Hi there.
This actually shows an absolutely fascinating position where there seems to be no discovery, attacks
in sight.
If that's why would we even want to create or set up a potential discovery when, for example, we have
a view on this road, we have a view on our site and it's adequately guarded, he Efate, the bishop,
is adequately guarded and there's nothing we could do about that.
Or is that?
So Richard Reti, one of the leading hyper modernists, they were called, was death because they found
useful exceptions to establish theory.
So Richard Reti, for example, didn't like just following the standard principles.
He invented some new ones, which are very useful exceptions, like attacking the center from afar.
He was also also a major tactician and so he could actually prove some of his ideas.
And here there's an absolutely gorgeous tactical combination he made use of and the discovery of facts.
That he creates actually kind of amplifies this road of attack, it makes F.A.A. in particular, significantly
weaker.
Just two moves from white to really special moves makes Efate extremely vulnerable.
Can you see the first move if I give you five seconds for the video?
OK, we can kind that kind of force a weakness of the last move by playing a check.
It seems a little bit pedantic.
The king just goes there.
What's really happened?
Well, the king is actually is actually now more vulnerable anyway.
In general, in the corner, generally, if you put the opponents kings in a corner, they're more likely
in general to be in trouble.
Now, here it looks as though.
Hold on, OK, AFAIK, it's still protected by the rook, though.
But this is where an amazing discover the tag.
Kind of features a disconnection tactic as well.
We're in a world of disconnections with the Internet and this kind of disconnection tactic as well as
the discovery attack.
In fact, when we think about the scale of the tax, we think about kind of liberating pieces, secretly
liberating pieces, but can you also secretly close up?
Pieces.
Blog pieces secretly with this coverage at the same time, so there's a key move here which is so powerful
it just wins and all variations by force.
If I give you five seconds, pause video, can you find out?
OK, it's actually Bishop AIDS, so, yeah, we're discovering an attack now on Efate by moving that
bishop, but the bishop movement itself has also cut off the rook from.
So in just two moves, FAA is being kind of fatally weakened here.
Why it has huge Freda's now like Queen Saints, Efate threatening.
You know, that's a checkmate.
What can Black do?
Have the game actually ended here?
If Queen seven, then because we've got this battery, we can just batter down with the battery, the
effort.
Bishop, and it's checkmate.
If Bishop takes five, this is check.
The snag is now.
If Black wants to regain control, there's a fight or queena fight even more funny in a normal practical
game.
By the way, if you want to use the rock instead in general, just in case there's a flaw, you don't
always have to be flashy.
Just use the rook and all game.
It's less risky, less less prone to regret.
So that would be a checkmate there.
So, yeah.
Bishop, E.A. is an absolutely crushing blow in this position.
Bishop Eighty-seven, guess what we play here, OK, we play Queen Efate check and we do a background
check mate.
So yeah.
Bishop AIDS, it's peculiar the whole thing here, because because it looks as though, you know, black
was fairly solid.
Sometimes things are not as solid as they seem.
As you become a tactical monster, the slightest little tactical downside can seemingly, you know,
spell disaster.
So things are not often as solid as they seem so plain.
Suddenly a source tells you to play well.
Suddenly it's actually hard to do that without a detailed tactical investigation of what is actually
being threatened.
You know what?
Can you threaten the relative stability of positions?
It really you can only actually become a solid player, in my view, if you are aware, to a much higher
level of all the tactical finesses in a position.
So anyway, yeah, it seems, you know, Bishop F7 incurs a weakness of the loss.
Both the bishop is both a disconnection tactic and a discovery tactic for the price of one two for the
price of one disconnecting date from Efate kind of disconnection tactic and a liberating tactic liberating
the queen again after it was kind of rudely blocked in.
You know, we were like blocking our own queen, but it actually did weaken and it will temper.
It did weaken the fray in a way, because the king moved to an even worse.
I did weaken Efate.
So, yeah, a crushing combination.
And this game got a brilliancy prize at the time in this particular tournament, New York, Tilghman's
1924 around twelve.
OK, I enjoyed that and so much.