Benoni is so bad a 900 almost beat me | Slowbrah Ep. 19

[@chessbrah]

Bringing back our Slowbrah series - rapid chess with Aman's notorious time trouble and explanations. Enjoy!

[@Rspknlikeab0ssxd]

One of my favorite series❤

[@Sneakstress]

Was missing this series! Thanks for bringing it back!

[@wsemenske]

Love it!

[@jusstafish]

The best series of all time

[@jackwaite4035]

Incredible, this guy played 15 moves straight of theory in the Benoni before blundering mate in 1 the moment he got in time trouble! These 900's are something else!

[@dicidicee]

Given the name and the play I'd say it's another streamer, not a 900 :D. He must also have been thinking "Damn this 800 is good"

[@KrazyKrzysztof]

a 900 wouldn't know 15 moves of theory

[@mihir1317]

@@KrazyKrzysztof yeah exactly, ive lost so many games in the benoni as white(im 2000)

[@Michelt007]

The Benoni is like a gambit, but one where, instead of sacrificing a pawn, the entire position is sacrificed.

[@nishantsaini579]

😂

[@Bepo2005]

😂

[@louayyahyaoui3616]

You do sacrifice a pawn but the trick is to make your position so awful if it's not taken that you get to keep it.

[@erkinovyusufbek6]

Both 900s were amazed by how well they knew the opening😂

[@williambass5542]

After I stopped playing the benoni as black I immediately gained like 150 elo. Looked back at my stats and found I had a 30% winrate playing it lmao

[@nicolassznajder780]

Same. I started playing it because I hated facing the queen gambit. Turns out I hated playing the benoni more ^^

[@hsohn4901]

In his defence, he must have also thought Aman was cheating

[@ac4694]

and what that defends?

[@cptnoremac]

I just played a tournament last weekend and beat one of the top players with the Benoni, but I was definitely worse for like 25 moves. He was so pissed off.

[@AndytheHumphrey]

Hahahaha such a strong 900 taking on a GM, something smelling fishy over here

[@AndytheHumphrey]

I've watched the whole thing and I think he was only using opening explorer rather than the fish as the quality of moves does decrease out of book... still is so funny how obvious this is 😂

[@XScriabine]

I think you can get pretty decent games with the Benoni... as long as you transpose to the Benko gambit after 2.d5.

[@RyanLeBlanc-w3v]

“My 900-rated opponent is making a lot of mature moves” Yeah…a 900…playing against a GM playing all the right moves…countering with essentially the best move every time… Fishy. As soon as he got into time pressure, he played exactly like a 900. When he had time to…”think”…he played like a GM

[@louayyahyaoui3616]

tbf to him, the benoni is very comfortable for white. The only insane move he played was Na3 and I guess the reasoning was that he didn't wanna come back to the square he just came from or he didn't want to block his bishop again rather than permanently disallowing b5.

[@ac4694]

@@louayyahyaoui3616anyone who seriously studies openings shouldn’t be even close to 900

[@sigurdh.s8320]

@@louayyahyaoui3616No 900 plays like that

[@cz19856]

​@@louayyahyaoui3616all those knight manoeuvres are not even 1700 dude

[@kaspervercruysse5710]

he might be smurfing, but definitely not cheating. This guy supposedly looked at the engine for 3 minutes just to play a move that hands over a full point of advantage?

[@travissorenson9554]

Yeah, ain’t no 900 playing Na3 in that position

[@ferguson1376]

Love the benoni. Messy games are crazy fun

[@timcannon5384]

Ill be honest, I havent watched Chessbrah in a long time. I told myself I wouldnt support these guys. But if slowbrah is back in 2024 then dagnabbit I'm back as well!!!

[@Pandora_The_Panda]

Wait is there controversya round them?

[@bw3372]

@@Pandora_The_Panda "don't support these guys" is an inside joke in the chessbrah community. I'm honestly not sure who said it first, but Eric likes to say it when he makes a bad move.

[@timcannon5384]

@@bw3372 someone initially said it unironically but its old news now WE TOOK IT BACK

[@kkkjdnd2499]

Thanks for this, please more Slowbrah!!!!

[@mehrdara6545]

Benoni is the best opening if you're Tal

[@vex5056]

I think benoni is actually a really great opening. You just need to know what youre doing well and be familiar with the positions. Personally I think the positions after it can be very sharp and exciting to play, so with the dynamic style of play you can outplay much stronger opponents with. In my opinion it can be used even on gm level.

[@vixr9557]

I beat many GMs with that including Nigel Short

[@vixr9557]

so you guys prefer to suffer in boring Queens Gambit where blk is worse anyway or fighting defense like Modern Benoni?

[@beesone_chess]

@@vixr9557what’s your name?

[@basement_security]

totally legit 900elo player XD

[@rakhatthenut3815]

Correct title "Benoni is so bad a cheater almost beat me"

[@hosiahjones]

Stream sniper more likely.

[@Sandude]

Yep, this really summarizes my experience with the benoni as well.

[@Anzuo]

You mean apart from the part where he won?

[@Ichbinubermann]

me with pirc transposing to benoni

[@Sandude]

@@Anzuo Obviously

[@CalebJNelson]

Very good content. All the ideas were thoroughly explained, which basically never happens, tbh.

[@wiadroman]

Man, the 900s these days are crazy strong.

[@nopenope7350]

bruh dont diss the benoni, ish goes hard

[@Moltzenn]

Being a Sac Enjoyer is kinda wild Aman, you really need to change the wording of that title 💀

[@TheCrimson7272]

Ka3 is wild and no way a 900 has that kind of understanding. He is watching a chess opening video in the side or something. Taking way too long for engine assistance

[@iqraathemanuel]

the correct notation is Na3, as Ka3 would be moving the King to a3 and N is for Knight in algebraic notation in order to distinguish between the two pieces

[@IcyBadi]

33:40 the engine calls that move an inaccuracy so your claim about engine assistance is baseless

[@MjrLeegInfidel]

Magnus beating Keynes in Benoni shows how impressive he is….

[@alexandershorse9021]

The Benoni avoids the London, c5 against D4. So I haven’t played against the London for months. The pawn on E4 is a big problem. That guy was cheating! Thanks Aman I learned a lot.

[@lougaru2445]

If he played the old jabroni on move 1 against a non-cheater I would have bookmarked and cherished this video forever. He also had a chance to go for the Benko which would've been awesome to see. I know these boys are tired of speedruns but I would donate toward a "C5 Against Everything"

[@wsleppy4699]

Literally my repertoire at 1500. I play the old benoni against d4. Sicilian against e4. Symmetrical against c4

[@taliesine.8343]

still pretty instructive. Opponent played 12 book moves and from there literally every move was an inaccuracy. I thought it was very beautiful how Aman shifted his focus from Queenside to Kingside. Whites opening perfectly defended the Queenside, and the 900 noticed too late that Aman was already not interested in the Queenside anymore.

[@ThomasEWalker]

I used to love Benoni, but it is 100% the 'son of sorrow' (and yeah, that's its actual nickname). Even Fischer had to try Nh5 with Spassky, I think, to squeeze play out of it. You gotta be willing to take some pain for these patterns, man!

[@woogieboogie7777]

Damn!! master class... This is bad ass shit!! love it

[@georgepantzikis7988]

Up until Na3, I could believe that this was a 900 rated player who got insanely lucky and had kust finished studying the Benoni. Once Na3 got played, things started to smell a bit fishy

[@r.t.5767]

Honestly I don't think he used engine or opening explorer. If you look into analysis you can see he played all the good moves that Aman recommended (either best by engine, or even some inaccuracies, but all were spotted by Aman before he played them). Seems like a stream sniper to me

[@vixr9557]

this line harmless for black after Na6-c7 or to the least unclear for both sides

[@Xbotto]

This is my favourite opening I love it

[@KS-ep1vr]

Newbie here. At 9:07, why do you never, ever want to move the black Queen to D7? Thanks for any guidance.

[@Edamori]

Qd7 blocks in your bishop, and both knights need to use d7 to rotate throughout the position. Putting the Queen on that square blocks not only your bishop, but both of your knights as well!

[@hosiahjones]

I vote stream sniper, not engine cheater. 😂

[@RyanLeBlanc-w3v]

“My 900-rated opponent is making a lot of mature moves” Yeah…a 900…playing against a GM playing all the right moves…countering with essentially the best move every time… Fishy.

[@sporesnipers]

please turn on twitch vods - the twitch streams are killing me as EU, really wanna watch the next day :(

[@fh2234]

Does exchange sack mean taking the rook and losing bishop and knight? I am a beginner.

[@FreeDom-tn3ce]

It means you exchange one rook for: 1 bishop or 1 knight

[@matthew_cramer]

Is slowbrah a new thing? missed this weeks streams

[@vixr9557]

Khalifman made series of videos 6 of them in Russian on Levitov channel and said that nowhere he saw white super better

[@adflicto1]

I always play the Modern Benoni, because it's so fun. In the opening you suffer a little bit, but then, all of a sudden, tactics everywhere

[@matt926uk1]

Anyone can learn a bunch of moves and play a perfect opening but then you have to play chess.

[@Benny_Benoni]

Would love to see a Benoni at like 1800... Elo

[@gwynjudd]

Surprised at these comments saying the opponent was cheating

[@SoDamnMetal]

So a sub 900 player, which is essentially a beginner level rating, plays with the positional awareness of at least a 2000 player, and that isn't strange to you?

[@rakhatthenut3815]

Omg slow bra is back

[@XVRMEDIA]

Why is it so hard to play the Benoni? If your opponent makes mistakes, you take initiative. If your opponent doesn’t make mistakes, exchange pieces on e5 and play a better end game. You don’t lose your GM title if you play Nfd7-e5. Only with the Samisch can white hold against all Benoni plans and then you switch plans to Benko and play on the other flank. You don’t know how to play this opening which is closely related to Dragon Sicillian.

[@willoschOG]

„You never want to exchange your dark squared bishop for the knight on c3 in this opening… ever“ Takes the knight in c3…😅

[@iqraathemanuel]

well it definitely wasn't the best move so he was kinda right

[@taliesine.8343]

well that's long past the opening though :0

[@vixr9557]

sorry you don't know the theory of Benoni, but why criticize it then? in the opening after Be2 you should place your knight on a6-c7

[@_Ozka]

from my experience you need to trade the white bish for the knight on f3, asap. a1 met with a4 requires room b8 and reinforcement to push b5 pawn. its challenging but the stigma around the opening makes some player on the while side scoff at it and lower their guard thinking that Benoni will collapse on its own.

[@FloatingSunfish]

Very suspicious game, though ExchangeSacEnjoyer wasn't banned, so they're either smurfing, or they had some sort of assistance. Or they're just that good.

[@blacklotus561]

If he was cheating then he wouldnt run out of time in a 15+10 game and also he wouldn't just go even against a GM but completely demolish him.

[@realdrummo]

@chessbrah if you like I'll send you my copy of John Watson's "Play the Benoni".

[@vixr9557]

I think Alexander Khalifman is more qualified than all of you 😂

[@damoncw]

Nice

[@alikm1572]

The dude is a weird cheater, what was taking so long? Was he calling Stockfish on the phone or something.

[@ellehooq]

Looks like he was stream sniping

[@LINGTOLLS]

i can absolutely believe a 900 learned a whole lot of random theory in the opening. i played a 1000 who played 15 moves of french theory and then he blundered on move 16.

[@Tymczas]

so you are a moron...

[@jcru102]

nah.. you could check and see this guys opening data but its just obvioud he was getting assistance.

[@rakhatthenut3815]

If he knew all the theory why he was taking a minute on each move

[@vixr9557]

any of you here want to try my Benoni or I,ll play you all at once

[@jcru102]

cheating

[@vixr9557]

nonsense

[@relledge209]

CLICK BAIT!

[@CameronIrvan]

Just commenting cause I just beat the Magnus bot and I don’t know anyone in person that plays chess😂😂 I’m crediting the chessbrah opening playlists though thank you!♟️