Wait!? Are You Cheating or NOT? | Sicilian Defense | GM Naroditsky’s Top Theory Speedrun

Amazing play under pressure, the way GMs generate counter play in hopeless situations is truly a thing of beauty!

You know it's a shitty day when you cheat and ended up facing a raid boss lmao

It made me so overwhelmingly happy when he got the knight fork and win

Danya has always been very precise with his handling of possible cheaters. He really is the model GM.

Congratulations! You survived Stockfish long enough until your opponent turned it off and immediately walked into a knight fork.

I wish other GMs can stream similar instructive chess. Many times i watched Magnus (and other GMs) play speedrun chess on youtube, and he was just murmuring his moves to the nth level without proper explanation. Danya on the otherhand is the best GM streamer/instructor on Youtube. Learned so much from him. Thanks Daniel. On the side note, Danya's opponent might be Hikaru Nakamura disguising himself also :goodvibes::goodvibes:

I think part of the reason cheater videos are popular is that its hard to get a sense of gm strength when its a 1300 getting exploded, but it comes through more on a video like this. Crazy game!

You can see that he's as great a person as he is a chess player. Great video.

These games are basically story time to me.....well told stories too....good drama, moments of sadness, mystery and so on.

Danya's description of how it feels to play against a cheater is so correct. You just feel like you are blundering every move no matter how fine they seem to be. Your opponent can do things that look like mistakes but all it really does is make you overextend, because it's thinking so far ahead a mistake is actually just positioning. it's so discouraging, no matter what game you are playing. It makes you feel like all your practice and experience is useless. Cheats in general are important to have because they show exploits and give you information you may never have had normally, but when weaponized, it's just so discouraging. It doesn't even really matter if you win or lose. If you win, fine. It doesn't feel like a fun game, it doesn't feel like you earned it.

Holy crap.. i am stunned.. Clicked the video because of the title (i am not imune to a good clickbait)for a casual quick view to see how you would handle a possible cheater/"GMish" smurf on a type of opening that i have played lot and ended up staying glued to the screen for the whole hour and 15 min and learned much more than i was expecting. You really have a talent for teaching along with an absurd talent for chess. Also i really think the internet in general sometimes lacks some coolheaded handling of these situations that i am sure is not easy and turning it all into an even better lesson seems to me like e double win in this case . Keep up the good work!

35:47 best moment of all the speedrun videos this far

40:13 Danya vocalized all of our reactions. What a rollercoaster was that epic trilogy of the Opening, Middlegame, and Endgame against digitalized precision all culminated into one. "What a game!"

Ridiculous game. You’re a legend for this one.

Fun fact: this guy (who eventually was banned for cheating) actually got ANOTHER game with Danya and resigned after 23 moves because of hanging their queen in an already dead lost position.

This video was worth an hour and fifteen minutes. Don't stress over the length of your videos. You are QUALITY content. You can make them as long as you like as long as they are as good as your average video!!! Trust me no one is complaining on the length of these gems!!!

Danya you're a straight up monster! What an epic game. This could have been a disaster but ended up being a very instructive game still. Way to keep your head and be an incredible role model and pull out a magnificent ending!

Daniel, this was a wonderful video. And this whole speedrun series is killing it. Considering that your recommended opening for black in this speedrun is the accelerated dragon, I feel it would be fun if you had 1 video dedicated to the theory of it. I would probably go back to that video after each speedrun game to try to understand how the real life game played out vs the theory. Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Thank you for your time and dedication to making these videos. I love how educational they are. Have a great day, and a great Christmas.

I am happy you still post these games and it is interesting to see you trying to come with desperate ways to to get back material. That was insightful in its own right.

Came here with the modest goal of improving my Sicilian and wow what a rollercoaster this one was. To be honest, it is unfortunate but there'll always be cheaters so it's good to know how to spot them and handle them. No love lost, we're all here to learn