The Botvinnik-Carls Defense: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold

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[@owenkelliher4927]

Cool to see Ben covering an opening I play. This Qb4 idea by Tal is what I struggle against the most. That Tal guy was pretty good

[@inpinksuit]

Heard he always got his queen captured lol

[@suezuccati304]

I play the Tal Variation in the Advance and it always feels good to win a free bishop.

[@ZorbaPress]

That was very instructive -- and of course entertaining -- Ben, thank you very much.

[@lahmer60]

Awesome, happy birthday Maureen!

[@LeonardoLeiva-p3w]

Thank you so much Sir.

[@cooperjudson5807]

Thanks for posting free content even after writing your whole chessable course. You're an absolute bastion of the chess community GM Finegold

[@bunpeishiratori5849]

You’re probably not the first person who has ever called Ben a seven letter word starting with the letters “bast” but I suspect you’re the first to call him a bastion.

[@tomas-wi8dy]

thank you

[@jeffreyfisher3115]

FWIW, the music is "Land Travels on a Cloud" by Delroy Pearce.

[@ABronyNamedBurnie]

17:30 I was like "I'm pretty sure I know what ensconce means, especially with context. Oh, you're giving me time to look it up? Don't mind if I do!"

[@rogerwarr4673]

Love your style

[@12jswilson]

11:50 I play that Nxb2 a lot as a Sicilian player.

[@ExtraCheeseProject]

This variation looks more like the _Caro-Can't_ Defense; go French Defence!

[@thinboxdictator6720]

I never understood how can anyone prefer french over caro

[@paulgoogol2652]

​@@thinboxdictator6720 Far sharper and more interesting. Saying that as a CC-player who is too lazy to study stuff like the Winawer.

[@Evilanious]

Spend less tempi, c6, then c5 very shortly after. Spend another tempo moving the bishop and make sure it can't help the king. French is quicker in the center, at the expense of the activity of the lightsquare bishop.

[@Tocinos]

​@@thinboxdictator6720 people who hate their light square bishop

[@ExtraCheeseProject]

@@Tocinos He showed 3 games and in all 3 games ...e6 and ...Bd7 were played, so I guess my point was _why play the Caro Kann if you're going to play this variation?_ i.e. you may as well just play the French.

[@wolfMetall]

I play this variation a lot. Often my knight gets pinned to my king on c6. Also interesting that in the example games black didn't ever get his bishop out before playing e6.

[@sneakerhead4770]

I feel like E6 is bad for black trapping the bishop in the pawn chain and allow queen out on that diagonal

[@jl5897]

Bonjour, merci pour la video expliquée avec des parties commentées. Très bon format et contenu intéressant J'adore cette variante qui evite de jouer bêtement entre guillemets la ligne principale Ff5 sur e5. Sur Ff5, le fou va se faire matraquer plusieurs fois (le pauvre) et les blancsgagnede l'espace. La variante Botvinnik carls est hyper intéressante. Avez-vous des références de parties ou les blancs ont une structure de pions c3d4e5 et où les noirs font pression au centre ( comme une française) et a la fois peuvent développer leur fou c8 aisément (en f5 ou g4) ? Le fou en d7 me semble passif... peut-être une manœuvre Fc6 après... Merci

[@mohamedboudissa2087]

Which is the right, study opening or endgame ? my rating is about 1800 and i never study endgame

[@beeble2003]

Endgame. You probably already know the opening principles, and studying specific lines is only useful if your opponent plays into those lines. The endgame comes up every time the game doesn't end in the middlegame. If you don't know how to play it, you're losing games you should draw, drawing games you should win, and you can't evaluate late-middlegame positions, because you don't know the outcome of the endings you could simplify to.

[@sergeyihaveshroud5561]

"I forgot who was Black. Oh yeah, Ian Nepomiachtchi. How can I remember him" - Ben, do you know what Nepomniachtchi means in Russian?

[@hasb826]

🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐💖💖💖

[@SrinivashM29]

Ensconce!!!

[@jugglingbeast]

Why does he say that he's GM Ben Finegold? We know that.

[@thinboxdictator6720]

You know now, when he told you.

[@jugglingbeast]

@@thinboxdictator6720 I knew it before and it's even written in the title

[@mitchellwilson5770]

everyone's a critic

[@SoundAndFuryy]

Because he is GM Ben Finegold and you are not.

[@SrinivashM29]

What? I thought I'm Grandmaster Ben Finegold and he's not.

[@jahbrake9791]

Ben, please dust the guns off and get back into OTB championships!!