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Great Players of the Past: Yasser Seirawan Part 1

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Yasser Seirawan is a Syrian-born American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. This lecture was recorded September 11, 2023 in Roswell, Georgia.

08:51 Yasser Seirawan - Jan Timman, KRO Match 1990
19:53 Yasser Seirawan - Anatoly Karpov, Phillips and Drew Kings 1982
29:02 Yasser Seirawan - Vasyl Ivanchuk, Groningen Candidates 1997
34:59 Vlastimil Hort - Yasser Seirawan, Bad Kissingen 1981

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20 Comments

@jinjocat 3 years ago

Ben, if you spent a whole video just talking about Yasser and not showing any games, that would make an excellent video!

@RealDaveSanders 3 years ago

Yasser and Ben are the two people that did the most for chess in the YouTube age. You can scream hikaru and levy all you want but they were grinding out commentary and analysis of excellent games by the likes of “w”esley “s”o while levy was still making PIPI in his pampers.

@MrCupidd 3 years ago

I played Yasser once. He beat me! He was very gracious in the analysis afterwards. Good guy.

@Aizen343 3 years ago

"Randomly selected", poor Freddie Mercury of chess, famously plays for the USA and has to deal with that. Yasser is a beast on the board and the most gracious of people to know. A superb teacher and a charismatic force of nature.

@JimJWalker 3 years ago

In the late 1980s the 5-time Florida champion SM Gary Sanders (2450-ish) was my chess teacher. He played blitz against Yasser many times. Gary said the games would be played very quickly and Gary would get a good position. Then Yasser would do something strange like move his knight to the rim. Gary would pause to think, then try to punish the error. The game would then begin again being played fast, and Yasser somehow would always win the endgame. Gary shook his head as he could not understand what happened. =)

@DekarNL 2 years ago

Yasser has mesmerizing lectures, both on ChessBrah and the Saint Louis chess club channels. Well worth a watch.

@NotTheWheel 3 years ago (edited)

Yasser and Ben are the people who I admire most.
Yasser is my all time inspiration as an American Chess player. Great Chess player, Great Teacher. His Legacy exists and has impacted so many things in the Chess Community. A Great man.

@Ask_Pizza 3 years ago

I bought several of Yasser's chess books when I was a kid. I loved those books, he is an awesome chess teacher. Now I spend all my time involving chess watching Ben lecture and play. My two favorite chess personalities, and this is a three part series. Oh my this is awesome.

@answer_is_42 3 years ago

Ben you seen rejuvenated. What ever you are doing keep it up.

I can confirm...I am not Ben or a GM...

@philljenner4045 3 years ago

Yasser is everyone's favourite Chess Uncle.

@dorkbink1698 3 years ago

I was at this monumental lecture where Ben didn't flip the board for the last game. A very rare and exclusive event

@h0wnr681 3 years ago

Yasser has such a wonderful, creative way of playing chess, all his old games are so interesting. I'll always remember his game that he lectured on where he defeated John Nunn, it was also a Caro Kann and he won with an amazing attack on the queenside where Nunn had castled. Who wouldn't be proud to beat a straight up genius at chess? I know I'd tell everyone, forever.

@kenspencer9895 3 years ago

GREAT lecture! Alas, I think some of my games are in the best games collections of some of my opponents.

@AmFritz 3 years ago (edited)

It feels like it's the 100th upload of the video about Yasser ahahaha

Never enough though

@Klatt7 8 months ago

What a game

@atillacodesstuff1223 2 years ago

"im ben finegold and youre not" always gets me lol

@danjeory3659 3 years ago

I was hoping you would open with "Thanks to our sponsor, Yasser Seirawan"

@johnpeace1149 3 years ago

Developing a bishop in the end game. Good job. :)

@hy4561 11 months ago

yasser is hilarious xD

@nafetsstefansson 3 years ago

Ben I'd love if you did a series of Peter Leko. He is such a great commentator idiots like me can understand the games! And he was world number 2 or something