WEBVTT 00:00.810 --> 00:01.530 Hi there. 00:01.560 --> 00:04.770 In this lecture, we see the so-called Polish immortal. 00:04.800 --> 00:07.440 This was Luxembourg against me on night off. 00:07.440 --> 00:11.760 So night off is the same person as the Sicilian night off. 00:12.000 --> 00:21.780 So E4, C5 and three d sex this position with sex nine C3 a6 the Sicilian night off. 00:21.780 --> 00:24.720 So yeah, someone to check out in Wikia. 00:24.720 --> 00:27.030 It's not just this name variation. 00:27.030 --> 00:32.220 He is actually a brilliant player in his own right, one of the strongest in the world in his era. 00:32.490 --> 00:34.320 So let's have a look at this game. 00:34.320 --> 00:36.990 It started actually with D4 from Luxembourg. 00:36.990 --> 00:45.990 We have a Dutch defence C4 f69 C3 e6 F3 and now D5 going for a stonewall formation. 00:46.770 --> 00:51.990 E for a slight inaccuracy here, it's not contesting the E5 square. 00:51.990 --> 00:58.290 So one downside of this structure is the E5 square y could have played Bishop F4 and if Bishop de sex 00:58.290 --> 01:00.870 just not mind the double pawns. 01:00.870 --> 01:07.380 If Bishop takes F4, the idea is just to clamp down on E5, but in this game it's a casual game. 01:07.860 --> 01:17.740 E3 was played and inaccuracy C6 Bishop D Free Bishop D six Both sides Castle Knight's E2 might be seventh 01:17.880 --> 01:23.040 and now mistake White plays Knight G5 going for the E6 pawn. 01:23.850 --> 01:31.410 A better move would have been b free and actually after 94 Bishop b2 White logically clamps down on 01:31.410 --> 01:34.890 E5 here and maybe you could say it has a slight edge here. 01:35.820 --> 01:41.520 What engine C You know, white's absolutely fine with a small edge, but Knight G5 is actually a bad 01:41.520 --> 01:42.270 mistake. 01:42.420 --> 01:44.310 So guess what Black plays have. 01:46.480 --> 01:53.230 Och, it's an unprotected piece and it's actually just left h two weeks of the last move. 01:53.680 --> 01:55.370 Bishop takes H to check. 01:55.390 --> 02:01.900 Now King H one is played because if King takes H to Knight G for check and we just take out that night. 02:02.830 --> 02:08.380 So fun and games begin actually from here because Nietzsche four is played in this position. 02:09.850 --> 02:11.760 F four if one indulges. 02:11.770 --> 02:16.750 Knight takes E six, then Queen H four looks quite terminal. 02:16.810 --> 02:20.830 So Knight G for a bishop takes G free check Queen H to his mate. 02:22.360 --> 02:25.570 So yes, that looks as though it won't do 9g5. 02:25.570 --> 02:27.070 That's just delaying things. 02:27.220 --> 02:30.880 We can just take that out and then go back for more with a strong attack. 02:31.810 --> 02:35.050 So this is a very strong attack winning position here. 02:35.290 --> 02:40.390 So, okay, so basically f four was played. 02:41.290 --> 02:42.610 Queen E eight. 02:42.910 --> 02:43.780 G Free. 02:43.810 --> 02:44.800 Queen H five. 02:44.800 --> 02:45.730 And now King G two. 02:45.760 --> 02:48.280 The thing is about this. 02:49.800 --> 02:50.220 Is that? 02:50.250 --> 02:50.670 Hold on. 02:50.700 --> 02:53.080 Is this backfiring because of Rook H1? 02:53.280 --> 02:57.390 So we have an interesting situation from the perspective of our attacking course. 02:57.390 --> 03:02.670 We've got some resources near the king, but we want absolutely best resources. 03:02.670 --> 03:05.310 Then the king, our bishops not really that threatening. 03:05.310 --> 03:06.230 So guess what? 03:06.240 --> 03:10.050 Black plays here to continue the attack. 03:11.010 --> 03:13.200 So for 100 points, what would you play in this position? 03:13.200 --> 03:15.030 The imminent threat is real quick one. 03:15.570 --> 03:18.360 So we want our absolutely best resources around the king. 03:18.360 --> 03:21.870 That's kind of my motto from 1989, winning Lloyds Bank Junior. 03:21.870 --> 03:22.440 Absolutely. 03:22.440 --> 03:25.590 Best resources can be put in place here where Bishop G. 03:26.130 --> 03:28.890 Try and get the queen very near to the king. 03:30.240 --> 03:32.220 Now, there was another way of playing this. 03:32.220 --> 03:36.000 Actually, the king is on the square. 03:36.000 --> 03:37.260 And funny enough. 03:38.920 --> 03:43.370 It looks impossible for this bishop to have an influence. 03:43.390 --> 03:46.150 This is an alternative way of playing it. 03:46.480 --> 03:52.450 We can actually try and clear out this diagonal sometimes in the stone. 03:52.480 --> 03:56.800 Well, this bishop is surprisingly dangerous as an attacking piece. 03:56.800 --> 04:00.550 The so called bad bishop instead of Bishop g1. 04:00.550 --> 04:08.620 Just for the record, detailed C four and then here f6 inviting White's play to take on E6. 04:08.620 --> 04:10.330 But that would open up this file. 04:10.630 --> 04:20.800 So say why it doesn't take on E6 C5 clears the whole diagonal now and this would be very bad news if 04:20.800 --> 04:21.790 this bishop stepped in. 04:21.790 --> 04:31.210 So B6 taking now with the bishop B7 you can see that this is actually rather bad news if Bishop B7 happens. 04:31.570 --> 04:37.930 So that's another way of getting resources logically near the king, even a resource you wouldn't expect 04:37.930 --> 04:39.040 whatsoever. 04:39.040 --> 04:44.020 You know, this bad bishop on C eight can actually have an influence logically not physically near the 04:44.020 --> 04:46.510 king but logically and squares of the king. 04:46.510 --> 04:49.870 So anyway, Bishop G one though is very very interesting. 04:50.500 --> 04:56.080 Knight takes is played if King takes G1, Queen H two is checkmate. 04:56.110 --> 05:01.230 If Rook takes G1, Queen H two and then Queen F2. 05:01.240 --> 05:08.470 So you can see yeah resources around the king cooperating and IT team for checkmate in that so Knight 05:08.470 --> 05:16.930 takes G1 is played and we have a brilliant continuation now Queen H two checking a free so you can see 05:16.930 --> 05:24.340 the Queen is cutting off key escape squares and one should be very excited as an attacking player in 05:24.340 --> 05:25.600 the land of combinations. 05:25.600 --> 05:29.890 Here we're in a basically a nice combination phase of the game. 05:30.040 --> 05:33.160 So how would you proceed the attack here? 05:33.460 --> 05:36.190 The Queen is well placed controlling escape squares. 05:36.190 --> 05:44.650 We want to bring more kind of team members into the attack now to try and get checks whilst the king 05:44.650 --> 05:47.500 has been locked down a bit. 05:47.680 --> 05:50.440 So this next move for 100 points, what would you play? 05:52.960 --> 05:54.940 Okay, it's actually E5. 05:56.500 --> 05:58.480 So now D tanks is played. 05:58.510 --> 06:05.050 If Bishop D2 funny enough E4 check, Bishop takes E4 check. 06:05.380 --> 06:10.930 We can do something absolutely amazing here in this position. 06:13.190 --> 06:18.380 The short cut the game and actually secure that night on G4. 06:18.380 --> 06:26.480 In some rotations we can actually do this D five check, which is actually a defense of the G full night 06:27.230 --> 06:28.250 F tanks. 06:28.700 --> 06:39.010 And here we've got f tanks E four and that is actually double check and mate and the bishop holds g. 06:39.710 --> 06:51.770 If we look at this again, if D tanks e5f takes e4, check nine takes E4, we have 96, E five and that 06:51.770 --> 06:52.580 is checkmate. 06:52.790 --> 06:53.900 So yes. 06:53.900 --> 07:01.190 So why tries here immediately D takes E5 and now some of the same mechanisms. 07:01.220 --> 07:09.080 This, this is really a hero bishop here Knight D takes E5 protecting g4 so f takes e5, Knight takes 07:09.080 --> 07:13.370 E5 King F4 and the hero is blunted. 07:13.370 --> 07:18.890 But we have Knight G6 check which liberates potential for the f pawn to liberate the bishop now. 07:19.250 --> 07:25.550 So F4 you might think, Well, what exactly is going on here now? 07:26.690 --> 07:32.720 Well, one point here is if G tanks f4 weakness of the last move we pounce into H four Knight is actually 07:32.720 --> 07:40.130 mate, but alternatively also we can actually make with 9095 as well. 07:41.150 --> 07:42.350 That's the checkmate as well. 07:42.350 --> 07:46.100 So the queen is doing a, you know, a fantastic job of the escape square. 07:46.100 --> 07:49.220 So that's one beauty of resources around the king. 07:49.220 --> 07:53.630 But sometimes you do need other members of the team to help participate after. 07:53.960 --> 07:55.940 So it takes F4. 07:57.080 --> 07:58.910 So in this position. 07:59.790 --> 08:03.420 Yeah, there's an absolutely wonderful resource. 08:05.920 --> 08:07.540 What is that resource? 08:07.810 --> 08:12.640 So this so called bad bishop, is it going to be the hero here in some way? 08:12.640 --> 08:13.870 In some strange way? 08:14.110 --> 08:15.250 It is, actually. 08:15.280 --> 08:16.340 I'm going to show you now. 08:16.360 --> 08:17.470 200 points. 08:18.370 --> 08:19.300 That's the clue. 08:19.450 --> 08:21.190 We have Bishop G4, Shaq. 08:21.220 --> 08:25.300 Now, unless Y wants to lose the Queen, that's absolutely winning for black hair. 08:26.410 --> 08:32.200 So white took but now E5 Shaq. 08:33.490 --> 08:40.510 So this makes sure that the Afro is controlling every escape square because have tanks. 08:40.720 --> 08:48.100 So we've got escape squares now covered by physical pieces and logical pieces taking out escape squares. 08:49.120 --> 08:56.350 Well, h three for the queen in particular, but the rook is also taking out these escape squares. 08:57.100 --> 08:59.020 Let's put these in green showing. 08:59.290 --> 09:01.660 So all the escape squares kind of taken out. 09:01.750 --> 09:05.980 And we just need another member of our team now to deliver the final checkmate. 09:06.020 --> 09:07.990 These these pieces are beautifully placed. 09:08.260 --> 09:10.000 So what member of the team is that now? 09:10.000 --> 09:11.260 An unsuspecting. 09:14.440 --> 09:17.420 Little member of the team plays the chair, mate. 09:17.420 --> 09:18.260 Can you spot it? 09:18.410 --> 09:19.040 Yeah. 09:19.550 --> 09:22.910 Ten points H five, champ, mate. 09:23.780 --> 09:24.590 Yeah, it's. 09:24.590 --> 09:25.700 It's a fun one. 09:25.790 --> 09:30.800 Clearly, White got in big trouble for a mistake. 09:30.800 --> 09:31.250 Move. 09:31.280 --> 09:32.620 It's like a casual game. 09:32.630 --> 09:33.990 Positionally. 09:34.010 --> 09:34.790 Also, this. 09:34.790 --> 09:37.380 This is this. 09:37.520 --> 09:38.400 I mean, this is. 09:38.400 --> 09:40.850 It could have been replaced with be freed up with a much better move. 09:40.880 --> 09:46.310 But it's instructive because it seems as though there was almost a backfire of pieces being trapped 09:46.820 --> 09:48.990 because of this king, too. 09:49.100 --> 09:55.520 It's amazing, the two key, you know, major solutions here, Bishop ji one, as an absolutely amazing 09:55.520 --> 09:56.300 solution. 09:56.630 --> 10:01.520 But also even the idea of getting this bishop on this diagonal is pretty instructive. 10:01.760 --> 10:02.270 But yeah. 10:02.300 --> 10:10.460 Bishop g1, it's beautiful how certain pieces there the King, they they take that role, that team 10:10.460 --> 10:17.450 role of restricting escape squares and other members of the team are coming to help also take away escape 10:17.450 --> 10:19.760 squares or deliver the final checkmate. 10:20.210 --> 10:26.270 So the bishop, which is usually a bad bishop in that stonewall, playing a pivotal role here, putting 10:26.270 --> 10:32.190 the king in a bad spot for 95, which means that everything's locked down for the final checkmate. 10:32.210 --> 10:34.070 So really instructive attack. 10:36.320 --> 10:38.990 I enjoyed this one and so much.