Minor Piece Endgames, with GM Ben Finegold

[@regisminae]

10:24 Narrator: "Karpov would, in fact, not be in that room that August..."

[@kdub1242]

I remember seeing this game shortly after I received my advanced degree in hyperbolic topology.

[@adrianf.5847]

For a topologist, hyperbolic space is as flat as the joke... (I mean his, not yours)

[@kdub1242]

@@adrianf.5847 True, but special relativity works in hyperbolic spacetime (ds^2 = dt^2 - dr^2); although still flat, it is interesting. But I doubt Prof. Frink had that in mind. He was busy debugging his monsterometer (aka frog exaggerator).

[@adrianf.5847]

@@kdub1242 So you do think a topologist cares about the metric. (Maybe we should leave the poor guy alone, after all he's explaining chess to us for free. But what did mathematicians ever do to HIM???)

[@kdub1242]

@@adrianf.5847 I know. Topologists are unimpressed by measure. But give us physicists a break. We need to know that our coffee mug is not a doughnut so we don't try to eat it (and then drink the doughnut). At least we can agree with Ben that a diagonal King march from h1 to a8 is the same length (in moves) as from a1 to a8. No sqrt(2) measure nonsense!

[@adrianf.5847]

@@kdub1242 Sorry dude. I think the sleep deprivation is getting to me. Talk to me again in a few months when this horrid situation has finally dissolved.

[@brianmarrero5147]

That sigh from Ben at min 8:30 I felt that as much as he did!

[@wyattthewordweaver1992]

illuminating lecture, i appreciate how hard the variable noise gate is working in the editing software

[@not2tired]

Came for minor piece endgames, expecting to see games where all 16 pawns had been replaced by knights and bishops before move one. Somehow, was not disappointed.

[@franklinturtle9849]

7:59 Bobby Fischer & Magnus Carlsen

[@Iearnwithme]

7:58 - Incredible answer

[@ItaIianStaIIion]

I’m great at endgames, except for one thing. Truth hurts

[@imeaniguess.6963]

17:13 I would’ve lost that game 100 times over lol.

[@jageiosjgaeiojg]

32:12 those pawns sound like me

[@thetransferaccount4586]

nice examples there

[@judysteinhilper9742]

"He was from Soviet Geogia, like where we are now- Donald Trump's President." Ba boom, boom, SPLASH! 😂

[@peterstrycek856]

Its me or There is good or not good is Mercy seat reference?

[@1987caki]

We call it blind bishop

[@mothecat776]

HEY BEN... Are 2 Bishops winning by themselves? trick answer Not if they are 2 Bishops of the SAME color.....

[@panpan-vz3om]

cant do vish fornathin

[@danbrooks5060]

34:00 come on ben, Carrissa Yip and Jennifer Yu are american-born! Whatcha got against immigrants?

[@chenglee6677]

firsrt

[@Keelo.]

First the worst, second the best.

[@TrickStar-n7e]

What a bitter but almost funny liberal. It's pretty obvious he's a Kamala Harris fan. Lol