Winning with the Best Beginner Chess Opening

In this video, I play a chess game in the Ponziani Opening and achieve one of the most venomous traps.
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20 Comments

  1. Qc4 was a beautiful sacrifice if he accepted
    Because

    In 16th move if he took your Queen
    then by Re8 you could check mate him

  2. Ponziani ? Can I use it regularly without thinking or when Knight coming out ?

  3. You scared me with that queen move at first haha

  4. The last video is the only reason I used Ponziani for the last 2 years.

  5. Damn that 1500 was pretty good at spotting some of the traps. Saw your ONMQ which I wasn't expecting.

  6. "Being up material is only good if you pieces can exert dominance."
    ReallY?
    And what is good when your pieces can't exert dominance?

  7. now if black go for Bxc4 in move no. 16 and white moves Re8 is it a checkmate ?

  8. rule #1 never take eric rosen’s queen

  9. Move 25 you had c4! Great video btw, I must practice this trap

  10. Eric, oh god XD what a hilarious person you are!!! I always wait for your videos, and i watch them more for your sense of humour haha!! Thanks for such great videos, always giving me a good laugh 😀

  11. 3:17 black knew about the most basic rule of chess: If you take Eric's queen, you lose. Top tier acting!

  12. 5:35 Eric missed a fork of rook and king if he would have played pawn to c4

  13. My chess openings repertoire is really lacking since I'm just a casual player. As white, mainly Italian opening, Evan's gambit, Vienna and Italian game. As black, basically just the Caro-Kann only, all three major variations (advance, exchange, kaprov) and a little bit of slav. I need to just take an entire weekend and study more openings.

  14. I was "studying" the ponziani on lichess but I couldn't get a game where I could play it. Just finally got a game with it and they played into a trap. AWESOME 😎👍

  15. Realizing you hung a queen. 😨 The sigh of relief when your opponent doesn't see it. 🤗😂

  16. I was wondering why you didn't check with dark bishop when you messed up queen. Love your videos.

  17. This reminds me a lot of the opera game. Obviously not structurally really (except that bit where the ohnomyqueen would have resulted perfectly in opera mate lol) but I mean more, like, in beauty and ~ v i b e ~

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