Hi there.
In this lecture, we see the first official world chess champion Wilhelm Steinitz playing against Augustus
Mongolian in 1862.
A highly celebrated casual game We have E4 and we see the modern defence G6.
So this does incur certain downsides.
Don't square weaknesses.
The film cuts out in hyper modern tradition, exerts pressure on white center.
It's fine, it's blunt set with C frame and now we get a double thing.
Kato B6 so very very hyper modern from Mongolian Bishop E3 Bishop b7 92 protecting e4 pawn we have d
sex knight Geoffrey and now e5 Black's already.
You know technically this isn't so clever, this opening.
It looks kind of fun and maybe it can go into a hippo if black plays a bottomless defense if a6 e6 h6
and the knights arrange themselves, we'd have a hippopotamus set up.
But Black commenced at E5.
This isn't so good.
Waiting around a little bit with 97 might have been more prudent, more safer.
Bishop D3 You know this position gives one a small edge though, but E5 makes things worse.
For Black.
We have D tanks, e5 D tanks, E5 and now Bishop C4 97 and now Queen E two.
Y has the option now of Castle than queenside Black Castles into an attack here.
The thing is, the knight's on E seven.
It's not on f6.
This makes it much more lucrative for a classic undermining of this structure to open up the rook on
the h file, which creates very nice tactical possibilities.
Black had to consider something like 98.
So for example h4 try and keep things closed.
The H6 and this position try and keep things closed.
But even here, White does have an advantage or another possibility instead of H six Knight D six going
for this bishop.
And this situation though is interesting and black might actually get a position where they can try
and get the Queen's off this position.
But even here, even with this resourcefulness from black white, it's still better here in this situation.
H takes we can see that rooks kind of valuable to open up Knight G5 and it has good prospects here.
So anyway, but what is played makes things very, very easy for white.
It's a very, very standard looking attack.
Age four we have 97 if h six here, this is quite interesting to consider.
White could console queenside still.
And what would you play here to try and attack the defend Catto structure.
There is a very nice attacking move available here based on H four and it's vacation actually of H two.
So what would you play here for ten points.
Yeah.
We can actually use that square with Knight H two to go in with Knight G4 This would be a very good
way of playing things.
Knight G4 If the king protects, we can actually play Knight free.
So now the Queen contacts of G5 check and we're going to be winning the Queen.
That's going to be good for white.
So let's imagine here Bishop A6 Knight G five Check with the king on the H file is super dangerous here.
So for example, Knight takes F seven, rook takes up seven, Bishop takes up seven, check king tanks,
the king's exposed and actually we can then take on H six and the attack just carries on.
For example, this situation, even the endgame here is just better.
For one, this endgame scenario, even if we reach this scenario, it's just better for white.
So that's a fictional scenario with H six.
If we just look at that again for the moment.
So we're saying Knight H two would be a good recipe.
Yeah.
And just later on in this analysis, let me just show you something else here.
So this is a demolition job, but say King Gates, the king had gone that way.
96, 86.
Check again.
We can just open things up.
And this is a very strong attack.
This situation.
Trying to avoid these scenarios where the H file is really good here.
There's a beautiful tactic in this variation.
Can you see what would play here?
At some points.
Check all checks.
Yeah.
Queen G seven Shank.
And this is just absolutely winning as a rookie.
Jake Shank then crashing through and Mason shortly after.
So yes it's interesting situation.
So eight six seems to be out of the question.
You might ask what about h five here?
There is a way of proceeding here which might actually apply to some of your games where you think,
well, I can never get these attacks going.
They've just blocked me.
Now, there's something I love doing here and I win lots of games with this kind of mechanism.
I love trying to peel open the king with a pawn sack like G4 generally to consider this here.
If h takes G4, we have nice h two.
And what is that black player with this pawn pins?
There's no easy F five because that's an illegal move.
If g free we can play like G4 and this position is very, very strong for white.
The attack rages on.
Yeah.
For example, this situation Bishop thinks Queen F6 is diabolical.
You know, we're just crashing through.
So yes, in the case of h5g4, this is something to consider in another just situations in your own
games.
Black could try and be resourceful here with B5 to get the bishop off this diagonal.
Let's say this happens like gg4, F five, let's say this happens.
Yeah, we've got enough pressure on the king.
We can afford a piece sack if the bishop goes back now with the Czech Queen six G4 This is just a very
strong attack.
We've got enough attacking pieces whilst these guys are just asleep here.
So this situation with Bishop thanks.
Have seven.
We're crashing through here and we've got a raging attack essentially.
So this is very much an advantage for white crashing through like this.
So anyway, yeah, it does seem as though technically, you know, black's in huge trouble here.
We have Knight D seven just not doing anything about H five.
So we're getting a classic semi fa very dangerous semi fa near to the opponent's king and an opposite
side castling recipe.
So 1986 opposite side castling c59g5 and now a six is played.
Yeah, this is a very, very bad position if B5 trying to get some council like this Queen C seven bishop
just goes back to that amazing place nine takes F seven is actually justifiable here because we're getting
huge pressure on the king.
We're opening up the king, big Queen H six.
So so for this position, we're going to just work with G free very soon.
So that stabilizes the F3 and stabilizing E4.
About G three here is just opening up the king as an example with interest.
So this is not going to be ending well for black.
This is not I wrote the seven check taking out B seven.
Yeah, it's just a pulverizing scenario.
So.
Okay.
So yeah, the resource will be fine.
Doesn't really do anything now.
So A6 and now nice combination will play from Steinitz.
So what would you play here for?
100 points.
Okay.
Nice sacrifice night.
Six, eight, seven.
It creates that weakness of the last wave of h five, letting the queen come to a very aggressive square.
But rotates, takes h seven is played here.
Queen H five is also very, very strong, as you might imagine.
So because it hits H seven and it hence g six.
So six.
Queen size G six.
This is very, very good.
Bishop D five trying to be resourceful.
But you know why?
Because just for example, Bishop size play this Queen 67 and is a piece up at the very least.
So yeah.
So Queen H five is absolutely winning.
But also Rook takes age seven as played, creates a neat combination.
So King says H seven, Queen H five.
Shaq King James Rook H one.
So the threat now is Queen H seven.
Checkmate.
So rookie eight Queen Thanks.
G six So yes.
F seven is a problem.
Queen F six And now a really neat idea is played.
Which isn't strictly needed.
But can you see what plays here for ten points?
We have a combination here to win the Queen.
Actually, that's a clue.
So why not play?
What would you play?
So we don't want the king necessarily escaping.
Eight We played Bishop takes F seven shank.
This is a great way of playing it.
Before we get into that.
Queen age seven is also dangerous.
For the record, we're broke free.
So this situation looking at F seven if rookie six recovery, this is kind of crushing but what does
plant do here?
Rook.
Dang.
Just letting the queen go.
It's still much better for white.
So that was a way of playing as well.
Just Queen H seven check.
But in the game.
Yeah.
Bishop takes f7 check was played.
So very interesting situation.
Bishop takes up seven.
Queen, Banks have seven.
So the king is a bad protector in general of any peace.
So why is it a bad protector here?
What is at play here?
Which is a winning move?
At ten points.
You know, rook h h ach.
Just deflecting the king away from f7.
End of game.
If the game continues, there's not too much point here.
Although Black does seem to have a lot of material, we could play Queen G6 as an example.
Kick the bishop away.
1903 This is just a fictional example.
Of course, Queen f7 and E5 is going to drop at some point.
You can see the pressure on E5.
We can cash out by looking at E5 here, and this is going to be easy to convert here.
We've got a lot of pawns extra.
We've got three pawns extra.
So anyway, what do we get from this classic iconic game?
Okay, first of all, it is really, really beautiful, the combinations.
But we also want to know from a learning perspective of attacking a thinker.
So the technicalities of defense.
You know what?
If so, we've looked at a few what ifs in recap here.
What if h6 What if h five We have peeling operations available.
And so it's quite interesting.
Like H five, G four.
So, yes, don't be afraid to peel open.
Sometimes it's really the right thing to do to peel open the possession.
So that is a very strong move here, as mentioned in the variations.
But H six yes, we mentioned variations there with H six and with the idea of using the H two square.
So yes, the thing canto is a bit of a liability, especially on opposite side casting games where horrible
things can happen here.
So yes, but Black made things very kind of clear cut, just allowing the semi-open h file and the tactics
are just absolutely just waiting to be played here.
So nine times eight seven is just a crushing blow, really.
Okay, so I hope you enjoyed this game example.
And we can see the liabilities of when there's a thin cathode construction and also adding in the mix
here opposite side castling makes it super fun to attack.
I think Ito with the whole hack attack OC had so much.