I love that you're always so understanding of your opponents mistakes. You never forgive them though and punish them severely on the board but never verbally. A true gentleman always. Thank you for all your explanations of why moves are suboptimal. I was amazed that you had your game published when you were so young and found such a winning combination against a much higher rated opponent. My new years chess resolution is to reach 1000 in rapid play and blunder less (oh no my Queen is mostly not a trap with me). Thank you again for your teaching, it's a key part of my learning for this year
This has been the most useful series for improving at chess by far. As opposed to being obsessed with trying to nail particular openings and traps I'm playing far more intuitively and responding to my opponents weaknesses. Before I would just mindlessly try and follow a system and eventually become lost when the opponent played something unexpected. Has showed massively and improved about 150 rating points. Aim to reach 1k this year! One of my favourite elements of this series is the patience and humility that you show all of your opponents. Even at the lowest level, and silliest moves, you would still try and explain the opponents thinking and play solidly in return instead of just speedily crushing them. Sure you still end up wiping the floor eventually, but you approach each player with the same level of respect with which you might approach a GM, and never underestimate! which is an important chess lesson within itself. Thanks Eric!
Really enjoying this series! (Side note: thank you for making content that can safely be played out loud with kids or their grandparents in the room! haha)
You can safely put Eric or Naraditsky on RUclips when mixed company is around. That is one of the many reasons they are my two favorite chess YTs. Great edutainment. Sorry, Gotham got to pass.
This is by far the best video series on chess having a grandmaster working his way up and explaining each decision and seeing all kind of trap on going, Well done this is great stuff
You are the best Eric: There is more to chess than winning. You exemplify personal maturity and kindness...along with chess brilliance. Wish the world had more of you.
love the content Eric! I love hearing your thoughts on attacking strategies in the middle game as that is where I suffer the most. Would love to see a season 2!
Thanks for these series Eric. You are my favourite chess player streamer, not extravagant, intelligent, explaining your thinking process and other options and funny. I learned so much from these 18 episodes so far. When I start watching it I finally broke my 600 rating after be stuck there for couple months, today I reach 1000! Keep up with good work!
I plugged that last game into an engine out of curiosity, and that was a clean 100 accuracy. Good lesson for people new to chess: high accuracy does not always indicate cheating, especially if the win was very quick and the opponent’s accuracy was very low.
My chess resolution is to write all the notation for my casual games I play in person ever week and actually learn the coordinates by heart and analyze my games
I've been playing chess for 5 days after stumbling across Anna Cramling's channel. I'm failing at Blitz terribly, but I passed 800 on Rapid today, which I'm very happy with, and it's almost exclusively down to this Speedrun series, thank you!
Thank you! Great content as usual, Eric! -- Your comment “When your pieces are in good squares, the tactics will come" reminds me of Shane Parrish who says that "To the person who is well-positioned, every option looks like a good option. To the person who is poorly positioned, every option looks like a bad option." Positioning in both Chess and life is crucial. Thanks for reinforcing great life lessons.
@@Kcrude wait this is exactly me, from 950 to 800. im fighting for my life rn and the wins dont even feel satisying, my last few wins were dudes just blundering queens, not me doing anything cool lmao
If anyone is interested in the b4 move of the Scandinavian (mentioned in 11:05 game), it's called the Leonhardt Gambit and was Eric's first instructional video on YT! It's a really interesting line and I think it would be great for all players, especially around this rating where the Scandi is common, to have in their back pocket for some fun wins.
Hi Eric! Often, since you´re such a strong player, you win right at the opening. This doesn´t give us the chance to enjoy your explanation of typical strategies and moves of certain openings. Maybe, when certain game winning tactics arise, it would be interesting to point them out, but then not play them and continue in the spirit of the opening (at least early in the speedrun). I think that would be the best of both worlds! I´d be curious to hear your thoughts on this. Thank you for all that you do!
Man, I feel this way too much. I'm not great at Chess, I'm only playing for the enjoyment of the game, but I am such a poor loser. It's hard to break the habit of responding like that. I'm gonna give it my best shot though.
@@zndrb10 You can try pretending that you're playing a teacher, and if/when you lose, take it as the lesson / learning opportunity. One thing I like is I can't get frustrated at a "teammate" for making a mistake.. it's always something I myself can learn to do better.
Isnt it incorrect at 17:02 when you said "I'm not actually attacking g5", as then you would just use the Queen sack into double bishop mate you mentioned earlier.
@21:29 Bxf3 is afaik the mainline Scandinavian, best move evaluated at +0.9 (2nd best is +1.6). After exchanging the bishop, you eventually play e6 to get a light squares pawn complex.
I love your videos dude, they are very instructive and offer many useful tips. the way you speak is too relaxing though, I always fall asleep when I watch you haha
I just looked up Eric's 2003 Niles opponent (from the newspaper clipping 26:15) on fide, Mark Marovitch. 25:42, The way Eric was talking about him i thought he'd be 90 years old. Dude was born in '61! Means he was either 41 or 42 when Eric played him! Sure that's still pretty old compared to an 11 year old, but dude! Eric made it sound like he was playing someone from a nursing home!
Chess New Year resolution: reaching 1800 FIDE. Right now I'm 1650. I've just started playing classical tournaments and I've discovered a completely new side of chess, and I love it. It's a totally different game from 10 minute chess.
14:06 Can we play Qh5 at this point? 17:02 queen does not defend g5 here as there is queen sac checkmate which Eric mentioned earlier. 17:40 i think the best discovery is Nf5 and taking undefended bishop.
As for your first question, Qh5 is not optimum because of Ngf6 allowing Black to develop with tempo. And after Qxg5 Qxg5 Bxg5 Bb4 O-O Bxc3 bxc3, Black has managed to catch up in development and has a better pawn structure as compensation for the lost pawn.
And after Nd6+ Ka8, Nxf7 also wins three points worth of material in addition to weakening the pawn structure. But if you go with Nf5, that also wins three points but there is a trade-off. After Nxg7 Rg8 Nh5 Nf5 Bh2 Nxd4, Black regains one point.
I recommend adding opening name to the title. Because this is an instructive speedrun, it will be helpful for the new players and us to find these videos by opening for reference in future
My chess goal is to get a rating so I can see where I stand. I am 63 years old and played chess in my childhood and teen years but then walked away when my friends stopped playing. I had been school chess champion at my junior high school and had been in just one non-school tournament, but it was not a rating tournament, so I never got a rating of any kind. I have just recently returned to the game after all this time and am brushing up on my openings and playing against Stockfish. I have realized that traps don't work against Stockfish, so I am looking at giving Maia a try. I have also ordered some widely-recommended books to help me prepare to jump back in, one on openings and one on mating patterns. BTW, thanks for the look back at your 2003 game. It was a nice trap, very elegant!
"It's unfinished development; it's still prehistorical. The only thing that is lacking is the dinosaurs here. It's like a curse weighing on the entire white position. We have to become humble in front of this overwhelming savageness, this overwhelming domination, these overwhelming knights, and overwhelming lack of mercy. Even the arrows up here in the board look like a mess. There's no harmony in the white pieces. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there's no real harmony as we conceived it. But when I say this I say this all full of admiration for the position. It is not that I hate it; I love it, I love it very much. But I love it against my better judgment."
This is a small goal to some, but means a lot to me and is not as easy for me to obtain compared to others. My goal for this year is to buy my first ever chess set, I would really love a nice wooden official chess set and board but they are quite expensive, so I have been playing online for a couple of years. However if my situation improves this year I would love to have one in my home, so when im reading books I can use a physical board and move the pieces around to analyse the different lines in certain positions. At the moment I have to set up the position on a computer then when i need a different variation i have to go out and back in and set up a new board. Sometimes i feel a physical set would be more useful. Also I would love to play my friends and family when they visit, having a nice chess board on the table to look at would also be a treat. Unfortunately to get these amazing traditional chess sets they can be quite expensive, imagine having a tournament style set in your living room what a lovely thing that would be. So yes, that is my goal, I have played chess for 2 years now, and have developed a love for it, and I watch all chess creators whether it be, Eric, Levy, Naroditsky, Hikaru, Magnus, i watch everything I can chess related, I am so pleased I found chess, or it found me. My rating is only hovering around 1500 but i am on a steady increase month after month so who knows where i might end up ❤
Would be interesting to hear why you sometimes want to castle quickly, and sometimes don't seem to mind waiting. In general how to think about castling?
@17:27 wouldn't it be a tactic to sac your bishop (Bxe6). Then if black recaptures, you can win the queen with the knight check and discovered check Nc4+
Honestly I kind of agree...some days I just lose like 5-10 games straight, many from completely winning positions, and I tilt so bad I want to cry. Seriously infuriating
I'd really love to break 1100 and meet 1300 this year, though I'm not quite sure how to do so. I'm finding it quite difficult to improve, even with puzzles and game analysis. But I'm still enjoying chess, especially watching your videos :) Happy New Year!!
In the second game the move 6. h3 was fortuitous but to my mind that's sloppy thinking bc after opposite-side castles instead of putting the question to the notorious problem bishop it creates a hook. ofc maybe it's caveman style to play b4 and a4 while Black plays g5 and h5 but games sometimes do go that way. Thx very much for the illustrations today. I enjoyed them. : )
Really enjoying the series helping me play more calm. Currently 1080 in rapid would like to be over 1100. However my resolution is to be improve my responses to my opponent during opening. I play London and struggle to find (remember) strong development for each response
At 14.33 how come black was able to castle as the white bishop was going through the castling line? I always though you could not castle if something did that
It took me a while to realise that "castling cannot be performed if the king is in check, if any of the squares the king crosses or occupies are under attack, or if the king would be in check after castling". It says "the king crosses". The king doesn't cross b8 and therefore the castling is legal 👍
I started playing 3 months ago, currently at 1040 elo and 1750 in puzzles, my resolution is 1500 this year and 2200 in puzzles. Thank you for the instructive and calming content
I love your content. I think my chess goal is to be more mindful with the games and moves i make, rather than tilting or playing mindlessly. Also, play some more scrabble please!
my resolution is simply to get good enough at chess that i'm not making very basic errors in my games. i will be happy if i'm simply bad at tactics but not making one move blunders of pieces.
I love that you're always so understanding of your opponents mistakes. You never forgive them though and punish them severely on the board but never verbally. A true gentleman always. Thank you for all your explanations of why moves are suboptimal. I was amazed that you had your game published when you were so young and found such a winning combination against a much higher rated opponent.
My new years chess resolution is to reach 1000 in rapid play and blunder less (oh no my Queen is mostly not a trap with me). Thank you again for your teaching, it's a key part of my learning for this year
The most relaxing person to watch after a long day. Thanks for your videos man.
So informative and relaxing my favourite series of anything maybe thanks eric
I agree, Eric R. is great!
If you like watching chess videos to relax, you might also enjoy Chessnetwork.
I agree. Just started watching Eric and I have been returning.
Fr i watch this and sleep
This has been the most useful series for improving at chess by far. As opposed to being obsessed with trying to nail particular openings and traps I'm playing far more intuitively and responding to my opponents weaknesses. Before I would just mindlessly try and follow a system and eventually become lost when the opponent played something unexpected. Has showed massively and improved about 150 rating points. Aim to reach 1k this year!
One of my favourite elements of this series is the patience and humility that you show all of your opponents. Even at the lowest level, and silliest moves, you would still try and explain the opponents thinking and play solidly in return instead of just speedily crushing them. Sure you still end up wiping the floor eventually, but you approach each player with the same level of respect with which you might approach a GM, and never underestimate! which is an important chess lesson within itself. Thanks Eric!
That last game was savage. A graphic example of how development can crush material edge.
Really enjoying this series! (Side note: thank you for making content that can safely be played out loud with kids or their grandparents in the room! haha)
You can safely put Eric or Naraditsky on RUclips when mixed company is around. That is one of the many reasons they are my two favorite chess YTs. Great edutainment. Sorry, Gotham got to pass.
@@bassmanjr100 Put it out there to Gotham, i am sure he is willing to listen.
This is by far the best video series on chess having a grandmaster working his way up and explaining each decision and seeing all kind of trap on going, Well done this is great stuff
There are some other very good ones as well by Daniel Naroditzky and John Bartholomew, for example.
If you want something a little more direct, check out Chess-Network's long tutorial "Stop Before You Chop"
You are the best Eric: There is more to chess than winning. You exemplify personal maturity and kindness...along with chess brilliance. Wish the world had more of you.
Amazing how he can recall a position and game he played from when he was 12 years old!
@26:10 !! Wow!!!!! Well done young Eric!
Also, I love this speedrun series
“When your pieces are in good squares, the tactics will come.”
- Eric Rosen, 2024
Bruh 😂
Well Fischer said that tactics flow naturally from superior position and it still holds true.
"And they came really fast "
"And they are coming very quickly"
And in this position they come quickly
Awsome! Eric, you're the best chess teacher on youtube. Solid, slow, steady explaining everything while playing. Incredible.
My new years' chess resolution is playing games against actual humans, instead of just puzzles and bots.
My new years resolution is to do my first OTB tournament.
It's tomorrow so I think I'll get it done.
Good first tournament!! :)
You'll have a lots of fun
Just, when someone checks you, don't say, "Redouble!"
How did it go?
good luck!
Eric, your long explanations are a treasure. TY.
My New Year’s chess resolution is to not quit chess, cause I have so much work to do outside of chess :(
I once felt your pain. Fortunately, I turned 67 and retired. From work, that is. Now I enjoy life's true pursuit on the 64-square pasture.
mine is to not quit chess cuz i have so much work to do AND cuz i suck LOL
Mine is to get to 1900; currently, I am 1650
I also want to do 15 minutes of puzzles a day. I hate puzzles
@@MrDanielfff777what’s your puzzle rating?
2200, yours?@@charliedarin8349
love the content Eric! I love hearing your thoughts on attacking strategies in the middle game as that is where I suffer the most. Would love to see a season 2!
Thanks for these series Eric. You are my favourite chess player streamer, not extravagant, intelligent, explaining your thinking process and other options and funny. I learned so much from these 18 episodes so far. When I start watching it I finally broke my 600 rating after be stuck there for couple months, today I reach 1000! Keep up with good work!
The best chess speedrun ever made!
I plugged that last game into an engine out of curiosity, and that was a clean 100 accuracy. Good lesson for people new to chess: high accuracy does not always indicate cheating, especially if the win was very quick and the opponent’s accuracy was very low.
My chess resolution is to write all the notation for my casual games I play in person ever week and actually learn the coordinates by heart and analyze my games
I've been playing chess for 5 days after stumbling across Anna Cramling's channel. I'm failing at Blitz terribly, but I passed 800 on Rapid today, which I'm very happy with, and it's almost exclusively down to this Speedrun series, thank you!
Thank you! Great content as usual, Eric! -- Your comment “When your pieces are in good squares, the tactics will come" reminds me of Shane Parrish who says that "To the person who is well-positioned, every option looks like a good option. To the person who is poorly positioned, every option looks like a bad option." Positioning in both Chess and life is crucial. Thanks for reinforcing great life lessons.
I can't believe it's already episode 18 of this series.
My resolution is to keep watching Eric!
Perhaps we'll see a Ponziani opening soon...
Chess New Year Resolution - meet in person with all of my friends that play chess and play a game over the board :)
Trying to get to 1000 rating this year. Had a huge drop from 730 to the 600s, so it’s a slog at the moment.
Have that same problem. Currently at 950ish and somehow manage to drop to 800.. lol. Fighting well right now though.
this year? you can do it under a week surely
I can coach u for free
@@Kcrude wait this is exactly me, from 950 to 800. im fighting for my life rn and the wins dont even feel satisying, my last few wins were dudes just blundering queens, not me doing anything cool lmao
In 17:00 I think you can still take the pawn on g5 then if queen takes the knight, you then go for the queen sac and bodens mate right?
If anyone is interested in the b4 move of the Scandinavian (mentioned in 11:05 game), it's called the Leonhardt Gambit and was Eric's first instructional video on YT! It's a really interesting line and I think it would be great for all players, especially around this rating where the Scandi is common, to have in their back pocket for some fun wins.
Love your calm demeanor. Looking forward to epi 19 and more!
Hi Eric! Often, since you´re such a strong player, you win right at the opening. This doesn´t give us the chance to enjoy your explanation of typical strategies and moves of certain openings. Maybe, when certain game winning tactics arise, it would be interesting to point them out, but then not play them and continue in the spirit of the opening (at least early in the speedrun). I think that would be the best of both worlds! I´d be curious to hear your thoughts on this. Thank you for all that you do!
My New Year's resolution for chess is to be less competitive. I want to just enjoy the game and not worry about winning or losing so much
Man, I feel this way too much. I'm not great at Chess, I'm only playing for the enjoyment of the game, but I am such a poor loser. It's hard to break the habit of responding like that. I'm gonna give it my best shot though.
@@zndrb10 nice! Keep at it and you'll only get better at losing gracefully
@@zndrb10 You can try pretending that you're playing a teacher, and if/when you lose, take it as the lesson / learning opportunity. One thing I like is I can't get frustrated at a "teammate" for making a mistake.. it's always something I myself can learn to do better.
I find your videos are the easiest to follow in terms of how you explain. Thanks for the content and instruction.
Isnt it incorrect at 17:02 when you said "I'm not actually attacking g5", as then you would just use the Queen sack into double bishop mate you mentioned earlier.
@21:29 Bxf3 is afaik the mainline Scandinavian, best move evaluated at +0.9 (2nd best is +1.6). After exchanging the bishop, you eventually play e6 to get a light squares pawn complex.
Thanks Eric; I'm making sure to like and comment on every video in this series to say thanks for this content! Learning a lot.
I love your videos dude, they are very instructive and offer many useful tips. the way you speak is too relaxing though, I always fall asleep when I watch you haha
I just looked up Eric's 2003 Niles opponent (from the newspaper clipping 26:15) on fide, Mark Marovitch. 25:42, The way Eric was talking about him i thought he'd be 90 years old. Dude was born in '61! Means he was either 41 or 42 when Eric played him! Sure that's still pretty old compared to an 11 year old, but dude! Eric made it sound like he was playing someone from a nursing home!
I played only about 30 games last year but watched and studied chess for many many hours. So I wish to have the courage to play more.
Love these series, thank you Eric!
25:54 Eric has shared this game in a lecture for kids at Saint Louis Chess Club. “9 Year-Old Eric Rosen vs. The Scary Old Guys”
Chess New Year resolution: reaching 1800 FIDE. Right now I'm 1650. I've just started playing classical tournaments and I've discovered a completely new side of chess, and I love it. It's a totally different game from 10 minute chess.
14:06 Can we play Qh5 at this point? 17:02 queen does not defend g5 here as there is queen sac checkmate which Eric mentioned earlier. 17:40 i think the best discovery is Nf5 and taking undefended bishop.
As for your first question, Qh5 is not optimum because of Ngf6 allowing Black to develop with tempo. And after Qxg5 Qxg5 Bxg5 Bb4 O-O Bxc3 bxc3, Black has managed to catch up in development and has a better pawn structure as compensation for the lost pawn.
And after Nd6+ Ka8, Nxf7 also wins three points worth of material in addition to weakening the pawn structure. But if you go with Nf5, that also wins three points but there is a trade-off. After Nxg7 Rg8 Nh5 Nf5 Bh2 Nxd4, Black regains one point.
I recommend adding opening name to the title. Because this is an instructive speedrun, it will be helpful for the new players and us to find these videos by opening for reference in future
"We're in the middle game. At least, I'M in the middle game."
Savage AF
31:40 is definitely a WOAH moment....savage triple fork!
My chess goal is to get a rating so I can see where I stand. I am 63 years old and played chess in my childhood and teen years but then walked away when my friends stopped playing. I had been school chess champion at my junior high school and had been in just one non-school tournament, but it was not a rating tournament, so I never got a rating of any kind. I have just recently returned to the game after all this time and am brushing up on my openings and playing against Stockfish. I have realized that traps don't work against Stockfish, so I am looking at giving Maia a try. I have also ordered some widely-recommended books to help me prepare to jump back in, one on openings and one on mating patterns.
BTW, thanks for the look back at your 2003 game. It was a nice trap, very elegant!
Go for it! Great to have ambitious goals at 63. (I'm 69 😊)
14:04 What about Qh5 ?
Ngf6 and white is losing material…
At 7:51, if you left your knight there and the pawn captured it, then take his pawn with D pawn. it's check and you win queen?
Nice tactic
That last one was beautiful in its brutality. It needs a narration from either David Attenborough, or better yet Werner Herzog.
"It's unfinished development; it's still prehistorical. The only thing that is lacking is the dinosaurs here. It's like a curse weighing on the entire white position. We have to become humble in front of this overwhelming savageness, this overwhelming domination, these overwhelming knights, and overwhelming lack of mercy. Even the arrows up here in the board look like a mess. There's no harmony in the white pieces. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there's no real harmony as we conceived it. But when I say this I say this all full of admiration for the position. It is not that I hate it; I love it, I love it very much. But I love it against my better judgment."
This is a small goal to some, but means a lot to me and is not as easy for me to obtain compared to others. My goal for this year is to buy my first ever chess set, I would really love a nice wooden official chess set and board but they are quite expensive, so I have been playing online for a couple of years. However if my situation improves this year I would love to have one in my home, so when im reading books I can use a physical board and move the pieces around to analyse the different lines in certain positions. At the moment I have to set up the position on a computer then when i need a different variation i have to go out and back in and set up a new board. Sometimes i feel a physical set would be more useful. Also I would love to play my friends and family when they visit, having a nice chess board on the table to look at would also be a treat. Unfortunately to get these amazing traditional chess sets they can be quite expensive, imagine having a tournament style set in your living room what a lovely thing that would be. So yes, that is my goal, I have played chess for 2 years now, and have developed a love for it, and I watch all chess creators whether it be, Eric, Levy, Naroditsky, Hikaru, Magnus, i watch everything I can chess related, I am so pleased I found chess, or it found me. My rating is only hovering around 1500 but i am on a steady increase month after month so who knows where i might end up ❤
Thanks for sharing. I can totally relate. Best to you.
Happy new year Eric, you absolute king. Love your streams
Love your content Eric. Thank you for sharing your life and passion with us.
Happy New Year, Eric. Thank you for amazing content.
Maximum punishment sounds so good coming from Eric :)
Thank you, great teaching, as always.
That last game was such a brutal slaughter..
This video should have a V2 content rating..
V2 - Strongly violent or disturbing
Yes eric, nice one. Love your videos.
Lol, nice thumbnail - that's the most f'd up position I've ever seen!
Happy new year!
That last game was BRUTAL
Happy new year Eric! 🎉
Eric talking about mating a 2000 thousand opponent at the age of 12 with so much excitement makes my soul happy.
That was a helluva mate too. Very impressive finish.
1:27 I go with Nc6 because of the intermezzo Nd4 after Nxe4.
I know that everyone is asking it, but please make some longer vids. They are amazing :)
Would be interesting to hear why you sometimes want to castle quickly, and sometimes don't seem to mind waiting. In general how to think about castling?
My new years chess resolution is to learn the Stafford so you can be proud of me
That was a fun story, thanks Eric!
@17:27 wouldn't it be a tactic to sac your bishop (Bxe6). Then if black recaptures, you can win the queen with the knight check and discovered check Nc4+
My new years resolution is to quit chess I hate the way it makes me feel, and I'm addicted - but I'll never stop watching you Eric!
@becomeunreasonable7508 well, I can see you've already made a first step down that path (by choosing that user name). 😜
Honestly I kind of agree...some days I just lose like 5-10 games straight, many from completely winning positions, and I tilt so bad I want to cry. Seriously infuriating
@@baseket2ball12 take a break, and don't play so many games in a row
oh dear
I understand :/
Happy new Year Eric!
Eric,,at 14:35 how did black castle through check..the white bishop
I really liked the video. Thank you.👍
My new year's resolution is to play more Rapid and hope I end up on one of these speedrun videos.
I'd really love to break 1100 and meet 1300 this year, though I'm not quite sure how to do so. I'm finding it quite difficult to improve, even with puzzles and game analysis. But I'm still enjoying chess, especially watching your videos :) Happy New Year!!
love the videos, learn something everytime. plz keep up the good work!
In the second game the move 6. h3 was fortuitous but to my mind that's sloppy thinking bc after opposite-side castles instead of putting the question to the notorious problem bishop it creates a hook. ofc maybe it's caveman style to play b4 and a4 while Black plays g5 and h5 but games sometimes do go that way. Thx very much for the illustrations today. I enjoyed them. : )
In the game FightingScandinavianDefense why not deflect the black g-pawn with the h-pawn to clear the bisshop-diagonal for a quicker win?
My new years resolution is stop playing and just watch speed runs coz I blunders away the winning games all the time.😂😂
Planning to start playing more regurarly again.
Happy New Years Eric!! My chess new years resolution is to get 2000 elo! And maybe get an autograph from you at an event in stl Two big goals!
Love the video as always
At 24.55 there was boden mate with Queen sacrifes. Qxc6
11:30 hey Eric, I would’ve liked to have seen the b4 line you mentioned. Wish you covered it after the game.
Really enjoying the series helping me play more calm. Currently 1080 in rapid would like to be over 1100. However my resolution is to be improve my responses to my opponent during opening. I play London and struggle to find (remember) strong development for each response
great video Eric! My new years resolution is to play my first over the board tournament :)
At 14.33 how come black was able to castle as the white bishop was going through the castling line? I always though you could not castle if something did that
It took me a while to realise that "castling cannot be performed if the king is in check, if any of the squares the king crosses or occupies are under attack, or if the king would be in check after castling". It says "the king crosses". The king doesn't cross b8 and therefore the castling is legal 👍
If I'm playing someone that wants to go on early adventures with the queen, I usually feel more relaxed.
Around 17:30 couldn’t you have taken g5 with the night to deflect the queen, and then did the queen sac and bishop mate?
My resolution- watch as much rosen so I can to at least break 1400
My chess New Year resolution is to play less OTB and start playing online. Nice seeing that clipping from the newspaper!
To think I hadn't had the bell on the subscribe button selected all this time. Oh no my notifications!
I started playing 3 months ago, currently at 1040 elo and 1750 in puzzles, my resolution is 1500 this year and 2200 in puzzles. Thank you for the instructive and calming content
ah and I forgot my other goal: take part in at least 4 OTB local tournaments
2:06 nah this opponent only studied til Qf3 in the Gothamchess course, the correct move is d6
So that's the story that made eric like traps so much!
This is my favorite series
this series is awesome! i hope you do many more! my NYR for chess is to get my Blitz to 2200!
I started playing chess on this past August and my 2024 resolution is to learn how to play five openings perfectly
I love your content. I think my chess goal is to be more mindful with the games and moves i make, rather than tilting or playing mindlessly. Also, play some more scrabble please!
Absolutely Love it!
my resolution is simply to get good enough at chess that i'm not making very basic errors in my games. i will be happy if i'm simply bad at tactics but not making one move blunders of pieces.
You taught the b4 Scandy in one of your first teaching videos. I've used it - but seemed to find little success with it. LOL