The Alapin Sicilian | The Sensei Speedrun | Grandmaster Naroditsky
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- 00:00 Intro
17:00 Analysis
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I hear Danya narrating my games when I play now.
*I go E4*
*Opponent goes E5*
"Great move by my opponent. He's clearly underrated.
*Opponent develops normally*
"A good move but a bit passive. Let's open the centre!"
*Opponent tries an attack*
"A good move. But unfortunately, my opponent misses my Bishop's potential energy & the fact his Knight is a type 2 undefended piece & the Queen IS the weakest defender. Yeah. Take, take, then boom goes the dynamite. That's game over!" 🤣
I'm constantly talking about bishops biting on granite because of Daniel
I hear Danya when I play too. Whenever I play a move I hear 'that was a decisive mistake'
Be sure to add a few strange analogies that don't quite work.
_"Ok! Our position is completely winning, but at the moment, imagine we have a winning lottery ticket, but we're in the middle of a warzone..."_
Also the bittersweet "This is total collapse"
"and now I get shown to be the fraud that I am" 😭
Opponent: he’s taking a long time he must be in trouble
Daniel: so this is a tactical blunder and we have a few ways to end this game
Hi Daniel. I've been having a really tough time lately with life. Your videos are always a welcome distraction. Thank you for sharing your insight. Cheers.
Same story with me bro!!
Stay Strong
Daniel is awesome ❣️❣️
Sorry to read this, mate! It will get better 😊
Hang in there, fellas.
Hope everything turns good for you 👍
I’m sorry that things are down for ya, wishing the best ✊🏾
damn I got destroyed - it was an honor to play you!
Thanks for going easy on me :) @DanielNaroditsky
my friend @bretraybould follows you and told me about it haha
i should really play with an alias haha
You played well considering your opponent was Danya
I can't stress enough how much enjoyable and educational your videos are.. You're just a great addition to the chess spectrum.. And we love you. All the best Dani💖
Discovering daniel after only having seen hikaru’s chess content is amazing- having someone actually explain the logic in a comprehensible manner just feels so constructive and helpful in comparison
@@SwogFrog So true 🙏
I'd argue he's a good addition to the speedrunning community.
"You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs."
- Sensei Danya
lol he didnt invent the phrase or anything
He learned that from Ultron
Making the mother of all omelettes here chat, can‘t fret over every egg
@@wallstreetmonky6797 well yeah that's obvious. I just like how he uses the phrase
@@Grannyknockers "well yeah that's obvious. I just like how he uses the phrase"
- Lance H.
I found one of your videos (been watching Gotham chess a ton) and have been hooked. You already know this, but teaching is a gift and you have it! I've stopped watching the other channels and watch your videos. For example this video is FULL of instructional points that can be put to use by us chess lovers who are not high level players. This channel will keep getting bigger as people find it. Watched several but never thanked you.
" There's a positional reason and then there's a tactical reason." Love it. AND the tactical reason is really instructive. You repeating your responses in the openings really helped refine the repertoire, which i yoink gratefully ofc. Thanks sensei
Ps and again i'm amazed by your memory of past games. The game referenced itself is instructive of course (once again)
Danya flexing with his latest sub
Dude, you're absolutely awesome. I'm learning so much! Thank you
Danya thanks for all the detailed videos! The most instructive games on CZcams fr. Can’t imagine how much further behind I’d be without the insight I’ve gotten from your GM perspective. Thanks again!
Truly inspiring and invaluable educational content. Thank you Danya!
getting baited by Danya's phone at 6:05
Daniel, it's really great to have access to your GM class lessons. They are very instructive. Thanks a ton.
I need to watch your videos several times...so instructive. Thanks!
Great series bruh, keep them coming!
I was half way through the last speed run video when I got the notification that the new video was out. It's definitely a good night!
another great video by Danya. his explanations make sense and I have been using them (and puzzle rush) to improve significantly
This was one of the best lessons. You are the greatest teacher! Very clear line of thoughts
Agreed - they're all great, aren't they ?
But this one in particular has just so much in it.
Excellent video as usual... I really appreciate your content
Just hit 1700 rapid today for the first time since I started playing 1 year ago and I seriously owe that progress to your speedrun videos.
Thanks, Danya
Not only a fantastic instruction but also some serious lessons about how to approach things in life..."we pass that bridge when we get there" is an example... Epic content Dania!
12:20 "Unassailable..."
That is my favorite word in the English language, as it embodies the nature of my Balrogian existence.
You're videos make you a hero to adult improvers everywhere. Thank you for breaking it down and expanding on tactics and positioning.
Great video. I was stuck at low rating for long time. Your videos helped me a lot to improve my rating. Thanks
I literally won’t eat my food if i don’t have a naroditsky video to watch
Whenever you ask "does that make sense?" It always does.
Consistently great content!
Great video! I've been applying everything you say into my games and have seen massive improvement over my chess journey so thank you very much for that; also, I like the hair. 👍
Hi Daniel, great video as always :)
Amazingly in the position at the end of the video, the correct move is Rxa6, and after black recapture with his rook, white plays Qc4 and black can't save the rook due to the threat of Bxd7 followed by Qc6+. A very nice puzzle !
I consistently have issues with bishop development because of those aggressive knight moves and aside from kicking a bishop away or stopping bishops from pinning I didn’t understand a3/h3 moves. Now I see they help develop bishops. So thank you very much.
Every time I play my inner voice is danya and I'm like "ah, passive move, let's just continue our developme-ive blundered my queen"
I started playing chess at the age of 24 & struggled a lot to gain even some average ELO rating. Then I realised people are already GM at the age of 12. Through this game is not for me & I was about to quit playing, untill I discovered Danya. Here we can find help for every ELO rating range. Thank you so much man, you are the GOAT.
We love you so much Daniel thanks for the educational content ♡♡♡
Daniel is a treasure to the chess community. Keep it up!
Wow. Best chess opening video. I'll have to try the Alapin now.
I've recently started looking into studying your games because you're one of the most brutally effective attackers I've seen on the GM level, especially in faster formats. Watching methodical positional chess is fine. But seeing your attacking games satisfies some sort of savage hunger. It's difficult to explain. I'd love to see you in the Candidates Tournament, if only to see how you compete at the highest possible level.
I think part of your genuis is in how honestly humble you are in your ability.
Daniel, this is the 12th time you've brought the Alapin Sicilian to class for show and tell. Jokes aside, great content as always!
0:59
Guess he really is "the prophet"
It's crazy that people play the Sicilian without knowing a handful of moves against the Alapin.
Naraditsky is an underrated grandmaster.
i never really understand where to put my bishops and this helped me think about it a little better
Omg my worlds are colliding!!!!!!
Hey Daniel, I think you could be a top player if you stopped streaming. But I think you being a teacher is better for the universe
Why give up what you enjoy doing? And I think Danya is already top player.
He just beat Caruana not long ago.
Thank you for the content! Would love to see you break down the English opening even if it’s not something you play often
After watching this video i had a game that looked exactly like this game, slight minimal differences. In the opening. Very different middle game but it was cool to watch this video and have a game that was so similar right after.
This series really compliments Aman Hambletons building habits series, GM Hambo shows you how to build the principles, GM Naroditsky shows you how to think concretely about the current position
agreed. i've learned basically everything i know about chess from those two. it's been good enough to get me to 1500 without any other real studying. amazing teachers
@@crushedscouter9522 right on man! I managed to get to 1500 before finding habits, but I studied quite a bit comparing my openings to the masters database replaying my endgames against stockfish. I just had the worst habit of burning way too much clock looking for "the best move" that my superior position didn't matter in the end, since finding habits I've been much more comfortable on my side of the board making safe moves rolling with the punches, I've even discovered the strategy of completely running my opponent out of moves achieving zugswang in the mid game lol
Especially good video
Great stuff Daniel! I love this format. The only other guy I know doing similar videos is Israelian IM Asaf Givon, he’s great as well.
latest sub: amoutanth 😂😂😂
Nice!
Shafi Hossain is a great comedian! Definitely missed this the first time I watched this video.
16:42 Wow! Did not expect GM to blunder so hard!! It's mate obv in 3
Thanks to you, I love the Alapin and it's my main response to the Sicilian, with some 60% win rate!
More like this!
New video, lets gooooooo
follow up for ra6 is qc4 its totally crushing hitting the rook and getting ready for bxd7 followed by qc6 check and bb6 making black sacrifice the queen with mate to come
We love u ❤️
Man, after Ba6, he had Rxa6 winning a piece, I can't believe he miss that, but still, great game, Daniel is a great teacher, I am learning so much
No then Black plays Rxa6 and White can't recapture due to the pin. If White tries Bxd7+ then Black can simply play Kxd7 and the Rook on h8 would then defend the Queen on b8.
@@michaelholm4572 after black rock takes in A6, Qc4, and when the black rock moves you take the knight in D7, the black king can't recapture because he will lose the queen after Qc6, Kd8 and Bb6. I was very proud for finding this, but I think is not that hard for a great GM as Daniel
27:41 Why not Rxa6 Rxa6, Bxd7+?? because ...Kxd7 uncovers the h8- Rook to defend Black's Queen
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The position at 11:00 after ...Qb8 is so cramped it's almost kinda funny. It's like the depressing version of a pawn cube, tucked away in the corner in a way that gives every single piece no possible moves.
I wish i understood chess half as well as you do
A4 move is the most underrated IMO
Opponent : i think messed up on the middle game
Danya : wrong fool. You messed up on the 8th move not controlling the center
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiatttttttt good ol Alapin
wow amouranth is a danya sub
Sensei cheffed up another one. I played this with black and it worked the same. Even though I missed a hung rook in 1 in the endgame
The best
Hello Daniel. First of all, thank you for the videos.
I hit 1300 around a month ago but got sort of stuck there. Far too often I misplay the middle game by either having no correct plan or, what feels even more bothersome to me, by having no plan at all. Especially with black. I mostly play Sicilian and if the opponent chooses to play it closed and castles early I just have a hard time spotting any weaknesses or generating any attacking ideas. As the speedrun games get tighter and your opponents stop losing out of the opening (hopefully) could you please talk more about how to spot positional weaknesses or how to play "dry" positions where baddies like me feel like there are very few purposeful moves at all.
Thank you.
Honestly for your rating Levy's (GothamChess) video on closed positions might be quite helpful as a starter in case Danya doesn't get to it soon. The main key points in a closed position are to identify pieces and pawns which, if they were completely removed, would collapse your opponents position. Things like backward pawns are great points to target, as well as places where the opponent cannot easily manoeuvre their pieces to defend. The benefit of a closed position is that you get a lot of time to shift your pieces around and get them where you want them to be.
Focus on getting mainly knights and the queen into positions where you can try to sacrifice a piece or use a pawn break to crack open the board and give yourself massive activity. Whilst bishops and rooks are less useful in closed positions, you can, especially with rooks, manoeuvre them to places where you intend to create open lines, so that as soon as the board opens up you already have your pieces in the optimal position. Thinking and playing aggressively doesn't always mean just throwing pieces at the king, it's also about trying to quickly move to a point of attack. If you shuffle passively you give your opponent the chance to get the breaks advantageous to them. Whereas if you're faster with the positioning and attacks, then your opponent has to play reactively, and you get control over the pace of play.
Very nice. At the end ...Ba6 the best response is actually Rxa6, but the follow-up Qc4 is very hard to see without an engine (not Bxd7+??). Puzzle-like position.
I was looking for this comment. I thought it was Bxd7 until i just realized that the king takes back and the other rook defends the queen
Put Danya’s content in an underground vault so if there is a nuclear Holocaust the speed runs will survive for mankind when they rebuild 🤯
Hi Daniel I love your instructive videos. I would love to see more collaborations with Chessbase India, and I'm sure many others would too. Please consider doing this
Yeah, Alapin Sicilian (learnt it from Danya's videos) and its brother delayed Alapin (learnt it from Aman's videos) are both excellent openings and I often get decisive advantage out of opening. Caro-Kahn is easy to deal with as well. I do have difficulty against French though.
If you are having problems with the advanced french structure, here are some typical ideas:
Don't be afraid to give up the d4 pawn. Often times white will have an enormous kingside attack in exchange. Learn some common french ideas. Attack on the kingside where your pawns point towards and you have more space. Qa4 to Qg4 maneuver to pressure g7 and make black uncomfortable to castle. You have to trust that the time you gain by giving up a pawn and developing pieces is worth more than a single pawn. The french bishop is real. Often times you end up playing up a piece in the middlegame due to the black's light square bishop.
Typically all your pieces are poised to attack the black king as white. Usually you have your light square bishop on the d3-h7 diagonal, where it pressures the h7 pawn. the dark squared bishop is often times in the c1- h6 diagonal, where it can can sacrifice or pressure the g7 pawn with Bh6 (usually with Qg4 pinning the g7 pawn the blacks castled king) .The queen can maneuver itself to the g-file with Qa4-Qg4 or after moving the f3 knight. The f3 knight itself can jump to g5 to pressure h7/f7. Usually castling queenside is very dangerous for black. So your pieces are better placed to attack the kingside.
You can also try the king's indian attack against the french (daniel has a video on it).
Alapin works really well, 9/10 times people play exactly as Danya's opponent at low levels, and you get a nice center. I play the Caro as black myself, works decently well, but actually have trouble against both the French and the Caro Advanced, even though it should be a testing variation with more space for white. I just tend to lose those advanced pawns when the opponent has the simple plan of piling up on the base of my pawn chain. Never know whether to hold on to those for dear life or create counterplay somehow. Which is why I actually just play the exchange, where it is just a simple game and my opponents do not seem to have that much experience with. That being said, I am only 1100 blitz so opening details aren't really relevant at all, but they are fun to think about! Thanks for the tips!
You should do a Speedrun where it's all traps/gambits
Hey danya i love the informative speedruns however it would be really nice if you did some other variations of the Sicilian other than the alapin. You've done the dragon and that was useful as i play against the sicilian a lot but never play the alapin or against the alapin.
Did you upgrade your mic? It sounds way better than it did not too long ago
a4 is very instructive
Ba6 was not the only move for the opponent to stay on the game. In fact, Bc8 seems better, and I checked it twice in stockfish 16
I feel like that midgame structure looks like so many games I've had.
Chess as asphyxiation.
His poor poor opponent.
I’m beginning to get the idea how a move might be effective at a given level of play & how which moves are acceptable can be a relative judgement. Tricky business for my tiny brain🙏
I’m surprised how many people that play Sicilian don’t know the proper way to respond to 2.c3 it’s one of the most common moves!
a lot of people on that level play casually and dont study theory at all. and im one of them. i play exactly what the opponent here played but ill fix that from now on lol
@@Mikesco10 I understand not studying theory but it’s well worth people’s time to look at the openings 3 moves deep on opening explorer . Are you deciding on playing d5 or Nf6 against c3 from now on?
@@Justchillin145 i like d5
@@Mikesco10 nice best of luck to you in your games
“But ok”
At 27:41
If the rook captures a6. Why does he assume that we take the rook back with the bishop? Our aim should be to capture the knight on d7 with the bishop. As he said himself.
So for example:
Rxa6 Rxa6
Qc4 Ra8
Bxd7
How can I reach you for lessons? I know new students may have a long wait list but I feel so driven by your teaching style!
"latest sub: amouranth" damn i didn't know she watches chess
can you show more closed sicilian variations like the grand prix?
Sensei I am obviously not complaining I love ur videos they are very instructive and you are a great teacher.
But I was also wondering if maybe there could be some more variety when it comes to openings....??
And I am not against the italian, the QG, the alapin sicilian, but I would love to learn more about certain openings, for example open sicilian,scandinavian, modern defense, and other things against 1.d4 like the nimzo indian, the bogoindian, the gruenfeld, and maybe even play 1.c4 with white.
Again I am not complaining in fact I really apreciatte what u do, I just think it would be interesting to see more of ur great chess understandind on the form of other openings.
Thank u!!!.
d5 was best right after …d6, unprepared opponents often end up losing their knights very fast
Rxa6 is the best move after Ba6, I think danya saw it, but didn't consider because black can get some compensation, although it's the best move according to engine
Now I see that he simply missed Bxd7 Kxd7 Qxb8
Can you do the Sicilian: Bowdler variation?? I've seen plenty of it at my level and wonder what all the theory is.
Does anyone have any hints for getting out of a chess rut? I seem to be going through a phrase where I can’t see forks, discoveries, weak squares etc. Any recommendations for how long a break to take or anything else?
Question around 15:05 - what is the drawback of moving the rook on f1 to c1? I only heard Danya's commentary to move a1 to c1. Any added commentary here would be appreciated. Thank you!
At 13:54 if Ba6 can you still prevent castling with Bxd7 Kxd7 Qa4+?
Mr. Naroditsky suggests 2...d5 and 2...Nf6 as Black's strongest responses to the Alapin. After 2...Nf6, it seems White can induce his opponent into what feels a bit like the Alekhine Defense with 3.e5. How does the inclusion of c2-c3 and c7-c5 change things? Is this better for Black than the mainline Alekhine Defense?
Hey buddy!! ☺️
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Lot of people play d6 here; 0.2 seconds later , his opponent plays d6. Wow
You missed D5 in the starting
27:49 after Rxa6 Rxa6 simple Qc4 decide
3:44 how does Be3 stop Ng4?
Edit: after trying to calculate it I think I can see some complications with the d4 square after hxg4 Bxg4 but not of it seems to work. I'm also not very good at calculating lines past 2 or 3 moves but wanted to practice so I'm obviously missing something
"That's the second idea of h3: we also stop Ng4"
h3 is what stops Ng4 (pawn takes knight).
Don't you have Qc4 after Rxa6 Rxa6?
Latest sub amouranth, hmm sensei?