I am KILLING 1200s with the hippo now. Not because I'm good at chess or that I even know the opening that well. It's mainly because the opening takes quite a while to set up so they get impatient and do something dumb before I even get castled 😂
It happens at 1700 too🤣🤣 I was stuck on 1600 for ages(8 months) Nothing worked Now i am cruising Aman helped me massively with kings indian and erik with hippo Need more opening speedruns
One of my favorite positions of the hippo is when you get to bust out that knight to G3 for white or B6 for black and start attacking after your opponent castles. That resignation with the quasi- queen fork, tho 😂
Me and my grandma often watch chess videos together, she said "it's a shame that the handsome and charismatic one doesn't have the work ethic the blonde one has so that more of the videos could be his"
Finally I can feed my hippo addiction again. I've been playing nothing but this hippo and I still can't get past 700 lol Thanks Eric, you're an inspiration to noobs everywhere. I'm heading to Edmonton from Wpg for the next week, can I buy you a beer?
Lux1200 (game at 21:00), from move 16 and on, all of his moves were top stockfish moves till the end. Just saying...Ok a blunder is a blunder, but a 2900 GM can easily recover from that when playing a 1900 player...Also 90% accuracy against Eric... Meaning he played the opening by himself and then turned on the autopilot...
This is the definition of making it look easy. I know I would struggle to get a draw against these 1800s and I'm still watching it thinking yeah these are trash.
Eric! Great stuff. Also, I think I may have spotted a slight flaw in your hippo opening as black. Sometimes, when playing black and the opponent starts with e4 or d4, you do the fianchetto the wrong bishop. The hippo opening wants to double fianchetto, but that can't be done if you start with the wrong side and if white does a fianchetto. For example, if white starts with e4, you should should fianchetto the king side bishop first. This would gain one tempo in the "fianchetto race" as black, which would guarantee the double fianchetto. Of course, this does not work if white starts with g3 or b3.
We all love the hippo, and obviously new magnus content is so exciting. But I haven’t been able to sleep in months! If only something new and relaxing was out there
check the ELO difference. this is going up against goliath. thanks to mr. hansen nowadays even over 2000 i dont panic, I stopped panicking. hit them with 10 solid moves from the word go then after that ... as we say in Africa ... its delicious bananas and mangoes :D
Easy to look at a GM playing.....but when we try it (me spclly)....i feel as if i am playing on the losing side of the board. So many lines to know....which ones to open.....attack....jeez
its honestly ANNOYING how much better you are, than I am , at this opening. its all I play and im still stuck at 800. I hate my life. and this game. and youre starting to get on my nerves too Erik. jk.
That game when Eric full on blundered the queen and his opponent resigned was so funny
blundered the queen and the rook with tempo on the knight
@@MarshyDitch thats proper"feels bad man" moment🤣🤣
20:22 Eric is so high that even his opponents are hallucinating
I am KILLING 1200s with the hippo now. Not because I'm good at chess or that I even know the opening that well. It's mainly because the opening takes quite a while to set up so they get impatient and do something dumb before I even get castled 😂
It happens at 1700 too🤣🤣
I was stuck on 1600 for ages(8 months)
Nothing worked
Now i am cruising
Aman helped me massively with kings indian and erik with hippo
Need more opening speedruns
I've been watching the whole series and this is by far straight savage.
🖤
When Eric says "check" or "push", you know it's over for the opponent
9:15 Eric's delayed giggle there after his opponent blundered was hilarious
Eric looking blazed af off gummies
It feels like at this level the opening isn't contributing to the wins much anymore. No more easy bishop snipes. It's all big chief dominating now!
No it helps
Players get so impatient its amazing
Either they over commit with pawns or sack unnecessarily
20:19 this is the most painful win I have ever seen on this channel, and that's saying something
Eric Hansen has been resupplying my music playlist dopamine for roughly a decade
20:50 resignation gambit
One of my favorite positions of the hippo is when you get to bust out that knight to G3 for white or B6 for black and start attacking after your opponent castles.
That resignation with the quasi- queen fork, tho 😂
Me and my grandma often watch chess videos together, she said "it's a shame that the handsome and charismatic one doesn't have the work ethic the blonde one has so that more of the videos could be his"
That first player was tilted off the face of the planet.
Not only is this a killer opening, but did you know hippos claim the lives of over 500 africans per year?
Cause they rayciss
Thanks for sharing, I had no clue Hippos are literally the deadliest land mammal to humans
Kudos to Hippos for reducing world hunger!🙌
@@sunondo8671 that's an ignorant comment
@@davidmuhiah477 it's a funny comment
I absolutely love these series! Great techno, great commentary, great chess, great vibes! Cheers 🍻
Bro Eric blasted af
Finally I can feed my hippo addiction again. I've been playing nothing but this hippo and I still can't get past 700 lol Thanks Eric, you're an inspiration to noobs everywhere. I'm heading to Edmonton from Wpg for the next week, can I buy you a beer?
thought the brah headquarters was in toronto
@@nephronpie8961 It probably is, I just see Calgary flames everywhere in the chess pit
@@eoswatchdogs2453 They moved from Calgary to Toronto in the last year
@@Joe-nb3fs do they live together?
At first Eric took his time and explained everything. Now he's just plowing through his opponents, and I'm loving it.
I like this speedrun so much, I wish you would just start over and do it again once you get to the end.
Eric drinks 2 beers and starts playing like a 700
In the second game, Eric didn't lose a single pawn. Absolutely amazing stuff.
22:14 don't drink and drive, kids.
my mans is on cloud 9 just looking down at his opps.
can you make a x24 longer video? I can watch this speedrun all day long.
Can you make a compilation of you just stomping on Indian players? Thanks
@@kuppdaballsstrokedastaff429 sounds like you have a fetish there bud
@@kuppdaballsstrokedastaff429 I'd love to see that ;)
11:35 xjxjdjxjxdj
14:55 djxjxjdxjzj
16:10 zjzjzjsjsj
33:45 xixkddkdjs
36:25 knigt before bishop
41:20 xjxjzzisjsj.....
42:04 cca zizjsiizuz
20:19 - Man, I wish my opponents would resign when they were winning. lol
they mentioned Alex and your mind went on leave to the bahamas 21:50 😁
13:55.love ur cherers😂❤
20:30 oh thanks god u didnot rage 🤧
39:20 eric raging 😳
Lux1200 (game at 21:00), from move 16 and on, all of his moves were top stockfish moves till the end. Just saying...Ok a blunder is a blunder, but a 2900 GM can easily recover from that when playing a 1900 player...Also 90% accuracy against Eric... Meaning he played the opening by himself and then turned on the autopilot...
Waiting throughout the week for this video
So that's how you beat Eric! Mention the name Alexandra, and he'll do a face plant.
20:55 Got to love time pressure ey?
1800s playing like 900s and 900s playing against me like 1800s. What is going on??
28:25 why not e4 to either win the knight or trade queens and be up a minor piece if Nd4 comes after e4?
Why do you close the pawn structure when your opponent attempts a pawn break?
These games are disgustingly good. Just complete and utter savagery. You monster.
I want more.
Nice games Eric ;) I enjoy this speedrun, thanks
blundered immediately upon bringing alexandra
20:20 haha very funny
This is the definition of making it look easy. I know I would struggle to get a draw against these 1800s and I'm still watching it thinking yeah these are trash.
Eric! Great stuff. Also, I think I may have spotted a slight flaw in your hippo opening as black. Sometimes, when playing black and the opponent starts with e4 or d4, you do the fianchetto the wrong bishop. The hippo opening wants to double fianchetto, but that can't be done if you start with the wrong side and if white does a fianchetto. For example, if white starts with e4, you should should fianchetto the king side bishop first. This would gain one tempo in the "fianchetto race" as black, which would guarantee the double fianchetto. Of course, this does not work if white starts with g3 or b3.
The pear flavour of that cider is unreal
Hell yeah, another hippo episode❤
This speed runs are 🔥🔥🔥
im playing the hippo and in most cases the two middle pawns push down the middle making it uncomfortable, this doesnt happen in erics games so much.
Would you recommend hippo also for Rapid at the same ELO ?
Name of the song at 13:31 ?
We all love the hippo, and obviously new magnus content is so exciting. But I haven’t been able to sleep in months! If only something new and relaxing was out there
Could try "this rapid chess may put you to sleep"
Try ASMR Chess channel
eric looks zooted tf out lmao
20:35 they resigned??
opponent thought he had hung a royal fork, didn't realize eric was in check and couldn't move the knight
1:07 how did you played an illegal move?
Pretty wild how easy he makes it look with the hippo.
He makes it look so easy. I try playing this opening and my opponent takes the center and crushes me :(
Yeah it is wild. How often he has to battle out of bad positions shows you how bad this opening is if you aren’t a GM. Closed positions are tough.
Eagerly waiting for part 12.😊😊
Should have been out by now, maybe the run is over.
It will be out tonight!
I'm stuck on 1350 w my hippo. Hope this helps. People are pushing 3-4 center pawns and just blowing up the position
People were pushing like crazy this game, 4 pawn pushed every other game
And AMAZING SERIOUS. Keep going!
Eric was on fire 🎉
i love this shizzle
i thought you eric rosened the queen lmao
bro, wheres the 1900-2000 episode you were supposed to release yesterday
the 1800s put up less resistance than the 1200s lol
CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT 🔥
Eric ,- could you share a playlist of songs you use for youtube .. Shazamed a Dusk song !” - Nice !!
What is the playlist?
Yo he's super high in this one
Wow eric is just too good
Release these quicker 😭
lmao how high is this guy in the first game at least
you make it look so easy coach :)
you should do this again but crab
check the ELO difference. this is going up against goliath. thanks to mr. hansen nowadays even over 2000 i dont panic, I stopped panicking. hit them with 10 solid moves from the word go then after that ... as we say in Africa ... its delicious bananas and mangoes :D
Is this dude Eric high af? 😂 his eyes are slumped
Probably
Lol he was drinking I guess
Just great 👍 👌
Did I hear some Madeon on this run?
Push!
yes
You know full well Eric has gone into ridiculous depth on this opening after struggling against 1700s. Destroyed everyone in this video
Question why are 1800s playing so m such worse versus the 1500s???
God bless you
When you be rhe superGM?
Poglius Championship
Easy to look at a GM playing.....but when we try it (me spclly)....i feel as if i am playing on the losing side of the board.
So many lines to know....which ones to open.....attack....jeez
ı think lux1200 cheating min 23:00
This playlist is getting a bit tired. Can you switch up the music?
drunk
its honestly ANNOYING how much better you are, than I am , at this opening. its all I play and im still stuck at 800. I hate my life. and this game. and youre starting to get on my nerves too Erik. jk.
cheeeers :)
For the algo
Eric, u seem kinda distracted...stop having those energy drinks....they do nothing good for the liver and makes u blunder
How does it feel for your channel to be getting carried by aman's speedruns and serawan's jokes?
first
bruh
Glory Hole trying to snipe the stream 😂