Great Players of the Past: David Bronstein

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Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... GM Ben Finegold discusses the games of David Bronstein in the newest episode in the Great Players of the Past series. This lecture was recorded on Sept. 28, 2017 at CCSCATL in Roswell, Georgia.
Games discussed:
David Bronstein vs. Llubomir Ljubojevic, Petropolis (1973)
David Bronstein vs. Miguel Najdorf, Budapest (1950)
Alberto Foguelman vs. David Bronstein, Amsterdam (1964)
David Bronstein vs. Mikhail Botvinnik, Moscow (1951)
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@louiscypher6919 9 ай бұрын

Dave is such a great participant. Except one thing.

@Gingnose 20 күн бұрын

Lmao

@sidmajumdar Жыл бұрын

Man, the ghost of Jim Varney sure has a lot to say

@jdclar3 Жыл бұрын

Sadly, that’s not a joke anyone under 21 years old will get. Jim Varney was the best!

@josephberger699 Жыл бұрын

Is that you Vern?

@vigilante8374 Жыл бұрын

39:12 Ben agrees.

@Rubrickety Жыл бұрын

🤣

@JAndrioli Жыл бұрын

Godddddaaarn hes annoying

@michaelbaker9347 Жыл бұрын

is this a lecture, or a podcast between Ben and Dave?

@bunpeishiratori5849 Жыл бұрын

I played Bronstein in a simul (in New Jersey in the early ‘90s, I think? He won of course but I actually had a good position for a while. The computer said I was better before blundering. When I resigned, I got him to autograph my copy of his 1953 book. He actually paused for a moment to look through the book, apparently because he was unfamiliar with that version/translation. I’m pretty sure I have a photo of the two of us somewhere, though I really don’t know where it is. Overall a cool experience.

@kmarasin Жыл бұрын

Seeing this newest batch of reuploads again inspired me to revisit Wikipedia articles on the great mid-century Soviet players. This led me to find out about Vladimir Petrovs, a player I'd never heard of, but he was apparently among the world's top players in the 1930s. Then the Soviets killed him for criticizing their occupation of his country Estonia. Can you do a video on Vladimir Petrovs? I know enough about chess to have heard of all but a few of all the players you've covered (edit: Lein, Khan, Suttles, Blocker, Showalter are the ones I'd never heard of) and Petrovs seems far more relevant than them.

@Circuit7Active 9 ай бұрын

My favorite GM

@user-ej4sl8wh8m Жыл бұрын

Great players of the past are my favorite chess youtube videos!

@Evilanious Жыл бұрын

I'm screaming at home: shhhh. Shhhh. Dave! Shhhhh!

@barkman1739 Жыл бұрын

In a previous video, I commented that I wasn’t sure if Dave Vest is annoying or my favorite part of the videos. Now I’m sure that the COMMENTS about Dave Vest are my favorite part of the videos. 🤣

@yosefcohen483 Жыл бұрын

43:05 "Alright now, there's two openings I hate, Archer - openings that are intolerant of Other openings, and The Dutch."

@davidcopson5800 11 ай бұрын

Jan Timman, not Tin Man. He played in the 'Over the Rainbow' tournament!

@12jswilson Жыл бұрын

24:40 it's weird. In the last few years, the a3 Nimzo Indian has become somewhat popular again and has some high profile wins even though it looks like a stupid move

@h0wnr681 Жыл бұрын

a3 instead of nc3 is also a good anti-nimzo line, I think Kasparov used to play it.

@Gingnose 20 күн бұрын

Me watching lectures answer Smyslov instantly 😂

@JimJWalker 2 ай бұрын

I looked at the two classical games between Fischer and Bronstein. Both were draws, but it is obvious they were going for each others throats.

@anonymousAJ Жыл бұрын

Szabo Reshevsky indeed but that was just a (mating) variation

@MattyNiceZM Жыл бұрын

Where is the Steinitz lecture?

@eliasb8 11 ай бұрын

56:07 I was shouting "Smyslov" at home!! 😁 Now, who was second place in the "Zurich 53" tournament? Answer: David Bronstein. 22:33 Speaking of Najdorf, here goes another question: Who wrote another famous - and arguably better - book about the "Zurich 1953" tournament? Answer: Miguel Najdorf. You know everything!! 😉👍

@CorneliuZeleaCodreanu9 4 ай бұрын

That dude sure loves hearing himself talk

@danjeory3659 Жыл бұрын

"You were all thinking Szabo - Reshevsky 1953 right?" 😂😂

@dariomoccia8266 Жыл бұрын

noooo ancora il rompicazzo

@elevenears4785 Жыл бұрын

David Bronstein - so close to my name.

@sure7130 Жыл бұрын

Haha who is the guy who kept chiming? He was great, can tell he loves chess

@danbrooks5060 10 ай бұрын

Dave Vest, a USCF LM. He was at one point the Georgia state champion. He's also, as you can perhaps tell, a little bit loopy.

@seanosull2884 7 ай бұрын

@danbrooks5060 I think he's been in other videos... I found him so annoying at first, but by the end of the video, I started to respect how enthusiastic he is about chess

@fspieler 10 ай бұрын

I was thinking Szabo Rechevsky

@CrispyKorn 3 ай бұрын

4:16

@zaydengestures7275 Жыл бұрын

I don't wanna be overtly rude but the crowd is starting to sound more like the 1oclock class..

@vigilante8374 Жыл бұрын

Dave is actually a national master, as I recall.

@zaydengestures7275 Жыл бұрын

@@vigilante8374 I should rephrase then, the speaking habit of the 1oclock class.

@jorymil Жыл бұрын

Ben's assessment of Bronstein calming down is maybe a bit harsh. Especially as you get older, tournament stress takes a little longer to come down from.

@MrLiveWest Жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on tempo? Like tempo to does and to don't? You always say a players captures with tempo in your videos. I can't really find anything on tempo when looking for chess videos

@dechain1927 Жыл бұрын

Do be up tempo, don’t be down tempo

@andrewkarsten5268 Жыл бұрын

@@dechain1927not always. There are a few weird endgames where the way to win is to actually purposefully forfeit a tempo so you can gain something else, such as opposition or zugzwang

@andrewkarsten5268 Жыл бұрын

Tempo literally just means move. So if you do something where you effectively get a free move, that’s an extra tempo. Tempo translates directly to time. For example, there may be a position where you could capture your opponent’s piece, or they can capture yours, and whoever initiates the trade loses a move doing so. Then instead of taking their piece, you may let them capture first while making a free move before the trade, thus gaining a tempo. As you continue to hear this term, understand “gaining tempo” basically means your opponent is having to waste a move, so you essentially get a free move, and then the converse for “losing a tempo”. Once you get this, the usage of this term should make a lot more sense.

@alfiecollins5617 Жыл бұрын

32:00

@robbarcen3509 Жыл бұрын

Dave is a nice addition

@thinboxdictator6720 Жыл бұрын

see you in past

@nnerival6125 Жыл бұрын

Is that a reupload ? I feel like i've already heard a few jokes

@nnerival6125 Жыл бұрын

I was joking but i think it s a reupload, i clearly remember him sayin he was the first western reporter to report bronstein death

@nnerival6125 Жыл бұрын

And i don t think this would fit anywhere else

@lv20swds Жыл бұрын

Yes. They are reuploading a lot of the CCSCATL lectures on this channel now.

@vigilante8374 Жыл бұрын

85% of the lectures are reuploads and it's been that way for a while. If there's someone in a live audience talking--anyone at all--it's a reupload. Ben is a hermit now, lives in the basement. Karen brings him a bucket of fish heads every other day.

@jefftoll604 Жыл бұрын

@@vigilante8374 Please add this interesting information to his Wikipedia entry to make it longer.