Master Class | Grünfeld Defence | Chess Speedrun | Grandmaster Naroditsky

10:15 Analysis
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[@MatthewThornhillTheDoctor]

Danya: "My memory is not particularly good." Also Danya: "This is the exact same position I had in a game against [a GM] 14 years ago and he was [age] at the time."

[@Rithmy]

We all do remember moments of intense emotion. Also its good to be humble

[@cameronnelson7938]

@@Rithmy True but the irony is still funny. Danya's memory is probably higher than top 1% in the world.

[@Rithmy]

@@cameronnelson7938 I agree. Tho the psychologist in me wants to nitpick on your comment: Memory can be very specific. If you see millions of chess positions then your brain is trained towards that type of information. Additionally people often do not train the memory, but train their mmnemo techniques. I am not sure if there is a general memory as it is also tied together with meaning. As soon as i started to see Years and dates as important to rememebr it was much easier to recall them. And the more dates i know the easier it gets as it is all interconnected and i ahve more possible connections to remember it.

[@user-iw2cl4ug7z]

I also remember most of classical games that I've played. When you're mentally invested in the game so much and spend so much time analyzing 1 game, you kinda just remember it.

[@pfunk_1535]

I have never known how to play the grunfeld, and now I will know momentarily

[@victorBQ27]

I know this opening up until the point I try and use it

[@SirbySays]

I think that means you RECOGNIZE this opening

[@mikecantreed]

Yea you’ll learn the grunfeld in a single speed run video. It’s an easy opening with not much theory

[@marc9861]

@@mikecantreed ur sarcasm is poo

[@anotherguy5038]

John 14:21

[@maximstriganov]

23:45 “the most elementary tactic of all time” proceeds to do something that is not a back rank mate

[@adean]

This game is ridiculous to me - how smoothly he handles a very dangerous position. I would be freaking out trying to get my king to safety further, but he just threatens checkmate and wins the game.

[@peep2268]

If his opponent had better development this would be a lil harder

[@aboveinfu3nce844]

This is thee grandmaster danya everything is under perfect control

[@Amoeby]

What danger are you talking about? Black had no developed pieces except queen.

[@rafagxjunglezz]

@@Amoebytrue, he was probably refering to the possible and simple mistakes someone could do in this position as white

[@fujiapple9675]

The Grünfeld defense against 1. d4 is the opening I probably know the least amount, so this will be a helpful speedrun video, as they all are.

[@XxMVPxDawg]

Many coaches and top players commonly recommend to not play it until you are like 2200+ FIDE, which is why I think it's so rare at levels below that.

[@peep2268]

@@XxMVPxDawg Also it just sounds so intimidating, you see it in all these super GM games and you start to put it on a pedestal

[@gatakamsky9998]

@@XxMVPxDawg do you have an idea why? except some very specific sidelines (like the one in the game), strategy is pretty clear from black sides, and moves are not so hard to understand. I find KID more intimidating to play to be honest.

[@louayyahyaoui3616]

@@gatakamsky9998 it's because there's just so much theory you have to know in order to play it correctly. And the moves are not easy to find on your own.you have to be very precise not to get a bad position.

[@gatakamsky9998]

​@@louayyahyaoui3616 there is a lot of theory true, but so it is for some line such as the Berlin (endgame variation especially) which is played at all level. I see 1500 rated player going for the Berlin...most of line are unappealing and boring to play, they make sense if you are 2700. Grünfeld is pretty fun to play even if you are not MVL or Svidler.

[@bahrss]

Cannot decide what is more exciting: speedrun games or Danya's stories😂

[@sunwookim5046]

Kudos to Danya for pumping out content even when he's preparing for a tournament

[@nekosalad8308]

these speed run videos come with an almost 1 month delay

[@Ninterd2]

And I believe he has an editor as well.

[@synchronium24]

@@nekosalad8308 I had that suspicion, so thanks for clarifying. I checked both player's accounts for this game and nothing showed up on the first page (went back to around August 6th).

[@miketheman7950]

Congratulations on your win against Wesley Daniel! That game was beautiful, you never fail to impress with your chess.

[@advaykumar9726]

Agadmator-He will ruin your day

[@alexwiththeglasses]

32:06 - apologizing for the play not being great today… but what an important lesson for me as a beginner! Players at higher levels memorize theory without also associating the why at the same time, or simply misremember and play too fast (without at least double-checking for the fairly obvious in this case). Moreover, this happens even when going into black’s chosen defense even in the first 10 moves! To me it makes a strong case to emphasize my understanding of opening moves as a foundational aspect, in contrast to memorizing vague “opening principles” and floundering to apply them when exceptions are so common. So thank you GM Danya for the valuable lesson!

[@kidexplainschess8381]

Thank you master Danya! This speed run series has been tremendously helpful. 😊

[@RidingBones]

Thanks for all the videos. You are a true teacher. How does it feel that your videos might stay decades online? You will certainly have an impact in generations of players.

[@mikecantreed]

Tough loss against Magnus. That’s awesome you got to play him in a legit game!

[@brobeans7788]

When did he play magnus?

[@sorrybhai100]

@@brobeans7788 aimchess tournament

[@trisinogy]

GM Narodistky showed us all how to embrace defeat in style: that's why we love him! Kudos for the good sportsmanship.

[@mikecantreed]

@@trisinogy Agreed. The golf clap and allowing him to deliver mate was pure class.

[@DarjaRoberta]

@@trisinogy classy

[@Arasieus]

Listening to Danya's stories gives the same feeling when you persuade your teacher to share his personal experiences so that you can slack off the course a bit :)

[@LoaThunder]

People who dislike your videos are weird to me. What can you not like about the best free educational and entertaining chess content

[@victorrafih9238]

I think most of the dislikes are missclicks to be honest

[@aboveinfu3nce844]

It’s so satisfying when you check your game to find a move that the engine doesn’t understand until you turn the depth up

[@ethan073]

Best chess series on KZbin by such a wide margin

[@lukastux3024]

Too bad he confused the move orders. Could have been an extremely interesting game. Black would have had a lot of compensation for that pawn

[@synchronium24]

Stockfish 14 evaluates white as over a pawn better if black had played the "correct" move order of 8. fxe3 Bxd2+ 9. Qxd2 Qh4+ 10. g3 Qxa4. Hard for a human to play white, but literally less than zero compensation for black in the machines' eyes.

[@lukastux3024]

@@synchronium24 interesting. From a human perspective, I would not necessarily prefer White

[@wateredmilk6089]

@@lukastux3024 yeah seriously, it's a super sharp position. I was doing some analysis and theres always only 1-2 moves that keep the advantage for white, and they're very obscure and hard to find.

[@nethbt]

Man...your Hasidic Jew prayer cracked me up during the Aimchess qualifying 😄

[@DrummerJoeyStix]

day 33 of saying you're super awesome danya. thank you for the million brilliancies. Not only are you making your parents so so proud you're teaching the world how to play chess. you essentially are a part of the golden era. thank you thank you.

[@Jahjaga]

The Nadanian Attack! Such an innovative and beautiful idea. Nadanian is an IM, but clearly had the chops to become a GM if circumstance allowed. Understandable that Daniel would call him a GM.

[@roryharvey2727]

These videos are EXTREMELY helpful - keep them coming - u r a champ!!

[@burner918]

Daniel, I absolutely love these speedruns. Thank you for putting these out there -- they're just amazing.

[@armans47]

Finding Danya’s channel is like finding gold

[@tudorboscu8275]

THANK YOU FOR ALL GOOD LUCK TOMORROW! Congrats for all the games! I really loved to see the Wesley one!

[@philipmaher2198]

I can see this channel hitting a million subscribers by Christmas, it is well deserved. It would be cool to see you on Gothem chess podcast , you and Levy must have some interesting stories as young competitors. It would be cool to hear your stories of training and competition growing up in the USA.

[@slazinger]

Great videos, really educational content. I love how you show that u don't have to be a genius to play good chess, is just a bit of reasoning knowledge and knowing what to look for

[@inguh7041]

This is brilliant, Mr. Naroditsky. I'm honoured to subscribe to your channel.

[@thisbevibhor]

I've never waited for chess videos since the OG Mato until this series and I watch agad, Giri, and almost everybody.

[@rhylpantaleon9022]

hey man I saw you fight magnus. very well played and thanks for letting us see til the end :D

[@CSProduction12]

Daniel, Thank you for your videos! I often try to guess what it is you are going to do next and am often wrong; but it is still fun and engaging to watch and your commentary is much appreciated! Since subscribing to this channel I have gone from sucking horribly at chess to just sucking!

[@alfiewright1396]

Amazing games in the tournament Danya. 5/10 is incredible for your rating you are really hanging with the big boys! Amazing stuff man congratulations

[@SEAKPhotog]

More great stuff. Thank you! Love the stories/real world chess experiences and insight.

[@strangevegetable2651]

These masterclass thumbnails are actually so cool

[@trent797]

TIL "Irish pawns" lol

[@jayaywak]

Thank you for these, always looking forward to them

[@AibadSmacksTheCricketBall]

hey Daniel,an old viewer of your videos and love your work and disposition,keep going!

[@thishex]

These stories about forgotten prep and missed winning moves are great

[@chad-u.s.a5629]

Best of luck in this tournament round!!

[@binnieb173]

Hey! congrats on 200K subs! FYI, it's a trick but it works. If you put out some polls and questions on your youtube it boosts your algorithm and you'll double your subs pretty quickly.

[@renaldoawesomesauce1654]

Man you're my new favorite chess streamer. :) Grunfeld was the defense my dad loved and won tournaments with back in his hayday. Now I know he screwed up the sequence but I was impressed by its potential. I might start playing it myself as black! I'd love more grunfeld ideas from you seeing how theoretical it is!

[@turkeysandwich9581]

Honestly the weirdest and most dangerous opening theory I've ever seen, Great game tho :)

[@HVH_49]

Instructive as always, thanks Danya

[@oskarplate4928]

This is immensely helpful for a 1500, thank you Danya.

[@maciejwawryniuk7915]

I saw you against Duda today The computer thermometer was until the end of 50/50 what a game It's like two computers against yourself you lost But you won my Sub Pozdrowienia z Polski

[@antimatter2417]

Great video Thank you again Daniel

[@user-ue5dl1rg9d]

Nasty game yesterday with magnus. Gg for daniel

[@YellowSpaceMarine]

Daniels story-time is the best part of this series

[@bashar-7708]

I laughed when i saw this knight move, it was totally not expected lol

[@DrDifra]

every time you said "super elementary tactic" i cried

[@aliarshad6477]

keep up the good work bro !

[@nevermore.327]

Thank you GM Danya

[@goldenduck7294]

oh wow, I'm surprised we aren't over 2 million subs

[@mohammadbaydoun6687]

the game you played today wass awesomeeee

[@justinl8484]

All the best for Aimchess Euro Rapid Danya!

[@briandwi2504]

Great stories!

[@warrior_dark]

Once he knows how to attack it is so interesting to know what is happening and as a result he mates his opponent at ease.

[@ShabazzTBL]

Man I have a story from my first tournament that just sickens me to this day. I was playing a Tigris Modern and somehow playing it darn near perfectly, in my second ever game and versus a 1250 player. At one point I felt like the best move was to castle but I saw what I thought was an opportunity to win his rook. I sat there for a long time calculating multiple lines to make sure it was okay then took on b2 with my bishop. He looked really confused and I'm like "Hell yeah, I got him." He thought for a really long time and with each minute I was more sure that I got him. Then he just play rook a2. You see, somehow despite spending like 10 minutes calculating I missed the very simple fact that he had already pushed his a pawn. My heart dropped. In that game I fought back multiple times and kept making stupid blunders right as I had a chance to equalize. The last one I literally just put my rook in the path of his bishop. I just laughed and resign. Later he came up to me and said he had analyzed the game and was amazed that he managed to win. He said outside of the really dumb blunders I played all top one or two engine moves. I didn't know whether to be proud or more upset by learning that haha. Oh yeah and castling was the top engine move when I thought I had the rook trapped. I think I was -2 at that point.

[@kruksog]

Is KZbin not going to get the analysis to yesterdays speedrun? You said you'd do it in the morning. Was that twitch exclusive?

[@bahrss]

+

[@kruksog]

I should add that I'm very grateful to Danya for what he does. I do not mean to sound demanding or anything at all.

[@amirbahrun3098]

I think it's pretty weird to release a video just to analyse the previous game instead of releasing a new one, he might as well just recap it briefly on his twitch the day after. Either that or Danya forgot about it.

[@sawyer9times]

Nice going Daniel

[@robertotorchiarella9288]

Let's goo danya prove yourself in the us rapid.. Good luck prophet

[@tarikcavalcanti4867]

great video as usual, shame that the opponent blundered at the very beggining, but it was instructive how he was able to keep his calm, even with his king looking unsafe

[@alexf0101]

wow close calls in that tournament

[@supriyo7303]

Goodluck for the Aimchess US Rapid,i hope you finish in the top 8th

[@abcd1234___]

I thought Danya is only on Twitch!! And why the hell he doesn't have 1 million subs?

[@Alkuf100]

Mr Ben Finegold has a compilation of GMs blundering on his channel. Its a very nice lecture

[@jameslegrone498]

Awesome story

[@SumoCumLoudly]

This is exactly what i needed, just got crushed by queens gambit

[@chandrakiran6258]

good luck in the invitational Danya

[@cameronstiglic6277]

This makes me want to learn the nadadian attack 😅

[@timentimentim]

This is definently an opening

[@denisdemonte15]

this makes me feel a bit better about all my blunders... not really but kinda lol.

[@trequor]

This one was pretty hard to watch. The opponent had such a great opening and then things went very wrong very fast. Not only did he blunder a piece, but he also allowed Daniel to develop all his pieces while he just moved the queen around giving meaningless checks. In my experience this is how "by the book" players often fail in lower levels: they are perfect until they go off script.

[@Amoeba_Podre]

Good night to everyone Except for those of you who play the London

[@chessersarthak]

I play English Italian and Sicilian and Good Morning from India 🙂

[@bruce4139]

Agreed I've got to the point if they play London I resign idec about the points at that point

[@tenzin9327]

Why do people hate the London?

[@bruce4139]

@@tenzin9327 I find that it's super strong and sets up to an area where you cant counter plus it doesnt make the opponent think when they play it so they can get up on time really quickly

[@blossom99-]

@@tenzin9327 Think just cause it's unambitious for a white opening and associated with system players, as the most popular one, who only know how to do one thing/play them without understanding the point of that structure kind of thing

[@anesuchakauya1985]

Nice game against magnus

[@user-ft5tu5iu8k]

Analysis 10:34

[@Sun-gs6hq]

Gut

[@deivs665]

Try out meditation. In tournaments it will allow you to overcome fear , anxiety , pressure

[@sketchworld828]

Good video again.

[@nebeyutedla7720]

Nice gameplay

[@flinput]

Grünfeld Defense: Exchange, Nadanian Attack 😁 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Na4

[@3ntra]

subbed

[@thetransferaccount4586]

grunfield strikes again x2

[@CODBEASTMN]

Dude was playing like nelson

[@Romuloser90]

Naroditsky u are so goood !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! u neever loose

[@dmaster20ify]

But Gary Kasparov said that the Kings Indian is more solid than the GrunFeld.

[@Ivashanko]

The aspect I dislike most about chess is prep. I do not want to learn a million opening lines, I do not think that is enjoyable. I would love a variation of chess where both you and your opponent agree to a specific opening, and switch sides after the first game. I'm not saying this should supplant mainline chess, just that it would be a fun variant.

[@epicwolves125]

I remember seeing this on stream 😂

[@bruce4139]

Hey daniel could we potentially see some counter gambits as black? Like d4, d5, c4, e5/c5 and how you would play those please?

[@glum_hippo]

Isn’t this the Nadanjan variation? Rafael Nadanjan was a pretty interesting player

[@guaranagaucho3071]

23:17 finegold reference? 🤨

[@douggieharrison6913]

"I'm surprised he knows this" *ten seconds later* "This is the main line." *ten seconds later* "I'm very surprised he knows this line!" I know he means main line in response to Na4 but still funny to me

[@KancerKowboy]

About GM 1 move blunders. I don't understand how people think this can't happen. Its amazing what everyone misses on a daily basis that is right out in the open. Awareness levels of modern humans is extremely low. Soft lives have led to this. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

[@BryanFuryous]

10:00 can someone explain how this is going to be checkmate, if black moved his Rook to f7 can't he defend the incoming check? Thanks in advance, feel like I'm just not seeing it.

[@angosalvo5734]

Are those videos newly recorded ? Dania seems wearing outfits of cold weather sometimes which makes me think videos are old.

[@harrymasters4381]

The best MF'ing GM

[@xpc457]

So u said that moving to a4 is a good move but I saw b5 and then when u play e4 the bishop defends the knight would that be the better line therefore u can’t get forked

[@ZeusBotko]

You never even tried to play french defense

[@ysidromorfin9737]

Here after danya beat wesley so

[@trent5098]

Did he call triple pawns "Irish pawns" because they're drunk?

[@bruce4139]

Hey its dayna let's go