6 Queens After 16 Moves!

In this video, I play a crazy and memorable blitz game against SonjaLang (1392) on lichess.org. The game features an obscure line of the Alekhine's Defense in which both sides promote to an additional queen by move 7. Just a few moves later, 2 more queens appear!
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[@kayoshingaming5720]

That King got a lot of explaining to do.

[@alexanderlloydmendoza979]

Kings have concubines

[@GIGATHEBOT]

Henry the 8th time.

[@Triadii]

That king needed a lot of love so he got it

[@hackerman7835]

No he doesn't.

[@thatoneguynamedpatrick]

Both kings actually lol

[@marvienello]

imagine playing this on a physical board "hey can i borrow a queen?" "uh, alright" ".... can i borrow another one"

[@shadowcween7890]

true

[@shadowcween7890]

false

[@Luca-jf9dk]

@@shadowcween7890 which one is it goddamnit

[@Lisa-zx7ie]

Meanwhile me just flipping a rook I lost to symbolize a queen-

[@tobiaschaparro2372]

How DO you play this physically?? Do they have a bunch a extra queens in pros??

[@sanjeevkhurana6628]

Fun fact : Original queen didn't even bother moving.

[@sschuarmatt9514]

Because a real queen protects his king, while his other mistresses do the work.

[@theyneverlearn3679]

@@sschuarmatt9514 yes a queen protects his king

[@myncraft1]

cuz she doesnt like being played, so she aint gonna play

[@amanamnamnam]

@@sschuarmatt9514 yes a queen protects his king

[@stewartzayat7526]

She was too jealous, so she stayed behind to watch over the king and make sure he isn't thinking about any of the other queens

[@ErikID142]

"I'm actually taking this seriously" 1 min later: "I just realized I can triple Botez gambit"

[@Jkjoannaki]

The name and the profile pic... They go so well with this comment

[@Newber92]

I know who Botez is but haven't heard of the Botez Gambit, what sort of move is it?

[@Jkjoannaki]

@@Newber92 blundering a queen

[@Anonymations]

The botez gambit is when you sacrifice a queen for questionable compensation

[@ninjasnapple]

@@Newber92 Because the chess player Alexandra Botez has a history of accidentally blundering her queen a lot so people started to call blundering your queen the Botez gambit as reference to that

[@SonjaLang]

6 queens on board, mated by pawn!

[@michellewillian1972]

adhuahsuahs

[@Arominit]

Chess is poetry

[@SessionOfGaming]

From humble beginnings. Four were mere pawns in their past life.

[@MohamedAli-vu3dj]

don't underestimate the lonely pawn 😂😂 a brave one is better than thousands of Queens 💪💪

[@aasyjepale5210]

@@MohamedAli-vu3dj thats sexist

[@martinpinessi2433]

Anyone: i have three queens, i can do whatever i want. Eric: wait, i can triple botez gambit

[@russianbear7832]

Mikhail Tal: *Niiice.*

[@verycutenoob]

How can u do whatever u want with 3 queens

[@jonashulse5883]

@@verycutenoob it's a joke bud

[@YourBoyDany]

@@verycutenoob You can *ACTUALLY* do alot with THREE QUEENS *WINK*

[@osquiromero4261]

Hahahahaha

[@zacharyhutchison4006]

That opening is how you meet fellow members of the white lotus.

[@hello-yn1lu]

Finally another member of the white lotus.

[@btz4656]

Lol

[@countercuIture]

Bro I miss The Last Airbender

[@andrewring9999]

criminally underrated comment

[@bestever9178]

Still theory.

[@somebodys7404]

Triple Botez gambit still theory

[@andrewptob]

This comment made me very happy.

[@gonzalo4658]

hahahaja

[@vladislavkrutikov494]

Hahaha

[@noobita4983]

It's obviously forced

[@jezreelasuncion8227]

So this is basically a video about two kings building their harem right?

[@manishbakshi1682]

The pawn starts to look mighty sexy once it hits that eighth row

[@jeremydespair]

@@manishbakshi1682 HAHA

[@monnamonsta]

why do i laugh so hard xD

[@savezera]

@@manishbakshi1682 LOL.

[@gonzalo4658]

chill

[@Softcloner]

"Im not sure how much C4 helps" - Explosives always help

[@excalibur5434]

Saudi Arabian chess

[@BrokenG-String]

Lmaoo

[@shadestrider1033]

Solid Snake in Smash Ultimate.

[@Kornchipzzz]

/r/unexpectedjihad

[@d7ooom998]

@@excalibur5434 سعودي؟

[@bluerepublik5624]

this variation henceforth shall be called "Rosen Attack - 6 Queens variation"

[@kaunainasfi3092]

sounds like an attack move of a shounen series

[@georgiykireev9678]

@@kaunainasfi3092 All chess openings titled "attack", "gambit" or "defense" do

[@isaacsmitherman2704]

Rosen defense sounds better

[@JustinRed624]

@@georgiykireev9678 and variation

[@dcp0102]

@@isaacsmitherman2704 he wasnt defending tho

[@somebodys7404]

Both sides have three queens "I'm down an exchange for a pawn"

[@trisiplays2855]

Hey one of his pawns did the mate he knew about there great potential!

[@merdanrejepov9644]

I mean every pawn is potential queen 😂

[@JR-zc5pz]

I put this in stockfish 10. It exploded.

[@carpetclimber4027]

If Stockfish ever became a sentient AI, it would be very upset at humanity.

[@ziyaadsam008]

I put this in stockfish 10 too , it's still thinking to this day

[@anamitraroy1681]

Because of C4?

[@JR-zc5pz]

@@anamitraroy1681 Genius.

[@ryanbyers8251]

Achievement earned: how did we get here?

[@thatoneguynamedpatrick]

Do you have 90 minutes?

[@LegendaryFartMaster]

@@thatoneguynamedpatrick beat me to it😂

[@samtakhanna2497]

Lmao

[@samtakhanna2497]

@@thatoneguynamedpatrick Can you explain? I don't get it

[@LegendaryFartMaster]

@@samtakhanna2497 it's a running gag from a community who follow jacksepticeye, an Irish KZbinr. He actually went on tour talking about his career titled "how did we get here?". It was a 90 minutes talk, so the answer do you have 90 minutes became a running gag response to the question how did we get here.

[@kapanavi]

I love how he calls us "the KZbin People"

[@felix56p]

10:33 never heard the sentence "and then I'd be down a queen" before

[@master_sam_g]

yes down 'a' queen🤣🤣

[@andyisyoda]

Actually incredible game!!

[@alexzhu4552]

Never knew you played chess, love your content !

[@Shoelacer1]

Me too

[@haseebanjum484]

Howdy

[@7own878]

Let's wait for Hikaru asking you to join Pogchamps 4. I really like your Builders Refuge content, the internet is a small place

[@DaDerpyCarrot]

other players with 3 queens: yeah I need to use them correctly so i can win!! Eric with 3 queens: How do i sac all of them

[@Gamer-uf1kl]

When you have 3 queens and still stalemate ks what really hurts

[@babzsichu]

"We're already at four queens!" Alexa: *"HuMmUs PiZzA¿"*

[@christoffereilertsen9447]

My boi really said triple Botez gambit 💀💀

[@saintsaens21]

Sounded a bit...dirty

[@amrabdellatif9956]

This will be an awesome threesome!

[@muffemod]

Dude, he loves her.

[@StefanReich]

@@muffemod Who doesn't?

[@iam-retarded-but]

@@MrMRSHARPSHOOTER what

[@NinjaPotatoGaming]

"this is the worst time to leave" *plays ad*

[@jrmbayne]

as a KZbin people, I can confirm I did enjoy this

[@jackbenimble999]

Lol, I'm strictly a KZbin people, I don't even know what platform he's using. Twitch I guess.

[@Jason-yt9ch]

@@jackbenimble999 yea cause people are donating bits

[@notnotandrew]

Ah yes, the classic 6 Queen opening, a favorite of many. Truly how chess was mean to be played.

[@Norukjari]

"Don't leave, this is the worst time to leave" *gets an ad*

[@sdpolitics2392]

Whenever I play games after watching his videos I win lot of games 😅

[@lordloneshadow7572]

So true

[@theermac6024]

When 2 harem protags face each other

[@orleaneenfermeira9192]

Just *SIX QUEENS* on board. King: *" HELP!!! "*

[@crosscirfians6236]

"I have C4, C4 is nice" It sure is

[@Ferdinand-yu4et]

I guess he is on the FBI watch list since he said that

[@cc2slanderreal]

Oh boy, someones gonna dox Eric and call in a bomb threat on him

[@user-gu1ed1kb8x]

"I'm not sure if C4 helps"

[@jahjah7940]

This move should be called „Henry the VIII”

[@MenloMarseilles]

Nah, all the queens survived to the end in this variation

[@emilwallgren5229]

@@MenloMarseilles Ya, Henry VIII is the triple Botez gambit

[@adamsirota9058]

@@emilwallgren5229 now that is a funny comment

[@maxthexpfarmer3957]

@@adamsirota9058 quadruple Botez gambit

[@zionj104]

3 seconds in and already mind blown because I see the creator of toki pona

[@karolyhorvath7624]

Mission Impossible: Find the best move.

[@fiendfi7119]

all 6 queens remained on the board, that's amazing

[@anvb5a1]

When you got 3 queens but... material is equal! This was hilarious! This is chess polygamy!!!

[@COZYZEHDUCK]

material shouldn't have been equal though

[@jepulis6674]

@@COZYZEHDUCK There was a nice queen sacrifice promotion mate missed there. Most likely on purpose to have 6 queens on board.

[@shazers7313]

"Oh no one of my queens !"

[@rishabh_s]

At 6:04 cant you just take F8 for free?

[@spaghettiman0140]

I think he really wanted to have 6 queens on the board

[@rishabh_s]

@@spaghettiman0140 you would still have to get the sixth queen I think

[@gus9351]

@@rishabh_s he still got the bishop tho few moves after

[@Vnzo]

Queen F8, King takes, pawn promoted to queen, isn't that mate? or am i missing something

[@Pashashab]

@@Vnzo then there would not be 6 queens))

[@leem4386]

Sonja Lang? The inventor of Toki Pona? Wow, small world I guess.

[@potatoonastick2239]

Nah, I'm pretty sure its a different person, who happens to have the same name

[@notchmath9642]

@@potatoonastick2239 No it’s the same one they confirmed it on discord

[@Jiova]

@@potatoonastick2239 i once played agaisnt her, who had exactly same nick

[@JediJess1]

What astounds me is that despite the 3 queens you had, it was your pawns that controlled a lot of the positions required for checkmate in the end.

[@isaacadams6898]

I feel like this is the most eric has calculated a game in a very long time

[@amuricuh6143]

Glad to see you putting out more crazy house games!

[@chrisphippen6822]

Definitely one of the most fun games I've seen

[@Punkledunk]

With 3 queens and 2 rooks on a file it’s called Alekhine’s bazooka.

[@V8SupersQirreL]

Never ever I saw a game like this! Six queens, mate with a pawn, this is anarchie! In Germany we say "Calm waters are deep" this is so true for Eric Rosen!

[@Juanparv02]

6:40 Qxf8, if Kxf8 then promote h pawn and it's checkmate

[@spacenoodles5570]

Or 7:08 Knight to e5, then Queen f8

[@cam-oj3qx]

that's what i was thinking lol

[@matthewedwards1863]

Hi Eric, I’m old and never really played chess before but I’ve watching your KZbin videos and loving the information and help 🍻

[@ublade82]

>have 3 queens >in big trouble

[@musicandsportpro]

Beautiful to watch this game 😃 Thanks for this one 👍🏼

[@zoeymccann124]

Me and my friend once played a game where we tried to get as many queens as possible. We managed to turn all pawns into queens and keep our initial queens and we each had a leftover knight or bishop. (oh yes and we didn't check each other before we got all the queens)

[@rodrigolopezvillegas4272]

did you sack most of your pieces to make it happen?cant see another way of doing it

[@zoeymccann124]

@@rodrigolopezvillegas4272 Yeah sacking pieces is the only way to do it, its the diagonal take that allows it to happen

[@alassad190]

*Both players get 3 Queens* SonjaLang: Oh this looks fun Eric: ..... It's time for a triple Botas

[@tommy5965]

Botas

[@marsteo8709]

Botas

[@rudeusdoto]

First of all it's Botez. Second of all he is just always looking for cOnTeNt xD

[@alvaro39mg30]

Botas

[@kucingtepijalan3459]

Botas

[@nathanbates9561]

If he took the bishop with the queen and black retook with the king, wouldn't h8 promoting to a queen be checkmate? Free bishop, right @ 6:37?

[@Killyi96]

black king have to move to e8 after Qxf8

[@nathanbates9561]

@@Killyi96 yes, but the point being that this move order affords your opponent the opportunity to blunder mate whereas the other does not.

[@nathanbates9561]

@@Killyi96 Also the black king has to move to d7 as it is already on e8.

[@nicolasdornbluth4547]

just a free to grab bishop because king has d7 to flee to. still next move will be with 6 queens on board.

[@nathanbates9561]

@Jimmy Chen No, because promoting the pawn to a Queen would result in checkmate winning the game for Eric.

[@shivambansal42]

Snuck in my “hi KZbin” just at the last second ;)

[@chinmayh2745]

Hehe nice

[@praj477]

Hi

[@thisbevibhor]

Hey I don't use twitch, can you tell me the bits that are donated do we have to buy them?

[@isaacrajagopal391]

Gj on your 48/48 that was insane

[@LegendaryFartMaster]

@@thisbevibhor yeah, it's like a rupee for a bit. The option to buy bits will pop up when you're commenting. If you include a particular emoji while commenting, you donate a bit.

[@baptistebauer99]

He looked so excited XD I loved it!!

[@jordanalex6880]

9:20 interesting line if you play ne5 check

[@RussellJamison]

Agreed. I think this would have been a much better move.

[@vendetta224]

13:49 missed checkmate with bishop. Not that it mattered though. I subbed!

[@chriscarlisle8997]

I saw that as well, was looking through comments to see if anyone else saw it

[@chriscarlisle8997]

He did saw he say many mates but wanted to mate with g3 so maybe he saw it lol

[@OriginalAlbert]

Kf4

[@robertstahl9647]

I really respect your video titles; I've yet to watch a video by you and feel baited. Really dig the content

[@valentinw1376]

Hi Eric you really make amazing videos thank u ! Your London Game is so great! I have one question at 6:30 min u could get the bishop for your queen next move make a queen and check mate ?

[@3RR0R415]

i don't know what's better this or ben finegolds "game of 9 queens"

[@matijaslat2100]

yeah just recently saw that, why dont sack a rook? pls dont resign pls dont resign...

[@praj477]

Go Ben....

[@praj477]

Wth, i have a rook..!?? Where the hell did the rook come from?😂 Suffering from success..

[@matijaslat2100]

@@praj477 very suspicious

[@praj477]

😂😂

[@praj477]

Came to see botez gambit as usual, saw tripple reverse botez instead *_*

[@bananaboy4183]

"I'm not sure how C4 helps"

[@NohandleReqd]

This was absolutely beautiful

[@thelastxgamer]

Definitely learned something from this: how to make a pizza

[@rayclay2]

Eric Rosen for Pres~! big things for 2020 i feel~!! thank you sir~!

[@ukiluser]

Lol

[@georgiykireev9678]

"Big things for 2020" my god... We found it. The source of this mess

[@hugo57k91]

The engines cannot comprehend such beauty

[@asyt4481]

"im not sure how much c4 actually helps" depends where u detonate it

[@lobobtz]

I played against SonjaLang last week. It was a fun game.

[@icoivo5529]

6 queens and the mate comes from a pawn

[@johnmcdonough955]

Pizza shoutout was superb

[@Ldenlord]

No fun, he was trying to push his pawn for another queen , could’ve gone for 8 queens there ... if I were on that game I wouldn’t even care to win anymore lol

[@spandansahu6199]

So true😂😂😂

[@nxchz698]

6:25 possible mate, queen takes f8 then if he’s stupid king takes queen pawn pushes 1 up checkmate

[@Joost721]

I doubt he is so stupid but yeah taking the bishop is good

[@sayonmondal3454]

Black can play Kd7 tho

[@rosebudcameltoew3654]

12:01 does e8 queen captures knight on c6 work? Black has to use e6 queen to capture, when white has h8 queen to e5 mate

[@elvenbread191]

I used to play this line all the time lots of fun. Never got 6 queens tho in a study got 8 in this line was relatively equal opper managed 10.

[@ZachBelcher94]

this is fun to watch

[@joshuawax4049]

im so early that eric hasn't lost his queen yet

[@killerbean5006]

Is that the same Sonja Lang as the creator of toki pona?

[@kala_asi]

Yes!

[@billbrasky7540]

13:38 I was looking @ bishop E2 to D3. If you were to move the bish there, that would be checkmate; the king could take said bishop, but then QD1 will eat him, or if the King decides to go one space forward, PF2 will eat him, E5 and D5 are both death sentences, because because both PC&D4 have a headshot on him . He can't take Knight F3 because it's defended by both pawn and bishop, OR his king could take the other bishop on F4, BUT moving PG2 to G3 will fck him again.

[@sahilmillwala7570]

Y’all crazy. I love it

[@lw9760]

9:24 first bishop f4 and then queen e8++

[@Lopsidationy]

In Sonja’s own language: jan Sonja li musi :D

[@jamajamajama]

a crossover i didnt expect. ni li nasa!

[@porglezomp7235]

oh wow it's jan Sonja! surprised to see her here

[@curtisbrown547]

engines: **Confused screaming**

[@neerajnandan3519]

13:36 Singles:

[@jsr9422]

What do you mean by singles. He has mate in 1

[@ziadahmedsamy]

@@jsr9422 He meant single people.. relationship wise lmao

[@Jkjoannaki]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@Joker-vf6ox]

Kings? More like sultans!

[@iammichael1094]

🤣😂

[@colincunningham5820]

Alekhine had a game back in 1915 as white where 5 Queens wound up on the board at the same time (3w:2b).

[@jeffstanhope2168]

The greatest number of Queens on the board at once seems to be five Queens, which has occurred in a few games. Tresling vs Benima, Winschoten, 1896 and Vondung vs Lamprecht, correspondence, West Germany, 1972.

[@eric-rosen]

There have actually been a couple games with 6 queens! www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1739337 www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1699399

[@slowdtunez2438]

sounds like he's learning to play chess as he goes along

[@basti6643]

He could have taken the bishop with the queen in 6:36, because if the queen was taken by the King he would checkmate in H8 with a new Queen

[@Zenovarse]

Yes but he would of course move the king out of the way and not retake, which he did preemptively later moving kd7.

[@drevinesreligion3953]

Hey Eric, this is your #1 South African fan . You're the best chess player ever... period. Please teach me everything you know If you can, I'm being serious... EVERYTHING please 😊

[@sightninja]

I like how this game was both amazingly hilarious and amazingly genius lol Like...for how silly it was, it wasn't actually stupid

[@andytsang3239]

Chess: "Uh we have run out of queens. Can u get us some more?" 2 hours later: Still sitting at the chess board waiting for the extra queens to arrive on amazon

[@cappycap8144]

Queens : KING IMMA GETCHA Pawns : *sips tea*

[@biasedwater6163]

I came back to watch this video and it’s Christmas rn

[@kiickinballistics]

This KZbinr loved that game 🥳

[@TheRandomizerYT]

One minute of silence for the trolled opponent... 😊😢😅😂

[@shadowknight4375]

Should this game be called "The Immortal Queens Game?"

[@Surfboarder4]

brilliant game

[@-ChrisD]

Nice game! Very entertaining 😊

[@aethex8821]

Hey that's Sonja lang! The creator of toki pona

[@albex8717]

a. sina kin li jan pi toki pona

[@dread2020]

He missed another mate at 13:47. The mate is 1. Bd3+ Kxf4 2. Qg3#

[@dread2020]

I directly spotted the other mate but i am only rated 1389 and i am not a International Master so he misses the other mate!

[@muromec5787]

Yeah, I saw exactly the same mate :D But the outcome of his moves is the same so doesn't matter really

[@lucasmatsuoca]

take the knight is also possible, to many mate ideas there

[@checkmater477]

@@gxfr795 he did miss this actually because his mate is slower with correct play from the opponent

[@hicow2799]

@@joshuaessenberg3277 King obviously wouldnt take on f8. So thats incorrect, but does win a bishop :)

[@makaiwise4609]

13:50, Bd3 was definitely the move. Forced Mate in 2 without risking the black queen blocking

[@alexjobin623]

With Alexa spouting pizza instructions in the background this has to be the most chaotic chess video on KZbin

[@illiil9052]

Q : how many queen is too much? A : Yes.

[@kevintrang3007]

Q6: A: Yes

[@lordloneshadow7572]

No