Kasparov's Immortal by GM Ben Finegold

[@3rdEarlRussell]

“Trying is the first step to failure.” - Ben Finegold

[@zacharysherry2910]

"it's really hard to beat Fischer...now" -Ben Finegold

[@vigilante8374]

Easy peasy. Even I could do it. Imma gonna need airfare for Iceland and a spade though.

[@tomswiftyphilo2504]

technically every game against fisher is a win by default

[@f.d.3289]

I just wanted to post just the same comment. It's really uncanny, but in every single video of his, Ben has one throwaway line that just cracks me up.

[@smort123]

"A guy gave me $100 to explain the game and I did. He said _thanks_. Five minutes later the Blackjack Dealer said _thanks_" 😂

[@DarkSideChess]

Classic

[@JojenReed]

Truth hurts!

[@hoola_amigos]

Timestamp?

[@NYK01]

@@hoola_amigos2:05

[@BREAKocean]

First 3 minutes​@@hoola_amigos

[@lukacalov1988]

3:30 classic Mr Attack joke

[@Jabadamazo]

Kasparov calculating to RD7 is incredible. I believe it, but like, I kind of can't.

[@michaelwright8896]

Kasparov is the best player in the world at his peak he saw everything.

[@vibovitold]

​​@@michaelwright8896Tony Miles (who famously humbled Karpov by beating him with black after 1. e4 a6?) summarised Kasparov along the lines of: "I thought I was playing the World Champion, not a monster with a thousand eyes who sees everything."

[@abbebjorkman]

I love your humour , your hilarious, my personal number one chess youtube. Going on a Ben Finegold binge

[@davidcopson5800]

*you're

[@whatthehirsch7385]

*humor

[@johncarlisle6865]

​@@whatthehirsch7385that's the American way of spelling it, & I know it may be hard for you to believe, but they don't actually have the monopoly on spelling as much as they wish to believe otherwise

[@zwlfelea9202]

@@johncarlisle6865truth hurts

[@SeddincY]

3:31 "the Austrian attack. Named after Grandmaster Attack " 😂😂

[@plsircanihavesomemor]

From now on when I mate my opponent otb I’m announcing papa John instead of checkmate. Just feels right.

[@SahnigReingeloetet]

Don‘t mate your opponent otb get a room

[@josephgarvey5400]

When Kasperov and Topolov roamed the earth, this is what happened.

[@JojenReed]

There was probably some guy named Kasperov at that time too but Kasparov was the chess dude 🙃

[@vigilante8374]

@@JojenReed None of the letters in your spelling of "Kasparov" look like backwards Ns or lunar landers, so I'm gonna have to yellow card your attempted pedantry there.

[@douglasquaid7550]

I could watch these lectures for hours

[@maxfaberg128]

"Topalov is Topalov and if you don't believe me he can show you his drivers license"

[@thrylos32]

Truth hurts

[@emmahird2795]

This actually might be one of my favourite jokes ever, just for how it's told

[@maxfaberg128]

@@emmahird2795 amazin, isn't it? I'm still giggling

[@donebydom3714]

I love this guys dry humor lmao

[@chessbrahh2068]

"This game was too hard for humans. And I would never be so bold as to call Kasparov a human" -Ben Finegold

[@macleadg]

Kasparov got his opponent to… topple off…

[@gaopinghu7332]

@@macleadg actually one of the most clever puns I've heard in recent memory.

[@macleadg]

@@gaopinghu7332 tx. I’m a Dad. I make Dad jokes…

[@visgraatje859]

28:58 most impressive part of the vid. Pronouncing the G sound in Dutch correctly.

[@poly_hexamethyl]

Gert-Jan De Boer

[@NewQuinnProductions]

Is this a chess analysis or a standup routine? Ben is the best of both worlds.

[@brodyr.5540]

we desperately need "The truth hurts.” merch ASAP

[@phihalbe7448]

very suspicious.

[@chitchit2732]

Kinda suspicious

[@jjcool7141]

If you can call it suspicious

[@EqSlay]

You are ridiculously frank, Ben.

[@Deucely]

I called Sheena Neegans, she's well and wish you all the best!

[@zachhaywood1564]

This game was how I studied and got a fair grip on the Pirc Defense.

[@poly_hexamethyl]

8:04 "If you're a low-rated player...they don't see all these knight moves. They didn't listen to Bob Seger enough." LOL :-)

[@skydragon3857]

its strange how the knight moves

[@carlyoung7004]

When you 👀 see the game in different places, times, analyze, like you see different types of people playing each other

[@KyMy16]

at min 43 GM Ben says that the last world championship was 12 draws, he means the one before last(or he filmed this 2 years ago). Nice lecture.

[@aakashbasu3219]

This was filmed in 2021 before the WCC

[@moderneros]

It does say in the opening footage the date! No hunt needed

[@stingaling]

"This lecture was recorded June 9th, 2021" it says in the notes.

[@RossKnows]

oh my, the Night Moves Bob Seger reference

[@TheMrBennito]

With the addition of the engine analyses, this game becomes even more mindboggling as it already was. I think I would end up in an asylum if I would be that talented.

[@12jswilson]

Good. Never go full Fischer

[@sparkster4000]

I felt like RXD4 was the brilliancy, AND I called out the computer would like KB6!!! :D I’m so proud of myself

[@gaopinghu7332]

Incredible intuition.

[@whaddoiknow6519]

Surely Kasparov's greatest game is game 10 of the 1995 World Championship against Vishy Anand. In this game, Kasparov uncorked a beautiful novelty, the door-slam attack. In the match, Anand took the lead by winning game 9. Determined to win one way or another, in game 10, after every move he made, Kasparov would get up to go to the bathroom and slam the door behind him so hard the room shook. The young and mild-mannered Anand was too rattled to complain to the arbiter, and it is strange that the arbiter did not stop this behavior on his own either. No player has ever used this attack after Kasparov. So indeed he is the stuff of legend.

[@KurbyDreamland1111]

God bless you GM Benjamin Finegold. The BEST GM ever!

[@bobbyfishstix1189]

yes,, i love these lectures

[@elminster8470]

Great game and commentary.

[@Frank-wr2nf]

Sf 15.1 NNUE says Kxa3 and Rd1+ are roughly equal, Bd7 gets played at move 35 of Rd1+ variation and white is +3, Rxf7 is second best at +.7 as said.

[@Janet_Airlines802]

Stockfish came out with 15 not long ago.

[@youstandcorrected]

Fascinating. Thanks for the upload!

[@krs48]

Wild game good explanation

[@ironhazes]

I approve of your pronunciation of Gert and Wijk aan Zee.

[@pranjilgrover8650]

I fucking love you man

[@worsethanjoerogan8061]

29:28 Nah Ben the point of your story was to mention that you won the Brilliancy prize. It's also an instructive anecdote though!

[@michaelemerson1949]

Thnx gm Benjamin. I have never saw these variations!

[@nicholasimholte7359]

Bulgarian last names are pronounced the same way as Russian. Just as you put the emphasis on second syllable in kuh-SPAR-of, you should do the same thing for his opponent. It's not TOP-uh-lof. It's Tuh-PAL-of

[@beeble2003]

Today, I learned something. Thanks!

[@tolkienfan1972]

Fabi is doing pretty well right now in the Sinqefield

[@FrankBakulov]

B R I L L I A N T ! Saved to favorites after 1/3 of watching. Ben's comments are terrific too.

[@chicken29843]

I am proud that I saw the second rook sacrifice

[@iamofflineyesreally]

Hey you can set up your channel to auto mute people when they join, just fyi. In discord it's done with roles, I'm not sure about other programs.

[@AC-xq4hh]

Exactly

[@ja734.]

For some reason Ben seems to think that Topalov is a legit world champion but that Khalifman and Ponomariov and Kasimdzhanov aren't, but really he's no more legit than any of them. He won the title in a round robin tournament, not a match, and the title was disputed while he had it, only being reunified when he lost the match to Kramnik.

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

It's probably because unlike the other 2, he actually played 2 world championship matches and basically tied Kramnik in 2006, only going down in the rapid format. He was also world number 1 for a while, and being world number 1 is almost as respected as being world champion, just look at how everyone still considered Kasparov the best player even after he lost his title to Kramnik in 2000.

[@kirokirov-lu8cs]

Compare Russia and Bulgaria? The achievement of those you mention is much less. Seven million Bulgaria beats great Russia in weightlifting, rhythmic gymnastics and chess, not every time but most of the times.And we have success even in billiard games and many other non-"Slavic sports".

[@vibovitold]

Topalov was legitimately rated #1 in the world on several rating lists, unlike Khalifman or Ponomaov. Of course he wasn't an undisputed world champion, but he obviously belonged in the same league as Ktamnik and Anand, unlike those grandmasters (with all due respect to them; I don't believe they would deny it themselves)

[@dobragab2]

Stockfish 15 today says 24. Rxd4 is the best move.

[@scheimong]

frankly, ridiculous.

[@fabian13333]

What a game

[@jeffheyer7783]

“Working on those knight moves.”

[@treschocos5529]

I probably won't see bf1 and rd7 when there's time controls there's too much calculation , black is winning if there's no capture on h8

[@countingongod3900]

C3 p'od... a future classic

[@hellopleychess3190]

ROOK TO D7!!

[@robbied2113]

35:29

[@shariarpapaon5305]

"the austrian attack named after the grandmaster attack"

[@chicken29843]

Chess is so fucking cool dude what the hell

[@peterflom6878]

Never play f3?

[@thecurefan1]

Before “ I’m gonna be laughed at” why not check then take the rook?

[@wreynolds1995]

Qe4+ Kd2 and the Rook is defended.

[@adamkatz6532]

the truth hurts

[@hellyea489]

man the truth hurts

[@hfontanez98]

38:20 What was the drawback of playing Kc2 instead of c1?

[@hfontanez98]

Just saw it... Other than losing h pawn, it's a longer mate.

[@alexandernipracs6292]

from 35:00 to 37:00

[@lostsoul2184]

۹:۵۵ :)))) that " eggzagtly " :))

[@wizardatmath]

But Topolov clearly blundered by taking that bishop back....

[@chadmacgargle5311]

What about Karpov?

[@davidcopson5800]

What about him?

[@chadmacgargle5311]

@@davidcopson5800 I think it's probably because Ben has done 900 million lectures of Kasparov v Karpov... so it's like a joke...

[@sciencetube4574]

Ah come on, he's an older player, but not that old that I would call him immortal...

[@dreddscott3873]

How long did he think before playing Rxd4?

[@davidcopson5800]

Just long enough.

[@alexpotts6520]

AFAIK he only thought a couple of minutes on Rxd4, but he thought for nearly an hour a couple of moves previously, which was presumably when he was when he saw the rook sacrifice idea and decided to analyse it.

[@lostsoul2184]

Wooooowooooo

[@paulandaloro8514]

i have a cavity. The tooth hurts.

[@bjorneriksson6480]

Topalov was world champion? Really?

[@davidcopson5800]

Only in the second tier, not the lineal.

[@Terabofnelf15]

terrible.

[@davidcopson5800]

Ivan the

[@beeble2003]

@@davidcopson5800 Hey, what do Ivan the Terrible and Thomas the Tank Engine have in common? The same middle name.

[@zero_nova2849]

Yes but unfortunately the ability to be excellent in chess doesn't translate into being more intelligent in other areas, which Kasparov is a good example for.

[@vigilante8374]

I mean, it's true he's slightly nuts but he was dead-on accurate with what he said about Putin and Ukraine. He wrote an entire book about it.

[@MarzipanCat.]

@@vigilante8374 what did he say about Putin and the Ukraine?

[@vigilante8374]

@@MarzipanCat. He said that Putin was the enemy of the free world and would definitely try to take all of Ukraine. He's been loudly anti-Putin and anti-Russian corruption since long before most people cared, and ran against him for the office of Russian president at some point.

[@StKozlovsky]

@@vigilante8374 The problem is that among the many Russian people who say all that and are also loudly anti-Putin and anti-corruption, Kasparov is one of the nuttier ones and is much more popular abroad than at home, where people know other, more likeable opposition figures than him. He's also very salty that people now think Navalny is a more important politician than him. Truth hurts! Still much saner than Fischer though.

[@vigilante8374]

@@StKozlovsky The elephant in the room is how nutty the Russian people are, who a year and a half later are still supporting this insane invasion which--regardless of the morality of it--can't possibly improve Russia's prospects over the long term. Navalny is a prop, not a real politician at this stage, and he's on record opposing giving Crimea back so he isn't really acceptable to the West, either. I'm not saying Kasparov would stand a chance in any free election; I'm just saying that as nutty as he is, he's not any nuttier than the Russian populace, the Russian political establishment, or the most popular figurehead of the Russian opposition.

[@dixonbeejay]

I think Magnus would of been in his nappies or prob still swimming in his dad's bags

[@mskcrc]

also what if you used a decent mic, Ben