WEBVTT 00:00.870 --> 00:01.510 Hi there. 00:01.920 --> 00:05.400 In this lecture, we're going to have a look at the album Counts Met. 00:05.910 --> 00:10.860 So this has been one of my favorites in Blechacz over the years. 00:11.580 --> 00:15.420 And you can see my Alvin comes a playlist on YouTube for free. 00:15.870 --> 00:20.370 So DeFore, you play D5 after CIFOR, you play an outrageous looking move. 00:20.910 --> 00:25.470 E5 I've had a huge amount of fun with this. 00:25.470 --> 00:32.550 I've sometimes been flams and even Jem's Implats with this of the details default. 00:32.550 --> 00:39.930 I have an example game for you from the world of correspondence chess, which is sometimes more evidence. 00:39.930 --> 00:46.410 There's really something of substance here to investigate or try out your own games, especially for 00:46.410 --> 00:47.520 your more casual games. 00:47.850 --> 00:53.940 Playing gambits is not only fun and entertaining, it's also pretty instructive and can ramp up your 00:53.940 --> 00:59.060 tactical abilities as your pieces have more scope and activity generally. 00:59.610 --> 01:02.790 So here we see night have free nights, he says. 01:03.510 --> 01:12.150 This is the game Frantisek Sigatoka against Milan spel in 1993 Czechoslovakia corresponds Tilghman's 01:12.690 --> 01:21.690 We see Jeoffrey and Black plays FDX so not trying to regain the pawn on E5 And this is one of my favorite 01:21.690 --> 01:23.730 treatments of playing the album. 01:23.730 --> 01:25.710 Can't commit to accelerate a. 01:26.700 --> 01:30.720 That's a familiar pattern you might see also from the Smith Murugappa. 01:31.140 --> 01:33.540 So maybe I have certain themes. 01:33.540 --> 01:39.270 Will I play games like accelerate a little bit development like a knights being accelerated at the cost 01:39.270 --> 01:41.910 of a pawn, the trade offs here on the chessboard. 01:41.910 --> 01:48.510 Sometimes you're trading off material for other things like extra developments, semi open files. 01:48.510 --> 01:49.530 There's a foul. 01:49.530 --> 01:54.300 Here is a foul, which can often prove dangerous things one way roads. 01:56.100 --> 02:00.390 We also have a similar foul here as well. 02:02.550 --> 02:09.870 OK, so Bishop Jita, we have Bishop G for being played in this game, White Castles, Queen seven. 02:10.380 --> 02:17.340 So a very direct method sometimes to change off the finger to a bishop to try for an attack might be 02:17.370 --> 02:22.320 to Bishop even Avery A5 stopping before from White. 02:24.390 --> 02:32.190 If we consider too quickly on the queen side, then this can favor whites potentially with the pressure 02:32.190 --> 02:33.180 and B5. 02:33.450 --> 02:38.280 Yeah, whites getting a big influence over the board hand with a nice advantage. 02:38.850 --> 02:42.960 So A5 stops before we see might be free. 02:43.740 --> 02:49.560 Rook dates are not actually committing the king to the queen side, trying to just add support to the 02:49.560 --> 02:50.400 defo pawn. 02:51.240 --> 02:56.970 Bishop four are now actually castling Kingside Queene one and now five that semi. 02:57.090 --> 03:03.450 And because there's no pawn EFO means that this road creates direct threats like on the bishop. 03:04.500 --> 03:06.720 We have 95, 96. 03:06.720 --> 03:15.480 Bishop takes a number of six and it seems as though hasn't Black neglected the B seven pawn after this 03:15.480 --> 03:19.920 exchange isn't B seven on Y2K, but this is actually a mistake. 03:19.950 --> 03:21.120 Why shouldn't have taken this? 03:21.780 --> 03:24.630 And we're going to see why of the rook officiates. 03:24.630 --> 03:29.460 Looking at Itou Now Freers played Bishop Afri. 03:29.460 --> 03:33.330 We're just going to take that bishop and that pawn is Pinza, the queen. 03:33.960 --> 03:35.840 So thanks very much, Prince. 03:35.850 --> 03:37.230 The Queen can't do that as white. 03:38.280 --> 03:40.080 So we have everything. 03:41.430 --> 03:44.130 And this closes off that bishop from returning, that is. 03:44.340 --> 03:47.880 But we have Bishop free now and black is actually much better off. 03:47.970 --> 03:56.670 This Bishop Maytree, we have have two and now differing before and now see sex asking especially when 03:56.670 --> 03:59.490 are you going or are you going to be protected. 04:01.760 --> 04:10.610 We have 95 percent hitting the queen, but now the two is played queen day one, if we look at these 04:10.610 --> 04:13.660 exchanges, had they, they'll favor black after nine days. 04:13.670 --> 04:18.470 We take the queen with check and we take a hair, maybe with the bishop. 04:19.290 --> 04:20.060 Thanks very much. 04:20.270 --> 04:20.930 Piss up. 04:22.070 --> 04:29.720 So we have actually queenly one, but our queen before hitting that night, whites in a world of trouble 04:29.720 --> 04:37.010 here of the 96 sex queen bee sex, the bishop's traps, it gives itself up her --. 04:37.160 --> 04:40.280 So White does have a few pawns here for the peace. 04:42.540 --> 04:49.310 That is one thing with gambits they can leave you sometimes in and games, which are difficult because 04:49.310 --> 04:51.260 you've lost quite a few pounds earlier on. 04:51.830 --> 04:54.050 So night takes, the two is played. 04:54.800 --> 04:59.600 Can Black prove the extra piece is worth more than the pawns we have. 04:59.600 --> 05:04.310 Quincy five Quincy to Rotty seven. 05:04.550 --> 05:09.470 Ramping up the pressure on Diffa through doubling Rook seems like a good idea in principle. 05:10.010 --> 05:17.300 Quincy free with a positional threat of before to make these like, you know kind of connected passports 05:17.300 --> 05:21.370 so black stops that with the some feature of chess. 05:21.410 --> 05:22.250 We can stop that. 05:23.120 --> 05:27.470 But before it's played anyway, it takes the pawns of more fragmented than they would have been. 05:28.700 --> 05:30.650 The Queen maintains that nice pen. 05:30.650 --> 05:34.090 It's always useful sometimes in general to pin the opponents pieces. 05:34.100 --> 05:42.200 Absolutely to the King C5 Unpegging Rook 88 doubling the Brooks gives us Kellar common squares to play 05:42.200 --> 05:42.380 with. 05:42.380 --> 05:43.460 Like these four in particular. 05:43.460 --> 05:51.110 Could be nice looking at the Queen tonight we have Rudy to parrying that Defoe Rook takes nine takes 05:52.010 --> 05:59.180 and now we're looking at the see five point look see 197 ganging up on C five let me free now Queen 05:59.180 --> 06:08.000 takes a free C six but now check 94 95 and there's a big fat in this position. 06:08.450 --> 06:10.190 Can you see what black is thing. 06:10.910 --> 06:16.100 If White did say play C seven, I hope you can see what the is here. 06:17.030 --> 06:19.460 If C seven, what would you play with black in this position. 06:19.730 --> 06:20.780 Check all your checks. 06:22.720 --> 06:23.140 OK. 06:23.170 --> 06:30.130 You would have to pause video, so this wasn't played because you would have this check and I know it 06:30.140 --> 06:44.020 takes every so White Stripes, Queen C5, but now Queen Bee ain't and we have Queen Seefried. 06:45.070 --> 06:51.850 If C seven had 10, black has Queen Bee two, which looks at that very sensitive G2 square to try and 06:51.850 --> 06:53.290 mate, that's unpleasant. 06:56.520 --> 07:02.970 And, you know, that's that's actually rather tricky because that tactic we saw before is coming in. 07:02.980 --> 07:05.860 If you know proxy, we have hope you can spot it. 07:06.210 --> 07:09.260 We have that tactic before Queen 64, Jack. 07:09.270 --> 07:10.470 And in 93. 07:11.100 --> 07:18.280 So Queen Sifry has played we have queen bee sex change one, but now Black is getting that --. 07:19.080 --> 07:21.430 Yeah, it was difficult for white. 07:22.140 --> 07:28.860 It was very difficult for white in this position to kind of maintain the status quo. 07:30.180 --> 07:44.130 So OK, so King H1 96, we have Czech queen bee free if instead of Czech if 98 C6. 07:44.700 --> 07:48.030 So the point here is it looks as though White was actually protecting that. 07:48.030 --> 07:48.400 Right. 07:48.930 --> 07:50.770 What was the matter with this king's question? 07:50.790 --> 07:51.630 What was the matter with this. 07:52.020 --> 07:55.100 Well, Queen F to that G2 is very sensitive here. 07:55.710 --> 08:05.010 If 97 Czech King here and if Czech King takes 87, why is left in a position which is lost. 08:05.730 --> 08:08.190 If the rook takes then queen if one is checkmate. 08:08.220 --> 08:11.620 So yeah, the king is actually in a bad state here. 08:11.640 --> 08:14.070 Let's look at that again because of G2. 08:17.680 --> 08:18.130 Yeah. 08:20.450 --> 08:28.460 So if Ruggie won, then, in fact, there's a tactic here, tactics are really important, as I've emphasized 08:28.820 --> 08:35.510 so many times, but what is the tactic here which destroys the opposition in a brutal manner if I give 08:35.510 --> 08:36.080 you five cents? 08:36.080 --> 08:37.810 And what would you play with black in this position? 08:40.140 --> 08:46.770 OK, there's the deflective move sacrifice rooked C6 to the flag, the queen away from Afri. 08:48.570 --> 08:53.500 So even if the queen takes, then Mindscape mated, takes every queen, takes G2. 08:54.360 --> 08:58.170 So, yeah, what is what does it do that check these checks. 08:58.170 --> 09:00.900 Ronnell seem guarded by the bishop. 09:01.680 --> 09:03.050 So OK, so yes. 09:03.060 --> 09:03.810 Quite brutal. 09:03.810 --> 09:05.720 1996 brutal. 09:06.270 --> 09:12.960 We have queen bee free jack queen takes 96 of the Ruby eight white resigned. 09:12.960 --> 09:16.530 White is essentially a peace down for just two pawns. 09:18.060 --> 09:21.670 The bishop covers C8 several times rotates. 09:21.870 --> 09:29.400 There's no roxxy ain't white, perhaps goes back and you know, blacks just essentially a piece up. 09:29.880 --> 09:34.140 And that's quite easy to play in that position at this level to win. 09:34.680 --> 09:40.260 So, yeah, very, very interesting game showing that there is substance to the Albon count gambit. 09:40.740 --> 09:45.600 We can see, especially if we check the garments with cynicism. 09:46.650 --> 09:53.070 If you find that there are actually correspondence schemes which the as one in correspondence games, 09:53.220 --> 09:59.340 players have days, weeks, sometimes months to think about their moves if they can work at that level, 09:59.340 --> 10:05.860 that scalability of chess in terms of accuracy, then there's something going for the government. 10:05.910 --> 10:15.390 It's creating a sufficient level of originality away from the mainlines, excitement, peace activity, 10:15.990 --> 10:22.140 potential for winning generally if the opponent makes small mistakes and if you're there, especially 10:22.530 --> 10:28.830 with your strongest tactics available at correspondents, you're really seeing that trade off of the 10:28.830 --> 10:35.580 material invested, the pawn for the peace activity, the dynamics of the game. 10:36.030 --> 10:38.130 So if it can work, it corresponds. 10:38.130 --> 10:44.880 It's probably worth a punt in our online blitz games, at least even, you know, maybe are over the 10:44.880 --> 10:45.760 ball game sometimes. 10:45.760 --> 10:48.900 And I have played over the board with such success as well. 10:49.920 --> 10:52.220 OK, I'll counts. 10:52.440 --> 10:57.200 It is actually also Paul Karass apparently wasn't an opponent of some of these games. 10:57.210 --> 10:58.560 Let's trying the album. 10:58.560 --> 11:01.100 Can't get it on occasion as well. 11:01.110 --> 11:07.860 A very, very famous player and yeah, very, very exciting indeed. 11:07.860 --> 11:11.850 Mauro's, which is not a modern grandmaster who won one of the world's best monsters. 11:11.850 --> 11:17.520 He has played the album, counts very serious over the Boltzmann's as well with some success. 11:18.180 --> 11:18.600 All right. 11:18.960 --> 11:19.470 And so much.