Studying for exams vs Ben Finegold, Ben Finegold wins every time

Those kids' stories at the beginning were hilarious! More Ben!

6:05 "Kings were traded long time ago..."

this is hilarious :) props to this gm with a sense of humour

King A7.5.... Exclam!

The most entertaining lecturer-EVER! Ben is the greatest

Thank you Ben Finegold for teaching and Ben Simon for producing. Your videos are helpful to kids in their 50's too!!

I love GM Finegold lectures!

Hey Ben! Thanks for another lecture! Looking forward to watching later after work :)

love the stories :) keep up the good work ben :) best regards from Vienna, Austria

I think GM Finegold could make an hour long video on this topic. And do you know why?

His dad hasn't heard of him... the truth hurts

been watching for a while kid stories forced me to subscribe. we need these stories in book form!

I love this dude! He's so funny!

Great video! Rare instance where Ben gets it wrong. He say if you don’t play h8 queen u won’t win (in 7). But there is at least one other move that forces mate in 7.

the vancurra method was used by aronian against carlsen in the 2014 seinquefield cup. i could be wrong, but Ben Finegold even commentated on it. ( it was at the saint louis chess club)

this is such a great video

Oh man, this guy is awesome... And fun!

At 3:30, it's easier to visualize the protected queen right up in the king's grill as a mate rather than on the last rank. There are many instances where the king is on the last rank and the protected queen is on the adjacent square for mate.

Best annotator and chess comedian!

We love Ben!

11:03 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer reference: "From The Beginning".

Arjen is soooooo funny :D

Master Finegold, why is it called king and pawn end games? Isn't the king part redundant? Well, I guess it's not redundant for those kids that traded kings and tried to check one another with a king. You should have a lecture of "end games without kings."

Thanks for this

Those stories are hilarious.

I had a lesson on Rook and Pawn vs Rook Endgames with germen GM Thomas Luther on July 11th, that was exciting. Now I know, there has just to be enough space between the pawn and the defending rook to go for techincal draw along with the King defending on the 7th rank, on the other side, if the attacking rook controls a line awys enough from the queening pawn, it is a techincal win. this works ofc only for pawns on c, d, e, or f file, if the pawn is closer to the board edge, it should be a relatively easy draw for the defending player, though I certainly remeber that wrong :(

I Had 8 queens once against a HP basic computer (1980). The important thing is that the opponent doesn't resign. Avoiding stalemate is a thing. I printed the board, but it has faded because of those thermal printers.

20:00 I had a similar position in a correspondence game, with Black.I had a big advantage otherwise, but the White passed pawn on the a file made equalizing the game possible with the Rh8 trick. My opponent and I missed the nuance for two moves, then I finally corrected the situation by playing ..Kg7 (there was no White passed pawn on the f file).

The song from ELP is called "From the Beginning" not in the beggining

he has great humor

I wonder why he tells us that he is boring ...HE IS EPIC!!!

4:10 to 6:55 is pure comedy gold!

gm ben is the best GM the only GM that played me love ben! donate and watch his streams on twitch, he play every human who dare to challenge him !

If Benny is joking about the classic books or not? there is modern endgame theorie by karsten muller and dworetski/Jussopov or the older awerbach and shereshewski rook and strategic endgame publications. Studying the old Euwe and Portish books will also make you a stronger chessplayer.Greetings from Holland by the way Love the classes of benny (Hill) Finegold and Yaser (Arafat) Sereiwan. Keep it up.

I remember thinking the 3 queens thing. I don’t remember where I heard it

Grandmaster Finegold, I trust you implicitly, but my opponents insist I cannot play Ka7.5!

Hilarious kids stories!!

do you guys know the program they use to showcase these chess positions??

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It would be fun 🤩 to play with out kings for a game

26:33 can white respond with a7? so that if the BLACK ROOK stops controlling the a-file, then white can queen ?

Anyone know if Ben has ever told any other kid stories?

Hey Ben finegold pls make a vedio on bishop vs night or two bishop vs night bishop or bishop night vs night night

+Stephen Wells At 32:47 you say black should play f6. White can literally play any move and still win but easiest is probably moving white's king to protect the a5 pawn and using whites rook for attacking purposes. Note the black can not use his king to keep opposition against white's king because white's pawn attacks b6 which is the opposition square when white reaches b4.

4:50 he and eric rosen would be perfect together

at 11:51 it's incorrect to say that if the K goes to f7 the next 4 moves will be the pawn up the board. After 1..,Kh8 2.Kf7, Kh7 3.g5, Kh8 4.g6 the game is over. The principled way to win is to get the K to h7. 1..,Kh8 2.Kh6, Kg8 3.g5, Kh8 4.g6, Kg8 5.g7, Kf7 6.Kh7 It would have been better to have used the c d e or f-pawn in the example, because no stalemate tricks then.

Isn't it impossible to have 8 queens? The losing side would be stalemated by the time you had 7 wouldn't they?

Ta very much for the crumbs, Ben. As we say in Britain. Apart from Scotland which invariably includes the F word somewhere.

if ben played magnus or kasparov 10 games could he win any at his rating? just curious

In the first puzzle, why not Kh5, then whereever the black king moves, you play Kh6 and then he cannot possibly do anything else than run and you push your two pawns? Am I missing something? Some stalemate after promotion?

The stories are hilarious - the one about the adult resigning when he went to make move and you went to shake, thinking he was resigning - then he decided to resign after all was the perfect capstone. Even better than the kids asking if it's stalemate when he's in check by 5 enemy pieces. Or, where are the kings? Oh, we traded them off long ago.

LOL Meat Loaf & ELP references

at 32:47, if black plays f6 doesn't that cut off e5 for white? meaning that black can now play kc6 if white continues the zugzwang idea? Even if white plays ke4 he cant get to blacks pawns, I think

... Zukertort ... ZZ Top ... lol

3:26 1 square instead of three hahahha :D

Zugzwang is not pronounced like that. The w sounds like a v and the z's are pronounced much more sharply (note: it's German. It's literally the word "turn" and "force" "Zug" and "Zwang" mashed together, because German is cool like that).

Can white win the position at 23:16 ?

What about Julio Granda Zuniga?

Oh I did already say that

27:45 position is not a draw, white wins am i right?

i want to read ben's book cry like a grandmaster

Is this the chess version of Jonah Hill?

I like how they skipped over Julian's question. Silly Julian.

It's "From The Beginning", not "In the Beginning".

I thought the opposition was the person that blocked the King in the second endgame kf8 allowed white to block black so he had the opposition

Is it still a plan if u r doing nothing?

Can you teach the sicilian

I would have said Zaitsev

A player whose last name begins with a Z? Igor Zaitsev!

Is this endgame for tournament players. Got nothing.

love ben...hilarious dude bringing laughs to a boring game. oh and he is chris christy in disguise

a king can never be checked by 5 pcs, unless it's a composed position, but it's funny how he delivered it anyway

You say "Zugzwang" as if it is japan or something but Z is spoken "ts"

Never seen anyone waffle so much and try to add wit to almost everything. Take that away and he would be a great teacher.

30:29

checked by 5 pieces? very suspicious

has he been into a bar fight?

No such thing as a legal position with five pieces checking a king. The most is two (double check).

Carlsen is an endgame master Ben WTF are you smoking?

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ben looks a lot like Chris farley in the intro image and he is fat and funny too brothers??

17.29.... With a pen or a pencil Finegold.... Geez

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Those americans just can't pronounce "Zugzwang" it's not sugswang but ZugZwang with a "z" and not an "s"

No one got the Pulp Fiction joke "I dare you , I double-dare you, Do you speak English in what" just terrible.

@13:50 Finegold realized that Arjun gonna say yes to any question he asks... So Finegold asks "Do u wanna order a steak" zugzwang question... Arjun is forced to say yes, but steak is forbidden for hindus .. :D Most non-hindus didnt seem to have noticed it :D

He's a vegetarian? Could have fooled me...

too much constant interjection of completely distracting off-topic attempts at humor! Good choice of material and no heavy foreign accent!

uses too many words

this is a great video, but finegold needs to stop with the constant jokes. 1-2 in the beginning, and then finish the jokes.

the content is interesting, but damn, GM Finegold seems like such a bitter and unhappy person.