0:24 Black: English Opening 2:23 White: Indian game 4:45 White: Sicilian smith morra gambit 7:38 Black: Russian game Stafford gambit 12:31 Black: Queens pawn game symmetrical variation 17:45 White: London system 24:13 Black: Indian game, tartakower attack 27:03 White: London system 33:40 Black: zukertort opening: Ross gambit 39:00 White: London system 42:17 White: Russian game urosov gambit 48:01 Black: Queens gambit declined 53:55 Black: Budapest defence 58:53 Black: kings gambit, falkbeer countergambit 1:03:17 White: Philidor defence, hanham variation 1:07:14 White: London system 1:08:40 White: London system 1:13:18 Award Ceremony.
We need more people like this, not only does he help us record time stamps he also shares knowledge of chess to the community and help us improve. Thanks!
@@andromeda4995 I was so hurt yesterday when i entered a tournament for the first time and could only win one game out of 5..until i checked eric's profile and saw he's had a 12-games losing streak before...then i realised, this is chess... on many occasions, you get your ass handed to ya
The title should be something like "Fighting For a Tournament Win with Tricky and Aggressive Blitz Chess" The ending was so tense and entertaining and you would probably get more views! Keep it up Eric this was awesome!
Eric: Let's take another pawn, I feel like Yasser. It's a nice feeling. Also Eric: Always play king b1, now I feel like Ben Finegold. Me: You're telling me there's a multiverse?
I've watched a lot of eric videos and that was probably the most on point I have seen him even tho he lost a couple. Just seemed like he was moving quicker than normal
"Bg5 hangs a bishop because queens move sideways" - just lost a match because I didn't see a sideways queen move... should have watched this video earlier
Never seen Eric lose, he's so quick, precise, creative, subtle, aggressive, positional, anti-positional all at the same time. The best way to not lose the game against him is by not playing at all.
holy shiiiiiiiiz, maaan it is sooo fun and educational watching you, the way you vocalize all your thoughts makes me understand why you play certain moves, i love it man. seriously, you are pretty fucking awesome.
That ending! I was totally with you there in those nervewrecking seconds xD Well played Eric. Yasser would be proud of your pawns and Ben would have liked your b1 moves.
Eric, you were on fire today! This was one of your best rounds yet. You need to carefully reconstruct all the events, activities, and little routines you did that led to such a stellar performance. And then do it next time. Was it the Egyptian Licorice? Was it an invigorating run before the tournament? Was it plenty of sleep? Because if your thoughts continue at such a level of lucidity, there's no stopping you. Congratulations!!!
Scrolled the comments to see if anyone else clocked that; I'm amazed that a 2000+ didn't capitalise on it! Especially considering that the check was played a couple of moves later anyway
It would probably work, the issue for black is that the queen is attacked and tied down to the g7 pawn, while the threat of Nc2 is looming. Not to mention if black never moves his queen (for some sort of counterattack), white would be able to take the black queen with check. I guess Eric might've missed this. The only other thing may be that the line gives white a material advantage, but black gets counterplay somehow, though I don't see any line that gives black substantial counterplay at all. This could actually be an opening trap in this line now that I think about it.
Congrats, you spotted a devastating blow, tactics with knights where the queen gets attacked simply demolishes everything. Plus, there's no counterplay attacking white's queen, because knight captures with check. Congrats.
Eric, you are cool. Against Ben F. you were talking, explaining, while (good liked by me though) bigmouth Ben just shut up and stared to the screen. This was an epical defeat!
At 17:59 I feel like Eric kinda made a mistake, since black can capture on b2 and already the position is equal, which you don’t really want on move 4 as white. Alternatively you can play Qc1 with the idea of playing c4 and white is doing better. Just thought I’d mention it
I just realised that he knows a lot of openings theory, perhaps that's one of the reasons he plays so good. I mean he's capable of recognising a bunch of different structures and name them!
20:08 Why didn’t black capture the knight on f4 and after white takes back, just take the bisschop on d3... whites queen has still got to take an eye at the knight on b3 so if Qxbd3 black can take the knight. Somebody explain plz
GGs - I always watchin ur videos and very often to do not understanding some stuff, like this one on 4:04 "I feel Like Yasser"?? .. Yasser Sierawan??? Would u please explen that for me?
