Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Aaron Nimzowitsch against Simeon Lapin in 1914 St Petersburg Tournament.
Let's have a look.
E-4 From the intervention, we have the French defence.
D4 D5 and now 9396 E takes de 59635 Knights, F3 and now C5.
This does expose black to tempo gainers from white.
Now tempo gainers lead in developments.
There sometimes temporary advantages if you don't actually capitalize on them.
They will disappear.
So it's it's an interesting decision.
c5a safer one would have been Bishop E seven.
So for example, Bishop defray nine, c3b tanks 97, Queen E 296 White can claim a small edge, but
this is actually an inaccuracy here.
C five The king is still in the center and it means this line of attack is sometimes dangerous as well.
We have knight takes D five, queen takes D five is played.
If e takes, we can use Bishop B five check here.
Given that the pawn, there's no C six or anything.
And this possession we can actually play Bishop takes these seven Czech queen takes these seven and
just castling and we're better here For example here D take C five trying to get a tempo here Rookie
one check Bishop E seven and we can actually convert the temporary advantage here into a more permanent
one.
Can you see how for ten points, what would you play?
And we can actually gain the tempo first and in this position is black let off the hook.
We need to convert the temporary advantage.
If black castles, black might actually be okay.
So what would you do in this situation to really amplify the temporary advantage before it disappears?
We've got to amplify it to the extent it creates a permanent advantage.
And there's actually a move here which is kind of crushing.
So what is this move for 100 points?
So this is just the variation of this game.
It's fascinating.
Okay.
Bishop G.
Five Offering material amplifies the temporary advantage before it disappears.
So here, if Bishop takes G five, we'll play 96 check and advantageously win the Queen.
So that's nice.
And if f six, we can play Queen H five exploiting the king in the center.
And here Knight takes g six is quite vicious, this position.
Queen H Free check.
Bishop four Check.
Bishop 66 Check where Material up with a crushing position.
So that's a great demonstration of E 65 going badly wrong.
So Queen takes the five is played and now tempo gaining Bishop e three so not a standard move is actually
threatening to win a pawn potentially you know with details and queen size.
So C text is played Knight takes D four and now a six.
And here Bishop E two black makes things far worse with Queen text G two.
So a lack of development and the queen itself subject to great tempo gains.
We have Bishop free.
The Queen goes the G six, Queen DD two and E five.
And here Nimzowitsch is truly amazing.
Tactically, what would you play here to make sure you try and convert the temporary advantage into
a more permanent one.
That's the key question.
So this position, sometimes we do need to sacrifice to get that conversion, to get to that threshold
where there's a conversion.
So what would you play for 100 points here with whites?
Do we move the night course or the offer?
The night, if night be free.
Bishop E seven.
We've lost most of our advantage here, actually.
Black is on the way to just being slightly worse overall.
I know we're two.
We're two pawns up.
Sorry.
We're two pawns down.
Rather, we're two pawns down.
But even in this position, White still has some compensation.
Why?
It's only slightly better.
But the way Nimzowitsch plays it, it's a much more dangerous conversion.
Just leaving the knight to be taken by castling.
And it is taken now.
The thing is, on Bishop E seven we can gain a temporary of Rook G one and there's a fascinating move
here, which maybe you'd never consider.
This position is absolutely fascinating.
We've got pressure on this diagonal.
That's something to note as a slight clue, and it looks as though, well, we can't we don't want to
have the Queen's coming off.
There wouldn't be enough.
Right.
So what would you play here for?
100 points.
In this case, there is a move.
Yeah.
95.
Embrace the Queen's coming off.
An embrace, a weakness of the last move.
If the bishop takes the night.
It seems ridiculous.
This is not about the king, right?
It's about our glorious bishop power here.
If Bishop takes her fight, we take on BB7.
We're winning the rook, and we're getting loads of compensation.
We're better.
So that is absolutely fascinating.
If Queen's C-7 were just going to take on G7.
Thanks very much.
That's crushing.
So, yes, this is a really interesting continuation.
Now, if the Queen has gone to F6, you know, Bishop G5 and then we can take on E seven.
And let's say Queen takes seven.
And yeah, there's a really amazing resource here to think about.
Yeah.
Bishop thanks B7 would definitely be converting our advantages.
We've got all sorts of tricky resources here if Queen takes.
We can consider quite seriously 96 keeping the king in the centre, for instance, in Queen D eight
and as example Queenie seven doesn't help.
We still have a glorious attacking position with moves like 90 6g7, Shaq and Queen H six coming.
But let's have a look at Bishop takes B 795.
This is also going to be glorious.
9g7 Shaq Queen before it's just mating.
It's just simply mating.
So yeah, Bishop E seven does run into grave difficulties after G one.
It shows the temporary, you know, lead involvement.
We can capitalize on it with this stunning 95 hair or if Queen F six.
Yeah, we can capitalize here convert that temporary into permanent with this amazing resource.
Bishop thanks b seven.
Really fascinating stuff.
So e tanks is played and now we have Bishop tanks RD 490 C six and with the king in the center there's
a really glorious move played in this position.
There are several good moves that winning, but Nimzowitsch plays one of the most accurate, brilliant
tactician, Nimzowitsch as well as great positional player into introduction of many top positional
players.
So what would you play here with White for 100 points?
The most incisive move, Czech or chess?
The so-called captures check all major threats like mating one or two and you might consider sex is
kind of threatening.
Queenly eight.
Pardon me.
It's threatening.
Queenly eight to be mating.
So it is a tempo gaining move.
Bishop takes g seven is also strong here.
This is like this is really dangerous.
But this is even more emphatic in actually so Queen sex f six is played.
If Bishop e seven we can take out c six to weaken the eight and then Queen D eight is nice.
So Queen thanks is played.
We have rook he1 check Bishop e seven.
Yeah.
And here, Bishop, take C sex check now.
If B takes C six, then Queen RD eight is checkmate on King of Fate.
Yeah.
So this.
This is the game.
King of fate.
What do you think?
Nimzowitsch played here.
Czech, all Czechs, even the most outrageous ones.
Getting a tempo.
Queenly eight.
Check Bishop takes the eight are now rookie eight is checkmate.
What a brilliant tactical game from the switch.
So time is an important thing.
But also if we're trying to accumulate advantages, sometimes the advantages are temporary in nature.
We need to be great tacticians, sometimes to convert the temporary into more permanent advantages,
permanent damage to the opponent.
If we don't find the resources, sometimes we need to add more fuel to the fire by sacrificing pieces
as this game shows this relatively short game shows.
So yeah, it's it's very dramatic play to make that conversion of temporary advantage to more concrete
advantages or champ meeting of course ends the game positional player or not checkmate ends the game
as it did here so a real beauty of a game beautiful variations and showing how development, tempo or
in general could be in the middle game in the opening or middle game.
How we can try and convert with emphatic you know piece sacrifices for example into more permanent advantages
So wonderful stuff.
I hope you enjoyed it.
And so much.