The Benoni: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold
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- Опубліковано 25 бер 2024
- This lecture was recorded March 18, 2024 in Roswell, Georgia. Thank you to Eric Osgood for sponsoring this lecture!!
Games:
02:09 Boris Spassky vs Bobby Fischer, 1972
World Chess Championship Game 3
18:09 Jonathan Penrose vs Mikhail Tal, Olympiad 1960
28:33 Viktor Korchnoi vs Garry Kasparov, Olympiad 1982
44:07 Garry Kasparov vs John Nunn, Olympiad 1982
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Go Ben!
I mean Benoni
Great lecture from Neb Dlogenif. He looks like Ben Finegold but keeps suggesting f3 as a move, and doesn't say all the Ben things, like "always retreat", "no talking", "knife f4" (for Black), "put it in H", ...
he didn't say Never Play f6 when black played f6 in the last game!
I've watched almost all Benoni lessons on UA-cam and this one gave me a totally different perspective.
Not focusing too much on the opening and instead showing how the middle games resolve makes me wanna master this.
Very entertaining and also great games and stories.
The benoni opening is on the d and c files.
The benkenobi opening is single file, to hide their numbers.
And you have to say "Hello there!" before you start the game.
Great lecture! This is why I love chess. Games like these. I get more enjoyment out of watching Ben talk about great games than I get out of playing chess myself.
Great timing with several Benoni games iin yesterday's Grenke top section. Go Ben!
thanks, I waited 4 years for this
So many people dismiss Benoni as an unsound opening because super GMs don't play it. Ridiculous. It seems to me that it's one of those openings in which the better player wins. It's a fighting weapon that gives interesting positions for both sides, and if it was good enough for Fischer in his match against Spassky, it's good enough for me! I am glad that you are lecturing on it.
1.d4, c5 is the only true Chad move order too!
I agree, also Nice pfp
“The better player wins” Isn’t that just chess?
It's funny because just today Carlsen beat Keymer with the modern Benoni today in slow rapid format
@@mariamariamariazinha Thanks! Love the old MTV and Daria!
Great video Ben, I love that you used a Fischer game as an example. Very lucid straight forward explanations 👍.
I love the Benoni, but there is nothing worse than that feeling when you play it against a strong positional player and they just shut down all your play and you are stuck shuffling around in a cramped set up with no active plan that doesn't involve losing a lot of material.
Two exciting Benoni games were played in the Grenke tournament, basically just as this video was released, in like the last two or three days, both with Carlsen with both colors. Clearly the world champ watches these lectures with fervor. Seriously check out the games if you get a chance. Carlsen-Rapport and Keymer-Carlsen.
It’s interesting that all of the games in this lecture are over 40 years old with a current or future World Champion involved. The most recent “super Grandmaster” to play the Benoni seems to be Fabiano Caruana who played some games with it in 2016 and a few with it in 2020. It makes sense that it’s no longer seen much at the top level since there are so many more top level tournaments now but losing is also much more costly now in terms of risk of losing tournament invites. Because of its tactical nature it doesn’t seem to be a very practical opening to play unless one is paired down and even then as we saw in the featured Tal game it’s pretty risky. I don't play it myself, at least not unless I'm pretty confident I can outplay my opponent tactically.
Love the lectures Ben, i've been watching for years, thanks for all the content
I was just thinking about the benoni like 6 hours ago, and 4 hours ago you got this up. thanks!
Thank you, Ben. Very instructive.
This game was adjourned with Fischer sealing the final bishop check in an envelope. Spassky resigned next day after seeing the sealed move. The first victory over Spassky in Fischer’s career.
just coming from the czech benoni lecture. Thanks for the wins over the years,B
Jonathan Penrose's brother is pretty clever too.
That pawn break to NOT take back but leave the pawn to leave it and blockade it so it obstructs black’s own pieces is a really inspired idea if he came up with it OTB.
Thank you so much
Kaarle Ojanen vs Keres in 1960 should have been here! Penrose copy Ojanen's idea f5! Poor Finegold never mentonied said Spassky's Errors like g3????
Thanks
That third game is in line with my experience playing the Benoni (normally from the white side). The position is always completely over my head.
Love the stories. they bring humanity to the game.
1:55 This is the most common position in the Benoni.
Where is the Ben bot? RAWR! I've never been so mad.
I was going to say this exact thing, word for word, RAWR Anne frankly I've never been so angry
Ben on the Benoni is benificial to my meded mind
I didn't learn the Benoni when I was learning to play chess. But it kept popping up in the games I learned. And there's nothing wrong with it as far as I can see, nothing worse than the Sicilian or the French. :-)
Little known rule: Always play c5
1. E4? C5
1. D4? C5
1. C4? C5
All good except against c4! Boring .... (Against e4 and d4, yes!)
Against c4, Nc6 and then c5
I do this… I premove c5. When I was lower rated my d4 opponents would routinely think it was an accident try, to their detriment, taking and holding onto it.
@@crclayton Same! 🤣
the best ben finegold show so far🥂
Korchnoi vs Kasparov, my favorite game of all-time ! Ben's analyses is very good, when I tried to look at it myself, I had no idea what was going on 😂
Hi Ben, That was a very nice lecture, thanks, I guess between your serious lectures and somewhat more humours ones, I like the serious ones better, but of course I like them both, Thanks alot our beloved GM
Go Ben!!
Oni
Uuu this is a good one. My favorite opening, my favorite World Campion, and of course my favorite Lektor B.F.
I don't know if the Benoni is the best opening, but I think it might be the opening that's the most fun to say a bunch of times fast.
Finally an opening named after Ben.
After age 60, it's hard to get a Benoni.
With so many opening lectures coming, SURELY we'll get a bird lecture soon :)
Benoni was just played in Grenke Chess. Vincent vs Magnus and also Magnus vs Rapport
Thanks, the best video so far, only one mistake :) ... that was Kasparov's mother, not the KGB, that said how is Kasparov going to save the game and it was not even his move....
Thanks for an interesting lecture on opening theory. The 3rd game of world championship ‘72 was unique after round 2 give up by bobby. Who was it who said the good player is always lucky? I suspect he was a chess player…
Looks like Nh5 is not played, mainly because it's not difficult to suggest improvements for white. After Qh4 for example, stockfish suggests (never play) f3 with a big advantage.
My mom calls me a benoni when I'm being an idiot
❤
Tip for Benoni players : stop playing the Benoni
The truth hurts.
Stop playing it unless you're stock 🐟
I beat a lot of guys with benoni
Should have been Ojanen vs Keres from 1960! Penrose copied Ojanen's idea f5!
Yeah, play the czech benoni
Go Benoni!
I mean Ben
This video is full of Benoni.
I think in the last game white had Queen to g4 winning a whole knight at the very least
Knife f5 is always a killer. 😜
How to make a donation and offer a topic of the next lecture?
Why no white knight to C5 at 11:58 to attack the queen and bishop?
That Korchnoi Kasparov game is too much, my brain broke
That was wild. In a Benoni, basically the better calculator wins.
I was curious if Jonathan Penrose was related to Roger Penrose. Turns out they are brothers. Smart family.
Wasn't Ne5 just game over?
the mike is picking up a lot of squelchy noises
Yo it would be cool as hell if some one sponsored a nimzo indian lecture.
Proper chess player
Benoni Finegoldoni
Funny that when I first started playing chess and I saw that name as an opening defense, then I thought that it was invented by some eye talian guy who played chess. 🤣
(name ends in a vowel)
Magnus CarIsen has pIayed some very instructive and amazing Benoni games as BIack too, he is aIways weII prepared ! Just check databases since 2016 !
Alice Lee vs Krush
Obi-Wan Benoni
Balogne
Son of sorrow
Your bot defeated me
"typically that would not have a name."
meanwhile scholars and fools mate
Obi wan Benoni
Go Ben....RRrrarggh
Ben Oni
I play it with black
Nobody is really good at chess but some try to get better, except for people like Hans who try to cheat better.
I loved this lecture! I think I'll try playing it a few times only to prove I'm the worse player 🥲