Six Endgames that Needed Precision - GM Ben Finegold - 2014.12.09
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- Опубликовано: 24 мар 2025
- Grandmaster Ben Finegold utilizes king position and passed pawns in the "Chess Endings for Tournament Players" class.
Iryna Zenyuk vs Sabina-Francesca Foisor, US Women's Chess Championship (2009)
Benjamin Finegold vs Rusudan Goletiani, Chicago Spring Invitational (2005)
Veselin Topalov vs Alexey Shirov, Linares (1998)
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Watching this video over and over again, showing what kind of life I lead
Things I've learned from Ben Finegold:
- Never play f3;
- Always play Bf1;
- Tricks are for kids.
Also, 14:56 was hilarious.
Never play f6! f3....ok
Both, f3 for white, f6 for black. But only in short castling.
You forgot "Always repeat". This sounds funny, but Ben explained to me once that in a time increment game if you repeat whenever the opportunity is available you can gain back some time on your clock with no need to think about the position.
+wizardseye Man, there are 24 finegold rules
Never make the same mistake twice
always play Kb1/Kb8
Nh3 stinks
22:34 I have watched all Finegold lectures at least 5 times each. I guess my life is terrible.
I'd say something encouraging but...the truth hurts... Dah dah daaaaah!
This was an awesome session!! Thank you GM Finegold for a very entertaining and informative lesson.
the "like my teenage years" joke killed me aHHAHAHAA
+Stan Marsh what time??
+Dragan Mijatović 1:14
Funny and engaging teacher. Poses questions in just the right way to make you want to hash it out for yourself.
very good teacher
"He's the best player in his chair" amazing.
Thank you very much for this lesson
I find Findgold's the most informative because he keeps me interested with humor, and between is superb chess advice.
1. make sure your king is active!
2. in king and pawn end games, the pawns on the A and H file are the most dangerous
3. in rook and queen end games, the king with the least safety will get checkmated
fantastic lecture , and hilarious.
14:55 "...and this ain't no movie" reference to 'Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)'; Josh Waitzkin's last game.
Anyone else watching this video over and over again?
The game he's referring to at 22:45, Andrei Sokolov vs Viktor Korchnoi was indeed played in 1987 not 1988 at the Tilburg Interpolis tournament
this guy's funny.... could do a stand up at the comedy store...but the audience gotta know how to play chess
Funny guy. Every 4th sentence is a witticism with 10% humorous sarcasm, much of which flies right over the pupil's heads.
students ...says their paying attention... right?
great lecture, you are awesome!
i love this guy
The audience has no sense of humor this guy is hilarious. I was almost in tears at "Tulsa...ughh"
LOL....12:17 "C4, always explosive". :-D
Duh .. I just got that .. thanks!
I played u in a chess tournament
I lost to u
+Siddharth Sivakumar Glad to see that you are watching great chess videos! :-)
+Siddharth Sivakumar In addition to following your own plan, always try to think about what your opponent might be trying to do as well. You have a great fighting spirit; keep up the great work!
Ben Finegold,Yasser Seirawan and Jonathan Schrantz are my favorite teachers!
14:50 Jajajajajaja Omg, i just saw that scene from that movie TODAY! 😂 this is a old video i KNOW but i just saw it today
Does that mean if I have a position where I'm about to mate with king and knight against king and pawn (with the opponent's king stuck in the corner), they can just let their time run out and get a draw?
22:35 He's talking about me
Bh3 is the greatest move in chess history!
19:05 Intererstingly Ben uses the German Initialism DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik). In English it is usually called the GDR (German democratic Republic)
So I checked his CV for a prolonged stay in Germany and TADAA he was playing in the German Chess Bundesliga in the 1989/90 season
In balkan countries is also DDR
Haven’t seen Ben making the Albanian eagle hands 👐 yet so I’m guessing it’s probably because of his Bundesliga connection
This video is not on the Ben Finegold playlist. Just a heads up!
12:16 BOOM
"as any small child will tell you, Snatch" Hilarious!
Why does Finegold say at 4:59 to "always repeat" (checks)? It doesn't seem like it does anything
+passthebutter3 It's a joke :P
+Günther Schlauch But there must be some reason for it, right? He's made it several times, and seeing players make such repetitions, it seems like there's value in doing it, for whatever reason.
+joe doe
so they get closer to time control they repeat a position two times and play the moves then whenever safely possible. Makes sense, doesnt it ?
Eric Pade Sure, but they don't do it two times. He also tells his students to, and I think those games often have game controls rather than move 40.
+joe doe Even if it's game controls, you benefit if there's an increment. It's free time added to your clock.
wow ! these end games are pretty
at 8:09, why not this combination: Rook takes Rook(G4), (i assume) Knight captures Rook (G4), Knight to F4, pawn to D2, Knight to D5, if queen, night forking king and queen on E3, if king moves, Knight to C3 stopping queening, and after that starting to push A2 pawn....
Knight
Can't fork on E3 because the black knight still covers that square
true story..
damn it Finegold, my hand was totally up!
BEEEEEEEN!!!
Terrible. It was 1987! (Sokolov-Korchnoi)
Bh3! gawd...Shirov!
i woulda never woke up if u didnt tell me... this better be good
Ha, it actually was 1987, not 1988. Terrible.
actually in Germany we say Nine! Nine! Nein!
Is it me, or does anyone else think that Jonah Hill can play him in a movie?
+Lawrence Lepes Jonah isn't as funny... but yeah, same dialect and everything. I like this guy.
I agree
It's you
I love gm Ben finegold. I was falling asleep and he said to wake up
this guy is HILARIOUS! XD XD XD XD XD
Mike kummer lecture please!
Ben is the best!!!
1987--Tilburg, Opening: Spanish game, Berlin variation
"uh...the lecture's over."
I think Bg4 for black also wins, but the sac is nice.
looks like GM Ben Finegold is the tony stark of chess
i miss the times when ben finegold said "gesample" instead of "eggsample"
so this is what he does when he is not fighting batman
21:40 looks like a draw to me
22:31 hahahahha!
The rook Exchange example, one möve before you Made a mistakes, because pawn caprure instead holds a Draw, but the Zwischenzugang h6 or even caprure wins But h6 is Note clever. You can after IT Take the rook and the Draw lines arent Working anymore.And stockfish saw IT in cheap Smartphone in 5 sec, at least the Draw and caprure Like Happens IT need LEDs then 1 Million nodes.
L,.
He covered that on one of his own videos..
now for my favourite words, class dismissed looooool
Rooks are like my teenager
Very funny GM
Your endgame after rook captures was nice, but opponent could draw after pawn captures. So one möve sooner you could captures and Stocki in a very Slow smartphone at small depth See a +1.
What about on a decent computer at depth 20+? A +1 at depth 5 usually disappears at depth 12 and could become -1 or any evaluation really. Low depth evaluations aren’t reliable.
its 1987
But I like Tulsa...
M'kay
does Ben use eye makeup?
Finegold looks tired...
Hurra! I m the 600th:)liker and 100th commenter on this video.....
Why is he shouting?
No? Nothing..? This audience is terrible..
hahaha Women have a separate tournament, like the special olympics.
"However, the position in front of you right now is also a drawn position." I hope he is not talking about the starting position. Ben sounds like he has solved chess. I love his intelligence and his sense of humor, but I am sick and tired of listening to grandmasters saying for a given position "there is no correct move and wrong move among these two options; it is merely a matter of taste". Or while the computer counter-suggests a move in a super GM game with difference 0.6 in the evaluation the commentators mention it and then say "but there's nothing wrong with what e.g. Caruana played". Or taking for granted that black can hold with perfect play even under severe pressure and when a move makes black collapse then "I don't know if someone can find a defense for black with perfect play, but this seems very hard to hold after this move", after having said numerous times "this is an OK move for white" throughout the course of the game, like we're talking about a petting zoo, overemphasizing black's potential to hold, as if it is white actual play with "OK moves" in the game competing perfect play by black. These are kindergarten statements. How does Ben know that the starting position is defensible? He "feels it"? I "feel" that draw is more likely to be the solution of chess myself, but come on, you people are scientists, you're not supposed to talk like that. Might be 1.Nf3 1-0 forced... A "practical game" is one ball game and theoretical chess is a different ball game, which I suggest should be shown some more respect by GMs.
LOANNIS BEIS "Kindergarten" ? Very suspicious.
He talks about himself too much
That's happens when you become old enough