Best Games of Magnus Carlsen, with GM Ben Finegold 

I wonder when Magnus Carlsen will upload his video of analysing the great games of Ben Finegold

I love how the students in this class know all the rules and inside jokes.

That kid who answered semi slav for smyslov 😂 I love that kid

The real joke is the children repeating Ben's weird lines that they know by heart 😂

10:40 Archer with the "nice" to Ding Liren's 96 games without losses streak.

Ben is a comedy genius and learning is easier if it's fun, nobody forgets a good teacher. That's a killer combination!! ⚘️

1:27 Ben: As you all know * looks at us * Me: * whisper * they don't know

Ben is right. People get mad at Ben but he isn’t lying. There are other plays more dominating in the sport than he is but they don’t get the same publicity. I love watching Magnus play because he wins from many different positions.

20:57 - If you say Kasparov again it's right. - Kasparov? The kids are disarming :-)

Sven, the greatest chess player of our time.

Wrong. Now you can't dominate like before. Engines changed that. Also more people are into chess.

There's another one that hasn't got a bad score against Magnus Carlsen, and that is Magnus Carlsen

To copy another comment here, you're definitely undervaluing Magnus. He is widely considered either the best or second best ever for good reasons.. Now players can't dominate like before. Engines changed that. Also more people are into chess.

It's hard to translate player skill between eras. Players didn't have databases of games and engines to evaluate their moves all the time when most of the all-time great world champions were at their peak. We don't actually know what it would be like if there were: - Prep vs OTB analysis emphasize different abilities. Anybody stronger in prep would be at a massive disadvantage before computers were able to outplay everyone. Now there are top GMs who are known for it, and have enough OTB skill to convert advantage they get from it. This skill representation was minimal before engines and easy to view databases...there just wasn't enough freely accessible information that could be viewed so quickly. - By sheer luck, one guy may dominate in eras with weak competition, or struggle as the best among a handful of players who each would have dominated in other eras. Because players get better then decline over time, it's hard to tell which of these is the case. - Like most games, the community as a whole improves over time. Carlsen today vs Fisher of decades ago will probably beat Fisher...after all, Carlsen can easily look at all of Fisher's best historical games. In a sense, modern champions inherit a piece of the competition that made their predecessors great. This is somewhat true even if you compare 1920s chess to 1970s and 1980s chess, but computers have accelerated it to a ridiculous degree. - It could work the other way too. If we were to wave a wand and bring back Capablanca or Fischer or even Kasparov before their primes, and give them access to modern tech + prep as they reach their prime, they would be completely monstrous compared to their historical selves. Maybe they'd also stand head and shoulders above all of today's GMs too, but I'm not so sure about that. Thus when people say "Carlsen is better than Fischer", I suspect whether that's true depends on what they mean when they say it. If they mean "the level of chess Carlsen plays at now is better than Fischer's back then"...yeah that's probably true. If they're claiming "Carlsen would beat Fischer if they grew up in the same era"...I don't know about that one. Probably not if Carlsen grew up in Fischer's time, but possibly if Fischer grew up in ours (he never liked what computers did to chess, so it's hard to say how it would impact him if they were common before he even started learning it).

That kid responding to the wedding question made me wonder: did Smyslov like to play the Semi-Slav?

Comparing Carlsen to Murphy is like comparing Lebron to Paul Arizin. Also, comparing an era without Chess engines to one with them is like comparing two different sports.

I like your stuff Ben, keep doing Ben stuff and being Ben

27:45 Motivation story to come back to later

Loving this. Thanks!

Me with some crazy comment!

He may not be a super gm but he is a super comedian

What a great motivation for his class and for us Thank you 🙏

After playing chess for 6 months I quit and watch these videos for the jokes and general wisdom of Ben.

5 years late for getting the (re)upload on the web. Frankly terrible.

Thank you .

2:29 I voted for Buchanan. I won

Cause of death, I lost to ben, was dark and hilarious

Of course Ben starts with Nakamura getting crushed. Very suspicious.

Magnus purposely plays into a drawish game by playing random moves. He then takes his opponent into unknown territory & relies mostly on instinct to grind his opponent down.

Skip to 12:05 for the actual chess to start.

Kemp, an outfielder the Detroit Tigers in the 1960s

ben's assertion that it's ridiculous to say that magnus is the best player who's ever lived is frankly ridiculous. the field in which he competes is much stronger than those of every other past strongest player. it says literally nothing at all that he doesn't dominate tournaments the way that karpov or fischer did because the top 10 players today are stronger than the top 10 players of any other era before anyone cries 'fanboy,' i don't care for magnus as a person or for his playstyle as a chess fan. it just strikes me as extremely stupid to argue that he should be considered anything short of the strongest player to ever live, which he very clearly is

Kasparov and karpov and boby did not dominate,it was kid of the same as magnus,just that now days there are a lot of drows,players are way way way better in the opening than the old school

what is the % of winning Tourneys last 15 years for Magnus anyone know that

Carlsen does win a lot of games from a slightly worse position, or positions that are thought to be draws, but there's a good reason for that. He ends up in those situations fairly regularly, because he likes to play random, goofy shit in the opening. I think he does it because he's bored, honestly. But when he gets into those positions, he can win them when most people think they're losing or drawn because he's very likely the best *endgame* player to ever live, with the possible exception of Capablanca. I don't, personally, think Magnus is the best to ever live, overall. I know that he's the best in the world today, and I'm not trying to imply that he isn't exceptional, he absolutely is. I'm just saying that I think there have been players who were as good as or better than him. The names Morphy and Kasparov come immediately to mind. And possibly Fischer, if he was having a good mental health day; you can never tell with the completely crazy ones who's gonna show up in their clothes.

Damn that Donald Trump joke at the beginning did NOT age well lol but amazing video. This takes me back to when I went to chess camp as a kid

Why cant you take the pawn on E4 at 18:07 ?

10:38 the kid saying “nice” to 96 games 😂😂😂

"great players of the present" of the past

Why not Qxb6 after Qa5?

Wasnt the pawn on b2 hanging in boris vs for long time, why boris didnt take?

Why arent there super gm tournaments in india? Seems like a good place for them

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❤❤❤💖💖💖💖amazing 🏆🙂🙏🏼

12:10 chessboard appears on the screen

03:16 5 years later, and his rating is indeed 2835

Us boomers like the Norwegian Wood joke.

please make a new best of mc games with newer games @GMBenjaminFinegold love this one

do any of these classes still happen currenlty?

28:47 😂

I always love hearing Ben talk about Magnus because usually he has good takes… but regarding Magnus he’s just wrong about everything lol dominating scores against virtually all top GMs, an overwhelming amount of world championships, still wins more tournaments than everyone, has a sizable gap over world #2, even after losing a good bit of points (at the time this video was made, yes it was very very close), recently went 11/11 in titled Tuesday only to follow it up days later with a flawless 9/9 against a super GM rated field lol all in the engine era. it’s incredibly difficult to separate yourself nowadays. but it’s very clear who has been the best chess player for years now and who still is

fast forward 12 minutes if you actually wanna watch something

Magnus is only good because of the game he played againsr kasparov when he was a 11 and because he is young

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go algo!

The Ginger GM jokes go back a few years. Will we ever see the Best of Ginger GMs games on this channel?

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This guy is full of bs, Fischer, Kasparov and the other great players from the past were dominating cause their opponents were playing at 80% accuracy, nowadays supergrandmasters, which are the opponents of Magnus Carlsen are playing at 99%, you can't dominate an opponent who plays at 99% accuracy :D :D :D, don't listen to this guy