The Botvinnik-Carls Defense: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold

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Жыл бұрын

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@owenkelliher4927 Жыл бұрын

Cool to see Ben covering an opening I play. This Qb4 idea by Tal is what I struggle against the most. That Tal guy was pretty good

@inpinksuit Жыл бұрын

Heard he always got his queen captured lol

@suezuccati304 Жыл бұрын

I play the Tal Variation in the Advance and it always feels good to win a free bishop.

@rainerausdemspring3584 Жыл бұрын

Carl Carls had a very limited opening repertoire due to lack of time - he was the director of a bank. As white he *always* played 1. c4 which was sometimes called "Bremer Partie" in Germany since Carl Carls lived in Bremen. As Black he played c6 or c5 against 1. e5.

@jolivervendero8737 10 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you. Very underated comment

@rainerausdemspring3584 10 ай бұрын

@@jolivervendero8737 Thank you. There is a Carls biography written by Kurt Richter. This is somewhat surprising since Carls played rather positional chess whereas Richter was one of the last heroes of romantic chess. As a teenager - 50 years ago - I learned a lot form Richter's books. Richter was one of the best players in the world in the early 1940ies.

@ZorbaPress Жыл бұрын

That was very instructive -- and of course entertaining -- Ben, thank you very much.

@A51838 Жыл бұрын

this is the lecture i've been waiting for but didn't know i needed. i hate facing the botvinnik-carls. thanks for this vid!

@lahmer60 11 ай бұрын

Awesome, happy birthday Maureen!

@jeffreyfisher3115 Жыл бұрын

FWIW, the music is "Land Travels on a Cloud" by Delroy Pearce.

@tomas-wi8dy Жыл бұрын

thank you

@rogerwarr4673 11 ай бұрын

Love your style

@12jswilson Жыл бұрын

11:50 I play that Nxb2 a lot as a Sicilian player.

@wolfMetall Жыл бұрын

I play this variation a lot. Often my knight gets pinned to my king on c6. Also interesting that in the example games black didn't ever get his bishop out before playing e6.

@cooperjudson5807 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting free content even after writing your whole chessable course. You're an absolute bastion of the chess community GM Finegold

@bunpeishiratori5849 Жыл бұрын

You’re probably not the first person who has ever called Ben a seven letter word starting with the letters “bast” but I suspect you’re the first to call him a bastion.

@jl5897 7 ай бұрын

Bonjour, merci pour la video expliquée avec des parties commentées. Très bon format et contenu intéressant J'adore cette variante qui evite de jouer bêtement entre guillemets la ligne principale Ff5 sur e5. Sur Ff5, le fou va se faire matraquer plusieurs fois (le pauvre) et les blancsgagnede l'espace. La variante Botvinnik carls est hyper intéressante. Avez-vous des références de parties ou les blancs ont une structure de pions c3d4e5 et où les noirs font pression au centre ( comme une française) et a la fois peuvent développer leur fou c8 aisément (en f5 ou g4) ? Le fou en d7 me semble passif... peut-être une manœuvre Fc6 après... Merci

@ABronyNamedBurnie Жыл бұрын

17:30 I was like "I'm pretty sure I know what ensconce means, especially with context. Oh, you're giving me time to look it up? Don't mind if I do!"

@mohamedboudissa2087 6 ай бұрын

Which is the right, study opening or endgame ? my rating is about 1800 and i never study endgame

@beeble2003 2 ай бұрын

Endgame. You probably already know the opening principles, and studying specific lines is only useful if your opponent plays into those lines. The endgame comes up every time the game doesn't end in the middlegame. If you don't know how to play it, you're losing games you should draw, drawing games you should win, and you can't evaluate late-middlegame positions, because you don't know the outcome of the endings you could simplify to.

@ExtraCheeseProject Жыл бұрын

This variation looks more like the _Caro-Can't_ Defense; go French Defence!

@thinboxdictator6720 Жыл бұрын

I never understood how can anyone prefer french over caro

@paulgoogol2652 Жыл бұрын

@@thinboxdictator6720 Far sharper and more interesting. Saying that as a CC-player who is too lazy to study stuff like the Winawer.

@Evilanious Жыл бұрын

Spend less tempi, c6, then c5 very shortly after. Spend another tempo moving the bishop and make sure it can't help the king. French is quicker in the center, at the expense of the activity of the lightsquare bishop.

@Tocinos Жыл бұрын

@@thinboxdictator6720 people who hate their light square bishop

@ExtraCheeseProject Жыл бұрын

@@Tocinos He showed 3 games and in all 3 games ...e6 and ...Bd7 were played, so I guess my point was _why play the Caro Kann if you're going to play this variation?_ i.e. you may as well just play the French.