Practical Endgames (that Really Happened) - GM Ben Finegold - 2014.12.02

Grandmaster Ben Finegold teaches the first edition of Chess Endings for Tournament Players (a new weekly endgame class). Learn to activate your king, advance on the side you have the majority, and push your passed pawns.
Games:
A. Stamnov-Finegold
Finegold-A. Ghobrial
???-Finegold
E. Hansen-Finegold
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Finegold-D. Monokroussos
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[@jasondoe2596]

Ben is back, and a "practical endgames" series is an *awesome* idea. Endgames are exactly what's needed by -players- patzers around my level. This is so, so great! /me rushes to watch

[@rogergeyer9851]

Jason Doe: The end game is the only part of the game I actually tend to (somewhat) know what I'm doing, and I love to watch videos like this too. Finegold is a great and humorous Chess teacher.

[@jasondoe2596]

@@rogergeyer9851 I didn't expect an answer to a 7-year-old comment, haha! Glad you're discovering and enjoying Ben's content :D

[@pestelario]

KZbin should definitely allow double thumbs up for this one! Thank you Grand Master.

[@danfarm]

Good to see Finegold back in action!

[@irgendwerjoker]

I would say considering a Ben Finegold lecture, there is a 85% chance of at least on Marathon Man reference occuring...

[@LudiCoka]

Oh yes! some more Ben Finegold, I was checking every day if his video will be uploaded.

[@herzwatithink9289]

"And now last and least..." Another *hugely* entertaining lecture!

[@LouisReed]

Hooray! We always love GM Finegold's lectures! Many thanks for the video!

[@singlespies]

Nice. Looking forward to more endgame lectures from Feingold!

[@t.alexanderlystad291]

We love Ben!

[@KnighteyKnight]

Great idea for a class. Amazing lecture.

[@keepingupwiththecichlids]

That last round of applause was weak. Finegold deserved better.

[@sayyahdina]

I love Ben's lectures!

[@elbay2]

A new lecture with GM Ben... yay!

[@dzigerica666]

you were in novi sad! wow i was at that olympiad 5 years old with dad, few years before war...

[@dzigerica666]

now i like ben even more :)

[@GymChess]

Nobody reacted to his comment about Hoffman and Olivier. It's from the Marathon Man, 1976 for crying out loud.

[@herzwatithink9289]

It set my teeth on edge. I was wondering why.

[@AlexSosaBolivia]

You can keep as many as you can swallow.

[@clayvision]

finegold's mannerisms are too funny

[@LymiaKanokawa]

11:10 Did engines improve that much in two years? I gave mine 3 minutes and it said mate in 26. And it gave +50 after 10 seconds.

[@bjarnieinarsson3472]

In the King's endgame after RxR(d7) at. ca 10min, Kc3 is almost bad.. b6 is so winning and what's more, the most strategically move in this position and the pos just screams for that move. Black got some change because of cxb and a5, after b6 black is simply lost in all accounts simply because black King is completely tied down on Q-side.

[@bjarnieinarsson3472]

Hmmm.. my english may be bad (I'm from Iceland).. but your understandings is even worse (what is your excuse). I'm talking about the pos where white played Kc3 as I stated in my post. That is, the pos after white has taken black rook and black taken back KxR.. pretty obvious if you have any chess skills. The pos after black KxR screams for b6, creating protected passed pawn on the edge of the board.. 101 in pawn ending.

[@bjarnieinarsson3472]

Are you some kind of dumb? The pos I'm refering to is at exact 10.30 after Black takes Rook back with King and white replys with Kc3 as I said in the orginal post. If you can read, then my post start with the following statement, "In the King's endgame.. " etc. Endgame with rooks is not, Kingd endgame. King's endgame is when there is only pawns left (of cause with king's, just in case you don't know how chess is played)

[@alexanderdrake3712]

25:58 Isn't this a draw? If white queen's, and you do the skewer tactic, white can take opposition on the turn after you take the queen and draw the king vs king and pawn endgame. ...Rc1+ Kd3 ...Rxc8 Ke3, and white has the opposition and can draw. What am I missing?

[@mata91yt]

To answer your question, you're missing the rook on c8

[@joedoe6836]

At 26:15 why can't black just check with his rook and transpose into the other variation? Doesn't seem like f3 was a mistake.

[@joedoe6836]

I'm saying play the rook check before moving his king to protect his pawn

[@joedoe6836]

Ah, I was reading protecting the pawn as forced. With only one pawn, black presumably can't queen.

[@GMG-iw2ui]

Hello from Yugoslavia.. Belgrade and Novi Sad

[@vitalydmtrysvidler8023]

oh no i wanted 720hd , still very instructive

[@DhuumB]

Also "ich don't think so" hab ich jetzt noch nie gehört ^^ :D

[@emboujarppunen6470]

What happens at 29:56 if white takes the pawn with queen in hopes for a draw? I'm thinking something like this: ... Qxg3 Rg5 Kh2 Rxg3 Kxg3 Be7 Kxh3 Kf6 Kg4, and it seems to me black can't really do anything?

[@lashiechoax]

+Embou Jarppunen Down a piece, white can never hold that. In this case just Bd6 next, the white king will have to move and lose the pawn immediately. then it's simple for black

[@klimtkiller]

in the game with eric hansen i thought the black pawns were going downwards lol

[@drpawnkwp]

I want to see Finegold Rock some shades!

[@fahadmohammed6700]

thank u

[@MartinStaykov]

Is this in St. Louis? Seems like a different venue.

[@STLChessClub]

Martin Staykov The new classroom is actually next door to the Chess Club at Lester's Restaurant. It's still Saint Louis!

[@MartinStaykov]

Yeah, I meant to say is it at the chess club. Cheers.

[@wizardseye]

Martin Staykov Technically it is still the chess club. Lester's Restaurant went out of business and the club bought it and now uses the dining areas for some of the chess tournaments and the lectures now.

[@darfsodius5141]

Dude seriously needs to slow down with the Simpsons references. He's going to give himself skin failure!

[@SIMUN2277]

Is this going to be a weekly thing?

[@samyipsh5381]

12:06 taking on f4 would meet e3, fxe3 then f3 wouldnt it?

[@waschkarte3989]

@jqbtube yeah, but that's what Samuel meant. Kd4 e3 and then not fxe3 but Kd3 seems to win. exf2 Ke2 or else you take on e3 the next move, meeting anything with Ke2 (well, f3 then Kxe3 of course). But I fell for fxe3 at first, too. Easy to miss Kd3.

[@thecrazymanfromireland]

Outstanding well done

[@dmaster20ify]

[20:04] with continuous laughter.

[@holymoly8718]

30:40 last and least lol

[@MartinHavlik]

Jason Doe 99%true + tax

[@LSDOvideos]

I wish Ben left politics out of the lecture, regardless of his views correlating with mine. I get that it's supposed to bring levity and all but it's out of place and a bit in bad taste when discussing a game that transcends culture and class, in my opinion.

[@sergi-13]

LSDO Do you say this because of the Thatcher comment?

[@LSDOvideos]

I dunno, I don't remember this video in its entirety. It probably was about Thatcher though. Anyway. He brings up politics in more than just this lecture. Again, I don't care what he thinks but it's inappropriate.