Started 3 Dec: https://www.chess.com/member/senseidanya
He's doing a new Rapid speedrun now, focussing on the basics, and with more middlegames and endgames. He said one criticism of his previous speedruns was that he was stomping opponents out of the opening.
I thought his merited a post since at the beginner to beginner/intermediate level, I'd say Naroditsky's speedrun is the best resource to pick up on positional principles, and you don't really need to look at anything else to learn about positional considerations. At that level, it's just not worth going through a 200-300 page book on positional play.
You can find the speedrun by manually clicking digging through his Twitch video archives. The speedrun segment of the Twitch videos are eventually uploaded to his youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHP9CdeguNUI-_nBv_UXBhw/videos
https://www.twitch.tv/gmnaroditsky/videos?filter=archives&sort=time
Listening to the commentary of the Ding vs. Hikaru SCC match yesterday, I was impressed by how often Naroditsky saw moves that even the players missed. I know he is a good speed chess player, especially in the faster time controls. How come he was just a commentator rather than a participant?
Noticed no one had posted Danya's response and I think its worth a read.
Danya gives his take on the recent chessbae/hikaru situation and also talks about old drama including Botezlive and other streamers
link to google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kyAM8d2XSN0WHyJiLqGItpuFc6G-cqmtzzbXnuTKHtU/edit#
What is the meanjng of this. Simple answer: the cat is out of the bag.
Or even gone higher perhaps?
He stopped playing much classical after 2015 (only 100 odd games in the last 5.5 years) not long after going to Stanford. Even though he was improving pretty steadily before then and was in his developmental prime.
He's also had decent showings in recent rapid tourneys, and is of course a bullet god. Nakamura was recently talking about how super-GMs were underestimating his tactical vision. I also heard Ben Finegold say that Eric Hansen would have easily topped 2700 if he had kept at classical, so I would think the same would be true of Danya...
On the other hand, most stall out before they ever cross the line and it demands incredible consistency and dedication.
Rapid is my favourite time format and it just sucks that I can't see any long games played by my favourite chess streamers. Why is that?
