WEBVTT 00:00.880 --> 00:01.720 Hi there. 00:01.750 --> 00:05.370 In this lecture, we see an amazing game between Benton, Lawson and Boris Spassky. 00:05.380 --> 00:09.670 In 1970, there was a USSR versus rest of the world match. 00:10.540 --> 00:11.740 So very interesting match. 00:11.740 --> 00:20.680 We have be free from Ben Lawson, one of his opening systems for Surprise five Bishop B2. 00:20.680 --> 00:28.090 I mean, it gave him great results and he won many torments with this system and also, you know, came 00:28.090 --> 00:30.430 later known as the Nimzowitsch Larsson system. 00:30.430 --> 00:32.200 So Nimzowitsch and Larsen. 00:32.620 --> 00:38.800 So we have 96 from Boris Spassky, see 49256, nine. 00:38.800 --> 00:40.870 Afraid this is a bit provocative. 00:41.560 --> 00:52.780 Spassky plays E4, we have 94 and now Bishop C5 now here, putting on some plays 19th C6, perhaps slightly 00:52.780 --> 00:54.010 better as Knight F5. 00:54.010 --> 01:02.680 It looks adventurous, but it is kind of hitting G7 if D5 Knight signs G seven check, for example C 01:02.800 --> 01:07.510 65 Knight 65 this position. 01:08.260 --> 01:12.990 Should offer wines a small engine, especially with Queen C one. 01:13.140 --> 01:15.500 What should be getting a small edge? 01:15.520 --> 01:18.900 So that was an interesting way of playing it with light. 01:19.120 --> 01:19.900 Five. 01:21.430 --> 01:21.940 Yeah. 01:21.940 --> 01:26.950 And if like castles here, iframe this position. 01:27.100 --> 01:28.170 C tanks. 01:28.180 --> 01:30.220 Queen takes Knight G fray again. 01:30.400 --> 01:30.760 Why? 01:30.760 --> 01:34.780 It should have a small edge, especially in this line. 01:34.780 --> 01:36.820 Nine C Free Knight D Free check. 01:37.300 --> 01:42.160 If we take this a bit further, we could even take this pawn with a clear edge if black doesn't play 01:42.160 --> 01:43.150 their cards right. 01:43.570 --> 01:46.390 So okay, so 95 has something going for it. 01:47.560 --> 01:51.220 And that is something I mentioned when looking at this game in My name's Olafsson. 01:51.220 --> 01:55.060 Course you want to check that out that even this iconic game. 01:55.060 --> 02:00.220 Yeah it has some improvements but might take C six not such a good move. 02:00.550 --> 02:02.230 We have D tank CSX. 02:02.230 --> 02:09.400 This is very very handy to play like this to increase central control rather than B tanks. 02:09.910 --> 02:16.090 And after E3 we have Bishop five, Queen C two, Queen E seven. 02:16.090 --> 02:19.270 So Black has a nice grip on the position. 02:19.630 --> 02:29.950 Bishop E two If a frame and black castling Knight C3 this situation there is the possibility of playing 02:29.950 --> 02:35.710 b4 but here the bishop can go to E5 doesn't have to be trapped at B6. 02:35.710 --> 02:38.740 So this also shows you it has a small edge here. 02:39.280 --> 02:41.320 Bishop E two though was played. 02:42.400 --> 02:48.970 We have Spassky, castling, queenside and then this next move makes things a lot worse for White. 02:48.970 --> 02:54.250 It's based on a tactic, of course, that the pawn can't take as of Queen takes A5 check. 02:54.250 --> 02:55.150 Well, let me show you. 02:55.150 --> 02:56.890 That's not to say, of course. 02:56.890 --> 03:01.210 So this tactic wins a piece, gives time to take on F3. 03:01.420 --> 03:08.440 So the thing is, the thing is here, it does make Mike White's position worse. 03:08.440 --> 03:11.520 In particular, this form of has weakened E3. 03:11.530 --> 03:13.240 It's weaken also the diagonal. 03:14.470 --> 03:16.810 And Spassky is such an amazing player. 03:17.050 --> 03:24.130 He can make diagonals which seem completely unusable very soon, you know, usable in some of his classic 03:24.130 --> 03:25.330 attacking games. 03:25.330 --> 03:31.000 It looks as though there's no issue on this diagonal right now, but we see Knight G4. 03:32.570 --> 03:36.230 And with this it is. 03:37.080 --> 03:38.790 Kind of potentially menacing. 03:39.270 --> 03:41.580 Now, this position. 03:41.670 --> 03:42.600 We have to move. 03:42.630 --> 03:45.480 Jeffrey So what is going on? 03:46.170 --> 03:47.340 Why, Jeffrey? 03:47.370 --> 03:48.570 What is going on? 03:50.550 --> 03:54.010 These are good questions because you might think that that's Jeffrey. 03:54.030 --> 04:00.810 Well, let's have a look, if might scifri, what was black, do you think? 04:00.810 --> 04:07.020 There's a very strong continuation here, actually, after natural night scifri, trying to, you know, 04:07.050 --> 04:08.820 Castle Queensland, for example. 04:11.120 --> 04:16.160 So with the king in the centre, we could actually try and exploit the King and center by weakening 04:16.160 --> 04:16.540 the king. 04:16.550 --> 04:20.900 Brooke Tanks T2 Rucksack Bishop takes e free. 04:21.260 --> 04:24.440 So we get this position where now F2. 04:25.550 --> 04:31.610 And here we can even play nightly free track, forget the rock and then use the diagonal queen H for 04:31.610 --> 04:36.500 all of a sudden great use has been made of this diagonal. 04:37.670 --> 04:42.440 G Free Bishop H Free shank and mates. 04:42.920 --> 04:44.030 What is won't do here? 04:44.660 --> 04:46.040 Bishop takes D3. 04:46.790 --> 04:48.350 He takes this position. 04:48.800 --> 04:50.150 Queen F2 is made. 04:51.800 --> 04:57.400 So, Geoffrey, Hint five is strong this position. 04:57.410 --> 05:04.970 Queen H three, Queen two kings in the sense if that's the best move, that's not good news. 05:05.540 --> 05:15.680 D two check is really strong here as well taking yeah diabolical so they're all dangers with 9c3 you 05:15.680 --> 05:18.830 know we've rook tanks D two in mind it's quite amazing. 05:18.830 --> 05:24.590 The king's in big trouble there in the sense already that white can't just play this the castle queenside 05:24.590 --> 05:30.650 So G4 is played and then we have the move Age five you might ask. 05:30.650 --> 05:33.680 Hang on with the knight on B1. 05:33.680 --> 05:36.140 There's no way any other sacrifice will work. 05:36.140 --> 05:44.900 Actually, the funny thing is, even with the knight on B1, Rook takes D2 is very dangerous still here. 05:46.250 --> 05:52.640 You know this position for example with Rook the eight knight G2 check Bishop H3 you can see the Kings 05:53.390 --> 06:01.970 in quite a bit of bother here and trouble so free the resources are cut off, the rooks are cut off 06:01.970 --> 06:05.780 here and black's infiltrating with advantage. 06:05.780 --> 06:11.750 So even in this position, Rook takes D2 is really strong and very mind, you know. 06:11.750 --> 06:16.580 Knight 62 Yeah, there's other strong possibilities, but let's get on with the main line of the game, 06:16.580 --> 06:18.050 which is also spectacular. 06:19.880 --> 06:21.800 So which is h five. 06:23.570 --> 06:24.470 So we have. 06:25.370 --> 06:30.920 If blank is allowed, we have the strong H for just to open up here. 06:30.920 --> 06:32.930 So we have h free from white. 06:35.500 --> 06:40.390 And this gets you know, this is the first super iconic move of the game. 06:40.840 --> 06:43.090 What would you play here for 200 points? 06:44.920 --> 06:50.070 So quite often in Spassky games, there's these attacking diagonals you think would never be, you know, 06:50.140 --> 06:51.520 shown in the main line in the game. 06:51.520 --> 06:57.010 But Spassky kind of proves that this diagonal, this diagonal of death, you could call it, because 06:57.010 --> 06:58.320 the king hasn't moved. 06:58.330 --> 07:02.410 So we need to look at the diagonals on the death all the time, and especially of our own. 07:02.410 --> 07:08.140 KING We don't want to be exploited for some nasty check on one of the diagonals of death, as I like 07:08.140 --> 07:08.590 to call it. 07:08.860 --> 07:16.720 So here Spassky plays a really iconic move H for he's ripping open this diagonal we have H takes G four, 07:17.140 --> 07:20.230 H takes G free hitting the rook. 07:20.710 --> 07:24.970 Now the rook refuses to take on H8 with Rook G one. 07:27.580 --> 07:30.970 It would be too many frets if rook takes some rook takes. 07:31.720 --> 07:39.820 If we look at this, this is too much to bear this position with Rook h one coming. 07:40.240 --> 07:46.000 So we have rook g one being played. 07:46.750 --> 07:49.570 So a very interesting situation here. 07:50.920 --> 07:52.560 So what would you play here? 07:57.810 --> 07:59.490 There are strong moves. 07:59.520 --> 08:01.860 The spectacular one was played. 08:01.920 --> 08:12.270 If we look at Queen H for more directly this position, there is actually Rook H one rook f1g2. 08:12.270 --> 08:14.100 And black actually gets an advantage here. 08:14.520 --> 08:15.090 It's funny. 08:15.090 --> 08:16.860 It's funny position. 08:18.480 --> 08:27.450 If instead of you know, instead of what does black do instead of rook saying instead of rook f1 if 08:27.450 --> 08:30.090 king f1 there's rook h to. 08:35.460 --> 08:43.170 But if Rook takes h1g to check, there's a lot of magic here to be had with that advanced pawn as well. 08:43.410 --> 08:45.720 A lot of very interesting situations. 08:45.930 --> 08:52.170 It turns out Queen H4 is an exceptionally dangerous move already just using the diagonal of Def basically 08:53.010 --> 08:55.950 against the default position of the king here. 08:56.700 --> 09:00.270 This is just such a strong position indeed. 09:02.700 --> 09:05.340 So yes, King had fun, too. 09:05.850 --> 09:08.370 And instead of taxation, you might ask, what about knights? 09:08.490 --> 09:10.350 FRANK Well, there's just work I have to check. 09:10.680 --> 09:11.310 Queen Tax. 09:11.340 --> 09:13.310 You won the meeting. 09:13.320 --> 09:18.570 So in other words, Queen H fought already for this tiger and was fantastic with the king in the center. 09:18.600 --> 09:23.730 If the king is in the center, yeah, we got to get trying to get onto these diagonals of death. 09:24.540 --> 09:34.380 So by rook one does it also in spectacular fashion rotates h1g2 we have rook half one if rook G one 09:34.380 --> 09:34.590 here. 09:34.590 --> 09:34.860 Yeah. 09:34.860 --> 09:39.330 We're back with Queen H four check King one, Queen H one. 09:39.900 --> 09:48.420 What is really disconnected from the G one square here, helpless on G one hand, if Queen C one queen. 09:48.420 --> 09:48.690 Thanks. 09:48.690 --> 09:49.680 G one shank. 09:50.210 --> 09:51.660 Queen C one is possible. 09:51.660 --> 09:52.740 And then just queen ing. 09:53.310 --> 10:02.370 So rook half one is tried offering the rook, but now Queen H four check King d1g takes F one queen 10:02.670 --> 10:07.050 and Bent Lawson resigned her. 10:07.170 --> 10:11.220 If Bishop takes F one Bishop takes G four. 10:11.220 --> 10:17.280 Check King C one because if Bishop E two, there's Queen H one. 10:17.280 --> 10:18.570 That's a cute checkmate. 10:18.870 --> 10:26.730 So King C one, but here, Queen E one check Queen D one Queen 61 is checkmate. 10:27.360 --> 10:34.080 A really brutal game which dented the popularity of 1b3, but unnecessarily. 10:34.080 --> 10:36.060 You know why it didn't have to play like this? 10:36.150 --> 10:39.930 And it's still for me, you know, a dangerous weapon of choice of surprise weapon. 10:39.930 --> 10:42.270 So one shouldn't be put off, be free. 10:42.300 --> 10:45.480 That's a side note about this game. 10:45.480 --> 10:47.040 This is a very interesting opening. 10:47.160 --> 10:47.670 Check my name. 10:47.670 --> 10:49.380 So last and course side note there. 10:49.380 --> 10:54.990 But no, the main note from the point of view of an attacking perspective on this game. 10:55.620 --> 10:58.410 Yeah, this was a very provocative sequence. 10:59.940 --> 11:01.710 C4 is not needed. 11:01.710 --> 11:02.290 Black. 11:02.340 --> 11:06.630 Well, I mean, white can actually play in various other ways here. 11:06.630 --> 11:12.870 So this is a very provocative way of playing things with C4 in this possession. 11:13.110 --> 11:14.820 There are other ideas. 11:15.090 --> 11:20.670 So anyway, and there was a potential improvement here with F5. 11:21.240 --> 11:24.000 Black had that dynamic structure. 11:24.600 --> 11:31.890 With dynamic structure, like the double pawns, pawns are kind of getting out of the way for the pieces. 11:31.890 --> 11:38.580 You can see that Black's piece activity is strong here on the defile, and that's the case of Black's 11:38.580 --> 11:38.710 king. 11:38.710 --> 11:39.720 The castle queenside. 11:39.720 --> 11:43.050 At some point with normal play, you can see that D5 is going to be useful. 11:43.080 --> 11:47.670 The dynamic structure structures often get out of the way to maximize piece activity. 11:48.780 --> 11:50.910 So double pawns, it's a trade off. 11:50.910 --> 11:52.500 You know, you get piece activity. 11:52.500 --> 11:56.400 I say Queen's pawn, you get a piece of activity and sometimes you win by getting rid of the ice like 11:56.430 --> 12:01.620 Queen's Pawn or hanging pawn, you get rid of one of the hanging pawns to maximize your piece activity. 12:01.620 --> 12:06.960 Piece activity leads often to good attacking potential against the king. 12:07.260 --> 12:14.010 So anyway, yeah, this is a dynamic structure and it gives black a very comfortable position with rapidly 12:14.010 --> 12:15.600 castling on the queenside side. 12:15.600 --> 12:18.240 So everything's out of the box here. 12:18.510 --> 12:20.790 It's a bad position for makes things worse. 12:20.790 --> 12:27.900 But already we see, you know, this position is not too pleasant. 12:29.860 --> 12:30.760 For white. 12:31.150 --> 12:33.550 There are, you know, issues here. 12:34.460 --> 12:39.160 You know, blacks are very strong behind on the possession, but effort made things worse. 12:39.220 --> 12:43.120 And this diagonal is something to try and exploit. 12:43.900 --> 12:46.930 We can't think of it as impossible. 12:46.930 --> 12:50.830 There are ways and means quite often of exploiting diagonals. 12:50.830 --> 12:56.470 And Boris Spassky, one of the great attacking players I know he's mostly known for losing to Bobby 12:56.470 --> 13:01.570 Fischer, but he's great at tapping, tapping into these attacking diagonals. 13:01.570 --> 13:04.660 So it was done in absolutely spectacular fashion. 13:05.110 --> 13:11.510 This diagonal of def was exploited in a truly spectacular fashion, in my view, with this initial piece 13:11.530 --> 13:15.070 back and then this spectacular Rook H one. 13:15.070 --> 13:17.770 Although Queen H four would have, it seems, done the job as well. 13:17.770 --> 13:22.890 But this is absolutely spectacular way of playing the position with the advanced pawn. 13:22.900 --> 13:26.290 So I hope you enjoyed this absolutely iconic game. 13:26.800 --> 13:30.430 So yeah, the game ending on G takes F1. 13:30.760 --> 13:31.750 It shows. 13:32.710 --> 13:33.370 Yeah. 13:33.760 --> 13:36.880 Quite a few pointers here for attacking chess. 13:37.000 --> 13:40.090 Accepting double pawns isn't always such a bad idea. 13:41.110 --> 13:46.030 Diagonal def, you know, try and amplify them rapid development. 13:46.030 --> 13:48.400 Try and console before the opponent sometimes. 13:48.520 --> 13:49.090 Yeah. 13:50.350 --> 13:54.940 Weakening pull moves in the opening can have severe tactical consequences. 13:55.540 --> 13:56.020 Okay. 13:56.050 --> 13:58.450 I hope you enjoyed this so much.