WEBVTT 00:00.810 --> 00:01.560 Hi there. 00:01.590 --> 00:07.020 In this lecture, we see Alexander Annacone playing against Max Ogawa in round seven of the 1955 World 00:07.020 --> 00:08.010 Championship match. 00:08.100 --> 00:10.170 We see Alekhine playing E4. 00:10.170 --> 00:11.430 We have a French defence. 00:11.550 --> 00:17.790 D4 d5 nine c3 Bishop b4 and they'll get to one of Alekhine's moves. 00:18.180 --> 00:20.100 We have d tanks e4 a friend. 00:20.100 --> 00:22.050 The bishop doesn't give itself up. 00:22.080 --> 00:24.660 Bishop E7 won't get back to the pawn. 00:25.320 --> 00:31.860 We see 9c6 and now G4 to solve the F1 Bishop issue being stuck behind the knight. 00:32.070 --> 00:33.630 B six Bishop G2. 00:33.630 --> 00:36.120 Bishop b7c Free Knights. 00:36.120 --> 00:39.120 F 6.22 G3. 00:39.330 --> 00:42.420 So this protects the G4 pawn. 00:44.310 --> 00:47.250 We see black casting and now a very aggressive G5. 00:47.280 --> 00:52.050 This is a very fun opening sequence, especially for a world chess championship match. 00:52.110 --> 00:56.310 Nowadays there are very, very solid openings quite often played in world championships. 00:56.400 --> 00:58.380 But here, yeah, this looks very exciting. 00:58.380 --> 01:04.260 9/10 e4, 9/10 e4 and now King H eight is played. 01:04.290 --> 01:19.410 There is some evidence here that actually E5 might be playable to hit the center hard if d5935h4 Black 01:19.410 --> 01:27.000 could play Queen D seven hand not Bishop takes the E5 because then f six Jack gives a nice advantage. 01:27.180 --> 01:32.130 There's a lot of pressure here in the position which is worth playing this. 01:32.130 --> 01:39.870 And even if the Queen's come off and white is a pawn down, but the bishop hair and the attacking potential 01:39.870 --> 01:42.280 is making it about equal. 01:42.300 --> 01:46.590 So yeah, Bishop text E5 is not disaster, but it's not great either. 01:46.590 --> 01:48.600 Queen D seven is slightly better, it seems. 01:48.690 --> 01:56.670 This position, for example, b5 G one is interesting to consider if Rook have the eight knights have 01:56.670 --> 01:57.750 six check here. 01:58.080 --> 01:59.280 Bishop Tanks. 01:59.370 --> 02:00.060 G tanks. 02:00.060 --> 02:05.190 We can see the G5 potential g6h5. 02:05.190 --> 02:08.670 And yeah, we have interesting scenarios based on this G4. 02:09.060 --> 02:17.960 For example, Bishop takes the E5, h takes if F takes, Bishop takes the five Czech Queen, six Rook 02:17.970 --> 02:18.930 takes G6. 02:19.320 --> 02:20.770 And this is a. 02:21.980 --> 02:22.520 Interesting. 02:22.520 --> 02:24.740 It leads to an even position, funny enough. 02:25.280 --> 02:26.480 So that's interesting. 02:26.630 --> 02:33.890 I mean, the various ways of playing it, if we go back here in this line after each takes, if Bishop 02:33.890 --> 02:35.180 takes G2. 02:35.300 --> 02:36.230 G takes H7. 02:36.230 --> 02:40.430 This position is also it's a small edge for white, nothing more. 02:40.460 --> 02:44.110 If h takes though, this is a different story. 02:44.120 --> 02:49.820 There's rook Times G6 here very strong for Bishop H and then winning the Queen on D5. 02:50.270 --> 02:54.230 So anyway yeah it's interesting scenario is basically E5. 02:54.230 --> 03:00.350 They seem really interesting, but also to consider F5. 03:00.380 --> 03:06.890 This is a bit dangerous for Black actually, as you might imagine, because of that G4 Road to the King. 03:07.250 --> 03:13.220 This situation with Bishop E Free Queen G4 very direct play costing queenside. 03:13.220 --> 03:21.010 It's a fun scenario, but one which should favor White's objectively see the bishops come off here D 03:21.110 --> 03:29.360 one this position for Knight G5 there's a target on E6 if nothing else, and white it's going to be 03:29.360 --> 03:30.200 significantly better. 03:30.200 --> 03:31.880 For example, this little combination. 03:32.180 --> 03:41.300 So anyway, it's fascinating stuff here with either E5 is the most interesting, it seems, of the use 03:41.300 --> 03:42.530 of modern technology. 03:42.560 --> 03:51.860 E5 seems to be an interesting move, but we see instead King H eight and this allows a really direct 03:51.890 --> 03:52.760 attacking move. 03:52.760 --> 03:54.050 You know, we want our resources. 03:54.050 --> 03:59.060 Next, the opponent's king in general, the attacking player relishes this Queenie eight is played and 03:59.060 --> 04:00.500 now Knights of Things. 04:00.530 --> 04:01.940 This is pretty sharp stuff. 04:01.940 --> 04:03.320 Bishop takes his plate. 04:03.980 --> 04:12.020 If G thinks the problem is G, tanks will nullify five totally. 04:12.020 --> 04:15.500 And it means now Bishop E4 is a dangerous move. 04:16.280 --> 04:17.230 More than dangerous. 04:17.240 --> 04:18.500 Just mating. 04:19.010 --> 04:21.170 So that's a safety point. 04:21.440 --> 04:22.430 G Tanks. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.050 G tanks. 04:24.680 --> 04:28.160 Planck would have to play something like Rook instead. 04:28.160 --> 04:34.460 Spells answer Bishop e4 g g6 and in which case one stands better here. 04:35.510 --> 04:36.110 Okay. 04:36.110 --> 04:38.330 I mean, one's going to essentially be winning material. 04:38.690 --> 04:40.400 Dangerous attack on the G4. 04:40.640 --> 04:46.250 So anyway, Bishop takes was played here by Black G tanks. 04:46.700 --> 04:48.650 G tanks, Queen H for now. 04:48.650 --> 04:49.190 Very careful. 04:49.190 --> 04:54.680 Queen D eight if Queenie seven Bishop for still winning for a different reason. 04:54.680 --> 04:55.820 That's here. 04:55.820 --> 04:58.400 Queen takes E seven is winning the B seven Bishop. 04:58.640 --> 05:05.090 So Queen is much more accurate to be able to take with a rook if needed on Bishop e4. 05:05.090 --> 05:08.720 But Bishop F4 was played just to check out Bishop E4 here. 05:09.380 --> 05:12.110 F5 is more than adequate here. 05:12.350 --> 05:14.390 Bishop G from this F6. 05:16.090 --> 05:20.710 And if the Queen's come off route, takes not losing a bishop on B7 or anything. 05:21.490 --> 05:23.620 In this case, Black's just better hair. 05:23.620 --> 05:25.330 Blacks is actually better hair. 05:25.810 --> 05:26.470 Yeah. 05:27.130 --> 05:28.000 So. 05:28.030 --> 05:32.920 Okay, so Bishop F4 is played and we have now E5. 05:32.920 --> 05:34.930 This actually is in the wrong place. 05:34.930 --> 05:35.620 This E5. 05:35.620 --> 05:37.390 This actually makes things worse. 05:37.810 --> 05:39.670 Black should it seems. 05:39.670 --> 05:43.180 Maybe consider E5, but it's still dangerous. 05:43.180 --> 05:45.250 This position is still dangerous for Black. 05:45.520 --> 05:53.080 If we consider this scenario, White can switch to the e pawn as a target and also use this third rank. 05:53.590 --> 05:56.110 So this is kind of dangerous. 05:57.070 --> 05:58.090 So there are ideas. 05:58.090 --> 06:00.280 For example, Queen size five sometimes. 06:00.280 --> 06:03.790 On if rook G4 hitting the bishop. 06:04.690 --> 06:08.320 This situation is just better for one that the rooks kind of stranded. 06:09.580 --> 06:12.850 Okay, so this complication is by E5 actually does make things worse. 06:12.850 --> 06:19.690 Now we have Bishop Geoffrey at five and Alekhine doesn't mind the Queen's coming off. 06:20.410 --> 06:27.130 Yeah, I mean, this is a very scary position once White has threats. 06:29.230 --> 06:35.320 Building up of the castle in queenside things like Bishop E4 coming up and stuff. 06:35.320 --> 06:39.580 So we have F5 trying to get the Queen's off as a priority. 06:40.450 --> 06:41.740 Details is played. 06:41.740 --> 06:48.040 Rugby ain't Bishop F3, which is actually a bit of an inaccuracy actually. 06:49.420 --> 06:58.720 It seems objectively Queen H five is the way to play this so that if rook g6 rook D one forget cancelling 06:58.900 --> 06:59.740 for a moment. 06:59.830 --> 07:06.550 Bishop D5 This is still this is a very strong position for White's and in fact White could manually 07:06.550 --> 07:12.160 castle here and if Black doesn't exchange sack, it's just simplifying. 07:12.160 --> 07:14.470 But look at the resulting position. 07:14.950 --> 07:16.810 It's just better for white here. 07:16.940 --> 07:18.550 Queen could come back to D1. 07:19.480 --> 07:21.970 The bishop can try and go into those dark squares. 07:21.970 --> 07:24.550 It's a very strong attack actually. 07:24.850 --> 07:29.020 So Queen H5 does seem it does seem to have a lot going for it. 07:31.890 --> 07:33.000 But so. 07:33.000 --> 07:35.160 Bishop Jeffrey So why is this inaccuracy? 07:35.160 --> 07:38.430 We have Queen de Fry hitting the bishop. 07:39.600 --> 07:45.420 Bishop eats her and now a huge mistake which justifies won't play as queen E for it seems. 07:45.420 --> 07:51.000 I mean, this is very, very hairy technical stuff when I say very, very hairy, high precision for 07:51.000 --> 07:52.080 black to survive. 07:52.080 --> 07:54.330 But it seems as though Queen C to. 07:55.500 --> 08:02.060 Is setting wine's problems hair queen C to if queen have sex. 08:02.070 --> 08:08.070 Sure, the Queen's is still on, but let's imagine Rook G one queen takes be two blacks trying to be 08:08.070 --> 08:09.000 greedy. 08:09.480 --> 08:15.000 Let's entertain this with e sex to protect C free for a moment. 08:15.030 --> 08:20.580 Just for one moment Black could take on a one and it looks as though. 08:20.640 --> 08:21.350 Hold on. 08:21.360 --> 08:25.140 You know, black's in huge trouble here, right? 08:25.530 --> 08:31.140 Because the things like Bishop E5 and Rook takes G seven actually 94. 08:31.170 --> 08:32.520 This is just crazy stuff. 08:32.520 --> 08:33.870 This is absolutely crazy stuff. 08:33.870 --> 08:36.000 I know, but let's bear with it. 08:37.890 --> 08:45.420 Queen cites her Bishop H for check King H six and it's only a draw by Perpetual. 08:47.070 --> 08:56.640 So if we look at this scenario, first of all, if King if I e7 check, this is actually winning for 08:56.640 --> 08:58.470 White Danes. 08:58.620 --> 09:02.730 So for example, queen in there and then it's going to be made time soon. 09:03.690 --> 09:08.220 But yeah, there is a way for Black to draw in that crazy line with Knight D for. 09:10.400 --> 09:11.810 Let's go back to it. 09:12.440 --> 09:14.150 So this 94. 09:18.680 --> 09:19.600 Means? 09:19.610 --> 09:28.400 Yeah, there's interesting stuff happening here for sure, which is a pretty complicated actually to 09:28.400 --> 09:29.300 consider. 09:30.860 --> 09:31.860 But the. 09:34.480 --> 09:36.550 For example, Bishop E-5. 09:37.510 --> 09:42.400 This is just to slow Bishop e5 queen take C free check King f one. 09:42.400 --> 09:44.360 And actually there's Bishop 86 check here. 09:44.380 --> 09:45.100 Ouch. 09:45.610 --> 09:50.320 And this is all you know it's mate if she takes the for here. 09:50.650 --> 09:55.120 Queen C free check Camp one and four is strong. 09:55.120 --> 10:04.210 Four black is the strongest because here bishop a six check and one is getting mated there so yes it's 10:04.210 --> 10:09.820 fascinating stuff where this 94 is a bit of a killer. 10:09.820 --> 10:17.410 If we have a look at this position of 94, Black has been greedy and with this move is interrupting 10:18.100 --> 10:20.910 disconnecting the queen from C three. 10:20.920 --> 10:27.340 So even from C one from a one rather the queen is actually becoming effective because of this blockage 10:27.670 --> 10:31.240 of the protection of the c free pawn, which that killer check. 10:31.600 --> 10:38.620 So this really muddies the water here considerably. 10:39.760 --> 10:44.680 Yeah, I mean, it's just a very, very complex position indeed. 10:46.880 --> 10:47.090 So. 10:47.090 --> 10:47.660 Yes. 10:47.660 --> 10:49.220 Cee Sykes, just to recap here. 10:49.220 --> 10:52.340 Yeah, this is just it's just too strong at full. 10:53.720 --> 11:01.970 And if that's the case, basically, yeah, it has to actually bail out with queen sized G seven shank, 11:02.330 --> 11:07.730 Bishop H four shank and King H six drawers for black. 11:07.730 --> 11:09.290 Yeah, it's fascinating stuff. 11:09.290 --> 11:13.550 It's a bit academic, but I just wanted to show you, just. 11:13.550 --> 11:15.710 Just in case you were interested, technically. 11:15.710 --> 11:17.870 But after Queen E for basically. 11:17.960 --> 11:21.290 Yeah, Black's position goes downhill. 11:21.290 --> 11:27.380 Now we have the Queen's coming off and you might think, Well, the Queen's the top scorer, but we've 11:27.380 --> 11:28.810 got the bishop here. 11:28.850 --> 11:33.440 The bishop without the counterpart is quite often going to be strong. 11:33.440 --> 11:39.230 So Bishop H for we have h6y castles queenside and there's the possibility of getting a rook quickly 11:39.230 --> 11:40.520 to the seventh rank. 11:41.090 --> 11:46.050 We have Rook eight Black doesn't want to lose a piece straight away. 11:46.100 --> 11:52.820 We've been saying E5 because of Bishop has six champ picking up the points so Rook Bishop f6 Jack and 11:52.820 --> 11:59.240 here F4 is really strong and one has a dominating position now. 11:59.240 --> 12:01.610 It's absolutely a dominating position. 12:01.610 --> 12:07.070 We have eight takes and our bishop takes to the strongest keeping the knight pin to the Bishop Bishop 12:07.070 --> 12:08.960 D4, which you might think is dangerous. 12:08.960 --> 12:12.590 But no, we don't want to leave that pawn on F3 winning the exchange. 12:13.400 --> 12:14.150 It is good. 12:14.150 --> 12:17.390 It is still good for white, but it's not as good as the game continuation. 12:18.080 --> 12:21.710 So Bishop takes our three very strong still with the idea of Bishop E4. 12:21.710 --> 12:24.560 Those were an exchange 95. 12:25.460 --> 12:31.310 So just to show Bishop we're just going to win the exchange with Bishop E4 check and just take it and 12:31.310 --> 12:32.240 it's very clean. 12:32.630 --> 12:36.770 This position is going to be getting mated soon, for example. 12:36.770 --> 12:37.550 Like this. 12:37.550 --> 12:38.270 Ouch. 12:38.600 --> 12:39.500 So. 12:40.640 --> 12:44.750 Or if the king went out instead. 12:44.750 --> 12:48.590 And about just a major checkmate rook and five checkmate. 12:49.330 --> 12:52.730 So I five and we have bishop tags P seven. 12:52.730 --> 12:57.110 The downside here for black is this rook invasion to the seventh rank. 12:57.980 --> 13:02.960 So after the storm is cleared, it's very bad for blackness position. 13:02.990 --> 13:04.610 The end game transition. 13:06.460 --> 13:13.570 Might see five Rogue rucksacks have seven Shaq and Alekhine having studied Capablanca games as his claim 13:13.570 --> 13:19.600 would know about simplification, even with tiny advantages that it's often possible to grind out wins 13:19.930 --> 13:24.360 the grinding philosophy, the simplification philosophy, wrote S.C. seven. 13:24.370 --> 13:26.530 We don't always have to end with a checkmate. 13:26.620 --> 13:29.200 This is just a winning endgame transition. 13:29.380 --> 13:30.250 So here. 13:30.250 --> 13:31.420 King a five. 13:32.140 --> 13:36.490 If Knight takes a five, look at this rook and ending, we just take on five. 13:36.520 --> 13:40.630 Take on a seven, and we're much better here with the white pieces. 13:41.140 --> 13:50.350 So King F five, we have wrote the one Knight 65 Rook f one check King e4 Rook takes a seven. 13:51.510 --> 13:53.120 We have C4. 13:53.190 --> 13:55.290 Rook D7 So threatening. 13:55.290 --> 14:05.760 Rook d4 check king E3 rook E1 check King F3 and now a pair of rooks come off rook d4 and now actually 14:06.390 --> 14:13.350 rook for five rook b4 swinging on both sides of the board here that probing. 14:13.740 --> 14:15.120 But this ends the game. 14:15.120 --> 14:20.370 Black is convinced and it's kind of the German Harlequins got ours to look at it at least 2 hours it 14:20.370 --> 14:20.940 seems. 14:21.150 --> 14:29.550 Apparently so if Rook six Bishop eight this position one can actually retain the h pawn to make sure 14:29.580 --> 14:32.910 black hasn't got any dreams of the pawn. 14:33.840 --> 14:35.880 This is absolutely a winning position. 14:36.000 --> 14:41.340 This position here, even if there's a fork, this is still winning because of two connected past pawns 14:41.340 --> 14:42.120 being the issue. 14:42.120 --> 14:46.650 If this scenario occurs, this is absolutely winning with the two connected past pawns. 14:46.950 --> 14:54.810 But the end of the game was actually at Rook b4 so the attack created a winning and game advantage the 14:54.810 --> 14:55.950 attack early on. 14:55.980 --> 15:02.760 A very, very exciting opening by modern world championship standards and also gives us credibility 15:02.760 --> 15:09.360 that actually it wasn't just in casual games or just the odd tournament he actually played Knight G2 15:09.390 --> 15:15.480 rather than the more kind of bog standard, more standard E5 in the winter where we see a lot of games 15:15.480 --> 15:17.230 with this win and were lying. 15:17.250 --> 15:20.040 So G2 is a very interesting move. 15:20.070 --> 15:26.220 Very creative bit of a surprise value if you use this today, this line with this G4. 15:26.250 --> 15:32.970 But yeah, there's a lot of fun here being had in a world Championship match in my view with this G5, 15:32.970 --> 15:40.470 the Queen coming to H5 and you know, very exciting possibilities of mating quickly and in online chess 15:40.470 --> 15:43.320 tournament you sometimes do want to make quickly to get on to the next game. 15:43.320 --> 15:44.700 Those are all you can eat tournaments. 15:45.900 --> 15:48.660 So yeah, black has to tread very carefully here. 15:50.280 --> 15:56.910 And it seems the one point where black could improve the way coin technically slipped up with Bishop 15:57.090 --> 16:07.020 Free, it seems, where there was a possibility of Queen H5 instead with a strong attack here where 16:07.020 --> 16:14.820 White's kind of manually castles and gets all the big advantages here with the queen still on but yet 16:14.820 --> 16:20.750 with this inaccuracy queen defend this queen for is a huge mistake getting the queen's off. 16:20.760 --> 16:28.890 Maybe it's a natural tendency against attacking players, but it seems the way for Black to do it technically 16:28.890 --> 16:35.460 was Queen C two with greed associated with an interference tactic. 16:35.490 --> 16:37.890 It's it's it's kind of sci fi, though. 16:37.890 --> 16:44.760 If black could calculate all of this, it's it's easier with modern engines to check this stuff that 16:44.760 --> 16:48.840 actually these positions where black's being super greedy that there's 94. 16:48.870 --> 16:50.490 This is just crazy stuff. 16:50.760 --> 16:51.840 It really is. 16:51.840 --> 16:59.580 But anyway okay so the end game transitions though, of the queen for very good for Alexander Alekhine 16:59.580 --> 16:59.970 here. 17:00.600 --> 17:06.420 And yeah, if this poem wasn't taken off, I mean this is a very, very nice position where maybe one 17:06.420 --> 17:12.330 can even consider bringing the other bishop to complement that bishop for a kind of mating pattern. 17:12.330 --> 17:16.020 So it's a very difficult position if this pawn isn't taken. 17:16.710 --> 17:18.570 So yes, wonderful stuff. 17:18.570 --> 17:19.630 I hope you enjoy that. 17:20.820 --> 17:22.740 Och I so much.