I am a simple man. I see Finegold, i press like

"G5; here comes the mating attack." I laughed so hard my chest hurts. I love you, GM Ben Finegold.

i am subscribed to 'Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis' just because of Ben.

I dare you to play me and if you accept I'm sick that day 😂😂

nice, a ben finegold lecture on my birthday :) best present ever

MORE FINEGOLD!! :D Thanks for the great videos!

FUCK YES BEN I LOVE YOU

Rapport is amazing. I hope he gets to play more top level tourneys.. His other game against Aronian, for the Bundesliga, was very very beautiful, aswell..

Loved the ending - good point, Ben!

Never stop Ben coming!!!!!!

GM FINEGOLD: Thanks so much for the funny, but very informative lecture. Hard to keep up with your jokes and hard not to laugh at your self deprecating humor!

Best lecturer ever 😂

The king has returned.

A "They might be giants" joke, nice !

Charismatic man this Finegold-guy.

Yeah ! Ben Finegold : simply the best !So nice guy !

I've been waiting for years for the series grandmastering the middle game, but it never came out. Rawr I'm mad, I want my money back.

Making the Middle Game Great Again 👍🏻

Greetings from Türkiye 🇹🇷 Mr. Gm Finegold...👏👏

Rapport just won a XX tournament in China drawing lots of games, apparently he learned to draw. Can you analyze his winning games please? Thanks.

Ben Finegold should cover the decisive games of world chess championship 2016. Please.

new lectures!!!

the country of georgia has fewer inhabitants than the state of georgia

Ben is awesome!

Ben Finegold. Simply the best.

Steadfast talk through a delightful game (I mean the second one). Very good.

nice video

In the first game you claimed - after trading rooks - Rb1+ does win a whole rook. I'm afraid but that's not 100% accurate. Bc1, Rxc1+, Ke2, Nc3+, Kd2 and black is "only" up a piece :P

New digital chess set. Nice!

soooo great lectures from you GM Ben. One correction:, please don't use term "soviet" with Georgia. I'm from Georgia and big part of our country is occupied by Russia and once Russia is associated with Soviet Union, i think it's inappropriate. I'll thank you for it. P.S if I knew you were here, in Georgia, I'd definitely meet meet you.

@ 3:29 What about Nc3?

I had to go and listen to Istanbul by they might be giants first, now I'll watch the video.

Love Ben:)

Man the move of the year was really easy to find.

Five years later, they did the same to Hans, checking beads

OMG WOOOOOOW AM SHOCKED

"Very hard to stop" :D ... best face ever...

also can someone explain the konstantinople joke to me? i'm not a native and i feel there was a pun i missed

after 2 years, there is still no lecture on grandmastering the middlegame. terrible.

very suspicious at the top level chess club...let new players challenge them and we have new results lol...nice video

I loved that they might be giants joke.

Yup, I admit it.... I'm a [call me grandmaster!] Finegold fanboy. Seems like he's calmed a bit since he got engaged. Still edgy. It's his nature. Hope he's happy (smile). I watch every Yasser-wan-kenobi vid too, but give me my Finegold vids!!

Right, Arjun?

where'd my rook go??

Eyyyy They Might Be Giants

why do I hate and love this guy at the same time ?

Heeeellloooo ben fingold

They Might Be Giants :)

never play f3 but what about opening with f4?

i just played f6😬

9:54 he said we could put our hands up at home. I literally did by our didn't know the answer

This guy is fucking hilarious!

I got it. RIP to the foolish Aiken

Istanbul is raw

hah funny guy. fucking love Ben finegold

I'm a top chess player in the world and I accept the challenge. Just say when and where.

LOL Ben "Blundering is the most fun you can have" Finegold :)

floating milk particles in hot tea

Not true, I saw a real game between Finegold and Nakamura once.

Aye

Ben making fun of everyone for not understanding his jokes and a great chess lesson, very suspicious 😋

King wanted to run away, but then the black peaces gave the king night mares and this is also funny I want to get my three rating point's from Magnus then I'm world champion is I beat him once

I entered "Richard Rapport" into Google, and it responded with "Richard Rapport girlfriend" and "Richard Rapport married", which suggests that he has more than a few female fans. (Blonds do indeed have more fun.)

I don't want to be a nit pick but neither of the two georgias is soviet

He talked about Andrew Tate’s Dad

There hasn't been a Constantinople for over 500 years. Hope the rest of the lecture is more up to date.

So when the top ten play the top ten it's a draw then when the top ten play the bottom 2 they get destroyed? While that makes no sense, Magnus Carlsen does lose to himself on the Magnus App so idk chess is hard - never try

I love your videos but you pronounce the word "moves" weird. It sounds like "muvs" and rhymes with "hooves."

LOL Ben...… Particle man.... Particle man.... doing the things that a Particle can...….. what's he like? It's not important.... Particle man..... (cheesy accordian music)

Never say "never."

bd6 doesnt look right

15:50 I saw rook a4 I just didn't like it

Get back to your complaining!

Ben Simon I have a great idea for you. I know hard how it is to serve two master the loose mouthed ben finegold and staunch conservative rex. How about just bleep out Ben's political remarks (maybe blur out the mouth too if you know how to do that to prevent lip reading, I can give you some pointers if you need help doing the blur)? It would be hilarious we could fill the comments section with guesses as to what he really said. And I think less people would beat you up over the editing as they might see how it's not you that is doing this but the management forcing it on you. Also only two jokes sailed over my head. New world record! I actually like Ben missing the "whole rook". He played a very good and very human move. There are two schools of thought in chess. 1) "When you see a good move, look for a better one” (Emanuel Lasker) 2) If you see a move that wins, quit thinking and make it. "2" is a way better philosophy. Why? Because otherwise you run out of time! Lasker played back when you had an hour or two per move and they had this weird thing called "adjournent" where they quit playing after 10 or so hours so they could start up again the next day. This sort of advice is not to be taken seriously for modern chess.

Dont read this. Never ever. Something scary. I told u not to

first

Solid ,Boring ,Slight advantage move 😂

@12:24 Ben Finegold's golden rule: 1. Show your game to a girl. 2. If she is very impressed, marry her.

Ben's a TMBG fan! And of *course* he hates Trump... my life is complete.