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Beating EVERYONE with the Stafford Gambit

Eric Rosen
2024 ж. 22 Мам.
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I can't stop...
0:00 Intro
0:59 Stafford Gambit Time
2:18 Stafford Gambit Time
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3:54 Stafford Gambit Time
4:51 Stafford Gambit Time
6:40 Stafford Gambit Time
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  • I love that all time stamps are labelled Stafford gambit time😂

    @pakasokoste@pakasokoste Жыл бұрын

    • Lol that’s hilarious

      @Mr.StealYourGirl81@Mr.StealYourGirl81 Жыл бұрын

    • My favorite part of Rosen's videos is when he said "it's Stafford Gambit time" and sacced his pawn, definitely one of the KZheadrs of all time

      @konbkob4156@konbkob4156 Жыл бұрын

    • ​@@konbkob4156 One of the youtubers, he is.

      @BottleOfCoke@BottleOfCoke Жыл бұрын

    • @@BottleOfCoke of all time (;

      @someoneelse293@someoneelse293 Жыл бұрын

    • lmfao

      @aliyutube@aliyutube Жыл бұрын

  • I loved the part where Eric says "It's stafford gambit time" and stafford gambited the opponent.

    @em4six348@em4six348 Жыл бұрын

    • Oh no I made a similar comment just now 😂

      @Mr.StealYourGirl81@Mr.StealYourGirl81 Жыл бұрын

    • @@Mr.StealYourGirl81 😭💔✋

      @em4six348@em4six348 Жыл бұрын

    • Timestamp?

      @GeorgeFoot@GeorgeFoot Жыл бұрын

    • @@GeorgeFoot 0:00-27:18

      @SpencerTwiddy@SpencerTwiddy Жыл бұрын

    • That’s such a funny joke wow! I laughed for 2 hours

      @MiserableMidnight@MiserableMidnight Жыл бұрын

  • At 14:10 Eric doing THE ROOK impression..and then doing BOTH ROOKS! was fantastic hehe

    @rioleelive@rioleelive Жыл бұрын

    • Lol, yeah, i wanted to say it too)

      @usualhumanxd353@usualhumanxd353 Жыл бұрын

    • The editor throwing in a Levy jumpscare was perfect too lmao

      @twagetomato@twagetomato Жыл бұрын

    • @@twagetomato I think he edits his videos. At least he used to

      @ratioripbozo@ratioripbozo Жыл бұрын

    • @@ratioripbozo This one was edited by Jonathan Schrantz, if you look at the bottom of the description it will tell you.

      @citizensoldier314@citizensoldier314 Жыл бұрын

    • @@citizensoldier314 oh. Didn't know, thanks

      @ratioripbozo@ratioripbozo Жыл бұрын

  • if anyone wanted time stamps : 0:00 Intro 0:59 Stafford Gambit Time 2:18 Stafford Gambit Time 3:16 Stafford Gambit Time 3:54 Stafford Gambit Time 4:51 Stafford Gambit Time 6:40 Stafford Gambit Time 7:38 Stafford Gambit Time 11:50 Stafford Gambit Time 15:21 Stafford Gambit Time 16:35 Stafford Gambit Time 18:50 Stafford Gambit Time 21:09 Stafford Gambit Time 22:41 Stafford Gambit Time

    @danjixkrabix@danjixkrabix Жыл бұрын

    • there's alreadytime stamps on the video itself my guy

      @pairot01@pairot01 Жыл бұрын

    • @@pairot01 r/whoosh

      @fasteddie5829@fasteddie5829 Жыл бұрын

    • ​@@pairot01 Get outta here

      @arnavnandan@arnavnandan11 ай бұрын

    • @@pairot01 Then why you are here?

      @SidharthSreekumar-pv3jb@SidharthSreekumar-pv3jb5 ай бұрын

    • I wonder what gambits he'll do.

      @jondoe8014@jondoe80145 ай бұрын

  • This is one of your best uploads…. My wife thinks im not going to bed because I wanted to watch the football match. Little does she know, it’s Stafford gambit time!

    @Haakl1@Haakl1 Жыл бұрын

    • Awesome

      @jestfullgremblim8002@jestfullgremblim8002 Жыл бұрын

  • I literally live for Eric Rosen Stafford gambit content. This is heaven.

    @acxrn@acxrn Жыл бұрын

    • This might be his magnum opus

      @wsemenske@wsemenske Жыл бұрын

    • @@wsemenske his magnus opum

      @jam-hu@jam-hu Жыл бұрын

    • @@wsemenske Magnus’s opium

      @hiyo9144@hiyo9144 Жыл бұрын

    • How can u love such an arrogant only 3000 world ranked nerd?

      @kaihaas4708@kaihaas4708 Жыл бұрын

    • LITERALLY YOU GUYS

      @MrRickeo@MrRickeo6 ай бұрын

  • The number of times Eric's written "Stafford", this was bound to happen

    @felixaddes@felixaddes Жыл бұрын

  • my favorite was the stafford game

    @wesleymcbob@wesleymcbob Жыл бұрын

  • The game at 3:55 took Eric a total of 7 seconds off his clock. He makes it look so easy.

    @GaryTheGray@GaryTheGray Жыл бұрын

  • "Two minute bullet game with no time to calculate? Of course I should enter the Stafford Gambit against the literal expert on the opening." Said literally everyone in that tournament. I mean, amazing content, but also baffling decision making there.

    @felixmerz6229@felixmerz6229 Жыл бұрын

    • Yes exactly, no one enters it with me even on a 10 min game.

      @ameenaftab2803@ameenaftab2803 Жыл бұрын

    • @@ameenaftab2803 lol me too it always end up as four knight

      @Hanqy@Hanqy10 ай бұрын

  • 19:40 insane that white is plus 7, but after forking the quuen and bishop with a PAWN, the eval drops to equality. Insane stuff!

    @pakasokoste@pakasokoste Жыл бұрын

  • It is kind of amazing that Eric literally knows more about this opening than anyone who has ever lived.

    @ChristianHegele@ChristianHegele Жыл бұрын

    • He might really not sure, but never ceases to amaze me relatively new to chess and this channel, every time I think I know most of the stafford I’ll stumble onto a different video from Eric proving me wrong.

      @TheKaryotic@TheKaryotic Жыл бұрын

    • @@TheKaryotic Not sure?! Who would be your other candidates for the most knowledgeable Stafford theoreticians of history then?

      @AlanTwoRings@AlanTwoRings Жыл бұрын

    • ​@@AlanTwoRings there are more than a thousand grandmasters. Maybe one of them also likes this opening a lot.

      @Luaporleafcutterant@Luaporleafcutterant Жыл бұрын

    • ​@@AlanTwoRings I always fail to remember the name but Rosen himself admits he's not the greatest expert in the Stafford lines, there is someone rated around 2000 who is (according to Rosen again) the greatest expert in the world on the Stafford gambit.

      @nephandi2316@nephandi2316 Жыл бұрын

    • Yeah rosen talked about that guy drawing against stockfish using the stafford gambit

      @undeniablySomeGuy@undeniablySomeGuy Жыл бұрын

  • I want Eric saying "🎵 Stafford Gambit time 🎵" as my ringtone.

    @Nippleless_Cage@Nippleless_Cage Жыл бұрын

    • Followed by tobey Maguire "Pizza time"

      @amankg7@amankg7 Жыл бұрын

  • 2 years ago and 30k subs on your yt channel, your stafford and ponziani opening are still my favs up until now. I'm glad you've gain a huge followers and subs. Hoping for your grandmaster title soonest 💛

    @riuriu9815@riuriu9815 Жыл бұрын

  • i love watching eric's videos every time i come back from a night out. eating noodles while drunk and watching eric's chess games is the best experience ever

    @ryames9016@ryames9016 Жыл бұрын

    • I had a similar routine but with Bob Ross vids… kind of the same vibe though!

      @Haakl1@Haakl1 Жыл бұрын

    • Been there ❤

      @hectorlopezambiasanchez1161@hectorlopezambiasanchez1161 Жыл бұрын

  • 7:40 is my favorite. I really love the Stafford Gambit because it leads to such stable and equal positions that slowly translate into favorable end games with precise play. 🤣🤣🤣

    @mikebaker2436@mikebaker2436 Жыл бұрын

  • Love how he named each time stamp Stafford Gambit Time

    @dumplangs5840@dumplangs5840 Жыл бұрын

  • 14:11 Him yelling the rook is so cute😂😂

    @jibiteshsaha4392@jibiteshsaha4392 Жыл бұрын

  • Here when it was titled Staford Gambit. 🙂

    @benjaminkolbeck@benjaminkolbeck Жыл бұрын

  • One thing I love about Eric's KZhead videos is he never puts out content for content's sake. He lives it, and shares it when he finds it.

    @sneakytiki9424@sneakytiki9424 Жыл бұрын

  • Whenever I hear "There's a funny line" I immediately know I'm in for some galaxy brain moves

    @victorcarrillo7618@victorcarrillo7618 Жыл бұрын

  • Sooo much venom in the Stafford! I mean, I get it why Grandmasters hate it in classical games but when Eric gets to play the Stafford in blitz it's almost unfair.

    @javierrodrigo1009@javierrodrigo1009 Жыл бұрын

  • When you’re 2700 ELO, but 4500 when playing the Stafford.

    @spiderchopproductions8172@spiderchopproductions8172 Жыл бұрын

  • My fav was vs FM marantz3 that pin on the bishop was so cool. Pinned not to a piece but pinned to a mating square. Awesome.

    @eridu77@eridu77 Жыл бұрын

  • 4:43 "It's been at least 5 so far"

    @bobapplebob9695@bobapplebob9695 Жыл бұрын

  • I watch every video you upload. Best instructional and entertaining channel out there. Go Eric!

    @Karstendag@Karstendag Жыл бұрын

  • This video reminds me of Ben Finegold’s Smith Morra lecture, where he spends half the video ridiculing Loek van Wely for accepting the Smith Morra against Esserman, who knows that opening better than anyone in the world

    @henryaggerate9669@henryaggerate9669 Жыл бұрын

  • Always grateful for you, showing the Stafford gambit… As I love playing it!

    @markj228@markj228 Жыл бұрын

  • i loved it when he played the stafford gambit

    @dumbozo@dumbozo Жыл бұрын

  • egg

    @ben1996123@ben1996123 Жыл бұрын

    • 🥚

      @eric-rosen@eric-rosen Жыл бұрын

    • @@eric-rosen 🍳

      @ben1996123@ben1996123 Жыл бұрын

    • Egg

      @Sky2042@Sky2042 Жыл бұрын

    • 🥚 egg

      @effperm@effperm Жыл бұрын

  • 14:12 and 14:29 I love how he said "THE ROOK!!!" like Gotham 😂

    @muhammmadnurullah3010@muhammmadnurullah3010 Жыл бұрын

  • If Ken Smith got to put his name next to the Mora gambit, surely the Stafford-Rosen gambit is a more appropriate name.

    @the_potmo@the_potmo Жыл бұрын

  • This is a good demonstration of the fact that it's not about how sound your opening is, it's about how well you have studied it, and how easily you can play it when out of theory, whether you know the structure, plans, weaknesses, etc.

    @benb4728@benb4728 Жыл бұрын

    • yeaa so lets continue to not learn theory and be bad at chess

      @Tremliy@Tremliy Жыл бұрын

    • For sure, in quite a few games it's not the Stafford Gambit traps that win, its Eric's ability to improvise and rescue a lost position

      @GeorgeFoot@GeorgeFoot Жыл бұрын

    • Thats why hikaru beats everyone with the bong cloud

      @Yea___@Yea___ Жыл бұрын

    • @@Tremliy stafford is theory now

      @benb4728@benb4728 Жыл бұрын

  • My favorite part is when eric yelled "it's stafford gambit time!" And then he gambited all over the place

    @mortadahasaad530@mortadahasaad530 Жыл бұрын

  • The chapter titles are the cherry on top

    @necr0mancrr@necr0mancrr Жыл бұрын

  • My favorite part is where he yelled ITS STAFFORD GAMBITING TIME and Stafford Gambitted all over his opponent.

    @radioactivesdesigns3554@radioactivesdesigns3554 Жыл бұрын

  • I always look forward to a nice stafford gambit. Love it, thank you for showing me Eric.

    @Matthew.keppler@Matthew.keppler Жыл бұрын

  • Eric Rosen has stafford mastery🔥🔥

    @soumyadeeppaul5821@soumyadeeppaul5821 Жыл бұрын

  • "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 openings once, but I fear the man who has practiced one opening 10,000 times." Bruce Lee

    @ageofengineering1417@ageofengineering1417 Жыл бұрын

    • i dont fear the man who has practiced the shit opening 10,000 times 😂😂

      @IvanWongHongKong@IvanWongHongKong Жыл бұрын

  • Outstanding work, Sir!

    @jrd33@jrd33 Жыл бұрын

  • I grew to love the Stafford since I first saw it from Eric in 2021 and I have got to be good at it. Cheers Eric. And keep on doing the amazing vids. And throw in a couple of lesson vids as well.

    @KMurreh@KMurreh Жыл бұрын

  • Oh so satisfying. This video is a bliss. Thanks Eric!

    @SebastianBohn@SebastianBohn Жыл бұрын

  • this is great content!

    @darkboromirify@darkboromirify Жыл бұрын

  • Eric just keeps on making me love the Stafford gambit even with its defects.

    @richardmendy4914@richardmendy4914 Жыл бұрын

  • Thanks for taking all the time and trouble it must have been to edit out just the Stafford games from such a huge stream. I'm kind of speechless honestly. I mean this could have been a course on Chessable selling for $30 over there. I share your enthusiasm for this nutty yet dangerous line.

    @KidNoah2012@KidNoah2012 Жыл бұрын

  • erick you are the magician of chess. thanks for the learning.

    @manum5550@manum5550 Жыл бұрын

  • Ty for the content 😘

    @hennessynochaser@hennessynochaser Жыл бұрын

  • Great video, great ideas. Really helped me.

    @SiteReader@SiteReader Жыл бұрын

  • Nice Eric! This will be a nice update for the Bible! working on it today to refine those lines!

    @Daniele.Rossini@Daniele.Rossini Жыл бұрын

  • Stafford Gambit, Eric Rosen's gambit

    @iconsworld9@iconsworld9 Жыл бұрын

  • Wow 30 minutes of real ADRENALINE! Loved it!

    @andreadistasi8842@andreadistasi8842 Жыл бұрын

  • It’s SO funny seeing how fast people dig their own graves. I just think of an old Disney cartoon of someone enthusiastically digging a hole with a huge smile on their face and they are sinking rapidly, and a caption saying “unaware average joe playing against the stafford gambit”

    @Punkledunk@Punkledunk Жыл бұрын

  • My friends can’t understand how I could possibly be laughing so hysterically at a chess video

    @mannylokzzz@mannylokzzz5 ай бұрын

  • this is the best chess video ive ever watched haha. THE ROOKS!!!🤯

    @theoofsweden@theoofsweden Жыл бұрын

  • Great win!🏆

    @dl1272@dl127221 күн бұрын

  • Nice! As a casual chess player I'm trying to build my understanding of the game around the Stafford Gambit.

    @brett6468@brett6468 Жыл бұрын

  • He whips out lines as if he’s doing chessable training

    @KironKabir@KironKabir Жыл бұрын

  • Great vid :D

    @jakub_p3352@jakub_p3352 Жыл бұрын

  • Finally up material.

    @antaress8128@antaress8128 Жыл бұрын

  • At 14:25, Eric saying “the rook”, shaking the screen intensely and saying “grrrrr” would not even scare a goose :). And not sacrificing the Queen just to be civil was also a very dignified way of slaughtering the opponent.

    @SanderBessels@SanderBessels Жыл бұрын

  • Wooow genius man, you know all the lines 🔥😍

    @MohamedOsama-jo4sm@MohamedOsama-jo4sm Жыл бұрын

  • These gambits are my favorite way to learn to see tactics. I play Stafford a lot with black, and Danish and Smith Morra with white. The Smith Morra is new to me and really hard to remember, but I suspect it will be worth the effort. Thanks to Eric, I have won numerous arena tournament games in under 12 moves with the Stafford. Lots of fun.

    @barrywuthrich8530@barrywuthrich8530 Жыл бұрын

  • You are a artist!

    @ScaramouchedaVinci@ScaramouchedaVinci Жыл бұрын

  • Been a sub since 2020, love to see u still playing Stafford with a cup tea/coffee to sip on while the opponents are brain scrambling to refute it

    @itsgunner5562@itsgunner5562 Жыл бұрын

  • I love this video and the way Eric say "The rooook"

    @cerongul529@cerongul529 Жыл бұрын

  • Love the Stafford, such a dubious opening but beats decent players

    @gerardduffy3406@gerardduffy3406 Жыл бұрын

  • 5:11 "The screen has to shake intensely" *one intense shake later* "I just minimized all my windows"

    @user-id2nr1zp1u@user-id2nr1zp1u Жыл бұрын

  • The funny thing is that if you were playing Eric and he pursued SG you'd accept just because it's a bit of a good story to say you tried to defend SG against Eric Rosen.

    @obscurelines@obscurelines Жыл бұрын

  • Eric Rosen, Even sleepless for hours, whatever time they throw at you, it doesn't matter, even from high-raters. You are a BEAST!

    @jerryrivers4256@jerryrivers425611 ай бұрын

  • Most hilarious description I've seen in a while

    @PhO3NiX96@PhO3NiX96 Жыл бұрын

  • Yesss we need more stafford gambit videos

    @foxus-a113@foxus-a113 Жыл бұрын

  • Very helpful to have chapters with titles

    @davewiltshire4262@davewiltshire4262 Жыл бұрын

  • Now i wanna play this

    @Arvl.@Arvl.11 ай бұрын

  • Beautiful

    @socute9248@socute9248 Жыл бұрын

  • " Every gambit has a weakness. " -- Itachi Uchiha

    @MoviesShowForU@MoviesShowForU Жыл бұрын

  • great vid

    @TobiasRust@TobiasRust Жыл бұрын

  • I would like to thank you for getting everyone to play the insanely easy to refute/destroy Stafford Gambit.

    @danielhiggins5907@danielhiggins5907 Жыл бұрын

  • I want you to look up for Boden kieseritzky Gambit. This is basically tempo up Stafford Gambit and if they accepted it is very difficult to neutralize and the moves are counterintuitive!!

    @Gingnose@Gingnose Жыл бұрын

  • Omg i missed you bro havent watched you in 2 years ❤❤ i haven't forgot the name when i'm back to playing chess i remebered you the stafford is amazing 😂

    @mrkmed7050@mrkmed7050 Жыл бұрын

  • "Dubious but highly venomous opening". Yeah I'm starting to see that. Constantly playing black (so i can practice the Stafford) against Aron (700) who always responds with e5... my breakthrough came last week. One of life's "Wow, I did it. It works" moments.

    @zenzombie72@zenzombie72 Жыл бұрын

  • This is your notice to take a moment to look at the description, if you haven’t already ;)

    @freezeflame6565@freezeflame6565 Жыл бұрын

  • Im new to chess and you just earned a subscriber.

    @jayfeezal8773@jayfeezal877310 ай бұрын

  • 21:10 A-set! Ggs Eric :)

    @humansareweird2866@humansareweird2866 Жыл бұрын

  • 4:43!comp ih lation not com pile ation Eric 😂

    @Raxy75@Raxy752 ай бұрын

  • At 18:14, Eric playing Rf5 and pre-moving pawn takes f5, leaving his queen hanging was a very scary moment. Could have broken the Stofford winning streak. With 30 seconds on the clock, up material, looking at chat, what could possibly go wrong? 😅

    @SanderBessels@SanderBessels Жыл бұрын

    • Yes except the queen wasn't hanging so ..

      @zakariaben9466@zakariaben94668 ай бұрын

  • I love when he said “it’s Stanfording time!”

    @Mr.StealYourGirl81@Mr.StealYourGirl81 Жыл бұрын

  • That was fun

    @cokomairena@cokomairena Жыл бұрын

  • Oh no my queen 😂😂

    @dl1272@dl127221 күн бұрын

  • 13 move pork win was my favorite

    @joeyharrington1863@joeyharrington1863 Жыл бұрын

  • The distribution 😂

    @stanmorris5108@stanmorris5108 Жыл бұрын

  • 20:27 Eric is so crazy, like who else makes a 2500 player hang mate in 1

    @undeniablySomeGuy@undeniablySomeGuy Жыл бұрын

  • 15:14 Wow, this person is crasy! Gotham, Hansen - step away!)

    @user-gl6du1mh2f@user-gl6du1mh2f Жыл бұрын

  • MOAR Stafford!!

    @mika_the_cat2127@mika_the_cat2127 Жыл бұрын

  • Eric makes it look so easy

    @steve_m7383@steve_m7383 Жыл бұрын

  • Savage.

    @BillyWayneMcCann@BillyWayneMcCann Жыл бұрын

  • the thing that made me laugh the hardest here was the time section notations. @eric - do you have a chessable course on the sg? would be also interesting to see a bit of review of the few games where you got into a bit of trouble and what moves you should have played

    @sethcaldwell2126@sethcaldwell2126 Жыл бұрын

  • he goes so fast from "stafford gambit time" to a beautiful win

    @Zeldanerd7YT@Zeldanerd7YT Жыл бұрын

  • How anyone still accepts the Stafford against Eric is beyond me.

    @allanshpeley4284@allanshpeley4284 Жыл бұрын

  • Auto Watch when see Eric using his signature weapon 🔥🔥

    @ismailfaturrohman8715@ismailfaturrohman8715 Жыл бұрын

  • Stafford Gambit Time! 🍵 there's a new t-shirt for your merch 😁

    @dragonskulle7283@dragonskulle7283 Жыл бұрын
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