I caught a chess cheater! 

Eric definitely doesn't get enough credit for his humor. His sarcasm while taking the game seriously is so good.

i love how a 1300 thought he could mix some blunders with engine moves then completely outplay a grandmaster at the endgame with less than a minute on the clock only up the exchange. He doesn't understand chess enough to see how stupid this looks lmao

'in bullet you didn't have enough time to express yourself as an artist' LOOOOL

The calm and rational language that Eric uses even when it's absolutely clear that the opponent is cheating, is just too good to watch. Total role model on how to handle an a**ole online.

Jim knows how to open up my A file lmaoo

"I was kinda curious why you wanted to do King g7?"... No response.... Lmfao

"this is an interactive channel" lmao. Eric is a legend. The way he handled all of this is 100% class.

Eric epic foreshadowing with the “underrated in chess”, I KNOW WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO SAY ERIC!!!!!

Man I love cheater content with Eric or Aman, a guilty pleasure

Someone wrote in chat " Jim, do you know Pooja?" hahaha

I love how haunting this feels without any techno beats

That mating net was pretty sick, I gotta admit.

Pushes the pawns in advance to block the bishop after a check...but then takes an eternity to do it once the check happens 😂😂😂

As allways, Eric handled him like a boss and reserved judgement for the chat. Such a clever and constructive way to maintain the integrity of the channel! Btw, is this theory?

"It's a pattern. He gives away the horse and then kicks the shit out of you. Gives you this false hope." 🤣

As much as i dont advocate cheating and scamming, the guy could have just made a new account and no one would know instead of all the begging and gifting subs for forgiveness from random people online...

"I cheated and lied but I'm not dishonest"

High elo GMs like eric ALWAYS notice when you are cheating

i love this kind of content. Eric is naturally entertaining, even when he just calls people buddy.

I remember watching you before 2018 2017 and you were so humble about being a GM lol, now your finally loving your position of GM and it's awesome to see. Love seeing a fellow Canadian on top

The 20 seconds of silence after he typed his message, killed me 😂😂

Yo what the hell is that last long message. Eric is too nice, Aman would have foozball’d that out immediately like GET THAT SHIT OUTTA HERE!!!!!!

Permanent ban is just fine. Playing the emotional card once being caught works with your parents, not in real life with other people. The cheater has ot learn it. There is a saying in french, «faute avouée est à moitié pardonnée», admission of guilt only takes half of the blame away ;-).

20:37 "We got b-pawn Jim again" he knew Jim just started the engine again😂😂😂😂

Cheater vs Eric is always cool 😂😂

"uh oh, it's the b-pawn Jim again" im dying 😂

The way he repeatedly says "Jim..." like he means "Jim please don't hurt me" is so funny.

I think some of the moves were by an enjim

I love how you give him lots of "hints" that invite him to blunder in case he's listening.

Great video. Glad the guy admitted to it at the end. That’ll eliminate the “ how do you know he’s cheating?” Comments. Maybe lol

The way in which Eric slowly boils the cheaters ego asunder is remarkable, he is truly built different.

I think he has a chess-humiliation fetish... he played you all this time

When jim confessed i just about died of laughter 😂

Would've loved this if, after the cheater's confession, Eric sombrely reflected for 10-15 seconds before shouting "GET HIM OUTTA HERE"

I think the comments are missing the point of why Eric reacted and spoke the way he did. He did it because he didn't want the guy to not gift subs. If he immediately comes out and says the guy is blatantly cheating then there's 0% chance he will gift any subs. It will just scare the guy away Since he had already gifted ten subs, it was a realistic possibility he could get more subs out of the guy. Which he did end up doing, getting fifty or so.

tbh he should be just banned for the fucking winking robot emoji

The way Eric and Aman do cheaters, instead of being done by them is priceless!

"Whenever Jim puts smth on the a-file you know youre screwed" made my day^^

16:45 don’t disrespect John Wall like that 😂

Why cheat when you could lose with grace

10:21 Love the Jimothy callout in the chat LOL

Out of all the past cheater vids on this channel, this has by far been the MOST CRIIIINGE dude seriously

the way he was playing judge at the end was so fuckin amusing

Eric “smiley face is consent” Hansen

Eric's decisions regarding this cheater were quite level-headed and fair, to the point of allowing chat to vote for the outcome. Very professional way to ensure the standard for current and future followers of the channel imo

Jeez! At least 1 more thing, which Jim has brought is some cheating drama! I watched the whole video at a heartbeat 😂

Good moves take 3 seconds, bad moves take 7 seconds. Suss.

This was a battle of high EGO vs high ELO.

Love watching strong GMs vs engines. Shame it's so disheartening to play against, and it only ever happens under the guise of a low rated player...

Jimchess is probably 13 years old. That just wanted to cheat against Eric.

the proper thing is to now hold a match against Jeremy and Pooja for the title of best player in chess history

Who needs Judge Judy when we have *Judge Eric* ?! 👨‍⚖ That was epic. 👏👍

You have to love Eric for his justice. I think that hole engagement was fair

if this happened with Hikaru... Hikaru would literally turned his day into the worst nightmare... Eric obviously is by far one of the kindest and good hearted people out there.... Using people's kindness is a sin itself.

Why eric so calm, when the rage gonna happened again 😭

The Canadian comes out when Eric is stressed

1300 players probably the most hidden chess bots you can use. Not high enough to take notice, not low enough to blunder lose in games.

Imagine this is just Hikaru on a smurf

Came away from this video thinking Eric is a pretty nice guy tbh.

This cheater was the reason I was sleep deprived the next morning... Great content as always! Lmao

Insane how strong Stockfi...eh, Jim played..

the post-game stuff is true premium eric hansen content lmao

Take a shot every time Eric says "Jim"

the chat finds the defendant guilty beyond the reasonable doubt and sentences them to life in BAN.

At least he was honest xd

At this point, I assume some percentage of online chess is always cheating, so it’s interesting to see someone apologize and give subs for it. Normal trolls give absolutely zero effs.

He types slow cause he has an engine saying which letters to put.

If I were a GM, I'd be playing engines so much because I'd know that people want to see those games really badly and I wouldn't care if I lose over and over again because it would be for the entertainment of the fans. Not siding with Jim at all, this is a separate topic.

"Thats a real Jim move" "That deflates me" xD

eric knew he was playing a cheater even before he played them, you can tell because he used the hippo opening which is known as a tool against cheaters lol

This has been going on for quite a while. Subs refusing to pay after losing. First a sub promised Aman he would pay him after beating him a 1700 without a Queen. Then he started changing the rules.

I really smiled at the way Eric was emphasizing on the second crime... the subs! Like... DUDE, pay your bail already! You wanna be a big fraudster, get the cash ready, just like in the real world! Haha! Hilarious content! Also, people, come on, vote for the bail, support Eric's legitimate enterprise here! Hah!

100 or 25 had me rolling LMAO

Not even doing a good job, the move time makes it obvious.

So here's my hot take on this guys as a 33 year old 1800 blitz/ 2k rapid player who played scholastic chess since the age of 13 (won a couple of tournaments), then got back into it at 25, and who is also a gamer, has played Quake 3 Arena/Quake Live ffa/duel/CA/race/TDM at a highly competitive level since 2003: As a young scholastic player (never coached), reading books, studying master games, getting strong enough to win ~1600 bracket tournaments, you learn from a VERY early age just how strong even an IM is, let alone a GM. But there a couple of things for the modern 'gamer'/zoomer which I believe are working against them that fail to allow them to grasp JUST how massive and insurmountable the strength difference is between a GM and say someone who is 'new' to chess and learning the game as a result of the 'Chess Boom' on Twitch: .1 The ELO/ladder systems used in competitive gaming models are VERY uneven in their break points and accuracy regarding the true strength of a player: Things like uneven player pools, gear differences in MMOs, broken or OP team comps, and MANY other imbalances make the ELO/Rating systems that a young gamer is familiar with these days in competitive gaming nowhere near as accurate as Chess ELO does, because those games have inherent imbalances, while chess is as close to a perfectly balanced game that has ever existed. They figure "if I can farm ELO in LoL, or CS:GO, or WoW, surely I can farm Chess ELO since I'm not a total N00b" - but this is simply not the case: In chess, you can't gain 200 ELO just from getting a few new pieces of gear for your team, an ability upgrade, a new build strategy, etc. - In chess, with a large enough sample size of games, 100 ELO represents a concrete and tangible advantage in understanding, ability, or a combination of those two things. 200 ELO is virtually insurmountable in a best-of series assuming again that you have a large enough sample size of games played. TLDR; Chess ELO is not 'farmable' as in many games, and taking that same approach as with some other game simply won't work; there are no rating 'shortcuts' like there are in other games. .2 Universal presence of engines instills a false sense of 'knowing' when a move is good or bad, and being laughed at when you don't 'get it' like some other jerk with an engine. Coming up in my era, we 1600s had no engines, well we did but they were barely 2200 or so roughly, and they were too slow to use in blitz because the computers were weak back then. Thus there was no false sense of confidence like young gamers have today, when it's all too easy to judge a GM's move as bad just because Stockfish says so, without having any understanding of why the move is bad yourself. If you are a young up and coming chess learner, do yourself a favor and intentionally forget both of these mindsets. Only use an engine for post game analysis or clarity in analyzing the games of others, try to find some good lessons (Chess.com actually has great lesson material as well as video series), watch VODs of strong tournaments with live analysis, work on your tactics trainers and increase your positional understanding, and you WILL increase your ELO - but you still won't become a GM unless you are remarkably gifted at Chess. This is the way! Cheers

I love how Eric makes a grunt like The Witcher at 39:46 hahaha!!! Yes this was great content!!!

Can’t tell if Eric felt bad for the guy or was trying not to get wrapped up in a potential suicide.

My computer is my most frequent chess opponent. My goal when I play the computer is to avoid checkmate for as many moves as possible. I consider it a victory when I can actually reach the endgame. The computer does things to me like what we see in these games: moves that I can't make any sense of until I go back and do analysis, where I discover that the computer was slowly manipulating me into putting all of my pieces on the right squares so it could then spring a massive total annihilation attack twelve moves later.

Serawain laughing at the joke made my day!

Love how Eric bates this person to be even bolder.. so funny

LMFAO 39:39 someone said “this sounds like a letter to my ex girlfriend” LOLOLOL

Despite the cheating, i think its a good content seeing GM struggle and amaze with those engine move

the way Eric says Jim kills me lmao. Jim! Jim… Jim?

I love how the pro chess streamers play a 1300 and they're so positive about a string of strong moves. 1300s cannot shut down counterplay except for single pawn pushes. If you have to play often at that rating range (which I do as my time management is horrible at finding tactics) it's painfully obvious the cheating

Jim......Jim......that's a real Jim move lol greetings from Winnipeg

Would love to see Jim and Pooja fixed up on a blind date.

He cheated but he isn't dishonest. Interesting...

If Eric keeps saying your name, he knows you're cheating.

A 45 MIN CHEATER VID LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO CBRAHSHOUT

Cool Fact: The VS that he uses in the thumbnail is a blacked out logo of VS Gaming - a South African competitve gaming organization under Telkom, th national ISP!l.

this is so messed up lol

I love how Eric occasionally calls him “The Jim”

Eric! I thought your commentary and face expressions were hilarious during the games and even though it was 45 minutes, the video was very entertaining to watch!

This whole b3 sac idea was very nuanced i have to say. It’s not the human way of converting the position, cold blooded accuracy.

"Smiley face... ok, that must mean 'yes'. That's consent." 30:36 Just be aware that this kind of reasoning might not hold up in certain life situations.

They dont make sense to you, everyone has there own play style

This guy was just seeking attention...

Gotta love how he already knew it is a cheater after the first or second game but kept going anyway. Eric knows what the brahs like to see.

17:47 thats real jim move" 😂😂

20 secs to construct a 20 move mating net, damn, uncle stockfish really talk jim well.