Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Jerome pick against Garry Kasparov.
This is in 1989.
Interpol, Stillman's 13, physician around eight.
We see de fall from Jerome Pike because of plays a Kings engine offense.
So 9 to 3, g6c4.
Bishop G seven night C free black castles e4.
So the Kings engine defense.
It isn't so popular nowadays that the grandmaster or super grandmaster level, it's more like Grunfeld
and Slavs nowadays.
So fashions change and engines don't particularly like the Kings engine offense in general.
I think one of the reasons Kasparov gave the Kings engine the up was Vladimir Kramnik beats him a few
times and that kind of dissuaded Kasparov using it so much and the popularity started to decline.
But from an attacking perspective, the Kings injured the fans.
For most mere mortals, especially in, say, casual online chess, it's a really aggressive opening,
creating the potential for certain attacking ingredients like pawn storms.
Later, because the center gets closed.
In the main variation here Bishop e e5 White usually castles here.
If White's tries to win a pawn, this position is not going to be that clever.
Say Queen.
Thanks Rook takes Knight takes E5 because there's Knight takes E4 and Black's absolutely fine here in
this position.
And you might wonder, Well, hold on, what about here?
Knight takes f7 Can you see what black place here which actually wins material?
So this looks like a desperado.
But we have Bishop takes si free check and King takes.
So essentially, this is an important thing to know about the king's end of the fence, because the
center is about to be closed, which facilitates a kingside pawn storm later.
So D5 is usually played here 9791 and now Knight D7 and Black's plan is often just to get a kingside
pawn storm now.
So Bishop F3, F5 and White tries to usually play on the queenside.
So we have a four Bishop f2 G5.
So you can see this is pretty crude looking stuff.
There's a lot of fun to be had in King's Indian Defense B for Knight of six, C5 Knight, G6 C Tanks,
C tanks, Rook C one we have now Rook f7.
This is a dual purpose move.
It's an iconic style move, both attacking and defending duties.
So that entry point C seven is guarded a little bit more in advance.
A four bishop can fight a five, Bishop D7 might be five.
And now it looks as though, well, there's a problem with A7.
What you shouldn't do here is weaken the position by playing a move like A6 as this just welcomes a
big tempo gainer.
Bishop B6 and then horrible things happen.
And one of the key plans of why is, you know, 97, 96 to get rid of this attacking bishop, even if
it comes to pawn sometimes that's great.
White's attack will be very strong after.
So that pawn here is actually just left to be taken.
G4 We have 97 being played.
If F takes G4 then we can take on E4.
That's nice to take a center pawn this position we can take on C1 hitting the opponent's queen and here
Bishop takes E6.
This should be to Black's advantage on this occasion, this variation if Knight takes a seven.
Then Jeffrey this position with Bishop BE Thanks, Queenie.
It's slightly different than it's not well placed to get into Essex later.
And actually, if we look at these scenarios here, they're very dangerous for one's king, even though
one is winning material.
Bishop B5 here looks at B7 and for example, Knight takes P5, Rook takes P7.
It ends up being a strange position, but it should be funny enough.
About equal.
Yeah, it's about equal.
If Bishop takes B5, rook, takes B7, Bishop takes Ian Knight takes F1 check.
This is just crazy stuff and Black ends up being better.
So yes, interesting variations.
So we have Knight see seven though.
And now with the rook attacks, guess what Kasparov plays?
And there is another secret or two I could mention about the King's end of the fence, which I picked
up from friends like pool juju.
So here is one secret.
You want to open up these dark squares, you want to have a knight on there for.
So if you have to do a pawn set to get on F4, it's well worth it.
So free though is played here.
If black can play rugby ain't bishop takes eight seven is big advantage for whites.
If rook C eight then the knight can go to E6 and this position is rather painful.
It has Queen B free hair with the frets of E seven shank.
So if we take on C one we end up losing our queen hair, which isn't clever.
If king H a again y is actually in a better off, this is better for white.
So Geoffrey is important.
Knight takes eight.
This may be a slight inaccuracy.
H6 G3 might be the best.
Try this position.
Bishop.
Thanks, Jeffrey.
Nice H 596 is possible.
And here for example, it should be about even as complicated stuff.
It really is complicated variations if bishop f2 instead black could get potentially a dangerous attack.
So that can be said in many variations, but that can potentially starts use potentially.
The G4 knight takes G2 with a strong attack potential.
Yeah, it's dangerous if you get Knight to fall like this in this G5 with this mountain phone.
It's dangerous for white.
But yeah, there were ways to play it, which seems to seem to imply, you know, one isn't completely
busted or anything but white plays Knight takes 8/8 and here Knight h5 Yeah nice h5 keeping a lot of
tension going if G takes F2 check rotates F2 here.
Bishop F1 this is actually interesting.
Black has a small edge, but not five in many respects is even better.
We have King H one if H takes g freer.
Thanks.
We're opening up the dark squares.
So a night on F4 in conjunction with the semi-open file.
A great attacking ingredients.
So Queen H four here also that form pawn great attack ingredients form pawn so rook have to Queen H
to check as example Queen H one is checkmate If Bishop takes a seven, Queen h4h Ray Bishop takes h3g
takes H three Queenslands H three Rook f to black.
He's doing well here, taking on f two Queen G Free Shaq 9h4.
It's kind of menacing.
This position is huge for Black, so King H one was tried and then we have G tanks f2 Rook takes f2
knight g free check.
Wanted to try and get a form pawn on G3 so king G one if h takes F takes this form pawn is far too dangerous.
King g1 Queen H for Bishop D3 as example, Knight A4 covers the escape set of the King.
That's why that's a really powerful mechanism to try and, you know, checkmate here.
Queen H two check.
Queen H one Checkmate.
So King G one was tried, Queen takes eight and now Bishop C4.
You might wonder, isn't it safe to take now on G3 if H takes the thing is that form pawn is great with
Knight therefore it's absolutely great.
So this position is still great even if we we have maintain that form pawn and black has a strong attack
here still.
So this position that doesn't even have to take the rook and white it's going to be in big trouble.
This variation taking now Bishop H free.
This is brutal stuff and we can see the attack is crashing through and we're controlling c eight here
as well.
So that's great.
So bishop c four was tried a six Queen different now Queen A7 a nice pin actually.
It's funny, when I saw this game and I did a YouTube video years back, it just, it just really impresses
me how this diagonal has been kind of hijacked.
It was White's diagonal and because of the absence of the bishop, now it's like hijacked by black for
this absolute pin.
And the stunning point is made Now, after eight takes, Bishop takes B5.
Guess what the starting point is here for 100 points.
Which is a really funny way to end the game.
Okay.
Nine No one is played.
The game ends.
If King takes H, one queen takes half to this position is just well it's been zero up for black plat
can even just play like this doesn't have to go for the king anymore and get a passport over here just
win on the Queen's side later.
So yes, the game ending with night h one.
Fun stuff.
Yeah.
So these Kings Engine games, they align to certain attacking ingredients.
For a while in my chess development, I actually had this concept of kind of a resource container kind
of release effect.
You build up your kind of resources behind the container, you know, storm container.
So the balloons are the fundamental constraint of the pieces.
And you build up and you build up and you release at the right most effective time.
To to show, you know, the attacking forces behind the build up.
So certain openings do align to certain attacking ingredients.
And if you want to practice pawn storms, then playing the King's Indian fans can sometimes lead to
these situations.
But why?
It has choices to play more positional choices and stop this kind of pawn storm strategy early on with
more cool, obnoxious choices.
But yeah, this is going into the like the classical, you know, variations where there is this fighting
on both sides of the board and it's kind of a race queen side versus king side.
But you've always got the bonus of trying to make the king when you're playing black.
So John Nunn, one of my attacking heroes, he's played many brilliant games in the Kings End of the
Fence and also the Benoni.
But these openings and their associated attack ingredients, they're not showing up so, so much nowadays
because openings change in like fashion.
So anyway, this was a classic from Kasparov against Pike, and Peacock later went to work for Ostrom
in correspondence Chess, helping Ostrom become correspondence world chess champion.
He kind of disappeared in the nineties during Peak, became an employee, I believe, of Ostrom.
But anyway, interesting game.
I hope you got some points from it.
Maybe some inspiration to try out the King's Engine defense.
Even though it's called King's engine offense.
It's really an attack opening with the black pieces quite often.
Okay that's a much.