Hi there.
In this lecture, I want to show you an iconic game with one of my friends, Costas.
Carry on.
Who is actually noted my attacking and tactical skills from a young age.
He's been a great friend, along with Alexa volunteers and Paul George, who I played many, many blitz
torments of various places.
So it was great training.
These guys have been great training and great friends throughout my chess career, so this is a game
of constant carry on.
His nickname is Fat and Mad and he's playing against Napkin and this was in 2008.
So this is at my own correspondence chess club, Chess World dot net.
It's a brilliant example of the bishop hair.
So he starts with the English opening.
So Constance Cameron is with the White pieces, plays C4.
We have five a Dutch defense from net neck Finn and he came in so we have Geoffrey let's have sex.
Bishop, G2, e5.
Now, these pawns, they're quite committed here and it's good if one of them can be forced to move
because it will give way to weaknesses we have.
D4 and Black already plays a slight inaccuracy, which leads to quite a lot of pain later.
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There are alternatives here.
E4 is quite committal.
It's giving white a four so 93 bishop b4 check this is going to lead.
This will lead to advantage for white.
White doesn't mind if black wants to double the pawns here.
If black castles afraid this position, we can use the F4 square and it's going to be a slight advantage
for white.
So anyway we have though there is an important option in d sex which although the Queen's might come
off, it would keep these two pawns together.
And like the bishop pair, they kind of complementary cost us carry on is called them soul partners.
He actually did a video on YouTube many years back and he called them you know there's soul mates,
you know, they've got to look after each other.
But here at least they can remain intact if the Queen's come off black could have C7 for the King and
B fine.
Why only has a small edge.
It's limiting White's advantage, but in the game we have Knight C6 and one of the soul mates disappears,
leaving a kind of lack of harmony as well between the bishop and this pawn.
So the complementary is within the black position have been lost in different ways.
The two pawns, complementary, the pieces of pawn harmony, slightly lost.
It's kind of amplifying that pawn might be just bad for black.
We have B3, Bishop C5, Bishop B2, Queen E7, an Illinois friend.
This reinforces the idea that White has a great four square and that pawns missing so this can help
intensify the D5 square control and authority we have moving a piece of game with Bishop before check
if Black just simply concealed, this might actually be an improvement and just accept this situation
where it has a small edge.
But Bishop before Shank was played 9394, Rook C one and now Bishop takes C free check.
So yes, without mistakes there are no brilliancy.
So black for some reason is giving white the bishop hair kind of not really appreciating.
You know, Steinitz did have the bishop here as a classic advantage to evaluate.
So are they complimentary?
Are they a team here?
Well, they could be against the king later.
Is the classic bishop here.
So it's a complementary team.
In theory, the bishop drops back visit, preserving itself like G6 and now both sides Castle E F3.
So this looks down F4 so kind of emphasizing there's a lack of comprehension complementary here this
bishop's like hemmed in now by its own pawn we have Bishop E6 rookie one now rook ice now African knights
have six and they'll have two.
This is very very nice play It has the idea of playing F4 and E4 so this would keep the bishop locked
in B6 and not F4.
And it opens up of course White's bishop.
So you can see these bishops are quite nice at the moment just from a positional perspective.
So the accumulation of advantages model is very apparent in this game.
It's building the groundwork for a successful attack.
We have E4 now.
Knight takes E4, Knight takes E4, F-type, C4, Bishop takes E4 97 and we have now Queen D4.
So tying the Queen down to G7, the queen is attacked, the queen drops back actually to de free.
So putting pressure on F5 we have now Bishop D7 and now once Rook.
Work as a team to intensify the pressure.
So doubling rooks, Logically, it looks absolutely harmonious.
White's position and both bishops are genuinely staring towards the kingside.
We have a five an hour, Bishop C c3 H six and now with the advantages in the position, White goes
on the attack and it's very, very justified and very natural here.
You know, as natural as the baby's small heads.
It's a nice position.
Groundwork has been laid.
Bishop here is a juicy attacking ingredients to make use of.
We have G4 so the knight goes to a more passive square E seven and now F five.
So Black has very limited counterplay and you can see actually also this bishop pitting G seven could
be a problem for example, like this to exploit the pin, the pin pawn on G7.
We have Bishop C and now Queen H free.
This way of doing it is very, very nice.
Francis Then Queen takes H six check.
So black plays Knight G eight, but now Bishop D five.
This is looking like an absolutely crushing position.
We have Queen D seven.
If Rook takes E two, we can just simply take the Queen because we're holding E one with a huge advantage
there.
So.
Okay.
But now of the Queen D seven, guess what won't plays in black actually resigns in this position.
It's an absolutely crushing position with the bishop pair Look how complimentary they are.
So here whites play.
What would you play in this position So move 31 rookie sex.
There are huge threats now intensifying the pressure against the pin pawn.
Well, the pin pawn is not relevant for h six so rook takes h six threatened so black resigned here
if rotates e six rotates e six rook f6 would be a desperate way of trying to defend things.
But White could just play Bishop takes f six hair and smash through Now even though white's like lost
the bishop hair, the Queen can also be a complementary to the bishop.
Now after Rook takes f6.
So we see this is actually a forced checkmate sequence where the Queen comes in, assisted by the Knight
Square bishop.
So beautiful stuff.
If C6, let's just see this one.
Rook takes h six Jack Queen since h six is checkmate, you can see the bishops working well together
at the same there.
This game is all about complementary.
It's all about team play in different ways.
So we're not just illustrating the Bishop power, which is a great complementary team.
Black did have a team which was lost that that team pair of the two pawns.
So the harmony was lost as well.
The bishop with the F5 pawn and later White's attack was just so natural.
There was nothing ungrounded about this attacking game.
It was set with the groundwork of accumulating advantages.
The Bishop hair.
It's a really nice, clear, instructive game example played from one of my very, very good friends
in chess.
I hope you enjoyed this game and saw a little bit the power of the bishop hair being used in a correspondence
game.
Okay.
I see much.