Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Alexander Alekhine playing against WM Von Felt in 1916.
A blindfold simultaneous display we see e4 alekhine e6 d4 d5 9339 ten six and now e tanks d5 Black should
really in theory capture just normally with e tanks d five Hip-Hop Plate, Knight Tanks d five and this
actually allows an interesting knight transfer Knight e4 so Alekhine likes actually variations with
Knight G free.
There's been many Queen's Gambit lions, you know, in different openings, etc. where he's got a knight
round to g free and is looking forward to potentially pouncing on the kingside.
And one advantage here it provokes weaknesses F5 this is lashing out weakening E5.
We have G5 Bishop e seven here with this knight not on F3 Black can't play H6 because can you guess?
Yep.
Five points.
Queen H five Check the way it's been played.
The Knights also abandoned H5 and this would be very interesting just bringing this one out and it's
becoming like torture.
95 check.
And in here Knight f7 Knight takes E5 Czech Queen H4 is actually rather strong.
Indeed.
This is an amusing possession actually because of seven check and then taking the rook.
But also if G5 guess what we can play here.
Tactically, this is a very strong position.
Bishop takes G5 check each takes and the point would be.
Yeah, Queen.
Thanks, H.
Ain't so.
There's lots of tactics here of seven check nine times h Ain't that would be great for white.
So there are a lot of tactics.
So Bishop e seven was played, though.
Okay, we have the knight going back.
C Sex Knight, E5 Black Castles.
Knight Geoffrey.
So there's nice night on E5.
We have B six, Bishop D three.
Bishop B seven White Castles, Rookie eight, C four Knight and six Bishop F4 And now we have Knight
BD seven Queen e2c5.
Perhaps better than C five would have been 9/10 E5 And if Queen takes E5, Queen D seven Rook 81 and
one has a small edge, but in the game we see C5 and yeah, there's an amazing resource in this position.
Can you spot what that is?
It's really quite a spectacular combination.
Now, so for ten points here, what would you play?
We can bring the king out to play with Knights F seven hitting the queen.
Very dangerous now.
So King takes was played.
If the eight queen takes six.
And we've got a standard mating pattern here.
Nine to age six is double check and we can have the smothered mate mating pattern.
Queen G eight check and F seven.
So if my five.
That's kind of interesting, but there's no h six.
King H eight.
Not King F eight.
Well, that's actually it's not mating, but this is just better to play.
KING Ancient Queen takes E5, G takes.
But still, one has a big advantage after D5 shutting down this bishop and looking at F5.
This is just great for White, so.
Okay, the knight is taken now.
What do you think the point is here?
What is bonus point?
This is a spectacular point being made.
Can you spot it for ten points?
Actually, let's let's be more generous for 200 points.
You might want to pause the video here.
It's an iconic move of McQueen.
There's several iconic moves.
This is one of them for sure.
So, okay, I'm about to reveal, you know, check all checks, even the really outrageous ones, because
we're in combination lands now.
Queen St's e6 check.
Yep.
Queen takes E6 check.
So King G6 was played.
If King takes E6, we have 95.
And that is actually checkmate.
So yeah, King of fight.
If king and fight is played.
This wasn't actually played.
King G6 was played.
But if King and fight is played here, nine G5 is strong so black has to defend f7 E5 is the only way
to defend of seven.
But Bishop takes E5 now.
Bishop D5 is the only way to defend against the mate.
And we have this position of C takes Queen takes I guess what White plays here, which is absolutely
winning.
Yeah.
Even though we're not mating, we can play.
Knight takes H seven luring the knight away from the Queen.
It's absolutely winning.
So, okay, so King G6 was played, but now there's a really fine move.
Indeed, really, really fine move.
Which, you know, alekhine's mating combinations are absolutely brilliant.
Sometimes he knows when to play a quiet move, taking out escape squares or when to play a check.
So his combination of finishes are absolutely brilliant.
This is no exception here.
This is an absolutely brilliant finish.
Guess what White Plains had.
400 points.
So the king is being brought out, but you need to be able to finish computationally.
It's actually G4 and whatever black does blacks getting mated.
If H six bishop thinks that five is checkmate taking bishop takes a three.
That's, that's mate.
So yeah, there's a bishop takes five Mike.
Let's just assume that so black tried Bishop e4 to stop.
Bishop takes that five, but the pawn is taking out a key escape square here and this one is taking
out h six.
So one has.
Yep.
Can you spot it?
1964 is checkmate.
It's important to find the mating combinations if you're going to bring the king out sacrificially.
That's a great attacking pattern.
Sure, But you need the mate for the finishing combination.
It's interesting this night.
Transfer.
We should take this seriously.
Our clients played this kind of night transfer in various openings, but, yeah, en route, weakening
dart squares is creating a routine.
5 to 7.
You know, that E5 is a great night.
You know, very dangerous night, actually, on E5.
So it's not just visually nice.
There's a functionality to that.
And look, I demonstrates fully the functionality, not just the beauty of the night from a kind of
positional perspective.
We are witnessing here an amazing functionality of bringing the King out to play here with F7.
So it's wonderful stuff, bringing the king out and this spectacular bringing the king out to its potential
demise.
You know, on E6, if it was taken like G5, So wonderful stuff.
This is just a really cute game in my view, a really iconic game of Anakin.
I hope you've enjoyed it as much as me.
So the takeaways, you know, weakness, provocation, getting knights to aggressive squares, getting
the king out and about, even if it's not fully down the board, it's bringing the king out.
And then, you know, very dangerous combinations can exist.
Okay.
Thanks so much.