WEBVTT 00:01.070 --> 00:01.820 Hi there. 00:01.850 --> 00:06.980 In this lecture, I want to show you an iconic game with one of my friends, Costas. 00:06.980 --> 00:07.390 Carry on. 00:08.480 --> 00:13.460 Who is actually noted my attacking and tactical skills from a young age. 00:13.460 --> 00:19.130 He's been a great friend, along with Alexa volunteers and Paul George, who I played many, many blitz 00:19.130 --> 00:22.790 torments of various places. 00:23.810 --> 00:25.730 So it was great training. 00:25.730 --> 00:32.420 These guys have been great training and great friends throughout my chess career, so this is a game 00:32.420 --> 00:33.790 of constant carry on. 00:34.010 --> 00:40.280 His nickname is Fat and Mad and he's playing against Napkin and this was in 2008. 00:40.280 --> 00:43.700 So this is at my own correspondence chess club, Chess World dot net. 00:43.730 --> 00:46.490 It's a brilliant example of the bishop hair. 00:46.520 --> 00:48.380 So he starts with the English opening. 00:48.380 --> 00:51.200 So Constance Cameron is with the White pieces, plays C4. 00:51.200 --> 00:59.870 We have five a Dutch defense from net neck Finn and he came in so we have Geoffrey let's have sex. 00:59.870 --> 01:02.060 Bishop, G2, e5. 01:02.270 --> 01:09.410 Now, these pawns, they're quite committed here and it's good if one of them can be forced to move 01:09.410 --> 01:11.630 because it will give way to weaknesses we have. 01:11.630 --> 01:17.600 D4 and Black already plays a slight inaccuracy, which leads to quite a lot of pain later. 01:17.630 --> 01:18.920 96. 01:18.920 --> 01:20.990 There are alternatives here. 01:20.990 --> 01:22.400 E4 is quite committal. 01:22.400 --> 01:27.680 It's giving white a four so 93 bishop b4 check this is going to lead. 01:27.980 --> 01:29.990 This will lead to advantage for white. 01:30.470 --> 01:33.500 White doesn't mind if black wants to double the pawns here. 01:33.710 --> 01:40.280 If black castles afraid this position, we can use the F4 square and it's going to be a slight advantage 01:40.280 --> 01:40.850 for white. 01:41.300 --> 01:48.230 So anyway we have though there is an important option in d sex which although the Queen's might come 01:48.230 --> 01:50.390 off, it would keep these two pawns together. 01:50.630 --> 01:57.020 And like the bishop pair, they kind of complementary cost us carry on is called them soul partners. 01:57.020 --> 02:01.730 He actually did a video on YouTube many years back and he called them you know there's soul mates, 02:01.730 --> 02:04.100 you know, they've got to look after each other. 02:04.100 --> 02:10.490 But here at least they can remain intact if the Queen's come off black could have C7 for the King and 02:10.490 --> 02:11.390 B fine. 02:11.390 --> 02:12.860 Why only has a small edge. 02:12.860 --> 02:19.640 It's limiting White's advantage, but in the game we have Knight C6 and one of the soul mates disappears, 02:19.640 --> 02:23.750 leaving a kind of lack of harmony as well between the bishop and this pawn. 02:24.290 --> 02:29.480 So the complementary is within the black position have been lost in different ways. 02:29.480 --> 02:35.450 The two pawns, complementary, the pieces of pawn harmony, slightly lost. 02:35.450 --> 02:40.040 It's kind of amplifying that pawn might be just bad for black. 02:40.040 --> 02:46.100 We have B3, Bishop C5, Bishop B2, Queen E7, an Illinois friend. 02:46.100 --> 02:52.100 This reinforces the idea that White has a great four square and that pawns missing so this can help 02:52.100 --> 02:59.660 intensify the D5 square control and authority we have moving a piece of game with Bishop before check 03:00.470 --> 03:05.660 if Black just simply concealed, this might actually be an improvement and just accept this situation 03:05.960 --> 03:07.490 where it has a small edge. 03:07.490 --> 03:14.510 But Bishop before Shank was played 9394, Rook C one and now Bishop takes C free check. 03:15.170 --> 03:17.990 So yes, without mistakes there are no brilliancy. 03:17.990 --> 03:24.470 So black for some reason is giving white the bishop hair kind of not really appreciating. 03:24.470 --> 03:29.780 You know, Steinitz did have the bishop here as a classic advantage to evaluate. 03:29.780 --> 03:32.150 So are they complimentary? 03:32.150 --> 03:33.320 Are they a team here? 03:33.320 --> 03:35.840 Well, they could be against the king later. 03:36.670 --> 03:38.060 Is the classic bishop here. 03:38.060 --> 03:39.710 So it's a complementary team. 03:39.710 --> 03:48.470 In theory, the bishop drops back visit, preserving itself like G6 and now both sides Castle E F3. 03:48.470 --> 03:53.870 So this looks down F4 so kind of emphasizing there's a lack of comprehension complementary here this 03:53.870 --> 04:06.110 bishop's like hemmed in now by its own pawn we have Bishop E6 rookie one now rook ice now African knights 04:06.110 --> 04:09.410 have six and they'll have two. 04:09.440 --> 04:15.620 This is very very nice play It has the idea of playing F4 and E4 so this would keep the bishop locked 04:15.620 --> 04:18.020 in B6 and not F4. 04:18.020 --> 04:19.910 And it opens up of course White's bishop. 04:19.910 --> 04:24.800 So you can see these bishops are quite nice at the moment just from a positional perspective. 04:24.800 --> 04:29.510 So the accumulation of advantages model is very apparent in this game. 04:29.510 --> 04:32.330 It's building the groundwork for a successful attack. 04:32.330 --> 04:35.120 We have E4 now. 04:35.130 --> 04:44.120 Knight takes E4, Knight takes E4, F-type, C4, Bishop takes E4 97 and we have now Queen D4. 04:44.330 --> 04:50.780 So tying the Queen down to G7, the queen is attacked, the queen drops back actually to de free. 04:50.780 --> 04:59.990 So putting pressure on F5 we have now Bishop D7 and now once Rook. 05:00.350 --> 05:03.200 Work as a team to intensify the pressure. 05:03.260 --> 05:07.220 So doubling rooks, Logically, it looks absolutely harmonious. 05:07.220 --> 05:11.990 White's position and both bishops are genuinely staring towards the kingside. 05:12.080 --> 05:20.510 We have a five an hour, Bishop C c3 H six and now with the advantages in the position, White goes 05:20.510 --> 05:24.620 on the attack and it's very, very justified and very natural here. 05:24.620 --> 05:26.810 You know, as natural as the baby's small heads. 05:26.810 --> 05:28.670 It's a nice position. 05:28.670 --> 05:30.050 Groundwork has been laid. 05:30.080 --> 05:34.700 Bishop here is a juicy attacking ingredients to make use of. 05:34.820 --> 05:43.640 We have G4 so the knight goes to a more passive square E seven and now F five. 05:43.640 --> 05:49.460 So Black has very limited counterplay and you can see actually also this bishop pitting G seven could 05:49.460 --> 05:54.890 be a problem for example, like this to exploit the pin, the pin pawn on G7. 05:54.890 --> 05:57.580 We have Bishop C and now Queen H free. 05:57.590 --> 05:59.570 This way of doing it is very, very nice. 05:59.570 --> 06:02.390 Francis Then Queen takes H six check. 06:02.390 --> 06:07.940 So black plays Knight G eight, but now Bishop D five. 06:08.630 --> 06:12.650 This is looking like an absolutely crushing position. 06:13.220 --> 06:15.710 We have Queen D seven. 06:15.950 --> 06:22.610 If Rook takes E two, we can just simply take the Queen because we're holding E one with a huge advantage 06:22.610 --> 06:23.270 there. 06:24.890 --> 06:25.730 So. 06:26.180 --> 06:26.840 Okay. 06:26.840 --> 06:33.170 But now of the Queen D seven, guess what won't plays in black actually resigns in this position. 06:33.620 --> 06:38.270 It's an absolutely crushing position with the bishop pair Look how complimentary they are. 06:39.560 --> 06:41.930 So here whites play. 06:41.930 --> 06:48.170 What would you play in this position So move 31 rookie sex. 06:48.170 --> 06:52.010 There are huge threats now intensifying the pressure against the pin pawn. 06:52.010 --> 06:57.380 Well, the pin pawn is not relevant for h six so rook takes h six threatened so black resigned here 06:57.380 --> 07:05.480 if rotates e six rotates e six rook f6 would be a desperate way of trying to defend things. 07:05.570 --> 07:11.450 But White could just play Bishop takes f six hair and smash through Now even though white's like lost 07:11.450 --> 07:16.070 the bishop hair, the Queen can also be a complementary to the bishop. 07:16.070 --> 07:18.650 Now after Rook takes f6. 07:18.680 --> 07:23.690 So we see this is actually a forced checkmate sequence where the Queen comes in, assisted by the Knight 07:23.690 --> 07:24.530 Square bishop. 07:25.160 --> 07:26.690 So beautiful stuff. 07:26.720 --> 07:28.490 If C6, let's just see this one. 07:28.490 --> 07:34.460 Rook takes h six Jack Queen since h six is checkmate, you can see the bishops working well together 07:34.460 --> 07:35.420 at the same there. 07:35.780 --> 07:37.490 This game is all about complementary. 07:37.490 --> 07:39.890 It's all about team play in different ways. 07:39.890 --> 07:43.400 So we're not just illustrating the Bishop power, which is a great complementary team. 07:43.520 --> 07:48.620 Black did have a team which was lost that that team pair of the two pawns. 07:48.620 --> 07:51.110 So the harmony was lost as well. 07:51.110 --> 07:56.450 The bishop with the F5 pawn and later White's attack was just so natural. 07:56.450 --> 07:59.690 There was nothing ungrounded about this attacking game. 07:59.690 --> 08:03.650 It was set with the groundwork of accumulating advantages. 08:03.770 --> 08:05.060 The Bishop hair. 08:05.090 --> 08:11.990 It's a really nice, clear, instructive game example played from one of my very, very good friends 08:11.990 --> 08:12.470 in chess. 08:12.470 --> 08:19.550 I hope you enjoyed this game and saw a little bit the power of the bishop hair being used in a correspondence 08:19.550 --> 08:20.090 game. 08:20.240 --> 08:21.050 Okay. 08:22.000 --> 08:22.720 I see much.