Four Pawns Attack | Alekhine's Defence | The Sensei Speedrun | GM Naroditsky

00:00 Intro
00:15 First Move
10:50 Analysis
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[@RyzoLND]

just sat down w my meal, refreshed KZbin 3-4 times to no avail, trying to find something to watch. On the 5th refresh, Danya saved me. Thank you, Danya, I will no longer be eating my chicken alfredo in silence.

[@mikecantreed]

*Avail

[@RyzoLND]

@@mikecantreed ah, keeping me honest. I was too focused on the chicken alfredo. thank you, good sir

[@greezchum76]

Sounds like a nice life

[@yigitkabaday3179]

I almost exclusively watch Danya while eating my meals, if he has a new video available.

[@sammysoseOFFICIAL]

I too enjoyed a chicken Alfredo well watching.

[@sk1mperman]

7:36 Me: "Wow what a clever move by the opponent using a pin!" Danya: *This move does nothing*

[@SuperYtc1]

7:35 * 1800 plays a move that seems to do a lot. * Danya: "Knight e5. Paper tiger. That doesn't do anything at all."

[@michaelpark672]

Nothing makes my night like watching danya perform the chess equivalent of chinese water torture on players 200pts better than me

[@sherlockma663]

only 200 pts, you're great also

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

He's now around my rating, and I can concur it still makes my night!

[@fatihsancaktutan4411]

Seeing a gm teaching with such a style.. Talking about best moves and just demonstrate the blunders not with ego but with a teacher’s style. My man this is a blessing for us. Thank you Danya. I love you, we love you and thanks for your work.

[@nagoshi01]

Loved your coverage at the candidates today Danya! Hikaru vs. Fabi was so tense during that long mid/endgame

[@scottpatrick8645]

If I've seen any game where a GM makes chess look easy, this is the one.

[@losingstreak12]

I'm a complete chess novice but Danya and these speedruns have for sure been rubbing off on me. Things like looking at what squares are freed after an opponent's move and dislodging pieces are things I've begun incorporating in my games. Thanks Danya!

[@matthewrigby6089]

Danya's explanations are so clear that I felt like it could have easily been me who just crushed an 1800.

[@vishalfgm]

yeah it is easy

[@NotoriousKhamid]

Chess is game of control, coordination and harmony! Beautiful

[@hadoukenmiomono7733]

14:34 Thank you for showing as a fork. What a wonderful move!

[@jokesontopofyou]

finally the alekhine! next i want to see someone actually play the bird against danya

[@pushingyourownagenda9889]

Danya might go for e5 gambit mode there

[@jokesontopofyou]

@@pushingyourownagenda9889 i think you're right, there's a lot of room for counterplay in from's gambit

[@pushingyourownagenda9889]

@@jokesontopofyou ya it's very dangerous and objectively decent so the bird is toast Although I'm a dutch fan i don't like the bird when u have other very good options to play as white... Dutch is good though from black side

[@jokesontopofyou]

​@@pushingyourownagenda9889 yeah the dutch reminds me of the english which both are good options for white. i'd like to see how danya dismantles the bird, punishing such an aggressive opening

[@prplt]

10:09 "we're not sacrificing all of our pieces" 😂

[@JusTGamer7777]

Im not great at chess and tilt a lot so quite often it happens that I want to just stop playing. Watching your channel is probably the only reason I havent quit at all. While watching I find myself inspired to continue playing despite the grueling difficulty and constant tilting. Thanks a lot Sensei.

[@aravindsfirst]

"Pretty, simple chess, right?" he says as he casually crushes an 1800, damn

[@yethenkosi5046]

Nice commentary at the candidates tournament yesterday Danya

[@cpf2566]

Dropping some serious opening knowledge here with a long line from the 3rd or 4th most played continuation culminating in a move (Rxf2) that isn't even in the database! Much appreciated. I think Daniel is hesitant to go in-depth re: openings but the little strategic titbits and specific lines are often the most useful parts for me. I'd love to hear more like this in future videos.

[@tiagohello]

Great video!! Thank you so much! 💛

[@nomoreblitz]

Great lesson!!

[@stevedoe3994]

I love how he slaughters 1800 ranked players like their nothing

[@claudiog7692]

Black was overrated in my opinion, weak opening knowledge, did nothing about the threat of smashing up the kingside and that’s it, these 2 mistakes cost him the game.

[@stg1325]

@@claudiog7692 easy to criticize when ur watching, when u play ur self it’s a lot harder

[@claudiog7692]

@@stg1325 Please don’t put your words in my mouth, I don’t think I could have crushed him so easily but after analyzing the game I see that his opening preparation is really weak, he was out of theory so early in his main-line (I know my Sicilian really well) and everyone knows weakening the king is never good unless you have some big idea (this guy didn’t). It’s something beginners learn at their first lesson that you shouldn’t allow your kingside pawns to be smashed like that.

[@christianaustin782]

@@claudiog7692 weak opening knowledge? They played like 15 moves of mainline theory

[@claudiog7692]

@@christianaustin782 that’s not enough for an already dubious opening like the Alekhine, that’s a major tabiya of the 4 pawns and you can’t just look at it and assume that since it’s 12 moves in or something like that no one is going to know it and you’re going to be fine

[@michaelwhinnery164]

Brilliant. I love how Daniel makes it look so easy,

[@BrandonHatcher]

Ah yes. Another bedtime chess lesson from master Danya. Thank you, Sensei 🙏

[@virtualdrivedotcom1113]

Hello GM Danya! Thanks for sharing your chess games and commentary on prominent games. I first get to know you at your recent hosting on tata steel chess tournament. I love your commentaries, precise teaching of tactics and everything about chess. Thank you again! ☺️

[@nathanflorek1513]

Thank you so much for all your educational videos, they are great its payed content quality. Your great

[@Anb82051]

lol my nightly routine involves opening KZbin and checking for a new Danya upload, this time it was uploaded 1 min ago 😂

[@vanshshah23]

It's day here

[@clintoruss153]

These super GMs make the game look so easy

[@23chiffy]

I frigging love the way this dude explains chess...I wish I thought like him when I play lol...he makes it sound so easy. Might be he best instructor on youtube.

[@big_darkside2716]

Thanks for the upload, i like to see how a gm thinks during the game :)

[@gboundrapa]

I'd love to see opening repertoire videos! I saw your opening ideas on the KID teaching Alexandra Botez and that helped a lot! Love your content!

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

14:35 for Botez Gambit explanation

[@csugabo85]

Great well principled game

[@alexwiththeglasses]

GM Danya going over his old game sure twisted my noodle… opening theory gets real!🙏

[@raph6709]

Amazing

[@dregaus]

I had to start the video over and turn my brain on, Danya was sizzling out the gate on this one!

[@designsbyhiroki]

you explain things so logically and clearly. thank you. words matter. you pick the right words

[@designsbyhiroki]

picked* lol

[@Tacos4brekky]

DANYA HAVE MY CHILDREN

[@LeventK]

911

[@JudWhite1]

20:30 Danya delivering checkmate to a Twitch heckler while being instructive

[@trunghungpham9414]

Wow commentary on Fide Candidates 2022 and still upload Sensei Series on KZbin. What a chad

[@miskathonic]

If you wanna punish people for bad openings, someone that people fear, you play the Four Pawns Attack against the Alekhine. ...you really know how to win me over, Danya

[@svsRaviKiran]

at 7:58 we can play dxe5, Rxd2 (queen sac), exf6 (attack the queen) and eventually Bxd2 etc. We will have a rook, horse and a pawn for the queen and a maasive attack on black's king. And not to mention a pawn two squares away from queening. Isn't that an interesting and a chaotic line!!?

[@robertehrenworth3310]

There’s an earlier idea of N-b5 (threatening to fork on c7) followed by the sac c5, to undermine white’s center, and after white takes dxc, the knight on b6 drops back to d7 & will pick off the pawn on e5 (or perhaps the doubled pawn on c5). Would love to see what Danny says about this undermining maneuver; is it sound?

[@alexf0101]

thanks

[@willpeacock8979]

I feel like I should take a t break from danya for like a few months so I’d have a ton of content to binge… bc I consume these videos so fast and then I’m fiending for me

[@rgaphd6832]

Daniel is a great sensei

[@1stNumberOne]

As a person who doesn’t really play chess (I have a very basic understanding) but played fighting games: I appreciate your play and commentary. You explain options, set ups and possible solutions to problems. In fighting games we do frame data, Good responses to certain things good buttons and bad ones. I hope you explain your thoughts more..and ways to approach things.. and why you choose the options you do. If you still competitive, don’t give away too much.🤣 But if you playing just to play..or play with a friend, I think you can help people A LOT..

[@impishlyit9780]

He's competitive, one of the top few hundred in the world in fast time controls.

[@r123554]

Danya is 'competitive' in the sense that he occasionally still plays in official tournaments and is ranked in the top 200 in the world but his main occupation is teaching and streaming. And in these lessons he does, there is no chance of "giving anything away." He is not explaining anything that anyone who is at a high enough level to compete with him doesn't already know.

[@impishlyit9780]

@@r123554 Yes, this. The biggest thing that competitive chess players keep secret is specific opening lines so that they can be more prepared than their potential opponents in them, anyone they face is more than capable of working out the logic of a move an thinking ahead.

[@1stNumberOne]

@@r123554 well I’m not that knowledgeable in chess. I thought people had certain specific strats they use or try to use that works for them, that separate them from others. Thanks for the info!

[@r123554]

@@1stNumberOne To clarify, high level players do use strategies, specifically opening preparation (i.e they prepare moves from the start of the game to try and steer the game in a direction that they're knowledgeable about and have an advantage in, beyond already discovered 'theory') and often this preparation does have a style. But his opening preparation for serious tournaments would be way more in depth than the discussions about openings Danya does here, and most of what Danya discusses in these videos are patterns or methods of thinking that any serious opponent of his would already know. These videos are targeted towards amateurs, mostly beginner or intermediate. Danya vastly outmatches anyone who isn't a grandmaster. As in, he could beat any non-master blindfolded with a quarter of their time on his clock. That claim is literal, not an exaggeration.

[@jackson32]

Interesting how thinking strategically leads to a better position and that leads to winning tactics. "Tactics flow from a superior position" Bobby Fischer

[@Joe-zu7lx]

At some point every game the inevitable comment comes: ‘the game is eventually over’

[@xordid]

the lines you covered after e5 are insane and fascinating and a perfect example of why i am nowhere near qualified to play an opening like the Alekhine. lovely analysis Danya

[@Marcel123123123]

Lol , black strikes again out of the clear blue skies:)) white was having such a great sunny day :)))

[@sumithjayarathna2132]

🔥🔥

[@luker.6967]

I knew it would be a short video from the title hahaha

[@steelistheunworthy6534]

Mr. Naroditsky, what do you feel is the best way to improve at the intermediate level? I absolutely adore your channel, and I mean no disrespect when I ask for you recommendations on other content to absorb? Thank you in advance, have a lovely night!

[@ThePalmWoods]

I can't speak for Danya, but what works for me is reading chess books, preferably those that cover the games of past masters - e.g. Irving Chernev's book Logical Chess. If you like to watch KZbin videos, check out the lectures on Saint Louis' Chess Club

[@steelistheunworthy6534]

Massive thanks! I've been looking around for quite some time, this is a huge help!

[@Ben-ff6hc]

Tons of tactics are still the most important thing at that level (I'm nearly out of it) Studying endgames and openings a fair share is good too

[@ga3680]

21:43 Rg7 is not a skewer, it's a pin. Good video.

[@christianaustin782]

I think in another speedrun he's actually talked about how in Russian they're the same word, so he gets them mixed up in English a lot lol

[@thedude5599]

Alekhine defense is my go to on E4. under 1800 it crushes white.

[@tomotsumer]

Danya is my favorite chess youtuber. Even tho many of his ideas are way above me.

[@jualyal2622]

I use 4pawn attack when using queen gambit opening. But they usually decline.

[@abdelhamidmeriouma8248]

Hi.... Please if you can do more videos about pric defense against 4 pawn attack

[@frankberger8243]

Finally an Alekhine! Unfortunately black did not play the way I do :P

[@DudeTastic13]

So this is what it looks like when a GM brutally punishes inaccuracies.

[@Dan-yd2jq]

Makes it look so easy.

[@nathanielfitts9974]

Thanks for the vid. But shouldnt you be in a restauant in madrid, with a pretty young senorita?

[@mulishmax5811]

Dubious

[@brasileirosim5961]

…Bb4 is an alternative to …Be7, as it makes d4-d5 more difficult to achieve (Bortnik line). The good think about the Alekhine is that most players at my level will not play often against it,p. Often they will begin to think at move 2.

[@claudiog7692]

If someone thinks at move 2 of the Alekhine then don’t worry because they just can’t be a decent chess player

[@brasileirosim5961]

@@claudiog7692 At least they think. Against the Alekhine a lot of people blunder a pawn by premoving.

[@thenameisshubhamsingh.]

0:47 Yes, yes, yes, but how?

[@walterbrownstone8017]

I will learn the four pawns attack against the Alekhine because it looks good. But caro kann advance feels more solid over the fantasy(Maroczy) variation so I'll keep that, and I play the Moscow, Canal attack, or the Rossolimo against the Sicilian because of the Spanish game familiarity. Which means I also need the Hyperaccelerated Fianchetto and Kramnik Sicilians as well. I do get the the early d4 in the Marshall and short circuiting some Sicilian theory but I get a great deal of enjoyment out of analyzing my games and pulling up games from the greatest chess players 10 moves deep. That's not gonna happen with the Smith Morra. Great players just don't play the Smith Morra.

[@Duke_de_Plata]

"Quantify that the G file is open for the rook"

[@garrettmarshall7664]

Uploaded 14 seconds after I clock back in from lunch, sensei why 😭

[@PhildoBaggins]

I was just looking for a pawn pushing simpleton opening

[@KingoftheJuice18]

Why is the C4 pawn important? For the same reason that every private stationed on the front lines of your advancing army is important.

[@zero0oblivion]

Are the Caro-Kann and Sicilian considered bad openings? I thought it they were one of the best responses to e4.

[@darkdragon4148]

Not at all, they’re completely fine openings. But if you don’t know what you’re doing then of course you find yourself in trouble at some point haha. Danya I believe doesn’t suggest the Sicilian until a player is fairly high rated because it can lead to complex positions, and as for the Caro-Kann just know enough theory for whatever your level is(exchange variation and advance variation main line is pretty popular for example)

[@infinitemadnesss]

Anyone under 2000 doesn't have enough understanding to play sicilian. Same goes for grunfeld against d4 for example. Caro is much simpler once you learn advance and exchange variations.

[@claudiog7692]

@@infinitemadnesss you get to 2000 by winning enough games, not by passing an exam of the intricacies of the Sicilian…

[@infinitemadnesss]

@@claudiog7692 I'm saying the same thing. Unless you have the understanding of chess to reach 2000, you should not touch sicilian. Playing sicilian is not a requirement to reach any rating.

[@claudiog7692]

@@infinitemadnesss we aren’t saying the same thing, I think just because someone isn’t 2000 yet it doesn’t mean they can’t play the Sicilian, every reasonable opening is complex

[@StoN220]

What kind of player would move his knight away from his king like that right at the end of the game

[@liljackypaper]

You said the c4 pawn is a center pawn.. Are the c and f pawns considered "center" pawns? I've always wondered what is considered a flank pawn.. I know it's a,b,g + h but wasn't sure if c and f were included.

[@stg1325]

Well his point was it controls a center square (d5) so why would you just weaken ur control of the center for no reason

[@liljackypaper]

@@stg1325 you're like answering a question that wasn't asked

[@dpend]

Can’t speak on this conclusively but both the c and f pawns can control some central squares, and they can also become center pawns when capturing. So I don’t believe they’re considered center pawns per se but they can either be more part of a flank or more the center depending on what happens in the game. Probably not the most useful answer, but anyway 😂

[@collierworley305]

ily

[@goodforyou9596]

Sir how to play on the sensei?

[@dnlvh8]

HEY DANYA

[@JunkieMonkey321]

all of your videos with the alekhine's is with you playing the white side. can you make a few videos like this of yourself playing the black side?

[@srookscypher]

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[@brunocunha9337]

10:51 Danya: "Pretty simple chess, right?" Me: "Of course! I would have won this game the same way myself, no doubt 'bout it!" hahaha

[@rahulvignesh2775]

How do you make it look so easy? 🌼🌼

[@coolbeans8682]

Ne4, paper tiger. Haha!

[@enfither9280]

Rip teachnoblade

[@Ujjayanroy]

why bishop e2 and not d3

[@smrtfasizmu6161]

Nonchalantly demolishing 1900 rated players

[@tonywong1248]

1900 is shit compared to a grandmaster

[@lucmermans37]

Your opponent should just start a blitz game next time lol

[@ryanboyd4770]

I watch Danya but with Chicken.. I apologize that it's not Alfredo.

[@gmailz6854]

Hey danya

[@scxrfxceeee]

qh8 kf7 qh5 is mate danya

[@reda4961]

King can still go back to g8. But I do think there is a mate : qh6+ kg8 bf6+ kf7 qg6+ kf8 qg8#

[@kcm9058]

Danielle hath defeated Ali Roubaix

[@LeventK]

Alekhine's defense is the silent kid in the class, change my mind.

[@Amoeby]

Are you being serious about playing Smith-Morra or Fantasy variation make you the person who people fear? These are bad lines if your opponent knows the theory.

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

Four Pawns is junk and a forced draw for Black with huge winning chances.

[@DrDisemb0wel]

Is the Alekhine considered a bad opening then? I get there are counters to a lot of openings, but I thought it was just a matter of who knows the theory the best

[@hpy2101]

At higher levels it's too risky and hard to play with high precision but for average player its fine if you learn the mainlines

[@malcolmz3626]

Were 1800s always that bad at chess? He literally only used like 3 minutes for the entire game, which means he was in blitz mode the entire game. guys don't play like this if you wanna be anywhere near good at chess.