Hi there.
In this lecture, we see the classic Kings gamut from the so-called romantic era of chess.
This is Paul Morphy against A.F. Hanson in 1858, a casual game E4 from Paul Morphy.
E5 So E4.
So what is so amazing about The King's Gambit?
Why was it so popular?
Well, when it's accepted, White is getting some pressure points potentially on the floor.
One can get sometimes a strong center.
One can sometimes get vile attacks.
White also gets to potentially cause structural damage around the pawns near the king.
So this is just one game example of many, many played in the King's Gambit.
Thousands of games in the King's game in the romantic era.
So we have G5 trying to cling on potentially to the pawn.
We have H for G four and now 95.
You can see that there's potential for severe fragmentation of the pawns here.
We have Knight have sex, Knight takes G4, so we have now black having double pawns.
Knight takes E4 and it looks Well, hold on of the D3, Knight G3.
Where are the Gambit Perks here.
Well, this gets super interesting now with this next move.
Can you spot what white plays?
So super interesting move.
Bishop takes our four and now black takes on H one.
Queen E seven Champ might have been more accurate.
Bishop E to for example, this situation.
Bishop G5 though here is good in this situation with Bishop G5.
You can see that the black king in the center is harassed and black is losing the queen there.
But actually, it turns out black does have a resource here.
Rook G ain't so that will be able to answer Bishop G.
I with taking the bishop.
And if Bishop takes G3, Rook takes G4.
This situation should be fairly okay for black.
Black actually has the advantage here.
So this is not entirely sound.
This is just the classic iconic game showing sometimes, you know the King's game on a good day when
the opponent isn't playing entirely accurately and plays.
Knight takes h one.
So fun and games here starts with Queen E to Shaq.
These are very much yeah very forcing moves which need to be calculated as high priority.
Now if Bishop E7 can you see that white wins this very quickly for five points.
Yeah.
F6 check and then Bishop h6 is checkmate.
So Queen E seven but now we have six check King B and there's a forcing move point to this.
Can you see what that is?
But at some points.
Bishop takes See seven change.
Yes, This wins the Queen, but it's not over by any stretch.
We have black having accumulated quite a lot of material for the Queen.
We have now Queen G4.
There are several moves here, but it seems as though with best play there should be equal this position.
If Queen and Fraser's example, Bishop takes an inch for check and here 96 this position.
Bishop f6.
And if Queen H thinks Bishop thanks be to this position.
Bishop takes a one.
Well, here.
This is a very, very strange sequence indeed.
And the funny thing is 95 check.
The funny thing is here where it's actually getting an advantage in this line.
But yeah, it's it's really kind of super accurate play.
So just just for the record, there is an interesting try.
That is certainly an interesting try.
So this queen of freight.
So just to recap there with best play.
Yeah, this this queen, queen age five and then queen.
It's crazy stuff, but it does seem as though, you know, it has interesting resources, actually.
With Queen and three.
If the five hare G3 this situation is going to be, it seems, in its favor as well.
But yeah, it has been analyzed quite a lot.
And Queen Queen G4 maybe isn't so critical as Queen Jaffray as a point of research, actually.
So anyway, here D six is played.
If.
Yeah, this is this is a good move in many respects.
We have Queen F for Rook.
G ain't.
Queen sex f7 Bishop sex age for Czech king D2 rookie eight knights A3 and now knight A6.
This is a critical mistake.
It turns out Blank had to play Bishop G5 check and for example, Bishop D7 could lead to very messy
situations.
Queen D five Bishop f4 holding D6 Knight 8596.
Shooting B seven Knight Tanks B tanks, Queen 85, Checking C eight and game on.
This is like a very, very complex game in its own right.
So, yes, so six let's follow the main game path.
So here Queen H five was played.
Okay, there might be more accurate moves, but let's go with this.
Bishop six.
We have Queen sites, age one.
Bishop takes B2, which is actually a mistake.
There are actually better moves, but let's just run with it.
Queen H for check King D7.
Okay, so here.
Very cute move, which gives one a very definite advantage.
Now what would you play here for?
Ten points.
Okay, Rook B one.
So leaving the bishop to take the knight because of Queen A for Shaq and this ends the game and move
23.
So an entertaining game winning the Queen.
It leads to very, very sharp situations because Black had so much material for it.
It's it's a distinctive game, really, but it's an iconic classic.
So I felt I had to show you it anyway, from the King's Gambit era, you know, if the game continued,
yes, we take on a free and this is just going to be difficult for black.
For example, Rook takes B6.
Here is a tactic.
But whatever happens, you know, this is this is just a difficult possession for black.
This is just one variation.
So it's it's an interesting King's Gambit game.
It shows how resourceful.
Morphy.
As you know, Morphy is extremely resourceful with the King's Gambit, one of his favorite tools of
choice in the opening.
So you don't need to play extreme openings like The King's Gambit, though, to attack, as Alexander
Alekhine showed.
And we have many, many examples of Alexander Alekhine in this course.
This is an extreme attacking, opening and extreme attacking gambit, but it has resulted in many brilliant
games and of more modern players.
Boris Spassky, a former world chess champion, had brilliant wins with the King's government, for
example, against Bobby Fischer.
So there are certain gambit perks.
It has a value of surprise, and in human games, surprise is a powerful weapon as well.
But yeah, there are definite perks.
Ingredients sets up through gambits which help the attacking plan like leeds's in development.
We can Kings, Semi-urban Foals, strong centres.
There's all sorts of attacking ingredients could emerge in certain key gambits.
And the King's game is one of the more ferocious gambits for the attacking player to bear in mind.
Now, in modern like online chess, the King's game is just a fun weapon.
A lot of people maybe too greedy and they just go into disaster situations through greed.
So it is a weapon which maybe is reignited in the modern era or should be in, in my view, because
certainly, you know, most games under a certain level are not decided because of an opening sequence
necessarily.
It's what happens after the inequities and blunders are all just waiting to be made, as Tasco has indicated.
So the King's game, it this is just a very interesting game example of this gambit, just to whet your
appetite.
Okay.
That's very much.