WEBVTT 00:00.900 --> 00:01.740 Hi there. 00:01.770 --> 00:06.660 In this lecture, we see an absolutely beautiful, smooth example of a pawn storm. 00:06.690 --> 00:10.860 This is Viktor Korchnoi against Bobby Fischer in 1970. 00:10.890 --> 00:14.310 Now, it is a blitz game, but it's a highly celebrated, complex game. 00:14.330 --> 00:16.410 It's a really classic blitz tournament. 00:16.440 --> 00:22.770 The Herceg Novi Blitz tournament of 1970s, like the first official World Blitz Chess Championship. 00:23.640 --> 00:30.160 So we have D4 from Viktor Fischer plays of sex. 00:30.180 --> 00:32.670 He goes into the king's engine, the fence. 00:33.030 --> 00:41.280 So E4 d6 we have Bishop E, two, Black Castle and three E5 now White Castles. 00:41.280 --> 00:49.170 And just in case you're wondering, why can't White win the pawn with D tanks and then say Queen takes 00:49.170 --> 00:50.170 and then take here? 00:50.220 --> 00:55.440 Well, there's a backfire in the form of Knights X e4 and this is fine for black. 00:55.440 --> 00:57.090 This position is fine for black. 00:57.270 --> 01:03.900 And if white tries the desperado tactic, Knight takes f7 expecting King tanks. 01:04.290 --> 01:12.120 They're not going to get that because here you don't take on a on f7 you just play bishop take C free 01:12.120 --> 01:13.780 check and then you win a piece. 01:13.800 --> 01:17.820 So the mechanics of this line are well worked out. 01:18.270 --> 01:24.960 So black can afford E5 and it's a prelude to getting the center closed now with Knight C6 So D5 is often 01:24.960 --> 01:25.410 played. 01:25.410 --> 01:33.660 We have 97 Knight D2 and now Fischer locks down the queenside in advance of his kingside pawn storm. 01:34.140 --> 01:39.930 So he's using kind of the war principle as well here, putting oneself beyond the feet before going 01:39.930 --> 01:43.590 on to attack the good fighters of old, according to Sansa, who did did this. 01:44.130 --> 01:49.070 So this is a good example because quite often the queenside gets decimated. 01:49.080 --> 01:52.980 So here, even in a blitz game, Fischer is taking precautions. 01:54.240 --> 02:03.660 If he plays h6, white can play quick b4 and for example C5 and you can see how the pressure point D6 02:03.690 --> 02:05.310 is being amplified. 02:05.760 --> 02:12.090 So even though there's a bit of a pawn somewhere on both sides of the board and quite often White does 02:12.090 --> 02:13.560 well from this kind of position. 02:13.560 --> 02:20.970 So this kind of position with C 66 and 95, you can see that there's an element of torture here coming 02:20.970 --> 02:21.420 in. 02:22.110 --> 02:22.770 Okay. 02:22.770 --> 02:27.300 So 87 on the fire, White trying to get the B six square. 02:27.300 --> 02:33.210 So you can see that there's an argument to be made for trying to lock down the queenside in advance 02:33.210 --> 02:33.720 of all that. 02:33.720 --> 02:37.410 So a free you might ask what about d C6? 02:37.410 --> 02:38.730 Does that do y any good? 02:38.760 --> 02:40.380 Not particularly. 02:40.380 --> 02:44.490 It seems black can play b take c C6 and here D5 is possible. 02:44.490 --> 02:45.960 It's all about liberating this bishop. 02:45.960 --> 02:46.920 In this case. 02:46.950 --> 02:50.610 In this particular scenario, Black should be absolutely fine. 02:50.610 --> 02:57.360 For example, this situation White could play knight E4 instead of a passive move will be one run into 02:57.360 --> 02:58.530 93. 02:58.560 --> 03:05.970 So say 94 Knight takes b4 Black could play like this. 03:05.970 --> 03:13.830 White's best is Rook a tasty one not rook f takes D1 because then this position should be better for 03:13.830 --> 03:14.020 black. 03:14.020 --> 03:19.830 You can see the bishop opening up, but if Rook eight takes D1, Black's should tread carefully with 03:19.830 --> 03:21.750 Bishop five of a small edge. 03:22.140 --> 03:28.920 Black shouldn't take the pawn because there's disconnect here and Bishop C5 Bishop B5 is embarrassing 03:29.880 --> 03:30.360 for things. 03:30.360 --> 03:36.450 Yeah, the rook crashing through to the A4 anchor to D8 so that would be nice for white. 03:36.450 --> 03:38.310 So yeah, but we've careful play. 03:38.310 --> 03:40.410 I just wanted to demonstrate with careful play. 03:40.410 --> 03:46.140 There's nothing really to fear about D C6 It's a different scenario where the centre isn't closed, 03:46.140 --> 03:48.360 but it's about the bishop, it's about the pieces. 03:48.540 --> 03:51.720 But here in this game we have A3 keeping the center closed. 03:51.930 --> 04:00.090 And this justifies more a pawn storm because usually when you do a pawn somewhat on the flank, often 04:00.090 --> 04:05.130 the opponent can counter in the center with a locked center, it's not so easy to counter attack. 04:05.250 --> 04:11.700 We have b4 B6, Rook, B1, f5 and free and now F4. 04:11.730 --> 04:16.890 So even not not taking precautions with this bishop, leaving it kind of locked in at the moment. 04:16.890 --> 04:22.920 It adds solidity to the black position sometimes you'll see in Kensington Defense Games the bishop kind 04:22.920 --> 04:28.020 of trying to be traded off or put on this diagonal that's sometimes that works. 04:28.020 --> 04:29.670 But here, sometimes this works. 04:29.670 --> 04:34.950 Just leaving the bishop on G7 and just getting on with the pawn storm without further ado, without 04:34.950 --> 04:36.150 any, you know, delay. 04:36.150 --> 04:42.320 So A4 we have G5 A5 and Rook f6 B take C5. 04:42.390 --> 04:48.900 This is actually a mistake because the A4 could have been made use of with eight six at some point. 04:48.900 --> 04:52.920 So instead of that it seems a takes B6. 04:53.580 --> 04:59.310 Yeah, subtle difference, but it is a difference and this situation y can. 04:59.700 --> 05:01.230 Play aggressively on the queenside. 05:01.230 --> 05:04.860 And if the bishop is taken out, this often takes the sting out of Black's attack. 05:04.860 --> 05:10.200 Potential White should have a small edge here you can see that White is reinforced in effect against 05:10.200 --> 05:14.550 G4 by taking out the square bishop So okay. 05:14.610 --> 05:21.090 But in how it was played, it makes things kind of smooth for Fischer because there isn't so much scrutiny 05:21.090 --> 05:21.960 on the queenside. 05:21.960 --> 05:28.410 This bishop is alive and kicking, supporting the G4 break at some point, so the strategic pawn break 05:28.440 --> 05:35.340 to open up the G4 is a very great application of the pawn storm in this game example. 05:35.340 --> 05:39.360 So we see Knight B3, Rook g6, Bishop d2, Knight f6. 05:39.360 --> 05:43.770 So the thematics silky silky smooth G4 is being prepared. 05:43.770 --> 05:47.820 So King H1 this is a dream position for a King's Indian defense player. 05:47.820 --> 05:50.640 There are no decimation worries on the queenside. 05:50.640 --> 05:55.860 This is good that Fischer has put himself beyond the feet on this side of the board, especially with 05:55.860 --> 06:00.150 some inaccurate moves helping Black's queenside stability. 06:00.300 --> 06:03.180 So we have F takes G4, Knight takes G4. 06:03.180 --> 06:10.290 So this is attacking chess without completely destroying your own possession rook f rate. 06:10.290 --> 06:12.930 We have rook h6 A-Train now. 06:12.930 --> 06:16.560 Knight G6 King Do you want f6? 06:17.130 --> 06:19.800 Bishop E1 And now a beautiful maneuver here. 06:19.830 --> 06:21.840 Guess what Fischer plays in this position? 06:22.020 --> 06:23.490 Nimzowitsch would be proud. 06:23.520 --> 06:27.150 This is a kind of strange Nimzowitsch Knight maneuver. 06:28.350 --> 06:31.050 Okay, for 400 points, what would you play here? 06:32.840 --> 06:36.530 Which piece isn't relevant to scrutiny on White's position. 06:37.070 --> 06:39.620 This one is not scrutinising White's position. 06:39.620 --> 06:41.750 We're scrutinising each free hair. 06:42.050 --> 06:44.390 So that's a clue for this next move. 06:44.480 --> 06:46.910 How could we intensify things? 06:47.210 --> 06:50.680 No h8, this guy, this knight can jump around. 06:51.170 --> 06:56.240 Jump into G five, hit F and free, putting weight under greater scrutiny. 06:56.610 --> 07:02.670 Rook differing seven Bishop every night G5 So Queen eats her. 07:02.690 --> 07:04.250 And now we have Rogue G6. 07:04.400 --> 07:12.200 So we've clear an imminent France like 19th century Czech king if one and in fact here yes one is played 07:12.200 --> 07:16.220 here despite the king on pinning the G2 pawn. 07:16.220 --> 07:17.870 Guess what Fischer plays her. 07:19.620 --> 07:21.090 So blank to play. 07:21.360 --> 07:27.090 And I used to, you know, look at these model games and think of the notion of a kind of resource container, 07:27.690 --> 07:30.870 you know, release effects, kind of explosive release effect. 07:30.870 --> 07:35.190 You've got resources behind the container, the container being the pawns. 07:35.190 --> 07:39.870 Pawns are a fundamental constraint on pieces as well as pieces themselves, sometimes occupying key 07:39.870 --> 07:44.700 squares you might want to be resourceful with, but here it's like there's a release of resources of 07:44.700 --> 07:45.870 96, 83. 07:45.880 --> 07:49.950 It's like a Coke can opening up, you know, you're shaking it up or some fizzy drink. 07:49.950 --> 07:56.280 You're shaking it like all the the container of the cocaine is like the skeleton of the pawn structure. 07:56.400 --> 07:58.680 So all the resources inside being released. 07:58.680 --> 08:04.800 Bishop Tax free check king F2 and now knight G4 check, which you can see it unleashes the queen now 08:04.800 --> 08:12.120 it's potentially used for it's interesting fish is accurate even in a blitz game here is looking at 08:12.120 --> 08:21.000 the finances if he had in sort of 94 plates maybe nine takes E4 check which seems to do the same job 08:21.570 --> 08:28.020 why it has here Queen takes E4 and the king would be given an escape square. 08:28.050 --> 08:32.760 E2 So Queen H for King itself has a big advantage here. 08:32.760 --> 08:33.930 It's not clear anymore. 08:34.200 --> 08:40.710 So with Knight G for check, we want to retain the opponent's lack of escape squares. 08:40.710 --> 08:42.810 Leave the Queen on E! 08:43.230 --> 08:45.870 It's helping our mating possibilities. 08:45.870 --> 08:53.310 We have Bishop Thanks G4 because one else this is just really vicious to go into a g file attack. 08:55.730 --> 08:59.930 You know, this this looks absolutely horrendous to do anything else to go into the file. 08:59.960 --> 09:05.090 You know, for example, this position doesn't appetizing getting mated like that. 09:06.560 --> 09:11.300 So Bishop takes G4 but now Bishop takes chief on course don't actually resigned here. 09:11.960 --> 09:16.430 If Queen D2, the queen comes in and it's vicious. 09:17.840 --> 09:23.120 So here we've got potential Bishop free check. 09:24.410 --> 09:27.230 Let's go check and, you know, absolutely crushing. 09:27.230 --> 09:29.080 Why was White going to give up the queen? 09:29.090 --> 09:30.860 We can take the queen with Shaq. 09:31.100 --> 09:34.190 It's absolutely devastating and we're mating soon. 09:36.050 --> 09:38.870 So if Rook Geoffrey Queen tanks. 09:38.870 --> 09:41.450 Geoffrey Jack Queen Africa. 09:41.450 --> 09:43.700 Jack Bishop five Shaq Yeah. 09:43.700 --> 09:45.170 There's no defence, really. 09:45.440 --> 09:47.990 We've got so many attacking pieces over here. 09:48.170 --> 09:49.880 It's going to end in checkmate. 09:50.330 --> 09:53.840 So yes, a very beautiful, silky smooth Kings End. 09:53.840 --> 09:57.960 And the fans came highly celebrated on those people's collections at Chess games. 09:57.980 --> 10:04.490 Com one of my favorite sites so it's a model Kings engine defense game in a way, even though it's played 10:04.490 --> 10:11.210 at a fast time limit, it's very clear how black plays and, you know, putting even more scrutiny on 10:11.210 --> 10:13.430 the opponent's possession with that Knight maneuver. 10:13.430 --> 10:15.110 That was great feature of this game. 10:15.110 --> 10:22.430 But the only great feature for me at Move Line, locking down the queenside in advance of potential 10:22.430 --> 10:23.900 decimation with moves like before. 10:23.900 --> 10:27.870 So stopping beforehand is tracks, not minding the details. 10:27.920 --> 10:30.020 See six impacts. 10:30.020 --> 10:36.200 That's different game, but it's a game which black can be good at, good at in its own right. 10:36.200 --> 10:37.820 But the center closed. 10:37.850 --> 10:44.150 The flank attack is more justified because as I say, you know the expression, you know, if you a 10:44.150 --> 10:49.190 good counterattack to a flank attack is in the center or sometimes on the other flank. 10:49.190 --> 10:55.220 But the attack on the other flank, unfortunately, with B-type C5 wasn't so speedy. 10:55.460 --> 10:59.210 So the speed of Black's attack here was very, very strong. 10:59.360 --> 11:04.370 And yeah, I just I just consider some of these King's engine games so natural. 11:04.400 --> 11:10.100 The attacking potential so natural with the center closed how you can just it's like releasing resources 11:10.460 --> 11:17.450 which are behind the scenes by doing the strategic key pawn break G4 it just releases a lot of resource 11:17.450 --> 11:23.720 potential without clearance of the g g pawns go to g g4 to just get rid of the g pawn that's semi-open 11:23.720 --> 11:26.840 g for hair kind of vicious and things. 11:26.840 --> 11:30.400 Just reorganize here based on the semi-open G file. 11:30.440 --> 11:36.350 A semi-open G4 is a dangerous file from your opponent's perspective, so getting rid of one of your 11:36.350 --> 11:40.850 own pawns, you're liberating your pieces to attack the opponent's king directly. 11:41.420 --> 11:43.520 But yeah, accuracy towards the end. 11:43.520 --> 11:45.080 So Knight g for check. 11:45.110 --> 11:50.420 If you're in the Art of Checkmate, you want to make sure that the king escape squares are limited to 11:50.420 --> 11:53.230 the King is being locked in by the Queen here. 11:53.240 --> 11:56.150 So this is a really accurate move for the attack. 11:56.420 --> 12:03.800 So a crushing position which Courtney didn't want to play on from giving the queen a phone check is 12:03.800 --> 12:04.640 incoming. 12:05.030 --> 12:10.850 Okay, So I hope you enjoyed this classic game Pawn Storm example. 12:11.420 --> 12:12.170 That's very much.