the "like my teenage years" joke killed me aHHAHAHAA

"He's the best player in his chair" amazing.

Watching this video over and over again, showing what kind of life I lead

Things I've learned from Ben Finegold: - Never play f3; - Always play Bf1; - Tricks are for kids. Also, 14:56 was hilarious.

22:34 I have watched all Finegold lectures at least 5 times each. I guess my life is terrible.

Funny guy. Every 4th sentence is a witticism with 10% humorous sarcasm, much of which flies right over the pupil's heads.

this guy's funny.... could do a stand up at the comedy store...but the audience gotta know how to play chess

1. make sure your king is active! 2. in king and pawn end games, the pawns on the A and H file are the most dangerous 3. in rook and queen end games, the king with the least safety will get checkmated fantastic lecture , and hilarious.

very good teacher

The audience has no sense of humor this guy is hilarious. I was almost in tears at "Tulsa...ughh"

Funny and engaging teacher. Poses questions in just the right way to make you want to hash it out for yourself.

I find Findgold's the most informative because he keeps me interested with humor, and between is superb chess advice.

This was an awesome session!! Thank you GM Finegold for a very entertaining and informative lesson.

LOL....12:17 "C4, always explosive". :-D

Anyone else watching this video over and over again?

This video is not on the Ben Finegold playlist. Just a heads up!

great lecture, you are awesome!

Thank you very much for this lesson

14:55 "...and this ain't no movie" reference to 'Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)'; Josh Waitzkin's last game.

i love this guy

Ben Finegold,Yasser Seirawan and Jonathan Schrantz are my favorite teachers!

Bh3 is the greatest move in chess history!

22:35 He's talking about me

14:50 Jajajajajaja Omg, i just saw that scene from that movie TODAY! 😂 this is a old video i KNOW but i just saw it today

Does that mean if I have a position where I'm about to mate with king and knight against king and pawn (with the opponent's king stuck in the corner), they can just let their time run out and get a draw?

"as any small child will tell you, Snatch" Hilarious!

wow ! these end games are pretty

Ha, it actually was 1987, not 1988. Terrible.

Is it me, or does anyone else think that Jonah Hill can play him in a movie?

damn it Finegold, my hand was totally up!

12:16 BOOM

BEEEEEEEN!!!

Bh3! gawd...Shirov!

Terrible. It was 1987! (Sokolov-Korchnoi)

actually in Germany we say Nine! Nine! Nein!

this guy is HILARIOUS! XD XD XD XD XD

i woulda never woke up if u didnt tell me... this better be good

1987--Tilburg, Opening: Spanish game, Berlin variation

Ben is the best!!!

Mike kummer lecture please!

"uh...the lecture's over."

19:05 Intererstingly Ben uses the German Initialism DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik). In English it is usually called the GDR (German democratic Republic) So I checked his CV for a prolonged stay in Germany and TADAA he was playing in the German Chess Bundesliga in the 1989/90 season

i miss the times when ben finegold said "gesample" instead of "eggsample"

I think Bg4 for black also wins, but the sac is nice.

at 8:09, why not this combination: Rook takes Rook(G4), (i assume) Knight captures Rook (G4), Knight to F4, pawn to D2, Knight to D5, if queen, night forking king and queen on E3, if king moves, Knight to C3 stopping queening, and after that starting to push A2 pawn....

Why does Finegold say at 4:59 to "always repeat" (checks)? It doesn't seem like it does anything

so this is what he does when he is not fighting batman

22:31 hahahahha!

I love gm Ben finegold. I was falling asleep and he said to wake up

looks like GM Ben Finegold is the tony stark of chess

Very funny GM

now for my favourite words, class dismissed looooool

Rooks are like my teenager

The rook Exchange example, one möve before you Made a mistakes, because pawn caprure instead holds a Draw, but the Zwischenzugang h6 or even caprure wins But h6 is Note clever. You can after IT Take the rook and the Draw lines arent Working anymore.And stockfish saw IT in cheap Smartphone in 5 sec, at least the Draw and caprure Like Happens IT need LEDs then 1 Million nodes.

21:40 looks like a draw to me

M'kay

Your endgame after rook captures was nice, but opponent could draw after pawn captures. So one möve sooner you could captures and Stocki in a very Slow smartphone at small depth See a +1.

its 1987

Hurra! I m the 600th:)liker and 100th commenter on this video.....

But I like Tulsa...

does Ben use eye makeup?

Finegold looks tired...

Why is he shouting?

No? Nothing..? This audience is terrible..

hahaha Women have a separate tournament, like the special olympics.

"However, the position in front of you right now is also a drawn position." I hope he is not talking about the starting position. Ben sounds like he has solved chess. I love his intelligence and his sense of humor, but I am sick and tired of listening to grandmasters saying for a given position "there is no correct move and wrong move among these two options; it is merely a matter of taste". Or while the computer counter-suggests a move in a super GM game with difference 0.6 in the evaluation the commentators mention it and then say "but there's nothing wrong with what e.g. Caruana played". Or taking for granted that black can hold with perfect play even under severe pressure and when a move makes black collapse then "I don't know if someone can find a defense for black with perfect play, but this seems very hard to hold after this move", after having said numerous times "this is an OK move for white" throughout the course of the game, like we're talking about a petting zoo, overemphasizing black's potential to hold, as if it is white actual play with "OK moves" in the game competing perfect play by black. These are kindergarten statements. How does Ben know that the starting position is defensible? He "feels it"? I "feel" that draw is more likely to be the solution of chess myself, but come on, you people are scientists, you're not supposed to talk like that. Might be 1.Nf3 1-0 forced... A "practical game" is one ball game and theoretical chess is a different ball game, which I suggest should be shown some more respect by GMs.

He talks about himself too much