WEBVTT 00:00.930 --> 00:01.740 Hi there. 00:01.770 --> 00:07.410 In this lecture, we're going to look at one of the greatest arguably attacking games of all time from 00:07.410 --> 00:11.320 one of my favorite players of all, Garry Kasparov. 00:11.340 --> 00:15.230 So Garry Kasparov was heavily influenced by Alexander Alekhine. 00:15.240 --> 00:21.720 You know, Alekhine was Kasparov's favorites and possibly Karpov absolutely loved Capablanca. 00:22.260 --> 00:31.120 So we see here against Topalov in 1999, her against women's group a round for E4 from France. 00:31.230 --> 00:37.650 Then Topalov, who was also a former world chess champion, plays D6. 00:37.920 --> 00:38.910 We have. 00:38.940 --> 00:43.170 So a perk pierced the fence or perk. 00:43.830 --> 00:50.820 So D4 from Kasparov 9693 G6 we have Bishop E freeze. 00:50.820 --> 00:57.660 So this is a classic setup from White's to try and swap off those bishops potentially with queenly to. 00:57.840 --> 00:59.100 And Bishop 86. 00:59.130 --> 01:08.670 Here if Knight G4 Bishop for Bishop G7 this is potentially it's just in White's favor the knight's going 01:08.670 --> 01:11.690 to be kicked back and White's going to Castle Queenside. 01:11.700 --> 01:18.480 So another attacking ingredient here would be opposite side castling game where White's in a good position 01:18.480 --> 01:19.650 to potentially win. 01:19.680 --> 01:23.250 The race is here with crude stuff coming up. 01:23.700 --> 01:27.810 So that's that would also be a juicy attacking game in its own right. 01:27.840 --> 01:34.770 If we look at this again with E5, White could take on it E5 and unless Black wants to lose castling 01:34.770 --> 01:40.230 rights while Knight takes E5, one could keep the tension with Bishop Geoffrey in the game. 01:40.410 --> 01:45.390 Keep the Queen's on in particular for this position is just nice for white as well. 01:45.600 --> 01:51.780 So Bishop G7 not bothering with this technicality of knight G4. 01:52.260 --> 01:57.870 Queen D2 announced C6 here if Knight G4, Bishop G5. 01:58.050 --> 02:03.650 If we look at this with this particular situation again the knight gets kicks back. 02:03.660 --> 02:06.930 Now if it refuses, then this situation. 02:08.510 --> 02:17.420 Is interesting, but why has a four and now tanks take the queens off? 02:17.450 --> 02:22.550 This is a big position in its own right, winning the rook there. 02:23.400 --> 02:27.050 Know, this is a very tricky position because look at F6 as well as C7. 02:28.250 --> 02:29.810 So this this is undesirable as well. 02:29.820 --> 02:34.490 So C6 was played now afraid so depriving this technicality. 02:34.490 --> 02:43.700 Now finally B5 Knight DJ to Knight Bd7 now Bishop h6 So does Black really want to castle into this potential 02:43.700 --> 02:44.330 attack? 02:44.840 --> 02:47.600 No, Topalov actually takes on H6. 02:48.290 --> 02:55.100 We have Queen STS 86 Bishop Be7 and now a free dissuading b4 taking time out to do that. 02:55.550 --> 03:01.520 If the Queen had plunged into g seven, rook g eight and this position has G5 Arch, then actually Black 03:01.520 --> 03:02.740 has a small edge here. 03:02.750 --> 03:03.620 Funny enough. 03:03.620 --> 03:05.390 So that's no good to do that. 03:05.390 --> 03:14.570 A free E5 Why consoles Queen St Queenie seven King b1a69c1. 03:14.570 --> 03:19.940 So this looks to be heading towards the king if it's going to Castle. 03:19.970 --> 03:25.940 This would be a key defender b seven Even though it's a bad bishop, it's still quite often a good idea 03:25.940 --> 03:28.310 to get rid of a key defender around the king. 03:28.310 --> 03:31.430 So black does Castle Queenside knight be free? 03:31.460 --> 03:34.670 He takes D4, Rook takes D4, and now C5. 03:34.670 --> 03:40.890 It looks as though Black's play is fairly logical, putting more central pressure on White's position. 03:40.980 --> 03:45.560 Knight B6 We have G3 here. 03:45.560 --> 03:51.680 It seems Queen F4 might have actually been a technical improvements. 03:52.910 --> 04:00.680 So for example, if Knight H5 Queen E free this position, the knight can be kicked back and H4 one 04:00.680 --> 04:01.690 has a small edge. 04:02.000 --> 04:05.000 An eye on C5 means D5 is out of the question. 04:05.150 --> 04:11.240 So the Knight on B3, the Queen on E4, looking at C5, holding black back is interesting. 04:11.240 --> 04:16.940 And if we look at this again, if King B eight, then there's Knight take C5. 04:16.940 --> 04:22.010 That would be a key point that King is out of the question here. 04:23.420 --> 04:28.670 I mean, we could follow this through though, further with H five, which is interesting because what 04:28.880 --> 04:29.660 won't do well. 04:29.690 --> 04:30.410 Knight Thanks. 04:30.410 --> 04:32.510 A6 Czech Bishop Thanks. 04:33.230 --> 04:40.460 Queen E three, Queen C seven and Bishop takes B5 actually gives Y a very pleasant position. 04:40.460 --> 04:52.520 There's more than enough compensation here for the p sacrifice if rook hd here G Free queen e5 Queen 04:52.550 --> 04:54.410 C1 is actually a small edge for white. 04:54.440 --> 05:03.380 Technically, if D5 offering C5 four D takes this position with rook, takes the rook thanks to a white 05:03.380 --> 05:08.030 gets rid of that key defender f tanks and this position is precarious. 05:08.030 --> 05:14.810 You can see with the king on B7 light square bishop without a counterpart Bishop G2 is actually rather 05:14.810 --> 05:15.320 annoying. 05:15.320 --> 05:16.970 So five knight tanks f6. 05:16.970 --> 05:18.200 This is still annoying. 05:18.230 --> 05:25.610 E4 is pretty loose here in this variation, so it ends up that white actually has great prospect hands 05:25.760 --> 05:31.790 to punish that pin for example, and end up with an end game which is advantageous. 05:32.150 --> 05:33.170 Fascinating stuff. 05:33.170 --> 05:41.870 So that's just for, you know, technically what the engines think gives why something in in this position. 05:41.870 --> 05:48.830 But Geoffrey has played we have King B eight and now A5 so this actually loses control over C5, which 05:48.830 --> 05:55.670 means D5 is is on the way and it seems you know what is actually Kasparov done here is allowing this 05:55.850 --> 05:59.330 potentially lucrative D5 to really put pressure on the centre. 05:59.360 --> 06:09.020 We have Bishop H3 being played if G4 d5 Black's should by all rights be about equal. 06:09.020 --> 06:15.590 Here there is this piece SAC to maybe make sure White can guarantee a draw. 06:15.620 --> 06:21.500 This situation leads to a perpetual check scenario. 06:21.920 --> 06:24.920 So okay, but okay. 06:24.920 --> 06:35.300 We have Bishop H free but now D5 and it looks very informatic to play this Queen for Czech King a7 Rook 06:35.300 --> 06:41.390 hd one and now very thematic looking the D4 the four being played here. 06:42.680 --> 06:47.510 Okay, so Knight's D5 might be tanks, d5 E tanks. 06:47.510 --> 06:54.170 We have Queen D six and now the spectacular iconic move of the game which triggers absolute brilliancy 06:54.830 --> 06:57.710 in follow ups is played here. 06:57.710 --> 06:59.330 So what does Kasparov want to do? 06:59.360 --> 07:05.830 What he doesn't want to do and yet end up with zero attacking prospects would be to exchange off Queen's 07:05.840 --> 07:07.100 here especially with. 07:07.350 --> 07:07.590 Five. 07:07.620 --> 07:12.770 Being a disconnected pawn, what is White doing with this position after King B six? 07:12.780 --> 07:15.320 Say why it's going to lose that --? 07:15.330 --> 07:18.090 Blacks can have a big position advantage. 07:18.270 --> 07:21.020 No, that's not the way to play this. 07:21.030 --> 07:25.980 There's an opportunity here for an attack for a king chase. 07:26.310 --> 07:28.890 So what would you play here for? 07:28.890 --> 07:31.260 500 points, especially if haven't seen it before. 07:31.500 --> 07:33.150 It's a brilliant continuation. 07:35.870 --> 07:36.440 Okay. 07:36.530 --> 07:40.760 It kicks off with Route 64 now. 07:41.240 --> 07:47.900 Engines nowadays scoff at this move, largely because they indicate King Bs6 and this was found out 07:48.200 --> 07:49.020 later. 07:49.040 --> 07:56.060 King B6 actually leaves White in a precarious situation if this this rook sacrifice was rejected. 07:56.090 --> 07:57.110 What does White do here? 07:57.140 --> 08:01.460 There's two key moves which are much better than the others. 08:01.460 --> 08:03.050 One is b4. 08:03.410 --> 08:06.350 And in this case, Queen takes her fourth queen's coming off. 08:06.440 --> 08:07.850 It's a good sign for black. 08:07.850 --> 08:10.490 Black's can have a small edge here of the Queen's come off. 08:10.520 --> 08:12.380 The other move might be free. 08:12.430 --> 08:14.060 That's Bishop, thanks to E5. 08:14.060 --> 08:16.790 And if the Queen's come off again, a good sign for black. 08:17.000 --> 08:22.970 But Topalov actually took the rook sacrifice. 08:24.770 --> 08:30.320 And we have an absolutely brilliant king, Hans, one of the ugly, you know, one of the greatest king 08:30.320 --> 08:31.070 hunts ever. 08:32.180 --> 08:33.340 So it kicks off here. 08:33.350 --> 08:35.060 What would you play in this position? 08:35.270 --> 08:37.640 So we've already sacrificed one, Rook. 08:37.880 --> 08:39.680 So what you want to do now? 08:42.630 --> 08:43.100 Yeah. 08:43.110 --> 08:47.410 Sacrifice another rookie seven check so King B six is played. 08:47.430 --> 08:54.330 If Queen takes E seven, the thing is, Queen takes the four check and you can see that there was a 08:54.330 --> 08:55.470 weakness of the last move. 08:55.470 --> 08:58.500 The the queen has lost access to B6. 08:58.740 --> 09:01.770 And this means actually b six is very, very juicy. 09:01.800 --> 09:08.040 Queen B six check should be seven, nine, C six check, and then Queen A7 and Checkmate. 09:08.130 --> 09:16.200 If we look at this again with King B eight in this position, there's Queen takes four and actually 09:16.200 --> 09:18.120 we've got a killer Common square on 87. 09:18.120 --> 09:19.680 This is incredible stuff. 09:20.490 --> 09:21.840 So what does Black do? 09:22.470 --> 09:23.580 Queen takes E seven. 09:23.590 --> 09:26.520 We just transpose them to what we've just seen before. 09:27.330 --> 09:28.890 So what does Black do after Queen? 09:28.890 --> 09:31.770 Thanks D for Rook t seven. 09:32.490 --> 09:38.430 Then Bishop takes D seven and if nine tanks. 09:38.430 --> 09:39.270 Look at this, Queen. 09:39.270 --> 09:40.530 Thanks h h check. 09:40.920 --> 09:46.980 Queen takes eight of Black's rooks and gobbles And this is actually favorable for white this possession 09:46.980 --> 09:47.490 now. 09:48.570 --> 09:50.190 Fascinating stuff. 09:50.190 --> 09:53.670 So basically the king comes up the board. 09:54.390 --> 09:58.860 And one of the key things about dragging the king down to the board, you're taking the king to your 09:58.860 --> 10:00.180 attacking resources. 10:00.180 --> 10:04.050 Usually you're attacking resources are going to the opponent's king. 10:04.050 --> 10:09.750 But if the opponent's king wants to come and be self mated, that's great in general. 10:09.780 --> 10:10.530 Queen Thanks. 10:10.530 --> 10:11.370 D four check. 10:11.370 --> 10:19.200 And then we have King takes a five if Queen C five here, then weakness of the last move ten The currency 10:19.230 --> 10:21.000 queen takes F six check. 10:21.800 --> 10:23.120 And what happens here? 10:24.360 --> 10:30.990 Queen D6 There's a key move here, which leaves when a great tall batter. 10:31.080 --> 10:32.220 Can you see what that is for? 10:32.220 --> 10:33.030 20 points? 10:34.860 --> 10:41.880 In this variation, the key move would be Bishop E says, If F takes, then we we're going to win the 10:41.880 --> 10:43.950 Queen with advantage. 10:45.540 --> 10:46.350 So what does Black do? 10:46.380 --> 10:47.700 King takes 85. 10:47.730 --> 10:49.770 We've got before, Chuck. 10:51.630 --> 10:57.990 And here, you know, if the king steps back, you know, we've marked C five making Queen D for even 10:57.990 --> 10:58.770 more effective. 10:58.800 --> 11:01.260 The rook stops the king going backwards. 11:01.260 --> 11:03.330 So that's just going to be mated. 11:03.540 --> 11:09.960 And in the case of King, a four queen C free now threatens Queen b4. 11:09.960 --> 11:14.400 And you can see the power of that bishop going to e six because the Queen D five. 11:15.150 --> 11:16.920 So Bishop takes the D5. 11:16.920 --> 11:21.120 But the thing is King B two renews the threat of Queen B free. 11:21.450 --> 11:22.920 So here Queen B free. 11:22.920 --> 11:25.170 Chuck C takes his mate. 11:25.440 --> 11:30.000 Yeah, the Kings come to be self mated so King takes a five is played. 11:32.810 --> 11:35.750 So fun stuff before the Kings coming down the board. 11:35.780 --> 11:39.140 Queen C free now with the France of Queen before free chat mates. 11:39.710 --> 11:41.540 So that has to be stopped. 11:42.530 --> 11:46.250 But now Rook seven with another mate France. 11:47.210 --> 11:48.230 If King be too. 11:48.260 --> 11:49.880 That would be a terrible mistake here. 11:49.910 --> 11:52.470 The queens would come off queen before pinning the queen. 11:52.490 --> 11:53.740 That's game over. 11:53.750 --> 11:54.680 Black would be winning there. 11:54.680 --> 12:04.100 So, Rook 720 queenly for this Rook takes 86 meeting Bishop b7 if rook d six head king b2 is strong 12:04.310 --> 12:10.700 this position it doesn't quite work out because Queen takes d4 weakness of the last move neglecting 12:10.700 --> 12:17.270 a6 you know we make the so Bishop b seven and now a brilliant move. 12:18.440 --> 12:21.260 To try and lure the queen away from be free for ten points. 12:22.220 --> 12:22.730 Yeah. 12:22.790 --> 12:23.720 Rook takes me seven. 12:23.730 --> 12:26.300 We want to lure the queen away from be free so we can play queen. 12:26.300 --> 12:26.870 Be free, mate. 12:26.870 --> 12:29.170 So Queen goes to see four. 12:29.180 --> 12:32.090 If queen tanks, we play queen B free chat Mating of queen. 12:32.090 --> 12:35.000 Before we play queen, be free mating. 12:36.260 --> 12:37.490 So Queen C4 four. 12:37.490 --> 12:45.230 But this now leads to a very interesting queen saying Sex king takes a free queen, takes a sex check 12:45.440 --> 12:52.310 King takes before and now an absolutely beautiful move in the circumstance because, you know, black 12:52.310 --> 12:53.330 has got threats Now. 12:53.330 --> 12:55.490 This is we've got to keep it running. 12:55.490 --> 12:58.220 We're forcing moves here. 12:58.760 --> 13:05.300 This is a key ingredient of attacking chess quite often because, you know, we've sacrificed material 13:05.300 --> 13:08.000 especially and our king is actually unsafe. 13:08.000 --> 13:11.120 We've got a limit, severely limit the opponent's replies. 13:11.120 --> 13:13.130 We don't want any surprise resources. 13:13.130 --> 13:16.970 So it's good that this whole attack is running with forcing moves here. 13:17.060 --> 13:21.920 That's a key observation of many of Garry Kasparov attacks, forcing moves. 13:21.920 --> 13:25.430 Don't let black be creative and clever. 13:26.030 --> 13:30.680 You know, this isn't a James Bond film where you leave James Bond to be resourceful in Escape. 13:30.680 --> 13:39.230 No, you've got to eliminate him non controversially here but we see another forcing move see free check 13:39.470 --> 13:48.710 we have King take C free if queen tanks C free then B five drops and then black gets lawnmower mated 13:49.730 --> 13:53.900 lawnmower make pattern so King takes C4. 13:53.930 --> 14:02.360 But now queen A one can only move for advantage King d2 If King D free, then there's a skewer Bishop 14:02.360 --> 14:03.470 f one shank. 14:03.470 --> 14:11.270 But even better than taking the Queen because there is rook D one can keep it forcing absolutely forcing 14:11.270 --> 14:16.730 with Queenie Queenie five shake then take the Queen under much better circumstance. 14:17.150 --> 14:24.380 So anyway, King D two we have Queen Bee two checking D one and now another amazing forcing move. 14:24.380 --> 14:26.180 Absolutely amazing stuff. 14:27.350 --> 14:37.280 Bishop F1 we have looked to if Queen takes F1, Queen C to check and then rookie seven check is mating. 14:38.300 --> 14:43.640 So yeah, rook D2 and here a beautiful move. 14:44.570 --> 14:45.980 There's so many beautiful moves in this game. 14:45.980 --> 14:47.060 It's countless beautiful moves. 14:47.060 --> 14:49.190 Wrote these seven penning the rock. 14:49.790 --> 14:53.240 So here, if Queen takes F, one Queen takes detours, mate. 14:53.720 --> 14:57.710 So Rook takes the seven in this plate, and now Bishop takes C4. 14:57.740 --> 15:01.790 And funny enough, the queen takes the rook. 15:01.790 --> 15:03.530 We have rook D3. 15:04.280 --> 15:09.350 So Black's only chance now is C free and C two to keep the game going with ac1. 15:09.350 --> 15:17.660 France ex-wife addresses this Queen eight first C free queen A4 puts a lock on the C to square and that's 15:17.660 --> 15:18.380 Czech. 15:19.400 --> 15:20.650 And now F for. 15:21.260 --> 15:23.660 So yes, there's no the frets have been taken out. 15:24.260 --> 15:26.160 King C one, two. 15:26.210 --> 15:27.110 Queen 87. 15:27.110 --> 15:28.130 End of game. 15:28.580 --> 15:29.090 Yeah. 15:29.090 --> 15:30.560 It's it's a winning position. 15:30.560 --> 15:33.080 Clearly, the queen is superior to the rook pawns. 15:33.080 --> 15:33.920 Not that dangerous. 15:33.920 --> 15:41.840 Now, if King E to, you know, one could take out H seven and then Queen D seven and even some simplified 15:41.840 --> 15:44.720 so winning king and pawn ending here simply. 15:46.220 --> 15:49.250 So yes an absolutely iconic game. 15:49.550 --> 16:00.920 Fantastic variations several attacking ingredients are being demonstrated in the course of this game. 16:02.370 --> 16:12.840 Amazing forcing moves, amazing sacrifices, and because of the sacrifice and he's bringing the king 16:12.840 --> 16:16.320 down the malt board, he's got to keep control with forcing moves. 16:16.320 --> 16:20.940 Like you see Fraser's spectacular forces move using all angles of the ball like Queen one. 16:21.600 --> 16:25.680 It's amazing the use of squares all around the boards. 16:26.130 --> 16:28.410 It's amazing, you know, the double rook sacrifice. 16:28.410 --> 16:31.080 Basically, the second one couldn't be taken. 16:31.170 --> 16:37.140 But the key point in my view, about bringing a king fundamentally down the board, the key point is 16:37.140 --> 16:40.350 you're bringing the opponent's king to your resources to be checkmated. 16:40.350 --> 16:45.180 Usually you're bringing resources to the opponent's king or you're hoping your superiority resources 16:45.180 --> 16:46.170 will prevail. 16:47.100 --> 16:49.500 But yes, it was pretty much forcing. 16:49.500 --> 16:53.010 So it doesn't leave too much scope for the opponent being resourceful. 16:53.010 --> 17:01.260 That's the key point there about being forcing along the way of the attacking beauty of this game. 17:02.340 --> 17:06.840 Really a magnificent game, one of the highly celebrated games of all time. 17:06.840 --> 17:12.690 But nevertheless, it has the instructive attacking ingredients, especially if you look at the variations. 17:12.690 --> 17:14.520 What ingredients do those have? 17:14.520 --> 17:22.140 When you analyze game in depth, you get the full flavor of the ingredients brought out, in my view. 17:22.140 --> 17:28.380 So, you know, even iconic classics, you know, if you analyze them like this, there's you get you 17:28.380 --> 17:32.340 get to see a glimpse of maybe things that didn't occur to you before. 17:32.340 --> 17:37.980 So I hope you've enjoyed this potential revisit of this iconic game and got some instructive points. 17:37.980 --> 17:38.790 Okay. 17:39.300 --> 17:39.990 Thanks so much.