Either in this lecture we introduce Mikahil, Tell Me Tell was a Soviet Latvian chess player and the
Eightfold Chess champion, he was actually widely regarded as a creative genius and one of the best
attacking players of all time.
So he played in a daring, commendatory way, conversational style, and he would often take opponents
into a deep, dark forest, as he calls it, where the complexity was such that it's very, very difficult
to get out of that forest.
And he was often in a better position to do that than his opponents for his amazing calculation and
tactical abilities.
So.
Histo, very, very difficult to imitate, and I would say for me, it's.
Quite a lot of sacrifices there, just really, really hard to understand there is this complex, the
generation which, you know, if you're not a brilliant tactician, you could end of being just basically
refuted your accommodations, your sacrifices could be refuted.
So I'm a bit wary myself of studying town.
That's just a personal thing.
But every world champion is worth studying and he's played a number of, you know, universal style
games, not just sacrificing games.
He's a universal player and his results have been on and off due to health issues.
But at some points in his career, he's won multiple U.S. championships as well.
He's been very, very high up in the ratings systems like the and rating systems.
So very, very important to study.
But personally, I'm a bit scared because I'm already a little bit sometimes unsound.
I don't want to sort of have any more temptation to be on the sound when you play kind of and when you
play sacrifices, which you're not really sure work.
Now, the game I'm going to show you has such a sacrifice, it's very, very difficult to really prove
the truth of it.
If there is such a truth and Fassett, if you're looking at games between humans, though, the point
is, you know, tão wasn't playing a supercomputer.
So can.
Create a position which is just so complicated, the opponent is very, very unlikely to find the technical
defenses needed to survive.
So let's have a look.
So this game I've chosen for you is Mikoto against Blent, lost and played in the candidate's semi-final
in 1965 e4 from Sandwick five, my Afri 96 defo seatings 97 opensource in 86 93.
So Scheveningen England system sabering ampoule structure here.
These two pawns in the center.
We have bishop every night of things for some queen free black console's white castles queen side Quincy
some now knight dmae five the queen goes back G4.
This looks very, very aggressive in the style of perhaps Paul Katz, who was an inspiration for Mikoto
and played in several of the Paul Karras memorials with great success.
So the carriers attack is not this situation, but it's an earlier Jefford in general against the shape
in England.
But this kind of avalanche on the Kingside is very, very difficult to play against.
So after 94 96, Bishop takes B5.
We have G 597 Bishop Differe.
So both bishops kind of pointing.
If you look at this, at the king here and of the B4, there's a very, very interesting move indeed
that's played.
I wonder if you can guess it.
Or work it out or insert it at the you might need to just think what is intuitively strong attacking
move.
In this position.
OK, so sometimes that's how sacrifices are just out of this world.
I mean, he even said, you know, there are sacrifices and that there are sacrifices which are slightly
different now here.
This is like a total sacrifice, 95, an iconic one.
What does it actually do?
What is the night being offered for if we look at it, which was played because otherwise that is pretty
dangerous and, you know, want to take out that dark square bishop, which could help, you know,
we can desex.
So it is taken after Aetate.
We can observe a few things.
The bishops look to be quite aggressive and staring down at the king.
So a common square, so to speak, where the bishops could cooperate with the queen or or other pieces
looks like a higher probability.
The other thing is this move kind of dislocates Black's defensive capabilities in particular.
You know, the Essex Square is now controlled, so quite a lot of the all squares are controlled and
there's going to be pressure potentially on this EFO and most black rocks are kind of disconnected.
Yeah, the center and its operations, as well as ideas of direct attacks, they are very, very scary
in this position and already got lost.
And feeling pressure plays, perhaps, you know, an inaccurate defense.
But he's not a supercomputer.
He plays five intuitively trying to shut down this bishop.
If we look at this position, if Rook A7, then maybe of the Queen for Jesus Queen 67, this situation
looks as though blacks sacrifice the peace back and, you know, is is getting actually blasted just
to show the kind of common square aspects.
You know, check that Bishop on default can be hugely dangerous as an example.
OK, that's one example of a disaster.
But let's have a look at this again.
And in fact, Jesus, let's try Jesus.
Now, we've all sort of basically supercomputers today.
We can look at this and we can say, OK, Bishop T'ain't we can say Quiñones Frien ninety five, Queen
86.
And this is also dangerous.
Calicoes going again on seven though, and this is super dangerous.
For example, if things were crashing through, this is just crashing through on July seven.
So you can start to see the dangers.
But let's look at, you know, there are other possibilities where in this situation instead of 95,
95 kind of queen 86, Bishop Bee thinks this is an attempt at defense.
And here, say, White Plains, if I'm going to reform -- so-called form form to try and meet with
Queen Jackson, it seems, you know, Black might have Bishop five, but you'd have to be a computer
to find these defenses of the rookie AIDS.
It seems as though this situation might actually be OK for black, you know, this is going to be OK
for black.
And so if black can do some sort of counterspy sacrifice like that, it's apparently intact.
But it's just very, very difficult to find in a practical game.
And this is the whole point quite often about Mikoto sacrifices.
But it also makes me kind of wary that I sometimes like the less controversial players that don't take
so many risks, because I take already quite a lot of risks.
My own games in general.
Yeah, you want to learn from champions you're accountable for learning from.
But for sure, if I want to, like, find an absolutely brilliant attacking games put on YouTube, that's
a different story.
But for my show, when I do play online all over the board generally, yeah, I like to study players
like Fisher who were, you know, more sound overall than tell, even if you do chat with modern computers.
But here.
Yeah, OK.
I mean, it's such a difficult sacrifice to comprehend.
And F5 was played and we have now won rookie of some age for me.
Some are now Bishop EF five.
So.
Basically with a big ESX, so we have rock tanks, five, six, seven, and now, yeah, they're all
common squares like this one in particular, which are a you cause for concern and it causes major concession.
Now, like 95 is played if rook f7 as the example then rotates and then this position is actually really,
really dangerous for black.
You can see that there's a huge attack underway.
And for example, this is just devastating.
You know, if that's the best move, we can just take the road that's just absolutely devastating.
And if desex, then Queene seven and then taking on D7 and this is, you know, crashing through basically
of the G, since this crashes through will a big advantage.
So there are great number of ways of going wrong.
So 95 was tried, but I'll just, you know, Queene for looking at that quite a after five and we have
a situation which seems OK, let's give given back some material.
But is the attack kind of neutralized?
And we have these perpetual, it seems, attacks on the queen until this point.
The bishop covers up to that.
We see Queen takes seven, Queen takes airfreighted details.
If Rookie want his opposite colored bishops, you might think Holon hasn't been done quite well here.
He's only like a pawn down.
Three, four, five, six.
One, two, three, four.
To put them.
No one told them if he loses that point, it'll be two points down and he does actually lose this pawn.
So currently his two pawns down, but it's opposite colored bishops, right?
So we have Queen Desex Queen at four.
And it is tricky for black hair.
We have Rook Efate.
If Bishop takes the five, then can you see what white plays?
If I give you five seconds to pause video if he chacal checks what this white player.
OK, rookie.
Yeah, this is this would be a crushing move, so oftentimes we just take the queen so we have to have
eight being played white, re-establishes that EFO control, be free.
This looks a little bit on the desperate side.
Now that's taken check King B to check, but they'll just see free and black has backroad issues, so
can't be too adventurous.
Queen goes back.
You could see that if Queen takes then you know, check is very, very scary and check the blankets
that crown made it to the queen comes back to the fans.
But now in fact, the back row, back row weaknesses tapped into with a forceful move.
And the curious thing here, if you check this with an engine like I have the engines, just all sorts
of booms, but they're a bit slower than what Mikhail Talpiot Talpiot actually, it seems a more human
style forcing move, which clarifies the situation very, very quickly.
Can you guess what Tau actually played if I give you five seconds to pause the video?
OK, tell trying to get control of key squares like ESX by playing Bishop C5 to learn that defensive
peace, the queen away from ESX.
And this is very, very useful, this kind of mini diagram that is very useful.
I mean, the computer's recommendation, you know, before, you know, we got a bit of work to do,
but we're winning when these pawns.
But Bishop C5 really is forceful and cute.
So, you know, no wonder, you know, modern grandmasters still celebrates how the hotel memorial each
year, basically because he's such a brilliant player and made, you know, his games much more concise
and exciting, perhaps, than they could have been with all the efforts by Bishop C5.
Very, very forceful.
We have Queen Sexy five rookie HRO night and there's a brilliant conception here.
Now, if the king had gone to F7 then Queenie sex, you can see the power of luring the Queen away from
ESX Queenie sex is Chapei so recarve.
And you might think, well what's the point of this.
Surely why just lost the bishop.
Right.
There is a very, very important Taxco points when you have these Penns kind of celebrating them in
a spectacular way sometimes.
And it's not just the Penderecki, it's like the back row.
Generally, Tarl plays this check and asking eyeshadows, can you see the punch line here at Moonface
seven, which actually is a game ender?
What's the punch line here?
Which is really quite a major punch on the chessboard, so to speak.
So what ends the game?
If I give you five seconds for video, what what do you think is a really great move here to celebrate
the pain in the back row?
OK?
It's actually Queen F7.
Yeah, putting more pressure on the PIN piece and also in a way, celebrating the weakness of the last.
Maybe the king neglected Efate.
So it's logical to target a bit more if you can.
The game ended here, you know, Queen takes and we're just going to take her.
And then unless Platt wants to be cremated or nearby, cremated rather.
I mean, this is just hopeless.
The exchange down, it's hopeless.
So, yeah, this is hopeless as well.
It's it's all hopeless.
There's no actual defense.
Yeah.
So pretty clear cut.
Crushing finish to this game, so it has like an iconic Tolstoyan sacrifice, if you want to be a chess
entertainer and do like a YouTube channel and all the stuff which is a legitimate path in chess, that
it's not all about becoming a professional chess player, then learning from brilliant players to be
able to play brilliantly, I'm sure is going to expand your social media presence a lot more than,
you know, covering maybe duller games on social media.
These outrageous games are really the meat potatoes of social media to try to get, you know, interesting
videos and stuff.
It's very, very entertaining games to study.
For me personally, I like looking at the more solid, less controversial ads right now, but you can
gain a lot from all the world champions.
When I kind of chatted to I am not Esswein about it, he did say to study all the champions, not just
Fisher, but you know how you know, Spassky, Kasparov, Karpoff, you know, all champions.
Basically, you can learn a lot from all of them.
They each have their own contributions to make and they're going to be certain positions where you do
want to just increase the complexity because you really do want to win.
So sometimes, you know, take the approach to this deep, dark forest says, well, there's only room
for one to get to come out.
And if we're very, very strong tactically, basically you're maximizing your winning chances.
So from that practical angle, Intel did win, you know, a great deal of torment in his time, especially
when his health was suffering.
So, yeah, of course, it's great to learn from Celtel, but for me personally, I'm a bit scared of
playing even more unkindly than I do at the moment.
OK, but I hope you enjoyed this game.
Brilliant game and kind of an iconic self-sacrifice is shown us so much.