00:00And now we're back in Linares, 1993, the last round, I already secured my first place in the tournament, but played Garakamski, wanted to win the game, and it was a good game, built up my attack, and as you can see now, white is winning, still the same number of pawns, but black pawns are very weak, but most importantly, black king is in desperate position.
00:27While white king is well protected, black king is in danger, but to deliver the final blow, queen e7, we just have to close this diagonal to make sure that black's queen doesn't protect e7 square anymore, and of course f6, we know that it's quite simple, but being simple, it doesn't mean it's not deadly, so when I played f6, Kamski resigned,
00:57because after taking this pawn, white queen shows on e7, and the game is over.
01:03And now we move to one of the best examples for interference, blocking the square, preventing opponent's pieces from defending their king, and not surprisingly, comes from one of the Bobby Fishers games.
01:33It's famous U.S. National Championship with Fischer winning all the games, that was the last round game, play against Benko.
01:43Fischer developed quickly, very strong attack, but for a moment, for a moment, I guess Benko thought maybe, maybe I could survive, maybe the worst is behind me, because of course white created very strong attack, and the pawn on e7, you could see, it's potentially...
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