Hi there.
In this lecture, we see a game of Harry Nelson Pillsbury against sabotage.
This is in the 1895 Hastings tournament, Round two.
So in this classic Truman's Harry Nelson, Pillsbury took the chess world by storm and actually won
this ahead of the likes of Tyrus and Lasker and many other players, which, you know, the leading
players at the time.
So this is one of the very interesting games of Harry Nelson Pillsbury, where the concept of the Pillsbury
Bones emerges.
So we have Pillsbury playing D4 and Torrance playing D5 C4 from Pillsbury 69c96, Bishop G five.
Bishop E 7.39 BD seven.
So far it looks pretty standard.
Queen's Gambit, The client territory.
We have B six now.
C tanks.
D five.
He tanks.
Bishop D3, Bishop B seven.
So Black is trying to get a lock and key over the E4 square.
One consoles C five and now Rook E one and here Black releases the tension in the center.
This is sometimes a bit risky thing to do, but sometimes black is justified.
And in this case.
Because of the lock and key over the E Foursquare.
This is kind of justifiable to try and advance on the queenside like this.
But it does mean now that the Pillsbury pawns can be set up.
So knowing E5 is the first move, this installment, this Knight outpost, is very interesting.
The idea is to follow up with F4 and you could say, Well, this is like a stone wall attack system,
and the Achilles heel of the structure is E4.
SHAW The bishops outside the pawn chain, though, it's not on C one.
Okay.
And the other question is, well, Black played B5, but what if Knight takes E5?
What happens here?
Well, we can play D tanks E5 94.
We can take on E seven, take on D five.
The resulting complications here are all in White's favor, actually, once hitting the Queen and the
pawn if Queen takes E5.
Yeah, we can nab this pawn materialistically knight takes after is trying to be super clever.
Okay to have Queen have sex checked sometimes if all kings brought out.
But Queen C two is super clever looking at seven and the knights like different light sexy for this
position OC blacks toying down the Queen.
But overall white is doing super well here after 96.
This is just unsound by black.
It's unsound play.
It's leaving white with material advantage.
So yeah, 1965 can be entertains, but it's not that great, it seems.
If we look at this again.
So 9/10 queen takes 9/10 v six.
If something more plain like Rook 88, we can actually take time out to play.
Nine Take see for hitting the Queen.
Queen G five.
Queen C two And we've got nothing to fear here, it seems, especially after a four shielding G2, even
more whites got the advantage there.
So in other words, okay, it seems as though 1965 doesn't have too much to it.
So B5 is played at four, so it is like a stonewall attack, you could say the bishops outside the pawn
chains, not on C one.
And it does carry some perks to this.
So I've seen a Grandmaster Stuart Conquest, I believe one of the London classics losing to apply less
than 2100 were the Stonewall attack.
He didn't actually get much counterplay.
There is something going for it on a good day.
I like to use the expression on the good I.
That's from Spellman.
I've heard him say that on a good day the Stonewall attacks are kind of dangerous, but the bishops
outside the pawn chain we have rookie eight queen are free, no fights, and now 92 is played.
Perhaps this is a slight inaccuracy.
It does take away protection from the E four square rook F1 and let's say Black tries to disprove White's
structure with nine E4.
It seems White does have some resources here.
Bishop takes e4 de takes Queen G4 and we've ideas of Bishop 86 sometimes.
So if Queen is the Queen G3 this position.
Bishop 80.
Bishop f6 here.
White does have a promising, you know, a position.
It's a small edge for one at least.
At least.
So yes, if we look at this again.
With 94 so far.
94.
Basically, you know, this is interesting, but what about B4 delaying E4?
Well, again, Bishop takes E-4 takes.
This is not entirely the end of the world for this position.
If f6 we have Bishop H six G6 to show the mink France, but then taking out C four in this position
at five one going to get a nice advantage here instead of G tanks.
What about Queen B eight?
We can play at five and OC simplification, but it ends up with an advantage for one again.
So yes, it seems as though rook F1 might be a tad more accurate than this night retreat.
Slightly more accurate.
We have 94 here.
Bishop takes e seven, road taxi seven.
So at least the bad bishop has been removed.
The so called bad bishop because it is on the same car as those pawns.
So it's off the board.
And now Bishop takes e4, D takes Queen Geoffrey F six, Knight G four.
So in the front now is for example nine times F6 is one.
And so a king H unpicking g seven and now F five Queen D seven rook f one rook the ain't rook f for
Queen D six, Queen H for Rook The Knight C three.
Bishop the five nine after it looks as though White's trying to keep E4 on the pressure.
Quincy six here if b4 indeed noit takes E4 as possible.
So this position is going to be in its favour because C4 is dropping here and Black hasn't got too much
of an attack to speak of.
So Queen C thinks we have rook f1 one b4 92 Queen a4 like G4 97 out here.
Actually that is quite good already at F8.
Maybe it didn't need to be moved back.
Rook seven seems to be a move which gives black better defence.
So for example, if Rook Fords f2 Queen takes a turn once Queenside seems to be, you know, it's a
problem for endgames.
At least 96 check King Jack Black has the advantage.
So yes, but anyway 97 was played rook four to F2 and there's a nifty plan which looks rather slow,
actually by by modern standards.
Basically, there is a plan here to try and get things out of the way, pieces behind pawns and rip
open the G file.
It's quite a long term plan, to say the least.
So here.
Yeah, because Black has done the right recipe to use that Achilles heel.
White shouldn't have an easy time attacking here.
So King J is played.
Though Queen takes a to this situation with Queen A five is better for black technically, but King
Jiang is played and no time taken.
A2 for a moment.
C Free be free.
Queen C six.
H v So this attacking plan, yeah, needs to be having the pieces behind the pawns.
So a59h2 So the battering rams are getting ready here A four G4 So the rook is going to use G2 eight
takes A6.
I mean this is an attacking recipe.
Rip open the g file from a number of attacking games.
Have this theme.
It's a great theme.
Rook eight g5, Rook A3 and now Knight G4 here.
This is interesting and it's an observable phenomena that sometimes when the opponents win material
on that brink of winning material, it's at that moment that issues appear.
So why would that be?
Well, here Black took on B4 and you might think, well, this is a moment of celebration for black,
but issues appear because sometimes these pieces are a bit loose, they're a bit looser than usual.
They've used some energy to take material.
This is actually a mistake.
It's a potential liability.
This whole construction now ending up with an annotated piece potentially, you can see that we have
an annotated piece possibility and it's still brewing up an attack over here.
So, in fact, the G final attacked open up.
The king could merge with this issue, which is being generated through black's materialism.
But you have to calculate in chess.
Yeah, it seems f tanks g5, which looks scary because it unlocks the F1 and it looks counterintuitive,
but this is the way to go with F6 and this looks absolutely scary for sure if we look at this position.
So Knight takes F6 is threatened because Queen hates Queen Tank.
So let's say King H ain't.
95 black hand defender it seems this position so allow white to have that very very scary g file.
But blacks should be better here.
And if black wants to take material, rook takes be free hair would be the way to go.
I know this is this is crazy, but this has been analyzed by other people as well, saying this is the
way to go as well, not just one.
It's an exchange, sacrifice, possibility.
Keeping the bishop on is important here.
So, yeah, not bishop takes be free.
But routines be free.
And what does it actually do here to precede the attack if night takes be free?
Black has got two connected pass pawns as a future asset, but is still a long way from actually winning
this.
This is just better for you know it's a much better position for black.
But there's still some work to do because some stern resistance against BF3.
There's still some work to do, but black overall is in a better position here.
The exchange down.
With those two connected pawns.
Pawns.
But that was the way to go in the game.
Bishop takes be free.
Was played.
And as I say, we have an issue over here kind of melding with an issue over here.
Now we have Rook.
G2 can change, G takes f6, G takes up things.
And now this unprotected piece issue, Knight takes be free.
It turns out this wasn't even needed.
Knight takes B3, wasn't even needed here.
There's another move.
Can you see what that is?
This is a really interesting attacking situation where resources are basically over here indulging in.
They're not asleep, but they're just kind of away from the king.
You know, Checkmate ends the game.
These pieces are away from the king we actually have for 200 points.
I'm going to show you something now.
95.
Behold 95.
What is going on here?
Well, it's hitting the queen.
It's it means also Knight G6 check to bring the king out to play.
What does black do if tanks?
There's Queen takes E seven.
And this position is diabolical.
You know, once threatening Queen G seven.
How does black actually defend here?
It's very difficult.
So giving up more material once to spanner.
But if we look at this again so 95 Knight takes E5 D tanks is crushing for a subtle reason actually
we want to play E6 and then taking on F6 making the most out of this G4 rook.
So here if rook takes E5 Queen H six and there's two squares of interest, so here Rook seven, Queen
F eight check Queen Sex is mating.
So let's look at that.
That's very interesting.
So what about Bishop G8 as it takes off sinks?
And here we're winning with Queen Geoffrey.
You might wonder why.
Why can't Black just defend?
Look at this G file and the -- on f6 checkable checks.
Can you see something here?
Which is nice.
Yeah.
Queen G seven, check.
Well done if you found that.
And that's made with the pawn.
So.
Very interesting stuff.
If we look at this position, what about.
So basically, Bishop C-4, we have E six disconnecting the Queen from F6.
So Bishop takes Queen to F6, and this is mating.
If Rook takes E6, what would you play here?
Yeah, just Queen H six.
Black's pieces are not really wide up to the fender squares here, and this G5 is just too much.
So if rookie seven Queen F eight check and amazing.
So it is wonderful stuff with 95.
So this was a severely bad from a very experienced player to crash you know for a long time Taric wouldn't
play Emanuel Lasker that the up and coming Emmanuel ask for you know Laska was was too weak for him
you know he's like in the professional elite for a long time and in this game yeah we have this position
where he's being greedy on the queenside.
It's like this classic kind of refutation of the whole pawn structure.
But then, then Pillsbury comes back with this ripping open of the G file with fantastic possibilities
to his great credit, like 95.
But now it takes me is also strong Rook takes be free and we have 9286.
This is a very strong continuation For instance in rook gains champ means so Rook G seven but now wonderful
stuff that rook has taken King takes.
And guess what is played here by Pillsbury.
Wonderful stuff.
Quinn G.
Fritz Thank offering the night so f King F eight, Quinn G eight check.
And we can actually just pick up the amputated piece.
That becomes a liability.
It seems incidental, but yeah, that is an issue with opponents take material.
Sometimes their pieces are offside and.
For my experience, basically go for the king, Don't try and win material because they can win or they
can always come back at you.
Checkmate ends the game, but sometimes, yeah, this is a case we can actually just win their material
and be a rock because we're the pawns and they're not really coming back at us.
We've got them under lock and key here.
So anyway, the king takes here, but now a quiet killer move.
Guess what that is for 100 points.
Just kill each one.
There's not enough time for black to use the past --.
There's not enough time here.
Queen D five is tried.
I mean, Rook G one's coming.
So you see two rook g one cuts the king off, which means we have Queen H four May we have Queen G seven
May.
Yeah.
So anyway, Queen D five is played.
Rook G one Queen 6f5, Queen H four check.
And this is forcibly winning the black Queen off the Queen A four check.
The queen has to go in front of the king Rook takes g5 F takes the now Queen D six check What a disaster
Picking up for black, picking up the knight now and maybe terrorist is just annoyed and just play C
to allowing this mate just gets mated.
So it's amusing when you think about the context of this.
Pillsbury was not meant to win this tournament and he's been one of the world elite at the time.
Tara Ashe You know, who for a long time wouldn't even play?
Emanuel Lasker.
You know, so this is one of the most important tournaments of the time, 1895 Hastings tournament.
So, okay, it's not a super accurate game from both sides, but there's a lot of entertainment value.
And we play chess largely for entertainment.
Why do anyway?
So it's great to analyze these classics, seeing what's behind them.
And we get definition for the Pillsbury buying.
So essentially that Pillsbury find in general Bones can be quite good, especially in the bureaucracy.
Biden has won many, many games plans.
When you can stop the opponent's counterplay in its tracks, it's like an art of war principle.
Put yourself beyond the feet before going on to the attack.
So when you create a bind, it's like using an art of war principle and then attacking, knowing that
you're pretty safe.
So.
It's a very interesting game example for the Pillsbury Bones and how queenside counterplay can in itself
create a liability of unprotected pieces as well, which can mesh with the main thrust of the G5 attack.
And it's just funny, it was like slow motion, delicately preparing, putting the pieces behind the
pawns to open up the G4.
It's very amusing in parts this game I find very interesting and shows the great resources on the chessboard,
especially when you have a G4 combined with dangerous pawns.
A lot of beautiful, interesting possibilities emerge as we've seen, so I hope you've enjoyed this
one as much as me.
That's very much.