>Use your time, look around the whole board, do either side have a loose piece? Can I give a check or make a threat? Does my opponent have any threats? What did the last move do? Beyond that it's primarily just practice.
If I recall Petrosian's biography, this blunder led him to reconsider his play and adopt the strategy of defending threats before his opponent was aware of them (as described by Fischer).
There's something comforting in knowing that, just like I lay awake at night thinking about some awkward thing I said 15 years ago, Kramnik lies there cringing about the time he blundered mate in 1.
3:21 I also know that if I'm facing someone named "Smith" or "Wilson" I'll probably be okay. If they have "villi" at the end of their last name (not only are they from Georgia), I'm probably going to have a rough time.
Petrosian accidentally bumped the knight I believe. I believe he was reaching for the queen with a cigarette permanently affixed to his hand and hit the knight.
When touching the wrong piece is catastrophic, tournament players resign, and the higher the ranking of the players the more certain this is. The score has both Petrosian's move and his opponent's game ending one. In any case, after the game Petrosian said it was humorous that he lost his queen to Black's only active piece, which indicates it was a blunder rather than an accident.
In the Deep Fritz versus Vladimir Kramnik game, Ben Finegold says at 39:53 - 39:55 that he didn't know why Kramnik missed Qh7#. But I remember Kramnik's excuse. Kramnik explained that had the White knight been on g5 or f6 he would have seen Qh7# and prevented it but with the White knight on f8 it was on an unusual square for a knight to support a Qh7# threat so he missed it. Of course it's still extremely surprising that Kramnik missed it but now you know his excuse.
I think Karpov went to win the tournament from which his blunder is taken; it was a 2-games matches format. Karpov won the second game, then beat Christiansen in the tie-breaks...and every other player he faced (too lazy to check, because I think I remember that well!)
Steinitz vs Chigorin 36:21 Ben says "I don't understand why he allowed Rxd5" If Rxd5, Nf4 forks the rooks winning an exchange. Maybe he was trying to provoke Rxd5.
In Kramnik's defense, his opponent was using an engine. Or were they? Is playing an engine the same as your opponent using an engine? Can an engine use an engine? Is water wet or does it just make other things wet? This is getting too philosophical for me.
Hello Ben. I am very grateful to you for what you do and for the way you do it, and I want to clarify that first of all I do not mean chess, but your attitude towards others, especially children. I wish you and your family all the best
There is a great book "How to beat Bobby Fischer, his 61 losing games of chess". Some cracking blunders in that, including a simple miscalculation of a pawn run.
Man, that Petrosian blunder hurt me. I genuinely sat there for about 15 minutes with the video paused just admiring the strength of his position. And then the knight move is just the cherry on top. Distressing
Someone told me a story about a Botvinnik versus Bronstein game and despite Ben Finegold saying (at 24:35 of this video) that there was no time pressure, if memory serves, actually their game featured in this video had an extremely wild time scramble. Thus Bronstein was reduced to making knight moves to make time control on move 40 and he made 8 knight moves in a row, his last being ...Nxd6 capturing the hanging queen. Then according to what I was told (I only turned 3 in 1956 so I only heard about it years later) at the closing ceremony Bronstein took the queen off the cake being served, gave it to Petrosian, and told him "now we're even."
Kramnik wasn't the only one missing that mate against Deep Fritz. I hope I remember correctly, but I think the whole commentary team missed it too. And it wasn't a weak team, some IM's , GM's, think even Anand was there.
Indeed. I was also expecting Kasparov Karpov 1985 (game 11 where Karpov played the wrong rook to d8). I love the selection, most are unfamiliar to me, few obvious choices here!
For the Magnus blunder, I thought you could have had the classical game Giri-Carlsen from the 2011 Tata Steel tournament. I seemingly remember Giri (then 16 years old) saying he blundered mate. But on further review of that game, it doesn't satisfy the requirement for it to be a blunder since I would need to see that it's a blunder, and I probably wouldn't spot it. Also magnus was getting outplayed already and then made the big mistake. Oh how times have changed huh.. pretty cool game to see though
I actually made a 3D animated short film about the 1892 game. i'd forgotten the video but seeing the position again I'd remembered this was the game in the video
Gothamchess claims in one of his vids, that petrosian was extremly bored cause Bronstein was mooving slow and bad, so he got up everytime he made his moove to then come back and again moove quickly. So he made a quick moove, realized the blunder and gave up.
To answer your question Ben, I would prefer to lose very late in the game after hours of playing. I feel like there would be more respect in someone fighting hard for so long.
Firouzja was jealous that he wasn't in this video and just handed us the spectacular blunder against Fabi, 1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 Bg4 4. Ne5 Bf5 5. Qb3 Qb6 6. cxd5 Qxb3 7. axb3 Be4?! 8. dxc6 Bxh1?? 9. Rxa7 1-0 The resignation because if black plays Rxa7 then c7! and white will make another queen; or else white will play Rxa8 in short order and have compensation for the earlier Bxh1.
Could some of these matches had been fixed? Cuase its unbelievable that a grandmaster would blunder their queens like this lol. Considering that theze guys can see 15 moves ahead, right?
“Blunder less” as chess advice sounds like “buy low, sell high” as trading advice.
>Use your time, look around the whole board, do either side have a loose piece? Can I give a check or make a threat? Does my opponent have any threats? What did the last move do? Beyond that it's primarily just practice.
After Kramnik's loss, he started the procedure against Deep Fritz.
"Very suspicious"
- Kramnik
Apparently Deep Fritz was using an engine
Kind of like when Kasparov accused the deep blue team cheating with human assistance lol
He read Ben's book "Cry like a Grandmaster".
Too bad kramniks daughter wasnt at the door so he could let her in.
If I recall Petrosian's biography, this blunder led him to reconsider his play and adopt the strategy of defending threats before his opponent was aware of them (as described by Fischer).
does he at least describe it coherently?
@@Momus2024 It wasn't an autobiography.
25:37 Maybe Petrosian was trying to play knight to i6, forking the king and queen.
We see a blunder he sees a tactic because he is playing 4d chess
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"I was blundering before you were born" . God i just love Ben.
Fake news. I'm older than he is.
There's something comforting in knowing that, just like I lay awake at night thinking about some awkward thing I said 15 years ago, Kramnik lies there cringing about the time he blundered mate in 1.
This is probably the most awesome video Ben ever did
keep telling yourself that is the reason you are 1200 rated
@@Momus2024 a) you don't know what my rating is, and b) please look up what sarcasm is. Thanks.
Exquisite lecture. Thank you, the sponsor and your wife.
I'd seen a few of these blunders before but there were a few in here I'd never seen. The Petrosian blunder was absolutely mindblowing.
Great lecture!
"Kasparov played Bd7..."
And that's when Kramnik's villain arc has begun.
This has to be one of my favorite videos you've ever done
Peteosian's Ng5?? made me laugh so hard. He went from blundering his queen to extra double quadruple blundering his queen. 😂😂😂
Great idea for a lecture, thanks Ben!
What a great lecture and topic!
3:21 I also know that if I'm facing someone named "Smith" or "Wilson" I'll probably be okay. If they have "villi" at the end of their last name (not only are they from Georgia), I'm probably going to have a rough time.
Thanks for doing the video Ben. Good stuff
Great topic!
Big shout out to Daisy!!
@@bobbyfishstix1189 thank you for the shout out.
I remember back when athletes were not banned from sports for supporting their own countries.
Very surprised Capablanca was mouse-slipping moves in 1929
Imagine having to use a mouse made in 1929. it must have been a dreadful experience.
Petrosian accidentally bumped the knight I believe. I believe he was reaching for the queen with a cigarette permanently affixed to his hand and hit the knight.
When touching the wrong piece is catastrophic, tournament players resign, and the higher the ranking of the players the more certain this is. The score has both Petrosian's move and his opponent's game ending one. In any case, after the game Petrosian said it was humorous that he lost his queen to Black's only active piece, which indicates it was a blunder rather than an accident.
biggest blunders by best players. exactly what I need to see after getting losing to a FM in an OTB tournament game :)
In the Deep Fritz versus Vladimir Kramnik game, Ben Finegold says at 39:53 - 39:55 that he didn't know why Kramnik missed Qh7#. But I remember Kramnik's excuse. Kramnik explained that had the White knight been on g5 or f6 he would have seen Qh7# and prevented it but with the White knight on f8 it was on an unusual square for a knight to support a Qh7# threat so he missed it. Of course it's still extremely surprising that Kramnik missed it but now you know his excuse.
watch this video to not feel so bad
I hear deep fritz was using an engine
Smh my head
Coldest pun paired with sneakiest plot twist 45:07
I think Karpov went to win the tournament from which his blunder is taken; it was a 2-games matches format. Karpov won the second game, then beat Christiansen in the tie-breaks...and every other player he faced (too lazy to check, because I think I remember that well!)
Steinitz vs Chigorin 36:21
Ben says "I don't understand why he allowed Rxd5"
If Rxd5, Nf4 forks the rooks winning an exchange. Maybe he was trying to provoke Rxd5.
you should do a full video of kramnik blunders
In Kramnik's defense, his opponent was using an engine.
Or were they? Is playing an engine the same as your opponent using an engine? Can an engine use an engine? Is water wet or does it just make other things wet? This is getting too philosophical for me.
Go ben!
Excellent topic. Gooooo daisy. But stay there.
Hello Ben. I am very grateful to you for what you do and for the way you do it, and I want to clarify that first of all I do not mean chess, but your attitude towards others, especially children. I wish you and your family all the best
Hello, mr. Ben. Thank you for actually starting this series. I guess you don't have dementiia after all. How do I subscribe again?
I am not Benjamin Finegold and I need to remind myself of that very often...
There is a great book "How to beat Bobby Fischer, his 61 losing games of chess". Some cracking blunders in that, including a simple miscalculation of a pawn run.
Man, that Petrosian blunder hurt me. I genuinely sat there for about 15 minutes with the video paused just admiring the strength of his position. And then the knight move is just the cherry on top. Distressing
Someone told me a story about a Botvinnik versus Bronstein game and despite Ben Finegold saying (at 24:35 of this video) that there was no time pressure, if memory serves, actually their game featured in this video had an extremely wild time scramble. Thus Bronstein was reduced to making knight moves to make time control on move 40 and he made 8 knight moves in a row, his last being ...Nxd6 capturing the hanging queen. Then according to what I was told (I only turned 3 in 1956 so I only heard about it years later) at the closing ceremony Bronstein took the queen off the cake being served, gave it to Petrosian, and told him "now we're even."
Love you and your lectures from Georgia ( Gladly not from Soviet Georgia but independent )
"Usually you dont miss knight takes queen"
At 36:18 probably Chigorin was thinking that if Rxd5, then Nf4, Rxe7, Nxd5+, king somewhere, Nxe7.
Petrosion plays the Botez gambit before she was born
The topic and sponsor dedication make me wonder whether Daisy was a blunder.
bruh 😮💨
Kramnik wasn't the only one missing that mate against Deep Fritz. I hope I remember correctly, but I think the whole commentary team missed it too. And it wasn't a weak team, some IM's , GM's, think even Anand was there.
Notice that many of these blunders are due to not remembering how the knight moves.
I'm surprised you didn't include Fischer or Nepo's trapping their own bishop in the WC.
New lecture!
Kramnik: "Deep Fritz was using an engine"
This dude is unintentionally funny
Kinda surprised you didn't mention the blunder Ding made when playing against Carlson recently.
Was expecting Fischer Spassky game 1 because I know that game and didn't know any of these other ones.
Indeed. I was also expecting Kasparov Karpov 1985 (game 11 where Karpov played the wrong rook to d8). I love the selection, most are unfamiliar to me, few obvious choices here!
He probably skipped over that one because it's so famous.
@@worsethanjoerogan8061 After seeing the full video: he skipped it because it wasn't on the level of a 1-2 move mate or losing a queen.
40:30 OK, it is quite clear, we do the procedure.
I could hear Thumbnail Ben saying "Truth Hurts".
Kramnik: Let's do the procedure now...
For the Magnus blunder, I thought you could have had the classical game Giri-Carlsen from the 2011 Tata Steel tournament. I seemingly remember Giri (then 16 years old) saying he blundered mate. But on further review of that game, it doesn't satisfy the requirement for it to be a blunder since I would need to see that it's a blunder, and I probably wouldn't spot it. Also magnus was getting outplayed already and then made the big mistake. Oh how times have changed huh.. pretty cool game to see though
I actually made a 3D animated short film about the 1892 game. i'd forgotten the video but seeing the position again I'd remembered this was the game in the video
It wasn't a similar mate in the creator tournament, it was the same exact mate! The throbbing mate
Before the Botez Gambit, there was the Petrosian Gambit.
Make more good moves and less bad moves and your game will be more good and less bad.
Wrote it down to remember.
Kramnik's parents made a big blunder.
love this, awesome
Was it MVL that blunder mate in 1 against Duda in the opening? That was funny as he was just following theory and ignoring threats.
Gothamchess claims in one of his vids, that petrosian was extremly bored cause Bronstein was mooving slow and bad, so he got up everytime he made his moove to then come back and again moove quickly. So he made a quick moove, realized the blunder and gave up.
What about Magnus-Ding in Norway chess ?
Huh, my queen's attacked by a knight. I know, I'll undefend it
😂😅
Lol i did the exact same thing as Ganguly hanging mate in one like that in a coordinated classical game against a WFM a week ago :/
To answer your question Ben, I would prefer to lose very late in the game after hours of playing. I feel like there would be more respect in someone fighting hard for so long.
My whole life is a blunder, it is my identity
I think Ding's mate in 2 against Carlsen should have made the cut if the video is recent enough.
Firouzja was jealous that he wasn't in this video and just handed us the spectacular blunder against Fabi,
1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 d5
3. g3 Bg4 4. Ne5 Bf5 5. Qb3 Qb6 6. cxd5 Qxb3 7. axb3 Be4?! 8. dxc6 Bxh1?? 9. Rxa7 1-0
The resignation because if black plays Rxa7 then c7! and white will make another queen; or else white will play Rxa8 in short order and have compensation for the earlier Bxh1.
0:43 and: everybody has those days
Man even I could see the first Kramnik blunder
I Petrosian played Ng5 on me like that with his queen hanging I would absolutely assume he was about to pull some Tal shit on me and I'd panic-resign
Isnt karjakins blunder x10 weird as in fact a1a3 pins the knight and wins for B. Am I missing something ?
the "GM's don't get to pay their rent if they blunder in a game" is such an American way to be looking at things.
The Botez Gambit was stolen from Iron Tigran.
Go new cam!
21:20 The answer is fries.
what happened to the live lectures with the kids lol
That was 5 years ago.
Always repeat
Shirazi Wing Gambit.
Could some of these matches had been fixed? Cuase its unbelievable that a grandmaster would blunder their queens like this lol. Considering that theze guys can see 15 moves ahead, right?
Kasparov blundered? Let's do the procedure.
Peter Heine Nielsen is well-known for all the wrong reasons.
All hail Sir Gay Car Jackin
You did not forget about the same-ish joke game.
Got it blunder less...
Frankly, delicious
🤭
What is stuck in Ben’s teeth?
Reminds me of the football players who get paid 250k a week and can't even shoot at the goal. Yes, it's football and not soccer.
always recycle
Ugh the chewing gum
"so when you are a professional chess player, it is NOT a good feeling when you hang your queen and lose" LOLOOL
Always repeat