Titled Tuesday. Cow Opening EVERY Game. Shocking Result.

I wonder if he's ever cowculated his elo if he didn't play random openings.

04:06 "okay, COW OPENING completed. Now i can focus on trying to fix my position..." 😂

I remember Hikaru being very annoyed playing against this opening and he was like "Anna didn't even make it up, it's been around for decades" 😂

The Cow is like a good drill of how to navigate bad chess positions.

The fact that eric got 6.5 with the cow is truly amazing. Surely the cow has moooooore legitimacy as an opening now.

I'm so glad to find Eric is joining the herd of chess players embracing the cow.

"This cow had a rough upbringing" "This is probably one of the scariest things for a cow to encounter" "Opponent was too afraid of the normal cow" LOL eric is a special flavour of dry humour

I love how in half the games Eric just undoes the cow to get his knights and bishops to good squares. In the first game, within the first 17 moves, his knight wastes 5 moves going from g1 -> e2 -> g3 -> f1 -> h2 -> f3

i hope i can “milk” my time advantage, eric is a GENIUS

I lol'd at Eric saying (something like) "Cow complete. Now, how do I salvage this position?" Since Eric enjoys playing dubious gambits, I would have thought he would be more optimistic about playing around with the cow. But then, about game 4 or 5 where he mentioned "this position is so passive!" that I realized my mistake: Eric likes aggressive play, and the whole idea of the cow (according to Anna) is to play passively, like a cow, wasting tempo and waiting for the opponent to get overly aggressive with their pawns.

I love how you willingly rotated the knight to g3 in the first game because cow opening and a few moves later proceeded to rout it back to it's normal square 😂

Cowboy Eric herding his opponents into unfamiliar territory ending at one time just a point behind Magnus and Hikaru on the scoreboard . Great games Eric . Perfect video to watch on a travel at 2 in the morning .

The Cow opening was actually first seen in 1947 in Bronstein v. Holstein.

That opening is absolutely wild

First Game - Awesome. Really showed the glaring weaknesses of the Cow but you kept things interesting for long enough that you gained an advantage. Great game! Fourth and Fifth Game - I feel like you're just a bit better out of prep than your opponents here. They're not quite punishing the weaknesses of the Cow and they're not familiar with the position. Great games Eric!

Wow that Rook+Knight versus Rook endgame was crazy!

Never would have thought Eric had a dog for a pet I would have thought he had a pet duck

That checkmate against Rustemov was nice

These games were sooooo fun!!!!!!!!!! Way to go Eric, you are the best!

Love the cutting edge cow theory! You'll be a GM in no time!!!