Biggest Blunders from Best Players: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold
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Published 2024-07-07
This lecture was recorded on June 26, 2024 in Roswell, Georgia. Thank you to Joel and Margaret McEntire for sponsoring this lecture for their daughter Daisy! "Blunders by great players show it is ok to make mistakes and still be great."
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02:47 Magnus Carlsen vs. Merab Gagunashvili, World Blitz, 2006
07:22 Larry Christiansen vs. Anatoly Karpov, Wijk aan Zee, 1993
12:00 Garry Kasparov vs. Vladimir Kramnik, Novgorod, 1994
17:17 Peter Heine Nielsen vs. Sergey Karjakin, Wijk aan Zee, 2005
22:13 Tigran Petrosian vs. David Bronstein, Candidates, 1956
27:00 László Szabó vs. Samuel Reshevsky, Candidates, 1953
31:50 Surya Ganguly vs. Mukhiddin Madaminov, World Rapid, 2023
34:25 Mikhail Chigorin vs. Wilhelm Steinitz, World Championship, 1892
38:02 Deep Fritz vs. Vladimir Kramnik, Match, 2006
41:59 Friedrich Sämisch vs. José Raúl Capablanca, Karlsbad, 1929
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All Comments (21)
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After Kramnik's loss, he started the procedure against Deep Fritz.
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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).
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25:37 Maybe Petrosian was trying to play knight to i6, forking the king and queen.
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"I was blundering before you were born" . God i just love Ben.
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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.
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This is probably the most awesome video Ben ever did <3 I guess I won't feel as bad when I blunder next time, because if these people (who are infinitely better than me) can make mistakes, I as an amateur definitely can :-D Thank you, dear sponsor, for giving us this awesome lecture!
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“Blunder less” as chess advice sounds like “buy low, sell high” as trading advice.
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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!
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"Kasparov played Bd7..." And that's when Kramnik's villain arc has begun.
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Exquisite lecture. Thank you, the sponsor and your wife.
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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.
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watch this video to not feel so bad
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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.
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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.
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Peteosian's Ng5?? made me laugh so hard. He went from blundering his queen to extra double quadruple blundering his queen. 😂😂😂
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Very surprised Capablanca was mouse-slipping moves in 1929
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Thanks for doing the video Ben. Good stuff
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Great idea for a lecture, thanks Ben!
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What a great lecture and topic!
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I hear deep fritz was using an engine
