Hi there.
This is a very, very famous study by Richard Ratti, one of the leading hyper modernists in chess.
The hyper modernists created useful exceptions to establish very reti also invented every one of the
Ratti opening.
So the thing Catorce, for example, became popular as a result of some of the hyper modernists.
So anyway, this is an ingame study.
So these studies are created by composers and they're often very, very beautiful.
They're like very, very, very hard puzzles.
But puzzles doesn't do them really justice.
There are a lot more rules and terminology associated with studies and, you know, study competitions
here.
Whites play.
Do you think White can salvage this situation?
It seems as though the pawns, you know, only a few steps away from queening whites.
First move here is very, very interesting and it's kind of absolutely forced when it does have a passport.
So is it at all possible to draw this position?
That's the key question.
I'll give you five seconds.
The portion of the video, you might think this is totally impossible.
There's no way of drawing this position.
Right.
OK, well, you have to play King G7, you have to travel along this route.
This is absolutely forced.
Now, if age four, you play king of six.
Now, the thing is.
In this position, if black carries on with age three, we've actually got two moves that draw, not
just one, we can play either King Eighty-seven or kinky sex.
The point is that after age two, we play C7 seven and then we can hurt our --.
So both sides queen, it's going to be a draw.
So yeah.
Or even kinky sex here and then C7 and both sides, you know, going to queing the kings that heard
the --, if they did for that little square, the king is giving assistance to this squire of that
--.
You know, with King B seven.
OK, so there's that many square.
If King B 17 are king, these are holding the poem to see, so the thing is, it turns out communication
has to lose its empire.
With King B sex, guess what, white plays hair key move if I give you five cents, calls for the.
It looks as though we're nowhere near this square, this point square is like this, how can our king
answer that square to stop that poem?
Well, that's true.
That's true.
The king can't answer that square, but the king can actually play to 85 with the threat of entering
the square, but also with the threat of king desex.
So again, black has to lose a tampoe because if age free hair, then king desex age to see seven where
queening here both sides of queening.
It's an even possession.
So after King five, if black has to lose the tempo, then mission accomplished.
We've actually cause black to lose enough time for us to catch.
Now this pool.
Yeah.
A beautiful study by Richard Reti.
If this is the first study you've ever seen, you know, it's it shows that even in super simple positions,
you can create these really difficult, like, super puzzles.
But they aren't technically technically called studies.
They have composers.
There's a whole composition in chess.
Garry Kasparov, one of the arguably, you know, strongest possible time, he swore by studies when
other people were solving puzzles.
He was trying to crack studies.
And that kind of enriched this chess and giving him great ideas during actual games for solving positions.
It really stretches the visualization studies of super hard.
So here.
Yeah, King G7, though, remarkably, save the day.
OK.
As much.