Have to admit I have really changed my mind about Ben. At first I thought he was a bit obnoxious/rude but now I realise it's just his way, it's quite endearing

Can't believe I'm laughing out loud at an instructional chess video. You're amazing, Ben!

Ben is the best teacher, the only one with jokes of grandmaster level. *that Nixon joke lol

22:00 a kid comes up with a move that Ben says is "just as good as the move he made". Pretty high compliment coming from Ben!

If you want to make a comedy chess stand-up - this is the guy you need.

"...but now he wins Connect-4" Oh god, Ben is so awesome :-D

"I won the game of tic tac toe, but we were playing chess"

Ben's really good with kids. Nice job Ben!

I love this guy's lectures. He does lectures for kids, but the games are still pretty good :)

25:25 "He decided resigning was a good idea. He must have learned it from Nixon." XD

There are some players in the U.S. - like GM Finegold, who would certainly have been a FORCE in world chess if there were more strong tournaments here which are easier to attend. In Europe, youths have many opportunities. In the U.S., unless your family is fairly wealthy and really committed to travel, etc., you have fewer opportunities for frequent strong competition, not to mention gaining norms. Finegold has been a very strong player for a long time, with some beautiful games on record.

I want GM Finegold to make fun of one of my games.

YES! More Ben Finegold.:)

"So I can make a Ferguson joke but I won't" Ben you savage, I wish I could attend one of your classes

I no longer make Ben Finegold cry, merely shake his head. Achievement unlocked!

I like the way Ben is teaching. I am a fide rated player elo rating 2002 now. So really enjoying. Ben is amazing! 👍

i love ben finegold. I would love to hear him narrate documentaries

"I would make a Ferguson joke, but I won't..." Laughed my ass off; it was a sneak-attack.

the oldschool stories of beaten'em world champs is awesome hahaha

Finegold might only be the 3rd best player on his block, but he's the GOAT lecturer so he showed us.

Why is there 7 dislikes Terrible! Like it!!!

That pawn storm joke creased me up haha, this guy makes learning chess so entertaining

Finegold is hilarious with his obvious joke statements even to little kids hahah!

Me like: I have to do something very important! Than: Finegold video, me like: Eeeeehm, I will do that later :D FINEGOLD FTW

Damn, Ben’s lectures are amazing

Mr. Finegold is more hilarious than any guy at the tonight show =))

Amazing performance by Ben :) I see some negative comments and I ask myself why on earth would I watch a kids class video without the jokes of Ben? Very suspicious.

XD I appreciated the Ferguson joke that he didn't make XD

I'd love to play a few games with this guy.

This guy is hilarious

great teacher

"if you want to play better, you have to play like a better player" 1:52

Wow I never knew that guy from Superbad was a chess grandmaster!

1:50ish you can't make 70 pawn moves Ben! The max is 48 :D

Ben is a treasure

LOL. I love this guy.

hahaha, i love this guy.

15:56 LMAO

THIS GUY IS FUNNY! also very wise!

This guy is great!! I agree definitely a stand up but fantastic for the kids.

Always vote buchanan

I was doing opening preparation in the French defense today with stockfish and a database and I saw a game from 2007 that went like 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bb4 5.e5 Nf4? 6.Bd2??? And I think both players were rated over 2300 so I assumed they saw some genius tactic that made that all make sense so I thought maybe I could play that line and noone would know it since it's only been played once and everyone would fall for whatever weird tricks were there so I put it on stockfish and stockfish said bishop takes queen is like +9.5 and the tournament wasn't blindfold or speed chess

first two minutes tough love.

I second Martin's vote.

Go ben

I can catch the basics but at a certain level a 2000 and a 2800 don't look much different to me. is anyone good enough to catch it? :o that'd be interesting

8:30 hahahaha

22:05 Smart kid right there!

13:13 so funny

Pat Buchanon is still alive?

You should play penguin in a batman movie . . . Oswald !

20:50 why not play queen d5 threathening checkmate?

I laughed very hard at 6:48 lol

7:30 self-explanatory

22:43 nd5 bxf7+ kh8 qd1 though

just be nice to the gentleman Fancy, and they'll be nice to you. 24:00

It was king against king ... but he had opposition.

31:31 hahaha Foaming at the mouth

love me some Ben no homo

32:27 How did you get all these sets get here? lmao this guy's so fucking witty

YES 133|\|

12:41, Be7? a fork for the black rook and knight?

What is papucanon

30:12 Hahahaha

Pat Buchanan :)

33:03

Lichess insights says I blunder when I move my bishops early, so no

wanna comment but this video is officially old...

around 12:39 Why does white take with the horsey on C5? Wouldn't QxC5 prevent white a little from casteling (threat of QxE3+, winning a pawn and possibly with BxC3 ripping up whites Queensides pawns)

I hate studying, all I want to do is play Chess lol

6:45 lolirl

dude is roasting 10 years old

What's worse than K x N...??? Pat Buchanan...!!!

+Dan Nit I challenged you to make one point about this UN initiative and cite evidence, and you tell me that people who own banks are rich and link to an article about Haiti!? You dont seem to realize how incoherent and stupid this is. Everyone understands rich folks own banks so you dont need to make this point. P

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this guy is teaching course for 7 year old kids and im a middle aged bald fat man and I still dont understand.

He's a strong player, and I enjoy his videos, but let's be honest...making jokes every 5 seconds is a little much.

I pin you, you pin me, he's the worst player in history... HA! :-)

yeah, but wasn't the vodka joke just wrong to say to 7 year olds

Good God you tube! 10 ads in 13 minutes. I refuse to do any business with all of your advertisers. This is abuse! And I ain't watching this crap!

the ferguson joke was uncalled for and very bad taste.

finegold is that guy who thinks he's good at chess but he'd lose to any top 100 player in the world every day of the week

Political jokes only seldomly work with adults; but with kids, you should SHELVE those thoughts.

wow he's got to stop putting down his audience, "you got nothing in there" thats no longer encouragement

Why the Ferguson reference? Totally off topic even as dry humor. It's actually bloody humor. Totally inappropriate, insensitive and disgusting. What a butthole thing to say. It thought that the type of people that exercise reason and represent this channel would actually exercise good reason. They ought to pull his videos.

All of you must be young kids to think he's funny, because I think he's rather annoying.

I'm sure Ben is a cool guy and a great chess player. But I never liked him as a teacher, especially as when trying to teach kids. Sorry Ben, but if it means anything to you, I did learn from you and I'm not a kid.