Tricky and Aggressive Blitz Chess

[@centrelink6003]

0:24 Black: English Opening 2:23 White: Indian game 4:45 White: Sicilian smith morra gambit 7:38 Black: Russian game Stafford gambit 12:31 Black: Queens pawn game symmetrical variation 17:45 White: London system 24:13 Black: Indian game, tartakower attack 27:03 White: London system 33:40 Black: zukertort opening: Ross gambit 39:00 White: London system 42:17 White: Russian game urosov gambit 48:01 Black: Queens gambit declined 53:55 Black: Budapest defence 58:53 Black: kings gambit, falkbeer countergambit 1:03:17 White: Philidor defence, hanham variation 1:07:14 White: London system 1:08:40 White: London system 1:13:18 Award Ceremony.

[@itszombies7256]

Thanks!

[@ramandeepgill2538]

Thanks a lot.

[@riggdan]

We need more people like this, not only does he help us record time stamps he also shares knowledge of chess to the community and help us improve. Thanks!

[@overnightdelivery]

The only opening people EVER play in 1000 rated Blitz as white is the Roy Lopez

[@omarkhan5223]

Wow, I love this guy!

[@Hasan...]

"if he .... I take his rook, if he.... I fork his rooks, if he takes then I force mate.. Life's Good". - Eric Rosen in all his games 😀

[@khaledosama1836]

He makes chess looks like....eating icecream 😌

[@adammurai1955]

*Eric opens twitch* *0.2 seconds elapse* Eric: welcome back toggi

[@FayazPA]

Watching a Rosen beat-down like this is therapeutic after a disaster of a session in Lichess

[@andromeda4995]

I watch Eric Hansen's mental breakdowns, so relaxing to see someone else suffer from forks

[@xT..]

@@andromeda4995 I was so hurt yesterday when i entered a tournament for the first time and could only win one game out of 5..until i checked eric's profile and saw he's had a 12-games losing streak before...then i realised, this is chess... on many occasions, you get your ass handed to ya

[@gonzalo4658]

haha so good

[@sensorcato]

"World is a confusing place. It's hard to live." *Eric Rosen's last famous words...*

[@fueledbyfood]

That ending. Holy crap. Congrats, Eric!

[@baoboumusic]

35:02 "this is such a difficult position, why do I play this opening" *Me, every game

[@przemysawp5270]

Last game finished less than a second before tournament's end. Incredible, congratulations Eric

[@tareqnash9591]

Spoilers man

[@ThoraeJenkins]

@@tareqnash9591 If you're worried about spoilers on YT, don't read the comments. Easy solution to a non problem.

[@tareqnash9591]

@@ThoraeJenkins thanks for the advice bumass I was clearly being sarcastic

[@gbravy]

"If this, this. If this, this this this. If this, this this." -Eric Rosen

[@rhoddryice5412]

17:56 Hi Gori, hi Toggi, hi Twitch

[@alienwarex51i3]

Who's Gori and Toggi

[@sillychinas]

Gauri*

[@tashikrtv6878]

@@sillychinas fun fact, gaur means careful consideration while gori means "white girl". All in hindi of course

[@rhoddryice5412]

Sry Gauri

[@leadnitrate2194]

@@alienwarex51i3 gauri is a Fide master and streamer Toggi is one of the mods on Eric's channel, and cheers bits and gifts people subs a lot

[@thebirdcatcher1]

This is the best sports on right now. What a thrilling finish. Great theater, great play, great commentary. Well done Eric

[@mainzjr1379]

The title should be something like "Fighting For a Tournament Win with Tricky and Aggressive Blitz Chess" The ending was so tense and entertaining and you would probably get more views! Keep it up Eric this was awesome!

[@adomaskuzinas2137]

why spoil it? the ones that are interested are gonna watch anyway and boy are they in for a surprise!

[@AllanTerraza]

Eric: Let's take another pawn, I feel like Yasser. It's a nice feeling. Also Eric: Always play king b1, now I feel like Ben Finegold. Me: You're telling me there's a multiverse?

[@ngc5195]

Thanks for the daily uploads

[@steggyweggy]

Loving all the KZbin content Eric! Keep up the good work!

[@jacobyatako3304]

I could seriously watch Eric play for 10 hours, grab some food, and watch more

[@JoonOhMars]

Dang, top quality clutches towards the end. Most of all clean chess all throughout (even with that Walrus opening haha)

[@vimmiduggal6337]

Me trying to play chess : 5:34

[@mothhunter2337]

I wish I could give you an award for this comment

[@Ridshoot]

You're not the only one xD

[@vidul7498]

insane, im never someone to watch an hour long video but so glad i did for this, better than a movie finish

[@ohhpeaches]

I’ve been following you on KZbin for awhile, but this is the first time commenting. That ending is unbelievable! So good!

[@pattabiramans]

Never seen Eric lose, he's so quick, precise, creative, subtle, aggressive, positional, anti-positional all at the same time. The best way to not lose the game against him is by not playing at all.

[@bobthemadmonkey]

I've watched a lot of eric videos and that was probably the most on point I have seen him even tho he lost a couple. Just seemed like he was moving quicker than normal

[@lightandsound09]

"Bg5 hangs a bishop because queens move sideways" - just lost a match because I didn't see a sideways queen move... should have watched this video earlier

[@shinjinator100]

Its such a rare move to see cause only the queen and rooks can do it. But you sometimes can forget that the queen can do it :D

[@Noise-Bomb]

Artina I often oversee long backwards moves by the queen

[@rahulrangwani2760]

“It’s all about mating.” - Me, when someone asks what am I looking for on tinder

[@KiatHuang]

well done! great way to spend an hour watching you overcome adversity, especially as the London features

[@harshitchauhan2411]

"Stream-bits is an anagram for Master-bits"

[@sensorcato]

@@user-fartsmella69 Wait... What?..

[@user-fartsmella69]

@@sensorcato bream is some fresh water fish, which I didn't know, it just sounded like a generic english word.

[@folderfolderson7042]

I wish I could play as good as Eric

[@The_uncooth_peril]

How about you play me I am blazer49

[@EricaAmyKees]

Don't we all!

[@aleemsarwar8785]

anyone can play good but there is no one who can play as Eric...

[@aleemsarwar8785]

@@The_uncooth_peril where should i challenge you?

[@SuperJg007]

holy shiiiiiiiiz, maaan it is sooo fun and educational watching you, the way you vocalize all your thoughts makes me understand why you play certain moves, i love it man. seriously, you are pretty fucking awesome.

[@Ridshoot]

That ending! I was totally with you there in those nervewrecking seconds xD Well played Eric. Yasser would be proud of your pawns and Ben would have liked your b1 moves.

[@nokubongamntombi8068]

"The queen and the bishop are quarantined", lockdown has got into you😂😂

[@nikitademodov3446]

17:34 Am I childish to point out how this looks?

[@sagar65265]

Hi, Gauri. Hi, Toggi. Hi, everyone in Twitch chat. Really love the community that's built up around Eric, never change

[@nicholasmahoney4143]

One of your best videos - great moment at the end.

[@ridwanmuhammad1907]

This is the first time I literally watched a whole video. Nice tournament. Keep going, the best greeting from Indonesia.

[@rhoddryice5412]

You should have named this upload "Making Yasser proud"

[@davy1409]

Always great to see Rosen play like that. Thanks for the content.

[@Willemslikker]

20:08 Why didn’t black capture the knight on f4 and after white takes back, just take the bisschop on d3... whites queen has still got to take an eye at the knight on b3 so if Qxbd3 black can take the knight. Somebody explain plz

[@hunterskull1573]

Instead of white taking back white captures the other bishop on f5 with a pawn. Though this still wins the pawn on e3 so its a good move for black.

[@rowanz74]

The world is a confusing place❤️ Love your streams and vids Eric

[@ShriLLKiLLs]

I love this whole video, I come back and rewatch it, I can say that about very few youtube videos!

[@mozartdminor]

Cool to see the top 3 players at the end all had the same number of games played and wins. That Berserk rate makes all the difference apparently

[@nouvalikhsan9203]

Oh no i'm addicted watching eric's video

[@aesaehttr]

"It's hard to make Yasser prouder" 🤣 (that giant Yasser grin)

[@cfgauss71]

Eric, you were on fire today! This was one of your best rounds yet. You need to carefully reconstruct all the events, activities, and little routines you did that led to such a stellar performance. And then do it next time. Was it the Egyptian Licorice? Was it an invigorating run before the tournament? Was it plenty of sleep? Because if your thoughts continue at such a level of lucidity, there's no stopping you. Congratulations!!!

[@persephonics2403]

At 27:25 did you have nxd5 ? the pawn is pinned to the bishop. It threatened the queen and nc2 forking the king and rook.

[@Terrashark]

It would probably work, the issue for black is that the queen is attacked and tied down to the g7 pawn, while the threat of Nc2 is looming. Not to mention if black never moves his queen (for some sort of counterattack), white would be able to take the black queen with check. I guess Eric might've missed this. The only other thing may be that the line gives white a material advantage, but black gets counterplay somehow, though I don't see any line that gives black substantial counterplay at all. This could actually be an opening trap in this line now that I think about it.

[@RulezAPower]

Congrats, you spotted a devastating blow, tactics with knights where the queen gets attacked simply demolishes everything. Plus, there's no counterplay attacking white's queen, because knight captures with check. Congrats.

[@monte2413]

What was that thing after 42:36 when black offered a free knight Eric said opponent knows what to do. What gambit is black playing?

[@uneasylemons1409]

22:22 ne5 forks king and queen no? He mentioned it but then didn't go for it was there a reason?

[@yakoudbz]

the knight on d7 didn't move and was defending e5

[@uneasylemons1409]

@@yakoudbz ah thank you :))

[@joshbrandt6936]

Hey Eric Id like to see a Latvian gambit some time. Love the videos man. Maybe one day I will catch a stream again.

[@rhoddryice5412]

12:00 Push'em baby, push'em.

[@josephsalmonte4995]

Your calculation speed is SOOO impressive!

[@mikeryckman3120]

Someone please tell me what are these bits people keep sending

[@Toggik]

You can buy bits on Twitch and then donate them to streamers, 100 bits = 1$ ! Its just way of suporting the streamers!

[@MJ-np8kg]

12:00 “it’s hard to make Yasser prouder” (no pawns for white) 😂

[@kill2ed]

On 27:23 why doesnt Nxd5 work ?? If exd5, Qxc8+

[@benztheprotogen3502]

Eric: Aggresive Everyone: CLICK

[@paulholland3958]

27:20 "some idea of this and oh nevermind" lol

[@gbravy]

At 27:23, why not Nxd4? Attack the black queen and if pawn takes then queen takes bishop with check.

[@peterweltweit]

Eric, you are cool. Against Ben F. you were talking, explaining, while (good liked by me though) bigmouth Ben just shut up and stared to the screen. This was an epical defeat!

[@Zeldasouls]

At 17:59 I feel like Eric kinda made a mistake, since black can capture on b2 and already the position is equal, which you don’t really want on move 4 as white. Alternatively you can play Qc1 with the idea of playing c4 and white is doing better. Just thought I’d mention it

[@guy9146]

27:24 knight d5 would have been fun but hard to catch in a 3 min game.

[@yorickstrangefield2976]

That would have been more than fun, that would have been devastating.

[@maniniescobar244]

I just realised that he knows a lot of openings theory, perhaps that's one of the reasons he plays so good. I mean he's capable of recognising a bunch of different structures and name them!

[@NoVaCharlie]

Awesome ending Eric! Wow

[@drumetul_dacic]

1:01:58 Qb3+ was so scary. Nice finish though!

[@DanHalford41292]

Scrolled the comments to see if anyone else clocked that; I'm amazed that a 2000+ didn't capitalise on it! Especially considering that the check was played a couple of moves later anyway

[@comicsans6138]

That ending though

[@titovalles12]

Can u post a video of the salazar gambit use and use it in game?

[@chessmasters9012]

27:24 eric misses a very nice move: Nxd5! winning, because the e6 pawn is pinned, and black's queen is overloaded.

[@michaelsaliba6585]

wow what a close nding!! Well done Rosen, Love you EyeCandy

[@omar_issa]

GGs - I always watchin ur videos and very often to do not understanding some stuff, like this one on 4:04 "I feel Like Yasser"?? .. Yasser Sierawan??? Would u please explen that for me?

[@charenvishwa5903]

You are the ChocoTaco of the chess world

[@not_a_human_being]

"asdf" is a letter sequence on the keyboard below "qwerty". people put it in the nickname when they just don't care, or want to act like that.

[@zambot264]

Really enjoy your gameplay. Very fun style

[@ianmoore5502]

1:45 asdf standa for alternating single direction fling

[@deepsquat600]

don't have time to watch it all until this evening but in these first couple of games Eric is playing like he's at least 3,000 level haikara watch out

[@clicksdee9280]

This kid is so good

[@omertabach9794]

So tense. Very nice stream.

[@bigjohn9544]

That was sooooo close! Congrats!!!

[@bmaxter]

Nice finish!!! Enjoy learning from you.

[@whatever-uw5bx]

I took a shot every time you said "oewww" damn you rosen

[@allenvives9884]

Every single game here was amazing 😯😯

[@windowsmoke]

Where's the game from the thumbnail

[@fenderchen182]

Very accurate analysis at 3:31

[@dennisnilsson2606]

Nice finish Eric!

[@n1ckn4m3zz4]

Photo finish! Good job Eric

[@Njdgolfs]

4:01 Bishop C5 trap the queen?

[@CJ58694]

C4 bishop hanging

[@chancebrandt4168]

Congrats, great job!

[@iambarrykatz]

Why is grabbing pawns a Yasser thing? Isn't that universal?

[@zacharyng4925]

at 20:00 opponent missed bishop takes f4 pawn takes f4 bishop takes d3 queen takes d3 queen takes b3. or bishop takes f4 bishop takes f4 bishop takes d3 queen takes d3 queen takes b3

[@miguelembuido6170]

What a finish!!

[@aslandiesyt]

Always begins with "Im late"

[@Sirzacharia]

Gosh that ending though

[@cperkins10755]

I love yasser!!! And you are awesome to watch!!

[@Samuftie]

10:28 why would white bother to castle when its king just went back to its original place lol

[@badianand8077]

Great explanation

[@sasitharan2787]

Asdf is sequential letters in qwerty keyboard

[@leoafricanus666]

Wow ! Close call ... Congrats!

[@LokangoFreewar15]

20:16 Nooo, you could save the knight with the check in e7 and at least win a pawn

[@tatus2463]

"If this this this if this this this i mate, and if this this this i take here and win the rook" xD

[@itsjustgatts]

😁😂😁😂

[@andromeda4995]

Kind of reminds me of creed Bratton playing chess

[@leiv-bjrgulvtrahntryggesta5407]

When do you stream?

[@mr.adeeshaff2008]

Congratz ..eric..i enjoyed a lot...

[@kauzphaps2250]

What an ending holy shit

[@kingcowgirl]

My girlfriend: " Eric Rosen is your bedtime white noise machine"

[@andrejtajhman3054]

Where is this chat that you talk about...and stream

[@ranzintros]

imrosen on twitch