Advanced Tactics For Intermediate Players, Part 1: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold

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This lecture was recorded on November 20, 2023 in Roswell, Georgia. Thank you Patrick Wheeler for sponsoring!
Games:
Games/Positions:
01:26 Nolan Hendrickson vs Ben Finegold, Spice Cup 2013
07:10 Irina Krush vs Sabina Foisor, US Women's Championship 2011
10:41 Position (1)
14:24 Position (2)
19:14 Position (3)
25:47 Position (4)
33:39 Position (5)
38:59 Position (6)
42:25 Position (7)
45:49 Jonas Bjerre vs Magnus Carlsen, European Team Championship 2023
49:53 Larry Evans vs Samuel Reshevsky, US Championship 1963/64
53:17 Ben Finegold vs Angel Arribas Lopez, Pro Chess League 2017
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Пікірлер: 156

@noney81 5 ай бұрын

This is also a good video on intermediate tactics for advanced players.

@tolkienfan1972 5 ай бұрын

Is there one on basic tactics for grandmasters?

@mydevice2596 5 ай бұрын

@@tolkienfan1972I would prefer Stockfish tactics for people who don't know how the pieces move

@timwheeler8523 5 ай бұрын

@@mydevice2596😂😂

@patrykapiezo1650 5 ай бұрын

@@tolkienfan1972 The Kramnik's reputation gambit.

@koenth2359 5 ай бұрын

I'm currently studying crappy tactics for Super GM's, but it's really hard to understand

@951genni 5 ай бұрын

this was my favourite lecture that I've watched today and I haven't watched any other ones.

@honeychurchgipsy6 5 ай бұрын

@951genni - I think it's my second favourite because my favourite is a lecture I haven't watched yet - because it hasn't been made - lol!!

@ernietollar407 2 ай бұрын

awesome and i love your comments more than any comments that have been written here including (90% of the one I'm yet to read.

@johnbongjoey5200 3 ай бұрын

Most people in the world aren't Grandmaster Ben Finegold and neither am I. But this guy IS. It's one of the things that make him special

@YadaYadaMan 5 ай бұрын

Great video, Ben. I learned a thing or two. Or not. I can't remember.

@jamesbell1613 3 ай бұрын

This will be your favorite lecture today, as long as you don't watch any other ones. 😂

@GeneralBlorp 5 ай бұрын

This series was a good idea 👍 keep it going, please.

@andrewgoff484 5 ай бұрын

I'm all for intermediate tactics for Advanced players being the next series.

@tonyrobinson1573 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Ben, and thank you Patrick Wheeler

@Jonalexher 5 ай бұрын

I haven't watched any lectures in 2 weeks and this was my favorite lecture in the last 2 weeks.

@thetruthprevails4005 5 ай бұрын

This is dope, I just found your channel a few mins ago, I really appreciated your input on your video on how to get better. I’m on a journey to get better and im excited to watch this video.

@shadeburst 4 ай бұрын

37:45 Bishop popping up from where it couldn't have been. One of my favorite blunders that I make is not looking at the whole board before an important move: some move sequences are automatic and you can't spend too much time on them, but it takes maybe five seconds to scan the board, like an aircraft pilots doing their regular instrument scan to make sure they aren't doing a controlled flight into terrain, the aviation equivalent of a chess blunder only the consequences may be a little more serious. The queen check with a fork has caught me a few times and it would have been more if I was playing stronger opponents! For that alone this video has been two hours very well spent (I watched it twice). I will try to make prevention of checks part of my development routine.

@clumsyepsilon4395 5 ай бұрын

At 31:00, thanks for giving me ample time to figure it out! I needed the whole ample, but I got it just in time! Now I can forget everything about it.

@zacharyheflin6794 5 ай бұрын

Yay quality content! Thank you for your time Ben.

@Socrates... 5 ай бұрын

thank you so much, please carry on with this

@SiteReader 5 ай бұрын

Perfect teaching video, Ben. Not overloaded with too much new material, yet not boring. I'll use these ideas. Good jokes too.

@pschneider1968 5 ай бұрын

Great lecture as always! 👍🙏

@Nix7c0 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for doing what you do!

@trent797 5 ай бұрын

Great lecture...I liked seeing the same tactic in different positions.

@vincealtamura8402 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant!

@gudmundurpetursson3483 5 ай бұрын

Loved this one, thanks

@FatalxClouds 5 ай бұрын

Love you ben thanks for the video brotha

@shanastroskyphazer8172 3 ай бұрын

That was awesome Ben ! will watch it again for sure. Really enjoyed your depth of knowledge. And great sense of humor. I love stale mates too because they involve advanced tactics ! Some of my best games are stalemates which can be exciting stuff. What's better than a stale mate ? escaping a stale mate !! In a recent chess 960 game I could escape with a backward knight move to block the rook check after a crazy king chase, and also freeing up squares for the enemy king to move to. Looking forward to the next lecture. Thanks Go Ben !

@barryweaver8833 2 ай бұрын

Easy to follow and practical.

@Viriais 5 ай бұрын

Wow just what I needed!

@elbowdestruction9691 5 ай бұрын

Outstanding

@alanjohnson901 5 ай бұрын

Suspiciously informative

@dilmenor 5 ай бұрын

This video appeared from scratch on my time line and now I loved it and I know you.

@darn0k1 5 ай бұрын

Nice, waiting for part 2

@althompson3085 5 ай бұрын

Enjoying these these ideas.

@timwoods3173 4 ай бұрын

Thank you

@davido4263 15 күн бұрын

I really enjoyed this lecture thanks GM

@koahnoah Ай бұрын

cool lecture. 10/10 would recommend

@aodhhanswtor7252 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Mr. Wheeler!

@kirkstable 3 ай бұрын

I watched a good lecture on Bobby Fisher earlier but I don’t remember it so this will be the best lecture that I remember today.. until I forget

@emadmohsin4405 5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much Mr. Finegold 👍👍

@dexterdex436 2 ай бұрын

Good stuff

@robertberger8981 4 ай бұрын

very good.

@tomas-wi8dy 5 ай бұрын

more please!

@barkman1739 5 ай бұрын

Go, Patrick Wheeler!

@onnoquinten2944 5 ай бұрын

As a coach, i understand how great it feels when students remember something!

@dr.deepakgore1079 3 ай бұрын

Very best post on tactis to draw in critical situation, great sir🎉❤❤

@TeeGar Ай бұрын

This is some fine gold right here.

@ondrejnemec5231 2 ай бұрын

Man this lecture is co cool I even brought myself another glass of herbs sirup. Cheers.

@Tophbbq 5 ай бұрын

I used to play the Max Lange Attack whenever possible as white and I think I've had the position at 26:50 over 100 times in blitz and rapid. Ben didn't mention the best part of this opening trap, which is that after Qxf6 Bxe6 fxe6 Qh5+ g6 Qxc5, Black invariably tries to "salvage" the position with O-O-O and further blunders the exchange to Bg5. It's great.

@johnreppel2756 5 ай бұрын

"Learning the opening" takes more than memorizing engine moves. You need to understand what your plans/goals in the opening are, and what options your opponent has.

@ALTTABINMAINMENU 5 ай бұрын

What's the fun of playing same dubious openings hoping for opponent to blunder a piece like that?

@johnreppel2756 5 ай бұрын

@@ALTTABINMAINMENU what's the fun of eating ginger? Some people like it.

@sirkiz1181 5 ай бұрын

@@johnreppel2756we talking about the spice or the type of person

@tellahsage6477 5 ай бұрын

@@ALTTABINMAINMENU Max Lange Attack isn't dubious. If you input the mainline moves into the engine and turn on the eval, White's actually slightly better. Black would be better off just playing the classical two knights instead of going into this dangerous line.

@jorgerios1616 4 ай бұрын

This will definitely help me reach 800 ELO except it probably won't

@BetamaxV 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for this, I really enjoy the intermediate lectures. It's wasted on me though because obviously I'm terrible at chess.

@desmondpowell3205 5 ай бұрын

This is Perfect, Great lesson Mr. Finegold

@PrimoDirt 4 ай бұрын

Ben ur awesome. Please put a picture up behind u and fill the holes in your shelf unit.

@GregTurismo 3 ай бұрын

I'm also very proud of your stalemate

@Radix.Strategy 5 ай бұрын

@25:52 worth it no spoilers "There's a lawyer in Michigan"

@dpgsince85 5 ай бұрын

I love this type of your videos sorry about the mom in the car

@robby1816 4 ай бұрын

I'm learning to play chess, and I too suffer from old-timer's disease. I appreciate your presentation style.

@dude157 5 ай бұрын

Ben: "oh no my bishop, oh no my rook, stalemate"

@Demian_R Ай бұрын

"and I was like woah, that's a bishop on b1." 😂 37:42

@thetransferaccount4586 3 ай бұрын

nice tactics there

@thomasstephenson4043 5 ай бұрын

bens next lecture: super advanced tactics for beginners

@cparks1000000 5 ай бұрын

12:40 lesson: if a GM hangs a pawn on move 5, test for poison.

@ClassicRoy111 4 ай бұрын

Cool

@lordadamson 5 ай бұрын

amazing lecture. I hate the wet sticky sounds though, I hope you could find a solution to it.

@barthouweling4787 3 ай бұрын

0:13 Did he just call us weakly?!

@satcheljones 5 ай бұрын

16:00 >it's finite >but it's almost infinite bruh the math ain't mathin' on that one, lol also just to corroborate finegold for no reason: i've had the tactic on-screen at the aforementioned timestamp as black. i had it against a 1600 after e4 c5 Nf3 e6 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 Nf6 e5. i imagine someone rated 1600 only falls for this if they're used to seeing Nc6 and they just turn their brain off.

@brycepeddicord6763 5 ай бұрын

Ben over here putting chess coaches out of business😅 great video!

@user-fu8jk8hx6j 4 ай бұрын

37:18 Someone knows the name of that opening?

@ProbusMihraban 5 ай бұрын

Uncle Ben ❤😁

@matthewjamesmjw4172 5 ай бұрын

yes yes yes yes yes

@djdoggo8558 2 ай бұрын

in the first game instead of queen takes queen, qf3 is mate

@sciencetube4574 5 ай бұрын

The most advanced tactic is the "unstoppable". It's not attacking anything, there is no check, the opponent has 30 legal moves, none of which are obviously ridiculous - it's just that there is a threat that the opponent can't stop. Like Knife f5. That's hard to see.

@TheRbsixpak 3 ай бұрын

Isn’t it mate in 2 with Q to F5# in Evan’s vs Reshevski ?

@davidgoble8891 5 ай бұрын

The joke about the triplet had me rolling lol

@RajeshKumar4truth 3 ай бұрын

Pls do some analysis on Mir Sultan Khan some day.

@remophix 5 ай бұрын

42:08 😂😂😂😂😂

@perteadsf4914 2 ай бұрын

50:55 And that's why I have a reputation for never resigning in my local club.

@vladpetre5674 5 ай бұрын

@14:00 This actually works even if white plays the more normal Bc4 instead of Be2. Nxe4 is followed by Qa5, Bxf7 and Qxe4 causing the black king to become sus on f7 :) (Still, white is not objectively winning but oh man, who would take black in that position?)

@eirikolsenkirkevik4467 4 ай бұрын

This guy is too funny😂

@huracan200173 3 ай бұрын

The mouse slip one was awesome haha I bet you laughed hard

@MarkZager 3 ай бұрын

I appreciate the fact that he goes slowly and he’s repetitive

@qazzaqstan 5 ай бұрын

21:18 I was wondering about Nxe5 winning the pawn and preventing you from losing the knight to Qh4+

@fengardice 5 ай бұрын

I don't know. After the queen trade on d1 there's ...Nd7, Black can castle queenside, the rook's looking at your king, Black's development is way better...

@mishaerementchouk 5 ай бұрын

It is not easy to keep that won pawn. For example, after Nxe5 Nxe5 dxe5 Nd7, if White decides to protect the pawn on e5, it comes with drawbacks. For instance, Bf4 loses the bishop to the same tactic. Qd4 Bc5 Qf4 0-0 and Black has the clear lead in development and the pawn on e5 is not safe yet. f4 doesn’t solve the problem as f6 either wins a pawn back or again leads to better development of Black pieces. In other words, Nxe5 doesn’t loose the game or something but doesn’t really give an advantage. Taking the pawn on e5 needs to be prepared by g3 (protects against Qh4) and so forth.

@qazzaqstan 5 ай бұрын

@@mishaerementchouk thanks, I wasn’t sure if I was just missing something obvious or if the other options for white are just better

@zacharyheflin6794 5 ай бұрын

A great book for repetition of advanced tactics I recommend “1000 checkmate combinations”

@edwardwalsh4454 3 ай бұрын

Why no stats! I would like to see real play results for relevancy BF. (Best Friends would reply with an answer, typical reply 😁 😁)

@tanner2325 5 ай бұрын

Goofus is the third triplet ;)

@trowftd 5 ай бұрын

christmas came early

@fallintoadream 5 ай бұрын

In the third example, white already blundered rather severely by playing f3

@tolkienfan1972 5 ай бұрын

52:10 Kh6 is funny

@danielroberger2374 Ай бұрын

I play The famous french player Rouffouse" Douffouse"

@vladpetre5674 5 ай бұрын

@5:00 He probably thought Bf1 is fine but forgot about QxQ and then Rxa1.

@ernietollar407 2 ай бұрын

GM Rodney Dangerfield

@jaysonwhiteford4531 3 ай бұрын

Finegold is the only GM who can spend 7 mins on one tactic example (spending most of the time talking about something that happened in his life)

@robby1816 4 ай бұрын

Bishop on B1, he plays a sniper in CoD, wearing a ghillie suit.

@AlfredTee 3 ай бұрын

2:10

@richardparcellano899 3 ай бұрын

25:35 😂

@Cobalt-Jester 5 ай бұрын

I've been teaching my son about chess. I passed him down advice that my grandfather passed down to me... Do not learn winning moves so you can play them. Learn losing moves so you don't play them.

@mathematicsreadinggroup7288 5 ай бұрын

OH NO BEN'S BISHOP

@user-je1us3kj8z Ай бұрын

11:11 good thing I wasn't paying attention

@albertmagician8613 4 ай бұрын

"as long as you have other videos..."

@chadmacgargle5311 5 ай бұрын

Grand Master Finegold, when you say "Over learn tactics, over learn tactics." You mean play overly tactical in the opening I hope?

@majorbajor 5 ай бұрын

I looked on the Internet, and andrew Tang was 14

@branislavlazin9285 5 ай бұрын

"And then you blunder your Q... I mean that ruins... like a whole day for you."

@ALTTABINMAINMENU 5 ай бұрын

As much as I admire Ben, I find his point about just knowing all tactical patterns a bit suspicious. By "a bit" I mean "very". In a slow game a competent player should be able to find a tactics that they never saw before, even if pattern is very unusual - as long as it's not too deep and all moves are forcing.

@bluefin.64 5 ай бұрын

What Ben says has more or less been said by every coach and teacher I've heard comment on the issue, which is a bunch. I think it just means to learn the ones that are common and seen in books and courses etc. The rest, like you say, are seen only during games.

@nychold 5 ай бұрын

Nah, I don't play Rufus and Dufus. I play their younger brothers Rufie and Dufie, who are both in comas. And I still only win about 30% of the time. So I've got some problems to work out. 🤣