"Worst case scenario, i have this or this. Best case scenario I win the lottery".

@jonathonjubb6626

2 жыл бұрын

One of the reasons we watch this channel not his frantic pal with the dramatic hair... Lol

@Godamilk

2 жыл бұрын

That was a funny line

@Samuftie

2 жыл бұрын

Always comment with timestamp 13:26

@imaybestupid9707

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathonjubb6626 you talking about levy?

@memith

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathonjubb6626 why not both?

“Ultra-aggressive with Stafford” *sacks knight on move 6* “Ultra-aggressive with the French” *plays a standard game of chess*

@juanbautistasoria757

2 жыл бұрын

You don't sack a knight in the staffotd gambit, you sack the e5 pawn

@Amoeba_Podre

2 жыл бұрын

@@juanbautistasoria757 you clearly haven’t heard of the magical line

@utm0st

2 жыл бұрын

@@juanbautistasoria757 there's a funny line

@someaccount3438

2 жыл бұрын

@@utm0st oh no, my knight

@rosiefay7283

2 жыл бұрын

@@juanbautistasoria757 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 Nxe5 Nc6?! (sacs a N) 4 Nxc6 dxc6 5 e5? Ne4 (the trap) 6 d3?? (White should play 6 Nc3, 6 d4, or 6 Qe2) 6...Bc5!

I decided to gambit my time doing college stuff to see Eric crush someone

@lucmermans37

2 жыл бұрын

Hey I did that gambit too

@lalad0

2 жыл бұрын

The procrastinator's gambit. An all time classic

@angel-ig

2 жыл бұрын

Oh no, your time

I can't believe aggressive and defense can be in the same sentence

The gam bits donation at 15:30 was peak Rosen humor

I love the longer games. I’ve been watching your old Classical Arena videos, they are much more instructive than blitz games imo

@egaga-

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, agreed. Great that some of the presumably uninteresting content is cut for watcher's benefit.

@oshavlfarms7239

2 жыл бұрын

I second this, I really like seeing him analyze the positions and don't have time to sit in a stream.

Wow! The calculations that went into the final moves. So much fun!

I love how Eric makes sure to shout-out everyone who subscribes/ donates/ whatever. There was a guy around 7:35 who gave bits with txt2speech in the middle of Eric's calculations. It felt to me like a bad time for it and it almost seemed like Eric would ignore it. If he had, and I were that guy, it would feel kind of like Eric was annoyed at me for essentially giving him money. I dunno, I hope anyone who reads this sees what I'm getting at. He's just so warm and positive with his fanbase and it goes a long way for me. Like, I'd probably have words with someone talking shit on IMRosen (this scenario is completely imagined, because who could talk shit on Eric?)

@lecobra418

2 жыл бұрын

Eric is the sweetest man I ever saw, he's genuine, even wholesome. I wish I could be half as positive as him.

It's 3AM in Korea, and I should be sleeping...and boom! Eric uploads

@syahirfaham7949

2 жыл бұрын

It's 2:30AM in Malaysia and just like u, i should be sleeping but suddenly... Eric come :')

@GabuzonX

2 жыл бұрын

It's 9 PM in Italy and I should eat the food at restaurant

@windontheroad2930

2 жыл бұрын

Its 2am here btw

@simusqq

2 жыл бұрын

1:30am lithuania.

white has 13 minutes on the clock yet uses no time when black is starting to sac and the game becomes tactical. You should really start to use your time once the game gets sharp.

Thanks. I've finally found someone shows how to play french defense. Most videos on youtube only show how to crash frech defence as white.

White and Black mutually agreed to not use the open e-file for no reason at all.

For perspective on the 1800: I started playing (not just knowing that the horsey makes the L shape and pawns capture diagonally) during the same time. Dec 2020. Went from 700~ to 1200

@tuumamaasiwillumsen7072

2 жыл бұрын

Jeez bro..

The dude that started playing in December 2020 and is now 1800 is definitely built different

@poopnugget7225

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I thought I was good starting at the same time and getting to 1500. That person stood me up though

@Mathijs_A

2 жыл бұрын

May seem like I'm trying to brag, but I personally am really proud of starting playing in February 2021 and hitting 2060 classical (which ranks me around 1000th of active players) and 2150 rapid on Lichess. Still a big achievement for that person and of course it depends on how much you practice, but it's quite doable

@Mathijs_A

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, the best thing to do is only play classical (I just played about 2-3 matches a week) and analyse. Reading books or watching videos about grandmaster games can help as well, since you'll learn how to play more positional intuitively, and you'll also pick up on openings

@circleviii1801

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mathijs_A lol wink wink 🤡

@victordeluca7360

2 жыл бұрын

You guys are making me feel bad, I'm struggling to get to 2200 on Lichess and I've been playing for some good three years, and I thought I was doing ok

I wish you’d post more of this type of content on KZread honestly. I’m trying to break 2000 and these videos are very helpful

@circleviii1801

2 жыл бұрын

look up john bartholomew on youtube, his older content is a lot of this

I like these 20+10 rapid games. Lots of strategy to learn.

I love your content Eric! Thanks for grinding like you do!

the guy paradox salad said the same thing in levys stream too bruh

@circleviii1801

2 жыл бұрын

ofc he did cheaters like to flex lol

I thought the French Defense meant resigning

@neelsinghvi9694

2 жыл бұрын

Its the best opening against d4 (queens pawn opening)

@coleschemistrychannel4172

2 жыл бұрын

@@neelsinghvi9694 No- it’s the engine line.

@coleschemistrychannel4172

2 жыл бұрын

@@neelsinghvi9694 There’s a huge difference

@neelsinghvi9694

2 жыл бұрын

@@coleschemistrychannel4172 y engines serve the best moves na?🤐😅

Love the slow pace and detailed commentary!

Title: hyper aggressive Thumbnail: Main line

This video gave me a lot of fun, really, thanks Eric.

Wow just as one of your donors said, your content is very instructive, and so was this vid. With a slower time we get to see all the many tactics and considerations you'd make in more detail.

Love the longer format!

I like these gentle time limits: it gives you me more time to understand your "funny lines".

As someone who plays the french defense exclusively against 1. e4, I'm very happy to see the Bd6 followed by Ne7 setup as I also only play that against the exchange (unless an early c4 is played).

Title has to be my favourite oxymoron all week

I love this content Eric!

"I'm gonna do this. The worst case scenario I lose" - Eric Rosen

Eric Rosen is the goat, love the energy!

In this kind of similarish setup a good ol' fishing pole attack is most of the time the easiest way to win for me, for some reasons most players (of almost any rating) seem to be very confused about it and I rarely encounter people able to correctly refute it, especially if it's not a direct line but rather a transposition. Edit: Amusingly I wrote this comment before the end of the video and it transposed into the basic idea of the fishing pole, sacrificing a piece on g3 to open the h file and kick the knight out of f3 (often to a bad square) to attack with a rook/queen battery often supported by the dark square bishop. I don't know why white almost always takes the poisonous piece on g3... Fishing pole people!

>clicks on new eric rosen video >oooooo I wanna play stafford

i hope to one day be that man who reached 1800 rating, so IM Rosen can tell me im "pretty good" 3:23 😂

Gam-Bits. Can’t believe how long it’s taken for me to hear someone make that pun!

When I try to play like Eric - sacrificing pieces I just end up loosing because I calculated wrong or just miss mate in 1 and hang up my Q instead

20:45 "Could white prolong the mate?" The horsey could defend the bishop delaying it by a move Even better, white could play f4 and force en passant, *then* play horsey to f3! Boom! Crisis averted! Edit: Yoo Eric looked into an en passant situation!

The french offence

i really like the Bd6 Ne7 lines

Really nice game

Wow pls Eric if you read this: more videos like this french+long term sacrifice

This is gold

I always enjoy watching the French. Is 4...Bg4 more flexible than ...Bd6? Obviously the immediate c4 was reqd, as soon as ...Ng6 cd

Electric whisk thing -> milk frother

Knife F4 was a killer idea

Great example of how you can fight in the french!

I actually play this same line, so that's cool

Great videos

The move with the French name would lose the French defense game. How very French.

Wish you had gone bishop c8 to attack the white bishop and create room to bring your knight out and check the king.

This was a fun game. Aggressive play but not a loosing opening

They just couldn’t resist that en passant haha

At 20:08 can't he just play rook h8 if f4 because the pawn on g4 stops the knight or queen from guarding?

@tjs1212

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but queen sac prolongs the game a little

playing french aggressively is unusual, but ultra aggressive? woahh that isn't a calm eric forte.

Wow youre so good at calculating, if only i could 4 move ahead..

Johnathon schranz french defence blue print anyone?

I want Jonahan Schrantz to play feisty french against Eric

22:09 if queen blocks don't you have a3?

Why did he play bishop g4 instead of f5 on move 7 I think.

what kind/brand of microphone do you use?

yesss finally a french video for black

the video starts with *oooooo*

More French Videos!

If the en passant line happened you'd have to take because it's forced

@3:20 The guy who donated said the same thing in GothamChess's twitch stream. 😲😲😲😲

at 20:00 if f4 why not just swing rook over to h8?

Nice Game :)

22:35 Instead of en passant, g4 g3 seems more directly winning.

I don’t think ‘French’ and ‘aggressive’ can be used in the same sentence

@mentalrectangle

2 жыл бұрын

French can be played aggressively. Winawer poisoned pawn is pretty scary for instance.

In what world is this considered ultra aggressive lol

@circleviii1801

2 жыл бұрын

the french defense world

i like french def

Is that how that defend works? I thought the mecanism was surrendering

16:15 why not NE2

Is anybody confused on what happen at 13:02 lol

French -Defense- *Offence*

At 20:15, Eric is calculating f4, after Qh7, but does not Rh8 just immediately force checkmate after f4?

@valbarker610

Жыл бұрын

Yea I just checked with engine, f4 gxf3 Nxd4 gives away the advantage after Qd3, however immediate Rh8 after f4 is -8 and white has to give up the queen to survive

@valbarker610

Жыл бұрын

Oh nvm I guess he analyzed and saw this at the end of the video

Lol I just found your videos after watching 5up v MrBeast and you low key sound like a deeper, slower toned 5up to me! 😂 maybe it’s because I came from that video but idk.

Who is toggi?

More like french attack

hi im only doing london system and czech pirc for black. gained more than 120 points so far. i just play longer than 10-0 and analyze them after. so every game adds on to my knowledge to the opening.

@spearmintlatios9047

2 жыл бұрын

Try and throw some other openings in there too. London is a very slow and deliberate opening that only shows one style of chess. But analysis is a great tool to figure out how to handle different responses to your favorite openings

@catedoge3206

2 жыл бұрын

@@spearmintlatios9047 yes. for now i stick to it, i'll branch out as soon as i learn just enough of it that i can go standalone with at least 5-10 lines deep of 5 variations each line.

bonjour de la france

This video improves when played at 1.25x

Very romantic chess

So I was playing Stanford gambit, and after I recaptured the knight on c6 the opponent played Qe2, what do I do against this?

@kmarasin

2 жыл бұрын

Cry

“Maybe white will forget… white didn’t forget”

Two different scenarios where en passant is a blunder - /r/anarchychess in shambles.

What's up noti gang

hey toggi

Bois Bois

Ultra-aggressive French Defence. French should know it in 1939...

@davitharutyunyan8330

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

that nose holes!!!

i call bs on the guy saying he got to 1800 from beginner in 9 months.

@mustafasiddiqui8203

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@circleviii1801

2 жыл бұрын

cheaters love to flex dont they

Who said french exchange is boring 😅

Person 1: "I'm a French player" Person 2: "Oh you're French? I didn’t know." Person 1: "No, no, I play the French" Person 2 : (confused) "So you play against Frenchs?" Person 1: (Visibly annoyed) "No, I mean yes sometimes but what I mean is, I play the French defense when I'm black." Person 2: "So, you're not French, you play against French players sometimes and you play against their defense other times but only when you're... black? I'm confused." Person 1: (Steaming) "Look here you little shit. I play chess, and when I'm playing as black, I open with the French defense. It's a chess opening. Get it now?" Person 2: "Ah okay,I get it." Person 1: "Yes, finally." Person 2: "So you play against a guy called Ches but you pretend you're black sometimes so you can surprise them when you show up with the French Defense but it's a move invented by Ches, so you're using their moves against them.: Person 1: "I'm gonna kill you"

3:30 who the fuck jumps to 1800 in less than a year of playing?

your opponent needs to improve time managment. Blitzed out moves when you were on a big attack with critical responses

@kmarasin

2 жыл бұрын

Got flustered by Rxh2 (doesn't make sense to me though, might be a relatively new player.)

Hello

First? 😁

@isaacpowrie465

2 жыл бұрын

Your first

First

@isaacpowrie465

2 жыл бұрын

Nope

Tbh I never watched Eric before .. but this game was boring .. there was to much calculating of lines that eventually win in round about ways or allow room for a draw .. nothing was interesting until the rook sack.