Hi there.
In this lecture, we have a clash of former world chess champions Alexander Alekhine playing against
the great Emanuel Lasker.
Well, they're both great, but he's even greater, in my view, because he was so long, you know,
a record world champion holder.
Emanuel Lasker.
But Alexander Alekhine has also held the title for a number of years as well.
So this is in 1934, this epic encounter.
Zurich Tournament round 12 D4 from Alekhine we have D5 from C4 E6 so a classic start to the game.
Queen's Gambit declined Orthodox defense.
So Knight Geoffrey Bishop E7 Bishop G5 might be the seventh e Black Castles Rook C1 Once this is waiting
for detailed C4 to be able to catch that with one move.
So we see C6 for the moment and now with C6, why isn't so concerned why it plays Bishop D3 we have
D take C4, Bishop takes C4 now we have Knight D5 exchange of Dance Square Bishop's Queen.
Thanks E seven here and now 94.
This is a trademark alekhine move to transfer the knight free kind of tang going the knight.
There is the possibility here Kingston Center of Queen before check that option Opportunity is not used
by Lasker.
We have Knight five to f6 if Queen B for check.
In this situation it seems as though Queen D2 this is fairly pleasant for y even though the Queen's
are exchanged off.
For example here White does have an advantage and for example, Knight takes f6 check, Knight takes
off six Bishop D3 supports E4.
So this bishop is a bit of a problem piece here and this should be kind of pleasant.
After 95 pleasant for White's E4, the king could even slip into F3 here.
Nice advantage there.
A grinding style game though is needed.
We have the knight five to f6 so the knight transfers the G3 and now the second opportunity for Queen
B for check is not used.
We have E5 slight downside here.
F5 is weaker and especially with a knight ready to go to F5 seems a bit controversial.
Queen b4 Champ may well be a much safer move Queen D2 here in these circumstances it's not as significant
as before.
Actually, Black should be on the way to equality in this particular situation as example.
So this is slightly different from the other configuration.
So anyway, we have E5 though this does weaken the F5 square, which could be a nice attacking condition
or ingredients for many attacking conditions.
That's is kind of synonym for ingredients.
Here we have one counseling E takes D4 and now Knight's F5 hitting the queen, Queen and now Knight
three takes D4.
So this avoids an isolated Queen's pawn.
We have So EA takes D4, just to be clear, right here would be an isolated Queen's pawn with no fellow
pawn on the sides of it.
It's just there by itself.
So.
Okay.
But that's avoided and that usually signals dynamic play.
So Cam won't play dynamically from this position.
Well, the pawn structure is not quite symmetrical.
Let's freeze two over here and there's four to free over here.
We have now Knight E5 in this situation, if G6, Knight h6 check King G7, there is actually a tactical
blow here which would be disastrous for black.
Can you see what that is for?
100 points?
Yeah.
It takes F seven piercing the e six square if ruck tanks have 796 jack king -- and just win the queen.
So 95 is played bishop before and now Bishop takes out five is played taking out one of Wayne's knights.
Now here is a crucial mistake which adds an extra ingredient for attacking potential.
It seems black played queen bee sex.
This is an uncharacteristic NASCAR move.
It relinquishes control of the sex, which can be used by white hair with the queen.
And that is significant, actually.
So that's the kind of weakness of the last move.
G6.
Instead, this forcing move here isn't so bad.
There isn't such a major, you know, tactical problem.
This if 90 4a6h3, Queen 87 this is about equal sure why it has this bishop.
But blacks should be fine here.
With Queen bee sex.
This is very different now.
Attacking ingredients are creeping in Queen bee sex so 87 and this gives the potential now to co-ordinate
a queen a night against G7 if rook efforts.
The problem is 97 check and now king I shake queen sex e5 Black wants to get the peace back but there's
night take c six trick and why merge winning two pawns here?
That would be a big advantage.
A winning advantage.
So night 87 was played but now Rook 5188 and now Queen Geoffrey.
This is a very nice coordination for thing, mate.
We have G6 creeping dot square weaknesses now in this position and now Queen G five maybe creeping is
the wrong word.
Creating don't square weaknesses.
Queen G five So King King H eight is played if c5 there's Rook D six full king, queen and knights.
This is rather painful.
So 94 say Queen H six threatens mate.
So that's basically like winning and always winning the Queen.
So if we look at this position of Queen C seven here, in fact H four is strong and this position H
five and there's a lot of pressure building up, so much.
So can you see what White would play in this situation?
We have a pin f seven pawn.
That's a clue here.
What would you play in this situation for 400 points?
Yeah.
Rook Thanks.
G6 just crashes through H takes queen, takes G6 check Queen sts h five, check Queen g6 check Queen
G seven is checkmate.
So, yes, there's crushing stuff.
Basically, if C five is entertained that D six squares.
Very nice for white.
So King H eight is joined now Knight D six.
This looks horrible.
The king's coming back now to the friend F seven.
Now this extra kind of pawn on this side of the board.
So alekhine's got an extra pawn on this side of the board and he's using it now e4 and this has remarkable
effects and dangers as well as being able to push the knight back.
This third rank is clear.
It sends out here that does actually have a downside of blocking this rank.
It turns out Rook C four was also very dangerous as a rook clef just to support the Queen.
For example, King James Rook for this situation is incredibly dangerous for black if a5 h v first.
Yes, I know it's a modest move, but it supports g force.
Sometimes it means there's less background make opportunity.
So for example, a four rook takes 95 going back if we get this position.
So that's making sure the knight's not snapped off, hitting the queen.
We have E4 and then this situation is very dangerous for black of the Queen H six rookie eight Queen
H seven check knight D six hits the queen and supports Queen.
Thanks F seven, mate.
So yeah, White's crushing it here and then taking the queen soon Absolutely crushing.
So it seems the rook lift was a plausible alternative already here.
Let's rewind this just because this is kind of an instructive variation if rook f.a Bishop thanks have
seven shank.
So here h three is is very strong.
If Queen H six immediately.
This is also dangerous because of G4, but this is kind of a little bit trickier.
You have to find like Knight F five and there's big problems for black this position check queen sites
f6 bishop takes F seven is also pretty crushing as well.
So yes, there are very tasty alternatives going on here in these variations.
So that would be like checkmate in there.
So very tasty stuff.
If we look at this again, if Rook D7 g5 Knight H five, can you see what White would do here?
Which is also, I believe, instructive for the attacking player to make note of some of the variations
here, what would you play in this situation which is crossing?
Yeah, we can play Rook takes h five knocking out defender of g seven trying to make on g79 and the
f pawns pens so 96 trying to defend g seven.
But now Queen F six means that 90 2h6 mate is Britain's rookie eight and we just take the rook off and
that's crashing through.
And if you might ask, well, what about rook takes Bishop takes.
What does black do if the rook moves against 96 to give King a fight?
It doesn't matter.
We're waiting on f7.
So there's wonderful variations essentially behind the scenes here with Rook C4, which shows these
rook lifts when we have ranks clear on the third or fourth in this position, it's very dangerous,
but E4 is played still strong Knight Gains and now the third rank is huge Rook D3 very dangerous rook
left here F6 and now knights have five check king and now super crushing final move is played Can you
guess what that is or work it out Ideally so far 200 points.
What would you play here?
A beautiful finish indeed.
From a master of attack.
Queen size G six.
Game ended here if H takes Rook H Free check Note h six.
Rook takes H six is actually checkmate as the bishop controls the escape square g A Well, what a game
between past world champions won an epic encounter game.
This is a highly celebrated iconic game.
There are a number of attacking themes, or you could call them conditions or you could call them ingredients.
In fact, the more synonyms you have when you play chess, maybe those synonyms will get your brain
working and inspired.
If we can think about the attacking toolkit as another synonym tools, ingredients, conditions, you
name it, there are several here.
Misplaced Queen Knight on F Coordination of Queen and Knight Rook Cliffs.
We can just put it in one section.
Attacks with rook cliffs, but that doesn't justify it.
So check out the extensive tags for this game.
The attacking tags is another synonym for ingredients of conditions.
There's a lot to learn from this particular game.
So many attacking themes all packed into one game, including, you know, a kind of fatal weakness
of the last move.
A lot of Black's problems stems from this queen bee sex here after one of the dangerous knights were
taken out.
Yeah, this was the big, big error.
It seems queen bee sex when g sex driving back and keeping control of d sex.
So, yes, a fascinating game.
I hope you enjoyed this one as much as me and so much.