Grandmaster Solves Grandmaster-Level Puzzles

[@lp4969]

This series is so stimulating and relaxing at the same time, also the fact that you're talking to us and not to twitch chat is really appreciated❤️

[@mangaroo3839]

For this series, he is recording them off stream so he can give it his full attention and not be distracted by twitch chat

[@xnick_uy]

Damn, guuuurl!!! :D

[@lp4969]

@@xnick_uy ok, I like the twitch damn gurrrls from Danya too, you got a point haha

[@infantiltinferno]

3rd puzzle was like an adventure. Great stuff!

[@Micro.]

Holy shit it made me grin so hard

[@totalhysteria]

i have seen it before. I watched an IM who solved it on twitch I think. It has a very cool solution indeed. Looks like a composition.

[@cd8086]

That was my favorite one it was quite interesting and had a fun solution for sure

[@dannytran1587]

I know right.

[@kil0_387]

that was insane- sacrifice 17 points of material for a pawn and its forced mate oh my

[@zanderrox]

Now we just need Grandmaster solves SuperGM puzzles and Grandmaster solves Stockfish puzzles to complete the series!

[@dfmarver]

Yes, this series should continue until the seminal episode: "Grandmaster blunders impossible puzzles"

[@mikecantreed]

Aka Chesstempo

[@AsirIset]

@@dfmarver Alternatively: Grandmaster solves chess

[@rantnhnaketon]

Grandmaster solves 5d chess puzzles

[@pafupafu4582]

Grand chess solves puzzle master

[@Celastrous]

Please do many more of these and master puzzles! This is fascinating and truly instructive.

[@davidmays2660]

Thanks for inviting us into your thought process! These videos and the speedruns you do are some of the most instructive chess videos I've found -- you do such a great job of thinking aloud, and it's always a treat to see a complicated position become simple to understand through your logic!

[@jacksun9873]

Wow these puzzle solution combinations are amazing. It's very cool to see a gm see all the contingencies a lay person misses

[@sjoerdglaser2794]

I really love this video. I like see the the genius of GM players in action while still being able to follow what is actually happening. Seeing GMs playing or solving puzzles quickly just leads me to going 'o wow pretty arrows. So many' while not understanding at all what's happening. While this video gave me a real insight into your actual thought process. Keep it up!

[@bluesinmahblood]

That third puzzle was absolutely stunning! This is probably my favourite puzzle solving video that you've done.

[@ligidobastian9245]

Times have changed. Basically a GM giving free lessons to virtually anyone who has an internet. This is certainly a good content. I hope Danya makes more of these videos!

[@stevenmcculloch5727]

This was the best puzzle episode so far. Please do more of these. The way you explained the moves made it really easy to follow, and you had great insights into how to get that intuition to simplify calculations.

[@lucmermans37]

That second puzzle just made me realize how beautiful chess is

[@BiggyJimbo]

Stunning wasn't it

[@isavenewspapers8890]

3:31 You mean this one?

[@michaelangelo2192]

@@isavenewspapers8890 no the one after

[@isavenewspapers8890]

@@michaelangelo2192 That would be the third puzzle then

[@michaelangelo2192]

@@isavenewspapers8890 Yeah I think it's because the first one was so short and easy that they forgot it even existed. Literally lasted like 2 seconds lol

[@Temax6]

Absolutely love these videos, super happy to see this upload. Seeing the pawn on e2 blocking the pin was insane, understanding your though processes while calculating is awesome.

[@mohammadabukar5022]

Man, I said this before and I am gonna say it again. Your content is hands down the best chess content on KZbin. It is the most educational. Keep it up, Daniel! You are doing a wonderful job!!

[@WorldSeriesBound]

I've never seen a strong grandmaster do this kind of work. It makes me feel much better about my own training. The most difficult part of improving, for me, has always been working in a vacuum, doubting the process.

[@totalhysteria]

Daniel, please do more of these videos when u are solving high level puzzles. They are easily the best chess content I have seen on the internet. And I have been watching chess videos since the early days when Kingscrusher and Chessexplained were the only guys around. Please keep it up!

[@luketc500]

This is a great series. Keep em coming!

[@nikisrb]

Please continue doing these harder ones, really enjoyable to watch even as a really bad chess player!

[@joelvanhaaren4841]

Best Chess Channel by a mile. Keep up the awesome work 👍🏻

[@softhands42]

This series and your master class speed run have been the most helpful chess resources I’ve found! Helped me get out of a bit of a rating slump in puzzles and in rapid. :)

[@1996rakib]

No one teaches chess better then Dani. Love your content.

[@frankvc6181]

It continues to amaze me how quickly Daniel can calculate. By the time I'm done calculating one variation he's already seen multiple variations with the solution. Amazing!

[@vector3641]

This is one of the most instructive and engaging chess video I have ever watched. Please make more of these if you can the lines which Grandmasters are calculating are just mind blowing. Learned a lot thank you.😊🙏

[@vegardt3433]

The third exercise was great! And it's also motivating to see that I can actually visualise the positions when you explain them, even if they are GM level exercises.

[@leon6777]

Been learning with your free videos for a few years now and I can't describe how much they've helped my understanding of the basic principles and openings of chess. You have a talent that few, if any other players that provide free lessons offer. Thanks so much.

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

Amazing to watch a Grandmaster solve such high-level puzzle and explain their thought process so well. I have suggestions for two semi-related videos: one is for how to improve visualization, because I've noticed one of my biggest problems is being able to visualize solutions or tactics that require a lot of movement, and this is especially true of books where I can't draw arrows! A second is tips on how to improve our thought process. I think you do a great job of explaining what your thought process is for each puzzle, but maybe there's a way to teach how to develop that kind of methodical thought process itself, to not get overwhelmed with options, thinking about different move orders, calculating multiple lines, etc. I feel like there should be an almost step-by-step method for "first this, then that, then this," etc.

[@DerUltimativeAccount]

This series has been absolutely fantastic. Chess instructors on KZbin have been telling me to solve puzzles in order to get better at chess for so long, that I am now stuck at a puzzle rating of 2700-2800, whereas my blitz rating is still at about 1500. On one hand, thank you very much for making these harder puzzles seem like witchcraft a lot less. On the other hand, I would be very interested in seeing even more KZbin content from you that is targeted at players in my rating range - how to improve further in ways that aren‘t just raw puzzle solving and not hanging your queen.

[@nikhilrao3448]

Have you watched his speedrun videos? You'll find the blitz speedrun very useful for your rating level

[@DerUltimativeAccount]

@@nikhilrao3448 Yes, I know those already exist. I'm slowly going through them and definitely finding them helpful. But if I remember correctly, Danya said he was going to try to focus a bit more on content aimed at KZbin, whereas the speedruns definitely feel like a Twitch experience. So I was just saying that that's the sort of content I'd personally enjoy

[@nikhilrao3448]

There's also this series called 'The Amateur's mind' by IM Andras Toth. Maybe you'd find that instructive as well kzbin.info/aero/PL4WTyEhy_sF5wQ8o7O2X8WyPdrIIA4asC

[@danielmoreno2969]

That problem f 15:00 was incredible the ideas that he got were just so good for the untrained eye. Thank you Daniel Tocayo! here in mexico there are not that good masters of chess that can teach you and having this is so much a help.

[@ethanandrews3076]

In 100 years, a chess puzzle will just be the starting position with one pawn moved

[@aaravsaini8687]

It's Bongcloud time lesgo

[@SEAKPhotog]

Your puzzle content (at all levels) is wildly entertaining and educational. Thank you!

[@vt4192]

You're an amazing chess teacher, down to earth (not arrogant nor mean at all). Won a fan, a like and a sub to you mr.

[@jaymoney522]

i actually found the 3rd puzzle mush easier than the 2nd. I guess because those quiet moves can be counter intuitive when doing tactics- your brain thinks it has to be a check or capture when in reality you have a little bit of time to set up the attack. LOVE these types of videos keep em coming!!!

[@AlexanderTome]

This was fantastic. I like watching a master (or specifically a grand master in this context) do high level practice like this.

[@amaarquadri]

Great video! Definitely a good decision to not shy away from showing harder puzzles. As someone who likes to try to force myself to visualize a long sequence of moves, I think it would be nice if you go over the line normally once before opening it in ChessBase.

[@calluma8472]

The GOAT with another best in class chess vid. Making the impossible appear doable as always :)

[@joshdnordy]

Watching Daniel makes me think, “I could solve these puzzles. I can be good at chess.” And then I try an play without him explaining 😭😭

[@jmahesh2233]

The best part is he is doing everything to explain those in layman terms...more likes and subs guys...

[@ИванБондарь-ш4р]

Loved this episode. The solutions were very well explained and I really liked how you showed the intermediate steps of your thinking process. The only thing I would want to be added is why in the second puzzle Bd3 doesnt work after Qa4

[@Sirbradford13]

I really like that you are making these to help people, not just for clicks. That makes me want to watch everything you’ve made.

[@gavinotoole2864]

9:06 "The hard part here was queen a4" That was the only move I got right, but I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing 😂

[@CeceMelchor]

Omg these are so helpful, it’s so fun to pause and guess the solution then you explain the flaws in our thoughts if we get them incorrect. Thank you I would watch 100 of these puzzle videos🙌!!

[@vinu8788]

Man it's seriously so informative pls keep these types of videos coming . Really thankful

[@Zukuarinokushi]

Nice video! I actually got the fourth puzzle (starting at 15.40) myself like a week ago. It's nice to see a GM solve these. The third one was really cool. Good practise in avoiding the defensive resources of your opponent.

[@chessandlattes]

7:43 after 1..Rxc2+ 2 Kb1 Qa4! is the move Danya recommends. However, I wasn't sure of it because 3 Bd3 defending the knight on e4 ( instead of the solution 3fxg6 allowing Rxb2+). it seems to be at 7:43 that 3 Bd3! has to be met by 3..Bd5! threatening checkmate on a2. then 4 a3 Rxb2+ then 5 Kb2 Qb3+ followed by checkmate. I think the hardest part of puzzle #2 is finding the way after 3Bd3

[@BonkLoud]

This video was fascinating, can you please make more of these?

[@fencserx9423]

“Ima take 30 seconds in silence” **immediately speaks**

[@TicoKamisaki]

This is so good and relaxing to watch. Daniel Narodtisky-Senpai explanations are the best!

[@briandoile5011]

This seems to help me get into the proper mindset. Amazing. I didn't solve that third one, but I had no trouble visualizing what you were saying, simply because I tried. I knew we had to free up that bishop and rook somehow, just because of the congestion and considered an idea of bringing in the rook from the bottom, but that pesky pawn on d4 would have shut that down. I also considered moving the rook up to the top and promoting our pawn, but that didn't work either, and that's without the threat of Qh4. So yeah, i'm pretty bad at chess. But, at least I was able to think those ideas through!!!! That, I think is a big breakthrough for me.

[@CameronKingsbury]

hardest puzzles have been most entertaining, you do a great job of explaining and it is easy for me to follow the whole sequence without needing any additional visual stimulus, even being significantly lower rated than you! more of these pretty please.

[@ALTTABINMAINMENU]

It is extremely instructive to see how GMs pay attention to the possible defensive/counter-attacking moves from the other side.

[@jiyuandong8964]

phenomena video. watched it all the way through and was engaged at every point, even while you were thinking lolol

[@playfulpottery6399]

17:38 and it was in this position I reached my arrow tolerance

[@ME0WMERE]

ignore the arrows and visualise the pieces moving

[@suga2420]

best video you’ve ever made no cap

[@EmergencyTaco2]

Exceptionally informative video. I would watch 20 of these.

[@Oldlard]

I loved the third puzzle and the way you walked through it. Sadly I would never have seen the idea of forcing mate with the bishop.

[@hanspeters4948]

Hi Danya! It would be great if you could make more vids on every level you covered. I truly enjoyed them and Id love it to see more similar videos :) maybe you can make several videos per theme (forks, skewers, mate in 2,3,4, endgame, etc)?

[@HBHSDBKL]

This is actually more educative than alot of the videos i've watched so far - thank you !!

[@m11os]

Love your videos!

[@harveybreaux235]

Beautiful explanation and puzzles. You are truly exceptional at explaining these concepts. I’d love to see more grandmaster puzzles!

[@peterbuchanan334]

Please do another of these it is so fascinating

[@JohnKuhles1966]

I have seen 1000s of chess videos last decade ... most are from: Agadmator, Anish Giri, Hikaru, Levy Rozman, Jorden van Foreest, Eric Rosen, Chessbrah, Tanitoluwa Adewumi, BotezLive, Anna Rudolf, Chesscom India, Jozarov’s chess channel etc. etc. but this Narditsky video is really hard core chess ...

[@vitorlins6608]

one of the most awesome chess videos I've watched so far

[@nathcurita1017]

now i knew my main problem playing chess. I don't always see opponents best move thanks for the video

[@coffeedude]

I find every way my opponent can destroy me but i couldn't defend against it if my life depended on it

[@RedMachineR9]

Just like that, straight after watching this video, I went from 1690 (been stuck for months) to 1770 solving 10 puzzles in the row. You have definitely helped me

[@dinkleberg794]

I could literally watch 100 videos like this in a row

[@BiggyJimbo]

Tell me about it man.. so entertaining

[@mdkeeler7]

Thanks Daniel! Your communication of your precise logic is so helpful and enjoyable!

[@MrRickRenegade]

The way you solved that second puzzle was sick. And you explained it really clearly too.

[@trentseaby9140]

I love this. That pawn checkmate was beautiful, but without someone like you there is no way someone like me ever gets to see or appreciate it.

[@KNIGHTMAREMANIAC]

That pawn checkmate puzzle where white wins -15 points in material is so beautiful ❤️

[@coffinblind]

ik you doubted making this video but please make more, it was actually so helpful and intuitive. also some of the puzzles were just so beautiful i need to see more

[@PRUTHVIRAJRGEEB]

This is absolutely stunning! Thanks for this series. Gonna help me a ton!

[@MrSupernova111]

I've been playing chess and watching chess content for many years. Without a doubt Naroditsky comes across as a top tier coach. I've never met him so can't attest for sure. However, if I was an up and coming chess professional I would 100% consider hiring Daniel as a coach. He explains things in such a manner that everyone can understand and that in itself is a fantastic talent. I fully agree with his disclaimers in the beginning and unfortunately its the reason I don't watch most of his streams which have to cater to the common player in the beginner to intermediate range. Anyway, fantastic video. Thanks Daniel!

[@keshavbhola2236]

We really need more of these videos Danya!

[@hugojj101]

by far my favourite chess personality and player. legend, real, no bulshit. never change

[@timnauwelaers6876]

I would have never found these hard ones myself as a 1100 but I was still very entertaining and I learned a lot! Keep the series going

[@Squatsheldon]

Important for some, I think including myself, to realize that sometimes to improve at chess means to improve at simply thinking stepwise through a task without losing patience, and I'm grateful to see that that's in fact what grandmasters are capable of

[@chrisdallaire2668]

Very much enjoyed this one! Would love to see you break down more puzzles at this level

[@tfhahs9619]

13:51 - The solution for puzzle 3 is bonkers, I could see some of the ideas, but that sequence is such a labyrinth it is incredible

[@joshuabarnett7128]

Love this. Your explanations are are helping me visualize better and be okay taking time on a position. Keep em coming! 🎉

[@42cpulaski]

Love the videos. Daniel has a talent at teaching and helping others understand difficult concepts with chess. Always rooting for him!!!

[@moosewild4239]

Awesome. Incredible to watch you go through the thought process of solving these.

[@joexpoe]

Beautifully human opening monologue. Vulnerable and introspective. Such courage!

[@bigbadballernr1]

Great content, Danya. Would love to see more.

[@simonlowrie5731]

I hugely enjoy everything he does, but this has to be my favourite ever

[@VivekTR]

This is very good. Please do more of these puzzles.

[@Beak12345]

This video is so instructive...loved the concept...I want more videos in this series

[@danielg648]

Thank you! I thoroughly enjoyed the entire video!

[@Algos_TV]

Daniel I’ve to tell you. I saw all your videos of speed run, every time i’m lose few games i go to see more of your videos. You not just a great chess player, you’re also amazing with teaching. I love you attitude and respect. Thank you.

[@unwise6518]

love your content! this was a whole lot of fun, i hope you keep making puzzle videos at this level in the future

[@matthewsirkin9660]

As a 1400 rated player, I actually find these level of puzzles still to be the most helpful of all the videos in this series. I hope you make more of these grandmaster level puzzles videos.

[@nickeastmusic9930]

I was so happy because i thought i solved the second puzzle while danya didnt see it yet, with the line where you take the bishop with the rook and then play Qf5 and d5 to win the knight and have maybe a drawn ending after being down a piece. Well, unfortunately that wasnt it :D I really like these videos because for advanced players its really cool to see how a GM solves a puzzle that you yourself tried solving but couldnt quite do it. Most of the time it is like danya said the problem of focusing on one thing too much (like the f5 pawn) and completely ruling out another idea like Qa4, which is weird as i even considered it as the first move. But when i realized it fails to Nc3 i just completely ruled that move out. Shows how complex chess is. Im really loving your content danya, cant get enough of these videos!

[@jamodzel]

This is just really engaging content. Thanks so much for doing this video (and all your others as well)!

[@WilliamKiely]

Thanks for the high quality content! Would love to see a Super GM-level video! I'm only 1600 blitz but could follow this easily.

[@Halibut86]

Awesome daniel! Some really complicated puzzles here

[@theoriginalstarwalker1653]

These videos helped me improve soo much (I started as a 900 rated player and now Im 1500 in less then half a year), thank you!

[@lizardi1037]

Danya, your content took me from 850 last november to now working as a chess coach at 2100. Thank you so much.

[@yingtongli6733]

This video is so good! I think unlike the lower-rating puzzle videos, this video more than anything is very inspiring and humanising. To see the same kind of things that we all feel doing puzzles... "Isn't this just mate in 1???", thinking hard and coming up empty in a line that seemed promising, "I'm sure this is the first move but I don't see the continuation, let me play it and keep thinking"... Sure, the lines go deeper and the puzzle ratings are higher, but I think seeing that really hits home the message from the other videos that none of this is necessarily out of anyone's reach!

[@rukaarkesh]

definetely amazing the thought process of a GM. Love the series. You are a good teacher! Thanks.

[@gavinjohn9998]

Incredible. I've loved these videos - you're brilliant at describing complicated analysis in an understandable way (for a novice!)

[@michelebrunetti4608]

Really enjoyed these series!!

[@charliemichael4052]

This is like watching the NBA Allstar Game. Just watching the true mastery is amazing