Titled Tuesday to the Max!

I started this stream a full two hours before Titled Tuesday, so I could play warm-up games and try to get my rating back over 2700.

0:00 Warm-up Game 1 Sicilian Defense: Taimanov Variation v TrainingparaGM (2678)
06:37 Queen's Gambit Declined: Queen's Knight Variation v FM Gangster-accountant01 (2715)
14:29 Alapin Sicilian Defense: Barmen Defensev NM gogogogogogogogo5 (2593)
22:49 Scandinavian Defense: Mieses-Kotrc Variation v Theusdiaszx (2690)
26:55 Reti Opening: Dutch Variation v FM dennisodessa (2587)
36:02 Closed Sicilian Defense: Grand Prix Variation v FoivosPiraeus (2612)
42:29 Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov Variation v BoomerAangg (2608)
48:19 Ponziani Opening v BoomerAangg (2609)
50:15 Alapin Sicilian Defense v purehorses (2670)
58:44 Sicilian Defense: Delyaed Alapin Variation v prepredeni (2619)
1:05:40 STAFFORD GAMBIT v SThompson24 (2562)
1:12:08 Sicilian Defense: French Variation v IM xiaopuyi (2795)
1:17:16 Closed Sicilian Defense: Traditional Line v IM mmmflatbread (2777)
1:24:16 Ponziani Opening: Ponziani Countergambit v nacer1989 (2651)
1:29:40 Queen's Pawn Opening: Levitsky Attack v FM andrejilepic (2621)
1:35:27 French Defense: Advance, Paulsen, Euwe Variation v FM andrejilepic (2615)
1:42:13 PUZZLE RUSH
1:45:42 Q&A With Chat
1:48:28 Titled Tuesday Round 1 French Defense: Advance, Paulsen Attack v FM Aleksandras Jegorovas (2413)
1:59:00 Round 2 Queen's Pawn Opening: Stonewall Attack v NM Tyrell Harriott (2413)
2:08:08 Round 3 Closed Sicilian Defense: Traditional Line v GM Dmitry Gurevich (2527)
2:17:58 Round 4 Clemenz Opening v NM Savio Joseph Benher (2450)
2:26:53 PUZZLE RUSH
2:31:19 Round 5 Closed Sicilian Defense: Traditional Line v FM Renato Andrade Santos (1812)
2:41:20 Round 6 Closed Sicilian Defense: Grand Prix Variation v NM Antonio Carlos Bambino Filho (2455)
2:51:36 Round 7 Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange, Positional Variations v FM Sahebali Atanejhad (2522)
3:01:31 Round 8 Queen's Gambit Declined: Three Knights Variation v IM Florescu Codrut Constantin (2572)
3:15:00 Round 9 Ponziani Opening: Jaenisch Counterattack v FM Serafin Moral Garcia (2569)
3:24:46 Round 10 STAFFORD GAMBIT v GCM Sabreen Oraby (2523)
3:34:47 Round 11 Alapin Sicilian Defense v IM Keaton Kiewra (2579)
3:45:55 Chat Weighs In on What to Do
3:47:21 CROSSWORD PUZZLE TIME

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[Btabyt]

Always love watching some chilled blitz with Eric's chilled voice.

[blunder-moth]

falling asleep, I hear Eric's voice. "I can't believe this. I hung a queen. What to do. [pause]. OK, that's stalemate". And now instead of sleeping I'm laughing

[paulscod]

1:51:58 that queen was trapped after rb4

[JiveDadson]

🎶When you hang a pawn a star, makes no difference whom you are ...

[pondorien]

1:51:24 wasn’t the black queen trapped after rook b4?

[josepherhardt]

3:39:20 "... and there better be checkmate somewhere!" Now, I'VE said that, but it usually didn't help! :)

[C-on]

Titled Tuesday to the max : 😆😝🤤

Titled Tuesday to the min : 😨☹️😕

[TheRedWon]

Spoilers

Only Eric calculates stalemate traps 8 moves ahead like the one around the 3:09:00 mark

[josepherhardt]

51:16 I just google-maps'ed Reykjavik. Unless in a B&B or hotel, eateries seem scarce. I did see a "Pablo's Fish & Chips." So in Iceland, you have a Spaniard, or a Hispanic, running a British-style fish-and-chips? Definitely cosmopolitan. :)
Update: Evidently most eateries don't show from an elevated map view. If you zoom in to street view and then back up a bit, you see a bunch more places, including a KFC of all things.
And, if you ignore the individual residences, I've never seen a city with so many non-rectangular and seriously odd-shaped buildings. If you vacation via the google of maps, have a view!

[gallonsofimprov]

Why didn't you castle at 15:45? I often wonder why you do that. Putting the king in the center like that why is it better than castling? You still have ti move out the rook. Or is it cuz you want to push the pawn on the side in front of the rook?

[ahshashkomegwaninini]

1:51:58, isnt blacks queen trapped after Rb3

[Trekyhunter]

It's interesting because adrenaline actually changes your vision and the way you think. In fight or flight mode, an animal in the wild might not have time for indecisiveness, so adrenaline makes one's decision making more black and white to make decisions more quickly.

[waypostmaker]

I hate Chessmood and every time you mention it.