Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Alexander Annacone playing against Max Ogawa in round seven of the 1955 World
Championship match.
We see Alekhine playing E4.
We have a French defence.
D4 d5 nine c3 Bishop b4 and they'll get to one of Alekhine's moves.
We have d tanks e4 a friend.
The bishop doesn't give itself up.
Bishop E7 won't get back to the pawn.
We see 9c6 and now G4 to solve the F1 Bishop issue being stuck behind the knight.
B six Bishop G2.
Bishop b7c Free Knights.
F 6.22 G3.
So this protects the G4 pawn.
We see black casting and now a very aggressive G5.
This is a very fun opening sequence, especially for a world chess championship match.
Nowadays there are very, very solid openings quite often played in world championships.
But here, yeah, this looks very exciting.
9/10 e4, 9/10 e4 and now King H eight is played.
There is some evidence here that actually E5 might be playable to hit the center hard if d5935h4 Black
could play Queen D seven hand not Bishop takes the E5 because then f six Jack gives a nice advantage.
There's a lot of pressure here in the position which is worth playing this.
And even if the Queen's come off and white is a pawn down, but the bishop hair and the attacking potential
is making it about equal.
So yeah, Bishop text E5 is not disaster, but it's not great either.
Queen D seven is slightly better, it seems.
This position, for example, b5 G one is interesting to consider if Rook have the eight knights have
six check here.
Bishop Tanks.
G tanks.
We can see the G5 potential g6h5.
And yeah, we have interesting scenarios based on this G4.
For example, Bishop takes the E5, h takes if F takes, Bishop takes the five Czech Queen, six Rook
takes G6.
And this is a.
Interesting.
It leads to an even position, funny enough.
So that's interesting.
I mean, the various ways of playing it, if we go back here in this line after each takes, if Bishop
takes G2.
G takes H7.
This position is also it's a small edge for white, nothing more.
If h takes though, this is a different story.
There's rook Times G6 here very strong for Bishop H and then winning the Queen on D5.
So anyway yeah it's interesting scenario is basically E5.
They seem really interesting, but also to consider F5.
This is a bit dangerous for Black actually, as you might imagine, because of that G4 Road to the King.
This situation with Bishop E Free Queen G4 very direct play costing queenside.
It's a fun scenario, but one which should favor White's objectively see the bishops come off here D
one this position for Knight G5 there's a target on E6 if nothing else, and white it's going to be
significantly better.
For example, this little combination.
So anyway, it's fascinating stuff here with either E5 is the most interesting, it seems, of the use
of modern technology.
E5 seems to be an interesting move, but we see instead King H eight and this allows a really direct
attacking move.
You know, we want our resources.
Next, the opponent's king in general, the attacking player relishes this Queenie eight is played and
now Knights of Things.
This is pretty sharp stuff.
Bishop takes his plate.
If G thinks the problem is G, tanks will nullify five totally.
And it means now Bishop E4 is a dangerous move.
More than dangerous.
Just mating.
So that's a safety point.
G Tanks.
G tanks.
Planck would have to play something like Rook instead.
Spells answer Bishop e4 g g6 and in which case one stands better here.
Okay.
I mean, one's going to essentially be winning material.
Dangerous attack on the G4.
So anyway, Bishop takes was played here by Black G tanks.
G tanks, Queen H for now.
Very careful.
Queen D eight if Queenie seven Bishop for still winning for a different reason.
That's here.
Queen takes E seven is winning the B seven Bishop.
So Queen is much more accurate to be able to take with a rook if needed on Bishop e4.
But Bishop F4 was played just to check out Bishop E4 here.
F5 is more than adequate here.
Bishop G from this F6.
And if the Queen's come off route, takes not losing a bishop on B7 or anything.
In this case, Black's just better hair.
Blacks is actually better hair.
Yeah.
So.
Okay, so Bishop F4 is played and we have now E5.
This actually is in the wrong place.
This E5.
This actually makes things worse.
Black should it seems.
Maybe consider E5, but it's still dangerous.
This position is still dangerous for Black.
If we consider this scenario, White can switch to the e pawn as a target and also use this third rank.
So this is kind of dangerous.
So there are ideas.
For example, Queen size five sometimes.
On if rook G4 hitting the bishop.
This situation is just better for one that the rooks kind of stranded.
Okay, so this complication is by E5 actually does make things worse.
Now we have Bishop Geoffrey at five and Alekhine doesn't mind the Queen's coming off.
Yeah, I mean, this is a very scary position once White has threats.
Building up of the castle in queenside things like Bishop E4 coming up and stuff.
So we have F5 trying to get the Queen's off as a priority.
Details is played.
Rugby ain't Bishop F3, which is actually a bit of an inaccuracy actually.
It seems objectively Queen H five is the way to play this so that if rook g6 rook D one forget cancelling
for a moment.
Bishop D5 This is still this is a very strong position for White's and in fact White could manually
castle here and if Black doesn't exchange sack, it's just simplifying.
But look at the resulting position.
It's just better for white here.
Queen could come back to D1.
The bishop can try and go into those dark squares.
It's a very strong attack actually.
So Queen H5 does seem it does seem to have a lot going for it.
But so.
Bishop Jeffrey So why is this inaccuracy?
We have Queen de Fry hitting the bishop.
Bishop eats her and now a huge mistake which justifies won't play as queen E for it seems.
I mean, this is very, very hairy technical stuff when I say very, very hairy, high precision for
black to survive.
But it seems as though Queen C to.
Is setting wine's problems hair queen C to if queen have sex.
Sure, the Queen's is still on, but let's imagine Rook G one queen takes be two blacks trying to be
greedy.
Let's entertain this with e sex to protect C free for a moment.
Just for one moment Black could take on a one and it looks as though.
Hold on.
You know, black's in huge trouble here, right?
Because the things like Bishop E5 and Rook takes G seven actually 94.
This is just crazy stuff.
This is absolutely crazy stuff.
I know, but let's bear with it.
Queen cites her Bishop H for check King H six and it's only a draw by Perpetual.
So if we look at this scenario, first of all, if King if I e7 check, this is actually winning for
White Danes.
So for example, queen in there and then it's going to be made time soon.
But yeah, there is a way for Black to draw in that crazy line with Knight D for.
Let's go back to it.
So this 94.
Means?
Yeah, there's interesting stuff happening here for sure, which is a pretty complicated actually to
consider.
But the.
For example, Bishop E-5.
This is just to slow Bishop e5 queen take C free check King f one.
And actually there's Bishop 86 check here.
Ouch.
And this is all you know it's mate if she takes the for here.
Queen C free check Camp one and four is strong.
Four black is the strongest because here bishop a six check and one is getting mated there so yes it's
fascinating stuff where this 94 is a bit of a killer.
If we have a look at this position of 94, Black has been greedy and with this move is interrupting
disconnecting the queen from C three.
So even from C one from a one rather the queen is actually becoming effective because of this blockage
of the protection of the c free pawn, which that killer check.
So this really muddies the water here considerably.
Yeah, I mean, it's just a very, very complex position indeed.
So.
Yes.
Cee Sykes, just to recap here.
Yeah, this is just it's just too strong at full.
And if that's the case, basically, yeah, it has to actually bail out with queen sized G seven shank,
Bishop H four shank and King H six drawers for black.
Yeah, it's fascinating stuff.
It's a bit academic, but I just wanted to show you, just.
Just in case you were interested, technically.
But after Queen E for basically.
Yeah, Black's position goes downhill.
Now we have the Queen's coming off and you might think, Well, the Queen's the top scorer, but we've
got the bishop here.
The bishop without the counterpart is quite often going to be strong.
So Bishop H for we have h6y castles queenside and there's the possibility of getting a rook quickly
to the seventh rank.
We have Rook eight Black doesn't want to lose a piece straight away.
We've been saying E5 because of Bishop has six champ picking up the points so Rook Bishop f6 Jack and
here F4 is really strong and one has a dominating position now.
It's absolutely a dominating position.
We have eight takes and our bishop takes to the strongest keeping the knight pin to the Bishop Bishop
D4, which you might think is dangerous.
But no, we don't want to leave that pawn on F3 winning the exchange.
It is good.
It is still good for white, but it's not as good as the game continuation.
So Bishop takes our three very strong still with the idea of Bishop E4.
Those were an exchange 95.
So just to show Bishop we're just going to win the exchange with Bishop E4 check and just take it and
it's very clean.
This position is going to be getting mated soon, for example.
Like this.
Ouch.
So.
Or if the king went out instead.
And about just a major checkmate rook and five checkmate.
So I five and we have bishop tags P seven.
The downside here for black is this rook invasion to the seventh rank.
So after the storm is cleared, it's very bad for blackness position.
The end game transition.
Might see five Rogue rucksacks have seven Shaq and Alekhine having studied Capablanca games as his claim
would know about simplification, even with tiny advantages that it's often possible to grind out wins
the grinding philosophy, the simplification philosophy, wrote S.C. seven.
We don't always have to end with a checkmate.
This is just a winning endgame transition.
So here.
King a five.
If Knight takes a five, look at this rook and ending, we just take on five.
Take on a seven, and we're much better here with the white pieces.
So King F five, we have wrote the one Knight 65 Rook f one check King e4 Rook takes a seven.
We have C4.
Rook D7 So threatening.
Rook d4 check king E3 rook E1 check King F3 and now a pair of rooks come off rook d4 and now actually
rook for five rook b4 swinging on both sides of the board here that probing.
But this ends the game.
Black is convinced and it's kind of the German Harlequins got ours to look at it at least 2 hours it
seems.
Apparently so if Rook six Bishop eight this position one can actually retain the h pawn to make sure
black hasn't got any dreams of the pawn.
This is absolutely a winning position.
This position here, even if there's a fork, this is still winning because of two connected past pawns
being the issue.
If this scenario occurs, this is absolutely winning with the two connected past pawns.
But the end of the game was actually at Rook b4 so the attack created a winning and game advantage the
attack early on.
A very, very exciting opening by modern world championship standards and also gives us credibility
that actually it wasn't just in casual games or just the odd tournament he actually played Knight G2
rather than the more kind of bog standard, more standard E5 in the winter where we see a lot of games
with this win and were lying.
So G2 is a very interesting move.
Very creative bit of a surprise value if you use this today, this line with this G4.
But yeah, there's a lot of fun here being had in a world Championship match in my view with this G5,
the Queen coming to H5 and you know, very exciting possibilities of mating quickly and in online chess
tournament you sometimes do want to make quickly to get on to the next game.
Those are all you can eat tournaments.
So yeah, black has to tread very carefully here.
And it seems the one point where black could improve the way coin technically slipped up with Bishop
Free, it seems, where there was a possibility of Queen H5 instead with a strong attack here where
White's kind of manually castles and gets all the big advantages here with the queen still on but yet
with this inaccuracy queen defend this queen for is a huge mistake getting the queen's off.
Maybe it's a natural tendency against attacking players, but it seems the way for Black to do it technically
was Queen C two with greed associated with an interference tactic.
It's it's it's kind of sci fi, though.
If black could calculate all of this, it's it's easier with modern engines to check this stuff that
actually these positions where black's being super greedy that there's 94.
This is just crazy stuff.
It really is.
But anyway okay so the end game transitions though, of the queen for very good for Alexander Alekhine
here.
And yeah, if this poem wasn't taken off, I mean this is a very, very nice position where maybe one
can even consider bringing the other bishop to complement that bishop for a kind of mating pattern.
So it's a very difficult position if this pawn isn't taken.
So yes, wonderful stuff.
I hope you enjoy that.
Och I so much.