Great Players of the Past: Joel Benjamin

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2023
  • Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... GM Ben Finegold covers GM Joel Benjamin. This lecture was recorded August 14th, 2023 in Roswell, Georgia.
    12:23 Gata Kamsky - Joel Benjamin, US Championship 1991
    29:19 Joel Benjamin - Eduard Gufeld, US Open 1998
    42:03 Joel Benjamin - Emory Tate, World Open 2000
    49:44 Alex Ivanov - Joel Benjamin, US Championship 1992
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ความคิดเห็น • 47

  • @MisterJoshuaTree
    @MisterJoshuaTree 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Joel has been coaching me. He’s an incredible teacher! It’s wild having him look at the blitz games I play on my phone on the toilet

  • @mapachetapatio
    @mapachetapatio 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I'm impressed ... The four games were incredible. 50 nuances of Benjamin ... Great players of the past is my favorite chess lesson.

  • @nimzomitch
    @nimzomitch 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    It's all about the Benjamins

  • @jasonbraun3149
    @jasonbraun3149 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Great video! As a fellow NY'er who started playing in the early 70s (I'm even older than Joel), I remember seeing this 12 year old prodigy playing some of the top players in NYC tournaments. And it's good to see that he's still playing now. Always instructive games that I've learned from.

  • @rayleewayne9109
    @rayleewayne9109 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    After Joel won the 1982 US Junior Championship, he did a Simo tour. I had a board against him in Charlotte NC. I played an unusual fianchetto defense. I gave him a good game, but he beat all of us. Joel used my defense to beat Dzindzichashvili in the last round of the 1984 World Open to win the title.

  • @elg7365
    @elg7365 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For some reason Ben is a great teacher. You learn a lot with minimum effort. He doesn't overcomplicate everything and every line and understand how bad we are

  • @NickKravitz
    @NickKravitz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    @49:05 Can you find the mate-in-one at home? I found it immediately, only to have Ben play another one. Can you find the second mate-in-one?

    • @sohamnandi5457
      @sohamnandi5457 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yup

    • @danbrooks6780
      @danbrooks6780 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Qe4 did seem obvious, therefore Benjamin was required to mate with the knight (for style points)

    • @robertomariani626
      @robertomariani626 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, I'm surprised he didn't mention the queen one, which is also the one I found, as he usually says: this is mate, if you don't like that, this is also mate.

  • @sanitary103
    @sanitary103 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a great series. Benjamin is the man.

  • @romeoami7911
    @romeoami7911 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love you Ben ❤

  • @tomswiftyphilo2504
    @tomswiftyphilo2504 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    that was some good benjamin

  • @tolkienfan1972
    @tolkienfan1972 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very cool

  • @peterbauer7271
    @peterbauer7271 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It’s a whole world amid the chess clocks the desire to push up their ratings to boldly go where no person has gone before o brave new world to have such creatures in it. The rambling monologue o rare Ben.😊

  • @WorldOfDeepThought
    @WorldOfDeepThought 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Horgen is indeed in Switzerland.

  • @f.d.3289
    @f.d.3289 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    10:42 Joel Benjamin is not in the World Chess Hall of Fame, only in the US Chess Hall of Fame. Wikipedia often confuses the two.

    • @jeffreyfisher3115
      @jeffreyfisher3115 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The wikipedia entry for the World Chess Hall of Fame gives the convoluted history and it's no wonder people get confused.

  • @yosefcohen483
    @yosefcohen483 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you, GM Finegold. Acclaim. Sorry to hear about the stairs. Hoping you're okay.

  • @robertomariani626
    @robertomariani626 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ahah, 49:05 the answer is fries while I was eating them, damn, finegold knows his stuff!

  • @Demian_R
    @Demian_R 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That is not at all what I expected the back of your head to look like.. 42:26

  • @atwarwithdust
    @atwarwithdust 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator says $10,000 in 1988 would be worth over $26,000 today.

  • @ExtraCheeseProject
    @ExtraCheeseProject 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    "He was (the main GM) for the Deep Blue Team that beat Garry Kasparov in their famous match." For the longest time I'd assumed that the Deep Blue Team cheated against Garry, but now that I know Joel Benjamin was their main GM, I don't know what to think. Now I'm trying to remember if either Ben ever discussed the controversy 🤔

    • @12jswilson
      @12jswilson 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nah. Garry played a line that everyone knew was bad, but refuting it involves a sacrifice that Garry didn't believe a computer could play. For earlier computers that was true, but Deep Blue had both further calculation and better positional heuristics

    • @ExtraCheeseProject
      @ExtraCheeseProject 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@12jswilson I meant Deep Blue rejecting the 'poisoned pawn' in the second game.

    • @tolkienfan1972
      @tolkienfan1972 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was there a shred of evidence of cheating? I've only seen speculation.

    • @ExtraCheeseProject
      @ExtraCheeseProject 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@tolkienfan1972 IBM dismantling Deep Blue is compelling circumstantial evidence: at best it highlights the singular design of Deep Blue solely to defeat Kasparov (as opposed to being a universal chess engine capable of beating any human, the argument being that another player like Karpov or Kramnik could have easily defeated Deep Blue) and at worst it showed that IBM had something to hide.

    • @tolkienfan1972
      @tolkienfan1972 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ExtraCheeseProject it's evidence of nothing. What do you suppose could be hidden inside the computer? A little person?

  • @elpollolocoman119
    @elpollolocoman119 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Morphy played that Gufeld vs Joel opening for white mostly, and the way Morphy would counter it or just contradict it's idea for black was Bd7 before Nc6. Because, with Nc7 after Qxd4, Morphy plays Bb5, and takes that knight if black responds with Bd7. Then Morphy would trade that bishop for a knight, and claim that his queen is centralized, so what is black going to do about it? I would imagine that if black would wish to continue to harass that queen as a form of development, black would be easy to predict, and Morphy as white would find a way to create tempo based on being able to understand blacks motive. Fight tempo with tempo. Ofc in those days the players are all about rapid development, and tempo, only Morphy would do it better, cause he had that intention to mate all the time, with incredible accuracy. Yea, creating potentially incredible tempo, because the queen although is centralized early, can be a very powerful attacking piece. Mate threats, that may even include queen sacs. Now that is tempo. Some GM's would consider it risky, I think Morphy saw it as flawless. lol It wasn't risk for him it was about perfection. Mind us all, if we do compare the games in those days vs the games in these days. Their games would be ever lasting. No time control. Even Ben Franklyn would have chess matches against rivals that would last for years, simply by using letters, for they would be miles apart lol. They were not kidding around at all in chess in those days. Even though to the untrained eye it would seem as though they were.

  • @user-sf8cs3sz2i
    @user-sf8cs3sz2i 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What happened to ben's teeth?

    • @shakohoto7901
      @shakohoto7901 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The tooth hurts!

  • @heyumnew1401
    @heyumnew1401 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Benjamin arola
    Gottem

  • @saakuya6148
    @saakuya6148 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Unban me on twitch

    • @thundermill7109
      @thundermill7109 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You’re banned! And your children’s children!