Endgames of Anatoly Karpov with GM Ben Finegold

[@suezuccati304]

Karpov: wins the world championship for 10 years and went toe to toe on Kasparov in his prime. People: "oh, yeah, Karpov beat that little kid in national television"

[@Qhsjahajw]

kasparov's prime wasnt in his prime in 84/85 he hit his actual peak in 89/90

[@beeble2003]

@@Qhsjahajw Fine. Karpov went toe-to-toe with Kasparov in 1989 and 1990, with record of +3-4=18. 24 of those games were in the 1990 World Championship match, which Karpov lost 12½-11½. The other one was in the 1989 World Cup, in which their individual game was drawn, but Karpov won the tournament frm Kasparov on tie-break.

[@Qhsjahajw]

@@beeble2003 sure but like, if u watched the match closely. After the first half it was pretty much one sided, sure karpov equalised in game 17. But after that he lost the next game, was totally lost in game 19, but kasparov took a draw, and again lost in game 20. game 23 iirc the one he lost, looked like he was fooling around as the match was over. game 24 which was a draw, was a total win for kasparov, where karpov was down a piece for no compensation, so instead of resigning, karpov kept playing for no reason, so kasparov asked for a draw and retained his extra share of the prize fund. And in 1990 their rating gap was 70 points. And by the next 3 years, Kasparov won most of their encounters, with 2 brutal wins in linares 1992 and 1993

[@georgiosvarachidis6596]

Discovered your channel recently....realy happy...greetings from Greece....

[@thrylos32]

You just discovered pure fine gold 🪙

[@sorpresasfelicidad8314]

Greeeece (after you see many lectures you will understand this reference)

[@thenick3216]

Before Ben started his KZbin channel, he looked at how much others were making and he said: "That's some Finegold" and thus became his channel.

[@beeble2003]

52:24 "Here, obviously White's better for several reasons. Can somebody give me the reasons?" Because he's Karpov.

[@rp1894]

"You got Byrned!" - Robert Byrne every time he wins.

[@Sevenigma777]

I guess every class must hear that Godfather story at least once... I think thats the third time i heard it on YT must be a killer bit live lol

[@luxwutang]

i love Karpov.

[@aanon4019]

Go Ben!

[@mainzergirl9610]

Ben, who are your top 5 endgame players? What made me ask: Capablancas repute as an endgame player and Fischers dismissal of Capa's reputation.

[@davel3616]

I must have watched a hundred Finegold videos before I got the c4 joke. Ridiculous!

[@Deucely]

I bet it ... blew your mind!

[@pschneider1968]

Just when I thought I already watched all of Ben's lessons, even more lessons show up which I didn't know yet, and they are even better, and even more instructive and entertaining and funny and whatnot... 👍😀😎

[@beeble2003]

I think the Futurama joke is actually that it drops to -173, which is why the answer to "Fahrenheit or Celsius?" is "first one, then the other." That line doesn't make sense for -40 where, as you say, it's the same temperature on either scale, so you can't reach -40F and -40C at different times. (OK, I had to look up the actual number, but I knew it wasn't -40.)

[@lukemarks3281]

-20 right?

[@beeble2003]

@@lukemarks3281 No. The _Futurama_ joke is -173; the temperature at which Celsius=Fahrenheit is -40. -20F is -29C.

[@danielevans8728]

Yes -40 is the same temp on both. The joke is -173 is really fucking cold no matter what

[@nuwandalton]

Ben loves Karpov and dislikes Carlsen. He's my man

[@schwebor]

Victor kortschnoi, best swiss chessplayer ever 😂

[@RafaelEKH]

Good lecture

[@StopFear]

I have a question for anybody who either knows a lot about over the board tournaments or who has participated in them a lot. What if a player is physically tired, or maybe has a back pain from sitting for too long, can they request to be given a chair or kind of accommodation so they can either lay down or sit in a more resting position. Alternatively, what if a player falls asleep over the board?

[@King.Mark.]

yes yes and yes

[@alejandrosierra3743]

No. They don't give anything to you and if you can't continue the game you lose. At least you can move around the room whenever you want, eat some food, take some pills, drink water...

[@joshmartin7725]

You can ask before the game starts and if they’re nice they’ll accommodate you, although it’s really up to how they’re feeling. You can’t ask during a game, though. If someone falls asleep, then nothing happens. If they run out of time they lose, if they wake up they continue playing.

[@ChocolateMilk..]

@@joshmartin7725 You CAN ask during a game.

[@dannygjk]

There was a Canadian IM who sometimes drank before his games and on at least one game he feel asleep.

[@rkalle66]

Safety Dance was 1983 not in the year of the game.

[@Sevenigma777]

My birthday was in 82 not 84 Ben i cant believe you forgot that!

[@MrCupidd]

If the game was played in the morning it would be red dawn

[@SenatorBluto]

Appreciate your wealthy benefactor.

[@NewGrow-kb1bg]

Putin pushed Karpov down a flight of stairs: victor Kasparov

[@ijexcmos8153]

Talk about being a chatterbox 😅😅

[@dannygjk]

Easy to beat Korchnoi when your team has 99 GMs.

[@valeriekeefe8898]

15:09 Oh dear God, Ben, would you just play c5+!! ?!

[@valeriekeefe8898]

So three minutes later, I still don't see how I screw up this position with c5+

[@valeriekeefe8898]

Okay, I see it. He doesn't have to take. If this were an alternate universe where chess and checkers' powers combined, it'd be a brilliant move.

[@King.Mark.]

👍

[@henryseidel5469]

One of the American linguistic cheatings: With Ben Finegold the title GM is mentioned and put emphasis on, with Anatoly Karpov it is not !

[@kevinstrand4596]

"Biggest scandal in chess history" :p

[@luxwutang]

how do you manage to pronounce Euwe like Irwa LMAO

[@dannygjk]

Euwe is Dutch I think?

[@reggiemustard]

It’s funny when people are wrong and confident about it

[@fencepost8478]

what is the correct pronunciation?

[@reggiemustard]

@@fencepost8478 uer-veh, it’s tough to pronounce in English

[@whatthehirsch7385]

​@@fencepost8478 it is German and pronounced oi-veh.

[@michaeltordesillas368]

Frustrating when you only want to improve your chess and this guy has a lot of lame stand up comedian lines in between,

[@metemercan1147]

Shame we can't all be GMs, cracking fun jokes in free lectures that help players such as yourself go from being frust-rated to being high-rated like Mr Finegold is...