5 Minutes with GM Ben Finegold: Richárd Rapport vs Étienne Bacrot, World Team Rapid (2023) 

This video is 6 minutes long. That's good value for 5 minutes

I heard Bacrot is a descendant from a long line of Chess players who always forgot to give their kings luft.

Good God, I could see it all except Ba6 so I kept thinking there must not be a threat. Sneaky bishop.

1:25 Nh7 pretty close to the Bacrot

I saw Rxf3, but was trying to work out the follow up after Qh2+. Took me a while to realise there's Ba6+, ultimately winning the queen. I'm sure that's what Rapport missed. So easy to forget about long-range bishop checks from the other side of the board!

Allez Baki !

A cool game. I also thought about Bxg3, fxg3, Qxg3, Qf2. But I thought that there wasn't enough firepower. And then Ba6 and it's done.

I don't know why, but I always expect the intro to be: "Hey everybody, I'm grandmaster Ben Finegold. This is another 5 minutes with Ben - I'm Ben, and this is 5 minutes."

Just found out about the channel god i love those videos

And what an amazing 5min they were! 👏

Great video. Go ben

Go Ben!!

He has two pins, one for each of ya.

And I'm not!

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Thanks Ben!

As a French Defense player, I appreciate this video

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