Hi there in this election, I really want to show you the power of exchanging pieces when you're up,
even by just one pawn.
So this is a classic game, pal.
Benko against Bobby Fisher.
Paul Benko pioneered his jeoffrey, which became known as the Broncos opening, and he beat both Fisher
and Tower with Jeoffrey in the 1962 Curaçao candidates.
So this was round one.
And he's playing against the mighty Bobby Fisher, who's a major tactician and genius of the game.
But Paul Benko sets up a very, very nice position from his novel opening.
And actually, Fisher soon weakens structurally a pawn.
This desex pawn is about to be weakened with 864.
It's not immediately apparent if this pawn is in grave danger, but the way pal Ben Complaisance, he
neutralizes blanks.
Evil, precious F.R. pressure for a moment and then you can see a slight build up.
So he's taking away the five scrammed from black and we see a very powerful for move.
And all of a sudden Black's position is looking a little bit fragile.
And him of the B5 pal Benko is actually inflicting serious weaknesses into Fisher's position.
And we have some exchanges here which do serve to kind of weaken Black's king a little bit, but also
simplify the fact that there's actually frontal pressure on this desex pawn.
We have Seifi, which is a commensal pull move pawns don't go backwards and desex is just lying there
as a target.
And in fact, through the frontal pressure now, Pål Benko is going to win this pawn, it seems, after
five.
So this tactic puts even more pressure on these things, which is now pinned to D7.
So very, very logical, flowing game from Paul Benko using a novel opening and essentially he's about
to be winning a pawn.
So 1866 and this is the start seen really this is not really a major technical analysis, by the way,
of this game is really from this position where if you're a pawn up against the major tactical opponent,
the act of simplifying the position by trying to exchange off pieces, not pawns, is kind of demonstrated
here.
We see often I have six rotate SS offtakes and now Queene free, just simply searching to take the Queens
off.
So why is a pawn up from his efforts?
He's hitting now SS as well and essentially wants the queens off.
The more we can simplify when we're up a pawn, this could lead to a decisive win.
So Ninety-four was played here, which is a very, very nice tactical shot to help the process of simplification.
We see her 1964 Queen 64.
But this pawn is immune.
Fisher is has to resign himself to the seven.
If he takes on Desex, then it runs into Queen five, pinning against the Queen here.
And if King is seven, then there's the North, the Queen G7 jack, for example, like this.
And here, you know, black could end up losing the queen if not careful.
So in this position, Queen the ACHAK and even if the King, Britain's Queen stays and then rotates.
So basically Power Bank has found a resourceful way to further simplify it with this move.
Ninety-four So the knights come off so we can see the chess positions getting simpler and simpler.
But at this point, Fisher tries to create some complexity.
So that is generally, you know, it's a very, very solid looking pawn up.
And then we see for but now and fish are trying to make things complicated after.
So two pawns up Jack Queen each four and now Rook have one simplifying again.
Now there are some checks for black to factor in, but the queen comes back to try and get the Queen's
off need to check.
And actually Black was convinced here that he was lost and resigned.
So this is a very, very interesting game.
If it continues, for example, Queen Jita and check here and Queen D5, the checks will run out.
It's only the Queen because we've simplified the position.
It's only the queen.
Checks will run out eventually, even with absolute best play and these pawns will crash through.
So the game ended here.
But it strikes me as an interesting example that even if you're playing a tactical legend of the game
that tries to create counterplay in general through the process of simplification.
And even just one pull up can be decisive.
Well, especially if that sense, if it's a sensible and often sensible spawns, like people are very
strong as well.
But one -- up and the process, you know, the planning, the mental game is essentially trying to
just simplify through the exchange of major pieces, not pawns.
So we see even, you know, a tactical legends can be sometimes it can be making the game the process
of winning much, much easier.
If you get to have simplifications, you might need to be resourceful in trying to simplify possessions.
So there was a very, very resourceful move at one point, this 94, which seemed to leave the pawn
that for the taking.
But no, it doesn't quite work for black.
So black is in big trouble in this position.
So sometimes, yes, resourcefulness when you're simplifying.
But if you can achieve that, it's a great thing to achieve if you're even just one pawn up.
So that's the major point I wanted to make for this game.
So I hope you enjoy this game so much.