Instructive Chess and Dubious Openings in the Rapid Arena

[@betazep]

That first game - wow!

[@warg0x4e]

Thank you for being such a chill educator

[@davidmurray6616]

the first game was so engaging, such a fun watch! thank you for these

[@chesscounselor]

"If I don't get checkmated then life should be okay" lol true true

[@Pusteblume-df5un]

Eric, no Martian Gambit in the Second game?

[@porlando12]

The white king must have hit his step goal during game one!

[@dmldavies]

Eric isn’t familiar with the Martian Gambit I see 😏😅 21:52 I think it’s maybe even stronger than the Alien Gambit

[@RightHandShot]

Enjoy your Content, thanks

[@logannday]

Love the rapid arena stuff

[@federal_europe]

Instructive Rapid Games are chef's kiss

[@Peeeazle]

45:34 Wouldn’t it be fairly simple to have a sort of codex of emotes that corresponded to pieces and squares? And then having a certain chatter feeding the player engine moves?

[@JiveDadson]

That would be cheating. There are easier ways to cheat.

[@choco1101]

Interesting. I see only one group of streamers that have the motive for it. A Hikaru challenger. It doesn’t make sense to risk long term reputation hit for any streamer with playing level lower than that.

[@AbrahamAbignale]

Playing tennis against Ben Finegold is epic

[@johnlocke_1]

8:35 Why not Rook B5?

[@ceazykid]

Thought the same thing. It's a blunder, so was the move Eric played. Qf4 and blacks getting mated

[@giridharpavan1592]

eric chilling

[@KralleZ7]

Does it also redirect to your *OnlyQueens* ? 🤭

[@The_GoldKhan]

Love from Pakistan. The first one

[@JiveDadson]

There's more than one Pakistan?

[@commssoldier]

First game was gold

[@john-paulmcmahon8489]

Rb5 was the move you wanted when both knights were hanging at 9 minutes in. I didn't use an engine.

[@john-paulmcmahon8489]

You'll kick yourself when you see it.

[@ceazykid]

Wrong, both that and the move eric played blunder mate to proper play

[@john-paulmcmahon8489]

@@ceazykid I have a peak rating of 854 so I don't know exactly what you're describing. It doesn't sound like that would be findable in a rapid game either way.

[@choco1101]

17:43 Eric used engine on post game analysis. The threat he had to deal with is white’s Qf4, ganging up on f7 with the knight, so both Rb5 and Eric’s Bb5 fail to that.

[@The_Champion_96]

Rook f8