So Much Tension! | Speedrun Episode 63

[@evinism]

we are spoiled to have so many episodes recently

[@helpsloan]

WOO THREE EPISODES IN THREE DAYS LETS GO!!!! this is 100% my favorite chess speedrun right now. i’ve climbed 300 points since i started watching these, thank you so much eric!

[@Shxvang]

What was your initial rating?

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

I never really thought about an “en passant pin” before. It makes sense and I’m sure I’ve encountered it but never really stopped to think how unique it is

[@lequinow]

Eric was lucky his opponent did not play f5. The temptation of playing en passant is far greater than the mild inconvenience of losing a piece in the process.

[@jpjpJPJPG]

Thanks Eric!! I appreciate you making more of these, we know you've been pretty busy lately. My favorite parts of these tend to be when you take a moment to consider potential moves that are bad and show us the thought process behind ruling them out before analyzing a move you want to consider more seriously. It's more natural for me to rule out bad moves than spot the best ones so those lines of reasoning are helpful.

[@ryandizzih]

that’s called a: en pinsant

[@bennettbattistoni8570]

same thing came to mind 😄

[@medski9556]

you’ve made this the best weekend ever. Love the daily speedrun videos

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

I empathize *so* much with rush playing a move automatically and then immediately seeing the in between move or tactic that you would’ve seen if you had just not rushed and taken your time 😅

[@CSRgamer]

And then I waste time thinking about what could have been

[@Epidombe]

Releasing the tension of me waiting for more episodes

[@dxshywxshy8916]

😳😳

[@Epidombe]

@@dxshywxshy8916 👉🏼👈🏼

[@goviie]

EYO! 🧐

[@Joseph-d7q]

never watched you before but really learned a damn lot from this, you kept it simple and never confusing. great video, seem like a really chill dude

[@ItsAsparageese]

Welcome to the most wholesome chess channel out there :) Enjoy the cute animal cameos and calming cup-of-tea energy

[@Joseph-d7q]

@@ItsAsparageese thank you!! very unexpected heartwarming comment, made my week

[@Mikkelethor]

Nothing more wholesome than Eric’s voice playing speedrun

[@thechessfish]

The difference between that second and third game was wild.

[@CatCheshireThe]

That "en passent pin" is a fun edge case that a lot of chess engine programmers need to watch out for (the standard testing suites include a position to test against it) because it's so easy to overlook that it would be an illegal move if it was your king behind the two pawns. The usual logic is just to check whether the piece that moved was obstructing an attack against the king, but if you do that naively then in this specific situation it will say "no it wasn't because there was another piece behind it", even though that piece is also being removed.

[@ohnomyking]

Thanks once again Eric for your great instructional videos. My own chess versus the app bots is so much better after watching your games.

[@RightHandShot]

Love the speed run series

[@adestimare5985]

Love the pace with these recent episodes!

[@jaimealejandreboettcher343]

Hi Eric, watched the whole series. Learnt a lot, very entertaining. Thanks.

[@Zvoosh25]

Release right after stream ended, great stream and looking forward to a great episode!! Also, Happy (early) Birthday!!

[@SCBB24]

I read the title and then looked at his face in the thumbnail… all I could think was “freaky ahh boi” 😂😂

[@flpsnk4848]

En passant pin,... now I have seen it all. Amazing content, as always.

[@KyleGreyshock]

Yesssssss! thank you for the uploads Eric

[@catac83]

48:13 I think the albanian is testing how fast your moves are in order to see if u re using stockfish. I usually do that too when the game is lost. If you move too slow or if your next 2 moves are not exactly the ones the you make I would have said u are using help, then report and block you. He doesn t know he is playing a 2700 IM next to be GM ;) Amazing video Eric, keep it coming thaaaank youuuuu!!!!

[@Axalon900]

…or they’re just salty and throwing away their pieces before resigning because they blundered the game away with 9 minutes still on the clock

[@hiimjosh868]

i do that sometimes too

[@jordanferguson1859]

Thanks for the great vid man hope you’re doing well

[@samgreer8596]

I feel like I've waited an eternity for the return of the speed run!

[@danielhowell8808]

nice instructive games thank you

[@jacktaylor2830]

Eric playng chess in surgical scrubs - very appropriate!

[@KreatorX1029]

Very well put!

[@waterlmao]

Excellent video as always (i watched on 100x speed)

[@invain1141]

Thank u eric , best content

[@pax1913]

Eric, after delivering an absolute masterclass of a game at well over two thousand ELO: "I hope it was an instructive game"

[@arch1q892]

Pro gamer Eric nice to see some scandinlines

[@mitchsmix269]

Eric is on fire lets gooo

[@eclecticexplorer7828]

I have to say that over the course of this speedrun, I have been steadily improving my ability to anticipate moves (although I can't attribute it all to this series, it definitely contributes.) In the first game, I didn't see the Nxf6+ move that Eric also missed, but as soon as he mentioned overlooking it, I instantly saw why it was the right move. I also was anticipating his push of the h pawn and black's blunder with h5, which I did see would be a blunder, but I also recognized that black really didn't have good choices at that point. I haven't actually played against a human opponent in 3-4 months now, instead working out certain openings and trying them against bots of various levels. I will return to playing against others soon, and I expect a rating jump when I do. The "Canal Attack" in game 2 is referred to as the Moscow Variation on Lichess. Game 3, when Eric said he was thinking about Ra1, I thought, "Has he lost his mind?" He went ahead and played it, which I confirmed by the engine just blunders the rook. White missed it though. All he had to do was to play Rxa1, and if bxa1=Q, Qxa1. Eric needed to get the other rook to the a file first. He didn't go that far in his analysis, though.

[@chriswinther7786]

In game 3 the Bishop on F6 would take the Queen.

[@dullhammer]

I love this speedrun series. It is fascinating and educational, especially with Eric's clear commentary. But I've never seen a speedrun and can't find much online about it. What is the endpoint? A loss? (Probably not.) A level? I wouldn't think it'd be the player's actual level. But with Eric I could watch endlessly. ;-)

[@jacobsawyer6861]

Yes I’m so glad you keep spitting them out baby. Eric I’ve played 5000 rounds of chess in the past 9 months ever since my friend showed me your speed run. Still 1000 elo because I’m stupid but I’m going to pay for chessmood eventually

[@yodydee]

Your last player was 2032? How? Looks like this was his very first game without an engine.

[@thierrymercure]

I couldn't believe that Eric missed Nxf6 while I was watching, I thought maybe I was the one being wrong! Glad to know I wasn't!

[@starry7544]

The en passant pin is fun to think about.

[@maartenjansen3393]

It'll be interesting to see when Eric will start to get in trouble as the ratings grow

[@antaress8128]

Happy Birthday Eric!

[@cameron-wy4wd]

25:34 that diagonal is loaded

[@mariuszpudzianowski8400]

In that first game if black tries to chase/trap the bishop defending the pawn it's one of rare cases when exchange sacrfice is one of the main moves.

[@helpsloan]

please keep the frequent episodes!!

[@shahmatsimplex4144]

Nelson Lopez blundered a rook against a 900 in a winning endgame and suffered the first loss of his speedrun. So you reign Supreme in the road to master speedruns.

[@relax1234567]

Game 2 had connect four with the knights @24:18

[@MajorAddiction]

When your best move is h4 you know you f'ed up

[@addoorrnnoo]

25:25 great diagonal!

[@goviie]

Release my tension Eric! 😵‍💫

[@amitavabongoboyychakrabort5930]

Eric sir you are the best 👍💯

[@oraz.]

what a cool game 2

[@jakecoleman4523]

can't make it to dinner babe, new speedrun just dropped

[@thegreatNEb]

i found the last game reassuring that even at 2000+ levels players can have tilting off days where they just fumble about from near the beginning. I'm guessing that player has to be very good overall to even get that level though...

[@vitahast]

i thought when black plays Bg4 attacking your queen after you put your bishop back with Bc4 in this scandy where black delays the recapture of the d-pawn it was free to play for tricks with Bb5 because c6 then dxc6 and if black plays Bd7 then just repeat and play f3. but i guess black can also play Nd7 and maybe the f3 line is preferable for white.

[@DanielRoberts420]

My brain read "tennison" in the title ahahah

[@jessenemoyer1571]

27:30 after nb1. What am I missing? nxe4 wins the pawn, because bxg7 allows nf2+ forking the queen, rxe4 allows bxb2, qc2 allows bxb2 or nf6 return.

[@tinfoilcat]

24:38 - that's one shish kebab with questionable ingredients for sure. edit: OK - even better at 25:39

[@McCainenl]

Given the Schweinsteiger username, you can tell Eric's not much into football (soccer)...

[@BATTO57]

much love ..come to morocco mate ..you're totally welcome

[@wcndave]

You missed the big blunder you made in game 1. 29.d4 swung it from +0.8 to -0.5 as your rook was tied town to protecting the other rook. Good thing your opponent missed it!

[@zacharygrouwinkel1534]

24:19 completing connect 4.

[@legi0n715]

15:27 could black play queen f5 here? It looks like you have to exchange or hang your bishop?

[@wconradjr]

Yeah, I like Eric’s videos.

[@akantorman1]

29:15 nooo just take the pawn pass

[@George_Bland]

I wish I could gain Elo this quickly 😂 you make it look so easy 😭

[@antmnn]

not sure if anyone else cares too much about this but I wish the chess board was more centered and larger in the video instead of on the right half of the screen.

[@GizasRadigeris]

Yes!

[@TheHeroIsRisingUp]

That player of that last game must be stressed. I play that way when I'm stressed.

[@yo_its_devo]

He went full tilt. You never go full tilt.

[@JohnGlase]

@29:04 Could the black knight take the pawn on D4?

[@arrigo7476]

I think if ...NxD5 - QxD5 - QxC6 -QxC6 -RxC6 there's b4 and black is losing material

[@JohnGlase]

@@arrigo7476 I think NxD5-QxD5, RxC6 would work though...

[@arrigo7476]

@@JohnGlase there should still be b4 and if the knight moves the rook is attacked twice

[@MaxWright7]

What was the point of the first check? He just went back to defend the pawn after that, and the queen attacking. Btw, sound seems slightly out of sync.

[@chadpower3228]

This thumbnail just feels different when you’re taking a poop.

[@David-qs7yv]

Awesome

[@beaky8138]

7:16 What is wrong with e5 in the position? It seems to clamp down on black's e pawn, lock the white square bishop and queen side rook out of play and deny Bf6, which is the primary defense against Bh6.

[@LitCactus]

r1bq1rk1/4bppp/1pn1p3/p1p5/4P3/PB1PB1Q1/1PP1N1PP/R4R1K w - - 0 1 Here's the board if you want to analyze it

[@billricardi]

At the end of game 1, are you talking about en-pin-sant Eric? 😂

[@skaarlner]

either the third guy has been cheating to get to that elo or he was TURBO Tiltplaying

[@Checkers1872]

48:24 Bro really tried the stalemate trap on Rosen himself lol

[@SteveDickman1]

The stalemate maestro ❤

[@tuckeyuk]

shvines-teyger

[@Nonentity33]

❤

[@surionut6215]

gg

[@AuthorNathanJohnson]

If edging were a complicated table game

[@dxshywxshy8916]

20:12 its pronounced shh-wine-sty-gerz its a german name😁

[@waltmess3176]

Very famous German soccer player

[@dxshywxshy8916]

@@waltmess3176 one of the best germans ever🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

[@yanair2091]

Indeed it just looks difficult at first sight, but when you look closely it's typical German word. You don't need to speak German to know that Schwein is Pig, and the second part of the nick follows typical German spelling.

[@jon7911]

Let’s go

[@Neverlanding]

Eric, your commentary is so much better than Levy. Please dont ever stop.

[@adestimare5985]

There's most definitely a less rude way to phrase this opinion, they are friends after all.

[@Neverlanding]

@@adestimare5985 lol yea you're right. but Levy is always insulting us viewers. hahaha

[@spindoctor6385]

En pinsente?

[@davidforrest1665]

En pinssant?

[@acxrn]

🥰

[@yanair2091]

Actually that second opponent's nick-name is not that difficult when you look carefully. I don't speak German but the first part of the nick is obviously Schwein, which is Pig, and the second part - steigerz - looks typical, most likely pronounced 'shty-gerts' or 'sty-gerts'.

[@thetransferaccount4586]

speedran too fast

[@rubalrana7622]

10 min too long and boring. Make it 3 min. I get sleepy after listening to you for so long

[@yanair2091]

There are literally thousands of 3 min chess videos around for people with ADD. 10 minutes is almost perfect for the purpose of studying chess. Ideally I'd set 15 minutes, or 10 + 5 sec so there is no too much scrambling.

[@rioricojohn7455]

your videos are TOO LONG

[@quizzleme]

You can always choose to watch only one game at a time. 🙂