Hi there in this thing, we see Magnus Carlsen on Current World Chess Champion at the time of this recording
against Vishy Anand, a possible chess champion.
So both fantastic players.
This is in 2009, the Norris tournament, round six.
So Magnus to play plays an absolutely amazing move, totally amazing move.
And it's the powers in the follow up.
And you have to kind of be incentivized in my view, to see the scoring possibilities.
It helps to be intuitive about things.
Sometimes there's also a very dangerous passport and the great champions are absolutely phenomenal with
passports.
Passports represent a huge winning probability for you as they threaten to queen later.
So the scope for being tactically resourceful revolving around passports is huge.
So here, what do you think Magnus played in this position?
The bishop seems to be under attack.
So we have different options when we're threatened.
So we need to be aware of the facts for sure.
But what do we do?
Do we just simply parry the France?
Do we make a bigger threat or do we play a hopefully a winning combination of brilliant winning combination
so Hare won't play?
Now, the answer in this course, usually to the opponent frightening, is to play a brilliant combination
and here there is one and it starts with age seven and you might think.
Wow, really, doesn't that just take the bishop?
Sure.
And what's being skewered, it seems nothing skewered.
Wow, there is a key move here, we'd like a secure for example, imagine the rook was wasn't the for
here it was on 87 then in theory we could have Rokeby seven chac picking up the rook.
Right.
So is there a move which kind of really encourages the rook to be on Eighty-seven.
So we have that lovely alignment of king and rook and we can secure.
Yes, I am Greek and we do like Kakababu skewers folks and so it seems to be food related to me about
food's another passion.
I don't know.
You can relate it to food if you're a food fanatic as well.
So anyway, here, how can we secure a nice little skewer here?
How can we create one?
OK, there's a subtle crushing move here, which is appropriate.
This is so much stronger than anything else.
Ruby seven.
We just be losing.
They just play kinky sex.
And the work is ideally placed behind the, you know, dangerous --, keeping it under kind of lock
and key systems, which would say implacably winning there.
But because we play rugby right now.
How was black?
Actually, it's supporting that queening square.
So the Freda's now is high.
And in fact, this Neuk can't actually even access H.H. can't do something in one move to stop that.
So in fact, black plays Ninety-four here.
If Rook takes 87, then we do have our alignments that we're looking out for to secure the opponent
to check and we just take there.
So Ninety-four was tried and in fact, Magnus took time out here very, very relaxed about this position.
He doesn't want to allow this knight to be taking at the end of this.
He doesn't even queen immediately.
He takes time out to protect this pawn, leaving again black in this problematic situation of how to
stop eighty-eight queening.
And in fact, she didn't end up in the sky.
He actually played by CNN's Larry King, desex the --'s queen and went on to win from this position
exchange up.
It's called the exchange up.
When you have rook against a minor piece, heavy piece, major piece against the bishop is called the
exchange up went on to win from this position.
But if instead of King DCX, you know, Rook takes seven.
Then they're neatly aligned pieces and you should be on the lookout for that.
You know, these little differences in your intuition and training for the tactical ideas could make
all the difference when you're winning and losing a game.
So you know, the track and picking up the rock would be winning as well.
So, yeah, the skua played a vital role behind the scenes here for this little Angang combination,
just leaving that bishop seemingly absurdly hanging just by playing seven.
So passports are very, very dangerous things and can lead to these amazing scoring possibilities.
Even in the end, game tactics pervade all parts of the game, opening mental game and game, especially
when you have passports, the ability to be tactically resourceful and leverage these patterns, which
you might think are reserved for the mental game.
No, they're not.
They're in all stages of the game as this shows, especially when passports are involved.
The stakes are high to do something with passport or black to the opponent to react.
So, yeah, a crushing little combination here with Rokeby eight.
There's no easy way for Black to respond here.
OK, I hope you enjoyed this one.
Got some points from it.
Thanks so much.