Great Players of the Past: Joseph Blackburne

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Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... GM Ben Finegold discusses games of Joseph Blackburne. This lecture was recorded on Nov. 7, 2017 at CCSCATL as part of our Great Players of the Past lecture series.
Games discussed:
NN vs. Joseph Blackburne, England (1880)
Joseph Blackburne vs. NN (1863)
Joseph Blackburne vs. Steinitz Wilhelm, London (1883)
Edward Bird vs. Joseph Blackburne, London (1886)
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@enigmaofhustlestrap3392 Жыл бұрын

Great videos of the past!

@MislavIvkovic-sx8vd 3 ай бұрын

Black death

@dannyshaw4057 Жыл бұрын

The love of the game that Ben has is quite infectious. You can tell he really means it when he says he would like to have games like that first one, it must be good to sac all the pieces in that kind of style!

@mapachetapatio Жыл бұрын

I think "Great player of the past" is the most intersting chess lecture on KZfaq. I'm a hardcore Ben Finegold fan!!

@pukulu Жыл бұрын

Blackburne loved to annotate games. He annotated many more games than his contemporaries. His annotations weren't perfect but they are usually entertaining and included ideas of his and of the time in which he played. He also played many simultaneous exhibitions, so many in fact that he occasionally played the same game more than once from start to finish. Games like that were often 15 to 20 moves long. Blackburne was a tremendous blindfold chess player and he explained that he started playing simultaneous blindfold exhibitions after watching Louis Paulsen do it, thereby acquiring inspiration to do the same.

@mitchellwilson5770 Жыл бұрын

NN - Blackburne is one of my favorite pre-1900s game. Thanks Ben!

@kevinstrand4596 Жыл бұрын

NN needs to up his game, I haven't seen him win a single time

@dechain1927 6 ай бұрын

@@kevinstrand4596you didn’t see NN - NN? NN won that one

@A51838 Жыл бұрын

these lectures are so fucking good

@camreese Жыл бұрын

16:29 This is why Bens the best lmao

@sublimeade Жыл бұрын

*FOR JEROME* Its what Jerome would have wanted

@mapachetapatio Жыл бұрын

So enjoyable to be properly yelled at! 50 nuances of Ben Finegold

@pschneider1968 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben! You really take care that my Sundays are never boring, because there's always some video from you on KZfaq that I did not watch yet! 🍀🙏😃

@andrewelledge2814 Жыл бұрын

That mate at 16:15 is genius.

@sicoles 10 күн бұрын

Last game is amazing

@andreikarakozov2531 3 ай бұрын

00:00:09 Lecture start and other nonsence 00:03:35 NN vs. Joseph Blackburne, England (1880) 00:10:02 Joseph Blackburne vs. NN (1863) 00:17:55 Joseph Blackburne vs. Steinitz Wilhelm, London (1883) 00:30:11 Edward Bird vs. Joseph Blackburne, London (1886) 00:45:03 Final remarks

@answeris4217 Жыл бұрын

You should lecture on NN...but I'm guessing it would be hard to find games that he won...

@konigsrustung8115 6 ай бұрын

Someone should Sponsor this idea. Could make a great video. Ben should consider to wear a Hoody

@louiscypher6919 10 ай бұрын

Like how the bishop left mustache in 19:07.

@snookslayer4559 9 ай бұрын

Alejandro Ramirez covered Blackburn years ago on St. Louis Chess, and this video is great as well. Blackburn's tactical eye is stunning. Amazing he was still playing the greats so late in life. Hate to play the "if he played now" game... but surely the man would've been a Super GM starting a young age in the modern era. However, the true Blackburn would've hatef it - the lack of amazing tactics available against top GM's today would've killed him.

@mothecat776 10 ай бұрын

Hey Ben. After Bf5 also mate is Qg3 If then h3xf4 then Qh4 Mate else Qh7 mate. Although Qxh6 Bxe4 is prettier....

@joelmcentire1 Жыл бұрын

These are my favorite

@rocksolid6494 5 ай бұрын

After the White queen takes the rook, the Black queen to g6, threatening mate. White pawn takes knight, then Black queen to h4 mate.

@shikaru1730 Жыл бұрын

This is my favorite chess series on KZfaq. Would you do emil diemer please and thank you :D

@ergwer45624 11 ай бұрын

Chessmetrics Player Profile: Joseph Blackburne Born: 1841-Dec Died: 1924-Sep Best World Rank: #2 (77 different months between the September 1873 rating list and the February 1889 rating list ) Highest Rating: 2748 on the August 1886 rating list, #2 in world, age 44y8m

@Rubrickety Жыл бұрын

I'd forgotten about "Rover"!

@broken1394 Жыл бұрын

Black Death! That's a great name!!

@Pfefferhaubitze Жыл бұрын

According to cheesmetrics Joseph Blackburne was #2 of the world in 77 different months between the September 1873 and the February 1889 in the rating list. Most of the time after Steinitz. Maybe all of the time, he was 2nd.

@jimmyfuckthechainofcommand4332 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I don't think he was ever truly No. 2 because of Zuckertort in particular and to some extent Paulsen and Tarrasch, but he was a really strong tournament player, so it's believable on a ratings basis.

@Pfefferhaubitze Жыл бұрын

@@jimmyfuckthechainofcommand4332 OK. I clicked through the the chessmetrics months. And yes, Blackburne was also 2nd behind Zukertort. Often Blackburne was 3rd after Steinitz and Zukertort. But there were turnaments he came ahead of Zukertort. E.g. Berlin, 1881 . The peak of Tarrasch was a later. In his younger years Tarrsch seems to be a bit overrated. Tarrasch was 5 years older than Lasker, but Tarrasch didn't get into the top 5 until Lasker was already #1. Tarrasch was never better rated than Blackburne, before Lasker was alredy number 1. Edit: Louis Paulsen was 9 years older. He was a few month better than Blackburne, when Blackburne was good. In normal case Blackburne was much better because Paulsen was getting old.

@jimmyfuckthechainofcommand4332 Жыл бұрын

@@Pfefferhaubitze Got it. The Tarrasch part is a bit of a surprise. I would've thought he had a few years in the top 5 prior to Lasker becoming the best. But I can believe that because of his main profession. And yeah, Paulsen explanation makes sense as he was aging at that point. I guess Zukertort (thanks for the correction) is the main one who was ahead as I thought.

@dorenstein4a Жыл бұрын

Before the clever bishop move, didn't Q-G3 force mate?

@aarons3014 Жыл бұрын

White plays Qxh7 and then takes the Knight. Black can't check on the h file anymore.

@jerryk1562 Жыл бұрын

@@aarons3014 right, but that idea works with ..Bd7/e6/f5 - Qxa8 Qg3

@willzang3000 Жыл бұрын

shout out dave west

@sublimeade Жыл бұрын

Dave West honorary GMStudent

@willzang3000 Жыл бұрын

@@sublimeade the truth hurts

@mauer1 Жыл бұрын

white sacrificed 2 pieces black sacrificed all of his pieces, while the rest checkmated the opponents king.

@thanks5832 11 ай бұрын

16:36 wake up call

@MrCupidd Жыл бұрын

You should say coffee and

@Gab-pu1yi Жыл бұрын

This is how I play but somehow I lose (800elo)

@tellahsage6477 Жыл бұрын

If you wanna make a good sacrifice you have to think many, many moves ahead. It's worth to note that back in these days chess games used to be played without a clock so the players sat to think for quite a while before making something like, say, a queen sac