The Games of Paul Morphy - GM Ben Finegold - 2013.08.07

"If you want to see some terrible games and you're in the audience, you can go upstairs. if you're at home, you can look at your own games." LMFAO Ben is so Savage. he was on fire this lecture

"completing undevelopment, setting up for the next game" lol

People who say Morphy would suck if he came back today aren't thinking clearly... That's only true if he's not allowed to go on the computer or open a book.

- On this move, you should think here for an hour. - But Mr. Finegold, why should I think for an hour? - It's Grandmaster Finegold and I get paid by the hour. LOL.

Watching this on August 7th 2023, exactly 10 years after Ben gave this lecture :D

Don't listen to the people who say your ego gets in the way of your teaching, or your humor, if anything, I think it makes for a BETTER learning experience! I've learned so much from your classes it's remarkable! Keep up the awesome lectures and keep the crowd laughing! Humor makes the game less tedious and really makes you seem like a cool guy to learn from. Build connection and really makes the videos entertaining. Make more!

@33:04.... the Evans Gambit... named after Mr Gambit.

Who can possibly dislike this video? Ben Finegold rocks!!!!

"Completing the undevelopment", had a chuckle there.

This is an excellent lecture, not only because of using Morphy's games, (because they are extremely instructive to class level players), also this is one of GM Finegold's best presentations.

Excellent lecture. Finegold's bluster is, as some fail to realize, a funny running joke. His sensitivity to the historical context in which Morphy played actually indicates a great deal of humility. It's those individuals who farm content from posting every tedious game of "the next big thing" in chess, games often interesting only to master-level players, who are engaged in "the enormous condescension of history", in E.P. Thompson's words, when they haughtily dismiss someone who couldn't help it if the GMs of Europe of the day were far below his talent. Morphy: a one-of-a-kind talent whose games are a gift to us all.

"whatever magnus' is plus 10"

On the next episode of Ancient Aliens: Paul Morphy

14:40 "if you want to see some really terrible games, in the live audience, you can walk upstairs, if you re at home you can look at your own games" you can write a Bible from Finegold s quotes.

this guys deadpan is incredible :D

Omfg the way he rips on GM Ken West is so effing hilarious

Just for fun we need a camera scan of the students. I wanna see what "Grandmaster" Ken West looks like.

What's the big deal? I always play as if I were blindfolded.

There's a Morphy game in the lecture I'm uploading now on doubled pawns and double king-pawn openings. Should be live very soon!

Only discovered morphy about 6 months ago my fav player of all time