im not a fan of these because they have their rating fixed to gain no points per win, so they stay in low elo for so much longer than they should. and tbh its harder to learn watching this rating range where most the wins are gonna be 1 move blunders
Haha, the Jaws-like noises during the final mate. 😂 Again, appreciate taking the lower rated opponents seriously, has been really eye-opening how such simple, logical moves in a calm manner cause so many opponents to fall apart. I need to be more patient with my chess.
Started playing chess 3 years ago. I’m now 1300 playing a few games per month for fun. And taking my time with calculating moves was my biggest struggle. But once I overcame that I saw my rating increase a few hundred points.
You sir are an emotionless assassin, just calmly lopping heads off & remorselessly, swiftly moving on to another unsuspecting victim. Not even a celebratory sip of cider, it's not the taste of victory you enjoy - it's the merciless lopping of heads. This series is a bloodbath :)
These 6 and 700's were playing hard. Those first 2 games they really hung tough. You could make these 2 hours long and we would savor every moment so don't think you have to keep them short. The types of us who watch these videos aren't wasting our time on mindless short videos.
I think many 700elo would have the skills to be higher rated, but probably play too fast in most games, blundering and finishing with most of their time untouched. But then because Eric is playing slow, they get into a mindset of playing slower as well, and end up playing way above their rating thanks to that.
We cant get enough of this please, im looking for another one of those 12 hour videos... or at least an hour. I learn so much from you.. and im rated 650 so to see you play these games are super helpfull... i watched all of the first 6 episodes in one sitting yesterday and then was super happy to see another one today. Give us more more more
Incredible content, Eric! I know when I click on one of these videos I’m not going to regret the 40ish minutes. Thanks for being my #1 comfort content creator 🥹
I never knew there could be a potentially better/as good series as ChessBrah's Building Habits, but here we are. Bravo to you Mr Rosen. I hope to one day meet you. By the way, we have the same birthday, exactly, per your Wiki Page. Happy 31.
One of the most interesting things to me is, that you are almost always down on time in this episode. Makes me think that one of the most important skills as you progress is to know, when to take time and think and when to play fast.
Oh no my German! Eric, your pronounciation of Zwischenzug is wonderful - keep it going! :) Approved by a German afficionada of this channel :). Best series ever! Already looking forward to the next episode!
Every time I have an opportunity to watch I learn key moves, particularly for a new guy challenged by those early, aggressive let's end the game early attacks. I'm learning to stop and turn them around watching these speedruns. Eric you are the Man!!! Thank you!!!
God mad respect to some of the games where the opponents just played soundly and very well IMO against an IM. But the opponents who screw around in the beginning, I'm glad you play the "no mercy" style haha. Great video!
Thanks for your videos, Eric. I really like your style. And your editing is also very nice, especially the "special effects" in the last game. Oh, and your pronunciation of "Zugzwang" is completely fine :)
Zwischenzug/intermezzo is different than zugzwang. The former means ''in between move'', while the latter is something like ''out of moves'', suggesting a position in which passing the turn would be preferable because playing any move would disrupt the defence and result in a significant disadvantage. It frequently occurs in endgames, especially those involving only king/pawns and triangulation.
@@DrLogii I mean, as a german or someone who can speak german, shouldn't you know their meaning? And tell apart the two words? Even I can tell it was zwischenzug and not zugzwang despite knowing nothing about German.
Whether or not Eric's opponents are low or high elo rated players the principles of chess he teaches always apply. With low rated opponents tactics are numerous and it's so much fun to see Eric do his thing
The speedrun series is just Gold for someone like me who has been struggling trying to learn Chess on his own in his 40's... Thank you and please Keep up the great work you are doing with your channel!
I really reall like how you Mr. Rosen are able to explain things in such a calm and clear way. Also you gave away a lot of funny moments like when you walk you opponent in a stalemate or hang a poisoned queen. Great Channel! Chess is great!
I love this series. Your counter attacks, especially in the last game here, are Morphy like, in that you keep adding new pieces to the fray! Development first and foremost
Hi Eric! I'm rewatching the series after I stopped playing like 6-7 months back. Just wanna tell you that this series helped me to break 1000 at that point and at 38:11 jaws bgm was a genius idea 😂❤
This is episode has a nice amount of time. I understand those who are dedicated to chess vote for a longer episode. Not convinced the same logic applies to novice/beginner players like me. There is another chess channel that is doing a speed run which i stopped viewing because the uploads became longer than an hour with multiple uploads a week. I enjoy your channel for its educational/tutorial/coaching/sportsmanship content and I enjoy your narration which also clicks the entertainment button. Thanks for sharing.
Great video, it's actually pretty interesting to see such tactics combined with under 1000 elo tactics. Btw, 40 min is a pretty good size for a video for me!
Heyy, I love your content so much! You are the reason I play ponziani as my main opening. Just wanted to point out that there was a mate in 2 at 35:27, if you took with the queen (highlighting this for the beginners). I'm sure it was just because you had been recording for a while. Genuinely LOVE your content.
Mate in 2? What about not moving the king on F1 and instead to block the check on E2 by any of 3 defenders: queen (the better option), bishop or knight? So, no mate in 2.
So here is a german guy doing german stuff (correcting people): both "z" in Zwischenzug are sharp and pronounced like a "tz" or "ts". Apart from that you said it right. I really like the speedrun. It is so instructive!
I’m learning so much watching this serie, cause’ we do see a lots of different opening and it’s really nice to see you beating everyones in many different ways, with so much confident and CALM while teaching us every moove possible, you are an amazing chess/coach player i love the serie !!!!! Keep doing watchu do sir AMAZING 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🥰
Love that we've seen 4 games in this episode. While Eric is facing lower rated opponents, I think 3-4 games per episode is a good measure, keeping it in the range of 40-45ish minutes.
I just began and playing miserably... dropping to 262. Yes... 262. Then I watched your first 5 speedrun episodes a couple of times each. Next game was with a 762 player (an accident to play someone so high... settings weren't correct). Voila! It wasn't close to being as clean as your play (quite messy, actually), but I won with checkmate. I instantly went up to 457. Just luck? Not totally. I stuck to fundamentals, remembered what you said, nothing fancy, I'm a beginner, after all, and, eventually, my opponent blundered... twice. Thank you.
Just give them a taste of their own medicine. Don't rush, develop your pieces and slowly improve your position until they make a mistake. They will eventually at this level, just be the one who makes less mistakes :)
Just seen this series, can’t wait to watch them all. Could you occasionally play b3 as white as I play this and find there are much fewer resources on this
"This is what we call superfluous knights, when they defend each other." Classic stuff there from Grand International Master Eric Finegold. No, wait...I meant GIM Ben Rosen. Wait, wait...I'm confused... 😂 Finegold is the only other person I've ever heard use the term "superfluous knights," because they're taking squares away from each other. I absolutely love that reference. It kinda made my day.
Hey Eric, at what rating will you start playing a ponziani in the speedrun? I recently went on a deep dive in your content on the opening and it quickly became a favorite of mine to play. My first game playing it I destroyed my opponent and played near perfect chess.
A polite suggestion: this series doesn't exactly have much to do with speed (in relation to the word "speed run") maybe a more accurate term could be "master's climb" or "chess master class"? I am certainly loving this series and hope it continues into perpetuity!
Hey Eric, at 33:21 in the video, i was looking at the line you were calculating (im a weak player, only 500 rated). Wouldn't it be bad for black if white's F pawn were to take, because if white were to castle, the rook would have an open file on the F file ? Or am I wrong in this case ? Thank you !
The exchange on e3 does give white some positional benefits with a stronger pawn center and the half-open f-file. However, I still went for that line because of the tactics. Bxe3 fxe3 Ng4, it wasn't clear how white can save both the undefended knight on g5 and pawn on e3. This was a nice example of when the tactics outweigh the positional drawbacks of a move.
He explains later that you don’t necessarily even want to go for stuff like this when the king is so exposed because that knight, helping to attack the king, could easily be worth more than the rook on f8. That being said, Ne6 would have been winning, but so is almost anything when your opponent moves their king into huge danger for no reason
Hi Eric! Thanks for all the contents. Just one thing: you might want to consider adding the option of never playing with players lower rated more than 15 elo points. I think in this way the speedrun would get more interesting sooner
I sometimes have these videos on while doing other things. I try to follow along when you say the moves. If you could describe all your moves/thoughts in algebraic notation that would be really helpful, also with visualisation!
I wonder if my boss realizes my productivity goes down for the exact length of every "speed run" episode every day a new one is posted. OH NO! MY BOSS!
I can confirm, even at 40 minutes I am still disappointed when you say last game ; ( Favorite series ever, such good timing with a close friend of mine picking up chess recently!
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I vote for each episode to be progressively longer, resulting in a final episode of 10 hours
The length should grow exponentially. Each episode should be 2% longer than the previous one
@@janossowski1490 In every episode, Eric should eat double the amount of grains of rice than in the previous one
oh god no, not again. You are going to make the sub even dumber than it is right now@@AlexDings
Seconded
Agreed, I watch these twice, once to fall asleep, once for actual entertainment.
This is by far, and by a large margin, my favorite chess series at the moment. Very very well done
im not a fan of these because they have their rating fixed to gain no points per win, so they stay in low elo for so much longer than they should. and tbh its harder to learn watching this rating range where most the wins are gonna be 1 move blunders
@@jeffypwnzuyeah it's episode 8 and he's still facing
@@utm0st yeah, its also called a speedrun but these "speedruns" always have like 400 episodes lol
This is a great series for everyone eventually. With some patience your level will be met.
@@Spiethstar plus, when he does get to your level, there will be more games at it, due to the rating speed
Haha, the Jaws-like noises during the final mate. 😂
Again, appreciate taking the lower rated opponents seriously, has been really eye-opening how such simple, logical moves in a calm manner cause so many opponents to fall apart.
I need to be more patient with my chess.
I had to pause it go back, I thought it was my neighbour being weird 😅
Started playing chess 3 years ago. I’m now 1300 playing a few games per month for fun. And taking my time with calculating moves was my biggest struggle. But once I overcame that I saw my rating increase a few hundred points.
that made me jump!
Even the black knights suddenly look like shark fins...
that threw me off !
My Wednesday night sorted... learning how I'm not that good at chess, and the soothing sound of Eric to fall asleep to..
My exact thought the second I saw it posted 😂
I actually do find the videos in this series quite relaxing, and I often watch before bed if I'm not reading. Oh no, my dream!
I like his calm demeanor and "no mercy" approach. Way to go Eric. Love your episodes.
You sir are an emotionless assassin, just calmly lopping heads off & remorselessly, swiftly moving on to another unsuspecting victim. Not even a celebratory sip of cider, it's not the taste of victory you enjoy - it's the merciless lopping of heads. This series is a bloodbath :)
Dude the jaws music I thought something was making that sound in my house lmao
lol yeah, I thought I was imagining things for a moment
Awesome 😂😂😂
I could watch Eric play for hours. More than happy to see longer episodes!
One thing I'm learning from this series is the value of giving each move more thought. "Waste time", but "win game".
That scholar's mate refutation was so nice
As a new player seeing this into it smkes me feel I could actually climb lol
These 6 and 700's were playing hard. Those first 2 games they really hung tough. You could make these 2 hours long and we would savor every moment so don't think you have to keep them short. The types of us who watch these videos aren't wasting our time on mindless short videos.
I think many 700elo would have the skills to be higher rated, but probably play too fast in most games, blundering and finishing with most of their time untouched. But then because Eric is playing slow, they get into a mindset of playing slower as well, and end up playing way above their rating thanks to that.
This makes perfect sense. @@andeolevain
I’m enjoying the Speedrun and hearing Eric’s thought processes. You can never have too many speed runs.
The Davudd70 game was a real eye opener. Also, Eric’s commenting is excellent. Thanks.
We cant get enough of this please, im looking for another one of those 12 hour videos... or at least an hour. I learn so much from you.. and im rated 650 so to see you play these games are super helpfull... i watched all of the first 6 episodes in one sitting yesterday and then was super happy to see another one today. Give us more more more
Incredible content, Eric! I know when I click on one of these videos I’m not going to regret the 40ish minutes. Thanks for being my #1 comfort content creator 🥹
I never knew there could be a potentially better/as good series as ChessBrah's Building Habits, but here we are. Bravo to you Mr Rosen. I hope to one day meet you. By the way, we have the same birthday, exactly, per your Wiki Page. Happy 31.
These are some of the best chess videos on UA-cam. You're very clear and always appreciate the extra dry humor
😂 The juxtaposition of Jaws theme and Eric's calm, gentle voice
One of the most interesting things to me is, that you are almost always down on time in this episode. Makes me think that one of the most important skills as you progress is to know, when to take time and think and when to play fast.
Love the Jaws edit. Gave me a good chuckle.
Commenting to boost impressions. Love this series!
Oh no my German! Eric, your pronounciation of Zwischenzug is wonderful - keep it going! :) Approved by a German afficionada of this channel :). Best series ever! Already looking forward to the next episode!
Eric, you're the Bob Ross of chess. Legend.
Every time I have an opportunity to watch I learn key moves, particularly for a new guy challenged by those early, aggressive let's end the game early attacks. I'm learning to stop and turn them around watching these speedruns. Eric you are the Man!!! Thank you!!!
Eric's smooth sailing at the board makes his wins easy breezy. Now I want to see tougher opponents.
God mad respect to some of the games where the opponents just played soundly and very well IMO against an IM. But the opponents who screw around in the beginning, I'm glad you play the "no mercy" style haha. Great video!
34:22 oh boy, rosen. unintentional mishap xD
Thanks for your videos, Eric. I really like your style. And your editing is also very nice, especially the "special effects" in the last game.
Oh, and your pronunciation of "Zugzwang" is completely fine :)
Zwischenzug/intermezzo is different than zugzwang. The former means ''in between move'', while the latter is something like ''out of moves'', suggesting a position in which passing the turn would be preferable because playing any move would disrupt the defence and result in a significant disadvantage. It frequently occurs in endgames, especially those involving only king/pawns and triangulation.
@@RK-qi4tv Well, that's possible. But I'm just talking about his pronunciation of the German words he's using, not about the context they're used in.
@@DrLogii I mean, as a german or someone who can speak german, shouldn't you know their meaning? And tell apart the two words? Even I can tell it was zwischenzug and not zugzwang despite knowing nothing about German.
@@RK-qi4tv Yes, I can. But that's not what I wanted to say. I was just referring to the way he pronounces the words.
Whether or not Eric's opponents are low or high elo rated players the principles of chess he teaches always apply. With low rated opponents tactics are numerous and it's so much fun to see Eric do his thing
The speedrun series is just Gold for someone like me who has been struggling trying to learn Chess on his own in his 40's... Thank you and please Keep up the great work you are doing with your channel!
For the player at beginner or elementary level, Eric's current speedrun series is about as good as it gets. Highly recommended!
Lovely series, can't wait for more episodes
I really reall like how you Mr. Rosen are able to explain things in such a calm and clear way.
Also you gave away a lot of funny moments like when you walk you opponent in a stalemate or hang a poisoned queen.
Great Channel!
Chess is great!
Can’t get enough of these speed runs
Thanks for Episode 7
Absolutely brilliant, I think the most instructive speedrun so far
Thanks!
37:41 POV: you're stuck in the ocean and the sharks are ready to have a nice meal
I'm not gonna lie, that Jaws-like music gave me some chills... 🤣
Loving this series! I hope that as you climb in rating we'll get a some deeper dives into the opening theory.
I love this series. Your counter attacks, especially in the last game here, are Morphy like, in that you keep adding new pieces to the fray! Development first and foremost
Hi Eric! I'm rewatching the series after I stopped playing like 6-7 months back. Just wanna tell you that this series helped me to break 1000 at that point and at 38:11 jaws bgm was a genius idea 😂❤
This is episode has a nice amount of time. I understand those who are dedicated to chess vote for a longer episode. Not convinced the same logic applies to novice/beginner players like me. There is another chess channel that is doing a speed run which i stopped viewing because the uploads became longer than an hour with multiple uploads a week. I enjoy your channel for its educational/tutorial/coaching/sportsmanship content and I enjoy your narration which also clicks the entertainment button. Thanks for sharing.
Great series! I really enjoy both your instructive insight and your mildly amused demeanor
I love how you explain your plays. I noticed that at 38:23, you had a move queen F4 that was mate in 1
white plays queen f3
Great video, it's actually pretty interesting to see such tactics combined with under 1000 elo tactics. Btw, 40 min is a pretty good size for a video for me!
Heyy, I love your content so much! You are the reason I play ponziani as my main opening. Just wanted to point out that there was a mate in 2 at 35:27, if you took with the queen (highlighting this for the beginners). I'm sure it was just because you had been recording for a while. Genuinely LOVE your content.
Mate in 2? What about not moving the king on F1 and instead to block the check on E2 by any of 3 defenders: queen (the better option), bishop or knight? So, no mate in 2.
So here is a german guy doing german stuff (correcting people): both "z" in Zwischenzug are sharp and pronounced like a "tz" or "ts". Apart from that you said it right.
I really like the speedrun. It is so instructive!
"german" should be "German" ... 😂
Usually forgot the tips I picked up from your videos. Great stuff as always.
With all the chess content I absorb, I should be a 2000 rated player by now, but im comfortable in my 700 rated blunder kingdom
@@slowlearner46 Name checks out
I'm 1400 and really loving how you tune in to the rating range you're playing
I like the dramatic music on the last one.
Thanks a lot for publishing this series. I am getting better thanks to it, improving my blitz rating above 700. 🙏
well, that looks easy. Thank you @Eric for talking through all your decisions. This is very helpful.
Like the series. I really like how you decide which move is best between all the good moves.
Thank you for doing these videos, it really has helped a lot, I used to make just random moves
Loving the informative content and explanations in these speedruns! Excited for this episode too
I’m learning so much watching this serie, cause’ we do see a lots of different opening and it’s really nice to see you beating everyones in many different ways, with so much confident and CALM while teaching us every moove possible, you are an amazing chess/coach player i love the serie !!!!! Keep doing watchu do sir AMAZING 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🥰
thanks eric your best and most instructive series so far ;) keep it up learning a lot hear ;)
Love that we've seen 4 games in this episode. While Eric is facing lower rated opponents, I think 3-4 games per episode is a good measure, keeping it in the range of 40-45ish minutes.
Love this series Eric!
Love the ominous base brass signifying the end is near.
I just began and playing miserably... dropping to 262. Yes... 262. Then I watched your first 5 speedrun episodes a couple of times each. Next game was with a 762 player (an accident to play someone so high... settings weren't correct). Voila! It wasn't close to being as clean as your play (quite messy, actually), but I won with checkmate. I instantly went up to 457. Just luck? Not totally. I stuck to fundamentals, remembered what you said, nothing fancy, I'm a beginner, after all, and, eventually, my opponent blundered... twice. Thank you.
Thanks for this series!! Enjoying a lot 😊
Eric: This episode my opponents are attacking with their kings; last episode they were attacking with their queens.
Me: I just said that to myself!
I have a hard time against players like the first opponent who go for many moves building up passive defense.
Yeah same. I find the game stands still until i eventually make a mistake lol
@williammeyrick5273 tried making small improving moves and slowly target spots around your opponents king
Just give them a taste of their own medicine. Don't rush, develop your pieces and slowly improve your position until they make a mistake. They will eventually at this level, just be the one who makes less mistakes :)
Yes! Love this series!
Just seen this series, can’t wait to watch them all. Could you occasionally play b3 as white as I play this and find there are much fewer resources on this
"This is what we call superfluous knights, when they defend each other."
Classic stuff there from Grand International Master Eric Finegold.
No, wait...I meant GIM Ben Rosen.
Wait, wait...I'm confused... 😂
Finegold is the only other person I've ever heard use the term "superfluous knights," because they're taking squares away from each other.
I absolutely love that reference.
It kinda made my day.
Thank you for doing this. I've really learned a lot and have started to play more chess.
Great series. Please keep it going. I’m rated about 1350 and I’m still learning things here.
Hey Eric, at what rating will you start playing a ponziani in the speedrun? I recently went on a deep dive in your content on the opening and it quickly became a favorite of mine to play. My first game playing it I destroyed my opponent and played near perfect chess.
That second to last game was brutal. No mercy indeed.
excellent teaching commentary. thanks
I loved the jaw music. I was looking around wonderinf where it was coming from for a couple of seconds :)
8:54 overlooked nge6 forking rook and queen
A polite suggestion: this series doesn't exactly have much to do with speed (in relation to the word "speed run") maybe a more accurate term could be "master's climb" or "chess master class"? I am certainly loving this series and hope it continues into perpetuity!
It’s an incorrect term used by many chess people before Eric with full knowledge that it’s incorrect - he’s just keeping with the trend, really.
it is a speed, just a very slow speed, so maybe not incorrect except in the implication that the speed might be faster :)
Ugh im confused. How the hell does putting bishop on c5 sto the fried liver?? 31:26 isnt knight protected by bishop?
pawn is still on d2 at this point, so the knight would be unprotected.
Hey Eric, at 33:21 in the video, i was looking at the line you were calculating (im a weak player, only 500 rated). Wouldn't it be bad for black if white's F pawn were to take, because if white were to castle, the rook would have an open file on the F file ? Or am I wrong in this case ? Thank you !
The exchange on e3 does give white some positional benefits with a stronger pawn center and the half-open f-file. However, I still went for that line because of the tactics. Bxe3 fxe3 Ng4, it wasn't clear how white can save both the undefended knight on g5 and pawn on e3. This was a nice example of when the tactics outweigh the positional drawbacks of a move.
Ahh okay thanks for the clarification Eric, and thank you for taking the time to respond to me ! :)
@@eric-rosen
9:00 was there a knight fork??
He explains later that you don’t necessarily even want to go for stuff like this when the king is so exposed because that knight, helping to attack the king, could easily be worth more than the rook on f8. That being said, Ne6 would have been winning, but so is almost anything when your opponent moves their king into huge danger for no reason
@@ThatRaisinTho ya I posted that too soon and then watched on and answered my own comment 😭😭 thank you bro!
I love this series! One question: why isn't Queen to F4 mate in the last game, second to last move - about 38:05?
Hi Eric! Thanks for all the contents. Just one thing: you might want to consider adding the option of never playing with players lower rated more than 15 elo points. I think in this way the speedrun would get more interesting sooner
Excellent series. Nice editing with music.
Love this series man! Keep it up!
great! keep running! we have a lot to learn from it
I love this series so much
YOU GOTTA DO THE JAWS MUSIC ANYTIME A MATE IS COMMING... That was awesome!!
lmao the "Jaws" shark attack cellos at the end of the last game
I’ve been waiting on this!!
I sometimes have these videos on while doing other things. I try to follow along when you say the moves. If you could describe all your moves/thoughts in algebraic notation that would be really helpful, also with visualisation!
Hey Eric,
Any chance we could see some 1. d4 play while still in low elo? I think queens gambit is one of the more popular openings on this level
I wonder if my boss realizes my productivity goes down for the exact length of every "speed run" episode every day a new one is posted. OH NO! MY BOSS!
What a calm teacher you are Eric
There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a player trying to get a cheap Scholar's Mate get browbeaten to an inch of their life.
This was brutal.
I love it 😂
you make it seem so effortless, the way you are reading the board.
at 38:20 g5 on f4 is a chechmate?
Very instructive videos, keep it up!
I can confirm, even at 40 minutes I am still disappointed when you say last game ; (
Favorite series ever, such good timing with a close friend of mine picking up chess recently!
Royal Fork: When you're royally forked
this series is going to be the best chess series... ❤❤❤❤