Miniature Game | Scholar's Mate Vs Sicilian Defense | GM Naroditsky’s Top Theory Speedrun

[@Uberspree]

"Our opponent did not use engine assistance" cracked me up. Thanks for the content Danya. You are precious, happy holidays.

[@Cassace]

Maybe he's got stockfish stuck on depth 2

[@pavlos712]

Merry Christmas

[@Dr.Macrophage]

Hey can someone tell me please is it possible to checkmate with queen and bishop vs queen?

[@adaelasm6467]

@@Dr.Macrophage there is no forced checkmate with Q+B vs Q, no.

[@notEAdemize99]

Daniel keeping the tradition with an E4 so scary that opponents immediately resign.

[@wildorca4500]

LOL 1. e4 has too much theory, it's too sharp for lower rated players

[@adaelasm6467]

He did say it was a miniature

[@E0011]

​​@wildorca4500 I started doing better once I switched to e4 as a beginner tbh it's easier to improvise than d4 openings

[@jaron9978]

I was really hoping this video was going to be 18 more minutes of Daniel analyzing 1. e4

[@koxukoshu]

Same here ! with some quip about how Magnus has resigned early against a similar game in an online tournament

[@Alexisking222]

"Underwhelming" games are great to watch! My chess is underwhelming, so I find these vids super helpful at my current elo. Thanks for the content!

[@davewestner]

The intro was one of the funniest ones on this channel...nice one! FWIW, I don't mind seeing the opposition crumble from time to time. There's always something to learn

[@frequensea9434]

Noon Japanese time is your upload schedule for me here in Okinawa! Loving the speedrun so far once again thank you so much for being such a great teacher and providing us with such value without having to pay hundreds of dollars for coaches that may not even have the same way of speaking in “such positions” as much as you. 😇 thank you Danya (btw your name auto corrects to Santa which is ironic)

[@animeup1412]

Being in Okinawa and enjoying a Danya Speedrun. Can life get any better sir?

[@frequensea9434]

@@animeup1412 it’s not a bad duty station at all. I’m bringing my chess books on deployment soon along with my chess board and going to try and get some good book theory down. I’ve got dvorestky endgame and a few other juicers to study

[@jrlepage2a03]

@@frequensea9434 I was about to comment on how good your English was for someone from Okinawa. You being on a Duty Station does make a lot more sense!

[@huguito8607]

@@jrlepage2a03 that, and that in Japan, people don't play chess.

[@faznaz7455]

@@frequensea9434How popular is chess in Japan? How does it compare to Go?

[@daytradersanonymous9955]

Man you are a true gentleman. Scholar of teaching. Great energy. Thank you.

[@avidier7347]

Very impressive of the first guy to draw a super gm

[@ponmuthusenthilkumar]

lol

[@ILoveLuhaidan]

He is a normal GM

[@lyingcat9022]

Oh and that line where the Engine wanted to develop …Qe7+ then undevelop …Qd8 on the very next move. Haha that would be a savage middle finger to White, it actually made me chuckle.

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

A short video is a great Christmas present Danya! Even if it just a quick game showing the weakness of the queen. It also shows the power of the Knight on the 4th rank.

[@michelangelopennacchini643]

How to make 19 minutes look like 5. You're amazing Danya! Cheers from Italy!

[@TheKawww]

Merry Christmas Danya!

[@HalTuberman]

And happy Hanukkah.

[@joshualane1716]

Around the 7:45 mark, why isn’t the play queen to d7 with following move queen to e2? They can go knight to c3, but if they miss it you’re home free.

[@ninepoints5932]

I actually saw the entire line from Ne4 through to Bg4+ with mate to follow. Just a small thing for a grandmaster but quite gratifying to see improvement after watching these videos a bunch, thanks Danya!

[@iNFaunTae]

what an amazing 1500 rated opponent

[@hamarthomas48]

I think this guy hadn't played in a while. He proceeded to play a lot more games losing and dropping to 1400...

[@Amoeba_Podre]

Mfw an 800 played better than a 1500

[@alexwangombe8534]

@@hamarthomas48 I looked at his profile and I don’t think it was because he hasn’t been playing, it looks like he’s been playing pretty consistently actually, it’s just that his rating just recently hit an all-time high back in november and hasn’t been able to maintain it that high, and is currently on a downturn

[@korethoe262]

The Talking Stockfish

[@DaveCharbonneau1]

I've been studying the first game for over an hour, now.

[@lukas7858]

Danya with a fresh shave, hits different

[@andrewpatterson9833]

The reason why the play "worse", is because every single move you do puts so much pressure on whoever you're playing against. If they don't maximize development they have to play on the back foot if they're a turn late getting their pieces out. It's just a matter of you knowing how to milk every molecule of value out of your pieces, while these sub-2000 opponents either attack, or defend, but they don't achieve 5 things like you do on every move.

[@alexwangombe8534]

this is kinda like what hikaru says often during his disrespect speedruns, but with actual thought and logic behind it - basically says the reason his opponents play so poorly against him is that the speed, ferocity, and raw power behind his moves is too much for his opponents to handle and total collapse is usually quick to follow

[@alexwiththeglasses]

Not sure but maybe a reason why GM Danya’s opponents seem to play weaker than their rating is because they usually deal with responses to their inaccuracies that aren’t so challenging, such as auto-pilot book moves or moves following basic opening principles but not considering how to leverage a weakness. In contrast GM Danya explains the inaccuracy and responds accordingly.

[@MrMali-x]

Bro a 1500 tried a scholars mate and even Danya said he notices it too sometimes. Sometimes it's just that he gets weaker people in his videos. Not always obviously but I've seen a lot in these speed runs that are supposed to be like 1600 and play worse than my opponents at 600. It's why I've started playing the bots because I can beat the 1600 bots over but I can't beat people my level

[@Cellus5000]

This is common for me. I play scicilian w black, and people often look for scholars, end up behind in development and then conceding at first pawn lost

[@tommeyer3871]

while the game was underwhelming for the level of your opponent, I think it's making up for some really strong opponents you encountered earlier on, because this kinda position is exactly the offbeat/wrong but often encountered kinda opening you find in 1000-1200 play. So still useful for players in that range I guess

[@hectorgray8542]

At minute 13:05, the line after ...Qe7+ is pretty cool since Be2 just loses the game to ...g5!!

[@animeup1412]

New 40min analysis of the immortal e4 game coming soon.

[@stoutlager6325]

e5 in positions like that is actually very common at low(ish) ratings. You see it more in the hyper accelerated version where white will play d4, cxd4 qxd4 trying to go after the rook on h8. This is so common players even try it in the english reverse sicilian with black. It's one of my favorite lines as there's a pretty good chance I can either win their queen or at least get a development lead right away.

[@stoutlager6325]

Regarding the e4 c5, Qh5 line, engine actually prefers e6 or Qc7 there instead of Nf6 at depth 40. It's a very narrow preference though. -0.4 vs -0.3 or something. Practically you should just choose whichever version you prefer the resulting position of. I played Nf6 for some time and came to dislike the amount of complications that arose later on with my suboptimal play. e6 is definitely easier to play if you can't be sure your following moves will be precise.

[@Cheorni_6]

e5 in such positions*

[@mono1813]

@@Cheorni_6 nah, go outside.

[@musical_lolu4811]

1:16 how prophetic.

[@Virtue-Productions]

This year I was able to improve from 1200-1500 and I just reached it 1504 yesterday thanks to Danya 😭. Would also be nice if danya witnessed how much he's helped the entire chess community improve this year by commenting one's trajectory.

[@WiiNunchuck]

Yup, I went from sub 1000 to 1550 over 2022 thanks to him.

[@gkorp]

​@@WiiNunchuck which time control do you play? did you use any other resources?

[@nikitakucherov5028]

800 to 1100 in 2022 for me

[@WiiNunchuck]

@@gkorp 10+0, 15+10 games are too long for my attention span and schedule… I watched a bunch of Hanging Pawns openings/theory vids near the start of the year which really helps with gaining knowledge about all openings. Other than that, just Hikaru and Naroditsky.

[@huguito8607]

1200-1530 for me, but I just played 159 rapid games the whole year. I have a blitz "adiction".

[@manuelfuentes4509]

TY 😊 for teaching us the accelerated dragon plus ➕️ all these other lines!!! I'll be at Frankfurt Airport on Friday... is that a sign? 😆 🤣

[@sethchristian3056]

I’m 1700. I got this exact opening the other day haha. I won the game comfortably as black but this still was very instructive

[@andreaspernadi1121]

1:18 is once again a proof that Daniel is a prophet

[@MadGunny]

I got matched up with a game against the Denver Airport. I resigned immediately also.

[@animeup1412]

Fly out from these airports immediately.

[@samuelrodriguez7970]

Hi, daniel. I know you call the book "Mayhem in the Morra" the bible of the morra. are there other books that you will call the bible of certain openings? or other books you recommend?. I love your top theory speedruns

[@briandwi2504]

Chessable advertise that they will be publishing a Course by Daniel. Might be worth waiting for it. It may reflect what he is doing in this speed run.

[@DexterHaven]

You are a great teacher.

[@MuhammadIqbal-dp2es]

Happy holiday sensei

[@thistleham]

this was a validating game for me because its the first time you said the phrase "after Nd4 I dont see a good move for white" that I thought to myself.....whhat if they pushed the pawn to e5....then you called it a grandmaster move and ive never felt so validated in my chess. especially as low rated as I am

[@Piqqies_OwO]

good stuff in this channel

[@markphc99]

if only my opponents would play this against me

[@gregwhittier5206]

I play c5 e6 and people trying to play scholars mate against it represents a substantial fraction of my meager elo.

[@joshualee6559]

daughter bought me a chess board for Christmas, and now this video? What a day!

[@thetransferaccount4586]

finally daniel playing an opponent like me

[@nathanielfitts9974]

Playing like a 1500 is a "vague statement slash assessement. To really guage a player requires serveral games... for example a 1500 may have 1700 tactic strength but 1200 opening strength but a 700 endgame knowledge. In other words a 1500s weakspots very .

[@livinggarbagetruck]

Yep, I'm 1700~ and a fair amount of people still lose quickly out of the opening. Some people are terrible at endgames too.

[@wildorca4500]

Not so many people play open sicilian these days as there is not so much popular content on youtube that teaches how to play it properly. Most of the popular content teaches anti-sicilians so you will have tough luck trying to get an open sicilian line like the accelerated dragon lol. Kind of sad but it is what it is.

[@sachinpainuly1965]

Nice

[@zackglenn2847]

Playing d5 to attack the pawn and the bishop is my bread and butter as a caro kann player.

[@f.d.3289]

yeah 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 is, strangely, not as bad as it looks, if White knows what they are doing, and it's actually totally playable on amateur level. Still weird that you get a 1500 playing it, although after the remaining game, I wonder where he got his points from.

[@paulkerrigan9857]

What a fantastic video! Short games but informative, even if you don't think so. 😂

[@alexf0101]

thanks

[@thesecondderivative8967]

"The position really plays itself"

[@phil4863]

When I play the Sicilian ( I put my bishops on e7 and d7) I can't seem to get a king side attack going and my center is small so I get cramped then my opponent wins is so frustrating

[@notanetdeck5264]

I’m roughly 1200 and was stoked at 5:23 when Danya said the grandmaster move was e5 because I was looking at it right then! (I may have been looking at it more in the sense of 14:38, but that’s beside the point 😅)

[@obscurelines]

Is there any way for DN to post a hyperlink to a PNG on KZbin for these games? That would be the ultimate training tool. Most people can get 'Analyse this' on their phones which has stockfish.

[@obscurelines]

@@nguyenthinh5594 no, but it's a quick way to work through it and play through different positions without having to watch the whole video copying every move into a game. There are many valuable reasons to put out PNGs for these games.

[@viciogamergd8061]

Im 870 I played against another 900, 29 moves, 91.7% accuracy (him) 92% accuracy (me). How are we not 2000? Why? And then I played again and check mated in like 8 moves against someone who qctually played like an 800. I'm constantly going up and down I normally play over 80% accuracy, it just doesn't make sense to me the way the elo works. I trully feel like my oponents don't make the mistakes you normally face against them...

[@gregorykl2317]

Can anyone explain me Daniel is always in pilot suit and with planes on preview? Is he a pilot by grade?

[@Gretchaninov]

Danya's Immortal: 1. e4 [black aborts]

[@rmendeljacobs2832]

You said you would analyze qh4 e5 after the game and you completely missed that variation. Was looking forward ...

[@cool50926]

Are you also in Kazakhstan

[@Sghead]

As a 900, a video like this is still very relevant to me 😂

[@koxukoshu]

somehow i was hoping that the rest of the video would be an analysis of 1. e4 lol with some quip about how magnus had a similar game in an online tournament and resigned early

[@tyrelljeffries2527]

Question: If you can play KID and Nimzo... then why not give the Tango a bash!

[@animantus]

Playing Qe1 whilst King is on d1 is well established and sophisticated maneuver called 'Roszada Zbycholuda'.

[@c.c.1197]

nice! :)

[@Al-gv5uw]

I have so much trouble with the bishop c4 lines.

[@Al-gv5uw]

I’m gonna try getting the knights jumping

[@iNFaunTae]

how come? Bc4 against Sicilian just play e6

[@nathanielfitts9974]

Thank you not , underwhelming.. educational.. i learned alot. My approach against black was very slow and not as direct as you. Thank you for the content

[@JuanRamirez-qy9wm]

Why didn’t he analyze the first game?

[@edmis90]

that troll intro lol

[@victorpena4304]

He should've jokingly went to analysis part after the first resign

[@donghyunchess]

Hi Daniel, I was wondering if I could download your instructive videos and translate/subtitle it and upload it on my separate channel. I'm planning to translate instructive chess videos in Korean, and of course there would be 0 ads or profit for me. I would really appreciate your answer. Thanks!

[@arleyantes9321]

It'd be better if you gave him the subtitle file, so he could upload it here.

[@donghyunchess]

@@arleyantes9321 Yeah, that would work too.

[@boran2796]

When Daniel pushed Queen with his knight from f6, what if the queen took the c5 pawn? That's a free pawn innit?

[@n13p4n2]

Guarded by dark bishop

[@walterwhite210]

Beshop from a mile joke but it isnt that long

[@bryander9041]

Leave it to Danya to make a scuffed game extremely instructive

[@destroso]

Can you play Sicilian on 1. d4?

[@thecoalbaker8478]

no

[@mikejameson7678]

That was not a good 1500, good lord. Like, I know people have bad days, but you don't play the wayward after 600.

[@DipsAndPushups]

I saw e5 before Naroditsky played Nd4 and I am below 2000, I am only rated 1900.

[@yonghyeon123]

It feels like by the day I'm getting worst... IS there a treatment to this?

[@yaroniko212]

Please play against players closer to your level or at least around 1900-2200. Will be nice to see your thoughts process and we can gain a little bit more advance middle game ideas and end game techniques

[@MAJCrAiN]

Man I’m so glad Danya addresses things like C3. I was FOR SURE that double knight setup was impossible. Makes me wonder how it can be protected or turned into an advantage that your knight is trapped tho.

[@MAJCrAiN]

I typed this and then he did it haha. Love how he went down this line. It’s what most people would do I’ll edit this and say the confusion came from the fact that I thought danya thought that the knight could eventually be won after the fork being 2 pieces for a rook.

[@tommydashed4205]

Idk why. His line wasn't the only winning line after that. It's just the best line.

[@madouc7819]

I would love to see a speedrun with 1.c4 (Botvinnil structures) for White and 1. ... d6 as Black

[@emrevurgun8328]

I might have felt physical pain after a3 :/

[@walterwhite210]

Bro really said game 2 💀

[@kevinalexis5648]

Merry Christmas big bruh. Next time play the King’s gambit. I need to see how to play it against higher rated players

[@rmendeljacobs2832]

There was no analysis for the first game of the video ....

[@OworBenard]

😂😂😂

[@chessicles99]

Personally I find it kind of frustrating when people complain that they think you're playing against opponents that play below their rating, when instead they should be asking themselves why they can't play at a higher level despite opponents in their rating range tripping over themselves like this. I'd be interesting in seeing you play against people that comment this and making them eat their words.

[@RajnaTMS]

lol :-)))

[@_aarrowrt-9402]

Siciliana no siciliano xD

[@zach1860]

First!

[@SolestroDerNarr]

Why are you angry at cheaters? You're the biggest smurf I know and you say you play at full strength. What if your enemy is also just a smurf, does that make it alright?

[@SolestroDerNarr]

Oh wait I get it. Your whole persona seems off and I know why. I know people like you. Play unfairly but cry when you get beaten at your own game

[@flightyavian]

@@SolestroDerNarr the heck? who hurt you, my man? first off, few key points: Danya is well aware that his opponents will get their ELO refunded so to him this is purely instructional- how is he doing anything wrong here? however cheaters will literally beat anyone, it's unfair to everyone involved and big distinction- danya is not cheating. he has way more experience and way better chess skills, but how is he playing unfairly? he has the exact same tools his opponents have. Why don't you go bother someone else, you damn maggots.

[@SolestroDerNarr]

@@flightyavian open your eyes

[@flightyavian]

@@SolestroDerNarr and here comes the nonsensical arguments.. at least put some thought into what you comment but I feel like asking that of people like you is a bit much eh?

[@SolestroDerNarr]

@@flightyavian yes