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

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

"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.

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

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

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.

Please, make part 2!

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.

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

Really enjoyed this video. Thank you.

Really good lecture! Thanks for making these :))

Very educational video, thank you!!

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

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.

13:36 its a burn 🔥

Seirawan's birthday was Yasserday

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

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wish you all the best!

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.

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

Merci Ben

Solid analysis, clear explanations. Second only to Fabi.

some crazy comment

This was a very hypermodern lecture!

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

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

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.

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

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?

Go Hippopota-Ben!

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

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

There are 999 repeats of hyper moderns in this video

happy belated birthday yasser :)

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

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?

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?

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

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

As a beginner, trying to ask chatGPT what's 'fee and keto' in chess 😂😂😂 (it got it right🎉)

Truth liberates ✨️💋

Grünfeld looking like inspector lunge with glasses 💀

Like + comment for the algorithm etc. Mostly etc.

I like to play hypermodern with black but classical with white

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

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!

Hyperventilation is luft in the Pirc.

Iam fifth one

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.

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

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?

Get Ben a Perrier ffs

Hey, i can't beat your chess bot😢

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.

Osgood is not good? Very suspicious.

The amount of saliva in your mouth must be insane in the amount you’re smacking and slurping your spit in your mouth when you talk it’s so hard to listen to