Hi, am in his lecture, I'll just like to give you a brief introduction to make our opening.
First of all, Alexander Alkene died as world chess champion and they seized the opportunity to try
and take control of the world championship cycles before that time.
You know, it's like you had to bid to fight against the world chess champion and only if they agreed
that you get a match.
If you were lucky.
You know, for example, you know, Alexander Arlequin managed to get all the funds, the challenge
CAPABLANCA and that was the process before Friday.
So it became much more organized.
And Fryday organized the six player tournament to decide the next world champion, which became a winning,
won.
And he became like the first.
Russian grandmaster with the world's wide status and uses all captured, you know, the world titles
for the next few years, it was the start of Soviet domination of chess, and he brought many professional
attitudes to tournament preparation, physical training, and even created the bottom in that school
of chess, which had students like Karpoff Kasparov.
So and he was even involved in A.I., you know, doing some selective search A.I., which was not a
good route because lots of brute force overtook that there was no need for selective search.
But, yeah, he had a keen interest in in lots of things.
And he made lots of different contributions to chess, a profound impact on the game, basically.
And for me, you know, he brought this very scientific, analytical attitude which contrasted to the
rather, you know, casual style of the previous generation.
So here is a game example where he's playing against Hasbro Capablanca in the 1948 Avro Truman's round
11.
And it reminds me a bit personally of seeing Stockfish crush these other engines for a completely dominating
position, all counterplay and then, you know, playing a brilliant combination at the end.
So it's very, very impressive game.
It's had a striking influence on on me.
It shows that sometimes the superficial also, you know, the superficial looks of possessions is not
what it seems.
You see what I mean soon.
So different things from Camp Blanka, CIFOR Fembot Frank cyberbully playing white ESX night, Seefried
before.
So in terms of Engin the Rubinstein variation, Efrain and D5 is played Avery Bishop takes seefried
big takes both.
They didn't mind having double --'s quite often.
He was experimenting double pawns here.
I mean there's a dance choir bishop with our counterpart which can prove extremely dangerous potentially
in theory.
You know, later on if you have a dance counterpart, it's not all about the --'s, it's what was
the cost for black to inflate the horns quite a bit, actually, potentially.
You know, this bishop could be lethal.
We we five C tanks.
He takes Bishop defraying Blanka councils and only two.
And this is the start of a very interesting kind of template plan.
It's almost the same acts as a kind of template for the future generations in terms of structure, because
it seems as though with Maita with this pawn being available to move, not blocked in that later, a
plan of ninety four point eighty four can liberate one's position and expand on the king side and,
you know, chase away defensive knight and create all sorts of dangers.
On King side, we see BASIX now White Castles, Bishop A6.
This seems extremely logical to try and we can wait on the light squares and take away once Bishop Power
and clamp down on E4.
There's a there's a great deal of logic to it but black plays.
Bishop takes a six night takes and now this weird looking move.
Bishop BE2 was going to be two.
You might ask surely if this was their free plan it would open up like this.
Bishop BE2 gives the impression that, you know, why is positionally clueless or something?
Why would we do this?
It's reinforcing the triangle, which is already looking fairly solid.
But perhaps, you know, it's kind of waiting there for black to play C for later and the bishop could
return back to see one and then play for for this kind of tension release.
When, you know, pawn goes like this, it's releasing that central tension and it often gives you a
free hand if your opponent releases the tension in since you often get a free hand, so to speak, you
can sort of play on the other side of the ball without worrying about the pawn exchange possibilities
and the counterplay.
So at the moment, it's like a super solid looking move.
But a bit odd that, you know, this is a blocked ambition.
There we see Queen D7
on on the surface, it seems, you know, black should actually even be able to play C4.
And even if we play like Jeoffrey, it seems as though on the surface, black as an example like this
should be able to have a decent enough position clamped down on it for, you know, for example, here
and there.
Ninety seven, sixty five.
It should be about equal on the surface.
But we see Queen D7.
A fall and this is intriguing in its own right, it's like a distraction, you know, maybe later it
wants to move.
Why is the robot now committed to defending this ball?
And when it seems like presenting a liability for the upside, though, A5 is now a concern to maybe
just dissolve the pawn, to just get rid of it.
We see kaffiyeh at the moment a five.
This B5, though, as an example, we have Queen the free hitting that night.
And here perhaps Black is persuaded to play CIFOR because 97 there might be a five to be concerned about.
So Black actually does release the tension.
This can be a controversial style move, giving a free hand sometimes.
On the other side of the board, we see Quincy, too, and it looks as though here.
At the moment, it looks completely out of the question because of the four lockdown that any such plan,
you know, first of all, is weakening every you have to reinforce every first.
This plan looks like a dream, a distant dream right now.
We see going to be perhaps this is a little bit on the slow side given the E4 break.
Possibility's H5 is very much a prevention measure because if there's any night Jeoffrey, then G.S.
84 would chase away that night.
And even this kind of form -- scenario where if you have a poor nature, we can be quite dangerous.
So H5 would be a dynamic trahair and if not for this position, seems, you know, this kind of thing
should be OK for black.
In theory, it seems OK or even, you know, 1987 immediately and then later H5 again could play a good
role.
You know, Jeoffrey, just to chase away after maybe Stottlemyre five, so hedgie six first to stop
any further than H1 coming, why it doesn't really want to create more weaknesses.
So say this situation, you know, it should be OK for black.
I mean, the lightning bolt should be OK.
There's a potential.
Postpone the.
But this seems a little bit slow, maybe the start of black issues here.
We see Ricky, he wants this kind of templated plan for the future generations, you know, it's only
the queen holding a faunal -- 1996 Nigerian black celebrates this be Freewinds, but this is on the
queen side, away from the king side.
And now everyone is starting to look a little bit ominous.
Plank is on a greedy route here to just disconnect and then take the A4 for --.
But you know these pawns, OK, it's nice to think about games in the middle game.
However, that kind of preparation, you know, there is still a middle game when the queen still on
and king safety issues.
So this this does lose a lot of time.
And in the meantime, why could generate a ferocious attack?
So trying to install assets for an end game is sometimes quite controversial, but kind of like it goes
ahead.
It has not much else anyway.
To do her now might be free and probably doesn't mind sacrificing the eightfold form.
So we have now a very aggressive pullback in the center and our Queen F2 is played.
This bypasses little tricks, you know, maybe black had a little discovery tricks in the possession,
like C5, you know, hitting the queen, protecting the queen and then maybe slightly free later of
the queen to do an exchange of so little tricks of a bypass there.
And, you know, like, can't you see five clearly now and we see six at four.
And it's looks very scary, this build up of pressure and they start without counterpart.
You never know.
This could be quite dangerous for black, especially with these lurking presence dance acquaintances
that Bishop could relish them later.
We see how far this seems to be a very radical attempt to close up the position and make it more about
blacks apelin potential --.
However, Bobby is having none of this is opening up.
It takes about five.
We see rock tanks, rock tanks, and now Cavalcante is trying to neutralize everything the queen does
48.
But it's in this moment that unfortunately there's a nagging edge which is underlines here.
Can you see what white players in this position which underlines a nagging edge?
It creates a dangerous asset.
OK, five seconds, Paulsboro.
It's actually rookie sex, it creates a dangerous -- here, it's hitting the night and looks pretty
dangerous.
So we see Rokitansky sex being played after dangerous --, and now the night is being hence King seven,
but now Queen at four and you can see here there's a light and a five Jack and Queen G5 Jack.
So Black has to address that somehow and plays Queenie AIDS.
So the queen could come to G six.
Now in that scenario.
So quickly find those played now.
So just to put that on board, if not a five Jack and Queen from the Queen G sex.
So we see though this pin with Queen five, it turns out also, you know, why is Bazza here?
There are other moves, but I don't want to spoil the main idea of the game for you, which is coming
up, which is absolutely amazing in this position, Queene seven.
So this is now a position where something absolutely stunning and analytical, which is for me is an
iconic.
The whole thing is like connec move is one of the top kind of iconic chess movies of all time.
This next move, you might want to pause the video and see if you can find it and follow up.
It's a truly iconic chess move.
You might want to hold on Squasher, why why are you saying this about the world champions and culture
in general?
Well, well, first of all, it makes this beginner's course very unique.
And also, I want you to be assassins on the chessboard.
You know, people think, hey, you didn't know how to play chess last week and now your chess assassin,
what's going on here?
And also, you get all these pointers to look up these people.
You know, you should learn from the world champions.
Why not learn from the best?
So check out Mikol, but when it gains.
But this is an iconic move here that he plays.
So our pop music plays an absolutely iconic move, Bishop Avery, that doesn't square Bishop only has
one thing to say about the task has to be sacrificed on the altar of being in prison for so long.
It makes it so dramatic.
All is being used as a kind of.
Deflection, you know, moving a defender.
But that's what chess is about, you know, winning key squares.
Winning access to key squares is like being the equivalent of a computer hacker.
I guess if you can win key squares, how would you hack into the black position?
You have to the track the queen away that you might have access.
All of a sudden to some key squares and possibilities that you shouldn't have had.
It's like being a bit of a hack on a chessboard, so.
We see her black actually take this and what's the key point here?
The queen has left F six, so major deflection tactic, weakening SS.
So we've kind of undermined uptakes.
How do we underline that?
Undermine of F six.
Underline the undermine.
How would you do this with a tactical move in position.
OK, Crunch, 1995 check.
So and this is what a piece is going to be brought back, so it's only one piece down, but look at
this passport.
So Kingi is played.
If King Estates, then Queen F7, Shaq and Queen, this is checkmate, the stargaze, though the issue
with King Kingi.
It's not that brilliant either.
It seems that Black has a load of checks and no worries.
But Eighty-seven does actually frighten queening.
And does actually Frank have a chat, mate?
So you might think, well, there's loads of checks, but look what happens now.
Check, check.
The king goes to Jeoffrey
Queen before the king goes for Quiney for check.
And now it doesn't actually blunder horrifically with King H free, which would allow Queen she for.
No, this didn't happen.
Just put that on the board.
Now he has to take out the H5 pawn.
And also it means though that there's a defensive measure that can be used shortly.
Not here, not just quite yet.
King H for Jack G.
Four of the Queen E one.
Jack King of the Game, Ed Black has run out of checks.
White friends, Queen Efate meeting.
And the queen's kind of stuck against it as well.
So, for example, you know, if a six, then check is also crushing like that, there's nothing for
black to do her if queene to quantify is Chien-Ming.
Yeah.
But also, by the way, was.
Are beating Kerplunk way back in the summer when it was just a little kid.
Well, not little actually kind of to be managed to get a game with camp on a A and beat Capablanca
and a crushing game, really brutal game where Capablanca Kalsu coincide.
So, yeah, but I think was a rising star making his name.
Quite early on, actually, from from from beating Capablanca in that similarily early on and, yeah,
had a profound impact, but the Soviet domination of chess ever since.
Most of the 20th century.
Soviet school, which has become part of the camp of Kasparov, future world champions, after the whole
thing about professionalism in chess, you know, professional standards, preparation, public, for
example, Hastings would turn up two weeks earlier just to get acclimatized.
So good holiday, I expect, for his wife, et cetera.
So mean, he said to the authorities, yeah, I it's all it's all for the tournament.
Yeah.
I'm going I'm going to you.
So, yeah.
I mean.
There are some controversies about some of his matches.
He managed to resourcefully use the rematch clause, knowing that that was in place he could afford
to lose an national world championship matches against.
And so give them a little bit of fun for a year.
But because the rematch clause know he just regained it.
But the next time and he uses big time and preparation and find out all their weaknesses and create
a repertoire to expose all their weaknesses and avoid their strengths is the real art of war.
If you know the rules of the game, you can afford to lose a battle, a battle being the first kind
of world championship challenge.
Then he researches them even much greater depth and wins the rematch.
He did that multiple times for me.
I mean, he's an absolutely brilliant player, but for me, I fought.
1960 was a naughtier for a former cartel.
Should definitely have not played in 1961 because of some health issues.
So anyway, there is politics in chess, there is controversy.
Check out Wicky, of course, the affirmative reference for more details.
So anyway, but this is for me, an iconic Mikhail Bosnich game.
And for sure he had a massive effect on the professionalism of preparation and science of the game.
You know, before that, you know, casual attitudes, more kind of out of feudalism.
But he made the game a lot more professional, in my view.
OK.
Venceremos.