The Benko Gambit: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.... The Benko Gambit, named for GM Pal Benko, is a popular opening. However, it is a bit unusual as gambits go. Black, not White, gives up a pawn for long-term positional compensation. Someone who plays the Benko is not looking for a quick, sharp, tactical knockout, but instead is trying to wear down their opponent.
04:28 Anatoly Karpov - Boris Gelfand, Candidates 1995
24:31 Hikaru Nakamura - Viktor Bologan, Biel 2012
36:05 Magnus Carlsen - Viktor Bologan, Biel 2012
45:34 Vladimir Kramnik - Veselin Topalov, Wijk aan Zee, 2003
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Drinking game: Take a shot everytime Ben says "White's up a pawn."
So drunk now....
The Karpov game was pure wizardry.. the attack in the end came so fast, and completely blindsided Gelfand
I wonder how much of the Soviet behemoth helped AK with the prep.
I wonder if they guy who requested the lecture wanted a load of games where the Benko gets absolutely torn to shreds lol
He said at the start the sponsor wanted to see why the Benko is refuted at the super GM level.
As someone who knows him well, the answer is yes 😊
Wasn’t that the reason he requested it?
After this video I'm a bit confused about the material situation in a Benko gambit. That aspect wasn't really mentioned.
It's my favorite. Invented by mr Gambit himself
That's grandmaster gambit have some respect
HUSH !!! NO TALKING 😡😡😡😡
At 10:26 Svetozar Gligoric played h3 instead of g3, giving up a tempo to put his king on h2, against Walter Browne. Browne wrote it is "something to think about". It was an interesting game until Browne left a Rook en prise and resigned when Gligo took it.
I play this every game
That’s why I am 200
It's always funny to me that the price for a lecture is aggressively unavailable without contacting Karen. I guess it's the kind of thing where "if you have to ask, you can't afford it."
Thank you Mr hensley!
Dear Ben Finegold, thank you for all the great videos. People who complain, have some gratitude and show some respect, please.
It's also called Wolga Gambit, mainly in Europe, but also mainly and so forth.
i have analysed the benko for hours and the only way to black to get a game is with early Qb4 lines
I think the modern approach is with early e6 lines. I'm a lifeline Benko player and this lecture perfectly demonstartes why I have accepted i need to give it up. the good players are just a pawn up. but i believe there are some modern sharp ways for black toplay where e6provides tactical solutions
@@loafes1352 100% the e6 lines are the way to go nowadays. The only "problem" is that white can get a very stable advantageous position after 5... e6 by playing Nc3, but at least black gets some compensation in the center (see Duda-Christiansen game from New in chess classic 2021). If white doesn't go for Nc3 and instead takes on e6 black gets a really good position and rapid development, which is why dxe6 scores so badly for white even though the engine thinks it's fine.
Talk about taking the fun out of things. I was looking to start playing this. Sheesh. Nevermind
- What kind of an advice do you give to a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, when his skin looks really dry?
- "Vaseline, Topalov!"
The description you gave for desperado is for a tactic called Dump
41:41 Eagles, Ben, 🦅!
Great lectures of the present, plus tax!
It's just like how I feel playing the Dragon. "Oh darn. Why am I playing this opening, I'm down +1."
Nice lecture. I have no hope of winning the Benko gambit as black now...
5....b6 just kills everything in the Benko and white retains a small plus.
Magnus played the Benko in a young Masters tournament over covid (probably 2021) and rolled them. So it’s relevant to an extent. If you’re Magnus 🤣
I actually fell asleep watching this karpov game. let me try watching this video AGAIN
The mouse cursor is missing and judging by some of Ben's comments it's clear this is not the intention.
I believe kehlani told you to put your knights like that
I've said it once, and I'll say it again
The wobbly chair backrest is distracting, Ben. Have somebody buy you a better chair for streaming! :)
Is this why there are no benko gambit as black videos?
17:32
Why not Bxc3 and then Rxa2?
because after bxc3 the rook and queen are lined up with a2
So basically since everyone watching this video is lower than a GM, the Benko Gambit is very playable for black. If white declines the gambit, black gets equality.
32:47... uhm excuse me Professor Feingold, you'll remember that Tony Miles famously defeated a certain Mr Karpov by answering 1.e4 with 1...a6 !! DOUBLE exclam. I mean, your point is still valid, Karpov was obviously the better player, but NOT on that day. 1...a6 !! against the World Champion, the balls on that guy.
I'm Italian... I don't understand the joke at 10:00 :(
gg
so if carlsen, nakamura and kaprov usually win against it vs a worse player its bad? Makes sense
is this dude going to vibrate the whole time?
All that "super GMs are too good for opening xy to work..." is not really valid reasoning. I bet a magnus vs stockfish 16 match over 10 games in wolga gambit start position - magnus with white would still lose the match.
We're talking about two equally matched strong players
if you buy my chessable course KEKW
This guy is jst talking alot from his prime time to his present old daya...jst present the game man..stop unnecessarily talking!! 54 min vid in which 30 min he will be talking non stop...
Thanks for the Benko video. Only problem is, the two Bologan games shown from Biel 2012 pretty much killed this 12 a4 line for Black, so nowadays the mainline is 6...Bg7 with delayed capture on a6.