Queen's Gambit Declined | The Sensei Speedrun | GM Naroditsky

[@tylermathews6788]

"There's an inverse relationship between piece value and its' ability to defend another piece." As always, I come out from a Danya lesson with a brilliant conceptual idea. Love this series!

[@jaredgibson3785]

Well said!

[@CoachWenchell]

my new favorite quote as well

[@andretirta9801]

opponent: *breathes* danya: i think it's already inaccurate

[@gainztrain132]

Thanks for the game Danya! And sorry for the blunder everyone. Very unfortunate and disheartened I was when that happened. Cheers!

[@nyehhsquidward]

Well played in the opening though, knight b5 was smooth. Probably would've missed the threat too, what a strange checkmate

[@gainztrain132]

@@nyehhsquidward Thank you! That is very kind of you to say. It was a heart sinking moment for sure, especially like just this simple ex and we have some complex game! But okay.. lol!

[@DudeTastic13]

My man you played well. It's psychological hard when you know you're playing a GM. That knight on the B file could have been a monster. But of course a GM knows how to defuse 99.9% of these fires. It's an instructive game where it allowed Danya to show how he punished under-developed, over extended setups. Also the logic on the D rook being a poor defender and the white king being out of square isn't something a 1500 can even notice every time. Lots of gold to be found in this game. You'll only improve after this. (I'm 1600 ish on Lichess).

[@anaspirant3725]

Nothing to shame bro, there was always a psychological effect when you play a titled player. I myself losed against titled players in a position where stockfish says it's +3 or +4. Don't be ashamed, atleast you didn't used engine like losers does.

[@MaybeBrady]

You did great, it's more difficult than people realize to play while knowing your opponent is a GM. Keep at it friend :)

[@diarenee9012]

Good luck on the bullet semi finals on March 14!! Also great video, as someone who is currently learning and playing queens gambit, but is pretty bad at being black in queens gambit, your videos are very helpful and I learn alot! I hope you have a great day/afternoon/evening!

[@anaspirant3725]

What i learned from this lesson : 1. A new trap 2. It's always better to defend a pawn with a pawn. 3. Queen and rook are the worst pieces to defend something. 4. Always develop pieces with tempo if possible.

[@petergriffin8767]

You must be very new here

[@anaspirant3725]

@@petergriffin8767 yo Peter fuc*ing griffin...love you man 😂

[@TheQuicksilver115]

Your usage of "always" twice there is probably a little strong. The more I watch Danya the more I see that very rarely do you "always" do anything. I would maybe say "generally" instead. By conceptualizing it as "always" you make it much harder for yourself to spot the edge cases where the advice falls through. You don't want to exclude possibilities from your mind just because generally you do something else.

[@dula5397]

Man!! Not to imply I'm some genius but the way you think about chess really resonates with my own thought process I love it so much! Thanks for the content. I hope I get to enjoy it for years to come :)

[@armwrestlingfan6804]

Damn it. He was doing so well. The spicy game died

[@AmongUsAcademy]

Learning a lot of Queens Gambit openings so this video was really informative, thanks

[@SnailBen]

god bless you danya! these speedruns are very instructive and even after you stop doing them i will save them and watch them. very fun! better than watching sports by a long shot.

[@schmuckpuppet4842]

Keep up the good work Daniel, your style is number one.

[@Vepporizer]

Favorite videos to watch while eating

[@cemgulten6327]

Clearly best teaching video ı have ever watched!

[@michaelfortunato1860]

Many years ago in NYC, we called that the Cambridge Springs trap. I caught someone in it in the National Championships at the McAlpin Hotel about 50 years ago. I vaguely recall he was about a 1300-1400 USCF.

[@Algos_TV]

hey daniel, huge fan here, like yours vidoes alot see most of them :), i have an IDEA, please tell me whats you think, like the speedrun but agains stokfish, and every game lvl up until it is imposable to win, just to show how to play vs computer, and how to win most of the games.

[@cuauhtemocmorisco3493]

Your a prophet LOL because i have been losing to people who are doing this opening to me. Sometime i win but i find myself extending my intellgience more than i have to just too figure out their tactics and strategy but i love all of this because its Chess and winning should never be easy. THANK YOU!!!!! THIS WILL HELP ME CRUSH MY OPPS🤣

[@alexwiththeglasses]

Appreciate the opening explanations once again, transposing & reasoning laid out nicely🙏

[@mareksicinski3726]

0:21 English opening, there is an opening called the 'english defense' but that is something different

[@Tuk-c4u]

a comfortable 3:00 am upload.

[@SahnigReingeloetet]

While the QGD is always very instructional, I‘d love to see you handle a Semi-Slav in the future. While it‘s solid, I often struggle in these vanilla ice cream positions as I‘m simply not happy without winning chances

[@michaelf8221]

The semi-slav is wild and crazy if you're playing it well. The QGD in particular is the one that gives you the vanilla ice cream positions. Perhaps you're not fighting hard enough to activate your c8 bishop by ripping open the center?

[@SahnigReingeloetet]

@@michaelf8221 well I‘m not much of a d5 player, I prefer the King‘s Indian against d4 but I‘m trying to soup up my repertoire and the Semi-Slav just strikes me as something safe and solid.

[@ricardf1857]

Hhahaha the vanilla ice cream was good

[@marcofrey2903]

The QGD Janowski variations are quite spicy for black. Check them out. And Cambridge Springs has some fun traps that many players fall into.

[@SahnigReingeloetet]

@@marcofrey2903 thanks

[@worsethanjoerogan8061]

Yes! Queen's Gambit is my main opening

[@TomJones-tx7pb]

I really wish I had thought of e6 for a really critical game against Watson in the Lloyds of London tournament many years ago when I was one game away from winning the tournament.

[@henrychess3]

Finally, an opening I play / is learning!

[@alexf0101]

gotta love the elephant trap

[@alirezasbn]

Great video! I learned so much!🔥

[@valor-2569]

bro it was uploaded a minute ago

[@muntoonxt]

8:15 What about 12..a6 to chase the pesky knight away before playing 13..Nxd2? EDIT: Nevermind, 13.dxe4.

[@GeorgeSmyth]

Short game, but instructive.

[@gregmiller350]

Daniel good luck with your chess man. Hell of a teacher. Big thanks to you and keep up the good work!!

[@officialEricBG]

hey danya, can you play some QG as white? I'm never sure how to play these sort of positional openings

[@billgjika7458]

8:00 if the pawn takes on d3 you can do Nf2 to win a rook

[@sure7130]

Then you lose your bishop and your knight is trapped

[@pontiffmaximus]

This is a great video, does anyone have a favorite resource for how to attack with white in QGD positions?

[@CreussOnTheFly]

This is a good video detailing the concept of how to utilize a minority attack. Neither of the games use the QGD, but the minority attack is one of the most common ways for white to play in QGD positions after black trades his d-pawn for white’s c-pawn. Notably, play is usually different in QGD positions involving an isolated queen’s pawn (IQP), but you should be able to find other videos from this source on that as well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5fcaWmNopaKl9k

[@CreussOnTheFly]

But frankly the attacking concepts for white will largely depend on how the pawn structure transforms over the course of the game. A good resource for understanding the concepts of play-style for different structures is a book (and Chessable course, I believe) called Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide by Mauricio Flores Rios. Hope that’s helpful!

[@hayzor]

Where can I buy that shirt?

[@JaShooUh]

You forgot to add this one to the speedrun playlist. Just thought you might want to know. :D

[@kashyapvyas3412]

Nf2 then d3 works? Gg

[@pgdbh]

Thanks danya for your great content! This is my first year that i play at a chess club and this content helps a lot but i struggle a lot to convert winning positions. Can you make a video about converting winning positions especially where you cant force a endgame easy ( im around 1700 rating)

[@SahnigReingeloetet]

The good ol‘ Agincourt

[@mikey22355]

Can you do some kings Indian against e4 abs d4 as black?

[@rkhokhlan]

"whow!? nevermind, ok Night B5" LOLOL

[@tuddgrimley8532]

I know I'm a dirty pleb for this but can we see you play a game in the King's Gambit Accepted with the white pieces?

[@cse035rayanwahid2]

Daniel Naroditsky

[@CharlieMurphy023]

Odd play in the opening for white moving the queen and leaving the king side completely undeveloped

[@MaddyChessVision]

Danya, we love you.

[@emrevurgun8328]

I'd love to be able to get a game with you as well daniel altough im not frquently on twitch and im just a follower. I'm 1600 rapid. Is there any way i could get the pleasure?

[@jayaywak]

Nice

[@brucewayne2184]

You should do a video on how to play blindfolded chess.

[@saimon174666]

The opponent was just 1154? Wow

[@BiggyJimbo]

I mean, he did blunder mate in 1 lol

[@TheCodkid4life]

Thought protecting the extra pawn with e5 was more simple surprised after Nb5 why it wasn’t considered

[@NadaRobin]

Same, seemed like the best move to me too. Checked with the engine afterwards to make sure I wasn't going crazy and it gives black a very comfortable advantage of -5 after 7....e5 compared to -3.5 after 7...Bb4+, which is obviously still winning but not as much as and far more complicated than the simple e5.

[@memotto123]

1:04

[@Hanensens]

Is Danya playing viewers in the speedrun suddenly? Hasn't been the case before, right?

[@TheGuroLOLITA]

Do you all think he gets tired of compliments

[@god0fgames100]

Imagine if a bunch of 3 year olds complimented you for tying your shoes by yourself every day.

[@VideoMan-e]

That was an abrupt end. Otherwise it would be an even more interesting game.

[@Tuk-c4u]

On my phone stockfish, the position is -2.5-ish for black after Nb5 if black plays e5. When Bb4+ is played, it laxes to -.13. So stockfish did laugh at you daniel. It laughed at all of us.

[@AaaaAaaa-jr4lw]

No idea why your phone says that, black looks pretty far ahead to me and has multiple ways to win. I like Qb6 to setup Nd4 to crush the dark squares. The queens knight and bishop, the center pawns, and the queen can all coordinate this dark square attack and white has to get more dark square control. If Rxd4 or Nxd4, the capturing piece becomes a target which only makes things worse. If e3, white gets a free pawn and to force black to lose castling with bb4+. If a3, e5 can cause whites king knight to run out of moves. Nf3 is solid but doesn't solve the combined threats of Nd4/Bb4+/d3/Qxf7.

[@Lodzio20]

You dont have to tell the color if you are typing "-"...

[@AmongUsAcademy]

Once again, thank you. If I had to combine every Chess streamers attributes: Skill Level, Teaching Ability and General Entertainment - you’re definitely number 1 (maybe shared with Gotham). Glad to see your content getting so many views, truly deserved

[@schmuckpuppet4842]

Gotham is good, but he is a filthy Luciferian who throws in all kinds of occult symbolism in his work.

[@god0fgames100]

Lol gotham doesn't compare to danya in chess skill, teaching ability, or entertainment value. Danya is in a world apart from levi.

[@occultsymbols]

Teaching ability and skill level gotham does not even come close to danya. Entertainment is subjective and I have to say that Gotham is very successful for a reason but I think his content is geared more towards the younger audience

[@schmuckpuppet4842]

@@michaelangelo0305 both my comments have now been shadow banned, so that just goes to show what youtube is like. You think lies would be shadow banned? Or do you think the truth would be shadow banned? What makes more sense?

[@ritenger87]

@@schmuckpuppet4842 your stuff isn't shadowbanned, I can see it fine.

[@Beyondry]

Daniel i finally defeated your bot rated 2600

[@RaptureReady2025]

Ngl I think this is

[@tvens1]

Was hoping for stronger opponent, but well, nice to see speedrun anyway.

[@nmda780]

Always a little disappointing when the game is starting to look really interesting and then the opponent mindlessly blunders it away lol

[@pittasso]

!!

[@michaelangelo0305]

Yo Danya I sent you an Email !

[@valor-2569]

First

[@valor-2569]

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[@Quincycle]

First bellend

[@ritenger87]

My namea jeff

[@keniag5]

Oh my lands I'm first

[@mohammedraheef1415]

danya should make a politcs channel. Just a thought.

[@Adwik_Mishra]

Just whyyy?

[@noone-ld7pt]

FIRST!!

[@leofox1676]

why does the world need to know

[@hunterdillman3678]

Why does he sound funny

[@nami7810]

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