Pawn Breakthroughs | Principles of Chess Endgames | GM Naroditsky

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Knew the comments would only go in one direction which is ironic given the platform Danya uses💀😂😂

[@eel9]

@@RunEnabled Not necessarily true.

[@lololamize]

Markers to Breakthroughs covered in this video: 1) EZ 3:34 2) Bathtub 4:33 3) Pawn Square 6:30 4) Head Chopper 7:35 5) East Coast Best Coast 8:30 6) Undoubler 10:04 7) Corner Kick 11:37 8) Stop & Go/EZ Alternative 12:58 9) Square Clearer 13:48 10) Dynamite 15:20 Cheers!

[@knightshade1463]

Thx!

[@abdelkaderghettas4732]

Thanks

[@theinacircleoftheancientpu492]

Nice list. Honestly though, some of those are not very intuitive names. While some look pretty good.

[@yorickstrangefield2976]

Thank you!

[@sergiob8501]

Thanks, very useful.

[@BlanBlan19901990]

If you haven’t already cemented your place as the best teacher in the history of chess teachers, this endgame series definitely gets you to that point. And all for free. Bless.

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I agree that he is an excellent teacher, but I also like several of the Saint Louis chess club teachers as well 👍

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​@@johncarlisle6865some favourites?

[@S..P..]

This is honestly some of the most helpful chess content out there. Thanks Danya!

[@colt4d_livestream668]

>Records a 45 minute long highly instructive video >Get to the end, everything going perfect >"Go, uh, create some pawns via some breakthroughs" >Dies inside On a serious note, this is amazing content. Just subbed here and will be subbing to your twitch as well. Your articulation is as exceptional as your chess, Danny!

[@justinjacobs4195]

This made my day actually laughed when I went back to watch that part lol

[@moron1232]

Noticed this as well, haha! But the verbal happy little accidents and jokes actually make these small breaks between complicated positions and calculations, which, in my opinion, are necessary. I love 'em!)

[@payedactor9177]

I feel so more confident with these principles before I tried to just figure stuff out and the patterns felt random, now I'm enjoying endgames alot more and am consciously thinking about these principles

[@HerbMartin52]

Exactly.

[@AnkhArcRod]

It is ridiculous to see that the views came down to 60k. Don't let that get you down. This will be a legacy that will last you forever and the views will keep trickling in. Loving these videos on endgames immensely! Please continue this series and take it to its conclusion similar to your speedruns.

[@MatildaHinanawi]

Great job on giving them some names, it's always much easier to talk about them and also to remember them when things have a name associated. Also I do love this format, it makes it so approachable for a variety of player levels. Texts, especially dense texts, would be much harder for lower level players to follow. Even though higher level players may benefit more, this is still very instructive for everyone.

[@abdelkaderghettas4732]

Hello ! Can you Wright the names of these .i went to remember them if there Is'nt mater Thanks

[@adrianf.5847]

I found them much easier to memorise by categorising them by the number of involved pawns: 8 pawns: Bathtub 7 pawns: East Coast Best Coast 6 pawns: Dynamite 5 pawns: Pawn square, undoubler, head chopper, corner kick 3 pawns: EZ, stop&go, square clearer Once you think of a number, the only other thing that matters is the formation, and there aren't that many possibilities.

[@7eguegueh499]

Thank you so much!

[@worsethanjoerogan8061]

I struggle with pawn play at 1400. I'm never sure when to push pawns or not and I can't predict very well how the structures are going to change after some pawn captures happen.

[@khaluu2000]

You got this! Play an opening you know well, transpose into a comfortable position, capitalize on your opponent mistake if you can, simplify position, and take your time with towards the end game.

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@@c_bass1971 Carlos rubs Sleepy Joe’s hairy legs. Ignore him.

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@@enricopallazzo3244 Victory for Sleepy Joe. 😂 Big embarrassing scoreboard

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@@c_bass1971 not really sure what any of your comments have to do with chess but okay.

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You really don’t understand how instructive these episodes are. If you charged, I’d still pay for them. Don’t do that though 😂

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what a time to be alive. Most would charge the hell out of ppl for this content. Danya gives it for free . LEGEND .

[@TheDannytaz]

I've been looking forward to endgames now. I actually spend quite some time calculating going into an endgame if I'm playing a time control with increment.

[@ArisPattakos]

What an amazing teacher and what a great personality. Danya's content is educational and wholesome at the same time!

[@A-Q-R-S]

Danya certainly makes the best chess content. No clickbait, good speedruns, educational, very methodical and ofc entertaining!

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This man is just giving away some of the best educational chess content of all time for FREE, absolute legend.

[@skalliwizzle]

I wanna say for everyone in here, we deeply appreciate you taking the time to do this.

[@aaronstephen3058]

I’ve been waiting for this episode ever since your last one!! Great work as always! I’d love to see you cover the Lucena and Philidor positions some time.

[@OneMasterDisaster]

Did you watch the whole video within 1 minute 😳

[@Dudebug2000]

Daniel has mentioned: his idea with this series is to create unique endgame study material (if I remember correctly.) Covering principles as opposed to covering solved positions via memory. There are MANY resources out there for free to teach you the philidor and lucena position

[@benH215]

SOO glad you're continuing this series!

[@roadrunner4800]

it's a shame that this series doesn't get more views, those are the best end game videos that I have ever seen and I bet it took a lot more effort than some random speed run video that Daniel makes. (those are also excellent by the way)

[@MasterJack2]

Another masterpiece I am certain, lets watch and confirm.

[@Concordborn14]

Been patient, but eagerly, awaiting the next video in this series!! Definitely my favorite series of any chess learning currently, probably even ever.

[@HerbMartin52]

Superb! ...and I don't give out such compliments easily. I had (earlier) struggled to find material on such things -- all located in one place and with a simple catalog (even the naming does help memory) of the types. Even the books on pawn play are seldom this clear (even yours) or organized so that someone new can get right to the heart of what isn't very complicated without wading through dozens or hundreds of pages or many many games. The pawn breakthroughs SHOULD be taught as readily as Pins, Skewers, and Discovered Checks -- as you do here -- but seldom are. Every player can benefit from this explicit knowledge much earlier in their chess study than is typical, whereas most people who only learn the simple parts once they reach the point of studying serious pawn structure books -- or find it spread all through middle game or endgame books without focus. Also that 3 x 3 position you find uncommon is very common in PUZZLES which include endgames. It's provides a lot of confidence to be able to SEE the answer immediately and only need to check it than to need to laboriously work it out by calculation. Now if you can do the same thing for various other strategic and positional "priyomes", motifs, and methods.... (Hint, Hint.) File, rank, diagonal clearance are just one such example, there must be dozens or hundreds worth showing as clearly as this. I've appreciated your work before, but just became a fan. THANK YOU.

[@Euruzilys]

Learning end games make it so much more comfortable going into end game in the first place. And this heavily influenced middle game plan as well. Helping me decide if trading pieces will get me into a winning end game.

[@Chris-zf5jz]

Thank you sooo much for this superb lecture! I simply love this format ❤️

[@gregbillenness5973]

Fantastic video. It is obvious you love endgames and your enthusiasm is definitely infectious!

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[@codegeass7162]

Daniel there is no youtube channel with as great an educational chess content as yours.

[@nickc3863]

Thought Daniel needed to take more time to breathe during this vid then realized it was on 1.5x speed lol. Love the series!

[@Lou13Lewis]

Danya you are a godsend! Please keep the endgame series up it has been amazing!

[@Azeragain]

My favorite chess channel on youtube by far thanks a lot

[@laeb08]

Now, this is one aspect I really find difficult to apply in chess. My capabilities in pawn play are subpar. Thanks for this video!

[@scottcoston7832]

Thank you for sharing your expertise AND the hard work it take to develop the material and shoot the video. Very appreciated!

[@egniib8021]

I've taken a week or so to go through this lesson. Amazing lesson again, it helped me tremendously with recognizing pawn breakthroughs I always tried (and failed) to calculate. Thank you AGAIN for this amazing series. You never fail to explain things so clearly.

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Danya's chess download is 💯 Super appreciation in the galaxy!

[@ItsMeVicky]

I love that Danya has so many endgame videos

[@iansmith3698]

Would like to say in general your videos and the time you take to make them are most appreciated. Thank you sir.

[@slippedintothe_void9692]

Thanks to this series, I was able to trick one of my friends to exchange queens from a drawn queen and pawn endgame to a winning king and pawn one. Thank you so much Danya, I'm able to more clearly see king and pawn endgames:)

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Anyone who’s watching should just comment anything so Daniel can get as much out of these FREE videos. You’re the man 🙌🏻🙌🏻 Best Chess coach out there

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Okay.

[@sindrigujonsson6278]

I really like how Naroditsky gives names and defintitions to everything (maybe because I work as a terminologist!)

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This is stunning, I can't believe this amazing video is available to us on youtube!

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Ok Danya we get it, you don't have to keep making accounts

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@@adaelasm6467 I can and I will

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You are so amazing for what you are doing for free on this platform, God bless you

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Thanks for the lesson! Levy recommended you and this was extremely instructive and helpful, earned you a sub :)

[@joelwilliamson3322]

I know there are already a lot of comments saying the same thing, but one more can't hurt. You are doing things for the chess community that no one has done before. You will go down in history as a great teacher and wonderful player. Thank you for this helpful content.

[@vishvavibrates6252]

You are the best , thank you for teaching endgames as I don't understand them and often lose in endgames.

[@user-m8k9d]

Love your videos, they are very helpful, greetings from Germany! Not trying to sound contemptuous but The "Z" in Zugzwang are pronounced like "Ts" and the "ang" as the "ung" in "stung", but also I feel like the incorrect pronunciation is so common in the English chess world that the actual term would cause a lot of confusion. 😅

[@TigerChess2]

Thank you sir. I was waiting for this series to continue again

[@justinliu6376]

Thanks Danya, I am trying to get better at endgames and these videos are invaluable!

[@Chrisasdf0]

Danya, you are one of the reasons why I started to play Chess more active. You may not have the biggest Chess KZbin channel but in terms of teaching you are by far the best one. Keep it up and thanks again for the great content!

[@ctogive]

The square clearer is such a cool concept, and somehow stayed completely foreign to me in a year of playing chess. I'm very thankful for the lesson!

[@robertaspinall7907]

I just ran into 3 of these scenarios that i lost in the last day. This video will change my game!

[@cedrics7374]

This is golden, so many desperate looking situations that are actually winning

[@frozenbroccolii4933]

Every beginner and intermediate will be incredibly grateful.

[@geir8849]

This is the most relevant knowledge for me to improve my level. So good Daniel.

[@dobry_brek]

I just got winning position in end game after long balanced game thanks to your series! Then I stalemated with two queens...

[@lifeofupendi]

Thank you for these videos. I do memory challenges where I solve rubik's cubes blindfolded and memorize shuffle decks of cards while playing chess blindfolded and ultimately that boils down to me learning chess from instructors like you. All of my chess knowledge comes from commentators like yourself and you make the memory shenanigans I do possible because you make complicated chess concepts attainable.

[@Castleberryco]

This is a fantastic course - thank you so much for your wonderful work on this - certainly deserves more views

[@davidbatchelder85]

I just want to state, your efforts and kindness in area of chess teaching is over the top. May Jesus bless your entire family, Amen. Wonderful talent you have been blessed with. Thank you

[@ExtraCheeseProject]

I'm a 2100+ player but I still learn so much from these new endgame videos, even if it's just giving a concept I already sort of knew a catchy new name like 'East Coast Best Coast' which makes it so much easier to recall.

[@djconnel]

East coast best coast seems like the most forgettable name of all of them, since the position could just as easily occur on the "west" side of the board.

[@ExtraCheeseProject]

@@djconnel A prophecy proven true because I don't remember at all what "East Coast Best Coast" even refers to 😆

[@worldwideconspiracies7772]

Just subscribed. This is exactly what I needed. Thank you 🙏

[@mmartel]

Amazing video, Danya. Thanks so much. Can't believe how much I've learned already in this series. You've really done an outstanding job demystifying endgames and making them so much more accessible. 👍👍

[@sergiob8501]

I'm just gonna write a few comments just to push this video to the top. Great job, Danya

[@epidia1025]

How can someone be so informative and so genuine at the same time…

[@RobFlaxMusic]

"Trousers are inevitable." "I guess you're right." [sighs, puts back on pants]

[@sergiob8501]

this is exceptionally useful knowledge. learning the basic endgames have brought me about 300-400 extra elo points very quickly!

[@daviddeventer2072]

After watching this vid I SUBCRIBED! Great Job Daniel! I cant wait to what move of your eductional vids. I did find it funny that f5 is the only losing move for white in the Bathtub 4:33 because of 1.f5 exf5 2.gxf5 Kb7 and white cant get a passer quick enough to promote. But very very very instructional none the less.

[@disguisedfear1987]

Thank you for this wonderful series! I will make you proud by mastering the endgame!

[@rhysreardon4013]

Thanks Daniel! I go through each of these videos with a notebook, writing down the key concepts and learnings. This is such a valuable resource, thank you for doing these

[@dorbabaioff3188]

man this is unbelievably complicated, always another layer of ideas

[@djape778]

I love this video! Can you please make another one involving these breakthroughs with more examples? Please don't worry about your videos being too long - I think I speak for everyone when I say that they can never be too long. Thank you, Daniel!

[@zljacobs24]

Excellent as usual. Thanks for another edition to the instructive series! I especially appreciate when you go through some of the other unsuccessful moves in a position--it's sometimes just as difficult to see why something does not work vs. would work.

[@kanelius3733]

These videos are extremely educational, keep up the good work Daniel

[@lukeh8376]

I've always been terrible at endgames, they feel so bad to play. But this series so far has given me not just the tools to learn how to win endgames, but also the vocabulary to talk about concepts that I could never articulate. A video on king opposition would be amazing and thank you for your work Danya!

[@darrengibbs4216]

Danya thank you so much for these videos, I know you also have the speed run but please do more of these cuz endgames are my weakness

[@tibbedejong5113]

I have been dying for a new vid in the endgame series. Thank u

[@johncarlisle6865]

thankyou, I'm learning a lot from this. some great examples reinforced by play from actual games.

[@zzye2651]

Watching you play chess (specifically 10 min games) is my favorite content on youtube at the moment.

[@alexwiththeglasses]

In spite of not grasping it all quite yet, this may be the most valuable chess video I’ve ever seen. Love it! One request. The corollary - how best to “freeze” pawns, doesn’t seem very obvious to me. Is a video about defending pawn breaks in the cards?🤞 I’m so grateful to GM Danya for making such valuable content freely available.🙏❤️

[@dermotshaw6775]

I'm literally loving this series. So good to have instructive content on endgames without having to deepdive into books on my own 😫... Great series man well done

[@christopherg1288]

Sitting down with a cup of coffee and going through this video is a nice way to spend 1 hour of my afternoon. Great stuff as usual Daniel.

[@banzaiburger9589]

Very grateful for this video from Danya

[@ericzenk4404]

At 3:25 Danya said: "I don't think I am going to be applying for any kind of creative jobs anytime soon". He is a chess player and teacher, so I disagree (those are creative jobs). If you want to learn to play chess, you are in the right place. Thank you Danya.

[@naitikmehta]

Thank you so much for distilling these concepts, Daniel! The Chess community owes you one for making this free and accessible for everyone to learn from. 🙏🏽

[@xMartyZz]

Brilliant video Danya, thank you for all the hard work you've been putting into the endgame principles series. I've found it incredibly helpful and your lessons seem to stick in my mind very well thanks to the teaching structure that you've chosen. Keep it up, you're a gem.

[@ThePackman1010]

I'm here to keep this in feeds so we see more content like it

[@Vanegas.3]

This is pure gold ♥

[@patrickcole3571]

These endgame videos are extremely helpful. Thank you very much.

[@b0tm4st3r]

Apart from his amazing teaching, can we just take a moment to praise 30:16 ? 😂 This came very unexpected, great sense of humor.

[@wynandbritz9056]

Good lesson, it remedies my strategy, push and pray.

[@casey9015]

I've been watching videos on chess for 12 years. Naroditsky is the best chess teacher alive.

[@grantcivyt]

Thanks, Daniel. Exactly the video I was looking for.

[@serge6730]

Honestly I like the square a lot more than the niche dynamite. Great job coming up with names for all these structures, helps a lot with internalizing these ideas.

[@TheChessViking]

Great video, breaking things down into patterns.

[@chrisevans703]

I've already been performing a lot better in endgames thanks to this series. Thanks Danya!

[@mmuhockey3]

These are the types of videos worth rewatching. Thank you for this resource, Danya.

[@julianbassk]

I think these will be your greatest legacy. In that video is better for most than reading for chess education. And you do it so well. Hope more in the series comes out, this could be your My System.

[@jjschultzmd]

Just found this and it’s awesome -love the whole series thus far and just subbed! Thanks for the great content!

[@jeremycharrassier5690]

Really enthusiastic about these videos, thank you Danya!

[@langlinaiseiou]

Only Daniel can make endgame study interesting and fun for me. Truly a legendary teacher

[@stevec2227]

This was great. I really like the way you categorized the 10 breakthrough types. Until then I had seen Breakthroughs as infinite in possibilities. Thanks!

[@liamlau8253]

Thank you for the lesson Danya! Your naming of the rules is instructive and easy to memorise!