I'm 50 years old and I've played 100s of 1000s of online games and now finally I'm as good as the Saint Louis Chess Club kids... I think I can actually win against these kids...
I disagree slightly. He gives kids 2 minutes to solve a puzzle, but then resolves it after barely one minute because one kid already found it. And at 19:27 he does not resolve the puzzle since the queen does not have to take on f8. He should do fewer puzzles, but do them properly.
Dude: I literally thought the teacher was kaparov. The title of the video literally says Kasparov! I was like: wow! they got Kasparov to teach the game of the famous queen gambit game played by himself, as the white! Plus, the teacher dude literally looks just how you would imagine Kasparov would have looked today.
@@Indianculturalprotector--- If he's teaching lower rated players then there's no point in going so deep into opening variations when the kids are gonna have no idea what to do when their opponent deviates from the theory on move three.
I have seen a lot of the Saint Louis Chess Club videos and I do have to say that GM Varuzhan Akobian is probably one of the best teachers I have seen in any of the videos. He has a nice way of working with kids, and I am learning a lot from the videos.
Akobian is nice, proper, teacher I want to have for kids. Just think how patience does he carry to teach basic things even though he is GRAND MASTER. salute u sir. U r gifted.
All these kids are going to grow up (or have grown up, now) to be absolute monsters at this game, because they had such a great teacher when they were kids.
explanation rule for 19:55 ... If you can withdraw an attacked piece by creating a greater threat at once this piece is not hanging anymore. Thereby you win the tempo you need.
+Hitendra Kishanchandani What I liked most about this particular lecture is that he actually patiently answers all of the kids' questions. Var even showed the possible winning idea for that game with 2 pieces up when I thought he was short on time and would excuse himself to move on to the next part of the lecture. To be honest, I always felt bad for a kid asking Ben Finegold a question and getting rejected with some harsh joke (big fan of GM Finegold otherwise)
+Vahid Alimohamadi I have to admit, I really enjoy Akobian answering that, because playing when I'm up material, and my opponent isn't resigning, is when I tend to make the most blunders, mostly because I don't study those positions at all.
+Majora1988 Same here. I tend to lose a winning position quickly because I know the steps to get the winning position but not the follow up afterwards. (rated 1700ish)
about the last puzzle,what if u put rook c8 then he takes it and u take with bishop then put rook a8 and its inevitable checkmate with bishop f5 unless he puts rook a6 and then u take his rook then u have 2 rooks advantage which i think is better than the other alternatives cause in the first occasion he might just eat ur bishop with knight and then u can take his rook but only have 1 rook advantage.
+Daniel the Seventh after the white bishop captures on c8, and before white can move his rook to a8, black moves his rook to c6 giving check and attacking the bishop, so on the next move he will capture it. If white tries to attack the knight with his king (by moving him to d4), then before taking the bishop, the black knight moves to safety by taking the pawn on f3 with check, and again black is about to take the bishop, and if white keeps attacking the knight by moving his king to e4, the knight goes to g5, giving check and moving to a square guraded by the pawn on h6, and now the capture of the bishop is inevitable, leaving white down a piece.
Question … At 7:30 why the best moves wouldn‘t be as follows. White to play … So to sacrifice the white bishop on g5? Bxh6 - g7xh6 D3xG6 - F7xG6 C2xG6 and check with Queen?
I'm not a chess grandmaster but I was and I can set the fashions and philosophy for chess; Because when I did the analysis I was among the best players in the world. I could brush up and play a bit, too
Why are we even talking about the Queen's gambit declined? Because I emphasize it as the most practicable of the hyper-modern chess openings; which is a whole unexplored Africa of chess possibilities.
When bishop goes to G5, what if black plays pawn to h6, instead of castling. How to proceed then? It would be great if someone would be able to help me here..
I never understand why black doesn't move pawn h6 to put the white bishop into question earlier? Am I missing something? why not do that right away and not have your knight pinned there
@@JonnyBurkholder Finegold is more fun to watch certainly. Something about this guy's teaching style, especially with kids, just seems attractive. Maybe its because his insistence on challenging them and not sugar coating it when they make mistakes is refreshing.
when? you need to add a time period to make it easier to understand which point of the game you are talking about. if you are talking about say 2:36 if black moves h6 then Bh4 and if g5 then Bg3 which leaves black in a nastier position because you would like to castle kingside and right now if you do your king won't be well defended due to the weakened pawn structure