Hello this is Harshal from Pune, India. Thank you so much for sharing these secrets and novelties with us.I know it takes a lot of hard work for IMs and GMs to prepare these lines and you are sharing this for free to public is really appreciable. Also I am big fan of your style of teaching. Hopeful to see more of it.
Not only is your presentation excellently crystal clear.. but there's a certain budhist calm in your voice that makes better people of us all. Cheers :-)
I spend a lot of time watching chess videos and this is the first time I am making a positive comment. Highly instructive, clearly explained and completely interesting. 5 stars all day long, I look forward to more!!!!
@@alexg111 oh yeah I didn't consider the whole variation, I just noticed the kid interposed before Rosen suggested king h1, but you're right. Something's not right there.
Eric, you’re my favorite IM! Your videos are very practical, easy to understand, good pace and a great mix of theory but being unorthodoxed as well. Thank you so much!
Great content, but Rosen said in the video he would include a link to the lichess study in the description, and frankly that's a great idea. If he put up a study on lichess relating to this lecture it would be cool to link to it here!
Excellent presentation. The line against the Danish Gambit is also the line recommended by Bologan; it is a transposition to the "Capablanca defense of the Göring Gambit" - for more details, see chapters 3 and 22 of his book "Black weapons in the open game".
Eric. You have a very nice way of teaching. Keep it up. Thanks for the videos. I'm following your videos for the past few weeks and they are really good. 👍☺️
Well, it's white move after that so probably tried to support the rook. The point is the student wants to play bishop c6 pinning the pawn (after probably bishop d4 protecting while attacking the black queen)
@@WARUEL No. The Qd2 is a total blunder because the queen moved away from the rook, giving way for the mate in one. The student's variation probably didn't include the Kh1 so when he studied the variation, there wasn't a big threat.
After watching this video, I forgot everything about chess and started to think about this person. His smily face, his interpretation, his awesome teaching style and his humbleness. At 17:55 when one of the student suggest a good move. He appreciated it with open heart. That's rear. Big respect for you, Eric. Stay blessed and thanks a ton for the superb content.
"And we'll leave a link in the video description". I've heard this said in several other lectures held by the St Louis Chess Club but there's never any link available, at least not here on RU-vid.
Loving this series so far. The other day you also mentioned a project on openings you had been working on, and though I’m sure I will enjoy that, I’d be especially interested in a graphically intense book on tactics that I can keep on display to pique the interest of friends and family when they visit. Even if there are some already available, I’m certain you could do it better. Just a thought. Keep up the good work, Sir. Also, my wife, Nicole, is now hooked on chess. So, thank you for that. Our nightly games are a refreshing alternative to stale video games and thinly plotted television series.
Good news for everyone commenting about Eric missing the mate-in-1 at 18:32 . He's streaming right now (as of the time I'm making this comment), and earlier in the stream he mentioned that he missed it when referencing this video while playing a Milner-Barry Gambit. -Semi-related, he just mentioned he's playing a combination of the London and Bongcloud in the game currently on stream (again, as of the time I'm making this comment).-
@@yanair2091...And apparently a couple understood you as well, despite your grammatic error and misspelling. Be careful where you're pointing that finger...
Actually this is really good chess class, unlike most of chess class that taught openings like 10-15 steps only and leave you hangs, this ones involves variations, no wonder he is good at blitz, fundamental chess is important, i know wits are also important, but memorizing this will help a lot in saving times, and its very usefull for blitz
On the french opening: Black's Queen C4; White's Queen D2; Black's Queen take F1 checkmate. So there is some thing wrong with the kid's line... Thank you for the course.
22:20 in Hammer's repertoire he recommends Nf3. It follows with a rather simple set up to avoid very concrete lines. Bb5 is the most ambitious but you will have to invest plenty of study not to get tricked in this line which really isn't that popular at all.
At 18:30 the kid says “they play Qb2 or something, then I play D4” both the kid and Eric missed Qxf1# instead of D4. It’s literally just checkmate, they BOTH missed it
@@modeal317 Then if that's the case, which I think you're wrong on that, but if it is the case then that line probably doesn't include the king moving to h
@@keggerous are those eyes on your head only for display? If the pawn wasn't moved, the queen can't mate at f1? The king was literally in the same position for 4 turns. Does it matter what the line included?
the iline eric shows here is common to mei i have sen that before the move bb5 is comoon to fight for an advantage in scanadavian and bc4 also but ra4 is brilliant move
I do not play anymore this french variation with white (e5), because i allways feared my pawn-structure and the loss of a pawn. Anyway, with black i feared something other in this situation. Maybe there are to much ghost in my mind. But i like it much better with black, most i have a nice dead while growing old, while with white...also blundering, but earlier. It is nice to see, how sharp the french can be. Never thought about that wild things, just worry about my pawn or king. That is the trouble in my head.
The Icelandic occurs after C4. This line does not hold onto the pawn that way, the check means you have to respond immediately. The only similar line would be to block the check with C6, then dxc bxc... but it isn't a good gambit as black does not get to recapture.
At the 6:00 mark, I realise it’s whites move, but why isn’t it better to try fir the queen side castling (for black) before the heavy trade? If the rook can be brought to the E-file, with the queen and B Bishop, isn’t that a better position to go for?
Eric Rosen is definitely the best lecturer on the St Louis Chess Club. He actually gives tips that we can use in our games! I’ve learned so many trick lines from him, and being a RARer, I use them to win all the time!
