Same Color Bishop Endgame | 4 Knights Scotch | The Sensei Speedrun | GM Naroditsky

[@patrickmeagher6914]

Hey Daniel, just wanted to say thanks for posting such awesome content. I found your channel in the depths of the pandemic and it’s been a bright spot in my life ever since. Thanks and keep up the good work, Sensei.

[@aoliya107]

*senpai

[@saimon174666]

I hope Daniel will make a 1.d4 run, as there are only about 20 games with d4 as first move (either Daniel or opponent) in all the speedruns.

[@dre4mz749]

Because d4 is booring

[@SerLaama]

Good - people in this range should always play 1.e4.

[@ignis6144]

Play e4 then

[@spidermonkey7280]

You are the best chess teacher out there. The way you explain ideas is easy to understand and entertaining. I will always watch your content for as long as you produce it. Top tier work

[@noahpoobbailey]

Loving the new thumbnails! Much better than the old ones

[@Socrates...]

I really enjoyed seeing the pawn endgame, thanks

[@NidusFormicarum]

Why don't you try winning these endgames against Stockfish? In case you would fail we would all get an interesting lesson.

[@ignis6144]

Would take soooo many moves, engines are incredibly resilient

[@NidusFormicarum]

@@ignis6144 Sometimes. Especially queen endgames! When I am not fully concentrated or a bit tired I constantly lose or draw, but when I am fresch and alert I normally win positions like an endgame two pawns or a rook up, for instance. I've tried starting with Stockfish's king in the center on my half of the board. The first time I tried I lost, but then I checked with the engine what I should have played and after that I had no problems winning against the machine. You can learn a lot by this method - something that Daniel mentions in his videos as well.

[@RishabhSharma10225]

How can anyone hate this guy. You're amazing Danya!

[@34_Hour_Reset]

Going 48 hours without a Danya post was a form of torture … I need a fix every 24 or I spontaneously combust

[@walterbrownstone8017]

For an 1800 level game, that was actually quite simple.

[@DeLunny]

Danya makes everything seem so simple. My rating has rocketed since I started watching his videos.

[@reda4961]

I think posting the FEN of the game is a great idea. It would be really helpful if you could do that in all of your future videos since I like to go back to your games for analysis and theory. I know it is a hard task but it would be even better if you could post the FEN of each game in the description of your past speedrun videos.

[@mryellow4633]

Slightly more work on your end, but you can always click his name in the analysis and go to his account's page, and then find the particular game you want in his completed games.

[@reda4961]

@@mryellow4633 thanks

[@charnielduterte3796]

22:00 the FEN at the description seems to be wrong. it should be 8/p1p2p2/2pp4/5k1p/1P6/2P2KP1/P4P2/8 w - - 0 1

[@jimmcaree6788]

You beat me to it!

[@pugsondrugs6556]

I wish Danya was an E4 player. Watching his 4 knights Scotch games in this speed run has been amazing, but I just have so much more familiarity with D4 openings that I can't really use a lot of the things I learn with much regularity. If I could make a request, it would be a speed run like this where either the London or QG is played every game with white.

[@AnCoSt1]

You mean d4, obviously

[@pugsondrugs6556]

@@AnCoSt1 Yes thanks for noticing, in hopes Danya somehow sees this comment

[@nathangrabias8045]

Ugh why do people play London I would never understand it’s so repetitive and such boring games

[@therandomrat5238]

@@nathangrabias8045 Mainline london is drier than a camel's arse yes, but I do agree with the sentiment of the comment, that being we need more 1.d4 content.

[@DavidBergeron87]

20:52 fxg2 "Why be crazy". Crazy leads to fun, complicated positions. Great videos as always. A few months ago I was 1200, I hit 1600. Your videos are most instructional and best. Come on Dayna, live on the wild side and do some dangerous moves sometimes 😝. You are playing like Alpha Go a little bit, where you know you win if you make safe move.

[@wolfgangsell3233]

What do you know about alpha go? I've been getting into go and I heard its really important to go for some reason

[@danjeory3659]

15:27 "Big woop, you just come back with your rook." Ngl.... I'm down for the Danya Rap

[@AmongUsAcademy]

The opponent actuallly did pretty well to hold their own until all the pieces got traded off

[@bobbydisastrous]

Daniel "the prophet" nardoditsky has returned !!

[@Not-You-Tuber]

Very instructive game.. Thanks Danya.. These speed run videos are really very helpful..

[@albertdiedericks6227]

Can someone in the comments help me? At 7:00 wouldn't you rather go King f8, protecting the invasion square on e7, and when white trades once and goes Re1 again, you just move the rook to attack the queen pawns?

[@albertdiedericks6227]

I thought maybe this idea was nice, but does it maybe not work?

[@drharrythompson]

I'm really enjoying this series and thank you for taking the time to create such an amazing online reservoir of excellent chess teaching.

[@megatruble22]

He deserves way more subscribers tbh

[@rainerausdemspring3584]

B c5-d4 was very enlightening. With your explanation it is an "obvious" move.

[@gieaudio8762]

I love the way you’re explaining things, so I can grab some ideas and try in my own games, I learned a lot from this series, actually I’m rewatching it over and try to guess the next moves, peace ✌️

[@LawrenceGGreen-bt3tu]

Pinning the Pawn at 12:00 was extraordinary, you taught me a trick 🙂

[@thecoalbaker8478]

i have to say i love to learn about converting winning pawn endings

[@ClassicPass_]

23 minutes? Yes please. My evening is complete!

[@mskcouric]

Danya please get a better microphone and/or add a little more sound treatment in your space. Many of us watch this late at night and the harshness of the sound makes it challenging. You make the best chess content out. Help.

[@simonlowrie5731]

I hope he reads this too, and I'm amazed more people don't point this out. His commentaries for chess com are unbearable because of his broken microphone

[@mskcouric]

@@simonlowrie5731 What I like about Danya is how little he comes off like a streamer, with the obnoxious gamer chairs and LED lights and all that bullshit. But you need to have bearable audio to be a streamer. He should drop a few hundred on a cheap interface and a SM7b that will last for a decade.

[@simonlowrie5731]

@@mskcouric couldn't agree more. He's a class act in a sea of clowns. Just have to hope that one fine day, he'll stop grinding up razorblades in his coffee blender ...

[@NightwindArcher]

Damn.... 0 dislikes. 2k likes. Talk about a freakin ratio

[@lukav2425]

hey Daniel, love the sensei content! whats your opinion on openings such as 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 and the various neo Catalan positions that come from it? also if you could try the opening in a future video I would be overjoyed.

[@Mathijs_A]

I especially love these setups with b3 and Bb2 involved (if black plays Slav or QG style). 2. dxc4 is already really good for white if black isn't careful (most of the time even at 2200+) and d5 is challenging, but both sides really need to know what they're doing

[@jasonthomas1539]

I know this sounds weird but I actually have trouble falling asleep nowadays without hearing Danya's voice in the background.

[@kaidoChess]

Danya is my dad

[@Dreadscare]

the fen is missing a pawn on a7

[@Swimming_with_Josh]

So I got your commentary on Eric vs Danny earlier, and now a endgame video? It’s a good day to be a Danya fan Edit: speedrun video*, just as good, maybe even more instructive at my level

[@Joe-zu7lx]

Like the new thumbnails

[@Tsunami-]

Another great, super instructive lesson. Thank you sensei! ^_^

[@kevinschweizer7074]

I recently was so proud that i identified the glorious bathtub formation and my enemy stood no chance :D

[@CSRunner7]

Great to have a pawn end game. I’m hopeless at working out what to move when in that situation and do just what white ended up doing.

[@worldstatic]

Thanks for endgame lesson. It helped tremendously.

[@khaelkugler]

You'd have to pay so much for this normally. Thanks Daniel!

[@KnightToRemember]

Do you know coaches that comment their games while they crush untitled players online? I don’t know any, this isn’t “coaching” content this is a speedrun

[@MyDarkMuffin]

@@KnightToRemember this is far from a simple speedrun, I don't know about any other chess youtubers who can so clearly explain everything, there's a lot to learn from his videos.

[@KnightToRemember]

@@MyDarkMuffin but that’s not what a coach will do, a coach will analyze your personal games and work on things that you personally need, of course he can’t do this in youtube videos so that’s why normally no one pays for this, this is generalized content mainly for beginners and very different from what a coach will give you

[@MyDarkMuffin]

@@KnightToRemember Who called him a coach though? Idk who you're arguing with.

[@KancerKowboy]

No dilly dallying

[@hamzahamdain9162]

Don't mind watching this forever😋

[@alexf0101]

thanks

[@dbouslov]

See you at the Carolina Classic!! Super excited

[@gn0my]

Hi Daniel, can you teach the bongcloud attack?

[@ryangardner6804]

Babe wake up, new SenseiDanya speedrun video

[@chuckgravity7616]

Thanks for sharing your great content!

[@nathangrabias8045]

Wow didn’t realize I was this early

[@getsetcode8162]

Don't change the thumbnail 😭

[@hellishworld2129]

Danya in every thumbnail:- 😄

[@manemobiili]

Just 2 minutes in the position gets pretty interesting!

[@joaomuniz746]

BY FAAAAAARRRRRR the best teacher ive ever seen

[@Suho1004]

Always love to see some good endgames!

[@carterwilliams4716]

We love you Danya!

[@ignis6144]

Daniel 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

[@onelife4760]

Thanku Senpai!

[@jayaywak]

Love to see it!!!

[@steffenvergeylen475]

Cant you play Bxf2 check at 2:05? Followed by Ng4 check, winning whites bishop with queen on g5?

[@conor6403]

White can capture the knight on g4 with their queen and defend the bishop and black would be down two pieces

[@steffenvergeylen475]

@@conor6403 goddamit, I feel absolutely stupid now. As a 1500 rated player i shouldve seen this.

[@conor6403]

We all make mistakes, that doesn't make you stupid!

[@mcronrn]

Nice!

[@martinho899]

Thanks for the nice game/lecture. For anyone interested, there is one black pawn missing on a7 in the FEN, which makes it winning for white instead of black: Position at 22:00 should be: 8/p1p2p2/2pp4/5k1p/1P6/2P2KP1/P4P2/8 w - - 0 1

[@poobfreeman2185]

Hell yeah dude

[@ResearchForMyself]

Lol I finished the Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess book in one day. And Ive learn so much more value in one of these 1hour speedruns vs that book. The BFTC book is just tons of tactics without any explanation to how to get into those positions or any strategy in general just tactical puzzles. Phenomenal videos appreciate it!!!

[@KnightToRemember]

For those who watched previous speedruns, at what rating do people start playing well? These videos are of a pretty good educational value but I’m not an online player, I’m an OTB player and I was wondering if he will play good players or not. Everyone in OTB tournaments has serious openings, no one would blunder a pawn with Ne4 and even the weakest 1100s I know would never allow the bishop trade because they know pawn endgames a pawn down are almost always losing

[@aditaggarwal3486]

I have a request: Could you play the next game like Vishy? It would be interesting to me as an Indian to see how he plays.

[@felipeulloa6205]

Nice

[@lesthxr]

it feels illegal to be this early

[@deadfrogsong1723]

First?

[@Alzoryne]

who cares

[@themarchoftime]

i care

[@shhiknopfler3912]

Congratulations ...

[@felipeulloa6205]

@@themarchoftime me too

[@goodester6924]

well done

[@Earsex4life]

Thanks Daniel.

[@thedrizzle6]

THE GOAT