Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Alekhine against an anonymous player in 1911, Moscow.
So let's have a look.
E4 from Alexander Alekhine e5 93 nine C6 Bishop's C4 Bishop c5 c3 9f6.
We have now d4 eating C4 and now Alekhine consoles and black consoles, which is actually a mistake.
It seems Black's best is to play 19th e4.
So for example, rookie one black could actually just console her.
And if rook takes E4 there's D5 and this turns out to be playable for black f6 C 64 D tanks C4.
Which is actually stronger than other moves.
It seems technically so defensive for Bear with this queen, EF one, Bishop EF five.
This position is actually going to be in Black's favor.
So, okay, Knight takes E for though.
You know, this is interesting.
Also, C takes d4 D5 as possible and you might think, Oh, hold on, Queenie too.
There's Queen D3 Rookie one is F5, so it's justifiable.
It seems that Black could actually in this particular position playing Knight takes E4.
What happens is actually a world of pain here when black Castled because now C64, Bishop B6 and now
Black's pushed back D5 97 and this Knight's pushed back.
Yeah, White's got this very aggressive centre and uses it to create a form wedge in the sense that
kind of central wedge in the centre, not really a form pawn, the form pawns then the king.
So it's just kind of more of a central wedge pawn and you can see that there's a pin which is difficult
to parry on the f7 pawn.
So this looks like it's kind of dangerous.
C takes d6, E takes D6 as well as positionally.
Black's piece is locked in here.
Poor Bishop.
So 96.
So there's a few factors here which give one a great basis to kind of say, Well, if I go for the King,
surely black's actually not going to be able to hold off the attack.
There are problems here in Black's camp.
We see Bishop G5 and there's not so many moves for black.
Given the pawn is pinned.
Another pin is basically created a relative pin against the knight.
We have no C4 and it looks like there's a very juicy option coming up of 95.
We have H6 which weakens G6 now.
So this is interesting.
This is interesting.
Very interesting.
If H six wasn't played if rookie eight Queen D three won't can actually let's imagine rookie six one
can actually still build up the attack.
Well it doesn't even have to be that materialistic.
So even this situation it's really quite strong of the 95 b4 Bishop six Y can go for an attack with
h four here.
And it's just very, very tricky here for black, this kind of possession with these pieces locked in.
If Knight takes age for 97, check, and then we're actually winning the knight.
So let's imagine.
King age eight, age five, Knight fight.
We could play 97 here.
And this looks kind of brutal because we've got France like nine G5 looking at seven.
Yeah, it looks absolutely brutal.
So, okay, by age six was played.
So what would you play here?
There's a great move played in this position.
If I can give you 5 seconds to pause the video.
Now, you could say, by the way, at this point spins as well as this pawn.
But the thing is, there's no liability on G3.
Whilst, you know, these pieces are not really going to amplify the pin, but white spaces, by contrast
here could amplify the f7 pin.
That's my clue to you.
White's in a position because of the great pieces to make the pin on F7 far more significant than the
pin on F2.
So how would we do this here?
How would we amplify the seven pin advantage we have?
Do we play a plain vanilla move like moving the bishop or is it something else?
So for 200 points, what would you play?
Yeah.
Queen C to wear France, then Queen takes G6 her.
Now this is very difficult for black.
We have age takes G5.
If we look at night eight for a moment because one is frightened in Queen size G6.
Let's see, one can actually play 95 on on each takes 97 check and we see the Queen's guarding 87.
So the black queen will have to give herself up.
This is just diabolical.
So, okay, age takes is played.
Queen takes G6.
This is not a good sign.
The Queen's near the king.
There's Knights 65 coming and these pieces are all locked up.
It's a total disaster for Black 19 seven.
And now a very nice tactical move to celebrate things even further, amplify things.
So okay, technically 97 protects G5.
There is some logic to it, but it's doomed the position overall.
Despite that logical move, Black is doomed here, especially with this next move for 200 points.
What would you play here?
So celebrating a pin.
Paradoxically, we might want to temporarily on pin because we've still got the power of this diagonal
potentially.
That diagonal of death, as I like to call it.
So we have actually 95 being played temporarily underpinning.
So King H eight is paid f f tanks.
G six.
We have a wonderful.
Move.
What would you play here?
Which double check.
Choose your double checks.
Quite wisely, they force the king to move double checks.
97 is the key one.
So the king is forced to move on a double check.
And on King eight, now we have 96 G.
Checkmate.
So, yes, that's brutal.
So King H eight is played, avoiding that.
But now another beautiful move.
97.
Yeah, 97.
So basically, if F thinks there's nine, G six.
Checkmate.
So Black tries, Queen takes 87 D tanks, F tanks, G six.
And even stronger than the plain vanilla E takes F 895 is played threatening 96g6 mating end of game
Black resigned if rookie eight nine times g six is checkmate if D five.
We're going to scoop up a lot of material here.
9/10 G6.
Jack Bishop 65.
Jack Bishop 66 Jack And we can come and pin that F seven And when Walter was absolutely winning.
So yes, a wonderful game.
It shows that one inaccuracy and you might have thought of being a bit nerdy about this inaccuracy,
but it's kind of important because this position, you know, it leads to a disaster.
Inaccuracies often lead to, you know, disasters.
And, you know, if it takes E4, it's a different kind of story.
But castling, White gets this push of both center pawns, which end up locking the whole queenside
up, especially the poor bishop and K.
And this pin, which white's freer, you know, liberated pieces are more able to exploit F7 than technically
White's pen.
But Black's in no position to kind of amplify the F2 pin whilst the f7 pawn being pinned can be amplified
and was amplified with this beautiful Queen two in particular.
So great stuff.
I hope you really enjoyed this one as much as me.
So yeah, it shows.
You know, you got to be accurate in the opening.
It can quickly lead to obsession where the seeds are sown for a really dramatic and effective attack
against the king and so much.