Taming the Elephant Gambit!! | Elephant Gambit, Sicilian, Latvian | GM Naroditsky's DYI Speedrun

[@H911Reiver]

Oh thank goodness, I was suffering from Danya withdrawal

[@xxherokillerxx2372]

Danya I started watching you when i was 900 elo, and reached 1900, you're the best man

[@cwindewee1558]

Really how old are you ,you must be young

[@MrDanielfff777]

I am also 1900

[@impishlyit9780]

@@cwindewee1558 Not everyone started playing chess as a child. I know I didn't. There's no reason a player who recently started has to be young.

[@cyin974]

​@@cwindewee1558 1900 online is quite doable for any age, passing 2000 fide over the board is where the challenge is at.

[@chandrakiran6258]

Me too

[@remora8829]

your command of English is as admirable as your chess. so elegant, mature and graceful.

[@knuckles1546]

Doing tricks on it

[@Poatanmafia]

​​@@knuckles1546 he's absolutely correct,Danya looks,acts and plays majestically

[@MatteoGariglio]

Hi Danya, I hope you'll read this message. (I don't know how to reach you directly). I am a big fan of yours. You are one of the most talented players, one of the best content creators (I love your YT channel), one of the most kind and intelligent human being out there (even if I don't know you personally)... I am sorry and sad to see you hurt by what's going on (Kramnik's accusations)... Don't. You demonstrate every single time your skills, knowledge, kindness and what's not. You should deserve much more. I am (with many many others) with you!! Thanks for everything you've done, do and hopefully will do for the chess community.

[@johndavidallison7601]

Daniel Naroditsky Speedruns Ranked: 6th place: Top Theory Speedrun This was an excellent format, designed to emphasize the importance of openings, even at a lower level. This run featured some epic hour long analysis rabbit holes (anti London, Tarrasch French, fantasy caro, and many more) but some of the opening choices (Grunfield, alapin, dragon) were not the best, resulting in excellent educational content while somewhat lacking in its intended goal. Nonetheless an amazing series especially towards the end when he switched to his main repertoire. 5th place: Master class speedrun It’s very difficult to find anything negative in any of Danya’s videos. However 5th place has to go somewhere and in this case it’s the master class speedrun. Amazing learning material over a wide variety of openings, but not as much structure as some of the other speedruns. 4th place: SpeedRun The OG. I find myself going back to this one over and over again. His step by step analysis is unparalleled and raw. A timeless classic. One Danya video on the kings Indian or the Sicilian is more useful than a whole playlist of any other creator’s. 3rd place: Beginner to master speedrun Basically a revamp of the first SpeedRun. Pure excellence 2nd place: The Sensei Speedrun This Speedrun honestly could go in first place due to the Nimzovitch French and Smith Morra alone. These openings, along with the many others discussed, are foundational and game changing ways to punish black and have dramatically increased the ratings of myself and many others. This is where Danya found and refined his flow (not that he didn’t have it before). My most re-watched series by far. 1st place: Develop Your Instincts Speedrun Najdorf and Kings Indian. Enough said. Finally our prophet trades in the dragon for the best Sicilian. Additionally, this speedrun features 2 or 3 games per episode while not skimping on post game analysis or the beloved theoretical rabbit holes. The only thing preventing this from being a 10/10 is the alapin. To be fair though if Danya brought back the smith morra, he would bankrupt every other chess content creator as his videos would be the only ones worth watching. Also I will say, I’m surprised Danya hasn’t opted for his beloved Ruy Lopez. Hopefully we get some of those in the future as well as a return to the morra. Anyways that’s it, looking forward to so many more of these in the future.

[@Kyle-ys3cv]

Great post

[@otterhead10]

Nice roundup 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Florian-yk8vg]

what do you have against the alapin?

[@adomaskuzinas2137]

Alapin is better than Smith-Morra at 2000+. Morra is great for crushing beginners that instantly capture on c3, no GMs plays 3. c3, they all go 3. Nf3 nowadays and only if black plays e5 they push c3.

[@oliver-shi]

danya’s intro now triggers a pavlovian release of dopamine within me

[@ot1438]

whats pavlovian

[@franklinmontez8733]

@@ot1438Sometimes people say “pavlovian” to refer to Ivan Pavlov, a man who popularized classical conditioning which he researched in training his dogs. Classical conditioning is when you train a creature to have a particular response to stimulus. For example, ring a bell every time you give your dog food. The dog salivates and eats the food. Give the dog less food each time, all the while still ringing a bell. Eventually you stop giving the dog food, but when you ring the bell the dog still salivates. That is classical conditioning

[@ot1438]

@@franklinmontez8733 cool thanks

[@impishlyit9780]

17:03 The Prophet strikes again! Excellent demonstration Danya.

[@marc149]

Thanks Danya ❤

[@jamesvanderbilt6200]

"He promoted and i didnt so he won that particular game" 😭😭

[@RG001100]

"maybe it was a mouse slip ... or maybe he was too tired to move his queen all the way to e4"

[@ScarletGensokyo11961]

He’s actually pretty funny lol

[@CalebJCourtney]

Babe, I can’t help with the kids, a new Danya video just dropped.

[@blueberryoatmeal4009]

You're not our dad, stop calling mom "babe"

[@wouterh808]

Thanks, Daniel, for your positive energy always!

[@arikbrod3608]

Danya I hope you'll get to see this comment🙏 First of all I think we all hope that you're fine! we miss your content and still eagerly waiting for the speedrun to continue. Secondly, I'd like to take the time and thank you for the amazing job you do as an instructor - as an instructor myself in other things I can tell somebody is a good instructor when I see one. you're a professional! the you explain you're thoughts is just amazingly clear and simple and that's why IMO you're the best online chess content creator! One last thing I just have to mention - when a video of yours is released I must say it's not an exaggeration, that's literally the thing that makes my day better no matter what. it's so satisfying!! Keep up with the great work you do, much appreciation. Best regards and please come back soon!

[@peter_castle]

In game 2 there is way too many cuts that save split seconds or a couple of seconds. They are not worth it, one can easily increase the speed to 1.25x or 1.5x if one believes the video is slow. If the opponent thinks for 20 seconds and Danya doesn't say anything it makes sense. But cutting 3 seconds of Danya thinking on 16:44 for example makes it less human in my opinion, or cutting at the beginning of the game literally 1/2 seconds of video.

[@ThomasGahagan-qc2wv]

Hi Daniel. Thank you for sharing your board vision and talent on your channel. Kramnik is probably jealous of your large audience and perhaps realises that antagonisizing high volume youtube talent with wild accusations means he gets more views on his channel. Seems he is more into getting attention and views to tap into high volume channels comments. Peace and blessings be with. Try not to get riled by his antics. You are a really talented player and even more important you can explain games so well that even a patzer low rated player like me can see things I didnt even know where hidden in the game. Unlike Kramnik. He may be a superstar player but he really has such a vile ego and cant handle fact he no longer at top of game.

[@andrewunthank3521]

Thanks for another instructive lesson!

[@pax1913]

I love seeing Danya play the Sicilian, even if I'm more of a Dragon guy. He's the reason I took it up instead of the Caro-Kann and I'm having way more fun with it :)

[@andrewbates8076]

Best chess content on youtube. At my best I was rated 2148 and I find this very informative and almost always learn something.

[@MasonRVs]

¡Gracias!

[@Thatotter223]

vampire chicken is screaming

[@jakemartin3687]

Hi Danya! I have recently rekindled my love for your speed run videos!! I love your content, KZbin recap gang for life

[@dobry_brek]

Sorry Anna Cramling, your video will have to wait.❤

[@scheimong]

The truth hurts

[@964746568]

Anna! Chesshub super star!😂😂

[@PawnKingOG]

I’m a simple man. I see the sensei upload a speedrun episode, I put off my responsibilities to watch

[@fredrickmuruga1319]

Danya was overwhelmed with checkmate ideas 😂😂

[@handsomebutshy]

"There is no reason to seek adventure" - Daniel Naroditsky 18:05

[@matthewhunt1674]

I'd love to see a "FIGHTING BACK SPEEDRUN" where rather than showing how to gain an advantage in the opening, Danya doesn't play critically and instead lazily falls into the opponent's first trap. Then he gets to teach how to fight back from such a blunder. Because this happens to all of us at every level - falling into a trap because we haven't seen it yet, or just missing the opponent's idea - and I think we'd gain a lot by learning how to fight back in those situations.

[@mitchsmix269]

Danya not sure if you read these but I was wondering if you would consider doing a gambit speedrun at some point in the future. Basically trying to play a gambit or gambit style game every time and aiming for mostly attacking and tactical style games. I dont think theres really anything on youtube like this from the major creators (except hikarus botez gambit speedrun which is a bit different) and I feel like it would be very entertaining and informative (and probably good fun for you as well)

[@Hotzendoodel]

Eric Rosen has great gambit content.

[@mitchsmix269]

@@Hotzendoodel very true hes one of my favorites, but still doesnt have exactly what im talking about

[@aristodemosii.1980]

There is an Evans Gambit speedrun from GM Jack Li: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnrVapSkoL2trrs

[@mariuszpudzianowski8400]

Oh yeah, he played King's Gambit in one speedrun vid years ago and it was amazing. Generally not-so-sound openings would be great especially the ones Danya plays in his own time like Alekhine, Modern.

[@michalrehacek3462]

If you are looking for gambit content don’t forget to check out Johnathan Schrantz

[@JustStop19]

Has been falling pretty badly from my 1300 rating, almost ended up at 1000, because I wasn't training at all, stopped watching Danya and played under the influence of coke... Recently started watching Danya again and voila! I am back at 1200, having a nice streak! Thanks, Master Danya!

[@vm0033]

This is such a random yet specific comment in the vast internet, but it hit close to home for me. Just wanted to say congrats to u, keep it up man it’s worth more than any powder :))

[@JustStop19]

@@vm0033 glad it was something you can relate to. Thank you so much, and good luck to you as well!

[@jameslambert1704]

Danya is so calm and controlled in those positions where my heart rate would be a solid 160

[@odietejoseph4603]

Seriously. He is so good. But it's expected, he is definitely one of the top bullets player in the world

[@rgqwerty63]

35:49 "once the bishop is trapped the game is over" and proceeds to show a bunch of different ways for white to blunder the game away 😂. Glad you showed he refutations though since it can be tricky to convert positions where youre up a piece with but with an exposed king

[@Maheshrapal]

what is perfection? -our bro teaching❤

[@petertepaev4475]

Спасибо за Вс8, благодаря которому я узнал о твоих спидранах.

[@ChinaFinalBoss67]

Every time I see your video recommended I instantly click on the video and like because I already know the video is gonna be good lol

[@endoline8221]

W thumbnail

[@bikedoc59]

Thanks!

[@kurosakiichigo7475]

Best thumbnail ever lol

[@archibaldmcglasson7111]

New ep about to drop, I can feel it

[@Shankapxtomus]

God I love Danya videos

[@odietejoseph4603]

The best

[@tonyaglioti555]

“Not everyday…like the Roman Empire” 🤣🤣🤣

[@Sun-gs6hq]

Glory has returned!

[@SimonProvencher-z5m]

Hey Danya, would you consider doing a bullet speedrun? Since you're amongst the best bullet player around and with your amazing explanations, I'm sure you could find a way to share valuable insights and would make it different than your other speedruns. Cheers !

[@gregghutchence]

Danya seems tired playing the 1300s we seemed to go through them quicker in previous speedruns. 1800-2000 is the juiciest

[@RG001100]

8:41 I recently faced the elephant gambit (apparently not for the first time), and it was much better once I found myself in this position; although I didn't find that intermezzo.

[@arashvahabpour942]

We ask for more Danya videos

[@boaz7028]

as a 1200 rapid 900 blitz, seeing him disassemble an 1800 blitz like that is both inspiring and demotivating the roasts on the 130s make me feel bad but they're pretty funny 😅

[@Zyrexia]

Random question but, is there any opening lab video planned? It's been quite a while and I would love to see more in that amazing series

[@scotth6244]

Danya …. Come back buddy

[@Dayorpheus]

Danya can you please make a video showcasing the " papa ticulat Gambit " where you play 2. b3 against the french defence as it is a very tactically rich like the fantasy variation and is very fun to play Love from India❤

[@964746568]

Shout out to Jonathan "vampirechicken" Schrantz, elephant gambit extraordinaire! Super fun elephant gambit games! Cant talk bad about Risk but please come back for some chess! Danya, could you ask Jonathan to go back to the gambit quest?

[@aldogutierrez6637]

Babe wake up. Daniel uploaded

[@thetransferaccount4586]

speed drawn is good

[@blunderghostchess]

I liked this video before watching!

[@ACStuart]

Naroditzky speedrun video good. AI thumbnail bad.

[@RG001100]

32:27 Marc Esserman mentioned :D

[@matteopriotto5131]

You can bet he was yelling GET BANNED IN THE FACE in that position

[@Gragon]

Hi. I understand that youre super busy with chess but would you consider making history videos on another channel? You have an amazing voice for narratie, Id love to learn history from you. Im sure many others would do too.

[@berndwind]

That last game looked like a Vienna reversed! Exactly the same line I use as black against that opening, but a tempo down. 😅

[@michaelkugel2061]

Ready for next episode when you are Danya! Fuck the haters

[@garrettshuler7738]

would you ever consider covering the taimanov sicilian?

[@mariuszpudzianowski8400]

I sometimes wonder how would a speedrun on Lichess look like considering that rapid pool there is... interesting to say the least.

[@oznoone6892]

What do you mean ?

[@mariuszpudzianowski8400]

@@oznoone6892 If I could go a week without a cheater I'd be a happy man

[@oznoone6892]

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 wow, that sucks indeed

[@StephenRahrig]

Is it just me or is Danya extra sassy on this one

[@adlex1212]

That's a bunch of hot air.

[@The_Noticer_of_Things]

I cannot believe the Jerome Gambit was an incorrect answer. Very, very rare for the Jerome to not be the BY FAR best choice.

[@MrDanielfff777]

Good night big bro

[@irvingantonio1981]

Why is he not streaming currently?

[@whatsup_3554]

Is there any indication as to when his KID course is coming out?

[@jkarush]

2 weeks is too long bro. Just too long. You got us hooked…

[@prplt]

finally I see f5 and fxe4 (what I play), at this point 67% play the wrong Nxe4 and only a third knows the move that Danya played, after that my line is Bb4 and the top engine move for white is Qh4+, wonder if Danya would have played that 😂 btw in that position after g6 you are supposed to play the counterintuitive Nxc6 instead of the natural Nxg6 which is a mistake (engine is saying 0.0 but after Nf6 Qh4 Rg8 Ne5 Nxd4 black has an over 80% win rate in the lichess database!) also this is called Winawer Defense or Gothic Defense/Gambit and not the Latvian Gambit

[@crazyboysince1998]

But whenever I have superior central control they play c5 or f6 and it crumbles. then I go cry

[@steakmonday8380]

Lets gooooo

[@Sun-gs6hq]

Why is Nxe5 preferred than exd5 in the Elephant Gambti?

[@mariuszpudzianowski8400]

exd5 always seemed to have less intuitive follow up for me and it was harder to remember.

[@thingsfromspace]

exd5 is also good, just respond to e4 with qe2

[@NVDumpit]

what book you have about gambits danya

[@samglasnovich4682]

I would love a Russian school boy speedrun

[@KobraaSnakl]

why king d8 is forced here 11:34? cant the opponent just castle?

[@carlosgarrido3059]

FUN FACT: I subscribed to this channel to give support against Kramnik. But I quit enjoy the context ❤

[@MeviN366]

Hey! My last name is Naroditsky too!

[@cwindewee1558]

Love what your doing although I'll never become a gm Mybe in 15 years I'll reach 1500 big fan Danya and I'd like to see you crush Hans as he suggested he wanted to Train with you 😆 lol "any website "

[@AP0PT0SIS]

Danya is better in bullet and Hans is better in blitz so that gives you some idea of how their training matches would go.

[@KF1]

My adblock is having trouble dealing with the volume of bs. If you want me to patreon, pls guarantee I can watch your vids clean. Love your teaching, just yt is a conflict. let's say I patreon, month by month. What assurance is there that I won't be inundated by ads?

[@KF1]

This is why Chess-Network is the best channel. You can 100% guarantee there will be no interruptions mid-video. He's "only" 2900 bullet, but the respect for the audience counts for much more.

[@crazyboysince1998]

Anyone ever play chess and you are a peice up, then you do a few equal trades and all of a sudden you're missing a peice? I think my opponent stole it when I wasnt looking to be honest.

[@janicobrackenmillioniarely1617]

Hmm did u hang the bishop

[@JiveDadson]

Why do presenters always skip further ado? Maybe some of us _like_ ado. Ever think of that?

[@JosephCatrambone]

You may enjoy "Much Ado About Nothing."

[@JiveDadson]

@@JosephCatrambone Possibly. I have previously.

[@dr.destroy_clash_royale4279]

This episode felt so rushed, but I guess danya can’t help it if the opponents play like psychos

[@LorraineYoung-p8o]

Botsford Park

[@jaikumar826]

Please upload new video sir

[@mogumogu1996]

am i the only one worried about danya?

[@ahmetruzgar4217]

This is turkish gambit

[@brianbaird5323]

How do you expect me to subscribe when you offer one video per two months?

[@keshavarora7691]

Any way to pay him money for his content?

[@NidusFormicarum]

If you introduced a giraff on the chessboard, how would it move?

[@modolief]

Efficient, instructive conversion of won games.

[@volanqar9360]

fun fact: turks usually call it turk gambit, and the opponent is turkish

[@tboy-007]

second

[@rkdgaming7179]

FUN FACT: not really a FUN FACT

[@andrewunthank3521]

*FUN FACT: If you write FUN FACT people will read it*

[@ui264]

Yeah but I have a counter-point. . . FUN FACT: It needs to be the first line in the statement or people are MUCH less likely to read it.

[@ui264]

10-to-1 ratio'd. Point proven.

[@satkidd.]

@@ui264spam the like button on this guys

[@bjordsvennson2726]

*FUN FACT: If you read FUN FACT people will write it*

[@yusufyusuf1998]

​@@ui264 Your comment is hidden under replies

[@tokkas10]

This is not elephant gambit this is turkish gambit

[@muharremcelik7071]

FM Selim Gürcan liked this

[@adamh5153]

Your videos are great. Very instructional. "speedrun" , at least in my opinion, is a terrible title. It doesnt sound like an instructional video at all. It sounds like pro chess players entertaining themselves. Honestly if I werent exhausted and bored out of my mind i would never have clicked on any of your speed run vids. How does speedrun sound like a useful lesson to anyone? Just my 2¢, intended as constructive criticism from a beginners mindset. Your content is great.

[@Joe-ol4ds]

First

[@michael8815]

Normally like these videos but found the attitude in the first couple of games a little dismissive and aloof.

[@jaylenlenear3944]

Only speedrun really educational or entertaining are those with a real gimmick (botez gambit, no castling, blindfold) it feels unethical just beating up on amateurs who didn’t sign up for it at no risk to the master because not playing from his own account

[@ricardosousa1113]

Best moment of the day Danya Video 🥹🤞

[@ayushpandey9994]

anyone with higher ratting that can help me sometimes to improve in chess via discord please respond i am 1100 rated i would realy apperiate if someone could give me their time