WEBVTT 00:00.840 --> 00:01.590 Hi there. 00:01.800 --> 00:05.370 In this lecture, I want to talk about the bouncy Rhodes of attack concept. 00:05.610 --> 00:12.780 So when I was actually constructing the course on Mikhail Tal, this concept came up and up many times. 00:12.780 --> 00:13.920 Came up many times. 00:14.070 --> 00:17.140 So getting pieces around the opponent's king. 00:17.160 --> 00:18.390 So how do we do that? 00:18.750 --> 00:20.820 Well, we need to know where the king is. 00:21.450 --> 00:25.860 So here, for example, we'll go over this example soon at the end of this lecture. 00:25.900 --> 00:30.270 You know, the king is on G and our pieces are not in relation to things. 00:31.020 --> 00:33.480 In relation to things except for the night. 00:33.690 --> 00:38.430 Well, how would we get, for example, the Queen to be looking at the king from there? 00:38.550 --> 00:41.310 So that's, you know, a question to answer. 00:41.850 --> 00:44.490 If we are interested in meeting the opponent's king. 00:44.490 --> 00:46.140 So bouncy roads of attack. 00:46.380 --> 00:51.090 So like in snooker, you know, they hit a ball when it goes around the table and you're calculating 00:51.090 --> 00:52.260 the geometry of it. 00:52.290 --> 00:58.080 That's sometimes a useful skill in chess to get the angles to the opponent's king. 00:58.200 --> 00:59.520 A king in the center. 00:59.520 --> 01:06.360 If a king is in the center, then, you know, we got to look at the roads of the king, include, you 01:06.360 --> 01:10.320 know, the diagonal of the death, what I call the diagonals of death need to re-evaluate if the king 01:10.320 --> 01:12.000 is in the sense of what the king's here. 01:12.150 --> 01:15.240 So quite often, you know, this is a sensitive diagonal. 01:15.900 --> 01:20.570 That's a classic time that when the opponent, King Castles and this tiger was the smaller one. 01:20.580 --> 01:25.440 But wherever the king is, if it's on the queen side, then you should be looking, you know, dogs 01:25.440 --> 01:26.490 and death, trying to open up. 01:26.490 --> 01:28.550 Potentially that diagonal will use that diagonal. 01:28.560 --> 01:33.030 So wherever the king is, you know, there's roads to the king. 01:33.030 --> 01:37.320 We need to think, how do we kind of get our pieces round there? 01:37.770 --> 01:40.500 So the rook left that, you know, classic rook left in general. 01:40.500 --> 01:45.840 And I was not in this position quite yet, but it might include later, you know, a real cliff like 01:45.840 --> 01:48.130 this that would be like a bouncy road of attack. 01:48.150 --> 01:52.170 So it's ways and means of getting our resources around the king. 01:54.120 --> 02:00.540 And we're kind of trying to amplify that aspect sometimes in our chess. 02:00.900 --> 02:05.700 So I've given some specific examples if you want to look up in the course here. 02:05.880 --> 02:09.290 But we'll look at one specific example now just briefly. 02:09.300 --> 02:16.050 So it's basically about getting our best resources near the opponent's king using skills of snooker, 02:16.320 --> 02:19.920 which you might think a complete snooker is a completely irrelevant game. 02:19.920 --> 02:27.810 But yeah, we get round the boards on the files and the diagonals and the night is a bit cheeky of how 02:27.810 --> 02:30.120 it moves around the board, but online pieces. 02:30.120 --> 02:35.910 Yeah, we, we can bounce with online pieces when we talk about the line pieces, these guys going in 02:35.910 --> 02:43.980 straight lines so we can think about chess as almost like a game of snooker or, you know, a game which 02:43.980 --> 02:47.700 involves a table where you can hit a ball round. 02:47.940 --> 02:51.720 So let's look here as the example of what I mean. 02:53.070 --> 02:54.630 So white to play here. 02:54.630 --> 02:58.800 Alexander Alekhine has this position where the Queen's gone a bit offside. 02:58.920 --> 03:02.310 This was not not a great move. 03:02.640 --> 03:08.810 G6 would have been better to evict this knight and Black would have been fine with the Queen on 87. 03:08.820 --> 03:15.180 But as it turns out here, after Queen six, guess what Alexander Alekhine plays and it's good if you 03:15.180 --> 03:19.410 can use tempo gaining to get your bouncy Rhodes of attack. 03:20.130 --> 03:21.780 Okay, so for 100 points. 03:22.380 --> 03:22.700 Yeah. 03:22.740 --> 03:31.620 He lunges into the position, so Queen D thinks so bouncing from D six now after 97 Rook 51. 03:31.620 --> 03:34.500 And we see now the queen lands on G free. 03:34.950 --> 03:37.620 So that is much more of an attacking position now. 03:37.620 --> 03:39.930 So we've used the bouncy road of attack. 03:40.410 --> 03:43.710 So this is something to make use of in our own games. 03:44.220 --> 03:48.570 So G six was played and now Queen G five, King H eight. 03:50.070 --> 03:52.410 This is only a very light appreciation of this game. 03:52.410 --> 03:55.710 As I say, there's much more detailed analysis if you find this game. 03:56.490 --> 03:59.520 So versus Lasker in 1954. 03:59.520 --> 04:04.980 We have it's in the course, we have 96, King G seven and now E4. 04:04.980 --> 04:09.360 And this gives rise to another phase of bouncy Rhodes for the line pieces. 04:09.360 --> 04:16.830 You know this rook could bounce now via C three potentially we have all this other via D three same 04:16.830 --> 04:17.610 same facts. 04:17.610 --> 04:21.670 So rook D D3 f6 and then we have five check King H eight. 04:21.720 --> 04:23.550 And now guess what? 04:23.550 --> 04:30.330 When it plays a brilliant compensatory finish from Alekhine in this position for 200 points, what would 04:30.330 --> 04:31.260 you play here? 04:35.050 --> 04:35.500 Yeah. 04:35.500 --> 04:35.950 Queen. 04:35.950 --> 04:37.900 Thanks, G6 And the game ended here. 04:37.900 --> 04:44.440 If H takes there's free check 9h6 rook takes H six is checkmate. 04:44.470 --> 04:48.940 So it's a very, very cute game of Alexander Alekhine against the great Emanuel Lasker. 04:48.940 --> 04:56.980 In 1944, Zurich won an absolutely amazing game and it does feature this idea of kind of using the squares 04:56.980 --> 05:00.820 to bounce to get our resources near the opponent's king. 05:01.120 --> 05:02.620 So very nice game. 05:02.680 --> 05:04.720 It's just illustrating this concept. 05:05.140 --> 05:10.600 So yeah, when I was working through the course, I was making notes about particular concepts. 05:10.600 --> 05:15.430 I wanted to highlight you in the intro videos and this was one of several. 05:15.580 --> 05:20.740 So just bear that in mind if you're attacking chess as an interesting ingredient. 05:21.310 --> 05:22.060 Okay. 05:23.310 --> 05:23.760 Are much.