Developing With Tempo!! | Smith-Morra Gambit | The Sensei Speedrun | GM Naroditsky

00:00 Intro
00:09 First Move
17:00 Analysis
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Edited by @ClydeBarber (check out some of my original music on YT)
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[@impishlyit9780]

Lmao, chat is always concerned for Danya's clock. This man played hyperbullet against Alireza for 7 hours during the candidates, he does not need 10 seconds for 4 moves. XD

[@Jefferson-ly5qe]

Yeah, and won convincingly 😂

[@George_Bland]

It’s hilarious lol

[@skepley]

If you think Daniel was in time trouble here, then you haven't seen the video of him pre moving an entire knight/bishop vs king mate with like 2 seconds. Its bananas

[@SaintD382]

Danya is one of the fastest players in the world; I saw him outplaying Firouzja on Lichess today. Naroditsky can play dozens of moves in a few seconds.

[@worsethanjoerogan8061]

I ran into one of those myself and couldn't get it. I ended up drawing after 50 moves thinking "Damn I wish I'd watched Danya's Bishop Knight video.

[@realhercules]

I would have stalemated that shit. I suck under time pressure

[@JupitersWindySkies]

TIME TROUBLE TIME TROUBLE TIME TROUBLE?!

[@richardlu6706]

“I’m not in time trouble, I can take 3 seconds per move.” GIGACHAD

[@tommeyer3871]

People comment something like this every video, but it's just true. Every single episode of this series is so incredibly valuable. You are a phenomenal teacher, you understand your audience/students very well and are exceptionally patient with their thoughts and explain every position and much more importantly the central ideas of all positions very well. I don't usually like these comparisons between different youtubers but you're educational content is absolutely unmatched at any level

[@sanitary103]

you have every right to compare to other youtubers. people (not you) are too sensitive about what others think. as long as people are respectable, it's okay to state why someone you think is better and Danya clearly is one of the best teachers/players on the net.

[@thetechconsultant]

This guy played damn near perfect until the end game. This just shows the difference between a great player and a GM, because during the game it’s not easy to tell.

[@ed.uribe0742]

Yeah, And to know that there's also a difference between a GM and a super GM like Carlsen, Nepo etc. It's crazy too

[@hector9586]

No disrespect Daniel is a great teacher has helped me a lot, but Rc7 looked like winning on the spot because after Qd8, Bc2 and all black pieces are tied up and stunningly black has no good moves, I thought he would see this, b6 created a hoIe and if black just move randomly, Qe4 and with a double attack on the rook and mate, I assume in a classical game would be played.

[@howlingwolf317]

@@hector9586 It's really hard to be instructive, sound engaged, and still play perfectly. As you say, Danya would see all of this and probably even see it in blitz if he was playing outside the speedrun context.

[@hector9586]

@@howlingwolf317 I agree, it's hard to focus while explaining, but my comment is to not discourage the viewer to not calculate further. It's hard to miss the idea if you don't see Bc2 which to be fair it's hard to see, specially in a rapid game.

[@SaintD382]

I don't think he played "damn near perfect" at all: as Daniel pointed out, the move *8...0-0?* is a clear mistake. As a Morra player I very rarely encounter this error, it's well-known and easy to avoid. Also, the idea of developing the bishop to b7 doesn't look right (weakening e6 and un-protecting the Nc6). Then he goes ...Na5?! and I start to wonder: what exactly makes you think Black played a near-perfect game? Danya is pointing out lots of mistakes, do you think he's wrong?

[@steelistheunworthy6534]

Daniel, I can't read your mind, but I want you to know you can take a break, or leave, anytime. You have given us more than anyone else could; I've known too many people suffering from burnout, and afraid to give themselves time because of the compliments or donations. You are fantastic, and we all appreciate you. You're welcome to give yourself time, nobody worth listening to will tell you otherwise!

[@nickamaya4735]

Honestly, well put! He has taught me so much how could I ask for more.

[@goldenboy140]

soy

[@Babyfacenelson1981]

@@nickamaya4735 remember 90% of this he knows in his sleep... so it's not exhausting and it's great practice for practice the basics... I watch every vid start to finish

[@purplism4857]

tbh his job isn't truly grueling. im sure if he ever reaches a point where need for income is outweighed by need for a break he will just take one lol

[@steelistheunworthy6534]

I mean.... streaming chess for thousands of people constantly is not an easy thing to do, and the social pressure from people who think it is is a pretty powerful thing and keeps a lot of streamers going much further than they should. I'm just giving him encouragement to do what he needs to. He deserves it

[@disco_sugar_g]

Danya turns the Smith-Morra into a Smith & Wesson

[@markallen5487]

I was just searching “Smith Morra Daniel Naroditsky” and saw that it was uploaded 13 minutes ago. Actual Prophet behavior!

[@blackdark6240]

8:00 If we hear this from a GM, it is certain that everything will be collapsed.

[@lred1383]

happy to see the musicless videos are back

[@barasurya5089]

People telling danya to move faster cause of time trouble is the equivalent of telling a professional FPS player to reload with 5 bullets left Guys, he'll be fine.

[@pavlos712]

Waaw. My jaw dropped at the ideas behind a lot of your moves. You show why chess never ceases to be so interesting and so much fun.

[@aravindsfirst]

This guys is the Magnus of chess teachers, no doubt. Edit: Your mic seems to be clipping a bit in this video.

[@roymacasaet3285]

Sound guy here and I agree

[@asmeyanov]

100% clipping, it hurts a bit to watch a video. This might be helpful - kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJOQaXmqft2dfJo

[@JFresh1977]

Not a sound guy but can definitely tell there's some distortion with the mic.

[@mskcouric]

It often does. Makes it harder to watch late at night.

[@SaintD382]

I agree Danya is one of the best chess teachers ever. He has a rare gift for spontaneously structuring his thoughts in the most instructive way.

[@Tremaine26]

Not gonna lie, the opponent's level of play all the way to the end has got me scared of the 2000 level. 😬

[@talkohn7774]

You’re ability to convey a GM level thought process to all chessers is inspiring and appreciated. Thank you Danya!

[@itsyaboi1245]

Damn black played so good this game

[@OGTimeBandit]

What a time to be alive. Just spectacular content. Bravo.

[@scotadam]

Hey, Daniel. I just wanted to thank you for making such great content, especially for making clean content that I can recommend to my 6th graders. I teach chess in my classroom and hope to in increase interest to the point of an official chess club this year.

[@Tubby369]

Love when I get off work and the sensei himself has a video uploaded, thank you!!

[@alexme4836]

love the smith morra videos. inspired me to play it, great work

[@emilflavius6586]

The speedrun is really educational. Please keep making this content!

[@brycebrown6596]

Watching these instructionals is relaxing

[@junkyardsoul3757]

Really great game here. The analysis it facilitated at the end was very informative.

[@tajf5529]

Masterpiece of an educational video. Danya you're so above the rest! Can't wait for more of your endgame concepts videos

[@kevinschweizer7074]

todays my birthday and an instructive video on my favourite opening is like a present for me. thank you danya! i love the speedrun.

[@stevedoe3994]

I love this forrmat with the live chess tutorials, fun to watch and etremely instructional, best chess channel bar none.

[@alexwiththeglasses]

Aside from the excellent explanations about the reasoning behind the moves, I appreciate GM Danya mentioning related openings, such as the SMG and Alapin. Valuable to understand🙏

[@Thror251]

incredible game and analysis.

[@LimboGcX]

Wow, loving the Morra games! I also really appreciate the advice on finding specific things to study/work on when you go into finding moves and tactics. Super helpful series :)

[@Sbigsla]

Much love to the best chess teacher out there, take care of yourself Danya ❤❤

[@chazzmckinney4414]

Masterful

[@Socrates...]

Thank you

[@megatruble22]

Danya blessing us with another video

[@juanroaguilo]

Gracias Sensei!!

[@alexf0101]

thanks

[@_A-B_]

Seeing danya energetic and crushing is cool :) my fav speedrun game so far

[@josephsalmonte4995]

A great game from the opponent today. A good fight!

[@khaluu2000]

Finding the inbetween moves and showing patience when deciding to go with piece activation vs material gain is such a difference between the IM/GM players and the casual club member. Like these are knee jerk reactions of preservation and maintaining a very slow winning lead in chess approach (i blame tigran petrosian) is something i would always do but would possibly allow for the opponent to catch up and remove my lead due to not taking advantage of an earlier position

[@yasonsesfaoganteng3213]

Thank you for this lesson now I have a confidence to play chess , even my English not good but your video is really helpful for us , i always spend time to watch all your video ,🙏🙏

[@Myfaceagain]

At 14:57 i needed him to say "Are we screwed?" I don't know why I die everytime he says that

[@Zotnamm]

you deserve a statue for this content thank you

[@proprinters]

he is awesome. I have to admit before I started watching these speed runs, I was of the opinion he is a great player but an okay teacher, not on the level of Gotham etc but now since I have been watching the speedruns, learning so much need to watch these videos over and over. Loved the smith morra before these videos love even more.

[@sebeqxxl1867]

Great game. Marc's book is also great.

[@user-nh3kj7ox4d]

nice video

[@Pouya..]

This is the best channel I ever saw on KZbin 😩 thank you Dania it is priceless

[@valentinleguizamon9957]

he's so handsopem

[@valentinleguizamon9957]

handsome*

[@ghostbluster8900]

I can feel the knowledge as a concrete substance going though my phone screen into my brain while I watch these videos

[@jacobforsell5585]

A new upload! Time to grab some morning coffee and enjoy some Danya chess!

[@Sun-gs6hq]

Good video

[@dannytran1587]

5:40 all that was so clever. you’re able to come up with plans so effortlessly 😔

[@EricDamiano]

noti gang… daniel the goat

[@Donkerzz]

Watching these before bed is a way of life

[@sayafkhan748]

The Smith Mora us insane.

[@benjamincagle7705]

I love Danya, peaking mic and all!

[@sluukkonen]

Your opponent played excellently as well!

[@FruitOfTheSpirit]

Daniel is good at chess!

[@aero7848]

Let's Goooo

[@E8oL4]

Love how people are afraid of him running into time trouble, when Danya's consistently (not always of course, and probably most of the time loses, but still..) beating magnus carlsen in 30 second chess :D

[@robertcooper1952]

I like how Daniel skillfully got his oinkers on the seventh rank rather than grabbing pawns.

[@Snift1921]

At 30:38 How about Rc7 Qe8 and Qe4? Intending to attack the rook and defending a4 vor the Bishop? Then probably Bb7 and Qxe6

[@saimon174666]

6s left on clock: "I'm not in time trouble guys" 😂

[@Rundik]

Finally somebody took the pawn

[@MrJoosebawkz]

were there any good lines for bg5 on the move where danya went nb5 instead? im not very good at chess but it looks like there could be some tactics there if black responds with f6 by taking advantage of e6 now being unguarded by another pawn and being on the same diag as the king & an extra attacker. the downside is you leave your bishop on g5 to potentially hang

[@MrJoosebawkz]

oh looks like this is a theme in the position but was used later and positionally not tactically

[@felipeamaral8061]

Anyone have a link for the book ? Trying to get copies of chess books

[@mkb5743]

I feel like the syntax of type 1 and type 2 undefended pieces lack a little bit the situation where a piece is defended but attacked more times. Like a piece attacked twice and defended once is essentially hanging, but if it is attacked once and defended once, it is in practice undefended for the purposes of e.g. being a potential fork victim

[@mskcouric]

It’s not undefended until it’s not defended.

[@mkb5743]

@@mskcouric though that is semantically correct i also feel it misses the point of my comment a little

[@Tremaine26]

It's so hard coming up with an idea or tactic and then having to divorce yourself from it the moment your opponent plays their move. Danya showing you must do that constantly.

[@alanschwartz8240]

I’ve learned to always click off the stream and go to bed b4 a speed run bc when I watch it on yt it feels like I’m going insane bc I never remember when I saw it.

[@dannycragel9686]

Danyas time pressure is insane...time dilation on display

[@kyleargue1969]

In the position at 25:40 can't you win an exchange with Bd6?

[@ztrom]

Why didn't you consider to sacrifice the knight with Kd5 this time?

[@Mat0m]

Name of the book please?

[@facundosuarez2460]

Remember: when in doubt, chase the queen

[@GAMEKING51]

25:41 Bxf7+ wins the Knight on c6

[@JohnSmith-sj9dk]

People thinking danya is in time trouble when he's moving at .000000001x speed just to help viewers

[@andrewli1455]

Danya slow playing in low tie gives me anxiety

[@goodforyou9596]

Where are these games streamed?

[@ruthxk7844]

twitch

[@allenm3164]

Does anyone know which book Danya is talking about? He keeps referencing it on the speedrun

[@terrydaniels4669]

It’s titled “Mayhem in the Morra” I believe

[@MarioMartinazzi]

Watch out for the last two or three morras of this speedrun, there was also the author live in twitch chat

[@RG001100]

Also lookup Ben Finegold's lecture on the Smith-Morra. He shows the "Marc Esserman vs Loek van Wely" game, where Esserman completely crushes a GM. Esserman is the author of the book.

[@kyleboddy7806]

Mayhem in the Morra as others pointed out, and be sure to follow him on KZbin as well as Twitch!

[@tastydingleberry9872]

Bro be screamin at me

[@isaackst-louis7678]

doesnt Bf4>d6 trap the rook because of the pin? 10:27

[@oloyt6844]

Eyo MAN you cant just lose two bishops for a rook

[@isaackst-louis7678]

@@oloyt6844 i mean yeah you can XD

[@frequensea9434]

Can someone post the book Danya uses 👀

[@MarketStar1711]

At 14:20 Taking on a7 isn’t a blunder? You lost control over d3 and the Horse goes there, so its a tripple attack forking the R and the B + the mate threat.

[@edwardp7725]

Danya watching your videos has literally increased my rating by 500 points. You are amazing

[@justinfoley7136]

What's you rating now ?

[@edwardp7725]

@@justinfoley7136 1420

[@markphc99]

I see Daniel takes the chess maxim 'always repeat' seriously .... always repeat

[@bhrek3271]

no way a smith morra game that lasts longer than 10 minutes!

[@nephandi2316]

5:03 I don't get it, Bishop d3 threatens a Greek Gift sacrifice, Black doesn't have time to play e5 in this position, unless I'm missing something ? Bxh7+, Kxh7, Ng5+, Kg8, Qh5 and that's it, sometimes the Black king can try to escape but here the Queen locks the vital e7 square, it's mate. If Kg6 instead of Kg8, ,well the King is in the open, the d rook can join the attack easily... I'd play h4 and ask black how they prevent h5, I mean it cannot be good for Black.

[@alanobaidi3469]

After Bxh7 Kxh7 Ng5 Kg8 Qh5 black has Bf5 defending the mate and white is down a piece

[@SahnigReingeloetet]

I‘ll buy Mayhem in the Morra

[@Trizzer89]

"This game was obvious" Everybody would be rated 2200 if it was obvious

[@iggles8]

Danya: "What aspect of the position do you have a hard time identifying?" Everyone watching: ...literally all of it

[@squidsword0]

damn the book is so poetic

[@tralx5268]

8:10 BD5??? Oh boi thats gotta be it Edit: i was right :D

[@ddulullrraa]

STOP SMITH MORRA ✋️ ✋️ ✋️ STOP SMITH MORRA ✋️ ✋️ ✋️ STOP SMITH MORRA ✋️ ✋️ ✋️ STOP SMITH MORRA ✋️ ✋️ ✋️

[@collegewifi5024]

뭐?

[@micahclawrence]

I want to play the smith mora but no one EVER DOES THE SICILIAN AGAINST MY e5

[@stoutlager6325]

You'll see more Sicilians at higher ratings. However, if you play the Smith Morra you have to be prepared for the other options black has. Black does not have to take on d4 and if he does, he doesn't have to take c3. Black is unlikely to accept both pawns unless he feels confident his prep in these lines is adequate. Against 3.c3 I play the push variation, 3...d3. This gives white a slight advantage of around +0.5 but eliminates the majority of the trappy pressure white normally gets with 3...dxc3. Another sound way to decline the gambit is 3...Nf6, just giving back the pawn. Nf6 line is a hair better in terms of eval, very close to flat 0 a few moves further in to the line.

[@oloyt6844]

Dude if you are at the level where no one plays the Sicilian against e4, in no fucking world should you be worrying about openings or gambits - probably focus on learning how to play the game well and getting an understanding, so you can play agaisnt people who know openings. Then learn them.

[@pepega3344]

maybe try e4 next time

[@JazzCabbagE7]

At 800 nobody ever plays the sicilian as black

[@patrickmeagher6914]

Learn sound opening principles such as: Developing pieces Controlling the centre Finish your development

[@RG001100]

At 800 elo, most important is "don't hang your pieces". But, I think Chessbrah's Habits series is a top notch guide for simple rules to follow for beginners.

[@valentinleguizamon9957]

i love you danya, are you an angel? you doooo look like it

[@nikitakucherov5028]

I wouldn’t have found a few of these great moves…. Im 1,300 and I doubt I’ll ever meet my goal of 1,500 😟

[@IcyFizzlePlays]

21:00 Why did I click on this video?

[@xGR3GORY]

Play simple well known opening vs high elo ppl too if possible please play some ruy and Italian some open Sicilian too. Even if it ends up as draw it's fine to see draws some draws too. Been a yt supporter and sub, but I dislike that gambit style approach u have with ppl 1600+

[@mskcouric]

Please Danya - fix your microphone gain.

[@ethanjones6766]

second

[@izhaantatariya7381]

xsad