WEBVTT 00:00.890 --> 00:01.730 Hi there. 00:02.420 --> 00:05.690 In this lecture, we see the immortal Gold Coins game. 00:05.690 --> 00:10.670 So this is Stefan Nowitzki against Frank James Marshall in 1912. 00:10.700 --> 00:13.760 So Frank Marshall is a real fun loving chess player. 00:13.760 --> 00:15.470 He loves going for the attacks. 00:16.520 --> 00:19.520 Sometimes he's ground down by more positional players. 00:20.570 --> 00:27.860 Lasker destroyed him in the match famously, and Lasker was kind of avoiding his strengths of attack 00:27.860 --> 00:31.730 and the use of initiative by often simplifying positions. 00:33.470 --> 00:39.920 But anyway, in terms of being an attacking player, he is a great attacking player and had a great 00:39.920 --> 00:41.150 number of successes. 00:41.150 --> 00:44.210 This is in 1912, round six. 00:44.210 --> 00:45.950 So D4 from Nowitzki. 00:45.950 --> 00:51.320 We have E6 inviting a French defense, nothing C4 and now C5. 00:51.320 --> 00:57.590 This is a little bit dodgy actually not F3 is not so punishing as what White could have played. 00:57.980 --> 00:59.090 This is an inaccuracy. 00:59.090 --> 01:08.270 Why it could have played e tanks of the e tanks D tank C five and bishop take C5 is is kind of unsound 01:08.270 --> 01:10.070 losing D5 basically. 01:11.360 --> 01:19.550 So if we're stuck here with Bishop E six though one could be stubborn enough to Bishop B5 check 96 to 01:19.550 --> 01:20.540 actually protect the pawn. 01:20.540 --> 01:23.720 This is possible and White should have an edge here. 01:23.810 --> 01:27.170 It's not just about the pawn, it's about the dark square grip. 01:27.170 --> 01:30.590 But anyway, let's get past the opening here. 01:31.190 --> 01:33.590 Won't play Knights F three. 01:33.740 --> 01:36.950 We have no C6 e tanks e tanks. 01:36.950 --> 01:45.800 Bishop e two might have six white castles, Bishop e seven Bishop G, five Black castles. 01:45.800 --> 01:47.210 Detailed C5. 01:48.150 --> 01:50.490 And okay, we still have a D5 related problem. 01:50.490 --> 01:52.020 So Bishop E6. 01:52.800 --> 01:57.670 But this is actually going to be okay now in this particular scenario. 01:57.670 --> 01:58.740 Knight D4. 01:59.430 --> 02:00.510 Bishop take C5. 02:00.510 --> 02:02.310 The concession here is actually good. 02:02.730 --> 02:03.680 It's double edged. 02:03.690 --> 02:06.050 This position is more than double edged. 02:06.080 --> 02:07.410 Blacks call this nice F5. 02:07.440 --> 02:10.950 It's like automatically developing a rook against the soft spot. 02:12.060 --> 02:18.270 So already you could argue there is this attacking strategy of having resources around the opponent's 02:18.270 --> 02:21.440 king or targeting squares around the opponent's king. 02:21.450 --> 02:27.210 So this was one of my favorite attacking strategies when I won the Lloyds Bank Junior, the UK Lloyds 02:27.210 --> 02:33.300 Bank Junior in 1989, I just said to myself quite a lot in games, okay, how do I get my best resources 02:33.300 --> 02:35.550 literally on squares around the opponent's king? 02:35.940 --> 02:39.900 So here, okay, they are targeting soft spots. 02:39.900 --> 02:41.630 We have Bishop G for Queen D6. 02:41.670 --> 02:44.640 So this is also, in a way targeting a soft spot. 02:45.330 --> 02:49.380 Even if it's not physically near, it's logically there. 02:50.010 --> 02:51.600 We can make that distinction. 02:52.200 --> 02:59.760 So best resources on squares around the opponent's king, either logically or physically. 03:00.510 --> 03:01.660 Okay, so Bishop H. 03:01.680 --> 03:02.280 Free. 03:02.400 --> 03:11.400 We have eight Queen D2 and this allows this nasty pen Bishop before we have Bishop takes f6 rook takes 03:11.400 --> 03:15.780 f6 rook 81 we have now Queen C5. 03:15.780 --> 03:26.550 So looking at F2 here, Queen E2 we have Bishop takes C3, B takes queen takes C3 and now Rook takes 03:26.550 --> 03:27.450 D5. 03:29.340 --> 03:34.740 The thing is, okay, Black's got this vulnerable looking --, but after 94. 03:36.250 --> 03:36.640 Yeah. 03:36.640 --> 03:37.930 What does Wint do? 03:37.960 --> 03:44.020 This is a bit precarious, this position not he takes that would be a disaster. 03:44.020 --> 03:46.630 Not just losing it, but also getting checkmated. 03:46.720 --> 03:49.150 So 94 is is important. 03:49.150 --> 03:50.830 We have queen age five. 03:51.910 --> 03:55.330 So the rook is looked at and it moves again. 03:55.330 --> 03:58.000 It's it's logically squares around the opponent's king. 03:58.000 --> 04:06.280 Here we have rookie five and already there's a great tactical shot in this position after rookie five 04:06.280 --> 04:13.810 if rook D7 there's still in tactical shot though there are perks of this phone already. 04:13.810 --> 04:17.380 Can you see what black could do here for ten points? 04:18.650 --> 04:21.340 Which is kind of just very strong. 04:21.350 --> 04:21.810 It's real. 04:21.810 --> 04:22.850 It takes F2. 04:22.880 --> 04:25.040 Yeah, the file sent me in. 04:25.040 --> 04:26.390 That film is very dangerous. 04:28.480 --> 04:30.070 Bishop, if I would be the best response. 04:30.070 --> 04:36.790 Because if Rook takes F2, then White gets back promoted and on Bishop I, this doesn't really do too 04:36.790 --> 04:39.250 many favours, you know Black's piece up. 04:39.400 --> 04:40.450 But anyway. 04:42.200 --> 04:42.950 In the game, though. 04:42.950 --> 04:46.670 There's also I mean, as well as Rook takes after it's a winning position here. 04:48.080 --> 04:52.400 Brook H6 is also winning for interesting reasons. 04:54.020 --> 05:03.140 Basically based on Rook takes H and F3, so we see Queen G five and yes, Rook takes H three with the 05:03.140 --> 05:05.690 idea of a nasty fork. 05:05.720 --> 05:08.930 If it's taken the knight a free check winning the queen. 05:09.350 --> 05:11.540 So the thing is, what is the white do? 05:11.540 --> 05:14.930 Because this fork still exists here rotates. 05:15.730 --> 05:20.080 It's going to end up forking on, you know, we're not free. 05:20.080 --> 05:22.360 So that's going to be in material up anyway. 05:23.860 --> 05:26.280 So it hasn't played particularly well. 05:26.290 --> 05:29.890 So Queen G five, we have Rook takes three. 05:30.190 --> 05:30.520 Okay. 05:30.550 --> 05:32.200 And now Rook C five. 05:32.350 --> 05:35.830 So here black for a moment is a piece up. 05:36.250 --> 05:42.490 And when I said about logically our best resources logically around the king or physically. 05:42.760 --> 05:44.010 Well, this is quite funny. 05:44.020 --> 05:44.530 We can. 05:45.580 --> 05:46.780 There's a clue there. 05:47.440 --> 05:49.630 Okay, so it seems. 05:50.680 --> 05:53.830 We have got our best resources. 05:53.830 --> 05:54.820 Like logically. 05:54.820 --> 06:00.970 Well, what that one is physically and logically on each to this one is logically on F2. 06:00.970 --> 06:03.520 So H two and h two on the fire. 06:03.550 --> 06:05.860 The knight's kind of near as well. 06:05.890 --> 06:11.230 We've been checking distance, so there's an absolutely iconic move played in this position. 06:11.470 --> 06:19.720 So maybe you haven't seen this move before, but this move is so stunning that apparently spectators 06:19.810 --> 06:23.560 put gold coins on the board after they were so impressed. 06:23.890 --> 06:27.010 So this is the immortal gold coins game. 06:27.010 --> 06:31.660 So what is the move for 1000 points or gold coins? 06:32.020 --> 06:32.740 I'm not going to play. 06:32.740 --> 06:33.640 No, please don't. 06:33.880 --> 06:35.590 Please don't ask me for the gold coins. 06:35.800 --> 06:36.610 That's fictional. 06:36.610 --> 06:37.420 Gold coins. 06:37.540 --> 06:39.490 So what is black play here? 06:42.340 --> 06:43.660 Which ends the game. 06:46.260 --> 06:47.520 Check all checks. 06:49.660 --> 06:53.340 Check Will captures check all major facts like mating one or two. 06:53.350 --> 06:58.450 And you might actually that might actually lead you to physically put resources in there the opponent's 06:58.450 --> 07:02.920 king we can actually make a mate fat here with Queen Geoffrey. 07:02.950 --> 07:04.570 Outrageous as it might seem. 07:04.840 --> 07:08.980 So even though the queen can be taken, it seems in three different ways. 07:09.190 --> 07:13.760 We do have this mate frets, so it's worth checking this out of Queen sex age too. 07:13.780 --> 07:14.950 There is a mate for that. 07:15.370 --> 07:18.220 And White actually resigned her. 07:19.660 --> 07:20.800 So why? 07:21.190 --> 07:22.030 Well. 07:23.180 --> 07:29.930 If Queen takes G3 90 to check and look at this Knight takes JI free check. 07:30.350 --> 07:37.490 So unless Mike wants to get mated here with F takes, that mate Y ends up in this position where black 07:37.790 --> 07:45.140 is a piece up and rooks free spells out that extra piece of supporting rook siegfried's hit C2. 07:45.320 --> 07:46.550 So that would be hopeless. 07:46.550 --> 07:47.610 But other things. 07:47.630 --> 07:50.990 H takes g 92 is checkmate. 07:52.130 --> 07:52.760 F tanks. 07:52.760 --> 07:54.830 G 92 is mating. 07:56.120 --> 07:56.750 Yeah. 07:57.770 --> 08:00.920 So Queen G for a stunner in this case. 08:00.920 --> 08:01.160 Yeah. 08:01.210 --> 08:06.380 The combination seems it's an absolutely immortal combination. 08:06.530 --> 08:11.210 The build up, we can say, well, the attacking build up the semi-open files are dangerous. 08:11.480 --> 08:17.390 And this this notion of resources using a best resources around the opponent's king. 08:17.390 --> 08:20.770 So it's not something I thought of at the time to distinguish. 08:21.050 --> 08:23.740 A bit more discerning as we get more experience. 08:23.750 --> 08:25.250 What do we mean by that? 08:25.250 --> 08:29.750 Do you mean physically nearly opponent's king or do we mean logically? 08:29.900 --> 08:35.420 Because logically there are perks of just probing squares. 08:35.420 --> 08:42.200 Even if your pieces are physically far away, you know, Queen could be on just probing H two or rook 08:42.200 --> 08:48.080 on fate probing after there's still perks, even if it's just logically instead of physically, you 08:48.080 --> 08:51.440 know, it's like the internet where logically connected, aren't we? 08:51.440 --> 08:56.080 We don't have to be physically in the same place to chat on on WhatsApp or whatever. 08:56.160 --> 08:57.500 What's that's one of my favorites. 08:57.500 --> 08:58.340 So whatever. 08:58.340 --> 09:03.230 So, you know, it's getting resources either logically or physically around the opponent's king. 09:03.230 --> 09:09.080 But here it's quite vivid that it's actually physically around the king for this might threat. 09:09.080 --> 09:14.480 So that's interesting to consider if you actually are really strict in your thinking in middle games 09:14.480 --> 09:20.600 and say, look, what are the mating one or mating sometimes mating to France, but mating one forgets 09:20.600 --> 09:26.120 to not rule any of them out because some of them could be very, very spicy like this. 09:26.240 --> 09:29.120 So this is a bit of a combination lesson as well. 09:29.660 --> 09:34.460 But yeah, thinking about resources either logically or physically around the opponents. 09:34.460 --> 09:39.230 KING and Marshall, you know, that's that's Marshall's cup of tea, that kind of chess. 09:39.620 --> 09:40.400 Okay. 09:41.010 --> 09:41.870 Have you enjoyed it? 09:42.260 --> 09:42.980 That's very much.