WEBVTT 00:00.990 --> 00:01.680 Hi there. 00:01.710 --> 00:07.170 In this lecture, we see Alexander Alekhine playing against WM Von Felt in 1916. 00:07.470 --> 00:21.090 A blindfold simultaneous display we see e4 alekhine e6 d4 d5 9339 ten six and now e tanks d5 Black should 00:21.090 --> 00:28.200 really in theory capture just normally with e tanks d five Hip-Hop Plate, Knight Tanks d five and this 00:28.200 --> 00:34.860 actually allows an interesting knight transfer Knight e4 so Alekhine likes actually variations with 00:34.860 --> 00:35.700 Knight G free. 00:35.730 --> 00:41.760 There's been many Queen's Gambit lions, you know, in different openings, etc. where he's got a knight 00:41.760 --> 00:47.220 round to g free and is looking forward to potentially pouncing on the kingside. 00:47.700 --> 00:53.340 And one advantage here it provokes weaknesses F5 this is lashing out weakening E5. 00:53.520 --> 01:03.420 We have G5 Bishop e seven here with this knight not on F3 Black can't play H6 because can you guess? 01:03.420 --> 01:03.960 Yep. 01:03.960 --> 01:04.620 Five points. 01:04.620 --> 01:07.080 Queen H five Check the way it's been played. 01:07.080 --> 01:14.580 The Knights also abandoned H5 and this would be very interesting just bringing this one out and it's 01:14.580 --> 01:15.660 becoming like torture. 01:15.660 --> 01:16.830 95 check. 01:16.830 --> 01:24.990 And in here Knight f7 Knight takes E5 Czech Queen H4 is actually rather strong. 01:25.440 --> 01:26.580 Indeed. 01:27.900 --> 01:35.220 This is an amusing possession actually because of seven check and then taking the rook. 01:36.000 --> 01:40.050 But also if G5 guess what we can play here. 01:41.250 --> 01:44.400 Tactically, this is a very strong position. 01:45.540 --> 01:48.870 Bishop takes G5 check each takes and the point would be. 01:50.130 --> 01:51.090 Yeah, Queen. 01:51.090 --> 01:51.690 Thanks, H. 01:51.860 --> 01:52.350 Ain't so. 01:52.350 --> 01:57.270 There's lots of tactics here of seven check nine times h Ain't that would be great for white. 01:57.270 --> 01:58.830 So there are a lot of tactics. 01:58.830 --> 02:01.650 So Bishop e seven was played, though. 02:02.490 --> 02:05.520 Okay, we have the knight going back. 02:05.550 --> 02:08.340 C Sex Knight, E5 Black Castles. 02:08.340 --> 02:09.360 Knight Geoffrey. 02:09.360 --> 02:11.640 So there's nice night on E5. 02:11.880 --> 02:14.610 We have B six, Bishop D three. 02:14.610 --> 02:23.070 Bishop B seven White Castles, Rookie eight, C four Knight and six Bishop F4 And now we have Knight 02:23.070 --> 02:26.370 BD seven Queen e2c5. 02:27.030 --> 02:34.200 Perhaps better than C five would have been 9/10 E5 And if Queen takes E5, Queen D seven Rook 81 and 02:34.200 --> 02:44.010 one has a small edge, but in the game we see C5 and yeah, there's an amazing resource in this position. 02:46.100 --> 02:47.390 Can you spot what that is? 02:47.420 --> 02:50.240 It's really quite a spectacular combination. 02:50.720 --> 02:53.480 Now, so for ten points here, what would you play? 02:55.470 --> 02:59.580 We can bring the king out to play with Knights F seven hitting the queen. 03:00.690 --> 03:01.920 Very dangerous now. 03:02.160 --> 03:03.750 So King takes was played. 03:03.750 --> 03:06.960 If the eight queen takes six. 03:07.200 --> 03:09.930 And we've got a standard mating pattern here. 03:09.960 --> 03:14.520 Nine to age six is double check and we can have the smothered mate mating pattern. 03:14.520 --> 03:16.860 Queen G eight check and F seven. 03:19.140 --> 03:21.100 So if my five. 03:21.130 --> 03:23.400 That's kind of interesting, but there's no h six. 03:23.400 --> 03:24.390 King H eight. 03:24.420 --> 03:26.010 Not King F eight. 03:27.860 --> 03:33.830 Well, that's actually it's not mating, but this is just better to play. 03:34.430 --> 03:38.180 KING Ancient Queen takes E5, G takes. 03:38.180 --> 03:43.620 But still, one has a big advantage after D5 shutting down this bishop and looking at F5. 03:43.640 --> 03:45.980 This is just great for White, so. 03:45.980 --> 03:48.800 Okay, the knight is taken now. 03:48.800 --> 03:51.380 What do you think the point is here? 03:53.700 --> 03:54.810 What is bonus point? 03:54.810 --> 03:57.150 This is a spectacular point being made. 03:58.020 --> 03:59.920 Can you spot it for ten points? 03:59.940 --> 04:03.880 Actually, let's let's be more generous for 200 points. 04:03.900 --> 04:05.400 You might want to pause the video here. 04:05.430 --> 04:08.850 It's an iconic move of McQueen. 04:09.180 --> 04:11.370 There's several iconic moves. 04:11.940 --> 04:14.140 This is one of them for sure. 04:14.160 --> 04:20.660 So, okay, I'm about to reveal, you know, check all checks, even the really outrageous ones, because 04:20.670 --> 04:22.610 we're in combination lands now. 04:22.620 --> 04:24.300 Queen St's e6 check. 04:25.020 --> 04:25.490 Yep. 04:25.500 --> 04:27.090 Queen takes E6 check. 04:27.300 --> 04:29.160 So King G6 was played. 04:31.740 --> 04:34.410 If King takes E6, we have 95. 04:34.410 --> 04:35.700 And that is actually checkmate. 04:37.320 --> 04:39.060 So yeah, King of fight. 04:39.840 --> 04:41.220 If king and fight is played. 04:41.220 --> 04:42.370 This wasn't actually played. 04:42.390 --> 04:44.430 King G6 was played. 04:44.430 --> 04:54.180 But if King and fight is played here, nine G5 is strong so black has to defend f7 E5 is the only way 04:54.870 --> 04:56.250 to defend of seven. 04:56.670 --> 04:58.200 But Bishop takes E5 now. 04:58.230 --> 05:00.960 Bishop D5 is the only way to defend against the mate. 05:01.200 --> 05:07.950 And we have this position of C takes Queen takes I guess what White plays here, which is absolutely 05:07.950 --> 05:08.520 winning. 05:09.630 --> 05:10.080 Yeah. 05:10.110 --> 05:12.090 Even though we're not mating, we can play. 05:12.090 --> 05:15.980 Knight takes H seven luring the knight away from the Queen. 05:16.110 --> 05:17.190 It's absolutely winning. 05:17.490 --> 05:23.790 So, okay, so King G6 was played, but now there's a really fine move. 05:23.820 --> 05:26.610 Indeed, really, really fine move. 05:26.820 --> 05:31.440 Which, you know, alekhine's mating combinations are absolutely brilliant. 05:31.440 --> 05:37.770 Sometimes he knows when to play a quiet move, taking out escape squares or when to play a check. 05:37.770 --> 05:41.430 So his combination of finishes are absolutely brilliant. 05:41.520 --> 05:42.900 This is no exception here. 05:42.930 --> 05:46.200 This is an absolutely brilliant finish. 05:46.530 --> 05:48.180 Guess what White Plains had. 05:50.100 --> 05:51.180 400 points. 05:52.260 --> 05:55.800 So the king is being brought out, but you need to be able to finish computationally. 05:56.220 --> 06:01.830 It's actually G4 and whatever black does blacks getting mated. 06:02.520 --> 06:07.760 If H six bishop thinks that five is checkmate taking bishop takes a three. 06:07.770 --> 06:08.880 That's, that's mate. 06:09.360 --> 06:11.770 So yeah, there's a bishop takes five Mike. 06:12.330 --> 06:17.520 Let's just assume that so black tried Bishop e4 to stop. 06:17.520 --> 06:23.970 Bishop takes that five, but the pawn is taking out a key escape square here and this one is taking 06:23.970 --> 06:24.960 out h six. 06:25.230 --> 06:26.610 So one has. 06:26.700 --> 06:27.260 Yep. 06:27.270 --> 06:28.070 Can you spot it? 06:30.970 --> 06:32.860 1964 is checkmate. 06:34.240 --> 06:39.040 It's important to find the mating combinations if you're going to bring the king out sacrificially. 06:39.070 --> 06:40.630 That's a great attacking pattern. 06:40.630 --> 06:44.950 Sure, But you need the mate for the finishing combination. 06:45.070 --> 06:47.020 It's interesting this night. 06:47.050 --> 06:47.550 Transfer. 06:47.560 --> 06:49.090 We should take this seriously. 06:49.360 --> 06:53.890 Our clients played this kind of night transfer in various openings, but, yeah, en route, weakening 06:53.890 --> 06:56.980 dart squares is creating a routine. 06:57.520 --> 06:58.870 5 to 7. 06:58.870 --> 07:02.410 You know, that E5 is a great night. 07:02.410 --> 07:04.700 You know, very dangerous night, actually, on E5. 07:04.720 --> 07:07.080 So it's not just visually nice. 07:07.090 --> 07:08.770 There's a functionality to that. 07:08.770 --> 07:14.140 And look, I demonstrates fully the functionality, not just the beauty of the night from a kind of 07:14.140 --> 07:15.450 positional perspective. 07:15.460 --> 07:24.290 We are witnessing here an amazing functionality of bringing the King out to play here with F7. 07:24.760 --> 07:31.780 So it's wonderful stuff, bringing the king out and this spectacular bringing the king out to its potential 07:31.780 --> 07:32.320 demise. 07:32.320 --> 07:36.220 You know, on E6, if it was taken like G5, So wonderful stuff. 07:36.220 --> 07:41.680 This is just a really cute game in my view, a really iconic game of Anakin. 07:41.680 --> 07:43.510 I hope you've enjoyed it as much as me. 07:43.510 --> 07:48.700 So the takeaways, you know, weakness, provocation, getting knights to aggressive squares, getting 07:48.700 --> 07:54.460 the king out and about, even if it's not fully down the board, it's bringing the king out. 07:54.460 --> 07:57.490 And then, you know, very dangerous combinations can exist. 07:57.640 --> 07:58.420 Okay. 07:58.930 --> 07:59.650 Thanks so much.