Minor Piece Endgames, with GM Ben Finegold

Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... GM Ben Finegold discusses several endgame positions from his and other GM games. This lecture was recorded February 18, 2020, at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta (CCSCATL) in Roswell, Georgia, as part of the Endgame class.
Games discussed:
7:23
Karpov, Anatoly vs. Korchnoi, Viktor
World Championship (1981)
16:53
Finegold, Benjamin vs. Anand, Viswanathan
Oakham (1986)
21:52
Finegold, Benjamin vs. Kyawwin
World Open (1993)
31:50
Fischer, Robert James vs. Finegold, Ronald
Western Open (1963)
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Intro and concluding music: “Da Jazz Blues,” by Doug Maxwell; • Da Jazz Blues - Doug M... . Thank you Doug!
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[@regisminae]

10:24
Narrator: "Karpov would, in fact, not be in that room that August..."

[@kdub1242]

I remember seeing this game shortly after I received my advanced degree in hyperbolic topology.

[@adrianf.5847]

For a topologist, hyperbolic space is as flat as the joke... (I mean his, not yours)

[@kdub1242]

@@adrianf.5847 True, but special relativity works in hyperbolic spacetime (ds^2 = dt^2 - dr^2); although still flat, it is interesting. But I doubt Prof. Frink had that in mind. He was busy debugging his monsterometer (aka frog exaggerator).

[@adrianf.5847]

@@kdub1242 So you do think a topologist cares about the metric. (Maybe we should leave the poor guy alone, after all he's explaining chess to us for free. But what did mathematicians ever do to HIM???)

[@kdub1242]

@@adrianf.5847 I know. Topologists are unimpressed by measure. But give us physicists a break. We need to know that our coffee mug is not a doughnut so we don't try to eat it (and then drink the doughnut). At least we can agree with Ben that a diagonal King march from h1 to a8 is the same length (in moves) as from a1 to a8. No sqrt(2) measure nonsense!

[@adrianf.5847]

@@kdub1242 Sorry dude. I think the sleep deprivation is getting to me. Talk to me again in a few months when this horrid situation has finally dissolved.

[@Iearnwithme]

7:58 - Incredible answer

[@brianmarrero5147]

That sigh from Ben at min 8:30 I felt that as much as he did!

[@not2tired]

Came for minor piece endgames, expecting to see games where all 16 pawns had been replaced by knights and bishops before move one. Somehow, was not disappointed.

[@wyattthewordweaver1992]

illuminating lecture, i appreciate how hard the variable noise gate is working in the editing software

[@franklinturtle9849]

7:59 Bobby Fischer & Magnus Carlsen

[@ItaIianStaIIion]

I’m great at endgames, except for one thing. Truth hurts

[@imeaniguess.6963]

17:13 I would’ve lost that game 100 times over lol.

[@thetransferaccount4586]

nice examples there

[@peterstrycek856]

Its me or There is good or not good is Mercy seat reference?

[@1987caki]

We call it blind bishop

[@judysteinhilper9742]

"He was from Soviet Geogia, like where we are now- Donald Trump's President." Ba boom, boom, SPLASH! 😂

[@mothecat776]

HEY BEN... Are 2 Bishops winning by themselves? trick answer Not if they are 2 Bishops of the SAME color.....

[@panpan-vz3om]

cant do vish fornathin

[@chenglee6677]

firsrt

[@Keelo.]

First the worst, second the best.

[@danbrooks5060]

34:00 come on ben, Carrissa Yip and Jennifer Yu are american-born! Whatcha got against immigrants?