Whenever I hear "I'm Grand Master Ben Finegold" I expect to hear "... and you are not"

@jogzyg2036

2 ай бұрын

I am Grandmaster Ben Finegold. Except for one thing.

@Airik2112

2 ай бұрын

It's ingrained in my brain.. Thanks Grand Master Ben Finegold!

@thinboxdictator6720

2 ай бұрын

are you?

@jamesbell1613

2 ай бұрын

You are very suspicious 😂

@Anfield_the_place_to_be

2 ай бұрын

Nein!!

"And, in 1912, the engines were terrible. Even the ones in the cars. (Terrible...)" (10:52) We need to add this to the Ben Finegold classics on page 1634.

@sar14cos

2 ай бұрын

Is this preparation or just a spur-of-the moment comment?

@nilsp9426

2 ай бұрын

@@sar14cos sadly just a spur-of-the-moment comment

I feel bad for NN. Poor guy can never catch a break.

@kerryfry1857

2 ай бұрын

The truth hurts.

@MrBonified66

2 ай бұрын

One day there will be a Greatest Games of NN lecture, spanning the centuries.

@thundermill7109

2 ай бұрын

Greatest player of the past, present, and future. Except for one thing.

10:00 According to Ben's philosophy Ke2 requires less energy than 0-0-0, so it's better.

You should do a lecture on games that NN won

@crazyboysince1998

2 ай бұрын

If NN won we would know their name

@serrie85

Ай бұрын

haha shortest lecture ever

@12jswilson

11 күн бұрын

He does have some, but most are against himself

I haven't watched yet, but I'm glad we're getting more lectures focused on Tal.

Fun lecture! Thank you, Stonemeister1968

I pointed this out the last time the Lasker game was shown- Ke2# is probably more uncommon than 0-0-0#

@sirkiz1181

2 ай бұрын

Yeah mating with a king move almost sounds illegal

Terrible engines around 1912 were the main reason that Kramnik never lost in this aera. And of course that he wasn't born that time. Both of the reasons completely confusing several audiences ...

The first time I saw the Edward Lasker game, many decades ago I wondered why he didn't mate by playing O-O-O# but I guess that was a gesture of respect in not wanting to mate George Thomas the most fancy way possible. There is also one famous Morphy game that ended with O-O#. But thanks to Ed Lasker's decision to play Kd2# I've still never seen a game that ended with O-O-O#! When I first met Ed Lasker (at the Marshall Chess Club) he was in his 90s and although he was the famous chess player in the room that night he struck me as being a very humble and unassuming man. By then although still a pretty strong player, Ed Lasker was far from being the player he had been in his prime. But he was still pretty active in chess and still played for the love of the game very unlike most strong players who retire from chess when they are no longer near their peek strength.

Sad Nezhmetdinov`s Qxf6 didn't make the cut, great lecture though

Bd3 in the traxler game was a statement.

Thank you meister and Ben!

goatee looking good big Ben! Thanks for all of these lectures.

Tal Baron brings back memories for me, that was my first chess drama, lol. I used to watch his videos with Hutch, that was some of the first chess content I got into online. I thought he got banned from lichess as well, but it's been a long time. Anyway, great lecture as always Ben.

That is so cool! As in a last couple of days I made my first sac's in a daily games! You are the Best, mr. GM Finegold!

Thoroughly enjoyed this lecture.. thanks .. looking forward to future ones

I must be playing Grand Theft Auto, because I see someone Karjakin.

Great video, Ben

Jan Gustafsson and Peter Svidler found that Carlsen mate, without the engine !

@12jswilson

11 күн бұрын

Yeah but they're real top 100 players in the world. Svidler was probably still top ~10 in 2016. Tal Baron peaked at 2560

Where was the Isaac gambit? Abraham was crushing with it in the 1200s BC

that was really enjoyable. Thank you.

Phenomenal stuff!

Wonderful lecture! Thanks Ben.

Great lecture - loved this one.

John van Baarle vs Jaap Piket 1969. Double Queen Sacrifice by John.

I've seen Qg3 for the 20th time, and I still love it. Absolutely love it.

George Thomas was a good sport for letting his king get walked all the way across the board instead of conceding at some point

Nice lecture, thanks Ben!

Lovely lecture Ben

Very good video with brilliant games. On my opinion the greatest sacrifice game is : Lev Milman vs Joseph Fang 7th Foxwoods Open (2005), Mashantucket, CT USA, rd 6, Mar-26

Great Video

27:30 That's a hell of a mouse slip > Edit: OH DAMN

Go Ben!

In the Réti - Tartakower game my guess is that when Tartakower blundered with ...Nxe4 he didn't see that he was getting mated two ways starting with Qd8+! As Grandmaster Finegold says Tartakower should have been more suspicious when Réti "allowed" him to play ...Nxe4?? But I guess he thought Réti had "missed" the fact that after Qd8+ ...Kxd8 Bg5+ he didn't have to play ...Ke8 and thought he could play ...Kc7. It's still pretty surprising to me though that he Tartakower missed Bd8# even in 1910.

New Lecture !

Today I learned that all pieces are technically overworked. Except for a and h pawns. a and h pawns are slackers

Hey Ben I wish you would make a video about Jakov Borisovitj Estrin, the man who wrote a book about the Traxler-gambit and a book about gambits in general. It is from him I have the lines in the Nezhmetdinov-gambit which no one have heard of, except me and Estrin himself.

When I read Yasser's books as a kid, I learned about Frank Marshall. Apparently, his play was a bit suspicious, but he was a clever fighter and would often swindle his way back into the game by some ingenious sacrifice. His play was unsound but he was quite the artist over the board. He wouldn't be very good in this era where you really need to calculate accurately and unsound play gets punished a lot, but he'd still be very entertaining.

you had me at "Great"

Qh6 by Magnus is that part of a Tex Avery cartoon where the guy's eyes fly out on stalks and a klaxon goes off while he hits himself over the head with a mallet

10:00 he didn't have a queen, so he thought he should move his king to the center for the endgame

29:21 Beliavsky actually had the black pieces in that Traxler game against Anand, Linares 1991

If I keep sacrificing my king most games, one day I’ll be in a Ben finegold video

quick question: Will this be on the final?

Actually Ben, the only player I know who has check mated with castle is Morphy. I hope someday you would show us that game.

Definitely the Magnus Queen sacrifice to end the World Championship was the perfect example of elegant-minimalist-Magnus Actually, though, my favorite game in which Magnus sacrifices a queen is the one against Giri at the Meltwater CCT Finals 2021 ... in That one, Magnus sacrifices his queen to be up 3 Pieces on Giri and he proceeds ultimately to surround his King with various pieces that kind of assemble and reassemble in various mutations as the Magnus Team kind of methodically makes it's way down the board triumphantly... that would be the newer more aggressively-hyper-creative-Magnus honestly That would make a great video too 😂

Eric Rosen has mated after castling!!!

9:10 If Kh8 then not only is Ng6 a checkmate but also a triple fork. Brutality!

I like your content.

Paul Morphy checkmated his father by castling.

This is one of the videos I saw today. 😂

Always sac the exchange baby!

One question: Is this particular Traxler game the reason this opening was named after him? Kind regards

Tal sacrificed so hard he took that guy's name

Man I like when Carlssen plays tactically instead of positionally. That queensacrifice against Karjakin was brilliant. I really wish Carlssen would play like Kasparov in his heydays, but still Carlssen is a great player. Probably more stable and solid than Kasparov, but that is also a little boring sometimes. ;)

@sebu1301

2 ай бұрын

Perhaps Kasparov was less stable and solid, but he has a much lower loss rate than Magnus, being the only player with less than 10% of games lost, topping even Morphy. Maybe Carlsen should consider playing less stably and solidly 😄

@renehenriksen1735

2 ай бұрын

@@sebu1301 The reason I mentioned it, is because it would make Kasparov complete and no engine would be able to win against him. He would be like a chess-engine himself. In my view Kasparov was so strong that he could draw against an engine anytime. Him and Fischer is the strongest human chessplayers there have ever been so far. It is the only players where the topcomputers agree on their moves. With Fischer it is amazing because he did it in a time where there were no computers. With Kasparov it is amazing because he could compete with the engines for so long, before he was defeated by an engine. But I also think they were unfair against Kasparov. He wasn´t allowed to have a look into the mind of the computer before he played them. Kramnik on the other hand was allowed to look into the opening-library of all the engines he has played before the matches so he could prepare.

I hope NN will become World Champion someday

I long castled with checkmate once. There was pins everywhere it was pure evil 😂

reti vs tartakower was just a casual blitz too., so .. not just "they didn't know"

If i should choose a lesson to sponsor, i would get a lesson in games that f3/f6 were a brilliance😅

feel like there needs to be some Creed in the background for some reason

What's the difference between checkmate and checkmate with advantage?

This is a great video, except for one thing. No just kidding. Great video Ben, thank you. I love your content except for. Ah! I cant help myself😂!!!

missing the morphy v paulsen queen sac but otherwise great vid

Zeroeth

@tryout1978

2 ай бұрын

Frankly, interesting

Rarely a good idea to play into an opening that's named after your opponent. Very suspicious.

37:00 "Whoever won this game is world champion." That's not quite true. Carlsen only needed a draw to win the tiebreak. If Karjakin had won the game the tiebreak would have continued.

9:38 It would be cruel to play Kd2 in this position

No shirov bh3?

Ben's greatest sacrifice: having to analyze the games of his subscribers, also known as the gawking rabble. There's good and there's not good, and then there's viewer submitted games.

when you're in double check, you have to move. Unless you're a grandmaster

My feeling is that there definitely will be at least 1 "Aaaaahh" with his hands in the air pretending to be a kid who is wrong

@Iearnwithme

2 ай бұрын

I was mistaken - but not disappointed

Lasker must have mouse slipped

Tal. He's a boy, isnt he? I want to play like that. Happily for my opponents, I try to.

Of course Tal Baron didn't use an engine; that would be cheating. 😁

Why would you prefer 0-0-0# over Kd2# ? That's just more work when setting up for the next game. Terrible!

ben's sacrifice was denied, so it was more like a 'struggle'.. his 'mein kampf', if you will.

That's not why nobody knows about it

Magnus is a great Swedish, not a great Finnish.

Ben's greatest sacrefice was in 94... No wonder he was married 3 times.... JK

22:32 Missed a golden opportunity to say 'Tal Time". [??] Terrible

Did you pluck your eyebrows?