Converting a Small Advantage | King’s Indian | The Sensei Speedrun | GM Naroditsky

00:00 Intro
00:10 First Move
30:30 Analysis
33:15 Example Position
36:15 Back to Game
44:05 Example 2
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[@tomgreen604]

When Danya plays these drawn out positional games it really highlights the deep understanding he has of chess as a GM. Fortunately he makes it clear enough that even a 1200 like me can follow along and appreciate the moves. Truly amazing.

[@TheDestroyer7102]

Yes exactly

[@tombstoney]

That's why his speedruns are far the best

[@brooksrussell5695]

100% .. love the speedruns. Even though I am 1217 so Im basically a GM myself.

[@bartvansliedregt5482]

Very well put

[@brooksrussell5695]

@Roland Griffin lichess

[@qwertywarrior]

This game definitively confirms that "Positional Chess" is when your knights do the Kansas City Shuffle.

[@adamboll5586]

Kansas City Shuffle? I’m gonna need to do a google search on that one

[@henryayanna9401]

@@adamboll5586 How did the google search go?

[@parsphere6357]

​@@henryayanna9401Did he google en passant?

[@andrewyoder7678]

I think this is my favorite speedrun game. I think Danya's ability to explain closed positions is really good. I think, specifically, he is really good at explaining his plans for future moves, and how to adapt them based on your opponents moves without losing sight on a positional goal.

[@scotthastings8569]

I have to agree! I've watched most of the speedrun games, and this one is something special.

[@scottclark1083]

I really appreciate: -The way you explain different lines variations. -The fact that you don’t waste our time with bad jokes. -How efficient you are with your dialoge Thank you

[@GAMTT]

I like it too

[@yista7552]

Gotham reference lol

[@impishlyit9780]

I like bad jokes, but the rest is appreciated here as well.

[@leo-um6yt]

if you remove ial from dialoge it becomes doge

[@tengu8560]

I like the part of bad jokes just bc you don’t have humor doesnt mean most of the people likes those jokes, you should instead say “you don’t waste time with jokes”

[@kbeeps141]

Saemisch developed several opening systems revolving around f3. One might say his openings were kinda same-ish.

[@FestaNoYoutubiu]

Daniel is confident enough to show that the game can be simpler than it seems. Usually we see GMs that, though have reached the top tier for players, feel the need to present the game more complex than it is, as to say "i'm genius - don't try this at home - you will never be as smart as I am". Thank you, Professor!

[@jonshive5482]

Sheesh. This sort of in-depth analysis is mind-blowing and demonstrates the huge gap which separates wood-pushers from GMs. It's difficult enough to see this stuff when prompted, let alone do so in a game where a blizzard of possibilities presents itself. Truly amazing.

[@robdubent]

It helps me create an internal dialogue with myself in games and play better.

[@jonshive5482]

@@robdubent That's great. Apparently you haven't reached your "plateau" yet (a hat tip to Mark Dvoretsky for pointing out this chess version of the Peter Principle). Enjoy it while you can.

[@cristianramos6040]

JUST REACHED 1700!!!! After 6 months struggling to get over 1500 I can't actually explain how I've improved since I started watching all your content. Thank you so much sensei Danya, never stop with this vids, please! I played a Smith morra in the game I won to get to 1700 btw!

[@musical_lolu4811]

Next: cross the 2000 barrier. I've been trying for years now to do this, but I'm 35 and too busy. Maybe I'll live vicariously through you😀

[@thelegendaryphoenix6860]

@@musical_lolu4811 I hit 2000 chesscom january of 2023 and just recently hit 2100 I think the biggest thing to know is to understand your openings and know the plans for the middle game and also have good endgame skills. Don't be afraid of higher rated players if you think they made a mistake they very well may have and worst case if it was an unseen trap then it's a learning experience.

[@aravindsfirst]

Christopher171 might be the best opponent Danya has played on this speedrun. Other than his Bc4 blunder, he played wonderfully, giving Danya the opportunity to show positional chess and turning from strategy to tactics at just the right moment. Fantastic video!

[@_A-B_]

there was a 1 hour video of caro kann which has shown an amazing understanding of bishop pair. I think that game's opp was the strongest one so far. Someone could link that video.

[@arleyantes9321]

@@meowcat5596 really disrespectful for you to say that

[@KF1]

"Ive never had this position in my life" me: BS! "I've won a ton of games like this in my life" : that's better.

[@TheDestroyer7102]

Once again Danya with an amazing positional game explaining all the key ideas so clearly, he could ask good money for this content but he doesn't, huge respect Danya. Thank you!

[@Nimzowitz]

My favotire episode so far. A crush from a seemingly drawish early endgame. I usually lose those.

[@ryans9094]

A positional endgame, exactly what I want from the speedrun. An open game with tonnes of tactics is good and all, but I don't learn nearly as much as when you embark on long positional maneuvers.

[@mikaellukasagnusdeianggoro7488]

thanks daniel this is very instructive and helping for me, hope you're doing well and can continue to be better at chess and as a sensei

[@lucasmatsuoca]

16:20 i Think the way to explain why central control and knights on then are good is because chess is a game where flexibility is very important, if you only make moves with one plan in mind, you’re opponent will stop it and you’re not winning, and a good control of the center reduces the opponent flexibility and increases yours, so even if you’re not winning material with a good knight in the center you’re just heavily diminishing your opponent options with a great piece

[@lougaru2445]

This looks amazing on my 55" TV. Danya and his small crew have been verrry impressive with their production improvements in such a short time since this channel started

[@zakil25]

28:17 Danya realizes Bc4 is a blunder, like in less than two seconds, I can't even tell if he already knew that or he discovers it as it was played, my best guess is he knew his two rooks were deadly so any thing that disconnects any defence of the Rook on the D file is going to win him the game. I can follow and even apply a lot of tactics but these decisive positional ideas are what makes a GM a GM. This is not an easy game and he ended it masterfully.

[@bharathr9189]

This is the best instructional content I have ever seen for the Kings Indian. Even digestible for an 800 elo player like me.

[@ignacypaderewski2685]

Love these “slow” positional grinds! Well done Danya ❤

[@alexismiller2349]

Honestly this was a great video, navigating these positional games and explaining it crystal clear was just awesome

[@Lobibolo]

This game/video made me appreciate positional chess so much more, so much beauty in the slow manoeuvring of the pieces which Danya's understanding and explanations did an amazing job of conveying.

[@jalaladhiri6696]

Thank you Danya for this Speedrun it was very insightful and a joy to watch

[@Ben_10neyson]

Well explained, crystal clear 👍👍👍 thanks Danya

[@benjaminmallette130]

Once again, the way you breakdown such complicated position by explaining every advantage and drawback caused by different alternatives is mind blowing. This speedrun is such a good series and has helped my game tremendously. Thank you Sensei !

[@mauriciomadrigal3389]

Wow, really nice win and such a deep strategy. Thank you for this great content!

[@brendonhester331]

Nf4 being the killing blow is the most beautiful thing

[@SEAKPhotog]

Super educational. Thank you!

[@plantsir9173]

For understanding the game on a deeper level I don’t know a better channel. Absolutely incredible stuff. Agad for entertainment but Daniel for the deep chess knowledge (also still highly entertaining!)

[@mapleleafu]

I think this was by far the best game in the speedrun to show positional understanding and how to make plans and more importantly how to execute them preciously, I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you Daniel.

[@freejulian5805]

Really good lesson, thx very much!

[@radosawkarwacki4386]

This was amazing. Thank you Sensei!

[@josephsalmonte4995]

A Danya video before bed. Noice 👍

[@TheJayMoses]

Very impressive as always. 👏🏻👏🏻

[@WrongAlbee]

Love your videos helped me a lot

[@briandoile5011]

One thing I really like here, Danya was able to hold that pawn structure around his King together. Very impressive.

[@ryanstiles5649]

Another great one!

[@amirhd8865]

awesome thanks for everything uv done for us

[@kingcarisma]

The fact that this is free to watch amazes me

[@stefanrakocevic8698]

This is simply incredible.

[@levia9753]

INCREDIBLE vid

[@thangnt2945]

Bro in these kinds of positions I always get afraid of not being active enough, so I always try to push pawns and create attacking chances. What Danya is doing with the position is beyond my understanding of the game.

[@musical_lolu4811]

A demonstration of patience.

[@Shiftito]

Thank you for your patient teaching, Sensei Danya! This is why we CAN have good things ^^

[@michaelculasingchannel-e-l8419]

I learned a lot to your KZbin channel about playing chess GM Naroditsky and thanks a lot.

[@obscurelines]

Outstanding!

[@haddymcbatty]

Unreal. Thanks Danya

[@xuankienta3246]

Wow Danya! I have never thought queenless middlegame can be this interesting and playful. Thank you for this lesson

[@maglcman]

absolutely love the kings indian video, thanks! would you ever consider doing a kings indian/pirc speedrun? and could maybe do kings indian attack with white?

[@ovifaisal2839]

You are the reason many people gain more knowledge.. thank you

[@prplt]

4:04 "a bloodthirsty knight" 😂

[@paulmacariola10]

Thanks Coach I have learned a lot about King Indian defense

[@XlogicXX]

What a game. How do you beat someone who keeps generating plans, ideas, and counters combined w supreme positional understanding? Answer: you have to beat them in the early opening, late opening, early mid-game, late mid-game, end-game, and don't forget, you also have to beat them positionally and tactically. Yo! The level of play in this game was freaking outstanding. Danya!

[@maximjussim1024]

Amazing stuff. Love your KID games. Keep going!

[@abrahamhowland4829]

It's a pleasure to learn from you.

[@ruthxk7844]

THANKS SO MUCH DANYA!!

[@tadkoz]

Thanks so much for this fantastic Speedrun content!! Clyde, perhaps could you number each game in the Speedrun title and list in the description when each game was streamed? Thanks for your hard work!

[@blurr1903]

At 45:20 there’s a super similar almost identical idea in the Kings Indian Attack of the French , where they trade the pawns on e4 and play e5

[@DavidEmerling79]

I really like how Daniel points out how a seemingly attractive move is not particularly good. Then, later in the game, he ends up making (or *thinking* about making) that very same move. He remembers that he had told us that it wasn't a very good move. Then he says, "But, things have changed!" I think that's a very important flexibility of thinking chess players must have - the ability to change your plans and consider moves that you had previously dismissed as result of your opponent's play.

[@criscesc]

SO FUCKING GOOD BEST CHESS CONTENT ON THIS SITE BY FAR

[@DavidEmerling79]

I've seen some interesting systems against the Sämisch where, after white has established his bishop on e3, black plays the moves ...Nfd7 ... e5 ... then Bh6. Black's bishop is seemingly hanging, but after white plays Bxh6, black wins it back with the double attack ...Qh4+. If nothing else, a novel approach. Black generally does not castle to the queenside (or at all!) with this system.

[@jameslegrone498]

Such a good game!

[@alexwiththeglasses]

😱❤️ Loved this one as a beginner🙏 I’m also really surprised to hear that in the Samisch black taking the e4 pawn and going for the queen trade is something you didn’t face all those early years 3:00

[@dpend]

Yeah I’m guessing it’s because at the higher level players tend to avoid capturing and keep the tension. Whereas weaker players haven’t built the habit to resist the impulse to immediately take.

[@grzesiek7358]

Fantastic

[@michaelgray8191]

Ty, Danya!

[@sawyer9times]

nice going Danya

[@damandarin5415]

Why does the video always slap so hard when you play Kings Indian ! It’s always so much fun

[@RajnaTMS]

Nicely pronounced Budapest :-) You are the best teacher on youtube!!!

[@thetransferaccount4586]

This was an exceptional game

[@francisclemente3855]

This chess hindsight is only possible thru years of experience especially if you started young in chess. Thanks Daniel.

[@davewestner]

This was such a great game to catch live. First live one I caught on this speedrun. Looking forward to the next one. I'm not a chess player, but I just enjoy hearing how a talented person thinks about and does his/her job. It is fascinating and DN does a great job of explaining what he's thinking and doing.

[@LordSoviet]

If you enjoy these videos then surely you would enjoy trying chess yourself. It's great 10/10 would recommend

[@davewestner]

@@LordSoviet Thanks, I do play a bit OTB with friends and family. But it's really not my thing because of the memorization aspects of it. Watching it, learning about it and understanding how good players play is the most fascinating part to me.

[@kdgirls8316]

Hey Daniel. Loving these videos. Would you have any info on resources regarding speed in chess games. Like knowing when to slow play vs. pounce in a given position

[@mule51]

Samisch in the Nimzo is 4 a3. The f3 Nimzo is called the Kmoch.

[@RuTream]

What an amazing game!

[@alexf0101]

thanks

[@aevillarreal]

Awesome game

[@abbbee8918]

I can’t get out of the 800-900s, I don’t have the memory for all this, but I do find it fascinating.

[@efemetin5593]

if you want to get out of 800 you dont need to memorize kings indian samisch opening theory for 20 moves you need to get better at tactics, understand the ideas in the opening you play and learn some basic endgames

[@bryander9041]

So interesting that the fiancetto bishop was our worst piece and the knight on the rim was the workhorse. Such a great positional lesson and KID lesson

[@rockaddiction488]

That is such a boss game

[@oppastoppa183]

34:29 Like swatting a fly

[@sudhanshusingh768]

You can just press and hold CTRL for red coloured line just to differentiate.

[@cameronwebster573]

Nobody sane would question Daniel's title, but GM-blunders-full-piece at norm tournament in Budapest is pretty canonical.

[@raph6709]

Danya's speedrun is probably the 2nd longest series I've ever watched (after 24)

[@fxshido]

The first example game of your own looks like a very typical Najdorf position; I feel like I end up in this position a lot with the Najdorf, especially with the exchanged cd pawns.

[@jessejordache1869]

It's when Daniel does positions I understand that I realize how good he is: I clicked on it because it was on the KID which I don't really get, but it turned into a positional game :(. Tal described the early d takes e as a psychological weapon against the combative King's Indian player: he said the removal of queens was like "cold water to the face." I don't think he was including himself, but he was giving the reason that White often plays that way at a level where it's not considered the objectively best line. Thanks for explaining the result of the exchange of the knight on d4 -- I didn't see how Black could keep their advantage if White just traded it off: I often miss pawn-recaptures when the resulting pawn is optically weak. The NID is filled with those "recapture with the knight, or accept an isolated d pawn?" positions where there's a definite better and worse choice and I can't figure out which is which -- if I did I'd be a totally different player and understand a ton of other things I don't, and possibly giving my own lessons.

[@patrickmihalcea6480]

Crazy how he makes a win over a 2200 easy… Energized, I jump straight into a game against a 1200 just to blunder a price and resign on move 4.

[@lukacalov1988]

If never thought i d hear "phillips screwdriver" phrase on a chess video

[@Every1LovesChuck]

Let’s go!

[@robinvm4698]

Hey, Danya! Do you have any fresh course or book on KID for Black?

[@worldstatic]

@Danya Can you please play Caro-Kahn for black as your main opening for the next speedrun like you did for the accelerated dragon? So many variations its hard to get a good sample of games.

[@j.p.jordan3357]

"I wanna annotate them myself." A bit of 4d chess in the game too! lol

[@maxthorne4948]

what about Rf6 rather than Bf6 at 23:45 just going for the weak f3 pawn??

[@art-j3481]

The latest donation at 27:05 💀

[@TheJJO]

I thought f3 in the Nimzo Indian was the Kmoch variation, where as a3 is the Saemisch?

[@PaperTigerLive]

I gotta remind myself to keep liking all of these videos because Danya doesn’t (which I appreciate)

[@user-zk9lk3ho6n]

2299 we're getting another game! 😁

[@donalhughes9881]

Does the annotated PGN exist yet?

[@zada4a]

Didnt Ben Finegold say never play f3? My brain is going to explode 🤯

[@MrMazeness]

the last move was a thing of beauty , at least for 1600 player like me.

[@sebastiandesign5216]

Superinstructive! These closed posittions are very interesting, because of the general ideas is the concept, and they are hard to see many times.

[@eridu77]

Where was Danya's opponent from? The flag is unfamiliar to me.

[@pandomratterns7328]

Let’s goooo