Kudos to your play, you made Danya think he reached an objectively losing position during the game, that is no mean feat! Thanks for giving us such an impressive game to learn from. I think I'll be able to learn a lot from this, since I play the Alapin with both sides.

Great game, man! Would you be willing to share the move at which your opening prep ran out? I found myself really wondering that that while watching. Danya kind of said when he wasn't sure of the next move and I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering where that was for you. Again, great game!

@@Blitnock If i had to guess it would probably be around white’s a4 move or a few moves later. Because Be6 prior is not a move a human would make without a guarantee that any immediate tactical possibilities work out in his favour.

You put up a stubborn defence against a top GM with the Black pieces. You should be extremely proud!

@@Blitnock Thank you! I have the Chessable Course Fight Like Magnus: The Sicilian. I haven’t quite finished studying the course, not even halfway through. But I looked through the Alapin chapter. 11. a5 Nd5 are the last moves in the course. I’ve never seen 12. a6 before. But already 10. a4 was new for me and I felt out of theory. For people at my level it’s very unusual to delay e4 for so long.

most of it is actually opening theory. at 2000 people generally know a couple openings really well (not all, of course). very likely daniel just ran into an alapin specialist

Did you watch the end? Lol. Nothing to be proud of that’s embarrassing

​@@SIIGG ok sorry mister 1450

@@juliusgreen9179 more like mr 200 lol

@@SIIGG You’re actually right. These guys talking trash are D riders and prob rated 1000. I totally agree with you

What are all the other Naroditskyisms I must know

@@ponzi_0 Bishops biting in granite Pouring in tobasco sauce Not taking the foot of the gas pedal Frankfut airport Covid vaccine And many others

@@ponzi_0 "Sexy move" and "Not every piece has to distribute the covid vaccine" come to mind immediately. I'm sure there are some other ones people can point out.

"and if our opponent finds it, we'll just have to tip our hat"

"Let's not rest on our laurels"

Bro, we know - it's in the title.

4 a.m. here >_

@@sarcastaball Bro, - we know it's in the title, the title is in the title

@@sarcastaball we know Bro, we know.

I also loved Danya explaining converting the advantage with exf. Its interesting how he can talk so clearly and play top chess at the same time. Hats down Daniel, youre great

It's not unintentional

It's a very common joke, and made intentionally.

Shoutout Ben Finegold

luck is not a thing. it's the skill

@@nimatedAdventures luck is absolutely a thing. you're playing a game where the human brain is literally incapable of concretely calculating the full decision tree. at some point even the best GMs are relying on a combination of concrete tactics, positional understanding, and sheer intuition. when your intuition happens to align with the concrete considerations of the tactics on the board (with best play from both sides, all roads lead to rome & you win), that is skill AND luck.

or like when you lead your opponent down a combination they didn't see, which looks winning for you, but at the end it just so happens they have a tactical resource neither of you saw. that's bad luck for you and good luck for them. sure, it's also bad skill from you. but it's not like luck isn't a thing in chess :)

A truly explosive move

I would love this. but no boring accuracybots please ;)

Ben finegold has a series like this on his channel if you are interested. It's called something like great players of the past/present. It is a lot like what you describe

A similar thing happen to me today, my opponent was doing such bad moves but I screwed up the theory, and lost a rook, and I got tilted so I just rage quit but it turned out I shouldnt have since I apparently had a +1 advantage 😔

Concrete ideas (in this case, tactics from opening theory) trump abstract principles. But only, of course, if the concrete idea is well-calculated, which is the difference between those three pawn moves and a 500-elo player's favorite opening trap gimmick.

As danya stated in the video, the point of rushing the pawn to a6 was not immediately obvious but as we saw in one possibility, the pawn gave him a winning position. Also investing 3 moves where black had to respond back with 2 tempi is not a bad investment. Black couldn’t develop his bishop without repercussions (Qg4 and Bh6 winning the exchange) and the knights were kicked around on less desirable squares. It’s also important to note that previously, trades for reaching an endgame favored black however with the inclusion of this pawn, this suddenly changes to favoring white. In the meantime, black struggles to develop and coordinate his pieces and has to come to terms with the fact that unfavorable trades will be losing for him and getting the trades that he wants will become a much more difficult possibility. By the way, this concept is very abstract and theoretical where it’s difficult even for master level players to grasp.

he's played a lot of chess frequently since a young age. Human minds can absorb a lot when given the opportunity

You especially don't need to keep an eye on it, but make sure you react to threats, surely, cause you may be expecting to trade it for the f pawn, so dead things need no love. They did they murda.

You can look at this game as two people spending their turns. It's only what you can accomplish in a position that is the question. If you are not fishing for errors while playing "solid", you are not trying to win a relatively equal game. The way I learned to win is to make people think that going down the wrong line is good for them. So actually finding positions they are likely to make a mistake in weeds out the noobs from the seen it befores.

32:29 I used to call these fun games. Luck, is your brain working, apparently. As so wanted, innit?

well the difference is the pressure they are put under. if they only have to calculate 1-2 moves with basic tactics then they wont blunder a piece most likely. if they have to consider 5-6 possible threats or positional disadvantages every move for 10+ moves then they will crack eventually. singling out the 1 move where they blundered is pretty narrow sighted. playing a GM who basically gives you nothing, where you constantly have to scratch your head to even just develope your pieces somewhat reasonably without dropping material somewhere else and making it incredibly hard to even come up with an attacking plan yourself is vastly different to playing a fellow 1800 player who gives you way more breathing room to coordinate your pieces.

@@peterpan3022 fair - however I assume the majority of people don’t know they’re playing against a GM

a6 blunders the N on b6

@@bughunter1766 are you kiddin Q is still on d1, a6 just after a4 not to allow that a6 bs

@@witcher-86 No I'm not kidding. Maybe you should look at the game again. You said black should play A6 after white plays A5. Now you're saying after A4. Which one is it? If you play A6 after white plays A5, axb6 and there goes your knight. The queen has nothing to do with it.

After a4 a6 and if a5 Nd5 that's my point, cause if you allow white to push a6 like in the game black is worse, i learned this the hard way in otb classical

@@witcher-86 if you back up a little bit farther in the video, before he even plays a4, he explains the downside of protecting the b5 Square. If you do that he's going to put a white knight on there and you won't be able to remove it. Don't forget also that black is a minimum of three moves before they can get the Bishop out and four before they can Castle. Playing a5 or a6 delays that even more. I think if you want to prevent all this it has to start earlier. Once the knight is on b6 it's sort of invites this. Because once you move the a pawn, the N is undefended, that invite tactics. You've wasted more precious time that you need to get your king out of the center. And you've given white a dangerous Square to put a knight on. I understand that you don't like that pawn push, but I just pulled it up with the engine and it said black is .38 worse after moving the a pawn. So the engine does consider it an inaccuracy. It actually wants Rd8.