WEBVTT 00:00.900 --> 00:01.620 Hi there. 00:01.650 --> 00:06.420 In this lecture, we see an amazing game of Rudolf Spillman against Alexander Flambeau. 00:06.450 --> 00:09.350 This is a 1914 Mannheim tournament, round one. 00:09.360 --> 00:12.170 So Spillman was actually known as Master of Attack. 00:12.180 --> 00:14.490 So let's learn from him in this game. 00:14.850 --> 00:20.010 So his play is often full of sacrifices, brilliancy and beautiful ideas, and this game is a great 00:20.010 --> 00:21.290 showcase example. 00:21.300 --> 00:28.680 So F4 from Rudolf Spillman, we have E5 from Flambeau now 93, the Vienna game, one of my favorites 00:28.860 --> 00:33.030 as well for online play especially nice have six for D5. 00:33.060 --> 00:41.640 This is the logical move of test testing move of the Vienna game after 65 Knight takes E4 now Knight 00:41.640 --> 00:48.570 F3 we have here Bishop G4, Queen E and we have Knight see five. 00:48.570 --> 00:55.410 Now if Black had played Knight eight three White could actually play D tanks and there's a bit of a 00:55.410 --> 00:56.090 trade off. 00:56.100 --> 01:02.730 Okay, we have double pawns but we can play Bishop F4 and quickly Castle Queenside here So that's kind 01:02.730 --> 01:07.620 of logical here because our Queen's inhibiting the bishop to stop castling kingside. 01:07.620 --> 01:10.650 But this position is is pleasant enough. 01:11.010 --> 01:13.860 We would have attacking prospects here as example. 01:14.280 --> 01:22.140 So anyway nine C5 and we have D4 and black goes into materialistic mode here. 01:22.140 --> 01:24.690 Black can actually technically win a pawn. 01:24.690 --> 01:28.140 So trying to punish the downside of this move. 01:28.140 --> 01:33.480 But the thing is, is black in a position to punish things because the king is still in the center? 01:33.510 --> 01:35.580 The general rule is in the opening. 01:35.580 --> 01:38.700 You should really prioritise piece development and king safety. 01:39.000 --> 01:45.480 If you indulge in active operations too early, then they are likely to backfire. 01:45.480 --> 01:46.230 The Art of War. 01:46.260 --> 01:51.240 The good fighter puts themselves beyond the feet before going onto the attack is black beyond defeat. 01:51.240 --> 01:54.540 So Black indulges Bishop takes her free. 01:54.540 --> 01:58.740 So this gives the bishop hands away and the point square bishop is without a counterpart. 01:58.770 --> 02:04.110 And the point is of Black's punishment for check, which. 02:05.080 --> 02:05.740 Is interesting. 02:05.740 --> 02:06.040 Now. 02:06.040 --> 02:10.080 Sure, one can play Queen F2, but it doesn't want the queens necessarily coming off. 02:10.090 --> 02:16.270 So in fact, guess what Spellman plays here, which is like the punishment of the punishment here and 02:16.270 --> 02:17.710 the king still in the center. 02:18.520 --> 02:20.980 So what would you play for 100 points? 02:22.900 --> 02:27.160 It's a great concept to rapidly develop even more g free. 02:27.170 --> 02:29.170 Just offer the sensor, let the sensor go. 02:29.170 --> 02:31.970 Queen 64 And now another great move. 02:31.990 --> 02:33.130 What would you play here? 02:33.790 --> 02:36.510 It seems very casually played, Bishop. 02:36.590 --> 02:38.500 E4 Yeah, letting another pawn go. 02:38.530 --> 02:44.050 The thing is now cast in queenside, a major pressure on D5 that supports D5. 02:44.380 --> 02:45.520 But guess what? 02:46.150 --> 02:48.100 Now it's all turns punish black. 02:48.460 --> 02:50.350 The punishment of the punishment. 02:50.470 --> 02:52.200 So the black king still in the center. 02:52.210 --> 02:54.250 We want to stop the black King Castling. 02:55.690 --> 02:56.980 So what would you play here for? 02:56.980 --> 02:57.880 100 points? 02:59.660 --> 02:59.900 Yeah. 02:59.920 --> 03:00.880 So it's a classic. 03:00.880 --> 03:05.290 Black has been greedy material at the expense of king safety. 03:06.280 --> 03:11.560 So when we evaluate positions, we don't want things to go totally off balance, especially in terms 03:11.560 --> 03:12.310 of king safety. 03:12.400 --> 03:14.050 We don't want our king safety to destroy it. 03:14.050 --> 03:20.620 But here Knight takes D5 emphasizes the king's still in the center, C takes Rook, takes D5 and now 03:20.620 --> 03:21.940 we have Queen E6. 03:24.280 --> 03:28.510 If Queen C7 just bishop take C5 this position. 03:28.510 --> 03:32.860 Bishop B5 check is nice and then we can just take it on C5. 03:33.190 --> 03:34.990 So queeny sex was tried 03:37.450 --> 03:38.320 and. 03:39.830 --> 03:40.220 Yeah. 03:40.220 --> 03:47.180 There are some ideas that sometimes queeny one check might be useful if taking on sci fi we have Bishop 03:47.210 --> 03:47.560 C-4. 03:47.570 --> 03:50.870 So this rook is involved in supporting things. 03:50.870 --> 03:54.980 And why is Francis saying things like rook d h to win the queen? 03:55.070 --> 03:56.270 We have Queenie for this. 03:56.270 --> 03:57.860 This is an interesting move. 03:58.100 --> 03:59.360 If Bishop seven. 03:59.360 --> 04:04.820 Yeah, Rook takes C5, no problem hitting the queen and Bishop takes up seven. 04:04.820 --> 04:05.540 Check. 04:05.600 --> 04:06.890 Bishop e six check. 04:06.960 --> 04:09.140 You can see this is crushing. 04:09.500 --> 04:11.000 So Queen E four. 04:11.120 --> 04:16.730 But when the opponent has downsides like King, the sense especially or other sorts of downsides might 04:16.730 --> 04:17.630 be a loose pace. 04:17.630 --> 04:18.860 Any form of downsides? 04:18.860 --> 04:21.140 You want to become a know person in chess? 04:21.140 --> 04:23.010 That's what I am. 04:23.870 --> 04:24.770 My, my, my. 04:25.340 --> 04:31.130 One of my latest theories about chess, it's like becoming a no person saying no to the opponent's threats. 04:31.130 --> 04:33.530 You don't have to serve them. 04:33.530 --> 04:36.380 And in fact, if we're not careful, we're going to lose a rook. 04:36.380 --> 04:39.410 If we move the queen, we're going to lose a rook with check. 04:39.830 --> 04:42.680 So we don't really want the queen's off. 04:42.680 --> 04:44.270 So guess what we play here. 04:44.270 --> 04:46.460 We know that there are downsides of the opponent's position. 04:46.460 --> 04:47.630 We can do better. 04:47.660 --> 04:49.490 They're responding to the opponent's threat. 04:49.490 --> 04:51.380 Basically, we can do much better. 04:51.590 --> 04:53.600 We deserve to do much better. 04:53.690 --> 04:55.460 So what would you play here for? 04:55.460 --> 04:56.780 500 points? 04:56.780 --> 04:59.840 Being no person, we're not going to move our queen. 04:59.840 --> 05:01.520 We're not going to take on E4. 05:01.550 --> 05:06.020 We want to seek to exploit, in fact, the opponent's downsides. 05:09.380 --> 05:10.340 How do we do that? 05:12.020 --> 05:13.570 Yeah, we can end the game here. 05:13.580 --> 05:14.690 Bishop, take SI five. 05:14.690 --> 05:16.240 And actually, Black resigned here. 05:16.250 --> 05:22.550 Just letting our queen know if the queen take takes on her free, very forcing rookie one check. 05:22.760 --> 05:28.790 Bishop e seven rook takes e check King f eight rook, the eight Shaq and mate. 05:28.790 --> 05:30.800 And how embarrassing is this for black? 05:30.830 --> 05:32.990 These pieces would be still in bed. 05:32.990 --> 05:42.980 Just the queen out OC equal on pawns here now Yeah So a crushing win showing absolute greed and materialism 05:42.980 --> 05:47.360 in the opening punished drastically a very short win. 05:47.360 --> 05:55.970 15 move win shows those from our attacking perspective that we really want to punish materialism. 05:56.390 --> 06:00.350 And the key point is this could have been a major turning point of the game. 06:00.770 --> 06:08.720 When we do have downsides to celebrate in terms of king safety, if you do start to just parry the opponent's 06:08.720 --> 06:11.560 threats, maybe they've got a gigantic rating online. 06:11.570 --> 06:16.430 GM And you feel that, oh, you're going to worship them or something, respect their threats? 06:16.460 --> 06:21.770 No, you are aiming to expose the opponent's downsides. 06:22.190 --> 06:23.600 That's the key thing. 06:24.260 --> 06:26.750 You've got to look at all the available options. 06:26.750 --> 06:29.360 So this was an absolute brilliant move. 06:29.390 --> 06:30.860 Bishop, Thank C5. 06:31.220 --> 06:35.870 So yeah, if Bishop takes protecting the Queen, it's very, very lost for black here. 06:35.870 --> 06:42.200 So I hope you enjoyed this one and sometimes welcome the opponents greed if it's at the expense of their 06:42.200 --> 06:43.550 king safety downside. 06:43.550 --> 06:48.470 And after that, they shouldn't be pushing you around with France if they do have a king safety downside 06:48.500 --> 06:51.620 tap into that OC and so much.