The Kramnik Passed D Pawn: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold

This lecture was recorded April 1st, 2024 in Roswell, Georgia. Thank you to Robert Olford for sponsoring this lecture!
Games:
03:27 Vladimir Kramnik vs Viswanathan Anand, Las Palmas 1996
15:44 Vladimir Kramnik vs Viswanathan Anand, Leon 2002
26:32 Vladimir Kramnik vs Veselin Topalov, Amsterdam Euwe Memorial 1996
35:27 Vladimir Kramnik vs John Nunn, Olympiad Manila 1992
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[@thomasbeckett1245]

Your my hero Ben, mostly cause your one of the few people who talk chess in a normal way. Go Ben!

[@Rubrickety]

2002. Kramnik: "Anand is using an engine!!". Arbiter: "Yes, Mr. Kramnik. Yes he is."

[@rdm5687]

03:30 What, Kramnik and Vishy playing here in Canarias? Man, the 90s were wild.

[@keedt]

Spain was the absolute epicenter of chess in those years! Linares, Dos Hermanos, Bilbao, ...

[@BobChess]

Very interesting game by Kramnik. Interesting

[@sparkster4000]

Ben, you should really be covering the candidates if you want to grow the channel. I’d really rather watch a recap from you than Gotham or any other garbage like that. You’d be extremely funny and also have good analysis.

[@sublimeade]

the dogs are barking because they didnt know the opening

[@_nemo171]

Kramnik? Very suspicious!

[@psychohist]

Nah, just interesting.

[@railspony]

The saddest part about Kramnik is that prior to Carlsen's hissy fit, Kramnik had been the victim of the worst cheating false-accusations in history, aka Toiletgate. Of everybody in the chess world, he should have known better. My theory is that his current insanity is actually a macho over-reaction to that; he was angry and bitter at being portrayed as a victim. And the only way to make people forget was to become the evil bully making the false accusations.

[@sandwedge]

more kramnik past the deep end

[@oedipussyrex7018]

I hope you appreciate what a friend Anand truly is. Any man who would allow a passed pawn for your lecture is a man who would help you bury a body.

[@sd-xk7qr]

dark

[@douglasquaid7550]

Imagine a year ago when Kramnik was Kramnik and not some crazy old dude who isn't even old.

[@donsimons9810]

everyone thought metallica were crazy uncool old dudes when they went kamikaze against napster. Cheating is ruining the game at the end of the day

[@-Azure.EXE-]

He is only 48. It feels like he is 80 yelling at the moon.

[@patrykapiezo1650]

Kramnik not being a crazy old dude? Interesting

[@Aphixx]

@@donsimons9810 To be fair, metallica was crazy, old, and uncool way before napster

[@tarnumj7319]

No candidates coverage from Ben? 😢

[@ahrrydepp493]

Brother where is your candidates recap?? Im literally welling to miss school for your recaps, please do it

[@kmarasin]

As crazy as Kramnik is, he's a great player. IMO, he's the first player that the term "super GM" applies to. Not because he's the first player at that strength; that's not what I mean. What I mean is that he's the first player to approach the role of professional chess player the way current top 50 players do. He pioneered using engines to prepare high-level opening novelties--he was responsible for the rise of the Berlin defense and the Re1 variation in the old QID main line. He challenged orthodox ideas, such as here: the general aversion GMs prior had of having this passed, isolated d-pawn. It's a Kramnik world, and we're just living in it.

[@paulgoogol2652]

Are you saying that Kramnik used a computer engine to gain advantages over other players? He is a fair player and would never cheat?!

[@12jswilson]

That's not really true. Kasparov also used extensive engine analysis for his opening ideas and he did it before Kramnik did

[@kmarasin]

@12jswilson you're right--but Kasparov got caught with his pants down in the 2000 WC match. It's not that no one did it before Kramnik, it's that Kramnik made it essential. That's partly luck, but he was the player occupying that particular pair of shoes.

[@juhonieminen4219]

Botvinnik was also pioneer in professional game preparation. He and his team made great number of novelties. Botvinnik used the soviet system as an engine that calculated new opening moves for him.

[@beeble2003]

Basically, you've redefined "super-GM" to mean something that can only exist since about the year 2000, by making high-powered engines a requirement. And then you say that Kramnik is, therefore, the first super-GM. I mean, sure, with that definition, yes, since he was the strongest GM at the time when your definition of "super-GM" became possible. But that's not what everybody else uses that term to mean and, as others have pointed out, Kramnik was hardly the first person to do this kind of analysis.

[@jire9831]

Very interesting

[@Steve-xo4nb]

You know what... This lecture helps so much. I tend to get the passed D pawn and I can usually only use it to deflect defense of a piece. Maybe I can build a strategy around it a little more. It's tough out here in the 1300's now-a-days. You gotta be Booked up. You help a lot with that Ben. Thanks for your content

[@keedt]

It's with d pawns as with cheating allegations: Kramnik is willing to take them very far! There are also some differences.

[@douglaslarosa8782]

If you get a passed D pawn and you frequently win, always repeat, right?

[@muntahassan6384]

no candidates content this year ?

[@henrycampbell8655]

No doubt. No doubt. Lets do the procedure.

[@jeffreywilliams3421]

Sponsored by: Kramniks D. Pawn

[@pedrovannucchipsi]

Will you make comments about Candidates games?

[@juhonieminen4219]

I just bought a chess set with Kramnik D-pawn and H-pawn named Harry.

[@joepangia4413]

The Kramnick past d pawn seems a bit reminiscent of The Nimzowich school regarding the passed pawns lust for expansion and his postulate that a pawn with only one enemy pawn remaining on an adjacent file is 90% a past pawn.

[@MrSupernova111]

I needed this lecture. I play the accelerated panov attack and I often struggle to get my passed pawn and win the game. Thanks!

[@HeKToN]

Isn't the term passed pawn on 7th rank wrong ? There's no way a pawn is on 7th without being passed anyway, unless you're a GM. Oh snap

[@syq1729]

I guess you could say, if dxc6 at 9:49, that pawn is a past d-pawn

[@LazyPoet101]

Hey If you didn't notice their is a low hum from the microphone, must just be a loose connection.

[@rolandoorro1741]

There shall be more lectures sir.

[@viennacircle1]

Jonathan Rowson called the Grunfeld passed D pawn "Delroy"

[@King.Mark.]

things that make you go hum sounds like something came out 😂

[@beeble2003]

30:50 Two Kramnik passed D-pawns -- one for each of ya!

[@donsimons9810]

wait this video is actually posted in timely fashion? im confused

[@donsimons9810]

confusing the audience! that's what i meant

[@Covidbowie]

Mr finegold your dogs see more tacticts then i do

[@henryalexander7325]

Imagine being reported for cheating by a d pawn

[@Admiralmeriweather]

max euwe also got passed pawns in the midgame

[@nobuharu2336]

Always like

[@Roberto-bd9fq]

After Ba5 Qe8 Re3. At 13:25

[@ДенисЮденков-ь5ж]

What about e pawn?)

[@sandwedge]

how about kramnik's passed brain cells

[@terallaret5987]

LOL at 34:32 he farts - The Truth hurts

[@Fujibayashi50]

Very suspicious

[@_nemo171]

For real or 50-50 chance to be real?

[@kmarasin]

"Bof bof" - the almost bark. That means the dogs are very suspicious.

[@Hh-yd3dj]

Nah.. -The truth squirts 😮

[@erickent4248]

Kramnik was very kind to play these games so that we can look at them now.

[@gavinjones8543]

Played through kramnik games a while ago and saw that a winning promotion was a regular theme, but well done for catching up.