Chess developers in 1700: let's add castling as a quick way to put the king in a safer spot. Eric, an intellectual: So I should castle to deliver mate, got it.
“I’m guessing 1300. Probably 1300. Or it could be a GM secretly… Yeah, 1300. Oh, 960-“ Sun Tzu, the art of plot twists Also Eric, I wanted to comment with my main account Gifted Guppy (im your twitch sub by the way) and I think im restricted from making comments… this is my favourite channel… can you please let me post? ;-;
I can't for the life of me remember where I saw it but I remember a checkmate that marched the opponents king out of his castled corner of the board (forced) down to whites side of the board and could (sadly wasn't in the actual game) have ended it with castle mate.
At 4:10, what would Eric have done after d3? d3 pawn push allows king to hide behind the pawn after castle. If they take the pawn with one of their rooks, white loses a queen, but black loses both rooks. With the remaining pieces on the board (queen vs 2 rooks and a bishop), white should just be winning, or have I missed something? If c3, Kc3, b4, Kd2, black has lost all initiative. With proper play (I assume my moves are proper), I don't see how black isn't just losing.
The back rank castle mates fulfill this criteria, they wouldn't be possible without the king relocating. I suppose there could be some scenario where opposing king is on d3/f3 and castling to prevent kc2/kg2 allowing mate along the file is plausible. So I had some time to waste and played around with an empty board to better envision it, came up with a scenario where it would apply (not taking into any account where any of Black's pieces would be besides King): Black king on f3. White pieces - Pawn on h2, Ke1, Rh1, Qd4, Bc4(or anywhere on a6-d3 diagonal cutting off Ke2 escape square, bishop could also be a knight on c1/c3/g3). This setup makes it so 0-0 is mate with the rook whilst king denies the last escape square they had available, Rf1+ would enable Kg2. For queenside castling same setup : b2, Kc1+Rd1 after castle, Qf4, Bf3-h5 or Nf1/f3/c3, black Kd3. Boom 0-0-0#! Yes I spent more time doing this pointless thing than was necessary, no I don't regret it. :D
@@mmmmmmmmmmmmm Ah for 1:58 he could've played Ke2# and similarly for 3:18 (I should've worded it as, castling works but moving the rook or the king alone doesn't)
@@johnchessant3012 thanks, I was rather proud when I came up with it I can't deny it, I'm not even a high rated player :D (at about 1200 but I don't actually play many games mainly puzzles so maybe a bit underated) Would probably be exceptionally hard to pull this off in a game(I wouldn't have the first idea of how to go about forcing a king to f3/d3 without mating them in the process or blundering), but if anybody COULD do it I have faith in our boy Eric Tricky Rosen!
@@RahulSingh-zo7sm A ROTH IRA is a tax advantaged retirement account. Eric said he couldn't retire yet because he hadn't put enough in it. If you don't have one, consider opening one and contributing as much as you can (up to $6k) per year! Fidelity offers accounts like this for free. I would recommend going with them if you haven't set up a brokerage account before.
"The bad thing about castling early is that you can't perform epic checkmates"
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Vcl
Reminds me of Vcl's video on that meme.
"I'm kind of playing with my food, but it's so delicious"
-Eric Rosen, The art of quoting in chess
I love how that actually makes no sense if you think about it.
230 comments on this channel, damn!
@@necaton he comments every video
En passant castle mate? that is the pinnacle of chess
You can just play one move per turn
Castle with check, forcing a move that allows en passant mate
Opponent plays en passant
Then he plays castle with mate
@@akeplaybg8159 Watch the last clip
Don't forget it's also "oh no my queen"
Chess developers in 1700: let's add castling as a quick way to put the king in a safer spot.
Eric, an intellectual: So I should castle to deliver mate, got it.
Only Eric can have a whole castle mate compilation
The last clip has an en passant, a “oh no my queen”, and a castle mate. It’s just perfect
“I can retire now but I didn’t invest enough in my Roth IRA.” Eric has the driest humor
Even as a dark humor man his jokes can make me giggle like a child
@@haydenanderson3476 wtf is
Dark humor man
f5 exf6
O-O-O#
Is the most beautiful thing in chess
This is the chess equivalent of a trick shot montage
I feel uncomfortable with the frequency of Eric's suggestions that he may retire.
“I’m guessing 1300.
Probably 1300.
Or it could be a GM secretly…
Yeah, 1300.
Oh, 960-“
Sun Tzu, the art of plot twists
Also Eric, I wanted to comment with my main account Gifted Guppy (im your twitch sub by the way) and I think im restricted from making comments… this is my favourite channel… can you please let me post? ;-;
Contact the channel mods bro
Racism is not tolerated on this channel. Please stop using racial slurs and stop making racist comments.
@@bugboydaniel2504 lmao
he said 1200 befor the reveal after his opponent blundered again
When Eric uploads twice in 15 minutes on both channels
0:32 I thought he just gave the King his queen for a second lol
next is an en passant compilation. wonder which has more clips because i cant remember many en passant mates from him.
He only has 2 I think
I can't for the life of me remember where I saw it but I remember a checkmate that marched the opponents king out of his castled corner of the board (forced) down to whites side of the board and could (sadly wasn't in the actual game) have ended it with castle mate.
Some game by Edward Lasker (not the world champion Lasker)
Wait a minute, the kingside castle mate from chess vibes latest video was a rosen game? Small world lol!
I'm curious what Eric was doing in the first clip. There's a version of guess the ELO where you play the opponent? How do you do that?
zen mode in lichess settings, hides all info except time
@@xirenzhang9126 How was he matching up with opponents of random elo?
@@AFastidiousCuber viewers challenge him often, I guess he picked somone random
@@AFastidiousCuber probably a sub challenge
@@AFastidiousCuber looked like he was in a tournament
2:55 "Opponent's king's so slippery"
Imagine trying to hide ur king in a castle and accidentally trap the enemy king
By watching the last game I just realized that castling with check is a way to escape queen and king pin
Opponent: He’s really thinking! I’ve got him!
Eric: CaStLe mAtE…
At 4:10, what would Eric have done after d3? d3 pawn push allows king to hide behind the pawn after castle. If they take the pawn with one of their rooks, white loses a queen, but black loses both rooks. With the remaining pieces on the board (queen vs 2 rooks and a bishop), white should just be winning, or have I missed something?
If c3, Kc3, b4, Kd2, black has lost all initiative. With proper play (I assume my moves are proper), I don't see how black isn't just losing.
(Proper play, starting after black playing f5).
en passant is a forced move tho
If d3 Qb4+?
d3 Qb4+ c4 O-O-O#
This could be also satisfying to Bongcloud Mate as well
53. Ka8 O-O# is such a cursed chess annotation
Doing what Lasker could not. A true hero.
The next challenge is to castle-checkmate in a situation where moving the rook alone doesn't work (e.g., O-O is mate but Rf1 isn't)
He does that in this video
The back rank castle mates fulfill this criteria, they wouldn't be possible without the king relocating. I suppose there could be some scenario where opposing king is on d3/f3 and castling to prevent kc2/kg2 allowing mate along the file is plausible.
So I had some time to waste and played around with an empty board to better envision it, came up with a scenario where it would apply (not taking into any account where any of Black's pieces would be besides King):
Black king on f3.
White pieces - Pawn on h2, Ke1, Rh1, Qd4, Bc4(or anywhere on a6-d3 diagonal cutting off Ke2 escape square, bishop could also be a knight on c1/c3/g3). This setup makes it so 0-0 is mate with the rook whilst king denies the last escape square they had available, Rf1+ would enable Kg2.
For queenside castling same setup : b2, Kc1+Rd1 after castle, Qf4, Bf3-h5 or Nf1/f3/c3, black Kd3. Boom 0-0-0#!
Yes I spent more time doing this pointless thing than was necessary, no I don't regret it. :D
@@mmmmmmmmmmmmm Ah for 1:58 he could've played Ke2# and similarly for 3:18 (I should've worded it as, castling works but moving the rook or the king alone doesn't)
@@sgtnubbings6501 That's awesome!
@@johnchessant3012 thanks, I was rather proud when I came up with it I can't deny it, I'm not even a high rated player :D (at about 1200 but I don't actually play many games mainly puzzles so maybe a bit underated)
Would probably be exceptionally hard to pull this off in a game(I wouldn't have the first idea of how to go about forcing a king to f3/d3 without mating them in the process or blundering), but if anybody COULD do it I have faith in our boy Eric Tricky Rosen!
I miss your hours-long arena videos
En passant castle with mate. That is the pinnacle of chess mates whether you like it or not
Eric after every game:
I can retire now right?
Beautiful
4:00 - Can't white stop the mate with Re3?
What a dickish way to play that would be from White. It still leads to mate in 4 but doesn't allow an epic castle-mate.
Legendary
"I have mate in 1, but it is not as fun."
What was that rating-blind thing that he was playing in the first game?
Zen mode hides ratings in game then play random viewer challenge
3:20 dAAAh
1:25 couldn’t Eric move the Queen to f7 for checkmate?
Yes but he wanted to mate with a castle. That’s why it’s a castle mate compilation not a mate compilation
@@frostyfrog3018 perhaps
yeah, that's why he said "I have mate in one, but that's not as fun"
@@lukecastellan721 oh haha I guess I’m just a bad listener
4:00 En passant is forced though?
4:16 ok but white got to en passant so who's the *real* winner here
So sad promoting your pawn to rook and then castling vertically is not possible anymore.
4:00-4:02
Can't white play Re3 and just block the third rank from the eyes of the black rook on h3?
Or d3 or e6? I think those all solve the O-O-O mate threat, but are still mate in 2 with Qb4+.
@@nasanerdv Ya correctly said.
You have to watch the Video „My Most Beatiful Stafford Gambit“ The king mive was forced look at the yt video of him
*move
i would like to see en passant mate
This chess trickshots are getting out of hand
Somehow I love it
I did thar on real life
How on the earth a 2297 player has a king in the mid and queen bishop and a rook not developed? Staged af.
does eric ever get excited? he's so monotone all the time
Weird to feel this dirty in front of those beauty
Let’s go!
g5!!
How many times can one man retire?
ALWAYS INVEST IN YOUR ROTH IRA !!!
What's that?
@@RahulSingh-zo7sm A ROTH IRA is a tax advantaged retirement account. Eric said he couldn't retire yet because he hadn't put enough in it. If you don't have one, consider opening one and contributing as much as you can (up to $6k) per year!
Fidelity offers accounts like this for free. I would recommend going with them if you haven't set up a brokerage account before.
O-O#