Réti Opening: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold 

BOO

,” Said every chess dad that ever dadded.

This comment is pure Finegold

This was like a bowl of baked reti with meat sauce.

Plenty of lectures are like that.

Yess

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Boo !! Fine, gold humour :D

jesus christ

True, but he makes money on sponsoring videos, RU-vid revenue, the audience he insults in person, etc. Plus, he's Ben Finegold and you're not. 😂

@@jamesbell1613id rather not be him either, with all due respect😅

😂 😂 😂

I was looking for openings for white for a full year when I started playing chess. I actually played much better with black for the first 13 months until I found a healthy balance of Nf3 on move one and c4 on move one, occasionally reaching the Wikipedia position

I find the same thing. In the low level club games I play otb, I play guys who have been playing a decade or two and they're still thinking in the first few moves.

Hey, since you know the opening... Any tips on improving my understanding of the position in the middle game? I find it difficult to decide what the right... Ideas are for the middle game. The opening is able to play on both sides pretty easily it seems, and I'm not yet clear on how to decide, since I usually favour playing with an open center. Or, I may recognize that I am strangling my opponent, but it is unclear to me where to put pressure, because while they can't move, everything is defended. But this looks like a very enjoyable opening, that I'd like to play more (:

I know I’m super late to the party, but I play the Reti a lot and find myself in the same solid positions in the middle game with great center control and piece placement. I often find that a few waiting moves are all I need to get an imbalance on the board that I can try to exploit. Something like a quiet a3, h3, simply taking space.

@@EliasMheart I thought I'd replied to this, but I must've never actually done it. My apologies! One drawback of the Reti is that you do need to know different thematic moves and ideas in a few different variations. The Advance is the one you really need to know, since it's the most testing, and your biggest asset often involves a bind on the Queenside to block in the opponent's Knight, plus a great diagonal for your light-squared bishop (which you should usually fianchetto except in specific lines like the Reverse Blumenfeld.) It really does vary depending on how your opponent responds though, so there while there are thematic ideas, there is nothing necessarily routine. If you like an open centre, though, it might not be the opening you'd prefer to play, as the Reti doesn't tend to create open positions unless the opponent takes the c-pawn. I think it's also important not to focus too much on attacking chess and more on improving pieces and getting them to ideal squares, while either playing around the centre or building up to challenge it. I enjoy breaking up and undermining the opponent's centre, and that is the main general idea behind most variations in the Reti, I'd say.

Are you sure you're reti for it?

No political aspects. He simply sold himself.🤷🏻‍♀️

They aren’t blundering. They are just showing the Ross Gambit some love.

Oh no, my queen 😭

Ben10?

The first name is always playing white. Sometimes Ben will flip the board when talking primarily about the player with black, in honor of Ken West, for reasons I'm not entirely clear on.

@@nickmeyer1030 I thought he switched the board in case Mike Kummer was watching

There was no Danny to leak a Report. 😁

Lmfao I think you’re the only one confused

Maybe you're to stupid to understand