You know, I've been meaning to say this. I don't learn much from Finegold's lectures. At the end of each video I look at my notes I've written down and all it says is: "Checkmate means you win" "Usually you don't want to loose your bishop because then you don't have it" "Loosing your queen is bad" "If you can take a piece for free, take it" "Sicilian defense is good, but the best sicilian is sicilian pizza" "If you see mate in one, play it" "c4 is explosive" "Knife f5" "I'm terrible"

i'm a simple man: i see ken west in the title and i like the video

When I saw Ken West in the title I was immediately hooked.

I love that GM KW got the right move even though he thought he was checking his own king. Very suspicious!

Ken West's reaction to the checking his own thing was hilarious, sounds like a lovely guy, can't help but laugh at the mistake though!

30:36 "Always look for stalemate when you got nothin'." - GM Ben Finegold

"Mister Ken West, you cannot check your own king." terrible if he did that in a real game

I love when Ben talks to me, i actually answer him, wish he could hear me.

Ken West is so lucky to be publicly demeaned by Ben Finegold.

0:31 Hitman in the window

"Ken West you cannot check your own king" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

24:47 "Queen takes bishop leads to mate................ for black." This and "you cannot check your own king" might be my favorite among many Ben Finegold moments.

Hahaha haven't watched yet but know I love this video from the title.

After all Ben Finegold's videos on youtube, I'm still not sure if Ken West is an actual GM or if it's just one of Mr Finegold jokes

I hit the like button before the intro even finished.

Only """"""GM""""""" Ken West can check his own king!

28:16 Now that's meme material right there.

"tall and good looking like eric hansen" CHESSBRAH

This video or those series should be named "GM Ken West | Patzer's Paradise"

I really want to meet whoever Ken West is xD

I started to try to index all the insults (I want this btw), but I gave up after 3 minutes. Only Ken West ones so far (very suspicious). Insult index: Ken West #1: 1:02 Ken West #2: 2:41 Ken West #3 3:10 I love the Svindler insults the most I think. Perhaps peppered in with some Ginger GM.

The title and the thumbnail are so good

Poor Ken West, has to endure all those jokes about him.

GM Finegold is the best

He's back

So good =D keep up the good work!

Amazing lecture salute to GM Finegold he's awwesome

That last puzzle was really hard. At least I found the sequence Gata missed. It took me about 3 minutes, but I Gata it.

Ken West in the title? Terrible.

One time I was playing on lichess and I saw someone named "GMKenWest" or something like that. I wonder if it was a real Ken West sighting or just another imitator... Hmmm.

24:36 28:07 i never LMAO'ed so hard in my life

Ben vs simon Williams Like for Ben Comment For Simon

A shot at Hanson in the first 2 minutes and a title with Ken West in it??

Ben's got a lot of time to think of puzzles in the tanning salon

Wow, that 2nd puzzle was really really tricky. Just a subtle yet specific king move means the game.

His constant ripping on Ken West is hilarious

thanks for asking Mr. Finegold, I am fine. Have something to drink, some nice food, something to smoke and a comfy chair. But please continue. Don't let my overall comfortable state distract you.

I came for the Ginger GM puns

"Ken West, you can not check your own king"

About that third puzzle, doesn't rook f7 win with bishop takes rook queen h8? I mean sure there's a few checkmates possibility but i was just curious

What's wrong with RD8 in the first puzzle?

Nice Pulp Fiction reference there.

GM Ken West? Puzzling. About as Suspicious as a British GM

11:35 brilliant 😂

Oh Jiminy Christmas!

In the first puzzle, after rook c5, what if black plays rook e6?

1st puzzle what about Qf6 After kf8 2. Rd7 what's black move?

is there a reason that rook e6 doesn't prevent mate ?

The first example would also be won with Qd8. If f6/f5 Qxe8#. If Rxd8 Rxd8# as the pawn is controlling g7

Ben Finegold is the funniestestestest

36:40 the AP reference though.

notification squad?

The L (Louis) makes the S (Saint) look like a dollar on the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis logo.

In the puzzle at minute 31:00, instead of kA2, why not rG1 discovered check preventing check on F1?

"...now, in this position, white wants to play queen g seven mate, with advantage" lmao

At 15:00 wouldn't King c5 still work? After king c7 white king can go to B5 with the threat of going to A6 and there is no way to stop this, leading to a faster mate.

Instead of playing qe8 check I think re6 works as well and is mate or substantial loss in material more than just a rook

what about pastime paradise?

He's really aged in the past 3 years

Actually, the last puzzle, seem to me that even if it white to move when the king is at a2, Bc3 should be sufficiant. After Rf2+ you can play Kb3 and when hte checks comes you can slowly inch you king down to a/b8 where you can defend the check with the rook.

5:50 LOL

At 23:40 I saw another to mate in 3 with white. Rook to F7 and once the bishop captures, white plays queen H8 and then G7

Yeh.

Ken West beatdown!

will Ken West end up like the most traumatized chess player ever

But if Kc5 and black plays Kc7, why can't white play Kb5 then?

15:00 why not kc5 ka7 kb5 kb8 kb6 ? Am I blind or is that just plain old zugzwang?

Who is Ken West?

move the rook and block the escape first

lol i thought they were gonna play gangsters paradise at the end.

What happens if black plays took f6 at 38:00

Buu i wanted for winning congision qa8

It hurted my brain having to calculate that pawn ending. the kamksy one I solved in 1 second because I'm not that good. Didn't attempt the 2nd puzzle because you didn't say pause the video and the answer got shouted out before I could solve it. That last puzzle was hard, I missed the solution on that one. How can a puzzle with only 3 pieces be difficult? I think I accidentally exercised my brain on a Ben Finegold video.

Is that a diet starbucks frappuccino?

I used to but Now i'm don't feel shame for losing to 1400 elo players, not anymore.

Hi

whos ken west lol

Ken West is not a GM according to the USCF player rankings. He's not a member and his GM rating is FIDE perhaps?

Youre in wang chung :)

Ben, sir, if you ever have the time I would like to play you correspondence one day, maybe on lichess or a different site, thank you for your time and videos. P.S. I solved all of these, so that is why I want to play you. To enjoy a game with someone who can teach me as I play.

0:33 fora temer! Kkkkkk

Like what tha hell! [8:56], Ben says that those positions are normally hard for grand masters. But I believe I clearly solved that puzzle with 1. Kb3. White has 2 connected pass pawns so it's just a matter of stopping black's flank pawns from queening (successfully). Initial calculation shows that king cannot chase down the two black pawns. But from my calculations, black is not able to queen because white queens first with check. A: 1. Kb3 e4 2. Kc4 e3 3. Kd3; White stops both pawns and eventually queens. B: 1. Kb3 e4 2. Kc4 a5 3. Kb5 e3 4. Kb6 e2 5. c7#; C: 1. Kb3 e4 2. Kc4 a5 3. Kb5 Kc7 4. Ka6 a4 5. Ka7; Queens and stop both pawns. D: 1. Kb3 e4 2. Kc4 a5 3. Kb5 Kc7 4. Ka6 e3 5. Ka7 e2 6. b8=Q+; Then take black pawns. E: 1. Kb3 e4 2. Kc4 a6 3. Kd4 ; White stops both pawns and eventually queens. F: 1. Kb3 a6; Lines very similar to D & E. G: 1. Kb3 a5; Lines similar enough to D. H: 1. Kb3 Kc7 2. Kc4 a5; Lines very similar to D. I: 1. Kb3 Kc7 2. Kc4 a6 3. Kd5 a5 4. Kxe5; Then hunt down the a pawn. J: 1. Kb3 Kc7 2. Kc4 e4; Same as E. All of this was done by head but I couldn't be missing anything. Only candidates moves for black are 1... e4, 1... Kc7, 1... a5, 1... a6; and I just have to calculate around two connected passers that keep the black king honest, and two dangerous black pawns.

Please more Akobian lectures!!

Lol... Grandmaster canvas... :P u can not check ur own king... :P :P :P :P :P

is this atl chessclub.

Heard GM finegold is facing the ginger GM in a chess cum rap battle , hope Ben makes him cry

im not a great player but these puzzles are too easy

Students did not get endings puzzle, to me, it was easiest.

Where is Ben Simon? Terrible!

You know who else said "obstruction"? That's a Trump joke.

Clickbaiting Ken West, terrible. Well now that Ben'd gone, Ken West can be the GM in residence

No one knows who Ken west is besides u chess dorks

horrible :*

This video is too terrible !!!