Biggest Blunders from Best Players: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold

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GM Ben Finegold's list of 10 of the biggest blunders from the best players around the world.
This lecture was recorded on June 26, 2024 in Roswell, Georgia. Thank you to Joel and Margaret McEntire for sponsoring this lecture for their daughter Daisy! "Blunders by great players show it is ok to make mistakes and still be great."
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02:47 Magnus Carlsen vs. Merab Gagunashvili, World Blitz, 2006
07:22 Larry Christiansen vs. Anatoly Karpov, Wijk aan Zee, 1993
12:00 Garry Kasparov vs. Vladimir Kramnik, Novgorod, 1994
17:17 Peter Heine Nielsen vs. Sergey Karjakin, Wijk aan Zee, 2005
22:13 Tigran Petrosian vs. David Bronstein, Candidates, 1956
27:00 László Szabó vs. Samuel Reshevsky, Candidates, 1953
31:50 Surya Ganguly vs. Mukhiddin Madaminov, World Rapid, 2023
34:25 Mikhail Chigorin vs. Wilhelm Steinitz, World Championship, 1892
38:02 Deep Fritz vs. Vladimir Kramnik, Match, 2006
41:59 Friedrich Sämisch vs. José Raúl Capablanca, Karlsbad, 1929
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Пікірлер: 116

  • @NickKravitz
    @NickKravitzАй бұрын

    After Kramnik's loss, he started the procedure against Deep Fritz.

  • @baoboumusic

    @baoboumusic

    Ай бұрын

    "Very suspicious" - Kramnik

  • @giacomogotta2253

    @giacomogotta2253

    Ай бұрын

    Apparently Deep Fritz was using an engine

  • @jbarth1986

    @jbarth1986

    29 күн бұрын

    Kind of like when Kasparov accused the deep blue team cheating with human assistance lol

  • @scheimong

    @scheimong

    29 күн бұрын

    He read Ben's book "Cry like a Grandmaster".

  • @aro3275

    @aro3275

    29 күн бұрын

    Too bad kramniks daughter wasnt at the door so he could let her in.

  • @cmhiekses
    @cmhiekses28 күн бұрын

    “Blunder less” as chess advice sounds like “buy low, sell high” as trading advice.

  • @oldmanyellsatscreen

    @oldmanyellsatscreen

    26 күн бұрын

    >Use your time, look around the whole board, do either side have a loose piece? Can I give a check or make a threat? Does my opponent have any threats? What did the last move do? Beyond that it's primarily just practice.

  • @ilanpi
    @ilanpiАй бұрын

    If I recall Petrosian's biography, this blunder led him to reconsider his play and adopt the strategy of defending threats before his opponent was aware of them (as described by Fischer).

  • @Momus2024

    @Momus2024

    29 күн бұрын

    does he at least describe it coherently?

  • @ilanpi

    @ilanpi

    29 күн бұрын

    @@Momus2024 It wasn't an autobiography.

  • @SeddincY
    @SeddincY28 күн бұрын

    "I was blundering before you were born" . God i just love Ben.

  • @andrew_owens7680

    @andrew_owens7680

    24 күн бұрын

    Fake news. I'm older than he is.

  • @QuantumHistorian
    @QuantumHistorian29 күн бұрын

    There's something comforting in knowing that, just like I lay awake at night thinking about some awkward thing I said 15 years ago, Kramnik lies there cringing about the time he blundered mate in 1.

  • @mydevice2596
    @mydevice2596Ай бұрын

    25:37 Maybe Petrosian was trying to play knight to i6, forking the king and queen.

  • @geo.j27

    @geo.j27

    22 күн бұрын

    We see a blunder he sees a tactic because he is playing 4d chess

  • @Smileater

    @Smileater

    19 күн бұрын

    Underrated comment

  • @ibazulic
    @ibazulicАй бұрын

    This is probably the most awesome video Ben ever did

  • @Momus2024

    @Momus2024

    29 күн бұрын

    keep telling yourself that is the reason you are 1200 rated

  • @ibazulic

    @ibazulic

    29 күн бұрын

    @@Momus2024 a) you don't know what my rating is, and b) please look up what sarcasm is. Thanks.

  • @Matthew-bu7fg
    @Matthew-bu7fg29 күн бұрын

    I'd seen a few of these blunders before but there were a few in here I'd never seen. The Petrosian blunder was absolutely mindblowing. Great lecture!

  • @tomasz9429
    @tomasz9429Ай бұрын

    "Kasparov played Bd7..." And that's when Kramnik's villain arc has begun.

  • @ProxorGaming
    @ProxorGamingАй бұрын

    Exquisite lecture. Thank you, the sponsor and your wife.

  • @MarkWiseTechno
    @MarkWiseTechnoАй бұрын

    Peteosian's Ng5?? made me laugh so hard. He went from blundering his queen to extra double quadruple blundering his queen. 😂😂😂

  • @panache2521
    @panache25218 күн бұрын

    This has to be one of my favorite videos you've ever done

  • @sasquatch2
    @sasquatch2Ай бұрын

    3:21 I also know that if I'm facing someone named "Smith" or "Wilson" I'll probably be okay. If they have "villi" at the end of their last name (not only are they from Georgia), I'm probably going to have a rough time.

  • @facespaz
    @facespaz29 күн бұрын

    Great idea for a lecture, thanks Ben!

  • @EqSlay
    @EqSlay29 күн бұрын

    What a great lecture and topic!

  • @Matthew-bu7fg
    @Matthew-bu7fg29 күн бұрын

    Very surprised Capablanca was mouse-slipping moves in 1929

  • @theodentherenewed4785

    @theodentherenewed4785

    28 күн бұрын

    Imagine having to use a mouse made in 1929. it must have been a dreadful experience.

  • @markkthought
    @markkthoughtАй бұрын

    watch this video to not feel so bad

  • @joelmcentire1
    @joelmcentire1Ай бұрын

    Thanks for doing the video Ben. Good stuff

  • @bobbyfishstix1189

    @bobbyfishstix1189

    29 күн бұрын

    Great topic! Big shout out to Daisy!!

  • @joelmcentire1

    @joelmcentire1

    29 күн бұрын

    @@bobbyfishstix1189 thank you for the shout out.

  • @Steveross2851
    @Steveross285126 күн бұрын

    In the Deep Fritz versus Vladimir Kramnik game, Ben Finegold says at 39:53 - 39:55 that he didn't know why Kramnik missed Qh7#. But I remember Kramnik's excuse. Kramnik explained that had the White knight been on g5 or f6 he would have seen Qh7# and prevented it but with the White knight on f8 it was on an unusual square for a knight to support a Qh7# threat so he missed it. Of course it's still extremely surprising that Kramnik missed it but now you know his excuse.

  • @Joseph55220
    @Joseph55220Ай бұрын

    Petrosian accidentally bumped the knight I believe. I believe he was reaching for the queen with a cigarette permanently affixed to his hand and hit the knight.

  • @bluefin.64

    @bluefin.64

    29 күн бұрын

    When touching the wrong piece is catastrophic, tournament players resign, and the higher the ranking of the players the more certain this is. The score has both Petrosian's move and his opponent's game ending one. In any case, after the game Petrosian said it was humorous that he lost his queen to Black's only active piece, which indicates it was a blunder rather than an accident.

  • @ShoaibHassan-vo1ku
    @ShoaibHassan-vo1ku29 күн бұрын

    Coldest pun paired with sneakiest plot twist 45:07

  • @utkuozdemir3111
    @utkuozdemir3111Ай бұрын

    Go ben!

  • @michaelf8221
    @michaelf8221Ай бұрын

    Excellent topic. Gooooo daisy. But stay there.

  • @MarcoValli77
    @MarcoValli77Ай бұрын

    I think Karpov went to win the tournament from which his blunder is taken; it was a 2-games matches format. Karpov won the second game, then beat Christiansen in the tie-breaks...and every other player he faced (too lazy to check, because I think I remember that well!)

  • @88mphDrBrown
    @88mphDrBrown27 күн бұрын

    Steinitz vs Chigorin 36:21 Ben says "I don't understand why he allowed Rxd5" If Rxd5, Nf4 forks the rooks winning an exchange. Maybe he was trying to provoke Rxd5.

  • @meandmynoodles76
    @meandmynoodles76Ай бұрын

    you should do a full video of kramnik blunders

  • @itze_
    @itze_25 күн бұрын

    New lecture!

  • @klatchabobby
    @klatchabobby27 күн бұрын

    I actually made a 3D animated short film about the 1892 game. i'd forgotten the video but seeing the position again I'd remembered this was the game in the video

  • @Goryus
    @Goryus29 күн бұрын

    I hear deep fritz was using an engine

  • @Nippleless_Cage

    @Nippleless_Cage

    23 күн бұрын

    Smh my head

  • @ianpierson9935
    @ianpierson993511 күн бұрын

    There is a great book "How to beat Bobby Fischer, his 61 losing games of chess". Some cracking blunders in that, including a simple miscalculation of a pawn run.

  • @askthepizzaguy
    @askthepizzaguyАй бұрын

    In Kramnik's defense, his opponent was using an engine. Or were they? Is playing an engine the same as your opponent using an engine? Can an engine use an engine? Is water wet or does it just make other things wet? This is getting too philosophical for me.

  • @AliceYobby
    @AliceYobby19 күн бұрын

    Man, that Petrosian blunder hurt me. I genuinely sat there for about 15 minutes with the video paused just admiring the strength of his position. And then the knight move is just the cherry on top. Distressing

  • @raymond5597
    @raymond559728 күн бұрын

    This dude is unintentionally funny

  • @88mphDrBrown
    @88mphDrBrown27 күн бұрын

    I'm surprised you didn't include Fischer or Nepo's trapping their own bishop in the WC.

  • @Alexander_Kantel
    @Alexander_Kantel28 күн бұрын

    Love you and your lectures from Georgia ( Gladly not from Soviet Georgia but independent )

  • @flpsnk4848
    @flpsnk4848Ай бұрын

    I am not Benjamin Finegold and I need to remind myself of that very often...

  • @soggycardboardbox
    @soggycardboardbox27 күн бұрын

    I could hear Thumbnail Ben saying "Truth Hurts".

  • @peterschmidt-nielsen3577
    @peterschmidt-nielsen357729 күн бұрын

    At 36:18 probably Chigorin was thinking that if Rxd5, then Nf4, Rxe7, Nxd5+, king somewhere, Nxe7.

  • @davidsinclair7439
    @davidsinclair7439Ай бұрын

    The topic and sponsor dedication make me wonder whether Daisy was a blunder.

  • @andress4780

    @andress4780

    Ай бұрын

    bruh 😮‍💨

  • @axerecords
    @axerecordsАй бұрын

    Hello, mr. Ben. Thank you for actually starting this series. I guess you don't have dementiia after all. How do I subscribe again?

  • @cassidydankochik3294
    @cassidydankochik3294Ай бұрын

    "Usually you dont miss knight takes queen"

  • @stephenh9483
    @stephenh948312 күн бұрын

    love this, awesome

  • @darkalman
    @darkalmanАй бұрын

    Petrosion plays the Botez gambit before she was born

  • @knightrider585
    @knightrider58529 күн бұрын

    I remember back when athletes were not banned from sports for supporting their own countries.

  • @rahulalbussrk
    @rahulalbussrk3 күн бұрын

    Kramnik: Let's do the procedure now...

  • @kenmawer2588
    @kenmawer25886 күн бұрын

    Before the Botez Gambit, there was the Petrosian Gambit.

  • @Steveross2851
    @Steveross285127 күн бұрын

    Someone told me a story about a Botvinnik versus Bronstein game and despite Ben Finegold saying (at 24:35 of this video) that there was no time pressure, if memory serves, actually their game featured in this video had an extremely wild time scramble. Thus Bronstein was reduced to making knight moves to make time control on move 40 and he made 8 knight moves in a row, his last being ...Nxd6 capturing the hanging queen. Then according to what I was told (I only turned 3 in 1956 so I only heard about it years later) at the closing ceremony Bronstein took the queen off the cake being served, gave it to Petrosian, and told him "now we're even."

  • @lukacalov1988
    @lukacalov198829 күн бұрын

    Kramnik: "Deep Fritz was using an engine"

  • @tomer2724
    @tomer272429 күн бұрын

    It wasn't a similar mate in the creator tournament, it was the same exact mate! The throbbing mate

  • @mypony891
    @mypony89127 күн бұрын

    Kinda surprised you didn't mention the blunder Ding made when playing against Carlson recently.

  • @serrie85
    @serrie8529 күн бұрын

    Kramnik wasn't the only one missing that mate against Deep Fritz. I hope I remember correctly, but I think the whole commentary team missed it too. And it wasn't a weak team, some IM's , GM's, think even Anand was there.

  • @mikkelhansen3714
    @mikkelhansen371424 күн бұрын

    Lol i did the exact same thing as Ganguly hanging mate in one like that in a coordinated classical game against a WFM a week ago :/

  • @qazzaqstan
    @qazzaqstanАй бұрын

    Was expecting Fischer Spassky game 1 because I know that game and didn't know any of these other ones.

  • @baoboumusic

    @baoboumusic

    Ай бұрын

    Indeed. I was also expecting Kasparov Karpov 1985 (game 11 where Karpov played the wrong rook to d8). I love the selection, most are unfamiliar to me, few obvious choices here!

  • @worsethanjoerogan8061

    @worsethanjoerogan8061

    29 күн бұрын

    He probably skipped over that one because it's so famous.

  • @baoboumusic

    @baoboumusic

    29 күн бұрын

    @@worsethanjoerogan8061 After seeing the full video: he skipped it because it wasn't on the level of a 1-2 move mate or losing a queen.

  • @dco1019
    @dco1019Ай бұрын

    For the Magnus blunder, I thought you could have had the classical game Giri-Carlsen from the 2011 Tata Steel tournament. I seemingly remember Giri (then 16 years old) saying he blundered mate. But on further review of that game, it doesn't satisfy the requirement for it to be a blunder since I would need to see that it's a blunder, and I probably wouldn't spot it. Also magnus was getting outplayed already and then made the big mistake. Oh how times have changed huh.. pretty cool game to see though

  • @brekinat0r
    @brekinat0r29 күн бұрын

    Notice that many of these blunders are due to not remembering how the knight moves.

  • @muhammedsinanemlik6981
    @muhammedsinanemlik698128 күн бұрын

    Kramnik's parents made a big blunder.

  • @joelcuerrier4833
    @joelcuerrier483329 күн бұрын

    Make more good moves and less bad moves and your game will be more good and less bad. Wrote it down to remember.

  • @mariuszpudzianowski8400
    @mariuszpudzianowski840029 күн бұрын

    Was it MVL that blunder mate in 1 against Duda in the opening? That was funny as he was just following theory and ignoring threats.

  • @xx44xx67
    @xx44xx6727 күн бұрын

    Gothamchess claims in one of his vids, that petrosian was extremly bored cause Bronstein was mooving slow and bad, so he got up everytime he made his moove to then come back and again moove quickly. So he made a quick moove, realized the blunder and gave up.

  • @LizaFan
    @LizaFanАй бұрын

    0:43 and: everybody has those days

  • @screbz6872
    @screbz6872Ай бұрын

    What about Magnus-Ding in Norway chess ?

  • @2saucytommy
    @2saucytommy29 күн бұрын

    To answer your question Ben, I would prefer to lose very late in the game after hours of playing. I feel like there would be more respect in someone fighting hard for so long.

  • @tolkienfan1972
    @tolkienfan1972Ай бұрын

    Huh, my queen's attacked by a knight. I know, I'll undefend it

  • @wetraccoon99

    @wetraccoon99

    29 күн бұрын

    😂😅

  • @mmmu9638
    @mmmu963829 күн бұрын

    My whole life is a blunder, it is my identity

  • @martin-eden
    @martin-eden29 күн бұрын

    Hello Ben. I am very grateful to you for what you do and for the way you do it, and I want to clarify that first of all I do not mean chess, but your attitude towards others, especially children. I wish you and your family all the best

  • @pelicans456
    @pelicans45629 күн бұрын

    Man even I could see the first Kramnik blunder

  • @pelicans456

    @pelicans456

    29 күн бұрын

    I Petrosian played Ng5 on me like that with his queen hanging I would absolutely assume he was about to pull some Tal shit on me and I'd panic-resign

  • @smort123
    @smort12329 күн бұрын

    Go new cam!

  • @ilanpi
    @ilanpiАй бұрын

    Shirazi Wing Gambit.

  • @FCarraro1
    @FCarraro1Ай бұрын

    I think Ding's mate in 2 against Carlsen should have made the cut if the video is recent enough.

  • @JimmyDaGent796
    @JimmyDaGent79628 күн бұрын

    The Botez Gambit was stolen from Iron Tigran.

  • @Aploplex
    @Aploplex29 күн бұрын

    what happened to the live lectures with the kids lol

  • @GMBenjaminFinegold

    @GMBenjaminFinegold

    29 күн бұрын

    That was 5 years ago.

  • @EugenIustin
    @EugenIustin29 күн бұрын

    the "GM's don't get to pay their rent if they blunder in a game" is such an American way to be looking at things.

  • @ncwadv1922
    @ncwadv192229 күн бұрын

    21:20 The answer is fries.

  • @crdrost
    @crdrost17 күн бұрын

    Firouzja was jealous that he wasn't in this video and just handed us the spectacular blunder against Fabi, 1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 Bg4 4. Ne5 Bf5 5. Qb3 Qb6 6. cxd5 Qxb3 7. axb3 Be4?! 8. dxc6 Bxh1?? 9. Rxa7 1-0 The resignation because if black plays Rxa7 then c7! and white will make another queen; or else white will play Rxa8 in short order and have compensation for the earlier Bxh1.

  • @Djangotot
    @DjangototАй бұрын

    Always repeat

  • @wetraccoon99
    @wetraccoon9929 күн бұрын

    Could some of these matches had been fixed? Cuase its unbelievable that a grandmaster would blunder their queens like this lol. Considering that theze guys can see 15 moves ahead, right?

  • @Nutslap
    @Nutslap29 күн бұрын

    All hail Sir Gay Car Jackin

  • @andrew_owens7680
    @andrew_owens768024 күн бұрын

    Kasparov blundered? Let's do the procedure.

  • @timothyoreilly6571
    @timothyoreilly657126 күн бұрын

    You did not forget about the same-ish joke game.

  • @stephenh9483
    @stephenh948312 күн бұрын

    "so when you are a professional chess player, it is NOT a good feeling when you hang your queen and lose" LOLOOL

  • @Vedioviswritingservice
    @Vedioviswritingservice27 күн бұрын

    Peter Heine Nielsen is well-known for all the wrong reasons.

  • @jasonparker6138
    @jasonparker613828 күн бұрын

    Frankly, delicious

  • @robbarcen3509
    @robbarcen3509Ай бұрын

    Got it blunder less...

  • @riverajavieri
    @riverajavieri29 күн бұрын

    🤭

  • @noahsmith3219
    @noahsmith321927 күн бұрын

    What is stuck in Ben’s teeth?

  • @giacomodibiase9464
    @giacomodibiase9464Ай бұрын

    always recycle

  • @ilet3049
    @ilet304929 күн бұрын

    Reminds me of the football players who get paid 250k a week and can't even shoot at the goal. Yes, it's football and not soccer.

  • @ljubisaknezevic9040
    @ljubisaknezevic9040Ай бұрын

    Ugh the chewing gum

  • @Djangotot
    @DjangototАй бұрын

    Always repeat

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