Great Players of the Past: Yasser Seirawan Part 1 

Ben, if you spent a whole video just talking about Yasser and not showing any games, that would make an excellent video!

Yasser and Ben are the two people that did the most for chess in the RU-vid age. You can scream hikaru and levy all you want but they were grinding out commentary and analysis of excellent games by the likes of “w”esley “s”o while levy was still making PIPI in his pampers.

"Randomly selected", poor Freddie Mercury of chess, famously plays for the USA and has to deal with that. Yasser is a beast on the board and the most gracious of people to know. A superb teacher and a charismatic force of nature.

Ben you seen rejuvenated. What ever you are doing keep it up. I can confirm...I am not Ben or a GM...

I was at this monumental lecture where Ben didn't flip the board for the last game. A very rare and exclusive event

I played Yasser once. He beat me! He was very gracious in the analysis afterwards. Good guy.

In the late 1980s the 5-time Florida champion SM Gary Sanders (2450-ish) was my chess teacher. He played blitz against Yasser many times. Gary said the games would be played very quickly and Gary would get a good position. Then Yasser would do something strange like move his knight to the rim. Gary would pause to think, then try to punish the error. The game would then begin again being played fast, and Yasser somehow would always win the endgame. Gary shook his head as he could not understand what happened. =)

I bought several of Yasser's chess books when I was a kid. I loved those books, he is an awesome chess teacher. Now I spend all my time involving chess watching Ben lecture and play. My two favorite chess personalities, and this is a three part series. Oh my this is awesome.

Yasser and Ben are the people who I admire most. Yasser is my all time inspiration as an American Chess player. Great Chess player, Great Teacher. His Legacy exists and has impacted so many things in the Chess Community. A Great man.

Loved seeing the game vs Karpov. The only chess book I've read front to back was his Play Winning Chess, and he covers this game briefly so it was very nostalgic to recognize it again. I hadn't thought about it since.

It feels like it's the 100th upload of the video about Yasser ahahaha Never enough though

Yasser has mesmerizing lectures, both on ChessBrah and the Saint Louis chess club channels. Well worth a watch.

Yasser is everyone's favourite Chess Uncle.

Yasser has such a wonderful, creative way of playing chess, all his old games are so interesting. I'll always remember his game that he lectured on where he defeated John Nunn, it was also a Caro Kann and he won with an amazing attack on the queenside where Nunn had castled. Who wouldn't be proud to beat a straight up genius at chess? I know I'd tell everyone, forever.

GREAT lecture! Alas, I think some of my games are in the best games collections of some of my opponents.

The only thing I have to add is that Danya’s Yasser impression is excellent.

Ben I'd love if you did a series of Peter Leko. He is such a great commentator idiots like me can understand the games! And he was world number 2 or something

Developing a bishop in the end game. Good job. :)

I was hoping you would open with "Thanks to our sponsor, Yasser Seirawan"

Yasser and Ben just great. Yasser the perfect gentleman. One rampaging little kid sabotages a lecture from him with nonstop questions while he answers patiently. While GM Finegold. No talking. Partial credit. Raise your hand when you want to say something. Rule 2. Don't raise your hand. Bathroom over there. Well, the list goes on

That tells you all you need to know about the word "random" in the phrase "random selection"

18:45 Obviously silly, but if you premove Rd8+ black could play QxN (giving away the queen except you premoved something else) followed by Qg8 and you have to win the pawn-up endgame which I think is possible but black doesn't have to resign yet

Yeah I remember back when everyone and their dog played the QID. (strong players)

"Carlsen is the world champion now." Poor Ding, getting no respect at all. As expected.

32:28 what an impressively bad position for black. 1. King in the center, unable to castle or get to the edges of the board anytime soon. 2. The center is full of rooks and pawns which can move to open up the position. It's not a dead center. Black's missing e pawn and black's c pawn are the reason why the center can open up. Black decided to move both of those pawns to weaken his own center. 3. Every black piece is doing jack and shit to protect the black king, and they're perfectly positioned on the edges of the board, doing nothing, coordinating in no way, shape, or form. Well, that knight on c5 is really well defended, but other than that... 4. Black's pawns have created weak squares all over the kingside, and doing very little to protect the center, and they're doubled or backward or not defended by other pawns because they're at the base of a tiny pawn chain. The b pawn, the d pawn, both f pawns, the h pawn, and by extension the g pawn, are all doing nothing, are weak, ineffective, or currently being attacked, or their movements have made weak squares. The c pawn shouldn't have moved. The a pawn isn't going to defeat white all by itself. It is just such an ugly position to look at. Never do this.

"im ben finegold and youre not" always gets me lol

Min 19 against premove Qxe6. Still losing against Rd8, just in a king and pawn Endgame

I guess Ben has forgiven Yas for taking his job. LOL

Ben and Seirawan are peak chess rizz. Aman brings Yasser on chessbrah when he needs the female demographic to tune in.

when are you going to do a Great Players of the Past: Magnus Carlsen

My first 2 chess books, back before electricity ... Bobby Fischer Teaches chess , and Winning Chess Brilliancies by Yasser.

in the first game, where did Jan Timman actually go wrong? i cannot fathom it..........

That was Dick Cavett, Ben

He played Ng5 with advantage 😂

"that was some Yasser attacking wins"... That prolly was all Yassers attacking wins :p

No wonder Morphy was so good!

It's pretty nuts how good Ben looks now since he went Vegan. Go Vegans. Go Ben!

Your opening statement is an illegal move because you could watch the video in the future..

Come on, Karpov? I could beat Karpov!