Good job mate :D

If you donate on ben’s stream you might even move to 806!

@@thestonecold96 I have heard donations help :D

@@shan8215 the more you donate, the more money Ben has

This is not possible because at your level you don't gain or lose 5 points for games

I’m gonna start quoting that 😂

Yes Sir, he is!

Agree. I adore him, he make my day much more enjoyable.

YESSS

I love these videos

It's true, you know

Pure class!

Truth hurts

I do miss the previous jazz solo though

Only true finegold fans will get this!

Wow, truth hurts

Just a terrible idea... terrible!

Very suspicious

This is one extremely funny comment.

Can't overstate how much I hate calling games between Rufus and Doofus as "immortal".

@Professorfart (great name by the way) I didn't know the chess centre had closed - so no more listening to Ben making jokes at the expense of small children anymore - shame - lol!!

Why did it close tho

I thought they sold it to someone else.

​@@akorthouwera pawn moved forward? 😂😂😂

Me rn

Me too 😴😴🌜

Me but can't fall asleep because too interesting

There are plenty of recent games. He just chose some of the most famous. For some recent notable super GM wins as white you could look at - see Ivanchuk v Peter Leko 2020, Ivanchuck v Giri 2013, Ivanchuk v Ding Liren 2016, Nepomniatchi v Firouzjja 2021, there were a number of notable draws in the london chess classic too a few years before that. Nepomniatchi has an expensive course on chessable on the kings gambit where he looks at more of his games. But the analysis is not helpful for beginners. If you want someone modern who played it as a main weapon Alexei Fedorov played it against every super GM under the sun from the 90s to about 2004, his last game was a draw against Carlsen. Carlsen himself has played it sometimes but his last notable game in a tournament he played some crazy line where the king goes to E2 and lost to Ding Liren. Simon Williams has a number of courses on it too, and I honestly find Simon's analysis to be more helpful than nepo.

As well as Great cocktail name

King’s Gimlet perhaps?

Well I have too

*a lot

Ben’s such a chill dude

12:57

Thats the hard part, seems so easy when it's explained well like this, much harder to apply in own games though!

This is way passive learning is not good in chess, want to learn and apply on your games? So you got do your own work

I think hikaru played it otb, if I remember correctly he played the variation where he sacs the knight on f3.

Judit polgar kinda

I know you want more detail than this, and I would agree it would be helpful to hear a full explanation from a GM level player, but broadly speaking, the issue with being down a pawn is that if the rest of the game proceeds with even trades, eventually you are most likely lost by force (with a few rare cases being a draw). This means that being down a pawn is essentially a ticking clock on your chances to win the game. You HAVE to either reclaim an equal standing by winning the pawn back, or win the game before all the pieces come off.

@@adamanonymous6885 It's not rare at all for a pawn down draw, 1 pawn can often stop 2 and one minor piece vs piece and pawn is also frequently a draw. Trading down past a certain point kills the advantage.

Club closed ? Why ?

@@madhavsanap6690 With covid around it was costing too much to maintain it, they were actually losing money from it

"the opponent doesn't know how to handle it he can't handle the truth" 🤣

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