Moral of the story - if a grandmaster offers a draw in a random position which doesn't seem like an obvious draw, look for the tactic they spotted haha
Was watching this live. Can't believe he survived the clock. Great battle Eric. I'm paying close attention to the tournament and rooting for you every step of the way!
Tough one! It's very impressive that your opponent was able to successfully navigate that position with so little time on his clock. Shades of Grischuk. Good on you for not taking the draw, though.
Hello Eric, Ran, Yehli's father here. I really enjoyed the video; it was very well-made. I haven't had many opportunities to see what his games look like from the other side, so thank you very much. We'll definitely remain regular viewers of your channel. Best regards, Ran
Amazing chess game. A shame you didn't see that NxBd6 tactic, but as you said and behaved, such is life, it's being a human. You took is so gracefully. But your way of presenting this whole video makes it memorable and beautiful. That NxBd6 tactic allowed me to open it in another study, and to do the exercise myself! I got most of it right. Not all however, it's a longish sequence, if you follow that line the two pawns ahead turn to only one ahead after Rd4 attacking both a4 and e4. You had amazing ideas this game. Your opponent played extremely well under time trouble. So congratulations for you and your opponent!
I've been playing the Tactic Ninja course on Chessmood, and I was like, "That's in the tactics course! Remove the defender - Decoy"... in this case the decoy was also an attack, which makes it irresistable.
You played well, at some point you were ahead of a GM which is amazing! I am curious if taking that draw would have increased you rating, it that case you should have taken it
Question; why don’t you leave the eval bar on? As a viewer who doesn’t understand such complex positions and master level play in general, it’s always much appreciated to know who is better in any given position.
How do you want to improve your assessment if you always use a computer to assess positions? Moreover he always explain what is happening in the position.
@@AlintraxAika using a computer to improve your chess is something many people do.. it’s how pretty much every professional chess player comes up with prep.. by using an engine. Besides, that’s not even what bothers me. He goes into very complex lines that could have happened but didn’t happen in the game and it would be nice to know if that was a good line or not.. even international masters can be wrong in evaluating a position.
Sounds like your opponent is the luckiest player in Biel today, Eric. 2 seconds on the clock for goodness sake! Maybe you'll get some luck in your next match.
I don't. It pre-spoils the true valuation of a position before Eric explains it. I like that Eric never (untill the end pass) uses it during recaps as in this video.
The crowd was going wild in this game. I was predicting a lot of your moves, while Jonathan and the others didn't even think about them. You played like the Dragon chess engine :D
