Hi there.
In this lecture, we see a very interesting game of Aleksandar Milosevic against Mark Hampton.
This was in the 19 94/18 Lloyds Bank Masters edition, the open session.
So I had the pleasure of playing in one or two of these editions myself.
In this particular edition, I wasn't playing, but I witnessed in another edition Shirov also kind
of winning the Masters.
So these attacking players came to this mighty Swiss event and were able to win with both white and
black.
They had the attacking player mindset and also like the winning mindset, you know, trying to surprise
opponents quite often original openings, aggressive, dynamic play.
So they were inspirational to me, both these players, let's see.
So most of which against Grandmaster Mark Hebden, plays a kind of surprise opening after E5 from Hebden
plays the centre game.
We have E2 64, Queen 6496, Queen E three, Knight F6 Knight C Free Bishop b4 Bishop D2.
Both sides Castle opposite side Castling game.
So it's kind of interesting.
Rookie Ice queen Joffrey now in this position quite often.
The move rook takes e4 is played its justifiable hare.
If Knight takes E4 once going to be in a bad way after Knight takes E4, full King, G3 and D2.
So this position white's in a kind of bad way here.
It's after 35.
Black is actually better, so that's not advisable to take.
So if you're going to play this line Bishop G5.
But it turns out this position should be, you know, black has a small edge, but we do have the bishop
power.
We have prospects here.
So it is interesting this and also if we look at Knight takes E4 from a knight, takes Rook takes this
position is a little bit of compensation for it.
It's a it's a gambit.
Basically we've entered into a sense of game kind of gambit.
Situation is actually again black should be slightly better here.
So anyway.
We have the six, though on this occasion every 90 5h4 and now 6h5.
And Black's point is to play this D five break in the center.
If King H ain't here, we can play h six and kind of we can black on the dark squares.
This is favorable to whites overall, this position.
There are a lot of dangers here.
But anyway we have D five might get to 9c4
if D four here.
One can actually take on default.
This is a bit of a trap.
And if Queen 64, Bishop, age six, and we're fretting, mate, and we're fretting the queen, if the
queen has to give herself up, this is just better for one.
If Dee takes E4 for Bishop G five.
Sorry if D takes E4, it also is a trap with Bishop age six.
So this is unpleasant.
So my C4 was played and we have actually what might seem counterintuitive.
Guess what?
My place here.
Generally we want to open up.
The opponents can create exposure, but the form pawn has attacking benefits as well.
Behold a form pawn or.
So this is an attacking strategy in its own right, seemingly contradictory to other principles of attack
blocking up the file.
But it does weaken dart squares.
And here Bishop G.
Five is very annoying for blank.
We have Queen B thanks.
If Bishop E seven there are some spectacular variations.
For example, 9496.
Queen H four and it seems to be the case.
Anytime we push E5, there's 95.
Right?
That would be the point.
By the way, there's no E5 because of the Knight of Five.
But actually, guess what?
In this position after B5, what can we play?
Yeah, we can actually play E5 here in these special circumstances.
We get one piece, two pieces, and we play 965 here.
Yeah, this is absolutely crushing.
So we've got to piece Queen and play 965 and we've got huge flats here and five we can play 9f6 Jack,
take out E eight take out H four.
We've got enough for our queen.
Yeah.
This is, this is good.
So this position, Mike's doing very well.
Spectacular stuff behind the scenes there.
But Queen B six is played now you might ask.
Hold on.
Isn't the F6 Knight hanging the move?
Play is actually a four.
It is actually possible.
To play Bishop takes f6 sex.
The snag the major snag is not bishop affray because of A4 and B2 is adequately protected.
So this position White's got a big advantage.
No, it's not that and it's not.
Bishop takes C3 because then Bishop takes C3 and again, piece of the point presumably is Bishop D6
gaining a key tempo by kind of checking the Queen, so to speak.
And then and also Queen takes B So it turns out here White does have a resource which is 965, which
protects B2, hence the opponent's queen.
And here Bishop D4 and we enter a situation which is actually in one's favour.
So anyway, that was actually plausible.
Bishop takes F6, but that's technical stuff.
We have a foreign stance, so protecting B2 straight away, hitting the Queen with this tempo again,
Bishop takes F6 here with the idea of potentially sacrificing a pawn now of the Queen takes a49 C3.
If be free.
Instead quit a free check and 90 to check is dangerous and detects a fall and black is better off.
The Queen 85 her so 93 is played Bishop takes Bishop's ace now this -- hanging on a too but there's
too many dangers.
In this position.
To actually.
Take that.
I can take on C4 and has access to all the dark squares.
We have 93 being played and they'll be free.
So offering a two pawn here, but the bishop holds a one.
So if Quinn a free check.
Bishop b2 This position is just going to be nice for White Queen H for trying to get on these dark squares.
They look very raw as they were going to make the black king.
And here, yeah, one is just getting a glorious position.
Amazing.
It's very, very difficult for black hair, basically.
Okay, so we have Queen takes a toll and now rook d2 and there's a big front of bouncing to the diagonal.
We have queen a free check if D takes E4.
Let's have a look.
There is 95, but here Rook takes the five, and then we get onto that diagonal, and this is quite
crushing.
So, Queen, a free chick, was trying Bishop b2, Queen E seven.
So this form pawn is really interesting, marking out the dot squares here.
Bishop e2 And actually there's another issue now that the knight has been deprived of.
Knight takes F1.
What is actually threatening to embarrass the knight with Queen F2 or Queen for the Knight's liability?
We have d tanks e4 f-type C4.
So this is hitting the Knight Queen takes E4, but now Queen G five with a big idea of Queen f6 knight
D5 is played.
If Knight's F5, there's Queen F6 and here Bishop C4, we're ganging up on F7 and this is very dangerous
for black this position.
We do.
Have ideas of smashing through of 96.
We're just going to take that with the mainframe.
If Bishop Essex.
Then actually we can make use of h h ach and then Bishop f6 is my.
Ouch.
Those dark squares are amazing for white hair.
So we have 95.
So guess what White plays in this position, this glorious B2 Bishop.
It needs to be amplified in some way.
Across this diagonal we could do with control of or access rather to f6.
So Rook takes D5 getting access to F6.
We have Queen takes five.
If Queen takes EA to Queen f6 this situation.
Black's in big trouble.
And there's also things like Bishop a free check if King f8.
So it's a horrible position.
If C 65 Queen f6 and again we can use this diagonal bishop a free check and this is mate.
So Queen 65 is tried Queen f6 so direct mate on G seven now King F8 and now Bishop C4 skewing the Queen
and F seven and might have done resigned here.
If Queen D7 we can block the exit with bishop a free check and once he exits blocks that means well
here there's a pin as well as Queen h8 checkmate we can use Queen takes seven Checkmate or Queen H eight
Checkmate.
So yeah, I thought this was a glorious game in this tournament moment which stunned the world.
He got nine and a half out of ten.
So what an achievement for the young attacking player.
It's only like 17 years old, thereabouts.
17 years old.
And he's just playing very surprising, interesting openings in virtually every game, you know, beating
more experienced grandmaster opponents.
So this game has basically a form pawn strategy, which became for me on the lines with neural network
wins over traditional engines, the form pawns, the value they have in attacking chess cannot be underestimated.
It looks a little bit like counterintuitive that you're breaching another attacking principle or trying
to create exposure for the king, like open lines to king or open diagonals.
But you can see that the Dart square benefits.
We're getting access to key dark squares.
So we kind of are opening up things in terms of square control, if not literally opening up for our
rook.
You know, our other pieces can exploit these these dark squares in this particular example.
So a fascinating game where basically White was forced to install the form pawn because there's no easy
way of opening up the position to the king anyway.
So needs must, you know, we've got to do what it takes.
So an interesting idea of bishop takes Bishop D6 so sidesteps in a favorable version of events where
it became a peace exchange.
So very, very interesting, this dark square grip, extremely evident and dangerous looking.
So yes, Queen size A2 here is dangerous because the knight's covering some squares, but we can take
out the knight and then we're back to a really dangerous position here for white with the dark square
grip.
So in the game.
Yeah this is interesting.
93 and the knight kind of got in a little bit of trouble as well pretty soon.
So this situation, the knight's kind of in trouble in its own right.
So.
Yeah.
Okay.
A very interesting game with that form pawn like go hanging pawn, as I like to call it, having a great
influence on the attacking potential.
So I hope you enjoyed this one so much.