Great Player of the Past: Rashid Nezhmetdinov

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Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... GM Ben Finegold'st lecture on Rashid Nezhmetdinov as part of the "Great Players of the Past" series.
Recorded at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta on November 6, 2018 and originally posted on the CCSCATL Channel on April 16, 2019. So yes, you've probably seen this one before.
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@danielfrappier3378 Жыл бұрын

Most peoples do not understand why he was not a GM, according to chess metrics he reached his peak in 1954 at the age of 41. At that time there was 40 GM in the world. Almost half of them had received the title for past accomplishments. To make it short you had to be almost in the top 20-25 to make the title. It had nothing to do with what the title means today.

@456death654 Жыл бұрын

i dont think you know whats required to become a GM

@shanastroskyphazer8172 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I was wondering why Ben didn't elaborate on this point. Makes a lot of sense. Leigh's response seems a bit ignorant to me. My mother was born in 54 that's a reasonably long time ago. Elitism in chess in 1954 no way...get outa here !

@12jswilson Жыл бұрын

@@456death654 it's definitely easier become a GM now than in the early days of FIDE. Fischer became a GM because he qualified to the Candidates. Even qualifying to play in the Interzonal by winning the the US championship wasn't enough to become a GM. Even then they only grudgingly gave the title to Fischer and he was a top 10 player in the world at 15 years old.

@danielfrappier3378 Жыл бұрын

@@456death654 Today, basically 3 tournament performance of 2600 or more and a 2500 rating. There is some details like the players you play against have to be from 3 different countries but basically that's it. In Rashid time it was different because ratings were not invented yet so the top brass at Fide voted, basically they selected the 2 or 3 strongest players in the world that did not already had the title.

@dannygjk Жыл бұрын

@@456death654 You are thinking of modern GM requirements.

@mishaerementchouk 8 ай бұрын

As others mentioned, Nezhmetdinov won the Russian Federation championships. It was quite a bit different from the USSR championship. For one, chess players from Moscow and St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) were not allowed to compete in the RF championship and had their own tournaments. For example, in 1950 and 1951, when Nezhmetdinov won the RF championship, the Moscow and St. Petersburg tournaments winners were Averbakh, Taimanov, and Petrosyan, and Paul Keres (Estonia) won the USSR's title. This is not to take away Nezhmetdinov's achievements but to provide a better idea of those championships.

@beeble2003 Күн бұрын

Right. Everybody sees all those Soviet World Champions and imagines that the Russian Championship must have been amazing. But Alekhine (1920), Karpov (1970) and Kramnik (1990) were the only people to ever win both the Russian and World Championships. A whole bunch of Russian Champions aren't even well-enough known to have Wikipedia pages.

@lunakid12 Жыл бұрын

That "clearance sacrifice", taking his own queen with checkmate (28:28)... I'm speachless... What a perfect (finegolden) move!

@f.d.3289 10 ай бұрын

Every Finegold video has at least one line that really cracks me up. This time, it's 28:15 "That meets the demands of the position."

@mezomoza7 Жыл бұрын

My favourite chess player of all times

@subspace7290 Жыл бұрын

the little kids 😂😂😂❤

@peterchandler9230 Жыл бұрын

Ben! He didnt win the Soviet Championship 38.32. He won The Russian Championship many times.

@thomas6837 10 күн бұрын

It's funny how you quickly asked "What's that?" as if the sound you heard was intuitively the answer you looked for. And indeed it sounded a bit like "Lucerne", which is the swiss city in which the 1982 Olympiad took place.

@beeble2003 Күн бұрын

The city beginning with B that hosted the 1982 Olympiad was Lucerne. 😉 Maybe Ben was thinking of Biel, which is about 50 miles away and hosts a regular tournament and chess festival.

@ImMarkiee Жыл бұрын

Ben: ding liren just broke tals undefeated streak Me remembering this from a few years ago: 👁️👄👁️ The description: you're Rufus + dufus

@zubizuva Жыл бұрын

Joan Jett and Phil Lynott’s favorite chess player: Bad Reputation

@JAndrioli Жыл бұрын

my favorite player

@dylanotto1675 Жыл бұрын

I miss Ben yelling at children

@thomas6837 10 күн бұрын

Where are these vids ?

@anonymousAJ Жыл бұрын

16:45 what's wrong with Nd5 disconnecting the QB battery? Edit: Oh I see

@InfernalLegion84 Жыл бұрын

Go Ben!!

@skirk248 Жыл бұрын

Rhasid is the best IM of all time and his legendary lacking of the title just makes him look better

@johanwestin3030 9 ай бұрын

He sacked the title for legend status

@josefserf1926 Жыл бұрын

Nezhmetdinov was the one player that was more 'Tal' than Tal.

@tomswiftyphilo2504 Жыл бұрын

excellent!

@tolkienfan1972 Жыл бұрын

Crazy games!

@Aphixx 20 күн бұрын

calmed her down with "medicine" sure

@celinelorenzo3642 Жыл бұрын

Hi Atlanta !"bonjour"from the old continent to our liberators,point that us frenchies forget most of time !

@scheimong 11 ай бұрын

"Did you know a third's more than a quarter cuz three's more than four?" "Yes I know that." "Okay good" Fuck me dead I'm rolling 🤣

@shanastroskyphazer8172 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben ! that was hilarious ! and that game against Tal was amazing ! Yeah I think playing the Benoni with black is worse than smoking a pack of cigarettes in one day. But if you win you feel like you just climbed Everest !

@SoundAndFuryy Жыл бұрын

Also it has to be corrected, Nezhmetdinov was never a "Soviet champion" as he was never the champion of USSR. He was the champion of Russian federation, 2nd-tier tournament, which most strongest USSR players wouldn't play and many, like Tal, Petrosian, Keres, etc. were ineligible to play.

@spooderman9122 Жыл бұрын

There was no russian federation at the time. Only the russian soviet republic

@SoundAndFuryy Жыл бұрын

@@spooderman9122Well, the official name was Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic so my description is just as correct as yours. To quote wiki "as well as being unofficially known as Soviet Russia, the Russian Federation or simply Russia".

@strangelyrepulsive77 Жыл бұрын

why didnt you show his 2 goodest games?

@greytoeimp 11 ай бұрын

Shazam and Kazam aren’t the same just ask Elia Kazan 😅🏀

@ronsenyor5996 Жыл бұрын

You guys care too much about who is or isn’t a GM… try getting a 1000 ELO first .

@edsanjenis9416 Жыл бұрын

More worthy goal is 1500 uscf, not online rating. 1000 uscf anyone can achieve that without much effort. I laugh when players think online 2000 rating is something, try over the board of 2000 elo.

@sheryinmoua8486 3 ай бұрын

3:18 lol

@dannygjk Жыл бұрын

Winning the Soviet/Russian Championship should be an automatic GM title.

@Admiralmeriweather Ай бұрын

he won the federation championship which means players like Tal or Petrosian were not there

@beeble2003 Күн бұрын

The Russian Championship during Soviet days wasn't nearly as big a deal as the Soviet Championship -- for a start, it was actually the Russia-except-for-Moscow-and-Leningrad championship. If you look at the list of winners, you won't have heard of a lot of them: many of them don't even have Wikipedia pages. Alekhine (1920), Karpov (1970) and Kramnik (1990) are the only people who won the World Championship and the Russian Championship.

@dannygjk Күн бұрын

@@beeble2003 The players I looked up sounded pretty strong to me. Some of them were already GM strength.

@beeble2003 Күн бұрын

@@dannygjk Right, but the fact that you had to look them up already tells you that it's nothing like the strength of tournament that was the Soviet Championship.

@dannygjk Күн бұрын

@@beeble2003 I'm not going to quibble over the Russian ch vs Sov ch.

@RhettReisman Жыл бұрын

IMs today have the biggest KZfaq channels Ben, get it right 38:38

@sterlingimaging3703 9 ай бұрын

Corny line after corny line after corny line

@_nemo171 Жыл бұрын

Confusing the audience.

@sterlingimaging3703 9 ай бұрын

How does anyone think this is funny? No one close to him told him how corny his jokes are so the corny keeps on coming .. Good chess player though ,but corny af! To the point sometimes where you can’t watch it .

@RobinZuFALL 6 ай бұрын

I think it’s funny.

@usemeasdislikebutton420 19 күн бұрын

Just don't watch it if you don't like it