Hi there.
In this lecture, we see two amazing attacking players, Judit Polgar, against Aleksander Milosevic.
This is in 2000, the Chorus Group, eight of which round three E4 from Judit Polgar.
We have a French defence from which d4 d5 we have nice C free f6 Bishop g5d takes E4 nine six, E four
and now Bishop E seven.
I've played this a large number of times in online live commentary.
If you want to check my YouTube Kings Cross your channel.
I have a lot in the French defence Berne variation.
So we see Bishop takes F6 and the thing is we can play Bishop takes f6, but G takes is a lot of fun.
And I found it to have a lot of dynamic potential.
I also found out that off Anderson, a modern grandmaster, also use this variation quite a bit with
the black pieces.
So we have let's have three A's sex here if.
B six bishops C for this position could be quite pleasant for whites.
And it is a variation which yeah, if it plays it like this and it is pleasant enough for Y in a technical
sense, in a theoretical sense.
So that's a great recipe because it avoids the pitfalls of the G4 by having the king over here avoid
some of the safety issues which could be incurred.
So anyway, A6 though was played not B6 and we have g free if C for here as an example F 593 Bishop
F thinks Queen D two Black could consider C5.
So making use of the dot square bishop without the counterpart to try and intensify the pressure on
the dark squares.
If d5e5 this should be even.
This position.
So Jeffrey though is played be five Bishop G to.
With the bishops still left.
One doesn't really make sense given G4 is paid to play C4.
But just in case you're in the States, Bishop Be7 would be good here.
Beat Ice.
And yeah, as you might suspect, this is no good for white intuitively.
1964 is horrible for whites.
If queen bee freight be black can't conceive queenside.
Sure, but it's not a big deal.
Castle kingside with a small edge for black.
So, Bishop G2, Bishop B seven, Queen 297.
Both sides castle on the kingside we see Rook 81 Bishop d5 so the natural fat with this centralisation
as bishop.
C4 to win the exchange where rook have one if b3 instead b4 is kind of nice to look down the dark squares
to give punishment for this C4.
This position would be fine.
Generally white does have a small edge, but its overall fine for black.
So rook fe1 can change f3 to c6 c4.
So the bishop is on a nice central square.
It's curious this position.
He went from all this structural damage.
It's not really that exploitable.
A weakness is only really a weakness if it's exploitable.
We see a59c free rook e8 black could have just played rook g eight hand say 93.
This is even in this position.
If Knight takes D5 to try and punish a tactical issue doesn't work because C force hanging here at the
end of things.
So this is just going to be better for black.
There's no point doing that.
Black's better slightly at least, or even clear advantage.
So Rookie eight though was played, which seems to delay use of the G file.
So that's kind of an intriguing move in a way.
90 359 C4 Queen b8984 and now Queen b4.
So playing on this side of the board with that semi-open G files, you might think really what would
be the point of this?
Well, White hasn't got a dance square.
Bishop is adding more pressure to the white position in general.
This excursion using that semi-open B file that black has in this position.
So be free.
We have Bishop f6.
These dark square weaknesses in general will help amplify the powers of this bishop without the counterpart.
Queen C two and now finally getting around to the G5 G eight and then building up now Rook g4.
We have done E5 which throws black a few positional favors, getting rid of an outpost square on E5,
so just replacing it with a pawn, which is not usually a good outpost for a weak square in the opponent's
position.
Bishop E7 helps control C5.
We have rook different Rook G eight so White seems quite passive now.
Black is working on both sides of the board, a bit like Alexander Alekhine, one of his favorite attacking
ingredients to work on both sides of the board.
We have Rook edi one f4 trying to undermine attacking the thing counter position under my net Queen
C free after six G free.
So on YouTube I call this like flattening sandcastles, saying the heavy waves are hitting White's King
H tanks and now another wave H five trying to undermine like the sand castle Bishop takes d5 if queen
tanks b4 this doesn't do white too many favors Bishop takes b4.
This situation is kind of pleasant for black by this point, so there's still this G4 pressure which
could net nice advantages, clear advantages with big frontside rook a4 2h1.
It's a dangerous situation here for white.
Indeed.
So okay, so Bishop takes D5, but this hills Black's pawn structure looks pretty solid again.
There's only one isolated pawn now.
The kind is free pawn islands in total rook have free.
We have King G seven king coming to attend to F seven.
Intriguing stuff.
There is a very favorable options King G7 here as played which is actually just Queenie for doesn't
matter what white plays here that's going to end up with advantage if Rook takes f7.
Let's just look at this for a moment.
H for.
Rotates, takes E, seven, H takes G.
This is just too strong.
You take half F three, queeny two and there's a big hair of Queen H to check and then G to check and
then G one.
That's two too big of France.
Let me just show you that check.
We have this mechanism where we're getting another key check here with cleaning.
This kind of vicious.
However way that's played, we get that queen of check.
White does have a resource, but it's not going to help too much.
If Rook H seven check to get the Queen's off because this is still the exchange up for black.
We've a winning possession here.
So and that pawn is also threatening, you know, g to rock each one to crash through.
Otherwise it's just much better for black here.
The other option on queen for say, queen defray I can just take on E5 and if Rook takes f7 then we
can use that g file rook tax g free check to win the Queen.
Simple and strong stuff.
It's pretty vicious.
So you had check taking on a two.
This is just better for black.
As an example, Queen G six Champ has got a big advantage here.
Okay.
So basically, yeah, there isn't a lucrative alternative here in the form of Queen E4, but King G
seven was played and now we have Queen C seven.
If Queen takes b4 Rook takes before this situation where rookie for rook C7 rookie eight ends up if
black wins e five then Black's got assets to push through here for advantage.
But F6 is nifty shielding f seven from the glare of two rooks, the two rooks.
And here black's getting the advantage.
Nice pass pawn potential, nice bishop Bishop Kind of better than the knight on the rim which is damage
they say.
So Queen C seven we have H four hair king G2.
Now H tanks have takes a now Queenie for this key move now turns up with big effects so it seems abandoned
E seven Queen C four is played if queen tanks, E seven Queen E two check.
And here just taking on a free.
This is just going to be great for black the exchange up instead if rook have to rook thanks g free
as needs exposes the opponent's king here very nicely with the mating nets being built mating the opponents
so Queen C free.
But now Queen E to check can't.
And now rook G5, which means that the king is not going to be able to take on G4 if H ain't check.
So Rook H is a huge threat now with this rook controlling that escape square and the game ended here.
If G4 to give g free at least rook h check king g3 there's Queen H to checkmate.
So yes, it's a very nice game in my view, and one of my favorite variations in the French defense.
So it was a game against Garry Quinn in a one day like tournament years back when Garry Quinn had used
this with the black pieces and I adopted it for my online blitz is an interesting variation, but I
rarely played it with A6 and B5.
There are some great perks of doing this to get the bishop outside of the pawn chain, so it was nice
to control against C4, to control the light squares, to parry the light squares, a nice positional
play essentially first getting a position where any attacks, they're more and more natural as we're
accumulating certain advantages.
Black does have that bishop power advantage so Steinitz would be perhaps maybe not because of the double
pawns.
Maybe Lasker would definitely be fond of Black's assets here and dynamic play of the G4.
There's tinier elements of the position than what Steinitz kind of alluded to, but overall, it looks
as though Black's got a reasonably decent prospect here in a theoretical sense.
And yeah, the double pawns, which we think are horrible to have double pawns.
But as I say, as I've said, you know, in this course the dynamic structures are our friends.
If we want attacking chess, sometimes we want to trade off how our pawn structure looks for the dynamic
potential of the pieces.
It's the authority and control of the pieces sometimes which which really matters, not how our pawns
look.
So the control, the pressure being built up on the G4.
So it was a nice build up on the G4 and the closing up of key squares like E5 means that White's counterplay
is kind of being tamed.
It's less and less.
It's giving out.
The bishop weakens the white squares, so there's like square vacuum to exploit.
King G7 is just an intriguing move.
It does seem queeny for him was was possible as a potential need improvement but King seven we get soon
this Queenie for now just the knights beautiful move here so yes it's it's a nice use of the G file
careful considered use of the G4 with an accumulation of advantages.
As the kind of primary layer to put down.
If we can put down this primary layer before attacking, you know, a good foundation makes our attacks
more natural, looking more justifiable.
We have a greater right, as it says, to attack.
If we accumulate advantages, we're accumulating certain attacking ingredients in this game with that
G file.
So I thought it was a great demonstration.
Inspirational.
Okay.
So I hope maybe you been try the berm variation.
It's one of the more fighting aspects of the French defense.
Certain variations of the French defense, even though it's called defense, might be very attacking
like this berm variation OC and so much.