Openings with GM Ben Finegold: The Scotch

Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... GM Ben Finegold discusses the Scotch Opening, widely used at one time by World Champion Garry Kasparov and how the Scotch Opening is a good option to add to your repertoire as does not have as much opening theory as the Ruy López or the Italian Game; nor is it heavily played and can be of an advantage in your opening game.
REUPLOAD: This lecture was recorded on September 29th, 2021, at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta (CCSCATL) in Roswell, Georgia. Originally posted on the CCSCATL Channel on October 4th, 2021.
00:00:00 Intro
2:15 Garry Kasparov - Etienne Bacrot, Sarajevo 2000
23:30 Alexander Morozevich - Yuri Balashov, St. Petersburg 1993
34:20 Sergey Karjakin - Vasily Malinin, Sudak 2002
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[@7applause653]

I have no conception of how old Archer is lol. From how Ben treats him he could be an infant or Spencer's age.

[@crazypomp927]

Archer has appeared on stream a bunch of times. He's like 13 or so.

[@MrCupidd]

I bet one of the main reason Kasparov did good with the scotch was because he was Kasparov

[@christopherpavlicas]

Very funny!

[@lyingcat9022]

Yeah that helped…

[@MislavIvkovic-sx8vd]

Dubov and Nepo doesnt know how to plax Berlin draw😂😂😂😂❤❤

[@daddytattookool6057]

Tell Hikaru that

[@verstraetenandre]

The knight takes knight, queen takes knight variation was a defense popularised by GM Frank Lee Terrible in 1899! (it historically never failed to lose for black)

[@timperalta9430]

Garry used it one time in blitz against Wesley So. He took Wesley to a school called old.

[@dwiii1635]

I like to think Ben is happy to know I'm blazed af watching this right now.

[@chauncyquest2779]

GM Ben Finegold is the best possible combination of entertainment and education! I feel like my joke ELO is through the rough because I understand all his jokes. "One move that you all know *whispers* I don't think they all know..."

[@NelsonBoy2734]

Love openings and great players of the past! GO BEN!!!

[@yc2560]

But stay there!

[@beeble2003]

In case anyone's wondering, Karjakin was born in January 1990. The Sudak tournament was played in October 2002, a month after Karjakin became the youngest grandmaster in history.

[@zdriver-qu4sm]

Thank you for everything you do for the chess community Ben!

[@pschneider1968]

Great games, great lecture AGAIN! Thanks Ben!

[@twistedsilver01]

That was really good advice Ben, turns out I needed a new hdmi cable after all, great video.

[@RiverGeorges]

Ben is seriously the best.

[@Bhubnipz]

I play this opening as white a majority of my games and from when I started to where I am now, around 800, in about 90% of the games black takes the pawn and then takes the knight. It’s great for this level because none of the good moves actually look good for black

[@IsaacBenevides]

Another great lecture. Thanks Mr Grandmaster

[@Nobody-hp7dw]

Scotch is my favorite opening with white, so many possibilities with it

[@benconover72]

Eggsellent, the Glenmorangie variation rocks.

[@JiveDadson]

Glenmorangie tastes like soap.

[@robertomariani626]

33:56, ahah, I like the money part too! 45:30, I also like this one, honesty! On streams there was also the one "the more you donate, the more money I have!"

[@DWeirich76]

I was almost certain Ben would be drinking scotch while teaching the scotch.

[@immortalation]

7:00 In the scotch black developpement is a bit quicker than in the sicilian, and white e4 pawn is weaker due to the open file. On the other hand no central majority for black sure but all things considered d4 slightly stronger against sicilians than against symmetric probably (2 - 1 for sicillian d4 break).

[@pepperwestwood]

It would be cool if chess pieces could grow hair

[@chauncyquest2779]

I love the saying "what's old and forgotten is new again". Applies to a lot, but unfortunately mostly to Hollywood remakes 😔

[@krzysztofkolodziejczyk4335]

didn't he do it already? or i just have deja vu

[@peteralund]

It says reupload and the setting seems to be from the chess centre

[@Vekigu]

Check the description - he also says the date is “9/29”

[@anybodykill6666]

Re-uploading from the ccscatl. Most likely channel consolidation.

[@lancemcque1459]

Why does GM Finegold only have 101k subs? I remember he's been doing this for like forever!!!

[@peterthegreat996]

He talks to much about non chess stuff.

[@steinanderson9849]

love the anna kournikova joke lol

[@FocusMrbjarke]

Yay go ben

[@ondrejkasparek3654]

Isn't it better (or more precise) for white to play in the moveorder 1. e4 e5 2. d4 (expecting 2. ... ed4) and 3. Nf3 (expecting 3. ... Nc6)? I saw it in one video here (maybe one of Yasser's), the goal is to deny black the option of going into Petrov or Philidor or other non-Nc6 openings.

[@scheimong]

2:25 oh no that's such a missed opportunity for a cheeky edit

[@NNN_613]

The Anna Kournikova joke at 20:08 was savage

[@HackSlasher]

It's a reference to the AK starting hand in poker: looks good, but never wins 😅

[@TDansVids]

Man the Karjakin Ukraine part has not aged well

[@jordanleviathanthwaites6501]

The truth hurts

[@jayr526]

Neither have I. And I don't even play chess.

[@adityabhalla1507]

It would be nice if some lines for Black on how to counter Scotch would have been also explained.

[@doh185]

You guys still have the ccscatl logo in the intro, i hope the owner wont sue!

[@jamesbell1613]

This is a chess video that I watched today.

[@NeoXSpirit]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BEN !!!! RRAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRR!!!!

[@dawnwpk9972]

Ben help i cant see the board

[@Yengi-cw2ox]

The scotch was first used at the highest level by GM Ken West

[@kmarasin]

Ben you forgot to ban Karjakin

[@12jswilson]

And his children's children!

[@random9-548]

Goring Gambit? lol I didnt know that, what's next, Ribentropp Gambit? Keitel Gambit maybe? 🤣

[@NightStalker1988]

The newest one is called Putin Gambit. Very risky.

[@Lastninjaxoxoxoxox]

@@NightStalker1988 is that where you attack another chessboard?

[@julioguilarte9438]

@@Lastninjaxoxoxoxox is that where you are like really based

[@wunknownbeatbox7980]

I laughed way too hard at the Bourbon joke

[@MrJusone]

For us new players. Please state if the opening are for black or white pieces. So we can know where to focus the attention

[@beeble2003]

Ben flips the board if he's considering things from Black's point of view. You can also tell that it's a White opening because it's White who makes the choice to play it, by playing 3.d4.

[@kultahammas-giansanti6660]

20:10 :D

[@banditodwardo4028]

at 31:49 white takes e5 knight with queen, maybe i am missing something obvious here, but I don't see why black can't still checkmate on g2 with the queen bishop opera?? set me straight please??

[@banditodwardo4028]

nevermind.....its because it was a check, sorry, i somehow missed that.

[@TheHeatLord]

Benjamin my brother in Christ, why do you have two mics?

[@jayr526]

There's one for each of of you.

[@beeble2003]

Probably the headset mic is for the Zoom stream and the lapel mic for the KZbin recording. Alternatively, the headset mic is just there because he's using the headphones and all the sound's coming from the lapel mic.

[@lukacalov1988]

Anna Kurnikova joke Lool

[@KancerKowboy]

37:19 Why not Bd4#?

[@donbert]

Because Kh1 and you’re even worse now since the Bishop you just moved blocks your Queen further preventing even Qa4?

[@beeble2003]

You mean Bd4+ -- # is checkmate. But 10... Bd4 11.Kh1 and Black's queen is trapped. The only moves where it doesn't get taken immediately are Qg6, which loses to the discovered attack Ne6+ and Qh4, which loses to the fork Nxg7+.

[@answeris4217]

My B-day is 9-29...

[@markjackson4085]

George Thorogood plays this opening all the time.

[@King.Mark.]

100k 👍🙃👍

[@zachp2120]

At timestamp 37:16. Why can’t black just play bishop D4 check?

[@beeble2003]

Because Black's queen is trapped after Kh1. The only moves where it doesn't get taken immediately are Qg6, which loses to the discovered attack Ne6+, and Qh4, which loses to the fork Nxg7+.

[@armwrestlingfan6804]

mieses?

[@ahrrydepp493]

This is strange i feel like i saw this video before

[@sameash3153]

Nah, bad memory

[@forgoodnessache5399]

Shouldn't it be the *Scottish* ?

[@Force95042]

Yeah in general Scottish people prefer "Scottish" and "Scotch" is a British word that has fallen out of favour. However it persists in older established terms like Scotch whisky, Scotch bonnet, or here, the Scotch opening.

[@peterthegreat996]

Or it’s crap

[@thomasjkeep]

If you're more of a bourbon person, you might prefer the French defence.

[@12jswilson]

Speaking of the French, I find it funny that 5 years ago it was most computers preferred defense against e4 and now it's borderline refuted at the super computer level.

[@anybodykill6666]

Nein Two Nein

[@666nevermore]

MAN FINALLY THE ORIGINAL ANIME OPENIN IS BACK. Drip

[@eamytb]

Ben, Ukraine jokes are way too soon

[@eamytb]

Unless it’s a reupload. If you made this joke now, in may, it’s just horrible

[@beeble2003]

@@eamytb It's a re-upload, as stated in the video description.

[@pranayrawat1]

That Ukraine joke was superb......lol.....zelensky crying in the corner.......!

[@stingaling]

Stopped watching at Karjakin game. He is a traitor to his country and Putin supporter. Sorry Ben but I don't think you should feature his games anymore.

[@GMBenjaminFinegold]

We all agree Karjakin’s a piece of shit. This stream was originally filmed and posted in 2021, before everything happened. We’re just working on consolidating the content. - Ben’s Editor

[@BaniasSyria]

Your logic is weird in a stupid way

[@sameash3153]

Who cares

[@hueylongenjoyer3747]

Traitor to his country? For supporting the Russian president who has a higher approval rating than any European leader and this has been confirmed by Western polls too.

[@tellahsage6477]

Who gives a shit, i'm here for the chess and Karjakin's game in this video was amazing. Stop rotting your brain with political obsession.