The knight takes knight, queen takes knight variation was a defense popularised by GM Frank Lee Terrible in 1899! (it historically never failed to lose for black)
GM Ben Finegold is the best possible combination of entertainment and education! I feel like my joke ELO is through the rough because I understand all his jokes. "One move that you all know *whispers* I don't think they all know..."
In case anyone's wondering, Karjakin was born in January 1990. The Sudak tournament was played in October 2002, a month after Karjakin became the youngest grandmaster in history.
33:56, ahah, I like the money part too! 45:30, I also like this one, honesty! On streams there was also the one "the more you donate, the more money I have!"
I play this opening as white a majority of my games and from when I started to where I am now, around 800, in about 90% of the games black takes the pawn and then takes the knight. It’s great for this level because none of the good moves actually look good for black
7:00 In the scotch black developpement is a bit quicker than in the sicilian, and white e4 pawn is weaker due to the open file. On the other hand no central majority for black sure but all things considered d4 slightly stronger against sicilians than against symmetric probably (2 - 1 for sicillian d4 break).
Isn't it better (or more precise) for white to play in the moveorder 1. e4 e5 2. d4 (expecting 2. ... ed4) and 3. Nf3 (expecting 3. ... Nc6)? I saw it in one video here (maybe one of Yasser's), the goal is to deny black the option of going into Petrov or Philidor or other non-Nc6 openings.
Ben flips the board if he's considering things from Black's point of view. You can also tell that it's a White opening because it's White who makes the choice to play it, by playing 3.d4.
So for US NEW PLAYERS we supposed to watch multiple times to understand instead of just saying in the beginning where to focus attention yeah glad you didn’t teach me anything growing up
@@MrJusone No. For new players it is expected that you utilize your own intuition to gauge whether the theory you are learning is for white or black. Ben makes it’s completely obvious. I don’t see how an intermediate player, let alone a GM, could make it more obvious with the board orientation. However, if you’re looking for beginner study, I would highly suggest looking particularly at minors, pawns, rooks, draws, queens vs rooks + pawns, etc until you feel complete, then middlegame, and finally opening theory. That’s the way Karpov learned it until he was CM and USSR Champion and that’s the way I do it.
Probably the headset mic is for the Zoom stream and the lapel mic for the RU-vid recording. Alternatively, the headset mic is just there because he's using the headphones and all the sound's coming from the lapel mic.
at 31:49 white takes e5 knight with queen, maybe i am missing something obvious here, but I don't see why black can't still checkmate on g2 with the queen bishop opera?? set me straight please??
Yeah in general Scottish people prefer "Scottish" and "Scotch" is a British word that has fallen out of favour. However it persists in older established terms like Scotch whisky, Scotch bonnet, or here, the Scotch opening.
Because Black's queen is trapped after Kh1. The only moves where it doesn't get taken immediately are Qg6, which loses to the discovered attack Ne6+, and Qh4, which loses to the fork Nxg7+.
You mean Bd4+ -- # is checkmate. But 10... Bd4 11.Kh1 and Black's queen is trapped. The only moves where it doesn't get taken immediately are Qg6, which loses to the discovered attack Ne6+ and Qh4, which loses to the fork Nxg7+.
Speaking of the French, I find it funny that 5 years ago it was most computers preferred defense against e4 and now it's borderline refuted at the super computer level.
Stopped watching at Karjakin game. He is a traitor to his country and Putin supporter. Sorry Ben but I don't think you should feature his games anymore.
We all agree Karjakin’s a piece of shit. This stream was originally filmed and posted in 2021, before everything happened. We’re just working on consolidating the content. - Ben’s Editor
Traitor to his country? For supporting the Russian president who has a higher approval rating than any European leader and this has been confirmed by Western polls too.
