00:00 Grünfeld is Busted?!?
02:55 intro
03:03 First Move
03:10 Game
24:11 Analysis
39:23 Example Game
41:52 Back to the Game
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accelerated defeat is a nice opening
at 31:10 white could continue the forced tactical sequence 16.B-c5 counter attacking the blacks kings rook. I don't think that black wins the exchange but he can get a slight advantage according MCO. There was a game between Fritz 2-Kasparov that continued with 16…Bxd3 17.Bxf8 Bxf1 18.Bxg7 Bxg2 19.R-g1 Kxg7 20.Rxg2 Rb8 and according to MCO 15 edition this is slightly better for Black. Although I am not sure how an amateur like myself could prove it.
41:10 why doesn't nd7 followed by f6 not work?
Gg
It's dumb not to stuudy theory, and the people who blindly parrot "Openings don't matter till rank 2000" are doing just that parroting. If you ask them to explain their statement, they can't. You can study theory day 1 of chess. I couldn't get past rank 400 having never played chess ever, before the age of 42,I'm 43 now, and I couldn't maintain 500 elo. I played for a couple months, watched youtube videos, then I purchased actual courses. I studied and learned the first 2 moves, then the next, and kept adding onto what I had memorized, while doing that I learned the ideas of the openings. Most importantly studying openings got me two very important things to speed up my learning that I couldn't have done without buying courses. 1. It stopped me from making new player mistakes as much, like chasing bishops weakening my pawn structure. 2. It got me consistent positions on the board because my play was consistent, and at certain levels people play surprisingly consistent, and as you rank up the play changes but will always remain consistent with about 2 variations of what people do 90 percent of the time. This means I didn't have to think if my pieces were safe after a while in the openings, in certain positions I just knew what to play and what was safe, and what was going to happen. I'm around 1200 now and just crushing 1100 ranked players with ease. Openings 100 percent matter, and studying theory and learning the general ideas will only help you.So thanks Daniel for actually saying that, I've gotten into arguments online over this, and even posted a comment on chess.com regarding people sayinig this, because it just is untrue, no one can explain that statement, and it's just 100 percent false. If you don't study anything, what ends up happening is you make the same mistakes over and over, and instead of developing good habbits, you are actually developing terrible habbits which are harder to break later. If you study from teh get go or as early as possible you can focus on good habbits and not have to fix your bad habbits later.
These videos are solid gooold. Thanks for sharing so much knowledge!
I love how you just get on with the chess and don't bother with all the, "look at me, I'm clever" stuff… Thanks for a real lesson
Dante
I have been your biggest fan man. Thanks for existing
I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS
Will you saw hi to my hamster Harold
as always a great instructive video, thanks for the coaching!
Hell yeah brother
Your teaching style is such a universal gift, Mr Danya, so good
Daniel
11th!!
My thoughts have always been, is that if you aren't expected to know the Grunfeld (or comparable complex opening) at your level because it's too complex, wouldn't it also mean that neither would your opponent? Sure your opponent could memorize an obscure line but as a Grunfeld player myself the vast majority of people at intermediate and above just play into the typical Exchange Variation or occasionally some sort of Russian System. Your opponent isn't going into some obscure 20 move deep line to crush you, so why is it any different then playing an opening like the Italian or Ruy Lopez that has immense theory but is still recommended to intermediate and above players. The Grunfeld may be very theoretical but if you study the main continuations and ideas, it's completely viable at intermediate as long as you learn as you go and look at the engine after games that went into territory that you didn't know.
I was having a boring night, then I got the notification for this vid. Thanks Danya!
this is exactly how my elo rating got so high in bullet. People often do robotic premoves in bullet and you can catch some people off guard with the fianchetto bishop
I just got 2200 online rating today. My 1000-1800 journey was seriously not that hard with self study and random youtube videos/ chess books, but cracking 2000 has always been such a challenge till I started binging Danya! He truly has helped me with so much and he gave me much insight on things that I never would've been aware if not for all his speedrun videos and the puzzle videos. I really think this shouldn't be free not gonna lie but ayyy not gonna complain. I hope to see more educational stuff from you in the future. Keep doing what you're doing 😀 ALSO Please publish (another) book! It would be very cool
The problem I have run into with trying to learn theory at lower level is the absolutely but level of cheating
Danya makes learning openings, and chess in general, fun instead of boring
17th
First episode where I know more theory than danya lol
Me at 2000+ CC, hearing Danya emphasize the importance of studying openings, knowing full well I didn’t study all that much theory:
Intense sweating
I don't know that folks contest that learning theory is the best way to improve your rating quickly. But it depends what you are optimizing for. Lots of people especially beginners want to just play on principles/have fun and the idea of learning a chessables course to be competitive in the sicilian or grunfeld is just very unfun. Clearly the person asking the original question is willing to, and so should, but idea that the average beginner is going to memorize lines in the grunfeld and have fun doing it is doubtful.
24:01 I find to be a very cool mate. Both queens are on “defended” squares but it doesn’t matter.
How does the accel dragon rank in terms of aggressive Sicilian variations? Thinking of getting into sicil since it’s hard to get staffords and pirc is hit or miss vs e4 players.
I'm utterly convinced that memorizing positions and moves exercises some of the same gray matter needed for calculation, to the point where studying theory aids in learning to calculate more deeply and accurately.
Man do I appreciate your channel more and more every day, I've been on a binge.
World class is all I can say 💜
Hey Daniel, you should do a series where you face the highest level of Stockfish using various openings. Then analyze the game afterwards, explaining the ideas that Stockfish and you were trying to implement. I think it would be really fun and fascinating to watch Stockfish play against a grandmaster and then having a grandmaster who's also a great teacher like yourself explain all the ideas. Especially since some of the ideas Stockfish comes up with are completely counter-intuitive and can go against all basic principles. It could be a great learning experience for you and us and who knows, you might even win a game!
I would like to suggest my own way of choosing openings, I also thought that I should avoid some openings because it's a lot of theory but it's not always like that. I decided to pick my openings and lines based on me being able to control how the opening continues, for example: sicilian, Grand Prix; caro-kann, Fantasy, French, KIA. Or from different move orders with d4: Queen's Gambit declined, Nf3 because I play the Catalan; I play d4 e6 c4 g3 to avoid some Queen's indian lines and other unique lines against other stuff. But with black is bit more difficult, basically you have to respond to the oponent but it doesn't have to be complicated and just learn a little at a time.
Grunfeld is goated but not at low levels
Even in the Maroczy Bind, black has a new line that scores quite well, playing a5 and a4, attacking the base of whites pawn chain on the queenside instead of the head of the pawn chain.