GM Ben Finegold Can Barely Get Through this Viewer Game Analysis

[@chriselcombe847]

8:40 "at least white activated his pieces here" 🤣

[@fibonacci112358s]

There was no educational content in this video, but the entertainment value is phenomenal.

[@seymourpant]

There was that one line about trapping the bishop at least

[@Hilltycoon]

Nice! These viewer games are fun to watch with your commentary

[@bertross9727]

I'm confused, this guy is 100 rating points above me in rapid and he thought this was a game worth sharing?? Suspicious...

[@smort123]

Concerning.

[@TheGrandmaMoses]

There's this questionaire question, who has more timezones, Russia, USA or France. It's France - as their colonies are 'part of the state', so they have zones for Reunion, Guyana and stuff. Crazy.

[@vivvpprof]

The French posing as usual. This has to be the most puffed up nation I know

[@TheGrandmaMoses]

@@vivvpprof :))))

[@kingsolo6241]

There are parts of Alaska that reach into the eastern hemisphere, which they are 20+ hours ahead of the rest of the USA

[@BitcoinMotorist]

Are you sure these aren't lichess ratings 😂

[@paulgoogol2652]

In before this opening will be picked up by top 10 players. Solid structures and no horrible material or tempo loss. It's more than you can ask for from any 2000 rated lichess tryhard.

[@FlourescentPotato]

Why do people even submit games where people hung their pieces? Like, obviously everyone blundered and played bad, why waste the advice of a GM on your worst game...

[@gmdwill]

And they know that Ben’s going to roast them😂

[@cristianblanaru5929]

As amateurs we like this kind of weird opening for black because there is no serious study about them in chess history and masters never play them. So white loose the advantage of initiative and he don't know what to do and he can't think an advanced plan.

[@chadmacgargle5311]

John Saunders had done annotations, this is actually called the Nimzowich defense, Pirc or Modern. You see this in games against players like Judith Polgar, and other really dangerous attacking players. It's not good and most the people who try and play it have no idea what they're doing.

[@iqraathemanuel]

there should be an opening book filled with theory for noobs lol, only featuring games of low rated players and if any top gm plays the opening it can't be included

[@ericthegamefreak]

That's the goal. If we both have no clue what's going on, the position is equal

[@muesli_snipes]

@@ericthegamefreak That's a misguided view. The reason an amateur wins is never because he knows more opening theory. You'd have to know a lot of theory and face top opposition before that happens. If you don't want to play theoretical openings, it's easy: play theoretical openings and don't study them, apart from the main ideas. You'll eventually play a non-theoretical move and then it's not theory anymore. If your opponent is capable of punishing it, it's because he's a better player, not because he happened to have memorized a trap in a 200 page book about the Scotch. Just play what makes sense to you.

[@danielholta5721]

Yes there are serious study against bs openings. It's called following principles. Controll the centre, take the initiative through controlling files, space and controlling outposts. This is extra easy when oponent dont follow any openings as every good opening use these principles as their core function.

[@twistedoperator4422]

Community college is all we can afford my Gen X. Lol

[@Julian-br7wb]

The minute you said for your new year's resolution you wouldn't be mean anymore, I considered unsubscribing. Imagine my relief when I sat through the rest of it!

[@chihchang1139]

7:30 that's hilarious

[@planezero]

This is the funniest video from Ben for a long time by far .. couldn't stop laughing.. Three thumbs-up 👍👍👍

[@someonesomeone25]

Rawr. Happy NY from UK

[@DekarNL]

Commenting for the algorithm: this is the best greatest video ever love you 😂😂😂😊😊😊

[@dueclock1113]

These guys are NOT 1800

[@patrickdaly1088]

White had no human involved in the loop. I'm not accusing them of cheating; I'm accusing them of never being a human. That Bc4 d3 h3 stuff is *incredibly* standard bot play. Bc4 d3 against the pirc is literally always a bot. Probably a chesscom bot but maybe it's third party, either way, it's a bot doing a very poor job of pretending to be a human.

[@Wenkebach]

Trump 24

[@vivvpprof]

This video can by summed in one sentence. Roswell that ends well ❤️‍🩹 or something 🤔