Middlegame Strategy of Anatoly Karpov by GM Ben Finegold

Подписаться 145 тыс.

Просмотров 90 тыс.

50% 1

Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.... In this lecture, GM Ben Finegold discusses the middle game strategy of Anatoly Karpov; Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion. Broadcasted live and recorded at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta on September 22, 2021
Originally posted on the CCSCATL Channel on September 28th, 2021. Yes, You’ve probably seen this before. We’re merging the channels. Feel free to shame anyone in the comments who obviously didn’t read the description.
1:14 Anatoly Karpov - Wolfgang Unzicker, Nice 1974
22:34 Anatoly Karpov - Alexei Shirov, Biel 1992
35:11 Anatoly Karpov - Andras Adorjan, WTC 1989
Signup or gift a chess.com Premium membership to get access to their lessons, remove ads, improve your chess, AND help Ben at the same time!!
Upgrade your chess.com membership or join! - go.chess.com/fi...
Buy Merch today! ccscatlmerch.com/
Watch live at / gmbenjaminfinegold
#benfinegold #anatolykarpov #ruylopez #queensgambit #semislavdefense

Опубликовано:

1 окт 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 208

@kdub1242 Год назад

"This guy's not a clown. He just looks like one because he's playing Karpov."

@bilyonarelifestile2226 16 дней назад

truth hurts

@friendly-tester Год назад

"And in this position..." is everything I can remember from these videos. Just that sentence. Nothing about the position though.

@KokeBeast23 Год назад

Turn the video on !…. On!

@FrancoisTremblay Месяц назад

Are you sure you're not watching agadmator?

@pazdziochowaty Год назад

I met Karpov in 2000 when he played in world blitz championship in Warsaw, he signed his book for me. My wife rearranged the appartment once and gave away a number of books so they don't take so much space. One of those books was that one with Karpov's signature. She's not my wife anymore. I could have another one if I wanted to but there is only one Karpov. I will never forgive her this crime

@36AccountsBlockedRIP Год назад

Don't let women anywhere near what you value most.

@KrazyKrzysztof Год назад

kurwa!

@Nippleless_Cage Год назад

Lol

@siLence-84 Год назад

If that story is true, that's amazing and horrifying simultaneously. My condolences.

@siLence-84 Год назад

@@36AccountsBlockedRIP that's kinda hard to do. At least with the wife. Kinda impossible actually if you want to stay married, heh.

@winchester6678 Год назад

The pawn on e4 is not hanging, it is defended by the knight on g3, the engine thinks 23. Bishop f1 is better instead of Bb1.

@alekhinesgun9997 Год назад

He probably wanted the bishop on the b1 diagonal to help defend against f5 in the future, but yeah it’s defended so he could’ve played Bf1, though after Bf1 it’s a long journey to get back to the b1 diagonal

@jamesreed422 Год назад

Perhaps the computer wants to sac the pawn, but after bf1 the pawn can most certainly be captured if black chooses to do so. After the knight takes, knight takes, black would have f5. Seems like this is allowing black unnecessary counter play.

@anonymousAJ Год назад

@@jamesreed422 after f5 there's Nf6+ and Nxd7 So your line just leaves black down a piece

@winchester6678 Год назад

@@anonymousAJ exactly, I wanted to write the same. There is no possibility for f5.

@hellopleychess3190 Год назад

ok, there's f5 f4 with an attack by black, it would be a trade while black creates a weakness.

@andreitiberiovicgazdovici Год назад

It is already the third lesson of G.M. Finegold about Anatoly Karpov, and they're great. I admit it, I am a positional player and for me Karpov is brilliant, I try to imitate his style but nothing to do: usually the (few) times I win it is because at move 70 the opponent leaves out of desperation or falls asleep

@sayandas5 Год назад

Well that sounds more like Finegold style than Karpov style 😉😳

@jessejordache1869 Год назад

It's just the opposite for me. I didn't know how to connect the opening, middle, and endgame, or even find a plan, until I discovered Karpov. Studying his games was like listening to someone tell you what you already know but never heard put into words. I was seeing the logic behind moves that my intuition had been screaming at me to play all along, but I had ignored them because I couldn't find the reasoning behind it. It's more than being positional -- it's killing your opponent's counterplay, and valuing activity above all else, with essential soundness a close second. If Karpov were an opening it would be the Keres Attack as White and the Nimzo-Indian as Black. As white you jump on the fact that Black's dsb is cut off and play g4, followed by gradually locking down Black's position with pawns and pins. As Black you head for a position that's sound, strategically clean, and gives Black its own activity and targets.

@andreitiberiovicgazdovici Год назад

@@jessejordache1869 I understand it perfectly: mine was just a joke. I agree with G.M. Finegold when he says that Karpov's middle game is among the best in history, better than Carlsen. As a child my father told me that Kasparov is the better of the two, (he was a big fan of his, even though he always considered Fischer as the best ever), I agreed with him, but secretly I always cheered for Karpov

@adomaskuzinas2137 Год назад

Ben had such a funny blindspot for the Knight on g3 defending the e4 pawn all the way through the variations :D

@MrSupernova111 Год назад

Yep! lol

@ja734. Год назад

Apparently Karpov had the same blind spot because the computer says Be2 and Bf1 are both better than Bb1, so I'm really not sure why else he would have played Bb1.

@joeyoest1105 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, I was really confused. I figured I was missing something dumb (because that is usually the case, lol), but I guess not.

@gamingspartan2 9 месяцев назад

I saw but figured he played bb1 because he wanted to move the knight in the future

@EsoRimerCz 7 месяцев назад

This is what you get if the lecture is not sponsored.

@belzeblade2997 Год назад

Dear Ben, 8:07 when the girl asks why not Bf1, you answered "because the e4 pawn is hanging !". What about the knight on g3 ?

@ExtraCheeseProject Год назад

True, I had the same thought. I think that the bishop was more flexible on b1 and the g3-knight also wouldn't be tied to the e4-pawn; there's no advantage to having the bishop on f1 and tying the g3-knight down to e4 as on f1 it's just staring at the c4-pawn anyway. However, always play Bf1.

@carlespeon3289 Год назад

I think you’re right. My engine even prefers Be2 (+1.2) to Bb1 (+0.6).

@UncleDansVintageVinyl Год назад

Thank you. Long ago, I thought that Karpov was boring. Then I started actually paying attention to his games. Now he's one of my favorites. His best games are just beautiful.

@jessejordache1869 Год назад

Right? I dismissed him as the previous generation's Kramnik (not to knock Kramnik, but his style doesn't really speak to me). But then you realize that Karpov would never, not in a million years, play something like the Berlin, to take the queens off the board and get on an expressway to a more-or-less equal endgame. Karpov's play is like jiu-jitsu with chess pieces. Just because he doesn't play the KiD doesn't mean he didn't come to fight.

@UncleDansVintageVinyl Год назад

@@jessejordache1869 I really like this comment. Yeah, Karpov really did come to rumble. He fought hard. He just fought a different way! I bought Mednis's "How Karpov Wins" a long time ago, and I was hooked a few games into it. I eventually sold the book--and then I bought it again, because I regretted selling it. And that was pretty early Karpov!

@jessejordache1869 Год назад

@@UncleDansVintageVinyl I think I might have a bootleg copy of it. Haven't gotten around to it yet. My interest in chess waxes and wanes.

@theunknown21329 7 месяцев назад

No matter how many times I see that Unzicker game it just teaches me something new every time. Beautiful!

@danielcrase 6 месяцев назад

That game is amazing, is just shows Karpov doing Karpov, plays e4, says I win, and boa constricts them absolutely perfectly. ASMR Chess did a video on it and that where I saw it, I love this game.

@andrejatodorovic4094 Год назад

Lol, when he said that Black player actually wrote a book titled "Black is ok", I wasn't sure if he is joking, cause with Ben you never know, so I googled it and it turns out that he even wrote 3 more sequels, namely: "Black is back", "Black is still ok" and "Black is ok forever". 😄😅😅👍

@kosterix123 Год назад

Dude. If you don't know chess you shouldn't waste time in posting videos highlighting your ignorance. I have the book Soviet Middlegame Technique. It's a work of passion. Go read it.

@theNetworkCH Год назад

I always loved that Ba7 move, and am still waiting for a chance to play something like this at some point.

@hector9586 Год назад

I haven't seen this game but by just saying Ba7 I already know which legendary game you are talking about!

@theNetworkCH Год назад

@@hector9586 Yeah, Karpov + Ba7 and I know it too :)

@lymphhh Год назад

Waiting is the first step to failure

@VitorSantos-dh1jr Год назад

in carokann, sometimes we play Bc2 with the samy motif... Rc7, Rac8.

@fsr1960 Год назад

At 8:10, Ben said that Karpov couldn't have played Bf1 because of ...Nxe4. That would hang Black's knight to Nxe4.

@Coach_Jan Год назад

Ye realized the same and was searching the comment section for that message 😂

@JonDoe-uq1mk Год назад

9:36 Doesn't the knight on g3 protect the e4 pawn here? So it isn't hanging.

@leo-um6yt Год назад

this is exactly what i was wondering….

@alekhinesgun9997 Год назад

@ExtraCheeseProject Год назад

Maybe Hikaru keeps playing Ba7 with black because he doesn't realise that in Karpov's immortal game he played Ba7 with white 🤔

@JonDoe-uq1mk Год назад

I like Ben's gamer girl headphones

@bowrudder899 Год назад

I never liked Karpov because he seemed like a communist party yes-man. And maybe he is. But his chess is amazing. It was good for Fischer that he didn't play.

@anakinskywalker5576 Год назад

But for the rest of us it was a lost. Kasparov would probably lose from Karpov easily in 1984, who was intimidating enough without that match with Bobby. I wonder how Gari would developed from there on, he was just too good and too intense not to clinch the title anyway.

@wicked5999 Год назад

Reupload? I've already seen this

@bomnitoperro9422 Год назад

Rawr

@siddharthamishra1999 Год назад

Yeah he's reuploading a bunch of videos from the chess club's channel to his personal one

@nuwandalton 5 месяцев назад

"A precursor to Magnus the way he plays the middle game, except that Karpov was better" That's certainly an unpopular opinion in these "Carlsen Cult" years!

@anakinskywalker5576 Год назад

When I am in a dark mood, I put Karpov’s boa constriction classics and Gregorian music choir. Seriously, great video and, yes, it looks easy, but it’s anything but easy. That man knows no mercy, what a player.

@yotoober1 Год назад

Just started watching this, so maybe it's on there, but would love to see a series on Karpovs 1994 Linares tnmnt where Karpov smoked the competition 11/13, no losses, and as they say, "it's performance that counts" Well his performance in that tnmt was a ridiculous 2985 🔥 and there were like 6 or 7 future World Champions and also future women's world champion. And most of the others were world champion candidates or runner up world champions. So what's an ELO of 2985 ratings inflated today? Certainly worth a hundred points, a human Stockfish and no engines back then. ✋✋ Speaking of cheating, Kasparov actually cheated in that tnmt and got away with. The Chief Arbiter of that tnmt actually started a school on how to not see players double touch pieces and apparently his school had a lot of students who are Arbiters today, they allow the same things, you can even pick up your opponents King, no problem, no consequences. 🤣

@yotoober1 Год назад

I mean seriously, 11/13 playing these guys. Are you kidding me? This isn't the Friday night games at your local chess club. Some serious talent there. 🤯 FIDE & GMA Champions (GM Association/PCA Professional Chess Asoc. founded by Kasparov) 1 Karpov WV 2 Kasparov WC 3 Shirov WC Candidate 4 Bareev WC Candidate 5 Lautier Strong GM 6 Kramnik WC 7 Topalov WC 8 Anand WC 9 Kamsky WC 10 Ivanchuk *DO 11 Gelfand WC 12 Illescas Spains top GM 13 J Polgar Womens WC 14 Beliavsky WC Candidate *DO = Always a Dangerous Opponent

@siddharthamishra1999 Год назад

@@yotoober1 Small correction, Judith never went for the women's WC title, she always played in the open section

@yotoober1 Год назад

True, she always played in the Open, that's why she is GM and not WGM. But was she not also the future Women's chess WC?

@yotoober1 Год назад

My bad, I left out the word "considered" So, "considered the Women's WC" as she had the highest ELO ever for Woman chess player.

@donovan665 Год назад

I learned to respect greatly and study Karpov from this video. Great Work!

@scowell Год назад

Kasparov?

@YellowSpaceMarine Год назад

I hope this is a joke

@donovan665 Год назад

Oops

@vigilante8374 Год назад

@@donovan665 No no, you were right the first time. Karpov is Putin's little b*tch. Kasparov has been calling him out for 20 years.

@zacharyheflin6794 Год назад

Quality content for the avid chess improver. Thank you.

@fsr1960 Год назад

I love how Adorjan plays f6 forking White's bishop and knight, then doesn't take either, and a few moves later plays f5, again forking bishop (different one this time) and knight.

@danielh2869 Год назад

"they made a movie about this game, after it ended.... Sophie's choice." 🤣🤣 I'm in stitches!!

@DMSBrian24 Год назад

But the e4 pawn isn't hanging?

@NickKravitz Год назад

Poker is also a good game for old people. In addition to a hand only taking a few minutes, everyone believes old men can neither calculate nor bluff. Will there still be bridge in 30 years?

@TheGloryofMusic Год назад

This is why I don't play chess anymore--I got too afraid when my opponent would double-up on the bubble-up.

@jessejordache1869 Год назад

"Why would you play into your opponent's hands?" To this day, Kasparov bringing the Tarrasch Defense to the 1984 WCM is a total mystery. Yeah, why don't you pick a defense which gives White a target that the right player can make the central feature of the whole game? What could go wrong? Later on, you can relax with a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors and open with rock against a guy who always plays paper.

@King.Mark. Год назад

7:40 the pawn is ok and looked after by the knight as well?

@Evilanious Год назад

Always repeat, especially your best lectures!

@Derkalerk Год назад

Fun fact: Double up on the bubble up is a Crack cooking reference.

@manuel278 Год назад

Hello Finegold, thank you for your video. There were very important information in it. But I have some questions. The first goes back to the minute 10:17: Why bishop b1? The knight on g3 protects the pawn on e4 - so bishop b1 is not necessary. The second was in the minu te 22:20: Black can move the Queen back and forward from e8 to f7 and to e7 if necessary. In addition I want to ask why Karpov is not under the top 10 anymore. I am looking forward to your answer. Thank you very much!

@Mark8v29 2 дня назад

Thanks Ben. As a middle aged beginner this year focussing on tactics/puzzles I had not yet learned much at all about famous chess players though Karpov Kasparov where the only two names I knew as a teenager. But this week I think Karpov is now my favourite player because after 9 months I'm now wishing to learn positional chess and because I am more awe of the man or the few who lead the opponent to resign without attacking than the many who use attack as a weapon. It's like the martial artist. The former seems so much more admirable than the latter. But maybe thats because in other aspects of life I prefer strategy to tactics.

@MrCupidd Год назад

After C4 BF1 doesn’t the knight on G3 protect the e pawn

@nbeqo 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the videos but use an engine, man! Bb1 because e4 is not protected, what about Ng3? or after cb cb Qc3 you could go over = Bxb5 followed by Rc1.... etc. Sorry, just an honest feedback.

@anonymousAJ Год назад

7:35 ...Ne4 Nxe4 So its not so loose. Is there a tactic or did Ben not see Ng3xe4 ?

@cecilasen Год назад

If you want to play like karpov make sure to overdose on caffeine so you don't fall asleep before your opponent does

@talgoam Год назад

"I'm not sayin' that Karpov's human" :D

@PeterSzpiriev 14 дней назад

I can beat You in practical game but i like Your lection, Gata Kamsky was my favirite. Radjabov

@markroo6091 Месяц назад

How would you call Knife F5 with a Fork, a Bindent move, Spitfork F5? 😂

@tobilori8601 Год назад

why isnt black playing Queen b7, trading queens at some point, for example after Kg2?

@madhavsanap6690 8 месяцев назад

In the first game was the white pawn really hanging ? Knight was guarding the pawn I think. Bb1 ...

@paulgreen7906 Год назад

While I am a tactical player and my idols are Morphy, Tal, Spassky and Kasparov. You have to appreciate how good a player Karpov was in his prime. He is the positional master and the Unzicker game is one of my favourites. He is in the top 10 of all time!

@MrSupernova111 Год назад

Once you cross 2000 you'll need to have more than just tactics in your arsenal. Expert and titled players aren't going to let you casually waltz into their camp and blow up their position. I love tactics too but most higher level games aren't decided with tactical shots.

@thekurdishtapes8317 9 месяцев назад

I like Karpov much more than even Capa. Capa appears to just trade everything and then win an equal endgame, which is admittedly a a great skill but not so appealing to me, I prefer Karpovs strangling style

@miguelpanta 3 месяца назад

@743: the knight still guards W's e pawn??

@manmoth_1990 Год назад

Ba7 is definitely up there with the greatest moves ever played. I think Nigel Short said it was his favorite move. (edit: then again Nigel says a lot of weird things)

@ash9788 Год назад

Handsome sponser, except for muliple things.

@technodro8628 Год назад

I missed your educational content so much. This one was especially great Vintage fine gold!!!

@PeterSzpiriev 14 дней назад

Karpov is classic. Like Mozart in Music

@michaelangelo1202 4 месяца назад

Karpov is the Jose Mourinho of chess, or Catenaccio of Chess

@carmenconry4227 15 дней назад

Not Karen on her fucking phone or laptop...

@alanburns8616 Год назад

Dude I got a monkey brain 🧠 I need to hit the lottery hire you as chess coach so you can confirm my monkey Brian don’t work in chess I’m good had to hand I’m situationally in real life good with psychology but the chess board evades me I taught my kids and now can’t beat them

@alanburns8616 Год назад

But you teaching the kids Saint Louis videos upped my game and your my favorite teacher

@andrew_owens7680 7 месяцев назад

Double up on the bubble up! Triple up on the Snapple up?

@guardianofnature1 Год назад

At 7:39, Isn't the white knight on g3 defending the e4 pawn that is only being attacked once? I don't understand why white's biship has to keep defending the e4 pawn in this case.

@jandal8905 Год назад

You're right.

@frankspokes5282 Год назад

Thank you so much for this one Ben! Karpov is the 🐐!

@renehenriksen1735 Год назад

Ben Finegold : " - How does Karpov win blitz-games against Karjakin when he´s 70?" Me (answering): " - Because he´s been taught Carlito´s way dear Bunny, eh sorry Benny!"

@jessejordache1869 Год назад

fyi, at move ...22, Black doesn't really have anything better than ...c4. The problem with ...cxb4 is that either after 23. Rxa8 ...Rxa8 24.bxc4, or 23 bxc4 directly, stockfish shows that the pawn on b5 is basically undefendable, because of how easily white can attack it and how Black's tangled pieces don't allow a defense that doesn't create another weakness. They're not crazy computer lines, they're lines that players at the elite level would find. Karpov in particular probably would have known that the b-pawn falls without having to calculate, because he thinks more schematically than combinationally. Or I do, and Karpov's games make sense to me like no other player's. Oh, I see you saw it too. I was going to say "you'd see it if you were playing the game in earnest" but didn't want to presume.

@jonasniederson5172 5 месяцев назад

Bishop A7 is a monster move! Found myself laughing. And "I'm not saying that Karpov is human...", tears in my eyes.

@maialinellospazio Год назад

Around minutes 7 and 11ish, Ben keeps analyzing middlegame variations where White "loses the e4 pawn", never realizing that it's defended by the Knife in g3 :)

@Via-Media2024 Год назад

Chess speaks for itself

@iniohos2 Год назад

0:31 Well, I can...here's Botvinnik's"The boy doesn't have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession".

@DocUK123 Год назад

Great video! Thanks! The only time you don't take on f4 is in the Vienna Gambit, then it's bad..otherwise you can play like Karpov :)

@edwardjanuary1259 Год назад

Why you delay uploading the lectures ,I mean there is space time curvature between Sant Louise channel and yours , may be. It is always delay!!!!!! ?

@brigidwell Год назад

5:08 b4! is really instructive to me. I never see moves like that because I'm usually focused either on neutralizing my opponent's best pieces or improving my own (I would've just played Nf1 here). I like this idea that Karpov is picking on the opponent's already bad piece, knowing full well that black is already insecure about it.

@thedamnmoron Год назад

I thought that karpov had passed away when I saw the video

@NewGrow-kb1bg Год назад

He “accidentally fell” in the Russian duma and is in an “induced coma”. So he’s dead; the Russian government killed him. He made a deal with the devil

@nick0424 Год назад

Outstanding

@nickmeyer1030 Год назад

Yay Karpov! Just ruthless.

@PeterSzpiriev 14 дней назад

Look Karpovs pieces all in harmony

@PeterSzpiriev 14 дней назад

I played with Kaidanov a draw

@PeterSzpiriev 14 дней назад

Nice lections

@chessbrilliance8783 Год назад

Black is ok with resigning! New book by Adorjan.

@OmneAurumNon Год назад

7:40 Ben said that the e pawn would be hanging after Bf1, but isn't the knight on g3 still defending it?

@UserAm10 3 месяца назад

Thanks ben

@jtdavis62 Год назад

It's always 1974 somewhere, Ben.

@xavierg6398 11 месяцев назад

hi sir

@groussac Год назад

An irrelevant question, but are you any relation to Michael Feingold, a theater critic for the Village Voice? I know you guys spell your names differently, but thought there might be some connection.

@dquinn1988 4 месяца назад

Yes, it’s his nephew.

@TheMaestromMephisto Год назад

i'm a tactical player but i'm starting to love karpov

@sicoles 6 месяцев назад

These videos are the best part of my day. Thank you Ben

@joeyoest1105 10 месяцев назад

8:15 “the e pawn is hanging [confusing the audience]”

@PelDaddy Год назад

This was very helpful and instructive. Thank you!

@nygeek6471 Год назад

22:23 if you plug it into an engine what does it recommend

@hellopleychess3190 Год назад

re-uploaded this, I know it

@vincethruster3955 Год назад

its like Sophie's Choice, but serious

@caesarsailor4051 Год назад

I’m gonna watch this again, please more on Karpov

@Tazer183 Год назад

Unziker was nearly 50 for the 1st game

@DWeirich76 Год назад

Ben needs to do middle game strategy when it comes to women.

@fsr1960 Год назад

That was a very Nice Olympiad.

@optimalbrand Год назад

the new version - black is not okay 😄

@jailer165 Год назад

Karpov is not doing so great after a fall.

@tobiasjohansson2902 Год назад

"three sides of the board".

@kfc8885 Год назад

RIP KARPOV

@untonsured Год назад

He's not dead yet although he was attacked he appears to be recovering.

@MrSupernova111 Год назад

Beautiful games! Thanks!

@inspectorlunge3887 Год назад

27:56

@sesh7357 4 месяца назад

Excellent stuff!

@ahmicmatija Год назад

46:34 Best here by far is Qg8+

@grbluen Год назад

Best video you've done in a long time!

@thetransferaccount4586 10 месяцев назад

nice games

@willzang3000 Год назад

damn what a game

@chessriddle Год назад

always sac the exchange

@user-ts2co4ov5h Год назад

Karpov has over 3000 games but ONCE AGAIN, you are showing games that are VERY WELL KNOWN...covered in many books including his own best games...please do more research to show lesser known games