WEBVTT 00:00.930 --> 00:01.740 Hi there. 00:02.190 --> 00:09.180 In this lecture, we see two amazing attacking players, Judit Polgar, against Aleksander Milosevic. 00:09.420 --> 00:14.580 This is in 2000, the Chorus Group, eight of which round three E4 from Judit Polgar. 00:14.610 --> 00:24.510 We have a French defence from which d4 d5 we have nice C free f6 Bishop g5d takes E4 nine six, E four 00:24.540 --> 00:25.840 and now Bishop E seven. 00:25.860 --> 00:30.420 I've played this a large number of times in online live commentary. 00:30.420 --> 00:33.980 If you want to check my YouTube Kings Cross your channel. 00:33.990 --> 00:37.440 I have a lot in the French defence Berne variation. 00:37.590 --> 00:44.460 So we see Bishop takes F6 and the thing is we can play Bishop takes f6, but G takes is a lot of fun. 00:44.460 --> 00:47.670 And I found it to have a lot of dynamic potential. 00:48.690 --> 00:56.100 I also found out that off Anderson, a modern grandmaster, also use this variation quite a bit with 00:56.100 --> 00:57.210 the black pieces. 00:58.560 --> 01:03.870 So we have let's have three A's sex here if. 01:05.450 --> 01:11.930 B six bishops C for this position could be quite pleasant for whites. 01:12.500 --> 01:22.730 And it is a variation which yeah, if it plays it like this and it is pleasant enough for Y in a technical 01:22.730 --> 01:24.260 sense, in a theoretical sense. 01:25.130 --> 01:31.160 So that's a great recipe because it avoids the pitfalls of the G4 by having the king over here avoid 01:31.160 --> 01:34.340 some of the safety issues which could be incurred. 01:35.420 --> 01:50.300 So anyway, A6 though was played not B6 and we have g free if C for here as an example F 593 Bishop 01:50.300 --> 01:53.390 F thinks Queen D two Black could consider C5. 01:53.390 --> 01:59.390 So making use of the dot square bishop without the counterpart to try and intensify the pressure on 01:59.390 --> 02:00.110 the dark squares. 02:00.110 --> 02:02.750 If d5e5 this should be even. 02:03.670 --> 02:04.270 This position. 02:04.270 --> 02:09.550 So Jeffrey though is played be five Bishop G to. 02:11.260 --> 02:12.490 With the bishops still left. 02:12.490 --> 02:15.650 One doesn't really make sense given G4 is paid to play C4. 02:15.670 --> 02:19.990 But just in case you're in the States, Bishop Be7 would be good here. 02:20.320 --> 02:21.160 Beat Ice. 02:21.160 --> 02:26.350 And yeah, as you might suspect, this is no good for white intuitively. 02:26.740 --> 02:29.020 1964 is horrible for whites. 02:29.380 --> 02:33.880 If queen bee freight be black can't conceive queenside. 02:33.910 --> 02:35.620 Sure, but it's not a big deal. 02:35.750 --> 02:39.160 Castle kingside with a small edge for black. 02:39.430 --> 02:44.740 So, Bishop G2, Bishop B seven, Queen 297. 02:44.740 --> 02:53.050 Both sides castle on the kingside we see Rook 81 Bishop d5 so the natural fat with this centralisation 02:53.050 --> 02:53.470 as bishop. 02:53.500 --> 03:04.090 C4 to win the exchange where rook have one if b3 instead b4 is kind of nice to look down the dark squares 03:04.090 --> 03:06.290 to give punishment for this C4. 03:06.370 --> 03:08.050 This position would be fine. 03:08.800 --> 03:13.570 Generally white does have a small edge, but its overall fine for black. 03:14.530 --> 03:21.460 So rook fe1 can change f3 to c6 c4. 03:21.460 --> 03:24.970 So the bishop is on a nice central square. 03:24.970 --> 03:26.940 It's curious this position. 03:26.950 --> 03:28.560 He went from all this structural damage. 03:28.570 --> 03:30.280 It's not really that exploitable. 03:30.370 --> 03:33.760 A weakness is only really a weakness if it's exploitable. 03:33.790 --> 03:44.790 We see a59c free rook e8 black could have just played rook g eight hand say 93. 03:44.800 --> 03:47.140 This is even in this position. 03:47.890 --> 03:57.430 If Knight takes D5 to try and punish a tactical issue doesn't work because C force hanging here at the 03:57.430 --> 03:58.060 end of things. 03:58.060 --> 04:00.110 So this is just going to be better for black. 04:00.130 --> 04:01.570 There's no point doing that. 04:02.260 --> 04:05.590 Black's better slightly at least, or even clear advantage. 04:05.590 --> 04:12.550 So Rookie eight though was played, which seems to delay use of the G file. 04:12.550 --> 04:16.600 So that's kind of an intriguing move in a way. 04:16.740 --> 04:23.440 90 359 C4 Queen b8984 and now Queen b4. 04:23.710 --> 04:31.630 So playing on this side of the board with that semi-open G files, you might think really what would 04:31.630 --> 04:33.100 be the point of this? 04:33.880 --> 04:36.370 Well, White hasn't got a dance square. 04:36.400 --> 04:40.270 Bishop is adding more pressure to the white position in general. 04:40.300 --> 04:46.750 This excursion using that semi-open B file that black has in this position. 04:46.960 --> 04:48.300 So be free. 04:48.310 --> 04:49.240 We have Bishop f6. 04:49.240 --> 04:56.050 These dark square weaknesses in general will help amplify the powers of this bishop without the counterpart. 04:56.080 --> 05:02.770 Queen C two and now finally getting around to the G5 G eight and then building up now Rook g4. 05:03.190 --> 05:10.060 We have done E5 which throws black a few positional favors, getting rid of an outpost square on E5, 05:10.240 --> 05:15.880 so just replacing it with a pawn, which is not usually a good outpost for a weak square in the opponent's 05:15.880 --> 05:16.600 position. 05:16.720 --> 05:19.720 Bishop E7 helps control C5. 05:20.050 --> 05:24.330 We have rook different Rook G eight so White seems quite passive now. 05:24.340 --> 05:30.280 Black is working on both sides of the board, a bit like Alexander Alekhine, one of his favorite attacking 05:30.280 --> 05:32.400 ingredients to work on both sides of the board. 05:32.410 --> 05:40.660 We have Rook edi one f4 trying to undermine attacking the thing counter position under my net Queen 05:40.660 --> 05:42.460 C free after six G free. 05:42.460 --> 05:49.840 So on YouTube I call this like flattening sandcastles, saying the heavy waves are hitting White's King 05:50.170 --> 05:59.230 H tanks and now another wave H five trying to undermine like the sand castle Bishop takes d5 if queen 05:59.230 --> 06:03.640 tanks b4 this doesn't do white too many favors Bishop takes b4. 06:03.670 --> 06:10.240 This situation is kind of pleasant for black by this point, so there's still this G4 pressure which 06:10.240 --> 06:16.240 could net nice advantages, clear advantages with big frontside rook a4 2h1. 06:16.390 --> 06:19.420 It's a dangerous situation here for white. 06:19.420 --> 06:20.410 Indeed. 06:20.830 --> 06:28.030 So okay, so Bishop takes D5, but this hills Black's pawn structure looks pretty solid again. 06:28.180 --> 06:30.070 There's only one isolated pawn now. 06:30.070 --> 06:33.850 The kind is free pawn islands in total rook have free. 06:33.850 --> 06:38.320 We have King G seven king coming to attend to F seven. 06:38.680 --> 06:40.120 Intriguing stuff. 06:40.120 --> 06:45.280 There is a very favorable options King G7 here as played which is actually just Queenie for doesn't 06:45.280 --> 06:51.040 matter what white plays here that's going to end up with advantage if Rook takes f7. 06:52.680 --> 06:54.300 Let's just look at this for a moment. 06:54.600 --> 06:55.530 H for. 06:57.690 --> 07:01.710 Rotates, takes E, seven, H takes G. 07:01.740 --> 07:03.130 This is just too strong. 07:03.150 --> 07:12.810 You take half F three, queeny two and there's a big hair of Queen H to check and then G to check and 07:12.810 --> 07:13.680 then G one. 07:14.940 --> 07:17.610 That's two too big of France. 07:18.360 --> 07:21.050 Let me just show you that check. 07:21.060 --> 07:25.120 We have this mechanism where we're getting another key check here with cleaning. 07:25.850 --> 07:27.000 This kind of vicious. 07:29.330 --> 07:33.320 However way that's played, we get that queen of check. 07:33.770 --> 07:36.950 White does have a resource, but it's not going to help too much. 07:36.980 --> 07:42.230 If Rook H seven check to get the Queen's off because this is still the exchange up for black. 07:42.320 --> 07:44.090 We've a winning possession here. 07:45.530 --> 07:51.710 So and that pawn is also threatening, you know, g to rock each one to crash through. 07:52.190 --> 07:54.980 Otherwise it's just much better for black here. 07:55.340 --> 08:05.270 The other option on queen for say, queen defray I can just take on E5 and if Rook takes f7 then we 08:05.270 --> 08:09.110 can use that g file rook tax g free check to win the Queen. 08:09.440 --> 08:11.180 Simple and strong stuff. 08:11.270 --> 08:12.470 It's pretty vicious. 08:12.470 --> 08:15.620 So you had check taking on a two. 08:15.770 --> 08:17.120 This is just better for black. 08:17.120 --> 08:20.960 As an example, Queen G six Champ has got a big advantage here. 08:21.770 --> 08:22.250 Okay. 08:22.250 --> 08:28.220 So basically, yeah, there isn't a lucrative alternative here in the form of Queen E4, but King G 08:28.220 --> 08:32.210 seven was played and now we have Queen C seven. 08:32.750 --> 08:42.170 If Queen takes b4 Rook takes before this situation where rookie for rook C7 rookie eight ends up if 08:42.170 --> 08:47.960 black wins e five then Black's got assets to push through here for advantage. 08:47.960 --> 08:52.670 But F6 is nifty shielding f seven from the glare of two rooks, the two rooks. 08:52.670 --> 08:54.650 And here black's getting the advantage. 08:54.650 --> 09:01.140 Nice pass pawn potential, nice bishop Bishop Kind of better than the knight on the rim which is damage 09:01.140 --> 09:01.820 they say. 09:01.820 --> 09:08.620 So Queen C seven we have H four hair king G2. 09:08.670 --> 09:17.030 Now H tanks have takes a now Queenie for this key move now turns up with big effects so it seems abandoned 09:17.030 --> 09:22.910 E seven Queen C four is played if queen tanks, E seven Queen E two check. 09:22.910 --> 09:25.430 And here just taking on a free. 09:25.760 --> 09:33.020 This is just going to be great for black the exchange up instead if rook have to rook thanks g free 09:33.020 --> 09:42.890 as needs exposes the opponent's king here very nicely with the mating nets being built mating the opponents 09:42.890 --> 09:44.510 so Queen C free. 09:46.220 --> 09:49.900 But now Queen E to check can't. 09:50.060 --> 09:56.120 And now rook G5, which means that the king is not going to be able to take on G4 if H ain't check. 09:56.120 --> 10:01.940 So Rook H is a huge threat now with this rook controlling that escape square and the game ended here. 10:01.940 --> 10:09.290 If G4 to give g free at least rook h check king g3 there's Queen H to checkmate. 10:10.310 --> 10:16.970 So yes, it's a very nice game in my view, and one of my favorite variations in the French defense. 10:16.970 --> 10:23.030 So it was a game against Garry Quinn in a one day like tournament years back when Garry Quinn had used 10:23.030 --> 10:28.790 this with the black pieces and I adopted it for my online blitz is an interesting variation, but I 10:28.790 --> 10:30.680 rarely played it with A6 and B5. 10:30.680 --> 10:36.830 There are some great perks of doing this to get the bishop outside of the pawn chain, so it was nice 10:36.830 --> 10:42.590 to control against C4, to control the light squares, to parry the light squares, a nice positional 10:42.590 --> 10:49.130 play essentially first getting a position where any attacks, they're more and more natural as we're 10:49.130 --> 10:51.440 accumulating certain advantages. 10:51.440 --> 10:59.330 Black does have that bishop power advantage so Steinitz would be perhaps maybe not because of the double 10:59.330 --> 10:59.750 pawns. 10:59.750 --> 11:06.140 Maybe Lasker would definitely be fond of Black's assets here and dynamic play of the G4. 11:06.170 --> 11:13.490 There's tinier elements of the position than what Steinitz kind of alluded to, but overall, it looks 11:13.490 --> 11:18.170 as though Black's got a reasonably decent prospect here in a theoretical sense. 11:18.620 --> 11:22.910 And yeah, the double pawns, which we think are horrible to have double pawns. 11:22.910 --> 11:28.910 But as I say, as I've said, you know, in this course the dynamic structures are our friends. 11:28.910 --> 11:35.180 If we want attacking chess, sometimes we want to trade off how our pawn structure looks for the dynamic 11:35.180 --> 11:36.530 potential of the pieces. 11:36.530 --> 11:43.490 It's the authority and control of the pieces sometimes which which really matters, not how our pawns 11:43.490 --> 11:44.090 look. 11:44.090 --> 11:47.840 So the control, the pressure being built up on the G4. 11:47.870 --> 11:54.350 So it was a nice build up on the G4 and the closing up of key squares like E5 means that White's counterplay 11:54.620 --> 11:57.110 is kind of being tamed. 11:57.350 --> 11:58.250 It's less and less. 11:58.250 --> 11:59.480 It's giving out. 11:59.480 --> 12:04.250 The bishop weakens the white squares, so there's like square vacuum to exploit. 12:04.280 --> 12:06.470 King G7 is just an intriguing move. 12:06.470 --> 12:15.530 It does seem queeny for him was was possible as a potential need improvement but King seven we get soon 12:15.530 --> 12:24.230 this Queenie for now just the knights beautiful move here so yes it's it's a nice use of the G file 12:24.230 --> 12:28.460 careful considered use of the G4 with an accumulation of advantages. 12:28.930 --> 12:33.460 As the kind of primary layer to put down. 12:33.490 --> 12:38.290 If we can put down this primary layer before attacking, you know, a good foundation makes our attacks 12:38.290 --> 12:40.570 more natural, looking more justifiable. 12:40.600 --> 12:43.590 We have a greater right, as it says, to attack. 12:43.600 --> 12:50.590 If we accumulate advantages, we're accumulating certain attacking ingredients in this game with that 12:50.590 --> 12:51.350 G file. 12:51.370 --> 12:53.220 So I thought it was a great demonstration. 12:53.230 --> 12:54.340 Inspirational. 12:55.060 --> 12:55.520 Okay. 12:55.570 --> 12:57.880 So I hope maybe you been try the berm variation. 12:57.880 --> 13:01.330 It's one of the more fighting aspects of the French defense. 13:01.330 --> 13:05.920 Certain variations of the French defense, even though it's called defense, might be very attacking 13:05.920 --> 13:10.480 like this berm variation OC and so much.