The “Great Players of the Past” series has taught me more than any other chess content on KZfaq. Go Ben, but stay here

Ben has massive funny uncle energy.

This needs to be a Netflix comedy special. It's certainly funnier than most comedy specials out there.

For anyone as bad at geography as Ben (Americans): Prussia was the largest German state which later was the driving force behind the formation of the German empire (see Bismarck, etc., mostly etc.). Part of Prussia was pretty far in the East in what is now Poland, Russia (if you can call it Russia), and Lithuania (see Ostpreußen). Germans were the ethnical majority there, especially in the cities, but that all changed in the 1940s-50s (see Hitler, WW2, etc.).

Lasker's Manual of Chess was the first chess book I ever read. I read it many times and now I own it. I first read it in 1981 and I just bought it this year.

Lasker is one of the older era players that I am convinced would be a top GM today if he was born about 20 years ago.

"Hey Lasker, play me." "Nah." "Aight." Ladies and gentlemen, the 21 year long world champ.

"The rooks are as impotent as a Nevada boxing commissioner." hahaha Ben has the best jokes.

The “no talking” line gets me every time 😂 21:09

Someone really should change Ben's wikipedia page so that it actually says "Ben Finegold, the end." 😄

You are such a brilliant chessmaster, it's unbelievable that we never see you in any worthy tournaments either online or over the board.

Nice Ben. You're one of my favorite Chess teachers!

7 or 8 years ago one of my friends wanted to play 1v1 basketball match and he was very sure he would beat me. I beated him 11 to 1 after which he said that he lost because of the rain (light rain was falling while we were playing). I told him well, rain was falling for me as well.

It eludes me why Lasker is not appreciated more. World champion for 27 years, dominated everyone when he burst on the scene in the late 19th century, then did not play that much as there were few competitors, and he was more interested in mathematics and philosophy. Then, when a new generation of masters emerged, led by Capablanca and Rubinstein, he upped his game and was competitive with them well into his 50s. One of the most dominant and long lived champions in chess history, and at least in terms of historical achievement, he should make everybody’s top five

The only Chess book by Emmanuel Lasker we ever read and forgot about. Love . Red Pill. Matrix Crew. Trinity and Neo.

Explanation about Lasker‘s origin for those interested: 1. Prussia was a German Kingdom that developed out of the House Brandenburg following the 30 Years war (1618-1648) that encompassed today‘s east Germany and parts of Poland. 2. Back in 1868 Poland didn’t exist anymore and instead had been divided by Austria-Hungary, Prussia and Russia shortly after the Silesean Wars. 3. Following the Austro German War as well as the Franco German War in the 19th century (both fought with Otto von Bismarck as chancellor which most US people should know as Bismarck North Dakota is named after him) the German Federation was abolished and in it‘s state The German Reich under the then Emperor of Prussia was formed. While this included all minor states like Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Saxony etc., they all decided to be integrated under Prussian rule, as all these states were made of germanic People the name was changed from Prussia to German Reich. 4. After World War I Poland was restored and after World War 2 most of original Prussian territory was given to either Russia (e.g the old capital of Prussia Königsberg, now known as Kaliningrad) or to Poland. 5. Because of this Lasker was born in Prussia as back in the day it was still a Kingdom, then it became the German Reich making him German by default (but also still prussian if you want to be exact) and after his death that became polish territory, so while he was a german national his birthplace similar to my own grandfather for example and many more people is now on polish territory and soil. Basically it would be the same as somebody born in Louisiana would be french (prussian) before the Louisiana purchase, which would make the territory US american (polish) nowadays, with an extra step in between.

The area around Gdansk was prussia and they became a German state, after the war that region was given to Poland. But most people born during that period from that area consider themselves German.

Was wondering when he'd finally show up.

shoutout to rook a3!

someone actually added "the end." at the end of ben's wikipedia page but it got removed for "improper humour". It's on the article's history page, tho

Great videos from the past.

Benjamin likes Falling Down? I love that movie, oh my God!

Emanuel was also the second cousin once removed of the great Idunno Al Lasker.

Thanks!

Reti-Lasker, New York 1924 has historic significance. When faced with the surprise hypermodern strategy, Lasker manages to beat it over the board.

Contract bridge dates from circa 1925. My second-favourite draw of all time is probably Lasker-Lasker from New York 1924 with the black king unable to get around the rook in time to win.

One thing I don't think Steinitz can be accused of is ducking strong opponents. He's the only world champion history who was given carte blanche by backers to pick his own challenger (1889), and he responded by picking the strongest challenger possible.

Contract Bridge invented in 1925, so after Lasker lost his chess title. People did play a lot of Bridge in earlier days, just not Contract Bridge, so they didn't have to bid 7 to win a grand slam - they got the bonus for just taking all the tricks, even if the bid was only 1.

Showalter is said to have defeated Pillsbury in an US Championship after Hastings 1895 in 1897. He might have been quite a terror. It is interesting that u mention Showalter in this vid. Did Lasker defeat him? Maybe u can feature Lasker-Showalter games or Showalter alone.

The unification of Germany was complete in 1871. Before then, it was a number of German-speaking regions and countries, including Prussia.

Can't believe they didn't get those 'Falling Down' references. Talk about an endgame, that movie is great and should be required viewing. "You have a choice. I can kill you. Or you can kill me, and my daughter will get the insurance." It doesn't get more chess than that.

This video has an excellent preamble-to-beard ratio.

Its too bad you don't have a chess club anymore. Would've like to come over and play a game.

A criticism of Einstein's theory of relativity by Lasker is included in the book "100 Authors against Einstein" published in 1931.

perhaps Rxa3 "crushes" Kb2, with Qxa2 as threat and Kxa3 Qc3 Ka4 a6!? with b5 as a threat (Qe6 Qb6 seems to prevent that) but I think the immediate b5 is stronger following Qc4 Ka5 Bd8 Qb6

Prussia was part of eastern Germany prior to WW1, but became part of Poland afterwards. So yes, the Wikipedia article is true.

Wait, an Atlanta chess center video posted today? I thought that place shut down

I'm 99% sure this is a re-upload. Also, you usually start off with the sponsor of the video!

GM Robert Hübner considers Em. Lasker the best chess player of all time. In some also historically and philosophically thorough examinations Hübner studied games and some whole matches of Lasker in detail (unfortunately the publications are only in German, as far as I know, which might also be the reason why the English Wikipedia doesn't take these works into account) and proved that Lasker did not "play psychologically" (as was often claimed and still is), getting to the bottom of this myth. Hübner also wrote an interesting article on the general literature by and about Lasker. Hübner did what Lasker himself was not too fond of doing (and in which Tarrasch also did much more substantial work than Lasker): thorough chess analyses (by humans).

Hey Ben, there´s something you need to know about Preussia. Preussia was once a part of Germany and probably some of it still is. Now I´m from Denmark a neighbour-country to Germany, and when we bully the Germans, we always call them "These damned Sausage-preussians!" The Germans are good at making sausages but we always bully them with their damned sausages when they call us the stupid Danes. Preussia in Danish is called "Prøjsen" and I´ve noticed that you pronounce Preussia like Prussia while you should pronounce it more like Projssia in order to sound like a hardcore Viking from Denmark. Raaaawrrrr! We´ll teach them you and I Ben. By the way in my language the two-knights defence (the one with the Raaawrr-Traxler attack) is actually called the Preussian opening in my country instead of the German opening, which I like so we can even bully them over the chessboard. :)

Go ben

We're the same, you and me. We"re the same, dont you see?

I'm not sure if or why Qc5 after Rhd1 is bad

Isn't this an old video That is now shifted to this channel?

41:42 except for one thing my fav joke

Good

He was the greatest player actually followed by Fisher and Kasparov.

I once met the grandson of lasker's neighbour.

Lasker vs Pawn.

Which I say almost twice a day

Games start at 17:30. You are welcome.

Damn, I learned nothing from this whole video except Deny Everything.

don't forget the great Hannibal Lasker the chess canibal

Prussia was German speaking and culturally German in these days. So he was basically German

Stokfish examined this game! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g52GrbR8tairl6s.html

I thought Hans Niemann had zero blunders per 1000 moves! That makes him the greatest doesn't it?

Prussia I thought was an old name for Germany.

buy a gooder mic

Capablanca, then Fischer was fact in that study

carl schlechter is a very strange person

Man the first game was terrible. White plays 1.f4 and black sets himself up to get attacked Botvinnik style with f4, f5 etc. Maybe because Botvinnik wasn't known/born yet?

Stupid and unnecessary comments on Lasker's ethnicity, but overall great lecture as usual.

Emanuel Lasker was very suspicious

Regarding the police. Don't deny anything. The thing to do is to say NOTHING. Only word you should say, if any is Lawyer. Then silence again. Act totally mute.

Before 1914 there was Pillsbury, Rubinstein and Capablanca. You can put a giant asterisk on that 27 year reign.

Yea if ur not 4th ur last ;)

The german question is answered pretty easily if you are a nazi archeologists, if there was anything beyond decent architecture there, it was Germany at one point, so thats that I guess

Hmm... you are my favorite and least favorite grandmaster

hahahaha...Your Biden is doing a great job Ben!

Ha! A topic I know. Talking to the cops. Ben your dad clearly wasn't a criminal. Denying everything is going to create animosity. The trick is to lead them in the wrong direction. Feign cooperation. That's my advice and I've probably beat more felonies then you

The reason that the place Lasker was born is now part of Poland is that the allied powers forcefully relocated all the germans living in that area which used to be part of germany, And sent them eastward to what is now modern day germany, 1.5 million germans died during this transfer as many were just openly killed or Sent to concentration camps where they perished. It's a hushed up genocide that very few know about as it was committed by the victorious powers and they control what the sheep in their countries know about.

Lecture Schlechter!