Mastering Chess Puzzles | Novice to Channeling Your Inner Magnus Carlsen with Daniel Naroditsky!

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[@slagorourke]

"And we can play this move without calculation" This is how I play all my moves. Glad to know I'm doing it right.

[@justarandomanimegirlpassin5341]

Actually a lot of positional moves get played with 0 calc if you KNOW that there are no tactics in the position worth checking but if you are not that strong its advisable that you test out every move with great caution

[@Trixex]

calculating is for mathematicians and gms bro, stay lit🔥

[@justarandomanimegirlpassin5341]

​@@Trixexwhat a bunch of crap anyone can do it its like a language

[@Trixex]

@@justarandomanimegirlpassin5341 no shit? I was joking

[@aero7848]

Lol XD

[@Kiwi_Chess]

You are single handedly the reason why I think I can reach 2000. Never stop teaching, never stop making content, you’re a blessing to the world

[@Argurotoxus]

I think it's crazy how quickly you recognize the material difference. It's maybe a weird take away from this video but man I have no clue how you see you're down in exchange in less than a second. It takes me at least 5-10 seconds to look through the position and count it all up lol

[@MrJustin-MiniLessons]

One trick is just to count the pieces, without noticing what they are (pieces being knights, bishops and rooks, in this case, since that's where the material imbalance usually lies). Then, if # of pieces are equal but side A has one rook and side B has 2, then it is clear that side A is down an exchange. At least that's how I usually do it, at a glance. :)

[@Compassiron1]

At around Puzzle 40 Danya saying ‘I should notice that 9 moves down the road I have checkmate’ like its as simple as 2+2=4… is basically like me looking at my cat and saying he should explain quantum physics to me. Its just not gonna happen bro. But i love your faith in us :)

[@animeup1412]

Not really, you don't look at the position and see checkmate in 9 in an instant. It's just that you look for forcing moves which your opponent has to react to, and rule out the other moves via calculating a bit afterwards and pattern recognition. Almost all of the puzzles where pretty easily solvable for me, and I'm not even a titled player. You'll get there eventually just by playing a lot and maybe watching someone like Danya once in a while, trust me. :D

[@milesgreenwood5036]

​@@animeup1412you think you're helpful but you're just being annoying

[@Rathbun222]

@@milesgreenwood5036backhanded yes

[@uefets]

@@milesgreenwood5036 Well, that depends on the recipient.

[@Shipdacheese]

You never know with cats man.

[@temhirtleague-chess]

This really shows the speed GMs recognize patterns. Its incredible.

[@ethansito5321]

Daniel's 600 elo puzzle: take this pawn and defend against a discovered attack on your Queen via check My 600 elo puzzle: back rank mate, but the enemy queen blocks first

[@judsongordy8872]

I would LOVE one of these posted on KZbin like once a month or so.

[@pairot01]

Puzzle 11 was lowkey nuts

[@samuelwarner8841]

Danya the 🐐, I've just joined my university chess society, over the past year watching your videos have been the main way I have learned besides puzzles, thank you Danya, got me to 1500 and a long way to go!

[@Giorgos_Christopoulos]

Love the way Danya explains each puzzle. Very precise and to the point. Thank you for uploading this Daniel!

[@kesetokaiba]

28:32 is spot on that 53-54 onwards is a lot more calculation and less simple to explain. My current survival personal best is 54. I need to practice my calculation some more. I can calculate when I need to, but a lot of the time I navigate highly by intuition and at these higher puzzles, it really just becomes a matter of exact calculating ability.

[@caroditsky]

The pace of this video was just right! I appreciate not over explaining the easy puzzles.

[@mohbw3]

That 11th puzzle isn't 667 rated lol

[@bughunter1766]

Yea, I've been seeing that too. Early 3 digit puzzles that are WAY underrated. When I need to really think about puzzle #4, it shouldn't be #4. Lol

[@hayhorca915]

Love these puzzles videos❤, would love to see these more often!

[@grodrigues3]

Thanks Danya! 100% hoping for another one of these after the last puzzle series awhile ago!

[@PhenomenalChess]

No way puzzle 11 was a 600 rated puzzle

[@JohnJosephLabrier]

Exactly what I was thinking LMAO. I'm 1600 and I would not have found that. I would have stopped calculating after the bishop discovery winning my queen.

[@theinacircleoftheancientpu492]

Ditto lol That's like 1800 puzzle MINIMUM

[@imxluke]

definitely should be at least 1400. it is definitely easy to see after taking the free pawn, though.

[@yuvraj6356]

Phenomenal puzzle though

[@Atefvinc]

Danya, could you please consider reducing the audio compression on your microphone? It has been noticeable in several recent videos that you have adjusted the compression, and I find that it adds an unpleasant and aggressive quality to your voice. As always, your content is awesome

[@justarandomanimegirlpassin5341]

the aggressive danya LOL

[@EmapMe]

More of these please! Great stuff

[@philljenner4045]

As much as I enjoyed Danya effortlessly solving to 60, I have to disagree with his comment that "most people should be able to get to 60". I'm an average intermediate player with a puzzle rush survival best of 46. I find once you get to 40, things get very tough. Be interesting to know how 'most people' really score on average.

[@ronielcrespo6641]

Same here, avg 38. I would need to see this couple of times

[@santimda1990]

I thought I was inspired after seeing this video, but reached only 45 :( , I am not sure if I could make it to 50 focusing really hard and with a bit of luck

[@philljenner4045]

@@santimda1990 I've since improved to 50, but can't imagine going any higher.

[@yashchauhan8044]

Thank you for always coming with amazing free content! More videos where you do puzzels like this one please!

[@ItsMeVicky]

I was literally just watching your puzzle videos yesterday, keep them coming!

[@mrmrmrmr3254]

Hi Daniel, I just discovered your videos this week and I must say: I have learned and understood more about chess in the last three days than in the last 30 years. It is amazing - I have always played and loved the game, but it is with your videos and explanations that I think I am actually starting to really feel it, if that makes any sense. Can’t thank you enough, I feel like you have opened a door for me here. Best from Germany, Max

[@VedikaPal-Champion]

thanks danya, your each and every video is really instructive

[@garycavaretta3310]

great vid, hope you make more like it!

[@desmundreid3368]

This was a great video and I greatly appreciated the breakdown and analysis of HOW to find the solution. Thank you very much!

[@ashbash9103]

No matter what kind of chess content you create, it's always completely next level in quality. Thank you yet again!

[@amaury6983]

I was about to ask for another one of these kind of videos

[@BNelTwo]

It's unreal how fast you notice the tactics. Very instructive for people like me who don't know the patterns

[@kinchu007]

you’re incredibly fast. watching a master at work

[@gaurichess]

Extremely high quality content as usual!

[@jamesduggan7200]

Thx Dan. I was able to do some of them. You go very fast :)

[@ironman85000]

Me sitting there struggling to get past 30 while Danya says "Anyone should be able to get 60"

[@platitudeomenw441]

Thank you GM Daniel Naroditsky for the continual exceptional chess content

[@RealityCheck1]

"Good tactics come out of sound strategy." - Magnus Carlsen

[@CSRunner7]

Amazing 😮. I barely clocked the first 30+ puzzles before they’d disappeared and the next appeared! I’ll have to take Danya’s word on all of them!

[@samagoat]

Please never stop making videos

[@n4ymzyt908]

Pls more vid like this

[@aurayre4906]

Ive done hundreds of survival runs, and my highest scores are 55 and 53. this video helps a lot with the thinking process especially with those stupid king move puzzles (which i always get wrong due to impatience). hopefully next time i get a run past 45 my brain wont be completely fried

[@ader7836]

The last puzzle was crazy

[@mdblida7980]

3:40 MOOOVE

[@BabyPenguinChess]

By the time I figure out which color I am you already solved it 😥😤

[@stevenmilt4543]

In puzzle 44, why did you not calculate the response a4? it felt like a really natural move for white for me and only fails because you promote with check and somehow manage to checkmate with queen and rook because whites queen is stranded on a8

[@NichtWunderkind]

Goat

[@kingscrosschessclub]

Has anyone seen Encino Man? It's a movie where a couple of knuckleheads thaw out a caveman and explain the 80s to him. Hilarity ensues. Daniel's video is like if I found Encino Man and as soon as he had thawed out, I placed him in front of a computer, opened up an "adult" film site and then started explaining exactly what was going to happen based on the thumbnails. He wouldn't even know what a washing machine is, let alone the implication of a loved one being stuck in one.

[@user-ng2sq5xl1y]

Really like your content and would love to buy your Jobava Course. Already own the Niemann and the Course Simon Williams. The lines you show are somehow different. But my question is, if it is possible, that your course can be paid with paypal? That would be great!

[@koodreadtv]

Blessings ✨

[@chessbore]

I am 3000 in puzzles, 1500 in bullet, 1750 in blitz, 1850 in rapid and I m stuck on these ratings I play all types of normal openings but Qgd and KI or e4, e5 being main ones. Some advices to improve?

[@erikknudsen2971]

He's no man. He's a machine.

[@danjeory3659]

Ftr, that 61st puzzle should have been Rbb3, setting up an unstoppable mate threat. It was actually one of the easier ones!

[@slagorourke]

'Most people should be able to get to 60' Clearly I am not most people 😒

[@bughunter1766]

My all time high is 49 and I've only done it twice. He made 60 look like me reaching 25.

[@mevansthechemist]

12:18 Yep. And I still forget this pattern regularly. 😂👴🏻

[@bixenchitter2881]

In almost all the puzzle after 30... where i see dry land, danya sees water

[@darekisrael469]

My best is 30 on survival and here you are Mr Naroditsky just saying stuff like " rudimentary " When i would have to calculate for a time and a half lol. Elementary my dear Watson for you but you are faster than greased lightning. Can't say it's not motivating and fun to watch though. Thanks for your contributions. ❤

[@Zyrexia]

Hey umm, do you have a discord? Love your vids btw

[@koodreadtv]

👏👏👏

[@2006louisb]

Always a good day when that notification hits

[@DannythePeach]

Saying most people should get in the 50s without much trouble is absurd lol

[@chessgains8075]

honestly yes. I can get to 50 but its not easy at all. And my puzzle rating has been 2900

[@DannythePeach]

I mean yeah my puzzle rating is 2300 and I can’t even get to 40 lol

[@michalkonieczny3345]

Geez it looks so easy when Danya solves the puzzles. My best result is 52 and I had to spend some serious time thinking to get there :)

[@showhq7125]

How do you get different colored arrows?

[@RG001100]

I think it's by holding down modifier keys like Alt, Ctrl, Shift.

[@showhq7125]

@@RG001100 will try! Thx

[@kaidoChess]

You and Hikaru are the only two people I can really enjoy, listening to explaining what is happening in a position, I’ll even throw in Mr. Rosen as well

[@Epic76turtle]

Woah

[@ChessGrandmaster]

Twitch didn't sound interesting until now. Danya, when do you stream on Twitch? In your 1 hr KZbin videos that come out once every few days, every so often you let it slip, "it's late, it's been a 6-hour stream..." what??!! Yet here on KZbin, we are busy refreshing KZbin every hour hoping that you have posted a thirty minute clip..." if it makes it on KZbin". It's decided. I'm reactivating my Twitch for one reason and one reason only: to have greater access to Danya's Chess University - The GOAT online chess University.

[@Talos4444]

Daniel i would like to hear your consideration on a rule. I always find all chess rules really logic, even tho there is one that intuitively i always miss to spot: the fact that a piece pinned to your king can contribute do deliver checkmate to the other king. I see the point on that; still my unconscious can't grasp that and a part of me thinks it's the least "solid" chess rule and, in "another of the possible worlds", this rule could be illegal or lead to a draw. Am i tripping too much? Am i the only one struggling to figure that rule out?

[@mouriran3906]

Not Danya. But, here's my answer. I think you are seeing the win condition in chess as somehow killing/capturing the king. Hence, you are feeling strange that a pinned piece can't capture and a pinned piece can contribute to checkmate by covering an escape square or by protecting the checked piece. But the win condition is to check the king and not let it escape to any square. Metaphorically, it can be similar to capturing the king by a net.

[@Talos4444]

@@mouriran3906 thanks a lot, i am trying to learn it. Because intuitively i always miss it. The checkmate net makes a lot of sense. In my mind, even tho it's not how it ends, i always immagine the bishop in this case travelling square where the king is to "kill" him; so it makes sense that it's a draw, even tho it also makes sense that the piece who pinned the bishop, after his king dies, does have no interest to checkmate enemy king. But still it's a rule i believe it's not necessary in a strong form, i can immagine in a parallele universe the same chess game with same rules but just this difference

[@ChessGrandmaster]

Guys, what is the best way to get Danya's channel to 1M subscribers by December? Is there something we can do as beneficiaries to make it happen? You have to agree it's one of the best if not the absolute best.

[@ProvaBeK]

Wasn't the last puzzle just rook over to g3 and rook up to g4?

[@kareandersson]

Yes, but first you have to see there is a continuation after h6

[@rasimofeliya421]

27:41 What if Qc4 Bb2?

[@Speedster___]

Love it! If you ever do a collab would smash like so hard

[@dfadf597]

he did do a puzzle collaboration with ms botez. I'm sure you can search for it on youtube.

[@Speedster___]

@@dfadf597 I know. This was me asking for more

[@paz2042]

Daniel, as a Jew and a famous chess player. I would be happy if you would mention the horrors that happened in Israel, or at least talk about Israeli players and analyze their games, a sense of identification with what happened

[@microwavable1]

Eyyyyy danya san

[@sillychinas]

I have gotten 60 a handful of times with no wrongs, but it takes me at least an hour, sometimes two. The difference is GMs can easily do it in 30 minutes while explaining everything

[@owenkelliher4927]

So this is obviously a troll right? Seems like it would be a good April fools day upload. I’m so confused lol

[@chessgains8075]

why?

[@owenkelliher4927]

@@chessgains8075 Cause he’s flying through puzzles and talking to his audience like they’re all rated 2200

[@stickmandaninacan]

Would you have advice about translating tactics learned from puzzles into regular gameplay? I love puzzles and tactics have reached a 2700 puzzle rating so far. but when I play regular games, i frequently have blind spots that cause me to miss or blunder, and I have been kind of stuck at only 1200 rapid rating for a little while now. I feel I have the ability to play at close to the 1600-2000 rating sort of gameplay when I play good games, but that is not consistent, and the losses from my bad games keeps my rating where it is. is there anything I can focus on to get better at not making mistakes so often and falling into the habit playing moves without properly thinking about them?

[@AnCoSt1]

I’m in a very similar boat to you. I’ve hit 2800 tactics and about 1250 to 1300 rapid, 900 to 1000 blitz. Granted I play a lot more puzzles than I do games.

[@prakyath2228]

@@AnCoSt1 I'm 2700 inbpizzle and almost 2200 rapid, so what I do is basically develop, then wait for your opponent to make a mistake rather than to force a tactic and create chaos, be laid back and let them push the issue until you are ready, all pieces developed and then go for a pawn break opening up the position

[@prakyath2228]

@@AnCoSt1 if you have anything to ask feel free to ask me

[@AnCoSt1]

@@prakyath2228 I think this is definitely the strategy I need to employ. I'm currently very, very impatient with my play. Yes, I'll likely be able to outcalculate my opponents in games, but the problem is I force the issue and try to force tactics that don't quite work. I appreciate your thoughts, prakyath!

[@UwUKyota]

Danya thinks too highly of 1700s 😂 we aren't that good

[@AlesZvolanek]

11:56 Why cant white just do Rb1?

[@oscarraneke7017]

Yay nice #top10squad

[@Itstimetorecover]

Aren't arabian mates specifically with a knight and rook mating a king in the corner?

[@ruthxk7844]

😃😃😃

[@ar7mo]

Please go ahead above 60

[@davidmasse2829]

Try not to go so extremely fast next time. I liked the pace from last video much better. My brain needs time to process the patterns and your verbal expression(s) - train of thought. Good stuff though.

[@DW11111]

Nice! im in the top 10 comments!

[@iNfEcTeDkINGs]

First pog

[@basselyounes2738]

plz reach 70

[@sergiob8501]

Дань перестань называть их "basic checkmate" , это очень продвинутые патерны!😅

[@STUDIOGRAFICOPADOVA]

Thanks it's more useful if you go slower

[@Owbly]

Please consider making a new intro. Think it's time

[@liebefriedenworldwide8780]

I don't understand how this is helpful to get better, watching the GM rushing through the puzzles, did I miss something?

[@RG001100]

You're more likely to succeed with the attitude of "I can do this". Obviously Naroditsky can do it quicker than we can. It's worth noticing the things he notices. What's the material? If we're way down, probably have to find mate. Does the opponent have dangerous threats? Which pieces are looking at what other pieces? By vocalising the most significant thoughts, you get to see that he doesn't just insta-see the solution.

[@ChessGrandmaster]

Yes, you did. The point of his narratives. Look, just watch it again but this time listen to understand. Sorry for the direct response.

[@liebefriedenworldwide8780]

Thanks guys for your feedback.

[@CalebJCourtney]

This was so helpful. Beyond 30 in survival, I tend to make mistakes, and it's so good hearing your thought process when solving puzzles. Thanks for this vid, Danya!