Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Alexander Alekhine playing against Max Orwell.
In 1935, their world championship match.
This is round one we see.
D4 from Alekhine d5 c4 c6 910 3969 c4 82 c4 a4 five nine e5 might be the seven.
So this is kind of theory at the time so far.
Queen C seven G3 we have a five.
This is actually a decent enough move.
It liberates Black's position a bit.
D Tanks nine takes e5 Bishop A4 and okay, this pin looks scary after 957 Bishop G2 but an inaccuracy
here is played Bishop e6.
It seems her black should consider.
G5.
I know this looks crazy, but G5 is interesting here.
If Bishop takes G5, then Knight takes C4 for example.
This position is just winning for black.
That's.
That's hopeless.
White's getting crushed there.
So G5 is interesting.
So Bishop takes G5 was out of the question losing C4 and in which case if Bishop takes E5, Knight takes
E5.
Queen D4.
There's F6.
White does have an advantage, but it's an interesting position.
Also f6.
Looks more sane rather than goofy.
But gee five here still is interesting.
Nine tanks.
Gee, tanks.
This is an interesting position to play from where White can claim a small advantage, but only a small
advantage, it seems.
Black does have the bishop hair.
White has the better pawn structure.
Okay.
But in the game we see Bishop E6 and black has some pine hair.
Now off the note 65 This pin is actually rather painful.
We see castling.
Bishop E seven, Queen C to rook things.
Rook 51 Black castles.
But now guess what?
Alekhine plays here in this position.
If I give you 5 seconds to pause video.
Okay.
95.
Yeah.
Exploiting this pin pins pawn against the queen we have.
Yeah.
This is a very interesting situation.
Also, 95, for the record, is interesting.
Just picking up the light at square Bishop, This is also just a pleasant advantage for white hair.
For example, this position has that bishop hair.
Yeah, it's just kind of a nice position, but might be five more forceful.
We have rook.
Thanks D one check here.
This wasn't strictly necessary.
Queen bee sex is worth considering to counter attack on the B five Knights Unpin the c six pawn.
If Bishop takes e5 those C tanks.
Rook tanks the eight rook takes the eight a5 Queen C five white ends up off the simplification.
Bishop takes B seven Bishop D for Bishop takes d4 rook takes d4 rook three Y ends up with the advantage
in this position.
There is an advantage here.
Okay.
So anyway, Rook takes D1 though.
Makes things maybe a little bit worse now, especially off the Queen A5.
It was absolutely necessary to play Queen C it seems so that Bishop takes e5 c b b5.
This situation isn't so clear.
For example, why?
It does have a small edge, but perhaps not too much more than a small edge after Bishop B3 for example,
in this line.
Okay, so Queen C does seem as it was necessary, but the other possibilities as well though there is
a possibility of Knight takes A7 as well.
Okay.
But anyway, Queen A5 was played, which isn't so great.
There is actually another thing I want to mention actually on Queen B Sex though the better thing to
play here
if Queen B says, Yeah, this seems a bit inferior to Queen, why it has 94 here.
So attacking the E6 bishop if knight g4 h plant would be in shreds potentially in this position a5 Queen
A4.
This.
This is just about this.
This is an advantage for white.
But the situation where blacks in shreds if black doesn't play the key move date is not enough.
Six, nine, six, eight six is just unpalatable that is six main weakness together with whites is just
too much.
Okay, back to the game Queen a five.
Now this is problematic.
We have this 94 hair threatening this kind of shredding move, 1986 the bishop moves back.
If Bishop D5 we have Bishop takes E5, Bishop takes G2, and guess what?
White can play here with both bishops hanging desperado tactic.
That's a clue at some points.
Yeah.
We play Bishop takes seven half.
This will give one advantage If rook dates we can take our king takes my five check King f6 taking on
da I mean we're a pawn up here and we support the knight now against Queen takes that five.
So, yes, that situation.
Isn't so hot.
Let's look at that again for a moment.
So, Bishop.
Thanks, Bishop.
G7.
If King takes G7, we can actually slip in.
We can either play.
King takes you to an advantage.
I mean, we are just the pawn up and we can consolidate here.
So this is just a nice vantage point.
And if the queen ever leaves E5, we've got a mating threat here of Queen H mating.
So what does Black do here?
F6 Yeah, That's horrible.
Check.
And we're gonna be absolutely winning soon.
So, yes, it's nice.
Checkmate there.
So anyway, Bishop goes back to see it's not D5.
And now we have a great move from an iconic move.
Guess what he plays here.
I mean, it looks pretty logical that the Queen's not really a good defender generally of pieces.
So we try and lure the Queen away with B4.
Well done if you found this.
So Queen C seven was played.
If bishop takes b4 that's a potentially unprotected piece in itself might be free.
And what happens to him?
What does black do if queen takes this?
Bishop takes E5.
If Queen C7, there's Queen E4 and Black's in big trouble.
Because if Bishop E7 were just taking on E5.
Fair enough.
But you might want.
Okay.
Bishop D hangs, Bishop descends.
Well, Bishop d6 King's Cross.
Okay.
Bishop d6.
Guess what we play here.
We play queen before hitting D6.
So if Rook d we're just exploiting this pin against the aim.
So what does Black do?
G5 A compromise is the king.
Bishop takes G5 even though White's not at pace up here just yet.
F6 Bishop for the situation has been compromised.
For Black's king safety a bit and white.
It's going to be with a nice advantage this position.
For example.
Yeah, white can be done and take that pawn.
That's the nice advantage, even though it's not a piece up.
This is just a great position.
Look at the king.
It's been weakened and once the pawn up.
Okay, so there's another option.
Bishop C free, which is interesting here, though.
If Rook C one Bishop b2 Rook B one seems to be the most accurate here.
If Rook C to G5 Yeah, Bishop takes G5.
Bishop A3 White has won a piece, but it's still much better for one.
So even better though slightly.
Rook b1 if Bishop C Free Queenie Free g5 Hare.
Bishop takes f6 Bishop takes Rogue Saints.
Queen St takes C4 is just very nice for white.
All right.
So in the game, though, we have Queen C-7 being played and they'll be.
There's a lot of pressure now on C6 Black Play, C5 kind of opening up the light squares.
This bishop has been kind of liberated and the fight.
So if Rook instead of that committal pawn move.
B Tanks.
B tanks.
19 C six is possible.
Bishop F thinks Queen C wants to keep the Queen protected.
Now to threaten things if Bishop asks, Queen E free is nice.
KING You find a five.
This is just dominating position for whites.
Blacks in big trouble here, as you might suspect.
This particular position.
First of all, if King, the umpire, takes the rook, White could play Bishop takes E5, Bishop takes
E5 an F4.
Ouch nasty pen.
Bishop takes E to C one, and then White's going to just be winning material.
On the other hand, in this position, if G6 Knight takes E5, Bishop takes, there's Bishop takes H
six shank.
And here again we're nudging the king away from E8, which means F4 as possible.
So yes, very problematic position.
So C5, the forcing move C5 is played, weakening light squares nine F5 and we have F6.
So even though Black has not lost a piece, White's position is absolutely wonderful here.
Black has a lack of harmony.
This bishop is kind of locked in.
This bishop is amazing.
Once harmony is amazing.
We have 93 and this is just such a dominating position.
We have Bishop E6 Bishop D5 getting rid of that key defender on line squares.
Bishop 65.
Rook 65.
And we have now Queen A5.
No, it's EF five.
An excursion queeny one Czech King g to Bishop Danes.
If Knight g for her might just takes on the e seven.
So there's an F to issue, but e free can solve that potentially f to King takes e seven Queenie for
check will just be winning with forcing moves to pick up the knight.
Queenie six Champ picks up the knight.
So Bishop D eight is played and here, I mean, we have such a dominating position.
There's been many films and you could tag this this game with many attacking ideas and themes.
But here we want to break onto the seventh rank.
So how do we do that?
Well, in general, the seventh rank is good.
Okay.
We have her.
Bishop.
Thanks, E-5.
F takes if I so white punctures the way to D7 rook on the seventh.
And this is really devastating.
This has a devastating impact.
All sorts of main combinations are becoming possible soon.
So Bishop f6 guess what Alekhine plays here.
So striking one the iron is horns, so to speak.
The rook on the seventh is especially interesting on this side of the board for mating purposes.
So I won't play here.
What would you play in this position for?
100 points.
Check all checks.
Yeah.
1986.
Check.
So King H.S. is played because if G tanks, Queen S.S. seven is mating his mate.
So King H eight.
But now Queen takes C five and black resigns.
This not only hits the rook and also the fans have to.
So one plant resigned.
Well, if Bishop E7, we can just take on E7 with the rook.
We want to keep control of F2.
And blacks just getting mated essentially, you know.
G The Queen 65 is mating rook have sex with just the lay, of course.
So, yes, this is just crushing this position.
If Rook eats, you might wonder.
With 1986.
There's a very juicy move here or to one or two very juicy moves, the same effect.
Can you spot one of them with ten points?
Yeah, we can just play Queen D five or Queen C four.
Both would have the queen for a smothered make pattern.
So, for example, Queen Cakes Eater, we have a smothered mate, Pat and Queen Jean-Jacques, 97,
is made.
And if G tanks are seven franc, we can amplify that rook now with Queen F seven frets, then Queen
Sykes, 87, and Queen Sykes of things.
So both of those threats, it's difficult to parry Bishop e seven.
We're just taking on E seven and this is cute.
You know, Rook takes There's Queen F eight.
Checkmate.
Queen G one is just the thing, I think.
Okay.
So, yes, it's an interesting game.
There was a French old piece on E5, but it led to this kind of situation where Rook broke through to
the seventh Frank with devastating impact.
Now this is an iconic world championship game.
In fact, Alekhine actually lost this world championship the first time against OAA, but managed to
regain his title later.
So rumors of him liking the drink too much and changing to milk later in the rematch.
Those are the rumors.
He got a bit more focused, but yeah, at least he did actually win, you know, a game or two in the
first match.
And this was an interesting game by Alekhine.
It was actually an interesting game.
So I hope you got some instructive points from it.
A complex game, but one where yeah, there was an issue of the pin point it seems.
So that was actually amplified that issue by alekhine with amazing moves.
Okay, so I hope you enjoyed this and so much.