Master Class | Alekhine (The Better Scandi) | Chess Speedrun | Grandmaster Naroditsky

[@belld.s5276]

Ah the trapped rook at the end was just excellent. I hope I can pull off that maneuver in a game one day. So nice.

[@fujiapple9675]

6:20 "we're slightly worse here." Imagine being a 1000 rated player and having Danya say that during your game! Oh My Lands!

[@Vladislav-Listev]

That's why you should not play Alekhine's Defense

[@aluminiumknight4038]

@@Vladislav-Listev lmao

[@epicwolves125]

@@Vladislav-Listev true

[@fujiapple9675]

@@Vladislav-Listev agreed. I hate giving my opponent space.

[@warilban]

I mean, he deliberately chooses to play what's "principled" for our sakes. If he plays what is objectively better, but contradicts basic principles, it would confuse new players

[@Chyde109]

Wow that rook trap was brutal! 26:52

[@StephenRahrig]

For real!!

[@ap21770]

9:31 “No matter how sharp your repertoire there are boring lines you can face against everything. And with black you can face the London system” haha

[@xegaplaysgfx3067]

it makes it even funnier that the 'prophet' himself plays the jobava london

[@santtu0386]

@@xegaplaysgfx3067 Jobava London is completely different opening you patzer! It only has the name "london" in it because White puts the bishop on f4 but it leads to completely different structure and play.

[@antonioa.jepkoko4588]

London system is so boring yes true

[@dopamine-bandit]

such a true statement lol, london system is sooo basic and boring

[@leteejay]

This was incredibly instructive. Great timing, reasoning and calmness. I really prefer this style to a lot of other chess-streamers, who have ventured into the twitch-vibe. Never change, Daniel

[@ming5801]

I'm starting to think he's playing positionally with black and aggressively with white.

[@wepe92]

danya literally mentioned that many times for this speedrun

[@tisomator]

dont pretend like you can analyse his games on such a deep level

[@radbanaria]

@@wepe92 r/whoosh

[@TheRausing1]

Double whoooosh 😂

[@Its_Might]

Lmao

[@stephenwells1559]

Thank you Daniel. I am currently rated rapid 1983 and edging closer to my goal of 2000 thanks almost exclusively to your speed run lessons. 18 months ago I was struggling to reach a 1700 rating.

[@matthewaxe6647]

Nice! Congratulations and good luck, 1700 is ny next big goak after recently securig 1500

[@kantvishi]

sup 400 here lol

[@Ryan_Owens]

Thank you for the consistent uploads.

[@Omar_Merican]

yes!!! more speedrun content! you don't realise this Danya, but you have helped my chess progress a TON! you are also one of my top 3 favourite GMs aside from Magnus and Anish! 😁

[@eagle87654321]

Against Danya’s advice, I sent my bishop out to scale Mount Everest and my knight to distribute the covid vaccine. The first got hypothermia and the second got blood clots

[@dharmikdesani2726]

Simply love those analogies and also this comment!!

[@kkkk-ks7ke]

Maybe you should've done it the other way around

[@muntoonxt]

@@kkkk-ks7ke Not sure how Mount Everest is gonna scale my bishop, nor how COVID-19 vaccines are going to distribute my poor knight.

[@trequor]

@@muntoonxt lmao

[@TheMosayat]

​@@muntoonxt😂😂😂😂

[@KF1]

One thing I've learned in this series is that check isn't always good enough. Threatening the queen isn't good enough. There has to be a bonus associated with it in some way, a secondary reason of tactic or position, otherwise chances are that a better move exists! Thanks very much for these lessons. I'm proud to have a handcarved stone chess set, though sadly broke a knights head off when the opponent doubled and isolated their center pawns in the previous video :***(

[@alfredleite4000]

Great instructor, GM Naroditsky has a real talent for teaching

[@dwiii1635]

Me when I see a good play: "Damn, that was smart and clever." Daniel: "God, we have such a sexy move right here."

[@ankurbhatia1140]

Thanks for another fantastic instructional video. That rook trap was amazing

[@TeaSmuggler]

Honestly one of the best beginner lessons I have ever seen, boring positions are not boring once you manage to focus on the nuances.

[@fujiapple9675]

My favorite Chess Player pre-Garry Kasparov was Alexander Alekhine. I loved his attacking style. I've never been a fan of his opening 1. Nf6, but nonetheless appreciate his contributions to the game.

[@kitsanadounglomchan1522]

“Not all of your pieces are climbing Mount Everest.” That felt like a personal attack! 😂😂😂

[@aliencopfires]

Thanks a lot! I watch other chess streams regularly but I had the impression that I did not learn from them. I thought I could only improve by books. But then I saw some of your videos and I really learned from them. You are a very good teacher and this video format and the pace and the depth of your explainations are really ace!

[@youngsnooa4341]

Can you make him smiling in the thumbnail? It just seems funny to me for some reason

[@brucewayne2184]

Lol

[@adean]

Wow, this whole thing was gold. Lots of uncommon tactics that he spots instantly, and the awesome explanation around his thinking processes.

[@alexf0101]

lord stockfish shows the endgame in the end is a draw, white's mistake was going Ke4 after a4. the defense is saccing the white knight for black's last queenside pawn, and then black has to sac his knight for white's kingside pawn before it promotes. of course the timing here is super tricky, endgames are hard... an example line: a4 a3, bxa3 bxa3, Nb5 Nd3, Nxa3 Nxb2+, Kb4 Nxa4. another try is: a4 b3+, axb3 axb3 (or ...cxb3), Kc3 Nd3, Nxc2 Nxb4.

[@ThePluskota]

The notification sounds make this a little less than optimal to listen to while trying to sleep.

[@E8oL4]

He is such a damn fine teacher!

[@Duck72432]

Hey Daniel, just a vid suggestion. Could you make one on how to study chess like books. coaching, analysis, what helped you? how often we should study ect?

[@sigma8995]

27:40 "That's jail and that's deathrow" LOL

[@jkjkok7754]

I appreciate all the solid, consistent and in-depth lessons you post on here for free. I mean ppl pay very good money for much less than what you do on here for free.

[@cfgauss71]

That rook trap was stellar!

[@Awsomeguy145]

That hurt me lmao

[@brucewayne2184]

Yeah

[@Qhsjahajw]

Magnus beat Caruana with this, so must be pretty good lol

[@mikhailmikhailov8781]

That is like the most Magnus way to play lol.

[@masterbeernuts9344]

LOVE the analysis from 35:00 on!

[@winnah2314]

When you get your knight onto a civilized square *sips tea with a pinky*

[@darthbelicheck3559]

Your title is doing you a high disservice. I love the way you explain your thought process. As a noobish player I generally am incline to skip speedruns or as I like to call it “smurfruns”. I learn nothing from it but yours is actually highly intructive. I couldn’t have known that from your title. I clicked on it because of the name of the opening. It might be intentional on your part idk but just thought to drop my 2 cents.

[@truelee4611]

videos on alekhine opening repertoire would be lovely Danya!

[@riclaq4437]

I love playing the alekhine, at my level people have no idea what they're supposed to do against it

[@gen_jose3380]

blessed once again by the naroditsky school of chess.

[@shikaru1730]

The line you play here rushes to endgames, moving the knight back and tempting white to play e6 leads to much more enjoyable and tactical positions, and traps where you can leave d5 hanging to win a piece early too the uninitiated

[@ChessJourneyman]

There are two types of "he's playing well" - one out of pity and the other as a nod to stockfish. When people really play well, things stop being jovial real quick.

[@kkkk-ks7ke]

good observation

[@chriskane482]

Damn the rook trap was cold blooded man

[@williamramsey6280]

I was waiting for this to come out

[@banzaiburger9589]

"embrace the ennui". What previously drove me to drink is now inspiring me.

[@OmneAurumNon]

The Alekhine is my main weapon as black. It doesn't get a lot of love, but it's a really fun opening and I've had good success with it

[@theTeflonDon1]

Daniel thank you very much for all your educational videos. I am a big fan!

[@MrLuridan]

The fact that Daniel used the word "ennui" makes me an instant fan.

[@sanjayvarma7842]

"Then we're going to reopen the businesses." LOL 6:32

[@ericm1839]

Game 2 was weirdly beautiful. Both knights ended up on opposite sides of the board through exclusively threatening manuvers.

[@ילדטובירושלים-ת8פ]

That rook trap was very impressive. No way i could find something like this

[@sayafkhan748]

The Bishop allows the Knight to land on a CIVILIZED SQUARE and then we are gonna attend the businesses. Lmao🤣

[@andreitiberiovicgazdovici]

I didn't know this line at all! And I like It a Lot, thanks Danya

[@ignis6144]

I love you. I have watched every video since like mid summer last year

[@boftungol9423]

This is really funny, because I first played this just for fun and played d4 after e5, but then learnt the theory and now i play the *correct* theory move, Nfd7.

[@adamleckius2253]

Nice to see the queen-less mid-game. I find early queen trades are quite common at lower levels (including myself there, am 1450)

[@chilangochongo6487]

I missed when dude resigned on the first the first game, and i was watching for so long like, "wtf is going on...?" Lol

[@TernaryM01]

"Captures captures" "Takes takes" "Bang bang" "Boom boom"

[@othmanemansouri3631]

that's super good content. Thank you !

[@joerjon]

i love the alekhine since i saw it and play it but a guy at my club says "there's a reason its not played at high level" and it demotivated me.. i mean alehkine is fine at a rating level from 1300 - 2000 for sure right? right? :(

[@Shome2049]

I am stuck at ~1450 in both blitz and 10+0 rapid. Can you please make a video for me and people like me?

[@agentsmith9641]

I love the alekhine daniel,its way down on everyones list and at your level and who you play perhaps aint going to cut it,however.Naka plays it and you do,so to learn its best to watch the GM games and pick up on it.Bryan tilis has a wonderful course on chessable for this and i have it and he updates on it as well,white has to play well to if they dont know it.Love your channel and youe videos,thanks for being there.You did great in last years singfield as well,good luck this year.And in the meltwater,get magnus this time!

[@BurningPandama]

That rook trap was brutal

[@anathamon]

Alekhine opening is the original bong cloud. The world champ was just trolling people to show how good he was.

[@georgelime5902]

27:25 this was beautiful

[@derek2480]

Thank you so much for these videos

[@smashu2]

SF claim that Qxe7+ was the best move going for long castle because after the game continuation white is slightly better in the endgame as show by Daniel post game analysis he could not equalize comfortably in that queen less middle game.

[@j.thomas1420]

1:20 A 4 queens variation is possible if White plays 5. d4

[@knaakepaak]

This series is awesome

[@zoiddbzyugi]

This game is an excellent example of maidenless behavior

[@shmurfy4971]

when are the speed run streams? whenever i look at danyas streams he’s just playing bullet or something, i looked at past streams and only found one

[@davewestner]

I asked this question a few weeks ago and the answer I got is that they are random. Kind of a bummer because I'd love to catch a live one myself.

[@XtheminerproX]

I think he did most of these like a month ago

[@shmurfy4971]

@@davewestner damn that’s annoying. thanks

[@davewestner]

@@shmurfy4971 It's a bummer for sure as I'd definitely watch if I knew when to tune it. I get the idea that he just kinda does these when he's in the mood for it. I don't mind just catching these on youtube, but it would be interesting to participate live. Occasionally I have questions.

[@shmurfy4971]

@@davewestner yeah same, problem for me is these videos are just too short/not many games get played. just looked through his past broadcasts on twitch and the one stream i found before isn’t even on there anymore

[@LukeRock197]

Dude, your videos are class. I've just started trying to learn chess and would love to play. Is it going to cost me a lot??

[@thetransferaccount4586]

2nd game was exciting and smooth af

[@DavidUebergang]

@42:40 that pawn move from white draws the game I think?

[@DanielGomes-sw2fd]

3... Nfd7 is the main move, endgame resulting from 3... d4 does not equalize for Black but very drawish. 5.. Qxe7+ is more interesting but is based on technicalities that are more difficult to explain.

[@abhigyaanrishee9998]

At 11:55 after Nd4 why cant black's light squared bishop take the pawn on a2 rather than d5

[@BotezGambit]

If I could ask a question. @7:20 I follow the logic of bishop c8 but that is reliant on moving the night to d7 why do so many concessions have to be made instead of developing the knight to a6

[@piouswhale]

bishop takes a6 doubles your pawns on the a file and connects our opponent's rooks. this is basically a lose-lose situation. you have an indefensible weakness and your opponent makes developmental progress

[@BotezGambit]

@@piouswhale hey thanks I see that now appreciate this great community for being helpful thank u sir

[@emshaw102]

"Thats jail....Thats death row" lol

[@samkachar]

What was that word he said when he said embrace the something...at 9:58

[@aluminiumknight4038]

That rook trap was evil

[@wilestrella7202]

wow! THANKS

[@MoldbugReads]

I thought the main line of the Alekhine was 1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3. Isn't that variation considered better for white nowadays?

[@nickgood3998]

Dont make moves unless you have to 😂🤪💚

[@doctoracoulla2949]

danya is goated

[@Cassandra_Steel]

Mm so eine geile Eröffnung

[@dangelvette2519]

Great instruction but ive been killing 2200 plus with the 4 pawns attack!

[@kabobchsm8497]

Alakein: 0:01, 15:19

[@Sun-gs6hq]

Gut

[@mahbubhossainsamm]

1054 played like that!!!!!! So 🐠 😅

[@dreamhunter2542]

this man is my master

[@urmama54]

get in line foo

[@nicolasrahal8696]

Can you put time stamps on the video

[@tacozilla1351]

11:50 isn't be6 better because it can get a free pawn on a2? Not sure why he only mentioned bd5 if nd4

[@thelight288]

b3 traps bishop if you take on a2

[@jayfranciserfe2147]

Can you make a video about hyper accelarated dragon

[@MrMarinelliBio]

Team Scandi!

[@Justin-qe6gj]

what if they go e5 after n f6

[@piouswhale]

that's where the "alekhine's maneuver" happens. After e5, Nd5, centralizing the knight. if white plays 2.d4 then d6. if white tries to pressure the knight with 2. c4 then knight goes to b6. if he further tries to pressure the knight with c5 he has overextended greatly, and the knight can return to d5

[@alexgabriel5877]

cant we just take a2 after be6 nd4?

[@abhinavjoshi4873]

I think b3 will trap the bishop

[@alexgabriel5877]

@@abhinavjoshi4873 but b3 bishop a3

[@1eingram]

I've just gotten 25 games as black and no e4

[@ApostleMan222]

What is the conversion of bits to dollars

[@cpf2566]

100:1

[@CeceMelchor]

Poor Avistone…

[@BryceRogers_]

11:57 can someone please tell me why he doesn't consider bishop takes pawn on a2?

[@danielmueller5322]

I think because pawn b3 traps the bishop, and it's not conducive to the development of the knight.

[@BryceRogers_]

@@danielmueller5322 thank you!!

[@danutpescaru]

12:45 what if bishop takes a2? From bishop e6 knight d4 bishop takes a2

[@officialEricBG]

This is the engine line but the "obvious" issue is b3, trapping the bishop; but Ba3+ seems to keep the king out and eventually you get the bishop out (somehow). It wouldn't be easy to play

[@danutpescaru]

@@officialEricBG didnt think it through that far. Just saw the free pawn

[@dymoster]

Ah, classic Fischer’s trap

[@ScoffMathews]

Are we really close to the live speedrun, or is there a pattern to the upload schedule that I'm missing? Last I heard youtube doesn't like an inconsistent upload schedule

[@noahpoobbailey]

We aren’t even close. The speed run is almost done on his twitch.

[@Transcatgal]

But nd7 equalizes immediately-

[@aluminiumknight4038]

Always play Bishop c8

[@memeteam2016]

All the twitch spam ruins the video after minute 30

[@SerLaama]

I really don't understand what is people's issue with endgames and queenless positions. Do you even like chess if you can't enjoy positions without obvious attacking chances? Positional play is a thing.

[@ldcldc6371]

Are you trying to tell a GM this? Bit pretentious no?