i agree :)

That's Mister GM Finegold to you

He's also grandmaster in dad jokes.

D rider

Extremely suspicious I think.

Some people's brains are just wired for chess. It's really strange but there are some people who can just look at a board and understand it in a way that we could never even imagine.

It's very clear. He was a genius.

Obviously used an engine

A time machine

I thought about g5 while he said that... I felt personally attacked.

ikr XD

Morphy understood material better than most modern grandmasters. One of the, if not THE best attacking players of all time imho

Morph was not get and master

He was not only ahead he was a century ahead and if he played up to 30y maybe would be 150 y ahead.

Haha I think most would keep that to themselves!

Wait, What!!???

Me too

Ken west is not a gm he is an idea

Ken West is a force of nature and a dream made flesh. His greatness transcends norms.

And it is still happening ...

Xdddddd dudes hilarious

no way really??

Yes! And the lecture is all about teaching his rules. "Never play f3, always play Bf1, never trade, always play Kb1" etc etc. Oh and most importantly: "Never try."

Jimmy Lundberg And of course allways play C4.... Because it's explosive.

double question mark

Aaron Kari terrible

Knife f5

Unofficial WCC*

He did play some serious chess, but there weren’t many to play in those days. He won the serious games as well.

he played serious games, just never accepted money for winning

Agustin Ronconi and most impressively, Andersson got better than ever after playing Morphy.

Eyyy, my 19th century chess trivia is still solid

Wasn´t his name Adolf Anderssen? And wasn´t he from Germany? If I remember correctly it was him who played "The Immortal Game" and "The Evergreen Game", where he played such sharp openings as the King´s gambit and the Evans-gambit. Both games was with White I think.

I knew this because I watched the other Morphy video here from Finegold, which he made a few months before this one and he talks about Anderssen, Stainitz, and Morphy

Anderssen was my thought as well. He was a pure tactician...making him a beast against players of the time...but meant he'd have no consistent shot against Morphy, who had an understanding of position and strategy.

Exactly.

Morphy might never have become the attacking genius he was if someone had feed him thousands of computer lines, canned defenses and ready made draws. And all the time modern players spend on preparing computer lines and studying old games could have been spend on developing their own lines. We know without the shadow of a doubt that Morphy was brilliant, but we can't compare him to modern players because the scene has changed too much for a valid comparison.

+bobbyfearfactor not just an awful, but also the one who is playing for long time and does not really improve :D

+BTDroad 2TOP I wonder why he is called 'Grandmaster' Ken West. :):):):):):):D

+Ryan Zheng I think sarcasm.

Yeah, that's what I meant

Hahahaha good!

I didn't like him when I first seen one of his lectures, but then I started to notice that his trash talk isn't malicious. And even though he is corny, he seems like a good, humble, honest, funny guy.

Common joke about the French..

And its getting old...

I know Ben is a font of all arcana Simpson... but I thought he copped this one from GingerGM.

Rotfl!

lol XD

Khal Draco? Is that a GoT reference?

@@leadnitrate2194 it's a combination of several different fandoms, including GoT.

Thank u

Spiritbro77 Sorry, but it wasn't recorded.

That's a shame. He's my favorite chess master. Oh well. Can't go back in time to record something.... Merry Christmas to everyone at the Chess Club!

Morphy could, he has a time machine...

First thing I read this morning. Today is a good day.

Is whist not good? It is a simplified bridge? What is wrong with whist? Oh you mean it was considered passtime activity?

+Belfor09 I love games from 19th century, they are so dynamic, brilliant and beautiful. Grandmasters' games nowadays are like 35 moves, nothing happens, then someone ends up with an extra pawn and his opponent resigns, meh

+Nerian I bet you cant find the combos which morphy used to find in the 1800s, implying that u would also get smacked by him.

***** Professional chess players would be complete shit without computers and no chess theory to learn from. Morphy had no theory at all to study but still made the best moves according to engines, you can check out the game in engine of today and see that many of his moves were top recommendations. In other words, if a person today becomes 3300 rating when all others are around 2800, then he would be considered a genius, same was with morphy. He was MUCH higher rated than all of his opponents that why he is considered a genius. Engines today completely beat any super GM in all games(black / white). Engines are considered to be around 3300 elo. So does that mean that the super GMs of today are bad?? does it mean that? no. It's just that the conventional chess wisdom of today cant see the complexities which engines manage to see. Some day crossing 3000 would be easier but that wont mean that carlsen etc will become bad.

+KARTIKEYA007 In fact, Morhpy never once opened a single chess book! True genius. Greatest chess player of all time, by far. Really just like the Leo of chess.

ciri :3

+altair91100 ME TOOO!!!!

depends on what you mean by tons, but yes he didnt win every game

how are you checkmating him if he doesnt have a king

If Ben was not drunk, for sure he wanted to say, that piece was the Queen

So you would lose?

if you think you can win at chess when your oponent doesnt have a king then you will have a tough time with morphy haha

channel name: "Ben Finegold"

LudiCoka Thanks! Now subscribed.

***** Spanner. Next question...

colourmegone You probably went over his head with that one.