BLUNDERS! Lecture with GM Ben Finegold

Games Discussed:

Praggnanandhaa, R vs. So, Wesley
31st Leon Masters (2018)

Vallejo Pons, Francisco vs. Santos Latasa, Jaime
31st Leon Masters (2018)

Mr_Earl_Gray vs. CCSCATL

CCSCATL vs. ya_boy_Agent

TheSuperSaiyan vs. CCSCATL

CCSCATL vs. JohnnyBoyUSA

Benedikt Jonasson vs. Haukur Angantysson
Reykjavik (1984)

Ignatz von Popele vs. Georg Marco
Mante Carlo (1902)

Carlos Torre Repetto vs. Frank E Parker
New York (1924)

Originally posted on the CCSCATL channel, but moved here for channel consolidation.

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[mitchellwilson]

This is one of the best chess lectures you will ever see, Ben is the only GM who will tell you this stuff

[SevenTheJester]

I'm not gonna lie, the fact that a grandmaster blundered Rh8+ because he missed Rxe5, and *another* grandmaster resigned because he *also* missed Rxe5 makes me feel so much better about my game that I'll be talking about it for the next five years.

[jamespurcell]

I’ve watched countless hours of chess videos on YouTube. This one tops them all.

[robertork]

As someone who takes a lot of pride in playing dozens of good moves in a row just to blunder later on and feel insanely frustrated, this chess lecture is easily one of my favourites I've ever listened to

[_nemo]

38:06 "My 1st wife ... so like in the 3rd round she resigned ... Are we married now? No." lol

[andrzejwilk]

5:34 to the contrary, Ben. I had watched Germany-Brasil semifinal in 2014 and i was entertained the entire time.

[Tx]

Thanks for re-uploading my all-time favorite chess lecture. Ben is absolutely hilarious.

[MrDrummerboi]

I live by this motto of never resign, I was playing a game and was down to only my king and was about to get mated, he had mate in 1 on the board. He missed it and pushed his pawn and stalemated me so, yeah never resign.

[blackmancer]

This lecture is transcendental, it's not about Chess, it's about Life. I wish I heard this lecture when I was a child, it's more valueable than fine gold.

[scaptal]

man, how I love Ben Finegolds lectures, useful and entertaining, as we'd say in dutch, "hij is een heerlijke droogkloot"

[methanbreather]

'you at home know nothing' That is disturbingly accurate. Has Ben seen me playing?

[SolarPlayer]

I agree with the central premise of the lecture, but you also have to give me an opportunity. I try to blunder my queen whenever I can, but it's sometimes hard to find a good square for it. If you cooperate by developing your pieces and castling, together we can accomplish anything

[freefall]

My blunders, half-assed attacks leaving pieces hanging.

[satisficingmoves]

This is my favorite lecture of all time.

[chrisdiscgolferson]

“That’s boring; that kid is going to get killed. I don’t care about that” -Benny F

[stbauch]

I really like, that there is an actual lecture with students. It makes the content far more relatable than Levy babbling for 20 minutes straight. This makes it relatable and the tempo is nice to learn the lesson. Apart from that, the lesson was really nice and I enjoyed it very much. I like how he keeps insulting his audience and is very sweet to his students. I look forward for more content of this kind.

[AkshaySinghJamwal]

I actually spat out my coffee at 10:25 because I laughed so hard.

[thearm]

Halfway through this I thought I'd take a break for a 30 min rapid game...went on to blunder my queen!

[MarcFromBerryland]

Some years ago when this video was originally uploaded I watched it through and then my next chess session I won 17 consecutive games and I am a 900 player. That 17 game win streak probably had some luck involved and I was also probably a little more focused that day than usual but for sure it also had something to do with this lecture.

[thecrimsonking]

You are an awesome teacher. It brings back memories of my favorite character from Scrubs and my boss in the compulsory social year that still existed back then.