1. e4 e5 “Okay, so he goes e5. Now a lot of people here would just lazily develop the knight to f3, but we actually have a move here that poses a lot of practical problems for black and is borderline winning for white. The move is Ke2, and do not worry I will explain this more thoroughly after the game. Now you might look at this position and say, ‘isn’t this weakening our king and blocking in our pieces?’ And while that may be true, you guys need to start thinking long term. In the endgame, it will be a huge advantage to have our king activated in the center. Furthermore, black has no threats here, he is not going to checkmate us any time soon, the king is perfectly well defended on e2. Now he does have a nasty little defensive resource he can try here, let’s see if he finds it. Wow, Ke7 he finds it. Now guys, I don’t wanna hear any baseless accusations, we will check with an engine after the game. It’s not unthinkable that a 1500 finds this move. No black has not equalized, we just need to play clinically to secure our advantage.”

Danya’s reaction to every move his opponent plays “yah, I saw this and if you calculate 3 moves further…” My reaction to every move his opponent plays “Damn, thats a good move, I didnt see that” 😂

I often find myself not wanting to watch the analysis after the game, because I don't play the opening, but I watch it anyway and never regret it, because I learn so much anyway that it's totally worth it. Great work Danya!

My mind is still boggling from all the insane complications in this game! The Belgrade Gambit was definitely not on my radar, but this fascinating video convinced me that maybe I should look into it.

Qf3 "This may be a bad move" (It was a losing move, but the opponent missed how to take advantage) c3 "This isn't the best move" (It actually is, good job) Oh man, that ending. Literally even until the opponent moves too fast and blunders Re1. Brutal stuff

Really enjoyed the video as always Danya. Greetings from Belgrade 😁

Thank you Daniel I really appreciate your speed run games and learn a lot from them. Keep up the great content.

Thanks for this lesson, from Belgrade, we like it here revival of this opening.

love your videos danya, thank you!

"f4 is an advanced move". I have never been so proud of myself, thats the first move I have ever thought of that Daniel approved of. 700 elo here I come! 😂😂

It's amazing watching you at times. There were multiple times in this game where I was sure you were out of resources and Black was going to consolidate...but no, you continued walking that razor sharp line through to the end.

Great game! Thanks for sharing your expertise on it.

LETS GOOOOO DANYA!! Sure im gonna love this one

A suggestion for Danya; can there be more videos on positional puzzles?

Awesome Video 🎉 Brilliant Explaination 😊

Wow this may be my favorite game you have shown, and I've seen almost every video you have made. I realize finally that GMs don't see as much as I thought they did. At least this game no longer feels impossible any longer. 🙂

Was watching this video earlier today and used this in my game to get to 1100 for the first time, thanks Danya!

Great video Danya! :)

Thank you so much

This was a game full of action loved it

This is pure gold

Hey Danya, if the opportunity comes up in a future game I would actually love to see you play the Scotch Four Knights at this higher level. It's my opening of choice and I'd love to see how a great player like you handles it against quality opposition. It actually doesn't come up very often in your speedrun - most of your opponents haven't played into it.

always great

Excellent

Wild I thought he was going to lose! Equal position and his opponent has an extra minute and a half.. calculating that c3 move to “trap” the bishop in that sort of a time period was insane!

Great video

My favorite line at 11:45 is ...Bg4, Qd2 Bf3! (if gxf3, Nf3+ wins the Queen!), Bc6+ Nxc6 And you've successfully deflected the knight and eliminated the dangerous N + B combo. Eval is 0.0 after all this. Crazy line :)

Wow crazy game and even crazier complications

Danya u r freaking awesome

I've already seen the entire video!! Amazing work. Cant believe the game ended like that

You're awesome danya

just saw the title. hyped for this

C3, C3, C3... Trap the bishop with C3 31:36 WOOHOO! Called it. He played C3. I'm a genius

Wild game

In "Play the Open Games as Black" by Emms, he recommends two lines and I much prefer the 5... Nb4. It's always fun.

Cool!

Be7 is the move I've studied. I feel like I've seen Nb4 in a fever dream.

Hi Danya, could you play your real e4 repertoire against the main main openings (e5, c6, e6, c5). I'd love to get an insight at what is played by superGMs and the reasons for it. Thanks!

The more I watch these videos the more I understand the need to study and do my Calculation training.

This gambit is so cooooooool

It look fun❤

Got 'em in the thumbnail 😂😂😂

I vote we name the two move series opening tactic such as the Noah's arch trap, the alley oop.

19:54 what about Bc6 Rb6, Bd7+ Bd7, THEN e5 since the pawn is now pinned? not sure exactly what that accomplishes if im honest but it looked interesting

hes checking chess engines

The best way to beat Danya, play into a losing position with so many beautiful continuations, forcing Danya to flag 😂

I wish we could start a Go fund me for Daniel to create an intensive, on video, bridging course between 1700 and 2000 rating

Question: For most of my chess life i have played the london system. But now that i reached 2000 fide elo, i feel like i need a more tactical opening, because it fits my playstyle better. I feel like the Belgrade Gambit looks really interesting to me, and I quite like the positions resulting out of the opening for white. My question is if the Belgrade gambit is an opening that is fine to play as my main repertoire at a 2000 elo level.

"I'm just as confused as you are." Oh sweet, sweet child.

At the higher ratings Daniel prefers to play his main repertoire so he plays the Belgrade gambit. Yet after Black's first move (...h6) he is out of prep. 😆

I keep hoping to see a(nother) example of Danya's response to 1.d4 c5

This game was nuts

2:44 4:00 5:54 36:31 37:18 37:53 45:42

When Danya uploads a video, you watch DANYA!!!!!

I just love you

Oh my goodness it’s a thousand o’clock but I caught the video.

can you play against mangus age 10 once in the magnus play app

Fire haircut dude

"totally natural simple line" lol

Gonna be a ton of people playing the Belgrade Gambit after this

47:05 In the London system there is a trap with knights on e5 and g5, winning the f7 pawn, and if black is not careful, also the h8 rook Eric explains it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lc1hq7CLza2zpZc.html

Still waiting for the grunfeld defense analysis

Man, the audio has been so scuffed for the last two videos. It sounds like Danya has put a bunch of weird filtering in place, and it's really making the audio bad :(

My man was out of theory on the first move of the gambit

When I blunder I always remind myself that if I can make this mistake then so can my opponent at the same strength so I don't need to give up

Chess School is waaay cool. 🎉🎉

Крутяк 💥

After Nd7, did you consider a4 to make Bc6 stronger?

hi danya!!!

Sleep or Danya… okay… sleep not yet

wasn't this exact game played already in another speedrun video?

*advanced*

wow

55:14, can t the white queen just take the pawn, then the knight is dropping?

Anybody has compressed daniel speedrun videos?

Punch opponent in the face is winning on the spot

awesome ! I've had some amazing wins and spectacular loses with the Belgrade. As a 1600 I got a 2100 with it once. GM Boris Alterman has some great lectures on the internet chess club about it. If white knows what he's doing h6 is almost losing. GG the fact Danya is playing the belgrade made my heart melt ! kind of joking ! good joking WP!

please fix your mic quality Danya!

Everytime I hear "this is a good opening for intermediate chess players", I automatically think, ok so that means it's not really a good opening. Could you delve into this more, explain the difference between a top level opening and an intermediate level opening? I watched plenty of GM's openings, and they play plenty of different openings, so I am a bit confused. I want to play the best possible opening repertoire, and not an opening that says, 'hey I am just an intermediate, give me a break.'

Greetings from Belgrade Danya :)

Audio is a bit off

In your longer thinks... instead of skipping ahead 5-10 seconds.... why not fast forward .. this way we still hear your process but it does the obvious, move faster...

Well it’s clear what part of opponent’s game needs some working on

fork x-ray eyes

I guess at that level there are certain openings that are just plain drawish or bad if you know what you're doing. Or is it still really a matter of taste?

Why don't you consider sticking to a given rating level and play like 10 games before moving up. You said yourself that around 1700 or so, there's like one main concept that seems to arise out of every game that can give you a staging-off point for instruction.

Hey Danya, on Minute 31:38 you forgot the fork with the Night on e7.

hasn't quite reached the 500k subs yet 😕

tbh, I thought this is an old video.

you want to reach 500k subs in six months, but when is the start day?

Who else wants a speed run but only with russian school boy moves?

noti gang

dan is funny and he doesnt even know it

Who else wants pizza?

This Russian school boy doesnt make since, most Russians are quite tactical its Americans that are more positional

Jai shree ram ❤

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Who else wants puzzle solving videos?

ok!

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