The Fried Liver Attack with GM Ben Finegold

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11 ай бұрын

Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... In this video GM Ben Finegold goes through a variety of games in history involving the Fried Liver Attack. This lecture was recorded December 3, 2017 in a lesson given to the U1400 Class at CCSCATL.
Games Discussed:
Shirov, Alexei vs. Sulskis, Sarunas, Latvia (2014)
Zhigalko, Sergei vs. Agdestein, Simen, World Blitz (2016)
Greco, Gioacchino vs. NN , Europe (1620)
Speelman, Jonathan vs. Fletcher, John (1969)
Cochrane, John vs. Mahescandra , Kolkata (1856)
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Пікірлер: 110

@zoranherceg7221 11 ай бұрын

Ben: if I play this move, the computer will explode and the lesson will end. Kid from the audience: Do it.

@SanyaJuutilainen 11 ай бұрын

The best moment!

@EvertfromNederland 11 ай бұрын

It's so funny how the kids understand Ben's chess lesons, but they almost never get his jokes.

@thetree1994 11 ай бұрын

It’s cause his jokes are about before they were born

@EvertfromNederland 11 ай бұрын

@@thetree1994 Yeah I understand, they are much more for his own enjoyement than for the kids. I get it, but it's still prety funny at times

@elonif4125 11 ай бұрын

Showing that humor is harder to master then chess.

@serrie85 8 ай бұрын

The truth hurts

@BLUEGENE13 8 ай бұрын

I wouldn't go so far as to say they understand it

@cristianflorin5970 11 ай бұрын

Ben is the best chess teacher

@paulm2518 11 ай бұрын

Frankly

@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 11 ай бұрын

@@paulm2518 Never met Frankly, but I'll take your word for it.

@huracan200173 3 ай бұрын

Go Ben! But also stay there

@SgtMajorSkull 11 ай бұрын

The Star Trek joke is funny, and true. Any time in Star Trek where an Enterprise team would beam down to a planet and you saw Kirk, Spock and a guy with a red shirt, you knew the guy with the red shirt wasn't coming back... Happened every time!

@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 11 ай бұрын

Red-shirt players don't get much time.

@tonybernard4444 11 ай бұрын

I had a girlfriend that told me about the red shirts, and now I wish it was a running joke. Spock, take a couple red shirts down to the surface and sac them to the aliens.

@davidschneide5422 11 ай бұрын

If you listen closely to the final lyrics of Queen's 'One Vision', you'll hear them sing "fried liver".

@brianjacob8728 11 ай бұрын

Very suspicious. If you play it backwards, it says "Put it in H."

@DeH0207 11 ай бұрын

Love how the thumb shows the wrong Fried Liver even though Ben complains about that every lecture 😂

@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 11 ай бұрын

Ben's favorite player, Hikaru, played Ng5 against Fabi a couple days ago. "Not a Fried Liver," yet still a repost. 🤔🙃

@greennin 11 ай бұрын

I’m happy i clicked the bell. I enjoy these so much

@lowpert 7 ай бұрын

still one of the best videos

@Stuychess 11 ай бұрын

Caruana wishing this came out earlier.

@SenatorBluto 11 ай бұрын

Caruana did NOT play a Fried Liver.

@SmilingMoos3 11 ай бұрын

@@SenatorBluto If he watched this video he would have 💯

@futurefox128 11 ай бұрын

@@SenatorBluto he allowed it by playing Nf6 and gave up the decision. Hikaru opted to go into the Fried Liver, thus forcing Caruana to play it.

@SenatorBluto 11 ай бұрын

@@SmilingMoos3 Caruana would be insane to play into a Fried Liver vs Hikaru. What are you talking about?

@SenatorBluto 11 ай бұрын

I dunno know why Ben is deleting my comments. Did I say something wrong?

@veexish 8 ай бұрын

Actually the criss-cross mate is named after grandmaster Chris Cross

@robertberger8981 3 ай бұрын

I like the definition Ben gave about Theory and practice.

@chessisbest 2 ай бұрын

Great lecture as usual. :)

@SmilingMoos3 11 ай бұрын

This is the most lesson I have ever watched for the fried liver!

@atwarwithdust 11 ай бұрын

Ben: "If I play Rook f4, my computer will blow up and the lecutre will end." Kid: "Do it!"

@jamesbell1613 3 ай бұрын

So just don't allow the fried liver attack. 😂 This guy is informative and hilarious.😂

@nigerianprince6638 11 ай бұрын

You are not going to believe this but i was searching up this video like 50 min ago and could not fine it so i watched the traxler video and then you posted this. I guess you took down the old video exactly when i wanted to see it

@thetree1994 11 ай бұрын

It’s funny that Ben has a bunch of these recorded from years ago and just never posted them.

@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 11 ай бұрын

What are the odds?

@thetree1994 11 ай бұрын

Odds of what?

@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 11 ай бұрын

@@thetree1994 Ben's favorite player, Hikaru, played Ng5 against Fabi a couple days ago. "Not a Fried Liver," yet here's the lecture from 2017. Odd coincidence, don't you think? 🤔🙃

@IsaacBenevides 11 ай бұрын

Many many many of these lectures have been posted before

@thetree1994 11 ай бұрын

Ohhh so it’s a repost

@atwarwithdust 11 ай бұрын

Played in "Europe"? Thanks for narrowing it down.

@AG-ld6rv 9 ай бұрын

Just some interesting engine facts: Around the time he says the engine says black is all right, latest Stockfish recognizes white has the better position even a piece down (about +0.8 pawns). Now, after a3, the engine goes to -1.7 pawns if only the human opponent could practice what should happen in theory. Always interesting when a losing position results in a win. . The engine confidently leaves the king lined up and claims about a 1.8 pawn advantage for black. It mobilizes its queen with Qh4 instead. After Kd6, the engine starts thinking the position is +6.3. However, that is with an only move d4, which Shirov found.

@ArchitectGG 10 ай бұрын

As someone with social anxiety, I always imagine how on your toes you'd have to be at an in-person Finegold class. But actually, it's genius. Keeping the kids on their toes, ensuring they're paying attention to both the chess, and the infamous Finegold quips, it keeps them razor sharp. Or at least that's my theory anyway, I could talking baloney

@aakashbasu3219 10 ай бұрын

No, this is a fried liver lecture, it's not about the Benoni

@WastrelWay 2 ай бұрын

There should be a Ben Finegold Memorial Award for the best classes on chess for kids. Ben can win it for the next 20 or 30 years or as long as he continues, and then the trustees will have to decide if anyone can equal him. I've played the Fried Liver with Black. I seem to remember that Black can end up with 3 pawns for a Knight somehow. That Knight on b4 has to go, maybe. I can't remember. Twenty years ago I allowed this guy to play it against me, and after we worked through the opening madness and we were equal,, he was grudgingly appreciative.

@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen 11 ай бұрын

👏🙂 Very interesting

@Eidenhoek 11 ай бұрын

1:48 Bishop C5! Goooooo Aman with the Traxler variation (which I think requires the knight out first but w/e openings are a random series of moves)

@danbrooks5060 11 ай бұрын

32:50 very fun how ben lets the kids do their own analysis. "I'm too old for this!" nf6+ kxf6 qxe5+ kg6 bd3+ does look like it should be winning... except for one thing...

@maciektrybuszewski9964 10 ай бұрын

"Normally, we're very serious."

@andrzejwilk7316 11 ай бұрын

Can someone bookmark Traxler variation (4. ... Bc5) for me?

@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 11 ай бұрын

You don't have clearance to play the Traxler. Sorry.

@adamanonymous6885 11 ай бұрын

3:30 - Ben, there's nothing wrong with Bc5 there - definitely not at scholastic level, apart from the many, many tears it will cause

@JAndrioli 11 ай бұрын

360p damn its an old one

@evanlewis2349 11 ай бұрын

Just yesterday Hikaru won a classical game in the fried liver against Fabiano, to steal 1st place in the last round of Norway chess!

@SenatorBluto 11 ай бұрын

It WASN'T a damn Fried Liver!

@michaelemerson1949 11 ай бұрын

I'm scared to say I thought it was fried liver too. So I will retreat

@SenatorBluto 11 ай бұрын

@@michaelemerson1949 What does Ben say in the video??

@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 11 ай бұрын

@@SenatorBluto Dude, calm down. It's not a four alarm fire. 😂 You know, they have medication for that now. :p

@puffman06 11 ай бұрын

@@SenatorBluto sure sure but it starts up like a fried liver and everyone including multiple GMs were calling it the fried liver

@A_critter 11 ай бұрын

In response to hikarus win over fabi!

@petargadev6630 11 ай бұрын

Just got 100% playing the liver

@keithwald5349 11 ай бұрын

I have a particularly deep understanding of the Fried Liver because it's my main weapon against the Nimzo-Indian.

@tolkienfan1972 11 ай бұрын

Why are you re-uploading these?

@verstraetenandre 11 ай бұрын

I was wondering the same, but why not... If he deems it necessary or even if he wishes to re-upload for "science", you know, to see how the youtube algorythm handles / promotes it, why not?

@michaelemerson1949 11 ай бұрын

Always repeat

@tolkienfan1972 11 ай бұрын

@@michaelemerson1949 good answer

@StratteraCapsules 11 ай бұрын

I think these videos were originally under the St.Louis Chess Club channel, so I'm guessing he wants the views and revenue?

@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 11 ай бұрын

@@michaelemerson1949 Rinse first.

@dannygjk 11 ай бұрын

iirc 11...Kd6 loses 11...Qh4 at least equalizes.

@davidbaker4237 6 ай бұрын

"For kezample"

@SeekAndDestroyTM 10 ай бұрын

Aronian played the fried liver like 3 years ago.

@johnedward71 4 ай бұрын

If someone hits with their liver, I'm probably getting crushed.

@75hilmar 4 ай бұрын

Is the Cockring Gambit similar to the Bongcloud Opening? No, Cochrane was the guy who invented it 😂

@ribbonsofnight 11 ай бұрын

When he says "it has to be this position and it has to be this move order" I can't help thinking you can transpose to the fried liver in a few reasonable ways and thousands of absurd ones and it's still the fried liver. In fact if you transpose from the double bongcloud to the fried liver it's still the fried liver because who cares about castling privileges. Probably not black.