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Hi there.

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In this lecture, Black has played very resourcefully to get this position Ciguatera Haroche, a very,

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very famous player, arch nemesis of acronyms, which in some respects so here Thomas is playing a great

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combination sequence.

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And we visited after his rucksack is actually set to work to get this.

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So what was his intention here?

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How is he possibly checkmating in this position, black to play?

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What do you play here?

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So this is the double bishop mating pattern.

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So there's a clue that you're going to use both bishops.

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One bishop is already controlling key, a key escape square G one.

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We have a pawn taking another key escape square.

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So the move is Bishop takes two after Rook rotates age four.

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We have this mating pattern.

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Yes.

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That Jack is also taking out in itself the remaining square.

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So it's check and checkmate, the double bishop mating pattern.

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So sometimes you can sacrifice to get these kind of positions.

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So sometimes, yeah, your positions will be heavily disguised.

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It's up to you to recognize the underlying mating pattern sometimes, and that can really supercharge

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your chess calculations quite often once you get used to these patterns.

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OK, that's a much.