More Games of Paul Morphy, with GM Ben Finegold

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11 ай бұрын

Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... GM Ben Finegold discusses games of Paul Morphy. This lecture was recorded March 11, 2018 at CCSCATL in Roswell, Georgia.
Games Discussed:
Morphy, Paul vs. Le Carpentier, C
New Orleans (1849)
Morphy, Paul vs. Morphy, Alonzo
New Orleans (1849)
Mc Connell, James vs. Morphy, Paul
New Orleans (1850)
Morphy, Paul vs. NN
New Orleans (1850)
Morphy, Paul vs. Meek, Alexander Beaufort
New York Blindfold (1857)
Morphy, Paul vs. Schulten, John William
New York Blindfold (1857)
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Пікірлер: 116

@samuelrosenbalm 11 ай бұрын

I realize it's just a little kid, but Ben Finegold has much patience.

@anybodykill6666 11 ай бұрын

Had, had so much patience.

@Ramin2340 11 ай бұрын

it's a very annoying little kid lmao

@rocksolid6494 11 ай бұрын

If I was W.C.Fields, I would rather be in Philadelphia

@wkusam123 11 ай бұрын

I was coming to the comments to type this word for word.

@thanks5832 11 ай бұрын

i have a question… what?

@infantiltinferno 9 ай бұрын

I won't stop until Ben has talked about every Morphy game on record. Someone should put up a roadmap.

@andylee3114 11 ай бұрын

I'm ROFLing over here at Ben's expressions when the kid is talking. 😆😆😆

@brendanhcarroll 5 ай бұрын

Kid: NAKAMURA WON MAGNUS CARLSEN Ben: Did he take him home? Priceless

@TheRadicalCentrist.1776 9 ай бұрын

20:15. It was at about this point I found myself more interested in Ben managing the mouthy kid than anything going on in the chess games.

@danielgautreau161 11 ай бұрын

Immanuel Lasker used to play casual chess with a friend. Lasker gave knight odds and always won. When asked how, he said, "He never moves his QR or QN. So I am not giving him N odds. He is giving me R odds."

@12jswilson 11 ай бұрын

Was his friend Albert Einstein? I know they were friends, and I saw a game of Einstein's once and he was right to stick with physics.

@NS-mm6jq 2 ай бұрын

What is qr and qn?

@danielgautreau161 2 ай бұрын

@@NS-mm6jq queen rook and queen knight

@danielgautreau161 2 ай бұрын

@@12jswilson I dk Maybe. Einstein did not like competitive games.

@ernlrb 11 ай бұрын

“I have a question, what?” Ben Finegold, March 11th, 2018.

@MrBonified66 11 ай бұрын

That's making me laugh every time

@Grayback1973 7 ай бұрын

OMG, that kid! Ben's interactions with him were just priceless.I didn't even care about the Morphy games after a while.....good grief!

@ZsebtelepHUN 9 ай бұрын

I think there was a moment where Ben was wondering whether its him teaching the class, or that kid.

@PaulFurber 11 ай бұрын

I'm a simple man: I see Grandmaster Ben Finegold talking about Paul Morphy, I watch.

@Derrickthepeng 11 ай бұрын

For those of you who don’t get it, ben said AB Meek would inherit the earth in reference to a Bible quote, which says the meek shall inherit the Earth

@chesswithivan8346 10 ай бұрын

Ben discussing this game at St Louis with GM Ken West is the highlight of my youtube chess learning career

@48wallace 3 ай бұрын

The kid is a testament to BenFingold's great teaching, that little guy knows his stuff. So, enjoy Ben's classes and I have become a Morphy fan.

@CalebJNelson 4 ай бұрын

I thought the kid was unbearable at first. But in time, I came to admire his “Yeah!”.

@u.v.s.5583 11 ай бұрын

"Paul, I am your father!" Darth Alonzo Morphy, ca. 1840

@NeoJackBauer 10 ай бұрын

Thanks - very informative video!

@jordancobb7553 3 ай бұрын

Hi, im Troy maclure. You may remember me from lectures in Grandmaster Benjamin Finegolds lessons on Paul Morphy

@zacharyheflin6794 11 ай бұрын

I appreciate all free chess content but the kids in the background really are a distraction for anyone old enough. I tip my hat to you sir! Far more patience than myself

@jsj297 11 ай бұрын

That kid should be Ben’s normal sidekick for all future lectures. Kid is 🔥🤣🥊 “what?”

@Compassiron1 11 ай бұрын

They failed to obey the only 2 rules of chess club

@1CO1519 9 ай бұрын

They probably never raised their hands.

@MetalShadow3142 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for your work all these years Ben, Happy Fourth of July!

@shadowfantasiesf8556 3 ай бұрын

Hooray, more Morphy.

@lukecackett4566 3 ай бұрын

“Who’s turn is it?” “Exactly” 😂 Also, great lecture and so forth. Mostly and so forth

@jamesp6376 11 ай бұрын

This video is great birth control

@snookslayer4559 10 ай бұрын

I used to question why a piece can have influence over squares, that it can't LEGALLY move to because it's pinned to a king (like that rook pin). I posted that question on a chess forum and some really smart dude answered showing how absolutely convoluted the game would become if that was allowed (pins everywhere). So, I understand the logic of the guy asking why the king couldn't move to a square that a pinned rook was covering... but alas - not allowed and now it makes sense why.

@dsrguru 9 ай бұрын

Another way to think about it is to remember that pins aren't defined in the rules but rather a mental shortcut derived from the rules. In the position at 9:34, if it were white's turn, the reason the rook can't be moved off the first rank is not ultimately because we call it pinned, but because black would be able to capture our king, and it's against the rules to let the opponent do that / that would end the game if playing with "clock move" rules. So we know black cannot move their king onto the e-file because the white rook would capture the black king before the black queen could capture the white king.

@infantiltinferno 9 ай бұрын

@@dsrguru Exactly. Imagine an early version of chess where the kings can be captured and it all makes sense. Much like _en passant_ makes perfect sense if you remember the pawn double move is a convention to speed up the opening.

@angelmendez-rivera351 8 ай бұрын

@@dsrguruThat's the wrong way to think about it. The correct way to think about it is to understand the King fundamentally can't be captured, and that it's all about the inability to move into check. It's not a pin. It's illegal for the King to move into check, the same way it's illegal for a Queen to move as a Knight.

@Antipodeano 11 ай бұрын

Morphy is one of the greats. Happy 4th of July Ben & Karen, hope the poker Gods are smiling down in the WSOP currently!

@Admiralmeriweather Ай бұрын

that kid is surprisingly knowledgeable. 2 knights italian?!

@negativenancy3738 11 ай бұрын

7:10 “I have a question, WAT?”

@fuselwuselmusel2164 11 ай бұрын

I'm not certain, but it seems to me that the kid didn't understand the first two rules, maybe.

@WhizzerdSupreme 11 ай бұрын

"Hickaroo Nakamura" 🤣💀

@adilbrohi2799 11 ай бұрын

Im a simple guy, I see morphy i click like

@danjeory3659 10 ай бұрын

"Or you could retreat like a Frenchman... because it's in New Orleans!" Kid: "YEAH! BECAUSE NEW ORLEANS WAS OWNED BY FRANCE!! THEN IT PASSED TO SPAIN BEFORE IT PASSED TO THE US!!"

@garrysmith1029 9 ай бұрын

At one time people spoke French they're trying to bring that back now.

@DrDeuteron 11 ай бұрын

Hickory knock a more a sounds like he can play

@VFomalhaut 11 ай бұрын

Im a big fan of Morphy

@liquidghost 11 ай бұрын

these kids are hilarious!!!😂😂

@MarcFromBerryland 11 ай бұрын

I was just about to leave a similar comment but I see you already beat me to it

@u.v.s.5583 11 ай бұрын

I agree, love the kids!!! They make this lecture an even better experience. So wholesome!

@angelmendez-rivera351 8 ай бұрын

@@u.v.s.5583I wouldn't describe it as wholesome

@davekent6851 11 ай бұрын

New Orleans was indeed founded by the French, ruled by the Spanish and then bought by the U.S.

@BREAKocean 11 ай бұрын

Ooh explains the cajuns

@dodiad 10 ай бұрын

Nobody has ever told this kid he isn’t the center of the universe.

@salvadorsabateromero9707 10 ай бұрын

19:00

@turtle2poop 11 ай бұрын

woohoo , more Morphy from grandmaster Ben Finegold.

@SomeRandomNameOrOther 11 ай бұрын

Children - you can't beat them. It's the law.

@u.v.s.5583 11 ай бұрын

Unless you are Master Skywalker in his Revenge of the Sith phase.

@NS-mm6jq 2 ай бұрын

Nobody saw that kid after the lecture 😂

@reggiemustard 11 ай бұрын

Ben lecturing on Morphy games is probably my favourite content on KZfaq. But I can’t sit here and listen to this kid.

@davidhead9083 11 ай бұрын

The kid made the video for me, so annoying but it's hilarious how random it is. Glad you posted it.

@u.v.s.5583 11 ай бұрын

- I swear to god I can give rook odds to Magnus. - No fucking way! - Yes, I can give rook odds to Magnus, and I don't even need to cheat. - Come on! - Perfectly true. However, I did not say who would win.

@VitoYedda 11 ай бұрын

So glad Ben's back to his old format. I really didn't like his streaming videos I think these are so much more entertaining and instructive

@santos1827 11 ай бұрын

these are just reuploads this videos from 2018

@chucknola484 11 ай бұрын

I think him and Karen are still in Vegas as the WSOP. These are just re-uploaded content from several years ago.

@danbrooks5060 11 ай бұрын

while this is an old video, new Great Players lectures are still being recorded, you just gotta sponsor one😅

@mariocasas322 2 ай бұрын

hahaha this video is hilarious with the kid interrumpting 🙂

@anonymousAJ 11 ай бұрын

31:40 if Kb6 isn't the black queen hanging with check? I don't think Black is OK there

@MrCupidd 11 ай бұрын

What?

@executivelifehacks6747 9 ай бұрын

I play handicapped this way with my kids.

@MuhammadIqbal-dp2es 11 ай бұрын

Always play bishop F8, Never Play F6

@schyllic 11 ай бұрын

That’s only after casting 😅

@luxwutang 11 ай бұрын

kids classes are the best LMAO

@e4e5nc3 11 ай бұрын

I have many classes as this, most of the time its 5 year, they got many stories. I have the class wait for them to say there story.

@chrisSo91 11 ай бұрын

I have a question. What?

@e4e5nc3 11 ай бұрын

@@chrisSo91 I wrote it too fast. Kids age 5, they like to talk about things, sometimes not even about chess. We wait for them to finish.

@A51838 11 ай бұрын

@@chrisSo91 tell me you've never spoken to someone who speaks english as a second language without telling me you've never etc

@gustalumos4430 11 ай бұрын

Morrrrrphyyyyyyyyyy

@klausfiedler64 11 ай бұрын

Must be a car trunk out in the parking lot to throw the kid into?

@Nutslap 10 ай бұрын

If that kid talked 1/10 of what he did it would be entertaining...maybe 1/20

@matthewkoveleski9131 4 ай бұрын

Lmao at your two rules hahaha

@TheGrandmaMoses 6 ай бұрын

What I don't understand: In the era of Morphy, the era of being cavalier, of respect, of well-mannered people - why would anyone with a bit of self-esteem left in his body play Morphy with a piece down? Either they win, to which everybody says 'you were up a rook, ofc you win!', or they loose, to which everyone would say that this was a very thorough beating. So why accept at all? Makes no sense. I know that if someone comes to me and offers me rook odds, chances are very high that I am not ready to face that player. And even if I were, winning a rook up means exactly nothing in the grand scheme of things; so I can't even win anything by accepting the odd offer. So why waste time on it? To let the other guy stroke his ego? Nope... At the end of the day, odds are plain stupid. It's like saying 'I'm only gonna bowl with my left hand' to your children, then proceeding to beat them. Well done you, but what you actually did was beat a bunch of children and that's nothing to be proud of, even if you only used your left hand. That's what odd games feel like - adults beating up children, but with one minor inconvenience self-imposed to not make it look as ridiculous. After the game, Morphy isn't happy with winning as he wants to be challenged, and the enemy is very unhappy with loosing as he lost a rook up - poison for his self-esteem. So yeah, games with odds never made much sense to me, they aren't that interesting ( I've yet to see a game with odds given that wasn't won by the superior player - which is always the one giving the odds ) and benefit none of the two players. So, all in all - a bad deal.

@matthewkoveleski9131 4 ай бұрын

Probably because there was lots of gambling, I’d guess. They probably thought it would be easy money.

@sublimeade 11 ай бұрын

Hickaroo

@MundusTransit 11 ай бұрын

he used to tell the kids to stop talking. whos hick-a-roo?

@zetacrucis681 8 ай бұрын

The jokes going over the kids' heads is funny. Confusing the audience indeed

@Deucely 11 ай бұрын

All thanks to the ApPauling requests of the public, we were forced to retire Morphy's law and bring you yet another banger from the past featuring Gen Pinegold! Take care everyone. I'll see myself out, I know the way, some say I was made to leave, etc. Mainly, etc.

@Yusuf_K7 11 ай бұрын

@12:27 Ben's students are taking after him.

@michaelwright8896 11 ай бұрын

ban that kid and his children's childrens.

@schyllic 11 ай бұрын

No talking

@ayechanpaing6949 11 ай бұрын

Ben, refund that kid. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@skakdosmer 11 ай бұрын

Why is that kid shouting all the time?

@hispls 8 ай бұрын

Probably because he doesn't have parents who teach him any manners.

@hispls 6 ай бұрын

@@DLB-po6nn I can't imagine chess camp with Ben is any more than parents would spend on music lessons or sports or most other youth activities. That said, chess may not be the best outlet for a boy who can't contain verbal outbursts.

@hispls 6 ай бұрын

@@DLB-po6nn A quick google search shows chess camps for youths range from 250-450$ per week which is on the very low end of estimated cost of any youth sport and only around double what parents would be paying for daycare in Georgia. Not sure what "most parents" can and can't afford, but I don't believe the cost of chess camp is any worse than fishing camp, horse riding camp, or a summer athletics program.