No it was a miss mate. If Rd8 was played then h7 would be played. Opponent brought his knight down putting Eric in check and eric moved closer to the knight so if rook went to D8 eric would have take the knight.
Eric: Oh no! My opponents were rated 2300 and 1900. I feel so bad. Me: I would be feeling the complete opposite of bad if I could dissect players of that calibre.
Feel like it's easier to spot the 1500s because they are extremely materialistic and go round gobbling up every "undefended" pawn completely unaware of tactics.
Mad props for not dedicating your time and effort to covering the ‘scandal’. While you may have missed out of some mad click-bait bucks, youve proven your integrity is not for sale and some of us noticed. Stay true dawg, stay true (picture me bouncing my left arm and clinched fist off my chest in a BAMF gesture). 😄
When a video of Eric comes you know it’s worth your time. Ya gotta thank This guy for his efforts in making us All calm. Love you Eric. Also u recognize rookymove by rookymistakes
Hey Eric, recently started watching some of your videos. Great stuff! The calm composure is brilliant, and then you throw in something like 47:10... been a while since I burst out in laughter from a YT video 😂
Great Video again Eric - you're basically my therapy at this point! Just letting you know that theres spoilers for the ELO in the timestamps/chapter titles. Still fun though
game one and we’re already in my home turf. my dad is a religious 1.g4 devotee so I always play 1…f5, since the goal of black is to equalize, right? so if my opponent (read: dad) plays the worst move in his position, I should play the worst move in mine.
04:22 - would black horsey to G2 check be fine there? Because after white responds to this with king E2 to defend queen, other black horsey goes to where the other horsey used to be to check white king in its new square ...
As a suggestion, the chapter names (or whatever they're called) shouldn't include the rating spoilers IMO. You'll see them unavoidably if you do anything like pause or change the volume.
Not sure if there’s a better way of doing it but I felt like the chapters on the video spoiled some of the fun in terms of trying to guess their rating as well.
Eric's opponents play poorly because Eric is so tactical and wild, the opponents are never used to those positions. I'm not as good as him obviously but OTB I also often get people who say they played badly, but it's really because I'm very aggressive and crushed them without letting them set up their usual solid stuff
