Max Euwe became world champion because in 1935 he was simply the best player! He also had a daytime job as a school teacher, so he was not a pro like Aljechin. Makes it extra special.
Small edit: He was not a school teacher. He was a professor of Mathematics at Tilburg, and one of the first professors of Computer science in that country
In defense of Alekhine, according to CM Sjtsjogoljev:- May 16, 2016 In London 1922 all leading grandmasters including Alekhine agreed with Capablanca's proposal that a challenger for the world championship title should bring $10,000, of which $2,000 was for the world champion while the remainder was split 60% for the winner and 40% for the loser. Also the challenger needed to take care of all the traveling costs and so forth. These are known as the London Rules. It took Alekhine five years to get the money, where others like Rubinstein and Nimzowitsch failed to do so. For the rematch, Alekhine simply sticked to the same London Rules. Capablanca however now wanted different rules and arrangements, obviously rejected by Alekhine.
Alekhine's not rematching of Capablanca gets a lot of unnecessary hate and it's not clear to me why. Capablanca himself didn't want to be challenged for the title either, and Alekhine actually had to work extraordinarily hard to come up with sponsorship money to fund the prize pool to contest Capablanca. He had set a ridiculous financial threshold he knew few players could ever overcome in order to deter challenges. If you ever see a game from an Alekhine blindfold simul in the early 1920s, guess what? That simul was probably given as a fundraiser to raise money in order to challenge Capablanca. Alekhine actually proposed a rematch to Capablanca, but demanded exactly the same financial terms Capablanca had demanded of him. Naturally, Capablanca was thereby deterred from rematching him, and despite formally challenging him, never did come up with the money. Alekhine thereby ended up choosing someone else, although again in fairness to the usual narrative, Alekhine did agree to play Bogoljubov without raising the required purse -- however, it really could be simply claimed as getting revenge on Capablanca for placing such financial obstacles in Alekhine's way in the first place. And to be fair, Bogoljubov was no slouch as a player, he was just inconsistent -- he did win a number of supertournaments, even coming in ahead of Capablanca sometimes, in the years leading up to their match. Really, karma is a bitch, if you demand $10,000 to play, be prepared for the next guy to charge you $10,000 too.
Heyhey, Grandmister Finegold, you are the chess lecturer with the grumpiest sense of humour! :-) And I like your appreciation of Euwe too. Indeed a move like a3 against Fischer, the utterly normalest, ordinariest and simplest move possible, and at the same time so all devastating because of all that came before. Fischer also greatly admired the clear logic of Euwe's style. "There is something wrong with that guy. He is too normal."
Well in the Netherlands there is a saying, doe normaal en dan doe je al gek genoeg which means be normal and you'll be crazy enough. Idk if it was a saying back then already but it might be the reason.
2010 was euwe year announced by feed. He was truly a national hero for Holland. Max euwe square was situated in Amsterdam. He became World champion defeated alekhine in the year 1935 on 15December. He wrote 70books on chess. My favorite is logical approach to chess and meet the masters. He was principal of automatic information processing in ratardam university. He was also in tilberg university. Take retirement in 1971.his contribution in chess is unforgettable. He also works as director of Netherlands automatic data processing research center. Legend born in 1901 on 20th may and died on 1981,26 November in Israel. Great man, iconic figure. I respect him. Big fan of him.
ben i love your vids. when i first started watching i was slightly turned off by your humor (to be honest i didnt get it) but now i find you hilarious and a pleasure to watch and listen to. very instructive
Very hard to choose between Euwe and Timman. Between 1985 and 1994, Timman played in four candidates tournaments in the knockout phase. Eliminated by Yusupov (early), Karpov (final), Short (final) then Salov (early). In 1993 Short and Kasparov broke off and FIDE decided to play their own world championship, between Karpov and Timman. Timman lost. Strong player and a close second behind Euwe. Euwe actually was a world champion and by all reports a very classy human being. I also really appreciated his writing style. He wrote some really accessible books for beginning and intermediate players. So I'll still give it to dr Max.
Took me a while, but first game at 4:38 Bb6 loses, the correct move is Nb6 Kb8 Be5. Bb6 is met with gxh2 if Kh1 or g2 then Qc6+ picking up the second rook. If Kf1 then h1Q seems good, if Kf2 Qf7 picks up the second rook.
What was up with the guy randomly asking about fischer in the middle of a damn variation. That would have shit me as a lecturer. Like if you went to see the dark knight in a cinema and someone stopped the projection to ask about medieval england.
Euwe won, not due to alcoholism of Alekhine, but due to Alekhine's over-confidence. Yes, he did drink, but he wasn't an alcoholic at all. More importantly, you just can't beat Euwe in calculating, you just won't bluff him away. Before the match, even Alekhine called Euwe to be the best in the world in that respect. So, in the second match Alekhine thoroughly avoided over-confidence. He didn't bluff - and, yes, gave up all drinking, which made a difference too. He simply played better. And this time Euwe didn't play his best chess. So yeah, then Alekhine won the match.
Wow Ben, without that disclaimer on butchering Dutch pronunciation, I definitely would have posted a comment. Anyway, thanks for respecting our one and only chess world master. I think even in Holland he's completely forgotten, except for the fact that a square is named after him in Amsterdam.
4:37 "Bb6 is hard to meet... really hard to meet" umm, but gxh+ is winning for black. The winning move would have been e.g. Nb6+ Kb8 Be5 winning the queen.
At 25:36: What if black goes Rf7 takes Nf6 ? Sure it loses a quality, but does it lose outright? (Well, must be since GM Finegold said so, but please show me - I'm a beginner...)
testthewest123 If Rxf6, then the pawn recaptures, and black has to deal with Queen takes Rook mate. Various variations: 1...Rxf6 2. exf6 Qxf6 3. Qxf6+ Rxf6 4. Rd8+ Rf8 5. Rxf8# If 2...Rxd8 3. Rxd8+ Qf8 4. Rxf8#
Haha, thanks Ben for calling out the idiots who will scorn you for 'mispronouncing a foreign name. I cringe when I hear Dutch people do that. We do it for two reasons: 1. We don't have the problem of pronouncing foreign words incorrectly, because our native accent has almost all sounds. 2. We are just more lame per capita than Americans. And thank you for this talk on Euwe! Very interesting and he deserved one.
In the first game you analyze, after Bb6 "which is hard to meet" black could play gxh2+ Kf2 (else White have only white squares to put their King, and Black wins with Qc6+, winning the rook and the game, except for the Kf1 move which is will be seen soon) and then Qf2 + wins the whites rook and the game. The same is true for Kf1. No?
Relatively common. Emmanuel Lasker was a mathematician as well same with Jonathan Penrose (Roger's brother). Jonathan wasn't as good of a mathematician as his brother but a much better chess player. There's a few others too.
Ben what's your problem with Alekhine? Alekhine told Casablanca like Capa told Alekhine and Lasker told Capa b4 him to come up with ten G in gold...He didn't produce the gold...So no match...Alekhine was trying to get a match with Capa for the longest
I really hope this isn't the case but...it may well have something to do with Alekhine's supposed collaboration with the Nazi's during WWII and the lecturer's last name being Finegold...(that's the only reason I can think of for someone to dis Alekhine that hard...) edit: There were some articles Alekhine "wrote" for a Nazi controlled Chess publication where he belittled the play of Jewish people. Alekhine claimed he was forced and that the editor added a great deal...
I doubt he would harness bitterness against Alekhine due to political landscape of 40's and 50's. It's just his style to make fun of people in a harsh way. And while it's true that Alekhine just paid Capa back in kind, it's also true that he mostly sought matches against far weaker opponents.
+I , Alekhine was a fucking beast idk why people always try to make him look like a bad player. He beat Capablanca 6-3 in 1927 and became world champion, how many of you or any chess player could defeat Capablanca 6 times? I have an enormous respect for both legends of chess.
I'm Dutch and I have no idea how to explain to you guys how to pronounce the name Euwe haha. It's comparable to the German o with the dots on it for people who know German.
At 4:40 Mr. Finegold says that white's move Bishop B6 is hard to meet for black. Can't an acceptable, if not winning, counter play occur for black starting with GxH check, and following with a queen check no matter where the king moves next?
I think Ben made a slight mistake there, As mentioned also in another comment, I think the winning move is not Bb6 but Nb6 instead, allowing to scewer the queen with the Bishop the next move, or win it with a check.
Nope ;). Euwe doesn't have an oo sound. Also no v, but w. The 'eu' part is what causing people the most problems, because this sounds like nothing in the English language. Ben says something like Urve, but that is wrong as well.
black can then only prolong checkmate by taking the pawn with his queen, leading to checkmate in the next few moves (white takes the queen, black retakes with the rook, followed by Rd8+ Rf8 blocking the check and R*f8#, all forced)
At about the 25:00 mark, what about queen to G6? You're trading a queen for a rook, but that messes up the attack. I don't think I would have surrendered just yet, though I'm not sure how black could come back. Always the possibility that white could mess up...
If only you did. I'd love to know Ken West either personally or from your description (if you really went to school with him, in which case you'd know him personally, so I could know him from your description.)
Some years after Capablanca lost the world title, Capablanca played Max Euwe then the new minted world champion, and beat him 6-4 in a match. I suppose you are right Capablanca beat up everybody, maybe you didn't say that.
You listen to Ben talking about world champions and it sounds like he not just met them, but beat them easily because they were idiots. 🤣🤣. Any other person speaking like that I would think is jerk, but Ben is Ben he is forgiven.
I know how to pronounce his name, but I don't want to 'cause I'm in Holland. So I say: fee-nuh-kholt. Not offended at all. Just weird reasoning... :) :) :)
So Keres not taking the hanging knight in that game is the losing blunder. It's a shame you skipped over that entirely, because I think most people would snap that knight off without thinking. Even upon thinking for a bit I'd do it because it doesn't even look that scary - the queen has an easy enough time defending the 7th rank, and white will have a hard time mobilising their rook (and not doing it seems worse). Presumably he must have avoided it because he thought it led to a draw and he felt like playing for the win.
Sorry, Grandmaster, but this omits all of Euwe's greatest games!You really should do a sequel Geller -Euwe Zurich 1953, Euwe Botvinnik Hastings 1834, Fine-Euwe A.V.R..O 1938 Euwe Vidmar Nottingham !936 Euwe Flohr March 1933,etc/ The Man also invented the Schevingen Sicilian
Gary Kasparov isn´t nice? Hmmm but Ben Finegold is the nicest grandmaster/chessplayer? :) :) I guess then that I would earn a grandmastertitle for remembering Finegold-jokes. 1. It´s a discovered check because I discovered it! 2. I doublechecked it and it wasn´t check! :) :) :) :) :) Now when we talk about chessplayers who are natural born killers or should we say players with a killerinstinct then Robert James Fischer is the absolute number one. :)
"he became world champion due to a drinking problem of his opponent" sounds like your match with GM Simon Williams
Gavin Rice haha sounds about right
OH SNAP
Simon Williams doesn't have a drinking problem. On the contrary, he's quite prolific at drinking.
I can't believe this is the infamous lecture where a lady interrupts you to ask why you haven't talked about Fischer yet
was searching for this comment.
it shocked me too to finally hear it happen! heard ben talk about it many times.
He's a grandmaster at retaining composure
what a great lecture, one of the best teachers evah! Ben Finegold should be on the fifty dollar note.
as Ben would say, "plus tax".
It took a lot of lectures but I have decided to like you. A Dutchman. Please continue.
Kuiper is the most Dutch thing ever
That kid in the background is starting to get better!
Max Euwe became world champion because in 1935 he was simply the best player! He also had a daytime job as a school teacher, so he was not a pro like Aljechin. Makes it extra special.
Small edit: He was not a school teacher. He was a professor of Mathematics at Tilburg, and one of the first professors of Computer science in that country
@@vikramkrishnan6414you are correct, he had a Ph.d in Mathematics.
And, it’s spelled “Alekhine” not “Aljechin” even though the non-English pronunciation is aleekheine
@@ColeTeke Aljechin is the Dutch spelling for Alekhine
Anybody else still watching these great lectures?
They're very addictive, educational even. Getting the queen > mate.
My all time favorite chess players are as follows, Magnus Carlton, Hikaru Nagasaki, Martin Ashley, Ken West, and Tobey Mquire.
don't you mean Kan* West :)
luxwutang Ben West
"I hope you learned a lot, I know I did" -Ben at the end of his own lecture
In defense of Alekhine, according to CM Sjtsjogoljev:-
May 16, 2016
In London 1922 all leading grandmasters including Alekhine agreed with Capablanca's proposal that a challenger for the world championship title should bring $10,000, of which $2,000 was for the world champion while the remainder was split 60% for the winner and 40% for the loser. Also the challenger needed to take care of all the traveling costs and so forth. These are known as the London Rules. It took Alekhine five years to get the money, where others like Rubinstein and Nimzowitsch failed to do so. For the rematch, Alekhine simply sticked to the same London Rules. Capablanca however now wanted different rules and arrangements, obviously rejected by Alekhine.
What kind of name is that? Never seen so many j's in one word
The enjoyment i got from these games by Euwe is beyond words. Amazing!! Great Ben also, like everytime!
Alekhine's not rematching of Capablanca gets a lot of unnecessary hate and it's not clear to me why. Capablanca himself didn't want to be challenged for the title either, and Alekhine actually had to work extraordinarily hard to come up with sponsorship money to fund the prize pool to contest Capablanca. He had set a ridiculous financial threshold he knew few players could ever overcome in order to deter challenges. If you ever see a game from an Alekhine blindfold simul in the early 1920s, guess what? That simul was probably given as a fundraiser to raise money in order to challenge Capablanca.
Alekhine actually proposed a rematch to Capablanca, but demanded exactly the same financial terms Capablanca had demanded of him. Naturally, Capablanca was thereby deterred from rematching him, and despite formally challenging him, never did come up with the money. Alekhine thereby ended up choosing someone else, although again in fairness to the usual narrative, Alekhine did agree to play Bogoljubov without raising the required purse -- however, it really could be simply claimed as getting revenge on Capablanca for placing such financial obstacles in Alekhine's way in the first place. And to be fair, Bogoljubov was no slouch as a player, he was just inconsistent -- he did win a number of supertournaments, even coming in ahead of Capablanca sometimes, in the years leading up to their match. Really, karma is a bitch, if you demand $10,000 to play, be prepared for the next guy to charge you $10,000 too.
Heyhey, Grandmister Finegold, you are the chess lecturer with the grumpiest sense of humour! :-) And I like your appreciation of Euwe too. Indeed a move like a3 against Fischer, the utterly normalest, ordinariest and simplest move possible, and at the same time so all devastating because of all that came before. Fischer also greatly admired the clear logic of Euwe's style. "There is something wrong with that guy. He is too normal."
Well in the Netherlands there is a saying, doe normaal en dan doe je al gek genoeg which means be normal and you'll be crazy enough. Idk if it was a saying back then already but it might be the reason.
“Can you edit that out?” Editor quotes it in big letters.
Great lecture by GM Finegold.
2010 was euwe year announced by feed. He was truly a national hero for Holland. Max euwe square was situated in Amsterdam. He became World champion defeated alekhine in the year 1935 on 15December. He wrote 70books on chess. My favorite is logical approach to chess and meet the masters. He was principal of automatic information processing in ratardam university. He was also in tilberg university. Take retirement in 1971.his contribution in chess is unforgettable. He also works as director of Netherlands automatic data processing research center. Legend born in 1901 on 20th may and died on 1981,26 November in Israel. Great man, iconic figure. I respect him. Big fan of him.
It's Max Euwe, not Max Euwe
I learn a lot off this guy - his delivery means it sticks in your head.
ben i love your vids. when i first started watching i was slightly turned off by your humor (to be honest i didnt get it) but now i find you hilarious and a pleasure to watch and listen to. very instructive
another Ben Finegold vid, yaaay
findgold tells stories about this moment at 8:19 in later videos. so funny to see it how it happened
You are funny and one of the best chess coaches.
Alekhine drinked occasionally for example when he is awake
hahahajaj
Euwe is one of the famous chessplayers in which I don't know the correct pronunciation. Thanks for this video and other videos in The Legend Series.
Very hard to choose between Euwe and Timman. Between 1985 and 1994, Timman played in four candidates tournaments in the knockout phase. Eliminated by Yusupov (early), Karpov (final), Short (final) then Salov (early). In 1993 Short and Kasparov broke off and FIDE decided to play their own world championship, between Karpov and Timman. Timman lost. Strong player and a close second behind Euwe.
Euwe actually was a world champion and by all reports a very classy human being. I also really appreciated his writing style. He wrote some really accessible books for beginning and intermediate players. So I'll still give it to dr Max.
I hope all the kids get his references and jokes. They are gold.
Awww. But I screamed Knight B4 at my computer Ben!
Subsequently, I was fired...
Took me a while, but first game at 4:38 Bb6 loses, the correct move is Nb6 Kb8 Be5.
Bb6 is met with gxh2 if Kh1 or g2 then Qc6+ picking up the second rook. If Kf1 then h1Q seems good, if Kf2 Qf7 picks up the second rook.
I m glad you commented this 8 years ago so I don t have to ❤
Fantastic games by Euwe. I started to like Ben's style.
What was up with the guy randomly asking about fischer in the middle of a damn variation. That would have shit me as a lecturer. Like if you went to see the dark knight in a cinema and someone stopped the projection to ask about medieval england.
"I'll pronounce it however I want" - still pronounces it better than 99% of non-Dutch people
Respect for Max
Euwe won, not due to alcoholism of Alekhine, but due to Alekhine's over-confidence. Yes, he did drink, but he wasn't an alcoholic at all. More importantly, you just can't beat Euwe in calculating, you just won't bluff him away. Before the match, even Alekhine called Euwe to be the best in the world in that respect. So, in the second match Alekhine thoroughly avoided over-confidence. He didn't bluff - and, yes, gave up all drinking, which made a difference too. He simply played better. And this time Euwe didn't play his best chess. So yeah, then Alekhine won the match.
Euwe was a mathematics teacher, he used his mathematical insight in chess play. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Is that why Ben is wearing an orange shirt?
Wow Ben, without that disclaimer on butchering Dutch pronunciation, I definitely would have posted a comment. Anyway, thanks for respecting our one and only chess world master. I think even in Holland he's completely forgotten, except for the fact that a square is named after him in Amsterdam.
Anish Giri!
@@aronbuch4275 he meant world champion, otherwise we'd also have van forreest too
In the second game, after Rf4 there is a fefence for black, the move g5.
29:46 : Kne2 is also possible instead of Bd3
4:37 "Bb6 is hard to meet... really hard to meet" umm, but gxh+ is winning for black. The winning move would have been e.g. Nb6+ Kb8 Be5 winning the queen.
omg ! u r better than richard reti ! woow -.- 😂😂 " gXh+ is winning for black " dafuq dude 😂😂😂
At 25:36: What if black goes Rf7 takes Nf6 ? Sure it loses a quality, but does it lose outright? (Well, must be since GM Finegold said so, but please show me - I'm a beginner...)
testthewest123 If Rxf6, then the pawn recaptures, and black has to deal with Queen takes Rook mate. Various variations: 1...Rxf6 2. exf6 Qxf6 3. Qxf6+ Rxf6 4. Rd8+ Rf8 5. Rxf8# If 2...Rxd8 3. Rxd8+ Qf8 4. Rxf8#
29:38 : c6 is also possible instead of c5
You actually pronounced his name correctly at 12:20.
Haha, thanks Ben for calling out the idiots who will scorn you for 'mispronouncing a foreign name. I cringe when I hear Dutch people do that. We do it for two reasons:
1. We don't have the problem of pronouncing foreign words incorrectly, because our native accent has almost all sounds.
2. We are just more lame per capita than Americans.
And thank you for this talk on Euwe! Very interesting and he deserved one.
In the first game you analyze, after Bb6 "which is hard to meet" black could play gxh2+ Kf2 (else White have only white squares to put their King, and Black wins with Qc6+, winning the rook and the game, except for the Kf1 move which is will be seen soon) and then Qf2 + wins the whites rook and the game. The same is true for Kf1.
No?
Who is Arjun ??? And what is his fide rating???
I'm guessing it's Arjun Puri. He's currently 12 or 13 and rated 2078 FIDE.
At 25:00 why black does not take the knight instead of resigning?
4:39
Bb6? gxh2+
Nb6+ for sure
What computer program do you use?
Legend here in Holland
14:17 "...and the reason it looks like it's threatening the pawn, is because it's threatening the pawn." Love these jokes :p
Max Euwe also got a Ph.D in Mathematics.
Relatively common. Emmanuel Lasker was a mathematician as well same with Jonathan Penrose (Roger's brother). Jonathan wasn't as good of a mathematician as his brother but a much better chess player. There's a few others too.
Tho the pronounciations were a little bit suspious, the lecture is great!
I played against Euwe one time i Holland some years ago.
Did you win?
the guy died in '81, unless you meant at least 36 years by 'some years'.
It was about 40 years ago in Limburg Holland.
It was a simultanious game and I lost.
Mecks Öwe sure was a good player.
🤣
Ben what's your problem with Alekhine? Alekhine told Casablanca like Capa told Alekhine and Lasker told Capa b4 him to come up with ten G in gold...He didn't produce the gold...So no match...Alekhine was trying to get a match with Capa for the longest
I really hope this isn't the case but...it may well have something to do with Alekhine's supposed collaboration with the Nazi's during WWII and the lecturer's last name being Finegold...(that's the only reason I can think of for someone to dis Alekhine that hard...)
edit: There were some articles Alekhine "wrote" for a Nazi controlled Chess publication where he belittled the play of Jewish people. Alekhine claimed he was forced and that the editor added a great deal...
aaahhh.....From Jew decent...AA was forced and practically held captive
I doubt he would harness bitterness against Alekhine due to political landscape of 40's and 50's. It's just his style to make fun of people in a harsh way. And while it's true that Alekhine just paid Capa back in kind, it's also true that he mostly sought matches against far weaker opponents.
+I , Alekhine was a fucking beast idk why people always try to make him look like a bad player. He beat Capablanca 6-3 in 1927 and became world champion, how many of you or any chess player could defeat Capablanca 6 times?
I have an enormous respect for both legends of chess.
There can't be many people who beat Reti, Alekhine and Fisher
Did Botvinnik ever beat Fischer? I'm guessing not, but it's possible
Anybody else ever?
I'm Dutch and I have no idea how to explain to you guys how to pronounce the name Euwe haha. It's comparable to the German o with the dots on it for people who know German.
+TuhTuhTool
In norwegian we have "ø". Its thesame.
ik ben ook nederlands
Leandro Slagboom
Your name is kind of a giveaway.
I am Norwegian and Dutch by the way.
Say a normal "eh". Pucker up your lips without moving your tongue.
4:43 ...gxh2 white plays kh1 and Qc6+ wins? I dont understand
At 4:40 Mr. Finegold says that white's move Bishop B6 is hard to meet for black. Can't an acceptable, if not winning, counter play occur for black starting with GxH check, and following with a queen check no matter where the king moves next?
I think Ben made a slight mistake there, As mentioned also in another comment, I think the winning move is not Bb6 but Nb6 instead, allowing to scewer the queen with the Bishop the next move, or win it with a check.
It sounds something like Mahiles Oovee.
Nope ;). Euwe doesn't have an oo sound. Also no v, but w. The 'eu' part is what causing people the most problems, because this sounds like nothing in the English language. Ben says something like Urve, but that is wrong as well.
Euw just too good :D
in the 3rd game black resigned but how about rook takes Kn on f6?
Arthur Grigoriyan pawn takes rook
black can then only prolong checkmate by taking the pawn with his queen, leading to checkmate in the next few moves (white takes the queen, black retakes with the rook, followed by Rd8+ Rf8 blocking the check and R*f8#, all forced)
At 10:33, I don't understand why white doesn't checkmate black.
At about the 25:00 mark, what about queen to G6? You're trading a queen for a rook, but that messes up the attack. I don't think I would have surrendered just yet, though I'm not sure how black could come back. Always the possibility that white could mess up...
Estonia now is in the euro... for a couple of years now, so I guess you can't buy anything even with a 1000 Keres!
mcpartridgeboy not anymore ayyyyy lmao
Who is Arjen?
+Niels Kloster Possibly one of the greatest super GMs in the community.
+Everett Schulte a kid in his class
Everett Schulte I am Arjen
Arjun is some Indian chesskid.
4:35 After Bb6, I think ..gxh2+ should be an easy win for black.
Erva is a terrible rendition of "Euwe" and I'm not even Dutch!
25:45 what if Rxf6?
I guess just exf and
if Rxd8 Rxd8 is mate in one
Rxf6 is not legal
If Qxf6 then Qxf6 and if Rxf6 Rd8 will be mate
Now he is picking on Arjan, not Ken.
Ryan Zheng I went to school with Ken West, always cracking jokes he was.
ok
seriously?
Ryan Zheng no
If only you did. I'd love to know Ken West either personally or from your description (if you really went to school with him, in which case you'd know him personally, so I could know him from your description.)
I thought americans pronounce it like "you-v". In russian we say "ay-veh"
Don't pay the least attention to what this guy says about Aljechin, go to credible sources.
Some years after Capablanca lost the world title, Capablanca played Max Euwe then the new minted world champion, and beat him 6-4 in a match. I suppose you are right Capablanca beat up everybody, maybe you didn't say that.
You listen to Ben talking about world champions and it sounds like he not just met them, but beat them easily because they were idiots. 🤣🤣.
Any other person speaking like that I would think is jerk, but Ben is Ben he is forgiven.
I know how to pronounce his name, but I don't want to 'cause I'm in Holland. So I say: fee-nuh-kholt.
Not offended at all. Just weird reasoning... :) :) :)
I think Alekhine could beat Capablanca in a fair fight.
im dutch
11:45 rook e8
I love how Ben goes ohhh, Alekhine is shit
True about Kasparow
At 33:35: "Insolence," not "indolence."
"How does White get punished for his indolence" should be "How does White get punished for his insolence."
Keith Brian Johnson Indolence is a word... he means indolence.
Hehe that dutch pronunciation is so horrible :p
Once he came to Nepal. Dr. Baburam Bhattarai challenged him. Max lost in 23 moves sacrificing queen.
Do you know where I could find annotation of the game?
didn't happen
Max Oevë
0:25 - 0:31 ur such a bozz ben :)
nice pronounciation
i am dutch hallo ik weet wat ik doe zeg
So Keres not taking the hanging knight in that game is the losing blunder. It's a shame you skipped over that entirely, because I think most people would snap that knight off without thinking. Even upon thinking for a bit I'd do it because it doesn't even look that scary - the queen has an easy enough time defending the 7th rank, and white will have a hard time mobilising their rook (and not doing it seems worse).
Presumably he must have avoided it because he thought it led to a draw and he felt like playing for the win.
Which is also weird.
he explained that the subsequent Queen check on e7 is deadly
@@T-Dogg121 Except it isn't
Sorry, Grandmaster, but this omits all of Euwe's greatest games!You really should do a sequel Geller -Euwe Zurich 1953, Euwe Botvinnik Hastings 1834, Fine-Euwe A.V.R..O 1938 Euwe Vidmar Nottingham !936 Euwe Flohr March 1933,etc/ The Man also invented the Schevingen Sicilian
The Dutch will complain about you call it Holland instead of The Netherlands :D
Really? I'm Dutch, and i don't care at all.
i am not happy
We will call you Bin Finetin then, because we can say what we like on youtube. ;)
Yay another Bob Seger joke!
if Ben doesn't lose some weight he may have to resign, not in a game.
mountaintruth1 Actually he's thin now
Glad to hear that.
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I think most consider bronstein to be the greatest player who never became world chamion
Anyone describing Alekhine as merely an "O.K." player has no chess credibility whatever.
Gary Kasparov isn´t nice? Hmmm but Ben Finegold is the nicest grandmaster/chessplayer? :) :) I guess then that I would earn a grandmastertitle for remembering Finegold-jokes. 1. It´s a discovered check because I discovered it! 2. I doublechecked it and it wasn´t check! :) :) :) :) :) Now when we talk about chessplayers who are natural born killers or should we say players with a killerinstinct then Robert James Fischer is the absolute number one. :)
Stopped watching at 0:30 because I don't need to waste time on that attitude.
Jaap van der Velde
Who cares if you are butthurt over a meaningless comment.