What I love about these videos is that they make it clear that Alexandra and basically any player with an OTB rating over 2000 is on a completely different level than the majority of us, and also that GM's make them look like amateurs in regards to how they see the board and the possibilities. It really does become more like art than calculation in the way GM's approach positions. I remember enjoying watching the Hikaru/Levy videos where they did the same thing and Hikaru's grasp of the position relative to Levy's was like a first-team All-NBA compared to a D-league player. Both are some of the best in the world, but it's clear that one is in a different League.

@LJMahomes

Жыл бұрын

I‘ve read that a difference in 130 Elo points is pretty much „the person knows twice as much about chess than the other person“. Probably very inaccurate and definitely not linear like that, but it put everything into a nice perspective for me

@mrjdgibbs

Жыл бұрын

​@@LJMahomes I go up and down 130 points in like, a weekend

@nicolasantoniovelazco6853

Жыл бұрын

​@@LJMahomes the difference of rating between Magnus and Nipo are like 68 point 🤯🤯. Omg

@haiyueluo9048

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolasantoniovelazco6853 I Guess it’s fair to say nepo got dominated in the last wc with Magnus. Probably also fair to say it’s an entire world of differnce

@Kahip

Жыл бұрын

@@LJMahomes Well, looking at the World Cup commentary right now and seeing how Super GMs like Giri and Caruana evaluate a position and see moves compared the the "Normal" GM commentators it also feels like a whole different world, so i think the 130 points rule is not that far off

Danya is amazing at puzzles. Those puzzles would have taken me much, much longer. It was cool to see your calculations processes. I really hope this series continues where you can take 10+ minutes. Also Danya picked freaking complex puzzles.

Always enjoying Danya explaining the OTB classical calculation process.

One of the best real chess videos I’ve ever seen… and I’ve seen plenty of speed runs & such (not much into “content creator” stuff). The insights aren’t preachy but natural & down to earth.🙏 Enjoying the recent game analysis talking through your thoughts (I call it “chess out loud”) and this one for the same reason.

“what else could I be missing in this position? A lot of times when we miss tactics it’s because within the first few seconds we convince ourselves the move has to exploit certain (obvious) features of the position” love this quote by Danya

Daniel is such a fun guy

Danya is a great player and an equally great teacher.

It's cool whenever you improve at chess because when looking at these puzzles, I looked at the same moves as Alex, but Danya obviously looked way further than us. Please post more these are very instructional!!!

Geez Danya finding stalemate makes me think he's not human lol

@Shipdacheese

Жыл бұрын

He has a series on his channel where he advances in rating from nothing basically. I am pretty sure he's not human tbh. GMs are machines when it comes to calculation but also they come up with rock solid plans.

@danielward7008

11 ай бұрын

His understanding of chess is incredible.

I LOVE this video! Please make more of this format.

Thank you for the video! This was so much educational! Please, consider making more videos like this one!! ♥

This is very instructive content, would love to see more of this. Great video :D

This was a lot of fun to watch! I hope you'll do more videos like this.

Very instructive, many thanks for both of you.

Wow! So many possibilities so quickly! I see a need to relax in spite of competition. Thanks for a clever short!

It's worth considering that Danya is not a regular GM. He is the ~150th best player of the world in standard chess and, most importantly, he is certainly one of the BEST blitz/bullet player in the online format in the world. So the distance in thinking process should be greater than a regular GM-IM comparison.

@Nippleless_Cage

2 ай бұрын

Botez is also below IM strength. So the distance is greater in both directions.

The conversation about puzzles reminded me of my math classes in college. If the question asked us to prove something, we at least knew it was true. The trickiest questions were the ones where they asked us to “prove or disprove.”

For someone unfamiliar with the rating, watch Spirit of the Law video on how Elo rating works... It can be applied to any competitive game. He analysed Elo for Age of Empires but the same rules apply, albeit with slight differences.

I really liked this video of you Alex! I saw this side of you that is so sweet! ❤

more of those please

more of that plz

More of this please

Loved this kind of content, made my brain work hard and unfortunately can’t discuss on idea coz it’s not live but peace 😂 still loved it

I loooove This kind of content! Thanks!

Hey Botez love your twitch streams, telling you on here cause it’s easier then telling you on stream

This was informative. Good content.

i loved when you did this!!!

The first problem seemed way harder to me than the second. I gave up after a few minutes on the first one, and got the second one in a few seconds.

love this series!

Excellent series❣

that stalemate idea jeez

Wow, that demonstration of the gap was crazy!

I missed where the puzzles are coming from? What's the source? Looks like a fun (and crazy challenging) book

Please do more content like this 👍

The only problem is how do i focus on the chess

Great video. “my chess coach” cracks me up though

Very different level of difficulty in puzzles. First puzzle is for superhumans. No ideas in 30 min. Qd8 in second puzzle is trivial and took me (somewhere around 1600) a minute to find.

absolutely brilliant!

15:10 Its interesting how none of you mentioned bishop b4,if bishop takes bishop,we take back,and there is the backrank idea,if bishop b4,knight takes knight,we take the bishop,they take back with queen,then i think you can give up the h pawn with check to threaten the backrank idea again,but if bishop b4,h3,and then if we trade off bishop,knight and queen too,we are down a pawn,but the black king has a one move advantage to go out in the open,in fact we can bring the king out two ways,in fact after bishop b4,h3,i would consider a kingwalk up the board also

@couchpotato1226

Жыл бұрын

I thought the same, but the bishop might not take and if you take them they just take with the queen and you're still losing. But if it does take, don't take back just move your queen to back rank and mate them

Someone asked a question in chat (why is x play bad) and they actually took 45 seconds to run through the line and explain the ways it would play out and why it doesn't work before going back to their conversation. That's incredible, honestly shows that she really cares about her chat.

I didn't even consider a stalemate idea. I guess that's why you have to look for stalemate draws in a losing position I was only looking at a win for black

On the second puzzle ,im will go for black Kxd4 , white Qxd4 then Black Qh5 , blunder bishop if white Qxd6 , black Qd1 mate ,if im not wrong

it actually took me 30 secs to find the basic concept of the 2nd puzzle, however i thought it was Qd7 and not Qd8 because of Ne6 but then i realized that Ne6 doesn't work(1400 elo)

6:41 Why would white king move to the corner instead of just taking the undefended rook ?

Serious chess is legitimate more fun than mindless blitz, bullet games. My opinion

@Qichar

2 ай бұрын

I like the classical time controls more myself, but I would not say that blitz and bullet are "mindless". I would rather say they favor different a different skill set. And even with classical time controls, there are situations when you are running out of time, and then all your practice in rapid comes in handy.

Very interesting. It made me wonder about how my own mind works in analyzing situations.

Trying to solve the puzzles was a strange experience for me. In the first puzzle, I thought about the stalemate possibility early on, but then dismissed it because I didn't think I could immobilize my h-pawn. Then I never went back to that idea. In the second position, ...Qd8 trying for a pin on the d-file was my first instinct, but then I couldn't see how to make it work and I abandoned it. I guess the lesson is, don't abandon a promising idea until you're sure it won't work.

Puzzle at 9:11, why not Bf4 ? The back rank mate threat prevents white capturing giving black tactical options.

@alasdairmacintyre9383

2 ай бұрын

They dont have to capture the bishop though do they

@michaeledwards2251

2 ай бұрын

@@alasdairmacintyre9383 The threat is BxB, followed by NxN, winning the N. If NxN, BxB, QxB, and I don't see how white saves the a pawn.

pretty sure the difference is that daniel naroditsky can checkmate with a bishop and a knight easily.

@XxDARCKxX

3 ай бұрын

I think any chess player above 2000 would be able to it's just a pattern that you need to memorize and they could definetly memorize that

Wiw that's a HUGE difference between a master and a GM!😵‍💫😵‍💫

@JimmyBoosterCrate

Жыл бұрын

It's the difference between a 2000 and a GM. A 2000 is not a master. In fact there are some guys in comment sections that are above this (they ARE hugely minoritary though!)

@kenharry4370

Жыл бұрын

Amen bro people can't understand a expert is not a master,

@davidcarr9772

Жыл бұрын

​@@JimmyBoosterCrate How would you know! Smarter than Alex are you smh

@JimmyBoosterCrate

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcarr9772 You're gonna argue 2000 is master level?

@dmolmalowski

Жыл бұрын

@@JimmyBoosterCrate Yes, you are a candidate master at that rating

Whats crazy is Danya isn't even top 100 in classical. Imagine if he'd the drive to continue pushing otb.He's crazy good at tactics.

I didn’t know chess masters blunder their queen in one move; in that case I declare myself a master

@cityvibegirl

Жыл бұрын

Botez Gambit Google it

Question: In the last puzzle, doesnt Queen to d8 just give white a free knight? what am i missing?

@blast6190

6 ай бұрын

if they take the knight, black can attack with bishop immediately giving a check to the white king, which leaves the white queen hanging for black to take, aka winning

Found Qd8 as a 700. Kinda happy ngl

You should do this the way levy did it! He did it on his own for a few minutes and Hikaru did it on his own. That format is better for comparison of thought process.

The first position is brilliant.

I know I'm bad because they don't even discuss knight E5 in the 2nd scenario. Puts pressure on the white queen at least for a move while removing the threat from that knight. I guess it stops your queen from pushing up, but as long as that bishop is where it's at is the queen ever going to want to go to those squares? WQ is pretty much forced to go B3. She's retreating anyway, so she might as well defend. She has no aggressive options that BQ can't respond to in time. I guess there's not much progression other than being aggressive while down in pieces. It feels like there should be a world where the knight can try to make its way to G4 to disrupt the king's defensive position, but it comes after some pieces dance around a bit on the right side of the board.

My first initial instinct was Bxh2 Kxh2 but then I realized that the King doesn’t have to take back even though almost all players would without thinking if the time was getting low. From there I’d slide the Qh5+, Kg1, Qd1+. From here the King could dodge back or white could block with bishop or queen. Bishop is losing because you just take the Queen so Qf1 is white’s only other response. Don’t trade or it’s likely a draw after King takes your Queen then Nxd4 although this is likely favorable enough to win given low time again. Instead Qxd2 and all of a sudden you’ve got white forced to defend while you clean up the pawns, eventually promoting a pawn and winning the game. If King dodges then Qxa4. Defending your knight and evening the original pawn deficit. It all depends on time though and is reliant on King taking the bishop in the very beginning. Of course if the King doesn’t take the bishop then you win a free pawn. And the situation is back to square one where you could play what they suggested with Qd8.

Second puzzle I say Qd7 pinning the knight through our own bishop. We threaten to just take the knight with our knight. If white bishop protects we attack the pinned knight with our bishop and win it.

Position 5 : I would have moved my bishop to f4 to work on getting my queen to the back row but I am a 700 ELO. I do 2 seconds of thinking and hope it works :)

@impeartore

Жыл бұрын

white doesn't have to take the bishop on f4 so it wouldn't work

@impeartore

Жыл бұрын

also, if white were to take there is no back rank mate cuz of queen f1. and you simply end up losing a bishop

@robertwilson3866

Жыл бұрын

@@impeartore Yes that's true about the queen. Although on the first point if the white doesn't take the bishop - I would have taken their bishop. And then I could take their knight with my knight and their queen couldn't take it.

@impeartore

Жыл бұрын

​@@robertwilson3866 i mean there are a lot of possibilities but most of them are draws considering your option, or maybe slightly better for white since he has a extra pawn. even if you would be winning a knight, giving away bishop for a knight isnt really the best option and probably still a bit losing after trading some more extra pawns, since the bishop is really stronger after you clear the board

@robertwilson3866

Жыл бұрын

@@impeartore That makes sense but I am a 700 player. I would have probably done that in a real game - just on instinct rather than any calculation.

and what would be the stats of magnus carlsen?

On the last puzzle what's wrong with knight D4 queen E2 bishop B4

10:53, after queen takes bishop takes, bank rank mate from the queen correct? You take the bishop after check, then the queen and then the night with #?

ive watched enough danya videos to actually have spotted the type 2 undefended queen. great teacher (still wouldve gone D7 though)

In the second puzzle why don't we play bishop b4

É tipo o grande mestre krikor Brasileiro (GM)

I know that trading when you're down material isn't good, but I'd start with ... Kn x d4 ... Qg6 ... Bc5 ... Qf5 I'm no master, but this looks winning to me.

More like this!

I saw queen d7 or d8 really fast but didnt saw if it was d7 or d8

Why is bishop h6 the next move from white after queen d8?

Makes me realise how dumb I actually am because I seen none of these lines or possibilities😂😂 granted I’m like 400 elo but still wish I could get to a half decent level, oh well I’ll continue playing every day and in a few years time I’ll still never be able to see stuff like this! Only been actually playing the game and really starting to understand the principles for about 6months completely obsessed with chess right now and my 11 year old son is starting to really enjoy the game also, I hope that he can become a good player.

@karinvasu3005

Жыл бұрын

i dont think not seeing these things makes you dumb, theyve dedicated their lives to chess and all these thought processes and patterns have been ingrained in them all throughout their careers. give yourself time!

@Jon3sy1990

Жыл бұрын

@@karinvasu3005 hey thank you for that comment I was saying it in a joking way I know how much dedication it takes to become a master of anything really, I am improving a lot in chess but it’s kinda funny just when you think ahh I’m not too bad and I understand the game you come across GMs and puzzles like this that make you think damn how on earth did they reach that conclusion 😂😂 appreciate your kind comment though 😊

@elmagnificow8494

3 ай бұрын

​@@karinvasu3005youre right. these people live every second of their lives thinking about chess. they probably practice for around 12 hours a day from the day they decided to take chess seriously. hard work truly does wonders.

13:32 what about knight b3 then maybe retreat and push bishop

This is a feally nice content

and as a beginner here i am thinking its a check with the queen to king 1:42

It's that freaky combination of calculation and intuition.

very interesting comparing my own thoughts with those of Alex and Daniel. I resonate more with Daniel thought process. I get the feeling Alex looks more at the "core chess principles". rather than a deeper and more situational-focused approach. Really looking for the best move like a computer. Also, as Daniel mentioned the pieces stacked I too realized that the options had to be between Qd7/Qd8. And it shows u must really pay attention to all details to find the winning idea. And once you find the right Idea u look for the right move between all options through elimination.

@kenharry4370

Жыл бұрын

Fun facts,Alex is only a expert not a master despite what she claims

@xyatamiata

Жыл бұрын

@@kenharry4370 fun fact she's a WFM, a woman fide master. Takes 1 minute to google her fide profile

Black Queen e5 is what I was thinking fork bishop and pawn simple

@aaronwildberger7927

Жыл бұрын

Not best move because of white bishop to c4 stopping stale mate

was there g5 as move on14:23

It's great but couldn't u move at starting position the queen to g3 and win

in the second puzzle can we do a knight exchange and then Qh5?

@undeathghost5627

Жыл бұрын

It works if white doesn't see it, but after Qh5 white can just move a pawn to prevent backrank checkmate and your even pieces. So not really a "winning" idea but an equalizing move.

@BookFurnace

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking about that, but I think pawn g3 solves both problems.

Would have been nice after the discussion of each the position you went ahead and played it out to see if you could put into practice your theory.

Nice, video explained in 29 seconds, awesome.

@AlfredoPerezPerez-fk2eo

Жыл бұрын

We are going to configure the obs and add subtitles for the world 50 billion Spanish-speaking viewers who do not understand English

Doesn't black to Qd8 give white a free knight with kc3?

“100 percent”.

What if black Knight b4 his first move?

I aint no master but i ran into the same problems as she did. Trapped in calculations instead of seeing all ideas first.

Lots of GM's now would only be Masters 40 or so years ago. Ratings inflation has watered down the GM class immensely..

This might be my favorite chess format .... 🤔

this 0.01 is @HIkaru Nakamura

9:08 at my level this is an easy puzzle. I would win 9/10 times Just move the bishop to b4, white takes with the bishop, I take with the a pawn, he thinks he has a free knight, then I backrank checkmate. Bing, bang, boom - POW, as a wise chess player once said.

@bishhsasspusi2904

Жыл бұрын

its all fun and games up until to the 2nd move where white doesn't take with the bishop lol.

I'm so confused, why is on 18:00 knighht on E5 to threaten the queen not the correct move

@marcoskunrath5914

3 ай бұрын

Thought about that hoping it could disrupt w's B and threat Qe1 after Bx(B)b4. But my 100 rated ass never saw that after Nb4, w's Q just moves XD. Nb4 is the second best move but stil miles behind Qd8.

18:17 this is what I thought

We need a Pia cramling vs alex botez video

@swiftie8073

4 күн бұрын

Pia chushes Alex easily

alignment of backrank?

I’m like 1050 and it says I can beat 83% of users. Which is insane and doesn’t sound accurate.

Good thoughtful video

That’s the problem with puzzles. There’s tons of solutions but you’re graded on one

Legend speaks of a Chessmaster so powerful you could win 100% of his games. Its over 9000!!!!

What is the starting rating of a chess master ?

@timt8027

Жыл бұрын

2300 fide so she indeed is not a master at all. Not even close

3100 is hella inflated online compared to Worldwide rating.