History of Hypermodern Openings in Chess: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold

[@steven99456]

This reminds me of the game Frank Lee vs. Ree Diculous in the 1953 Zurich Supertournament

[@xwngdrvr]

S. Picious was the arbiter.

[@flynncook7989]

H. Orable annotated

[@xwngdrvr]

@@flynncook7989 I recognize you. We served together in the Punic Wars.

[@PatchworkPS]

If you edit your comment to say "Reid Iculous" i'll delete mine

[@mmmbellygirls]

Oh! That's the game with the famous Diculous blunder 9.f6??

[@beeble2003]

Dissappointed to learn after all this time that the Grunfeld Defence wasn't named after Grandmaster Defence.

[@jaasonjones4419]

Wait until you hear who the Bongcloud opening was named after...

[@beeble2003]

@@jaasonjones4419 Grandmaster Opening?

[@jaasonjones4419]

@@beeble2003 I'm not familiar with the works of mister Grandmaster

[@jasmint6703]

"I may be old and bad but I'm up a piece." Ben Finegold

[@smott7730]

Fun fact: Hypermodern Openings are named after Sir Lionel Hypermodern, who was also inventor of the microwave.

[@xwngdrvr]

He invented Global Warming.

[@xwngdrvr]

Rumor has it the Amish tend to frown on this type of opening. If you dont like the position at 13:31 you're Hippo Critical.

[@Evilanious]

The cow is not the hippo. It is a significantly more passive and suspicious setup where the knights are moved to b3 and g3, the center isn't influenced at all, and the bishops cry.

[@matthewpaul985]

Really enjoyed this video. Thank you.

[@Iearnwithme]

Really good lecture! Thanks for making these :))

[@napoleonbonaparte7692]

Oh my i cant explain the joy when i seen gm finegold playing the hippo in a world tournament, it gives me a sense of legitimacy with my own journey through chess so far. Particularly playing the hippo and nimzo/larsens openings

[@tutucox]

Hypermodern chess is the best , you can be the cool kid and be bad at the same time

[@gcubegaming2756]

It's nice to see a lecture uploaded once in a while which wasn't recorded multiple years prior...

[@isaacbragg-gardiner2456]

Are they typically? I feel like most of his videos are recent. Obviously 5 minutes with Ben is recent if nothing else

[@eoin6862]

Both. Some are from a few years ago and some only a couple of weeks ago

[@aakashbasu3219]

Old videos are due to channel consolidation, usually they are vids from Atlanta chess club

[@ДенисЮденков-ь5ж]

Please, make part 2!

[@douglaslarosa8782]

As soon as I saw the lecture title, I was Réti to watch and comment it 🤓

[@atwarwithdust]

11:07 We should call that fork a "knork", combining a knife and fork.

[@cardanoshield1326]

Very educational video, thank you!!

[@angrygary91298]

13:36 its a burn 🔥

[@jire9831]

Kramling catching strays.

[@tarnumj7319]

At 9:45 Ben didn't mention what would happen if black played Rxe3. I think that would be followed by fxe3, Qxd1, Ne6. Threatening Qg7 mate and black's queen, and black has no good checks.

[@redgit9905]

Yeah i noticed that too

[@sergioaguis]

Thank you to the sponsors ❤️ Thank you Ben for the joy

[@jimmyballer7047]

Hey Ben! You only went 5 minutes before making a move on the board this time. What a wonderful appetizer!

[@sachatostevin6435]

oh man... that dig at Anna and The Cow!

[@slimmamba7208]

Solid analysis, clear explanations. Second only to Fabi.

[@cho4d]

Love this style of chess. Reject main line theory. Embrace weirdness and chaos.

[@axeldenivet8421]

Merci Ben

[@shakohoto7901]

Seirawan's birthday was Yasserday

[@kmarasin]

Hypermodernism should be seen as a new way to look at chess, seeing it in terms of large scale structures and long term plans. While it doesn't work to ONLY think in these ways, it eventually was understood as a way to look for good moves; hypermodernism would suggest a move that should be looked at from a strategic perspective, and then it would be further analyzed tactically. This fusion was largely achieved by the interwar Russian/Soviet players including Alekhine, Botvinnik, Boleslavsky, and Bogolubow. They laid the foundation for the dominance of post-war Soviet chess and how the game would evolve right up to the turn of the 21st century, when computers changed things almost back to the way they were in classical chess, in their method of long precise calculation without any thought to positional ideas. Current players largely follow the computer's lead, leading to the decline of hypermodern ideas. With the discovery of the Berlin defense to the Ruy Lopez, classical 1. e4 openings returned with a vengeance.

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

@kmarasin - thank you for your interesting and informative comment.

[@pauldow1648]

Hyper modern attack from flank only if opponent place pawns and pieces in the center

[@werderlebenslang4576]

Isn't the cow opening an invention of Anna Cramling? She is known for playing chess isn't she? Or does Ben mean she is known for streaming chess and not a professional chess player in the classical sense?

[@sachatostevin6435]

I think he was just joking. I'm pretty sure they all respect eachother as professional chess-streamers, as they all collectively keep the subject interesting/popular, and together they increase eachothers views.

[@derhonk6270]

@@sachatostevin6435Ben is never joking, how dare you!?

[@opiedrums]

Yea sounded like a slight to me. He just sounds bitter. I dont think she invented it but maybe made it popular.

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

@@opiedrums - I think she did invent it. I watched the video where she says that it had never been played before (or at least was not in any databases of games). Of course, if you saw some of the games I play with my 88 year old step dad it might lead you to believe the cow (or worse, much worse) has definitely been played.

[@opiedrums]

@honeychurchgipsy6 Bens literally playing it here back in the 90s. Again, I think she just made it popular and called it the cow.

[@stbauch1]

This was a very hypermodern lecture!

[@BawzGames]

wish you all the best!

[@skyline.....]

i found i play better on the screen than over the board ,now i just need to try on the board

[@Cobalt-Jester]

I found my old travel computer chess machine. I was about 11 years old and it was my step granddad's... I learned how to play on that little machine. Because it was programmed in the early 80s with game variets of the time, it's really easy to beat on the highest level by playing the modern varients.

[@kmarasin]

Ironically, Yasser Seirawan wrote the forward to my copy of My System, purchased in the late 90s.

[@sanguine5108]

some crazy comment

[@mario97br]

You can oftentimes sacrifice your d pawn in the advanced French in order to pin the knight with your bishop to the queen on b6 and create counterplay to the king on the queenside as white.

[@jefftaylor1186]

Invented by Aaron “Hank” Nimzo during the Spanish-American War

[@raskalnekov]

Ben nearly gave me an existential crisis once I realized I'll need a new favorite Beatles song at 64

[@JudgeHolden13]

There are 999 repeats of hyper moderns in this video

[@compassionate_badger]

happy belated birthday yasser :)

[@pulpsqwheeze7091]

Go Hippopota-Ben!

[@mrcleanisin]

When you are analyzing games based on their openings and you announce one side made a blunder how do you expect us to know if the opening is good or not?

[@f.d.3289]

go watch levy, he'll tell you XD

[@joefawcett2191]

i often get told im playing the reti... nice to know he was a great player 😅🤣

[@lordofutub]

Whole damn lecture about hypermodernism, no modern defense 💀💀💀

[@erikfurudi975]

Fischer looked super old in his 60s, the giant beard

[@OliverRainer-f6f]

it's funny that you don't even mention the central themes of the hypermodern chess school, e.g. blockade and overprotection, as explained by Nimzo in his book in detail. That's what his entire "my system" is all about. You don't just give your opponent the center and that's it. You have to try to blockade these pawns and overprotect the squares before the pawns. As a matter of fact, you use them as shields for your pieces. It's not just about "fianchettoing the bishops and playing on the side". That's a far too simplistic way of explaining hypermodern. There's a famous game which highlights these principles perfectly, I can't remember at the moment against who, wasn't it even his arch nemesis Tarrasch? Nimzo crushed him by applying exactly those principles. Although you do generally the best lectures of all chess youtubers, this one's missing the mark a bit as it diminshes hypermodern to just "playing on the side". Simplification is fine, but taken too far it creates a false impression of what it actually is that you're trying to explain, if I was Eric, I'd be a bit disappointed, but as you admitted yourself, "Mein System" wasn't exactly your thing, so maybe worth reading it once more and then you could even demonstrate that Nimzo game in one of your next episodes.

[@zacharyheflin6794]

Well said

[@sachatostevin6435]

he pretty much explained why - cos he read the book but found it boring, and then admitted that it might have been cos he was too young at the time.

[@OliverRainer-f6f]

@@sachatostevin6435 so what? That doesn't justify to give a lecture on hypermodern without even explaining hypermodern. (except for "playing on the side") The truth hurts! ;-)

[@heyumnew1401]

Grünfeld looking like inspector lunge with glasses 💀

[@Kommaer]

First I played flank openings most of all. After million blunders Now I am crushing the center with gambits and able to beat up to 1500 in daily with 100+ games opened. And it is my 10th month in chess journey! Your content is what I love the most, GM Benjamin Finegold!

[@alhfgsp]

I like to play hypermodern with black but classical with white

[@lush1us]

As a beginner, trying to ask chatGPT what's 'fee and keto' in chess 😂😂😂 (it got it right🎉)

[@peace_in1move]

Truth liberates ✨️💋

[@calebparks8318]

22:18 Except for those of us watching on KZbin.

[@lqtmn]

Like + comment for the algorithm etc. Mostly etc.

[@derhonk6270]

Is there a way to fight 1. e4 as black in a hypermodern way, that is well respected among top grandmasters? The Alekhine and the Pirc are not really. You might call the Sicilian dragon hypermodern, but it is not well respected either. Would you consider a Sicilian Najdorf or a Sveshnikov/Rossolimo a hypermodern opening?

[@ludology7757]

It doesn't. Matter what grandmasters play unless you are one, just play around with different openings till you find one you like😂

[@derhonk6270]

@@ludology7757 Who do you think you are to judge what matters to me? I wanted to know, I am curious, so it matters to me. Why are you so rudely disregarding my curiosity? Of course, I will never need this kind of information to prepare against a Super-GM (and even if so, this would be a weird place to get my information from anyway), but that has not been the question...

[@msye]

I think you can try the Nimzowitsch Defense (1.e4 Nc6). Carlsen used to play it when he doesnt want to get into home prep. If white plays d4 you continue with d5 and if white takes then you get what you wanted like in grunfeld defense. But if they push the pawn you can play Bf5 and transpose it into French defense where your light squared bishop is not sitting on c8 I checked games of Nimzowitsch. He generally plays the Nimzowitsch Defense, French Defense or Caro Kann against e4. You can play the Hippo but i cant say its well respected by top gms

[@f.d.3289]

or, as ben repeatedly pointed out, fianchetto your bishop. 1.e4 g6, the so-called modern defense. and of course the King's Indian, although that's a world of its own.

[@timothymiller806]

This reminds me of Rufus vs Doofas 1869… rawr!!

[@sorpresasfelicidad8314]

Benst by test.

[@duncanglen3452]

Get Ben a Perrier ffs

[@SunPresager]

Iam fifth one

[@zahirhamdard2213]

Hey, i can't beat your chess bot😢

[@skyline.....]

get a bigger stick 👀

[@zacharyheflin6794]

And you can tell this is a hyper modern recorded lecture due to Ben’s old man lip smacking 😂. Jokes aside though I hope you see a doctor once in a while, I’m probably overthinking this but it as someone who is trained to observe and report signs & symptoms my first thought it’s a Neurological disorder & or a progressive degenerative disease. I’m not a doctor and my college credits amount to nothing as the school I attended lost it’s accreditation.

[@spyroninja]

Or maybe talking non stop for 40 minutes

[@Raphaeljames1776]

The amount of saliva in your mouth must be insane in the amount you’re smacking and slurping your spit in your mouth when you talk it’s so hard to listen to

[@carneades4409]

Osgood is not good? Very suspicious.

[@carneades4409]

I guess there's good and there's Osgood. That's Osgood.