Great Players of the Past: Patrick Wolff

[@Loosersnooze]

Love Old-School chess stories; machines have no soul! Thx Ben!!

[@negus8810]

Why does ben make half hour long introductions? He gets paid by the hour.

[@junaubomber6977]

terrible!

[@langezeit6926]

its part of the show

[@amirhossein2068]

The truth hurts

[@jaylenlenear3944]

Your either going to like this lecture a lot or your going to hate this lecture a lot- Ben Finegold

[@DreamyJives]

Congrats on passing 100k subscribers! Looking forward to seeing thec Silver Play award on your stream.

[@hemant05]

Plot twist, professor wolf is the sponsor of this lecture 😂

[@nimzomitch]

Holy crap, I watch a lot of Professor Wolff's content on YT! Love the guy ❤️

[@cooloutac]

Does he got a KZbin channel?

[@nimzomitch]

@@cooloutac I wasn't talking about Patrick, but his father, the professor Richard Wolff

[@cooloutac]

@@nimzomitch lmao.

[@jasonbraun3149]

I had to watch this after seeing Patrick win his game in Wolff style yesterday in the US Senior. As an old-timer, I remember him well!

[@sallylauper8222]

Damn, Benji knows everybody. One thing I like about Finegold is that he isn't overly involved with chess, he jokes about tunes from times gone by and teaches chess in a way only a GM could but brings details and draws games!

[@DonaldSjervenE]

Wow. This name is not in memory now. I switched to bridge almost 3 decades ago. The only Wolff that comes to mind is Bobby Wolff. I think I remember Patrick but only because of this video. There is a Patrick in poker, the movies, and even Star Trek. However, Wolff gets tied to Bobby and bridge. I've gotten old.

[@sallylauper8222]

Though never actually allowed to play bridge, I did learn the game at an early age. Starting a game of chess is simpler than starting a game of Bridge you see.

[@fireballxl-5748]

When Ben got to the game, it was awesome.

[@ilanpi]

When I was living in Paris, I met a girl who told me she knew a good chess player. As usual, I expected nothing much. I asked her his name, she said "Kamran." That's how I got to know him pretty well. Can you do a video about Shirazi?

[@ABadGamble]

I thought I was going to hate this lecture, but I stayed till the end and loved this lecture!

[@luke2041]

No way, I've read some Stuart Rachels. Didn't know he was a chess champ

[@Mr5022840]

How much donation one has to make in order to sponsor a lecture?

[@RobBCactive]

GM Ben places Oakham in the N of England, he would never have made the tournament without the Wolf shepherding him!

[@wicked5999]

EOakhamgland

[@dsassignment5009]

I looove the thumbnail. Why? Because it includes a picture when the player of the past is young, so I don't think of him only as an old boomer but also as a young man. Keep doing that in the future.

[@grahamdugan]

Wow I didn’t know you used to live in Ann Arbor! I grew up in Toledo! Hopefully you aren’t a Wolverines fan lol

[@jonredding9073]

OMG you went to Oakham in England? Thats 10 minutes down the road from me - come back and teach again!

[@lukacalov1988]

38:44 Tal says hi

[@edwardjanuary1259]

Where's the scandal in playing 12 moves drawing game with Gary Kasparov?

[@malachickisawesome]

Let’s Go

[@dirkadirk5240]

I liked the video

[@Mechwario]

Who's Afraid of Patrick Wolff?

[@anosmianAcrimony]

Kasparov was not... wrongly

[@f.d.3289]

"Kasparpov"

[@テイラーサム]

What's with the reposts Ben? It's great content, but not sure why you are reposting several videos recently

[@GMBenjaminFinegold]

Ben was busy at the World Open and not streaming. We’re also trying to merge the CCSCATL channel and this one together, so I usually work on that when there isn’t new content to edit. - Ben’s Editor

[@テイラーサム]

@@GMBenjaminFinegold Oh okay. Thanks for the response. Long-time fan of the channel

[@markritchie8874]

Damnit Ben, why do you keep shaving your beard off?

[@anthonym1880]

Frankly

[@bboyyoung10]

WhAt was that name rant at the start about 😩😂

[@joelcuerrier4833]

That game with Kasparov must be something he keep showing at board meetings. Imagine if he kept playing chess, he could be competing right now to get a small slice of GothamChess and Hikaru audience and make a few dollars per video. He messed up, going to work with Warren Buffet and Peter Thiel, what a waste of talent.

[@DWeirich76]

I heart gpotp ❤

[@hellopleychess3190]

thats a pretty long story

[@alexlopez4]

I love Ben but geez these intros can be long

[@sCraNDoMxD]

I enjoy the history/background. The nice thing is you can always skip it

[@Blaisem]

It's super entertaining. Did it never occur to you to skip content that you personally don't enjoy?

[@iansouthcote-want1606]

That's when we get the good stuff. Lots of people can analyze the chess games, but a lot of the stories only Ben can tell (or will tell)

[@andrewferguson6901]

history is valuable too, especially when the engine exists for the analysis side

[@trent797]

I like these intros. These are the types of stories that other players don't have.

[@cyrillebreton9009]

**first**

[@andrewferguson6901]

i believe you