WEBVTT 00:01.080 --> 00:01.740 Hi there. 00:02.130 --> 00:06.780 This is a game from Episode four of the Queen's Gambit Netflix series. 00:07.710 --> 00:16.350 So Bulgakov was playing White against Baff, and this is actually based on a real game of Lenin. 00:16.350 --> 00:24.000 Stalin, who was a Russian chess champion playing against Alexander Antonovich back in 1965. 00:24.270 --> 00:27.690 So the series did actually use these, you know, classic games. 00:28.080 --> 00:35.340 Stalin, a Soviet chess grandmaster from Ukraine, he won actually the USSR championship three times 00:35.340 --> 00:41.860 in the 1960s and was among the world's top ten players during that era. 00:42.630 --> 00:53.730 So really, really great player we see fall from Borg off playing the role of Lenin, Stalin and C5 00:53.970 --> 00:59.640 from Baff we see in 93, 96, BISHOP five. 01:01.290 --> 01:05.190 So this is a very, very interesting version of the sit in the fence. 01:05.640 --> 01:09.930 Ludovic Rosolino G six Seefried. 01:09.930 --> 01:14.970 So why establishes a center quite, quite rapidly. 01:15.010 --> 01:18.870 A former Texan, Bishop Bishop, G7 White Castles. 01:18.870 --> 01:19.950 We see a sex. 01:21.600 --> 01:23.220 The Bishop is volunteered. 01:23.220 --> 01:27.600 It's given up for the night and now very interesting move DeFore. 01:27.600 --> 01:30.880 So it looks like this is kind of a gambit and it is. 01:30.900 --> 01:32.610 It's kind of a scary gambit to take that. 01:33.150 --> 01:39.630 So Baff tries to play on the safe side with Desex with the King Center. 01:39.630 --> 01:41.880 It's not advisable to take such pawns. 01:42.720 --> 01:50.070 We see rookie one, Bishop G4 and now White does gain, though Aspies thought the five, the queen goes 01:50.070 --> 01:51.630 the C seven, a five. 01:52.020 --> 01:59.880 So this means that if ever any B five does have the option, which will fragment blacks pawns bit, 01:59.970 --> 02:02.130 leaving an ASX backwood pawn. 02:02.700 --> 02:15.390 We've seen lots of things like to black castles age free Bishopsgate suffering 19 Zafrin 97 Bishop F4. 02:15.390 --> 02:18.810 So it looks as though White's interested potentially in a strategic pawn break. 02:18.810 --> 02:27.570 At some points we see B5 and now the Ampersands is used Quintet's B six and now refer to protecting 02:27.570 --> 02:34.790 B to A maybe sometimes queeny one is handy to put more pressure on a sex queen. 02:34.800 --> 02:39.270 B five Nolita Brooke Brookfield's, Bishop G five. 02:39.270 --> 02:40.200 Looking at E seven. 02:40.770 --> 02:43.140 The King comes to protect E seven. 02:44.490 --> 02:48.390 And then we see Queen G for so very interesting position. 02:48.390 --> 02:49.080 Eighty-six 02:51.930 --> 02:58.350 Bishop evry notify the Queen goes to eight four and now g five sets of a probing move. 02:58.350 --> 02:59.880 Actually pawns don't go backwards. 02:59.880 --> 03:07.740 The pawns will encourage forwards cuidad five ninety four and now we see age for trying to undermine 03:07.740 --> 03:08.760 Black's pawn structure. 03:09.870 --> 03:12.960 1962 Bishop Tastee Turner Queen Bee Free. 03:13.770 --> 03:16.530 This is actually a mistake here. 03:18.030 --> 03:21.060 Queen C4 is in three better. 03:21.240 --> 03:30.570 So for example, this situation and it should be more interesting position which is about equal actually 03:30.590 --> 03:38.490 Black-Scholes sufficient counterplay and say this situation, it's just, it's about equal. 03:38.940 --> 03:45.630 But with queen bee free we see the rook going to A1 eight, A1, not eight. 03:45.630 --> 03:50.820 I want eight, I want Quincy to see one. 03:51.870 --> 03:55.350 And now with this pawn on the fire, we have G takes a four. 03:56.220 --> 04:00.360 But I'm Bishop Tate's age six and Black's king is kind of precarious. 04:00.990 --> 04:05.580 King safety issues rotates B2 OK, blackheads. 04:05.580 --> 04:08.670 Looking at F2 here we have Bishop sixty seven. 04:08.670 --> 04:10.070 Jack King thanks. 04:10.770 --> 04:18.510 Queen G five Jack King and now Queen six eight four which protects the Queen but also more significantly 04:19.020 --> 04:20.460 threatens Queen. 04:21.150 --> 04:21.780 Checkmate. 04:22.440 --> 04:30.450 We see King eight and now if I have a very interesting strategic pome break in its own right as well 04:30.450 --> 04:30.990 as foresting. 04:30.990 --> 04:40.110 Aetate these things concretely details states e five so friends then Queen Sites is a mate check to 04:40.290 --> 04:41.410 be checking check to. 04:41.820 --> 04:44.040 So the front is on here and needs to be buried. 04:45.240 --> 04:52.560 We see f but here now very very interesting move desex. 04:53.580 --> 04:59.400 This pawn cannot take on E five because there would still be queen size is a checkmate. 05:01.150 --> 05:09.940 So we have actually this move, it's also far too dangerous to take this drug because it rotates even 05:09.970 --> 05:18.210 check and then mating hair on the back roads of the blacking is feeling some pressure. 05:18.220 --> 05:21.250 So King, the seven rogue states is seven. 05:21.250 --> 05:24.760 Check King, see sex. 05:26.860 --> 05:28.850 And now roadsigns one queen. 05:28.960 --> 05:35.110 Makes me want Queen 66, so one is two pawns of the king is not safe for the black kings, not safe. 05:36.070 --> 05:37.810 We see the queen retreating. 05:38.350 --> 05:41.530 Roxxy seven CHAC can be six. 05:41.710 --> 05:44.020 And now Queen Efram, we see the game ending here. 05:44.350 --> 05:45.570 Baff is pretty upset. 05:45.580 --> 05:46.720 And talk about this. 05:47.200 --> 05:54.970 If the game continues, say with King a five 10 Reluctancy five Jack and Queen Bee five is very, very 05:54.970 --> 06:01.810 strong fractioning rook A5 meeting the queen is controlling before his game. 06:01.830 --> 06:13.000 Squire if rook five chank rook to Jack Rody to France then queen a two track and Quincy to mate. 06:14.080 --> 06:17.800 So the king is just getting in big, big trouble here for example, like this. 06:19.720 --> 06:25.000 And you know one can actually go for the charmayne like this for example. 06:26.560 --> 06:27.850 So yeah, an interesting game. 06:27.850 --> 06:30.670 So it was actually based on a real game. 06:32.740 --> 06:34.570 So the game actually ending here. 06:37.060 --> 06:37.900 So yeah. 06:37.900 --> 06:40.150 Beth does fear. 06:42.360 --> 06:47.100 Off and this sets the scene for the later encounter. 06:47.790 --> 06:50.310 OK, as much.