16.Kg1 is my critical error. It is a huge blunder because it is much harder for the king to walk out of the bishop pin (like Kf2, Ke1). Bf2 never works because the queen can check on the g-file. And Black's light-squared bishop blocks the king from f1. At that point I still could've saved myself from cxd4 tactics but it was much harder. Good game, and I will be looking for my revenge some day!
I do this verse my teammates, sometimes they'll play right into a Stafford after learning some refutation, and I bring them into a classic Petrov where they know actually 0 theory
@@MrJsintic That feels evil somehow. Can imagine your opponent preparing for a highly tactical and messy game only to have an Eric Hansen's "Is this theory?" moment on move 3 lol
@@MrJsintic I once joined an Eric Rosen tournament and purposely played into the Stafford because I know a simple refutation. Both of the opponents I did that against blundered their knight immediately, and one then blundered a pawn, bishop and king in two moves LUL
I can answer the GM chess with alcohol question. I took lessons from an Israeli GM that was an expert on 1. d4 openings. He told me that I play so well for about 20 or 25 moves and then I lose my nerve. He recommended that I take a shot of vodka before each game as a method of settling my nerves.
Its been almost 2 years that I am a sub and it still cracks me up when you start your calculations and at some point you go "...and you say Oh no my Queen..." with a dead serious look on your face! Never change Eric Rosen, you re one of a kind!
if anyone wants to refute stafford in the simplest way, after 1.e4, e5 2.nf3, nf6, 3 nxe5, nc6, just play d4. A position without you being up a pawn but very simple position with +0.8 advantage. no need to learn 10 moves of theory for each variant, you just need to know if they play qe7 you play nc3. Other moves are very intuitive. Have been playing this line and i have a great score and i suggest this to everyone else.
@@peterlustig4300 i also was playing nxc6 bxc6 qe2 and after that c3 which is another great line but if eric rosen, someone who has played more than 10k stafford games and studying stafford for such a long time is playing you, getting a position of +0.8 advantage is much better idea both practically and psychologically rather tahn +1.8 or +2 with him having easy counterplay and easy to play moves
@@dinokoenoko7842 I don't even play 1.e4, but if I were to play Eric, I'd go for it because the chance of converting the +2 would be higher. Also, he only played around 20 games in this variation which isn't an overwhelming advantage in experience while the position is quite solid for White
You can also just take the knight and play f3 afterwards. It's kind of a secret refutation i've learned. Yeah yeah, i know, "never play f3" and all, but doing that here is actually a top 3 engine move and it stops almost EVERY single trick black may try to play on you. They can't even do the "damiano defense knight sac and wins the rook" because there isn't a pawn to block your queen and he'll just be down a piece for no compensation. Many, many stafford players blunder the game away after 5.f3, the win rate on lichess is about 64%. They can't even play 5...Bc5 because c3 afterwards is just crushing.
My take away from this video is "two Queens are typically good at checkmating". That's revolutionary thinking right there. Great game! And as always great content.
@@Justchillin145 im pretty sure the blunder was 17.Bf1. it lost a very important Tempo in a dangerous situation. You can see on the engine eval bar it went from +3.9 to -8.
Thanks for the tea tips and discussing how one can be 1 or 2 hundred points up or down, depending on your mental state! It helps explain those bad chess days! LOL :-)
@@thebigpicture2032 Yep any more than 2 glasses of wine the night before and things are not that good the next day! That and playing one more game before going to bed - all bad chess strategy!
I really enjoyed this game above and beyond just watching chess on a normal basis. I honestly didn’t see what was going on when you sacked the knight. That surprised me and made me realized how small I am in the chess world.
I cannot believe what you managed to pull out of that crap position. once that white king made its way into the path of your b6 bishop's broken diagonal this became a thing of beauty. I really was not expecting any hope from the position a couple moves earlier.
The long line at around 6 minutes into the video, if the king were to go to f2 and then ultimately Eric wins the rook with the pawn, doesn't work since white's dark squared bishop is on e5 and just takes the pawn on b2.
I thought it was just me. But when I'm tired and depressed my rating actually drops 300 points. When I'm rested and feel good, it's rapidly increases again. Also noticed I win most games in the morning after waking up. Question is how do I increase the range or baseline?
if you want to be good at chess, play slow time controls, do puzzles, and read chess books. if you want to not be depressed, then accept that chess is just a game that has no bearing on your worth as a human. Take a break from the game and try some other hobbies. Games are for fun, so it shouldn't be more stress than fun.
13:10 to Answer the guys alcohol and chess performance question, Eric and Aman from Chessbrah are pretty much doing shots every stream and are both superGMs
Magnus won a big lichess titled arena drunk out of his mind recently. Forgot which one it was, but it was pretty big. But this is also magnus so, if he lost like 50 rating points from being drunk he'd still be world #1.
Eric's 2600, which would've been considered a Super GM in the 90s but you really have to be 2700 nowadays for people to call you that (it's not an official title, it's a colloquialism). Aman's nowhere near Super GM status.
This game is weird. I thought it had to be +6 but after Bh3 Kg1 c5 I saw no good defense for white. Kg1 just looked like a safe move but the king really had to run from the monster bishop on h3.
The computer likes c4, with the idea of cxd4 Qd3 (where the earlier c4 now prevents dxc3+), blocking the diagonal and basically all the lines, stopping the attack.
I used a Eric Rosen Stale Mate and my opponent was my cousin. He pulled his hair out. He had 2rooks and a Queen and still brought himself to that position because he was being a smart arse. LOL good that I watch your videos
Instead of trying to be cute by playing bishop to f4, white should have simply captured the black knight to diminish the threat on his king side. Oftentimes the most intuitive move is the best one.
I think GM Igor Smirnovs refutation is much better, certainly in practice. I love Naroditsky, but his refutation is hardly a refutation, when it is still both so defensive and risky.
16.Kg1 is my critical error. It is a huge blunder because it is much harder for the king to walk out of the bishop pin (like Kf2, Ke1). Bf2 never works because the queen can check on the g-file. And Black's light-squared bishop blocks the king from f1. At that point I still could've saved myself from cxd4 tactics but it was much harder. Good game, and I will be looking for my revenge some day!
You're the guy who fought Rosen? Good job!
Wow
Amazing job dude. Even from a very prepared opponent, its still a very thin line to play the position.
你是中国人吧，你下棋的技术贼牛逼
Yeah definitely. Must have been frustrating to realise Bf2 wasn't working when it was the reason you played Kg1.
1:27 "I know Bishop f4 is a good move"
"Or is it?"
*Vsauce music starts playing*
Always love a good vsauce meme
That was brutal, going from +4 material count to -15 in just a couple of moves
i do that all the time
I don't know what I just watched but that was actually a cool game of chess
That's what you watched I guess
Me too :')
Few things makes me feel as stupid as when I try to follow Eric’s arrows illustrating 10 moves ahead
10 moves ahead you said? Try to follow Hikaru 20 -30 arrows where you can’t see pieces and squares xD.
@@_FranekDolas but that's exactly why i prefer to be here than there, i can follow this one easier XD
Thats not that hard,just took me 5 minutes undertand it totally xD
This comment is spot on…. All those arrows just help me confirm I have no REAL future with chess other than beating up on complete newbs.
9:34 Eric up +15: "Well this is pleasant" 😂
Note to self: be up 2 queens to zero
if eric ever plays the petrov instead of the stafford, I'm sure he will baffle his opponents beyond belief.
I do this verse my teammates, sometimes they'll play right into a Stafford after learning some refutation, and I bring them into a classic Petrov where they know actually 0 theory
@@MrJsintic That feels evil somehow. Can imagine your opponent preparing for a highly tactical and messy game only to have an Eric Hansen's "Is this theory?" moment on move 3 lol
@@MrJsintic I once joined an Eric Rosen tournament and purposely played into the Stafford because I know a simple refutation. Both of the opponents I did that against blundered their knight immediately, and one then blundered a pawn, bishop and king in two moves LUL
"I can still legally castle both ways. Except this way".
Stafford Gambit for future generations will be known as the Eric Rosen Defense . 🙂 .
Stafford Gambit Refutation for future generations will be known as defense against Eric Rosen.
Calling the Stafford gambit a defense feels somwhat wrong to be honest
would be cool if Eric develops some kind of new theory around the stafford
maybe Eric Rosen Attack, named after mister Attack
@@aranahjohnson9640 Or maybe just Rosen Attack, that sounds right
The thing about Stafford Gambit is the evaluation will show +2 or +3 for white and then all of the sudden white gets mated
It helps when Black is an IM constantly playing weak opposition
@@connormonday when you're an IM, it's hard to not have weak opposition isn't it... his opponent was rated well above the bell curve.
9:00 “It’s slightly cruel and unusual, but it’s also cool and unusual”
T-shirt material!
I can answer the GM chess with alcohol question. I took lessons from an Israeli GM that was an expert on 1. d4 openings. He told me that I play so well for about 20 or 25 moves and then I lose my nerve. He recommended that I take a shot of vodka before each game as a method of settling my nerves.
Sounds about right. Nearly all Israeli GMs have origins from the FSU.
Imagine playing a simul against 10+ people
"It's kind of cruel and unusual, but it's also cool and unusual". Classic Eric!
The tittle should have been "refuting the stafford gambit refutation"
...again. Because there's already a video called like that 😆
Queen battery... Eric still finds new creative ideas to finish in style. 👍
12:59 Eric remembering where was he on Nov 14. Meanwhile me not knowing where did i keep my specs 15 mins ago
Its been almost 2 years that I am a sub and it still cracks me up when you start your calculations and at some point you go "...and you say Oh no my Queen..." with a dead serious look on your face!
Never change Eric Rosen, you re one of a kind!
I always enjoy your calm demeanor, Eric, whether you are destroying your opponent, or digging your way out of a hole.
if anyone wants to refute stafford in the simplest way, after 1.e4, e5 2.nf3, nf6, 3 nxe5, nc6, just play d4. A position without you being up a pawn but very simple position with +0.8 advantage. no need to learn 10 moves of theory for each variant, you just need to know if they play qe7 you play nc3. Other moves are very intuitive. Have been playing this line and i have a great score and i suggest this to everyone else.
Or Nxc6 dxc6 f3, White has a +2 advantage and there is Qe2 and d3 after Be6 and g3 after Nh5 to memorise, that's it, the rest are natural moves
@@peterlustig4300 i also was playing nxc6 bxc6 qe2 and after that c3 which is another great line but if eric rosen, someone who has played more than 10k stafford games and studying stafford for such a long time is playing you, getting a position of +0.8 advantage is much better idea both practically and psychologically rather tahn +1.8 or +2 with him having easy counterplay and easy to play moves
@@dinokoenoko7842 I don't even play 1.e4, but if I were to play Eric, I'd go for it because the chance of converting the +2 would be higher. Also, he only played around 20 games in this variation which isn't an overwhelming advantage in experience while the position is quite solid for White
You can also just take the knight and play f3 afterwards. It's kind of a secret refutation i've learned. Yeah yeah, i know, "never play f3" and all, but doing that here is actually a top 3 engine move and it stops almost EVERY single trick black may try to play on you. They can't even do the "damiano defense knight sac and wins the rook" because there isn't a pawn to block your queen and he'll just be down a piece for no compensation. Many, many stafford players blunder the game away after 5.f3, the win rate on lichess is about 64%. They can't even play 5...Bc5 because c3 afterwards is just crushing.
My take away from this video is "two Queens are typically good at checkmating". That's revolutionary thinking right there. Great game! And as always great content.
Still don't know where the opponent actually went wrong. 😭
Should have played 11.fxg4 followed up with Be3 after he takes on g3
He didn't. He was +3 the whole time. Even when he got mated.
@@Uriakatos lmaoo, correct!
@@Justchillin145 im pretty sure the blunder was 17.Bf1.
it lost a very important Tempo in a dangerous situation. You can see on the engine eval bar it went from +3.9 to -8.
Mistake was playing stafford against Eric 'Stafford' Rosen.
Insane how quickly he tears apart a 2000. If I faced white in an arena he would beserk just to save time before wiping the floor with me
Yea I’m pretty Sir Eric would have me losing material by about move 5… maybe sooner than that.
5:35 "looking at a funny line" 10 moves deep!
Thanks for the tea tips and discussing how one can be 1 or 2 hundred points up or down, depending on your mental state! It helps explain those bad chess days! LOL :-)
And I thought it was just the bong hits.
@@thebigpicture2032 Yep any more than 2 glasses of wine the night before and things are not that good the next day! That and playing one more game before going to bed - all bad chess strategy!
“That’s cruel and usual, but it’s also cool and unusual.” - quote of the month
The fade out really is the cherry on the cake
"It's slightly cruel and unusual. It's also cool and unusual." - Eric playing with his food
feel like we didn't get closure on the game that was just played, analyzing the opponents blunder :(
I really enjoyed this game above and beyond just watching chess on a normal basis. I honestly didn’t see what was going on when you sacked the knight. That surprised me and made me realized how small I am in the chess world.
Yes, I like the staffordshire bull terrier as well :)
I cannot believe what you managed to pull out of that crap position. once that white king made its way into the path of your b6 bishop's broken diagonal this became a thing of beauty. I really was not expecting any hope from the position a couple moves earlier.
His mistake was before move 10. By move ten he was so extended and undeveloped that his king was destined to be hunted.
The long line at around 6 minutes into the video, if the king were to go to f2 and then ultimately Eric wins the rook with the pawn, doesn't work since white's dark squared bishop is on e5 and just takes the pawn on b2.
"Queen batteries are really rare"
and usually completely unnecessary too :)
"Let's play this and see what happens". That's about how I play chess too, but it rarely works out so well for me.
I like the way Eric will be up 16 points of material and will keep analyzing the position.
Just finished Dubai round 6 and thought we were being treated to the next game right away
The last words I expected to hear Eric say: "lets not fool around"
5:38 when Eric plans 8 moves ahead and I'm like "whaaa?"
He miscalculated the line though, the bishop on f6 is covering b2 so you don't win the rook on a1 in the end.
takes the guys queen then makes his own, savage
I thought it was just me. But when I'm tired and depressed my rating actually drops 300 points. When I'm rested and feel good, it's rapidly increases again. Also noticed I win most games in the morning after waking up. Question is how do I increase the range or baseline?
My rating goes up when I only played 3 games a day.. after that it's skydiving
if you want to be good at chess, play slow time controls, do puzzles, and read chess books.
if you want to not be depressed, then accept that chess is just a game that has no bearing on your worth as a human. Take a break from the game and try some other hobbies. Games are for fun, so it shouldn't be more stress than fun.
@@zevialtus4757 cheers for the advice on chess! But don't worry, I don't get depressed from losing at chess 🙂
0:59 Bf3 is best at +4.7. f3 is third best with +3.7.
Hw was definitely using the stockfish. Nobody can be so precise.
13:10 to Answer the guys alcohol and chess performance question, Eric and Aman from Chessbrah are pretty much doing shots every stream and are both superGMs
they are not super gms
Magnus won a big lichess titled arena drunk out of his mind recently. Forgot which one it was, but it was pretty big. But this is also magnus so, if he lost like 50 rating points from being drunk he'd still be world #1.
@@eragon78 It was the last Titled Tuesday
Eric's 2600, which would've been considered a Super GM in the 90s but you really have to be 2700 nowadays for people to call you that (it's not an official title, it's a colloquialism). Aman's nowhere near Super GM status.
11:04 Disambiguated capture checkmate✅
Most fun chess match to watch that I’ve seen in a while
This game is weird. I thought it had to be +6 but after Bh3 Kg1 c5 I saw no good defense for white. Kg1 just looked like a safe move but the king really had to run from the monster bishop on h3.
The computer likes c4, with the idea of cxd4 Qd3 (where the earlier c4 now prevents dxc3+), blocking the diagonal and basically all the lines, stopping the attack.
"This is pleasant..." when Eric has two queens and his opponent has none.
I used a Eric Rosen Stale Mate and my opponent was my cousin. He pulled his hair out. He had 2rooks and a Queen and still brought himself to that position because he was being a smart arse. LOL good that I watch your videos
Legend has it Eric cannot sleep if he doesn't play the stafford that day.
Possible low budget spoof of a Jackie Chan movie…
Janice Chen: Drunken (Grand) Master
Eric goes up two queens.. "well this is pleasant"
6:06 - That's insane!
When Eric got asked about alcohol and chess performance, he definitely wanted to throw chessbrah under the bus lol
He's been studying for this moment
Once out of preparation your opponent self destructed...
Queen battery.
Yes, Mr Rosen, queen battery is quite rare.
Incredible, well done!
I like how Eric always makes it work no matter how dumb it looks.
The Queen battery should be known as Rosen’s Gun
I was drinking tea when the conversation came to that
"queen battery" killed me lol
6:13 Kg1 c5, Bb5+ C6, e5 Qg6, Bd3 Rh6, BxQg6 RxBg6, Kf2 O-O-O, Ke1 Cxd4 and blacks bishop h3 when threatened retreats to e6?
*up 15 points of material*
"Well, this is pleasant"
Oh no my Stafford gambit
This was awesome. Love the content!
3:12 plans 10 steps.. hm idk let's see what happens ;D
that's me at every move
At 3:12 misreads it for MC bananas when It only says MCABANAS. lol
I wnna ask someth, why the white didn't take the bishop on c5 early ?
Eric Rosen is always in search of "oh no! My queen))"
1:31 After stopping the mate threats why did his opponent play bf4 and not take the bishop on c5?
Eric do you have a stream schedule?
0:37 what if white plays e5 instead of d3
That was a really crazy game of chess
Ooh I played a game like this , but with f4 instead of f3 on the black side
5:56... Wow.
so, what are you having for dinner next tuesday the 15th, and which month would that be in?
How do you make the red arrows?
Right-click and drag while holding down shift! You can also make blue/yellow circles/arrows while right-clicking and ctrl or ctrl+shift
After bishop guards knight. Light square bishop is free. Kxb qg6... Lol now just get your rook to h8 and over...
Instead of trying to be cute by playing bishop to f4, white should have simply captured the black knight to diminish the threat on his king side. Oftentimes the most intuitive move is the best one.
Is the Maginot Line an actual thing in the Stafford, or did you make that up?
I just love thé disceplane hé puts into the calculations.... 💓
Whenever someone plays the Stafford refutation against me, I end up getting smoked. I guess that’s why I’m not an IM lol.
Especially an IM who has devoted a large portion of your study to specifically the Stafford gambit lol.
I think GM Igor Smirnovs refutation is much better, certainly in practice. I love Naroditsky, but his refutation is hardly a refutation, when it is still both so defensive and risky.
+15: "Oh this is pleasant" 😂
What do you stream on mate
10:08 i think if Rd1 you have qh3 double attack kinda
The opponent could've saved the queen at minute 8, if he'd just block the D4 pawn with his QUEEN. (said white bishop: got stupid for a moment)
dxc3 is still winning the queen in that position
You can’t block dxc3 though so that doesn’t work
@@prashanthseshadri5842 You're right! Move the queen to D3, not the bishop
@@SolestroDerNarr it s forced mate:pawn takes with check, bishop blocks, queen checkmate
yea, but you're still losing your rook and black is getting another queen. So its not a huge help.
Oh no! My Stafford
For Alcohol and chess, you should ask Hikaru
Nah he tends to try to fight Chad Canadians and lose.
Qe6 at 6:16
What do you do for black at 1:02 if they castle king side instead of pushing pawn?
Probably just save the bishop on c5
i'm 90% sure the game shown at the end of the video is on yt, no?
At least you used your rooks well!
When the onion makes you cry at tenth layer 😂
After 4. Nxc6 dxc6, White would counterattack Stafford by playing 5. e5
1:59
no my queen😹😹😹
Wow, what a game, what a turnaround!
The question at the end 😂😂😂
Eric: Oh no...my gambit...
finally some more cool stafford wins! feel like a lot of Ls were being posted for the stafford here. to a year of gambits ❤️