I love Danya's little discursions, like his discussion of the hedgehog here. This is why I am a fan.

As a player around 2000- Daniel I just want you to know I’ve learned more from you than any paid lessons. Everything else is always too rushed and Ill-explained, or too dumbed down. This is just perfect. I love how you say ‘well you might think about such and such moves, but then this happens, so I’m actually looking at this’ because that’s always exactly what I am considering as I watch lol! You’re a gift of a gem to the chess community. Thank you for this invaluable content. You offer it in such a pleasant and perfect manner for me.

"the margins of our wins are getting a little bit more narrow" : alright, I first thought they were getting a bit more DITSKY

3:50 Daniel went full on tuco mode here lmao

This guy is actually kinda good at chess

Didnt think I'd live to see Danya imitating Tuco Salamanca

3:50 "Tight tight tight" 13:02 "Yeah Mr. White. Yeah science"

Glad I made stream yesterday and saw all the support this run gets live! This is so instructive and appreciated thank you Danya for giving back to the community we GREATLY have been waiting for someone to explain each move all the way up above 2000. Keep the Hype trains going at 4 am 🚂

The Tuco reference really caught me off guard

Clearly shows that players of this rank are not used to being punished this heavily in the opening for their mistakes. As soon as the opponent realised they made a mistake, they spent a lot more time and effort on their moves and defended very well.

Danya, you should do a video titled Dealing With Annoying People | The Sensei Speedrun | GM Naroditsky

12:50 Here how to see forkable targets with knights: on same row/line odd number of squares between them, shifted a diagonal square even number, shifted two diagonales again odd, etc. I hope i could help, sry if my english sucks :D

Deeply appreciate your kindness to share various Chess knowledges & experiences Sensei. A great way of teaching from a great teacher.

12:57 dat danya pinkman XXXD love u sensei

3:50 was that a tuco impression?

9:45 the Jen Psaki joke made me choke on my food 😂

Nice touch with the chill music in the background

Danya i thank you once again for the content

When I woke up today I never expected to hear a Tuco impression from Danya, but here I am and I wouldn't have it any other way. Thanks for the laugh, Danya!!

This speed is run is definitely to be repeated, very instructive, i loved it, thanks a thousand times Beltschatsar Danya 😉

Hey, thanks for uploading, I learn a lot from your videos (the ideas, the thought process, the mindset and lot more). Please continue to make such instructive videos in the future as well ❤️

I will always be thankful to you sir for your lessons 🙏🏻😊

This was very educational. I like how Danya explains stuff.

Having researched human problem solving a great deal, a recurrent theme is that people are very hesitant to pursue solutions that temporarily take them away from their goal state. This can lead to bad and inefficient choices. An example is in soccer, a new player can be biased towards believing that crowding around the ball is the best strategy because it feels closer to the goal state (shooting and scoring), yet spacing players out is a far superior strategy. Similarly in chess, over the course of this speed run, especially when a mating attack is near, the tendency of the chat seems to be to choose moves that feel "closest" to a checkmate, even if they are suboptimal and overlook the opponent's resources.

3:50 breaking bad reference or am I losing my gourd?

That was very instructive, many thanks.

Airway a good morning with s new video from you, thank you.

Nd4 is such a classy move after which the opponent is totally demoralized and resigns. At 1800 lichess, people never make such moves. One of the most tough mental things is to lose against people who know zero opening theory (like playing 3. Bc4 in the Sicilian what is called "Bowdler attack"), or playing extremely primitive chess, but that primitive chess is good enough if you blunder something on the way.

I just love these videos so much.

Glad we're going back to uploads every second day!

great match!

Amazing vid as usual

Thank you so much

3:49 Tuco breking bad reference lol

you make everything look so easy - amazing!

thanks

@Daniel - Happy to see you around! I appreciate this late-night 'Chess and chill' more than you realize. ・I'm taking a break from recording a Chess-related Therapy Lesson. ・I appreciate this /extra/ right now because I'm suffering an unrelated tragedy (that has parallels to the territorial disputes of Chess). This helped.

Danya is a true chess learner`s GM. Magnus is by far the best and beast of his generation but people like Danya helps chess grow lot more. Hope this guy qualifies for candidate soon.Good on you Danya😊

Gracias che, muy bueno!

Tight, tight, tight! Oh... blue, yellow, pink! Whatever, man, just keep bringing me that!

Pulled out the breaking bad Tuco. TIGHT, TIGHT, TIGHT!!!!!

That Yusopov game is one of my all time favorite games and the reason I play the hedgehog sometimes.

Daniel you should really consider making a KZfaq VOD channel. I would definitely love to have more content to watch all night and give you ad revenue while I sleep

Tight tight tight yeah

It is very interesting to see a game by Yusupov here, I have worked with him! It is also funny to the game start as a benoni and transpose into a hedgehog, he's known for liking (center) blockades

Thank you soooo much for not saying "Marock See"!

Tactical pattern recognition is something you either see it you don't. More accurately, it's something you see after doing hundreds of thousands of puzzles.

I sorta had this on in the background and the Tuco impression caught me off guard...

Castling at 6:05 is a top GM move which I didn’t understand - why give up an important central pawn? I set up the position at 6:05 on an engine and 0-0 is the second best move losing the d6 pawn. The top suggestion is .. Ke7 but only a small difference in the evaluation even with the extra pawn. Ke7 is such an engine like move. No top chess player will do it. This kind of intuitive decision making is the difference between a top GM and players below IM level I guess.

Dear Danya, I've been watching all your speedrun videos and it helps me a lot. I have one question about Sicilian as black. Which one is better for between 2200-2300 rated players: Sicilian Taimanov or Sicilian Najdorf? Thanks

Please put an detailed study on Sicilian defence..... would love to learn that from you 🙏

A lot of those weird moves showed up briefly as 3rd choice engine moves. And, there was a long pause before the only move Kh1. Waiting for the engine's 2nd and 3rd recommendations that never came?

Hey man, can you please compile a playlist on Sicilian

Legend 👍👍

GM NARO is the Spielberg of Chess video production and his Chess play is exceptional.

are there two separate breaking bad references in this video? that's great

After Rd8 in 28:30, why can’t white go Ba5?

Who are your favorite chess authors and would you recommend any of them/their books to a relative novice? I want to buy a book about openings for white but there’s so many on the market, I don’t know what to pick

His first breaking bad ref, where's that "tight tight tight" with Tuco's accent came from :)

My favorite part is chat suggesting their blunders to improve on his play.

1:12 Giri actually gives 3.c4 e5 as his recommendation in his Najdorf course.

The Hedgehog is called when the White's e-pawn is not on e4 but on e3 or e2

“Danya does the slowest speedruns in history.” - Levy Rozman aka GothamChess

Danya added elevator music to this video

Lot of different references this game lol

Wow I thought I had come up with that hedgehog system. I’ve been playing it for several years with a VERY high win rate. Didn’t know it was used at the gm level

I like how he says "we" for everything he did 🤣🤣

I was here upon posting,

27:23 Nd4 Qxb7 Nxf3+ Qxf3 Qxa2 and I'll push my a-pawn, not even close.

wow hedgehog is super interesting

Please bring back the endgame series

See, you can tell he's going for a certain structure based on his moves, how does one gain knowledge of opening structures like this? Any particular sources?

Probably, the best player/commentator online! If you found better, let me know, your probably lying.

12:57 I caught that breaking bad reference 😂😂

Anyone know what database/program he uses to find these game examples?

i played a fella using danya's username for this run on lichess the other day. or same name but with a number at the end. i thought what is this these runs are done on com. played guy curious to see if I was going to get GM strength opposition. but nah. just a fan of the videos I think.

A lot of meat to unpack is wild bro

Just some feedback: I think the show is awesome, but without the music it's much better. Music tastes are very diverse...

Сыграй пожалуйста разок челябинский вариант. Было интересно посмотреть как открытый, так и закрытый варианты

Nd4! What a disgusting move to face

Yeah, maybe the opportunity to be annoying isn't worth two pawns, but of course I don't really know. Thx

🤣🤣🤣 Jen Psaki would make that move. I instantly thought of that too.

I think in 10+0 games people are loosing right in the opening and not playing good openings in general 15+10 games might be better in that regard

800 rated here, at 5:11 cant we play Qb6?

I'm not sure but I think the Maroczy bind structure is good in only 1 or two lines. Dragon Sicilian is the only place I know it from. So avoid building it without a good reason.

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Is it just me or does the face cam look really grainy

you can't call him robert fischer.

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Do more D4 please!

I really don't understand Black castling in this game. It hands White the initiative for no reason. Danya can get away with it though.

wow, my 1200 rating trash opening with white, maybe I'm not so terrible lol

I don't understand how a GM misses a move like Rb1 at 5:00, that's just basic stuff.

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