Hi there.
In this lecture, we see a battle between two world champions Mikhail Botvinnik against Vasily Mislav
in the 1954 Smyslov against Botvinnik World Championship match, round 14.
So D4 from Botvinnik we see nine one half six C for G six.
So here I think ito King's Indian defense so both sides with encanto nicely 3d69 ten three 1987 There
are some default downsides within Cato if both sides at some point lose the bishop, the resulting square
weaknesses might be interesting to exploit.
So the thing Cato has a responsibility associated with it.
White castles e5 e4 c6 The responsibility of holding the squares, which has made room for the venkata
is actually its own downside, basically.
Just to clarify that a little bit more.
So we see Bishop e free and now ninth G5, Bishop G five and now the sharp Queen B six.
So looking at the fall and looking at B2, we see H free and now very sharp continuation.
E Thanks.
D four Knights 84.
Queen 86.
Black is investing a knight here temporarily, but after B5 this is a really interesting move to get
the knight back, but also invite possibilities of this bishop being used on the diagonal.
In effect, Knight takes the fall, so the pieces got back, but it invites a tactic here, which is
interesting, but not entirely clear, as you might think.
So Knight takes C six.
It looks like a standard tactic here to win the exchange.
So E5 winning the exchange we have queenside C4
bishop things ain't so.
Why right now is the exchange up to rooks?
Two bishops against a rook and three minor pieces.
However, Knight takes E5.
Black has a dangerous looking position and there's team called Nation on G4 White Place Now Rook c1y
could have played Bishop G4 and on Bishop takes Bishop G2 on Bishop takes G4 this position Knights have
free check.
It is scary and also it's kind of -- the king and bishop if this position occurs.
It has resources though it's not the end of the world.
Queen f4 So any Queen H three the Queen takes F3.
So here this position ends up inequality because Black has enough compensation here to hold this at
sames.
So that's an interesting continuation, but it could result in equality.
We have Rook C1 Queen before a frame trying to nudge the queen away from A4.
Her queen takes B2.
Queen takes A4.
Now here Spins of Play, the move to challenge the whole diagonal with Bishop b7.
But isn't there a slight issue here with this move?
Bishop B7.
But remember, the responsibility of the fingers of the bishop has indulged itself in activities and
may be lost, resulting in these LightSquared weaknesses being amplified.
White plays what seems to be a tempting move.
Rook b one If Bishop takes B seven instead, Queen takes B seven.
It looks scary still because of a free check.
In this position, one is afraid Y does have a resource rook c free and a knight a free check just to
give the rook up or the bishop could be munched with checked potentially.
And this position should actually be a small edge for y actually, but rook p one was played.
So guess what happens here?
Well.
The thing is.
Of the rugby one.
It looks as though.
Is this a blunder or something?
There's nothing.
A free cheque.
King H one the skewer.
There's no cheque.
So what do we do about the skewer?
Guess what?
That's the dismissal of played in this position.
And why is it strong?
From what we know about attacking chess and we can king positions.
We should have an intuition built up why this might be strong, this next move.
So intuitively.
Yeah, we have to play.
We have to play.
Bishop takes eight.
If Queen two, Bishop takes be seven.
Thanks very much.
So we have to play this queen, sacrifice, position or queen sacrifice and what we know about it.
The reasons why.
Well, first of all, let's get to this position.
Knight takes five check.
And here King used to.
If every bishop takes me to this position is nice for black.
Chipping away at every so king needs to.
A free check King X-ray.
Now Bishop takes P2.
So let's take stock here.
The squares have been weakened.
The think itOs gone black has got free pieces for the Queen.
And traditionally, we might say, well, the bishops are worth a little bit more than free on some
scales and the knight about free.
But overall, do they balance the queen, which is ten on pawns?
Black is a pawn up, but the weakened king, let's think about the weakened king in general kind of
has the effect of promoting pieces.
Pieces get higher value for a weakened king, but also sometimes with a weakened king, you really need
absolute maximum teamwork.
You need all the pieces working together to justify.
Things.
And in this case, we need to get this rock into the tent.
And there are possibilities concretely of getting the rock into the attack as well.
Once we have the full team on board, then this really starts to justify itself.
So that upward trend of position for a position or sacrifice in general, we're looking for the upward
trends.
The upward trend is created by teamwork.
And we're about to witness that here.
So bear witness to teamwork now.
So a pawn is taken.
So it's equal on pawns.
Bishop E4 is played a fool.
And now what is the teamwork move?
So that's one thing.
The pieces have gone up in value, but the importance of teamwork has also gone up.
It must be a complete teamwork here in this particular position especially.
So what is the great move to play here?
Because we're controlling escape squares in effect through x ray, some escape squares.
In fact, you know, the knight is actually controlling both H four and H two.
The bishop is X-raying escape squares.
So we really need all the members of the team because these are in the covering squares role.
We need our full orchestra, team, orchestra.
So King G seven and the French now include Rook, H, eight and H five both the idea of activating the
rook to try and get a mate secured.
A checkmate pattern's cured.
We have rook d one and now Bishop H.
Bishop e5 is played.
If we could play h5 here, this would be working.
So you might wonder why we'll say g tanks here.
This is very dangerous for white.
Very, very dangerous position indeed.
If Rook takes these six as example, Rook takes h five king g4 And now if we take away the F4 escape
square, we make h two more importance.
And to mate Fran White would have to give up the rook to just delay things.
And this position is hopeless.
So that shows how the team comes together after the position of sacrifice.
It's based on the weakened king.
We can King's increase the value of our pieces generally and also force us to consider maximum teamwork
because our pieces might be controlling key escapes, whereas we need another ingredients getting the
full team together.
So here in the game.
Okay, So King G.
Seven, though, was played.
Which is also strong.
It's not wasted the position.
So we have Rook D1, Bishop E5.
So these pieces are formidable, centralized, stable.
We have Queen E seven.
If King G2 Black could consider actually an alternate route to the King here with Rook eight trying
to get in a two and a four and a to this position, trying to get in through B2.
It's still teamwork with the rook adding to the team.
So say Queen A7, we still have teamwork being demonstrated here.
Queen Ephraim D5 supporting the Bishop and Black is now threatening because of that extra rook.
Black is threatening Bishop the E4 with the killer Common Square F2.
And this is very difficult.
You know, here, rookie one bishop, before the team comes together, like the A-Team team comes together
with a plan.
Okay.
A-Team was a TV series.
Okay.
Anyway, so Queen is seven.
We have Rook eight.
Being played, actually.
So the King's still on night train.
So Russia has been a switch used now.
So that's interesting trying to just get to see, too, because F2 is kind of vulnerable here, basically
in this situation with the Kingston Tree.
You know, this this kind of thing is lucrative.
We have a five Roxi two King, G2, 94 check King AV one And now Bishop and Frey, look at this teamwork
here, Rook B one And now, after 96, Pope resigns, look at all of Black's pieces.
They're absolutely amazing how they work together.
But let's look concretely what is happening.
Saint Queen G5.
We can take time out to play.
Knight takes a five hair, actually, and in this position leave the rook around looking at F2 and now
knight be free.
We get this one this knight back towards the center towards the king.
So now we would build up menacing France after Bishop D5 to vacate F3 for the Knights.
So the team is at full becoming at full pressure against White's king.
So Queensferry Knight free check Bishop Deform.
We see the Corp on F2 here.
So yes so that sequence in the end that fictional sequence shows actually with accurate play how we
can have all our pieces relatively active.
But we want the knight in particular to be in the right area.
The Bishop the bishops were kind of more easy to centralize.
The knight needs to sometimes do something and then come back in this case.
So an interesting game here, 96 wasn't played out, but you can see that the writing is on the wall
here, that the knight.
It takes time to come out, but it has to come in again.
Yeah.
So there's teamwork, but there's also optimizing the teamwork as well as optimizing the teamwork.
So this position, by the way, if hair root E5 won't be the greatest move you can play in this position.
Okay.
We have potential killer common squares.
That's a clue.
And there's a weakness of the last move.
It's just the part of the back row.
We can actually play in this position.
Rook b one check, and that's mating.
So, King H to rook, H1 is checkmate.
So that's why that's not particularly clever.
This just delays.
So that's why it was mentioned that actually in this position, Rook C one and then following through,
then moving the bishop to vacate F3 is a killer combination.
So yeah, this would be crushing fruit with a big advantage.
So I hope you enjoyed this And consider the position of Queen.
Sacrifice isn't something just for the Masters.
Quite often we are in a position to consider the position of Queen sacrifices, but we need to have
an almost an act of faith that with any position of sacrifice, well, will we be going up in strength
for routine work, for improving pieces, for coordinating pieces?
We've got to factor these things almost intuitively, sometimes based on experience.
So the classic positional kind of sacrifice is the exchange sacrifice.
But here, you know, a queen's sacrifice, how powerful it is, is being wonderfully demonstrated by
this game and so much.