Go Ben! I mean Benoni

I've watched almost all Benoni lessons on KZread and this one gave me a totally different perspective. Not focusing too much on the opening and instead showing how the middle games resolve makes me wanna master this. Very entertaining and also great games and stories.

Great lecture from Neb Dlogenif. He looks like Ben Finegold but keeps suggesting f3 as a move, and doesn't say all the Ben things, like "always retreat", "no talking", "knife f4" (for Black), "put it in H", ...

@trowftd

26 күн бұрын

he didn't say Never Play f6 when black played f6 in the last game!

thanks, I waited 4 years for this

The benoni opening is on the d and c files. The benkenobi opening is single file, to hide their numbers.

@peterittzes

Ай бұрын

And you have to say "Hello there!" before you start the game.

Great lecture! This is why I love chess. Games like these. I get more enjoyment out of watching Ben talk about great games than I get out of playing chess myself.

Great video Ben, I love that you used a Fischer game as an example. Very lucid straight forward explanations 👍.

Great timing with several Benoni games iin yesterday's Grenke top section. Go Ben!

Love the lectures Ben, i've been watching for years, thanks for all the content

So many people dismiss Benoni as an unsound opening because super GMs don't play it. Ridiculous. It seems to me that it's one of those openings in which the better player wins. It's a fighting weapon that gives interesting positions for both sides, and if it was good enough for Fischer in his match against Spassky, it's good enough for me! I am glad that you are lecturing on it. 1.d4, c5 is the only true Chad move order too!

@mariamariamariazinha

Ай бұрын

I agree, also Nice pfp

@pastorofmuppets4552

Ай бұрын

“The better player wins” Isn’t that just chess?

@12jswilson

29 күн бұрын

It's funny because just today Carlsen beat Keymer with the modern Benoni today in slow rapid format

@David-tm9wr

28 күн бұрын

@@mariamariamariazinha Thanks! Love the old MTV and Daria!

I was just thinking about the benoni like 6 hours ago, and 4 hours ago you got this up. thanks!

just coming from the czech benoni lecture. Thanks for the wins over the years,B

Two exciting Benoni games were played in the Grenke tournament, basically just as this video was released, in like the last two or three days, both with Carlsen with both colors. Clearly the world champ watches these lectures with fervor. Seriously check out the games if you get a chance. Carlsen-Rapport and Keymer-Carlsen.

Thank you, Ben. Very instructive.

It’s interesting that all of the games in this lecture are over 40 years old with a current or future World Champion involved. The most recent “super Grandmaster” to play the Benoni seems to be Fabiano Caruana who played some games with it in 2016 and a few with it in 2020. It makes sense that it’s no longer seen much at the top level since there are so many more top level tournaments now but losing is also much more costly now in terms of risk of losing tournament invites. Because of its tactical nature it doesn’t seem to be a very practical opening to play unless one is paired down and even then as we saw in the featured Tal game it’s pretty risky. I don't play it myself, at least not unless I'm pretty confident I can outplay my opponent tactically.

Thanks

Jonathan Penrose's brother is pretty clever too.

the best ben finegold show so far🥂

This game was adjourned with Fischer sealing the final bishop check in an envelope. Spassky resigned next day after seeing the sealed move. The first victory over Spassky in Fischer’s career.

Korchnoi vs Kasparov, my favorite game of all-time ! Ben's analyses is very good, when I tried to look at it myself, I had no idea what was going on 😂

I love the Benoni, but there is nothing worse than that feeling when you play it against a strong positional player and they just shut down all your play and you are stuck shuffling around in a cramped set up with no active plan that doesn't involve losing a lot of material.

Thank you so much

@RaineriHakkarainen

Ай бұрын

Kaarle Ojanen vs Keres in 1960 should have been here! Penrose copy Ojanen's idea f5! Poor Finegold never mentonied said Spassky's Errors like g3????

Love the stories. they bring humanity to the game.

That pawn break to NOT take back but leave the pawn to leave it and blockade it so it obstructs black’s own pieces is a really inspired idea if he came up with it OTB.

Ben on the Benoni is benificial to my meded mind

That third game is in line with my experience playing the Benoni (normally from the white side). The position is always completely over my head.

Where is the Ben bot? RAWR! I've never been so mad.

@monsignorjames

Ай бұрын

I was going to say this exact thing, word for word, RAWR Anne frankly I've never been so angry

Benoni was just played in Grenke Chess. Vincent vs Magnus and also Magnus vs Rapport

I didn't learn the Benoni when I was learning to play chess. But it kept popping up in the games I learned. And there's nothing wrong with it as far as I can see, nothing worse than the Sicilian or the French. :-)

Go Ben!!

@DarkSideChess

Ай бұрын

Oni

Uuu this is a good one. My favorite opening, my favorite World Campion, and of course my favorite Lektor B.F.

Hi Ben, That was a very nice lecture, thanks, I guess between your serious lectures and somewhat more humours ones, I like the serious ones better, but of course I like them both, Thanks alot our beloved GM

Finally an opening named after Ben.

I don't know if the Benoni is the best opening, but I think it might be the opening that's the most fun to say a bunch of times fast.

With so many opening lectures coming, SURELY we'll get a bird lecture soon :)

After age 60, it's hard to get a Benoni.

Little known rule: Always play c5 1. E4? C5 1. D4? C5 1. C4? C5

@timwheeler8523

Ай бұрын

All good except against c4! Boring .... (Against e4 and d4, yes!)

@NichtWunderkind

Ай бұрын

Against c4, Nc6 and then c5

@crclayton

Ай бұрын

I do this… I premove c5. When I was lower rated my d4 opponents would routinely think it was an accident try, to their detriment, taking and holding onto it.

@WhizzerdSupreme

Ай бұрын

@@crclayton Same! 🤣

Thanks for an interesting lecture on opening theory. The 3rd game of world championship ‘72 was unique after round 2 give up by bobby. Who was it who said the good player is always lucky? I suspect he was a chess player…

1:55 This is the most common position in the Benoni.

❤

Go Benoni! I mean Ben

Thanks, the best video so far, only one mistake :) ... that was Kasparov's mother, not the KGB, that said how is Kasparov going to save the game and it was not even his move....

Looks like Nh5 is not played, mainly because it's not difficult to suggest improvements for white. After Qh4 for example, stockfish suggests (never play) f3 with a big advantage.

This video is full of Benoni.

Knife f5 is always a killer. 😜

Why no white knight to C5 at 11:58 to attack the queen and bishop?

Benoni Finegoldoni

Proper chess player

I was curious if Jonathan Penrose was related to Roger Penrose. Turns out they are brothers. Smart family.

That Korchnoi Kasparov game is too much, my brain broke

@DarkSideChess

Ай бұрын

That was wild. In a Benoni, basically the better calculator wins.

I think in the last game white had Queen to g4 winning a whole knight at the very least

How to make a donation and offer a topic of the next lecture?

Yo it would be cool as hell if some one sponsored a nimzo indian lecture.

Wasn't Ne5 just game over?

the mike is picking up a lot of squelchy noises

Alice Lee vs Krush

Tip for Benoni players : stop playing the Benoni

@jaasonjones4419

Ай бұрын

The truth hurts.

@yotoober1

Ай бұрын

Stop playing it unless you're stock 🐟

@SloppyJennyMusic

Ай бұрын

I beat a lot of guys with benoni

@RaineriHakkarainen

Ай бұрын

Should have been Ojanen vs Keres from 1960! Penrose copied Ojanen's idea f5!

@heyumnew1401

Ай бұрын

Yeah, play the czech benoni

Funny that when I first started playing chess and I saw that name as an opening defense, then I thought that it was invented by some eye talian guy who played chess. 🤣 (name ends in a vowel)

Son of sorrow

Obi-Wan Benoni

My mom calls me a benoni when I'm being an idiot

Balogne

Magnus CarIsen has pIayed some very instructive and amazing Benoni games as BIack too, he is aIways weII prepared ! Just check databases since 2016 !

Go Ben....RRrrarggh

Your bot defeated me

Ben Oni

"typically that would not have a name." meanwhile scholars and fools mate

I play it with black

Nobody is really good at chess but some try to get better, except for people like Hans who try to cheat better.

I loved this lecture! I think I'll try playing it a few times only to prove I'm the worse player 🥲