2025.10.25

Welcome back everyone

I'm glad to have taken that unplanned break of a week from uploading. I was really out of it ever since I heard the sad news of Daniel "Danya" Naroditsky's passing: https://www.chess.com/news/view/grandmaster-daniel-naroditsky-dies-at-29 

I read the news from that chess.com link about 2-3 hours right after it was uploaded Monday morning and then mid-day Monday the chess.com forums started showing up with this. I knew a lot of people would cover this in YouTube videos and I had that thought too, but I figured there would be enough about it online and it would be more positive to continue educational content on other things like Danya would have wanted. Danya's channel was one of my main channels of inspiration before creating my YouTube channel. I wanted to have a similar educational community and quality chess content.

Anyway, onto this video though: Halloween is approaching and so this crazy attacking variation was an intriguing video idea and especially since it's not the popular Halloween gambit (that's a possible video idea as well).

I also had a community post with Mittens the chess cat and it's gotten a few Likes, but no comments yet, so stop by to check it out and share something about this cute (although dangerous!) chess cat. 

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxFb5d3Q9Qc7M_c9utxyYw8MsmBggdVos8