Crazy Queen’s Gambit Declined & Secret Preparation Revealed!

In this video, I play a crazy and instructive game one of my favorite and most thoroughly prepared variations of the Queen's Gambit Declined. Afterwards, I show some sweet opening traps which can emerge from the opening as well as a "secret" novelty that I prepared over 5 years ago, inspired by deep computer analysis. See the timestamps below!
Analyze the game: lichess.org/OfcbPGCa
Chapters
0:00 Revealing who edits my thumbnails
0:39 THE GAME
22:16 The Elephant trap
23:18 Cambridge Springs Trap
24:01 SECRET PREP REVEALED
30:20 HI TOGGI
31:10 Stockfish’s Opinion
32:26 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOGGI
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"Low stress and high chess" - the best way to describe Rosen's streams!

[@Earsex4life]

This^

[@angel-ig]

Except the tennis ones XD

[@lach890]

Take a shot every time Eric forgets Queens can move backwards

[@Javerni]

Or knights, bishops, rooks and kings...

[@poisonedpawns-chess1291]

Are you trying to kill us all?

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@@Javerni don’t forget about the pawns

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@@fasteddie5829 lmao underrated reply

[@tusharkumar3998]

A Belated Happy Birthday to Toggi

[@ant0625]

ayy an mcoc profile I see

[@tusharkumar3998]

@@ant0625 that's correct I play that game too

[@koyaaanisquatsi]

who is it?

[@tusharkumar3998]

@@koyaaanisquatsi Toggi is a very old subscriber of Eric Rosen on his twitch stream regularly gifts subs to him I have been hearing his name in every stream since I started watching Eric and that's well over 2 years

[@algiovannelli1271]

Only Eric could actually make the Queens Gambit Declined an exciting opening

[@weetabixharry]

I can do it too. As long as my opponent plays the "massive blunder accepted" variation.

[@knower1514]

What about Charles White?

[@veromirko7032]

@@BobbyFischer0000 thats not what they implied

[@weetabixharry]

@@BobbyFischer0000 The "massive blunder accepted" variation of QGD is still relatively unknown at GM level. It's my secret weapon (that I use to shoot myself in the foot).

[@felixmerz6229]

@@weetabixharry That's part of my prep. Just today I blundered my queen on move 12 just to get counter-blundered on move 25 and win.

[@baoboumusic]

30:20 say hi to Toggi "Hi to Toggi!" I've never been on the Twitch stream but it already seems like Toggi is that guy everyone knows :D

[@Sventimir]

23 moves of preparation to win a pawn. Great stuff ;)

[@acraftman2823]

It's how legends are born

[@keiganogrady7481]

Somehow Proceeds to an endgame where he has no pawns

[@-cookiezila-461]

@@keiganogrady7481 except for the first pawn he moved, and it never moved again

[@REIMON666]

I was on the stream when toggi said "tomorrow is the day" or something like that, I saw the "7" on his name an guessed immediately it was going to be his birthday. I remembered at my job yesterday it was probably some chess fan's birthday. Happy birthday late toggi.

[@brunolevilevi5054]

who is toggi? is he just a frequent viewer or does eric knows him?

[@benwelch6917]

@@brunolevilevi5054 from the streams i've seen them, toggi seems to be a very active viewer with an emote deticated to them and over like 250 gifted subs and tons of bits Edit: they might also be a mod too

[@TheJuJuMonkeyBoy]

I’d like some merch with “Less Stess. More chess” and “Engine Approved.”

[@aadivrath2407]

Absolutely insane you manage to edit amazing thumbnails, make KZbin videos, stream and still prepare such deep lines in chess.

[@BR4INlessBRI4N]

Dedication!

[@riynu7774]

Ah a fellow "philospize this" Listener

[@MattMascolo.]

Happy late Birthday, Toggi!

[@sassyPurr]

2:12 everytime i give up my queen in 6 moves

[@michaeljenks4677]

Happy belated birthday Toggi! Great content as always Eric, thanks.

[@ftmtor3451]

Shout out to Toggi

[@WideoutWisdom]

Love rewatching this from Twitch! Thanks Eric!

[@robertcooper1952]

Thanks for the great video, Eric!

[@black9726]

17:42 Me blundering my queen after 3 minutes of thinking.

[@davaradl6833]

Lol

[@martinanorve7007]

lmao this is gold

[@Fedreal_Bureau_Of_Investigaton]

"The nice thing about being up two bishops is sometimes you can sacrifice one of them, and you're still up one bishop. It's nice how math works" -*Eric Rosen* 8/01/2021

[@josiahbrush4324]

Eric, your “How to dodge bullets” / Matrix thumbnail is epic!! Major props.

[@tranquil_cove4884]

"I think we're still in my prep, actually" - Eric Rosen

[@jfrey123]

-Move 84 -Eric: “Okay, still in my prep.”

[@danielgoulding8733]

Happy belated birthday toggi, ps love the vids king x

[@drokmhere1336]

i appreciate the work you do on the thumbnails

[@rubenmaes4062]

I love how calm you are! Your voice is very nice to listen to and hi Togi! edit and happy birthday Togi

[@MrDanielfff777]

This is really helpfull thank you

[@rock6606]

Really fun game. Super sharp and high level. Would love to see more of this type of video. Don't get me wrong, I love pawn cubes as well!

[@jandrewhill63]

Many happy returns @toggi7

[@kalleleikos5260]

Happy birthday Toggi

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Happy birthday taggyyyy

[@TarrafTarraf]

good game, nice prep , happy birthday TOGGI7

[@aesaehttr]

10:49: "Thanks for flushing." 11:28: "I forgot the queen can move backwards" -IM Eric "no reverse gear" Rosen

[@jayanthbellam9395]

Belated Happy birthday Toggi

[@andrewharper1609]

Hi Toggi! A belated many happy returns.

[@UnfoldedDoll]

Happy belated birthday, Toggi

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Happy Belated Birthday Toggi

[@NStripleseven]

I like how two of the chapters in this video are about toggi.

[@mail2hubertco]

Happy belated birthday Toggi!

[@rajapanchal4273]

Hi Eric! I was just trying to solve the puzzle. At your move no 31, Bf1 to block & then Qg1 to checkmate.

[@joeroot6664]

Hi Eric! Great prep, could you cover what to do against the lines with Ne2 followed by f3 and e4?

[@robbiekeen2644]

Happy birthday Toggi!

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Happy Birthday Toggi!

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A Belated Happy Birthday Toggi

[@hsunk]

Hope you had a great birthday Toggi

[@ElectronBasket]

“It’s nice how math works” ...Perfect

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Toggi happy belated birthday

[@16engekl13]

@eric more tennis streams pls =)

[@gioraos5084]

AhHahahah Eric the tennis cutscene insterted there made me laugh :)

[@cianely1047]

At 21:06 Eric had mate in 5 , if he played bishopf3 white cant take back with the pawn because queenh2 checkmate, so white needs to give up queen and its just forced mate. nice game :D

[@trop7736]

happy belated birthday toggi

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happy bday taggi

[@jamesr5106]

Thanks for playing a longer games instead of the bullets. Amazing game

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Happy belated Bday Toggi!

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A belated happy birthday toggi!

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Awesome game. I also would love to watch the puzzle survival

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'low stress and high chess' never stop being you, eric

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Happy belated birthday Toggi :)

[@mathias5618]

I love these deep opening videos where you explain the different lines, thanks Eric!

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@@abelchess8430 Just watched one of the london videos, great recommendation, thanks!

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He deserves lots of subs and appreciations for his work. Just look at his content man.

[@ma271]

Cool game!!

[@XSpanier]

Hey Eric, loved the video! Do you know any traps in the QG for White?!

[@MCSolaireBro]

very fun game to watch

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Happy Birthday Toggi :)

[@PetitAmiral]

Happy belated birthday Toggi :D

[@caeoranger]

At 20:36 move 38 Qg5 you can play Bf6 securing the g-file

[@apprenchess]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOGGI !!

[@kimnese4238]

Nice video as always Eric: educational and fun at the same time! What do you recommend in the Queen’s Gambit Declined, when White has a setup where Sg1 goes on Sge2, and then going with f3 intending push e4? Thanks for your thoughts!

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Belated happy birthday to Toggi!

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Bro solid work. Watching your vids just chills me out. New player here. Working on 900 rating. Going London against you when I challenge. 3.5 tennis here so bring A game lol

[@omertabach9794]

Thanks!

[@bytejuggler]

"what was I thinking... ?" -- gives me some comfort that GM's also do that sometimes...!

[@MrDanielfff777]

Very nice game

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Happy birthday toggi :)

[@forsvar]

HB TOGGI !

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Toggy happy belated.

[@Juanparv02]

Of course I will watch it complete, even tho I watched it already during the stream.

[@jfrey123]

Move 31 bf1 looked like it forces mate? This was a fun vid to watch all the calculation.

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happi birthdai toggi

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Hi Toggi! Happy birthday!

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Happy Birthday to Toggi!

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Hi Toggi! Belated happy Birthday!

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22:53 oh no my queen!

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Call an ambulance... but not for me!

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More tennis clips please!

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man, eric rosen is SO chill. I love it.

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He has awesome editing skill

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You also play tennis?! I can see you are a man of taste.

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Happy birthday, toggi :)

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Hi Toggi!!

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Let’s go Toggi!

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17:19 Bf1 and White cant stop checkmate

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Hello Toggi! Happy belated birthday :)

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Normal chess players: king safety Eric: *_closest piece to my king is an enemy pawn_*

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Hello Toggi!

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Hi Toggy!

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Hi to Toggi

[@CreepyKillerNL]

I think I just saw an old video of John Bartholomew where you played this same line against him

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Looking forward to see Rosen vs Sagar Shah....

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Toggi the mvp

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@17.00 mins is there anything stopping Bf6? its mate in 2 for black, right?

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hi toggiiiiiiiiiiii HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY

[@scheimong]

28:40 funnily enough I actually found Nf4 and saw the idea of mate on g2. But then I saw that after e5 black's queen cannot get on either g5 or g6 so I kind of threw Nf4 out. I completely didn't see that you can afford an extra tempo with Qe6 and still have the tactics work.