WEBVTT 00:01.330 --> 00:09.130 Either in this lecture we introduce Mikahil, Tell Me Tell was a Soviet Latvian chess player and the 00:09.130 --> 00:15.910 Eightfold Chess champion, he was actually widely regarded as a creative genius and one of the best 00:15.910 --> 00:17.660 attacking players of all time. 00:18.220 --> 00:25.420 So he played in a daring, commendatory way, conversational style, and he would often take opponents 00:25.420 --> 00:31.810 into a deep, dark forest, as he calls it, where the complexity was such that it's very, very difficult 00:31.810 --> 00:33.060 to get out of that forest. 00:33.550 --> 00:39.550 And he was often in a better position to do that than his opponents for his amazing calculation and 00:39.550 --> 00:40.760 tactical abilities. 00:42.070 --> 00:42.580 So. 00:44.250 --> 00:53.160 Histo, very, very difficult to imitate, and I would say for me, it's. 00:54.490 --> 01:00.010 Quite a lot of sacrifices there, just really, really hard to understand there is this complex, the 01:00.010 --> 01:09.850 generation which, you know, if you're not a brilliant tactician, you could end of being just basically 01:10.450 --> 01:15.150 refuted your accommodations, your sacrifices could be refuted. 01:15.550 --> 01:19.420 So I'm a bit wary myself of studying town. 01:19.420 --> 01:20.650 That's just a personal thing. 01:21.340 --> 01:28.840 But every world champion is worth studying and he's played a number of, you know, universal style 01:28.840 --> 01:32.710 games, not just sacrificing games. 01:32.860 --> 01:40.090 He's a universal player and his results have been on and off due to health issues. 01:40.210 --> 01:47.170 But at some points in his career, he's won multiple U.S. championships as well. 01:47.200 --> 01:52.660 He's been very, very high up in the ratings systems like the and rating systems. 01:53.890 --> 01:57.330 So very, very important to study. 01:57.340 --> 02:02.530 But personally, I'm a bit scared because I'm already a little bit sometimes unsound. 02:02.840 --> 02:10.630 I don't want to sort of have any more temptation to be on the sound when you play kind of and when you 02:10.630 --> 02:15.430 play sacrifices, which you're not really sure work. 02:16.390 --> 02:22.420 Now, the game I'm going to show you has such a sacrifice, it's very, very difficult to really prove 02:22.420 --> 02:23.280 the truth of it. 02:25.170 --> 02:30.750 If there is such a truth and Fassett, if you're looking at games between humans, though, the point 02:30.750 --> 02:33.760 is, you know, tão wasn't playing a supercomputer. 02:34.170 --> 02:34.890 So can. 02:35.920 --> 02:43.120 Create a position which is just so complicated, the opponent is very, very unlikely to find the technical 02:43.120 --> 02:45.430 defenses needed to survive. 02:46.030 --> 02:46.750 So let's have a look. 02:46.780 --> 02:52.780 So this game I've chosen for you is Mikoto against Blent, lost and played in the candidate's semi-final 02:52.780 --> 03:05.290 in 1965 e4 from Sandwick five, my Afri 96 defo seatings 97 opensource in 86 93. 03:05.320 --> 03:09.340 So Scheveningen England system sabering ampoule structure here. 03:09.760 --> 03:11.140 These two pawns in the center. 03:12.610 --> 03:22.990 We have bishop every night of things for some queen free black console's white castles queen side Quincy 03:23.240 --> 03:28.480 some now knight dmae five the queen goes back G4. 03:28.480 --> 03:37.780 This looks very, very aggressive in the style of perhaps Paul Katz, who was an inspiration for Mikoto 03:38.770 --> 03:43.600 and played in several of the Paul Karras memorials with great success. 03:44.170 --> 03:50.530 So the carriers attack is not this situation, but it's an earlier Jefford in general against the shape 03:50.530 --> 03:50.980 in England. 03:51.610 --> 03:56.220 But this kind of avalanche on the Kingside is very, very difficult to play against. 03:56.620 --> 04:00.400 So after 94 96, Bishop takes B5. 04:01.270 --> 04:04.120 We have G 597 Bishop Differe. 04:04.120 --> 04:06.730 So both bishops kind of pointing. 04:07.000 --> 04:15.070 If you look at this, at the king here and of the B4, there's a very, very interesting move indeed 04:15.070 --> 04:15.820 that's played. 04:16.150 --> 04:18.010 I wonder if you can guess it. 04:20.730 --> 04:29.700 Or work it out or insert it at the you might need to just think what is intuitively strong attacking 04:29.700 --> 04:30.150 move. 04:32.110 --> 04:33.010 In this position. 04:39.230 --> 04:46.350 OK, so sometimes that's how sacrifices are just out of this world. 04:46.790 --> 04:52.940 I mean, he even said, you know, there are sacrifices and that there are sacrifices which are slightly 04:52.940 --> 04:54.030 different now here. 04:54.080 --> 04:58.250 This is like a total sacrifice, 95, an iconic one. 04:59.030 --> 05:00.570 What does it actually do? 05:00.590 --> 05:06.590 What is the night being offered for if we look at it, which was played because otherwise that is pretty 05:06.590 --> 05:12.380 dangerous and, you know, want to take out that dark square bishop, which could help, you know, 05:12.380 --> 05:13.480 we can desex. 05:13.490 --> 05:16.280 So it is taken after Aetate. 05:16.280 --> 05:18.020 We can observe a few things. 05:18.020 --> 05:23.060 The bishops look to be quite aggressive and staring down at the king. 05:23.510 --> 05:28.820 So a common square, so to speak, where the bishops could cooperate with the queen or or other pieces 05:29.510 --> 05:31.160 looks like a higher probability. 05:31.190 --> 05:37.790 The other thing is this move kind of dislocates Black's defensive capabilities in particular. 05:39.690 --> 05:47.300 You know, the Essex Square is now controlled, so quite a lot of the all squares are controlled and 05:47.300 --> 05:52.450 there's going to be pressure potentially on this EFO and most black rocks are kind of disconnected. 05:53.250 --> 06:00.060 Yeah, the center and its operations, as well as ideas of direct attacks, they are very, very scary 06:00.690 --> 06:03.540 in this position and already got lost. 06:03.540 --> 06:09.090 And feeling pressure plays, perhaps, you know, an inaccurate defense. 06:09.090 --> 06:10.580 But he's not a supercomputer. 06:10.890 --> 06:14.670 He plays five intuitively trying to shut down this bishop. 06:15.900 --> 06:25.560 If we look at this position, if Rook A7, then maybe of the Queen for Jesus Queen 67, this situation 06:26.880 --> 06:36.300 looks as though blacks sacrifice the peace back and, you know, is is getting actually blasted just 06:36.300 --> 06:38.430 to show the kind of common square aspects. 06:38.430 --> 06:44.580 You know, check that Bishop on default can be hugely dangerous as an example. 06:45.660 --> 06:47.580 OK, that's one example of a disaster. 06:47.970 --> 06:49.430 But let's have a look at this again. 06:50.190 --> 06:53.490 And in fact, Jesus, let's try Jesus. 06:54.360 --> 06:57.900 Now, we've all sort of basically supercomputers today. 06:58.560 --> 07:08.880 We can look at this and we can say, OK, Bishop T'ain't we can say Quiñones Frien ninety five, Queen 07:08.880 --> 07:09.630 86. 07:10.560 --> 07:11.850 And this is also dangerous. 07:11.950 --> 07:16.350 Calicoes going again on seven though, and this is super dangerous. 07:16.350 --> 07:21.780 For example, if things were crashing through, this is just crashing through on July seven. 07:22.320 --> 07:24.210 So you can start to see the dangers. 07:25.290 --> 07:35.370 But let's look at, you know, there are other possibilities where in this situation instead of 95, 07:35.790 --> 07:45.480 95 kind of queen 86, Bishop Bee thinks this is an attempt at defense. 07:46.560 --> 07:52.530 And here, say, White Plains, if I'm going to reform -- so-called form form to try and meet with 07:52.530 --> 07:58.530 Queen Jackson, it seems, you know, Black might have Bishop five, but you'd have to be a computer 07:58.530 --> 08:01.680 to find these defenses of the rookie AIDS. 08:03.430 --> 08:11.830 It seems as though this situation might actually be OK for black, you know, this is going to be OK 08:11.830 --> 08:12.240 for black. 08:12.440 --> 08:19.300 And so if black can do some sort of counterspy sacrifice like that, it's apparently intact. 08:19.420 --> 08:22.150 But it's just very, very difficult to find in a practical game. 08:22.570 --> 08:26.020 And this is the whole point quite often about Mikoto sacrifices. 08:26.290 --> 08:35.050 But it also makes me kind of wary that I sometimes like the less controversial players that don't take 08:35.050 --> 08:39.400 so many risks, because I take already quite a lot of risks. 08:39.400 --> 08:41.950 My own games in general. 08:41.980 --> 08:45.910 Yeah, you want to learn from champions you're accountable for learning from. 08:46.270 --> 08:51.070 But for sure, if I want to, like, find an absolutely brilliant attacking games put on YouTube, that's 08:51.070 --> 08:51.970 a different story. 08:52.270 --> 09:00.280 But for my show, when I do play online all over the board generally, yeah, I like to study players 09:00.280 --> 09:06.940 like Fisher who were, you know, more sound overall than tell, even if you do chat with modern computers. 09:07.360 --> 09:07.780 But here. 09:07.780 --> 09:08.380 Yeah, OK. 09:08.380 --> 09:11.920 I mean, it's such a difficult sacrifice to comprehend. 09:12.310 --> 09:21.030 And F5 was played and we have now won rookie of some age for me. 09:21.460 --> 09:23.770 Some are now Bishop EF five. 09:23.770 --> 09:24.310 So. 09:26.500 --> 09:33.280 Basically with a big ESX, so we have rock tanks, five, six, seven, and now, yeah, they're all 09:33.280 --> 09:40.470 common squares like this one in particular, which are a you cause for concern and it causes major concession. 09:40.470 --> 09:50.530 Now, like 95 is played if rook f7 as the example then rotates and then this position is actually really, 09:50.530 --> 09:52.230 really dangerous for black. 09:52.900 --> 09:56.650 You can see that there's a huge attack underway. 09:57.280 --> 09:59.280 And for example, this is just devastating. 09:59.290 --> 10:03.790 You know, if that's the best move, we can just take the road that's just absolutely devastating. 10:04.790 --> 10:16.180 And if desex, then Queene seven and then taking on D7 and this is, you know, crashing through basically 10:16.180 --> 10:19.890 of the G, since this crashes through will a big advantage. 10:20.320 --> 10:23.130 So there are great number of ways of going wrong. 10:23.350 --> 10:33.220 So 95 was tried, but I'll just, you know, Queene for looking at that quite a after five and we have 10:33.220 --> 10:37.240 a situation which seems OK, let's give given back some material. 10:37.660 --> 10:40.240 But is the attack kind of neutralized? 10:40.420 --> 10:44.860 And we have these perpetual, it seems, attacks on the queen until this point. 10:45.220 --> 10:47.410 The bishop covers up to that. 10:47.410 --> 10:52.540 We see Queen takes seven, Queen takes airfreighted details. 10:52.660 --> 10:59.800 If Rookie want his opposite colored bishops, you might think Holon hasn't been done quite well here. 11:00.670 --> 11:04.180 He's only like a pawn down. 11:04.990 --> 11:06.490 Three, four, five, six. 11:06.490 --> 11:07.800 One, two, three, four. 11:10.160 --> 11:10.970 To put them. 11:15.400 --> 11:21.430 No one told them if he loses that point, it'll be two points down and he does actually lose this pawn. 11:21.430 --> 11:27.110 So currently his two pawns down, but it's opposite colored bishops, right? 11:27.490 --> 11:29.860 So we have Queen Desex Queen at four. 11:31.060 --> 11:32.810 And it is tricky for black hair. 11:32.830 --> 11:33.940 We have Rook Efate. 11:34.330 --> 11:37.630 If Bishop takes the five, then can you see what white plays? 11:37.630 --> 11:42.820 If I give you five seconds to pause video if he chacal checks what this white player. 11:48.600 --> 11:49.400 OK, rookie. 11:50.160 --> 11:56.630 Yeah, this is this would be a crushing move, so oftentimes we just take the queen so we have to have 11:56.640 --> 12:02.850 eight being played white, re-establishes that EFO control, be free. 12:02.910 --> 12:04.720 This looks a little bit on the desperate side. 12:04.720 --> 12:13.070 Now that's taken check King B to check, but they'll just see free and black has backroad issues, so 12:13.080 --> 12:14.280 can't be too adventurous. 12:14.520 --> 12:15.360 Queen goes back. 12:16.590 --> 12:24.560 You could see that if Queen takes then you know, check is very, very scary and check the blankets 12:25.110 --> 12:28.530 that crown made it to the queen comes back to the fans. 12:30.510 --> 12:36.270 But now in fact, the back row, back row weaknesses tapped into with a forceful move. 12:36.600 --> 12:43.320 And the curious thing here, if you check this with an engine like I have the engines, just all sorts 12:43.320 --> 12:49.470 of booms, but they're a bit slower than what Mikhail Talpiot Talpiot actually, it seems a more human 12:49.470 --> 12:53.430 style forcing move, which clarifies the situation very, very quickly. 12:53.850 --> 12:58.020 Can you guess what Tau actually played if I give you five seconds to pause the video? 13:02.110 --> 13:09.730 OK, tell trying to get control of key squares like ESX by playing Bishop C5 to learn that defensive 13:09.730 --> 13:11.740 peace, the queen away from ESX. 13:12.220 --> 13:17.420 And this is very, very useful, this kind of mini diagram that is very useful. 13:18.250 --> 13:24.130 I mean, the computer's recommendation, you know, before, you know, we got a bit of work to do, 13:24.130 --> 13:26.470 but we're winning when these pawns. 13:27.070 --> 13:31.360 But Bishop C5 really is forceful and cute. 13:32.560 --> 13:39.010 So, you know, no wonder, you know, modern grandmasters still celebrates how the hotel memorial each 13:39.010 --> 13:45.790 year, basically because he's such a brilliant player and made, you know, his games much more concise 13:45.790 --> 13:50.950 and exciting, perhaps, than they could have been with all the efforts by Bishop C5. 13:52.120 --> 13:53.210 Very, very forceful. 13:53.350 --> 13:59.190 We have Queen Sexy five rookie HRO night and there's a brilliant conception here. 14:01.180 --> 14:08.650 Now, if the king had gone to F7 then Queenie sex, you can see the power of luring the Queen away from 14:08.680 --> 14:11.380 ESX Queenie sex is Chapei so recarve. 14:11.460 --> 14:14.020 And you might think, well what's the point of this. 14:14.560 --> 14:17.590 Surely why just lost the bishop. 14:17.590 --> 14:18.040 Right. 14:18.580 --> 14:25.540 There is a very, very important Taxco points when you have these Penns kind of celebrating them in 14:25.540 --> 14:27.400 a spectacular way sometimes. 14:27.880 --> 14:30.370 And it's not just the Penderecki, it's like the back row. 14:30.370 --> 14:37.040 Generally, Tarl plays this check and asking eyeshadows, can you see the punch line here at Moonface 14:37.040 --> 14:39.400 seven, which actually is a game ender? 14:39.790 --> 14:41.170 What's the punch line here? 14:42.370 --> 14:46.060 Which is really quite a major punch on the chessboard, so to speak. 14:46.660 --> 14:48.040 So what ends the game? 14:50.360 --> 14:55.280 If I give you five seconds for video, what what do you think is a really great move here to celebrate 14:55.280 --> 14:56.620 the pain in the back row? 14:58.190 --> 14:58.610 OK? 14:59.210 --> 15:00.940 It's actually Queen F7. 15:01.490 --> 15:07.240 Yeah, putting more pressure on the PIN piece and also in a way, celebrating the weakness of the last. 15:07.250 --> 15:09.350 Maybe the king neglected Efate. 15:09.860 --> 15:12.330 So it's logical to target a bit more if you can. 15:13.520 --> 15:16.970 The game ended here, you know, Queen takes and we're just going to take her. 15:17.870 --> 15:23.000 And then unless Platt wants to be cremated or nearby, cremated rather. 15:23.750 --> 15:24.920 I mean, this is just hopeless. 15:25.580 --> 15:27.970 The exchange down, it's hopeless. 15:28.760 --> 15:31.780 So, yeah, this is hopeless as well. 15:31.790 --> 15:33.020 It's it's all hopeless. 15:33.020 --> 15:34.340 There's no actual defense. 15:34.700 --> 15:35.030 Yeah. 15:35.390 --> 15:36.680 So pretty clear cut. 15:39.410 --> 15:49.850 Crushing finish to this game, so it has like an iconic Tolstoyan sacrifice, if you want to be a chess 15:50.240 --> 15:57.140 entertainer and do like a YouTube channel and all the stuff which is a legitimate path in chess, that 15:57.140 --> 16:04.520 it's not all about becoming a professional chess player, then learning from brilliant players to be 16:04.520 --> 16:11.090 able to play brilliantly, I'm sure is going to expand your social media presence a lot more than, 16:11.090 --> 16:15.320 you know, covering maybe duller games on social media. 16:15.710 --> 16:21.860 These outrageous games are really the meat potatoes of social media to try to get, you know, interesting 16:21.860 --> 16:23.890 videos and stuff. 16:23.900 --> 16:26.770 It's very, very entertaining games to study. 16:27.080 --> 16:34.490 For me personally, I like looking at the more solid, less controversial ads right now, but you can 16:34.490 --> 16:36.440 gain a lot from all the world champions. 16:36.440 --> 16:43.400 When I kind of chatted to I am not Esswein about it, he did say to study all the champions, not just 16:43.400 --> 16:50.360 Fisher, but you know how you know, Spassky, Kasparov, Karpoff, you know, all champions. 16:50.360 --> 16:54.050 Basically, you can learn a lot from all of them. 16:56.300 --> 17:01.100 They each have their own contributions to make and they're going to be certain positions where you do 17:01.100 --> 17:05.360 want to just increase the complexity because you really do want to win. 17:05.870 --> 17:13.100 So sometimes, you know, take the approach to this deep, dark forest says, well, there's only room 17:13.100 --> 17:14.600 for one to get to come out. 17:15.050 --> 17:19.810 And if we're very, very strong tactically, basically you're maximizing your winning chances. 17:20.300 --> 17:26.330 So from that practical angle, Intel did win, you know, a great deal of torment in his time, especially 17:26.330 --> 17:28.040 when his health was suffering. 17:28.460 --> 17:40.130 So, yeah, of course, it's great to learn from Celtel, but for me personally, I'm a bit scared of 17:40.130 --> 17:42.860 playing even more unkindly than I do at the moment. 17:43.040 --> 17:45.140 OK, but I hope you enjoyed this game. 17:45.290 --> 17:50.660 Brilliant game and kind of an iconic self-sacrifice is shown us so much.