Does eric know he needs to start again once this speedrun eends

@gabrielleguitarist5043

4 ай бұрын

Why would he need to restart?

@ekskelseor

4 ай бұрын

@@gabrielleguitarist5043because its the best content ever and we would all be devastated if he didn’t 😢

@hippriest8733

4 ай бұрын

Upvoting so he learns

@eric-rosen

4 ай бұрын

I know! I’m thinking of doing a tricky/aggressive openings Speedrun for the next one

@matthewsligh5999

4 ай бұрын

That would be amazing!!!@@eric-rosen

The scariest thing you can hear come out of Eric’s mouth when playing him “I see a funny line “

Eric at 2:15: "My opponent's going for a pretty tricky line..." Opponent, probably: "Hm, my knight's attacked. I guess d4 looks like a reasonable square for it."

@ThatRaisinTho

4 ай бұрын

The way they spent their time made it seem like they knew the trap in the opening they played, but didn’t know anything about the refutation line, that Eric played. Typical of low rated players.

@alperfect9729

4 ай бұрын

He did that on purpose, otherwise he would've played move something like Na5 like most of the players do at that position. I guess it's called elevated blackburne gambit and I played it many times as black also won many games too. The trick is baiting opponent to get forked and most of the time it's tempting for white to play d6 then plot twist happens but experienced players know how to deal it with so I think it's playable for under 1500 rated something.

This speedrun series has helped me improve more than any other chess content on KZread. Much appreciated.

@enslimed

4 ай бұрын

fr fr

@Graceclaw

3 ай бұрын

Highly recommend Daniel Naroditsky's speed runs - he is an excellent teacher.

Easily the best chess series on KZread right now.

Eric’s videos are 10/10 in any habitat

22:30 i think you can win queen instead of recapturing bishop, for rook+knight

@FilipChudarek

4 ай бұрын

Right? I was thinking the same :)

@LastManStanding2012

4 ай бұрын

Wanted to comment the exact same thing :D

@philiprobinson4052

4 ай бұрын

True but giving up a rook and knight for a queen isn't winning as much material as simply taking the free minor piece.

@LastManStanding2012

4 ай бұрын

@@philiprobinson4052 You gonna win the queen for rook and knight PLUS winning the bishop afterwards

@ZeJuggler

4 ай бұрын

Okay good, I'm not just tripping 😅 turns out IMs are human too

Not only is the series good, but God Damn, his voice is so soothing. Embodiment of chess should be played. Pawns down the best series on YT currently.

My inner dialogue when playing chess is Eric’s voice now

@AlexDings

4 ай бұрын

Mine too. My chess hasn't improved, mind you. But the inner monologue of "I guess I hung a piece there" sounds blissful in Eric's serene voice

I love how much Eric teaches with each game. Not just the moves that happened but a few interesting lines that could have happened, or would have been critical. There's a lot to gain from thinking of your next move and then pretty often getting an explanation of why it would/wouldn't have worked and what the alternatives were. Great stuff!

Enjoyed all 23 episodes of this series so far. Thanks for the cool content and the longer episodes Eric!

I've probably learned more about strategy watching this series than anything else I've done in chess. Great series. I'm a really big fan of how well you think out loud... I eagerly await each new entry.

22:35 I think you missed winning the Queen for a rook and knight with Rc1+ Gg's, love the series!

@nicholasdrost693

4 ай бұрын

I saw that too, but giving away your active rook and knight for the queen is actually slightly worse than taking the opponents fairly active bishop. I checked and stockfish gives 2 more points in eric's favor for what he went for in the game. A cool position though

@georgesiaosi2087

4 ай бұрын

@@nicholasdrost693 Nice comment. It crossed my mind but I'm glad you checked it over

@lmabacus404

4 ай бұрын

It does win the queen, but it's not the best move in the position (though still winning). Note that the queen actually has no safe moves in the position, so black's bishop, knight and rook are effectively trapping white's queen and rook. Winning the queen, on the other hand, will either give black the c file or surrender the bishop pair, and gives up a bit of initiative.

1200's against Rosen: *hangs 2 minor pieces in the first 15 moves* 1100's against me: *90% accuracy, 0 blunders/mistakes, 2 inaccuracies*

@al87221

4 ай бұрын

Ikr losing with +80% accuracy at times

@LK-po2rb

4 ай бұрын

The difference is that you aren't playing in a way that puts pressure on your opponents and puts them in situations where they blunder to simple tactics, or feel like they have no real good moves. You're both probably playing basic developing moves that lead to dry, obvious positions where the inaccuracies lead to losing pawns in the endgame after you trade everything down, then 1100s never play for draws so one person eventually converts it. Someone like Eric makes less obvious moves that have threats, which the computer can easily handle but a 1200 crumbles. The analysis won't be impressed that he makes a simple threat, that doesn't mean his opponent responds best. This happens all the time in 1000-1500, where you think you're good because you had high accuracy in a generic London or Caro Kann Advance position where those two inaccuracies lead to someone getting smoked at the higher level because they know how to exploit it. Once the inaccuracy is exploited, it leads to a cascade of blunders/other inaccuracies from the losing side who fail to find strange engine lines that help equalize. Your 80% accuracy at 1100 is not the same as 80% accuracy at 2600.

@rakhatthenut3815

4 ай бұрын

Maybe because eric play opening perfectly unlike you and can capitalize on the minor inaccuracies putting pressure and inducing even more mistakes and blunders? Nonono, it's just YOUR opponents are strong, while eric is beating kids

I appreciate you going thoroughly thru the sequence of thinking when planning the next moves. It’s already helping me in my current games.

Thanks for these videos. They are a great resource to come back to and review.

All the best Eric. Really appreciate your detailed explanation on each episode. Helps a lot :)

This series has been a really great learning experience. It covers the range of expected opponent plays and how to deal with them. You’ve been playing mostly 1.e4, though I’d love to see a similar series with 1.d4

Thank you so much for these videos, I am learning a lot from them!

Very instructive in the. defensive and offensive attack. Helping me see the whole board. Thank you. Really like this speed run series.

thank you for your time . I understand you better then anyone i have watched so far. you have gave me more help then you will ever know

First thing first i would like to tell you that this is my best serie on the internet and it should be longer Also eric should start again this speed run when it ends but with some tricky openings . Thank you so much eric for this fun

Loving the speedrun series! 👌

At 22:37, Rc1+ would have won the queen, right?

@MC-nv4bo

4 ай бұрын

Yea but then he loses the pieces to checkmate

Thank you for these great games.

Woot looking forward to the game recaps!

You are the best chess teacher I found . Kudos. Keep continuing the series

Cheers Eric, keep it coming

Excellent games, thanks for the content.

Thank you for making great videos and being a great human ❤

This is such a great series. Thanks :)

really enjoying this series 👍

Thank you Eric! It is amazing!

I really appreciate these mini opening lessons, I'm often a bit lost when I try to just investigate new lines with the opening explorer and these structured mini lessons are so nice.

@odanobunaga8636

3 ай бұрын

😮😮😮😮😮😮ppl 00

Great job, Eric.

Best series on youtube

Another fantastic educational episode, this is by far my fav series by you and possibly any with regard to educational content on chess. I was wondering if some day you could explore the bishops opening, would love to hear your expert take on it! Hope u see this ❤

Still waiting every day for a new episode..i hope this never ends.

Thanks!

Love the Fritz variation of the two knights defense. Although now I might have to change my prep to either the Polerio or the Ulvestad again.

Loving it!! Thanks for this speedrun Eric!!

Eric, you are an amazing chess player. I appreciate you so much. I have very bad insomnia and listening to you is so relaxing.

My home town! It's a small place but it has everything you need especially the large supermarkets. Good restaurants in town centre and lots of fast food options if you want. Highly car dependent but taxis are cheap and reasonable and some places are walkable. Especially with beautiful weather now. Best of luck Eric!

29:55 that may be the most specific general rule I've ever heard

Good luck in the tournament, and this is a wonderful time of year to travel from the slushy city to the warm desert - enjoy!

Have fun at the event Eric and good luck :)

that London mate WAS SO STYLISH holy moly that was a Giga Chad Eric Rosen moment

Very artistic checkmate in the first game! About future speedruns, maybe throw in a Ponziani series in there sometime? I didn’t find anyone who has done a speedrun that includes Ponziani consistently (although I understand it’s hard to get black to play the required opening moves from their end everytime…)

22:35 Me being 500 elo wants to know if Rc1+ a more forcing move for black than re-taking Bishop?

@mishaerementchouk

4 ай бұрын

Taking the bishop is better. Just from the material perspective, it’s 3 points. Rc1+ gives away the rook and a knight for the queen. It’s just 1 point ahead. Plus, it activates the sad rook on a1, while loosing the badass knight on d3.

@lmabacus404

4 ай бұрын

​​@mishaerementchouk Well, not quite. Black would be on move after Rxc1, and can win the bishop anyway, going up 4 points of material. But it does surrender the c file. Or alternatively, white can play Bxe7 or Bxg7. But I think the biggest reason not to win the queen is that the queen is completely stuck. It literally has no safe squares, which means black's bishop, knight and rook control white's queen and rook, allowing black's other pieces to attack the king like in the game.

@mishaerementchouk

4 ай бұрын

@@lmabacus404 Black indeed doesn’t need to give up the knight but still after … Rc1+ Qxc1 Nxc1 Bxe7 Nd3 Bh4, Black got the queen for rook and bishop. It’s one point material gain, while after … Bxf6, it’s three points gain. Already from the material perspective, going after the queen is not that interesting. And considering the position, this is a blunder.

These are insane man

Nice! I've been studying these fried liver/knight attack lines and playing them every chance I get. I've lost plenty of games catastrophically, but won plenty too, haha. They are a lot of fun and a nice change of pace from the normal stuff.

Hopefully some lessons to take away,... are you kidding? This is my chess education center, thank you so very much!

Thats so cool. I used to play the 4 knights trap that black tried to play against you. It was really cool to see the moves white needs to play to counter this tricky line. I'm a lower rated bullet player I'm usually 1350 to 1450 but sometimes i drop as low as the high 1100's and I checkmated a lot of people with that line with black. I went to the Black Lion/ Perc Defense which seems hard to crack in a one minute game. Anyway thank you Eric for this great content.

Another chess speed run LETS GO

I'd like to see you go for connect-8 in one of these games.

22:35 Rc1+ wins the queen no?

@Edu-hz4iq

4 ай бұрын

Yup, idk how he missed it

@FluxXx7789

4 ай бұрын

@@Edu-hz4iq he didn't miss it, he went for checkmate, which is obviously better than losing a rook and a knight for a queen...

You are a great analyst My brother Eric❤

When you mentioned putting pieces on happy squares I realised that you're the Bob Ross of the chess community

My coffee and my Bob Ross of Chess! It's gonna be a gooooood morning!

amazing series thank you! i'm a bit surprised that you havent encountered a 'cheater' yet, or do you edit these out?

Just say NO to gothamchess-esque thumbnails PLEASE ❤️ love your stuff!

I watch your speedruns every night, love this series

At 15:48 I got so excited thinking you just go QG2, followed by NF4 double check, followed by NH3 smothermate, but realized that king can actually go forward to escape following the double check😅

It's so cool watching Eric crushing London players 😁😁

Thank you for the teaching. Is it time for a new photo? 😊

Hi Eric, thanks for this great episode! The chapter names on the video are a bit mixed up - the London game is still within the chapter called "Important Opening Lesson in the 2 Knights Defense" while the Polish game is in a chapter called "London Opening Punishment leads to Crazy Checkmate".

@eric-rosen

4 ай бұрын

Just fixed it! Thanks for pointing that out

man went full mr.beast for the thumbnail

24:30 the rook on c3 was further protected by f6 bishop which was further protected by g7 pawn.

I need to know, at 22:35 was there an opportunity for black to fork the whites queen and king? Rook to C1? I was sure that was the next move, instead of rook takes on f6.

At 22:34 Isn't Rc1 a better option? Traps the queen or am I missing something?

22:35 He missed Rc1+ and winning the queen.

@jamiebertram9744

4 ай бұрын

Yes, I saw that too. But there is an argument not to go for the queen in that position - true, black is up four points of material after Qxc1..Nxc1, Rxc1..Bxf6 versus being up three points with simply Bxf6, but materially, that's only a pawn better. But losing that knight and rook completely kills the attack - that knight is probably worth at least a rook on D3 menacing the white king like that. Do you simplify to a winning endgame or keep a strong attack going? Winning either way.

32:16, doesnt the treat of e3 still tactically defend the pawn?

Good luck in the chess event!

@15:50 when reviewing the Fischer game is queen takes g2 not forced mate after king takes g2, knight f4 check, king g1, knight h3 checkmate?

@aidanzenie7367

4 ай бұрын

@ericrosen

I think at 22:35 Rc1+ was actually better than recapturing the bishop on f6. White is forced to lose the queen for the rook, and then you can either capture on f6 or save the knight.

@peacevhunkk

4 ай бұрын

Came here to say this too. I was like “play it!!!!!” But it didn’t happen, and he didn’t see it in his review. 😢

@lmabacus404

4 ай бұрын

Nah, the queen is a dead piece on b1, no safe squares to move to, which means the a1 rook is a dead piece as well. Better to leave them trapped and go after the king like in the game. Stockfish considers Bxf6 the best move as well.

If i was your opponent in the first match, i 100% would've thought you were cheating. What a cool checkmate sequence!

Legit better than the building habits series please redo this speedrun

0:01 incoming 38 minutes and 49 seconds of pure happiness

Every night: yeah, time to get to bed... Checks KZread one more time Oh no my sleep

Can you play an Evans gambit if you get a chance!

So nice of Eric's captors to let him record one more speed run video before they sell his organs

At 15:45 where you ask us to pause the video, there’s a faster mate line I see, unless I’m missing something. Please show me what I’ve missed! All white moves forced unless I’m mistaken. Qxg2+ Kxg2 Nf4+ Kg1 Nh3++

We need next video

You should start doing ponziani in these!

What’s the best way to learn opening theory?

Good luck at Fujairah. Customs get suspicious of people who travel a long way for just a short stay so I hope you don't get frisked at the airport!

and I was going to go to bed early tonight... Oh no my sleep!

hey! love your series! i just had a newborn baby and when i'm on baby duty and need entertainment that is pause-able I turn your vids on :) by the way, at 22:30 you missed an opportunity to move rook c1 and forcing white to lose their queen.

At 34:36 18...b5 is a fun move and black ends up having to sac the dsb for a pawn with correct play, and probably loses the queen at this level!

at +22:35 did Eric miss Rc1? or is there some defence? (I guess I shouldn't pick on 1200s though)

@prakhartomar9428

4 ай бұрын

No he really missed that, had a tunnel vision

What does "the most theoretical line" mean? I presume it means it's either, or a combination of the line has many many moves until it becomes justified and/or most of the moves aren't very intuitive i.e. breaking chess principles in order to gain an advantage in that specific situation? Thank you

@lmabacus404

4 ай бұрын

It can mean those things, but theoretical here is synonymous with analyzed. So the Sicilian Najdorf is a highly theoretical line, but there are numerous variations that are all playable and pretty intuitive, whereas something like the Fried Liver is also highly theoretical, but there are plenty of only (or only two) moves to either keep the advantage as white or hold for the draw as black.

36:14 Nf4 Kg1

those should be paid lessons. thank you, man

Finally getting close to my ELO! :))

With every 100-point rise in ratings, Eric is meeting gradually more sophisticated approaches from his opponents.

@DarthVader-wk9sd

4 ай бұрын

Yes that's how rating works, congrats on getting it right.

you know is a nice plane ticket since he can record while flying

That smother mate trapped me 😢

22:29 didn't you have Rc1, forking the queen and the king, winning the queen?

22:28 why not Rc1? Rook and knight for Queen?

@Xcrindelle

4 ай бұрын

the queen is inactive on b1, and giving up your active pieces for a dead piece, though still winning, is not the best move in the position.

Wow I clicked so fast on your video when I saw 23 seconds ago