In another universe, Eric is doing a Master to Beginner speedrun, currently on a 153 game losing streak.

@usageunit

13 күн бұрын

That actually has the potential to be interesting too. Start at 3000 Elo, keep getting paired with opponents who crush you, analyze your losses, and eventually get to a level where you have chances. Imagine what a rush that first win would be!

@Ezenji

12 күн бұрын

@@usageunit That sounds great tbh

@Ptaku93

12 күн бұрын

Would it be possible to reach 1 elo?

@pgress1867

11 күн бұрын

@@Ptaku93Mittens has an Elo of 1.

@andrew_owens7680

7 күн бұрын

@@usageunit I did that by starting at 1500. After thousands of games, I'm at 1480.

Since the first opponent waited 25 seconds to play 1..c5, was it a delayed Sicilian?

@KingPanda-lp5ir

14 күн бұрын

lol

@mitchelmodine9197

13 күн бұрын

Well played

@medvenlighilsenmvh

13 күн бұрын

My man

@roryasrorri701

13 күн бұрын

It is!

@Rubrickety

13 күн бұрын

He was going for the Decelerated Dragon setup.

Missed the gorgeous discovered mate with bishop to e6 at the end there which blocks the queen from preventing mate.

@RGP_Maths

13 күн бұрын

Yes, I only noticed that because at the very end of the episode the engine says M1. I think I'd have played Bd5+ too.

@TheExstud

12 күн бұрын

love how he stopped the review on that M1 miss

@Semicolon42

12 күн бұрын

Wow! Such a cool checkmate! Thanks for pointing that out

@Bobby-fj8mk

12 күн бұрын

Yes - I saw that too. Eric missed it as he was greedy to take the Queen. LOL

At 45:13, Be6 was mate in 1 since that move also blocks the queen from blocking the rook.

@jasurmakhkamov

13 күн бұрын

When you have mate in 1, look for better

"I do have to watch my time." (Eric Rosen in every episode.)

@chullupa

12 күн бұрын

When Eric Rosen watches his time, I say "Time to watch!"

It feels like your opponents are the ones actually doing a speedrun, losing with 8 min on the clock.

The Grand Prix attack was given its name by Leonard Barden in the 1980s as it began to be used frequently in a series of weekend tournaments in England called Leigh Grand Prix series. English Grand Master Mark Hebden was an early user. Barden was a stalwart if the British chess scene in the 1960s and 70s and credited with popularising the game in the UK. He's still around aged 94 and his chess column in the London Evening Standard is the longest continuous chess column by the same author. So now you know!

I think i became addicted to this series

27:17 Dude spent 12 seconds and blundered mate in 1. Just imagine if he thought for a little longer...

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

13 күн бұрын

People blunder M1, M2 or their queens in daily games. I just don't know how it happens, it's not even some unusual tactics or patterns, just simple one move threats.

@rizzalghul

7 күн бұрын

How it's a mate can someone explain please. Me 900 don't see it

@spleghegg1632

4 күн бұрын

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 the power of overthinking and overanalyzing

I’m a simple man. I see Rosen, I click. 👌🏻

@pavangaikwad1249

14 күн бұрын

Same here

@erikbreathes

13 күн бұрын

easy as

@danielnaranjo3074

13 күн бұрын

Gay.

@suntorytimes1

13 күн бұрын

More like a simple bot, you see some comment get some likes, you copy & paste it, for some other bots to like.

@dj_enby

13 күн бұрын

The old searosen diet

Game 152 is my favorite chess game I’ve seen. I was laughing at several points. 5 minute move, 3x calculations, stockfish favoring the opponent who had 5 minutes more on the clock. Fun!

In 45:07, Be6 would've been checkmate right away, right?

@SDSBass

13 күн бұрын

when you have mate in 1 look for better 😂

@catac83

13 күн бұрын

Nice catch but its hard to see that while playing

Stockfish had the good sense to agree with me - castle kingside with black 25 mins in

@elcherry

12 күн бұрын

Exactly, I was almost screaming at the computer monitor lol

Rosen is the 🐐

This was great. It showed us how to use the grand prix attack against different setups. Thanks Eric!

Kudos to luigi to deliver such a beautiful ending🎉🎉🎉

39:12 it's not a real party until some clergymen are observing from a distance

Appreciate these videos Eric!

Great video I'm halfway through but love the grand prix opening!

Always look forward to this!!

32:10 that's sick

Just started playing Grand Prix a few weeks ago and really enjoying it! Thanks eric!

FUN ANALYSIS, ERIC, THANKS FOR GOING OVER THE PLAY OUTS OF LINES YOU CONSIDERED.

Nice position in the second game. If you let the engine run for a while (I used the Stockfish 16 on Lichess until depth 50), the 5 top moves are Be7 (+0.1), Nxd5 (+0.2), Bb4+ (+0.2), Bxf2+ (+0.3) and Ne7 (+0.5). The top line of the interesting option is Bxf2+ Kxf2 Ng4+ Ke1 Qxg5 Nxc7+ Kd8 Nxa8 Ne3 Qd2 b6 Nf3 Qh6 c5 Bb7 Kf2 f4 cxb6 Nd4 (other options are mainly just different move orders). Here it already starts to get quite wild since if you capture the trapped knight you lose (White can take on a7 and later play Nxe5 protected with Qa5+ fork). Then it continues Qa5 (still can't take the knight) fxg3+ hxg3 Ng4+. Kg1 gets checkmated in four. The best move is Ke1 and you can't take the rook on h1 because White can trade on d4 and after Qg5+ Kc8 Qf4 Kd8 Qb8+ you lose. So the only move is Nc2+ Kd1 Nce3+, then if Ke1 you have to force a draw. If Kc1 the king blocks the square for the rook so now you can take the rook on h1. The only other move for White is Kd2 after which you have Nd4+ and after the king moves you trade queens and win the exchange back. If instead of Ke1 White plays the other best move Kg2, then the only moves are Qe3 bxa7+ Ke8 Nc7+ Kf7. Then one option is Nd5 Qf2+ Kh2 Nxf3 after which there are many options, if White recaptures then Black has to force a draw after exf3 Qxf3 (Bg2 or Be2 or Rg1) Nf2+ Kh2 Ng4+ Kh3. The other option Kh3 has multiple lines. Insane position.

Golden content once again. Thank you 💕

It’s funny how these episodes often seem to have themes

Love this series

What a great episode!!

Yay! My favorite after dinner couch sit and watch ❤

Yes! Wanna see more of grand prix!

Thanks Eric!

Solid book 😂

17:55 I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the Grand Prix got it's name from being developed during the Grand Prix circuit of weekend chess competitions in the UK back in the seventies. It was a good weapon for stronger players who had to win when they were up against weaker opposition.

Bishops observing the party from a distance is a lovely quote.

My koala loves to watch your speedruns. Your voice is soothing and makes my koala sleepy.

on 17:05 didn't you have the check with pawn g5 and after king h5 you have the fork of king and rook with knight G3?

@user-vq9dc6ru9o

13 күн бұрын

he did

@idonoy661

13 күн бұрын

He was looking for mate but you say also work and completely winning

Playing the grand prix is a large part of why I still play e4 ❤️

Nice last game. All 3 were cool

@32:18 out of context sounds so funny

@salmaofinlandes6793

13 күн бұрын

Least race obsessed american

Man, this is the most instructive speedrun (probably also Naroditsky one)

Just gave my graduation project's discussion today and I've been watching you since I was a freshman , thanks for the great content 🫡❤️

@ahmedamir3807

14 күн бұрын

Was 900 now I'm just above 1700

It's crazy to me how many people will start a 10 minute game and blunder mate because they didn't want to spend more than 10 seconds looking at the board before moving. That player was still over 8 minutes on clock, they were under attack from both knights and didn't stop to consider forks.

32:45 I really wonder when these opponents are gonna start thinking… this kamikaze guy is playing like its a bullet game. My money is on the guys over 2000. I would be pretty upset if I were 2700 like Eric and losing to a 1762 harakiri guy

You are very pleasant person eric :)

12:19 ooo

at this point im just watching to see when will be his first loss

@kruksog

13 күн бұрын

I'm still impressed he hasn't run into a cheater yet.

45:15, Be6 is just mate, right? prevents the queen from swinging over. What am I missing?

I love the Grand Prix so much I'm often willing to play it a tempo down against the English, in no small part because few English players at my level know what the ideas are.

Chess Community: GTE is the best series on KZread. Eric: Hold my tea.

oh noes this feels like a setup - i kinda feel the winstreak fading at the 50th episode :O

thank you

Most scary thing on this Planet musst be when erics spends half his time and then sacs a piece

Just wow 😮

The Grand Prix is my go-to answer to the Sicilian (it replaced the Smith-Morra gambit after I gained too much ELO for it to be viable). At my level (1900-2000 blitz/rapid) people often don't realize the dangers and sometimes even get pawn avalanched.

Omg i hit 1800 for the first time too yesterday, congrats brother!!

Yesssssss!!!!!!!! Really needed to open KZread and see this after the Knicks lost

"Stockfish said I should have just been calm castled which is not even a move I considered. I was only looking at all the crazy lines." Lol. Only Eric could say that.

In the last game, that attack is brutal. Black is so close to having a successful attack but in the end has to give up all their pieces only to be checkmated.

The “pork”! Lolz!

I haven't watched the episode yet but as a (terrible) proponent of the grand Prix I'm looking forward to this. I sometimes launch the pawns too early.

Wake up babe new Rosen speed run episode

I've played the (British) Grand Prix attack, based on a free Chessable course by Simon Williams, but didn't find it too productive. I played 2. Be2 rather than Bc4 as Eric plays here, so maybe that's something to change in future.

I am proud to say that I found that mate in one immediately at the end of the third game

Can you have an episode where try playing a Vienna?

OMG the PORK! That's my new goal. I will never play chess again if I succeed with the PORK.

1800 yay, pfp change time possibly

18:35 when black trades knights, am i correct in saying that in general the defender wants to trade pieces with the attacker? *Obviously it didnt work in this scenario, im only wondering as a general concept.

@catac83

13 күн бұрын

Only if black has at least 1 pawn advantage or if white has more attacking pieces than blacks defenders concentrated on blacks king- not the case here. The last game is a good example of that

Eric I love you

My chess game is so similar to my golf game, subpar.

White has an amazing pork!! 🤣🤣

I always sacrifice my F pawn at the start to gain a little lead in development. When my opponent tries to trade minor pieces i fiencetto my bishop and set up a desperado attack. This causes them to go for the pin only to be met with my zugzwang en passant checkmate. Viewing the game with stockfish i see that my average centipawn loss was less than 0.01

In game 2: Qd1-d2 was unpredictable, but the kind of thing that happens when the attacking force gets too close.

"the opponent is controlling how they lose"

Me when he stops analyzing just before the mate in 1 I proudly spotted 👺

37:54 "winning connect 4"

21:17 Kd8 Ne6+ 😊

17:02 did Eric miss a knight fork after Kh5?

27:24 its a pork mate

Completely unrelated to this vid, but I can't find the answer elsewhere. In Lichess the Englund gambit is evaluated as +1.3 for White after d4 e5. Why?

@eric-rosen

13 күн бұрын

The Englund Gambit is an objectively dubious opening as it loses a pawn. If white plays precisely, black shouldn't get much compensation for the lost pawn. However, lots of players don't know how to effectively play against the Englund Gambit, so it can still be a decent weapon at the amateur level.

Can someone enlighten me? In the first game @9:20 why was Kg5 NOT the right move?

think u missed a fork in the line g5+ Kh5 2. Ng3+ forkes the rook and the king at 17 minutes in to the video.

the grand prix speedrun

I was watching dune part 2, then i saw there was a new beginner to master speedrun video. I think Zendaya can wait...

@27:24 A "Pork" demonstration..

All the arrows at 24:01 look like a traffic jam waiting to happen

9:05 why does Eric not play fxg6 here? Black cannot take back because he would lose the night

@eric-rosen

13 күн бұрын

The knight on g4 attacks my queen!

@GuusBronkhorst

13 күн бұрын

Ah yes that explains why I’m 1000 😂

@suntorytimes1

12 күн бұрын

Oh no, Eric’s queen!

After this episode I might actually go back to playing GPA instead of going into Open Sicilians

Oh no my night

I feel so happy. The fact that in the second game, the move to play was castling instead of what rosen did. And I, a meager 700 elo player, found it, Is quite cool.

At what point will Eric have completed the speedrun? 2k, 2.1k....?

Isn't the Grand Prix very similar to the Vienna opening?

8:55 haven’t checked or put it on a board, but Qh3 looks better. After Ne3 Nh5 Nxc4 (Nxf1 Nxg6 looks crushing) Nxg6 fxg6 (Kg7 dxc4 fxg6 fxg6 with compensation) fxg6, but now I see Qe7 and after dxc4, it’s unclear if white has anything concrete. Probably silently calculated by Rosen if I’m right about that

@catac83

13 күн бұрын

18:23 “qf4 was fine” according to the engine

white has amazing pork lol

6:05 would e5 be a better attack

17:02 g5+ kh5 ng3+ fork to win e2 rook..

Watching Eric is terrible for my chess. I see all these crazy lines, get hyped to play like this and blunder away my elo

I dunno if it’s a setting or just Google, but ads have gotten _out of control_ on this series. I’m getting 6 double ads per video

Eric, what is your real rating?

…best series since seinfeld…thx & all the best from berlin

...this isn't my first Grand Prixx, you know.