"Petrosian's not interested in winning the exchange. He's going to promote a pawn to a rook and sacrifice the exchange." 25:33

Finegold is the best commentator on this channel.

Petrosian v Pachmann Bled 1961 is the game where he sacs the queen and chases the opponent's king across the board in case any one is interested.

Great teacher, clear explanation full of funny asides and historical context. Cool video!! Thanks

Ben, make my day better he can....

Petrosian is my favorite master to watch and, learn. His method is fundamentally sound. He stuck to the basics, logic. He was the master of taking what he was given, hisnopening and midgame was simple enough to alter as needed. Petrosian was not presumptive, he secured his position, nullified the opponents offense and undermined the opponents position. Petrosian had the best games to study for someone beginning chess.

Energetic commentary.

"Chess is hard." Exchange sacs are awesome, the thing to look for if you're a B player and want to improve. My lone victory against a master hinged on an exchange sac on e4. It was G/60, my regret is that no scorecard was required so the game is now forever lost in the aether; stuck on the surface of a distant black hole.

Classic game. Two exchange sacs and a queen sac!

Only Finegold would reference OPP when lecturing to kids.

"...before the game started." At the end, cool joke!

I like that the thumbnail is Ben going “RAWRR!

Ben is my favorite

Ben is legend, so random

SOLID

Bravo!!!

Nice Ben.

Night Moves came out in 1976, but Defer graduated highschool in 63. Thanks, Google

I thought the Panov variation was named after mr. Variation

every finegold lecture should have that thump nail pic

That double exchange sac was beautiful.

I love his lectures...Arjun is my hero...

Wait there was only 1 win with white in the 1966 championshop, but 6 win black.. thats pretty crazy

whats the chessboard software you use

RIP Taimanov

@10:30 why take back the f pawn with the g pawn and not the Bishop? Is it just that the pawn prevents either knight from going to e4? gxf5 breaks kingside pawn structure and locks in the Bishop, seems counterintuitive to me (then again I'm lowly rated)

Rawrrrrrrr

Me, with the right comment.

Tal games are my favorite to watch...the Guy was a madman

wild and crazy or solid?

12:16 "Active aggressive" lol as opposed to passive aggressive?

Workin' on our knight moves, baby!!

i guess ben is pointing out to his very nice win against yuri balashov who was at least a 100 points higher rated than himself!!! that was pretty

At 22:21 in this video. I believe that's Bosque should have played Queen to g5. Connecting his rooks and staying out of the attack.

Ok sir

"Thatss terrible"... good game from Petrosian

NO mention of Mike Kummer :(

Title: Pe--Trojan

Ha ha ha ha ha I must laugh my ass off by the thought, that there was a chessplayer named Pachman, after the great cheese-eating hero from the modern PC-game.... ;) It´s so funny....

Is Ben's son a chess whiz like Ben was?

The "terrible movie" Pawn Sacrifice? That was a great movie!!!

how old is he?

BEEEN

6:36 Nd5 is bad because of Sd5: Ba1: Bd2 and 2 pices are hanging

Thanks They were using PK to influence the game

Me yelling at the clouds!

Nobody ever had a harder road to the World Championship Match than Spassky as he had to beat really good players in matches on his way to the top in 66 and 69. If we had that system in play today I think it would really be a show of just how strong Magnus is. Spassky was really stronger than Fischer in the 60's. If Fischer would have been able to face the type of players Spassky had to play on a yearly basis he would have matured sooner. He might of thought of living in the Soviet Union just to get the playing experience. He did visit there when he was a teen but was rude and was told to leave. Besides the Cold War really was an highly antagonistic era for even Chess players. Rueben Fine did not play in the 1948 Match to determine Alekhine's successor because he said he did not want to waste three months of his life watching the Russsians throwing games to each other.

Despite the gentle ribbing of Doug Eckhert, he has written what was (when written and may still be) the best, and now probably well out of print, book on the Keres attack

"War is peace" 1984

show indian gm vidit games

28:30 lol i saw it before he even said it.

As good as this game is, Game 12 is even more interesting. It doesn't get much love because it ended in a draw.

Fischer claimed people were cheating whenever he suffered a setback. The most ridiculous example was in his game with Botvinnik. He was probably winning, and blew the advantage. After Fischer's blunder, Botvinnik walked up to his team captain, Abramov, and said something. Fischer then claimed that Botvinnik was getting illegal assistance. According to Eliot Hearst, the very idea that Botvinnik would even listen to advice from a player so inferior to himself was patently absurd, and no protest was filed. Botvinnik's version of the story is that he walked up to Abramov, and said one word: "Draw", which is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect a player to say to his Team Captain at that point. The captain needs to know how every game is going, to be able to tell others whether to play for a win or a draw. But I don't think Fischer claimed anyone was cheating in this cycle. There was no need to, as he had no setbacks that needed explaining away.

petrosian boring? all games of his that i see on the internet he sacs stuff, smothers his oponent in glorious styl and has positions thatone drools to when seeing them XD boring is more like Karpov or even worse Carlsen, when the guy does absolutely nothing the whole game and wins a pawn in the endgame XD Petrosian was no boring :D

Ben you lied! I took exf5 in the Kong’s Indian and lost because of it

Spassky could've played N*c4. Gotten rid of the blocked knight with a threat and subsequent tempo...

Keep this comment on an odd amount of thumbs up

Yeah but I am not at home.

Pawn Sacrifice was a pretty good movie. Not the best movie ever, but far from the worst. How often do we get chess movies anyway? We should be grateful.

21:25

33:40 ahahahah

He wasn't down with OPP.. LOL. An old school hip hop joke 99% of viewers wouldn't get.

I have a chess engine too

He farts at 09:12

after Bxf7, I thought Kf8 is a better try

Whose down with OPP 😂 very underrated joke unfortunately probably only 3 people understood it

When you said most "shocking" move: rook takes f4. Then, Qg5+ and queen picks up rook back. At that moment, Rg4 picks up black's queen. So, SLAP HIM!!!

Fucking hilarious guy.

Ben didn't like "Pawn sacrifice"? Terrible!!!!!!!!!

Ur only know because the engin told u…stop running down professional chess players bro, ur just an amateur

Ben is lame 😤