This reminds me of the game Frank Lee vs. Ree Diculous in the 1953 Zurich Supertournament

@xwngdrvr

Ай бұрын

S. Picious was the arbiter.

@flynncook7989

Ай бұрын

H. Orable annotated

@xwngdrvr

Ай бұрын

@@flynncook7989 I recognize you. We served together in the Punic Wars.

@PatchworkPS

Ай бұрын

If you edit your comment to say "Reid Iculous" i'll delete mine

@mmmbellygirls

Ай бұрын

Oh! That's the game with the famous Diculous blunder 9.f6??

Dissappointed to learn after all this time that the Grunfeld Defence wasn't named after Grandmaster Defence.

@jaasonjones4419

Ай бұрын

Wait until you hear who the Bongcloud opening was named after...

@beeble2003

Ай бұрын

@@jaasonjones4419 Grandmaster Opening?

@jaasonjones4419

Ай бұрын

@@beeble2003 I'm not familiar with the works of mister Grandmaster

"I may be old and bad but I'm up a piece." Ben Finegold

Fun fact: Hypermodern Openings are named after Sir Lionel Hypermodern, who was also inventor of the microwave.

@xwngdrvr

Ай бұрын

He invented Global Warming.

Hypermodern chess is the best , you can be the cool kid and be bad at the same time

Rumor has it the Amish tend to frown on this type of opening. If you dont like the position at 13:31 you're Hippo Critical.

11:07 We should call that fork a "knork", combining a knife and fork.

As soon as I saw the lecture title, I was Réti to watch and comment it 🤓

It's nice to see a lecture uploaded once in a while which wasn't recorded multiple years prior...

@isaacbragg-gardiner2456

Ай бұрын

Are they typically? I feel like most of his videos are recent. Obviously 5 minutes with Ben is recent if nothing else

@eoin6862

Ай бұрын

Both. Some are from a few years ago and some only a couple of weeks ago

Really enjoyed this video. Thank you.

Thank you to the sponsors ❤️ Thank you Ben for the joy

Hypermodernism should be seen as a new way to look at chess, seeing it in terms of large scale structures and long term plans. While it doesn't work to ONLY think in these ways, it eventually was understood as a way to look for good moves; hypermodernism would suggest a move that should be looked at from a strategic perspective, and then it would be further analyzed tactically. This fusion was largely achieved by the interwar Russian/Soviet players including Alekhine, Botvinnik, Boleslavsky, and Bogolubow. They laid the foundation for the dominance of post-war Soviet chess and how the game would evolve right up to the turn of the 21st century, when computers changed things almost back to the way they were in classical chess, in their method of long precise calculation without any thought to positional ideas. Current players largely follow the computer's lead, leading to the decline of hypermodern ideas. With the discovery of the Berlin defense to the Ruy Lopez, classical 1. e4 openings returned with a vengeance.

@honeychurchgipsy6

Ай бұрын

@kmarasin - thank you for your interesting and informative comment.

Really good lecture! Thanks for making these :))

The cow is not the hippo. It is a significantly more passive and suspicious setup where the knights are moved to b3 and g3, the center isn't influenced at all, and the bishops cry.

Seirawan's birthday was Yasserday

At 9:45 Ben didn't mention what would happen if black played Rxe3. I think that would be followed by fxe3, Qxd1, Ne6. Threatening Qg7 mate and black's queen, and black has no good checks.

oh man... that dig at Anna and The Cow!

13:36 its a burn 🔥

@jire9831

Ай бұрын

Kramling catching strays.

Very educational video, thank you!!

Please, make part 2!

Merci Ben

I found my old travel computer chess machine. I was about 11 years old and it was my step granddad's... I learned how to play on that little machine. Because it was programmed in the early 80s with game variets of the time, it's really easy to beat on the highest level by playing the modern varients.

wish you all the best!

Hey Ben! You only went 5 minutes before making a move on the board this time. What a wonderful appetizer!

Solid analysis, clear explanations. Second only to Fabi.

This was a very hypermodern lecture!

some crazy comment

@mario97br

Ай бұрын

You can oftentimes sacrifice your d pawn in the advanced French in order to pin the knight with your bishop to the queen on b6 and create counterplay to the king on the queenside as white.

This reminds me of Rufus vs Doofas 1869… rawr!!

Isn't the cow opening an invention of Anna Cramling? She is known for playing chess isn't she? Or does Ben mean she is known for streaming chess and not a professional chess player in the classical sense?

@sachatostevin6435

Ай бұрын

I think he was just joking. I'm pretty sure they all respect eachother as professional chess-streamers, as they all collectively keep the subject interesting/popular, and together they increase eachothers views.

@derhonk6270

Ай бұрын

@@sachatostevin6435Ben is never joking, how dare you!?

@opiedrums6969

Ай бұрын

Yea sounded like a slight to me. He just sounds bitter. I dont think she invented it but maybe made it popular.

@honeychurchgipsy6

Ай бұрын

@@opiedrums6969 - I think she did invent it. I watched the video where she says that it had never been played before (or at least was not in any databases of games). Of course, if you saw some of the games I play with my 88 year old step dad it might lead you to believe the cow (or worse, much worse) has definitely been played.

@opiedrums6969

Ай бұрын

@honeychurchgipsy6 Bens literally playing it here back in the 90s. Again, I think she just made it popular and called it the cow.

Hyper modern attack from flank only if opponent place pawns and pieces in the center

Ironically, Yasser Seirawan wrote the forward to my copy of My System, purchased in the late 90s.

i found i play better on the screen than over the board ,now i just need to try on the board

happy belated birthday yasser :)

Invented by Aaron “Hank” Nimzo during the Spanish-American War

i often get told im playing the reti... nice to know he was a great player 😅🤣

Ben nearly gave me an existential crisis once I realized I'll need a new favorite Beatles song at 64

Go Hippopota-Ben!

There are 999 repeats of hyper moderns in this video

As a beginner would it make sense for me to have a harder-to-play hyper-modern Grunfeld or other such opening as one of the few openings I learn and use so I realise there is more to chess than classical and to confuse or educate myself and my fellow beginner sometimes and efficiently add variety to my games?

@ftr841

Ай бұрын

Yes and no. I learnt the london as a classical chess opening. then learnt b3 because I realised I would know way more theory then my opponent who wasn't expecting it. But you have to accept it will go horribly wrong from time to time. See larsen v spassky

@JanKowalski-je7qf

Ай бұрын

@@ftr841 London is not a classical chess opening, it avoids conflict in the center. Classical chess opening would be some d4 with c4 fighting for the center by creating pawn tension.

@beeble2003

Ай бұрын

As a beginner, there's no point learning a bunch of opening theory, because your opponent won't know the theory, so you won't get to play the moves you've learnt. They'll start making up moves from move two or three, and you'll be just as confused as them. The other problem with trying to play in a hypermodern style is that it's easy to end up in passive positions, and you quite often end up having to defend, which is hard. Give it a go and see if it works for you. But don't put a lot of time into it unless it'd going well.

@Mark8v29

Ай бұрын

@@beeble2003 Thank's. Yes I find the puzzles requiring the finding of the best defence the hardest to do.

@dm9910

Ай бұрын

Honestly if you're a total beginner it doesn't matter that much: you haven't played enough to develop strong preferences yet and frankly, beginners don't find the tactics in sharp positions or the strategic plans in positional openings. Any sensible opening that involves getting pieces out and castling tends to more or less much converge into the same kind of chess at that level. Once you've got a bit more experience, openings start to matter a bit more and it mostly depends what you want to practice, what you're good at, or what you enjoy. For a sharp opening like the Grunfeld you want to be focusing on opening theory, tactics, initiative and dynamic counterplay. Whereas if you learn the London, it's more about finding a plan in a mostly-symmetrical position, understanding and exploiting positional weaknesses, and endgames. If none of those words I just said made any sense to you, you're still too early in your chess career to worry, just pick the opening you think looks the prettiest and you're good to go.

When you are analyzing games based on their openings and you announce one side made a blunder how do you expect us to know if the opening is good or not?

Grünfeld looking like inspector lunge with glasses 💀

First I played flank openings most of all. After million blunders Now I am crushing the center with gambits and able to beat up to 1500 in daily with 100+ games opened. And it is my 10th month in chess journey! Your content is what I love the most, GM Benjamin Finegold!

Has anyone counted how many times Ben says "Hypermodern" in the video?

Truth liberates ✨️💋

Like + comment for the algorithm etc. Mostly etc.

I like to play hypermodern with black but classical with white

Hyperventilation is luft in the Pirc.

22:18 Except for those of us watching on KZread.

Of course, "Mein System" was written in German.

it's funny that you don't even mention the central themes of the hypermodern chess school, e.g. blockade and overprotection, as explained by Nimzo in his book in detail. That's what his entire "my system" is all about. You don't just give your opponent the center and that's it. You have to try to blockade these pawns and overprotect the squares before the pawns. As a matter of fact, you use them as shields for your pieces. It's not just about "fianchettoing the bishops and playing on the side". That's a far too simplistic way of explaining hypermodern. There's a famous game which highlights these principles perfectly, I can't remember at the moment against who, wasn't it even his arch nemesis Tarrasch? Nimzo crushed him by applying exactly those principles. Although you do generally the best lectures of all chess youtubers, this one's missing the mark a bit as it diminshes hypermodern to just "playing on the side". Simplification is fine, but taken too far it creates a false impression of what it actually is that you're trying to explain, if I was Eric, I'd be a bit disappointed, but as you admitted yourself, "Mein System" wasn't exactly your thing, so maybe worth reading it once more and then you could even demonstrate that Nimzo game in one of your next episodes.

@zacharyheflin6794

Ай бұрын

Well said

@sachatostevin6435

Ай бұрын

he pretty much explained why - cos he read the book but found it boring, and then admitted that it might have been cos he was too young at the time.

@user-ul2kc3wx1h

Ай бұрын

@@sachatostevin6435 so what? That doesn't justify to give a lecture on hypermodern without even explaining hypermodern. (except for "playing on the side") The truth hurts! ;-)

Iam fifth one

Get Ben a Perrier ffs

don't put your paws in the centre

Is there a way to fight 1. e4 as black in a hypermodern way, that is well respected among top grandmasters? The Alekhine and the Pirc are not really. You might call the Sicilian dragon hypermodern, but it is not well respected either. Would you consider a Sicilian Najdorf or a Sveshnikov/Rossolimo a hypermodern opening?

@ludology7757

Ай бұрын

It doesn't. Matter what grandmasters play unless you are one, just play around with different openings till you find one you like😂

@derhonk6270

Ай бұрын

@@ludology7757 Who do you think you are to judge what matters to me? I wanted to know, I am curious, so it matters to me. Why are you so rudely disregarding my curiosity? Of course, I will never need this kind of information to prepare against a Super-GM (and even if so, this would be a weird place to get my information from anyway), but that has not been the question...

@msye

6 күн бұрын

I think you can try the Nimzowitsch Defense (1.e4 Nc6). Carlsen used to play it when he doesnt want to get into home prep. If white plays d4 you continue with d5 and if white takes then you get what you wanted like in grunfeld defense. But if they push the pawn you can play Bf5 and transpose it into French defense where your light squared bishop is not sitting on c8 I checked games of Nimzowitsch. He generally plays the Nimzowitsch Defense, French Defense or Caro Kann against e4. You can play the Hippo but i cant say its well respected by top gms

Hey, i can't beat your chess bot😢

@skyline.....

Ай бұрын

get a bigger stick 👀

And you can tell this is a hyper modern recorded lecture due to Ben’s old man lip smacking 😂. Jokes aside though I hope you see a doctor once in a while, I’m probably overthinking this but it as someone who is trained to observe and report signs & symptoms my first thought it’s a Neurological disorder & or a progressive degenerative disease. I’m not a doctor and my college credits amount to nothing as the school I attended lost it’s accreditation.

@spyroninja

Ай бұрын

Or maybe talking non stop for 40 minutes