INTENSE ITALIANS | Speedrun Episode 45

[@davidnelson4960]

Eric, I've been watching your channel for years now, and more than any other streamer, the work you've put into chess shows. I don't know if it was gimmick at first, but the manner in which you analyze games as you play them, it's like you've reached a whole other level of thinking.

[@candiddraconian3676]

Love Eric and his content, but if you like these speedrun games and master level analysis, you should check out Danya(Daniel Naroditsky), he has a lot more speedruns and he's a brilliant coach, if you like Eric you'll love him too

[@James-ts8tc]

Anyone else watch so many of these that you hear Eric's voice in your games? "I think I'm spoiled for choice here." "I do need to be careful." "I think there's a tricky line here." "I do need to be mindful of my time."

[@danhegner7410]

Absolutely! LOL! I find myself actually speaking out loud. My wife keeps asking “who are you talking to?”

[@frightenedsoul]

We could make a bingo card out of them lol

[@James-ts8tc]

@@frightenedsoul It's fun to mentally check them off. A couple more: "I think I'm happy to _____" "Ok, my opponent is taking some time."

[@Mario-dx3tk]

@@James-ts8tc “ I should note that _____” “I think there’s a lot of compensation”

[@Mario-dx3tk]

@@James-ts8tcwhat other ones can u think of 😂

[@zeroybratton]

That second endgame was so tense, I really like how these games always feel so relatable and natural, especially at this level where the play can be quite decent but then you get down to 30 seconds and show us all why you’re the IM making the speed run and we’re the audience. Bravo Eric, keep up the great work

[@garrettmoore1222]

Crazy title Eric

[@quazzydiscman]

Hints of Sly Stallone's early days...

[@notnotnotnotlao]

mamma mia, my-a queen! 🤌

[@letsmakebiskits1]

Redundant title

[@garrettmoore1222]

@quazzydiscman sly stallone 💀💀

[@Jonsson474]

Italians are crazy; 🤭

[@oumarjaffar4605]

11:40 that moment when you play a move and instantly realize that it's a blunder 😅

[@kyleuhlich8785]

👍🏽

[@samgreer8596]

Congrats on 140+ win streak! Those last 2 games were CLOSE! This series just gets better and better.

[@NoncingAppreciator42069]

11:40 As a 1000 elo player, I feel very proud of myself for noticing that blunder before Eric.

[@a_wild_Kirillian]

Yeah, I get it. There is a problem, though: it's much easier to judge the board correctly when you're not playing yourself.

[@al87221]

@@a_wild_KirillianWhy you think this is?

[@Lefflan]

@@al87221 You serious?

[@yanair2091]

32:05 As a 1650 elo player, I feel very proud of myself for finding Ra6. I am less proud of the fact that I had to scroll up the page to read the field a6 of the table, instead of knowing it by heart :(

[@derpymoose9948]

I really appreciate how you explain things clearly and calmly.thank you.

[@IlyaAizenberg]

Eric you're a gift that just keeps on giving, thank you very much for all your hard work, I appreciate it tremendously. 🔥🔥🔥

[@natheburn9153]

Great photo with those giant trophies and a tiny you standing in front haha.

[@Fuloofus]

as an italian with extremely high intensity when I watch eric, I approve of this title

[@AlexDings]

If my Italian friends are any indication, the qualifier "when I watch Eric" doesn't belong in that sentence

[@McCainenl]

tbf everyone is intense compared to Eric :D

[@AibohphobiA_19]

WOW… Great game..! I love how composed and patient you are. Waiting for the perfect time to strike, whether 5:00 on the clock or 9 seconds… Amazing..!

[@Sirzacharia]

I really appreciate your attitude and positivity when you play.

[@seantellsyou1]

Its awesome how some of these opponents put up these good fights. Must feel awesome to go toe to toe with Eric Rosen and hold your own as a 1700 rated player

[@wsemenske]

They put up insane moves, but can't make any moves once lower than 30 sec, weird...

[@flotto7045]

​@@wsemenske yeah some people just need their time and have bad intuition. I'm not a 1700, but almost everyone can crumble under pressure and once you made the first blunder they just keep rolling in

[@salmaofinlandes6793]

@@wsemenske exactly my thoughts

[@IronGland]

@@wsemenske suggesting the first guy was cheating is crazy, when they had a bunch of time they missed a few winning moves, and made a couple of errors, there's no way they were cheating lol, 1800s are just actually somewhat decent at chess

[@a_wild_Kirillian]

​@@wsemenske, not weird. What's weird is that you don't seem to understand that people need time to think. Especially, when they lack experience. Playing with low time is a different skill. Also, who's silly enough to cheat at chess but stays at 1700 ELO? Stupid and baseless claims about cheating only make the problematic situation worse.

[@justinarnold1981]

Damn, I am just in awe of how well you play under pressure. Less than 20 seconds to go and you just ripped that last opponent apart. Super impressive.

[@TVGUY333]

I'm Italian. I've lived in basements, attics but never intense.

[@andress4780]

😮‍💨

[@seanpalmer1145]

very nice

[@parzingtheasian]

but maybe you did. in the past?

[@ianallcroft364]

After many years without playing chess I had a chance game with a friend which re-awakened my interest. Wanting to improve led me to your speed run series which has been so instructional and TOTALLY INSPIRING for me and I'm sure for many other. Now a keen follower of your streams and video releases - keep up the great content. Loving the great chess journey once again.....

[@eclecticexplorer7828]

The games have definitely been getting more complicated in the last few episodes. Rosen is now into territory where I would get eaten alive, I expect, but I can learn a lot from these games. Remarkable how flat the eval was in game 1 for nearly the whole game. There have also been real time pressures in a few recent games. Rosen will have to be more careful with the time, even if it means explaining more of his thinking during the review instead of during the game.

[@raymundbelleza1279]

I like how you don't rush your moves when you're down in time and still win, I tend to almost run out of time when that happens.

[@shualel]

with the time pressure, eric could still see the blunders/make tactics to win material wow

[@ehabmahdi]

The series is getting more and more exciting. Thanks Eric for the informative commentry

[@makeamericaamericaagain]

I vary between 1650-1750 and it feels good to watch these guys battle you hard. Gives me hope that someday I could get to the 2000’s

[@YOSH1_cs]

thank you for the daily uploads eric 🙏🙏 winding down at the end of the day watching your videos is awesome ❤

[@Unifire-alt]

at 46:18 you're talking about how deep you are in the tactical line and i wanna promote this where here to learn after all and its just like you said how dangerous some position can be if your not carefull keep up the good work :)

[@EldenLord19]

Incredible games. Middle games and end games like that are why chess is so fun to watch and play

[@turtlebackflapjack]

Holy moly that second game was crazy cliffhanger. I didn't think you were going to pull that off. Incredible.

[@ArturoSubutex]

At 39:04 I was proud to spot Queen d5, "forking" both rooks and the Queen and thus forcing the exchange of Queens, and Black doesn't have the time to take the knight on b4. Then you have a pretty chill, although admittedly quite positional queenless endgame being two pawns up.

[@thishex]

45:00 The post-mortem for game 2 neglects to mention why Qd7 was a game losing blunder by white

[@ken-scottleembruggen6887]

Great win that second game Eric

[@trevorhunt]

Really grateful for this series.Thanks!

[@adeckers1]

Thanks for this series of videos. Very enjoyable and instructive.

[@ondrasuchanek6467]

13:50 wasn't ND3 good move, forking rook and a pawn? Or am I missing something? :)

[@ondrasuchanek6467]

@@tvens1 depends on opponent's move, but I would expect to take the rook or pawn.. it looks like this is winning some material and not getting in bad position at the same time..

[@SuspenduAuGaffa]

Phew! These 1600-1700 players seem bloody tough. I've been thinking of biting the bullet and starting to play online myself, but it looks a lot harder out there than I thought.

[@wahito1456]

It's also nice to note that while they are tough, Eric is handicapping himself by taking time to explain the moves and not playing his main openings, so in reality you'll have better chances of holding your own when you play

[@zacharygrouwinkel1534]

I’m patiently waiting on the pic update to the gigachad Eric which he used for his titled Tuesday vid today.

[@joostvanrens]

That is when he reaches 3500

[@zacharygrouwinkel1534]

@@joostvanrensyea that’s why I’m patiently waiting. I’d love for his speedrun account to surpass his actual account.

[@kanesc2967]

always so happy to see another speedrun upload :)

[@Hussainzidane]

I love watching your videos at bed time, it’s calming 😃

[@Grannyknockers]

You know you’re a 90s baby if you wore long sleeve shirts that just said Basketball on them

[@MagicianHan]

at clip 31:54, Moves played Qe2 but if White Queen moves to b3 will it be better? 1> Qb3, [all moves other than Kf7] , Ne7, Qxe6 2> Qb3, [if black king moves to f7], Qb7, Qxa1 3> Qb3, Qb7.... Nc7 [black King h7 or h8] When white queen secure b7, black probably would like to pair the rook [unfortunately bishop had no good squares] White Queen b7, IF Bb6 [blunder after Nxb6, axb6, Rxa8 ] Bishop g5/h4 will be hunted by pawns

[@bhough410]

Toward the end of the video it was beneficial to take us through the longer engine line when the mate was a real possibility. You do great with your analysis, finding the balance between explaining something a human might go for and avoiding several lengthy obscure lines that a "super" GM likely wouldn't find! maybe a few mins

[@guglielmobionda3216]

Amazing, thank you Eric!

[@maxomega3]

16:12 you mention you dont want to trade queens, but you may have missed the fork! Qb4 Qxb4 Rxb4 Nd3 and black wins back the exchange, up a pawn and -1.0

[@xeonicSR]

My favorite series

[@stephenrowles8273]

Thank you for saying the name and rating of your opponents as I requested. It is helpful. I will add that I much prefer your games versus players rated over 1700 since those are the ones that give me the most problems and who I face most often. Good to see that they even give you a good challenge too. But unlike you, I usually lose to them (especially those over 1800). With your guidance I think my score against those players will improve.

[@William_Huber]

Bravo Eric !

[@renegade_filmmaker]

Manage your time, you're getting waayyyyyy toooo closer losing because of time. Gotta keep the win streak alive to master, who would of thought undefeated is prime entertainment now on these! Keep it going! We're all rooting for ya!

[@Iearnwithme]

Great video again! Have you considered to make the search +-50 elo to make the opponents more consistent?

[@manmanman2000]

at 40:36 after Qa6 what do you do after Rxa7?

[@skrga984]

Eric you are grandmaster for us, youtube fans :) really nice videos, keep up the good work 😃

[@kezzaguy]

Love the series

[@pavellinhart547]

This second game shows a typical psychological mistake of playing quickly and trying to win on time, when you have a lot of time and your opponent does not. By playing quickly and trying to flag him you are throwing that advantage out of the window.

[@ariaden]

> Engine supports Rxd6. Probably, but with this layout, we viewers do not see the engine analysis you are looking at. So I had to use my local chess program to analyze. By the way, 25...Be6 is bad, but instead of 26. Ba4 the white could play 26. Ndxe4! (dxe4 27.d5). Also, the bar jump after 32.Qd2 is not due to 32...Nd3 (as I thought while watching) but due to 32...N6h4 preparing Re6.

[@alessandrodicesare8374]

Ciao Eric. The guy from superspeed who you played some time back swears by the italian gambit to the extent that when engins play that opening white always wins (according to him). Do you agree with this? Immediate d4 instead of c3 first. Thanks for the content.

[@livefreeanddonttread]

i hope these never end

[@PitzkeMP]

Well said 🙂‍↕️

[@JeffBradberry]

These were some exciting games!

[@H2Prince]

This episode has reminded me to go from 700 elo to 1000 and just enjoy chess. I'm never dedicating time to get to this point. lol

[@larryd9577]

What an interesting episode. I think we might run into the first draw.

[@Unifire-alt]

Hello everybody i just noticed that at 21:52 the eval bar shifts somewhat in favor of black and after analyses it's -1,4 and the move to play after Qd2 is N6h5 instead of Ne6 not saying it would be easy findable but definitly interesting PGN: [Variant "From Position"] [FEN "3rr1k1/1pq2pp1/p2N1n1p/P1Pp4/1P1Ppn2/1B5P/Q4PP1/3RR1K1 b - - 0 1"] 1... Rxd6 2. cxd6 Qxd6 3. Qd2 N6h5

[@cameronwaites171]

10:49 Nxe4 would be a beautiful move for white, no?

[@jchen1023]

@eric-rosen what percent of the ideas you gain during your game reviews, do you then utilize in future games?

[@ZackChess1]

Eric could you consider switching to 15+10 games now that you're higher elo? Or maybe 10+5 but either way time is less of a concern and opponents don't just time out

[@wahito1456]

Co-asks, promise we'll watch and you'll manage to continue explaining well while also comfortably converting against the 1800s going up

[@George_Bland]

At 14:20 could Nd3 have forked the rook and pawn?

[@MatthieuSCHREK]

It's always a pleasure to watch those games. Opponents are roughly my level so I find those games very helpful too. Somehow it's reassuring to watch mister Rosen having a tiny bit of trouble against 1600-ish opponents. If someone plays solid, there's not much we can do, right ? A big takeaway for me is : no italian for me. Noooo sir, no no no. ( I love my 1.e4 though ). Thanks, and have a good day everyone.

[@matthewping6132]

Mama mia, that was a spicy video!

[@chris54956]

A wonderful instruction! I am learning a lot just by hearing your thoughts. Thanks a lot! Needless to say: I have been at the edge of my seat for the last couple of episodes. Signed: "ELO in the low 500s".

[@dxshywxshy8916]

At 3:35 am i mistaken or arent you winning a pawn after b5 and after a4xb5 a6xb5 if the bishop takes then you can sack the dark square bishop and win the rook? I dont know if anyones gonna see this just thought it was a cool idea😁

[@dxshywxshy8916]

Nevermind he said it 30 seconds later😂😂

[@Iearnwithme]

What a great first game!

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

Ive only watched the first game but it was so nice, shame how it ended.

[@leandrocoutom]

Did I just hear Eric curse? hahahaha 19:20

[@solarflare4240]

8:20 d4 c4 Nd5 and you get outpost on on c3

[@Rubrickety]

I feel a bit sorry for these poor opponents who are sure they’re going to win on time. 😂

[@frankfazekas5414]

Perhaps I’m confused by the pre moves, but at the very end of the second game, with your Queen on F7, protected by a pawn on E6, you move the pawn to E7, leaving the Queen undefended. Couldn’t Black have taken the Queen instead of moving to H8?

[@cristi804]

Am I the only one who begins each episode by scrolling to the end to see if the win streak is still going? :D nice series!

[@quizzleme]

yes

[@cameronmcrae5265]

I see that pinewood derby award!

[@danielbenner123]

What about white play h4 around 6:30min

[@tamatamt]

Thanks 🙏

[@ash5033938337]

Thanks

[@MrDanielfff777]

Cool video bro

[@thetransferaccount4586]

overpowering speedrun

[@skrga984]

those italians can be intense, especially if they pickpocket you :D

[@josetrisan8646]

at this point im just watching this to see profile pic updates

[@dj_enby]

Two hard fought Italians? 🪠👨‍🔧🟥🪠👨‍🔧🟩

[@antonioabatangelo8356]

As an italian person, i feel really intensified

[@bpro5848]

Sweet games

[@RavenSnore]

very good. :D :D

[@RavenSnore]

heart rate monitor this time?? :D :D

[@mathieudupuis2848]

Always moooooore

[@wsemenske]

Interesting opponents.

[@deuelchanzi4461]

Mental ❤❤

[@DrRodox.]

Eric is a fearless counter attacker, he just need to improve his pure attacking skills.

[@giyantube]

Could you play the Evan's gambit next time (in response to ...Bc5)

[@douggieharrison6913]

Thought this video was named after my grandpa's funeral where there was a brawl between his wife, ex wife, and their daughters

[@Rubrickety]

Here, have a trophy! 🏆

[@TheHeroIsRisingUp]

The guy refused to trade the queen and you taught him a good lesson. I enjoyed that part very well 😊

[@Anuranjanydv]

More love from India you and vishy are my favourite

[@MrDanimalicious]

Surprise new episode leggo!

[@gw6667]

Yeah, I don't normally like videos but liking this to incentivize more videos from Eric

[@GlenMacDonald]

Well done! Probably just need to pay a bit more attention to your time during the middle game.

[@vulcanus30]

14:02, why not knight to D3 ?

[@jakubkosina2310]

Hi, make one game starting with Kings gambit pls 😂

[@frankfrank3248]

Chess is so cool cos it litterally jus a board game u can make a livimg off of ( if ur good ha)

[@RunningGag1987]

Sometimes I like the video before having watched it 😅

[@waynemoss4158]

Couldn't your opponent have taken your queen at 42:15?

[@gardenradical]

no