The Most DANGEROUS Line in the Ponziani Opening

In this video, I encounter one of the sharpest and craziest variations of the Ponziani Opening.
WATCH LIVE: / imrosen
MERCH: shop.imrosen.com/
SUPPORT: www.paypal.me/ericrosenchess
IMPROVE YOUR GAME: go.chess.com/imrosen -- get a free trial or paid membership of premium features like beginner lessons, unlimited puzzle training, and access to their extensive video library. Signups through the link will support my content!
Fan Mail Address:
Eric Rosen
4579 Laclede Ave 205
St. Louis, MO 63108
♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙
WEBSITE: imrosen.com/
TWITCH: / imrosen
DISCORD: bit.ly/2KTDlBK
TWITTER: bit.ly/2sFmNqa
INSTAGRAM: bit.ly/2HspaBa
LICHESS: lichess.org/@/ericrosen
CHESS.COM: www.chess.com/member/imrosen
♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙
See Eric in the Chess State documentary (2015): vimeo.com/ondemand/chessstate
Chess book recommendations: imrosen.com/book-recommendati...
London Opening 8-hour video course: www.ichess.net/sale/8020-tact...
#chess #ericrosen

[@Raafen]

Destroyed My parents with Stafford gambit strat, they returned my presents

[@dharmikdesani2726]

You have won but at what cost!!🤣🤣

[@markoperic5023]

My dad actualy tried stafford gambit on me, he watched one of rosen videos and I didnt even tell him about rosen xD

[@juanward6250]

“Oh no my pawn” Wait.... “Oh no my presents” 😂

[@TVGUY333]

Wooden Cabin in the midst of a blizzard, I have shelter, roasting Smores on a nice bonfire...Please Eric, Never change. Part of your charm is your playfulness with words and your brand of fun is for fun's sake. Love ya.

[@zubussy]

bro why would you type something like that

[@aczblock6502]

as someone with 282 ponziani games on lichess and a 66% winrate as white, and only 40% against this, i can confirm this is a nightmare to play against.

[@shashankd6742]

Could you suggest some strong lines after c3?

[@cooldogkidz1]

i love it when I'm black because I know a lot of theory for this line and so my fellow ponziani players get smacked around sometimes haha.

[@tissousle]

knightmare

[@BenjaJohnsonIII]

@@cooldogkidz1 I’ve never lost to this line as white It’s too easy

[@encryptedhuli9482]

@@shashankd6742 It depends on what they do.

[@ziggypi4813]

Fantastic. Seemed like pretty powerful ponziani counterattack ...Eric givess a course in patience and tenacity

[@sixknightyt]

3:19 "This is when the Ponziani turns into the Bongcloud" *sips tea out of mug*

[@hoil7561]

I appreciate the effort to explain every move, even when in a time crunch

[@darrenlin7943]

That is… quite dangerous.

[@georgios4891]

He's a magician. Its incredible how Eric got out of this situation with 3 seconds left and kept his calm. Fun to see.

[@slickdin]

I always start learning the ponziani, get rekt for a few games, forget about it for 6 weeks, rinse and repeat...

[@PraveshJain1991]

"Surprisingly, I feel cozy. It's like a wooden cabin in the midst of a blizzard. I have shelter." I didn't realize I was here for beautiful literature.

[@marcelobulhoes6180]

Analyzing this game with an engine and it’s possible sidelines is awesome, can recommend (opponent had mate in 4 in one point)

[@petarnikolovski3177]

what move?

[@marcelobulhoes6180]

7:52 Qc2

[@vsevolotti]

@@marcelobulhoes6180 c2 is defended isn't it?

[@marcelobulhoes6180]

@@vsevolotti yeah, sorry, it’s after bishop takes knight, and if you take back with the pawn there’s mate in 4 starting with Qc2+

[@marcelobulhoes6180]

Got lost in my own analysis

[@CloudySamples]

That’s insane, when engine says 0.00 it generally doesn’t understand the position, so you can play 5 best moves according to the computer and suprisingly engine will say black is winning

[@Cephalon_Nodens]

Depth... Its all about depth

[@lucasmatsuoca]

It doesn't mean "it doesn't understand the position", it thinks blacks has Full compensation or found a forced perpetual check line, engines are not programmed to give "i don't understand it" analysis, especially SF, a "brute force calculator" engine. Only thing is that in those positions there are many crazy moves that could be discarded by the algorithm and it was eventually a very good move with deep analysis.

[@thec7889]

it understands the position more than any of us could ever dream of doing, and it sees a prepetual check in a line and whoever tries to avoid the prepetual would be worse so the prepetual is considerd best play by both sides. occationaly it could allso mean a trade down to a tablebase drawn position if it has tabelbases enabled.

[@Cephalon_Nodens]

@@thec7889 I wouldnt say it understands the position. Engine just evaluates it by looking at specific lines and thats why it says +2 or -3. This is why engines were so bad at openings for such a long time. Now they are pretty good but mainly because they have book lines programmed into them and we can run them with enormous depth

[@thec7889]

@@Cephalon_Nodens humans dont realy understand positions eigther, we calculate, and we try to applie past experiences to the current position, but chess is so complex its practically impossible to understand any opening or midgame position

[@malcolmwebster7948]

Merry Christmas Eric .. Thanks for all the content

[@bryanledfird731]

The delayed bongziani. Love it.

[@davidagyemang6574]

Petition for Eric to make opening videos

[@markcaza6083]

My favourite opening!!!! Thank you! Please do more ponziani!!!!

[@violetasuklevska9074]

7:51 black very quickly played Qd3+, but Bxd4 looks really strong if you take with knight going down the same line with Qd3+ Kxf2 Qxe3# is now mate.

[@peterlustig4300]

cxd4 Rab8 Qxb8 Rxb8 Kxf2 and 3 pieces and rook for the queen is enough, White seems already winning in this position. Qc2+ Nd2 may hold, Qd3+ Kxf2 too and any other move looks too slow to me. Still the best practical try

[@eriksteffahn6172]

@@peterlustig4300 After cxd4 Qc2+ Nd2 Qd3+ Kxf2 there is Qxe3#.

[@porygon-z8270]

Merry Christmas, Mr Rosen!

[@jabeavers]

Hello, Mr. Rosen. Merry Christmas!

[@soulandre8702]

I love the Ponziani! You teached me Ponziani and Stafford, I play them a lot!

[@despicablepanda6464]

Taught*

[@gregfarr492]

At 2:42, can you sac your queen for the bishop and knight? It’s four pieces for a queen and two pawns? Or is the fact that your king is exposed a problem?

[@pzr2681]

No there is Qxb6 If Be3 Qxb2

[@thatcringelord]

You can't sacrifice at that point, but I'm pretty sure 4 pieces would've survived a queen.

[@gregfarr492]

@@thatcringelord I always miss horizontal queen moves

[@JoelSimbrow]

how do you not get nervous when the clock goes down?!?! that was amazing at the end.

[@ZipMapp]

Ponziani opening, also called Ponzi opening scheme by close friends and family

[@ramachandra776]

Thanks Eric for another humorous and instructive video . Merry Christmas to you and family .

[@GaryTheGray]

The chess board looks like it's on fire, and Eric is quoting The Life of Brian with a resting heartrate of 60. Is there a Rosen Award for that? 🍕

[@MikeSmutz]

Why didn’t black play Nxf2 instead of Bxf2+? 0:37

[@samuel3399]

great video, thx

[@shizudaren]

7:52 after Bishop take Knight white is just losing

[@maxstablum5088]

More Ponzianiii 🔥🔥🔥

[@salovamrani2084]

Down two pieces and computer shows -0.1

[@advikfunworld3588]

It’s so a joy to watch

[@vineyardchess2136]

Wow. The vukovic gambit is really nice but white is always on an edge to play carefully

[@hedwshjredns]

0:37 why wouldnt he take with his knight instead since it puts a fork?

[@philsai8756]

I just had an ad on this video about a gambit and i watched the entire vid

[@alexf0101]

crazy line

[@RobFlaxMusic]

Heh. Bongziani.

[@moradnadimi7952]

How do you remain so calm which such little time left on the clock

[@flippert0]

While a don't think the Ponziani is any good for white, I appreciate the effort to explain some lines here.

[@maxryder9321]

3:19 bongziani

[@aidenhastings6341]

I discovered this line as black early on in my chess journey.. needless to say, I was not ready

[@ianmoore5502]

I fear I may not be ready

[@ahmedhassan3434]

This video has under 100k views…. Hope this line is underrated a

[@thetransferaccount4586]

nice one there

[@drunkmarshmelo]

What is a lurk

[@Bagual133]

Eric _'Cold Blood'_ Rosen, nice to meet you.

[@ArcG3]

The Vukovic Gambit!

[@billjordanchess1908]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 Nf6 4.d4 Nxe4 5.d5 Bc5 6.dxc6 Bxf2+ 7. Ke2 bxc6 Halpin-Rogers 1980

[@mastrake]

"Beth Harmon" 😊

[@johanp4061]

Merry early Christmas Eric🎄

[@prutakable]

Why didn't black play Nxf2? 0:39

[@WalrusInspector]

because I think white can respond with queen d5, you lose a rook, take the bishop, then the knight is stuck in that corner for basically the rest of the game

[@WalrusInspector]

oh and then fianchetto the bishop and the knight is completely trapped

[@edm_ortiz]

why doesn't black play Nxf2 on move 6 instead of Bxf2? Take the rook

[@nephandi2316]

This line looks very Traxlish to me

[@michaelangelo2192]

Except its theoretically sound

[@jasonmillis8954]

Beth Harmon to keep it safe

[@godslonelyman2596]

Just got hit with this and handled it badly

[@michaelangelo2192]

LOVE this line for black. The reason I would never play the ponziani as white

[@choco_addictee]

So many videos woah, thanks (again) Eric!

[@AdamBittner]

Hello Eric Rosen -KZbin

[@wazaki99]

sis eric rosen plays chess with my country Indonesia...I'm sure in the future sis eric rosen subscribes a lot..

[@carsonchild]

Merry Christmas Eric!

[@ariobarzan2831]

Perfect

[@overlayklips3382]

I like that Eric answered my question at the beginning of the video 😁

[@ellissantibanez3618]

Good question!

[@ejjunnni]

At 9:17 taking the pawn instead of knight might be better line for black

[@salvador0893]

What a Christmas surprise :)

[@jtcaruanafan4617]

Hello to you.

[@ariobarzan2831]

👌

[@Nisarga___Shorts]

❤️

[@toruwalt]

Hello from Nigeria...

[@catcat4697]

Hi from the Netherlands

[@paulspl2581]

Hello from France

[@dashkim8492]

Daddy Rosen

[@keonwoopark2604]

You know you’re early when KZbin says 1 view 2 comments

[@felismargarita9135]

christmas............

[@Proud_Troll]

Beautiful game.

[@arno_grnfld455]

Vukovic gambit: Bongziani line

[@konekyz5605]

Beth Harmon isn't a GM

[@masteragency5239]

Your voice is boiling water (the microphone is cutting some noise and makes your voice electronic)