Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Alexander Alekhine playing against Samuel.
Samuel Reshevsky.
This is in 1937.
The camera is almost around eight.
So E4 from Alekhine we have to have sex.
So the Alekhine's defense being played against Reshevsky against Alekhine himself.
So e5 95 D 46 nine to have three Bishop g4 we have C4 96 and now Bishop E two.
So this is an interesting line.
Quite often e tanks D Sex is played here, so this position is thought to be a small edge for white,
but.
Bishop E Yes, something interesting is about to happen in the opening of de5.
Now Alekhine has actually created a gambit situation, basically.
Guess what he plays here.
Yeah.
Knight takes E five.
He's prepared to create a -- game out of the D for --.
This is absolutely fascinating stuff.
Yeah.
So I mean, if de takes E5, then the queens just come off.
It's not so great.
There's not going to be too many attacking prospects and also see falls on the fire here as well.
So is the king going to take you know it's miserable black to play 96 and Castle Queenside, etc. So
Knight takes is a pawn sacrifice after Bishop takes it to the queen tanks.
So allowing the D4 pawn to drop.
So for this pawn there's a lot of pressure handed, some tempo gaining.
So this is quite a fun position.
White Castles Knights 8 to 37 and we see here 19 tasty seven 1930 79c3c C6 Yeah, it's it's a little
bit tricky for black here.
If black had castled in this position Rook D one this tempo again and Bishop E free looking A7 this
great surface area of attack when when one cancels queenside, the surface area of attack increases,
the responsibility increases.
And yeah, there's not too many defend defending pieces around the king here.
So anyway, C6 was played here.
Bishop e free Queen e5 Rook 81 e6 and now alekhine underpins the Bishop basically Queen F3 and this
actually is a really interesting position.
Blank is dissuaded from a normal looking move.
Bishop e7 here this wasn't played black castled queenside at move 14 if Bishop e seven There's an interesting
tactic here.
Can you see what that is?
If I give you 5 seconds to pause video.
Well, black is not even French things.
Castle was a tasty seven, though.
So white can actually exploit the king in the center here with 95.
So well done if you sponsored this.
See?
Takes this route takes 87.
Just celebrating the king in the center.
So this situation would be very dangerous if we have Bishop de six.
Can you see what one could play him, which is going to be a winning combination?
If I give you 5 seconds, pause with the other hand.
What were you playing?
Yeah.
Route 66.
Jack Bishop, Full check.
The king is a bad defender.
We can lure the king.
Wayne Bishop.
Tax efficient.
And when the queen.
So fascinating stuff.
So black out move 14 the sign into castle queenside and this drops the A7 pawn.
So yes, Black is not doing so well here.
Queen 85.
The bishop goes back to D4 trying to tie up this bishop on F eight.
We have Queen A5 White refuses the Queen exchange.
E5 The bishop drops back.
Bishop b4 and then we have A4 looking at that B six square.
Bishop a5 And now A4 is interesting.
So this looks as though it's a little bit anti positional blocking in the bishop.
Bishop ice bishop going back to 87 is interesting here.
So this situation with Queen a free might have been in a way potentially more accurate way of playing
this position.
There's things like rook tanks.
These seven and a 95 were a strong attack.
The queen can look at and be seven in some occasions.
If Bishop B ain't queen ain't, for example, here 9a4, it starts to be quite dangerous for black.
So, yes, fascinating stuff.
F4 looks a little bit anti positional.
So, yeah, Bishop 87 might have actually been an interesting alternative there but F4 Och Bishop C
seven Black misses a shot here to kind of lock down this diagonal to shut it down.
This could be at some point, you know, a dangerous diagonal if E4.
This position should be about even here.
But Bishop's C seven was played be frank and six.
Clearly.
If it's not clearly, I'll show you.
If Black place E takes, then one has a lot of dynamic play on the F file now as well as the diagonal.
This is not very good idea to have all this pressure against the king.
So that would be very, very dangerous for black.
So f thinks f times, Queen E thinks if queen tanks, e five hair bishop perform the Queen 951 can take
on C seven and then take on G seven.
Actually, don't be plausible here with advantage.
So Queenie six H Frink.
Look, H.G. ain't.
We have Bishop Defoe.
Any time you might ask.
Any time Bishop takes any form of this.
Bishop, I, for one, should have something here.
So I was playing bishop for 1965, and then the queen switches to see 397 and now the start of a form
-- installation sci fi with the idea of 96 at some point to try and get a very dangerous pawn potentially
around the king.
So this is a very dangerous attacking strategy in its own right, in my view.
And neural networks have emphasized form -- based attacks.
And even in games, they can be dangerous.
Still, of course, they can sometimes be weak, but here there's a potential for 96.
Now, it's not used immediately before might be eight, and now it's used 96 check.
So we get this kind of form pawn around the king.
It's like a gold hanging pawn, You know, like in European football, it wouldn't be allowed to be
a gold hanger.
It's just supporting potentially dangerous tactics.
We have Queen takes a two.
And now with the absence of black starts, Squire Bishop White is welcome on this diagonal.
Queen Gfriend friend a mate front now Queen C seven.
Thanks to the pawn, we have Rook D7 and our Bishop c5 so the rook can't leave C7 because of Queen C7.
So this is interesting.
Bishop takes F6 was also kind of interesting here to try and get rid of the defender.
So if Queen of some Rook takes D7 and this position is good for white.
So yeah, there was actually an opportunity for this.
This gets very dangerous if once Rook takes D7 and Queen C7.
So anyway, Bishop C5 though was playing Queen f7 Rook one, Queen G six and now tucking in on A2 just
to keep on that dangerous diagonal, keep the potentially outrageous forcing moves alive like this,
this queen takes in some orations that might be useful to have that threat that that action we have.
Queen So that would that that's kind of interesting.
Queen H two Queen fool was plausible of Queen E for Queen F to this position with Rook.
It is better for Wayne.
Okay so anyway, so rookie won here Rookie five.
If Queen E for Rook eight, Queen E five to protect b81 could take and this position is favorable.
Pick Bishop Geoffrey Rook defray to stop Bishop G.
King HD to renew Bishop Geoffrey this position.
Bishop Geoffrey happens with advantage So yes, Queen falls not great but rookie five played rook eight
rook D two And this is the start of a combination so rook d2 doesn't really help Queen D Queen D friend
being played Queen A4 is interesting.
So this position, for example, is going to be kind of pleasant for white overall trying to break down
this diagonal with rookie form.
Maybe later.
This is fictional, but this kind of thing.
Is interesting.
You know, it's in its favor.
But Ruthie, too, was planed.
And this leads to a spectacular combination involving the power of this form pawn taking out escape
squares.
So there's a great combination here.
Can you spot it?
You might want to pause the video here for 500 points.
It's really amazing.
It's a very, very cute finish here.
I'm about to reveal.
It's ideal if you can work it out to the ends.
These tactics based on forcing moves.
Checkerboard Change.
Checkerboard captures checkerboard major frets like making one ideally.
So rook tanks, bait check, king tanks.
And now we can see that that form pawn is covering two key escape squares.
And the potential for a back row mate has basically just increased.
So how can we basically amplify back row mate mating pattern here?
I hope you've spotted Queen size five.
Jack Black has to resign.
If King C.
S Queen C seven is checkmate.
Otherwise, if F takes Rook can feint and we're basically going into a bank run make pattern.
Wonderful stuff.
How this kind of attack is built up in this game, this arrangement of trying to get a very dangerous
like form pawn around the king, I believe is, you know, a key attacking strategy quite often.
So the gambit was also an interesting aspect.
Building up the pressure from this gambit is just it puts black on a back foot here where there's a
temptation to castle queenside because of this default pressure, nagging pressure on the defile which
kind of dissuades natural moves like Bishop E7, because any time castling we're just going to take
on D7.
So Black Castle in Queenside was basically the first major concession from this gambit.
So equal on pawns now.
But B6 being punched creates a routine for a piece on B6 to try and get a very, very dangerous goal
hanging pawn.
So it's very, very interesting and for might not have been entirely optimal.
There are lines, the engines, Bishop, A7 and Queen A3, but Black didn't shut down this diagonal
and so got into trouble later on that diagonal, even though at the moment it looks secure when things
like the form pawn happens.
It also took away the defensive dance when Bishop so reactivating interest in that diagonal soon so
that guardian bishop guardian guarding the diagonal taken out of the equation as part of installing
this dangerous form pawn.
So that's two birds with one stone.
So this diagonal much more sensitive again and white getting quite quickly on on the frets And so rook
takes D one there's Queen C seven checkmate And there's also ideas of Rook one Rook eight So yes, black
was definitely in a bad way here.
The queen, you know, relentlessly on this diagonal of Queen H two.
So leading to this wonderful combination here, great stuff.
You know, this is absolutely beautiful stuff.
So game ending on Queen takes E5 check.
I hope you enjoyed this game and patterns of the form pawn creation, but with it it did actually get
that important dance Great bishop.
So keeping this diagonal even more sensitive after Black's guardian bishop was out of the picture.
Okay, I'd say much.