WEBVTT 00:00.900 --> 00:01.890 Hi there. 00:02.010 --> 00:08.700 In this lecture, we see an amazing game by Alexander Alekhine against Holeshot in 1933, a simultaneous 00:08.700 --> 00:13.020 display game, and it actually has one of my favorite chess combinations. 00:13.020 --> 00:20.250 So you'll see Alexander Alekhine in a lot of tactics and combinations, kind of books and everywhere 00:20.250 --> 00:23.280 on the Internet because he really loved the combination. 00:23.280 --> 00:29.100 And, you know, Laska said his whole play kind of grew out of a combination, as if previous players 00:29.100 --> 00:30.910 just like a necessary evil. 00:30.930 --> 00:36.030 Now, here he's having a lot of fun in this simultaneous display, not entirely sound, but a lot of 00:36.030 --> 00:36.480 fun. 00:36.480 --> 00:48.900 So E4 from Alekhine E5 from Asia 92 396 Bishop b5 d6 d4 e takes d4 Queen takes d4 Bishop D7 Bishop takes 00:48.900 --> 00:49.830 C6. 00:50.340 --> 00:52.500 Bishop takes C6 Bishop G5. 00:53.010 --> 00:57.120 So we have 96, 93, Bishop E7 and now castling Queenside. 00:57.120 --> 00:59.640 So the scene is here from this opening. 00:59.640 --> 01:03.900 Black has that Bishop Han But sometimes King safety factors come in. 01:03.900 --> 01:05.510 It's not all about the bishop pair. 01:05.580 --> 01:13.140 We have h4 H6 and here is which this is a very amusing, fun move, but it's actually technically a 01:13.140 --> 01:13.890 mistake. 01:13.890 --> 01:15.270 What happens now? 01:15.270 --> 01:18.120 And it's the sort of thing I'd like to play in Bullet Chess. 01:18.120 --> 01:19.710 So guess what Alekhine plays. 01:19.710 --> 01:23.310 It's not objectively sound, but what you think is a lot of fun. 01:23.310 --> 01:28.140 If I ask that question instead of what is the best move, What do you think is a lot of fun for attacking 01:28.500 --> 01:36.300 potential if black slips up So this position we can play 95 and treat this like a fishing pole. 01:36.300 --> 01:36.990 Just a rip open. 01:36.990 --> 01:39.330 The phone does seem fun. 01:39.330 --> 01:42.030 Black does take on it on G5. 01:42.840 --> 01:52.230 And now the thing is, if h takes is played black has this knight takes D5 and look at G5 and look at 01:52.230 --> 01:59.340 this diagonal the sort of diagonal of death on for this king is on this diagonal and black can actually 01:59.340 --> 02:04.860 tap into that with this key check and that gives resources like bishop age sex. 02:04.860 --> 02:13.260 If it's taken queenside G5 Czech F4 black can save a lot of hassle here and just play Queen takes D5 02:14.250 --> 02:18.000 just simplifying to save any dangers against the king. 02:18.000 --> 02:20.820 And this is just a very good endgame for black. 02:22.620 --> 02:24.240 Black has that control of the file. 02:24.270 --> 02:25.110 Black is a -- art. 02:25.140 --> 02:26.220 This is the way to play it. 02:26.250 --> 02:28.740 Like Capablanca, a simplifying combination. 02:29.370 --> 02:32.670 So, okay, so that's what it takes. 02:32.670 --> 02:38.520 But night takes is played nine, takes 87, Jack Queen takes and now H takes G5. 02:40.260 --> 02:42.900 Now here, Black played nine takes E4. 02:42.930 --> 02:44.050 This is a bit greedy. 02:44.070 --> 02:47.130 King Safety needs to be scrutinised heavily here. 02:47.370 --> 02:49.830 And can you see a defensive move for black which. 02:49.830 --> 02:52.260 Which would have spoiled the fun, it seems. 02:52.620 --> 02:53.790 What do you think Black could do? 02:53.790 --> 02:56.460 Which spoils the fun in this position? 02:58.100 --> 02:58.970 And why? 03:01.410 --> 03:05.730 It seems black has instead of nine times E for black has night H seven. 03:08.590 --> 03:15.910 And if rook h for not take on g five because once ramping up for mating on h eight but rook f eight. 03:17.140 --> 03:20.800 And actually, if Rook Da won, guess what? 03:20.800 --> 03:22.180 Black plays here. 03:23.990 --> 03:30.470 Essentially puts a cool cadet in this age file with bishop takes E4 that's blocking the rooks. 03:30.470 --> 03:32.630 Bishop takes E-4 orders, won't play here. 03:33.650 --> 03:34.820 There's no attack. 03:35.660 --> 03:36.920 There's just no attack. 03:37.070 --> 03:39.360 But anyway, it's good that this is a similar display. 03:39.380 --> 03:41.050 You know, he's not playing like world class players. 03:41.240 --> 03:43.020 You know, if he was, he wouldn't be playing like this. 03:43.040 --> 03:47.360 It's a speculative attack and nine takes E4 was played. 03:48.020 --> 03:52.610 So we have now five, which is also a kind of inaccuracy. 03:52.640 --> 04:02.840 Why it should play, it seems, cage free so that if 5g6 rook have six double the rooks and essentially 04:02.840 --> 04:07.880 black can survive here with Rook takes g six to avoid being mated. 04:08.810 --> 04:15.950 And the thing is, White takes out a rook, but black has compensation here enough for equality. 04:15.950 --> 04:23.540 So this position, for example, checking six looks a bit crazy, but it's enough for equality. 04:24.200 --> 04:28.070 Black ends up in a stable position with good play. 04:28.070 --> 04:31.970 It looks actually super dangerous, but black is actually technically equal. 04:31.970 --> 04:36.330 So anyway, Rook h5 though, is played and we have a terrible mistake. 04:36.540 --> 04:47.360 Queenie Sax Black had to try at five here and this is a little fun to analyze if Queen C phone Shaq, 04:48.380 --> 04:49.460 Queen F seven. 04:50.870 --> 04:52.040 And the thing is. 04:53.840 --> 04:56.330 If G6 Queen, Sexy C4. 04:56.420 --> 04:58.790 You think black is doomed here, right? 04:59.570 --> 05:03.860 Because this might fret, but this is kind of funny. 05:03.860 --> 05:04.610 Actually. 05:04.610 --> 05:05.300 This is. 05:05.300 --> 05:06.200 I find it funny. 05:06.230 --> 05:06.420 What? 05:06.470 --> 05:08.720 How black saves themselves. 05:09.230 --> 05:11.840 Can you see what black can do to save the position here? 05:14.390 --> 05:15.350 410 points. 05:16.310 --> 05:16.510 Yeah. 05:16.580 --> 05:18.180 Black could save this position with Queen. 05:18.200 --> 05:18.560 Have one. 05:18.560 --> 05:19.820 Check off the rook. 05:19.820 --> 05:21.130 Takes note of sex. 05:22.330 --> 05:28.150 And the thing is, here again, we can put a cork in the file, cork in the bottle with night G4. 05:28.240 --> 05:30.470 If the rooks doubled 90 to 86. 05:30.490 --> 05:32.350 Yeah, it's just winning. 05:32.350 --> 05:33.600 You know, a good position for. 05:34.420 --> 05:37.090 It's an advantageous position for black hair, basically. 05:37.930 --> 05:39.520 If we look at this again. 05:40.590 --> 05:41.940 So that was with Queen C-4. 05:42.270 --> 05:44.540 Yeah, that's interesting. 05:44.550 --> 05:46.520 So this Queen one exists. 05:46.530 --> 05:47.610 Funny stuff. 05:48.600 --> 05:52.110 But if we if we do look at it again and just explore for a moment. 05:56.020 --> 06:04.270 Instead of Queen C four, G six, immediately Queen F six and if Queen C for check D five rotates D 06:04.270 --> 06:04.620 five. 06:04.630 --> 06:06.430 There's actually Queen E six. 06:07.840 --> 06:11.770 This position, Queen six, G six. 06:11.770 --> 06:17.290 And here Black could actually just play Queen St's H five and get rid of White's attack. 06:17.290 --> 06:19.340 And this is just better for Black Black's material. 06:19.840 --> 06:22.060 So that's another way of looking at it. 06:22.480 --> 06:33.190 And here, if also there's even Queen E thinks 95 is very interesting as a resource and if D takes this 06:33.190 --> 06:34.030 position. 06:36.580 --> 06:38.200 Queen size G6. 06:38.380 --> 06:39.580 Queen C seven. 06:39.970 --> 06:40.720 Check. 06:40.960 --> 06:42.280 Queen is mating. 06:42.280 --> 06:42.910 Right. 06:42.910 --> 06:47.710 So that's why 95 is actually a fantastic resource in general to consider. 06:48.070 --> 06:51.160 But the thing is, Black has Queen size A2 here. 06:51.760 --> 06:52.690 And this is a pain. 06:52.840 --> 06:53.650 This is checkmate. 06:53.680 --> 06:55.960 The lines covering detail is germane. 06:56.200 --> 07:00.550 So this position, instead of doubling the rooks, be free. 07:00.730 --> 07:07.270 There's actually f6 and if the moves rookie eights. 07:09.470 --> 07:18.050 And if Queen C format Bishop D five and this is a nuisance because here now Queen A-1 check 94, check 07:18.290 --> 07:20.550 Queen C free and one is white. 07:20.570 --> 07:22.310 Have her again. 07:22.310 --> 07:24.740 Black is actually living to tell the tale. 07:25.220 --> 07:30.200 So this position is just it's just better for black. 07:32.000 --> 07:37.610 Yeah, there's a lot of fun stuff going on here in the Variations, but Queen sex is a definite mistake. 07:37.610 --> 07:39.950 So F5 basically had to be played here. 07:39.950 --> 07:41.300 It had to be played. 07:41.300 --> 07:45.200 And it seems as though Black has some incredible defensive resources. 07:46.280 --> 07:52.280 However, Queen E6 and now we have the Rooks doubling. 07:52.970 --> 07:56.950 Now F5 here you might think, well, it's not much difference, is it? 07:56.960 --> 07:58.640 It's actually a lot of difference here. 07:58.640 --> 08:04.190 What is an absolutely brutal move which has been shown before as a clue. 08:04.190 --> 08:07.970 So there's absolutely brutal move here which wins. 08:07.970 --> 08:13.250 And this is often shown in combinations books as a combination or test. 08:14.300 --> 08:19.130 So as I say, alekhine's whole games are based on combinations, which is why he's now like he's basically 08:19.130 --> 08:20.150 one of my favorite players. 08:20.150 --> 08:22.130 Now, players don't like Mikhail Tal. 08:22.160 --> 08:25.460 I just find his games magical, like Mikhail Tal. 08:25.460 --> 08:32.030 I do find myself aligned to king hunting players, kings crushing players. 08:32.030 --> 08:36.170 But this is a really beautiful, you know, it's a really beautiful, iconic move. 08:36.980 --> 08:37.670 Okay. 08:41.390 --> 08:42.560 It's 95. 08:42.560 --> 08:46.010 And you might wonder, what on earth is this 95 about even? 08:46.040 --> 08:51.800 The thing is, right, if we played G6 to mate. 08:51.890 --> 08:52.640 Queen takes. 08:52.640 --> 08:54.860 We really want to stop the exit square. 08:54.890 --> 08:56.300 How would we do that? 08:56.720 --> 09:02.870 Because if we check this king of seven, if we tried Queen C for check on, unless they want to be mated 09:03.110 --> 09:08.360 and play Queen A seven, then sure, but they actually have this resource D five. 09:08.360 --> 09:09.510 And what do we do here? 09:09.530 --> 09:10.900 Our dream is broken. 09:10.910 --> 09:13.130 So that's the whole point of 95. 09:13.130 --> 09:16.940 First, because we're taking that d pawn away. 09:20.670 --> 09:24.810 So D takes now and G6 is just game ending. 09:25.140 --> 09:29.460 This is the end of the game because it's subtly different. 09:29.460 --> 09:33.330 Queen Thanks G Plant had to resign Queen sex We now have Queen C-48. 09:33.330 --> 09:36.330 There's no D5 resource that's gone. 09:36.330 --> 09:37.800 Rook have seven or Queen F seven. 09:37.800 --> 09:38.910 We're going to be mating. 09:39.660 --> 09:41.670 So yeah, it's a really iconic move. 09:41.670 --> 09:48.000 95 And if Queen takes five, we just play G six. 09:49.500 --> 09:54.690 And if Queen F four chick trying to rescue the situation, Queen is the strongest, absolute strongest. 09:55.320 --> 09:57.360 Because black can't be left in this state. 09:57.360 --> 10:00.180 Two pieces up but we've rook on the cards. 10:00.450 --> 10:04.260 You know that kind of form pawn, It's mating, you know. 10:04.740 --> 10:09.630 So Queen three, The queen has to go back, but then we take on H six and this is absolutely winning. 10:09.630 --> 10:11.940 It's matings in short order. 10:12.180 --> 10:15.480 So, yes, it's one of my favorite queen moves, actually. 10:15.480 --> 10:16.500 And it's amazing. 10:16.500 --> 10:17.880 It's just from a fun, simple. 10:17.880 --> 10:21.210 He's just having fun basically with his chess is attacking chess. 10:21.210 --> 10:22.890 Maybe it's not sound all the time. 10:22.980 --> 10:27.690 And some people have said, oh, he's a bit of bluff sometimes, but it's really a lot of fun to play 10:27.690 --> 10:28.440 like this. 10:28.710 --> 10:35.730 And, you know, fishing polls for me in online chess for getting vicious attacks, activating the rooks 10:36.240 --> 10:38.100 generally against lower players. 10:38.100 --> 10:40.740 That's how I've been winning that record numbers of tournaments. 10:40.740 --> 10:45.090 I'm like high up on the overall tournament point scorer at chess. 10:45.090 --> 10:51.450 But so the fishing pole for me has a special place in my attacking interests. 10:51.450 --> 10:58.720 But yeah, it's interesting that, you know, a court can be put in the bottle with things like 97. 10:58.770 --> 11:03.000 Okay, so objectively, do we treat this game as a role model game? 11:03.000 --> 11:09.210 Only a certain section of it, a certain beautiful section where we want to cut, cut out resources, 11:09.210 --> 11:10.320 defensive resources. 11:10.320 --> 11:16.710 So 95 is really the iconic combination where there's no argument about it, There's nothing controversial 11:16.710 --> 11:17.220 about this. 11:17.220 --> 11:20.160 This is just absolute beauty on the chessboard. 11:20.820 --> 11:25.530 Basically, if G seeks to try and make some air, the knight's covering things, we can just go in with 11:25.530 --> 11:28.980 the two rooks, the pawns covering f6 that's mating. 11:28.980 --> 11:31.770 So this is absolutely, absolutely beautiful. 11:31.770 --> 11:35.850 This 95 to me, I hope this 95 is a beautiful thing to you. 11:35.850 --> 11:40.860 It's it's really chess is becoming art in a lot of Alexander Alekhine games. 11:40.860 --> 11:47.340 And for me, this is this is one in the top section of the Alekhine Gallery of Artwork. 11:48.190 --> 11:48.510 Okay. 11:48.520 --> 11:50.140 The prime section. 11:50.800 --> 11:52.390 Okay, So 95. 11:52.540 --> 11:53.710 I love this combination. 11:53.710 --> 11:56.480 I hope you do too much.