WEBVTT 00:00.900 --> 00:01.800 Hi there. 00:01.830 --> 00:10.500 In this lecture, we see Boris Spassky's trainer, Alexander Tonic against a low Seth. 00:10.560 --> 00:12.030 This is in 1948. 00:12.030 --> 00:13.830 U.S. Championship, round eight. 00:14.160 --> 00:21.060 And we can see the influence on Boris Spassky because Thomas was a fan of The King's Gambit. 00:21.420 --> 00:23.610 So a very attacking opening. 00:24.300 --> 00:32.010 So here a Lords have place D5, we have E tanks D5, which might not be now this might not be accurate. 00:32.010 --> 00:37.470 Queen 65 More accurate is actually e tanks F4. 00:38.250 --> 00:42.480 So knights have three nights of sex and of C4 c6 d4. 00:42.510 --> 00:43.980 This should be about equal. 00:44.730 --> 00:49.560 If anything, black might have a small edge technically, but it still funds playful white. 00:49.890 --> 00:52.650 So anyway in the game this is even more fun to play after. 00:52.650 --> 01:00.680 Queen takes D5 gaining this tempo with nine three Queen in six and now F takes e5 Queen takes E5 checkers. 01:00.690 --> 01:04.290 So the Queen has done a lot of moves and White's getting the pieces out and about. 01:04.290 --> 01:06.480 The Black King is still in the center. 01:07.080 --> 01:12.090 We see Bishop g4 d4 Queen e6 Queen D3. 01:12.090 --> 01:18.330 So this prepares the possibility of castling queenside things are getting out of the way for castling 01:18.330 --> 01:27.150 queenside We have also some threats like Queen b5 check which black is getting a bit concerned it seems, 01:27.150 --> 01:27.540 in place. 01:27.540 --> 01:30.720 C6 Yeah, it's worth trying to do something about that. 01:30.720 --> 01:34.920 Bishop E4 But another piece develops Knight F6 and now White Castles. 01:34.920 --> 01:37.740 Queenside This is all very nice. 01:37.740 --> 01:41.160 This is a very, very pleasant position to have from an opening. 01:41.160 --> 01:46.320 We have Bishop takes E2 just to show some of the latent dangers. 01:46.320 --> 01:55.500 If Bishop E7 White could take on G4 Queen since G4 Queen A3 and it's a nuisance, Black might be able 01:55.500 --> 02:01.140 to survive though with A6 here to bring the knight to D5 soon. 02:01.230 --> 02:07.860 So Knight before Bishop d6 and Black survives but is actually worse here as example. 02:08.040 --> 02:15.960 So anyway Bishop takes E2 helps again development wise with the king still in the center we have Bishop 02:15.960 --> 02:16.740 D6. 02:17.400 --> 02:24.570 So the funny thing is, if Bishop is seven you might think, Well, can't Black Castle from here? 02:24.570 --> 02:34.620 The thing is Rook HD one if Black Castles Knight G4 is actually rather strong here, Queen d79 F5 and 02:34.620 --> 02:36.720 Black's on a real back foot now. 02:38.740 --> 02:39.880 To say the least. 02:40.030 --> 02:48.640 So as an example, say Bishop de eight one can actually force a win here with the knight on EF five 02:48.670 --> 02:51.100 with Bishop the Saints rookie Yanks. 02:51.790 --> 02:52.420 And guess what? 02:52.420 --> 02:54.640 One can play hard, which is just crushing. 03:04.350 --> 03:08.890 You know, this is a very interesting position because of Bishop things being eight with the nine on 03:08.890 --> 03:09.870 there five. 03:10.500 --> 03:19.230 Looking at G7 rook takes the queen Geoffrey is now targeting the mate France and B eight and you can 03:19.230 --> 03:21.570 see how this is a total disaster. 03:22.740 --> 03:23.130 Okay. 03:23.130 --> 03:29.790 So Bishop D six though, was tried, but now even worse, things start to happen to Black's position. 03:31.530 --> 03:36.510 We have D5 opening up things 1965 1965. 03:39.100 --> 03:40.270 So here. 03:40.690 --> 03:42.850 Yeah, it looks very unpleasant. 03:42.850 --> 03:50.290 C 65 Queen G phrase may use of hand, gaining another key tempo, basically hitting G seven, hitting 03:50.290 --> 03:51.070 D six. 03:51.310 --> 03:57.010 So Bishop takes her for check, Knight takes her form, which means this diagonal is not even checked. 03:57.010 --> 04:00.370 The knight's in the way, so it's not even shank. 04:00.910 --> 04:02.230 The king still in the center. 04:02.230 --> 04:03.610 This is an open penalty. 04:03.610 --> 04:04.960 Rook One check. 04:04.990 --> 04:05.710 King and fight. 04:05.710 --> 04:06.580 And the final move. 04:06.610 --> 04:09.010 Can you guess for five points? 04:11.070 --> 04:13.010 Queen 83, and that's mating. 04:13.020 --> 04:14.670 So the king is going to move, have to move. 04:14.670 --> 04:17.670 All the queen is going to delay the mate, but it's going to be a mate. 04:17.850 --> 04:19.440 So it's a crushing game. 04:19.440 --> 04:20.730 It's a curiosity. 04:20.820 --> 04:21.150 Okay. 04:21.150 --> 04:23.070 So this is not the most celebrated game or anything. 04:23.070 --> 04:24.600 It's not in tons of collections. 04:24.600 --> 04:30.930 But what I wanted to show you, basically they're attacking chess. 04:32.100 --> 04:35.070 Has its roots in earlier plans than you might think. 04:35.070 --> 04:41.340 So Boris Spassky, who was a former world chess champion, apparently, you know, he he was really 04:41.340 --> 04:42.930 kind of inspired by tonic. 04:42.960 --> 04:46.350 He had some other training before that who wasn't so attacking. 04:46.350 --> 04:50.560 And he lost some of his attacking strengths, but with Polish on board. 04:50.580 --> 04:57.120 You know, Spassky became an even more dangerous dynamic, attacking player, you know, strengthening 04:57.120 --> 05:02.770 his tactics as well, because that's the style is important to be strong tactically. 05:02.790 --> 05:04.860 So this is just an example from Polish. 05:04.860 --> 05:05.630 I wanted to show you. 05:05.640 --> 05:11.070 Just show you just historically, you might not have ever seen this game, but the real roots, you 05:11.070 --> 05:13.650 know, So the same with Garry Kasparov. 05:13.920 --> 05:19.560 Kasparov, the kind of sensei is Alexander Alekhine, the sensei, the teacher. 05:19.710 --> 05:25.210 And this this is in we have in karate the concept of Sensei. 05:25.230 --> 05:28.140 So a fan of Cobra, Kai and Sensei. 05:28.170 --> 05:29.850 This is a fun series on Netflix. 05:29.850 --> 05:36.420 But anyway, we can see that the earlier generations, they take a certain spirit, a certain style, 05:36.870 --> 05:40.890 and it's been nurtured and it's kind of been passed on to the later generations. 05:40.890 --> 05:46.050 But the earlier generations, they have simpler examples to learn from. 05:46.050 --> 05:48.010 Opening theory wasn't so evolved. 05:48.030 --> 05:54.420 So if we want to learn the the arts, the arts of attacking chess, you know, we have to go to players 05:54.420 --> 05:57.030 like Thomas or Alexander Alekhine. 05:57.030 --> 06:02.850 Alexander Alekhine is even more affirmative, though, than Astonish had some great results. 06:02.850 --> 06:08.340 But Alekhine was himself, you know, a world chess champion and is the basis, it seems, you know, 06:08.460 --> 06:11.430 a great study for Kasparov when he was young. 06:11.640 --> 06:16.830 So I just wanted to respect the generations and what we learn from the past generations. 06:16.830 --> 06:24.130 And the simpler examples is the simpler examples which really we should embrace because there's a greater 06:24.180 --> 06:30.840 probability of us understanding those examples, because a lot of the modern Kasparov games, especially 06:30.840 --> 06:36.360 the celebrated ones, are often against players like comp if they're very, very complex indeed. 06:36.360 --> 06:38.280 So yes, if we get similar examples. 06:38.280 --> 06:42.540 Masters that's always a good thing in my view, from the earlier generations. 06:42.540 --> 06:43.240 Okay. 06:43.590 --> 06:44.250 And so much.