He got political real quick...

Go Korchnoi! But also stay there

I love winning chess tactics

No matter how many times I learn this I still struggle with it

I like these basic principles in 5 minute format. As an adult who never had a chess coach, it's nice to be introduced to concepts that I never would have figured out myself, and that longer chess lectures usually take for granted. Endgames are hard because of so many degrees of freedom. In middle-game, it's easier to find candidate moves, and then calculate if they work or not. In endgames it feels like every possible move is a candidate move.

Been having a real rough couple days, thank you for these videos, Ben. They're a source of comfort when things get bad, for as weird as that sounds.

Fastest five minutes of my life

thanks i actually didn't know that

I concur that a 5 minutes with Ben segment needs to go for 5 minutes. If Ron Burgandy could do it, so can you.

Triangulation is like strangulation but a chess kink instead.

Nice video. Thanks Ben.

I love to help this channel tremendously 🤣

They're getting shorter. A minute isn't what it used to be, very suspicious.

Short. Saw

Like. Made view for top and will see later

I spent 84 seconds staring at the recommended next videos, to get my money's worth. (In fairness, it's far more common for Five Minutes with Ben to be longer than five than to be shorter. And the content fit naturally into the length of the video, so no reason to make it longer.)

Vishy has been living for many decades in Madrid, Spain. He doesn’t live in Chennai.

The whole reason D4, C3 is played first over D4, bF4 is because the puter says so. For some reason Stockfish likes D4 then knC3. It doesn’t like D4, bF4. I dunno why. Ask Stockfish

Never play F3 BOOOOOO

The game they are playing in this video is actually called "chess." It was developed by John Chess and Garri Paskarov

If castled on the queen side, does still "never play f3/f6" rule applies?

Are you allowed to touch your pieces during your opponents turn?

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Oh crap there really is a red GM symbol next to his name... I thought he just wrote it in his name to be funny. Maybe he actually is a little bit good at chess... must be to get that title.

1:32 Ben plays f3 and doesn't immediately lose, confusing the audience.

3:45 I think you places some of your pawns up on the wrong side of the board by mistake when setting up.

😂😂

Hello Ben, I truly appreciate all your knowledge and your hard work and efforts to teach people playing chess, however here are two questions: 1) why in a video called "Message to Beginner Chess Players" you talk for 21 minutes and still don't deliver a "Message to Beginner Chess Players" (rather, you try to explain something to those who teach chess)? 2) why in a video called "Message to Beginner Chess Players" you, being a GM, cannot see on the board that there are 5 and not 6 checks in the 1st position and there are 11 and not 10 checks in the last position?

beating a 1000 rated player doesn't make you good at chess, bud.

Your opponent played very well as a 1000. His real rating must be around 1600

Ben shows his chess prowess, confusing the audience

Pssh more like Fin Binegold

Ben played F3? Very suspicious.

The thumbnail though... nice one

Are you going to compensate the missing 54s in future videos?

here's a comment

I think a new rule is in order - never play a6 😄

"Openings don't matter" Me: a4, then Ra3

That last puzzle was truly inhuman.

His brothers must be Lancelot James and Galahad James. I know his mother is Lady-of-the-lake James and the family dog is called Excalibur.

Hikaru roasted the crap out of him

like + subscribe + comment = help the channel. go ben

this guy seems so nice i want to meet him and play (/lose)

Now we need a complete playlist on Finegold's rules. This was gold.

Thanks Ben! This is extremely helpful

Go Ben!! (but stay there)

Vicissitudes! Vocab on point as always Ben