Hi there.
In this lecture, we see an amazing game between Benton, Lawson and Boris Spassky.
In 1970, there was a USSR versus rest of the world match.
So very interesting match.
We have be free from Ben Lawson, one of his opening systems for Surprise five Bishop B2.
I mean, it gave him great results and he won many torments with this system and also, you know, came
later known as the Nimzowitsch Larsson system.
So Nimzowitsch and Larsen.
So we have 96 from Boris Spassky, see 49256, nine.
Afraid this is a bit provocative.
Spassky plays E4, we have 94 and now Bishop C5 now here, putting on some plays 19th C6, perhaps slightly
better as Knight F5.
It looks adventurous, but it is kind of hitting G7 if D5 Knight signs G seven check, for example C
65 Knight 65 this position.
Should offer wines a small engine, especially with Queen C one.
What should be getting a small edge?
So that was an interesting way of playing it with light.
Five.
Yeah.
And if like castles here, iframe this position.
C tanks.
Queen takes Knight G fray again.
Why?
It should have a small edge, especially in this line.
Nine C Free Knight D Free check.
If we take this a bit further, we could even take this pawn with a clear edge if black doesn't play
their cards right.
So okay, so 95 has something going for it.
And that is something I mentioned when looking at this game in My name's Olafsson.
Course you want to check that out that even this iconic game.
Yeah it has some improvements but might take C six not such a good move.
We have D tank CSX.
This is very very handy to play like this to increase central control rather than B tanks.
And after E3 we have Bishop five, Queen C two, Queen E seven.
So Black has a nice grip on the position.
Bishop E two If a frame and black castling Knight C3 this situation there is the possibility of playing
b4 but here the bishop can go to E5 doesn't have to be trapped at B6.
So this also shows you it has a small edge here.
Bishop E two though was played.
We have Spassky, castling, queenside and then this next move makes things a lot worse for White.
It's based on a tactic, of course, that the pawn can't take as of Queen takes A5 check.
Well, let me show you.
That's not to say, of course.
So this tactic wins a piece, gives time to take on F3.
So the thing is, the thing is here, it does make Mike White's position worse.
In particular, this form of has weakened E3.
It's weaken also the diagonal.
And Spassky is such an amazing player.
He can make diagonals which seem completely unusable very soon, you know, usable in some of his classic
attacking games.
It looks as though there's no issue on this diagonal right now, but we see Knight G4.
And with this it is.
Kind of potentially menacing.
Now, this position.
We have to move.
Jeffrey So what is going on?
Why, Jeffrey?
What is going on?
These are good questions because you might think that that's Jeffrey.
Well, let's have a look, if might scifri, what was black, do you think?
There's a very strong continuation here, actually, after natural night scifri, trying to, you know,
Castle Queensland, for example.
So with the king in the centre, we could actually try and exploit the King and center by weakening
the king.
Brooke Tanks T2 Rucksack Bishop takes e free.
So we get this position where now F2.
And here we can even play nightly free track, forget the rock and then use the diagonal queen H for
all of a sudden great use has been made of this diagonal.
G Free Bishop H Free shank and mates.
What is won't do here?
Bishop takes D3.
He takes this position.
Queen F2 is made.
So, Geoffrey, Hint five is strong this position.
Queen H three, Queen two kings in the sense if that's the best move, that's not good news.
D two check is really strong here as well taking yeah diabolical so they're all dangers with 9c3 you
know we've rook tanks D two in mind it's quite amazing.
The king's in big trouble there in the sense already that white can't just play this the castle queenside
So G4 is played and then we have the move Age five you might ask.
Hang on with the knight on B1.
There's no way any other sacrifice will work.
Actually, the funny thing is, even with the knight on B1, Rook takes D2 is very dangerous still here.
You know this position for example with Rook the eight knight G2 check Bishop H3 you can see the Kings
in quite a bit of bother here and trouble so free the resources are cut off, the rooks are cut off
here and black's infiltrating with advantage.
So even in this position, Rook takes D2 is really strong and very mind, you know.
Knight 62 Yeah, there's other strong possibilities, but let's get on with the main line of the game,
which is also spectacular.
So which is h five.
So we have.
If blank is allowed, we have the strong H for just to open up here.
So we have h free from white.
And this gets you know, this is the first super iconic move of the game.
What would you play here for 200 points?
So quite often in Spassky games, there's these attacking diagonals you think would never be, you know,
shown in the main line in the game.
But Spassky kind of proves that this diagonal, this diagonal of death, you could call it, because
the king hasn't moved.
So we need to look at the diagonals on the death all the time, and especially of our own.
KING We don't want to be exploited for some nasty check on one of the diagonals of death, as I like
to call it.
So here Spassky plays a really iconic move H for he's ripping open this diagonal we have H takes G four,
H takes G free hitting the rook.
Now the rook refuses to take on H8 with Rook G one.
It would be too many frets if rook takes some rook takes.
If we look at this, this is too much to bear this position with Rook h one coming.
So we have rook g one being played.
So a very interesting situation here.
So what would you play here?
There are strong moves.
The spectacular one was played.
If we look at Queen H for more directly this position, there is actually Rook H one rook f1g2.
And black actually gets an advantage here.
It's funny.
It's funny position.
If instead of you know, instead of what does black do instead of rook saying instead of rook f1 if
king f1 there's rook h to.
But if Rook takes h1g to check, there's a lot of magic here to be had with that advanced pawn as well.
A lot of very interesting situations.
It turns out Queen H4 is an exceptionally dangerous move already just using the diagonal of Def basically
against the default position of the king here.
This is just such a strong position indeed.
So yes, King had fun, too.
And instead of taxation, you might ask, what about knights?
FRANK Well, there's just work I have to check.
Queen Tax.
You won the meeting.
So in other words, Queen H fought already for this tiger and was fantastic with the king in the center.
If the king is in the center, yeah, we got to get trying to get onto these diagonals of death.
So by rook one does it also in spectacular fashion rotates h1g2 we have rook half one if rook G one
here.
Yeah.
We're back with Queen H four check King one, Queen H one.
What is really disconnected from the G one square here, helpless on G one hand, if Queen C one queen.
Thanks.
G one shank.
Queen C one is possible.
And then just queen ing.
So rook half one is tried offering the rook, but now Queen H four check King d1g takes F one queen
and Bent Lawson resigned her.
If Bishop takes F one Bishop takes G four.
Check King C one because if Bishop E two, there's Queen H one.
That's a cute checkmate.
So King C one, but here, Queen E one check Queen D one Queen 61 is checkmate.
A really brutal game which dented the popularity of 1b3, but unnecessarily.
You know why it didn't have to play like this?
And it's still for me, you know, a dangerous weapon of choice of surprise weapon.
So one shouldn't be put off, be free.
That's a side note about this game.
This is a very interesting opening.
Check my name.
So last and course side note there.
But no, the main note from the point of view of an attacking perspective on this game.
Yeah, this was a very provocative sequence.
C4 is not needed.
Black.
Well, I mean, white can actually play in various other ways here.
So this is a very provocative way of playing things with C4 in this possession.
There are other ideas.
So anyway, and there was a potential improvement here with F5.
Black had that dynamic structure.
With dynamic structure, like the double pawns, pawns are kind of getting out of the way for the pieces.
You can see that Black's piece activity is strong here on the defile, and that's the case of Black's
king.
The castle queenside.
At some point with normal play, you can see that D5 is going to be useful.
The dynamic structure structures often get out of the way to maximize piece activity.
So double pawns, it's a trade off.
You know, you get piece activity.
I say Queen's pawn, you get a piece of activity and sometimes you win by getting rid of the ice like
Queen's Pawn or hanging pawn, you get rid of one of the hanging pawns to maximize your piece activity.
Piece activity leads often to good attacking potential against the king.
So anyway, yeah, this is a dynamic structure and it gives black a very comfortable position with rapidly
castling on the queenside side.
So everything's out of the box here.
It's a bad position for makes things worse.
But already we see, you know, this position is not too pleasant.
For white.
There are, you know, issues here.
You know, blacks are very strong behind on the possession, but effort made things worse.
And this diagonal is something to try and exploit.
We can't think of it as impossible.
There are ways and means quite often of exploiting diagonals.
And Boris Spassky, one of the great attacking players I know he's mostly known for losing to Bobby
Fischer, but he's great at tapping, tapping into these attacking diagonals.
So it was done in absolutely spectacular fashion.
This diagonal of def was exploited in a truly spectacular fashion, in my view, with this initial piece
back and then this spectacular Rook H one.
Although Queen H four would have, it seems, done the job as well.
But this is absolutely spectacular way of playing the position with the advanced pawn.
So I hope you enjoyed this absolutely iconic game.
So yeah, the game ending on G takes F1.
It shows.
Yeah.
Quite a few pointers here for attacking chess.
Accepting double pawns isn't always such a bad idea.
Diagonal def, you know, try and amplify them rapid development.
Try and console before the opponent sometimes.
Yeah.
Weakening pull moves in the opening can have severe tactical consequences.
Okay.
I hope you enjoyed this so much.