Explaining-moves-Eric is my favorite Eric

although it is a rapid game here you can see better the understanding of the game that a GM has, personally I prefer this kind of videos

These longer time controls provide way more educational content than short blitz/bullet games where we don't get to hear enough of your thought process. Do more of these, please! Or even a full Naroditsky style speedrun?

Showing all of the lines Eric calculated at the end explained why I'm not a master level player.

I understand that these games all the time are not optimal nor would we want to see only these games, but I really enjoyed getting a glimpse into your calculations. Your a brilliant chess player Eric & enjoy all your content and time invested. I'm done man crushing now 😄👌

Really instructive game. Strategy leads to tactics, and then brilliantly calculated by Eric.

More rapid and classics videos please

really enjoy it when Eric is explaining his chess moves

I enjoy hearing the thought process, what I call “chess out loud.” This requires longer time controls but is more entertaining for me than seeing a bunch of moves busted out fast that I don’t really understand. Since the running time of a video doesn’t indicate how many games are being played I’m not sure how to identify & watch more of these slower games. Thx GM Hansen 🙏 Would love watching more like this one!

really enjoyed this kind of content. Following your thoughtprocess was really helpful! :)

I love these types of longer videos where Eric explains his thought process, so educational!

This might have been my favorite video to date. Loved seeing your thought process throughout the game.

I've really enjoyed this video. It interesting for me to watch how exactly Eric choses the move and evaluates position

3:10 you ok dude?

Really loves the vid. Would love a series like that were you explore an opening in a slower game. Though we might not learn a lot is theory amirite hahaha

Awesome video man, thanks for share your knowledge in this fun way!

Awesome, more of these types of videos Eric!

Thank you for this game. I've learned a lot as you have been explaining the thought process behind almost every move. I'm inspired

Gotta say really enjoyed the longer game allowing you the time to vocalise your thought process fully, good stuff

So early he hasn't said "is this theory yet"

This was a really good video. I learned so much from it. Keep doing this great content!

Finally! I always wanted to see Eric play more rapid games.

Very enjoyable to watch. Eric is very strong GM. Cool to watch and even explained I don't understand games at this level.

The answer to my prayers with more grünfeld videos, love this content! more rapid game uploads would be great. Even a svidler-esque take on the Grünfeld looking at your preferred lines would be great. Another recommendation would be your top five best games OTB in the grünfeld, would love to see that.

This is my favourite type of content, more please!!!!

Love it - very instructional :)

Great Video Eric !, thanks for sharing, loved the commentary of your thinking process while playing along with pro's and cons of this opening. I would love to see more if this type of content, its very educational. P.S. congrats on your recent performance in the Airthings masters ( Feb 22 )

love your videos!

Please upload more content like this

Eric "is this theory?" Hansen plays 10 moves of theory in a fast game against an untitled opponent God-like.

When Eric only wins 1 ELO point, zyq0131: All that for a drop of blood

I saw you play this in a video, now this is my go-to opening for black. It does lead to some head crunching positions but if you do it right black has a nice defense

All the moves were very understandable. Thanks.

More vids like this please!

20:07 if he dies he dies.

" I want to know my opponent has lost a lot of games." Man after my own heart.

More of this please.

Dig the analysis.

grunfeld is my new fav opening

I love the hockey cliches at the end.

So much more valuable to watch and learn than blitz chess

These are the best

love to see eric doing more rapid

Does Eric have Hikaru's Roof stockfish installed ; o??

W00t! The chiseled grunfeld wrestler is back!!

Nice game Eric

wow the accuracy

Great!

Amazing Match :)

"keep your stick on the ice and yeah.. good things are gonna happen."

16:58 after Eric plays Qf8, didn’t white have Bxe5 winning a central pawn? If Rxe5 then f4 forking by white, and if fxe4 then fxe4 by white with white rook attacking Queen. Am I missing something? It looks kinda advantageous for white.

Damn.! that accuracy🗿

I love watching Eric Hansen play. I only watch his videos on chessbrah.

In this alternate timeline, Eric know this is theory.

12:00 this seems a lot like an unstoppable attack on the king tbh… like the gameplan im seeing here is trade our bishop for the knight, he has to take back with g pawn so his king is now wide open, then f5 to open up, if he takes we take back with the rook and go for a rook-queen duo putting pressure on the opponent’s king, and if he doesnt take then f6 and his dark squared bishop is running out of squares, has to fall back, and our queen can now come and pick up everything on the king’s side little by little. Im low/mid rated tho so tell me if i missed something, but i dont understand allowing his knight to run away and his king to be safe, when we’re about to block off our own bishop with f5 anyway.

Hi, at 5:00:00 minutes in when you're knight was under attack, could you have also instead pushed your pawn to E5 simultaneously attacking his knight? Or is that just a bad trade off? I'm only 800 rating so this is more of a query rather than suggestion :-)

You made his brain hurt😂

Long videos are nice

A Clinic

You actually explained the ideas and calculation really well! We rarely get a chance to see the slow chess teacher side of you but I love it!

5:30 the Hikaru stare

Im emotionally unavailable 😂😂

that 98.2% accuracy thoooooooooo, amazing video

Good content

I think Grunfield is very good for black, of course white gets his center, but pressure on center is much higher than in most king's indian lines. Also, this opening is very tricky, so you can surprise someone who never seen it.

8:46 How about Be5? Kick the knight, prevent d6, aim h2 pawn. White must play g3, and then you can continue with b6

theory flex

His opponent played suprisingly well, I am around his rating and I would've been dead by move 15

More this content

beautiful game

I think I know more grunfeld theory than Eric lol. After f3 you are supposed to play the intermezzo Na5 and then Be6 I think

Has mate in 1, goes for mate in 2

Such a beautiful game eh?

MVL noises

More rapid please

Is this theory? YESS

bro, this game is complicated

Thanks for the awesome content brahs. Could you maybe consider expanding the tracklist for the people who watch most of your content on KZfaq? It's not that the tracks aren't good, but it is just the same thing for more than a year now and it's getting kinda old. Thanks again for the videos!

Wasnt Qa1 mate ?

3:14 That's what she said.

check check

98 accuracy sheesh

Can someone explain why the opponents time kept increasing when he was about to be flagged? Happened multiple times

98,2 % accuracy just like that

I love iy

So rematch with dubov then?

all that for 1 rating point 😂

romulus

More rapid

Never play f6!

So early that a theory is yet to be created through “Is this a hypothesis”

21:32 isnt Qa1 mate in one? no need for Qd4

I'm 1700 and I tried playing the grunfeld a few times. It was a mistake to say the least.

All that for 1 rating point haha

Man a mentally draining 25 minute grunfeld game for 1 elo point, risking 100 elo points if you lose. I see why a lot of top players stick with bullet and blitz.

rlly interesting to see how a grandmaster thinks during a chess game :)

Damn, he can see a bunch of moves into the future, I can only see about 3-4 moves so this is just ridiculous

You know that classical music improves your cognition by 300%

Hello

Eric looks like Cristiano Ronaldo in the thumbnail