Holiday Tournament Middlegames - GM Ben Finegold

[@andyisyoda]

"Now the old me, which coincidently was the young me..." Classic Finegold! Best chess lecturer in the world.

[@pizzashark7067]

1:00 "I had two good middlegames" -Ben Finegold 2015, coming clean about his career

[@gregbattis]

+Pizza Shark LOL

[@janchovlesky5630]

Shots fired

[@Burnthesof]

+Pizza Shark Grandmaster Finegold

[@sergi-13]

"Now the best move is resigns, but he couldn't find it". Classic.

[@BobChess]

Fact

[@longcastle4863]

08:05: The idea if you have an isolated a-pawn, consider trading it... Never thought or heard of that before, but it makes sense, and will probably result in an improvement to my overall game. Learning these kind of "general principles" is one of the reasons I like this channel so much...

[@andyisyoda]

I just watched this a second time. I would love to meet Ben one day. Such a brilliant and funny guy.

[@Joslinmeister]

When your opponent makes a move, it isn't where it was, it's where it went to. Because GM Finegold said so.

[@bobdylan6237]

Awesome to hear that you're enjoying chess again Ben! Hope you have a edifying 2016!

[@ishanr8697]

"Nh4 smells. No? Nobody knows what ammonia is?" Yes, it's NH3 :D

[@frankohero]

+Ishan R Im not a chemist, but thats what I thought too :D : 4? What 4? So, I was right? Very surprising to me.

[@srcoolz]

+Ishan R NH4 is Ammonium so kinda okay :)

[@frankohero]

Santhosh Ramani lol rofl! Okay :D

[@srcoolz]

+frankohero Whats so funny :)

[@frankohero]

Santhosh Ramani I thought the 4 was wrong. NATURALLY, I, chemics-noob, got it wrong! Clearly what expected... more sad than funny - but I concentrate on the funny part (really hard :)

[@scarscrews]

"Wilson Gao is a child about this tall" *camera shows how tall*

[@greatsquare7046]

@21:20 "bc" that's an old move; but I played "dc" the marvel move... Hahahah HIlarious!

[@williamfitzgerald3344]

So funny and informative. That audience does not deserve him

[@mickeykhan05]

Thanks to your lectures my chess game has improved drastically! And I am a dog in real life.

[@SteveRunciman]

+Mickey Khan If you really want to improve your play, watch Yasser's videos.

[@inkolore2]

3:25 That joke is too advanced for me can anyone explain it to me ?

[@dusanmijatovic7913]

+IceNoob88 I don't know about that. Please explain Ben.

[@dusanmijatovic7913]

+Dragan Mijatović U mean The answer is fries?

[@linda1lee2]

It doesn't make sense to me but it comes from the Simpsons starting at 2:31 of kzbin.info/www/bejne/aICYg4mpot2kn6M.

[@xDMrGarrison]

@@linda1lee2 Hey thanks for linking that! I've heard him say "the answer is fries" dozens of times and I never thought it might be a reference to something, and now it is so much funnier :D

[@macemaker123]

first :] please keep making finegold vids- lol and why don't you upload these in chronological order

[@mhamedkhalfa5062]

Need more GM Finegold

[@MichelNabil]

nice lecture :) and Happy New Year everyone ;)

[@ErictheRed1978]

Any chance to see Ronen again?

[@dmaster20ify]

The best move is resigns, but he couldn't find it!

[@rushilbansal7216]

Please could I know what software was used for the chessboard? Thanks I really loved the video!!

[@MrMariogrcic]

+Hype Army its called chessbase i think u can download it for free but im not sure.

[@rushilbansal7216]

Thanks a lot :D!

[@winston9920]

He is using Chessbase 13 which costs money. But you can get Chessbase Reader for free. But it is not as good

[@JoeDidIt]

24:30 lets look at the danny variation danny sacrifices a piece because i tell him to always sacrifice a piece 24:48 you're down a piece... i had to laugh so hard at this awkward variation

[@majexword]

This guy is hilarious!

[@emokehaupt8584]

At 43:13 after Be4 just Rxe4 and if queen takes Qxf2#

[@brucewayne2184]

Honestly I'm learning nothing. Is this normal?

[@rost187]

Can anyone tell me what checkmate with advantage is?

[@felixeisenmenger6254]

You checkmate your opponent and you are at least a pawn up (+1). It is redundant since you checkmate him anyway but it's one of Finegolds little jokes.

[@adeather]

what happened to Ben's tooth??

[@TremendousSax]

He walked into a fork

[@dusanmijatovic7913]

lol

[@ugandanknuckles5278]

Do a Bobby Fischer Vs Spasski game number 5

[@TheFoxciteWonderLuft]

24:30 Black by 2.0 pawns says the oracle

[@_nemo171]

Mastering openings ---> Karpov Mastering middlegame ---> Karpov Mastering endgames ---> Karpov Ben

[@bigbrother5024]

By now I really wonder how "crush da kids" Ben would perform vs. Yasser. Being a GM is for life and doesn't say anything about play strength after all. Please CCSCSL, do a round robin Rapid tournament of all commentators!

[@leadnitrate2194]

Yasser is much stronger than Ben (Yasser used to be world top 20). The truth hurts

[@12jswilson]

​@@leadnitrate2194 top 10 in the world. He was a candidate multiple times. Ben was "world's strongest IM" for about a decade and roughly the strength of an average GM at his peak but didn't finish getting the norms until he was 40 years old

[@SamtheBOLD]

Greg shahade loves his knights on b1 (:

[@t0mcc]

21:18 looooooool

[@anujrockstrong5019]

thats yasser's bishop

[@2birdbrained4u]

It's NH3 !! not NH4...

[@HeshmiY]

I'm from 2017

[@liam314]

Ben should take over for Mike Kummer in the beginner break down slot cos his games are TERRIBLE! ;)

[@bigbrother5024]

+liam314 Yay, you really wonder what Ben is doing day in and day out w/o doing a lecture and/or posting a yt vid. It's not like he's doing it for free, all the positive comments around here should satisfy him more than enough.

[@liam314]

+Big Brother I enjoy Ben's lectures but I wish he would lecture on recent world class games rather than his own games. His games are obviously better than anyone watching these vids but I think Ben is at his best when explaining world class games to us patzers!

[@SteveRunciman]

Still no Yasser.

[@dkahmedkhalaf]

Liam Neeson