My Craziest Traxler Gambit Ever

[@SebastianBohn]

This game had it all: - There's a funny line - It's actually playable - This looks scary - Don't hurt me - Oh no my rating points And from analysis: - Fork passant - Forced mate in 16 gg Eric!

[@arivertoeveryone]

*oh dear

[@DracoVolantus]

when I was playing with my older brother I won but he had forced checkmate in 16 too xD

[@daltoncampbell887]

All but his greatest “oh no my Queen!”

[@andytc4840]

Stockfish: *shows mate in 16* Rosen: "ok that's hard to calculate"

[@angel-ig]

Don't forget a king disallowing the other king to castle

[@rainerbuesching1]

the only game I've seen where a king prevents the other to castle.

[@kyle8575]

@esp ele ??

[@fssocrates]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Bruno08931]

@esp ele Idiot

[@EnderSlayer3035]

@esp ele is English your first language?

[@maximorumba]

Even if the white king wasn't on b7, the black king still can't castle through check.

[@eoindawson3542]

Rosen would call the corner of the board “the intersection of the edges”

[@user-svqmbiv]

I half expected him to call it a vertex.

[@corey1291]

Came to the comments for exactly this

[@coltinrowbotham4191]

Rosen: e5 Opponent: e6 Rosen: Oh there’s a funny line here

[@ChaBoiNeil]

"I'm calculating mate in 57 here let's see...."

[@PandaFan2443]

That would be a funny line. Waiting for someone else to notice.

[@Pleeze]

@@PandaFan2443 Not sure if original comment did that on purpose lol

[@Amoeba_Podre]

Wouldn’t it be e4 e5?

[@coltinrowbotham4191]

@@Amoeba_Podre Rosen does not obey the laws of chess

[@kitetm7596]

King being safe on the opposite side of the board is the most hilarious thing I seen 😂

[@Scourge63]

That was hilarious indeed

[@sungodcubing3990]

The most dangerous place is also the safest place 😂

[@AFastidiousCuber]

It's insane that the line at 21:40 is a draw. The computer is a monster.

[@sbtrywr666]

The Opponent after playing Qxd6: There is a funny line which is even more complicated...

[@dunnokki]

In the end: "If you have questions, Stockfish can probably answer them."

[@AnteSocial86]

"Let me know if you watched whole thing" Eric, you're probably the only person on KZbin who's videos I never skip a single part of.

[@mburg33]

22:36 I remember suggesting in Twitch Chat “En Forkssant” as a possible name for this unique En Passant Check Fork. I love these funny and crazy lines and much love to Adfost for showing all of us (and Eric) the Traxler. Best of luck to them achieving the National Master Title, Adfost definitely deserves it!

[@laylobinson5839]

Opponent was well prepared against the Rosen Trap

[@karthiktadepalli7560]

How it started: "I was forced to play against a traxler gambit" How it's going:

[@williamblake7386]

"Ok, i have two seconds left", Eric calmly talk to the chat

[@yanki1224]

16:55 was expecting black to play Qb7, Ka1 only legal move. Then Bd6, but white also has loads if counterplays

[@lcker6973]

its actually mate in 11 after Bd6

[@yanki1224]

@@lcker6973 mate for white I presume

[@duesexmachina6570]

@@yanki1224 White gets mated

[@4Azr]

Qb6*

[@yanki1224]

@@duesexmachina6570 still tricky though, without perfect moves, black will lose queen

[@jaystarr6571]

14:44 You tried to castle with your opponent's rook. LOL

[@Audio_Titan]

Absolutely watched the whole thing! What a game. Good stuff to adfost. Thanks for including some analysis and showing that mate in 16. Craziness

[@TheBilly]

25:00 That graph looks like every game I've ever played

[@darthdaenerys]

I loved the term " fork passant "😂😂

[@davidbohnert1432]

I think "En passork" also would have been a worthy contestant.

[@darthdaenerys]

@@davidbohnert1432 en passork lol🤣🤣

[@codenamesleepy5367]

The king said: Stand back I’m going in

[@darthdaenerys]

Its funny how the king is much safer in Black's territory

[@watchableraven3517]

Can't take your own pawns :)

[@georgechristoforou991]

And the opponent looking for a mate near his own home area as opposed to your area was strange.

[@0biwan7]

5:07 ok, i'm not going to be looking at chat.... spends 20 seconds looking at chat and thanking people

[@sadchicken5282]

If there was a variant of chess that you can only play gambits, Eric would be a super-GM.

[@manmanman2000]

That's the most impressive KING I've ever seen, casually walking across the whole board, dodging deadly attacks, threatens an enemy rook, in an opposite corner and forcing it to surrender itself in a self-sacrifice move. What a Legend!

[@lp4969]

Props to adfost8, that was really well played

[@daemonsoadfan]

lmao that king who traps the rook, amazing xD

[@evans9748]

16:58 isn't QB6 just checkmate? That was the whole point of blocking the bishop on the previous move with the pawn, no?

[@sohamdev1288]

Unless I am stupid, White can play Kxa6 after Qb6

[@benb4728]

Qb6 Kxa8 Bd6 Ba4+ Kf8 Rhf1+ Kg8 Nc6 and the king is safe in the corner. Black could have secured a draw with Qb6 though.

[@nazar7700]

King take rook

[@benb4728]

actually I just looked at the line with SF and Kd8 instead of Kf8 in my line would indeed be winning for black. I guess he might have missed that and that's why he didn't pick Qb6+

[@ИванБондарь-ш4р]

@@benb4728 Except Kd8 instead of Kf8 and its forced mate

[@guitarbrother1234]

25:30 Hey, I watched the whole thing.

[@XXBloodyElle]

Honestly you are so funny. I was dying of laughter around minute 14:00 onwards lol. You have such a good personality, don't tell gothamchess (who I really I enjoy) but I find you more entertaining

[@phalgunvedantam1388]

"wish my king a safe journey" i died

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

At 9:25, after Black plays ...b5, try countering with b4, which prevents Black from advancing his pawn to that square. If Black plays Qxb4, White can now counter with Rb1, which attacks the queen and piles up on Black's b5 pawn, nullifying that threat. And if Black does NOT play Qxb4, then the queen has to move to a square where it cannot protect both its b5 and e5 pawns.

[@arzhangrafii]

Eric, I’m disappointed you didn’t see the mate in 16… smh

[@tahirmirza4530]

Could you please tell me how

[@trevor1443]

@@tahirmirza4530 jokes

[@ChristianHegele]

It's rare that I see Eric actually almost bamboozled by a position. In fairness, the engine struggles to evaluate this too. Amazing play by both sides.

[@sungodcubing3990]

It’s the traxler fun fact the man did everything right, gothamchess made a same vid and he said in a perfect world it would go like this, and it went exactly how it the man Eric played against went😂😂😂😂

[@sungodcubing3990]

Watch the video, the dude Eric played against did the exact same moves as the video said like legit exact😂😂 he must’ve watched the video and memorised it

[@sungodcubing3990]

Levy literally said if your opponent knows what he just played then he either must of used an engine or watched his vid so Eric might also need to check his lichess acc to see if he’s using an engine or he’s just a diehard gothamchess fan who knows his stuff😂

[@elliotloranger437]

The chess game where the king decides to turn Viking and try to take care of things himself.

[@smoothbaron8482]

Instead of Be2+, Qb5+ looks like a killer move at 12:36

[@justanotherhotguy]

4:12 Black had the opportunity to play bishop to e2, to which if queen takes, the black knight forks the queen and the rook.

[@DR13Gamer]

I don't see any forks with the knight, but instead you can just take the queen with the knight right away? So the queen wouldn't take the bishop probably. It would still be very dangerous for white but I don't see the fork you are referring to

[@gorryman]

“ I feel like Nigel Short but slightly taller” 😭😭😭

[@TheAnshuman1974]

1:11 after Qxd6, instead of playing d3, why can't the knight on h8 be moved to f7? It is protected by the bishop and attacks the queen! Depending on where the queen moves, knight can then jump to g5 or capture the pawn on e5. Or white can play any other move after the queen moves.

[@ttttoptenthings8543]

I was thinking the same xd

[@aclown2505]

White king: lemme cast real quic- Black king: nah-uh-uh not today

[@MatsMatsuo]

22:40 that's the legendary "en passork" tatic

[@jaywerner2246]

With the position at 11:55 in this game from Aug 22nd, what was the reason for not considering playing the knight from C3 to A4?

[@amphibica]

"Do you really want to hurt me?" ~Boy George (also, E. Rosen under attack)

[@KVElectro]

5:30 the word corner: exists Eric: intersection of the edges

[@nestorgames]

Eric goes quantum: "My king is randomly really safe".

[@kruksog]

Play this dude more. These are awesome. Watched the whole thing!

[@itsanumolu]

I watched the whole thing! Good to see you picking up other aggressive openings!

[@birthdayzrock1426]

At 7:30 would g3 be good? Wins the dark bishop.

[@navid1074]

not really because after 1.g3 Ne4 if you take then you lose the bishop and the knight after and itd be bad for white cuz you cant even take the bshol after that cuz theres force mate and if you dont take at the first place its still worse for white with some longer lines but its -4 after g3 you can put the game in an engine and see urself :)

[@birthdayzrock1426]

@@navid1074 i see thanks

[@PopcornFr3nzy]

The last time I was on a roller coaster of this caliber was at Universal Studios 20 years ago

[@joepschoenmakers8599]

Why at the position of 1:11 can you not retreat the offside knight on H8 to F7?

[@TheAnshuman1974]

Eggjactly! 🤔

[@NeemeVaino]

10:30 why Na4 is not a move?

[@soccrplayr11]

It totally is, missing that was basically the game. I replied to someone else above, Stockfish at 23 depth gives +5 for NA4 and -11.4 for NE4

[@00rasengan]

16:05 isn't it forced mate in 3? Qb6 check, kxa8,bd6,whatever white plays and then Qb8 check mate?

[@dentaylor5412]

Opponent blundered. Instead of Rook to B8 check at 16:58 , Queen to B6 check leads to forced checkmate. King is all cramped up and Bishop e6 becomes an unstoppable checkmate threat.

[@DevilOrange666]

16:49 Qb6>Kxa8 only move>Bd6 is forced mate, only thing white can do is push black's king away to c7 and then sac all the pieces to delay it. Actually surprised I saw this immediately then checked and it's correct.

[@DagonBass666]

Anybody see the time glitch at 5:00? Opponents time goes down ten seconds

[@temucargocult]

I wish I had the confidence to be at 17 seconds and say "It's not over yet"

[@helloitsavihere]

5:16 why not g3 to trap the bishop at this point? 'cause this also stops the opponent's from infiltrating... Right?

[@hdsjjsjjjsjsjsjssj6734]

10:30 is a clear blunder (A5 -> A4) why didnt he see KA4

[@soccrplayr11]

NA4, but yeah that was the game right there. Stockfish at 23 depth gives +5 for NA4 and -11.4 for NE4

[@burnologist229]

3:34 a check given and u retreating the bishope threating to fork looked good with ideas of b3

[@sillynapalm]

3:36 why didn’t he play knight f7? am i missing something?

[@JohnKuhles1966]

@Eric At 12:53 you have 1 min 14 secs left on the clock ... you get checked ... and you have to chose between KD1 or KD3 ... no other choices ... WHY THINKING ABOUT "what will happen" after D3 if you have no real choice anyway ... you need to use the opponent time to think about what to do next ... so you wasted 21 seconds to do the obvious move at 13:15 ... Would you have won the game with 21 seconds extra time? ... Am not pro but I have play 1000s of Blitz & Rapid (my rating is 1822) knowing how to use opponent time to think what to do next by default.

[@SirSX3]

When an IM is struggling against an opponent he's up 6:2 against, then the opening is probably pretty good.

[@matthewferguson5464]

That's so insane you trapped his rook on a8 with your king

[@Yagshemesch]

i´ve only seen this part, where are the other ones? nevermind found them in the description.

[@leenb7560]

@ 12:00 why not go knight a4?

[@UMMACKAY]

i made it all the way through :) . great series of videos!

[@misterhomes1033]

On move 15 I really liked the idea of bishop back to c4, giving back the knight! after bxc3 bxc3 you win a tempo on the knight and open up a route for developing your dark squared bishop. I could easily be missing some tactics though.

[@Koballin]

At 4:21 after bishop h4 doesn’t g3 win the bishop?

[@Someone-970]

A person: corner Eric: the intersection of the edges

[@preparedsurvivalist2245]

Proof that completely giving up king safety for material gain early on is an uphill battle at best.

[@KancerKowboy]

I played this a lot growing up and never knew it had a name until I saw Levy's video series on it. Its chaos

[@captainphoenix]

16:55 black has Qf5, if Kxa8, then Qc8 is mate, no?

[@Speedy28Gonzales]

At 0:32, why does he not take the bishop with his king?

[@anandiragavarapu5018]

27 ..Qb6+ would that not have been a bdetter move for black, sacrifcing the rook and getting the dark bishop into attack for mate?

[@idkyet9458]

2:30 why not Nf7?

[@bruhh489]

No one: Computers: How did you manage to blunder mate in 16?

[@red-vg2ds]

easy answer : i am 700 elo

[@memi6445]

5:32 people : corner Eric Rosen : intersection of the edges

[@lwolf123]

3:26 Worst cast scenario.. I lose instantly.

[@alicherifi9075]

"Oh no my King! My handsome king! I forget how to play chess"

[@AntonWingfield]

Is there a reason why, at move 12 or 13, Eric didn't trap the dark Bishop with g3?

[@mackenzieusher8025]

Wondering the same thing.

[@gilless429]

At 17:00 shouldn't black have gone Qb6 ? After Kxa8 black then plays Bd6, and that seems almost impossible to handle for white. Only counter play I'm seeing is Ba4+ followed up by Nd7 probably after black moves their King.

[@lastdigit6609]

@15:16 I think Eric's King don't really threaten the Rook because of Qf5 going for the Qc8 if eric decided to take the rook..

[@nibbles1873]

7:29 can you not play pawn G3 to push the bishop back and then take with the knight? It stops the mate threat too

[@jensen9612]

That’s what I saw too an I’m confused whether I’m really big brain and he isn’t or im a retard who doesn’t see something obvious

[@ofrenegades3185]

I take the bishop on F2 and go King G1 when knight E4 check.. You trap your rook in the corner.. but it seems to go ok anyway, there's just not many attacks for black from what I could see in my analysis. By that point you're up a Bishop and a rook for your likely-to-be-trapped knight The other option is to reverse traxler - Bishop F7 instead of Knight F7 just wins a pawn, then I retreat with the bishop and go for the fried liver-like attack anyway. But am low rated.. just studied up on the traxler lol

[@maxchehov8892]

Wonder if playing Qf5 on 15:23 as black is a good move. It prevents Kxa8 because of mate in one with Qc8. And if king is not taking the rook I would probably play Qc8 next move anyway.

[@mike.w]

the king was on a diplomatic mission to negotiate with the other king

[@marshill88]

the best move by black before d5 when white doesn't take the bishop is Bb6 and then d5

[@StefWillemse]

0:31 why not take the bishop?

[@theenh8270]

LOL, how can it be...? The king is travelling and trap the rock. 🤣

[@DinneBolt]

12:10 im not sure but 15.Qe3 looks good?

[@buubaku]

He had so many opportunities to trap black's dark squared bishop

[@mohammadrezanargesi2439]

what happens if in 12th move, black goes Qd7 with an idea of Qf5+ and later if allowed Ne2+ (VERY CLOSE TO MATE)?

[@ai9684]

7:30 pawn b4?

[@bernabasnegera8464]

The king was like "I will do it myself"

[@jonathanlindsey463]

on 27... Rb8+ isnt Qb6+ Kxa8 Bd6 leading to mate? unless i’m missing something?

[@vinceberry4017]

WOW! Amazing game. I have new respect for this line now. Thanks for sharing the game Eric.

[@aryanyekrangi7093]

FYI Eric, the "intersection of the edges" is called a corner. (5:30)

[@pajaf0341]

Made it so far: Would have liked to see the analysis of the previous game.

[@camyboy360]

Learned a tonne from you Eric, Keep it up!!!

[@ponan0053]

Next Video: My Most Insane Traxler Gambit Ever

[@ryantyre1]

After you played Knight to D5 why didn't he just play queen to b6 for check forcing you to move king to A8 his bishop to D6 you would defend mate with knight to D7 he takes with king and then you do something to try to defend but he ends up with queen on b8 mate ? Or am i just missing something - I'm so new to this sorry for stupid questions

[@TheJayMoses]

Watched the whole thing. Very cool. Thanks again!