WEBVTT 00:00.900 --> 00:01.560 Hi there. 00:01.620 --> 00:06.210 In this lecture, we see an amazing game of Bobby Fischer against pal Benko. 00:06.660 --> 00:15.060 So, pal Benko, to be fair, he did seem to have an interesting night before where, you know, he 00:15.060 --> 00:17.330 was on this hot date. 00:17.340 --> 00:19.140 Apparently, as the story goes. 00:19.290 --> 00:25.560 And maybe it was a bit tired for this game with Fischer and with the black pieces as well. 00:25.560 --> 00:31.950 So this is the 1963 US Championship round ten E4 from Bobby Fischer. 00:31.950 --> 00:36.690 We see G so already showing tiredness, playing the pits, the fans. 00:36.690 --> 00:40.680 This isn't very good objectively in the engine world. 00:40.680 --> 00:47.100 Well, when I say objectivity by evidence of at least the engine world, it's very, very bad statistically 00:47.100 --> 00:48.900 for black the pits, the fence. 00:49.290 --> 00:56.160 So we are, you know, black is creating a natural set of downsides here on the dark squares responsibility 00:56.160 --> 00:57.240 in the night. 00:57.240 --> 00:57.870 C three. 00:57.870 --> 01:00.030 D six we see F four. 01:00.030 --> 01:06.570 So this is the Austrian attack and this is very attacking in nature, this opening variation noise f 01:06.570 --> 01:07.980 six loiter free. 01:08.730 --> 01:18.780 So pal Benko Castles we see Bishop D frame Bishop g4 if night C six here white can press on with E5. 01:18.780 --> 01:27.570 This position should be quite pleasant for whites of the 90 2f61 could play e tanks he takes. 01:27.750 --> 01:35.910 There's a small edge but yeah 96 in comparison to the game, it does seem like a desirable alternative 01:35.910 --> 01:36.390 to the game. 01:36.390 --> 01:36.870 Bishop G. 01:36.870 --> 01:39.300 For which volunteers are light squared. 01:39.300 --> 01:44.850 Bishop So okay, White's accumulated that bishop here but has to control D four here. 01:44.850 --> 01:54.720 So Bishop e three e5 d takes decisive now f5g takes this looks self fracturing, you know, isolating 01:54.720 --> 01:59.460 these pawns a little bit more less of a pawn chain around the king. 01:59.460 --> 02:09.420 But anyway, queen thanks f five perhaps black had fair g4 and then there's squishing ideas of G5 and 02:09.420 --> 02:12.120 F six to squish the bishop so g tanks. 02:12.120 --> 02:14.310 At least there isn't that idea for white. 02:14.310 --> 02:16.650 So Queen takes F 594. 02:16.680 --> 02:18.390 The Queen can comfortably come to F2. 02:18.390 --> 02:26.610 Now we see 98 white Castles 96 and now Fischer starts sneaking around here. 02:26.610 --> 02:30.090 He's got this light squared bishop without a counterpart. 02:30.120 --> 02:39.030 And you can see it's X rating h seven as a sensitive, you know, hot spot, a kind of soft spot as 02:39.030 --> 02:39.990 well as a hot spot. 02:40.110 --> 02:45.600 So McHale will be looking at these soft spots, actually, rather than hot spots. 02:45.870 --> 02:50.010 Okay, So we have Queen G free 02:53.100 --> 02:57.690 and the Queen is sneaking around on the light squares to join forces with the bishop as a team effort. 02:57.690 --> 02:59.670 King H eight, Queen G four. 02:59.670 --> 03:01.020 So sneaky stuff. 03:02.130 --> 03:08.610 And it looks as though after C six, Queen H five, Black has this covered this idea, this naughty 03:08.610 --> 03:15.570 idea of Bishop tanks and then E5 because you know Black is aware of that and plays Queen eight thinking 03:15.570 --> 03:24.390 this is enough to defend the position 96 is an alternative here is interesting you know getting out 03:24.390 --> 03:29.070 of bishop tanks D four for this E5 you know because that's kind of liberating the Bishop. 03:29.070 --> 03:31.500 So why not just prevent it with 96? 03:31.500 --> 03:32.190 Sure. 03:32.190 --> 03:34.800 Why would have a slower build up here? 03:35.130 --> 03:37.890 So say 92 Rook G eight, Rook 81. 03:37.890 --> 03:41.070 This is an interesting build up here with G4. 03:41.100 --> 03:42.450 That's possible. 03:42.750 --> 03:46.140 I know in general it's double edged, but here it's kind of justified. 03:46.140 --> 03:50.280 If we prepare it a bit, we can get a very nice attacking position. 03:50.790 --> 03:56.820 For example here, getting out of the X-ray of the rook, and we're preparing slowly, 9 to 5 at the 03:56.820 --> 04:03.360 right time where this is a nice advantage for white, but it's not mating yet and the bishop is still 04:03.360 --> 04:04.230 locked in. 04:04.230 --> 04:06.840 So that is desirable compared to the game to play. 04:06.840 --> 04:07.950 96. 04:08.190 --> 04:15.060 So black's relying on this defense, Queenie eight because it has an interesting mechanism now to it. 04:15.060 --> 04:17.010 So Bishop takes D for it. 04:17.190 --> 04:20.670 So the natural tendency here, what would you play in this position? 04:20.670 --> 04:25.950 What would be the natural tendency and why isn't why in this particular situation, it's not very good. 04:26.010 --> 04:30.840 What would you play here for 1000 tactical points? 04:37.230 --> 04:42.690 Okay, There's a big trap in terms of the attacking player, sometimes the attacking player. 04:42.720 --> 04:44.090 We really need accuracy. 04:44.100 --> 04:48.180 Otherwise we're made to look kind of silly if we play. 04:48.210 --> 04:50.080 If we can be made to look silly. 04:50.100 --> 04:52.950 Here we are threatening Checkmates. 04:52.950 --> 04:59.820 But Black has a resource F5 which interrupts disconnects that diagonal hits the Queen and the Knights 04:59.820 --> 05:04.440 protecting the Queen so the knight can get away from being attacked here. 05:04.470 --> 05:06.240 This is just an even possession. 05:06.660 --> 05:12.570 If we go to H four, then D take C three knights get exchanged off, but C takes B. 05:13.170 --> 05:17.970 Black's just better with advantage there, so that would be horrendous. 05:17.970 --> 05:24.390 So there is another way of playing this attack which is so much more effective. 05:24.690 --> 05:28.740 So it's not the tempting E5 I'm about to reveal. 05:29.880 --> 05:37.730 It's Rook f6, which essentially in effect it's pitting the f7 pawn as if we've pinned the F7 form of 05:37.740 --> 05:38.970 bishop to the king. 05:38.970 --> 05:44.370 I know the king is not in G, but we've kind of pinned down the f7 pawn. 05:45.900 --> 05:51.330 So we have Kingi if D take C free e five without any f five. 05:51.360 --> 05:53.400 What does black do about H seven? 05:55.270 --> 05:58.140 You know, blacks getting shredded, this position of blacks getting shredded. 05:58.140 --> 06:02.130 Queen F five and then mating also. 06:03.030 --> 06:05.170 You know, age six is not going to help. 06:05.190 --> 06:06.570 There's rule takes age six. 06:06.570 --> 06:10.230 And here we've got Nate rookie eight check and queen age seven. 06:10.470 --> 06:15.660 So King is played we have E5 now aged six. 06:15.840 --> 06:17.850 And guess what Fischer plays now. 06:17.850 --> 06:20.610 So both nights are being attacked. 06:21.210 --> 06:24.930 There's a really cute move Fisher plays here. 06:26.470 --> 06:30.970 Showing a delayed gratification. 06:34.540 --> 06:35.560 Delayed gratification. 06:35.560 --> 06:39.850 Example 92 and Benko resigns. 06:41.770 --> 06:47.170 So why, if might be five, then we get onto that diagonal with Queen A five. 06:47.200 --> 06:49.810 That's kind of crushing to meet. 06:50.410 --> 06:52.150 So that's 95. 06:53.950 --> 06:54.260 Sorry. 06:54.280 --> 07:02.920 It might be five if Bishop takes f6, Queen 6h6, and then we're going from a if King H A we have rook 07:02.920 --> 07:06.840 takes h6 check and this needs rook h h for Queen H seven. 07:06.850 --> 07:15.250 If 94 Bishop takes e4 this position, Queen takes h6 and mating If rook the eights, we don't take the 07:15.250 --> 07:16.060 knights. 07:16.060 --> 07:21.940 We try and get that knight to move away for Queen A5 we play this and if Bishop takes f6, we've got 07:21.940 --> 07:24.190 Queenside h6 and then we're mating. 07:24.370 --> 07:28.870 So say instead of Bishop takes f6 a5, we just build up here. 07:28.870 --> 07:30.020 We've rook out three. 07:30.040 --> 07:33.580 In this case, we're not attracted by the knight. 07:34.030 --> 07:36.100 That's only winning a little battle. 07:36.100 --> 07:37.740 We want to win a whole war. 07:37.750 --> 07:39.580 We want to go for the checkmate. 07:39.580 --> 07:49.300 So like B5 Rook G3 is crushing so b4 here Rook takes h six is one way and then rough handshake is checkmate. 07:49.960 --> 07:50.380 If. 07:51.130 --> 07:51.330 Yeah. 07:51.390 --> 07:52.030 Yeah. 07:52.330 --> 07:55.420 So there's also. 07:56.440 --> 07:58.390 You know, that's the way to do it here. 07:59.380 --> 08:05.050 If I have one instead of 85, if Bishop takes this. 08:05.050 --> 08:13.780 Yeah, it's kind of okay if C5 on this occasion we've see five. 08:15.590 --> 08:18.020 We can actually just eliminate the night here. 08:18.200 --> 08:21.350 And this position is just material up. 08:21.410 --> 08:22.520 It's a winning position. 08:23.810 --> 08:33.380 So, yeah, in the game, I mean yeah, it was just resigned him off the night E2 delayed gratification 08:33.380 --> 08:39.380 asking the night politely to move away so we get, you know, resources like Queen F five if the night 08:39.380 --> 08:39.980 moves away. 08:40.010 --> 08:41.600 We've got Queen F five. 08:43.220 --> 08:45.740 Bishop with our counterpart is an attacking ingredient. 08:45.740 --> 08:52.670 Clearly from the opening picked up from the opening and the queen dancing around, well, being slow 08:52.710 --> 08:55.520 to get onto the light squares to join forces with the bishop. 08:55.790 --> 09:03.830 But the interesting resource from an attacking player perspective, sometimes the obvious move is not 09:03.830 --> 09:05.020 the most effective move. 09:05.030 --> 09:06.950 We've got to be resourceful. 09:07.100 --> 09:15.230 If we want to be a successful attacking player, we need to consider factoring defensive, energetic 09:15.230 --> 09:17.450 resources here. 09:17.630 --> 09:21.340 It's not sometimes that simple to see such moves. 09:21.350 --> 09:27.170 This to me is an iconic move of Bobby Fischer on the attack. 09:27.350 --> 09:32.720 It's a beautiful attacking move, pinning down the f7 pawn. 09:33.320 --> 09:38.960 So yes, beautiful combination in the end and nice build up picking up the attacking ingredients like 09:39.170 --> 09:44.540 score and bishop with that counterpart which the queen served to amplify where it's with it's slow manoeuvring 09:44.540 --> 09:45.410 to a light square. 09:45.410 --> 09:49.190 They're pretty direct attack shown in this game. 09:49.190 --> 09:52.100 I hope you enjoyed it so much.