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In this lecture, we see an amazing game of Bobby Fischer against pal Benko.
So, pal Benko, to be fair, he did seem to have an interesting night before where, you know, he
was on this hot date.
Apparently, as the story goes.
And maybe it was a bit tired for this game with Fischer and with the black pieces as well.
So this is the 1963 US Championship round ten E4 from Bobby Fischer.
We see G so already showing tiredness, playing the pits, the fans.
This isn't very good objectively in the engine world.
Well, when I say objectivity by evidence of at least the engine world, it's very, very bad statistically
for black the pits, the fence.
So we are, you know, black is creating a natural set of downsides here on the dark squares responsibility
in the night.
C three.
D six we see F four.
So this is the Austrian attack and this is very attacking in nature, this opening variation noise f
six loiter free.
So pal Benko Castles we see Bishop D frame Bishop g4 if night C six here white can press on with E5.
This position should be quite pleasant for whites of the 90 2f61 could play e tanks he takes.
There's a small edge but yeah 96 in comparison to the game, it does seem like a desirable alternative
to the game.
Bishop G.
For which volunteers are light squared.
Bishop So okay, White's accumulated that bishop here but has to control D four here.
So Bishop e three e5 d takes decisive now f5g takes this looks self fracturing, you know, isolating
these pawns a little bit more less of a pawn chain around the king.
But anyway, queen thanks f five perhaps black had fair g4 and then there's squishing ideas of G5 and
F six to squish the bishop so g tanks.
At least there isn't that idea for white.
So Queen takes F 594.
The Queen can comfortably come to F2.
Now we see 98 white Castles 96 and now Fischer starts sneaking around here.
He's got this light squared bishop without a counterpart.
And you can see it's X rating h seven as a sensitive, you know, hot spot, a kind of soft spot as
well as a hot spot.
So McHale will be looking at these soft spots, actually, rather than hot spots.
Okay, So we have Queen G free
and the Queen is sneaking around on the light squares to join forces with the bishop as a team effort.
King H eight, Queen G four.
So sneaky stuff.
And it looks as though after C six, Queen H five, Black has this covered this idea, this naughty
idea of Bishop tanks and then E5 because you know Black is aware of that and plays Queen eight thinking
this is enough to defend the position 96 is an alternative here is interesting you know getting out
of bishop tanks D four for this E5 you know because that's kind of liberating the Bishop.
So why not just prevent it with 96?
Sure.
Why would have a slower build up here?
So say 92 Rook G eight, Rook 81.
This is an interesting build up here with G4.
That's possible.
I know in general it's double edged, but here it's kind of justified.
If we prepare it a bit, we can get a very nice attacking position.
For example here, getting out of the X-ray of the rook, and we're preparing slowly, 9 to 5 at the
right time where this is a nice advantage for white, but it's not mating yet and the bishop is still
locked in.
So that is desirable compared to the game to play.
96.
So black's relying on this defense, Queenie eight because it has an interesting mechanism now to it.
So Bishop takes D for it.
So the natural tendency here, what would you play in this position?
What would be the natural tendency and why isn't why in this particular situation, it's not very good.
What would you play here for 1000 tactical points?
Okay, There's a big trap in terms of the attacking player, sometimes the attacking player.
We really need accuracy.
Otherwise we're made to look kind of silly if we play.
If we can be made to look silly.
Here we are threatening Checkmates.
But Black has a resource F5 which interrupts disconnects that diagonal hits the Queen and the Knights
protecting the Queen so the knight can get away from being attacked here.
This is just an even possession.
If we go to H four, then D take C three knights get exchanged off, but C takes B.
Black's just better with advantage there, so that would be horrendous.
So there is another way of playing this attack which is so much more effective.
So it's not the tempting E5 I'm about to reveal.
It's Rook f6, which essentially in effect it's pitting the f7 pawn as if we've pinned the F7 form of
bishop to the king.
I know the king is not in G, but we've kind of pinned down the f7 pawn.
So we have Kingi if D take C free e five without any f five.
What does black do about H seven?
You know, blacks getting shredded, this position of blacks getting shredded.
Queen F five and then mating also.
You know, age six is not going to help.
There's rule takes age six.
And here we've got Nate rookie eight check and queen age seven.
So King is played we have E5 now aged six.
And guess what Fischer plays now.
So both nights are being attacked.
There's a really cute move Fisher plays here.
Showing a delayed gratification.
Delayed gratification.
Example 92 and Benko resigns.
So why, if might be five, then we get onto that diagonal with Queen A five.
That's kind of crushing to meet.
So that's 95.
Sorry.
It might be five if Bishop takes f6, Queen 6h6, and then we're going from a if King H A we have rook
takes h6 check and this needs rook h h for Queen H seven.
If 94 Bishop takes e4 this position, Queen takes h6 and mating If rook the eights, we don't take the
knights.
We try and get that knight to move away for Queen A5 we play this and if Bishop takes f6, we've got
Queenside h6 and then we're mating.
So say instead of Bishop takes f6 a5, we just build up here.
We've rook out three.
In this case, we're not attracted by the knight.
That's only winning a little battle.
We want to win a whole war.
We want to go for the checkmate.
So like B5 Rook G3 is crushing so b4 here Rook takes h six is one way and then rough handshake is checkmate.
If.
Yeah.
So there's also.
You know, that's the way to do it here.
If I have one instead of 85, if Bishop takes this.
Yeah, it's kind of okay if C5 on this occasion we've see five.
We can actually just eliminate the night here.
And this position is just material up.
It's a winning position.
So, yeah, in the game, I mean yeah, it was just resigned him off the night E2 delayed gratification
asking the night politely to move away so we get, you know, resources like Queen F five if the night
moves away.
We've got Queen F five.
Bishop with our counterpart is an attacking ingredient.
Clearly from the opening picked up from the opening and the queen dancing around, well, being slow
to get onto the light squares to join forces with the bishop.
But the interesting resource from an attacking player perspective, sometimes the obvious move is not
the most effective move.
We've got to be resourceful.
If we want to be a successful attacking player, we need to consider factoring defensive, energetic
resources here.
It's not sometimes that simple to see such moves.
This to me is an iconic move of Bobby Fischer on the attack.
It's a beautiful attacking move, pinning down the f7 pawn.
So yes, beautiful combination in the end and nice build up picking up the attacking ingredients like
score and bishop with that counterpart which the queen served to amplify where it's with it's slow manoeuvring
to a light square.
They're pretty direct attack shown in this game.
I hope you enjoyed it so much.