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
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.
At 9:45 Ben didn't mention what would happen if black played Rxe3. I think that would be followed by fxe3, Qxd1, Ne6. Threatening Qg7 mate and black's queen, and black has no good checks.
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.
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.
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?
I think he was just joking. I'm pretty sure they all respect eachother as professional chess-streamers, as they all collectively keep the subject interesting/popular, and together they increase eachothers views.
@@opiedrums6969 - I think she did invent it. I watched the video where she says that it had never been played before (or at least was not in any databases of games). Of course, if you saw some of the games I play with my 88 year old step dad it might lead you to believe the cow (or worse, much worse) has definitely been played.
You can oftentimes sacrifice your d pawn in the advanced French in order to pin the knight with your bishop to the queen on b6 and create counterplay to the king on the queenside as white.
it's funny that you don't even mention the central themes of the hypermodern chess school, e.g. blockade and overprotection, as explained by Nimzo in his book in detail. That's what his entire "my system" is all about. You don't just give your opponent the center and that's it. You have to try to blockade these pawns and overprotect the squares before the pawns. As a matter of fact, you use them as shields for your pieces. It's not just about "fianchettoing the bishops and playing on the side". That's a far too simplistic way of explaining hypermodern. There's a famous game which highlights these principles perfectly, I can't remember at the moment against who, wasn't it even his arch nemesis Tarrasch? Nimzo crushed him by applying exactly those principles. Although you do generally the best lectures of all chess youtubers, this one's missing the mark a bit as it diminshes hypermodern to just "playing on the side". Simplification is fine, but taken too far it creates a false impression of what it actually is that you're trying to explain, if I was Eric, I'd be a bit disappointed, but as you admitted yourself, "Mein System" wasn't exactly your thing, so maybe worth reading it once more and then you could even demonstrate that Nimzo game in one of your next episodes.
@@sachatostevin6435 so what? That doesn't justify to give a lecture on hypermodern without even explaining hypermodern. (except for "playing on the side") The truth hurts! ;-)
When you are analyzing games based on their openings and you announce one side made a blunder how do you expect us to know if the opening is good or not?
First I played flank openings most of all. After million blunders Now I am crushing the center with gambits and able to beat up to 1500 in daily with 100+ games opened. And it is my 10th month in chess journey! Your content is what I love the most, GM Benjamin Finegold!
Is there a way to fight 1. e4 as black in a hypermodern way, that is well respected among top grandmasters? The Alekhine and the Pirc are not really. You might call the Sicilian dragon hypermodern, but it is not well respected either. Would you consider a Sicilian Najdorf or a Sveshnikov/Rossolimo a hypermodern opening?
@@ludology7757 Who do you think you are to judge what matters to me? I wanted to know, I am curious, so it matters to me. Why are you so rudely disregarding my curiosity? Of course, I will never need this kind of information to prepare against a Super-GM (and even if so, this would be a weird place to get my information from anyway), but that has not been the question...
I think you can try the Nimzowitsch Defense (1.e4 Nc6). Carlsen used to play it when he doesnt want to get into home prep. If white plays d4 you continue with d5 and if white takes then you get what you wanted like in grunfeld defense. But if they push the pawn you can play Bf5 and transpose it into French defense where your light squared bishop is not sitting on c8 I checked games of Nimzowitsch. He generally plays the Nimzowitsch Defense, French Defense or Caro Kann against e4. You can play the Hippo but i cant say its well respected by top gms
And you can tell this is a hyper modern recorded lecture due to Ben’s old man lip smacking 😂. Jokes aside though I hope you see a doctor once in a while, I’m probably overthinking this but it as someone who is trained to observe and report signs & symptoms my first thought it’s a Neurological disorder & or a progressive degenerative disease. I’m not a doctor and my college credits amount to nothing as the school I attended lost it’s accreditation.
The amount of saliva in your mouth must be insane in the amount you’re smacking and slurping your spit in your mouth when you talk it’s so hard to listen to
