Giri-draw jokes are the real 'evergreen' here.

“Its double-check. Wait let me make sure... yeah its double-check I doublechecked.” 😂😂😂

i looked at all the games where morphy lost, and in all of them he spotted a knight, or was sick, or it was the 15th game of a 15 game match and morphy had won the first 14 games and was giving the other guy a pity win. pretty rare to see morphy get outplayed like this. anderssen was really on his game.

Ben says to always look at switching the move order in tactical lines. This idea really helps!

"It's September 8th, 2020...unfortunately..." - I hope one day will be able to look at this comment and enjoy it without the menacing connotations it brings.

So glad Ben is still doing proper chess lectures! Instalike!

A 50+ minutes Ben Finegold lecture ? Is it Christmas again ? FELIZ NAVIDAD

I'm buying shares in that kid. He sounds like a 1700 7 year old

Gamer Ben. 🕹

This reminds me of the quote on Tal, Botvinnik and Petrosian doing sacrifices. Pray, and keep going vs just resign :)

The guy said ‘Judit Polgar’! He was too polite to correct Ben. 😂

Ben is so amazing. He is so good at entertaining people and knows so much about chess.

That last game was really impressive. Looks superb.

According to Wikipedia "{En Passant} was not universally accepted until the Italian rules were changed in 1880" so it may or may not have been an accepted rule in the 1851 game.

Been waiting for this one for a long time. Anderssen and Morphy are my favorites from the romantic era of chess.

“Three possible endings” - like the movie Clue!

Wow, a very obscure Alice in Chains reference. I continue to be surprised!

If you are German before 1871 it doesn't mean you are a citizen of Germany, since Germany only exists since 1871. It probably refers to his language and culture or possibly to him becoming German with Germanies' unification in 1871. Prussia actually was the country that unified Germany, Berlin was it's capital before it was Germanies' capital. What used to be Prussia in early modern times is now part Polish, part German and part Russian (Kaliningrad used to be called Königsberg before the Russians took it) because after world war two, Moscow decided to cut Germany down a bit, taking some of their eastern lands, ethnically cleansing it of Germans and giving it to Russia and Poland.

Can the next great players of the past lecture be on Ken West

Thank you for sharing

Little history lesson: Prussia used to be the bigggest state of the German Reich prior WW I and II. Poland as a country didnt exist prior WW I and was founded as a result of it (in the peace treaty of Versailles).

Dufresne was the author of the famous "Lehrbuch des Schachspiels" and called himself "the oldest pupil of Anderssen. He even won a few leisure games against Anderssen.

The crowd interaction is lost....dam you COVID,!

I’m a little confused on the statement that Prussia became Poland. Prussia encompassed a number of modern-day European countries, including Germany, and its capital was Berlin for 250 years. I’ve always associated Prussia with Germany as well.

Dubov and rapport!

Ben is so much funnier when he’s teaching.

Whoa those screen wipes are tight!

I love theese!

Fischer played Bc4 on the few occasions he played the Kings Gambit

Hooray! Another Finegold lecture. Too infrequent!

Kasparov vs Karjakin game that Ben mentiones featured 3. Nc3 instead of Bc4 move...

Any chance you will be covering Mikhail Botvinnik?

i got really excited i was really hoping this would be ulf anderssen idk why

For the Anderssen v. Morphy game, on move 41, what about white playing bf7, then kxb7, ba5, ke6, bxc7, nxc7, rxc7.. Then white rook is attacking 2 pawns and it looks winning. No?

I find it strange that of the 3 games, the one that is the most impressive, given the strength of his opponent, is the one that you don't hear about. Every chess student knows the first 2, but the game against Morphy? I've never seen it before, and I doubt I'm alone.

Gooooo ben

22:07, ahah, 2nd finegold video where he says the answer is fries while I'm eating fries!

In 32.29 how if black king move to d8?

Different games from the first video 😍

It's amazing, (to weakies like me at least), that in the King's Gambit 3.Bc4 is almost as good as 3.Nf3. (if black plays the 'obvious' 3...Qh4+).

"Knight to g8 setting up for the next game" HA HA HA

This closes the Morphy/Steinitz gap.

Small correction. Technically, the match with Steinitz in 1866 isn't usually considered a "World Championship Match". Steinitz, in his "letter battle" with Zukertort, later claimed that he was World Champion since 1866 because he had beaten Anderssen, but at the time of the match, it wasn't considered as such. Regarding the games, I imagine that in the Morphy game, Morphy should have been thinking: "So, this guy developed his pieces correctly, he castled, he's blocking my attempts in the Kingside and is getting nice counterplay in the Queenside... ... WHAT IS HAPPENING????"

"It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well" ~ Siegbert Tarrasch "First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game" ~ Siegbert Tarrasch

Dude it's not Ampersand which is this simbol --> &; it's "en passant" which means "while passing"

LEEETTTTSSSS GOOOOOOOOOO

Old chair? Recorded a while back?

Hello 👋.

i cannot believe morphy has been served like this.

Gott sei Dank.

You said Anderssen wasn't born in Germany but instead was born in Prussia. However, they were one and the same at the time. Germany was not a unified country, and Prussia was considered one of the many "German states." But that's not all. Prussia had controlled the state that Berlin was in (Brandenburg) for a very long time. It was called Brandenburg-Prussia, and then later on just "Prussia." And many Prussian kings (or kaisers) had their capital in Berlin. And then..... when you fast-forward to the 1800's, you'll find out that the Prussian Empire had become the dominant German state during Anderssen's time. They eventually fought a war with France (the Franco-Prussian War in 1870... 9 years before Anderssen passed away), and they used that war to unite all of the other German states into one "German Empire." So, later, in the 1900's, the "Germany" that fought in World War I was literally the successor to Prussia... and Kaiser Wilhelm II (the German leader in WWI) was the heir to a long line of Prussian kings. But going back to Anderssen's time... given Prussia's strength in Germany and its German capital of Berlin, somebody born in Prussia was rightfully called German (even before the German unification). However, the borders between Germany and Poland have shifted many times. Post World War I, they changed. And after World War II, they contracted again. So, huge tracks of land in "Prussia" and later in "Germany" were eventually shifted into Polish territory. And huge chunks of "Polish" territory actually became Lithuania (and Poland and Lithuania used to be one state in the middle ages.. very complicated!). So, what this means is that, many people who would have been considered "German" at one point in time might be considered "Polish" today and vice-versa. And Anderssen, born where he was, would have been "German" back then. Today, he'd be "Polish." Hopefully that helps!

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If you watch *Curb your Enthusiasm* you'll know that the sponsor was actually Ted Danson

Well prussia was a part of germany when he died so its pretty safe to say that he was german also his first names are like the most german of german names and i would know i am one

I've read that chess is now the biggest online game! By some measure. That's pretty big considering all the fancy shoot'em ups and micromanaging clicketyclick "strategy" games.

Grandmaster Finegold was really upset with the Morphy defeat.

FIDE ranks Susan Polgar as number 368 in the world, and Finegold as 1267. Susan's rating is 2577, while Ben's is 2476. Just sayin'.

We (I mean, people who play better chess than I do) should wright long wikipedia articles about Ben Finegold's games! He's repeatedly begging us. And don't call him Fishgold. "And at the 65th move the opponent fell asleep because nothing had happened on the board." "Black looks like he came late to the game and skipped the first 5 moves."

Steinitz was born in 1836, Morphy 1837.

i thought prussia was a combination of poland and germany, and then after napoleon and alliances with the royal there, poland once again became poland

Rick and morty ad lol

Every time he says Anderssen, I have to think about Anderson from the anime _Hellsing._ *Every. Single. Time.*

Ben can never outrun anyone or the bear

Prussia is German, although Germany didnt exist back then.

prussia becomes poland????

Janks Ben

first :o

Burden played this vrs Amateur. Peace and love Burden won. Peace and love

P russia became Poland? Very suspicious....

Anderssen was there a few years before Morphy. He was not a missing link between Morphy and Steunitz. You should check chess history before you start to post grave mistakes like that. A bit of preparation is needed badly.