Eric plays dubious opening principle violation for early attack against 2000+ rated player; opponent spends multiple minutes thinking and then plays suboptimal moves, immediately sacrificing a rook unnecessarily. I play same dubious opening principle violation for early attack against 1200+ rated player; opponent spends 12 seconds, plays top engine line and demolishes me.
You are awesome. Your playing so good but not making jokes from your opponents. You are polite and so gentle, and taking your time and not afraid to lose on time. You are a free school for nice and delicate chess. Thank you very much man. ❤
Eric before shave: 2 Game easy wins 35 minutes Eric after shave : 2 Game hard fought and 51 minutes It's obvious Eric with beard is suspicious. Time for the procedure.
There's something weird about the Scandi. Does it just attract people who have an aversion to learning theory? I thought it was just 900-1000 players who don't know the 3rd move of the opening they chose, but I guess this strangeness persists all the way to 2000.
I think that's it. You get a lot of similar positions as black and get away with only being slightly worse into middlegame most of the time IF you know your stuff. I agree it's weird that at a 2000 level the opponent didn't have the first 10 moves blitzed out. I'd argue that learning theory can benefit a Scandi player a lot, since anticipating how the opponent wants to kick around your queen and setting up safe squares for it can lead to equal positions which is the best you should hope for when playing it as black.
Yeah my inkling is that it's usually players with a certain type of timidness to main lines who end up playing the Scandi. They do that when lower rated and never give it up. I have a very comfortable record against the Scandi despite having the least amount of prep for it. I don't dare touch it with black - there's no point given all the other options I have against e4.
That’s a huge lesson : when your opponent pauses to think, don’t get mad or impatient but use their time to your advantage! Thank you for your explanations and calm way of explaining things!
Never having had a chess coach, it’s the little gems of knowledge such as the point that ‘when you make a queen you lose a pawn’ which make these videos really valuable to me. It’s obvious in a way, of course, but in these rare situations where you are are calculating such exchanges, it’s the kind of thing I might not have considered.
When you make a queen, you lose a pawn which is true if you still have the queen. In Eric's match, the guy didn't lose a pawn but a second queen. A pawn isn't as valuable as a passed pawn.
It's been fun watching this series progress from "Follow opening principles, stay solid, capitalize on mistakes" at the lower levels to "Calculate, calculate some more, also make sure to calculate" as you approach 2000.
I got curious enough to check the engine. Apparently, NxB NxB there is Bh4+, Eric will have to move his king and the resulting king vulnerability has to take quite a few moves to address, giving opponent quite a big positional advantage.
You need to do a "Bearded Speedrun" from start to finish. With no shaving so we can see both the progression of rating and beard instead of just springing it on us at a tournament then shaving and its all gone.
Eric, I love your chess content. This speedrun has been fantastic! I have a question though. @5:01 - 5:35 when you're discussing Nd5, Qxd2, Nxe7+, Kh8, Bxg7+, Kxg7, Rxd2, Re8, Nxc6, Nxc6, you mention d5 forking the bishop and knight, but discard it because you feel it leads to you getting mated, but since the rook moves to e8, would that line have worked, if instead of d5 you went Bb5, pinning the knight to the rook, then after rook moves you can still push d5 forking, but giving you another move to open some breathing room for your king?
Watching this series I realized that Eric is a strong chess player. Only now I can understand how strong GM is. I, as a fifty-two-year-old, got a lot out of this series, and I can imagine how much younger people will. This is one of the best channels, I I personally follow some others that are just as good, but I don't want to advertise them here. Kudos to Eric Rosen and thanks for this series.
I'm sad. I can't seem to catch a live Twitch episode. 😞 My sleep schedule is funky and the live streaming notice goes to promo emails. It said you won't be streaming for awhile... I will drown my sorrows in tea and poorly played bullet chess.
Wouldn’t the first game be extra hilarious if the opponent was Bizarro Eric on his own speedrun saying over and over again that he needed to watch his time?
7:19 might be a silly question, but why doesn’t Eric consider Bb4 here? It attacks the pawn on d6 (and pins it to the rook), defends his d4 pawn, and unblocks his rook. I can’t see anything wrong w it and seems to present problems for black
I checked with an engine, but I’ll leave this here for anyone who was wondering the same. There’s a temporary pawn sac black can make that takes advantage of the bishop being undefended on b4. Black can then start marching down the b/c files w pawns
Hey Eric, my friend and I have been watching your speedrun since the beginning, and our mindset and calculations have really improved. Just wanted to say thank you and keep going. By the way, you look better without a beard. :))
I have never understood the mentality of players who don't speed up their play when they get low on time and just let their clock run down until they lose on time. Moving faster might lead to more mistakes but not moving faster guarantees losing. It's like seeing an approaching train about to flatten you and not getting out of the way!
@@Auxius. I suppose that might be true for those playing Eric in this video if they recognised his username, but I've seen people who do this in regular games against ordinary people (including me).
@@finlayson6868 I got curious enough to check the engine. Apparently, NxB NxB there is Bh4+, Eric will have to move his king and the resulting king vulnerability has to take quite a few moves to address, giving opponent quite a big positional advantage.
Thank you for another great episode! I don't understand what the first 2 opponents were doing...they were losing a lot a time and neither increased their tempo in the last 2 min.. I expected more from them at this level