EP 407- News and the Nimzo with GM Ben Finegold- Recent cheating Controversies, The US Championships, Favorite Openings, & Chess Gambling Stories

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4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

GM Ben Finegold is back to share his thoughts on all of the recent crazy chess news. The popular commentator, YouTuber, and Chessable author and I discuss the controversies and highlights of the US Championships, as well as the most recent cheating accusations leveled by GM Vladimir Kramnik. Do these accusations have more merit than other recent ones? We also discuss OTB cheating, as Ben draws some comparisions to cheating episodes in the game of Bridge. Lastly, we discuss why the Nimzo-Indian is a favorite opening of Ben’s and Ben shares a few of his favorite stories related to chess and gambling. As always, timestamps of topics discussed are below. Thanks to our sponsors, Chessable.com. Check out Ben’s course, Starting Out: Nimzo-Indian. If you sign up for Chessable Pro, please use the following link to help support Perpetual Chess: https://www.chessable.com/pro/?utm_source=affiliate&utm_medium=benjohnson&utm_campaign=pro Mentioned: GMs Daniel Naroditsky and Vladimir Kramnik on the Levitov channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFwfC6Y1SAQ Danya on C-Squared https://youtu.be/RGiDosCed48?si=94GZd6Dx2TiD3wal 19:00- The Shevchenko story and OTB cheating. 23:00- How does cheating in bridge compare to chess? Is it easier to improve at bridge than chess? 27:00- Patreon mailbag question- What is worse, OTB cheating or the fear of OTB cheating? 30:45- We discuss the GM Christopher Yoo story and the stress of OTB chess. 39:00- Ben discusses the Nimzo-Indian and other favorite openings from childhood Mentioned: Starting out: The Nimzo Indian https://www.chessable.com/starting-out-nimzo-indian-defense/course/258506/ Tal-Botvinnik 1960 47:00- Patreon mailbag question: How you can acquire skills rather than knowledge from watching videos? 49:00- Ben shares a few stories about gambling on blitz and bullet chess. Mentioned: GM Kirill Georgiev 58:00- Ben’s World Championship thoughts If you would like to help support Perpetual Chess via Patreon, you can do so here: https://www.patreon.com/c/perpetualchess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to perpetual chess.
0:07.6	We are joined by one of the Pod's bestest friends, especially this year,
0:11.5	his third appearance this year, a couple quicker hits.
0:13.7	And this time we're back for a long-form interview.
0:15.7	He's a popular commentator, YouTuber, a Twitch streamer, a chessable author.
0:19.3	His new course, starting out in the NIMSO-Indian is a newer player's guide to one of the most dynamic principled evergreen
0:26.0	defenses to 1D4. We will be discussing it in due time. Thanks, as always to Chescible for helping
0:31.7	to support perpetual chess. And if you do sign up for their services, especially their pro membership, be sure to use the link in the description.
0:40.8	But we'll be getting into Ben's course.
0:42.1	But we've got a lot of news to catch up on.
0:44.6	As regular listeners know, I record these often 10 days to two weeks in advance.
0:49.1	We're recording this one eight days in advance on October 28th.
0:52.4	This will be out on November 5th.
0:55.2	And crazy stuff keeps happening. And it's time to catch up on it all. So we'll get into all the drama of it
1:00.1	all. But first, I thought me away. We might want to spotlight human achievement, if briefly.
1:04.9	So Ben, I know you're a big Carissa yet fan. You predicted her victory. Let's give her some
1:09.1	flowers. Why did her victory in the U. her some flowers. Why did, why did her victory in the
1:12.1	U.S. championship and run at Fisher's record of going undefeated? Why didn't that surprise you?
1:16.9	And also, welcome, Ben. Thank you. Thanks for welcoming. Yeah, last year, I remember saying after
1:25.1	like round one, I said, Chris is the favorite and the dark horse would be, no, there's no dark horse Chris is going to win.
1:33.9	That's what I said last year.
1:35.6	And this year, I jokingly said after round one that they're going to cancel the tournament and declare Carissa the winner.
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