The Botvinnik English System, Lecture by GM Ben Finegold

GM Ben Finegold discusses the Botvinnik English System.

1:47 Julio Granda Zuniga vs. André Diamant, Pan Am Continental 2009
12:33 Axel Bachmann vs. Emanuel Berg, Maastricht Open 2016
20:35 Garry Kasparov vs. Igor-Alexandre Nataf, Blitz 1998
27:26 Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs. Alireza Firouzja, Titled Tuesday 2023
32:07 Mikhail Botvinnik vs. Vitaly Shcherbakov, USSR Championship 1955

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[railspony]

Instructive lecture, thank you. I will definitely endeavor never to play Kasparov in his prime.

[DreamyJives]

Ah yes, the Botvinnik System…. named after Grandmaster System.

[lukacalov]

I personaly dont have a dog in this opening but Ben has 2...one for each of you

[asansfakeaccound]

another ben finegold rule to collection "never bark"

[Deucely]

I know which dogs aren't getting supper tonight.

[Kommaer]

Great lecture with amazing games! First three games went as a combo!

[shlton]

Anyone know how much it costs to sponsor a lecture?

[atwarwithdust]

Whatever happened to "And you're not!"?

[chrismyers]

I take it "Taco Mac" serves fusion cuisine?

[EdSuastegui]

Saving this to watch later... GMGinger (Simon Williams) and some other guy wrote a book on this variation, branding it "The Iron English" -- I've tried it against Fritz/Stockfish with rather poor results. That d4 whole is pretty juicy for Black.

[beeble]

Julio Granda was ranked 25th in the world in 1992, so I'm surprised I never came across any of his games in the 90s. Peak rating of 2699, too, which wasn't until 2016. TBH, though, not sure why his game's in this lecture. The immediate 6.d4 makes it a Benoni, Shirley?

[theglowing]

Different openings are great to teach. GM Magnus Carlson plays hard openings, because he's aware of the intellect of his opponent. These games are great at the IM level and below, because they are 90% rarer than e4, or d4

[haniknefati]

My favorite GM teacher 'fen bingold'

[MrMorlaf]

once i noticed all the lip-smacking he does i cannot ignore it now 😞

[konigsrustung]

The barking Jokes are funny. The barking is not. This was the First time I actually had to stop listening. You should really consider to change the setup. ❤

[dylanjobsis]

To those complaining about "mouth noises" or whatever. Either watch the lecture or don't. Ben's old, he has medical problems like old people do. He has more chess knowledge in his little finger than your body and he's giving it to us for free.

[mustaregis]

He seems a bit tired and out of energy, I hope he is doing fine. Could also be that he feels burned out of content creation

[danhabshi]

Ben is clearly not prepared for this lecture

[johnjohnjhorton]

Please drink more water before you record a post.