If you want this opening to happen more often, as the petroff is rarely played, you can play the bishop's opening: 1 e4 e5 2 bc4, most common reply being ...nf6 transposing into the reverse stafford
I play the bishop against e4 e5 anyways , my opponents seem to like transposing into a nahkmanson or a Jerome's or even an urusov gambit from this move order. As opposed to the standard nf3 where I get a load of philidor's for some reason.
@@soraneptune4178 Yea, I was thinking of building a repetoire based on the bishops opening including a lot of gambits like the reverse stafford, nakhmanson, urusov, evan's etc
I learn so damn much from this guy. Unfortunately there are so many terrible instructors on YT. They're good at chess but they don't know how to stay focused and explain a single concept.
Eric, dont get me wrong - i love these videos, but I wanted to know if you could make a opening series. It could be so useful with all the knowledge you have.
"It could be so useful with all the knowledge you have." I'm reminded of the quote from the film "The Baltimore Bullet" when pool hustler James Colburn tells his young student "Remember, I taught you everything you know....but i didn't teach you everything I know."
I have been playing the Stafford as of late thanks to Eric Rosen videos and then had an opponent play this line against me just yesterday. I was thinking I need to find the answer to this line and then "Boom" here it is. Thanks Eric, for all your hard work.
I love videos where you show how one position can transpose into another.I feel like it's one of the most important skills, if someone is causing you problems in an opening being able to adjust to what they're doing and take advantage of it
Thank you so much bro i learn really good through your style of showing the moves and ideas instead of just telling the coordinates. Hope you stay healthy. Brofist from germany!
haha yeah I watched a video by eric once, a day afterwards I decided to play 1. ... e5 and we went into a stafford gambit and I just played literally the same game eric had and won. blitz prep can be so silly
I spent ages collecting stafford gambit notes from a heap of your old vids and then I put together heaps of my own research covering so many lines. Finally as I finish you put out a couple of stafford gambit videos showing everything I just figured out😅 Oh well, can't complain. It's too good not to share! Thanks heaps 4 awesome content!
@@eric-rosen I just sent a challenge, my name is WaveOfMutilation. It will also be your 19,000th game exactly if we play! Edit: Oh well, I was too late 🤷🏼♂️
I'm actually surprised that you didn't mention the standard oh no my queen trap. After knight takes knight and you retake with pawn, going into the reversed stafford, and black plays knight C6 or D6, you can also just castle to bait black into trying to pin the knight to the queen. While also threatening to take it and dmg the pawn structure if the queen doesn't defend. But then you just got the standard stafford oh no my queen trap. I've had this multiple times. Never gets old. Always makes my day.
Not only that I like all ur videos n posts n this one has helped me to get quite a few victims in my blitz matches played in my local n national tournaments.😃🖒🖒
Also Eric I wanted to tell u tht I appreciated vry much also the Orthoschnapp gambit in the French defence..N more important I wanted to tell u that I analysed in depth the various lines n I came up with 3-4 lines which I invented by myself🙂..Needless to say that I made a number of victims in my blitz n semi rapid games also! Among the reasons is the fact that one my novelty lines it was quite tough for my opponent to refute or counter even in the semi rapid matches as the lines were quite effective ones..Keep it up Eric Rosen,am a big fan of u n ur videos & I mention also that I recommended ur videos to quite a lot of the chess people in my country..🖒🖒 May be n hope so that we could meet where I would like to share many chess stuff with u.
Thanks GM Rosen, I am enjoying all the Stafford videos. Not for nothing, but this doesn't seem like a new opening, rather a sharp line off the Petrov / Russian game. There has to be some reason why we don't see it as often as other openings at high levels. I suspect ,white when they accept the gambit is when they get in trouble, chasing material with the knight- I definitely will be studying this more. My coaches in the past always recommended me to play King's Indian or Nimzo as black and learn the main lines from that one. I'm tempted to play Carlsen's Bongcloud as white but I'm too chicken.
Do more of this please, and show us some vod matches about these traps if possible. Thanks btw! Like for real we really appreciate your contents, hope you and your family are doing well. Love from Philippines ❤
I have a little pet line which ends up very similar to this. If black goes for the fork trick in Italian four knights with Nxe4, rather than taking back white can castle and then after Nxc3, dxc3 it's effectively the same gambit. It's not quite as strong since black already has a knight on c6 but you still get a win if black doesn't play carefully. I find good success with it at my level where players start using the fork trick but aren't strong enough to see the danger.
Eric Thanks for sharing your talent with us. Wish we had someone like you here in Orlando. I am trying to find if there is any group of Chess aficionados. I am just a beginner but have learned a lot through your videos.
The only time I faced the Stafford was after seeing your video on it in a rapid game against someone 100 points lower rated. He lasted about 11 moves because I think he wasn't used to the opponent actually refuting it lol
bruh please make more of these vids I love your vids soooooo much it is so interesting watching you are you voice is perfect for these kinds of vids. love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Without the queen knight being offered in exchange, I've known the white attack for centuries as "figatello". With the queen knight exchanged, essentially is the same aggresive figatello but secured.
Literally got my first reverse stafford gambit today (and first any stafford gambit), they played pawn e4 which screwed with the Qf3 ideas i remembered so had to really think to remember what the best moves where, spent like 3 minutes thinking, I went Ng5 of course, they ended up going pawn d4, I took bxd4, then black bioshop e6, i couldnt remember what was best move, ended up going bxe7 to trap the rook, then they bundled Qc8 and resigned after like 6 moves, my heart was beating fast though during the whole game XD
At 7:10 I would castle, then sac the knight for the e5 pawn. If he captures then check with the queen on h5. If black push the front to protect the king, he loses the rook. If black moves the king forward, it's checkmate in 1
The difference is that when 1.e4 black has many responses such as c5 d5 nf6 e6 d6 g6 while when in Stanford gambit 1.e4 e5 white can play nf3 or f4 or at least that's my experience when playing chess
I really enjoy gambit openings. Another funny transposition: 1.e4-e5 2.Nf3-Nc6 3.Nxe5-Nc6 4.Nc3-Bc5 White can transpose into the Cochrane gambit with 5.Nxf7 or 4.Nxf7, another hyperly correct and not-at-all-dubious gambit! Edit: Black can respond with 5. ..- Bxf2+ for a Traxler counter attack feeling, but now we are really out of seriousness. =D
Deberías sacar una camiseta que diga "I love Stanfford gambit". Que manera de reirme con tus videos jajajaja una partida tras otra ganando con esta apertura y ahora esto de blancas jajajaja. Good job
So Stockfish against regular stafford (as black) suggests Queen in front of the king right after knight trade, the knight out, and then back to where the queen was. So Qe7, Nc6, Nd8 Its a but cramped, but it defends everything. Its not as natural to play tho. Feels more hypermodern where you dont have your center or really development, but its interesting either way. Edit: just checked again, and it gives the c6 line instead. Dunno why Im getting different recommendations lol
in some ways, this seems like it is even better than the Stafford Gambit.. because that opening looks more like a blunder and would lure black to taking e4
I'm curious whether you would feel like you were already playing a lost game as white if you gave up all 8 pawns before start of game. Obviously, black has huge material advantage but white has unimpeded piece mobility and "move in hand". Would be curious to see this demonstrated.
I know beginners like these gambits but some are actually bad for their play. In the long run they may benefit from studying the Evans. We know the great majority will never get to expert (candidate master) level, So these gambits work better there. For the student who really wants to end up a titled player, besides going to college to become a doctor or lawyer or some high paying profession, they will then need to really learn the standard openings.
I see the vid....I clicked fast....Am I the only one whose annoyed with this gambit?? All the players I have played lately all plays this opening....this is soo devaststinghdjdhd..Noiiiicee Eric Noiceeeee
please do a tierlist for all the gambits you played. would be a fun video for all of us :D
Not for me, im here for the chess
@@RubyPiec well we dont like ur opinion :p
@@Whippee Chill chill it's just an opinion no need to get mad about it this isnt reddit
RubyPiec you should watch his twitch vods then
@@mizzium4870 Its just an opinion, also watching twitch vods is boring
Black : "Stafford gambit"
white: "no u"
looool
Pp
If you want this opening to happen more often, as the petroff is rarely played, you can play the bishop's opening: 1 e4 e5 2 bc4, most common reply being ...nf6 transposing into the reverse stafford
now that is pro gamer
That makes perfect sense. But please guys, don't like this comment. This comment shouldn't be visible to my opponents. I may even report this comment.
@@rahulsrinivas3224 lolol
I play the bishop against e4 e5 anyways , my opponents seem to like transposing into a nahkmanson or a Jerome's or even an urusov gambit from this move order. As opposed to the standard nf3 where I get a load of philidor's for some reason.
@@soraneptune4178 Yea, I was thinking of building a repetoire based on the bishops opening including a lot of gambits like the reverse stafford, nakhmanson, urusov, evan's etc
The biggest problem is my opponents are also watching this video.
exactly as if every player in my bracket are all Rosen's fan too.
Really? When I play for fun, I discuss my ideas out loud, willing for a game of better quality.
Damn kinda true
@@luizquevedo6580 I do the same with my friends but you can't really do that online in blitz or bullet.
The quote of the day: "Black can decline the Halloween gambit and insist on the Stafford"
Stafford gambit players all over the world hate him
Learn this 1 trick that has the entire chess community in shock
That's actually quite accurate
"Don't let 80 people ruin the hearts and hopes of thousands... but that's how government works, right?" nice
Last Right Sure buddy, keep telling yourself that
@Last Right damn
@@koklu3 what did he say
@@sealion-5372 I don't remember. Sorry
So true.
I was watching your video then saw this notification and jumped here XD
My bad for distracting you from me with more of me... I guess?
@@eric-rosen 😆
Same here,, I was watching magnus-hikaru match then suddenly saw the notification of about stafford gambit and quickly clicked on this video 😆😆😂
@@eric-rosen I want to play against you, pick date and time (IST)
I think this is called the Boden-Kieseritzky-Morphy Gambit and Eric Schiller wrote a book about this for those who are interested.
i dont know if that's a made up title or not
@@alexdapirate What do you mean by made up title?
ALEXDAPIRATE all titles are made up
K_SilentStorm I think they meant if you made it up (if you were serious or not)
@@elijahharvey7510 I think they meant "made-up" as in something bogus or fictitious
I learn so damn much from this guy. Unfortunately there are so many terrible instructors on YT. They're good at chess but they don't know how to stay focused and explain a single concept.
Eric, dont get me wrong - i love these videos, but I wanted to know if you could make a opening series. It could be so useful with all the knowledge you have.
"It could be so useful with all the knowledge you have."
I'm reminded of the quote from the film "The Baltimore Bullet" when pool hustler James Colburn tells his young student "Remember, I taught you everything you know....but i didn't teach you everything I know."
After you made that Stafford video everyone started avoiding it maybe this vid will neutralize it?
Yeah really noticed that. Now everybody retreats their knight.
@@yousef9921 to be honest taking in petrov's is often bad anyways.
@@soraneptune4178 I immediately lose respect for a player, the second I see Petrov or French.
@@tashikrtv6878 same xD, i just ask in my mind "why? Can't you play like a man, ffs"
Lucas Matsuoka what do you mean “like a man”
Enjoy the Stafford gambit? Try this opening! Also pretty much the Stafford gambit
"Don't let 80 people decide the fate of 1000's" "But that's how the government works"
I have been playing the Stafford as of late thanks to Eric Rosen videos and then had an opponent play this line against me just yesterday. I was thinking I need to find the answer to this line and then "Boom" here it is. Thanks Eric, for all your hard work.
I love videos where you show how one position can transpose into another.I feel like it's one of the most important skills, if someone is causing you problems in an opening being able to adjust to what they're doing and take advantage of it
Hey Eric! Would be great if you put this into the study section on lichess like your Stafford traps, would be great to look at!
I did! lichess.org/study/XaGhm8Vt
Thank u.....and I hate you. The Stafford "was" my go-to opening....UNTIL this morning lol 🙈🙈
Love the transposition into the Halloween Gambit
Thank you so much bro i learn really good through your style of showing the moves and ideas instead of just telling the coordinates. Hope you stay healthy. Brofist from germany!
literally got a stafford gambit game after watching the vid, thanks man
haha yeah I watched a video by eric once, a day afterwards I decided to play 1. ... e5 and we went into a stafford gambit and I just played literally the same game eric had and won. blitz prep can be so silly
I spent ages collecting stafford gambit notes from a heap of your old vids and then I put together heaps of my own research covering so many lines. Finally as I finish you put out a couple of stafford gambit videos showing everything I just figured out😅
Oh well, can't complain. It's too good not to share!
Thanks heaps 4 awesome content!
Well i guess you’re the best chess teacher i came across. Goes straight to the point and make me understand attacks like no other
His voice is so condescendingly comforting
I played 2 back to back games same line and same moves and won then thanks eric
Eric I just became your 25,000th follower on Lichess. 24,999 gambit accepted, I couldn't resist.
😮!!!! challenge me now if you'd like to play a game
@@eric-rosen I just sent a challenge, my name is WaveOfMutilation. It will also be your 19,000th game exactly if we play!
Edit: Oh well, I was too late 🤷🏼♂️
I'm actually surprised that you didn't mention the standard oh no my queen trap. After knight takes knight and you retake with pawn, going into the reversed stafford, and black plays knight C6 or D6, you can also just castle to bait black into trying to pin the knight to the queen. While also threatening to take it and dmg the pawn structure if the queen doesn't defend.
But then you just got the standard stafford oh no my queen trap.
I've had this multiple times. Never gets old. Always makes my day.
I finally won using your Stafford gambit . I won in four moves I believe. He took my queen and it was all over. Thank you!!
Not only that I like all ur videos n posts n this one has helped me to get quite a few victims in my blitz matches played in my local n national tournaments.😃🖒🖒
Also Eric I wanted to tell u tht I appreciated vry much also the Orthoschnapp gambit in the French defence..N more important I wanted to tell u that I analysed in depth the various lines n I came up with 3-4 lines which I invented by myself🙂..Needless to say that I made a number of victims in my blitz n semi rapid games also! Among the reasons is the fact that one my novelty lines it was quite tough for my opponent to refute or counter even in the semi rapid matches as the lines were quite effective ones..Keep it up Eric Rosen,am a big fan of u n ur videos & I mention also that I recommended ur videos to quite a lot of the chess people in my country..🖒🖒
May be n hope so that we could meet where I would like to share many chess stuff with u.
Thanks Eric :) Just avoided the Stafford with that Halloween idea and won.
Thanks GM Rosen, I am enjoying all the Stafford videos. Not for nothing, but this doesn't seem like a new opening, rather a sharp line off the Petrov / Russian game. There has to be some reason why we don't see it as often as other openings at high levels. I suspect ,white when they accept the gambit is when they get in trouble, chasing material with the knight- I definitely will be studying this more. My coaches in the past always recommended me to play King's Indian or Nimzo as black and learn the main lines from that one. I'm tempted to play Carlsen's Bongcloud as white but I'm too chicken.
Eric do one on the Evan's gambit!
Do more of this please, and show us some vod matches about these traps if possible. Thanks btw! Like for real we really appreciate your contents, hope you and your family are doing well. Love from Philippines ❤
I have a little pet line which ends up very similar to this. If black goes for the fork trick in Italian four knights with Nxe4, rather than taking back white can castle and then after Nxc3, dxc3 it's effectively the same gambit.
It's not quite as strong since black already has a knight on c6 but you still get a win if black doesn't play carefully. I find good success with it at my level where players start using the fork trick but aren't strong enough to see the danger.
If Eric didn't have ads to his videos, he'd be my favourite sleep story channel :p His voice is so soothing
Eric Thanks for sharing your talent with us. Wish we had someone like you here in Orlando. I am trying to find if there is any group of Chess aficionados. I am just a beginner but have learned a lot through your videos.
I find Eric to be one of the most likable UA-cam personalities, across all genres, not just chess. Keep it up dude.
Very interesting opening, thanks for showing!
Petition to get a tier list of dubious gambits
Just watched this and got the line in the first game. Thanks, based Rosen
Make more videos like this , Eric. It’s so helpful !
You had me at, "But that's how government works, right?"
The only time I faced the Stafford was after seeing your video on it in a rapid game against someone 100 points lower rated. He lasted about 11 moves because I think he wasn't used to the opponent actually refuting it lol
bruh please make more of these vids I love your vids soooooo much it is so interesting watching you are you voice is perfect for these kinds of vids. love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you for liking this comment cuz of you I have gotten much better at chess
Thumbnail is the too good Eric!
Danya has a refutation video. I enjoyed it immensely.
Eric with the Tips and Tricks.. niceee!
enjoy your videos a lot
Without the queen knight being offered in exchange, I've known the white attack for centuries as "figatello". With the queen knight exchanged, essentially is the same aggresive figatello but secured.
I love this Gambit
i just played this in a 1300s match in Lichess and loved that i finally got it off!
Literally got my first reverse stafford gambit today (and first any stafford gambit), they played pawn e4 which screwed with the Qf3 ideas i remembered so had to really think to remember what the best moves where, spent like 3 minutes thinking, I went Ng5 of course, they ended up going pawn d4, I took bxd4, then black bioshop e6, i couldnt remember what was best move, ended up going bxe7 to trap the rook, then they bundled Qc8 and resigned after like 6 moves, my heart was beating fast though during the whole game XD
At 7:10 I would castle, then sac the knight for the e5 pawn. If he captures then check with the queen on h5. If black push the front to protect the king, he loses the rook. If black moves the king forward, it's checkmate in 1
The difference is that when 1.e4 black has many responses such as c5 d5 nf6 e6 d6 g6 while when in Stanford gambit 1.e4 e5 white can play nf3 or f4 or at least that's my experience when playing chess
Great stuff. Impressive tutorial. Thinking out loud, sharing insights, solving problems.
This video oddly helped me theorycraft my Fried Liver.
0:57
Best Rosen quote 😂
Love this gambit
The new fun video gambit - I accept.
Eric is like indica chess content and gothamchess is like sativa chess content
those transpositions are so much fun 😂
I made a gambit against the Berlin. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. h3 :)
He's so chill
I really enjoy gambit openings.
Another funny transposition: 1.e4-e5 2.Nf3-Nc6 3.Nxe5-Nc6 4.Nc3-Bc5
White can transpose into the Cochrane gambit with 5.Nxf7 or 4.Nxf7, another hyperly correct and not-at-all-dubious gambit!
Edit: Black can respond with 5. ..- Bxf2+ for a Traxler counter attack feeling, but now we are really out of seriousness. =D
First time for me. I might call my friend who has nearly 1000 chess books.
Thanks.. I learned long ago To develop pieces!!
Deberías sacar una camiseta que diga "I love Stanfford gambit". Que manera de reirme con tus videos jajajaja una partida tras otra ganando con esta apertura y ahora esto de blancas jajajaja. Good job
Sir I m learning chess u r just awesome plz upload videos on traps n best moves
So Stockfish against regular stafford (as black) suggests Queen in front of the king right after knight trade, the knight out, and then back to where the queen was.
So Qe7, Nc6, Nd8
Its a but cramped, but it defends everything. Its not as natural to play tho. Feels more hypermodern where you dont have your center or really development, but its interesting either way.
Edit: just checked again, and it gives the c6 line instead. Dunno why Im getting different recommendations lol
Thanks for telling from both sides
Crazy staff-Ord!
Best coach lots of love
in some ways, this seems like it is even better than the Stafford Gambit.. because that opening looks more like a blunder and would lure black to taking e4
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.N×e5 Nc6 4.N×c6 d×c6 5.Qf3 Bc5 6.h6
What to do?
I loved to play Stafford but now I can even play it in response to Petrovs defence from white side 😈
petrov's defense: stafford gambit declined: halloween gambit declined: stafford gambit accepted
isn't that the Urosov or the Boden-Kieseritsky , not a "reversed Stafford"?
Urosov does d4, not Nc3
I never used twicht but I will learn it to meet you in the future.
Eric rosen we two are like brothers we play the same opening and loves the stafford and learned chess the same way........
You also said I am gonna do a video about 4 knights remember! I love you Eric
never show them the opening I'm really loving it! please
I'm curious whether you would feel like you were already playing a lost game as white if you gave up all 8 pawns before start of game. Obviously, black has huge material advantage but white has unimpeded piece mobility and "move in hand". Would be curious to see this demonstrated.
Thank you for the vid !
Maybe after seeing this ten more times I will enjoy it more, but I need my own Pieces to play it in 3 D.
Title suggestions: "Beat grandmasters with this one weird trick", "Grandmasters hate it when you use this opening against them."
At 7 mins 8 secs in that position u can play Ne5 Fxe5 Qh5 and then if g6 take the rook on h8. If Ke7 the king gets chased around the board.
I address this question at 9:50. It doesn't quite work unfortunately 😢
@@eric-rosen sorry now I. Gonna be known as one of those dumb commenters. Sorry for wasting ur time
@@eric-rosen am in shock u replied so excited
@@eric-rosen huge fan btw
@@eric-rosen also will u be doing any more commentary on the Magnus hikaru match
3:00 cant you play knight takes E5 winning the pawn because he can’t take back because bishop takes F7 wins there queen?
6:25 Oh no, my queen!
Eric could you make a gambits tier list it would be really fun.
please make a video about the Kings Gambit with deep calculation...
Just wanna to say after pawn defence king side for black go knight sicrifice tak pawn , and check mate in 2. Round for queen please look it
With White it is called Boden Kieseritzky Gambit - oh yes as mentioned at 12:45
I know beginners like these gambits but some are actually bad for their play. In the long run they may benefit from studying the Evans. We know the great majority will never get to expert (candidate master) level, So these gambits work better there. For the student who really wants to end up a titled player, besides going to college to become a doctor or lawyer or some high paying profession, they will then need to really learn the standard openings.
On 6:59,white can take the e5 pawn with knight then after fxe5 Qh5 wins
Eric -how about a Fajarowicz gambit
I see the vid....I clicked fast....Am I the only one whose annoyed with this gambit?? All the players I have played lately all plays this opening....this is soo devaststinghdjdhd..Noiiiicee Eric Noiceeeee
After ages I'm in the right place
I really love these videos. You teach noobs to memorise inferior openings. In the words of a wise man, “tricks are for kids”.
h2-h3 at the right time!
Never have I clicked on a video so quickly
There is a course on Chessable that shows these variations.