WEBVTT 00:00.870 --> 00:01.560 Hi there. 00:01.740 --> 00:06.840 In this lecture, we see Bobby Fischer playing against Boris Spassky in the 1972 World Championship 00:06.840 --> 00:07.390 match. 00:07.410 --> 00:10.410 So round six was an absolute masterpiece. 00:10.410 --> 00:15.090 One of my favorite games from this match, Fischer playing with C4. 00:15.330 --> 00:21.300 So throughout his career, he had been saying E4 best by test, but he's been leaving this little surprise. 00:21.300 --> 00:29.100 The art of war is often the exceptional surprise playing a surprise C4 and it transposes into Queen's 00:29.100 --> 00:32.820 Gambit, the client territory in particular. 00:32.820 --> 00:41.460 Spassky plays the Taunt Corporation, so H six, H four, B six, so named after finally taunt a very 00:41.460 --> 00:42.240 witty guy. 00:42.270 --> 00:44.460 It's ready to go check out his quotations. 00:45.450 --> 00:49.230 So basically here Fischer plays C takes D five. 00:49.230 --> 00:52.290 We have Knight takes two, five, Bishop takes he's seven. 00:52.290 --> 01:00.600 Queen S.C seven 9/10 d5e tanks D five Rook C one Bishop E six Queen 84c5. 01:00.600 --> 01:02.700 So this is kind of theoretical so far. 01:02.970 --> 01:03.900 Queen Afraid so. 01:03.900 --> 01:09.120 Fischer's showing he's been acutely aware, actually, of Queen's Gambit decline variations in the openings. 01:09.330 --> 01:12.300 So Rook C eight we have Bishop B5. 01:14.050 --> 01:22.090 He thinks an interesting alternative is Queen bee, seven hair and black cats, the hanging pawns under 01:22.090 --> 01:23.560 these circumstances. 01:23.950 --> 01:28.870 You know, this gambit here is quite interesting with 96. 01:29.440 --> 01:34.300 So, for example, yeah, it wasn't much of hanging pawns for him just for a moment in there, but Black's 01:34.300 --> 01:36.100 got good activity here. 01:36.280 --> 01:38.170 And Black might even have a small edge. 01:38.170 --> 01:42.690 So the variation is actually playable with Queen Bee seven. 01:42.700 --> 01:43.750 Yeah, it's incredible. 01:43.750 --> 01:50.830 But this Queen Bee seven does seem to be quite a lively continuation for black just offering a basically 01:50.830 --> 01:52.000 a gambit her. 01:54.360 --> 01:55.920 So just bear that in mind. 01:56.130 --> 01:59.120 Other moves like 97, this is just equal. 01:59.130 --> 02:03.060 So this gambit might see six D tanks. 02:03.060 --> 02:05.580 This is going to be good for white here. 02:05.760 --> 02:09.270 But the Gambit Queen B seven makes the thing actually playable. 02:09.270 --> 02:12.030 If you want to play this taunt, go variation with black. 02:12.030 --> 02:16.710 It's not the end of the story here, but we see a6d tank. 02:16.720 --> 02:19.740 So Black has these so called hanging pawns. 02:19.740 --> 02:22.740 So it's like an extended, isolated queen's pawn. 02:23.280 --> 02:30.690 If rook tank C5 had been played just with the isolated pawn, this should be about equal. 02:30.690 --> 02:34.110 It could end up being like this, for example, even. 02:34.260 --> 02:43.200 But anyway, B takes c5 y Carlsen's Rook seven So now the frets is actually 8b5 because the Queen protects 02:43.200 --> 02:43.890 in the rook. 02:44.250 --> 02:54.990 We have Bishop E to 97 and now there is a resource available because of this pin relative pin 94. 02:56.160 --> 03:02.730 So the thing is, is why actually grabbing Black's light square bishop. 03:04.490 --> 03:14.210 Yes, Queen F8, though, is play, which kind of maybe starts to make things a bit worse than they 03:14.210 --> 03:14.910 needed to be. 03:15.090 --> 03:21.380 Knight B6 As example, Knight takes this position is a small edge. 03:22.290 --> 03:29.580 For whites, a five, maybe even slightly more active black could against a four year play of six. 03:30.180 --> 03:34.080 And if five might age seven, White has got don't square weaknesses. 03:34.260 --> 03:37.650 And this should be about even this position. 03:38.460 --> 03:44.220 So yes space case seems starts to go quite passive with his pieces with Queen F eight. 03:44.640 --> 03:48.870 We see Knight takes ss, F takes SS, And now? 03:48.870 --> 03:49.200 Yes. 03:49.200 --> 03:50.400 What's the key move here? 03:50.430 --> 03:52.470 So this is fascinating. 03:52.470 --> 03:59.700 We've got this light squared bishop without a counterpart, so it could be useful on light squares. 03:59.700 --> 04:02.290 But these look like distant dreams, right? 04:02.310 --> 04:10.230 Right now, these diagonals look like absolute distant dreams, locked in cupboards far, far away. 04:10.410 --> 04:16.710 And Spassky has, in his time with his iconic games, demonstrated that you can get on attacking diagonals. 04:16.710 --> 04:18.750 But this is Fischer against Spassky. 04:19.500 --> 04:21.690 Is Fischer such an amazing attacking player. 04:21.690 --> 04:23.670 He can make use of this Bishop here. 04:24.300 --> 04:25.560 This is the question. 04:25.980 --> 04:28.140 So what's the first move, you think here? 04:31.630 --> 04:34.310 Bring the cupboards towards you with sacrifices. 04:34.330 --> 04:34.780 Open up. 04:35.020 --> 04:40.180 Open up the secrets of those cupboards for trying to open up the secrets of these diagonals, trying 04:40.180 --> 04:41.920 to give the Bishop C-4. 04:42.340 --> 04:43.740 And that's given immediately. 04:43.750 --> 04:44.560 Default. 04:45.160 --> 04:49.210 Maybe more resistant is the materialistic de tax E4. 04:49.240 --> 04:53.380 On principle, it looks absolutely dicey to do this. 04:53.530 --> 04:59.830 But yeah, y can just target e six and why? 04:59.830 --> 05:03.850 It might need to be a little bit resourceful here to push the advantage. 05:03.850 --> 05:05.110 So f three. 05:07.060 --> 05:10.090 For example, this position where blank is even. 05:11.470 --> 05:15.880 A pawn up potentially five 5 to 4 pawns. 05:15.880 --> 05:19.330 But blacks under tremendous pressure here. 05:22.420 --> 05:31.000 So if the if the rook is protected, for example Queen D free Shaq check and then taking out E6 going 05:31.000 --> 05:34.510 into an end game with an advantage. 05:35.410 --> 05:45.980 If c4 instead Queen H 395 as an example E times e times B free is nice here. 05:46.000 --> 05:49.450 So C takes eight isolated Queen's pawn. 05:50.020 --> 05:56.020 There should be prospects here for white weight has a small edge here, but this kind is very welcoming 05:56.020 --> 05:57.490 for the bishop to be on C4 now. 05:57.490 --> 06:01.060 So all of a sudden this looks like a great position. 06:01.750 --> 06:05.320 We have a delay on playing Bishop C for F4. 06:08.540 --> 06:11.900 And now Queen is 785. 06:11.900 --> 06:15.650 So this kind of locks down that night, tries to make the night passive. 06:15.830 --> 06:20.030 Root beer makes things actually a lot worse than they needed to be. 06:21.530 --> 06:23.270 So this is a funny position. 06:23.270 --> 06:24.650 So we've got the eight. 06:24.650 --> 06:33.470 It seems as though here instead of the A, B, six to try and get onto the D5 square looks like a logical 06:33.470 --> 06:34.700 thing one would do. 06:35.210 --> 06:37.070 What would be the problem here? 06:37.940 --> 06:38.990 Well Queen defray. 06:38.990 --> 06:44.720 Let's look at this from a 95 queen ee four and all of a sudden, hang on, we're getting a battery on 06:44.720 --> 06:48.580 this diagonal which justifies these dot square pawns. 06:48.590 --> 06:51.110 They're totally complementary with this. 06:51.110 --> 06:59.000 Bishop Fischer has put his pawn voluntarily on these dark squares, but this diagonal is great now without 06:59.240 --> 07:01.070 having the use of the F6 square. 07:03.610 --> 07:05.760 So what does Black play here, Queenie? 07:05.770 --> 07:08.320 Eight five. 07:08.320 --> 07:09.970 And this is leading to trouble. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.100 One could even sack the exchange. 07:12.460 --> 07:14.380 This is just too much for black. 07:15.340 --> 07:17.440 For example, nine tanks brought tanks. 07:19.660 --> 07:25.750 And let's say C4, because if Queen takes it we don't play bishop for that loses. 07:25.780 --> 07:27.700 No, we're after the king here. 07:29.050 --> 07:30.310 We're attacking players. 07:30.310 --> 07:34.010 We've got to, we're looking at war ending mechanisms. 07:34.030 --> 07:35.030 Bishop Defray. 07:35.050 --> 07:40.180 We're going for the champ mate not minding the exchange down. 07:40.180 --> 07:48.730 And here, for example, Jack Bishop F5 now actually is crushing because it's kind of winning a whole 07:48.730 --> 07:49.210 rook there. 07:49.210 --> 07:50.230 That's okay to do that. 07:50.230 --> 07:54.430 They're in this position instead of Rook have seven of G6, we get Rook have six. 07:54.430 --> 07:55.360 That's crushing. 07:55.360 --> 08:02.830 So yeah, there are these crushing scenarios where even the exchange down after night six. 08:03.250 --> 08:08.980 Yeah, we're looking forward to this diagonal, which might explain why Boris Spassky was interested 08:08.980 --> 08:13.270 in putting his knight on F eight to cover some of these squares. 08:14.500 --> 08:22.210 So yes, but technically, it does make things worse. 08:24.070 --> 08:29.220 But yeah, with with best play though it seems as though White's got the advantage anyway. 08:29.230 --> 08:30.820 Quite a strong advantage here. 08:33.040 --> 08:33.550 So. 08:33.550 --> 08:37.780 Okay, so rugby ain't we have Bishop C-4 back to the game. 08:37.780 --> 08:38.550 Bishop C-4. 08:38.560 --> 08:43.210 So the Knights potentially posts on fire to parry this diagonal. 08:45.010 --> 08:47.650 So Queen H, three points, F eight. 08:47.860 --> 08:54.310 So it's holding up H seven and G six squares, or particularly H Seven's importance not to be mated 08:54.310 --> 08:56.380 with a queen on H seven sport by the bishop. 08:57.070 --> 08:59.260 If Rook takes B to him, Bishop takes it. 08:59.260 --> 09:08.770 He thinks this position is just great for why one's got extra mobility and can switch again to this 09:08.770 --> 09:12.040 sensitive, diagonal menacing ideas of Bishop e4. 09:12.130 --> 09:18.760 So this position, for example, Queen G six, it's just the big edge for Y, big advantage. 09:18.760 --> 09:23.890 So Knights F eight is played and now be free. 09:26.100 --> 09:30.180 We have a five and now F five cracking open the file. 09:30.720 --> 09:32.560 So this creates some concrete threats. 09:32.580 --> 09:42.270 Now, if this wasn't taken on F five, say A4, then F six is very dangerous with F takes G seven and 09:42.270 --> 09:45.240 we get the F six square looking at each six. 09:45.240 --> 09:51.270 So this position doubling the rocks away from the glare of the queen and first thing, rock takes our 09:51.270 --> 09:51.630 fight. 09:51.630 --> 10:00.150 And this position is just dismantling to black so it takes was played rotates at five points H seven 10:00.510 --> 10:04.470 Rogue cf1 Queen D eight Queen G3. 10:04.620 --> 10:08.310 And now some moves were played soon just to get to the time. 10:08.310 --> 10:08.790 So this is it. 10:08.790 --> 10:10.950 Move 30 B seven. 10:11.820 --> 10:21.210 This next move is is very significant now E6 vacating E5 to get a pins pawn potentially and great prospects 10:21.210 --> 10:26.700 of rook have seven when black isn't watching too closely b seven Queen E five. 10:27.960 --> 10:31.860 So yes, this looks absolutely like a menacing position. 10:31.860 --> 10:41.550 Queenie ain't a full queen D eight So Black is kind of paralyzed here with that absolute pinning against 10:41.550 --> 10:43.350 the king, that pawn being pinned. 10:44.070 --> 10:45.060 This is a great position. 10:45.060 --> 10:46.620 Rook One f to Queen. 10:46.620 --> 10:48.720 He ain't rook to afraid. 10:48.720 --> 10:51.750 This is working way for the time control. 10:51.750 --> 10:54.930 So moves which don't seem totally optimal. 10:54.930 --> 11:00.750 But now with Bishop defray this bishop without the counterpart is being demonstrated. 11:00.750 --> 11:07.140 If he can be in a battery against H seven, you might think, well the Knights of 87. 11:07.140 --> 11:10.410 But what we do is play rook f eight at some points. 11:10.740 --> 11:16.020 Then Knight takes, we take their Queen's eights and we're mating with Queen H seven. 11:16.410 --> 11:19.860 So in other words, this is a very scary build up for black. 11:19.860 --> 11:24.270 So Queen Queenie for Black tries 9f6. 11:24.270 --> 11:32.670 Here to sort out the issue for the record, if Knight of six wasn't played, it's pretty terminal here 11:32.970 --> 11:35.190 if rook b seven when mating. 11:35.190 --> 11:37.380 Actually, it's not just the case of winning material. 11:37.380 --> 11:39.720 Guess how we're mating in this position. 11:41.130 --> 11:42.090 At some points. 11:43.310 --> 11:43.850 Yeah. 11:45.110 --> 11:47.120 We just play rock our faith check. 11:49.050 --> 11:55.200 So whatever way black takes, if night takes, then we just take out the defender rook tanks and fact 11:55.200 --> 11:57.030 check Queen, H7 and Checkmate. 11:58.680 --> 12:02.580 And also, what if the Queen took so. 12:02.580 --> 12:03.140 So Rook? 12:03.450 --> 12:05.100 What if the Queen thought you might ask? 12:06.540 --> 12:07.260 Yes. 12:07.260 --> 12:10.590 The stronger move here is just the mate H7. 12:10.590 --> 12:11.550 We've just got H7. 12:11.550 --> 12:12.000 We just play. 12:12.000 --> 12:13.350 Queen takes H7. 12:13.710 --> 12:14.430 Checkmate. 12:14.460 --> 12:15.270 So you might ask. 12:15.270 --> 12:15.780 Hold on. 12:15.780 --> 12:16.920 Okay, hold on. 12:16.920 --> 12:17.370 What about. 12:17.370 --> 12:18.270 Gee, thanks. 12:19.470 --> 12:23.880 So here it's very strong of Queen E5 the position and Rook have seven. 12:23.880 --> 12:27.690 Black is really quite stuck for things to do here. 12:29.420 --> 12:32.660 If rock takes up seven, Rock takes half seven Queen G. 12:33.920 --> 12:43.010 We can play Rook B seven, threatening B eight if none of 7e7 is example. 12:43.430 --> 12:44.570 And here. 12:46.210 --> 12:48.650 The strongest might actually be Bishop G6. 12:48.660 --> 12:50.520 We've got lots of friends that me ain't. 12:50.850 --> 12:54.870 Yeah, that Shields doesn't need to shield anything. 12:54.990 --> 12:59.460 It just takes a pawn and make sure that, you know, the pin's not going anywhere. 12:59.460 --> 13:02.220 The king hasn't got H7 and we've got rugby. 13:02.250 --> 13:03.240 Ain't so here. 13:03.240 --> 13:04.100 Rugby Ace. 13:04.170 --> 13:05.640 It's just hopeless. 13:05.950 --> 13:10.170 Blacks are in huge trouble there, so it's an absolutely hopeless position. 13:10.170 --> 13:12.030 Basically after Queen E4. 13:13.380 --> 13:15.900 So Spassky tries not to have sex. 13:15.900 --> 13:17.550 So yes, let's have sex. 13:18.150 --> 13:22.620 Okay, so guess what Fischer plays here if I give you 5 seconds. 13:23.530 --> 13:25.840 It's suppose the video won't play. 13:25.870 --> 13:27.400 What would you play and why? 13:30.880 --> 13:35.620 So there's a common attacking fame as almost there's a little leap of faith. 13:37.570 --> 13:45.320 Intuitively, if you weaken the opponent's king, your pieces kind of get a promotion in value. 13:45.340 --> 13:47.500 They've got other things to do to help him mating. 13:47.500 --> 13:52.150 That's taking roles of covering key squares, killer sharks. 13:52.270 --> 13:57.580 So the pieces actually go up in value because there's more fun for them on the chessboard. 13:59.330 --> 14:00.340 So just bear that in mind. 14:00.350 --> 14:03.160 We can weaken the king now with this exchange sacrifice. 14:03.170 --> 14:08.270 So even though, you know, technically we've lost material, but our pieces have actually gone up in 14:08.270 --> 14:12.410 value here and we're getting one pawn for the exchange anyway. 14:13.550 --> 14:15.500 Black is totally tied down. 14:15.680 --> 14:24.230 We have King G8 and our bishops C4 is played here with this big idea of Rook half seven supported by 14:24.230 --> 14:28.010 that bishop and that pawn King HD and now Queen are four. 14:28.010 --> 14:30.590 And black is just, you know, helpless here. 14:31.010 --> 14:32.390 There's no spare pieces. 14:32.390 --> 14:35.830 The whole team is working together here against that weakened King position. 14:35.840 --> 14:39.470 That's another beautiful thing about attacking, you know, masterpieces. 14:40.070 --> 14:44.810 It's like you look at these situations where the king's been compromised and, you know, Was there 14:44.810 --> 14:45.440 a spare piece? 14:45.470 --> 14:46.630 No, there's no spare piece. 14:46.640 --> 14:49.700 Everything's in the attack here against the king. 14:49.700 --> 14:57.720 So the game ended here and Spassky kind of got up and applauded Bobby Fischer and Fischer for was shocked. 14:57.740 --> 14:59.330 And I thought, what a great sportsman. 14:59.330 --> 15:03.680 Yeah, Spassky was a great sportsman and a great attacking player in his own right. 15:03.920 --> 15:08.570 He's just known quite a lot for that classic 1972 match. 15:08.810 --> 15:18.230 In this final position, if King G eight Rook takes H six, the attacks just really quite vicious here 15:18.260 --> 15:24.800 where threatening things like Queen f6 now and rook H eight if rook takes E6. 15:24.800 --> 15:27.500 Yeah, we're just going to play Queen f6 anyway. 15:27.950 --> 15:32.100 We don't even need that material, you know, we can now win material here. 15:32.330 --> 15:33.500 This is just brutal. 15:33.920 --> 15:38.600 Okay, So yeah, it's a crushing end to the game. 15:38.600 --> 15:44.960 So there's very interesting attacking ingredients through this game. 15:44.960 --> 15:50.590 The winning of the opponents like Square Bishop, the temporary kind of the pawn sacrifice offer, gaining 15:50.600 --> 15:55.610 the bishop to a good place, switching from the queen side to the side. 15:55.790 --> 16:01.760 Another very subtle aspect of Fischer's play here is that he, you know, if you recognize you have 16:01.760 --> 16:03.230 a bishop of our counterpart. 16:04.700 --> 16:11.870 Maybe you can even enhance that by having pawns complementary to the bishop, which might prevent defensive 16:11.870 --> 16:12.380 resources. 16:12.380 --> 16:13.970 If this is the key diagonal. 16:13.970 --> 16:17.330 If you think about it, it was the key diagonal in many variations. 16:17.540 --> 16:19.430 If you think about what happened here. 16:21.260 --> 16:27.680 Fisher creates a luxury situation for this ship without a counterpart by putting his pawns on dark squares 16:27.680 --> 16:28.080 like this. 16:28.100 --> 16:35.960 It's still going to be complimentary for this diagonal, and it shuts out F6 It shuts down E5, it shuts 16:35.960 --> 16:45.170 down defensive resources with this F4 E5 structure so that he's made the structure even more favorable. 16:46.530 --> 16:48.420 For using this diagonal lighter. 16:49.290 --> 16:58.080 So it's a beautiful diagonal, just laying and white hair to be exploited with this structure, stopping 16:58.080 --> 17:03.030 the use of F6, the structure stopping E5, it's just laying in wait for a battery. 17:03.030 --> 17:09.180 Later, a battery queen and bishop battery joining forces together on that diagonal. 17:09.420 --> 17:16.710 But first yeah the beautiful aspects of this so targeting E6 switching to this side of the board making 17:16.710 --> 17:22.920 sure black hasn't got too much to do over this side of the board locking down counterplay with a force 17:24.450 --> 17:31.470 just just just in case so locking down all accounts by vacating a nice central square for the queen. 17:32.280 --> 17:35.430 Yeah, there's a lot of attacking gradients in one game. 17:35.430 --> 17:39.930 It's an absolute masterpiece of a game, but you can see this beautiful diagonal. 17:40.840 --> 17:42.670 Absolutely crushing stuff. 17:42.700 --> 17:44.350 So yeah, have six. 17:44.530 --> 17:49.450 When we weaken the opponents can, you know, concretely our pieces get promoted, try and get the pieces 17:49.450 --> 17:50.050 as a team. 17:50.050 --> 17:56.260 They've got a lot of things to do to work on, which are fun once we've weakened the opponent's king 17:56.260 --> 17:56.860 like this. 17:56.860 --> 17:59.200 But yeah, these other ingredients are playing their role. 17:59.200 --> 18:04.450 The bishop, without the counterpart, the strong central pawn as well, of course, is dislocating 18:04.450 --> 18:06.090 resources here from lack. 18:06.100 --> 18:08.590 So yeah, an absolute masterpiece of a game. 18:08.830 --> 18:11.110 I hope you enjoyed this as much as me. 18:11.350 --> 18:16.810 It's worth revisiting these masterpieces from time to time and picking up some more and more nuances. 18:16.810 --> 18:20.110 Like a good film you might revisit and pick up nuances. 18:20.110 --> 18:22.390 Okay, that's so much.