How to PUNISH Beginner Mistakes: 10 Instructive Chess Games

In this video, I play some of the first chess games on my new speedrun account. Every single games provides lots of lessons that are essential for chess beginners to know!

0:00 Explaining my new speed run account
3:00 How to turn a “weakness” into a STRONG ATTACK
13:39 When life gives you free food… you eat it
26:40 How to PUNISH Attempted Scholar’s Mate
31:23 The Oldest Trap in the Ruy Lopez (game 4)
44:40 Giving the Opponent a Taste of their Own Medicine (game 5)
47:35 How to Punish the opponent’s early queen moves (game 6)
54:28 Trying to Punish a Terrible Opening Backfires! (7)
1:04:13 Common Opening Trap vs the Modern Defense (8)
1:09:55 Getting punched in the face
1:27:20 Rare opening trap vs the Philidor Defense
1:40:14 Final Thoughts

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[jonnozomboid]

"And I think it only gets worse from here" (referring to opponent) lol I find it charming how polite Eric is. Very calm, instructional and knowledgeable. And always with a high degree of respect for his opponents. Love it.

[DrLogii]

I really enjoy your style of explained your games. You don't judge bad players, but just show how some moves aren't as good as they seem. Thank you for being such a kind and chill person.

[kruksog]

So, i actually really enjoyed watching you play the same openings over and over. It was cool to see your responses to different styles of play. Im sure youll want to change things up eventually, but for me (who is bad at chess), its nice to see the same ideas over and over to really drive the concepts home. As always, thanks for the vids. Love your style and presence.

[troycongdon]

Thank you for dumbing it down a bit once in a while. I enjoy your chess streams the most out of all the players trying to make a living on Youtube. It is nice to have some of the more basic lessons presented in your style.

[Pdstor]

8:14 From a beginner's standpoint, I'm happy to see someone with beginner content not going immediately to some "Fianchetto your bishop on the first move, then ease into the Syro-Malabar-Martin Variation" opening and then discredit the opponent for not learning book moves at 500ish level. We need basic principles **behind** openings so that we don't have to memorize them rotely; we should get to the point where we've just used them enough and seen them used enough to understand the purpose of each step and reasons to not take other steps. Thank you.

[johns]

I'm 34 minutes into video. And I must say this is the speedrun I wanted to see. I prefer this format with fast changing ELO of new account vs. the the reset account that moves 8 points at a time. It also helps that Rosen loves traps and will look for them bothways.

[Groggers]

Thank you for this video, it can be a bit intimidating as a lower rated player because a lot of high level chess streamers make you feel stupid for not seeing these basic traps or tactics, but you explain it in such an informative and non judgemental way.

[hudson]

seeing masters play slower time controls and explain their thoughts as they play games is very instructive and entertaining.

[alexschmitz]

Now my younger cousin doesn’t stand a chance.

[originaljazzgirl]

I'm finding this to be one of the most instructive things I've watched. I really appreciate how you don't talk too fast, and you're really good at explaining your thought processes and going on. Great teacher!

[alexf]

Eric, this was excellent stuff. I don't usually watch your content, but you're really good at explaining basic stuff to us patzers, that other strong youtubers may take for granted. Would love to watch more of these!

[CardCollectorKing]

By far my favorite chess series. I am a beginner sitting at 750 elo and I see these moves all the time. It’s nice to see counters.

[dksdmusic]

This was a really instructive video Eric. Thank you!

[CST]

29:00 That is instructive. I never knew there was this THIRD line of attack for the Scholar's Mate. Thanks for showing how to defend with the f6 knight and counterattack the queen.

[ranlit]

Dear Eric, I can’t express how much I look forward to watching your whole series!!

One thing, I really wish we can just… randomly pick openings based on “your mood of the day”. Just don’t stick to “one main suggestion” PLEASE.

I believe that would really help making this series more useful and fun for everyone. e4 players, d4 players, whatever

[milesmembreno]

I gained like a 100 elo after watching this (900->1000). Great educational content. So methodical and calm. Keep it coming!

[fg]

I hope this speedrun goes to higher elos too, would love to see you explain how to punish intermediate mistakes

[EnglishroG]

A really informative video - I love the 10 mins format; it results in short games, but with enough time for thought and analysis.

[mananpanchal]

Thank you for being such a humble & calm teacher, Eric. Not many people have this skill to teach with such effectiveness. Definitely gave me a lot of important lessons for improving my game 🙌🏼

[davidgodfrey]

I really appreciate this type of video. The commentary & thought process was interesting and insightful. I like to think I'm a stronger player than your opponents - but truth is I make enough blunders that this was helpful for me. Thanks and it would be great to see more of these types of videos.