Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Alexander Alekhine playing against Max ODA in 1921, The Hawk.
This is actually a blitz game.
It's a lot of fun sometimes these blitz games.
It's nice that it was a recorded E4 from Alekhine we have.
Oh, we're playing E5 night C for the Vienna game.
We have nine of six.
Bishop C-4 and then we have Bishop B4 here.
So this is interesting delaying for actually I usually play for this is interesting to delay and for
so we have Bishop b4 A-4 now e tanks we have e five and our Queen E seven.
This is a very bad mistake actually.
Black hats play D five here to avoid getting a massive disadvantage.
For example, Bishop B five checkpoint F 37 this position.
After 1965.
Bishop 85.
Before then see six and it gets a bit hairy, actually.
If B takes 9/10, E five is even better than anything else.
And we get a situation with Queen D for hitting the rook, hitting the knight, where actually black
is going to end up with a small edge.
Yeah, this is interesting.
This is the way to.
Definitely the whites play it okay with D5.
That's definitely the recipe here.
So use if we look at this again.
Instead of 1965.
The four plants can be found here as well.
So yeah, it's interesting, but Queenie seven was played and we have Queenie, too.
And this jives basically that night night's back.
Now that goes to G eight.
This is bad news.
95.
It doesn't really matter that the king is inconvenienced either.
D1 F1 whites got a big advantage out of the opening Bishop a59 F3 queen H five Queen Da might have been
slightly better.
Actually.
This position, though, is still it's dominating from white here.
Why?
It could take out the bishop and has already made the tack on F7.
What is black do?
Black doesn't want a castle here.
Otherwise in this operation this is absolutely crushing and h7f7 here is diabolical.
So let's imagine Rook have eight.
But then Knight takes H seven.
This is just crushing.
This is just crushing position for Y.
So anyway, but h five is bad as well for different reasons.
And actually this is actually technically an inaccuracy.
EF six check.
So that's played it's actually I'm not testing on it.
One actually does better just to reinforce the sensor with deformed.
This is a dream position because the queens kind of misplaced on H five anyway for this position for
nine times F four.
This is just huge and we're hitting the queen with the bishop there.
And yeah, you know, this is just absolutely crushing.
We're going to end up crushing black like this instead.
But nine of six is fun.
It looks like a lot of fun to play a lot of things we have G thanks.
F Sex if night sex have sex, sure.
This is a quick knockout.
He takes f six check unless black's going to delay with Queen e five.
But it's a quick knockout, so g thanks is played eight thanks f six check king D Just for the record,
it's fascinating.
If the king had gone here to f eight, there are interesting possibilities for black Actually, after
rook e one black has to play nine times f six to give g seven an escape square.
And here one does have, though.
Queenie seven Shaq.
And there's only one move for advantage, though, here you have to find in this position.
Otherwise it's not.
Not great.
Can you see what that that move is?
Okay the move would be rookie five that that seems to be technically the only move for advantage.
So hitting the queen.
And if the queen moves to the G4, we have Rook G5, either G4 or G6.
We pin, we basically win the Queen.
We're threatening Queen.
Snakes have seven now, so rookie eight queen tanks have seven or rook takes and then Queen takes have
seven.
Yeah, we'll just queen takes of seven here.
So this winning the queen leads to a clear advantage anyway.
Well, that's absolutely devastating.
But, you know, what does black do?
Blacks can lose the queen.
It is a clear advantage.
But even more incisive, actually, sort of queenly.
Seven channels also be for accelerating pressure on F6, which could come in very handy as a common
square hair.
So first this, an ambitious B two and black's just not in a state here to really handle this dance
pressure.
If King G7, we can bring the king out for moments and then Queen Eve seven check.
This is even stronger than the other variation where rookie five again is a really crushing blow actually
for Rook G5.
So yeah, it is some fast that there are some fascinating variations with King F eight to explore which
are of interest there for us as attacking players.
Do we rush into double do we play move like B4 Yeah it's interesting this this position and it turns
out B4 can actually be a very strong alternative here because we have invested a pace so black counter
investing for king safety it can be a little bit tricky.
So but we're basically sometimes with this bishop on B2 that's a magnificent attacking piece.
Quite often across that diagonal looking at Black's kingside and Black's king is still on the King's
side here.
So this is just great stuff as well to consider.
But anyway, in the game, back to the game, King D eight was played, which is a bit easier to handle
now.
Now, yeah.
Rook e one looking at the common square.
E eight and it's all over.
Black resigns here.
There is one possibility to play on with C five in this case or C six to give the king an escape square.
In both cases, you know, B4 is a great move just to activate this bishop on c one, you know this
position.
So we're not quite mating, but it is a totally dominating position with a pass pull now on f6.
Yeah.
If see instead.
Again b4 is very strong this kind of situation.
D4 opens up this spaceship and here for example, plants can end up losing material to have to defend
d6 its its absolutely crushing position.
Yeah.
So it's a fun game.
It really is a fun game.
And it shows the some of the powers of the Vienna game, which I use frequently in Blitz, but I usually
myself play at four and is considered a kind of mistake to take care because of E5.
And if Queen is having this and White gets a big advantage here based on 95, but quite often, you
know, taking time here as well with my friend D4, it's still it's a huge position for White's already,
you know Black's development has been impeded dramatically but that's that's a theoretical discussion
there about the Vienna.
But yeah it can lead to these big attacking positions of black steps up and black kind of dead in this
relation is just one of a bit of difference with these two bishops here.
So this is like a Vienna game mistake being demonstrated as well.
In a theoretical sense.
This is just a huge position to get from the Vienna game.
But as mentioned.
What doesn't even have to play Night of Things.
It's just huge here with the Queen as a target for night takes a fall.
So, yeah, this is just wonderful stuff.
If we're getting an F seven target later on, we can play it energetically like this.
And yeah, it's just a huge possession there.
But yeah, job done in the game.
King Makes things even easier, but it's just a huge position in any case.
So funny stuff.
Resigning here without further ado.
So a fun blitz game between them, these two past world chess champions.
I hope you enjoyed this game so much.