GM Seirawan is excellent as a teacher, as he does in these lectures. He is so well rounded; knowledge ,style humor,clarity, voice,etc. I find all his lectures aimed at various levels helpful , even those below and above me . I would not skip any.Thank you GM and thank you CC SCof SL .

@sudipnath9527

10 ай бұрын

Agreed 💯,%

Yasser Seirawan is the BEST! -- His laugh is infectious, his whit is sublime, he's a wonderful teacher and that jacket is fine!

@brickchains1

6 жыл бұрын

Y A S S E R B O Y S

@FermatWiles

4 жыл бұрын

*wit

Thank you for posting this ...what a privilege it must be to sit in on GM Seirawan's lectures!

What a great, great teacher !

i was able to use some of the ideas in this video online for some decisive wins. ive been playing the benoni for a while but never really felt like knew what was going on until now. thank you yasser you are goated

Amazing lecture !

Yasser is the nicest GM I've seen

@nathanyamaguchi5617

7 жыл бұрын

Hugh Mungus ;)

@robertdavis8357

3 жыл бұрын

Yes sir

Thank you Grandmaster Seirawan, great lesson!

What a great explanation of the Benoni!

Love your presentation

Great lecture. Thanks

I love listening to this man talk about chess.

When going over this analysis, Yasser forgot or simply does not mention that he played the 6. Nf3 variation himself in 1985 against GM D. Gurevich, when he briefly mentioned the Aaron Nimzowitsch vs Frank Marshal game that continued 6...g6 7. Nd2 Bg7 8. Nc4 (The Knight's Tour Variation A61) 0-0 9. Bf4 Ne8. He followed Nimzovitch's play so far and now Yasser dances around his own move that he played here - 10. Qd2 in this lecture, and looked at other continuations instead, and perhaps revealed how he would have improved his play in that game had he played Gurevich again facing the Benoni - according to data bases Black has faired better than White in this line and therefore White's main line is 6. e4. Instead, Yasser examined some other moves for White such as 10. e4 suggesting Black is Ok and suggests White should try 10. e2-e3 instead. He never mentions 10. Qd2 as he played in 1975 which continued 10...Bxc3!? (evaluation of Black's move by Nick de Firmian - MCO 15) 11. bxc3 b5 12. Nb2 f5 13. e3 g5 14. Bg3 Qe7 15. Be2 Nf6 with an unclear position - de Firmian's assessment. Although he won that game in 36 moves (it was the first round of the Hollywood Open tournament), Yasser reveals in this lecture that he would improve his play in his 1975 game with 10. d3 and if Black plays 10...Bxc3, for example, in order to utilize the Queenside pawn majority after 11. bxc3 b5! 12. Nd2 regarding this position in the lecture Yasser seems to be convincing himself that White is Ok. He said the position is still favorable for White and Black has also given up his powerful dark squared Bishop. If Black continues 10...f5 after 10. e2, Yasser had prepared 11. Bg3 and if 11....g5 12 f4 and he explains the purpose and value of 12. f4 to White's position. Or 11. h3 is possible so White's dark squared Bishop can retreat to h2. In 1986 Yasser was White again against D. Gurevich opening with 1. d4 again and Gurevich tried the Benko Gambit instead, but Yasser won that encounter also. By the way, the Opening's name has kept its name "Ben-oni" which means Pawn-Sacrifice Defense since black offers a gambit pawn on the second move and was mentioned in an 1825 manuscript by Aaron Reinganum and apparently no one thought to name it after Marshall who may not have played it very often. For example, the London Opening was originally named the Mason Opening because the strong Master Mason played it frequently in the late 19th Century. After Mason stopped playing the opening, it was played in 5 games by strong masters, including world Champion Capablanca, at the famous London Tournament of 1922.

Tactical Benoni defense. Good lecture sir.

It's a joy to watch Yasser. The world is fortunate to have Sinquefield, who puts his equity toward supporting and advancing one of the world's great intellectual endeavors and enriches culture through it.

Thanks dereque I love to begin by your videos when I learn a new openings. The explanation are very clear and is a good introduction. Cheers from Senegal

Great and instructive video. Could you perhaps do a video on the modern Baloney?

I could listen to Yasser talking chess all day :)

great and instructive

He's entertaining and also instructive.

IMO flick-knife attack is easy to play against as black, :) P.s. isn't Na6-Nb4 also a good variation against the flick-knife attack? Very interesting video after all!

Very very nice!

28:35 in fact everyone is at home watching the palace burn.😂😂

I love the intro music

These are Incredibly great teaching videos, (thank you, Yasser!) but I might have to disagree with our instructor's assessment of the position found in minute 26:00 to 27:00 especially the statement that "After [pawn] a6 and bishop to d3, we actually reach a position that is considered almost strategically lost for black. This position is almost hopeless." If black immediately plays pawn a6 to a5, it will give a place for the trapped knight and, in fact, black's chances are now essentially even.

@constantijndekker8343

Жыл бұрын

Why do you say the chances are even? Stockfish evaluates it as +1.8. (Black wasted time putting a pawn on a5 killing his chances of ever playing b5, while white got to reposition his bishop to the d3 square to protect his center). Maybe I am misunderstanding you but I find Yasser’s assessment of the position as “almost strategically lost” quite accurate.

This was a casual rated game at the club. Meyer 978 vs. Finegold 2204.

@zealoussleeper4673

8 жыл бұрын

wizardseye What is the time control? I want to know. Also, how does rating work? If I play first time, what would be my rating?

@wizardseye

8 жыл бұрын

Zealous Sleeper If I remember correctly the time control was game in 25. Which means both players have 25 minutes for all of their moves for the entire game. As far as rating.... There is a complicated math formula based on expected wins and losses. As a fresh person, I *think* it gives you a starting rating of 1200 and then will adjust that number based on your wins and losses. You will have a provisional rating until you play 25 games.

@zealoussleeper4673

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I understand now.

41:14 he says the bishop is SUCKIN lemonade (doing nothing), but I initially thought he said... something else 😂

yhis is my favorite one....

I wish Grandmaster Seirawan would do all the moves and outline all the thoughts on the computer board. Alternatively get rid of the computer board and show blue board on projector screen.

@MrGriefCreep

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry for being late by 6 years, but Seirawan and other GMs use ChessBase for analysis, and it doesn't allow board drawing. EDIT: just looked it up and I'm 100% wrong and just never tried alt-clicking yet lol my bad.

I don't get what black has in the position you recommend for him. simply Ne4 instead of fxe5 and Game over.

23:00 Doesnt black have the simple: Bxb5, Nxb5, Qa5 check, capturing the knight? Am I missing something?

@edwardtang101

3 жыл бұрын

Knight back to c3.

Did both players miss ...Nxd5, winning a pawn, on several moves, or am I missing something?

@constantijndekker8343

Жыл бұрын

Maybe white missed it, but I think black assessed (correctly) that at all times that pawn was not worth taking. I found it a bit puzzling myself, but either the d6 pawn is lost, there is a fork with f4, or white gains the d5 square for his pieces and the bishop becomes a monster on f3. Tricky indeed.

47:30 h3 runs into Qxe3+ ! (yes, I know I got engine):)

Where is GM Benoni Finegold?

So many chess super grandmasters in the comments xD

Is he talking to spencer Finegold?

Interesting

At 21:30 it seems that black has a better move: 12...Ng3

@martinvasak1901

7 жыл бұрын

But white can play 13. xd7+ Bxd7 14.Bxd7+ ..Kxg7 and 15.Nf3.. Queen is attacked and after queen move white will play Rg1.

The horsies have ears!

At 33 minutes or so, instead of white playing exd6, Ne4 is much stronger. Black can't play dxe5 because d6 will roll black.

Yasser is great but boy he talks so slow... :)

So basically he's saying that Benoni for black gets you always in a bad position.

The French def ..what a shame..

if Anyone is interested in aggressive, and relatively unplayed sidelines to play as white against the modern Benoni, I have an in depth video on my channel going over some of them.

The most challenging part was staying awake with the super monotone voice. :/

@lucaspowell2980

6 жыл бұрын

How dare you insult Yasser

That guy shouting out moves and ideas is annoying. Seirawan handles it very well. It's people like that guy who could never keep their mouth shut during class and were not able to let the teacher teach but had to be finishing every thought and suggesting words all the time.

@elsamp

6 жыл бұрын

This specific class was to have the Grandmaster analyze a game played by one of the audience members. This lecture was therefore directed at the live audience and the player of the game in particular. Comments and dialogue were the point of the lecture.

he just made moves he likes for black to be white in better positions.........not that of best or logical moves

You talk to much. Halfway through your long winded explanations I have no idea what your talking about.

@ethan073

Жыл бұрын

It’s literally a lecture…