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25:20 Spiceworld The Movie

It's nice to see `perfect` games. I would like to see Eric 'blunder' in the first moves (like I usually do) and then try to get back in the game. I'm sure it would prove useful to see how to play 'solid' after small mistakes.

Please make your next speedrun a faster time control

16:00 best moment

Best chess content period. Eric is dominating the category.

Let's just call it, "what do we do against the Benoni?"

Just wanna point a nice line: Qe4 Rg1+ Bg7 Qe6+ Kh7 (if Kf8 Qf7#) Rxg7! Kxg7 Qf7#

45:10 This is why you and I will never be titled players. How Eric casually goes into a 16-move book opening, most of which makes no sense to the naked eye LOL! And that's just ONE variation of ONE opening.

Where did this idiom "white is for choice" come from? Really unfortunate that it has been adopted by one or two chess commentators as it is a little annoying.

Hello Eric if you get to 2000 without losing put the gigachad Eric for your pfp that would be dope as hell

"Im gonna play this and then think" exactly my style of playing chess. But somehow it doesnt work out so well for me

Hi Eric. I love this series. Against 1.d4, you clearly like the QGD, though I think I've seen you play the Nimzo. Have you ever experimented with g6 based defences such as the KI, Grunfeld and Benoni? Any thoughts about these?

The second game felt like drawback chess where the opponents drawback is warlord.

In the first game you described the white pawn on d6 as a 'focal point.' In Vukovic's Art of Attack he defines 'focal point' as a square where a mating attack culminates. There's no particular reason to accept or use Vukovic's definition but I thought I'd mention it. Thx for the game.

OOoh that looks nice. Looks much better than the previous one. I missed the kickstarter but i might get one when it's released :) Thanks for the video !

Great board but playing the opponent pieces while your time is running is unfair. Stop their time is unfair as well. So just getting 1-2 sec extra with this board would be fair, I guess.

Where do I buy thus

@10:25 Qc7 instead of c8, game over

Shocked you haven’t seen cheaters yet

don't let see that streak

Play a Dutch please

How many days ahead do you upload these? I want to catch you I'm about an 1850 rapid

WATCHED TWICE IN A ROW, ERIC, YOU KEPT ME UP FAR TOO LATE TONIGHT AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!! ... HA! TRUE FACT BUDDY, I THANK YA, IT WAS GRAND AS USUAL. LOVE THE SPEED RUN PAL, YOUR EXPLANATIONS IN THINKING PROCESS KEEPS ME GLUED TO THIS SERIES. ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE NEXT EXCITING EPISODE! ... BLESSINGS TO YA, .. MIKE.

@19:04 - what am I missing? Wouldn't Nd7 lose a piece after Bxf6? Now black's bishop and knight both hang?

I have a sort of generic question. I always watch your vids but I am hitting a ceiling below 1000. What should I do to improve. Study openings in depth? Study traps? I was around 900 but have not played for a while and I am not getting at rank 900 right now.

4:30 - time speed up?

12:25 Perhaps when you get a checkmate or finish a game, you could enlarge the webcam scene so that we can look at you as you're talking!

Eric could you please point out why it is important to play h6 to kick off the white’s bishop. I came across that move in some mainlines of QGD like structures as well as in your second game in this episode. But I don’t fully grasp the importance. For instance in your case you could have seemingly played a5 right away, but instead you also followed that rule of a6. I would appreciate some clarification. I am 1900+

bishop f1 is also Bens move 🙂

Eric's chess is so calm and collected like his personality, very nice to watch. I guess it's true that your chess gets represented by your personality atleast a little bit. My is just wild chaos lol

The better help sponsor was for those of us who suck at chess so hard, that it causes emotional damage.

Can't wait to see him resign his first game. He is so full of himself. But he is clearly not a GM material.

continue this series all the way to GM eric

nice double sponser right there

43:48 Pawn e4 to e5 was amazing, I didn t see the mate until you said it. And taking the bishop was a brilliant bate for opponent. Congrats, you played perfectly for a human

Last opponent is actually pronounced as "shukhrat" because "x" is "kh" in cyrillic and he is from Uzbekistan.

dunce opponents are nice to have

nice reti opening xd lol

episode 33 done

I just started played chess 3 months ago and learned so much from your speedrun series. Yesterday reached 1500 after starting from 400. Always trying to play solid like you do and opponent eventually blunders. But it feels like I've reached a stopping point on elo climb. How do I improve from this point onwards?

5:30 What is the point in putting the a rook to d1 instead of the f one?

Yes yes 💪

Anyone else LOVE Eric and LOVE this series, but also LOVE waiting for that first loss 😈

Oh no! My morning! But, oh yes! My entertainment!

nice 8/11 tilted tuesday

Crazy how you’ve been my nightly routine watch for like 3 years, thanks Eric 👊🏽

These games really highlight why tricky gambits are so popular. With Eric committing to sound, solid chess for instructive purposes, a lot of opponents at this level are maintaining good positions deep into the middle game. I suspect Eric could shred most of these players in 15 moves with his more dubious repertoire.

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Sleep gambit, my favorite!

Eric pronounces "Erasmus" -- Aerosmith! LOL. 15:37 -- Eric, its Uh-razz-mus