"You guys did well, except for the three of you" - I assume there were three people in the class.

@wawawuu

3 жыл бұрын

If you can call them people.

@yasin_karaaslan

3 жыл бұрын

Nice try, it's just probably a trojan guys. His youtube channel created in 2021 March. So it's just a scam.

@KFGustavo

3 жыл бұрын

@@yasin_karaaslan yeah I reported the comment but it seems KZread doesn't care oh well

@yasin_karaaslan

3 жыл бұрын

@@KFGustavo Oh, two years later :)

@leo-um6yt

Жыл бұрын

oklahoma

"What if I had 4 queens?" Finegold: "No, then you'd stalemate me."

Karen on a tear with finishing the editing lately. Thank you both very much for all these videos!

@chessclubandscholasticcent1140

5 жыл бұрын

You are welcome! :) -Karen

@icewipe

5 жыл бұрын

Go Karen!

@2bootsarebeet15

5 жыл бұрын

Goo Karen!!!

@cutelesbianpyro3494

5 жыл бұрын

GO Karen

@wixom01

5 жыл бұрын

Who's Karen??

"I'll let you think about it for 20 minutes." "What?!?" "Ok, 30 minutes!" roflmao

@SF-eo6xf

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@sabahdeanatassi8292

2 жыл бұрын

He was like I'll let u think for twenty minutes sic 30 I lied!

This really illustrates how much more work I need to put into my endgame technique.

I'm confused. Just a few minutes in and the kid who said, "Oh, I see," really did see.

@diorsesh

5 жыл бұрын

Confusing!

@pawpad1777

5 жыл бұрын

suspicious

@bredeker

5 жыл бұрын

The truth hurts.

@tonika7507

3 жыл бұрын

Terrible

@MUFC20

3 жыл бұрын

Confusing the audience

@25:00 "Check stockfish" "What do you need stockfish for!? You've got me!..." :Throws Hand Up:

@three-eyedfloater4169

2 жыл бұрын

Proceeds to miscalculate his own endgame puzzle.

man I'm in Finegold heaven rn. So many new lectures its crazy. Gotta go and donate 👍

Thank you for posting so many videos lately!

Wow so many videos, am I in heaven?

Kudos to GM Finegold and his team! The videos are coming at a faster rate than I can watch and learn from them! Thanks GM, Regards,

@younisbensalah7118

5 жыл бұрын

Also the more you pay the more you learn

Ben's got the memory of an elephant. The only things I remember from his last class are the jokes. And those don't help my chess over the board since one isn't allowed to talk there. "- Were you here for the last class? - I hoped this was the last class. I wanna go home to my piano lessons. Putting my finger pieces on white white black white black."

“I like making queens” the video I watched before this one he made 8 queens to top off at 9. He likes making queens

Thanks Ben and everyone else that helps with these videos. I love watching them.

Whoever mentioned monitizing videos, I agree. It's well deserved in all honesty. Do it, Ben, and I will move my king up in the endgame.

This video was extremely educational. Thank you! Frankly Wonderful.

"Every move I try to find what my opponent wants to do. Someday you guys will do that. Nah I'm just kidding, you'll never do that." 21:54 lmao

These videos are fantastic 👌🏼

"Very similar to the a7 in the f4mentioned position" - nice one! Seemed to have escaped the audience. 5:35

love you Ben, peace be with you

I'm teaching my 5yr old chess, she already knows all of the rules and some basic principles and openings. I'm absolutely going to play the Q v 8 pawns with her, that is awesome.

@quebec269

5 жыл бұрын

I did that with my friends in shogi, same principal, but he had all the piece while I only had the king and I still won :3

@mauer1

5 жыл бұрын

@@quebec269 man shogi has to be pretty insane if thats somehow possible

@WingedEspeon

5 жыл бұрын

@@mauer1 Shogi is kinda like crazyhouse.

@mauer1

5 жыл бұрын

@@WingedEspeon I started to look into it like seconds after writing the comment.

Praise the editor, praise the Ben. Go Ben. Go Karen. Frankly, amazing.

Recorded May 4th 2018, published 24 January 2019, suspicious.

@MjrLeegInfidel

5 жыл бұрын

recorded March 4th...you are suspicious

@KFGustavo

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to my paper publications!

Ben's obviously bought-and-paid-for by Big Ice Tea. Frankly terrible.

@stefanf922

5 жыл бұрын

Cuz Ben is O.G. (original grandmaster)

@yuvibitter

5 жыл бұрын

It worked. I want Ice T now.

I was wondering how long would last without a Jim Morrison in this lecture. 4 and a half minutes is still more than I expected.

Thanks, Karen!

I haven't watched the video yet but I bet ten bucks he makes a doors reference

at 16:33, hxg isn't only a blunder because black queens in time, but because it's met by Kc5 and black wins.

Yess! Go Karen! You're the best!

*sees new upload, heart starts racing* ben. BEN. BeEeEEeEeen!

Thanks ben

In a position where all of the black pawns are on 4th row and the black king is on e5 vs Queen on d1 and the white king on e1, it depends whose turn it is that wins!

I can think of someone position without analysing at all where pawns beat a queen just put them on the 6th and have it be pawn guys move and pawn guy will either win or draw almost all of those games especially if the king is near the pawns

Come for the chess. Stay for the jokes! Always take bandages when playing Ben across the board.

"As recommended by Jim Morrison, I broke on through to the other side"

25:03 "why do you need stockfish for? You got me."

Good class

As recommended by Jim Morrison, I love this guy! hahaha

bathroom is down the hall... thank you... *walks crying*

GM Ben “and then the truth hurts” Finegold

Your a legend

Pure Leaf.

At 11:07, Ben says if white plays C6, black can draw with A6. But can't white respond to that with CxB7 and C8=Q?

26:30 guess you can't always get what you want

Ben Finegold drinking game (warning: probably not safe) "I'm Ben Finegold and you're not" "...and the arbiter said no talking" "Because I said so" "You can't do x unless you're a grandmaster" The option to vote for Pat Bucannon Story of questionable relevance "How did he avoid all the threats?" ... "He resigned." Saying something the people in the room 'don't know' "Hooray!" or "Yay!" "Confusing the audience" "Cry like a grandmaster" "What would X say?" "Suspicious." "Terrible." "Tricks are for kids." "C4, explosive." "Roofus and Doofus" "Frankly," "Right, Karen?" "Always" or "Never" statement "I hate when they do that" "Setting up for the next game" "As x would say" "Knife f5" Barney song

@SuperKripke

2 жыл бұрын

The truth hurts

At 26:00 if kd4 doesnt c3 still win? If takes then b3...

NEINTEEN NEINTY NEIN!!!! RAWR!!!

@JeremyJJMill5035

5 жыл бұрын

Geico. Nein minutes can save you nein% or more on nein insurance. Named after the geico gambit.

16:38 I don't think you need to queen with check and (possibly) win with black. You could just go Kc5 and munch some pawns

22:00 so nice.

I clicked because in this one Ben has a tea in the thumbnail

I met Raj and I liked him a lot. Pretty sure we're friends on chess.com. No surprise he's interested in the computer evaluation

@rajbhattacharjea6648

5 жыл бұрын

Rob Kline hi!

@RobsMiscellania

5 жыл бұрын

@@rajbhattacharjea6648 Suh dude! Long time no talk.

@AnandSivaram22

5 жыл бұрын

A bromance develops as I kibitz!

I'm getting something from dominoes. Who wants something? I'm getting the hamburgers and steamed clams.

When analyzing the position in 28:15 when you say that Kd4 is not a threat. I agree, and there is not a threat with a3 either because of finding c3. In that position, one move wins, one draws and one loses. After a3. b3 loses. Kd4 and white wins all of black pawns. bxa3 draws bxa3 and white has the outside past pawn as decoy: Kf7 Kd4, Kg6, Kxc4, Kxg5, Kb4, Kf6, Kxa4, Ke7, Kb5, Kd7, Kb6, Kc8, Ka7 and Black gets just in time to avoid white queening, but barely. c3 wins for black. If bxc3, bxa3 and white king is outside the square of the queening pawn. If axb4 cxb2 and the pawn queens If Kd3 cxb2 Kc2 bxa3 and black wins. Only drawing method for white is starting with Kd2 and then go for a3 and enter the drawing line from above one tempo down, as Black king will already be starting from f7.

The joke on freddie mercury ❤️ what a style

yo @kbthegreat when we getting a new spence vid ? thank you and editing coming along !

If possible, you can definetly put more ads into these videos. Not every other minute but I think at least 3 are appropriate for a 50 min video. More ads = more money. Raaawwwwwr

@K0bbii

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck

@honkskillet

5 жыл бұрын

You are right, but shut your mouth.

@jeffreys1554

5 жыл бұрын

What the

@kristaredwing

5 жыл бұрын

..i get ads on these.. do you not?

@PascalWings

5 жыл бұрын

@@kristaredwing I had one in the beginning of the video

26:03 what was that background noise? xD

@PeriodicallyRational

5 жыл бұрын

It was me!

Archer? Arjun?? I'm confused...

25:54 What do you mean, c3 wins? Can't white just bring in their king? Kd3. Then if c2 king takes; if x b2 then Kc2 and king takes next turn. Black's pawns don't stand a chance. Or do they?

@LioLemur

3 жыл бұрын

Also if you don't take and go b3 as white, axb3 but then you take axb3 and now if black goes c2 you go kd2 so c3 does not win

@Dimipc

2 жыл бұрын

C3 does win. After cxb2, the king cant capture the pawn because you can protect it with a3. Now, if the white king goes away from the pawn, it promotes and if it stays there the black king can capture the pawn on g5 and the deal with the other pawns.

@Dimipc

2 жыл бұрын

@@LioLemur But c2 is protected by the b3 pawn so you can just take on g5 with the black king and if the white king tries to capture on b3, you promote

🤣🤣 funny! Great content.⭐

30:00 the precursor to horde chess.

Hmm... 1Q vs 8Ps... This actually sounds like a great way to practice promotion defence. I'll try it against computer.

@scheimong

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was too easy... I found out. Maybe more than 8 pawns though...

At 24:40 I dint think black pawn to c3 wins . Kd3, black takes b2, Kc2 , black b1 promotes and king takes . Am I wrong?

@Sphere723

5 жыл бұрын

No, you wouldn't promote. You'd take your king over and capture the g-pawn and put the white king in a bit of Wang-Chung as there's nothing he can do with it and it's his only moveable piece. Stroll the black king over to a4. After b3 white is screwed. As Ben says it'll take 15 moves, but you'll force a promotion.

@52gt

5 жыл бұрын

@@Sphere723 I wore that before he realized it was not winning. At 25:24 he realizes I am right.

@RyanJObermeyer

5 жыл бұрын

@@52gt No, there he's realizing that 1...b3 doesn't win. You said 1...c3 doesn't win, but it does. In your analysis, instead of b1=Q, black just plays a3, protecting the b2 pawn, and black has time to take the g pawn and then come over to the queenside to help his pawn promote.

28:27 Is it me not being good at english or did Ben made that repeat his "yes" answer just so that he speaks properly to him? (Like Ben's way of being old-school maybe)

41:12 black should play c4

But b3 axb3 cxb3 a3 kd2 or kd4 a2 and the king can't go to b1 B3 WINS

Stupid question-- what happens if the KING captures the rook? Is that not a draw? Please help. Thanks!

@thedancingveganatheist6310

5 жыл бұрын

Nevermind. After king takes knight, the other king has a move, so it's not stalemate. Got it.

@52gt

5 жыл бұрын

@@thedancingveganatheist6310 No , not a stalemate but why would black move away instead of taking white rook on a8? As you say white king takes black Kn? Is that a win for white, if so how? It seems to me Ra8 is the only winning move ONLY if black screws up. I do get the move by black of Kb7. Any help appreciated.

@thedancingveganatheist6310

5 жыл бұрын

@@52gt Two things. First of all, I saw that I was wrong haha, so I'm sorry about that. I noted it in my reply to myself. Secondly, I might have been unclear in my question. Either way, I had been trying to see if there could be a forced stalemate, but then I realized there is no forced stalemate. Oyvay.

Stuck between a rook and a hard place

@Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta. The last one is a puzzle, and you can know it by asking you a simple question. If it's white's turn, that means black played something in the previous turn. ¿What is the move that black made to get that position without being a bad move? Enigma solved by me.

Who are you though? I'm confused

@paulgoogol2652

5 жыл бұрын

the guy who is confusing the audience

@RossTheNinja

5 жыл бұрын

He's Ben Finegold, and you're not

At 25:58 when Ben exclaimed that Kd4 wins for White, I was confused, and wondered why the same motif with c3 didn't also win for Black... I kept watching and later patted myself on the back! :)

In 33:39, why doesn't just e6 win? Fxe6 f5 gxf5 g6?

@oscar-vm5it

5 жыл бұрын

Because when you play f5 y take it with e4 !

@MK-13337

5 жыл бұрын

1. e6 fxe6 2. f5 exf5 and you are stuck. Your opponent isn't helpful enough to give you a passed pawn ;)

@the_potatoborn

5 жыл бұрын

@@MK-13337 you're right. I'm bad at imagining pieces so I didn't see exf5. Thank you

26:35 Well b3 doesn't work because... You can't, always get, what you waaaant.

33:07 Doesn’t white still win? The king can’t move to d7 or d8. So why does white lose?

@isaacmammel9186

4 жыл бұрын

He says white wins

yea kd4 kd4 loses What!?! Cause of C3 CRAZY

read the ingredients on that crappy pureleaf ice tea.

@37 he even teaches language and theologie. That word is used for stories that didn t make it to the bible, they weren t intuitive enough, idunno they never said who was the judge for that, there s pilatus of course, i m drifting off niw..

You guys did well except for the three of you. This seems to imply there are only 3 people in class

Mr Finegolds gulps sound refreshing, makes me thirsty.

37:27 to 37:40 he sounds just like Rick Sanchez here. An appropriate comparison.

sweet leaf

Damn, this man knew that the Himalayas are sacred!! But he is right, the lower Himalayas have this solitary nature where Buddhist monks still go to till this day to just forget about the world. Btw that Broke on through reference lmao.

Kh5, Kh5, Yeahhhhhhh. Everyone who knows the song should know the lyrics

Netflix produced a fictional movie about the cold war during a chess world championship match. One of the players was really crazy (also he was an alcoholic). However, the end of the first match they made it look as the crazy one blundered (he played black) and no one in the crowd is understanding whats happening, but the position on the board was that last puzzle. I liked that and i thought that was kinda funny, but the movie wasnt really good

@jonasjonass623

4 жыл бұрын

Oh i meant that puzzke with rxb2

Great video, as ever, thank you. You may well have read what Tim Krabbé wrote about Ortueta-Sanz Aguado, but in case you didn't, here's a link: timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/rxb2.htm

26:57 Grandmaster Cannot beat basic endgame

@user-gx8du1te4y

5 жыл бұрын

funny thing is after c3, white still draws with b3, there's no way for the black king to enter the position after b3

Never promoted a pawn this way I hang my pieces anyway All these jokes Ben doesn't say And nothing else matters

Sponsored by Pure Leaf

@somalipirate3291

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck that mass murder

This is comment number NEIN exclaim etc...

@BassemAbdouni

5 жыл бұрын

mostly etc

More rolling stones jokes!

35:37 Revoke him from his math degree. >:(

This lecture brought to by nestle pure leaf

I thought en passant was only viable if it was the only move.

Black around eyes like me... bad heart ❤️ valve.

I think Ben almost threw up at 2:17? The position wasn't THAT bad...terrible

no metallica joke...

Ben should give a lecture on humour in public speaking! This would be much easier for me mere mortal than the shatranj! RAWR!!!RAWR!!! LOL!

Could a typical grandmaster beat the strongest chess engine on the strongest computer if it were queen vs 9 pawns? Grandmaster with the queen of course.

@RoZaxTheGreat

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@RoZaxTheGreat

3 жыл бұрын

Theres a grandmaster who lives in a forest in Tibet who plays only 1 game every ten years. He is rated 6800 and once beat stockfish in just 6 moves.

@jangold3981

2 жыл бұрын

@@RoZaxTheGreat lol

Big Benny lookin hella skinny

"1...b3 wins for black...oh, wait, it doesn't?" "1.Kd4 wins for white...oh, wait, it loses?" Very suspicious. :P