"incorrect! you considered it" absolutely brilliant

"He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess". -Siegbert Tarrasch

Always love Ben. My favorite lecturer on this channel.

Best, most hilarious teacher i've learned from online or in person. Thank you for these great lessons.

"Qg8 mate with advantage" hillarious :D

I hope all of Ben's lectures stay here on KZfaq until I watched them all! They are exceptionally great!

Hi, NH3 is ammonia, NH4+ is the ammonium ion , eg NH4CL is ammonium chloride, thanks for the videos

The biggest legend of the chess world. Love you GM Finegold!

What a great lecture. I wish my college professors had anywhere Ben's charisma and insight.

Thank you GM Finegold and Saint Louis chess club. Very nice lecture.

This video reminds me of Nairobi. I was in Nairobi when I started watching Ben Finegold's videos. That's one of my favorite things in Nairobi. I like Kempinsky Hotel and the Westlands as well.

That Al Chow game was also in Ben's Attack lecture. Guess it's just that good.

Wish there was more about the positive aspects of an isolated pawn. Most of the games here don't really show that, and the one game (out of four) the isolani won it didn't play that big a role in the win. GMBF said "most people don't like isolated pawns, because they're dogmatic", but didn't do much to ameliorate that here. Need to see games where the advanced outposts on K5/QB5 play a role in a win, or the pawn advances/exchanges/sacrifices with an opening of lines benefiting the side with the isolani.

Thank you Mr. Finegold, finally i have some surprise weapon against the French which i was avoiding with 2. d3 ?! till now. I already won two games with your 3. Q*d4 in the d6 sicilian against a 1900 and a 2000 player, i never played willingly knight against bishop before. Nice Greatings from the Orlicke Mountains here in the Czech Republic.

It is ammonia, molecules get a different suffix (mostly -ide, like chloride) when they become ions.

12:29 haha! "That's why he's an IM and I'M not. Wait a minute..."

Shame on the four people who actually disliked this video

yaaaay isolated queen pawn positions! my favorite topic!

Ben is just awesome. If he were not a not chess player, he could be a comedian.

He is funny, don´t understand why I can barely hear any laugh from the audience

this is not my first video from Finegold! great teacher! I hope to be at his level in the next 5 years! I am starting to dream about chess at night, so i know im on the road. But sorry Finegold, your not in my dreams xoxoxo

NH3 is the compound Ammonia. The NH4+ (positive) ion is referred to as ammonium

good lecture

NH4+ is ammonium, the ion of ammonia (NH3)

In the first game, is the isolated pawn on d5 really the defining feature of the position? White has numerous other advantages as well (weakened b5-square, bishop pair, control of the open c-file, easier development, dark-square control), which eventually turn out to have much more of an impact than the d5 pawn.

What happens if Re2? Was he really forced to sac the exchange?

That Nh4 ammonium joke :O

nh4 is ammonium, ammonia is nh3

isolated queen LOL

Guess who's back....!

Do you know how the opening of the first game is called??

but no video ?!

Would Re7 be a bad move for black in this endgame?

Ammonium in Nh4. Ammonia is Nh3.

what am i missing? at 36:00 queen to d7 mate?

Why do you always repeat check move patterns?

At 0:20 it would have been super funny if he actually ended the lecture

it's a little suspicious

first viewer

First game black didn't know what he was doing. Not only isolated pawn but bad bishop, hole on b5...just awful position.

this speaker should consider spending more time talking about chess? i mean, he constantly gets off topic with silly little jokes

I would learn a lot from this guy if he could get through a sentence without the snark and "humor."