OH NO My Queen. OH YES My Ponziani.

In this video, I play a high-level rapid chess game in the Ponziani Opening which features an expectedly beautiful finish. Thank you to Twitch user 41matt14 for the video title suggestion!

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Eric Rosen
4579 Laclede Ave 205
St. Louis, MO 63108

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[darkercore]

love to see a high level player actually thinking about their moves. Hikaru would just be like: "lets go here... lets go here... *looks up*... that move was crushing"

[oloyt]

9:49 *Donation Voice:* “Beware; Piglet has hoes”
*Eric*: “Has what?”
*Donation Voice:* *“hops”
*Eric:* “I was really trying to make sense of that, I thought like (*awkward pause) garden hoes.”

[ThisIsNoah]

“I feel like the piglet enjoys having mud thrown at it… but i enjoy throwing mud” -Eric Rosen

[tmjp]

"I think I should just castle and carry on with life" same

[thend]

Eric Rosen: "It's like the finish to Carlsen vs Karjakin in 2016". And here I am trying to remember what I did yesterday.

[michaelangelo]

For anybody interested, look up the piece sac line as black against the ponziani. One of the refutations of the line that, unless you know perfect theory for A LOT of moves, gives a significant advantage to black.

[AtulSharma-gyxg]

9:48 eric just lost it.. lmaooo, after that he could only concentrate on piglet hoes..

[dave]

11:58 The way he says “throwing all the mud… at the PIGLET” is so funny

[rahulpillai]

I like how he goes at 10:21 "This move..this move..this move...this move..this move..this move is mating"

[cadecrider]

9:50
Winnie the Pooh took a very dark turn.

[badgerbadger]

Kudos to JumpingPiglet for accepting the final sac so we could see a lovely mate on the board

[ejbaldonado]

5:40 "but then I rooklift, and get swole"

[jasonkoch]

Eric, I joined the St. Louis Chess Club this week because of you.

[cocoacuckoo]

Was the Dutch GM maybe Roeland Pruijssers? Mad difficult name to pronounce as an English native. The 'ui' sound is similar to the Scottish pronounciation of 'ou' in 'out'. Funion fact: 'Ui' means 'onion' in Dutch. Thank you for listening to my NED talk, I'll let myself uit.

Also, thank you for the amazing content Eric!

[waltclingon]

5:45 "Man these pawns are really nice looking." I have to think this is how Eric talks dirty to his girl.

[mathisguihot]

i like when Eric says " Oh there's a funny line ... "

[Force]

I love the mate at the end! Wish we had gotten the silly gxh6 Nf6# line

[fouinybabe]

Lmaooo Eric was definitely not thinking about the “garden” hoes🤣🤣

[KillarneyMark]

You didn’t go with my title suggestion about piglet being made into a bacon sandwich! That’s fair enough. Maybe titles aren’t my strong point. Good game, by the way.

[salvage]

Wow new video, haven't been this excited since I went to see that Paul Sorvino and Chazz Palminteri movie, "Distracting Trumpet"