Hello this is Harshal from Pune, India. Thank you so much for sharing these secrets and novelties with us.I know it takes a lot of hard work for IMs and GMs to prepare these lines and you are sharing this for free to public is really appreciable. Also I am big fan of your style of teaching. Hopeful to see more of it.
Not only is your presentation excellently crystal clear.. but there's a certain budhist calm in your voice that makes better people of us all. Cheers :-)
I spend a lot of time watching chess videos and this is the first time I am making a positive comment. Highly instructive, clearly explained and completely interesting. 5 stars all day long, I look forward to more!!!!
Eric, you’re my favorite IM! Your videos are very practical, easy to understand, good pace and a great mix of theory but being unorthodoxed as well. Thank you so much!
After watching this video, I forgot everything about chess and started to think about this person. His smily face, his interpretation, his awesome teaching style and his humbleness. At 17:55 when one of the student suggest a good move. He appreciated it with open heart. That's rear. Big respect for you, Eric. Stay blessed and thanks a ton for the superb content.
Eric. You have a very nice way of teaching. Keep it up. Thanks for the videos. I'm following your videos for the past few weeks and they are really good. 👍☺️
Great content, but Rosen said in the video he would include a link to the lichess study in the description, and frankly that's a great idea. If he put up a study on lichess relating to this lecture it would be cool to link to it here!
@@alexg111 oh yeah I didn't consider the whole variation, I just noticed the kid interposed before Rosen suggested king h1, but you're right. Something's not right there.
Loving this series so far. The other day you also mentioned a project on openings you had been working on, and though I’m sure I will enjoy that, I’d be especially interested in a graphically intense book on tactics that I can keep on display to pique the interest of friends and family when they visit. Even if there are some already available, I’m certain you could do it better. Just a thought. Keep up the good work, Sir. Also, my wife, Nicole, is now hooked on chess. So, thank you for that. Our nightly games are a refreshing alternative to stale video games and thinly plotted television series.
Excellent presentation. The line against the Danish Gambit is also the line recommended by Bologan; it is a transposition to the "Capablanca defense of the Göring Gambit" - for more details, see chapters 3 and 22 of his book "Black weapons in the open game".
"And we'll leave a link in the video description". I've heard this said in several other lectures held by the St Louis Chess Club but there's never any link available, at least not here on UA-cam.
Good news for everyone commenting about Eric missing the mate-in-1 at 18:32 . He's streaming right now (as of the time I'm making this comment), and earlier in the stream he mentioned that he missed it when referencing this video while playing a Milner-Barry Gambit. -Semi-related, he just mentioned he's playing a combination of the London and Bongcloud in the game currently on stream (again, as of the time I'm making this comment).-
Well, it's white move after that so probably tried to support the rook. The point is the student wants to play bishop c6 pinning the pawn (after probably bishop d4 protecting while attacking the black queen)
@@WARUEL No. The Qd2 is a total blunder because the queen moved away from the rook, giving way for the mate in one. The student's variation probably didn't include the Kh1 so when he studied the variation, there wasn't a big threat.
22:20 in Hammer's repertoire he recommends Nf3. It follows with a rather simple set up to avoid very concrete lines. Bb5 is the most ambitious but you will have to invest plenty of study not to get tricked in this line which really isn't that popular at all.
@@yanair2091...And apparently a couple understood you as well, despite your grammatic error and misspelling. Be careful where you're pointing that finger...
The Icelandic occurs after C4. This line does not hold onto the pawn that way, the check means you have to respond immediately. The only similar line would be to block the check with C6, then dxc bxc... but it isn't a good gambit as black does not get to recapture.
Actually this is really good chess class, unlike most of chess class that taught openings like 10-15 steps only and leave you hangs, this ones involves variations, no wonder he is good at blitz, fundamental chess is important, i know wits are also important, but memorizing this will help a lot in saving times, and its very usefull for blitz
At the 6:00 mark, I realise it’s whites move, but why isn’t it better to try fir the queen side castling (for black) before the heavy trade? If the rook can be brought to the E-file, with the queen and B Bishop, isn’t that a better position to go for?
At 18:30 the kid says “they play Qb2 or something, then I play D4” both the kid and Eric missed Qxf1# instead of D4. It’s literally just checkmate, they BOTH missed it
On the french opening: Black's Queen C4; White's Queen D2; Black's Queen take F1 checkmate. So there is some thing wrong with the kid's line... Thank you for the course.
@@modeal317 Then if that's the case, which I think you're wrong on that, but if it is the case then that line probably doesn't include the king moving to h
@@keggerous are those eyes on your head only for display? If the pawn wasn't moved, the queen can't mate at f1? The king was literally in the same position for 4 turns. Does it matter what the line included?
6:28: Why would you castle queenside instead of developing your other knight and then castling kingside with the better pawn structure? Is the desire to take that d pawn as soon as possible?
Brandon Willis for immediate castle with a threat on d4 giving more time to develop? If he is to castle short he'll need to move the rook again from f8 to e8 for the open file which means to develop both rooks he needs three moves (0-0, Rf-e8, Ra-d8) However casting immediately to queenside only takes two moves to develop rooks (0-0-0, Rh-e8) also giving that it 0-0-0 has a tempo on d4 it's like a move a way. note: I diregarded the Knight in the counting of moves. And being lazy as I am I'll not gonna edit it out. The Knight gives time for white to support the d4 pawn so it looses the tempo if 0-0-0. Sorry for the long reply I hope this helps!
Hi I just started playing chess and learning a lot from you! I have a question? Why does, on 5:45, black stop white from castling when he takes the rook on f1 with his queen? Black is just gonna lose his queen after right?
Very sympathic man, remembers me "Mr. Bean". ;-) Very good he shown all the ideas to play. But after taken with the rook, i would also done, but i am worry: Is it enough ?
Well, it's white move after that so probably tried to support the rook. The point is the student wants to play bishop c6 pinning the pawn (after probably bishop d4 protecting while attacking the black queen)
I'm a new player and i find i'll develop all my pieces and connect my rooks but my opponent will attack with their pawns and i get jammed up in the middle and end up behind after the opening phase. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I kind of disagree with his analysis of black's and white's position at around the 6:30 minute mark. It seems like he's stating that white is going to be tied down passively to the defense of the d4 pawn??? Yes of course, but that is if white choose not to counter attack black's 3 pawn islands and even if that pawn drops black's pawn structure is horrendous. I think it is equal and black is ahead in development. Still, I prefer white. Just a case of consolidating the position and pressuring black's c pawns.
I do not play anymore this french variation with white (e5), because i allways feared my pawn-structure and the loss of a pawn. Anyway, with black i feared something other in this situation. Maybe there are to much ghost in my mind. But i like it much better with black, most i have a nice dead while growing old, while with white...also blundering, but earlier. It is nice to see, how sharp the french can be. Never thought about that wild things, just worry about my pawn or king. That is the trouble in my head.
the iline eric shows here is common to mei i have sen that before the move bb5 is comoon to fight for an advantage in scanadavian and bc4 also but ra4 is brilliant move
This shows how much confidence and psychology affects play hahha the kid was confident and said he prepared so Eric looks to find the possible strengths of the position
23:05 i have had this position and black played c6, now if I bring the bishop to c4 he has 3 attackers on my pawn defended once. If i play ba4 then why wont black just play b5 forcing my bishop back with tempo and gaining space on the queen side
12:05: "If you say takes, takes, takes, takes several times in a row, it sounds like steak steak steak steak." The commentary we're all here for.
the cringe jokes by eric. lame lol.
lol
It is actually a brilliant memory aid that seems more modest.
It doesn't make me laugh, but my stress is reduced somehow
yeah,dont be have high expect that ches player jokes
Eric is a very good communicator. I learn a lot listening to him.
You should check out John Bartholomew
1:35 C21 Danish gambit, Soerensen defence
1:55 C44 Scotch, Goering gambit
10:14 C02 French, advance, Milner-Barry gambit
21:02 B01 Scandinavian, Mieses-Kotrvc gambit
29:09 B01 Scandinavian defence
36:20 C47 Four knights, Belgrade gambit
41:30 C29 Vienna gambit, Paulsen attack
kahwigulum Thanks!
What a guy
To the top comment with you!
Thanks peterson
What's c B stand for
Hello this is Harshal from Pune, India. Thank you so much for sharing these secrets and novelties with us.I know it takes a lot of hard work for IMs and GMs to prepare these lines and you are sharing this for free to public is really appreciable. Also I am big fan of your style of teaching. Hopeful to see more of it.
Hi Harshal
Hey dude really nice comment, you seem like a great guy. Take care
Harshal I agree with you and you really worded this well. It’s been a year since you have posted this but I hope you are well.
so wholesome.
Really liked the discussion here with the lines in the French.
Not only is your presentation excellently crystal clear.. but there's a certain budhist calm in your voice that makes better people of us all. Cheers :-)
I spend a lot of time watching chess videos and this is the first time I am making a positive comment. Highly instructive, clearly explained and completely interesting. 5 stars all day long, I look forward to more!!!!
Eric, you’re my favorite IM! Your videos are very practical, easy to understand, good pace and a great mix of theory but being unorthodoxed as well. Thank you so much!
18:31 QF1 checkmate. Rosen: "I don't see anything immediately wrong with this."
lol, yeah, looks winning
I‘m guessing the original, prepared line might have still been with the king on g1.
@@sanchobanana3507 that is true, he did make 2 moves for black in that variation (Kh1 and Nc6)
Came down to comment this 😂
@@saadrizwan1501 I was sure I missed a sneaky defense. 🤣
One of the best teachers. Very organized and direct. Easy to follow explanations even for a beginner
After watching this video, I forgot everything about chess and started to think about this person. His smily face, his interpretation, his awesome teaching style and his humbleness. At 17:55 when one of the student suggest a good move. He appreciated it with open heart. That's rear. Big respect for you, Eric. Stay blessed and thanks a ton for the superb content.
Yes that is "rear" 👀
Eric. You have a very nice way of teaching. Keep it up. Thanks for the videos. I'm following your videos for the past few weeks and they are really good. 👍☺️
Great content, but Rosen said in the video he would include a link to the lichess study in the description, and frankly that's a great idea. If he put up a study on lichess relating to this lecture it would be cool to link to it here!
18:32 if Qd2 it's mate in one... The kid's variation probably doesn't include king h1
Can’t imagine it doesn’t include Kh1 as f4 would be illegal otherwise... either that or the queen is not on the a7-g1 diagonal
@@alexg111 oh yeah I didn't consider the whole variation, I just noticed the kid interposed before Rosen suggested king h1, but you're right. Something's not right there.
Loved this.
> Leaves rook hanging
“I don’t see anything immediately wrong with this.”
I also saw this haha
@@refrka7550 I just paused the video to say this, but I guess I'm not the only one who thought about that XD
Loving this series so far. The other day you also mentioned a project on openings you had been working on, and though I’m sure I will enjoy that, I’d be especially interested in a graphically intense book on tactics that I can keep on display to pique the interest of friends and family when they visit. Even if there are some already available, I’m certain you could do it better. Just a thought. Keep up the good work, Sir. Also, my wife, Nicole, is now hooked on chess. So, thank you for that. Our nightly games are a refreshing alternative to stale video games and thinly plotted television series.
If I'm being honest, the Idiot's Guide to Chess Openings is pretty great. It's how I upped my game.
Really enjoy your (Eric) video presentations. Clear concise and on-point. Thank you for your time and efforts. It is appreciated.
Eric you are so humble, kind, and talented. I love your videos, and admire your successful pursuit of passion !
Excellent presentation. The line against the Danish Gambit is also the line recommended by Bologan; it is a transposition to the "Capablanca defense of the Göring Gambit" - for more details, see chapters 3 and 22 of his book "Black weapons in the open game".
Eric Rosen is a great teacher! Thanks from São Paulo in Brazil! He is currently the player that influences me in choosing my repertoire of openings!
"And we'll leave a link in the video description". I've heard this said in several other lectures held by the St Louis Chess Club but there's never any link available, at least not here on UA-cam.
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@gtrmusic69 Maybe it's a private video
You dont know this but your little brother does
5 minutes later: you may know the french better than me
Lets goooo lil dude
Good news for everyone commenting about Eric missing the mate-in-1 at 18:32 . He's streaming right now (as of the time I'm making this comment), and earlier in the stream he mentioned that he missed it when referencing this video while playing a Milner-Barry Gambit.
-Semi-related, he just mentioned he's playing a combination of the London and Bongcloud in the game currently on stream (again, as of the time I'm making this comment).-
Thanks a lot for your videos because these videos are the most useful things to share and talk about
Nice. Watched 10 minutes and it was useful! Hurrah to Eric!
18:33 i think instead of d4 the best move is mate in 1 but the kid knows it better
"If you say takes, takes, takes, takes several times in a row, it sounds like steak steak steak steak." - Albert Einstein
18:42 mate in 1 lol
Well, it's white move after that so probably tried to support the rook. The point is the student wants to play bishop c6 pinning the pawn (after probably bishop d4 protecting while attacking the black queen)
@@WARUEL No. The Qd2 is a total blunder because the queen moved away from the rook, giving way for the mate in one. The student's variation probably didn't include the Kh1 so when he studied the variation, there wasn't a big threat.
@@9308323 thanks for the explanation I was thinking wtf is this lol
18:30 if Queen D2 is played black has checkmate in 1, so white has to play QF2 to protect the rook and then bishop B5 is great
i laugh so hard when he says "alright all e4 player"
❤ Eric Your explanation no one can,. Excellent superb Fabulous
Eric you are a fantastic teacher!
ive been getting to the vienna gambit, paulsen attack from alekhine defense a lot
Luring pieces to squares the knight can fork is a cool tactical idea!
At the 18:33 mark. . . . Why push the D-Pawn ? Queen takes Rook, Checkmate ?
I saw that too
Yes good point
22:20 in Hammer's repertoire he recommends Nf3. It follows with a rather simple set up to avoid very concrete lines. Bb5 is the most ambitious but you will have to invest plenty of study not to get tricked in this line which really isn't that popular at all.
Thanks Eric for the great stuff as usual.
My country's board one played this milnerbarry gambit against out of all people anish giri lol,he got crushed pretty quickly
Four people understood what you've sad?
@@yanair2091...And apparently a couple understood you as well, despite your grammatic error and misspelling. Be careful where you're pointing that finger...
@ Mrwutevah Please tell, what error? There are no red underscores in my post. I guess I misused present perfect tense?
@@yanair2091 Correct! Also, you wrote "sad" when it should've been "said".
Which country?
Thank you very much Mr. Eric
Rosen you are amazing
Eric.
What about Icelandic Gambit on Scandinavian Defence?.
will we have more lessons how to fight against it and how to play with it...
The Icelandic occurs after C4. This line does not hold onto the pawn that way, the check means you have to respond immediately. The only similar line would be to block the check with C6, then dxc bxc... but it isn't a good gambit as black does not get to recapture.
My favourate Eric Rosen.
Awesome lecture! Thank you for sharing this! 👍🏼
18:32 queen takes rook mate in 1?
Thank you for these great videos!
More of this please!
18:50 BRUH awesome prep for going home early in a tournament
Actually this is really good chess class, unlike most of chess class that taught openings like 10-15 steps only and leave you hangs, this ones involves variations, no wonder he is good at blitz, fundamental chess is important, i know wits are also important, but memorizing this will help a lot in saving times, and its very usefull for blitz
12:24 "the pawn is defended by tactics, essentially"
i lold
At the 6:00 mark, I realise it’s whites move, but why isn’t it better to try fir the queen side castling (for black) before the heavy trade? If the rook can be brought to the E-file, with the queen and B Bishop, isn’t that a better position to go for?
Finally an amazing video!
6:20 why not Bxc3 with check, if bxc3 Q takes c3 winning the rook or if K moves you take the queen and get you B out of the way?
At 18:30 the kid says “they play Qb2 or something, then I play D4” both the kid and Eric missed Qxf1# instead of D4. It’s literally just checkmate, they BOTH missed it
i would LOVE to see your recommendation against the albin counter gambit. d4 d5 2.c4 e5 3dxe5 d4
18:35 Queen to F1; Checkmate?
Awesome content as always, thank you Eric🙏🏼
33:53 Be4 maybe
18:32 why you played d4?? and not Qxf1 mate?
Thanks Eric for sharing such valuable information.
I looked at the Scandinavian line with the engine. It actually seems that black should play Nd7 rather than Bd7. Then if C4 A6 followed by B5.
On the french opening: Black's Queen C4; White's Queen D2; Black's Queen take F1 checkmate. So there is some thing wrong with the kid's line... Thank you for the course.
18:32 did literally no one see the obvious mate in 1? Not even the IM?
It's white's move
@@keggerous no it isn't..
@@modeal317 Then if that's the case, which I think you're wrong on that, but if it is the case then that line probably doesn't include the king moving to h
@@keggerous are those eyes on your head only for display? If the pawn wasn't moved, the queen can't mate at f1? The king was literally in the same position for 4 turns. Does it matter what the line included?
isn't it mate in one at 18:32 when the queen takes the rook ?
why si erics voice so soothing
At 18:30 after white moves qd2 I don't understand why queen doesn't take rook. I'm confused. What am I missing?
Aye 10/4 is my birthday
Love your content
A little bit late but happy birthday
18:33 that’s mate in one, variation probably didn’t move king to h1
Then pawn f4 is illegal!! There was something wrong with the kids variation!
Very practical and entertaining.
6:28: Why would you castle queenside instead of developing your other knight and then castling kingside with the better pawn structure? Is the desire to take that d pawn as soon as possible?
Brandon Willis for immediate castle with a threat on d4 giving more time to develop? If he is to castle short he'll need to move the rook again from f8 to e8 for the open file which means to develop both rooks he needs three moves (0-0, Rf-e8, Ra-d8) However casting immediately to queenside only takes two moves to develop rooks (0-0-0, Rh-e8) also giving that it 0-0-0 has a tempo on d4 it's like a move a way.
note: I diregarded the Knight in the counting of moves. And being lazy as I am I'll not gonna edit it out. The Knight gives time for white to support the d4 pawn so it looses the tempo if 0-0-0. Sorry for the long reply I hope this helps!
Vienna gambit is amazing
Another great tutorial..respect 👍
My dear honourable IM.Eric Thomson sir please my Namasker. Which is the most important please reply me
Eric Thomson? His name is Eric Rosen.
Nxe4 is the main line in belgrade, giving black advantage, though you need to know it precisely
Hi I just started playing chess and learning a lot from you! I have a question? Why does, on 5:45, black stop white from castling when he takes the rook on f1 with his queen? Black is just gonna lose his queen after right?
eelooc its an illegal move to castle when theres an attack along the castle line
Can't castle when king is in check
At the first gambit for black ... why white didn't play something like A3 to make the bishop get back?
Very sympathic man, remembers me "Mr. Bean". ;-) Very good he shown all the ideas to play. But after taken with the rook, i would also done, but i am worry: Is it enough ?
18:30 isnt QF1 mate?
TheModPros Bros yes, yes it is lol
Well, it's white move after that so probably tried to support the rook. The point is the student wants to play bishop c6 pinning the pawn (after probably bishop d4 protecting while attacking the black queen)
At 18:46, if the white queen moves, then Qxf1#.
You forgot to share the link to the lichess studies :)
Keep up this good content
I'm a new player and i find i'll develop all my pieces and connect my rooks but my opponent will attack with their pawns and i get jammed up in the middle and end up behind after the opening phase. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Resign.
year late, but also try and look at what your opponent is doing after he moves, rather than focus solely on your end of the board.
Great lecture :)
at 18:30 isn't qxrF1#? I don't see a way to defend and king cant move
Excellent explained.
I kind of disagree with his analysis of black's and white's position at around the 6:30 minute mark. It seems like he's stating that white is going to be tied down passively to the defense of the d4 pawn??? Yes of course, but that is if white choose not to counter attack black's 3 pawn islands and even if that pawn drops black's pawn structure is horrendous. I think it is equal and black is ahead in development. Still, I prefer white. Just a case of consolidating the position and pressuring black's c pawns.
I do not play anymore this french variation with white (e5), because i allways feared my pawn-structure and the loss of a pawn. Anyway, with black i feared something other in this situation. Maybe there are to much ghost in my mind. But i like it much better with black, most i have a nice dead while growing old, while with white...also blundering, but earlier.
It is nice to see, how sharp the french can be. Never thought about that wild things, just worry about my pawn or king. That is the trouble in my head.
Around 18:28 if he moves his queen to d2 queen f1# checkmate right??
the iline eric shows here is common to mei i have sen that before the move bb5 is comoon to fight for an advantage in scanadavian and bc4 also but ra4 is brilliant move
I like 18:30. Erich moves 1. .... d4 instead of Qxf1#. It just looks funny to hear them talking about prep and ignore the mate on the board.
This shows how much confidence and psychology affects play hahha the kid was confident and said he prepared so Eric looks to find the possible strengths of the position
All of you at St louis chessclub is great teachers. ❤💪👏👍
Excellent!!!
What happens at 18:32 😂 Never "Queen to d2 or something" always play Queen d1
18:31 Queen E2 by white is actually mate in one for black (queen takes Rook C1 with checkmate)
Very useful great stuff
Hi, on minute 5:00, when queen goes C4, most natural move for white seems pawn B3, is it not?
Tales the knight c3 and check with threatening the rook on a1
23:05 i have had this position and black played c6, now if I bring the bishop to c4 he has 3 attackers on my pawn defended once. If i play ba4 then why wont black just play b5 forcing my bishop back with tempo and gaining space on the queen side
Eric is the best
at 18:37 isn't white getting checkmated with queen takes rook on f1 ?
@18:33 don't believe everything you hear pushing the pawn seems dubious to me when taking the rook that is hanging is checkmate...
He just missed it
I have run into the following effort to transpose to the Blackmar-Diemer by way of the French: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. f3!?
This is the beauty of chess.
Someone explain, at 18:31 , QxF1 is mate right?
I'm lost, why not use the Queen not the pawn to capture the G pawn and King's rook?