New GM Finegold content? Heckyea!

"Let's get back to Black - as Amy Winehouse, RIP, would say". Legend.

"The only way to stop Rc3+, is to resign." Is such and incredibly raw ass line. 😂 🔥

42:18 After pawn takes its Qb1#. Not Nb3+.
I wrote that then continued watching. Someone even commented during the lecture, and Ben went back, but not far enough. "Could I have played it last move?" Nope, but you could have two moves ago.

Great lecture!  Vetemaa vs. Shabalov is now one of my favorite games.  Not sure I've ever seen that one before.  I have seen a game with very similar tactics but think it was out of another opening.  

I used to play the Alekhine's Defense some when I first started playing chess online.  Its a fun opening to play and seems to freshen up the game a bit.  Takes people out of their comfort zone really quickly.  Similar to how people react to the King's Gambit and the Vienna.  You can tell you have successfully surprised your opponent  on move 1.

Would like to see more of the 4 pawn attack against this opening.  Especially all the possible pawn moves black could face in that position.

In that band is on the field football game, John Elway was the QB of the losing team. He completed a first down pass on a 4th and 17 from his own 13 yard line to keep the drive alive and set up the "winning" field goal. It makes the kickoff return that much more impressive

Woah! I haven't seen this one yet. Very unusual for videos on this channel

Thank you for the video

Hi Ben !
Thanks for the video !
Dufus my brother is very interested !
As am I !
You mentioned the Rufus and Dufus defence , but neither myself or my brother have yet to invent a chess defence !

Thanks for posting this lecture. This is my main opening as black.

Great analytical video! Thanks a lot!

This is BRILLIANT and extremely Superiour!!!

I feel like the ability to play openings like this show kind of a matured chess ability. I remember as a kid I'd see this opening and think why the hell would you move your knight out only to have to move it a couple more times right away and help your opponent build a strong center? But in reality it's not THAT easy to maintain that strong center, especially this day and age if you're not familiar with the opening but your opponent is.

I used to play aggressive openings in bullet chess as a teen in the early days of online chess and now as a 40 something looking back on it, any strong player wasn't afraid of the openings I'd play because they'd see my aggressive play and just see weaknesses created and could pick them apart. I'd still win some games on the strength of being speedy and thinking decently on the fly, but any IM/GM level player would win 85+% of the time because my aggressive opening was actually shooting myself in the foot most games.

Good lecture and example games.

Can u do a Benoni defense lecture?

1) e4... Nf6 CONFUSING HIS OPPONENT

Thanks Ben! This is extremely helpful

I sometimes play the Alekhine as black in online blitz games. About 75% of the time it leads to self-loathing and terrible positions. But the remaining 25% of games are pretty cool!

Great lecture, Ben!

thank you so much