WEBVTT 00:01.500 --> 00:02.170 Hi there. 00:02.700 --> 00:06.900 And it's actually we're going to have a look at an amazing game of Alexander Alkene. 00:07.500 --> 00:12.680 So he was the fourth world chess champion reigning from 1927 to 35. 00:13.620 --> 00:20.460 Then he managed to lose a max a match against Max Owa, but regained his title. 00:21.570 --> 00:27.660 And he was world chess champion from 1957 until his death in 1946. 00:28.830 --> 00:36.810 He's regarded as the founding inspiration of the Soviet School of Chess that came to dominate the world 00:36.810 --> 00:38.400 of chess after World War Two. 00:39.090 --> 00:47.310 So here his game against him by Gloriavale is very, very interesting and kind of representative of 00:47.310 --> 00:53.790 his style in many respects, his huge flights of fancy imagination, creativity, outrageous moves. 00:54.150 --> 00:57.930 They kind of being captivated by this game a little bit. 00:58.770 --> 01:07.900 So he plays the Dutch defense here, a very frightening reaction to wonderful seafoam. 01:07.920 --> 01:09.180 I have sex with him. 01:09.180 --> 01:10.560 Jeffrey Sachs. 01:11.340 --> 01:20.520 Bishop Jita announced he plays Bishop before Jacare Bishop detA and exchanges off the dance where bishops 01:20.520 --> 01:22.620 and now provocative, noisy sex. 01:24.990 --> 01:27.870 So why aren't the plays the modest knight? 01:27.870 --> 01:36.810 Jeffrey, if the five looks initially tempting, but after 97 disposition, actually blancs doing fine 01:36.810 --> 01:39.960 half the night just goes back, provoking sometimes quite weaknesses. 01:40.920 --> 01:44.460 That should be fine for playing so nice, Jeoffrey. 01:45.480 --> 01:52.230 Both sides castle desex, queen bee free king and queen free. 01:52.230 --> 01:58.770 And now at the tactical move e5 the queen is actually trying the to him, which makes this possible. 01:59.220 --> 02:04.290 We see free if detainees detainees we see that detail will be hanging. 02:04.920 --> 02:08.760 If 1985 is placed they'll be a mistake. 02:08.770 --> 02:12.960 1985 Queen takes Queen Tastee to winning a peace. 02:15.510 --> 02:20.190 So if war is played by now, Black sets up, you know, really quite an aggressive position. 02:20.610 --> 02:23.160 First, a five clamping down only before. 02:24.150 --> 02:29.850 So this night cannot, for example, be shifted away from C.S. Lewis and my central line at the moment, 02:30.390 --> 02:31.800 be free now, Queene eight. 02:32.820 --> 02:37.050 And this looks very, very neat and logical, potentially against H5. 02:38.880 --> 02:40.770 But also looking at both sides of the ball. 02:40.770 --> 02:43.830 Actually, we see a free queen H5. 02:43.830 --> 02:47.490 It does commit to age five age for --. 02:47.490 --> 02:48.480 Don't go backwards. 02:48.480 --> 02:51.990 There is a weakness of this move like this. 02:52.000 --> 02:55.140 G4 is slightly more vulnerable now. 02:57.210 --> 03:01.230 So yeah, that looks like a bit of a panicky reaction. 03:01.650 --> 03:07.830 But why isn't a passive way now and in fact the G4 score is made use of it's a lovely square for that 03:07.830 --> 03:08.370 night. 03:09.540 --> 03:11.730 So why is like positionally? 03:11.730 --> 03:12.880 It's it's suspects. 03:12.900 --> 03:14.880 They're already positioning this position. 03:15.150 --> 03:23.070 We see ninety five Bishop seven every night of sex and therefore this makes that G4 kind of whole much 03:23.070 --> 03:24.000 more significant. 03:24.750 --> 03:29.370 If all this locks in the bishop so position, they won't seem to be in a passive way. 03:30.510 --> 03:35.130 Look after one eight six the night goes back to age three, the five. 03:35.820 --> 03:43.640 So this really kind of bolsters sensor blunting the on geto night AF1. 03:44.580 --> 03:49.200 Twenty seven a fall and this will be four on the other side. 03:49.470 --> 03:52.650 It's like, well it's not content with one hole. 03:53.170 --> 03:54.600 He creates two. 03:55.020 --> 03:58.710 But is the situation to block to actually do anything. 03:59.100 --> 04:04.320 We see the to night before Bishop one and then the queen actually comes back. 04:04.320 --> 04:07.740 So there's a battery now on this diagonal. 04:07.950 --> 04:13.450 Is that useful, Ruchi, to what we see now? 04:13.450 --> 04:14.850 Deedes C4. 04:15.000 --> 04:23.850 And this sets uncomfortable questions for white BTC for as played if queen sitesi for black has B5 five, 04:23.850 --> 04:24.840 this is very powerful. 04:24.840 --> 04:31.050 For example, Eighteens Bishop sings and here Black has all sorts of delightful ideas. 04:31.090 --> 04:36.720 After 1945, for example, Bishop takes and takes every ounce. 04:37.110 --> 04:39.210 It's just a very, very difficult position. 04:39.840 --> 04:47.850 If Rook after the knight comes into the fray for King, Queen or work, if Queen detA then black can 04:47.850 --> 04:49.740 just celebrate like this. 04:49.740 --> 04:52.470 The position is just very passive for white. 04:52.710 --> 04:55.850 This is a bit slow to try and do anything over here. 04:56.670 --> 04:59.610 So anyway, White Plains beat. 04:59.610 --> 05:00.110 Thanks. 05:00.750 --> 05:12.270 And as the queen takes that pawn knife to Bishop, drops back my deed to and I'll be five, 91, 93, 05:13.950 --> 05:18.300 and it looks as a whole, has he just left the pawn behind on a five? 05:19.170 --> 05:22.500 This is a big, amazing combination. 05:24.640 --> 05:29.340 If it does nothing, I mean, it seems as though it's going to be overwhelming to collect the passports. 05:30.480 --> 05:33.240 So why takes on a five? 05:33.510 --> 05:39.720 And now we have a really shocking combination kicked off with before. 05:39.750 --> 05:42.270 So this is limiting why it's severely. 05:43.540 --> 05:50.220 Once replies, we see saying science and now guess what? 05:50.260 --> 05:53.260 What would you play her if you were playing black? 05:54.240 --> 05:56.960 Would you take the rock off, would you do something else? 06:04.590 --> 06:05.150 OK. 06:06.960 --> 06:12.720 In fact, the queen has taken and it looks as a whole, and this is silly because of the takes, if 06:12.720 --> 06:20.970 we recapture those meetings and on a lot of points, worries over, in fact. 06:25.080 --> 06:29.580 Guess what, black plays in this position, if I give you five seconds, called the. 06:32.750 --> 06:41.480 So like France and captures, you want to be aware of them, you want to be aware that in theory, you 06:41.480 --> 06:47.840 know reCAPTCHA, but as you get more and more advanced, that almost becomes the last thing you want 06:47.840 --> 06:49.730 to do to automatically reCAPTCHA. 06:50.360 --> 06:55.940 You're not a trained dog Pavlov dog, you know, and when the opponent threatens you, you don't have 06:55.940 --> 06:56.330 to react. 06:56.690 --> 06:58.900 You know, it's your choice. 06:58.910 --> 07:06.800 You should really look at the mental game processes and look at the forcing moves in a particular situation. 07:07.040 --> 07:08.480 Don't auto recaptcha. 07:09.020 --> 07:11.380 And that message is very, very strongly here. 07:11.390 --> 07:14.420 I hope you can guess what they played or work out. 07:16.130 --> 07:20.000 I've given you a bit of a clue it might not be able to recapture you. 07:20.120 --> 07:23.720 Actually, please see to look at these notes, they're stumbling around. 07:24.320 --> 07:31.670 This passport is really, really dangerous here these nights, although they're near the passport physically, 07:32.630 --> 07:37.370 they're not really able to stop the passport queening. 07:38.660 --> 07:47.860 So offering entire rook here with Czech and now the just stumbling around they have to and the pawn 07:47.870 --> 07:51.650 queens with check might have one. 07:53.030 --> 07:57.710 Now here, another crushing blow, 91. 07:58.880 --> 08:04.940 But the Freda's big fat of everything and that would be checkmate. 08:06.810 --> 08:13.410 So the king is given a square to now queen to see for his plate. 08:17.960 --> 08:26.660 Rugby AIDS Bishop, five friends, then queen saints have won, mate, so won't sacrifice the exchange 08:26.660 --> 08:31.330 that and why pieces are kind of bunched up here. 08:31.340 --> 08:38.430 You can see, I mean, visually, this is most peculiar for trying to sort of break out of the binds. 08:39.170 --> 08:49.660 Not every check that's taken eatings was a G takes five and queen in two once in a row, bind her the 08:49.680 --> 08:50.090 five. 08:50.780 --> 08:53.810 Kingi eight H5 King at seven. 08:55.700 --> 08:57.380 It looks as though once and I kind of. 08:57.860 --> 08:58.550 That's one. 09:00.630 --> 09:09.900 Zugzwang efore 1994 nighttimes quintets desex There seems to be very, very desperate moves from white. 09:12.400 --> 09:23.740 We see about six detainees, Rudy, too, but now a beauty of a move, again celebrating the inability 09:24.130 --> 09:26.320 to kind of stop passports. 09:27.520 --> 09:28.180 Guess what? 09:28.900 --> 09:30.100 Unclaimed place her. 09:33.860 --> 09:35.570 OK, queening to. 09:38.780 --> 09:46.190 So if the rug goes away, then quinsy to his chemie, so we see rotates offtakes, but this transposes 09:46.190 --> 09:49.390 into an easily won component. 09:49.580 --> 09:53.520 After all that I was thinking G-7 can seven. 09:54.200 --> 09:55.160 We see the king coming up. 09:55.280 --> 10:02.140 He thinks the five check and won't resign is Triveni one now. 10:03.710 --> 10:09.010 For example, Haircare five just treble when the recap. 10:09.050 --> 10:11.750 This was the final possession actually after the final check. 10:12.630 --> 10:21.200 I just like to read you some quotations from two other world champions and arguably two of the greatest 10:21.200 --> 10:21.940 players ever. 10:21.950 --> 10:26.960 What they said about Alexander Allophone, first Bobby Fischer, Bobby Fischer said of Alkene. 10:27.920 --> 10:34.010 He played gigantic inceptions full of outrageous and unprecedented ideas. 10:34.040 --> 10:35.600 He had great imagination. 10:35.870 --> 10:40.550 He could see more deeply into a situation than any other player in chess history. 10:41.090 --> 10:45.280 It was in the most complicated positions that Al-Hakeem found his grandiose concepts. 10:46.280 --> 10:48.340 So, yeah, Bobby Fischer said that about a coin. 10:48.950 --> 10:52.220 Now, Garry Kasparov had this to say. 10:53.240 --> 10:58.700 Alexander Alkene is the first luminary among the others who are still having the greatest influence 10:58.700 --> 10:59.060 on me. 10:59.360 --> 11:04.760 I like his you universality, his approach to the game, his chess ideas. 11:05.060 --> 11:12.830 I'm sure that the future belongs to Alec Lynch has aligned himself, seemed to express a lot of war 11:12.830 --> 11:20.270 principles of in the art of war, said you should know yourself and your opponents, your enemies, 11:20.390 --> 11:23.390 and then you won't fear the result of a thousand battles. 11:23.840 --> 11:29.020 As I basically said, firstly, self-knowledge. 11:29.030 --> 11:37.010 Secondly, a firm comprehension of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses, but also, interestingly, 11:37.550 --> 11:38.360 eloquent ads. 11:38.360 --> 11:43.430 Thirdly, a higher aim, artistic and scientific accomplishments. 11:43.670 --> 11:49.640 Accomplishments was record on chess, equal rank with other arts. 11:51.200 --> 11:58.760 So it is as if he was trying to elevate the game for a really, really beautiful masterpieces like this 11:58.760 --> 11:59.060 game. 11:59.870 --> 12:02.720 Yeah, very, very interesting indeed. 12:03.590 --> 12:08.600 I like the dynamic, aggressive world chess champion, so I'm a bit biased towards them. 12:10.340 --> 12:13.820 The more Taxco dynamic, aggressive, you know, like the Fisher. 12:13.820 --> 12:14.420 The Kasparov. 12:14.720 --> 12:14.900 Yeah. 12:15.150 --> 12:22.820 And I kind of like that kind of vein personally, but you will find your own, you know, favorite world 12:22.820 --> 12:30.500 champions as well once you explore their games and maybe see their style of play a little bit more clearly. 12:30.800 --> 12:31.850 OK, I. 12:31.910 --> 12:32.360 So much.