WEBVTT 00:01.090 --> 00:01.780 Hi there. 00:01.990 --> 00:05.530 In this next, we're going to have a look at the so-called Ratti gambit. 00:06.270 --> 00:11.410 If all your opponent plays the French defense, you might want an interesting gambit here. 00:12.010 --> 00:14.220 Be Free is an interesting gambit. 00:14.320 --> 00:18.310 So after D5 Bishop BE2, you're just letting your ebong go. 00:19.420 --> 00:21.190 Now, here's an example. 00:21.200 --> 00:23.500 Game time and again, actually against my head. 00:23.500 --> 00:30.580 Dennis played in 2010, so details for why White is a very, very strong player above twenty five hundred 00:31.210 --> 00:34.030 and outrated the opponents quite a lot actually. 00:34.480 --> 00:36.160 So this is a bit of an unfair match. 00:36.160 --> 00:40.780 But I just want to show you how we can play it in a very, very XPO way in particular. 00:40.780 --> 00:44.500 So Queene to seven point consoles greenside. 00:45.310 --> 00:51.970 So quite often these games with opposite side castling or a huge amount of fun and entertainment and 00:51.970 --> 00:53.650 here White now plays G4. 00:54.220 --> 00:55.720 We have C five G5. 00:55.720 --> 01:03.850 So very, very aggressive play from white gaining space while technically doing very well at this point, 01:04.360 --> 01:10.840 96 was played if 98 Sivewright, Bishopsgate, Seefried. 01:10.840 --> 01:14.380 This is fine points, this kind of thing. 01:14.380 --> 01:16.480 It's fine once getting a nice advantage. 01:17.140 --> 01:26.170 So Ninety-Six was played white against the pawn back at five and now White gets a semi open fall. 01:28.060 --> 01:31.690 That foul is maintained with 96. 01:32.110 --> 01:35.070 So this is like a nice road attacking roads to opponents. 01:35.080 --> 01:40.530 King And note also that Bishop Weifang cathodes can play a nice role here. 01:41.140 --> 01:48.300 So this game shows why building up very logically on that Gevo 98 is played. 01:48.310 --> 01:52.750 And now a nice tactical move to celebrate this focal points. 01:52.750 --> 01:55.150 The bishop is x raying G7. 01:55.450 --> 01:57.370 Can you guess why it plays here? 01:57.880 --> 02:00.880 Test your tactics if I give you five cents for the video. 02:05.150 --> 02:14.420 OK, ninety five spring open that pressure on G seven of Eating's Queen 67, check a wonderful queen 02:14.420 --> 02:20.540 SAC and Boynton's getting the queen back with interest after Rook takes his check. 02:21.560 --> 02:23.750 So nice little combination here. 02:24.950 --> 02:31.340 Taking the queen route takes while still doing very, very well in this situation of the route. 02:31.340 --> 02:35.650 Takes effort to Bishopsgate C6 BTEX Brooks. 02:35.690 --> 02:36.010 Thanks. 02:36.020 --> 02:40.520 We have Rook at five trying to cling on to this pawn which holds up the four. 02:40.910 --> 02:43.430 But now Rook Jiwon and the game actually ended here. 02:43.850 --> 02:48.440 This is a very bad state of affairs for black cutting the king here on GFR. 02:48.710 --> 02:51.920 We see that this bishop is still a menace here. 02:51.950 --> 02:54.500 If Bishop D7 can you see what white plays? 02:54.980 --> 02:58.610 If I give you five seconds pause video, which will be absolutely crushing. 03:02.590 --> 03:09.670 OK, Bruzzese five, yeah, this opens up that bishop on the diagonal and it will be like leading to 03:09.720 --> 03:11.150 checkmate as an example. 03:11.800 --> 03:15.550 So I've given you just one game sample. 03:15.640 --> 03:21.430 You've got to use your research methods hat and try and minimize bias, maybe try and find other examples 03:21.700 --> 03:25.000 to get a better representation of the resources of both sides. 03:26.080 --> 03:31.090 But the stronger you are tactically, this does seem like an interesting opening, fundamentally, at 03:31.090 --> 03:31.810 least to me. 03:31.810 --> 03:35.500 And I have used that myself in over the board chance with some success. 03:35.950 --> 03:37.960 So I first saw it in a club match. 03:37.960 --> 03:38.820 Someone else is playing. 03:38.860 --> 03:46.150 I adopted it and I even the YouTube video years ago about it, the Reti gambit, which you might also 03:46.150 --> 03:47.380 want to check out for free. 03:47.380 --> 03:50.380 So it's even been used in correspondence chess. 03:50.620 --> 03:56.230 Alan Bowell, one of the founders of the International Correspondent Chess Federation, has played this 03:56.230 --> 03:59.530 both in his over the board chess and even his correspondence chess. 04:00.100 --> 04:06.310 So it has got a certain amount of soundness when you see a gambit used successfully in correspondence, 04:06.310 --> 04:13.900 chess in particular, that is also a Henze that even if that vast time control it's being used, there's 04:13.900 --> 04:14.950 something going for it. 04:14.950 --> 04:17.920 Fundamentally, it has some fundamental qualities. 04:18.370 --> 04:24.370 Sometimes you can't be blinded by the, you know, statistics you get out of online databases. 04:24.730 --> 04:28.470 But there is something going for this as a surprise weapon as well. 04:28.720 --> 04:34.720 And when you play normal players on normal time controls, especially the first time controls, this 04:34.720 --> 04:39.430 is going to be a very, very interesting system to surprise opponents with if you have this sort of 04:39.430 --> 04:39.760 thing. 04:40.660 --> 04:42.940 But there are other responses from black to check out. 04:42.940 --> 04:49.960 This is just a very, very introductory game, just selling it on the upside of it, really in a biased 04:49.960 --> 04:50.320 way. 04:51.040 --> 04:55.810 But just be aware this is a potential weapon of choice if you're looking for an interesting weapon of 04:55.810 --> 04:57.640 choice against the French defense. 04:57.640 --> 04:59.830 The Ratti gambit, very, very interesting. 04:59.980 --> 05:06.760 It does have some fundamentals, I would say, of interest, some underlying internal quality. 05:07.000 --> 05:10.720 It's not just the external quality of a few wins. 05:10.990 --> 05:13.600 There is something going for it fundamentally. 05:13.660 --> 05:15.400 OK, there's a much.