 2200 level bots. That would be fun.

We don’t think you’ll get crushed either, Danya.

Never clicked on a video faster

Finally

you're my favorite teacher the quality is just on a superhuman level, i think being writer is the one important reason, you're able to conceptualize and verbalize ideas faster and better than others.

I m gonna play a bad opening Proceeds to play a Bongcloud

4:20 I feel like the last 3 times he's asked us a question he's said the same thing. XD

You've done a video about a chess study I found that very interesting are you planning on making some more??

"traditional Bongcloud" that's how far chess has come

Let's go...I most of the time mouse slip during castling...which turns into a bongcloud...Tnx for the lesson

Funny story I was backpacking through Malaysia and i saw a paper tiger biting on granite. It looked positionally dubious to say the least.

00:40 "Disclaimer, I haven't used it before, I might end up getting crushed but I don't think I will" *Always Sunny In Philadelphia theme song begins to play* *DANYA GETS CRUSHED BY A NOOB*

Definition of "pretty good" = not folding over and dying

This speed run is about playing solid positional chess *BONGCLOUD SPEEDRUN*

"Let's play the bongcloud, but in a serious way"

One thing I'd like to see is how to deal with a weak king. Like a castled king where the knight on f3 or f6 is taken and is then recaptured with the g pawn rather than another piece. I could be up 2 pieces and still blunder some mate in these positions.

Could you do an F3 bongcloud with white please?

Would it be possible to suggest an opening with more unorthodox pawn positions, and active piece play for black? I would love to see a benko gambit, or even a benoni of some sort?

Ah yes, the Queenscloud

16:01 “A simple game” Meanwhile Rh8 Bxh8 and the King walks into a million discovery under the sun =)))

Danya "principled openings only" Naroditsky...

Broke: bongcloud blitz speedrun Woke: bongcloud classical speedrun

Hi Danya, would you consider doing an ep on the Sicilian Kan? I think it’s a cool variation and I haven’t seen too many popular KZfaqrs cover it.

The first speed run started when I began my degree. I'm about to graduate now

I still remember the first time someone played the bongcloud against me it was like 2009 I thought it was some mathematical joke now it's in everyone's repertoire

It is impossible for me to see a bongcloud and not just instantly hear summoningsalt’s voice now

ahh a person that still uses shenanigans :)

Daniel "Sigma" Naroditsky plays the best opening in all of chess

Keep doing speed runs....... We enjoy these a lot... Love ya... Plus increase the speed runs games in between time(say one speedrun game every 4 days) if u feel that playing weak players hampers ur own gameplay..

bongcloud OP

Would be very interesting if you played like a 1800 game with a queen sac and see if you can recover the game

Such a missed opportunity to put Hikaru BONGCLOUD theme at the bagining :V

Daniel the kind of guy to not play the bongcloud because he doesn't know enough theory on it.

if I'm not mistaken Danya defeated a 1800 with bongcloud in the last speedrun