Hands down the best lecture I've seen on this channel. Yasser is great, he's a very kind man, and he's very wise in chess. Finegold is funny and makes entertaining content, and then sneakily teaches some chess as well.
But this guy came prepared, he had great games, knew exactly what he was going to teach, and he took every variation that was an option or that was suggested deep enough to show it's strengths and weaknesses. The games are high quality, the ideas featured are strong and explained in depth, by allowing the wrong variations to be played there was also some real insight into the game as well, and to top it all of this guy is a great speaker too.
All in all it's an excellent video, and Cristian is an excellent presenter and teacher. A very calm and collected chess lecture that, to me, was highly educational!
Thanks to all involved for providing this excellent content for free <3

I love the move Re5 at 8:18. Very advanced idea that I never really considered: You want to keep the knight out of d7, so you attack the piece the knight is defending, namely the pawn on d5. It's sort of like a reverse remove the defender. A glue the defender, if you will.

very educational video

romania's shining star...good to see you

Very educative...

Shout out to Arjun

Can u show Italian game plz

If u have done plz someone Give me the link

At 16:40 is the threat not Bishop takes a6?

Aeesome work

Isn't there a mate at Rxf6 Kg8 Rf2 c3 Kf7 (Ke8 risks N d8 winning the rook)  c2 Nh6+ Kh8 Rc8#?  @32:02

Awesome wprk

To anyone else who misses Finegold, he has his own channel. He has started his own Chess Club in Atlanta and hes taking donations. You should check it out.

At 29:47, White can play Nf7+. If Kg7, Nd8+ Kf8 N*c7 K*e7 Nd4 stopping the pawn, and if Nf7+ Kh5 g4+ Kh4 Kh2 c2 Nd8 c1=Q R*h7#!

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