"When I have a chess board I'm gonna show you all the weird things that people call stuff, and what it is" thank god we have Ben otherwise we wouldn't know

@zzzzizizi

14 күн бұрын

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"White's got everything attacking, and Black's queenside's lacking." I really wanted Ben to go into a freestyle chess rap there.

@zzzzizizi

14 күн бұрын

JESUS WILL JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. HE LOVED YOU TO PAY FOR YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. IF YOU DO NOT REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL YOU WILL GO TO HELL. ACCEPT HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS AS THE PAYMENT FOR YOUR SINS BY BELIEVING AND TURNING FROM YOUR LIFE OF SIN. ONLY FORGIVEN PEOPLE ARE SAVED. CALL ON HIS NAME AND DEPART FROM YOUR EVIL.

In the midst of chaos, we have the audacity of hope to do a lecture on the alien gambit brilliantttt stop it baybeeee

@emailjwr

Ай бұрын

Don't boooo! Spam the Brilliant emote!

@zzzzizizi

14 күн бұрын

JESUS WILL JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. HE LOVED YOU TO PAY FOR YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. IF YOU DO NOT REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL YOU WILL GO TO HELL. ACCEPT HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS AS THE PAYMENT FOR YOUR SINS BY BELIEVING AND TURNING FROM YOUR LIFE OF SIN. ONLY FORGIVEN PEOPLE ARE SAVED. CALL ON HIS NAME AND DEPART FROM YOUR EVIL.

Ben!!! Thank you so so much sir for this video!!! You are amazing! So romantic video ❤

@zzzzizizi

14 күн бұрын

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I literally love watching ben when I'm hungover lol

@raskalnekov

Ай бұрын

I love watching Ben stoned because I have a good excuse for missing all the moves

@zzzzizizi

14 күн бұрын

JESUS WILL JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. HE LOVED YOU TO PAY FOR YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. IF YOU DO NOT REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL YOU WILL GO TO HELL. ACCEPT HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS AS THE PAYMENT FOR YOUR SINS BY BELIEVING AND TURNING FROM YOUR LIFE OF SIN. ONLY FORGIVEN PEOPLE ARE SAVED. CALL ON HIS NAME AND DEPART FROM YOUR EVIL.

@Tasmanaut

14 күн бұрын

@@zzzzizizi jesus can kiss my ass

15:08 Ben is an Anarchy chess enjoyer confirmed

@jessem2117

Ай бұрын

One of us!

@danielj.8876

Ай бұрын

Holy hell!

@ss-kg6yr

Ай бұрын

Actual Zombie

@chesswithivan8346

Ай бұрын

he is one of us!!

“If it’s good enough for Fischer it’s good enough for me” - a dangerous quote @ 5:45

@rokanza2293

Ай бұрын

why?

@zzzzizizi

14 күн бұрын

JESUS WILL JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. HE LOVED YOU TO PAY FOR YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. IF YOU DO NOT REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL YOU WILL GO TO HELL. ACCEPT HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS AS THE PAYMENT FOR YOUR SINS BY BELIEVING AND TURNING FROM YOUR LIFE OF SIN. ONLY FORGIVEN PEOPLE ARE SAVED. CALL ON HIS NAME AND DEPART FROM YOUR EVIL.

As an engineer, grown men in his 40s who lost his father, I love older men (Ben talks at 37:00) talking about life, using his experience and wisdom to give lessons of not take life so serious sometimes, reminds me of my father who was happy when I told him my happiest moments in collage were when I wasn't studying my butt off, although the money I earn now is BECAUSE I study my butt off. Life is complicated, like a chess position, and when nothing is clear you use your intuition and better the worst piece

@johnhenton8172

Ай бұрын

I know you're not an engineer because you didn't go to collage. Weird thing to lie about on the internet.

@progmetalkd

Ай бұрын

​@@johnhenton8172 ok so i dont write perfect english, after all is my second languaje, but i did go to university, ask me anything you want about a electrical engineering if you think you are so smart, and if you ask a stupid question i will call you up on it mr internet fact checker police

@beeble2003

Ай бұрын

@@johnhenton8172 We all know that the one upvote on your comment is your own.

@johnhenton8172

Ай бұрын

@@beeble2003 lol

Deep Blue was still in the opening book when it played nxe6. Kasparov may well have been right in thinking that the computer on it's own wouldn't have played the sacrifice. The great irony is that the decisive moment in the battle between humanity and the computer was actually determined by the theoretical understanding of the grandmaster who programmed Deep Blue's opening book.

@michaeldavidson2789

Ай бұрын

Is this in the lecture??

@zzzzizizi

14 күн бұрын

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The ad for minute mobile came *exactly* after Ben said "as Hikaru would say"

@michaeldavidson2789

Ай бұрын

I got Pronamel at the exact same time 😆

@zzzzizizi

14 күн бұрын

JESUS WILL JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. HE LOVED YOU TO PAY FOR YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. IF YOU DO NOT REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL YOU WILL GO TO HELL. ACCEPT HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS AS THE PAYMENT FOR YOUR SINS BY BELIEVING AND TURNING FROM YOUR LIFE OF SIN. ONLY FORGIVEN PEOPLE ARE SAVED. CALL ON HIS NAME AND DEPART FROM YOUR EVIL.

2:32 "When I have a chess board up I'm gonna show you like all the weird things that people call stuff and... what it is. But first of all I wanna talk about the history of chess." the amount of happiness hormones rushing through me when I hear GM Finegold say these words is insane. never stop lecturing Ben

i like that he actually didn't really talk about the Bonjour variation, it's all just the regular Alien Gambit. truth hurts.

Alien gambit au revoir since Ben forgot to cover it

I just saw an Ivysaur in a Ben Finegold video

Doing some Lichess opening analysis (Lichess players), the response by black has the following statistics: (1) move, % win white, avg match rating, match count (2) nbd7, 56%, 2129, 21k (3) Bg4, 82%, 1884, 16k (4) e6, 57%, 2107, 15k (5) Bf5, 54%, 2162, 8k (6) Be6, 54%, 2122, 5k (7) Kg8, 56%, 2054, 4.5k All matches: 76k played with 62% win rate at an average of 2069 rating. Not bad, not bad. To be fair, black had a very high win rate when considering only top matches. It showed 4 matches with a 0% win rate for white. Note also that these are Lichess ratings. The meet up point is around 2100-2,200 rating (same on both). Below that, Lichess ratings are higher than chessc ratings for the same skill. Above that, the reverse. So a 1200 on chessc might be a 1500 on Lichess. Not exactly sure of the numbers other than that inflection point around 2100-2200.

Ben salted the wound in this one

@zzzzizizi

14 күн бұрын

JESUS WILL JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. HE LOVED YOU TO PAY FOR YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. IF YOU DO NOT REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL YOU WILL GO TO HELL. ACCEPT HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS AS THE PAYMENT FOR YOUR SINS BY BELIEVING AND TURNING FROM YOUR LIFE OF SIN. ONLY FORGIVEN PEOPLE ARE SAVED. CALL ON HIS NAME AND DEPART FROM YOUR EVIL.

@VinnyGrand

14 күн бұрын

​@@zzzziziziChill out bro. I just thought Ben roasted the entire chess entertainment industry with style.

Ben - you are so true about naming openings after famous people. I played so called Alien gambit 20+ years ago even in correspondence and even last year on board 1 in 2 games in Latvian national team championship in rapid chess scoring 2/2, but no one gave it a reasonable name except vairis' crazy sacrifice until the Alien made video even as a chess player he is weaker than me (my top FIDE ELO was 2389) and I am correspondence GM since 2001 - so the variation got his name and that's kind of fine what I hate - he pretends he invented the opening that I play for 20+ years.

@beeble2003

Ай бұрын

Things are very often named after the person who made them popular, rather than the person who originally invented them. Also, things are often invented independently, multiple times.

@rpg_haven

Ай бұрын

You should have named it, then, and made it popular enough to catch on. But you didn't, while he did. So he gets the naming rights. You could invent limitless free energy, but if no one ever finds out about it, it will be as if you never did it.

ty GMBF

R.I.P. Michael Brooks (not the chess player, but the political commentator)

@A51838

Ай бұрын

hearing that name in the video brought back a lot of feelings :(

Really well said, Ben. Thanks

The most interesting part was where you said there was an alien photo. Wow! That's really close up! Aliens photographed from less than 6 feet away is WAY more interesting than the Alien Gambit.

Babe wake up, a new Finegold lecture just dropped

@henrykolberg1349

Ай бұрын

He spoke into the void

@danielc948

Ай бұрын

The truth hurts

If you have a backlog of lectures, maybe you should charge more for them! Don't undersell yourself Ben, this is great stuff!

This is incredible, just made it past 10 seconds.

Don't boo! Spaaam the brilliant emote in chat!

14:59 yes Ben, watching a KZread short is totally the best way to study an opening. Because, tThat-a-way, when people play it against me, I can play the moves that my study with Stockfish and opening Databases suggest and get a winning position by move 10 (if I remember what they told me, which rarely is the case xD)

17:23 for chess

This opening really reminds me of the cochrane gambit in the petrov(just got to the point where ben talks about it)

That meta-rhyme @ 31:46 was recited at a suspiciously normal cadence. Kramnik would regard that as very interesting...

How did you know I was drunk and taking drugs last time I watched? Must be psychic.

0:57 Happens all the time

22:06 Yes, the Cochrane Gambit in the Petrov/Russian (3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nxf7!?) is significantly better according to Stockfish (only about -0.7 instead of -1.4), although the Alien Gambit scores a bit better for White. Meaning that the Cochrane Gambit requires White to know a bit what they're doing -- Black amateurs will usually blunder there too, but it's less straightforward how to exploit their mistakes. I checked Stockfish and the Lichess DB and you can also try Nxf7 against the Stafford Gambit 3...Nc6!?, but again you should know what you're doing, and I suggest just learning how to defend the Stafford and get a nice +2 position.

This looks like Chessmaster Gambit!

Soundness means nothing if your opponent either doesn't know the theory or can't calculate in time.

0:52 HAHAHA 😂😂

An idea I had was playing games starting with some "balanced" ECO position; neither player knows what the starting position is before playing (other than it will be an ECO position).

@beeble2003

Ай бұрын

What's the goal of that? It still gives a big advantage to people who know more theory, and it likely means that people play worse chess because they get forced into positions that don't match their playing style.

@jeffreyfisher3115

Ай бұрын

@@beeble2003 An exercise in playing master-level positions that the players wouldn't normally reach. Enough moves in, it's the fringe of theory and less advantage to a player who is lucky enough to be booked up in an esoteric position. It may be tough to say a position is balanced, but one could use an engine to estimate balance and use the position if the balance is good enough. If the players play 2 games of the same starting position, switching colors, imbalance is minimized.

@beeble2003

Ай бұрын

@@jeffreyfisher3115 That still doesn't quite work. Engines don't currently detect whether a position is balanced. All they say is "If both sides play perfectly, the game's a draw," but that doesn't distinguish between situations where one side can play basically anything but the other has to find the one correct defensive move every time. And playing with both colours doesn't fix that, as the player who plays the "only-move" side second has the benefit of seeing the other player's mistakes in that position.

Bonjour!

Why you gotta do my boy John dirty like that, Ben?

remote chess academy is good. surprised you don’t know him

If it has a french word, I want to hear it from BEN.

It's so obvious that Ben really didn't want to do a lesson on this topic but he had no choice

@Tophbbq

Ай бұрын

I had that impression at the beginning of the lecture but not at all by the end of the lecture

I can’t wait to purchase goods from anonymous and play more chess

It reminds me Morphy's odd game.

It's not just that people play bad for these unsound openings, as you pointed out the vast majority of players aren't strong and the bad moves are the most popular moves. That's what makes some of these unsound openings strong, you are likely to walk into opponents who will fall to the traps. For example, in your first illustration of a bad move/blunder in the alien gambit, there are 15,720 games where Bg4 was played (21% of games in that position). I think its a little disingenuous to insinuate that some chess guides are showing favourable moves to make the gambit seem good. They are showing realistic popular traps people will fall into for regular players like myself.

In summary: "And as Hikaru would say, 'we literally don't care.' " -Ben Finegold 😂

I asked what happened to Apu> your brother on ICC. I've just realised you're the scientist!

So what's next? The Botez gambit?

Grandmaster Fox Mulder?

Pssst you forgot to include any games of the opening you're supposed to be talking about.

first, confusing the audience

@carneades4409

Ай бұрын

and so on. mostly and so on.

Alien Gambit Bonjour. After Mr Bonjour.

@xwngdrvr

Ай бұрын

Not to be confused with the Australian, "G'day mate." checkmate.

The dog is just made because Ben beat him in 3 out of4 games in the Alien Gsmbit

I feel like that fact people play stuff like this is they can cheat for a few moves

How does Ben know I do drugs? How does he know me so well?

Forgot about Tyler1 😂

"And as Hikaru would say..." Ad breaks in: PRONAMEL REPAIRS DECAYED TOOTH ENAMEL

Ugh boo I don't even like Bon Jovi

@tryout1978

Ай бұрын

Terrible

@ProjectHMF

Ай бұрын

😂

@xwngdrvr

Ай бұрын

But you like BEN...Jovi.

@HenryFabianGT

Ай бұрын

Don't boo! (Spam the brilliant emote)

Very suspicious name.

Ben you should be more sympathetic that there isnt money to be made in chess. Maybe if tournament winnings were higher or indirect attendance costs were lower then players wouldnt sell themselves to silly chess.

So much time spending in Belgium and still saying « Bonjour » like an American. Terrible.

@WhizzerdSupreme

Ай бұрын

That's because he knows he has an audience that is mostly American.

@tomasjimenez185

Ай бұрын

He does it for the audience, Ben's French pronunciation is very good and he shows it from time to time

@zacnewford

Ай бұрын

belgium isn’t even in france

@beeble2003

Ай бұрын

@@zacnewford Go look up what two languages are spoken in Belgium. :facepalm:

@zacnewford

Ай бұрын

@@beeble2003 why would i do that

JESUS WILL JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. HE LOVED YOU TO PAY FOR YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. IF YOU DO NOT REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL YOU WILL GO TO HELL. ACCEPT HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS AS THE PAYMENT FOR YOUR SINS BY BELIEVING AND TURNING FROM YOUR LIFE OF SIN. ONLY FORGIVEN PEOPLE ARE SAVED. CALL ON HIS NAME AND DEPART FROM YOUR EVIL.