Ben Finegold Confuses Me

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In this video, GM Ben Finegold raids me, confuses me, and gives me money. Meanwhile, I attempt to play a blindfold game (featuring a fun Stafford Gambit!) and try to not lose on time.
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[@Hasan...]

Fen Binegold confuses Eric on a FlindBold game, that was not a Bair Fattle! ...stop doing that to him, it's Farely Bunny!

[@vaalig1387]

Farely Bunny I love you lol

[@ciangrant3042]

I think reading 'FlindBold' is a good way of understanding what the moments following a stroke feel like

[@cookielord2290]

What the buck fitch

[@Argon270]

ferpection

[@justarandomdrummer3006]

How's that all F and B xD

[@christophercaron3042]

11:20 that was the saddest "let's go" I've ever heard :(

[@arnavrawat9864]

XD

[@aquacuber505]

:(

[@AnandSivaram22]

Cliffhanger ending daaaah

[@psychwolf7590]

No that was the answer. His result would be mmmhmmmmmmhmmm

[@ArturHedlund]

What is he playing on. Like how is he playing chess on a computer?

[@CaslavNorisavljevic]

He must want more donations

[@fuzzykoala6168]

@@ArturHedlund Lichess

[@genericusername4206]

@@ArturHedlund website called lichess

[@MrQwerty2524]

Guys, if you do a blindfold battle with Eric, give him extra time ffs. He's never going to win a time scrumble when he has to type the moves...

[@leadnitrate2194]

That's part of the challenge.

[@oriokuki]

@@leadnitrate2194 the text to speech was slow aswell

[@andrewferguson6901]

30 seconds on the clock, you make 3 moves, you wait 10 seconds for the computer to read those 3 moves, lose on time

[@gniewomircioek6845]

@@andrewferguson6901 but you have 3min from the start, managing time is part of the game.

[@NastierNate]

Gniewomir Ciołek It’s not a rated ladder game. It’s a fun casual match on stream. It’ll be ok to spot him some extra time.

[@blackman7186]

"I found my blindfold.. it was chillin on carpet for some reason"

[@hack45993]

Oh no his dominatrix!

[@Hasan...]

Somebody was being naughty!

[@genericusername4206]

BDSM eric huh?😳😳😳

[@chandramoulimukherjee6653]

why did I read blindfold as ben finegold ??

[@walkastray007]

7:20 "Oh my queen is attacked again..." hits differently than "Oh no my queen!"

[@PushyPawn]

I closed my eyes for the last 30 seconds and tried to just follow & understand what was going on, I was completely lost and clueless within 10 seconds. I don't know how Eric manages to play a game at the same time and end up with mate in 1 only to flag due to no fault of his own. Newfound respect unlocked right there. 🥇🧠💪👏

[@CeilingPanda]

Good players have memorization techniques, they need it to memorize so many openings, good GM's can do it for many many boards.

[@DragonBank]

@@CeilingPanda its not really about memorization as much as visualization. You only need to remember one thing. The board. The hard part is visualizing it.

[@arnavrawat9864]

@@CeilingPanda Gm's are pretty high iq

[@PushyPawn]

@@CeilingPanda Yeah you are a little bit off in your understanding. I agree with @Jordan Taylor. When Eric answers this question on Twitch he contradicts what you say. Also, he's not a GM, but can do more than one board at a time. Also, how many is "many many boards" in number terms? I have taken part of more than one simul exhibition before Covid, but "many many" is not a number.

[@francescof3267]

Eric Rosen Yes... the chess board is pretty much ingrained in my mind. It helps to have dedicated well over 10,000 hours to the game. I can compare it to visualizing a room in your home. You see/experience it so often that you can visualize it and remember where all the furniture is.

[@danjamesrunning1433]

The earliest I've been on one of your videos, You've reignited my love of chess, I watch everyday. Now just to get better myself.

[@kshitijsharma759]

Really man, eric rosen has dramatically popularized chess on KZbin and really a LOT of people including myself have came to know what chess really is like how eternally deep chess really is.

[@popretmaster]

I can't believe you cut out the ending where you finally answer the question. maybe not so interesting, but the whole video building it up haha.

[@KRINOP123]

whats the answer?

[@ChavvyChannel]

Can someone reply to my comment when it gets answered so I can see it

[@leadnitrate2194]

@@ChavvyChannel hey chavvy.

[@AntarcticWildlife]

So i was in Bens chat then was here when he raided, FenBinegold donated to Ben and suggested that Ben would get crushed every game if he played 2200s with Queen odds, Ben said itd be about 50/50, Ben asked Eric (which is what youre seeing here) and Eric agreed later when he understood what was being asked after the game finished.

[@weeddagr8988]

@@AntarcticWildlife thanks man

[@geoffreysayoc]

1:10 "is anything truly random?" Eric the philosopher Rosen

[@ferhatergul6687]

9:15

[@jimmymcnulty4759]

6:23 Eric being a robot confirmed.

[@hashimnawaz3201]

Omg Ben is too funny He said "If Eric and I were to do a study together but blindfolded, would it be a double blind study?" Deaaad 🤣

[@zynfalde]

Gosh

[@IIIRobIII]

Okay, so that computer voice taking its sweet time to tell you the moves while you have 5 seconds ticking down is actually triggering me

[@HaidarHavana1998]

he need to install Eminem soundpack

[@ericzenk4404]

Eric Rosen is a great chess streamer. So calm, so good at chess, and he has the best first name out there.

[@carlosmiguelgarrido]

I like how the video cuts right before he gives a straight up answer LUL

[@deinse82]

Check out Ben's new book, "Disrupt like a grandmaster".

[@dinonet6423]

Thank you for providing such great content! Always entertaining and educational :)

[@geckogeico2212]

*edutainment

[@110ninjas]

Eric you constantly get me back into studying chess, daah you evil genius how dare you make me do something productive. Love the videos!

[@dinonet6423]

Do you simply imagine the entire chess board in your mind? Or is there another way of remembering where your pieces and opponents pieces are?

[@eric-rosen]

Yes... the chess board is pretty much ingrained in my mind. It helps to have dedicated well over 10,000 hours to the game. I can compare it to visualizing a room in your home. You see/experience it so often that you can visualize it and remember where all the furniture is.

[@carborundum72]

@@eric-rosen And then you start moving your furniture around with a friend 60 times :)

[@Hasan...]

@@eric-rosen I think it starts as comparable to furniture in a room, and ends up as comparable to an Aquarium and remembering where the Fishes are

[@ym276]

My tip would be to split up the board into the four quadrants and try to visualise each one individually. Do exercises such as moving a knight around a 4x4 quadrant etc.

[@earnestmixon5261]

@@Hasan... 🤣😂🤣😂

[@baaldiablo8459]

3:06 Move 6: "Oh no my Knight!" Move 7 "Oh no my Bishop!"

[@facksheep6164]

I love Rosen/Finegold collabs in literally any manner.

[@NimW]

I'd be so annoyed with these stupid questions during a blindfold

[@happysnowman2840]

1:33 "if you haven't seen this before, it involves some speech synthesis, and some darkness" sounds kinda weird out of context

[@cinkaid8710]

What I’ve learned is I can continue to play chess the rest of my life and still get adopted by Rosen blindfolded

[@titan7610]

Does anyone else just wanna see Eric completely lose his shit just to see what it would be like?

[@EssTeaQC]

"Good thing that was casual" Does that mean you play some professional games blindfolded? XD

[@sujoysengupta2734]

He meant that he's glad it was unrated, he would have lost quite a lot of rating otherwise.

[@kapa1611]

1:56 "ban you and your children's children, for at least a month!" would have been the correct Finegoldism in that situation xD

[@ArseAllowance]

I actually as impressed by his blindfold playing skills as i am by his blindfold typing skills

[@dee-wreck]

LMFAO Ben is trolling him during this entire blindfold game

[@markb.739]

I cannot believe Eric can play blindfold and still listen to chats at the same time. Amazing.

[@joeysingingchannel]

I would turn it off for that. Ben was an ass for spamming him.

[@parallel2795]

@@joeysingingchannel What? He was an ass for gifting subs and giving bits in order to distract Eric non-maliciously in a casual chess match? Oh no!

[@zisischartampilas6601]

this man not only played blindfold chess but also blindfold typing

[@josephdaleon6917]

(Off topic) I haven't seen Eric play the Scandinavian as black. I've been following you for some time now and I haven't watched a single game using this opening (there's one where'd you taught us how to counter it), but I'm really intrigued to see you play this opening, knowing that you favor aggressive openings such as the Stafford as black

[@xirenzhang9126]

I think the scandinavian is objectively bad because you give your opponent lead in development

[@amuricuh6143]

@@xirenzhang9126 while the Stafford isnt?

[@bosniandankmemer1821]

@@amuricuh6143 the stafford is way trickier

[@xirenzhang9126]

@@amuricuh6143 in the stafford, you sacrifice a pawn for insane lead in development, including opening up both bishops, half open queen’s file, and a knight already developed

[@josephdaleon6917]

@@xirenzhang9126 yes, that's why I'm intrigued what lines he'll use. GMs and even Carlsen also uses Scandi in their streams; not saying that this opening should be used in tournaments, but with Eric's talent in analysis and positioning abilities, it is really intriguing how he will perform midgame using scandi

[@nyphron3109]

Congratulations, you have won the Thumbnail of the Year award.

[@Astrobay13]

It's like that agdq clip with the "i'd really prefer you to be quiet", but it's Eric saying it to a super grandmaster 😂😂

[@pscharnett]

The Finegold Blindfold. Needs to be a chess thing.

[@phuckit1902]

The blindfolding thing, I never got that. The most confusing idea to me lol

[@williamjacobs4967]

Last time I was this early, the Stafford Gambit wasn’t played on lichess

[@TymexComputing]

it looked like a twitch chat attack of almost a legion of Ben Finegolds :) - like neunty neun Ben Finegolds chatting lol :)

[@paramdrall]

I Don't go to sleep without watching Eric The wonderful Rosen's wise words 🎶❤️ Madlad king👑

[@elpez6381]

10:40 Qf3 is Checkmate pawn defends the queen, and the dark squared bishop blocks off the rest of the escape squares

[@asdf09er]

Nothing to do with this video or Eric, but this 12 minute video had 4 breaks for ads. Lol, y’all remember when YT had basically no ads? Maybe after the election it gets dialed down!

[@filipstura3368]

My favourite chess youtuber. Keep up the good work Eric!

[@TK-ej6ks]

2:54 i like your hand tattoos eric!

[@c.k.636]

I always mistake them with tattoos

[@llkurofoxll1013]

Ah yes. GM Ben "Negative talent" Finegold

[@Owen-bk5fc]

Eric making moves before he's heard what the other side's move was is NOTEWORTHY

[@philippeterson7503]

"I have to find my blindfold, I`ll be right back." If I had a dollar for every time my date said that to me...

[@Baton793]

AND HE DOESN'T EVEN ANSWER THE QUESTION AT THE END, YOU CAN'T CLIFFHANG US LIKE THAT ERIC

[@CeilingPanda]

You can't leave us with that cliffhanger Eric!

[@brodieboy255]

This is the greatest piece of chess-related comedy ever created

[@stevenstevens9191]

Eric, IM in chess, GM of KZbin

[@TheRovardotter]

Ben's comment that "it is tuff cause he's blindfolded" is very accurate

[@dmitripisartchik1296]

Go Ben! Incorrect!

[@jasiektatka2920]

,,Is anything truly random?" Oh, Eric, you philosopher

[@lp4969]

"(Not chess)KZbinrs are negative talent" -barely gm finegold

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I am impressed by blindfold players - chess is difficult enough without a blindfold. They must have fantastic memories for what the position is.

[@gloomstones]

My two favorite chess players! Also I cannot believe how accurately you played that blindfolded game.

[@Nikas320]

The perfect cut doesn't exist

[@deetrixreed8961]

The fact the video ends without him answering the penultimate (or Benultimate, I'll kms later ok) question absolutely kills me! I can't stop laughing!

[@arnavrawat9864]

6:14 scammed For some reason that was really funny to me

[@JT-91]

back to the 1 o clock class for eric

[@manubiondo5713]

Can't we just appreciate for a moment Eric's skills with the keyboard? I mean he's writing down the moves blindfolded

[@TheZanx7]

"Boo Urns" - homer simpson

[@Bwijaya2301]

IM Ben Finegold

[@patsen29]

Confusing the audience

[@joseluiscastillo4730]

I was laughing through all the video, thank uuuu

[@krackedspectacular9117]

it would be funny if he left a comment "lol" or "shoutout to ben"

[@donnyrichardsonsacousticch1988]

He confuses me too. Listen, have you seen Queen's Gambit on Netflix? Awesome!

[@atahanbulut7445]

I just watched your football skills. You are good👍🏻

[@codyheiner3636]

That's not fair because his clock is running down while the voice is still saying the previous moves. Ideally the time shouldn't count until the voice has said the move.

[@TheMajesticYak0]

In Eric's sound list, does he really have the computer saying "meow" instead of "knight"?

[@maxrusty3596]

This guy has the exact same humor as Melissas dad from Home Movies.

[@Ripen3]

I have no clue how you kept your focus through all of that!

[@drunkbobo]

Oh no! My clock! 😂 Still amazing!

[@PushyPawn]

This just makes me miss your streams. Also, the speech synthesis delays and typos need a longer increment to be fair. And TTS muted during blindfold. But anyway, that guillotine blade got jammed in the frame 1 inch from your opponent's King's neck. Oh well, digested food happens.

[@jimskea224]

Is anything truly random? Yeah. Radioactive decay.

[@destroso]

Ben confuses a lot of people

[@gabadur_]

I was in this chat, lol Eric was so confused

[@kylebroussard5952]

This is beyond impressive

[@geezgiselle]

yet I still dont know Eric's answer to that queen odd question.

[@paradox856]

Thank you eric for the amazing content you provide us with. You are truly the best . You have beaten Magnus , Hikaru and many other fantastic players. Hope you achieve to be a gm 1 day

[@trieuphilong9469]

This video ends in 763 seconds!

[@junaidkhan-kd6iy]

How was white able to castle at 5:50? Whats the rule for this? Is it because none of the two pieces are attacked after the castle?

[@jonathonjubb6626]

He doesn't even have to talk to confuse me....

[@marks4178]

That was awesome!!

[@andrewptob]

We were trolled in the end with the question not being answered. Haha

[@viniciuslongo4622]

Go Ben!

[@TomBombadil33]

Great video

[@imoutsideoutintheforest8337]

But still! That was so good Eric!

[@shnymola191]

Im i the only one who is impress how he type that well on his keyboard while blindfolded ?

[@dpgedward5947]

Ben Finegold Confuses everyone. So don't feel bad

[@lollycopter]

Ctrl-Backspace is a faster way to delete.

[@MaicPiani]

what an ending

[@rapidriven6262]

Not gonna lie, I was definitely more interested in the Twitch Staff in chat having a conversation with some random viewer. Still an awesome game tho

[@aonpl]

what a cliffhanger!

[@PhilE415]

Hey guys, did you know if you say "space ghettos" in your normal accent, it sounds like "spice girls" in a Scottish accent? Cheers, thanks. x

[@Dr.Waffles]

if you say "rise up lights" it sounds like "razor blades" in australian accent

[@nasipkismet2436]

Ben is so funny. Chess is just pretext to follow his witticisms

[@krisblacklaws6101]

That was amazing even without the win

[@HippopotamusPencil]

Personally, I couldn't focus on both chat and the game at the same time. Maybe I shouldn't have blindfolded myself to show solidarity.

[@mkoschara]

My queen.

[@josephinavomit8189]

oh man, well played