WEBVTT 00:00.830 --> 00:01.670 Hi there. 00:01.700 --> 00:06.530 In this lecture, we see the classic Kings gamut from the so-called romantic era of chess. 00:06.560 --> 00:12.830 This is Paul Morphy against A.F. Hanson in 1858, a casual game E4 from Paul Morphy. 00:12.860 --> 00:14.390 E5 So E4. 00:14.570 --> 00:17.030 So what is so amazing about The King's Gambit? 00:17.060 --> 00:18.470 Why was it so popular? 00:19.280 --> 00:25.640 Well, when it's accepted, White is getting some pressure points potentially on the floor. 00:25.670 --> 00:27.850 One can get sometimes a strong center. 00:27.860 --> 00:30.440 One can sometimes get vile attacks. 00:30.710 --> 00:37.630 White also gets to potentially cause structural damage around the pawns near the king. 00:37.640 --> 00:42.050 So this is just one game example of many, many played in the King's Gambit. 00:42.350 --> 00:45.170 Thousands of games in the King's game in the romantic era. 00:45.530 --> 00:50.590 So we have G5 trying to cling on potentially to the pawn. 00:50.600 --> 00:54.080 We have H for G four and now 95. 00:54.590 --> 00:59.630 You can see that there's potential for severe fragmentation of the pawns here. 01:00.770 --> 01:07.160 We have Knight have sex, Knight takes G4, so we have now black having double pawns. 01:08.120 --> 01:12.530 Knight takes E4 and it looks Well, hold on of the D3, Knight G3. 01:12.560 --> 01:14.780 Where are the Gambit Perks here. 01:15.680 --> 01:19.610 Well, this gets super interesting now with this next move. 01:20.090 --> 01:22.100 Can you spot what white plays? 01:24.850 --> 01:26.180 So super interesting move. 01:26.200 --> 01:30.160 Bishop takes our four and now black takes on H one. 01:30.400 --> 01:33.270 Queen E seven Champ might have been more accurate. 01:33.280 --> 01:35.890 Bishop E to for example, this situation. 01:36.550 --> 01:43.010 Bishop G5 though here is good in this situation with Bishop G5. 01:43.030 --> 01:48.700 You can see that the black king in the center is harassed and black is losing the queen there. 01:49.900 --> 01:56.030 But actually, it turns out black does have a resource here. 01:56.050 --> 01:59.960 Rook G ain't so that will be able to answer Bishop G. 02:00.040 --> 02:01.570 I with taking the bishop. 02:01.570 --> 02:05.490 And if Bishop takes G3, Rook takes G4. 02:05.500 --> 02:09.730 This situation should be fairly okay for black. 02:09.730 --> 02:11.460 Black actually has the advantage here. 02:11.470 --> 02:14.080 So this is not entirely sound. 02:14.110 --> 02:21.610 This is just the classic iconic game showing sometimes, you know the King's game on a good day when 02:21.610 --> 02:24.010 the opponent isn't playing entirely accurately and plays. 02:24.040 --> 02:25.490 Knight takes h one. 02:25.510 --> 02:29.950 So fun and games here starts with Queen E to Shaq. 02:30.400 --> 02:36.380 These are very much yeah very forcing moves which need to be calculated as high priority. 02:36.400 --> 02:41.680 Now if Bishop E7 can you see that white wins this very quickly for five points. 02:42.600 --> 02:43.030 Yeah. 02:43.450 --> 02:46.480 F6 check and then Bishop h6 is checkmate. 02:46.720 --> 02:56.230 So Queen E seven but now we have six check King B and there's a forcing move point to this. 02:56.320 --> 02:57.640 Can you see what that is? 02:58.920 --> 02:59.920 But at some points. 03:03.100 --> 03:04.410 Bishop takes See seven change. 03:04.420 --> 03:07.390 Yes, This wins the Queen, but it's not over by any stretch. 03:08.590 --> 03:12.880 We have black having accumulated quite a lot of material for the Queen. 03:14.260 --> 03:15.880 We have now Queen G4. 03:15.910 --> 03:22.690 There are several moves here, but it seems as though with best play there should be equal this position. 03:23.020 --> 03:31.060 If Queen and Fraser's example, Bishop takes an inch for check and here 96 this position. 03:31.960 --> 03:33.310 Bishop f6. 03:35.410 --> 03:40.900 And if Queen H thinks Bishop thanks be to this position. 03:41.740 --> 03:42.910 Bishop takes a one. 03:42.910 --> 03:43.720 Well, here. 03:43.720 --> 03:47.350 This is a very, very strange sequence indeed. 03:47.860 --> 03:52.770 And the funny thing is 95 check. 03:52.780 --> 03:58.300 The funny thing is here where it's actually getting an advantage in this line. 03:58.300 --> 04:02.800 But yeah, it's it's really kind of super accurate play. 04:03.130 --> 04:06.850 So just just for the record, there is an interesting try. 04:06.880 --> 04:09.940 That is certainly an interesting try. 04:12.550 --> 04:14.320 So this queen of freight. 04:14.320 --> 04:16.720 So just to recap there with best play. 04:16.730 --> 04:20.860 Yeah, this this queen, queen age five and then queen. 04:21.250 --> 04:26.770 It's crazy stuff, but it does seem as though, you know, it has interesting resources, actually. 04:28.190 --> 04:29.510 With Queen and three. 04:35.040 --> 04:47.310 If the five hare G3 this situation is going to be, it seems, in its favor as well. 04:47.760 --> 04:52.320 But yeah, it has been analyzed quite a lot. 04:52.620 --> 05:00.870 And Queen Queen G4 maybe isn't so critical as Queen Jaffray as a point of research, actually. 05:01.020 --> 05:04.710 So anyway, here D six is played. 05:08.520 --> 05:09.270 If. 05:10.280 --> 05:15.350 Yeah, this is this is a good move in many respects. 05:16.370 --> 05:18.620 We have Queen F for Rook. 05:18.620 --> 05:19.430 G ain't. 05:20.590 --> 05:30.490 Queen sex f7 Bishop sex age for Czech king D2 rookie eight knights A3 and now knight A6. 05:30.490 --> 05:32.110 This is a critical mistake. 05:33.640 --> 05:40.480 It turns out Blank had to play Bishop G5 check and for example, Bishop D7 could lead to very messy 05:40.480 --> 05:41.710 situations. 05:42.220 --> 05:47.680 Queen D five Bishop f4 holding D6 Knight 8596. 05:47.680 --> 05:54.700 Shooting B seven Knight Tanks B tanks, Queen 85, Checking C eight and game on. 05:54.700 --> 05:57.700 This is like a very, very complex game in its own right. 05:57.940 --> 06:01.630 So, yes, so six let's follow the main game path. 06:03.130 --> 06:05.350 So here Queen H five was played. 06:08.580 --> 06:11.670 Okay, there might be more accurate moves, but let's go with this. 06:11.670 --> 06:12.840 Bishop six. 06:14.210 --> 06:16.070 We have Queen sites, age one. 06:18.500 --> 06:21.350 Bishop takes B2, which is actually a mistake. 06:22.940 --> 06:26.420 There are actually better moves, but let's just run with it. 06:26.450 --> 06:29.390 Queen H for check King D7. 06:29.540 --> 06:30.200 Okay, so here. 06:30.230 --> 06:34.780 Very cute move, which gives one a very definite advantage. 06:34.790 --> 06:35.840 Now what would you play here for? 06:35.840 --> 06:36.710 Ten points. 06:41.280 --> 06:42.750 Okay, Rook B one. 06:43.860 --> 06:48.870 So leaving the bishop to take the knight because of Queen A for Shaq and this ends the game and move 06:48.900 --> 06:49.830 23. 06:50.250 --> 06:53.550 So an entertaining game winning the Queen. 06:54.510 --> 06:58.890 It leads to very, very sharp situations because Black had so much material for it. 06:58.920 --> 07:03.990 It's it's a distinctive game, really, but it's an iconic classic. 07:03.990 --> 07:08.730 So I felt I had to show you it anyway, from the King's Gambit era, you know, if the game continued, 07:08.730 --> 07:15.690 yes, we take on a free and this is just going to be difficult for black. 07:15.690 --> 07:17.040 For example, Rook takes B6. 07:17.040 --> 07:19.020 Here is a tactic. 07:20.580 --> 07:26.580 But whatever happens, you know, this is this is just a difficult possession for black. 07:27.060 --> 07:28.470 This is just one variation. 07:29.460 --> 07:32.580 So it's it's an interesting King's Gambit game. 07:32.910 --> 07:34.890 It shows how resourceful. 07:35.650 --> 07:36.250 Morphy. 07:36.250 --> 07:41.800 As you know, Morphy is extremely resourceful with the King's Gambit, one of his favorite tools of 07:41.800 --> 07:42.820 choice in the opening. 07:42.820 --> 07:53.740 So you don't need to play extreme openings like The King's Gambit, though, to attack, as Alexander 07:53.740 --> 07:55.330 Alekhine showed. 07:56.500 --> 08:00.790 And we have many, many examples of Alexander Alekhine in this course. 08:02.080 --> 08:07.990 This is an extreme attacking, opening and extreme attacking gambit, but it has resulted in many brilliant 08:07.990 --> 08:10.920 games and of more modern players. 08:10.930 --> 08:15.430 Boris Spassky, a former world chess champion, had brilliant wins with the King's government, for 08:15.430 --> 08:16.660 example, against Bobby Fischer. 08:16.660 --> 08:19.300 So there are certain gambit perks. 08:19.330 --> 08:24.520 It has a value of surprise, and in human games, surprise is a powerful weapon as well. 08:25.210 --> 08:27.280 But yeah, there are definite perks. 08:27.280 --> 08:33.190 Ingredients sets up through gambits which help the attacking plan like leeds's in development. 08:33.250 --> 08:37.720 We can Kings, Semi-urban Foals, strong centres. 08:37.720 --> 08:42.730 There's all sorts of attacking ingredients could emerge in certain key gambits. 08:43.300 --> 08:49.540 And the King's game is one of the more ferocious gambits for the attacking player to bear in mind. 08:49.570 --> 08:55.180 Now, in modern like online chess, the King's game is just a fun weapon. 08:55.180 --> 09:00.570 A lot of people maybe too greedy and they just go into disaster situations through greed. 09:00.580 --> 09:07.780 So it is a weapon which maybe is reignited in the modern era or should be in, in my view, because 09:07.780 --> 09:12.490 certainly, you know, most games under a certain level are not decided because of an opening sequence 09:12.490 --> 09:13.210 necessarily. 09:13.210 --> 09:19.060 It's what happens after the inequities and blunders are all just waiting to be made, as Tasco has indicated. 09:19.060 --> 09:25.150 So the King's game, it this is just a very interesting game example of this gambit, just to whet your 09:25.150 --> 09:25.620 appetite. 09:25.630 --> 09:26.410 Okay. 09:27.320 --> 09:28.040 That's very much.