"I literally don't care about the stafford gambit" (Hikaru voice)

Now this you guys is why you have to remember to be very precice in order to defeat this very dubious, and UNACCSEPTABLE gambit that Eric Rosen has made o so popular.

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What you don’t realise that actually Eric was gambiting the Stafford Gambit against Hikaru to make his opponents in the future overconfident

I literally loose on time..i was I move away to give ladder checkmate... 😭

Completely agree; these videos are great

Makes sense when you think of all the folks he's adopted...

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That’s not hard, Eric is friends with everyone!

@@molokoko786 except for his queen.. he keeps on losing her!

@@road_to_gm123 he is such a good sport when he does though! Never spits the dummy or throws the rattle out the park like some other streamers!

although i feel there no more real beef with the other eric anymore

@ 9:15 a pawn can move, even jump; especially with the Hikaru effect in play.

I think you have to play Qe7

its a gm its nothing special that he can crush strong openings

Yeah, but he did not.

​@@tvens1 yes he did, in second TT, and won the game

e5 is still a good move, but there are still many ways to lose on the spot, for example e5, Ne4, d3 is already losing for white, correct move is d4 instead, but the line continues Qh5 now g3 is natural looking but losing on the spot again. I can go even bit deeper, but the point is its very hard to go terribly wrong with 5.Nc3, as a stafford player that move gives me the most trouble

Well, in chess sometimes you have to accept that a gambit such as the stafford it is the exchange of a pawn for black's initiative and some open diagonals for the opponent to attack. So there's no such a thing as 'these moves are very passive and do not fit with my playstyle' because after grabbing the extra pawn it's like you accepting to defend for a few moves in exchange for the pawn. It's totally different from the alekhine defense that is a very positional and theorical opening because in this defense black cedes the initiative and the center with nf6 in exchange for a theoretical possibility that white is overextending the center for black to attack it later. Black's position is totally closed and is trying to prove that white has to do many concessions to have all that space. So, conceptually speaking, if you don't want to defend in the petrov and prefers having the initiative, don't accept the gambit.

there's not really a way to "crush" the morra gambit, many GMs even avoid playing against it because smith morra is actually a good gambit unlike stafford

I forgot the origins but its another move that can also be very tricky and surprise people since more people would know the h5 line instead

He played Eric Rosen.

@@tvens1 I know lmao

His like the swordsman on record of ragnarok who fight his enemies in his brain and look for million outcomes

A classic error. Chess players are good chess players because they play chess, being dumb is not an issue, just be precise. Eric rosen would smash that entire list, no draws, no losses.

@@deltalima6703 you need exercise and experience yes but it is not the online stuff you need. Magnus is also smart for example not dumb, too

My favorite opponent is not considered smart at all, but if a "smart" person plays him he mops the board with them. It took me YEARS to beat him. I am his favorite opponent too. Magnus is smart, sure, kasparov taught him a lot and he played chess at a high level since he was a kid. Smart or not, Magnus would still be number 1 right now. He put in the effort.

Valid point hard to disagree!