Hi there.
In this lecture, we see an amazing game of Rudolf Spillman against Alexander Flambeau.
This is a 1914 Mannheim tournament, round one.
So Spillman was actually known as Master of Attack.
So let's learn from him in this game.
So his play is often full of sacrifices, brilliancy and beautiful ideas, and this game is a great
showcase example.
So F4 from Rudolf Spillman, we have E5 from Flambeau now 93, the Vienna game, one of my favorites
as well for online play especially nice have six for D5.
This is the logical move of test testing move of the Vienna game after 65 Knight takes E4 now Knight
F3 we have here Bishop G4, Queen E and we have Knight see five.
Now if Black had played Knight eight three White could actually play D tanks and there's a bit of a
trade off.
Okay, we have double pawns but we can play Bishop F4 and quickly Castle Queenside here So that's kind
of logical here because our Queen's inhibiting the bishop to stop castling kingside.
But this position is is pleasant enough.
We would have attacking prospects here as example.
So anyway nine C5 and we have D4 and black goes into materialistic mode here.
Black can actually technically win a pawn.
So trying to punish the downside of this move.
But the thing is, is black in a position to punish things because the king is still in the center?
The general rule is in the opening.
You should really prioritise piece development and king safety.
If you indulge in active operations too early, then they are likely to backfire.
The Art of War.
The good fighter puts themselves beyond the feet before going onto the attack is black beyond defeat.
So Black indulges Bishop takes her free.
So this gives the bishop hands away and the point square bishop is without a counterpart.
And the point is of Black's punishment for check, which.
Is interesting.
Now.
Sure, one can play Queen F2, but it doesn't want the queens necessarily coming off.
So in fact, guess what Spellman plays here, which is like the punishment of the punishment here and
the king still in the center.
So what would you play for 100 points?
It's a great concept to rapidly develop even more g free.
Just offer the sensor, let the sensor go.
Queen 64 And now another great move.
What would you play here?
It seems very casually played, Bishop.
E4 Yeah, letting another pawn go.
The thing is now cast in queenside, a major pressure on D5 that supports D5.
But guess what?
Now it's all turns punish black.
The punishment of the punishment.
So the black king still in the center.
We want to stop the black King Castling.
So what would you play here for?
100 points?
Yeah.
So it's a classic.
Black has been greedy material at the expense of king safety.
So when we evaluate positions, we don't want things to go totally off balance, especially in terms
of king safety.
We don't want our king safety to destroy it.
But here Knight takes D5 emphasizes the king's still in the center, C takes Rook, takes D5 and now
we have Queen E6.
If Queen C7 just bishop take C5 this position.
Bishop B5 check is nice and then we can just take it on C5.
So queeny sex was tried
and.
Yeah.
There are some ideas that sometimes queeny one check might be useful if taking on sci fi we have Bishop
C-4.
So this rook is involved in supporting things.
And why is Francis saying things like rook d h to win the queen?
We have Queenie for this.
This is an interesting move.
If Bishop seven.
Yeah, Rook takes C5, no problem hitting the queen and Bishop takes up seven.
Check.
Bishop e six check.
You can see this is crushing.
So Queen E four.
But when the opponent has downsides like King, the sense especially or other sorts of downsides might
be a loose pace.
Any form of downsides?
You want to become a know person in chess?
That's what I am.
My, my, my.
One of my latest theories about chess, it's like becoming a no person saying no to the opponent's threats.
You don't have to serve them.
And in fact, if we're not careful, we're going to lose a rook.
If we move the queen, we're going to lose a rook with check.
So we don't really want the queen's off.
So guess what we play here.
We know that there are downsides of the opponent's position.
We can do better.
They're responding to the opponent's threat.
Basically, we can do much better.
We deserve to do much better.
So what would you play here for?
500 points?
Being no person, we're not going to move our queen.
We're not going to take on E4.
We want to seek to exploit, in fact, the opponent's downsides.
How do we do that?
Yeah, we can end the game here.
Bishop, take SI five.
And actually, Black resigned here.
Just letting our queen know if the queen take takes on her free, very forcing rookie one check.
Bishop e seven rook takes e check King f eight rook, the eight Shaq and mate.
And how embarrassing is this for black?
These pieces would be still in bed.
Just the queen out OC equal on pawns here now Yeah So a crushing win showing absolute greed and materialism
in the opening punished drastically a very short win.
15 move win shows those from our attacking perspective that we really want to punish materialism.
And the key point is this could have been a major turning point of the game.
When we do have downsides to celebrate in terms of king safety, if you do start to just parry the opponent's
threats, maybe they've got a gigantic rating online.
GM And you feel that, oh, you're going to worship them or something, respect their threats?
No, you are aiming to expose the opponent's downsides.
That's the key thing.
You've got to look at all the available options.
So this was an absolute brilliant move.
Bishop, Thank C5.
So yeah, if Bishop takes protecting the Queen, it's very, very lost for black here.
So I hope you enjoyed this one and sometimes welcome the opponents greed if it's at the expense of their
king safety downside.
And after that, they shouldn't be pushing you around with France if they do have a king safety downside
tap into that OC and so much.