Do You Even Rook Lift Bro? | Speedrun Episode 40

[@MC-nv4bo]

Everyone is gangster till Eric says “there’s a funny line here”

[@joshuakenny503]

underrated comment😂

[@Roberto-nn6kb]

imagine Eric in Mortal Combat, that would be his line before Fatality

[@wahito1456]

​@Roberto-nn6kb you're onto sth here

[@saber8560]

bahahahahha goated comment

[@justinarnold1981]

Finally......... another installment. I was beginning to have speedrun withdrawal.

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

I needed my fix

[@ThePckt]

I feel like as these games get into the higher ratings it wouldn’t be the worst idea to up the time control to 15|10 so you can spend more time explaining and thinking through the moves. Loving the series! Best on KZbin!

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

Or even just any increment. 100% agree.

[@mburg33]

Well it is after episode 40 so it makes sense

[@allanshpeley4284]

10/0 is already painfully long.

[@TheColonelWaffle]

Shirt change was an instant like😂

[@HowNiftyYT]

Same 😂

[@Rundik]

He shoupd take off the shirt like Magnus does when he wants better performance

[@FatUncle-cg3jt]

Dork

[@hwhaht]

@@FatUncle-cg3jt ur just jealous of them gains bro

[@Bleuthatup]

I swear to god this series alone made me go from 500 to 800 rapid rating. It's probably the best chess series out there. Seeing and LISTENING how you reason your moves, how you calculate, your thinking process, and also HOW YOU TAKE AND USE YOUR TIME, made me realize how easier it was to climb the ranks than I thought. I thought I'd never beat some one rated 600 consistently and after watching the series I just climbed with ease. Thank you so much Eric please keep updating this series

[@quizzleme]

I've had a similar experience. In my case, from low 1200's to mid 1300's.

[@dooflydetailguuy4349]

​@@quizzlemeI've peaked at 1780, no way to get better, that's playing since middle school. I'm 29 now.

[@FluxXx7789]

@@quizzleme same here :)

[@StevenStJohn-kj9eb]

@11:25 - it's a pretty solid position when you can checkmate your opponent after they make an illegal move.

[@youdanpatgal]

I've been watching for a while. I love how the clock is a non-issue most of the time. You know roughly where the pivot in the game is happening and just spend your time in that moment, like moves 5-15. By move 15 you almost always have a clear advantage. And so far it boils down to, of course experience, but also a great deal of patience. So many players go for a quick win (or semi-quick win), and if you simply develop, improve pieces/position, open the center (pawn breaks), look for tactics (skewers, pins, forks ...), and put pressure in multiple directions at once (you employ your queen with devastating power) ... the opponents fall. Simple, but not easy to actually remember all those moves, move orders, positions, etc. Fun stuff and thanks for narrating us through it.

[@slowtyper95]

Most players probably will have a better game if they use their time "wisely". Doubt they even draw lines or think about opponent next move like Eric does. That's what makes the difference

[@mannylokzzz]

Just deliberately screwing with our sleep at this point

[@Cube_noob-cr7my]

Here's me wondering why I woke up so early

[@mangaranwow2543]

Oh no, your sleep, call an ambulance.

[@justinwerner54]

@@mangaranwow2543 OH NO! MY CIRCADIAN RHYTHM!

[@ruthxk7844]

😂

[@RealHappyHogan]

Why not just bookmark & watch later

[@wesleybrooks1538]

My shirt should be “Do you even blunder, mate?”

[@KingElrosTarMinyatur]

😂

[@nguyenxuanbach9048]

This should get more like

[@gristlecassidy3406]

Oh no my break from chess (I am now motivated to queue rapid games until 4 am)

[@binbuk2]

Loving the lichess Candidates stream!! You and Irene and Laura and Matthew are great to listen to.

[@mburg33]

Don’t forget Laura’s cat as well

[@markwatson3076]

Not sure I could rock that tank top, I think a T-shirt is needed for us older folks 😀

[@mburg33]

Since this is episode 40, does this mean future games in this series are now going to have additional time?

[@pepperwestwood]

No talking - the arbiter

[@Superbri]

When does it become a draw by 50-video rule?

[@FatUncle-cg3jt]

Not funny

[@mburg33]

@@Superbri good question …. I actually don’t know lol

[@ruthxk7844]

17:37 that's why I love watching your speedrun, you are drawn to ideas that I would not consider, or if considered, I sometimes struggle to make them work... love it!

[@Shadowwind4]

At 19:00 thats so cool that your queen helped with the checkmate even tho its pinned

[@StanislavHronek]

I hate people in the 10 min pool I thought it was just me but I see it happens to Eric too. They queue up a 10 minute game and play like its bullet and then only think when its already lost.

[@mikeanderson1722]

9:01 "Oh no, you pinned my queen!"

[@ondrejmyslivec1782]

On no my time management😅

[@martenbergmusic]

Thank you for this series, such a pleasure to watch, love your calm thorough approach, doing my best to emulate, steadily improving too 👌👏❤️‍🔥

[@darcyhowe7393]

Eric, I’m sure you get this a lot but just want to remind you how helpful your videos are people learning and developing in chess. The fact that you speak aloud all of your thoughts behind your moves I think is one of the best ways someone can learn from a top player like yourself. Keep up the great content (Twitch subscribed)

[@Not-You-Tuber]

I took a break from playing chess but your videos are making me play again.. Chess is really an addictive game.. There was a time when I used to play for 7-8 hours everyday..

[@johnr.4992]

Shirt switch was epic. Thx again for the content.

[@cannceyhan]

That atlet is so funny hahahhaha Eric you are something else

[@KancerKowboy]

I tried 1.5 speed just for laughs. Rosen is even more entertaining at that speed if you can believe it LOL. Great series by the way. This, Chess Brah, Naroiditsky and Alessia Santeramo are all great speed run series 🙂

[@funnyzenverse]

I just got your Do you even Rook Lift Bro shirt. Nice quality

[@djgresearch]

Thanks Eric. Very instructive lessons such as completing development and not getting carried away burning time trying to analyse ambitious attacks. (I wonder if Anna Cramling is watching!) Also, the habit of taking a little time at the end to review the game.

[@millms74]

I love this speedrun so much!

[@kylestueven6665]

Love the content! Always looking forward to a new speed run video! What rating level do you think you can get up to before taking a loss?

[@bennyflexofficial9325]

always excited to see a new speedrun video!

[@subby111]

like this speedrun. cause i like to see every win of you! :) but its also very instructive i think. thank you.

[@zacharygrouwinkel1534]

Outstanding title Eric. Content idea if you aren’t too busy, can you do some short game reviews of the Candidates games?

[@rmendeljacobs2832]

I've gotten out my anger for the day by yelling play d6 for the full 40 seconds you were analyzing other moves. 16:31 - 17:19 such an attractive move for so many reasons, i also really like putting a piece on d5 afterward to really annoy black but the bh6 move was critical and very accurate, nice find

[@catac83]

Amazing move with the rook lift and bishop to h6. The last opponent gave up too quickly at 1632..he still had a lot of material and a queen, wish I had opponents like him

[@jpjpJPJPG]

Thanks Eric!

[@freedomsqrd]

This is the most instructive series on youtube!

[@sterlinglmao5262]

Just laid down after a 10 hour shift, so happy to see this upload.

[@teaflavor8913]

On nights when I feel like a colic baby I put on your videos and fall fast asleep. Thanks Eric!

[@renemarquez433]

Greatest chess series ever. Thanks a lot Rosen!

[@celiane2]

American viewers casually give up sleeping: 😨🥱😢 Me in Japan: 😎

[@ArnieAlonzo]

South Africa too. 9am upload time.

[@celiane2]

@@ArnieAlonzo Good morning! 🌞

[@Verbalaesthet]

Nice games. But you won my like with the funny phrase of rook lifting.

[@ChinaNumbaOne1]

The thumbnail is awesome 😂😂 never thought Id see Eric in a no sleeve

[@mfed]

awesome i'll watch this at 3am :)

[@DocPsy-fy7nu]

Priceless chess advice for free. Eric is the best!

[@AZ-hg7qj]

Eric, did it take more than a week to post this because you were waiting for mail to get the Rook Lift shirt?! Great episode. Was worth the wait.

[@apierce9999]

Keep it up! Can't wait for Season 2.

[@GojoSatoruUpperHalf]

I love Eric because he is so unintentionally funny

[@TheHeroIsRisingUp]

I enjoy watching these episodes particularly when I want to sleep

[@ajm7375]

Suns out guns out! Ima have to get one of ur shirts soon very clever!

[@kruksog]

Hey! I was watching something else! But when you post I have to immediately watch.

[@sebu1301]

Feels like Christmas came early when a new episode drops 🎄

[@DocPsy-fy7nu]

Thanks!

[@Joe-zu7lx]

this is my first episode but definitely of many!

[@skrga984]

Eric, very nice videos so far, i learned a lot , thank you for that u have really good qualities in explaining the moves, n1 coach :)

[@jackiefranken590]

Best instructional chess series on the internet.

[@SebastianBohn]

The series is great but that episode’s title, bro… 👊 😂 Like Eric’s subtile humour.

[@abebuckingham8198]

The title is great. Well done.

[@jrb5077]

6:19 Did you consider Ng6 Re8 Qd5? I think it's winning the f pawn.

[@eclecticexplorer7828]

I have worked on using the Greco Gambit (game 2), but I don't really like some of the complications, beginning with 7.Nc3. Stockfish prefers either Nbd2 or Bd2, and while Nc3 looks like it works well when you look at the full Lichess database, it is absolutely annihilated by black in the GM games (which admittedly is not my level, but I just don't care for the positions that arise). Instead, if black plays 3... Bc5, I like 4.O-O, after which black will usually play either Nf6 (more common) or d6 (better choice for black). Either way, I am comfortable with the game that ensues.

[@qwe1231]

Remembered the eval bar at 30:37....

[@Squilfinator]

Outfit change went crazy bro lmao

[@gundarsmiks4889]

He plays so good!!!

[@Nn-3]

18:35 wow that position

[@danielalvarez8487]

Greatest chess video title of all time.

[@rum3407]

I really want to buy this tank, and some other shirts too, any chance of making tall sizes?

[@chessanthemum]

I enjoyed you in that tanktop 🔥

[@WiggTheMobileBarbR]

At the 30:55 mark he showed the tactic to get the queen but call it a “small miss” 😖 after explaining a brilliant tactic 😅

[@martinhorvath6229]

It makes me so mad that 1600 players use an average of 2 minutes of 10 and get a totally losing position

[@Trumpppp2024]

Oh YES my Friday night is saved!!!

[@neicoree]

one rule I don't understand in chess is how is it that a pinned piece is also attacking? it's not like it can move to capture the piece it's attacking. for example in 19:55 with the queen pin.

[@jwr1970]

I wonder if it's possible for you to reinstate your former barber 🤔😂

[@HoloDaWisewolf]

Nice rook lift bro

[@samsaauce]

thank u Eric

[@parzingtheasian]

7:00 instead of nxd7, what about qb3? then ng6 becomes an idea + rooks connected + battery on f7

[@FredPolis]

Babe wake up, new Rosen just dropped

[@htt2566]

Still catching up on episodes, very much enjoying them , and just requesting a photo update, please. 🙂

[@thedigitalnerds]

How can you not click such a creative title!

[@jaybingham3711]

Warmer weather? 🤣 Yeah...ok. Totes has nothing to do with highlighting dem guns...right? 💪 Damn impressive. Where do you find the time?

[@mikebaker2436]

Shout out to merch.

[@cameronletalien7517]

Easiest swag purchase ever

[@jwr1970]

Rook lift bro!

[@stephenrowles8273]

Could you please shrink the size of the chess board just a little? On my screen the name and rating of your opponent is cut off. Or is that intentional?

[@eric-rosen]

I'm curious what device you're watching on? I checked on mobile and desktop and nothing appears to be cut off.

[@stephenrowles8273]

@@eric-rosen I watch on a TV connected to a Roku.

[@HungryScribbler]

Eric, in last game you said you didn't get to rook lift. But moving it from back rank forward past pawns is a rook lift isn't it?

[@allanshpeley4284]

Why does Eric say "for choice" rather than the standard idiom, "spoiled for choice"? Is that abbreviation common in St Louis?

[@coreypollington6038]

It's all fun and games until an attire switch happens

[@rcbooster1]

I saved this for bedtime

[@danny208YT]

Thx

[@elliotrodgerbeanextraordinare]

Finally!

[@VoidedTea]

Wish it was one or two games longer.

[@koettelfresser]

Guys I have a real "logical" question. As I understood, checkmate is defined as "The enemy king would be taken in the NEXT move". But in the checkmate in the second game at 19:20 , If the king moved to h8, it could actually not be taken in the next move because white's queen is also pinned. So the consideration is, white would play an illegal move theoretically as its next one, and basically win the "king" earlier than black. Is that right?

[@IAmEki]

Perhaps a better definition of checkmate is that the king is in check, and has no way to get out of it.

[@Carrejae35]

It can be taken before the other king gets taken, thats why the pin doesnt matter when its checkmate

[@Carrejae35]

If the rule was “first king to get taken loses” then who loses snd who wins?

[@alessandrodicesare8374]

Eric thanks to you i'm on the verge of being recognised as a senile prodigy!

[@willejaha4696]

I absolutely love this series and have watched the vids where it’s my ranking multiple times.

[@tenok8145]

29:15 I am confused, isn't this a wooden shield ?

[@yodydee]

How did your second opponent get to that respectable rating... I'm baffled by the "quality" of some of the 1,500+ players you encounter.

[@williamswan3711]

Hey Eric, wow, you missed an opportunity to checkmate. When you could’ve put the queen on H6, and the bishop was on F6, Ask Bishop was on G7. He would’ve been forced to take the bishop, and then the queen could’ve taken the rook on F8 for checkmate. I can’t believe I found a meeting sequence that you missed. I must be getting better for spending hundreds of my hours watching you bro. Let me know if you find it.

[@juhonieminen4219]

The first opponent with scandinavian played 10 moves of theory. They had over 9 minutes on their clock, when Eric had only 6 minutes. Propably thanks to chessable. I also play scandi so the moves felt very natural, but Eric used much more time. Opening theory really matters above 1500.

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

I’m only halfway through it but that opening cant be theory, they were so behind in development and were getting punished for it. Edit: yeah that game was lost in the opening. They had to sacrifice material to attempt equality and they basically played the game without a few pieces.

[@juhonieminen4219]

@@MyBiPolarBearMax I followed the moves with engine and it is ok untill move 8. Its common knowledge for scandi players that black has little space and the engine thinks that they are worse, but the evaluation is only half a pawn advantage for white - untill you make the mistake. Often the white gets frustrayed and blunders first.

[@AndMoreso]

@@juhonieminen4219 I gotta say, I'm always happy when someone plays the scandi against me because people absolutely do not know how to play it, lack patience and eventually allow me to wander into their position. Props to you if you can make it work, but I don't think that's true for most of the people I've faced that play like this.

[@juhonieminen4219]

@@AndMoreso I would not play it against IM for sure. At I do think that the line that was played in the game was weak and passive. But it forced Eric out of his prep and made him think.

[@tharpalan]

In game 128 at 3:33 move white Q to h6. Game over in one.

[@nicktho2654]

10 days eric!!! 10!!!

[@mthslzztt7468]

At around 7 minutes, you missed Qb3, no? Reinforcing the attack to the f7 square. Black could respond with Q8 and Q7 but both options seem to have counterplay. EDIT: Nope.

[@shambolicentity]

I just ordered a tank top. I couldn't stop myself...

[@TymexComputing]

19:20 Interactive TV :)