WEBVTT 00:00.900 --> 00:01.560 Hi there. 00:01.590 --> 00:05.010 In this lecture, we see Alexander Alekhine against Oscar Turner. 00:05.160 --> 00:10.200 This was apparently played in 1911, Colonial Germany. 00:10.200 --> 00:15.480 But some sources indicate this game may have actually been a post-mortem of a 23 move draw. 00:16.170 --> 00:20.040 So Alekhine sometimes did actually make up attacking games. 00:20.130 --> 00:21.270 But you know what? 00:21.270 --> 00:23.150 I find that absolutely fascinating. 00:23.160 --> 00:29.490 His passion for attacking chess, for bringing a king out, for amazing king attacks extends to fantasy 00:29.490 --> 00:31.230 analysis as well. 00:31.230 --> 00:35.760 A bit like David Bronstein, you know, having dreams about chess, often involving, you know, king 00:35.760 --> 00:36.440 attacks. 00:36.450 --> 00:42.960 So the great attacking players do have this fiery kind of imagination and fantasy to them as well for 00:42.960 --> 00:45.310 their king hunting games. 00:45.330 --> 00:50.880 So E4 was played apparently by Alexander Alekhine. 00:50.880 --> 00:55.230 So E5 from ten f4 King's Game at Bishop C5. 00:55.230 --> 00:56.880 This looks quite plausible. 00:56.880 --> 01:04.080 Knight 369339 f6 Bishop C4 Knight C6 D3 Bishop G4. 01:04.080 --> 01:06.150 So Black's moves look kind of logical. 01:06.630 --> 01:07.890 And we have here Knight A4. 01:07.920 --> 01:09.840 This looks like a nice move to get that dance square. 01:09.870 --> 01:14.250 Bishop E takes F4 and we have Knight takes C5. 01:14.250 --> 01:16.950 So White gets the asset now of a dark square. 01:16.980 --> 01:22.740 Bishop Without a counterpart, which can be a very dangerous imbalance indeed. 01:22.830 --> 01:25.740 So Bishop takes F4, Knight H5. 01:25.770 --> 01:32.280 Bishop F3 And you can see the strain already on the black position. 01:32.280 --> 01:39.630 But Black decides instead of protecting this pawn, which might incur more weaknesses, for example, 01:39.630 --> 01:44.580 B6 would weaken C6 and maybe then Bishop B5 is useful. 01:44.610 --> 01:47.070 Black goes in for 95. 01:48.690 --> 01:50.820 So this is very, very interesting. 01:50.820 --> 01:52.170 Black's trying to. 01:53.460 --> 02:02.100 Get in the possibility, it seems if Bishop take five, then it looks as though Black's got some very 02:02.100 --> 02:03.840 interesting options here. 02:03.870 --> 02:05.790 Particularly Bishop takes her free. 02:05.790 --> 02:07.620 And this looks very unfortunate. 02:07.630 --> 02:08.880 Queen H for check. 02:10.470 --> 02:12.210 So for example here. 02:13.270 --> 02:13.840 If. 02:14.260 --> 02:19.720 KING If one there's no Geoffrey, as example, winning the exchange. 02:21.550 --> 02:23.680 But there's also other attacking possibilities. 02:23.680 --> 02:32.440 But instead of this, there's another move here which white can play, which is absolutely amazing. 02:33.310 --> 02:37.060 Can you guess or work it out ideally for 200 points. 02:37.060 --> 02:38.190 So why play here? 02:38.200 --> 02:41.230 This is absolutely a stunning conception. 02:42.070 --> 02:43.510 Really stunning conception. 02:43.840 --> 02:44.860 And. 02:46.090 --> 02:49.800 We're also benefiting the attacking players benefit from semi-open files. 02:49.810 --> 02:51.370 It's one of my favorite things about Gamma. 02:51.370 --> 02:52.920 It's quite often semi-open files. 02:52.930 --> 02:56.110 So that means it's like one way traffic for rooks, which are like cars. 02:56.290 --> 03:01.970 If you follow a metaphor a bit, rooks and cars and semi-open files bear that in mind as well. 03:01.990 --> 03:05.110 So there's something absolutely amazing I'm about to reveal. 03:06.820 --> 03:08.380 Knight takes E5. 03:08.380 --> 03:12.490 So we have Bishop takes one, Bishop takes f7 shank. 03:13.540 --> 03:19.090 Kinsey seven Bishop takes see five checks to the king is being brought down the board. 03:19.450 --> 03:23.620 Now one aspect of bringing the king down the board is demonstrated here. 03:23.920 --> 03:26.180 So what do we want to play in this position? 03:26.200 --> 03:28.210 This is absolutely amazing stuff. 03:30.340 --> 03:34.990 So on nights attack, do we take time out to protect the knight, or would that give black? 03:35.680 --> 03:37.420 You know, resource potential. 03:38.170 --> 03:46.180 Maybe, for example, Black could get reverse gear with G five if we protected the night, maybe G five, 03:46.180 --> 03:48.800 and then there's King G seven as a possibility. 03:48.820 --> 03:50.680 Wouldn't that ruin our attack? 03:50.830 --> 03:57.640 So guess what was played here before any reverse gears are created for the King. 03:57.910 --> 03:59.140 What does one play here for? 03:59.140 --> 04:00.070 100 points. 04:02.780 --> 04:08.050 OC one consoles with check offering a five. 04:08.060 --> 04:10.970 Now if the king goes to G5, this is fascinating. 04:10.970 --> 04:17.860 The king is being brought down the board in inspiration and here is an absolutely amazing possibility. 04:17.870 --> 04:19.430 What does White play in this possession? 04:20.270 --> 04:26.540 We want to cut out the reverse gears and sometimes containing the king a bit more is more significant 04:26.540 --> 04:27.380 than checks. 04:28.340 --> 04:33.230 If you check my art checkmate course in particular, you'll see that sometimes checks are not the best 04:33.230 --> 04:33.470 move. 04:33.490 --> 04:38.740 Sometimes covering escape squares makes the checking possibilities more effective. 04:38.750 --> 04:41.450 And here a key move would be Rook five. 04:41.480 --> 04:45.830 To make Bishop F2 more effective because the king can't go in reverse. 04:45.830 --> 04:53.210 So bringing down the king to H four means Queen D four is like a just a delaying tactic and then black 04:53.210 --> 04:55.070 gets mated in short order. 04:55.430 --> 04:56.130 So. 04:56.960 --> 04:58.340 Okay, so that's King G5. 04:58.340 --> 04:59.000 Fascinating. 04:59.000 --> 05:07.310 But King takes E5 is Swift Rook F5 check and mate beautiful stuff. 05:07.820 --> 05:10.730 So yes the attacking players they dream up stuff. 05:10.730 --> 05:16.310 This is most likely an analysis of of a dull draw but what an analysis. 05:16.310 --> 05:21.830 I mean this is actually it has an element of plausibility that a game like this could be played its 05:21.830 --> 05:26.540 rebellion against a relative pin in a spectacular manner. 05:27.140 --> 05:30.230 And so, yes, very, very interesting stuff. 05:30.230 --> 05:35.960 Knight E5 Knight takes E5 with the idea of bringing the King down the board. 05:35.960 --> 05:40.580 So there's actually a rather common pattern of attack. 05:40.910 --> 05:47.870 Quite a lot of the more sophisticated checkmate combinations in my Art of Checkmate Course are based 05:47.870 --> 05:49.910 on bringing the King down the board. 05:49.910 --> 05:55.640 It's a more fundamental kind of pattern for mating than you might suspect. 05:56.420 --> 06:01.010 There are plenty of actual games where the king is, you know, driven spectacularly down the board. 06:01.130 --> 06:07.220 And this this is just you know, it's a wonderful example, the idea of, you know, very carefully 06:07.220 --> 06:12.530 selecting between checks and containing the king is a key consideration to make. 06:12.530 --> 06:19.490 Sometimes a check is not the most effective move, and sometimes we need to be aware of any resourceful 06:19.490 --> 06:22.070 attempts to give the King reverse gears. 06:22.070 --> 06:28.310 This drive down the board must be without the reverse gear option, usually stop the king from escaping 06:28.310 --> 06:28.970 back. 06:28.970 --> 06:33.650 Some some of the most classic games in chess history, like Petrosian is classic, where he sacrificed 06:33.650 --> 06:34.730 the queens bring the king out. 06:34.760 --> 06:37.160 He stopped the king going back to G-7, funnily enough. 06:37.160 --> 06:40.400 So yeah, we're stopping the king using G7 here. 06:40.400 --> 06:43.280 We're bringing the king forward, no reverse gear. 06:43.280 --> 06:45.400 And checkmate is beautiful stuff. 06:45.410 --> 06:46.610 A beautiful pattern. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.200 Yeah, to behold. 06:48.200 --> 06:49.910 I hope you enjoy this one as much as me. 06:50.660 --> 06:51.410 That's very much.