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Hi there.

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In this example, we're going to see the Max Planck checkmate.

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So this is named after a player called Max Max Lang.

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Believe it or not.

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So this is kind of, Anderson, one of the strongest players in the world at the time in 1859.

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It's a little bit of analysis.

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Apparently, it's not a real game.

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It's a bit of analysis.

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Now here, how this black actually checkmate here.

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Can you spot how if I give you five cents portfolio, can you work it all out?

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There's a clever mechanism which is definitely worth knowing about and recognizing that you can actually

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checkmate quite effectively with just Queen and Bishop sometimes,

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OK?

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It starts with Queene one chank.

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So we've got a killer common square, it seems.

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Jiwon between the bishop and Queen, we have an inch thick Helicon and square.

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But if we play Queen Guancheng, the king can run away a little bit.

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Jeoffrey, we don't want the king actually running to Jeoffrey.

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And in fact, we can make our attack work with just checks and see now the accent, believe it or not,

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as we chat, checkmate in the final move.

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So, in fact, the key move here, what do you think the key move here is if I give you five seconds

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for the video?

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Sometimes you want more of a good thing whilst the bishop is controlling an escape.

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I wonder if the bishop could control Jeoffrey as well.

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Is that really mega ambitious or achievable, it's actually achievable here for Bishop Jiwon check so

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here on King H1, guess what we play?

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OK, we actually have to check and it's all running a check, so this is a free of charge to do this,

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we've essentially improved our bishop.

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A little micro has been generated.

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We're controlling an escape, Squire Jeoffrey, now, which means that on King to guess what, I hope

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you can spot it.

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Queen Jiwon is my very, very efficient stuff with Bishop and Queen, the bishop controlling the key

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escapes going here.

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So if we look at this again, quite often, this will be the case where you want to use this mechanism

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rather than, say, driving the king out and having a lot of hassle, etc..

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So this is the way to do it.

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Bishop, do you check?

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It's a very, very neat mechanism indeed.

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Very elegant, in my view, how the bishop controls that Jeoffrey escape square and got that through

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checks kind of free of charge.

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When you gain tempo's, it's like you're doing things for free.

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You're gaining time in the process.

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OK, I enjoyed that one.

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And recognize this Max Lang male pattern.

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Or you could think of it like a clever bishop and queen working together.

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OK, that's so much.