The Botvinnik-Carls Defense: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold

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  • Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 47

  • @owenkelliher4927
    @owenkelliher4927 Рік тому +27

    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
      @inpinksuit Рік тому +4

      Heard he always got his queen captured lol

    • @suezuccati304
      @suezuccati304 Рік тому

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

  • @rainerausdemspring3584
    @rainerausdemspring3584 Рік тому +10

    Carl Carls had a very limited opening repertoire due to lack of time - he was the director of a bank.
    As white he *always* played 1. c4 which was sometimes called "Bremer Partie" in Germany since Carl Carls lived in Bremen. As Black he played c6 or c5 against 1. e5.

    • @jolivervendero8737
      @jolivervendero8737 Рік тому

      Wow, thank you. Very underated comment

    • @rainerausdemspring3584
      @rainerausdemspring3584 Рік тому +1

      @@jolivervendero8737 Thank you. There is a Carls biography written by Kurt Richter. This is somewhat surprising since Carls played rather positional chess whereas Richter was one of the last heroes of romantic chess. As a teenager - 50 years ago - I learned a lot form Richter's books. Richter was one of the best players in the world in the early 1940ies.

    • @Victor-ji1rz
      @Victor-ji1rz 2 місяці тому

      I usually call the arbiter after 1.e5

  • @A51838
    @A51838 Рік тому +6

    this is the lecture i've been waiting for but didn't know i needed. i hate facing the botvinnik-carls. thanks for this vid!

  • @ZorbaPress
    @ZorbaPress Рік тому +4

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

  • @lahmer60
    @lahmer60 Рік тому +1

    Awesome, happy birthday Maureen!

  • @LeonardoLeiva-p3w
    @LeonardoLeiva-p3w Місяць тому

    Thank you so much Sir.

  • @jeffreyfisher3115
    @jeffreyfisher3115 Рік тому +1

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

  • @ABronyNamedBurnie
    @ABronyNamedBurnie Рік тому +1

    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!"

  • @cooperjudson5807
    @cooperjudson5807 Рік тому +3

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

    • @bunpeishiratori5849
      @bunpeishiratori5849 Рік тому +8

      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
    @tomas-wi8dy Рік тому

    thank you

  • @12jswilson
    @12jswilson Рік тому +1

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

  • @sneakerhead4770
    @sneakerhead4770 3 місяці тому

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

  • @rogerwarr4673
    @rogerwarr4673 Рік тому

    Love your style

  • @ExtraCheeseProject
    @ExtraCheeseProject Рік тому +25

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

    • @thinboxdictator6720
      @thinboxdictator6720 Рік тому +9

      I never understood how can anyone prefer french over caro

    • @paulgoogol2652
      @paulgoogol2652 Рік тому

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

    • @Evilanious
      @Evilanious Рік тому +3

      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
      @Tocinos Рік тому +5

      ​@@thinboxdictator6720 people who hate their light square bishop

    • @ExtraCheeseProject
      @ExtraCheeseProject Рік тому

      @@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
    @wolfMetall Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @jl5897
    @jl5897 11 місяців тому

    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
    @mohamedboudissa2087 10 місяців тому

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

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 5 місяців тому +1

      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
    @sergeyihaveshroud5561 Рік тому

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

  • @SrinivashM29
    @SrinivashM29 Рік тому

    Ensconce!!!

  • @hasb826
    @hasb826 Рік тому

    🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐💖💖💖

  • @jugglingbeast
    @jugglingbeast Рік тому

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

    • @thinboxdictator6720
      @thinboxdictator6720 Рік тому +8

      You know now, when he told you.

    • @jugglingbeast
      @jugglingbeast Рік тому

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

    • @mitchellwilson5770
      @mitchellwilson5770 Рік тому +10

      everyone's a critic

    • @SoundAndFuryy
      @SoundAndFuryy Рік тому +6

      Because he is GM Ben Finegold and you are not.

    • @SrinivashM29
      @SrinivashM29 Рік тому +7

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

  • @jahbrake9791
    @jahbrake9791 Рік тому

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