Kasparov's Greatest King's Indian Games: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold 

We need more Kasparov lectures!

How did you know I was waiting for both King's Indian AND new GM Finegold content? This is perfect.

Bless Toph, the universal soldier

Wow, ssbm legend Toph?? The Toph of the illustrious Scar and Toph duo?? As always, I'm a fan of your fans, ben.

So the point of the lecture... Don't play Kasparov at his peak... Or just don't play F3

Yo NH1 to end the game is insane.

Great lecture!

I demand more Kasparov videos. All of this talk of who is the GOAT Magnus or Kasaprov, but if you weren’t following chess 3 decades ago you don’t have enough context for Kasparov’s games. I’ve seen plenty of Fischer, Capablanca, Tal, Morphy games but haven’t come across a ton, or looked for many Kasparov games. Please put them on a platter for me.

You are a jewel of knowledge Gran Maestro Ben

TOPH! Did u see the reads???

Awesome, thanks!

A very enjoyable presentation, thank you Ben. Kasparov was a beast without doubt. I wonder if he ever come unstuck playing the Kings Indian? If ever!

legendary topic choice

Thanks!

Kasparov`s games are fine gold!

Kasparov at his peak was a force to behold. His death stare over the board at an opponent gave him a pawn up advantage before the game even started! The only guy that could slug it out with him was Karpov.

Thanks Ben.

Also, at 31:42, instead of 21. h4, Stockfish recommends 21.Bd3 a6 22.b3 Bb5 23.Kf2 Bxd3 24.Qxd3 Nd7 25.Qxa6 Bf6 +/= +0.99

Qh4 mate is relatively easy to prevent - and Hjartson did prevent it. He resigned. 😂

His full name is ChrisTophEr

Knight H1 what a move wow

+44:40 The power of putting your knight in the corner!

Jei! Nxd5 my first candidate move! ))

Kaspar the unfriendly goat

toph. the reads. did u see it.

In my opinion, the reason the engine doesn't like the King's Indian (if it doesn't) is because of the weakened king rather than space disadvantage. The reason I say this is because when I research the Indian defense, the engine doesn't prefer white anymore. The only difference between those two structures is the fianchetto. Some Grandmasters like to play with a weakened king (Kramnik) and then blame cheating when they lose. You can't weaken your king if you don't want to lose. That's the main reason the computer always wins: king safety.

Remember kids, next time Garry Chess challenges you, check your watch to make sure it’s not the 1980s. That would be bad.

Has someone tried to sponsor a lecture for Hikaru?

A point of basic, basic strategy... What's the point of winning on (say) the queenside when the kings are both on the kingside? Is that just hoping that a bunch of pieces will get traded off, you'll win material on the queenside, and things will turn into a favourable endgame? It always seems like when you show a game where someone is crashing through where the kings AREN'T, that that person just gets checkmated!

Is the big mistake to castle Queen side against King's Indian?

Show the evaluation

The moral of the story is: don't learn and play the Nimzo-indian against Kasparov, just be an engine.

So kasparov just played fischer openings.....we stand on the soldiers of giants

He’s good at chess but his wife still left him

There's a documentary online where Kasparov hangs out with Peter Thiel. During it, Kasparov refused to play a chess game with Frank Brady (because he was scared of losing), so Thiel played against him instead. That's Frank Brady as in the ex-Bobby Fischer friend. Once I saw this action by Kasparov, I started to properly research his games because he was before my time. And there's a LiChess account of his where he draws and maybe even loses to 1600s. But then he gains 200 points very quickly and eventually gets into the 2000s. In my opinion, Kasparov was all theory and not much talent. I say that after he blocked me from Twitter, but it's still an honest opinion. Bobby Fischer wasn't afraid of Kasparov's theory much less his talent. Fischer didn't trust the Russians. Fischer's main concern was prearrangement. You take a look at Kasparov's first World Championship match and tell me those moves look like they were done by a human, particularly when he plays g4 in one of the first games. How is Kasparov virtually hitting Karpov with The Grob and nobody but Bobby Fischer says a word? I'm with Bobby...I don't believe it either.

*smacks lips* literally unwatchable

Jei! g3 Nh5 my only candidate moves! It is more easy to see the board with a bit rested brain :) Qd8 was obvious, too! Thank You, Ben! I think I will afford one somewhere around New Year holidays!