History of Hypermodern Openings in Chess: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold

This lecture was recorded March 25, 2024 in Roswell, Georgia. Thank you to Eric Osgood for sponsoring this lecture!!

Games:
04:09 Richard Réti vs José Raúl Capablanca, New York 1924
12:07 Ben Finegold vs Melikset Khachiyan, US Championship 2013
20:18 Aron Nimzowitsch vs Stefano Rosselli del Turco, Baden-Baden 1925
29:07 Boris Kostić vs Ernst Grünfeld, Meisterklasse 1922

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[steven]

This reminds me of the game Frank Lee vs. Ree Diculous in the 1953 Zurich Supertournament

[jasmint]

"I may be old and bad but I'm up a piece." Ben Finegold

[tutucox]

Hypermodern chess is the best, you can be the cool kid and be bad at the same time

[atwarwithdust]

11:07 We should call that fork a "knork", combining a knife and fork.

[xwngdrvr]

Rumor has it the Amish tend to frown on this type of opening. If you dont like the position at 13:31 you're Hippo Critical.

[napoleonbonaparte]

Oh my i cant explain the joy when i seen gm finegold playing the hippo in a world tournament, it gives me a sense of legitimacy with my own journey through chess so far. Particularly playing the hippo and nimzo/larsens openings

[Evilanious]

The cow is not the hippo. It is a significantly more passive and suspicious setup where the knights are moved to b3 and g3, the center isn't influenced at all, and the bishops cry.

[gcubegaming]

It's nice to see a lecture uploaded once in a while which wasn't recorded multiple years prior...

[douglaslarosa]

As soon as I saw the lecture title, I was Réti to watch and comment it 🤓

[Iearnwithme]

Really good lecture! Thanks for making these :))

[chod]

Love this style of chess. Reject main line theory. Embrace weirdness and chaos.

[kmarasin]

Hypermodernism should be seen as a new way to look at chess, seeing it in terms of large scale structures and long term plans. While it doesn't work to ONLY think in these ways, it eventually was understood as a way to look for good moves; hypermodernism would suggest a move that should be looked at from a strategic perspective, and then it would be further analyzed tactically. This fusion was largely achieved by the interwar Russian/Soviet players including Alekhine, Botvinnik, Boleslavsky, and Bogolubow. They laid the foundation for the dominance of post-war Soviet chess and how the game would evolve right up to the turn of the 21st century, when computers changed things almost back to the way they were in classical chess, in their method of long precise calculation without any thought to positional ideas. Current players largely follow the computer's lead, leading to the decline of hypermodern ideas. With the discovery of the Berlin defense to the Ruy Lopez, classical 1. e4 openings returned with a vengeance.

[sergioaguis]

Thank you to the sponsors ❤️
Thank you Ben for the joy

[jimmyballer]

Hey Ben! You only went 5 minutes before making a move on the board this time. What a wonderful appetizer!

[shakohoto]

Seirawan's birthday was Yasserday

[werderlebenslang]

Isn't the cow opening an invention of Anna Cramling? She is known for playing chess isn't she? Or does Ben mean she is known for streaming chess and not a professional chess player in the classical sense?

[timothymiller]

This reminds me of Rufus vs Doofas 1869… rawr!!

[slimmamba]

Solid analysis, clear explanations. Second only to Fabi.

[pauldow]

Hyper modern attack from flank only if opponent place pawns and pieces in the center

[Cobalt-Jester]

I found my old travel computer chess machine. I was about 11 years old and it was my step granddad's... I learned how to play on that little machine.
Because it was programmed in the early 80s with game variets of the time, it's really easy to beat on the highest level by playing the modern varients.