Lol I was going to the comments to say it's basically guaranteed at under 1500. But as a Kan/Taimonov player, it's like the absolute dream to see this.
@@InfiniteQuest86 Great tip! That Bc4 Bowdleresque move is by no means the best move against the Sicilian, but it still messes up my Dragon most of the time :/. Djeez how I hate it.
I don't show enough appreciation for ALL your content, Eric. Entertaining, informative, instructive - you are a great guy!! "...ended peacefully" gave me a laugh out loud moment. Bravo!
I swear every single recap from a serious otb game Eric starts by saying “I’ve played and opening I’ve never played before”, I genuinely think he’s gonna run out of openings 😂😂 he must be a nightmare to prepare for
I thought c4 was gonna be the inaccuracy. That looks like the only square for the knight to get into b6, and the pawn on c3 does so well at blunting the bishop
in my opinion the whole variation for white does not lead to a clear advantage for white if black is playing well, what he did. I think this is also the reason why this variation is not played on the top level with normal time control. It may be a good surprising opening for a blitz or bullet.
This was not at all a typical Eric Rosen game with bishops aimed at the fortress aided by rook lift and pawn storm. Perhaps through overconfidence he allowed himself too easily to be distracted into tactical maneuvers and let Woong back into the game. In short he didn't have a long term strategy. Nothing wrong with 3.bd4 which is London and not to be sneered at as a beginner move.
After the Queen trade, what about knight takes a6 followed by the b pawn push after black’s b pawn takes the knight. I didn’t see you discuss this. Looks pretty promising.
At 14:00 I haven’t seen it on the computer yet, but in that position I thought it might be possible to stop it with knight to E8 and after rook to c8 you have bisschop to E5 protecting the rook and the backrank promotion. Can someone help a rookie chest player out and explain if this doesn’t work. Much love for your videos Eric
@@mcronrn Sure, but 1.e4 c5 2.Bc4 (Bowdler) Nc6 3.Nf3 is a transposition to Eric's position and a quite a common line from the Bowdler Attack move order.
From the top of my head: Nxc7 bxc7 Rc8 Bf4 (Bb6 Be5 black wins the pawn) Bd4 white can’t stop the plan of Bb6 and Rxc7 and black wins a pawn or better.
Interesting how different rating levels are weirdly better prepared for different openings. Not that an intermediate player would beat a master but they’d get through the opening well.
Eric, you do not seem to be specializing in the openings you play. Instead you seem to be all over the place. A big part of becoming a GM is the work a GM does at home which is concentrating their effort to understand 'all' of the reasonable continuations of the openings they play. And to do that you can not be all over the place with your openings. And if you do that then you would not fear if an opponent has prepared for what you play.
