WEBVTT 00:01.080 --> 00:01.800 Hi there. 00:01.830 --> 00:11.370 In this show, we see Pizza Petrovich Potsdam came against Alekhine in 1912, the St Petersburg Tournament 00:11.400 --> 00:12.170 e4. 00:12.180 --> 00:14.460 We have Alekhine playing in Sicilian defense. 00:14.940 --> 00:20.670 G Free g6 Bishop, G2, Bishop G 798 to 96. 00:21.240 --> 00:22.350 C free. 00:22.950 --> 00:25.770 Now here you can see free looks very logical. 00:25.770 --> 00:27.150 Also night BK free. 00:27.150 --> 00:33.870 This possession should be about even so we have C free nights have six nights a free. 00:34.350 --> 00:42.870 This looks a bit weird D four might actually be it seems a pleasant logical move to play to get the 00:42.870 --> 00:44.640 pawn duo the classic pawn duo. 00:44.820 --> 00:55.740 If for example D six this is plausible, might could play D five and it should be an an advantage for 00:55.740 --> 00:56.580 white hair. 00:59.440 --> 01:05.740 If we look at this again, if C tanks default, this is also going to be a classic advantage for white, 01:05.740 --> 01:08.700 the knight going to a natural, more natural square than a free. 01:08.710 --> 01:10.240 So more influence over the centre. 01:10.240 --> 01:11.530 It's an advantage for white. 01:11.530 --> 01:17.050 So if he looks a little bit of an inaccuracy and these inaccuracies can lead to major disasters, so 01:17.050 --> 01:18.160 pay attention to them. 01:18.370 --> 01:23.440 D five and already Black is doing great after D5. 01:23.470 --> 01:26.200 Now the option of D4 is not even available. 01:26.200 --> 01:29.080 It is played if d free. 01:29.080 --> 01:31.900 This is rather passive d tanks d tanks. 01:31.900 --> 01:37.900 We can take the queen off on d one and just castle here and black's actually the one with a big advantage. 01:37.900 --> 01:40.630 Now if we look at this again. 01:42.840 --> 01:50.910 And instead of D3, you know why can't play D4 here just D takes E4 and if D takes five, this is very 01:50.910 --> 01:53.250 miserable for white indeed. 01:53.250 --> 01:55.140 We're playing bishop at five here. 01:55.650 --> 01:57.310 We can even cancel with checks. 01:57.310 --> 01:57.810 So. 01:58.050 --> 02:04.290 So OC he takes his plate and this kind of liberates the black position this early D5 so Black's got 02:04.290 --> 02:06.900 that nice semi-open D file. 02:07.020 --> 02:13.110 We see 92 black hostels d4c tanks and now C tanks. 02:13.110 --> 02:14.460 This is actually a mistake. 02:14.460 --> 02:21.180 White should have played 90 takes D for factoring in bouncy roads of attack to the king in the center. 02:21.420 --> 02:27.300 If E5 nine takes C six white should have nothing to really fair here. 02:27.300 --> 02:35.070 The queens could come off Bishop take c six and sure black's got enough play though for the pawn. 02:35.070 --> 02:44.490 You know this kind of situation it's even okay but C takes D four was played and we've got to factor 02:44.490 --> 02:48.030 in the king still in the center there are bouncy roads of attack. 02:48.030 --> 02:56.040 Not here so much because of these pawns but we have now Bishop G4, which is kind of annoying trying 02:56.040 --> 03:02.130 to provoke dart square weaknesses after has played if White Castles here. 03:02.250 --> 03:06.150 Black's position is very pleasant actually with Queen D seven for example. 03:06.150 --> 03:09.810 Here Rook acts and Knight takes E3. 03:09.810 --> 03:11.040 Bishop takes E3. 03:11.250 --> 03:12.270 This is very pleasant. 03:12.270 --> 03:14.940 That Queen's pawn is a bit loose now. 03:14.940 --> 03:19.350 Knight takes D four, Bishop takes E to rook. 03:19.350 --> 03:22.350 Take C one and black ends up being better. 03:22.350 --> 03:26.120 That's very, very nice for black, even though it's opposite kind of Bishop's Black's got the better 03:26.130 --> 03:34.740 prospects here and this is pointing out the sensitive F2 of course so yeah it's interesting so F3 is 03:34.740 --> 03:43.120 played the bishop F5 and now here Knight E3 another move with the king still in the center if one it 03:43.140 --> 03:50.910 castled it's not that great for white rook C 893 There are tricks here because Alekhine has weakened 03:50.910 --> 03:56.040 dark squares and the king's on a dark square now there are actually amazing tricks. 03:56.040 --> 04:03.180 Knight takes D4 is an amazing trick here because if Knight 64 can you see what black plays here? 04:03.180 --> 04:06.810 Which really highlights the King being on a dot square. 04:06.960 --> 04:09.360 So the diagonal of death is kind of right here. 04:09.360 --> 04:15.600 But how exactly how exactly do we amplify the diagonal of death, as I like to call it? 04:16.500 --> 04:19.560 So what would you plan this position for? 04:19.560 --> 04:20.580 200 points? 04:21.530 --> 04:24.470 So even if the king had councilman's game, there's a disaster variation. 04:24.470 --> 04:27.580 Rook, take C, one knight takes E freight. 04:27.590 --> 04:28.230 Ouch. 04:28.250 --> 04:29.690 And everything's crumbling. 04:30.530 --> 04:33.590 Yes, it's really quite crushing. 04:34.730 --> 04:36.560 So, you know when the wheel. 04:37.410 --> 04:40.950 Yeah, it's just it's just pretty crushing. 04:40.950 --> 04:43.650 So there are nasty scenarios. 04:43.650 --> 04:52.860 Basically if white castles, but probably better as a friend and just just suffer here with this position. 04:53.280 --> 04:53.660 Okay. 04:53.850 --> 04:56.130 You know, there's no major complete disaster there. 04:56.310 --> 04:59.880 But OC 93 was played here, the Kingston Centre. 05:00.270 --> 05:04.530 And guess what is a really powerful move in this position which needs to be checked out. 05:04.770 --> 05:06.200 Check all the checks. 05:06.210 --> 05:06.990 You never know. 05:06.990 --> 05:08.610 They might actually be magical. 05:09.030 --> 05:10.260 So what would you play here for? 05:10.260 --> 05:11.190 100 points. 05:14.690 --> 05:15.260 Yeah. 05:15.350 --> 05:16.080 Queen 85. 05:16.310 --> 05:18.890 This is very unfortunate for white hair. 05:19.190 --> 05:24.620 Very unfortunate, because for a start, the knight is supporting the queen. 05:25.040 --> 05:27.870 So King F2 is played Bishop D2. 05:27.890 --> 05:29.330 Can you see what black plays? 05:32.110 --> 05:36.640 Yeah, we just played nine takes EA three because we're winning the Queen and because of the support 05:36.640 --> 05:39.070 for the bishop, you know, for the Queen. 05:39.070 --> 05:42.370 Now we're just taking the bishop, rather we're taking the opponent's bishop out. 05:42.490 --> 05:46.540 If Queen D2 and that leaves us with material advantage again. 05:46.540 --> 05:47.380 Material advantage. 05:47.410 --> 05:55.510 Knight takes E3 and now Knight takes G2 with Check, and then taking on A5 leaves us material advantage 05:55.510 --> 05:56.440 in a piece up. 05:56.590 --> 05:58.840 So, yes, this is forcing essentially. 05:58.870 --> 06:01.720 KING After what a concession Knight did before. 06:01.720 --> 06:06.310 And also now Alekhine's got this common square of difference of interest. 06:06.340 --> 06:08.650 Knight takes F5 and still the common square. 06:08.650 --> 06:13.270 Now the Queen sporting the three G for Knight, the free Shaq. 06:13.270 --> 06:17.400 And now, yeah, white is in big trouble wherever the king goes. 06:17.410 --> 06:22.880 Once in big trouble, the king chose king, you know, to go to G free if King f1. 06:23.050 --> 06:26.650 A good move here is to keep the knight supported with Queen B five. 06:28.150 --> 06:34.540 If Bishop e free rook after eight and this position black can just cash out taking out the d pawn with 06:34.540 --> 06:35.330 advantage. 06:35.350 --> 06:42.100 If King g1 again Queen B five and this position again the d pawns under fire which is going to take 06:42.100 --> 06:44.030 out the d pawn if King e free. 06:44.050 --> 06:46.150 This is a little bit more fascinating in a way. 06:46.210 --> 06:48.360 Can you see what Black could play here? 06:48.370 --> 06:50.030 What be your method in this position? 06:50.050 --> 06:54.330 This is more exploiting King literally in a more central location. 06:54.340 --> 06:57.130 There's a great way of doing this here. 06:58.720 --> 07:05.860 So one thing about the king in the center, again, we we need to work out this balance between checks 07:05.860 --> 07:07.750 and covering escape squares. 07:08.590 --> 07:10.480 And there's a key sequence here. 07:10.510 --> 07:11.890 Can you spot it for 100 points? 07:11.890 --> 07:14.800 What would you play here if the king had gone to E3? 07:17.620 --> 07:17.920 Okay. 07:17.920 --> 07:26.080 We have Bishop takes the fall check, which gives our Queen E5 Queen 85 Jack. 07:26.530 --> 07:28.460 And here, What would you play critically? 07:28.480 --> 07:30.040 This is a critical situation. 07:30.040 --> 07:32.960 King is in the center, but we're counting our escape squares. 07:32.980 --> 07:34.060 Do we want to ruin that? 07:34.060 --> 07:36.380 Do we want to let the king run to safety? 07:36.400 --> 07:36.760 No. 07:37.060 --> 07:38.620 There's a really strong move here. 07:38.650 --> 07:39.820 What would you play? 07:42.430 --> 07:42.640 So. 07:42.640 --> 07:46.780 KING The censor to pieces down. 07:48.310 --> 07:50.110 Don't be in a rush to get the piece back. 07:50.140 --> 07:54.490 Covering escape squares is often more important than material material verses King safety. 07:54.490 --> 07:56.800 A beautiful trade off in chess. 07:57.880 --> 07:58.630 Yes. 07:58.630 --> 08:01.300 Still be to pieces down with Knight before check. 08:01.450 --> 08:08.680 The point is we're restricting that king that force to the king not being able to cross over to pieces 08:08.680 --> 08:09.290 down. 08:09.310 --> 08:10.840 But look at this. 08:10.960 --> 08:12.660 This is just power rook. 08:12.670 --> 08:19.750 If the ain't and the other rooks are really helpful to the queen here, so say F4, we can now play 08:19.750 --> 08:24.550 Queen C five, check Rogue takes the D for check and take you on D one. 08:24.550 --> 08:26.860 We're getting our material back with interest. 08:27.400 --> 08:29.470 Beautiful stuff in this variation. 08:30.340 --> 08:32.590 Now, you might ask instead of King C Fray. 08:32.620 --> 08:36.420 What about King D2 here? 08:36.460 --> 08:37.450 What would you play? 08:37.480 --> 08:38.500 The Queen. 08:38.530 --> 08:39.750 Is that fulfilled? 08:39.800 --> 08:41.570 Forceful is a very important checkmate. 08:41.570 --> 08:42.460 The opponent's king. 08:42.490 --> 08:44.860 Do we want to take on D4, or is there something stronger? 08:46.040 --> 08:46.610 Yeah. 08:47.390 --> 08:49.940 We're covering those escape squares, Rook 58. 08:50.060 --> 08:52.820 This possession queen takes the full chunk. 08:53.780 --> 08:55.640 And this is a blast. 08:55.850 --> 08:56.270 Why? 08:56.270 --> 08:59.270 It's rocks are just spectator pieces. 08:59.480 --> 09:01.010 We have spectator pieces here. 09:01.020 --> 09:02.300 92, Chuck. 09:04.830 --> 09:14.700 Queen, 62 queen thanks African queen to queen for and this is very strong for black, this position. 09:15.210 --> 09:21.300 Even though blacks are piece down, we're going to play rook D5 for rook E5 and we're going to win the 09:21.300 --> 09:22.710 Queen if King F2. 09:23.250 --> 09:28.050 But otherwise it is pretty crushing, whatever happens. 09:30.120 --> 09:32.280 If Rook have won Rookie five. 09:32.580 --> 09:37.110 If rook if King have two rook d2 there's. 09:37.110 --> 09:41.850 It's very difficult to actually suggest good moves here. 09:43.110 --> 09:47.030 So yes, this this is rather crushing this situation. 09:47.040 --> 09:48.840 So anyway, this is all. 09:49.940 --> 09:54.890 In the side notes of the game where the king could have gone off the 93 track. 09:54.890 --> 09:56.010 So King is free. 09:56.030 --> 09:57.200 Yeah, we've got this. 09:59.220 --> 10:00.270 Great move. 10:00.440 --> 10:02.070 Just recap the first move there. 10:03.090 --> 10:08.940 If King Frey had been played, we would have Bishop take the fall check to get that E5 square. 10:09.000 --> 10:10.070 That's fun stuff. 10:10.080 --> 10:12.420 So yeah. 10:14.460 --> 10:14.790 So. 10:14.790 --> 10:16.290 KING Jeffrey in the game. 10:18.330 --> 10:22.260 And now a really beautiful move indeed. 10:22.290 --> 10:26.850 Absolutely amazing spot for this for 500 points. 10:26.850 --> 10:27.480 What would you play? 10:27.620 --> 10:29.010 This is in the game continuation. 10:29.010 --> 10:30.390 Absolutely amazing. 10:30.840 --> 10:33.960 The passion for King hunting is high in Anakin. 10:36.450 --> 10:37.310 Unbelievable. 10:37.320 --> 10:38.760 Knight takes the fall. 10:40.580 --> 10:42.350 Now leaving the queen hanging now. 10:43.290 --> 10:43.980 If. 10:44.780 --> 10:46.280 1984. 10:46.310 --> 10:50.120 There's Queenie, five Pack and Queen 64 with advantage to black. 10:50.240 --> 10:57.260 If F for Queen D seven is possible, and that indirectly holds the D free night. 10:58.400 --> 11:01.050 So if Queen 63, we have a five check. 11:01.070 --> 11:02.990 Unveiling an attack against the Queen. 11:03.980 --> 11:11.810 And if therefore Bishop E4 is more important to consider, Knight takes C one and Black's doing well. 11:11.960 --> 11:15.610 So anyway, in the game, though, Black took the queen. 11:15.620 --> 11:18.890 I mean, White took the queen and now Knight takes a five check. 11:19.970 --> 11:21.320 King G4. 11:23.140 --> 11:24.160 Because. 11:25.420 --> 11:26.140 Yeah. 11:26.290 --> 11:33.600 If King H rate the Knights work together like Boden's Knight might. 11:34.360 --> 11:35.630 The Knights are working together. 11:35.650 --> 11:37.000 One's covering the escape squares. 11:37.000 --> 11:38.170 The others chap makes more. 11:38.200 --> 11:40.060 They're both actually covering some escape squads. 11:40.060 --> 11:40.930 Even the tracker. 11:41.110 --> 11:41.740 So, yeah. 11:42.340 --> 11:42.930 I've made that up. 11:42.990 --> 11:46.480 Boden's like, you know, with the two bishops, but I hear two knights chat, mate. 11:46.480 --> 11:49.090 But King G4 doesn't make too much difference. 11:49.120 --> 11:50.620 A tickling move. 11:50.620 --> 11:53.750 Can you spot it Tickling the king back. 11:53.770 --> 11:54.340 Age five. 11:54.340 --> 11:54.910 Check. 11:58.560 --> 12:03.870 So here if King G5, what is the main? 12:03.870 --> 12:10.650 It's Bishop H six Checkmate F King H three That happened after the checkmate. 12:10.650 --> 12:11.820 Wonderful stuff. 12:12.420 --> 12:13.290 Wow. 12:14.550 --> 12:15.660 The pain of a queen. 12:15.660 --> 12:23.280 A five check so it shows little inaccuracies can lead to huge king safety disasters. 12:23.460 --> 12:24.420 What a game. 12:24.420 --> 12:26.880 I hope you enjoyed this one as much as me. 12:27.270 --> 12:30.780 I absolutely love these attacking games. 12:31.710 --> 12:34.230 Alekhine is a master of attack. 12:34.680 --> 12:42.000 So yes, the king in the center to play this queen F5 check with that follow up is just is fantastic 12:42.000 --> 12:44.880 follow up this follow up night takes D4. 12:44.880 --> 12:46.350 What a fantastic follow up. 12:46.800 --> 12:47.250 Okay. 12:47.280 --> 12:49.200 I hope you enjoyed that and so much.