Hi Eric, I am a blind chess player and was just wondering if you’ve ever considered making the PGN files from your educational videos public so a blind player could follow along in an accessible chess engine? To clarify I am physically blind, not a blindfold player
@@harrycrab1677 blind people can type. Special hardware and software exist to allow people with poor eyesight to navigate computers. Additionally, windows has a ton of accessibility features to make computers usable for the disabled. I'm sure other operating systems have similar features.
Watched to the end, I watch most of your vids all the way since I found you. You have a great way of making your thought process accessible and your dry humour is the delicious meatball that spices it all up!
57:00 monologue: "I need to buy some soap. Rage pause, yeah. Reducing the rage with the dirty flags. 'K: double berserk. Playing c3, building the triangle, Illuminati. Ooh! Ba6 is winning! This is in my London course. It used to be a novelty." Imagine being a casual (non-chess-playing) observer who happened to drop by during the stream at that moment!
I love the 'chapters' feature on RU-vid. Not sure when it was added but have only recently noticed, and 'what am I doing with my life?' really got me :')
Letting you know that i made it that far. Great tournament. I just started trying out 3|0 blitz, had been doing 5|0 for a bit. Watching phenomenal players like you helps a lot in understanding how to manage clock, how to play for the clock, and when to sacrifice good moves for fast moves. Love it, big rush
Watched the whole thing. It was awesome. I have been away from the game for 30 years so I don't understand the dirty flag or the berserk but the games were great.
Dirty flag is beating your opponent on time when they're in a winning position Berserk is just a lichess thing (as far as I know) where you take a time deduction for the chance to win bonus points if you win
@@LHommeDeCave worthy to also note that berserking is only in Lichess tournaments and only gives extra tournament points. It has no effect on rating points given or taken
I watched to the end. It's really neat to see aggressive chess on display, especially in openings I thought were slower. It helps me play more aggressive stuff and worry less about losing quickly.
I won a rapid game today where my opponent flagged and also one where I checkmated my opponent with 0.1 seconds left on my clock. That was more than enough chess for me in one day and I am rated 1200. Watching Eric flag his opponent with 0.09 seconds left on his clock and then he jumps straight into the next game and also berserks is just crazy. Heavy respect I don't think many people could do that.
Great videos, love your posts. You are a great teacher as well.. easy for a beginner to follow.. and thats very important. Some of the guys I try to watch on utube go way too fast for me to follow. Thanks
Funny how he always joins late and still comes in top 5 while berserking almost every game and is disappointed in himself when he doesn't get first place. Complete Chad. He's as good as a gm in my opinion idk how he isn't a gm yet
Brilliant Eric, I am learning so much from watching you play. Man your fast! I missed that trap in the London course! Thanks for the link in comments. Good luck in 21🫖 (edited)
Rarely comment but always watch your RU-vid vids. Appreciate your drive and passion with chess play. Have become a London fan and encourage many to explore the opening. 4th is still phenomenal considering the field and time
18:13 'There's a cool line. Takes, takes, Qf5, Kb8, takes. And then here, here, here Qf2 in the end. Rg1 and then Re1 I think is winning." I literally was just going to say that.
11:40 "I'm so nervous..." Looks cool as cocumber. :) I know that heart racing shaky feeling very well tho Eric. Thanks to your videos I passed 1600 on chess com.
Hi Eric!! I dont know if you have time to view all you YT comments maybe someone else can help. Is this course still the best to learn the London System if you like Erics material? I see that the variation that you go thru in your other London system videos is really good and is what i want but I cant focus since it is a collaboration with a high pitch voice that hurts my ears. Best person to learn chess from and you evolved thru the years! Even better to listen to now! Thanks MrRosen!!
if you play it the right way it can be fun, but you really have to be careful - if you just play London main lines over and over then you'll probably get loads of boring games, where you don't learn sharp tactical play
