Dude - you need your own Netflix series explaining openings and theory and other chess related things. You'd be a wonderful host and perfect for a big budget production

@Tobi-pn2xs

2 жыл бұрын

What would he even need a big budget for? No Hollywood actors, fancy outfits, crazy locations, or intricate animations would be necessary. Maybe some grandmaster guests but that's not enough to warrant a big budget.

@bruce285

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Tobi-pn2xs the big budget is so danya and everyone else involved in it can get paid

@Tobi-pn2xs

2 жыл бұрын

@@bruce285 Hundreds of thousands per episode are a standard budget for Netflix and 6 digits are also no rare occurrence and probably that's where you'll start talking of "high budget". Considering how much less work a chess show would be compared to things like action movies, it should be clear why "high budget" would absolutely not necessary for decent pay in an educational chess show.

@bruce285

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Tobi-pn2xs maybe the guy meant big budget for a chess show, fuck man idk

@pancakelover5285

2 жыл бұрын

Ok but the vast majority of Netflix users don't even play chess, let alone are serious enough about it to watch a plotless instructional video series Don't get me wrong, I love this series but it's not really something that could be featured on Netflix

I will always upvote this fantastic series.

@DBP250

2 жыл бұрын

I’m guessing you’re a Reddit user

@ShabazzTBL

2 жыл бұрын

Dang man. I always forget to like KZread videos!

I’ve played about 1k games with the KG in the last year and never faced this move. Thanks for showing this truly rare line! 🙏

@adamanonymous6885

2 жыл бұрын

fellow long time KG player, and its always struck me as weird how much my opponents reactions go in trends... a few months back, I was dominating with the opening as most opponents accepted and then attempted Bc5, which is frankly just a mistake... The last month, everyone has played the same delayed accepted line with Nf6 d4 exf4 - no idea where they all got it from (it doesn't seem very good tbh) but interesting how often I've seen fads in the defences of my opponents

@therapture8989

2 жыл бұрын

I love the chess community 🥲🥲

@khaluu2000

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes another fellow KG players. I see you are a man of culture as well

@user-by1fd2dx4k

6 ай бұрын

It is covered in Nepo's course on chessable

The pain of having already watched all of his instructional videos, so now you have to rewatch them. Seriously though Danya is single handedly responsible for helping me climb from 1000 to 1400. Thanks man!!

@theoneandonlyhooda

2 ай бұрын

what's your rating now

I love you so fucking much man, you make my day better by uploading a vid, no matter how awful I'm feeling I can always take a 30 min break by watching you, have fun no matter what the circumstance is and also you're a great teacher, I climbed from 1200 to 2000 both blitz and bullet in a month just by watching your vids and playing

@mikecantreed

2 жыл бұрын

Damn 800 points in 1 month in 2 time controls? What are your usernames?

@petergriffin8767

2 жыл бұрын

So much cap on that 800 rating point gain lmao

@taitaitai4270

2 жыл бұрын

it was just an exaggeration for the giggles I didn't make it obv enough or funny my bad there

@taitaitai4270

2 жыл бұрын

but I got to 2050 from 1450 in 2 months for real, his videos and puzzles AND playing for hours everyday help a lot

@taitaitai4270

2 жыл бұрын

but I was not exaggerating the situation part, I was feeling like absolute dogshit today and this vid made me stop thinking abt anything for 30 mins, I felt good

looking at the game through your eyes is truly beneficial, thanks for making genuinely informative content danya!

Daniel: he has this move, but it doesn't help Opponent: *does the move Me: damm, poor guy

200k subscribers around the corner. You deserve that and more!!!! Congrats on advance from Argentina!

I really do appreciate the clinical advice and explanations

Such a clean game showing you can be solid and offbeat at the same time.

@VladimirPutin-wt5yh

8 ай бұрын

Jake hello!

Thanks for the continued, amazing content.

I'm a casual player that has been majorly struggling with King's gambit. After this video I started winning my games! Thanks a lot, great content.

just the other day I was playing a long classical game and won a piece in the opening, but just couldn't seem to mobilize my pieces and defend the king. opponent got a strong attack going and I ended up losing. definitely great advice about not grabbing any more material if the situation doesn't feel safe. sometimes you probably even have to give back some material to free up the pieces, as Danya showed in the past too, but it's so hard to know when it's correct to do that.

Thanks as always dan love your content!

Love these chess opening videos! You're one of the best!

Daaaaaamn daniel back at it again with the white pieces

@AKhoja

2 жыл бұрын

He played black

@theTeflonDon1

2 жыл бұрын

@@AKhoja it didn't make sense if I said black

@AKhoja

2 жыл бұрын

@@theTeflonDon1 fair

@BiggyJimbo

2 жыл бұрын

@@theTeflonDon1 Why not wait to comment that on a game where he plays with the white pieces then haha

Best chess series for proper learning the vast depth of chess in a personal format. Not to technical, but down to earth and easy to follow explanations ❤️

The lesson in technique to convert the advantage.. wonderful

It’d be real nice if the opponents would stop blundering with the first 10 moves in all of these games😂

@kaikulimu

2 жыл бұрын

Danya is too strong. Every opponent’s move is a blunder to him

@JakeLYT

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaikulimu this

@RealJoux

2 жыл бұрын

How does he find 1800s that miss very basic forks and pins?

@jW-zu6rw

2 жыл бұрын

@@RealJoux because he plays good opening lines and knows how to punish even the slightest opening inaccuracy. so you get out of your comfort zone very early in the game. he just puts you under pressure as soon as you don't find the best move and then you crumble sooner or later.

@notreally1203

2 жыл бұрын

@@RealJoux what’s your rating? I don’t think you understand the amount of pressure every move a gm makes against you has. Danya got the guy completely out of his prep in 2 moves and was prepared for all common mistakes of the line. The moves seem very simple when you have a gm telling you everything about them, but the guy in this video would most likely embarrass you

This guy is wise beyond his years, great chess teacher and it appears life teacher as well

Daniel is the best at teaching. Learn so much from his videos.

You are awesome man! A gm and GA good man

Best chess series on youtube for instructional purposes

More good stuff. I'm trying to figure out when you are going to post next so I can watch it live...? Thanks.

Congrats, great game against Fabi.

Thanks, ill try this line next time!

What felt like home for me almost from the start was the Alekhine's defense. I think technically I sometimes play like a King's Indian if they don't push E5, but generally I have about 3000 bullet games in it and despite never looking at theory deeply (once bought alekhines best games as a book but hardly looked into it), I feel like I can outplay in the opening above my elo, all my friends call my chess "internet chess", because they think it all shouldn't work and I even once went to a local open tournament (I never played serious) and I beat an experienced player (~1700 elo) in a 5 min game and he shook his head after 10 moves saying "wtf did you get me into" and I knew he wasn't familiar with the position at all. So I think the tip here is: Pick something that feels good and get good at it.

@14Viper14

2 жыл бұрын

Feel the exact same way about the Ruy Lopez. I'm relatively new to chess but i just understand that opening (for my level ofc).

You go into Lichess database, d5 and Bc5 have the best results for black in the kings gambit, everything else has white at 50%+ win rate, c6 doesn't even show up, but plug it in and the top 4 moves white usually plays all lead to black winning

Fantastic!

That was some clean chess

damn gurl! just before i sleep, the prophet has to post! 😂😂😂😂

19:35 The discussion about not taking on d4 would benefit from some concreteness. First of all, the engine agrees with Danya's Qc6. With that out of the way, Qxd4 is fine. During the game, I was thinking about 1. ... Qxd4 2. Kh1 Qxc4, which pins the bishop seemingly dommed by the subsequent b5. The problem is 3. Rac1, which breaks the pin. Black, of course, is still way ahead, but the conversion becomes more complicated. Instead, one needs to pin the bishop differently 2. ... b5 3. cb (this unpins the knight) Nc5. This is arguably stronger than straightforward 1. ... Qc6, since we've got a bishop, but surprisingly, the engine doesn't find this so much stronger. This basically confirms what Danya says about incremental improvements of already decisive advantages. I find this very edifying. EDIT: Danya addresses these points later in the video.

This video has opened my eyes.

Now it’s a good Sunday!

Quality danya-age, as always :)

Loved it

Thanks

I didn't expect a video a this time

11:00 valentine boy pogU

I don't think I've ever actually seen king's gambit the other way around (from black's side).

That first player is like the noob crusher, uses off beat unsound crap to wait for you to blunder all your pieces

Danya, PLEASE, do that lecture on how to use the engine and learn from it like you suggested at 28:30. I would be grateful, evermore.

Could you possibly do a video on the Soviet School of Chess, like philosophy and examples?

I hate playing against the Kings Gambit but love playing the Vienna Gambit

Potato for president is always on point

4:04 the brick team is on their way

Chess goat

Literally, the best channel on KZread ♟

normally rocking the fischer defense...but this seems like gold..

super random question but at 12:23 did he say "moi"? The French word for "me"? I'm a French learning English and was wondering if this was some kind of "fancy" way of saying "me"? if that's not the case anyone understands what he says? lmao

@SEAKPhotog

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, he says "moi". And yep, we (Americans) sometimes use it to be fancy or different when referring to ourselves. 🙂

@qyhh

2 жыл бұрын

​@@SEAKPhotog Aight okay thank you! Didn't know that was a thing hahah

@SEAKPhotog

2 жыл бұрын

@@qyhh good luck with your studies! English is my wife's 3rd language after Hungarian (native) and Russian. She's been speaking/learning it for 25 years and our American English idiosyncrasies still drive her crazy 😉

@johnbell9242

2 жыл бұрын

Here "moi" comes across as self-effacing and playful in what could otherwise be perceived as a slightly pompous claim to the top rated game in the database. To use moi in normal conversation would probably come across as pretentious but here makes Danya seem... not less arrogant exactly but more self aware and more fun. English is hard and context is everything!

@qyhh

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnbell9242 that was super clear! Thanks a lot for your input. I assumed it was used as a "pretentious" way of saying it, didn't realize it was more of à "self-effacing" way of saying it. Indeed context matters a lot, especially here. Thanks again to both of you

Whats a good way to learn the classic lines and the theory?

I do not know if this is too much to ask but can we have after game analyzes PGN?

Danya gives me more joy than my girlfrined

@petergriffin8767

2 жыл бұрын

time to break up?

@GMBethHarmon

2 жыл бұрын

👀 That's not what you were supposed to doing when Danya said he found a sexy tactic !

8:33 Hikaru has joined the chat

I said a while ago that I thought in this series Danya was spending too much time on the more obvious moves early in the game, and I think he's really improved in that manner👍🏻. Wonderful series, either way. Super grateful to get this education for free.

@KKH808

2 жыл бұрын

That’s the point of the speed run. It’s hard to teach beginners and advanced players at the same time hence the elo of the video.

@kruksog

2 жыл бұрын

@@KKH808 I get that, there was just some vids where it felt like he would use most of his time explaining super basic stuff in the opening, really harping on it, and then have no time to talk about his thinking when the game got tricky. I say this as a beginner. Not trying at all to be negative, I just think his pacing has gotten better and wanted to highlight that.

I appreciate that Danya is always congratulatory towards his opponent.

Giant steps to 200 k subs 💥💥💥

No way I would've ever thought of c6.

I always click instantly on this.

That intro was not just a chess lesson…it was a life lesson

Hi, you are my favorite channel

I hope 2. ... c6 becomes known as the Naroditsky Variation! :)

Daniel thanks to your series I've gone from 900 ELO to 904 ELO in five months.

in other way... what danya trying to say is. at non GM level, dont try to being greedyl before you can consolidate your pieces. one mistake such as opening file for opponent rook might lead to devastating result. GM might able to see 5 to 10 moves ahead. but us, as regular player often made terrible decision which can lead to turning the table. great advice

oponent got outheored

Great and instructive video as always! It would be even better if it wasn't over so soon - I would assume that a typical 1800 game doesn't include blundering pieces in the first moves, right?

What is wrong with night c6 after the bishop check?

@josse2337

2 жыл бұрын

White can take with the Knight and if you recapture with your pawn, white can take it with the bishop, forking the King and the Rook.

Danya, you really should consider different video previews (picture). KZread algo doesn't like the similar ones and you lose views for no reason

@r0b0hobo

2 жыл бұрын

He's said in the past youtube is not his main focus and he's a busy guy. I don't expect him to make funny faces for the thumbnail like Levy or hire a team of people like Hikaru.

@KommSusserT0d

2 жыл бұрын

@@r0b0hobo but why lose profit for no reason. I want him to do better, so the content is better and more frequent, don't you think?

@r0b0hobo

2 жыл бұрын

@@KommSusserT0d Believe it or not there are thousands of full time Twitch streamers that almost entirely ignore youtube. What Daniel is building is an educational resource. More isn't better. But, if you want more his vods are free unlike Hikaru who literally doesn't care.

@KommSusserT0d

2 жыл бұрын

@@r0b0hobo don't know where this hate towards everything coming from, but you definitely need to go touch some grass, drink some water and chill out, get some love in life, it'll eventually be better someday, don't worry

@r0b0hobo

2 жыл бұрын

@@KommSusserT0d read my comments again in a calm voice idk dude

I wish Danya made an opening playlist where he shows more variations, not just 2-3 like he does in speedruns. Danya is very good at explaining the ideas behind specific openings. Most opening videos just show you the line and that's it. They don't explain WHY you play these concrete moves, Danya does.

Daniel doesnt hold any info. A mover that has only 42 registers. Thats some cuality data. This guys Is pure gold.

start playing the c6 variation alot danya so they will name it after you! -

next "busting the gambits" video when?

Every time he does his hikaru impression i lose my shit

So on move 5 after nxe5 dxe4 you would think an experienced kings gambit player would recognise this as falkbeer like and play nc3 attacking the pawn and it can’t really be defended . Bc4 seems to be a clear mistake. Alternatively because black has sort of wasted a tempo with c6 you can get away with playing d3 first and there is no threat of qh4 after fxe because unlike in the usually kings gambit positions black cannot recapture with a deadly fork the pawn on e4 after g3 which is now supported by e3 . That seems like almost a refutation to this line as a serious choice against the kings gambit because black is objectively slightly worse there and white has the initiative. Although obviously it’s a nice surprise weapon

@DanielGomes-sw2fd

2 жыл бұрын

Bc4 is not a mistake, 6. O-O is. 6. Nc3 is better

@raphaelhudson

2 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGomes-sw2fd just because I don’t think Bc4 is actually achieving anything because blacks knight is hard to dislodge. 5Nc3 attacks that pawn immediately and maintains whites advantage, if black plays anything other than nd7 or bf5 then white is close to winning . But white maintains advantage after recapturing the pawn . Nc3 on move 6 is still holding near equality but the bishop is misplaced and Now after nh6 f6 works whereas previously it was losing to qh4 Lichess players database confirms that nc3 on move 5 is scoring 63% white wins, with the bc4 move order that drops to 33%

gifting a sub to oneMOREgame after that speech deserved more appreciation if you asked me xD

This is the gold standard.

Don't mind me, just leaving a danya appreciation comment.

Hey! Its daynaa

Day 42 of saying you're the man danya. Love your content, because you're literally the best teacher out there. The legend. The unit. My nickname for Daniel is Doorway. I absolutely love your concise and principled content, and his stream is great too.

@antimatter2417

2 жыл бұрын

Doorway, what?

did I hear him mention Valentinian??? Do the brahs no he's cheating on them?

The computer thinks White is fine after 4.Nxe5 dxe4 5.Bc4 Nh6 6.Nc3.

The last 3 episodes the opponent is always blundering :-(

Who thinks he looks like Rio of Money heist?

Indian never give up and lose the game haha

Some one has off beat oppenings to recomend?

First comment

@rpd-ut9rt

2 жыл бұрын

Also first view

@enverhoxha2698

2 жыл бұрын

Congrats bro

Play more games...

"Winning quick games" is part of improvement? I have to vehemently disagree with this, and overall the idea of "well, this wins games at this level, so play it!" I love your content overall, but your habit of suggesting trappy gambits is just bad for your viewers' long term improvement. It's disappointing.

wow, missing Qd4 followed by b5, thats weak, unsubbed