WEBVTT 00:00.750 --> 00:01.590 Hi there. 00:01.620 --> 00:03.870 In this lecture, we see an absolute classic game. 00:03.870 --> 00:08.820 Ossip Bernstein against Capablanca in 1914 Moscow tournament round one. 00:09.180 --> 00:13.230 So here we have D four from Bernstein D five from Capablanca. 00:13.260 --> 00:17.700 c4e69c396 19 three. 00:17.700 --> 00:18.690 Bishop E seven. 00:18.690 --> 00:21.840 Bishop G five Black Castles. 00:22.050 --> 00:24.300 E three Might be D seven Rook. 00:24.300 --> 00:25.650 c1b6. 00:25.650 --> 00:33.030 So the task at variation C takes D five, E takes D five Queen A for Bishop B seven. 00:33.030 --> 00:34.650 And we have Bishop A six now. 00:34.800 --> 00:37.470 So this seems quite logical to try and weaken Capablanca. 00:37.500 --> 00:40.280 Online squares exchange off the square. 00:40.290 --> 00:45.390 Bishops we have Bishop takes a six, queen takes a six, and now C five. 00:45.750 --> 00:49.320 So we're emerging here after Bishop takes up six, Knight takes F six. 00:49.320 --> 00:52.710 We emerge with the hanging pawns structure. 00:52.710 --> 00:58.290 So you might ask, Wow, what is a positional player like Capablanca doing with a structure which doesn't 00:58.290 --> 01:00.150 seem that solid? 01:02.820 --> 01:09.630 So the plan from White generally is try and fix these pawns and then win them later or other operations, 01:09.630 --> 01:11.640 which might be useful, like going for an attack potentially. 01:11.640 --> 01:17.010 But usually fixing the hanging pawns is is the plan that the opponent would use. 01:17.190 --> 01:21.090 So what plan with the hanging pawns that we have with Capablanca here? 01:21.120 --> 01:28.650 Well, one of the perks is immediately used after White Castles, this adjacent file Queen Bee, adding 01:28.650 --> 01:29.880 pressure to B2. 01:29.880 --> 01:31.470 So a concrete threat. 01:31.830 --> 01:36.850 And White doesn't really want to offer a repair to the structure with Queen St b six. 01:36.870 --> 01:42.810 This would be only a small edge for white, although it's kind of interesting. 01:42.810 --> 01:45.690 You know, H six is possible because of the pressure on a two. 01:45.840 --> 01:57.960 And for example here it should be off the B five about even this position of 290 4c298c3 rotates C three 01:57.960 --> 01:59.490 This is about even. 02:00.330 --> 02:07.550 Okay, but we have Queenie two in this game and Capablanca seems to play a paradoxical move. 02:07.560 --> 02:11.850 He's like playing into the plan that should help if these pawns are fixed. 02:12.450 --> 02:18.090 But in these circumstances there's no light square bishop so there's no real attacking potential. 02:18.690 --> 02:24.570 Sometimes default can be a liberating thing for a bishop on B seven, but that's not the case here. 02:24.660 --> 02:32.280 So Capablanca is more banking on transforming these hanging pawns into a passport, potentially, as 02:32.280 --> 02:33.450 we're going to see. 02:33.450 --> 02:38.910 So rook for one, if not before there is bishop before here. 02:38.910 --> 02:48.870 And this position should be about even so for one after eight Knight DH four F4 was an interesting trying 02:49.110 --> 02:50.100 so details. 02:50.100 --> 02:56.780 But this dissolves black structure clearly and black can use Bishop C five to F two. 02:56.790 --> 03:00.000 So this position should be about even. 03:00.000 --> 03:02.100 But 94 was played. 03:02.490 --> 03:10.770 We have Bishop b4 be free here if I free Bishop st C free rook take C free. 03:10.770 --> 03:17.400 There's 94 and here it should be about even black has adequate pressure, which is a perk of this dynamic 03:17.400 --> 03:18.810 structure on the B file. 03:19.500 --> 03:21.180 So be free. 03:21.990 --> 03:27.150 We have Rook AC eight and we see the transformation now to be tanks. 03:27.150 --> 03:29.850 We have basically a past pawn that is blockaded. 03:30.480 --> 03:33.240 We have Rook two and now Bishop takes free. 03:33.240 --> 03:36.630 Rook take C free 95 rook c two. 03:37.140 --> 03:40.500 So this avoids quite a nasty tactic in the position. 03:40.500 --> 03:44.040 If rook takes C four, what would you play with black for 100 points? 03:44.430 --> 03:46.590 The positional player is tactically alert. 03:46.590 --> 03:50.040 To be effective, think of Capablanca tactics. 03:50.040 --> 03:54.510 A strong Petrosian tactics are strong, Adams tactics are strong. 03:54.510 --> 03:55.350 You name it. 03:55.350 --> 04:00.840 The strong positional players have to be strong tactically and realize in this position we've got an 04:00.840 --> 04:04.500 x ray on the C free square tactically. 04:04.500 --> 04:07.710 So 93 is winning material. 04:09.690 --> 04:13.350 So for example, here we're just going to take on C four and then take on D one. 04:13.680 --> 04:14.880 So Okay. 04:14.880 --> 04:17.550 And if rook st C free, rook free. 04:17.550 --> 04:18.750 We're just just won the exchange. 04:18.750 --> 04:21.000 So Rook two avoids that. 04:21.000 --> 04:28.410 But now C free black could have played a four here tactically as well. 04:28.410 --> 04:30.630 This position should be about even. 04:33.550 --> 04:34.510 So. 04:36.120 --> 04:37.020 Okay. 04:38.940 --> 04:44.220 Yeah, there are interesting resources here on the back row in this position, by the way. 04:44.220 --> 04:45.450 You might think, Hold on, Kingsbridge. 04:45.480 --> 04:47.010 What about Route 63? 04:47.220 --> 04:49.390 Yeah, but the thing is, look at Wayne's back row. 04:49.410 --> 04:50.830 There's Queen Bee one check here. 04:50.870 --> 04:51.510 Ouch. 04:51.540 --> 04:53.580 And then once came back, row mated. 04:53.610 --> 04:57.090 There's no air for the king at the moment, so that's something to notice. 04:57.090 --> 05:00.570 So see, free here, though, was played at DC one. 05:00.570 --> 05:01.160 We have Rook. 05:01.170 --> 05:02.550 See five might be free. 05:02.550 --> 05:11.130 Rook see 694 And it should have been really a draw here with the knight going back and how can black 05:11.130 --> 05:12.660 make progress? 05:12.660 --> 05:15.240 But the knight ventured out with Knight B five. 05:15.240 --> 05:17.780 So yeah, Knight be free should be just a draw. 05:17.790 --> 05:24.390 Black has succeeded in transforming the hanging pawns into a possible and that's enough to draw. 05:24.420 --> 05:28.290 You know, sometimes you just have to draw with black but you know here for example, what does black 05:28.290 --> 05:28.470 do? 05:28.470 --> 05:34.410 G six Yeah, we can't really increase the pressure if we don't plays accurately with a free we can't 05:34.410 --> 05:37.770 really increase the advantage. 05:37.770 --> 05:38.610 It seems it's difficult. 05:38.610 --> 05:40.410 You know why it has resources as well. 05:40.410 --> 05:43.770 Like 95 here, this is just a fictional continuation. 05:44.100 --> 05:47.520 And you know, we can see that there are tactics for white as well. 05:47.880 --> 05:50.910 So anyway, might be five though, is a problem. 05:51.270 --> 05:56.010 We have rook see five and now a huge mistake Knight take free. 05:56.010 --> 05:57.810 So remember this back row issue. 05:57.810 --> 06:02.370 The positional player does need to be acutely tactical, tactically aware. 06:02.700 --> 06:05.410 So now what do we do? 06:05.430 --> 06:08.010 Well, Knight, take C free rook takes. 06:08.010 --> 06:09.090 Can you find the move? 06:09.120 --> 06:09.660 Coming up. 06:09.660 --> 06:11.040 Rook, take C free. 06:11.760 --> 06:12.900 Rook, take C free. 06:12.900 --> 06:13.680 And guess what? 06:13.680 --> 06:18.840 Capablanca plays here, which is absolutely devastating and finishes the game. 06:18.960 --> 06:24.870 Move 29 So black to play a pawn down. 06:28.110 --> 06:30.850 So you could say that the passport has just disappeared. 06:30.900 --> 06:34.110 It's transformed itself into a dynamic advantage. 06:34.560 --> 06:35.620 So it's gone. 06:35.640 --> 06:36.910 The passport has gone. 06:36.930 --> 06:38.580 It's a dynamic advantage. 06:39.120 --> 06:43.050 And we can play a real massive tempo gaining move. 06:43.080 --> 06:45.500 Queen Bee two hitting the queen, hitting the rook. 06:45.510 --> 06:46.440 It's crushing. 06:46.860 --> 06:47.820 Game ended here. 06:49.110 --> 06:54.180 Not Queen Bee one check because there's Queen F one and this possession should be equal. 06:54.480 --> 06:56.280 But this is absolutely devastating. 06:56.280 --> 07:02.010 So why it has to resign if Queen E one, Queen C three and the back row is exploited here. 07:03.090 --> 07:04.980 So that's with Queen E one. 07:06.210 --> 07:07.200 If Roxy too. 07:07.230 --> 07:10.170 We have Queen Bee one checking and taking out C two. 07:10.260 --> 07:13.560 If Queen C four, we're taking out C three again and then D one. 07:13.560 --> 07:16.040 And that's going to be mating of the Queen in one taking. 07:16.050 --> 07:25.600 If C eight is tricky, but Queen Bee one check here and then taking on F one and taking on C eight rook 07:25.620 --> 07:31.800 D three We have Quincy one check queen, which is taking F one and taking on the free King F one. 07:31.800 --> 07:34.710 We're just taking on C free. 07:35.490 --> 07:37.950 So yeah, it is absolutely hopeless here. 07:38.250 --> 07:42.110 And this is a highly celebrated game with that beautiful, elegant finish. 07:42.120 --> 07:45.720 So yeah, this is an elegant game of Capablanca. 07:46.350 --> 07:51.750 But the interesting thing to consider, if we look at modern positional players like Adams, he's usually 07:51.750 --> 07:58.950 inflicting structural issues on opponents like double pawns or weak pawns. 07:59.130 --> 08:00.120 And. 08:00.980 --> 08:07.180 It's surprising to see these classic examples of Capablanca where he does have a dynamic structure, 08:07.190 --> 08:09.520 the positional player playing with dynamic structure. 08:09.530 --> 08:11.150 Well, what do they do with them? 08:11.150 --> 08:12.680 They aim to transform them. 08:12.680 --> 08:16.360 And also dynamic players will often aim to transform them. 08:16.370 --> 08:18.980 That's what you have to do with structural weaknesses. 08:18.980 --> 08:22.010 They have to be transformed into something positive. 08:22.010 --> 08:29.870 There has to be an upside somewhere of the hanging pawns, and the upside wasn't going to be in a default 08:29.870 --> 08:31.610 break in this particular occasion. 08:31.610 --> 08:32.510 So it's interesting. 08:32.510 --> 08:37.790 Then it's transformed voluntarily, like fixing them down, giving white the default square voluntarily. 08:37.790 --> 08:42.770 But, you know, the bishop has something to say with the dark squares, you know, C4 is opening up 08:42.770 --> 08:45.410 the bishop for interesting possibilities here. 08:45.800 --> 08:51.050 So, yes, it's playing the position as well, playing the position, transforming the hanging pawns 08:51.050 --> 08:56.690 into a past pawn and taking care of all the the tactical tactical details. 08:57.320 --> 09:01.130 It's tactics that actually kind of win games brutally like Queen Bee two. 09:01.310 --> 09:03.950 So a beautiful finish for an iconic game. 09:03.950 --> 09:08.900 I hope you enjoyed this and got some instructive points from it and so much.