Great Players of the Past: Boris Spassky

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  • Опубліковано 22 лис 2024

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  • @f.d.3289
    @f.d.3289 Рік тому +17

    23:00 "Yeah Spassky didn't care what opening he played, it was all the Saemisch to him." I'm sure this is a super old chess joke, but I'm still lovin' it :)

  • @douglasquaid7550
    @douglasquaid7550 2 роки тому +110

    The Nakamura sportsmanship award, LMAO.

    • @KancerKowboy
      @KancerKowboy 2 роки тому +12

      That alone makes this one of my favorite videos of all time. I liked it without that too. I'm gonna have some fries.

    • @douglasquaid7550
      @douglasquaid7550 2 роки тому +2

      @@nicbentulan 20:15

    • @zachhaywood1564
      @zachhaywood1564 Рік тому +3

      It's things like that that makes him one of my favorite instructors.

    • @homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649
      @homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649 5 місяців тому

      could you explain this to me? i know who naka is, but am not fond if he is or is not a fair sportsman. thanks in advance (:

    • @starmorpheus
      @starmorpheus 5 місяців тому

      @@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649He is notoriously not

  • @michaelabraham9737
    @michaelabraham9737 2 роки тому +66

    This lesson is one of the lesson of all time! I don't know what is, but it's one of something....

    • @alekhinesgun9997
      @alekhinesgun9997 2 роки тому +8

      it is undeniably one of the lessons of all time!

    • @TalsBadKidney
      @TalsBadKidney 2 роки тому +1

      But who has from not for more to make from to lesson what if

    • @Anfield_the_place_to_be
      @Anfield_the_place_to_be 2 роки тому +3

      Damn this thread got deep🤯

    • @darkinfo2
      @darkinfo2 2 роки тому +2

      Your right it's definitely something of all time

    • @meowlmeowl-gi4925
      @meowlmeowl-gi4925 2 роки тому +4

      Taught by one of the GMs of all time

  • @zachhaywood1564
    @zachhaywood1564 Рік тому +25

    That "Nakamura Sportsmanship Award" line was GOLD.

    • @donsimons9810
      @donsimons9810 8 місяців тому

      is naka not a good sport?

    • @zachhaywood1564
      @zachhaywood1564 8 місяців тому +2

      @@donsimons9810 Terrible. You can easily find entire compilations on here of his horrible and toxic behavior.

    • @donsimons9810
      @donsimons9810 7 місяців тому

      @@zachhaywood1564 on Finegold's channel? Huh. He seems like a normal savant to me haha

  • @snoozy04
    @snoozy04 2 роки тому +57

    To me Spassky is underrated genius.

    • @ecarte931
      @ecarte931 Рік тому +8

      I think he is genius, too. However, Spassky is one of the world champions, everyone respects him. Why do you think he is underrated?

    • @timothyacowin9761
      @timothyacowin9761 Рік тому +1

      He was the front runner of the soviets unbeatable chess team. He was so good he was used for russian propaganda Underrated is not the word

    • @innosanto
      @innosanto Рік тому +1

      @@ecarte931because after 1975 or so he continued playing but was bored and didbt play seriously.

    • @vibovitold
      @vibovitold 6 місяців тому +4

      @@ecarte931 i guess because he seems to be remembered mostly as the guy who lost to Fischer, and the memory of the 1972 match appears to have sort of overshadowed his achievements. in a somewhat similar way Karpov and Anand are underrated as Kasparov's underdogs.

    • @zacharysherry2910
      @zacharysherry2910 4 місяці тому +1

      He was world champion! Lol

  • @marcohafner6502
    @marcohafner6502 2 роки тому +6

    The last 2 Games i never seen before. They demonstrate, what a brillant Player Spassky was! Great Lecture! Thanks Ben!

  • @Rspknlikeab0ssxd
    @Rspknlikeab0ssxd Рік тому +3

    I think Spassky is one of those brilliant players who are just outside of being the absolute greatest, easily a top 20, maybe top 10, I love to see his games

  • @a_doggo
    @a_doggo Рік тому +6

    Gosh, thanks so much for sharing these. I wish I could've volunteered for you guys, just to sneak in on these. Your lectures are awesome; so glad you cover some of my favorite players that aren't memes.

  • @Anfield_the_place_to_be
    @Anfield_the_place_to_be 2 роки тому +2

    Keep spoiling us with "great players of the past" series 🙂👍🏾

  • @frederikmichaelvanpallandt1788
    @frederikmichaelvanpallandt1788 2 роки тому +11

    Great lecture as always!

  • @shawnv123
    @shawnv123 9 місяців тому +2

    you got me when you said “when did i win the world championship?”

  • @petergeorge2716
    @petergeorge2716 2 роки тому +7

    Great lecture, thank you.

  • @raskalnekov
    @raskalnekov Рік тому

    Thank God I watch these lectures stoned, so that I can go back and watch them a month later and it's fresh

  • @lewisr1353
    @lewisr1353 Рік тому +2

    Thanks! Here is some fine gelt for you.

  • @poehamilton8731
    @poehamilton8731 2 роки тому +7

    Spassky used his right and left hand in chess, one for each of ya…

  • @baoboumusic
    @baoboumusic 2 роки тому +4

    Yes, I love these videos. I generally know the players, I often know the games, but it's always great to hear your analysis.

  • @predragnikolic3040
    @predragnikolic3040 Рік тому +4

    I become fan of Spassky

  • @dallisjohnson662
    @dallisjohnson662 2 роки тому +4

    I'm very thankful for your content. Because of you I'm quite strong, strongest player in my seat. Chess is very popular among my coworkers, but I'm able to play with them and give them the Sugar...sugar me? Whatever it is and so forth.

    • @givemeyourfish
      @givemeyourfish Рік тому +3

      You watch Finegold and they don't, the truth hurts

  • @h0wnr681
    @h0wnr681 2 роки тому +7

    14:08 this was pretty nuts and I had to analyze it. In fact, stockfish DOES want you to play bishop takes knight, then after the queen check run the king to e7 and defend mate. This sequence involves several only moves to prevent several mates, it's very gross. Probably only a computer would seriously consider such a move, you can see it's possible but geez. Anyway, what I really wanted to see was why he played bf5 later, giving away the bishop. Stockfish gives Qe5 instead, which also loses to Bb3, setting up a deadly discovered check, but at least you aren't just giving a piece away, the eval for black isn't good in either line.

    • @tolkienfan1972
      @tolkienfan1972 2 роки тому +1

      You don't normally expect the eval to be good in a losing line:-)

    • @h0wnr681
      @h0wnr681 2 роки тому +1

      @@tolkienfan1972 I should probably say it's not any better or different either way, lol

    • @tyedyeguy69
      @tyedyeguy69 2 роки тому

      Either way is what your looking for lol

  • @kaiserprad1
    @kaiserprad1 2 роки тому +2

    Love his wry, rueful humour

  • @werderlebenslang4576
    @werderlebenslang4576 2 роки тому +8

    I think boer not only means farmer but also pawn. At least in german it s the same word. So maybe you could say de boer should have gotten a promotion then he might have had a chance against ben.

    • @Alexander-mw1ek
      @Alexander-mw1ek 2 роки тому +1

      I thought Boer was the Dutch version of Bauer

    • @werderlebenslang4576
      @werderlebenslang4576 2 роки тому +1

      @@Alexander-mw1ek yes and at least in german the pawns are called bauern

    • @Evilanious
      @Evilanious 2 роки тому +1

      In Dutch pawn is 'pion'

    • @werderlebenslang4576
      @werderlebenslang4576 2 роки тому +2

      @@Evilanious oh I didn't know that. Guess my joke is ruined. German and dutch are pretty similar but it seems not similar enough. Anyway thanks for the info.

  • @TheMrBennito
    @TheMrBennito 2 роки тому

    What a coincidence! Before getting to this great vid, I checked out Mr Finegold's lecture on the King ' s Gambit :)

  • @Sevenigma777
    @Sevenigma777 Рік тому

    It is really impressive when you go over these old games with an engine and you see how many moves they did are still the top 2 moves engines suggest as well. Besides Bronstein's bishop move to f6 that cost him the game both players played top engine moves by mental calculation alone and without the help of computers.

    • @fundhund62
      @fundhund62 8 місяців тому

      Who cares about engine moves?? Human ideas (and mistakes) are what makes the game interesting.

  • @cranberogelio
    @cranberogelio Рік тому +1

    thanks teacher GM Finegold. (I call you my teacher even if we haven't met, although whenever I say it, I always specify that probably you wouldn't be too proud of knowing I'm your student LOL)

  • @beeble2003
    @beeble2003 5 місяців тому

    I looked up Timman on Wikipedia to see how old he is -- he's 72 now, in 2024. But amazing Timman fact: Max Euwe taught Timman's sister mathematics.

  • @jamesngarua6935
    @jamesngarua6935 Рік тому

    I bought a chess board cause of ur Tips.
    Thanx GM!

  • @Al.2
    @Al.2 Рік тому

    29:30 There's also Nf6+ with Q:g8 mate next regardless of what black does.

  • @chessdude184
    @chessdude184 2 роки тому +4

    When is your new book "Shave Like a Grandmaster" coming out?

  • @warrenz597
    @warrenz597 2 роки тому +2

    With the Gukesh lecture I thought the timeline might be catching up, alas I was mistaken

  • @f.d.3289
    @f.d.3289 Рік тому +1

    31:39 "Okay. But again, this is a Spassky lecture, in an Evans lecture, he might even win some games... Probably not." I already said before every single Finegold videos has one stupid little off-hand remark that just cracks me. This is the one here.

  • @jimpanzee4063
    @jimpanzee4063 Рік тому +1

    Almost choked at the Nakamura Sportsmanship award joke.

  • @Sevenigma777
    @Sevenigma777 Рік тому

    There's a great lesson in that first game to learn as well.
    On the 17th move after whites rook captured the queened pawn and blacks queen is threatened by the knight on f7 Bronstein gives away his bishop so he can have a chance to exchange queens but just in moving the bishop white is about +3-4.
    Black should just move the queen to safety preferably d5 and even after the knight takes the h6 pawn checks the king and forces black to capture with the last pawn on g7 totally exposing his king white is only up 1.5 and even after white pins blacks queen and captures it since he won the exchange earlier if he uses his bishops to cover the king the game is even.
    So you learn that there are times that even if your queen is threatened there are positions where you are better off losing the queen

  • @ghay2239
    @ghay2239 Рік тому

    More!!!

  • @justchessminiatures1167
    @justchessminiatures1167 2 роки тому +5

    Go Spassky but stay there

  • @Chris.4345
    @Chris.4345 2 роки тому +5

    For the algo

  • @xxAutoFlowxx
    @xxAutoFlowxx 2 роки тому +1

    How about reading the wiki on what a recession is. Been adjustment over 40 times this last week

  • @pyrielrising4338
    @pyrielrising4338 2 роки тому

    It was water...clear liquid to see the Spectre logo on the coaster.

  • @SebastianVazquezFerrero
    @SebastianVazquezFerrero Рік тому +1

    Your lack of beard made me Spassky out for a second

  • @giovannicorno1247
    @giovannicorno1247 Рік тому

    I love Boris Spassky, I cannot avoid associating him with Bobby Fischer: I started seriosly chess because of their match. At the time I was confused between Spassky who seemed the "good guy" and Bobby who seemed the brat😂. Actually Fischer was better in 1972 but Spassky didn't play his best in my opinion. According to Karpov he was lazy in preparation and relied to much on his skill to solve issues on the chessboard. I don't know, anyway I think he is an undervalued Champion of the World.

  • @TheSavagederek
    @TheSavagederek 2 роки тому +1

    Ver underrated player. Boris was a lot better than people gave him credit for. But he wasn't a Karpov or Kasparov, or Carlsen.

    • @giovannicorno1247
      @giovannicorno1247 Рік тому

      Maybe, but when he won in 1973 the USSR championship, Karpov was left behind along with Petrosian Smyslov, Korchnoy, Tal, Keres, Geller, etc....

  • @zacharysherry2910
    @zacharysherry2910 4 місяці тому

    Magnus has wacked out Spassky hair

  • @ghay2239
    @ghay2239 Рік тому

    More documentation

  • @vibovitold
    @vibovitold 6 місяців тому

    Spassky was a very interesting character, and anything but your stereotypical Soviet grandmaster.
    I didn't particularly like the movie "Pawn Sacrifice" (about the Fischer-Spassky WC match; Toby Maguire was awfully miscast, the movie felt like a bunch of old tropes slapped together, etc.), but the thing I liked is that they avoided the temptation of depicting Spassky as an evil Ivan Drago of chess. they did this part tactfully.
    he was portrayed by Liev Schreiber, in my opinion a very good role, one of the few highlights in that movie.

  • @liontx
    @liontx 2 роки тому +4

    Ben: "Spassky wanted to finish his chess games early, so he can play tennis".
    Me: So, he was basically Eric Rosen.

  • @LukePettit
    @LukePettit 2 роки тому

    I don't wanna play that guy who gives the correct answers.
    He would even give Archer a game

  • @XmanABQ
    @XmanABQ 2 роки тому

    At 43:22, why doesn't Nf5+ work?

    • @appojkenflap
      @appojkenflap Рік тому

      Knight blocks Rook so after Kd1 there's no good continuation, at least I don't see it. You can check with the bishop and then you're stuck with several pieces hanging.

  • @nma1992
    @nma1992 2 роки тому +2

    Great lecture! Miss the beard though

  • @zwebzz9685
    @zwebzz9685 2 роки тому

    Half your lectures you say never resign and the other half you berate the featured players opponent for not resigning.
    Thanks for the lecture though it is a nice reminder e6 and g6 are often tactically related.

    • @cygnustsp
      @cygnustsp 2 роки тому

      The difference between being an amateur and a pro

    • @zwebzz9685
      @zwebzz9685 2 роки тому

      @@cygnustsp he wouldn't resign in all these positions he said himself he resigns maybe 3x a year. He is just incongruent based on the people involved. Tons of these positions he says "resigns is a good move" still has several moves of tactical resolution and you don't see top players resigning unless they see unavoidable mate or after the tactics have resolved and they are down huge material. Its not disrespectful to play a few more moves until they win material it is disrespectful to make them convert a full extra piece for no compensation.

    • @zwebzz9685
      @zwebzz9685 2 роки тому

      @@cygnustsp lol his most recent posted video is literally "down a queen vs a 2400". No one should be berated for not resigning.

  • @Sevenigma777
    @Sevenigma777 Рік тому

    Actually Evans should have resigned on the 21st move Qc7

  • @bigfootsburneraccount9160
    @bigfootsburneraccount9160 Рік тому

    Ben "I was never world champion" Finegold. The truth hurts lol

  • @ethangilworth7891
    @ethangilworth7891 2 роки тому +2

    Has Ben lost weight? He’s looking healthier here

  • @aaronaragon7838
    @aaronaragon7838 Рік тому

    And the winner of the Nakamura Sportsman Award is...Ginger GM

  • @StopFear
    @StopFear 2 роки тому +1

    Spassky always looked so bored and and anxious about things other than chess. If you look at his old photos you just feel sorry for him. I would feel depressed also if I was handled by the Soviet team in those days. Good for him that he defected.

  • @timothyacowin9761
    @timothyacowin9761 Рік тому

    Hes still alive and fischer died 18 years ago

  • @Sevenigma777
    @Sevenigma777 Рік тому

    Idk you run that first game with an engine you will see Bronstein made 3 real bad moves that allowed Spassky to win even down the exchange.

    • @RaineriHakkarainen
      @RaineriHakkarainen 2 місяці тому

      Knight d6?? Queenxe2! Spassky vs Bronstein game so over-rated and bad!!

  • @Demian_R
    @Demian_R Рік тому +1

    "..and those were the weak players that he beat.." 😂

  • @iainsneddon3010
    @iainsneddon3010 6 місяців тому

    Thanks for giving Spassky the credit he deserves Ben, albeit he's a bit of a whackjob now. The Timman game was incredible.

  • @marianpalko2531
    @marianpalko2531 Рік тому

    6:09

  • @AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen
    @AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen 2 роки тому

    👏🙂

  • @f.d.3289
    @f.d.3289 6 місяців тому

    hahahahaaaa Spassky never beat me

  • @SahnigReingeloetet
    @SahnigReingeloetet 2 роки тому

    Something something bottom text

  • @tolkienfan1972
    @tolkienfan1972 2 роки тому

    "some form of checkers" oh... You mean "checkers"

    • @NoNamer123456789
      @NoNamer123456789 2 роки тому

      I think he means that there are many variants and there isn't like one standardised version like in chess

    • @tolkienfan1972
      @tolkienfan1972 2 роки тому

      @@NoNamer123456789 that's my point. It's a joke you see. "Checkers" by itself implies all that. My jokes amuse me anyway, and that's my target audience. :-)

    • @NoNamer123456789
      @NoNamer123456789 2 роки тому

      @@tolkienfan1972OK, I didn't get that it was joke. Makes sense.

    • @tolkienfan1972
      @tolkienfan1972 2 роки тому

      @@NoNamer123456789 yeah. I have an odd sense of humor. 😁

  • @kingcarisma
    @kingcarisma 2 роки тому

    Simpsons! The answer is no..

  • @kebichlact6677
    @kebichlact6677 2 роки тому +2

    first

  • @matthewaxe6647
    @matthewaxe6647 Рік тому

    And in the end isn't that the real truth? The answer is no.

  • @Hakabas01
    @Hakabas01 Рік тому +1

    No like because no beard.

  • @franklinturtle9849
    @franklinturtle9849 2 роки тому

    I heard Boris Spassky has a very abusive wife.

    • @davidblack2970
      @davidblack2970 2 роки тому

      Spassky famously said that he and his wife were like 'bishops of opposite colors'.

  • @dmitrysh.5899
    @dmitrysh.5899 2 роки тому +1

    Fine sense of humor 😅