10 Greatest Chess Moves of All Time

This lecture was recorded November 3rd, 2021, at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta (CCSCATL) in Roswell, Georgia. Why am I posting this now? It's for channel consolidation and Ben is busy at the World Open. It was originally posted on the CCSCATL channel on November 5th, 2021. Now it's here.

Intro and concluding music: “Da Jazz Blues,” by Doug Maxwell;

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[mnopro]

- Plays a thousand years old game
- Makes a one hour lecture about the 10 greatest moves of all time
- Puts 2 of his own moves
- Fully elaborates
GIGABENJAMIN

[gute]

Finegold's comedic timing makes me smile - when everyone is silent after the joke, just pause & wait patiently for a long time to give them more of an opportunity to laugh lol

[ianrhys]

After all these years, I think I experienced my first ever "Confusing the Audience" moment on the Flohr v Geller King move.

[IIIAnchani]

the most glorious thing about his humor is that you can never be sure if it's humor, or if he's just incredibly full of himself.

[Aspades]

How did 1.e4 not make it to the top 10 best moves of all time?

[andreaferraris]

I'm trying Stockfish 14+ on lichess from Topalov Shirov position, and it didn't find Bh3. It was suggesting Bb1, starting from -4.2, arriving after the move at -2.4. Shirov's move actually goes to -4.9. Amazing!

[crmag]

That move Geller made was completely amazing. Even after seeing it, its still hard to believe it

[milanpecelj]

"I have two rooks. One for each of ya."
Ben simply cannot stop quoting Tombstone 🤩

[harri]

This is great and all but it would be great if there was a lecture on the 10 worst moves of all time

[jandal]

Some marvelous moves in there - the first game is best, I think.

[fractalinfect]

I played this position as white versus Stockfish 8 as black on Lichess. Stockfish 8 chose a3 as the first move instead of Bh3 and I was able to hold the draw. Crazy that the computer did not see this move. I also played black against the computer using Bh3 as the first move and won easily with the exact same line as from the game.

[georgcantor]

Hello GM Finegold. In the Florh v Geller game after white's move Kd3, I was able to find one of the more obscure losing move sequences that appeared to promise a win, but didn't. So after Kd3 then...

... Rd4+
Ke3 e4
Kxd4 Kf5

... and all looked pretty swish for black. What I didn't see until some 6 minutes later, trying to see what resources there are for white, is

Kd3 Rd4+
Ke3 e4
f5 ... and it all falls apart.

But thank you for this and your other videos. You're GM Finegold, and I'm certainly not. Cheers

[danielhanafin]

The reference to "Lucy you got some splainin' to do" got me.

Everyone unfamiliar with I Love Lucy should immediately watch some re runs so you can understand and appreciate the reference. Thank you

[cwwiss]

I guessed rook takes c2 but with no idea of the complications that followed. This may be Ben's top ten master classes !

[djmurps]

Wow! These really are 10 Chess moves of all time!

[mikemcknight]

Very interesting! Another episode of 10 great moves.

[ralfrotstein]

Hey Ben, did you ever consider doing a video about Henrique Mecking to your Great Players of The Past series?

[stevemansfield]

At 57:41, has anyone considered that Fischer allowed Larsen board 1 because he (Fischer) didn't want to lose any trade secrets to Spassky, working on the assumption that he (Fischer) was going to be beating Larsen later on, and then facing Spassky in 1972 for the world championship. Thus, he wanted to keep his powder dry as far as possible for the title match 2 years later.

[tomrockefeller]

Great Video! Just needed to include Frank James Marshall's legendary "Gold Coins Game" queen sac.

[sorgi]

Ive had enough of this lecture, except for one thing.Go Ben!!