Hi there.
In this lecture, we see the immortal Gold Coins game.
So this is Stefan Nowitzki against Frank James Marshall in 1912.
So Frank Marshall is a real fun loving chess player.
He loves going for the attacks.
Sometimes he's ground down by more positional players.
Lasker destroyed him in the match famously, and Lasker was kind of avoiding his strengths of attack
and the use of initiative by often simplifying positions.
But anyway, in terms of being an attacking player, he is a great attacking player and had a great
number of successes.
This is in 1912, round six.
So D4 from Nowitzki.
We have E6 inviting a French defense, nothing C4 and now C5.
This is a little bit dodgy actually not F3 is not so punishing as what White could have played.
This is an inaccuracy.
Why it could have played e tanks of the e tanks D tank C five and bishop take C5 is is kind of unsound
losing D5 basically.
So if we're stuck here with Bishop E six though one could be stubborn enough to Bishop B5 check 96 to
actually protect the pawn.
This is possible and White should have an edge here.
It's not just about the pawn, it's about the dark square grip.
But anyway, let's get past the opening here.
Won't play Knights F three.
We have no C6 e tanks e tanks.
Bishop e two might have six white castles, Bishop e seven Bishop G, five Black castles.
Detailed C5.
And okay, we still have a D5 related problem.
So Bishop E6.
But this is actually going to be okay now in this particular scenario.
Knight D4.
Bishop take C5.
The concession here is actually good.
It's double edged.
This position is more than double edged.
Blacks call this nice F5.
It's like automatically developing a rook against the soft spot.
So already you could argue there is this attacking strategy of having resources around the opponent's
king or targeting squares around the opponent's king.
So this was one of my favorite attacking strategies when I won the Lloyds Bank Junior, the UK Lloyds
Bank Junior in 1989, I just said to myself quite a lot in games, okay, how do I get my best resources
literally on squares around the opponent's king?
So here, okay, they are targeting soft spots.
We have Bishop G for Queen D6.
So this is also, in a way targeting a soft spot.
Even if it's not physically near, it's logically there.
We can make that distinction.
So best resources on squares around the opponent's king, either logically or physically.
Okay, so Bishop H.
Free.
We have eight Queen D2 and this allows this nasty pen Bishop before we have Bishop takes f6 rook takes
f6 rook 81 we have now Queen C5.
So looking at F2 here, Queen E2 we have Bishop takes C3, B takes queen takes C3 and now Rook takes
D5.
The thing is, okay, Black's got this vulnerable looking --, but after 94.
Yeah.
What does Wint do?
This is a bit precarious, this position not he takes that would be a disaster.
Not just losing it, but also getting checkmated.
So 94 is is important.
We have queen age five.
So the rook is looked at and it moves again.
It's it's logically squares around the opponent's king.
Here we have rookie five and already there's a great tactical shot in this position after rookie five
if rook D7 there's still in tactical shot though there are perks of this phone already.
Can you see what black could do here for ten points?
Which is kind of just very strong.
It's real.
It takes F2.
Yeah, the file sent me in.
That film is very dangerous.
Bishop, if I would be the best response.
Because if Rook takes F2, then White gets back promoted and on Bishop I, this doesn't really do too
many favours, you know Black's piece up.
But anyway.
In the game, though.
There's also I mean, as well as Rook takes after it's a winning position here.
Brook H6 is also winning for interesting reasons.
Basically based on Rook takes H and F3, so we see Queen G five and yes, Rook takes H three with the
idea of a nasty fork.
If it's taken the knight a free check winning the queen.
So the thing is, what is the white do?
Because this fork still exists here rotates.
It's going to end up forking on, you know, we're not free.
So that's going to be in material up anyway.
So it hasn't played particularly well.
So Queen G five, we have Rook takes three.
Okay.
And now Rook C five.
So here black for a moment is a piece up.
And when I said about logically our best resources logically around the king or physically.
Well, this is quite funny.
We can.
There's a clue there.
Okay, so it seems.
We have got our best resources.
Like logically.
Well, what that one is physically and logically on each to this one is logically on F2.
So H two and h two on the fire.
The knight's kind of near as well.
We've been checking distance, so there's an absolutely iconic move played in this position.
So maybe you haven't seen this move before, but this move is so stunning that apparently spectators
put gold coins on the board after they were so impressed.
So this is the immortal gold coins game.
So what is the move for 1000 points or gold coins?
I'm not going to play.
No, please don't.
Please don't ask me for the gold coins.
That's fictional.
Gold coins.
So what is black play here?
Which ends the game.
Check all checks.
Check Will captures check all major facts like mating one or two.
And you might actually that might actually lead you to physically put resources in there the opponent's
king we can actually make a mate fat here with Queen Geoffrey.
Outrageous as it might seem.
So even though the queen can be taken, it seems in three different ways.
We do have this mate frets, so it's worth checking this out of Queen sex age too.
There is a mate for that.
And White actually resigned her.
So why?
Well.
If Queen takes G3 90 to check and look at this Knight takes JI free check.
So unless Mike wants to get mated here with F takes, that mate Y ends up in this position where black
is a piece up and rooks free spells out that extra piece of supporting rook siegfried's hit C2.
So that would be hopeless.
But other things.
H takes g 92 is checkmate.
F tanks.
G 92 is mating.
Yeah.
So Queen G for a stunner in this case.
Yeah.
The combination seems it's an absolutely immortal combination.
The build up, we can say, well, the attacking build up the semi-open files are dangerous.
And this this notion of resources using a best resources around the opponent's king.
So it's not something I thought of at the time to distinguish.
A bit more discerning as we get more experience.
What do we mean by that?
Do you mean physically nearly opponent's king or do we mean logically?
Because logically there are perks of just probing squares.
Even if your pieces are physically far away, you know, Queen could be on just probing H two or rook
on fate probing after there's still perks, even if it's just logically instead of physically, you
know, it's like the internet where logically connected, aren't we?
We don't have to be physically in the same place to chat on on WhatsApp or whatever.
What's that's one of my favorites.
So whatever.
So, you know, it's getting resources either logically or physically around the opponent's king.
But here it's quite vivid that it's actually physically around the king for this might threat.
So that's interesting to consider if you actually are really strict in your thinking in middle games
and say, look, what are the mating one or mating sometimes mating to France, but mating one forgets
to not rule any of them out because some of them could be very, very spicy like this.
So this is a bit of a combination lesson as well.
But yeah, thinking about resources either logically or physically around the opponents.
KING and Marshall, you know, that's that's Marshall's cup of tea, that kind of chess.
Okay.
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That's very much.