Master Class | French Defense | Chess Speedrun | Grandmaster Naroditsky

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327 Comments

  1. A fantastic speedrun- thanks Danya – loved it. Good luck with the next idea.

  2. As an intermediate player only two years of playing chess, this series has been invaluable with information. Thank you so much for being such a genuine and articulate teacher. I love the videos.

  3. What an incredible end to this series, devouring a NM like he's a beginner

  4. Daniel, I would like to thank you for your videos. Your patience and ability to teach are impressive. The way you explain how to better understand the game and teach has helped me to improve a lot. Please continue with the great work!

  5. Wow the Kahn academy of chess. Fantastic! You will probably get to a million faster than you think considering the rate at which you're going up, the begging is always the hardest.

  6. "I know I sacrifice some subscribers with a lack of clickbait titles"

    Levy: 😬

  7. Thanks for a very useful and interesting speedrun. I like that you don't go the click-bait route but do it your way and focus on unique high quality content. I hope it will pay off and at least result in 1M subscribers. ♟️👍👍

  8. I really can’t believe this guy doesn’t have more subs!

  9. Appreciate all the lessons you’ve been able to teach me! Any chance you could make a video on the English opening at some point in the future? Not many videos out on it

  10. Daniel 1 million subs is not ambitious at all for someone like yourself! I make music for Minecrafter who literally went from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 subs in about three months, we all support you and I would love to see more content!

  11. A bit late but thank you Dani, you are the best public chess teacher there is! You are amazing!!

  12. Danya your videos are super helpful, you do such a great job. Thank you for all you do!

  13. Amazing content. Really appreciate your insight and thanks for sharing

  14. French players really don’t think you need to develop LOL

  15. Danya, at around minute 20… when you knew that black was going to play Qa6 and also go for d4, could you have played Kh1 instead of Nd2? Kh1 takes the king away of the g file and the g1-a7 dark square diagonal… I was wondering the whole time during the game why you were so comfortable with your king at the junction of those two (well, of course, to your eye it is obvious that black has no way to attack but I am a lowly mortal…)

  16. Long time Gotham chess sub here but I have to admit that this been the most education chess content on YouTube and it’s not even close. Keep it up Danya! More subs to come and for us (hopefully) more elo to come.

  17. Even this speedrun is ended, i need to rewatch again to fully absorb the ideas and tactics

  18. I like this series a lot. Because he teached the fundamental of chess. fancy trick only leads to loss if we forget the order 😂

  19. Danya :e4

    2067 opponent : e5

    Wow no question about it, this guy is good, a brilliant opponent for sure

  20. Your popularity is growing Daniel, and you're pumping out some of the most concise and deployable opening and gameplay strategies. I know you'll reach a million someday.

  21. Rip speedrun, also I beat the NM you played in rapid 🙂

  22. Danya: “I want to hit 1 mill subscribers”
    Me: contributes

  23. Hi Daniel,

    Thank you for your videos – it is a great inspiration for evaluating positions and really helps!

    Is it possible to purchase your books somehow? I fear that they are out of stock.. (germany/europe)

  24. This was so good! Watched all 92 videos in a month.. now its time for the sensei speedrun!! 😅 I would like to see modern scandinavian from black pov!

  25. You learn so much from this. Exactly what I was looking for.
    If anyone minds, he said he would explain why pushing all your pawns in front of your king is not dangerous after this opening. Could someone please have some words on it?

  26. When you finish a 50 hour series with 'all right guys. This was fun.'

  27. Love this series. But it still triggers me he called this a speedrun when it was really a rating climb lol

  28. I´m somewhat new to the chess and I´ve played actively less than a year. I have never understood this ugly move thing. Can someone explain me whats the thing with people hating to do "ugly" looking moves if they are necessary to improve your position? Is it really a ugly move then? Is it some old principle or just purely a visual thing that messes up with the brain?

  29. Upload your blitz and bullet games as well. Upload tournaments. It is definitely going to get you more subs. Just my two cents. You are a great player & the realm of chess needs to see more of you! (At their leisure time, not everybody can make to twitch you know 😅)

  30. Do more videos on the French Defense (different openings for black). This looks very interesting and I know you can come up with some amazing lines. God bless!

  31. Thank you 🙏🏼 that was a great journey, I learned a lot new concepts which improved my play. I had a huge problem with recognising a moment to attack and your advices helped me a lot: not to rush with attack, develop pieces on good squares, making patient moves, defending from opponents ideas. This sounds really simple and it is written in all chess books but being able to follow your thought process was very instructive.

  32. The best chess youtuber if you really want to improve your chess. Love every video, so much information that I have to watch multiple times. I believe in you Danya!

  33. Thanks Daniel for making these series which are very instructional and helped us improve our decision-making in chess.

  34. Such a great teacher.. Great vision, accuracy, positional play and understanding of the game. Explains everything! Respect sr!

  35. Really extraordinary person to get chess funda!

  36. Watched all speedrun videos. You should keep doing speedruns and play all openings ❤

  37. I'm so happy that the speedruns didn't end here.

  38. I've played HighPlains a couple times, won both games in brilliant fashion but he's definitely not weak

  39. First time watching and wow this guy is incredible ! I really like the way he explain every move. Thank you

  40. cant wait until Im rated 2100 so then I can put queen on b2 for the entire attack

  41. Heck yeah no clickbait titles! Ehm….gothamchess…

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