Hi there.
In this lecture, we see an amazing game as the banker now against an anonymous player in 1924, a simultaneous
display.
So now a very, very strong player playing for his country in Olympiads.
You can look him up on wiki.
So E4 from Esteban Canal.
We have the five Scandinavian or centre counter as it used to be known as e tanks D five Queen 60 59c3
Queen a5d4 C6 might have three Bishop G4 We have Bishop f4 e6h free.
So black volunteers the Lions Choir, Bishop Queen Tanks, f3, Bishop b4 Bishop e2 97 and here A3 is
played black should have.
It seems just aims castle on the kingside say Knight g f6 and white consoles.
Black could take on C free to double the pawns, but overall white is still better here.
There's a lot of piece play for the structural damage.
It's structural damage.
You've got to look at the compensation, the trade off.
And overall white is better here, but black actually castled queenside.
If we look at that variation just for a moment, if you look at the diagonals of death, there's these
two.
We have to look at the opponent's king and see the so called what I like to call the diagonals of death,
because sometimes these are amazing sources of losses.
Statistically, a lot of games are lost on these diagonals, especially A2 to G quite often.
Some very interesting tactics all the time in every tournament.
Basically, these are so-called default downsides.
I call them defaults because they are you're picking up a lot of points because by default, if Black
Castle was kingside, which is thought to be safer, you have to look out for the tactics on that diagonal.
But here we get Black Castle in queenside.
So we need to establish what are the diagonals of death on the opponent's king.
It's this one and it's this one.
This can be these two can be sources of amazing tactical ideas.
And in fact, in this position, White plays an amazing move here, which demonstrates this with.
You know, great.
A vivid way of demonstrating it.
Really amazing, vivid demonstration is revealed here.
So what you think won't place in this position?
Also, note that it's not just that there's a diagonal of death potentially.
The bishop here is controlling key escape squares.
And if you look at my checkmate course, you know, we should be already excited.
If we have such a situation increases the probability of making the opponent, we should be on the lookout
for amazing combinations more than the general case where we haven't got such a resource pointing around
octave squares.
So whites play here, watch finger white place for 500 points.
Okay tanks before rebelling against the relative pin offering a rock hair queen takes a one check and
now King D2 offering another rock.
Now here Black's best is actually 95 to hit the queen.
Why could simply.
Just take the queen, though, and this is just material up.
At the very least, this is winning.
But even better would be to take the knights and blacks trying to get the bishop away.
And I'll show you why it's very shortly.
So it's actually just loads of material up here.
So that was Black's best.
But Black took on each one.
So why this pedantic ness with these diagonals of death?
Is this, is this diagonal, but not particularly, actually.
But there is one which is, well, by elimination.
What would you play here for?
200 points?
Check all checks, even the seemingly outrageous ones and you'll find Queen C6.
Jack, I hope.
Blacks forced to play be takes and now Bowden style checkmates crisscross and the bishop's Boden's mate
Patton.
But yes, a general points games are continually lost on the diagonals to the opponent's king here.
It's very vivid because this diagram is actually a checkmate.
That's great.
If the title is actually a checkmate like in this case.
But it's a special case because the other bishops contributing towards the mating net.
So a fantastic demonstration that actually.
Yeah, you're going to factor in these diagonals for king safety considerations.
Okay, So have you enjoyed this one so much?