“Trying is the first step to failure.” - Ben Finegold

"A guy gave me $100 to explain the game and I did. He said _thanks_. Five minutes later the Blackjack Dealer said _thanks_" 😂

@DarkSideChess

Жыл бұрын

Classic

@JojenReed

Жыл бұрын

Truth hurts!

@hoola_amigos

4 ай бұрын

Timestamp?

@NYK01

3 ай бұрын

@@hoola_amigos2:05

@BREAKocean

25 күн бұрын

First 3 minutes​@@hoola_amigos

"it's really hard to beat Fischer...now" -Ben Finegold

@vigilante8374

Жыл бұрын

Easy peasy. Even I could do it. Imma gonna need airfare for Iceland and a spade though.

@tomswiftyphilo2504

11 ай бұрын

technically every game against fisher is a win by default

@f.d.3289

11 ай бұрын

I just wanted to post just the same comment. It's really uncanny, but in every single video of his, Ben has one throwaway line that just cracks me up.

3:30 classic Mr Attack joke

Kasparov calculating to RD7 is incredible. I believe it, but like, I kind of can't.

@michaelwright8896

3 ай бұрын

Kasparov is the best player in the world at his peak he saw everything.

@vibovitold

27 күн бұрын

​​@@michaelwright8896Tony Miles (who famously humbled Karpov by beating him with black after 1. e4 a6?) summarised Kasparov along the lines of: "I thought I was playing the World Champion, not a monster with a thousand eyes who sees everything."

When Kasperov and Topolov roamed the earth, this is what happened.

@JojenReed

Жыл бұрын

There was probably some guy named Kasperov at that time too but Kasparov was the chess dude 🙃

@vigilante8374

Жыл бұрын

@@JojenReed None of the letters in your spelling of "Kasparov" look like backwards Ns or lunar landers, so I'm gonna have to yellow card your attempted pedantry there.

"Topalov is Topalov and if you don't believe me he can show you his drivers license"

@thrylos32

Жыл бұрын

Truth hurts

@emmahird2795

Жыл бұрын

This actually might be one of my favourite jokes ever, just for how it's told

@maxfaberg128

Жыл бұрын

@@emmahird2795 amazin, isn't it? I'm still giggling

I love this guys dry humor lmao

I love your humour , your hilarious, my personal number one chess youtube. Going on a Ben Finegold binge

@davidcopson5800

Жыл бұрын

*you're

@whatthehirsch7385

11 ай бұрын

*humor

@johncarlisle6865

10 ай бұрын

​@@whatthehirsch7385that's the American way of spelling it, & I know it may be hard for you to believe, but they don't actually have the monopoly on spelling as much as they wish to believe otherwise

@zwlfelea9202

4 ай бұрын

@@johncarlisle6865truth hurts

"This game was too hard for humans. And I would never be so bold as to call Kasparov a human" -Ben Finegold

@macleadg

5 ай бұрын

Kasparov got his opponent to… topple off…

we desperately need "The truth hurts.” merch ASAP

I could watch these lectures for hours

Is this a chess analysis or a standup routine? Ben is the best of both worlds.

28:58 most impressive part of the vid. Pronouncing the G sound in Dutch correctly.

@poly_hexamethyl

Жыл бұрын

Gert-Jan De Boer

From now on when I mate my opponent otb I’m announcing papa John instead of checkmate. Just feels right.

@SahnigReingeloetet

11 ай бұрын

Don‘t mate your opponent otb get a room

very suspicious.

@chitchit2732

Жыл бұрын

Kinda suspicious

@jjcool7141

Жыл бұрын

If you can call it suspicious

I called Sheena Neegans, she's well and wish you all the best!

3:31 "the Austrian attack. Named after Grandmaster Attack " 😂😂

You are ridiculously frank, Ben.

8:04 "If you're a low-rated player...they don't see all these knight moves. They didn't listen to Bob Seger enough." LOL :-)

@skydragon3857

Жыл бұрын

its strange how the knight moves

Great game and commentary.

Fascinating. Thanks for the upload!

yes,, i love these lectures

This game was how I studied and got a fair grip on the Pirc Defense.

at min 43 GM Ben says that the last world championship was 12 draws, he means the one before last(or he filmed this 2 years ago). Nice lecture.

@aakashbasu3219

Жыл бұрын

This was filmed in 2021 before the WCC

@moderneros

Жыл бұрын

It does say in the opening footage the date! No hunt needed

@stingaling

Жыл бұрын

"This lecture was recorded June 9th, 2021" it says in the notes.

Wild game good explanation

oh my, the Night Moves Bob Seger reference

When you 👀 see the game in different places, times, analyze, like you see different types of people playing each other

Thnx gm Benjamin. I have never saw these variations!

Sf 15.1 NNUE says Kxa3 and Rd1+ are roughly equal, Bd7 gets played at move 35 of Rd1+ variation and white is +3, Rxf7 is second best at +.7 as said.

With the addition of the engine analyses, this game becomes even more mindboggling as it already was. I think I would end up in an asylum if I would be that talented.

@12jswilson

3 ай бұрын

Good. Never go full Fischer

For some reason Ben seems to think that Topalov is a legit world champion but that Khalifman and Ponomariov and Kasimdzhanov aren't, but really he's no more legit than any of them. He won the title in a round robin tournament, not a match, and the title was disputed while he had it, only being reunified when he lost the match to Kramnik.

@Obi-WanKannabis

Жыл бұрын

It's probably because unlike the other 2, he actually played 2 world championship matches and basically tied Kramnik in 2006, only going down in the rapid format. He was also world number 1 for a while, and being world number 1 is almost as respected as being world champion, just look at how everyone still considered Kasparov the best player even after he lost his title to Kramnik in 2000.

@kirokirov-lu8cs

Ай бұрын

Compare Russia and Bulgaria? The achievement of those you mention is much less. Seven million Bulgaria beats great Russia in weightlifting, rhythmic gymnastics and chess, not every time but most of the times.And we have success even in billiard games and many other non-"Slavic sports".

@vibovitold

27 күн бұрын

Topalov was legitimately rated #1 in the world on several rating lists, unlike Khalifman or Ponomaov. Of course he wasn't an undisputed world champion, but he obviously belonged in the same league as Ktamnik and Anand, unlike those grandmasters (with all due respect to them; I don't believe they would deny it themselves)

Hey you can set up your channel to auto mute people when they join, just fyi. In discord it's done with roles, I'm not sure about other programs.

Exactly

Bulgarian last names are pronounced the same way as Russian. Just as you put the emphasis on second syllable in kuh-SPAR-of, you should do the same thing for his opponent. It's not TOP-uh-lof. It's Tuh-PAL-of

@beeble2003

4 ай бұрын

Today, I learned something. Thanks!

What a game

Stockfish came out with 15 not long ago.

I fucking love you man

B R I L L I A N T ! Saved to favorites after 1/3 of watching. Ben's comments are terrific too.

frankly, ridiculous.

I felt like RXD4 was the brilliancy, AND I called out the computer would like KB6!!! :D I’m so proud of myself

“Working on those knight moves.”

38:20 What was the drawback of playing Kc2 instead of c1?

@hfontanez98

Жыл бұрын

Just saw it... Other than losing h pawn, it's a longer mate.

29:28 Nah Ben the point of your story was to mention that you won the Brilliancy prize. It's also an instructive anecdote though!

35:29

C3 p'od... a future classic

Stockfish 15 today says 24. Rxd4 is the best move.

ROOK TO D7!!

Wooooowooooo

the truth hurts

I probably won't see bf1 and rd7 when there's time controls there's too much calculation , black is winning if there's no capture on h8

۹:۵۵ :)))) that " eggzagtly " :))

How long did he think before playing Rxd4?

@davidcopson5800

Жыл бұрын

Just long enough.

@alexpotts6520

9 ай бұрын

AFAIK he only thought a couple of minutes on Rxd4, but he thought for nearly an hour a couple of moves previously, which was presumably when he was when he saw the rook sacrifice idea and decided to analyse it.

What about Karpov?

@davidcopson5800

Жыл бұрын

What about him?

@chadmacgargle5311

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcopson5800 I think it's probably because Ben has done 900 million lectures of Kasparov v Karpov... so it's like a joke...

man the truth hurts

Before “ I’m gonna be laughed at” why not check then take the rook?

@wreynolds1995

Жыл бұрын

Qe4+ Kd2 and the Rook is defended.

But Topolov clearly blundered by taking that bishop back....

Ah come on, he's an older player, but not that old that I would call him immortal...

i have a cavity. The tooth hurts.

from 35:00 to 37:00

Topalov was world champion? Really?

@davidcopson5800

Жыл бұрын

Only in the second tier, not the lineal.

terrible.

@davidcopson5800

Жыл бұрын

Ivan the

@beeble2003

4 ай бұрын

@@davidcopson5800 Hey, what do Ivan the Terrible and Thomas the Tank Engine have in common? The same middle name.

Yes but unfortunately the ability to be excellent in chess doesn't translate into being more intelligent in other areas, which Kasparov is a good example for.

@vigilante8374

Жыл бұрын

I mean, it's true he's slightly nuts but he was dead-on accurate with what he said about Putin and Ukraine. He wrote an entire book about it.

@MarzipanCat.

Жыл бұрын

@@vigilante8374 what did he say about Putin and the Ukraine?

@vigilante8374

Жыл бұрын

@@MarzipanCat. He said that Putin was the enemy of the free world and would definitely try to take all of Ukraine. He's been loudly anti-Putin and anti-Russian corruption since long before most people cared, and ran against him for the office of Russian president at some point.

@StKozlovsky

9 ай бұрын

@@vigilante8374 The problem is that among the many Russian people who say all that and are also loudly anti-Putin and anti-corruption, Kasparov is one of the nuttier ones and is much more popular abroad than at home, where people know other, more likeable opposition figures than him. He's also very salty that people now think Navalny is a more important politician than him. Truth hurts! Still much saner than Fischer though.

@vigilante8374

9 ай бұрын

@@StKozlovsky The elephant in the room is how nutty the Russian people are, who a year and a half later are still supporting this insane invasion which--regardless of the morality of it--can't possibly improve Russia's prospects over the long term. Navalny is a prop, not a real politician at this stage, and he's on record opposing giving Crimea back so he isn't really acceptable to the West, either. I'm not saying Kasparov would stand a chance in any free election; I'm just saying that as nutty as he is, he's not any nuttier than the Russian populace, the Russian political establishment, or the most popular figurehead of the Russian opposition.

also what if you used a decent mic, Ben

I think Magnus would of been in his nappies or prob still swimming in his dad's bags