Hi there.
In this lecture, we see an absolutely beautiful, smooth example of a pawn storm.
This is Viktor Korchnoi against Bobby Fischer in 1970.
Now, it is a blitz game, but it's a highly celebrated, complex game.
It's a really classic blitz tournament.
The Herceg Novi Blitz tournament of 1970s, like the first official World Blitz Chess Championship.
So we have D4 from Viktor Fischer plays of sex.
He goes into the king's engine, the fence.
So E4 d6 we have Bishop E, two, Black Castle and three E5 now White Castles.
And just in case you're wondering, why can't White win the pawn with D tanks and then say Queen takes
and then take here?
Well, there's a backfire in the form of Knights X e4 and this is fine for black.
This position is fine for black.
And if white tries the desperado tactic, Knight takes f7 expecting King tanks.
They're not going to get that because here you don't take on a on f7 you just play bishop take C free
check and then you win a piece.
So the mechanics of this line are well worked out.
So black can afford E5 and it's a prelude to getting the center closed now with Knight C6 So D5 is often
played.
We have 97 Knight D2 and now Fischer locks down the queenside in advance of his kingside pawn storm.
So he's using kind of the war principle as well here, putting oneself beyond the feet before going
on to attack the good fighters of old, according to Sansa, who did did this.
So this is a good example because quite often the queenside gets decimated.
So here, even in a blitz game, Fischer is taking precautions.
If he plays h6, white can play quick b4 and for example C5 and you can see how the pressure point D6
is being amplified.
So even though there's a bit of a pawn somewhere on both sides of the board and quite often White does
well from this kind of position.
So this kind of position with C 66 and 95, you can see that there's an element of torture here coming
in.
Okay.
So 87 on the fire, White trying to get the B six square.
So you can see that there's an argument to be made for trying to lock down the queenside in advance
of all that.
So a free you might ask what about d C6?
Does that do y any good?
Not particularly.
It seems black can play b take c C6 and here D5 is possible.
It's all about liberating this bishop.
In this case.
In this particular scenario, Black should be absolutely fine.
For example, this situation White could play knight E4 instead of a passive move will be one run into
93.
So say 94 Knight takes b4 Black could play like this.
White's best is Rook a tasty one not rook f takes D1 because then this position should be better for
black.
You can see the bishop opening up, but if Rook eight takes D1, Black's should tread carefully with
Bishop five of a small edge.
Black shouldn't take the pawn because there's disconnect here and Bishop C5 Bishop B5 is embarrassing
for things.
Yeah, the rook crashing through to the A4 anchor to D8 so that would be nice for white.
So yeah, but we've careful play.
I just wanted to demonstrate with careful play.
There's nothing really to fear about D C6 It's a different scenario where the centre isn't closed,
but it's about the bishop, it's about the pieces.
But here in this game we have A3 keeping the center closed.
And this justifies more a pawn storm because usually when you do a pawn somewhat on the flank, often
the opponent can counter in the center with a locked center, it's not so easy to counter attack.
We have b4 B6, Rook, B1, f5 and free and now F4.
So even not not taking precautions with this bishop, leaving it kind of locked in at the moment.
It adds solidity to the black position sometimes you'll see in Kensington Defense Games the bishop kind
of trying to be traded off or put on this diagonal that's sometimes that works.
But here, sometimes this works.
Just leaving the bishop on G7 and just getting on with the pawn storm without further ado, without
any, you know, delay.
So A4 we have G5 A5 and Rook f6 B take C5.
This is actually a mistake because the A4 could have been made use of with eight six at some point.
So instead of that it seems a takes B6.
Yeah, subtle difference, but it is a difference and this situation y can.
Play aggressively on the queenside.
And if the bishop is taken out, this often takes the sting out of Black's attack.
Potential White should have a small edge here you can see that White is reinforced in effect against
G4 by taking out the square bishop So okay.
But in how it was played, it makes things kind of smooth for Fischer because there isn't so much scrutiny
on the queenside.
This bishop is alive and kicking, supporting the G4 break at some point, so the strategic pawn break
to open up the G4 is a very great application of the pawn storm in this game example.
So we see Knight B3, Rook g6, Bishop d2, Knight f6.
So the thematics silky silky smooth G4 is being prepared.
So King H1 this is a dream position for a King's Indian defense player.
There are no decimation worries on the queenside.
This is good that Fischer has put himself beyond the feet on this side of the board, especially with
some inaccurate moves helping Black's queenside stability.
So we have F takes G4, Knight takes G4.
So this is attacking chess without completely destroying your own possession rook f rate.
We have rook h6 A-Train now.
Knight G6 King Do you want f6?
Bishop E1 And now a beautiful maneuver here.
Guess what Fischer plays in this position?
Nimzowitsch would be proud.
This is a kind of strange Nimzowitsch Knight maneuver.
Okay, for 400 points, what would you play here?
Which piece isn't relevant to scrutiny on White's position.
This one is not scrutinising White's position.
We're scrutinising each free hair.
So that's a clue for this next move.
How could we intensify things?
No h8, this guy, this knight can jump around.
Jump into G five, hit F and free, putting weight under greater scrutiny.
Rook differing seven Bishop every night G5 So Queen eats her.
And now we have Rogue G6.
So we've clear an imminent France like 19th century Czech king if one and in fact here yes one is played
here despite the king on pinning the G2 pawn.
Guess what Fischer plays her.
So blank to play.
And I used to, you know, look at these model games and think of the notion of a kind of resource container,
you know, release effects, kind of explosive release effect.
You've got resources behind the container, the container being the pawns.
Pawns are a fundamental constraint on pieces as well as pieces themselves, sometimes occupying key
squares you might want to be resourceful with, but here it's like there's a release of resources of
96, 83.
It's like a Coke can opening up, you know, you're shaking it up or some fizzy drink.
You're shaking it like all the the container of the cocaine is like the skeleton of the pawn structure.
So all the resources inside being released.
Bishop Tax free check king F2 and now knight G4 check, which you can see it unleashes the queen now
it's potentially used for it's interesting fish is accurate even in a blitz game here is looking at
the finances if he had in sort of 94 plates maybe nine takes E4 check which seems to do the same job
why it has here Queen takes E4 and the king would be given an escape square.
E2 So Queen H for King itself has a big advantage here.
It's not clear anymore.
So with Knight G for check, we want to retain the opponent's lack of escape squares.
Leave the Queen on E!
It's helping our mating possibilities.
We have Bishop Thanks G4 because one else this is just really vicious to go into a g file attack.
You know, this this looks absolutely horrendous to do anything else to go into the file.
You know, for example, this position doesn't appetizing getting mated like that.
So Bishop takes G4 but now Bishop takes chief on course don't actually resigned here.
If Queen D2, the queen comes in and it's vicious.
So here we've got potential Bishop free check.
Let's go check and, you know, absolutely crushing.
Why was White going to give up the queen?
We can take the queen with Shaq.
It's absolutely devastating and we're mating soon.
So if Rook Geoffrey Queen tanks.
Geoffrey Jack Queen Africa.
Jack Bishop five Shaq Yeah.
There's no defence, really.
We've got so many attacking pieces over here.
It's going to end in checkmate.
So yes, a very beautiful, silky smooth Kings End.
And the fans came highly celebrated on those people's collections at Chess games.
Com one of my favorite sites so it's a model Kings engine defense game in a way, even though it's played
at a fast time limit, it's very clear how black plays and, you know, putting even more scrutiny on
the opponent's possession with that Knight maneuver.
That was great feature of this game.
But the only great feature for me at Move Line, locking down the queenside in advance of potential
decimation with moves like before.
So stopping beforehand is tracks, not minding the details.
See six impacts.
That's different game, but it's a game which black can be good at, good at in its own right.
But the center closed.
The flank attack is more justified because as I say, you know the expression, you know, if you a
good counterattack to a flank attack is in the center or sometimes on the other flank.
But the attack on the other flank, unfortunately, with B-type C5 wasn't so speedy.
So the speed of Black's attack here was very, very strong.
And yeah, I just I just consider some of these King's engine games so natural.
The attacking potential so natural with the center closed how you can just it's like releasing resources
which are behind the scenes by doing the strategic key pawn break G4 it just releases a lot of resource
potential without clearance of the g g pawns go to g g4 to just get rid of the g pawn that's semi-open
g for hair kind of vicious and things.
Just reorganize here based on the semi-open G file.
A semi-open G4 is a dangerous file from your opponent's perspective, so getting rid of one of your
own pawns, you're liberating your pieces to attack the opponent's king directly.
But yeah, accuracy towards the end.
So Knight g for check.
If you're in the Art of Checkmate, you want to make sure that the king escape squares are limited to
the King is being locked in by the Queen here.
So this is a really accurate move for the attack.
So a crushing position which Courtney didn't want to play on from giving the queen a phone check is
incoming.
Okay, So I hope you enjoyed this classic game Pawn Storm example.
That's very much.