GM Simon Williams Blitz Speed Run 28 - A Clockwork Classical Dutch

[@slagorourke]

Simon's Speedrun is possibly the slowest in history, but always worth the wait. Thanks for the pipe smoking content Simon!

[@doodo1509]

10 min is definitely a sweet spot for me. Lets me follow your thought process a lot better

[@zacharysherry2910]

Usually if it's any faster I end up watching the video at least three times

[@aaronsontube2647]

Simon's been my go to coach with online courses he's fantastic. Sometimes I talk to myself in the same calming voice he does when he's explaining his moves.... Then I hang a rook and log off for the day

[@danjeory3659]

😂

[@stoutlager6325]

at 12:18 I was looking at Nxh3+ with the idea of Bf2+ to follow after queen captures. Unfortunately it doesn't win the queen due to Kg2 getting out of check and defending queen on h3.

[@reuvenavnon5914]

I like the ten min games better. Keep it up Simon! Love your rate climbing

[@samac81]

Agreed, the 10 minute is definitely better. He’s very good at explaining but the 3 to 5 minute games get very hectic and limit the teaching time.

[@conquerinvestments7579]

Yes, I love the 10 min. Thank you. Please make this weekly for it helps my mental sanity. :)

[@Kolfonik]

can't remember if i've already told you Simon, but your videos are the only ones I watch from start to finish.

[@SnailBen]

your blitz is hilarious but 10 min is much better for learning. you make it look easy. thank you from california.

[@LoffysDomain]

Thx for everything, GM Williams

[@GonFreeccs123]

Very instructive game here Simon, especially with the knight swinging back around and making it to g5. 10 minute time control might be the sweet spot. Cheers!

[@kaig6307]

Good game. I think I prefer the ten minute. You are great at explaining the position/your thinking and I feel like in the shorter time limits you run out of time a bit because of that.

[@Davidaspe]

Flawless game and great explanations. Good stuff, Simon!

[@plasmaastronaut]

fascintating listening to a GM break down these strong players w/o tactics. When I'm against a 1900 I'm thrashing my brain with tactical calculations

[@johanneskarlsson6535]

This might be the one of the most instructive speed run videos I have seen, or at the very least among the most pleasing ones. It was really something to see how comfortable and in control you were on both sides of the board, and you got to that place not through blunders of the opponent but through strategic decisions and experience. Very cool!

[@timholt1556]

Really helpful to have this to go alongside your Killer Dutch Chessable course, and see the ideas put into practice.

[@danielfrappier3378]

Very nice and instructive game. I like the 10 minutes format. I bought your course on the Dutch on Chessable, it's fantastic. I would love a companion course in the format of this video. Not necessarily complete games but lots of position from the late opening up to the late Middlegame, also some recurring tactical and strategic patterns. Your course already gives a lot, including some complete games but I am sure you could give us a lot more only looking at the games you played. I would pay good money for that.

[@GeorgeSmyth]

I like the longer time limit, as it gives you time to fully explain what is going on. Well done!

[@pieterdenhertog288]

keep the 10 min. clockwork coming Simon!!!

[@ghostface1818]

Thanks for the video Simon! Really shows how important patience is in attacking situations.

[@victorsml]

You make it look so easy...instructive video with helpful commentary and assessment! Thanks for the content. I'll be at the Reykjavik tourney this year if you are interested in sharing viking beers with sub-1500 chimps like me! Looking forward to seeing (and hopefully playing) good chess!

[@garrettcarll9628]

Great Video Simon. I loved how you denied his counterplay on the queen side and slowly built up on the kingside. Very nice attack. 👍

[@tobiasforbes3580]

I've been learning the Dutch from his superb Killer Dutch course and it was great to see it being so smoothly/ destructively deployed. Thank you Simon for your countless hours of banterous instruction.

[@geraldruiz2911]

Great stuff! I dig The Dutch. Still find it a hard opening to play, as my opponents rarely play into the main lines.

[@jongler9775]

Impressive as usual. I would have sullied my pants in a lot of those positions, but GingerGM comments "Oh! My opponent made a mistake there." What ? I thought we were toast. He made a mistake ?! And... tadaaaa, a magical moves appears everytime. That feels like magic to me.

[@stephenwells1559]

Much better content with this time limit. You provide much more teaching and aren’t finding yourself playing poor moves due to time trouble.

[@voitekfilipowicz6401]

10 mins is absolutely the way to go. Don't worry about the rating - your explanations and thought process are what we're here for and they apply at every level.

[@Fortunalux]

It's always so fun watching you playing a Dutch

[@Para-rt9uk]

Hi Simon, I've loved your vids for 8-9 years. Fantastic stuff, i've learned so much. Bought much of your stuff. Don't worry playing too much while playing looking at the chat, lets face it, most of the chat is shite. It's good you've increased your time, it was frustrating to watch you lose on time, just because you was trying to explain to us mortals how to improve our chess.

[@jackgaughan2039]

Thanks as always Simon!! So helpful and interesting

[@hi9313]

I prefer this time control tbh, much more instructive than 5 minute which is only instructive for the first 2 minutes then gets rushed.

[@Backupdancerr]

I have a more positional style (as much as a 1600 can be positional) because I tend to rush in with attacks and just push the pawns. This was instructive video on how to build up an attack and not rush it! Thanks :)

[@aaronnolan5377]

Dutch defense such a good weapon you've taught me against queen pawn

[@martinfuchs3983]

I really like the 10 min format. You have more time to share you thoughts and there is no drop of quality at the end. If you rating is too high I would love to see you playing on a new series with using only the chessable openings of yours: Iron English with white, Black Lion against e4 and of course the Killer Dutch against all non e4 openings. There is a specific reason why I am asking this: I own these courses and they are my repertoire since over a year now but people at lower ratings tend to not enter the main lines unless they're cheating and I'd love to see you adapting to their moves.

[@Mike072]

10 minutes are great , keep it going mate 😄

[@yosefcohen483]

Thank you Simon, it's been fun.

[@philipgilkerson652]

Really enjoy the videos! The classical dutch is my favorite opening.

[@Kaffu87]

I like the 10m format, ty for video

[@fabiotellez6192]

I like the time. Thanks Simon.

[@brendancallaghan101]

Nice video. Love your work on chessable. Loved the black Lion and got your Killer Dutch and the hippo. What can I say a real fan LOL

[@JohnWilliamShatner]

Simon has become a positional god purely out of a desire to not have to calculate, respect.

[@ciazamate1]

clean game good stuff pal

[@Nature-of-reality]

That was quality. Great work pal.

[@MissScarlett918]

I wish he uploaded this daily so helpful

[@chessgrind6639]

if you could do 2-3 of these videos in a week you will surely get 100k subs in no time. Also your teaching style is awesome.

[@tjitsekoster9379]

Question, at 12:25 you played Kg7. Wasn't Nxh3 winning a bishop there?

[@stephencallahan7877]

looking slim and strong Simon! have you been lifting weights/boxing?

[@patjcoan]

Simon #1

[@ounichaan1440]

Destruction, poor opponent, that pawn chain was nasty

[@marko9912]

Nice one Si

[@AdmatHakodesh]

Simon says at the end that you shouldn't worry about playing slightly questionable lines until you're 2200-2300. But he played the dutch forever, and he is/was over 2500. So i'm confused...

[@oraz.]

Really nice

[@spencer6194]

12:08 if Simon plays nxh3 here, he either wins the bishop or, if qxh3, he can play bf2+ with a discovered attack on the unprotected queen on h3. No?

[@lwsCN500]

The king can move up to guard the queen during that discovery: when the bishop checks on f2, king guards queen by going g2.

[@ounichaan1440]

10 min is perfect

[@carlosdemiguel4336]

NICE INTRO! SPOOKY

[@benedictineonchessable]

Great video! I'm converting to the Dutch.

[@alanjohnson901]

The GOAT

[@wce-tube]

I vote for 10 mins, if you ask me

[@XVRMEDIA]

🎉🎉🎉

[@stevehill8007]

Consider your 'like' thrown, sir

[@madzilla14]

Stonewalled To Death.

[@LoFiSymphony]

Prefer the 10 minute games for sure.

[@JSJ1978]

The sound is still a bit too low, just saying :)

[@danjeory3659]

Funnily enough, the opponent's account has now been closed for cheating.

[@bbbrown3408]

play theory and lose an lose in a few moves avoid theory last longer

[@zacharysherry2910]

As of 600 to 900 player I always wonder why someone would cheat when they have no future in the game and it's all just for fun. Cheating is fun for them even though it's literally just clicking buttons? Wtf?

[@BonkLoud]

10 minute is better

[@QuangAnhPhamNguyen]

This is a speedrun, but not blitz.

[@irjake]

I think speed run refers to quickly reaching a high rating, not the time control.

[@QuangAnhPhamNguyen]

@@irjake I know what a speed run is. The title says "Blitz Speed Run" but Simon plays Rapid here.

[@spartanthe300ththermopylae4]

Never mind what the title says, 10 min format is way better for explaining the ideas. You can see it very clearly from the comments.

[@Erwt64]

A clockwork Ginger - Stanley Kubricks next masterpiece. 😵‍💫