WEBVTT 00:00.840 --> 00:01.650 Hi there. 00:01.680 --> 00:04.980 In this lecture, we see Alexander Alekhine against Aron Nimzowitsch. 00:05.730 --> 00:09.170 So Nimzowitsch, one of the hyper modernists well known. 00:09.180 --> 00:10.520 He wrote my system. 00:10.530 --> 00:12.840 I'm a big fan of both players here. 00:12.870 --> 00:16.050 This is the 1931 tournament, round six. 00:16.230 --> 00:25.470 We see E4 from Alekhine e6 from Nimzowitsch d4 Dh5 ninth C3 Bishop before now the standard move nowadays 00:25.470 --> 00:33.240 is understood to be e5, but this move Knight G2 gets very interesting situations of having a bishop 00:33.240 --> 00:37.180 without a counterpart and the cost of a temporary pawn sack. 00:37.200 --> 00:38.520 Very, very interesting. 00:38.880 --> 00:40.230 In online databases. 00:40.230 --> 00:41.500 Casual online databases. 00:41.520 --> 00:48.900 This scores well for most people, generally not so much in the month date basis for one day chess. 00:49.080 --> 00:49.650 Let's have a look. 00:49.650 --> 00:50.310 Details. 00:50.340 --> 00:56.550 E4 a afraid so Why is getting from the opening an extreme imbalance this dance quite bishop without 00:56.550 --> 01:01.900 a counterpart so there are potentially more exploitable dot squares in Black's camp. 01:01.920 --> 01:05.190 Bear that in mind We see the move F5. 01:05.280 --> 01:12.540 And here I find this theoretically fascinating in this position that in most games it seems as though 01:13.770 --> 01:16.680 some moves have been trying to F3 or Bishop F4. 01:17.010 --> 01:25.950 We see Alekhine choosing F3 more modern engines actually are very emphatic about this position with 01:25.950 --> 01:26.790 this bishop. 01:26.970 --> 01:33.030 They actually suggest, and this is quite technical opening knowledge now Queen H five check this isn't 01:33.030 --> 01:37.320 seen in most games, but it is a very, very strong move. 01:37.890 --> 01:40.530 Surprisingly, surprisingly and shockingly so. 01:41.280 --> 01:44.610 It encourages more darts square weaknesses for a start. 01:44.610 --> 01:46.530 So we're kind of amplifying this Bishop. 01:47.040 --> 01:48.990 But where does the queen go to here? 01:50.170 --> 01:51.900 Isn't there another pawn under fire? 01:51.910 --> 01:55.650 Don't we just have to come back, Scurry back to protect the pawn? 01:55.660 --> 01:56.770 What would you play here for? 01:56.770 --> 01:57.670 100 points. 02:01.700 --> 02:03.110 We've done a few things, actually. 02:03.110 --> 02:08.660 We've actually also not just weakened squares, we've created access routes, roads to the H8 Rook. 02:09.470 --> 02:15.230 It's a subtle point here in a theoretical sense, but there's not sometimes much of a divide between 02:15.230 --> 02:17.510 what comes up and the theoretical issue. 02:18.380 --> 02:20.690 Here it seems the key move is free. 02:23.220 --> 02:27.030 I mean, we could play Queenie, too, but Black is not obliged to take the pawn. 02:27.060 --> 02:28.340 Black could play 96. 02:28.680 --> 02:34.290 Putting pressure on the -- and this position, there's still actually dynamic compensation here for 02:34.290 --> 02:36.120 why even this situation? 02:36.210 --> 02:37.140 Even this. 02:37.140 --> 02:38.940 But, you know, we're attacking plans. 02:38.940 --> 02:40.380 We don't want the queens coming off. 02:41.310 --> 02:42.330 You know, this. 02:42.510 --> 02:43.890 This isn't so brutal. 02:43.890 --> 02:45.090 It's an even position. 02:45.210 --> 02:51.000 But with Queen H, the brutality of it, let me just show you this is absolutely remarkable to me. 02:52.320 --> 02:57.390 First of all, let's say black doesn't take this -- night of sex. 02:57.720 --> 03:02.340 We have a queen quite aggressively placed ready for Queen Geoffrey. 03:02.640 --> 03:05.160 But Queen Geoffrey has the snag of 95. 03:05.160 --> 03:06.750 But what if we get ready for that? 03:07.170 --> 03:13.530 So, black castles, Bishop, Cause then Queenside might be the two Bishop e two getting ready for Queen 03:13.530 --> 03:14.010 G three. 03:14.010 --> 03:15.090 What do we have then? 03:15.270 --> 03:21.990 We have an attack on C seven and we have a pin's g pawn and say this possession. 03:21.990 --> 03:23.490 This is in our favor. 03:23.550 --> 03:24.510 What does black do? 03:24.540 --> 03:25.140 See six. 03:25.140 --> 03:28.590 We've got a really good attack here with H four. 03:28.920 --> 03:34.500 We've got the bishop hair and this bishop piercing into many dark squares, dark squares that have been 03:34.500 --> 03:40.770 increasingly weakened from that Queen H five check and the Queen sitting very nicely here, ready for 03:40.770 --> 03:41.520 H five. 03:41.550 --> 03:43.440 This position is just in White's favor. 03:43.440 --> 03:45.810 It's a great attacking position. 03:46.590 --> 03:50.250 So, yes, this is very, very interesting territory indeed. 03:50.250 --> 03:51.960 The queen bouncing to h free. 03:52.530 --> 03:58.380 If queen takes the four, we have 95 if queen bisects, queen C fray. 03:58.410 --> 03:59.550 And look at this. 03:59.550 --> 04:03.720 All of a sudden the theoretical issue about the rook is a practical issue. 04:04.500 --> 04:05.820 Black's losing material. 04:05.820 --> 04:08.010 1967 Jack Bishop G. 04:08.010 --> 04:08.280 Five. 04:08.280 --> 04:09.900 Jack Knight takes eight. 04:10.050 --> 04:10.800 Brutal. 04:12.230 --> 04:15.980 If we look at this again, when is the queen go Queen G7. 04:16.010 --> 04:17.320 Bishop four Dance square. 04:17.330 --> 04:18.680 Bishop out the counterpart. 04:20.050 --> 04:22.400 And on E5 we've got things like Queen C free. 04:22.430 --> 04:25.280 The Queen could bounce the c g freehand though. 04:25.400 --> 04:28.040 And this position Bishop takes C seven is great. 04:28.520 --> 04:30.740 We can put our bishop on E five. 04:30.740 --> 04:32.030 Wonderful stuff. 04:32.540 --> 04:38.390 So what we have here, I mean Queen E5, Bishop d2, we're going to play Bishop C free here. 04:39.650 --> 04:43.610 OC Queen E5 stopped Bishop F Right, but Queen takes B2. 04:43.610 --> 04:47.030 We got Bishop C free protecting, hitting the opponents rule in the Queen. 04:47.840 --> 04:50.060 What does Black Knight F six Bishop C free. 04:50.090 --> 04:51.290 We're just winning F six. 04:51.380 --> 04:54.740 So in other words, this is a secret garden. 04:54.740 --> 04:58.340 We've discovered a secret garden here too. 04:58.370 --> 05:04.520 Actually, this move, which hasn't been played in most practice, is actually a super powerful move 05:04.760 --> 05:06.290 from various different angles. 05:06.290 --> 05:11.270 Just dropping back to H free if we drop back to D one. 05:13.650 --> 05:13.980 Yeah. 05:13.980 --> 05:15.660 You know, black can put pressure on default. 05:15.690 --> 05:16.580 It's not as fun. 05:16.590 --> 05:19.110 We want to offer D4 as a gambit. 05:19.260 --> 05:20.520 We want to amplify this. 05:20.520 --> 05:26.310 Bishop, That pawn is on a dark square, like with weakening the opponent and dark squares. 05:26.310 --> 05:32.460 If we can get rid of some of our self blockades on dark squares, we're seeing the full force of dark 05:32.460 --> 05:40.140 square pressure all around the place by offering a D for the variation is absolutely beautiful here. 05:41.250 --> 05:41.850 Staggering. 05:41.850 --> 05:42.030 This. 05:42.030 --> 05:46.980 This is a great, very interesting opening to experiment with basically. 05:46.980 --> 05:52.740 But anyway, altcoins treatments because we were on the fame of Dance Square Bishop Black counterpart, 05:52.740 --> 05:55.470 I thought that was interesting, relevant to the theme. 05:55.800 --> 05:57.600 So but anyway, back to the game. 05:57.630 --> 05:58.380 Afraid so. 05:58.380 --> 06:00.000 It's actually an inaccuracy. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.550 F-3 compared to Queen H five. 06:02.550 --> 06:02.790 Check. 06:02.790 --> 06:08.040 We have E tanks, F3 Queen tanks, F3 Queen takes D4, Queen G3. 06:08.040 --> 06:15.900 But Alekhine is still using the dot square targets here like C seven and G seven. 06:16.500 --> 06:17.850 So it's still kind of interesting. 06:18.090 --> 06:20.940 F6 Queen tanks, G seven, Queen 85. 06:20.940 --> 06:23.310 Check Bishop E to Rook G eight. 06:23.310 --> 06:25.290 Queen h6 Rook g6. 06:25.290 --> 06:28.500 Queen H for Bishop D seven. 06:29.520 --> 06:32.640 And now here Bishop G5 was played. 06:32.970 --> 06:36.210 It seems Bishop at four might be a little bit more accurate. 06:36.300 --> 06:40.350 This position is kind of pleasant, if not six. 06:40.350 --> 06:41.610 We're going to take on C seven. 06:41.640 --> 06:43.710 It's kind of pleasant for this position. 06:44.070 --> 06:46.200 But anyway, Bishop G5 was played. 06:46.530 --> 06:47.760 Bishop C6. 06:49.830 --> 06:58.170 So here if things which had played nicely six and just castled Queenside White's only got a small edge 06:58.170 --> 06:58.410 here. 06:58.440 --> 07:05.760 The way this has been played is a bit greedy and greed of the opponent is basically your swapping material, 07:05.760 --> 07:08.230 your own material for reducing King's safety. 07:08.250 --> 07:11.760 This stops the king potentially castling queenside now. 07:11.880 --> 07:13.380 So greed exercise. 07:13.380 --> 07:15.950 Bishop takes G2 Rook 81. 07:15.960 --> 07:17.880 This is not going to end well for black Bishop. 07:17.910 --> 07:21.570 E4 Bishop h5 is played. 07:22.530 --> 07:29.340 We have now nine sites h5 Rook d h AX of Black's lost casting rights Queen takes h five and Nimzowitsch 07:29.340 --> 07:32.220 realises this position is diabolical. 07:32.250 --> 07:33.510 He actually resigns here. 07:33.720 --> 07:34.800 Move 19. 07:34.980 --> 07:41.790 If h six Bishop takes h6 and now we actually have the threats of Knight takes E4. 07:41.820 --> 07:44.910 Thanks to this relative pin if b6. 07:44.910 --> 07:47.190 Yeah, we're just taking on E4. 07:48.890 --> 07:50.070 What is black doing here? 07:50.100 --> 07:51.930 If Queen have sex, we can play Rook. 07:51.930 --> 07:53.220 I fight and win the Queen. 07:53.490 --> 07:58.650 If King e7, we can just play Bishop G5 check which protects D as well as being in check. 07:58.800 --> 07:59.520 King f7. 07:59.520 --> 08:03.690 We're just going to take on E4 and then Rook have one check. 08:04.200 --> 08:06.510 And here is is mate. 08:06.510 --> 08:09.960 Unless Black wants to give up the Queen totally winning. 08:10.290 --> 08:18.120 So what we have here is actually a very, very cute game, which we can actually improve on, where 08:18.330 --> 08:20.880 we can actually improve on the opening here. 08:20.880 --> 08:24.560 So it's actually a pretty shocking opening idea. 08:24.570 --> 08:28.890 And checking the online databases, not the last ones, the casual ones. 08:28.890 --> 08:38.280 There's more than than 70% win rate with this idea of Queen h52 to H three and five is a greedy, clinging 08:38.280 --> 08:39.510 on move. 08:39.570 --> 08:45.450 But this position has been winning lots of games in the world of online chess, and it's actually more 08:45.450 --> 08:47.010 accurate on this occasion. 08:47.010 --> 08:49.980 The most games you think most games they spend more time thinking. 08:49.980 --> 08:55.590 But actually, yeah, online players have hit the right plan maybe through modern postmortem analysis 08:55.590 --> 08:56.970 to find these resources. 08:56.970 --> 09:03.840 But this is a fantastic position where it seems the amplification of the darts quite bishop is evidence. 09:03.840 --> 09:09.690 This this amplification of this without a counterpart is actually evident in both weakening darts squares 09:09.690 --> 09:11.790 with the opponent and letting D4 drop. 09:11.790 --> 09:16.800 There are vicious squares like C three which act as pivot squares or double the tax squares. 09:17.160 --> 09:23.550 So yes, if in the variations we've seen with the queen coming to see free, fantastic stuff, this 09:23.550 --> 09:26.280 variation is absolutely fascinating. 09:26.280 --> 09:28.890 This would be a great attacking position to start off with. 09:29.580 --> 09:32.550 So anyway, in the game, that was also interesting. 09:32.550 --> 09:38.640 Nimzowitsch was very, very greedy in this game and was brutally punished. 09:38.970 --> 09:47.280 So yeah, he didn't even take the opportunity just to console her with 96 to try and console Queenside. 09:47.550 --> 09:52.050 Oh well anyway, it makes for an entertaining game. 09:52.050 --> 09:53.610 I hope you've enjoyed this game. 09:53.730 --> 09:57.480 I'll take you back to that final position. 09:57.480 --> 09:58.860 So Queen takes h five. 09:58.860 --> 10:06.030 It's it's truly horrendous here with black facing horrible threats which is it can't be really parry 10:06.060 --> 10:12.930 you know Knight takes will rip open the file if nothing else so okay hope you enjoyed that. 10:13.560 --> 10:14.280 Thanks very much.