Great Players of the Past: Alexander Alekhine 

Hearing Karen make a joke in the style of Ben warmed my heart like the Grinch finding the meaning of Christmas

Much like Kasparov, I base much of my play around Alekhine. That's why I never play sober

Karen discovering Yates’ middle name is one of de best things ever.

These lectures on players from the past are phenomenal. Keep it up!

According to an interview with Jan Timman, Max Euwe's team paid for the hotel where the games were played to have an open bar so Alekhine had access to free drinks the whole time.

Still waiting for the Great Players of the Present: Ginger GM.

He is the greatest player of all time, period.

Alekhine had a cat named “Chess”. I bet you didn’t know that.

Wasnt prepared for spandau ballet in a chess lecture

That fish Bogoljubow won consecutive Soviet championships in 1924 and 1925. Inducing a good player to play badly is the mark of a great player.

Actually the reason why we never saw another Capablanca-Alekhine match was that when sending him the rematch offer, Capablanca incautiously demanded a change in the conditions of the London Agreement(for the match) and Alekhine found formal grounds to reject the offer. When Capablanca again sent him without a change in conditions, it was too late as Alekhine received a challenge from Efim Bogolujobow.

I also have a tough time believing Alekhine stopped drinking for just the match because he would have been feeling...really not well going through the withdrawal for the first several rounds. I am playing poorly just because of cigarette withdrawal and i cannot imagine having to play WORLD CLASS chess with alcohol withdrawal

I’m looking forwards to some classic Alekhine slander

Tbf to Alekhine, if him, Lasker, and Capablanca were all playing in a tournament together, you weren't betting on Capablanca either. Lasker won almost every tournament he was in and never finished behind Capa until it was the mid 1930s. Lasker obviously lost the match badly in the Havana heat, but Lasker is really underappreciated

he could play blindfold, I think exceptional,the man and the chess player in that order,He is possibly the,greatest player. ever.

Another entertaining lecture. I did get a few of the references too...

Also the reason why he "wrote" anti-semetic papers was because his wife, Grace Wishart being an American during WW2 in france(occupied by germany) was threatened with arrest. In an effort to save his wife, he "wrote" anti semetic papers(he didn't write them, his name was used to write it).

I am watching this in the future.

Chessbase names the city twice because the tournament is called "London" and it was played in London. So by analogy with, e.g., "Tata Steel, Wijk aan Zee", this is "London, London". Technically, the PGN header has entries [Event "London"] and [Site "London, UK"]. I suppose Chessbase could omit one of them if they're the same.

Of course, Sophie's Choice is a work of fiction.

Ben is on fire

10:19 One has to say that "Bogoljubov" means "beloved by God" in Russian, so his famous saying is actually more of a silly pun that how it sounds in English today :)

go Ben!

i would like to sponsor a great players of the past lecture, what are the costs and to witch email schould i adress my reqeust?

Chekov's favorite chess player.

I read somewhere that Capablanca did the same to Alekhine. Once you became a world champion, you could dictate the terms of the next match. I also read that Capa was never the same after he lost his title to Alekhine.

Hi Mr Finegold, Just wondering why white did not play Nd6 at 42:12. Thank you so much!

Alekine is the greatest of all time

LOL you should lecture on alireza vs that 1600 he played in the open tournament in Rouen, to show the smack down

During Magnus's 125-game unbeaten streak (mostly against super-GMs) he won 42 games with 83 draws -- an INSANELY high win rate of 34%. So pull up your skirt, Ben. Your bias is showing.

Dewhirst is not a name you want to have if you're competing in any field lol

You can almost feel Ben Finegold lived in Europe for many years 👍

Well he did beat Capablanca a couple of times in 1927 didn't he?

Beast .

Alekhine is playing the double dutch vodka.

So how does one cheat in chess?

I Think there was selective memory with the Capablanca vs Alekhine match. Did not Capablanca set any challege match with stipulation that were e tremey hard to aquire? Prize money had to be found by the challegenger etc) just like Lasker did to Capablanca. I do believe I read Alekhine tried once before to meet Capablanca's stipulations and Capablanca rejected it. the prize money found by Alekhine (through a doner) when Capablanca agreed to the match Alekhine was considered an inferior opponent (so calling out Alekhine for taking on inferior opponets is being hypocritical when it comes to the facts Alekhine didn't steal the match..He beat Capablanca 6-3 That is hardly swindling Capablanca. If Alekhine was such a weak player, how did that happen? Last, Alekhine after did not run from Capablanca after. HE Gave Capablanca the same match stipulations as Capablanca gave him. Capablanca could not raise the funds. This is all known. KARMA came back on Capablanca, refusing to play for the title, hiding behind extremely hard to meet stipulations. .. a challenger (who he thought he could beat... came up with the prize money and agreed to terms) Then disaster happens, he lost and spent the rest of his career career try to amass the fund's need for a re- match

He was not that much of an alcoholic, I mean he only drank when he was awake

My 5 yr old son has made the outrageous accusation that a fart occurred at 5:38, I am trying to disavow him of such slander

not enough "He's DeWhirst" jokes.

If the Canadian grandmaster was called Kevin Spaghetti, wouldn't he have lived in Italy?

magnus is drawing his classical games in Norway Chess 2023 too and winning only armageddon games.......!

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curious how you'll treat him😂

Back when Ben still had brown hair Harsh

Poor guy bogoljubov. Gettin shit on so much by ben lol

My biggest flex is Alexander Alekhine is my relative. I think grand grandpa.

34:30 lmao

Greatest game ever according to Irving Chernev

OK, raise your hand if you thought "Dewhirst" was a joke that Ben inserted into the PGN to see if anyone noticed... Turns out it's real, though it's not pronounced "de worst". It'd be JOO-herst: most British accents pronounce dew like "Jew", rather than as "doo" or "dyoo". Yates was actually born near the town of Dewsbury in Yorkshire -- JOOZ-b'ry.

Alekhine remained my favourite player untill i learn his end carrer which is less glorious (as my eternal hero not only of teenager :Indiana Jones who face the evil with Nice moustache and beat him!!!go indy!!)

It's time to get schwifty.

Alekhine losing the title because he drank too much is just one of those chess excuses. People who knew him thought that Alekhine drank no more in 1935 than he had at any other time. Euwe himself, in Chess Life & Review in 1978 said that people thought Alekhine was drunk even when he wasn't, because he didn't like to wear his glasses, and his walk was unsteady without them.

In an idéal world,chess players should do the best they are made...playing chess and politics,religions are out of the subject here...

0:24 Unfortunately? You sob...

@ 4:51 : "So eey um the official cause of death is he choked on a piece of meat ... so ... all right then i could make some South Park jokes.,,,," Stop Right There !!! MR , that was your perfect Segway to just say to the chess world : "so just {Go Vegan}!! , so you don't also end up choking on a piece of meat , like he did !!!" .

I was looking forward to hearing some new information on my favourite chess player but I quickly realised that I knew more about Alekhine than the so called expert. I only want to listen to people that really are an authority on the subject..

Please re-post this video with just the analysis and all of Ben's joke explanations cut. Video will be about 15 minutes shorter

Nice unbiased Jewish criticism.

Have I told you lately that I love... these lectures? ❤♟🍀

I Think there was selective memory with the Capablanca vs Alekhine match. Did not Capablanca set any challege match with stipulation that were e tremey hard to aquire? Prize money had to be found by the challegenger etc) just like Lasker did to Capablanca. I do believe I read Alekhine tried once before to meet Capablanca's stipulations and Capablanca rejected it. the prize money found by Alekhine (through a doner) when Capablanca agreed to the match Alekhine was considered an inferior opponent (so calling out Alekhine for taking on inferior opponets is being hypocritical when it comes to the facts Alekhine didn't steal the match..He beat Capablanca 6-3 That is hardly swindling Capablanca. If Alekhine was such a weak player, how did that happen? Last, Alekhine after did not run from Capablanca after. HE Gave Capablanca the same match stipulations as Capablanca gave him. Capablanca could not raise the funds. This is all known. KARMA came back on Capablanca, refusing to play for the title, hiding behind extremely hard to meet stipulations. .. a challenger (who he thought he could beat... came up with the prize money and agreed to terms) Then disaster happens, he lost and spent the rest of his career career try to amass the fund's need for a re- match