Instructive Rapid Chess | When Every Win is a New Peak Rating

[@LordTreyHowdy]

Oh no my bedtime

[@loveconsciousnessyoga]

😂👍

[@zikaperic2133]

first ph then eric

[@Nonentity33]

Oh, how i love instructive rapid chess. Tyvm, Eric!

[@civwar64bob77]

Eric, I am constantly amazed at how you find so quickly what to me is an obscure mating pattern, like you did in that last game. Well done!

[@joeb4142]

Pattern recognition! Practice!

[@civwar64bob77]

@@joeb4142 When I was a kid, I had the book Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. It was great for that! When Eric said (in another video) setting up Anastasia's Mate I was like, I know that one! But mating patterns in the middle of the board still stump me.

[@m.s.1766]

I like the "Eric plays a Lichess tournament"-videos! Also, he never joins them on time 😅

[@joeb4142]

That’s Eric’s version of the Swiss tournament gambit where you lose or tie in the first round to be paired lower in the next few rounds. Of course Eric would never ever do anything like that or join late for lower pairings. Ever.

[@dj_enby]

Hello everyone 👋

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

Hi Dr Nick!

[@andrewdavies7720]

Hullo😊

[@collinstyles9247]

Who else read this in agadmator’s voice?

[@ImEverythingYouCrave]

yo

[@jpjpJPJPG]

Thanks Eric!

[@nicolassalem3329]

The game at 1:11:18 is so crazy to me. Imagine you have a chance to beat or draw an international master and you leave 4 minutes on your clock what a choke

[@thetransferaccount4586]

that really did em for real

[@hotzenpl0tz]

I think you are running ito a MacOS bug that has been around for a while and strangely is not being adressed. For me, it helps to just switch the window to another window and hover the mouse over the other window, and then go back.

[@zylo4391]

At 00:04:12 would it have been more accurate to play bishop a1 prepare qb2?

[@fatcatpills]

Eric what is the most difficult part of chess from a coaches stand point just curious love the content as always ty much love bro

[@CarsunGeorge]

Imagine being able to grow a beard like that in a few weeks. Mine wouldn’t be that long after a year.

[@tard6759]

The only legal move in one of these games was moving the queen in front of the opponents king. Thats actually .. nice

[@JohnHampton-wh7jx]

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[@Meevious]

Chessmaster from St Louis, the Lewis chessmen were found on Lewis, which was not a Norwegian possession at the time of discovery, but it probably was when they were made. It's been speculated that they could have been carved in Trondheim. As far as I know, this is just based on the fact that it was the capital of Norway, theoretically giving it a slight edge in attracting skilled craftsmen. The pieces are carved from teeth and tusks of marine mammals which are rarely found in the Hebrides and never in Trondheim. As far as I know, no molecular analyses have been done to determine where the creatures were hunted and there's really no way to determine where they were carved. Given that Lewis was part of Norway and the Norwegians had by far the greatest access to walruses and sperm whales at the time, it can be presumed that they come from somewhere in what was the Kingdom of Norway c.a. 1200 AD, but realistically, that's the maximum fidelity with which their origin can be pinpointed with favourable probability. There are whole bunch of contemporary chessmen, some of which are similar in style, but the Lewis chessmen form the majority of these, as there are about 80 of them. The hoard may have originally included 4 whole sets, as there are 8 kings, 8 queens and 16 bishops. There are only 19 pawns, but these are much simpler and it may be that whoever carved the other pieces didn't bother with them, since they didn't have to appear prestigious and virtually anyone could make their own.

[@Ptaku93]

38:07 2137 rating!

[@FinallyAFreeUsername]

21:58 Why not check with Queen to E3 and pick up a free rook? I saw it and was pointing at the screen like Di Caprio.

[@angelmm26]

Oh no my berserk!

[@spindoctor6385]

Does anyone know if the rating loss/gain is effected when beserking? It would seem an easy way to artificially raise your rating if it does not. If you play tournaments where beserking offers advantage to the end score, then you could gain rating by playing games where you have double the time of your oponents. If anyone knows how this works then please share.

[@LordTreyHowdy]

Berserking does not affect rating. You can't force your opponent to berserk, so it does not become an easy way to gain rating. And if your rating does temporarily inflate due to another player berserking, it even out as you play more games. There's really nothing to worry about here.

[@spindoctor6385]

@@LordTreyHowdy Obviously, you can't force anyone to berserk, but you know that it will happen in tournament play. You can just play tournaments, nothing forces anyone to play random match games.

[@jordylont1879]

@@spindoctor6385 So then what is the question? If you play someone that berserks, you will gain or lose the same amount of rating as if they didn't berserk

[@spindoctor6385]

@@jordylont1879 Yes that was the question. It is harder to win if you have less time. I was wondering if the rating loss or gain reflected that. The tournament score takes that difference into account. Apparently the rating does not.

[@LordTreyHowdy]

@@spindoctor6385 I guess I don't understand the issue or question. How is it different than if they played slowly? Why does it matter if someone only plays tournaments? How are you going to know what their rating would be if they didn't play tournaments? What benefit would they gain from this? If they did only play tournaments and had an inflated rating, then people at their inflated rating would be less likely to berserk and more likely to beat them, therefore decreasing their rating. It seems like a complete non-issue.