Smith-Morra Gambit Accepted | The Sensei Speedrun | GM Naroditsky

00:00 Intro
10:00 Analysis
19:20 Example 1
26:00 High Level Lesson (Ex. 2)
37:30 Final Thoughts
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[@dakotathomas2139]

Whoever Smith and Morra were, they played some wild chess in their day lol

[@andrerodrigues2877]

kenneth smith and pierre morra, very decent players

[@patrykapiezo1650]

No, it's their father Mr Gambit who played the wild chess.

[@reda4961]

Fr fr

[@benjaminanderson6856]

Waw one man, Englebert Smith-Mora who travel from MoorDoor to pass the elder wand from the Grinch to Peter Pan :)

[@12jswilson]

Marc Esserman also demolished Loek van Wely in a classical game with the Morra and Van Wely was ~2700 at the time.

[@tuka1996]

Danya: Playing simple chess can still be good Moves Nd5 sacking the knight

[@hector9586]

Sacking the Nd5 is totally simple, and very common in the morra, Nd5 sacrifices are even more strong if the black queen is on c7.

[@Yea___]

@@hector9586 simple or casual players dont know that

[@hector9586]

@@Yea___ I mean, it's only 3 move ahead, ins't that simple enough?

[@Austin-hm6qq]

@@hector9586 you greatly overestimate my mental capabilities

[@thatguy5233]

well it actually proved his point since he was losing after that move lol

[@Rastafaustian]

"We can turn the speedrun game into sort of a lecture. I'm gonna give you one more example before we end." The best thing I've heard all week.

[@TheDannytaz]

And with 13mins or so remaining. Amazing

[@Bill-ou7zp]

Danya should do a lecture series in the spirit of what the St.Louis Chess Club does. I’d binge that

[@maverator]

His actual students might be pissed because they paid money to get the same examples.

[@ElijahStormblessed]

Danya's content is the greatest gift to mankind since en passant!

[@shawman5676]

Low rated GM that Danya played was the 2nd GM from India after Vishy. He is slightly older than Vishy. Back in 1982 he beat then No:2 Viktor Korchonoi in London. Of course by the time Danya played, he was not that active :-). Still it was a crazy game for sure. This is another amazing lecture from danya.

[@steelistheunworthy6534]

I like how, as he gets further, he treats the players with more caution, ie. "thats not the right move to my knowledge", like they could have theory he wasnt aware of. Kinda nifty

[@SEAKPhotog]

Write the book! Another terrific and fascinating post, Danya. It's always wild to see you get in some trouble (and to watch you get out of that trouble). Will your opponent ever know how close he came to beating (a reckless 😉) GM? The post game discussion re assumptions was some of your best, most engaging content. Thank you so much for sharing your chess expertise with the masses!

[@BrandonHatcher]

Ahh, yet another bedtime chess lesson from master danya. thank you sensei

[@rokastverijonas8721]

These examples from other games to illustrate concepts are just golden. Widens the understanding of the game tremendously. Also Danya is teaching a very important point when to calculate and when just to trust your intuition and go from there. Lost so many games with better position only because of a time trouble, it’s better not to bother yourself too long with marginal decisions.

[@reaganmartin4668]

Danny boy getting fast and loose with this speedrun.

[@Kuukeksi]

Very interesting lecture afterwards! Thanks for all the great games & analysis

[@lucasward6177]

Been watching these speed runs nightly for multiple years now and this is probably the best episode ever. between playing loose and fast in the speed run and the assumptions lecture holy smoke thank you Danya

[@aniketm910]

Thanks for this amazing content Daniel!

[@dark8raskolbeth]

Hello Danya, thanks for this great video! You are not only a Grandmaster in chess but also as a teacher! Your didactical qualities are fabulous!

[@jaakezzz_G]

One of the best speed run videos so far!

[@Eleiem]

I'd definitely buy your book Danya. Your speedruns have been such a great tool for me to get better, thanks

[@pczapka]

Everyday I'm opening KZbin to find out if there is already Speedrun or Endings video from GM Naroditsky. And it is! Great thing! :)

[@12jswilson]

When you were discussing move based assumptions on the game at around 30:00 or just after, I made the same calculation in my head that the GM made, including missing the desperado. I'm happy I calculated like a master at least.

[@orangez1986]

Genuinely enjoy these

[@thabien4711]

still loving your lessons. cant wait to see you at the Carolina classic.

[@boyy6646]

that was absolutely fasicnating thank you daniel for you amazing content

[@joshuabrecka6012]

This was so educational. Wow thanks!

[@waveexistence5742]

I can't get enough of these videos.

[@yedfa8202]

This assumption rock my whole world! This series really change my whole view on chess

[@vincentdiiorio1588]

Those games, when you play "GM TRICKY MOVES", are awesome 👌 I play chess for fun and don't have any interest in studying for hours. The fact that you play creatively and searching for cool tactics is exactly what I like about the game of chess. Speed run = learning the basics Fun run = understanding creative tactics at a GM level. Thanks for all your awesome videos !

[@SomeGuy-on3dt]

Thank you for this

[@YeeLeeHaw]

- We're not just going to let you run off with this. - Who you mean we? - Me, Smith, and Morra. Kablam!

[@laurencelance586]

I've been watching these games for almost two months, and the interesting result is that my ELO scores have gone up 59 points. Probably not impressive for most here, but I'm seeing plays and patterns I would have never seen any other way. Thanks Daniel!

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My rating goes up and down 59points like every day lol

[@togeproductions6013]

Most people say or lie about going up in Elo by the hundreds thanks to Danya, Gotham or whoever your preferred chess youtuber is. The truth is that changes and improvements are barely noticeable most times, so congrats on the 59 elo gained

[@bradhartshorn]

Congrats on the improvement! I'm still amazed that Danya drops all of this knowledge of the game for free. Best teacher on KZbin imo.

[@Kuribohdudalala]

@@togeproductions6013 I wouldn’t go that far. Over the last year and a half since I started watching chess content creators, I’ve gone from 14-1800. Is a lot of that the time and effort I put in over 18 months? Proabbly but I wouldn’t have put that effort in without the direction from levy Hikaru and Danya

[@jibrankhalil4837]

​@@togeproductions6013 That's true. After watching every single video of Danya 3 speedruns, I have barely managed 50 points. But those were enough to take me from 1950 to 2000. I wish Danya played more 2200s in speedruns. At the moment I can just see Hikaru demolish 2200s without a queen and wonder what goes through these GMs head while doing that.

[@Daisy_boulder]

Danya you truly are amazing to me. You're like the very stars above casting light over my world. I've learned so so much from you and wanted to properly thank you! I want to support you in your journey as a chess player, teacher, and very loving man. I don't know if you want to, but I would be over the moon if you became world champion. Don't worry about it though, you're already a true legend of chess as I see it. I'll always be rooting for you! I wonder when your next game against Magnus might happen haha.

[@Socrates...]

Thank you so much

[@kap7270]

I love the new “this time on gmdn” layout

[@Not-You-Tuber]

This game is very useful for gambit lovers.. I'm fan of simple logical chess as our Danya generally plays in speed run.. Great analysis..👌👌👌

[@DudeTastic13]

To be honest, sacking the knight on D5 is already pretty high level IMO. Then the high-errr level of assumptions, on evaluating and revisiting an old idea makes today's video super super high level! Pls keep them videos coming!

[@rokastverijonas8721]

Yeah, but if you like chess literature/theory, you know that sicilian and sacking a knight on d5 are like twins (just like black sacrifices an exchange on c3 in sicilian as well) especially when the other knight jumps to c6 immediately. Easier said than done of course.

[@Rakkoonn]

@@rokastverijonas8721 In the introduction to Essermans book on the Morra he starts off giving a bunch of positions and asking in which it is sound to sacrifice the knight. The answer was all of them of course.

[@saimon174666]

See you tomorrow, that is what I want to hear at the end of Daniel's video!

[@SuperNarski]

I believe 6...Nge7 is recommended in Logozar's course. He has some crazy engine lines to back it up. But I'm not surprised Danya thought it a bad move since Esserman does claim so in his book (according to Logozar)

[@alexf0101]

great examples

[@ayushman7383]

27:54 Planinc was a pretty interesting player, GM. Langeweg, I think is still alive. That was brutal🙂.

[@E8oL4]

this is the best reason to wake up at 6 am ❤

[@123amsterdan456]

2:03 As the great GM Leitão once said: "In Dubio, pró roque" - When in doubt, castle.

[@alexme4836]

smith morra by daniel are may favourites

[@Anteater23]

12:24 black with an INCREDIBLE KING SACRIFICE

[@Dr.Macrophage]

This is so amazing..

[@_A-B_]

I love these kind of games more than positional games

[@crushedscouter9522]

BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!!!

[@ryangardner6804]

Great vid!

[@Ninjalectual]

That last puzzle was brilliant! I thought I analyzed it well, but turns out I was only halfway there lol

[@rodantero]

@22:10, after Nxf3 faster is Qf1#

[@Pakadork]

I'm so jealous of daniel's skill because he's just that much more able to appreciate the beauty of chess than me.

[@Kuribohdudalala]

I just played this line at my club today!!! I couldn’t convert after the nd5 sack, but it was super fun none the less

[@tolkienfan1972]

I'll preorder

[@gm2407]

What a wonderful topic for discussion. I have been wondering how to not eliminate moves due to appearing promising on the first bite. I have only concluded that I need to ask myself. Is this a blunder or a sacrifice? (for piece moves that appear hanging) To force myself to look further as a candidate line before dismissing. For your move the question is would there be anything more to this move? But my concern is taking to much time to think through to many variations.

[@fredwalter923]

I remember this game from the stream, I was kinda disappointed with this game cuz it wasnt very instructional, you didnt ask like "what should we do" etc and you were sorta just doing your own thing tryna comeback cuz u messed up or whatever. But you realized that and so then the next game you did the next day was PERFECT, literally like every move you were asking what to do and were explaining the moves and stuff, thx for being an amazing teacher. These speedrun videos r the ONLY youtube videos i look forward to and im subscribed to like 13+ people. They dont come out fast enough for me tho and im so addicted ive been checking ur vods everyday to see if u did a speedrun game lol.

[@JazzCabbagE7]

"Not good quality chess by me" ahh yes, this is the bloodshed im used to - me, a 900

[@hunterthompson5680]

GMs in my view are famous for being either insane or narcissists. It's a joy to see that you are neither. So humble! Brilliant teacher. As a teacher my ownself, you help model for me what effective instruction can look like. I share the struggle of occasional repetition and boredom coupled with a deep interest in the psychological aspects of teaching, and I seem to see the same processes at work in you. Keep at it, buddy!

[@zappyFPS]

No they're not, only a few were insane or narcissists, the majority are not.

[@skirybondirynakers4962]

Amazing simplicity…

[@joemorgenstern9846]

+7 for the opponent. Daniel, "Okay, that gives us some life."

[@aaaabb1666]

11:37 for the record, Qd5 in that position is not a blunder, because after the Nd6 White has Bf4 threatening the night and a skewer if black takes on e7

[@Drew_goo]

HOLY

[@alexwiththeglasses]

While watching the first several minutes I thought this wouldn’t be such a rewarding video for me. To be blunt, there are some highly regarded chess streamers I don’t watch because it’s a waste of time - I don’t learn much. Not putting anybody down here. It’s just a different thing & I’ve got my own agenda. But another big thanks to GM Danya for taking a… should I say trashy?… pretty suboptimal game and still coming through with wonderful content!

[@iceicebaby6980]

watched it 10 times

[@johannesborchgrevink9629]

It´s like Danya is a recovering chaos junky. He knows playing the questionable sack is not right, but he can´t help himself!

[@MasterJack2]

This game was a great example of the advantages of a better development.

[@ApexTrading]

Castles probably wasn’t the best move, but I wanna show people they can just play simple chess. *sacks knight next move* Okay Daniel 😂

[@ignis6144]

GMDN FTW

[@DallenRex]

What if "... to use my favorite expression." is actually becoming his favorite expression?

[@24yroldchessimprover84]

Usually 3 pieces are better than a queen but the combination of black's weak king along with the advantage of white being able to use his pawns on both sides of the board better than black gives him a decisive advantage if you turn on SF before white plays Qxb5.

[@dlucas2331]

If anyone still doesn't know what's a "Danya move", this game has three of them. :-)

[@ciaranlyons825]

Really enjoyed the Speedrun up to now, but I have no idea what to take from this game.

[@justinssongsarehis2]

Chess time

[@liljackypaper]

Can anyone tell me how I can watch Daniel play these ten minute games live on twitch??? I subbed but only ever see him play blitz/bullet

[@stevencage81]

End of the streams

[@liljackypaper]

@@stevencage81 you're the man 👊🏻

[@-minushyphen1two379]

So early that the captions aren’t here yet

[@nebeyutedla7720]

Hey Danya I just wanted to let you know there might be a little audio glitching in your last few videos. I’m not sure if I’m the only one hearing it

[@tadeuszkazmierczak1143]

Can someone explain whats wrong aftee Nxh4 Rxe7 qxe7 or qb6?

[@ohNelly]

This was truly one of the game of all times in the speedrun

[@matthewodonnell6906]

Around 5:30, I don’t understand why black couldn’t sack the queen for the rook after taking the knight on h4 & then use the pawn as an umbrella. Black would have 2 pieces & a rook for the queen, & white’s attack seemingly ends. I feel like the resulting position is probably just winning for black objectively with that material advantage. Of course, I’m a 1300 & Danya’s a GM, so I’m basically clueless in comparison. I just want to know the follow up in that position because I win like 80% of the time when I have 2 rooks vs queen.

[@archiebellega956]

You can, but using Lichess, that lines gives you -2 position. The best move is actually to castle (-5 to -6). This is using depth 50 so better than the engine danya used in this video. And 2 rooks vs queen is easily draw in this scenario, because your pawn structure is fucked, so most likely the queen can hunt them down, or giving perma check. You're winning here because you're up one minor pieces, let's not forget danya sack a knight, which funnily shouldn't be accepted, accepting the sack is 0.0, while playing Ne5 is the best move, at -1.6. Shows you how complicated smith-morra actually is for black.

[@matthewodonnell6906]

@@archiebellega956 That makes sense. Stockfish’s O-O is a lot more calm & collected than my idea, but I’m glad to know that mine would have worked because I definitely would have played that in black’s place after seeing that I could take the knight, simplify, & end my opponent’s attack.

[@jakemilstein3537]

Ya!

[@hector9586]

Please do a Chessable course, I would definitely get it, not because we are awesome but rather you are a great instructor and would be an insane value to get lessons from someone with a lot of experience.

[@FR4MPT]

Pog

[@sirrys]

What does “swindle your opponent” mean in chess?

[@swift8821]

It means Daniel is a gm and will beat a 1700 99/100 down a piece.

[@spencercorry830]

Danya lectures ooooo my favorite

[@nbeqo]

According to the Book "winning with the Smith-Morra Gambit" Nge7 is better answered with Bg5.

[@trickychessopenings5450]

Bb4 line please explain

[@azice6034]

Bb4 is incredibly annoying in the morra

[@worsethanjoerogan8061]

10:25 I do that a lot. I see the threat, decide it's not dangerous and then suddenly I'm down material thinking "why did I allow that exactly?"

[@RishabhSharma10225]

Isn't it a great idea to sacrifice a piece in all speedrun games so we can see some crazy lines etc. and understand how a GM can beat a 1700 from being down a piece? I feel like regular speedrun games can get a little 'too easy' for you and they don't even provide that much educational value.

[@afresh2000]

dude was worried he lost the game then played 2 moves and acted like he was winning the whole time 😂😂😂. Legend

[@CheapShotFail]

Typically in lines like these with Nge7 in the morra you want to play Bg5 before castling to force f6 or h6, creates weaknesses to attack later and the bishop will just fall back to e3 where it wants to be regardless. From e3 the bishop supports Nd5 by threatening Bb6 followed by Nc7 (or sometimes just trapping the queen on d8) if the knight is not taken in many lines, including Esserman's incredible win over Van Wely (I highly recommend looking up the game btw) and you can proceed with caslting, Bb3, and Nd5 in most cases regardless. Although the computer prefers castling over Bg5, the morra is very difficult for engines to understand. Creating long term weaknesses while developing is a logical move, I'm sure O-O is fine but every tempo matters so much in the morra and Bg5 is off the table as soon as Ng6 happens. Glad to see incredible players like Danya, chessbrahs, etc. playing this opening and showing how fierce it can be. Loving the series!

[@malacor17]

This game is a good example that just because Danya is a gm doesn't mean he knows everything. At 8:57 he says that 6...Nge7 is wrong. It's not, and modern analysis considers it one of the best tries. I know because I play it.

[@user-jt1hh4vi5b]

its weird, sometime ago the players would always try to decline it when i played the smith morra, but nowadays every single one accepts it? Accepting the gambit seems to be in fashion now (not that im complaining)

[@chrisbeaudoin9818]

I think there is a rating range where people are really scared of gambits and it's not until they get better and realize they shouldn't be scary you just need to study them a bit

[@SuperYtc1]

"If you do not sack your knight on move 8 you're doing something wrong" Said the SuperGM.

[@thetransferaccount4586]

too many sacrifices

[@quick24]

I'm never gonna accept a smith morra again, in case there's Danya on the other side

[@KV-gy2mr]

I think this session was very useful for me. When you play lower quality chess, and then teach us later why that move was sub-optimal, that is far more educational to us than say if you play every game like a GM. Ideally, you get in trouble, and then show us ideas you have that might get you out of it. And if you start losing one out of every 3 games, thats fine. What I am saying is, instead of playing like a GM, maybe you can play like a 1900 against a 1700, so we learn more.

[@clifforddelapena7674]

Im glad i found Bb6 1300 BTW 😂🤦

[@justinssongsarehis2]

14 seconds let's GOOOOOO

[@nbi4220]

"Ne7 is not the move as far as I know"? Bzzzzt. Standard theory, see chapter 7 in Esserman's "Mayhem in the Morra" (pdf available online). The correct response for white is Bg5 with the idea of inducing f6. Often a6 is played before Ne7, but Ne7 first as in your game is not unusual.

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Danya 👍👍

[@TomJones-tx7pb]

I am curious that if he had castled you would have thought him less legit.

[@tamir8501]

In my opinion, the speed run shouldn't include gambits. Basically anything else that cannot be refuted (Italian, ruy Lopez, caro can, )..

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