This is a good example for showing how important studying masters games is. Yes you might not get the exact line but some ideas still apply and will help you win

@utm0st

Жыл бұрын

11 moves in and the exact same position gotta count as the same line. Very unrealistic to follow another chess game completely

@MadderoftheFew

Жыл бұрын

@@utm0st nah, that's why the terms transposition and book moves exist. 11 moves of the same theory as thousands of chess games before is very common at GM level, but garner different calculations from transpositions. if a game of chess transposed to the same position as another game, that doesn't mean that each position was the clear best extrapolation from the differing positions before. maybe one player made a blunder and the other didn't catch it, so they just transposed to a normal position. these distinctions aren't negligible enough to count both cases as "the same line."

@kycste

Жыл бұрын

W

7:52 When Eric starts calling the amount of sacrifices crazy, you know it is truly really crazy.

@kittyloveluvkitty7306

Жыл бұрын

oh no my sanity!

I love the level of sass you can feel from Eric's "... Okay I'll try to focus more on games that I play."

Shout out to David Smerdon, who wrote a wonderful book on this exact opening. Eric, please stop showing everyone my secret prep.

@rohithreddy75

Жыл бұрын

People still fall prey to Stafford :D

I loved how in 11:08 Eric even considered adding more time for the opponent to finish in style. But then was like "Nah, he'll manage".

When the intro said "beautiful line of the Portuguese Gambit" I had a feeling it might be this one ending with 7.exf7+ Kxf7. I've had it numerous times with Black, mainly online. White responses with g4 are indeed theoretically critical, but hard to get right over the board. Smerdon's Scandinavian is a very good source on this and related lines.

This is probably the most fun chess video I have seen in a long time, simply how the position came back, the sacrifices, opponent in trouble, crazy if you think about it! This just resonated with me

Imagine your opponents face when he sees you blasting out this super prep in mere seconds - throwing pawns and pieces to the wind. Man. This would have unnerved me.

@cryoptizehd2062

Жыл бұрын

Fr

@jarirepo1172

Жыл бұрын

White knew he was in trouble, spent all time there at start but did not find way out.

Big shout out to Rio2018 for playing along for the content! Some crazy lines there! 😉👍👏

Really cool to see you show the game they have it pop up organically to use in one of your games

Have anyone seen Eric so excited, that he's trying to give opponent more time during a game?)

Really enjoying videos of this length of yours. Really relaxing and interesting at the same time

The palpable tension with that long wait made this quite a fun watch to see it actually play to mate not time. Great video on a fun opening.

Me: take the bishop! Eric: there is actually a mate in 2 haha Good game.

Imagine what this must have looked like from the other side. Wouldn't be surprised if opponent reported cheating, but it's just good prep. Like when Bart Simpson studied for his exam and thought he had discovered a whole new firm of cheating. "The answers were just in my head!"

@stefanplusplus917

Жыл бұрын

but he didnt cheat

I believe @GothamChess plays this opening as well. Love to see it getting more attention 😊.

This was by far the most enjoyable youtube vid you've made. Thank you! Part of me wonders if you had someone you know play into it with a sideline you studied already, taking time pretending to think, but even if that was the case, I don't care, I enjoyed it =]

3:45 Damn I heard Scandeez when you said "the scandy's"

how can eric remember a game he covered 3 days ago when i cant remember the last move i made

@animefreak3010

Жыл бұрын

Rly? I can remember 10-14 move lines with 10-30mins of study and remember it months from then and I'm only 1500. Not that difficult

@victordeluca7360

Жыл бұрын

@@animefreak3010 I'm in the 2000s (Online, not FIDE though lol) and I can't do it either

@joeb4142

Жыл бұрын

Eric can remember an opening he played in a game like a decade ago.

Wow so cool that you had the same line as the magnus game for quite a while.

lovely stuff. might want to try this some time :D

It's like a skroutz Stafford it's similarly open the field for black but you keep your knight

As a Scandinavian player I run into this "sort of beefed -up Icelandic gambit" often, the most accurate move though after Rxe3 Kxe3 is Bc2! with a forced win. David Smerdon calls this line "the Banker" in his excellent Scandinavian book

Amazing video

Holy cow, I actually saw Bc2 and was like: "No way this move works". Oh, unnatural Ne2 is better than Be3. My instinct was to play Ne2 because bishop on e3 seemed loose.

From now on, I'm only playing Magnus openings 😌

I also do these sorts of gambits but stockfish says blunder. May be some bug

0:39 why move the king out of check when white still plays Nc3 his next turn anyway? Why not block it with a knight immediately?

Poor rio :-) great pair of games!

Oh yeah Levy showed off the King's pawn sacrifice line in a GTE episode.

wow that was vicious

You revealed my preparation!

also shows how important memory is in chess. No way to calculate every line to the end...

2:49 why not rook takes knight? I am missing something really obvious here

@CeltaVigo1916

Жыл бұрын

I think then Qxc5, pinning the rook. If Ne2 then black Rd8

At 10:36 can't he just play Nc2 for double check?

@kristofferopstad2203

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but why?

@jilanwicaksono

Жыл бұрын

"Me see double check, ooga booga." Jk. I think Nc2 just do nothing. After Nc2 Ke2 Nxa1 Nxc5 Qe7 Kf1 Qxc5 Bxf5 Qxf5 Qxa1, black no longer has his attack and it's much worse than what eric does

@lightlampdog

Жыл бұрын

@@jilanwicaksono Thanks for the explanation!

this is my pet line in the scandi i play it more than 14 years !!!

You brute!

Magnus finally got his opening

SAVAGE

someone explain to me why the opponents time went from 0:42 to 0:28 at roughly 8:50 in the video.. ???

@NotQuiteFirst

Жыл бұрын

The video is edited. You can see a slight jump cut in Eric

@baboon1233

Жыл бұрын

Imagine having to ask this. You have the logical reasoning skills of a toddler.

@PuzzleQodec

Жыл бұрын

@@baboon1233 Imagine having the rude communication skills and egocentrism of a toddler.

2:15 what about king f4?

@baboon1233

Жыл бұрын

Because white would get mated on the kingside. Not sure how that isn’t obvious champ.

@MagnificentCreature

Жыл бұрын

@@baboon1233 I’m sorry, I don’t see the mating sequence immediately, whats your winning move after that?

@baboon1233

Жыл бұрын

kf4, nh5, kxf5, qe6, kg5, be7, kxh5, qf5 mate

@MagnificentCreature

Жыл бұрын

@@baboon1233 OH I didnt see that nh5 move, that's brilliant! thanks for the line

hes been wathcing remote chess academy i swear!! hes used a few lines he shows on his channel!

its almost like magnus was prepping to face one of your gambits, and this is the leftovers of his study

Why is it that the King is needed to defend the bishop, not the queen?

It is crazy that Magnus plays hundred of games daily, and one of the opening, that he used only once, is so powerful, that Eric could use it to crush other by just memorising the grand position of the piece by studying it once. It is like Hans who look up of once intense line that morning, and used it to crush Magnus. Chess is just unbelievable. Nevertheless, Magnus do have the mastery in tactical chess.

@sekulrtsnfnugg6126

Жыл бұрын

Not what happened dude. He couldn't even on the spot say what he did. Which means, it's not something he actually were able to prep. And it's not something you just have one look at. It's something you make sure stick over several days. Which means, it's not something hans had prepared, and it's not something he would've been able to come up with by himself on the spot.

why did white play KF2?

Brillant

Just goes to show the importance of memory in chess, which is often under-rated.

you were projecting magnus energy

I love this scandi, I play a horrible version of this every chance I get

7:52 You should know about Bc2 here. It's a 5head !!! move so Magnus actually played this opening wrong.

@JustinMcJustin

Жыл бұрын

He covers this at 13:18 :)

@MajesticMotivator

Жыл бұрын

@@JustinMcJustin ah okay not really explained though. I played this Portuguese gambit opening with a 70% win rate but it's just that if white follows the engine moves it's not so good at a +1.4 eval. So its hard to play at higher levels.

@JustinMcJustin

Жыл бұрын

@@MajesticMotivator Legit! Nice one to keep in the back pocket though 👍

Killer video! Wow and wow.

Man that was a hyperoffensive gambit

That was indeed a nice game with a cool opening.

Am a fan

This is Magnus channeling Paul Morphy.

Eric's reputation, like Carlsen's, precedes him . The opponent took a long think because he knew Eric . Fought well but Eric , like destiny , is inevitable 😁 .

When people say Magnus is not a tactical player

The Magnus gambit?

Oh yes show this line to everyone eric so that it becomes popular! Then i will crush them all cause i know the refutation😈

How utterly rude of somebody to complain in chat, when Eric was reveling in a brilliancy composed by one of the greatest chess players of all time. In the future...whoever you are...have some respect, since Eric chose that Carlsen assault as an instructive moment. Pathetic where our society is going anymore. Common decency, what's that?

@haveachocobar

Жыл бұрын

True though what the hell is that person doing

Would you slow down the moves when especially showing us a Magnus game? You did like 12 moves in 2 seconds there. You may be familiar with the game but we are seeing it for the first time.

It’s like every northern Europe country has it’s own gambit 🤔

No Smerdon plays this give credit were it's due

Opening move should be called "Kanye's gambit" coz its crazy

First view and like

We dont want seeing Magnus games, we wanna see Eric's games ;)

I dare magnus to try this nonsense against me

@segundacuenta726

Жыл бұрын

LOL

Why in the world do people play blitz and play so slow. My goodness

@42isthemeaningoflife

Жыл бұрын

Because thinking well about the positions is how you grow as a player.

That forked rook though!