Games of Mikhail Tal and Bobby Fischer, with GM Ben Finegold

Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.... GM Ben Finegold discusses three games between Mikhail Tal and Bobby Fischer. This lecture was recorded February 24, 2021, at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta (CCSCATL) in Roswell, Georgia.
2:43
Fischer, Bobby - Tal, Mikhail
Bled (1959)
17:47
Fischer, Bobby - Tal, Mikhail
Bled (1961)
31:24
Tal, Mikhail - Fischer, Bobby
Herceg Novi blitz (1970)
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[@ActionInHD]

2:28 - "as we all know, Fischer was such a nice guy" had me laugh out loud

[@slythespacecat]

it's funny because he was frankly, terrible

[@broken1394]

Not entirely true. Frank Brady and John Donaldson have plenty of good thing's to say about him. Later on sure, Lot's of unsavoury episodes and some stuff he said was terrible. It's not the whole story to just to describe someone as terrible. Unless it's Ivan the terrible or maybe Stalin.

[@slythespacecat]

@@broken1394 the joke is that “frankly, terrible” is one of Ben’s catch phrases…

[@Tasmanaut]

fischer knew the truth about the J's

[@vigilante8374]

​@@Tasmanaut Fischer mother was Jewish (making him according to Jewish law) and his father probably was at well, plus he was personal friends of the Polgars and others. It was just hot air nonsense. I think at least 95% of it was him being pissed at the antics of Reshevsky, who did use his religion as a further excuse to be an asshole.

[@jayyy5270]

Great players of the past might be my favorite chess series at this point. It's up there with Simon William's longer games, John Bartholomew's chess fundamentals/climbing the rating ladder, and it's almost as entertaining as a Chessbrah sub battle.

[@andress4780]

If you don't already know about it, you may like GM Naroditsky's speedrun series. They are brilliant and extremely informative.

[@aaronaragon7838]

The Ginger GM 60 Greatest Games.

[@WhizzerdSupreme]

What @andress4780 said. Sensei Danya's series are tailor-made to explaining games at the level of the speedrun's current rating.

[@ChessScholarOfficial]

How about the beginner to master series by ChessNetwork?

[@rikardotoro]

the nakamura sneeze cracked me up 🤣

[@thenewstyle8704]

Couldn’t ask for a better topic, and with Ben lecturing… guaranteed to be good

[@germanchris4440]

It is said that Fischer didn't spend more than two to three minutes on any game in the 1970 blitz tournament. This would suggest that probably Tal thought longer in this game and thus reached a winning position, but then had no time to convert the advantage into a win, while Fischer still had plenty of time left to counter victoriously (although Fischer obviously didn't really exploit his eventual time advantage!?). Sort of like that, maybe. I would have loved to see that live.

[@michaelwright8896]

I thought Tal didn't think he just saw what move he needed to play.

[@ChessScholarOfficial]

I believe that's Capablanca

[@fergs1561]

That’s Vasily “the hand” Smyslov

[@JasonKifner]

I literally spit out my coffee on, "...because as we all know, Fischer was such a nice guy." Perfect timing.

[@diabmbaideen4976]

Mr. Finegold.. thank you for the great content and this amazing series ❤ Appreciate your efforts and my apologies about not being able to support and donate..

[@NS-mm6jq]

Press like and share then

[@samuelhumphrey5908]

Oh wow! This just came up on my feed, can't wait to watch this!!! ❤

[@FloydMr0709]

Herceg Novi - Montenegro and Bled - Slovenia

[@jonassteegmans2537]

28:40 made me laugh out loud

[@Rspknlikeab0ssxd]

​@@tvens1This video is a reupload. Also, his point still stands, regardless🤣

[@andress4780]

@@tvens1 isn't be number two now after the Norway chess tournament?

[@maciekGTR]

And now he somehow got to 2nd place lol. Only proves Ben's point I guess if Nakamura is no.2 in classical at 36

[@Rob-v6j]

“GM: Why did GM Fischer play the Bishop and not Nab6? The position would had been attacking the Queen. He could had easily moved the Nite back to attack the Rook”.

[@MrHeroicDemon]

"risk it to get the biscuit" hahaha also it's in a movie, fired up, good movie. It woulda been Gold to say "As us Genius Grandmasters would say "" risk it to get the biscuit."" " then shake your head no and disappointed look. I swear AI Ben finegold would be wild.

[@peterbauer7271]

Rare Ben finegold

[@scottwarren4998]

@GMBenjaminFinegold 2800? fischer was at the level of 2900 elo in the year 1972. They measured elo differently in that time, that's why fischer had a lowers rating at that time compared to today's players.

[@baoboumusic]

Elo is not a measurement, it's a statistical calculation based on results devised by professor Elo in the 1960s and implemented by FIDE in 1970. So Fischer's rating of 2780 was Elo. Now there are various reasons why you cannot compare ratings from period to period as an objective yardstick, but it's not a different calculation. There was a fairly continuous inflation in the late 80s and 90s; and even a bit of deflation since 2000 according to some.

[@scottwarren4998]

@@baoboumusic right u are. but fischer's elo today would be 2900 if he was born 1990. Look at his gap to the opponents he had.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

We can not trust these 1960s elo ratings! Stupid Arpad Elo tough wrongly that the chess rating average is 1400 and standard devotion SD=282,8 the correct numbers are the chess rating average is 1650 and SD=256 Chess metrics founder Jeff Sonas used SD=166??? How stupid Arpad Elo got this wrong SD=282,8 So we get 200x200+200x200=80000 and we get square root 80000 is 282,8! The Hard truth is that Capablanca 1918-1924 was 2850 Fischer in 1967-1972 2850 Kasparov 2850 Carlsen 2850! Only we do know is that the highest tournament elo rating score is Fabiano Caruana 8,5/10 StLouis elo 3080! Karpov 11/13 Linares 1994 elo score 3040! Alekhine in San Remo 1930 elo score 3040! Fischer and Kasparov their Best tournament scores only 2990!!

[@u.v.s.5583]

- Nakamura! - Bless you!

[@WHAT-gm1xm]

Hey make a video on opening strategy and mistakes and how GM think in chess

[@Deucely]

EKssssssssssqcuse me???!?!?!? Score.

[@AG-ld6rv]

Nice pwnage, brother. Keep up the good work. Praise Christ as I know you love religion so much.

[@jiaan100]

first for fischer was only like 60% crazy can you say first on a 2 years old reupload? yup just did

[@TommyLikeTom]

All of the respect I have for Ben Finegold's chess, humor, and tutelage is offset by his poor physical health and appearance. He tugs on his shirt like that parody commercial by Tim Robinson TC tuggers. I just don't understand how someone born into such wealth and someone who is clearly intelligent is able to allow themselves to deteriorate so much.

[@independentnature295]

We all have our own shortcomings, better to concentrate on fixing your own.

[@pranaytopgun047]

Is that you chokamaru?