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In this lecture, we see Boris Spassky's trainer, Alexander Tonic against a low Seth.
This is in 1948.
U.S. Championship, round eight.
And we can see the influence on Boris Spassky because Thomas was a fan of The King's Gambit.
So a very attacking opening.
So here a Lords have place D5, we have E tanks D5, which might not be now this might not be accurate.
Queen 65 More accurate is actually e tanks F4.
So knights have three nights of sex and of C4 c6 d4.
This should be about equal.
If anything, black might have a small edge technically, but it still funds playful white.
So anyway in the game this is even more fun to play after.
Queen takes D5 gaining this tempo with nine three Queen in six and now F takes e5 Queen takes E5 checkers.
So the Queen has done a lot of moves and White's getting the pieces out and about.
The Black King is still in the center.
We see Bishop g4 d4 Queen e6 Queen D3.
So this prepares the possibility of castling queenside things are getting out of the way for castling
queenside We have also some threats like Queen b5 check which black is getting a bit concerned it seems,
in place.
C6 Yeah, it's worth trying to do something about that.
Bishop E4 But another piece develops Knight F6 and now White Castles.
Queenside This is all very nice.
This is a very, very pleasant position to have from an opening.
We have Bishop takes E2 just to show some of the latent dangers.
If Bishop E7 White could take on G4 Queen since G4 Queen A3 and it's a nuisance, Black might be able
to survive though with A6 here to bring the knight to D5 soon.
So Knight before Bishop d6 and Black survives but is actually worse here as example.
So anyway Bishop takes E2 helps again development wise with the king still in the center we have Bishop
D6.
So the funny thing is, if Bishop is seven you might think, Well, can't Black Castle from here?
The thing is Rook HD one if Black Castles Knight G4 is actually rather strong here, Queen d79 F5 and
Black's on a real back foot now.
To say the least.
So as an example, say Bishop de eight one can actually force a win here with the knight on EF five
with Bishop the Saints rookie Yanks.
And guess what?
One can play hard, which is just crushing.
You know, this is a very interesting position because of Bishop things being eight with the nine on
there five.
Looking at G7 rook takes the queen Geoffrey is now targeting the mate France and B eight and you can
see how this is a total disaster.
Okay.
So Bishop D six though, was tried, but now even worse, things start to happen to Black's position.
We have D5 opening up things 1965 1965.
So here.
Yeah, it looks very unpleasant.
C 65 Queen G phrase may use of hand, gaining another key tempo, basically hitting G seven, hitting
D six.
So Bishop takes her for check, Knight takes her form, which means this diagonal is not even checked.
The knight's in the way, so it's not even shank.
The king still in the center.
This is an open penalty.
Rook One check.
King and fight.
And the final move.
Can you guess for five points?
Queen 83, and that's mating.
So the king is going to move, have to move.
All the queen is going to delay the mate, but it's going to be a mate.
So it's a crushing game.
It's a curiosity.
Okay.
So this is not the most celebrated game or anything.
It's not in tons of collections.
But what I wanted to show you, basically they're attacking chess.
Has its roots in earlier plans than you might think.
So Boris Spassky, who was a former world chess champion, apparently, you know, he he was really
kind of inspired by tonic.
He had some other training before that who wasn't so attacking.
And he lost some of his attacking strengths, but with Polish on board.
You know, Spassky became an even more dangerous dynamic, attacking player, you know, strengthening
his tactics as well, because that's the style is important to be strong tactically.
So this is just an example from Polish.
I wanted to show you.
Just show you just historically, you might not have ever seen this game, but the real roots, you
know, So the same with Garry Kasparov.
Kasparov, the kind of sensei is Alexander Alekhine, the sensei, the teacher.
And this this is in we have in karate the concept of Sensei.
So a fan of Cobra, Kai and Sensei.
This is a fun series on Netflix.
But anyway, we can see that the earlier generations, they take a certain spirit, a certain style,
and it's been nurtured and it's kind of been passed on to the later generations.
But the earlier generations, they have simpler examples to learn from.
Opening theory wasn't so evolved.
So if we want to learn the the arts, the arts of attacking chess, you know, we have to go to players
like Thomas or Alexander Alekhine.
Alexander Alekhine is even more affirmative, though, than Astonish had some great results.
But Alekhine was himself, you know, a world chess champion and is the basis, it seems, you know,
a great study for Kasparov when he was young.
So I just wanted to respect the generations and what we learn from the past generations.
And the simpler examples is the simpler examples which really we should embrace because there's a greater
probability of us understanding those examples, because a lot of the modern Kasparov games, especially
the celebrated ones, are often against players like comp if they're very, very complex indeed.
So yes, if we get similar examples.
Masters that's always a good thing in my view, from the earlier generations.
Okay.
And so much.