Jason Doe: The end game is the only part of the game I actually tend to (somewhat) know what I'm doing, and I love to watch videos like this too. Finegold is a great and humorous Chess teacher.

@@rogergeyer9851 I didn't expect an answer to a 7-year-old comment, haha! Glad you're discovering and enjoying Ben's content :D

now i like ben even more :)

+Embou Jarppunen Down a piece, white can never hold that. In this case just Bd6 next, the white king will have to move and lose the pawn immediately. then it's simple for black

It set my teeth on edge. I was wondering why.

You can keep as many as you can swallow.

Hmmm.. my english may be bad (I'm from Iceland).. but your understandings is even worse (what is your excuse). I'm talking about the pos where white played Kc3 as I stated in my post. That is, the pos after white has taken black rook and black taken back KxR.. pretty obvious if you have any chess skills. The pos after black KxR screams for b6, creating protected passed pawn on the edge of the board.. 101 in pawn ending.

Are you some kind of dumb? The pos I'm refering to is at exact 10.30 after Black takes Rook back with King and white replys with Kc3 as I said in the orginal post. If you can read, then my post start with the following statement, "In the King's endgame.. " etc. Endgame with rooks is not, Kingd endgame. King's endgame is when there is only pawns left (of cause with king's, just in case you don't know how chess is played)

I'm saying play the rook check before moving his king to protect his pawn

Ah, I was reading protecting the pawn as forced. With only one pawn, black presumably can't queen.

Martin Staykov The new classroom is actually next door to the Chess Club at Lester's Restaurant. It's still Saint Louis!

Yeah, I meant to say is it at the chess club. Cheers.

Martin Staykov Technically it is still the chess club. Lester's Restaurant went out of business and the club bought it and now uses the dining areas for some of the chess tournaments and the lectures now.

To answer your question, you're missing the rook on c8

@jqbtube yeah, but that's what Samuel meant. Kd4 e3 and then not fxe3 but Kd3 seems to win. exf2 Ke2 or else you take on e3 the next move, meeting anything with Ke2 (well, f3 then Kxe3 of course). But I fell for fxe3 at first, too. Easy to miss Kd3.

LSDO Do you say this because of the Thatcher comment?

I dunno, I don't remember this video in its entirety. It probably was about Thatcher though. Anyway. He brings up politics in more than just this lecture. Again, I don't care what he thinks but it's inappropriate.