I can't believe this is the infamous lecture where a lady interrupts you to ask why you haven't talked about Fischer yet

"he became world champion due to a drinking problem of his opponent" sounds like your match with GM Simon Williams

what a great lecture, one of the best teachers evah! Ben Finegold should be on the fifty dollar note.

"I hope you learned a lot, I know I did" -Ben at the end of his own lecture

That kid in the background is starting to get better!

Max Euwe became world champion because in 1935 he was simply the best player! He also had a daytime job as a school teacher, so he was not a pro like Aljechin. Makes it extra special.

Alekhine's not rematching of Capablanca gets a lot of unnecessary hate and it's not clear to me why. Capablanca himself didn't want to be challenged for the title either, and Alekhine actually had to work extraordinarily hard to come up with sponsorship money to fund the prize pool to contest Capablanca. He had set a ridiculous financial threshold he knew few players could ever overcome in order to deter challenges. If you ever see a game from an Alekhine blindfold simul in the early 1920s, guess what? That simul was probably given as a fundraiser to raise money in order to challenge Capablanca. Alekhine actually proposed a rematch to Capablanca, but demanded exactly the same financial terms Capablanca had demanded of him. Naturally, Capablanca was thereby deterred from rematching him, and despite formally challenging him, never did come up with the money. Alekhine thereby ended up choosing someone else, although again in fairness to the usual narrative, Alekhine did agree to play Bogoljubov without raising the required purse -- however, it really could be simply claimed as getting revenge on Capablanca for placing such financial obstacles in Alekhine's way in the first place. And to be fair, Bogoljubov was no slouch as a player, he was just inconsistent -- he did win a number of supertournaments, even coming in ahead of Capablanca sometimes, in the years leading up to their match. Really, karma is a bitch, if you demand $10,000 to play, be prepared for the next guy to charge you $10,000 too.

My all time favorite chess players are as follows, Magnus Carlton, Hikaru Nagasaki, Martin Ashley, Ken West, and Tobey Mquire.

“Can you edit that out?” Editor quotes it in big letters.

It took a lot of lectures but I have decided to like you. A Dutchman. Please continue.

Anybody else still watching these great lectures?

It's Max Euwe, not Max Euwe

In defense of Alekhine, according to CM Sjtsjogoljev:- May 16, 2016 In London 1922 all leading grandmasters including Alekhine agreed with Capablanca's proposal that a challenger for the world championship title should bring $10,000, of which $2,000 was for the world champion while the remainder was split 60% for the winner and 40% for the loser. Also the challenger needed to take care of all the traveling costs and so forth. These are known as the London Rules. It took Alekhine five years to get the money, where others like Rubinstein and Nimzowitsch failed to do so. For the rematch, Alekhine simply sticked to the same London Rules. Capablanca however now wanted different rules and arrangements, obviously rejected by Alekhine.

Heyhey, Grandmister Finegold, you are the chess lecturer with the grumpiest sense of humour! :-) And I like your appreciation of Euwe too. Indeed a move like a3 against Fischer, the utterly normalest, ordinariest and simplest move possible, and at the same time so all devastating because of all that came before. Fischer also greatly admired the clear logic of Euwe's style. "There is something wrong with that guy. He is too normal."

2010 was euwe year announced by feed. He was truly a national hero for Holland. Max euwe square was situated in Amsterdam. He became World champion defeated alekhine in the year 1935 on 15December. He wrote 70books on chess. My favorite is logical approach to chess and meet the masters. He was principal of automatic information processing in ratardam university. He was also in tilberg university. Take retirement in 1971.his contribution in chess is unforgettable. He also works as director of Netherlands automatic data processing research center. Legend born in 1901 on 20th may and died on 1981,26 November in Israel. Great man, iconic figure. I respect him. Big fan of him.

The enjoyment i got from these games by Euwe is beyond words. Amazing!! Great Ben also, like everytime!

ben i love your vids. when i first started watching i was slightly turned off by your humor (to be honest i didnt get it) but now i find you hilarious and a pleasure to watch and listen to. very instructive

Great lecture by GM Finegold.

You are funny and one of the best chess coaches.

another Ben Finegold vid, yaaay

I learn a lot off this guy - his delivery means it sticks in your head.

Alekhine drinked occasionally for example when he is awake hahahajaj

Euwe is one of the famous chessplayers in which I don't know the correct pronunciation. Thanks for this video and other videos in The Legend Series.

Awww. But I screamed Knight B4 at my computer Ben! Subsequently, I was fired...

Fantastic games by Euwe. I started to like Ben's style.

I hope all the kids get his references and jokes. They are gold.

Very hard to choose between Euwe and Timman. Between 1985 and 1994, Timman played in four candidates tournaments in the knockout phase. Eliminated by Yusupov (early), Karpov (final), Short (final) then Salov (early). In 1993 Short and Kasparov broke off and FIDE decided to play their own world championship, between Karpov and Timman. Timman lost. Strong player and a close second behind Euwe. Euwe actually was a world champion and by all reports a very classy human being. I also really appreciated his writing style. He wrote some really accessible books for beginning and intermediate players. So I'll still give it to dr Max.

"I'll pronounce it however I want" - still pronounces it better than 99% of non-Dutch people

Wow Ben, without that disclaimer on butchering Dutch pronunciation, I definitely would have posted a comment. Anyway, thanks for respecting our one and only chess world master. I think even in Holland he's completely forgotten, except for the fact that a square is named after him in Amsterdam.

Euwe was a mathematics teacher, he used his mathematical insight in chess play. Greetings from the Netherlands.

What computer program do you use?

Respect for Max

Took me a while, but first game at 4:38 Bb6 loses, the correct move is Nb6 Kb8 Be5. Bb6 is met with gxh2 if Kh1 or g2 then Qc6+ picking up the second rook. If Kf1 then h1Q seems good, if Kf2 Qf7 picks up the second rook.

In the second game, after Rf4 there is a fefence for black, the move g5.

Is that why Ben is wearing an orange shirt?

findgold tells stories about this moment at 8:19 in later videos. so funny to see it how it happened

At 25:36: What if black goes Rf7 takes Nf6 ? Sure it loses a quality, but does it lose outright? (Well, must be since GM Finegold said so, but please show me - I'm a beginner...)

At 25:00 why black does not take the knight instead of resigning?

Euwe won, not due to alcoholism of Alekhine, but due to Alekhine's over-confidence. Yes, he did drink, but he wasn't an alcoholic at all. More importantly, you just can't beat Euwe in calculating, you just won't bluff him away. Before the match, even Alekhine called Euwe to be the best in the world in that respect. So, in the second match Alekhine thoroughly avoided over-confidence. He didn't bluff - and, yes, gave up all drinking, which made a difference too. He simply played better. And this time Euwe didn't play his best chess. So yeah, then Alekhine won the match.

Who is Arjun ??? And what is his fide rating???

Euw just too good :D

You actually pronounced his name correctly at 12:20.

Legend here in Holland

29:46 : Kne2 is also possible instead of Bd3

In the first game you analyze, after Bb6 "which is hard to meet" black could play gxh2+ Kf2 (else White have only white squares to put their King, and Black wins with Qc6+, winning the rook and the game, except for the Kf1 move which is will be seen soon) and then Qf2 + wins the whites rook and the game. The same is true for Kf1. No?

4:39 Bb6? gxh2+ Nb6+ for sure

4:37 "Bb6 is hard to meet... really hard to meet" umm, but gxh+ is winning for black. The winning move would have been e.g. Nb6+ Kb8 Be5 winning the queen.

29:38 : c6 is also possible instead of c5

in the 3rd game black resigned but how about rook takes Kn on f6?

What was up with the guy randomly asking about fischer in the middle of a damn variation. That would have shit me as a lecturer. Like if you went to see the dark knight in a cinema and someone stopped the projection to ask about medieval england.

Max Euwe also got a Ph.D in Mathematics.

Tho the pronounciations were a little bit suspious, the lecture is great!

Ben what's your problem with Alekhine? Alekhine told Casablanca like Capa told Alekhine and Lasker told Capa b4 him to come up with ten G in gold...He didn't produce the gold...So no match...Alekhine was trying to get a match with Capa for the longest

14:17 "...and the reason it looks like it's threatening the pawn, is because it's threatening the pawn." Love these jokes :p

There can't be many people who beat Reti, Alekhine and Fisher

Who is Arjen?

At 4:40 Mr. Finegold says that white's move Bishop B6 is hard to meet for black. Can't an acceptable, if not winning, counter play occur for black starting with GxH check, and following with a queen check no matter where the king moves next?

At about the 25:00 mark, what about queen to G6? You're trading a queen for a rook, but that messes up the attack. I don't think I would have surrendered just yet, though I'm not sure how black could come back. Always the possibility that white could mess up...

It sounds something like Mahiles Oovee.

Mecks Öwe sure was a good player.

Haha, thanks Ben for calling out the idiots who will scorn you for 'mispronouncing a foreign name. I cringe when I hear Dutch people do that. We do it for two reasons: 1. We don't have the problem of pronouncing foreign words incorrectly, because our native accent has almost all sounds. 2. We are just more lame per capita than Americans. And thank you for this talk on Euwe! Very interesting and he deserved one.

At 10:33, I don't understand why white doesn't checkmate black.

4:35 After Bb6, I think ..gxh2+ should be an easy win for black.

Estonia now is in the euro... for a couple of years now, so I guess you can't buy anything even with a 1000 Keres!

I'm Dutch and I have no idea how to explain to you guys how to pronounce the name Euwe haha. It's comparable to the German o with the dots on it for people who know German.

11:45 rook e8

im dutch

Now he is picking on Arjan, not Ken.

Erva is a terrible rendition of "Euwe" and I'm not even Dutch!

True about Kasparow

I know how to pronounce his name, but I don't want to 'cause I'm in Holland. So I say: fee-nuh-kholt. Not offended at all. Just weird reasoning... :) :) :)

Some years after Capablanca lost the world title, Capablanca played Max Euwe then the new minted world champion, and beat him 6-4 in a match. I suppose you are right Capablanca beat up everybody, maybe you didn't say that.

I played against Euwe one time i Holland some years ago.

Max Oevë

25:45 what if Rxf6? I guess just exf and if Rxd8 Rxd8 is mate in one Rxf6 is not legal If Qxf6 then Qxf6 and if Rxf6 Rd8 will be mate

0:25 - 0:31 ur such a bozz ben :)

I thought americans pronounce it like "you-v". In russian we say "ay-veh"

I think Alekhine could beat Capablanca in a fair fight.

You listen to Ben talking about world champions and it sounds like he not just met them, but beat them easily because they were idiots. 🤣🤣. Any other person speaking like that I would think is jerk, but Ben is Ben he is forgiven.

Don't pay the least attention to what this guy says about Aljechin, go to credible sources.

I love how Ben goes ohhh, Alekhine is shit

Once he came to Nepal. Dr. Baburam Bhattarai challenged him. Max lost in 23 moves sacrificing queen.

So Keres not taking the hanging knight in that game is the losing blunder. It's a shame you skipped over that entirely, because I think most people would snap that knight off without thinking. Even upon thinking for a bit I'd do it because it doesn't even look that scary - the queen has an easy enough time defending the 7th rank, and white will have a hard time mobilising their rook (and not doing it seems worse). Presumably he must have avoided it because he thought it led to a draw and he felt like playing for the win.

Sorry, Grandmaster, but this omits all of Euwe's greatest games!You really should do a sequel Geller -Euwe Zurich 1953, Euwe Botvinnik Hastings 1834, Fine-Euwe A.V.R..O 1938 Euwe Vidmar Nottingham !936 Euwe Flohr March 1933,etc/ The Man also invented the Schevingen Sicilian

Hehe that dutch pronunciation is so horrible :p

nice pronounciation

We will call you Bin Finetin then, because we can say what we like on youtube. ;)

At 33:35: "Insolence," not "indolence."

i am not happy

i am dutch hallo ik weet wat ik doe zeg

Yay another Bob Seger joke!

The Dutch will complain about you call it Holland instead of The Netherlands :D

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if Ben doesn't lose some weight he may have to resign, not in a game.

I think most consider bronstein to be the greatest player who never became world chamion

Anyone describing Alekhine as merely an "O.K." player has no chess credibility whatever.

Gary Kasparov isn´t nice? Hmmm but Ben Finegold is the nicest grandmaster/chessplayer? :) :) I guess then that I would earn a grandmastertitle for remembering Finegold-jokes. 1. It´s a discovered check because I discovered it! 2. I doublechecked it and it wasn´t check! :) :) :) :) :) Now when we talk about chessplayers who are natural born killers or should we say players with a killerinstinct then Robert James Fischer is the absolute number one. :)

Stopped watching at 0:30 because I don't need to waste time on that attitude.