I was going to post 'I wonder if GM Ken West is mentioned in this video?' and I got my answer in the first 10 seconds before I managed to scroll down. :)
This guy should learn how to be humble. He is is very full of himself. Until this video I've never heard of him, and after listening to him have no desire to learn more about him in the future.
3:41 "What would the Germans say?" "Nyet"
lmao that kid
Yeah somehow all the kids in Ben's classes are comedic geniuses, very suspicious.
okay It's settled I'm putting "Is GM Ben Finegold's second favorite player" on my Résumé
0:22 scary
This is honestly one of the most entertaining lectures ever. Cheers :)
I knew I was his 2nd favorite!
wow he's very good with children
I'm almost 11 too, I'm only 34 years away :D
Very funny and didactic chess class for both kids and adults as myself.
I fuckin' lost it at "... it would be in gyros" LOL
He is a GM at pedagogy as well, amazing
"I wasn't playing bughouse, this is real life."
what a great pesonality Mr finegold
23:57
"wait are you playing Martin?"
"idk"
"ah, a good answer"
Thank you so much for this lesson !!!
so cute to see the big GM making fun with those kids, I wish I had the same chess teacher 20years ago, I would be rated 2300 right now and not 1600 :(
Well you Could have played more chess yourself
STILL WATING for the John Donaldson lecture about Fischer's early days to be posted.... He gave the lecture many months ago........
travis miller Check it out on the World Chess Hall of Fame's channel. ruclips.net/video/ryXC25T6U0U/видео.html
I'm finegolds second favorite player ❤️
Drunk Bishops at 12:00. Light one attacking dark squares, dark one attacking light squares.
Ben i love your videos you are awesome instructive and funny and i would like to have private lesons if possible
9:45 Qh8, an offer you can refuse.
***** Was that second game from a nimzo-larsen opening? Cause it sure as hell looks like it.. Great lecture by the way
"If its played today the prize would be in Euros , and if its in Greece in gyros".
cause Greece is broke? Nice burn lmao
Gyros is food lmao
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yes, maybe he is implying that greece doesn't have euros , dont know but it was funny
Ah perhaps. Didn't look at it that way
That's the only burn you can throw at Greece, except this summer, when the Fire Nation attacked.
Is there a game with Ben Finegold vs Paul Morphy?
Yes, Ben's great-great- Grandfather vs Morphy lol
I was joking lol I wanted to see if people would react
France knows how to retreat.... lol...
what happened to his lower tooth?
Ben Finegold, I hear you are spending lots of time in Atlanta these days. Will you sign my copy of Smith Morra Gambit: Finegold's Defense?
where is Yassir?
20:54 Rfb8
thought to never play f3 ?! ^^
Or f6!!
great fun
Where's GM Ken West....???? No chess lecture is complete without GM Ken West comment.
I was going to post 'I wonder if GM Ken West is mentioned in this video?' and I got my answer in the first 10 seconds before I managed to scroll down. :)
So sad, I'm 47 and couldn't answer some of these tactics.
YARRR
why a GM teach those kids who cannot even see direct checkmates
Why not? Some of them can anyways.
Some of these kids will likely embarrass you.
because he gets paid by the hour
Kids say the darndest things
Terrible lol jk this guy is awesome
I wonder how much these kids actually take in from the lectures lol.. entertaining nonetheless
i think there was just one thing to take away; attack with all your pieces
Greece slam - pow!
My tactics are not that good. i cri evrytiem
Ben: So black played Bb7 saving his bishop what would private ryan say about that?
Kid: I dont know
Ben: exactly
Im dead 🤣
This guy should learn how to be humble. He is is very full of himself. Until this video I've never heard of him, and after listening to him have no desire to learn more about him in the future.
Christopher Steinberg listen to the kids. They are super engaged and respond well to this brand of teaching.
Very educational but his humor is so so bad
Karsten1992 if you watched him the first time you get used to it very quickly and then you actually love it