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GM Ben Finegold's Message to Beginner Chess Players

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20 Comments

@brandonszpot8948 8 months ago

“Getting good at chess is about not giving up. It’s also how you get good at anything.”

Beautifully said ♥️

@reedclippings8991 4 years ago (edited)

I'm a teacher. This is not a chess video. This is a teaching video. That is a compliment.

Also, easy to get the idea this guy isn't humble and understanding with all the jokes. Clearly he is.

@bobdylan6237 4 years ago

I love that Ben had this compassionate and nurturing side, you don't see it very often 😜 also nice to see content that's more educational and similar to the lectures

@scorpion2.411 4 years ago

17:09 "Everything's difficult when you don't know it" - That quote got stuck in my head. It's for stuff like this that I not only admire Ben for his chess content, but I also admire him for the person he is.

@CaslavNorisavljevic 4 years ago

I'm embarrassed to say that i was guilty of too quickly showing double attacks and discovered attacks to kid players

@RunFreeRyan 4 years ago

I enjoyed this video not because it explains what to teach beginners, but that Ben truly cares about the game of chess and helping those get better no matter how "bad" the player may be. No air of superiority. I loved watching this and love watching you.

@xekind 3 years ago

The main income for grandmasters is betting people $5 they can't find all the legal moves in a mundane position.

@aanon4019 4 years ago (edited)

7:45 "they would if they could" thanks twitch chat

@JackMott 3 years ago

It is really a rare and valuable thing to have a GM level player who struggled for a long time when he was young. It makes him uniquely able to understand what beginners are actually experiencing. Start slow and very basic, learn to move the pieces, then learn to not hang one every game. And that alone can be a long term, years long project, especially if you are young or have limited time.

@pixification 4 years ago

“We live in a world where everyone is mean including me!” Best Ben quote ever. Truth hurts and so forth.

@Schauderbasis 1 year ago

The talk about getting good was so on point. I study mathematics and I have seen so many very capable people fail because they can't tolerate losing and many less "talented" people surpass everyone because they didn't give up.

@gunnarandersen6570 4 years ago

Wow, I think this is the best piece of advice ever given to chess coaches. Great stuff.

@jemand8462 3 years ago

"everything is very difficult if you don't know it"
"you get very good at chess if you play a lot of it. That's how you get good at anything"

This guy isn't only a chess genius, he should talk to 16 year old kids in schools. I wish I had someone tell me these things when I was that age.

@acsu96 4 years ago

I remember growing up my dad didn't know what to do with me so after Bobby Fischer teaches chess and me just playing at the school club, he just set me on Lazlo Polgar's Chess book...and there's like hundreds of mate in one puzzles in that book. Kept me busy for a long while!

@BobfromSydney 4 years ago

This reminds me of a quote from Karl von Clausewitz (just replace "war" with "Chess")
"Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen war."
On War (1832–4) bk. 1, ch. 7, tr. J. J. Graham

@antonmladenov161 4 years ago

Thank you Ben, this gave me a lot to think about when it comes to teaching my little sister chess, a lot of great puzzle examples and I definitely have been showing her too complicated ideas

@arnislapsa1619 4 years ago

My approach is to enjoy chess. I don't even strive to improve. Scratching that intellectual itch every now and then, when I feel like it. Eventually and inevitably something mind blowing and exciting comes up (position, tactic, particular game) that makes it all worth. And I have become slightly sharper.