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00:01Good afternoon, good evening, or good morning, depending on where you are in the world.
00:05What I'll have is a two-game series.
00:08I'll be talking about middle game themes.
00:11If I don't have enough time, I'm going to be splitting this up into two parts.
00:16So, first of all, I'd like to thank all the people watching this live on Facebook.
00:20I do appreciate it.
00:21It does motivate me and gets me to release more videos.
00:27And I will be having an ongoing series.
00:31We'll be rotating middle game, end game, and opening.
00:34So, let's start with our first game.
00:36The first game was a game between Irving Chernev versus Herman H. Helbaum from New York, 1942.
00:45Well, the important thing is not so much who won, but the quality of the game and what can be
00:50learned.
00:50So, what we're going to talk about is key points in the game.
00:53We're going to talk about piece positioning, tactics, calculation, and also how to analyze the position.
01:02So, as the game starts, we start with D4, D5, 9 of 3, E6.
01:07Pretty standard, right?
01:08White plays E3.
01:09Now, this can be transposable where you play C4 next.
01:14Very flexible system where you're not confined to a particular move order.
01:19C5 and C3.
01:21Now, when you play C3 here, what we have is the Coley system.
01:24Okay, it's C3 Coley.
01:27Knight of 6, Bishop D3.
01:29Notice that we're developing pieces on the king's side, the castle, and also like to get control of E4.
01:35After Knight to C6, Knight BD2, we're controlling the E4 square.
01:40And after Bishop to E7, what do you think is the best move here?
01:47Well, really, at this point, you only have a couple of moves.
01:50We can play E4.
01:52We can play DxC5 or castle.
01:55Notice if we play Knight to B3, there's C4.
01:59Okay, we have to be careful where we're going to put the piece to see if there's not a fork.
02:03Such as, Black could play C4 if we play Knight B3 too soon.
02:08So, after castle, castle, White plays a very good move here.
02:14Now, he plays Queen E2.
02:15Why is that just a good move?
02:16Well, the other option here, we could play Rook E1, right, to push on E2.
02:24Now, Queen E2 supports the pawn push, but it also allows our Rooks to eventually get connected by getting out
02:32of the way of the Rooks.
02:33So, Queen E2, Rook E8.
02:34Here, we're playing DxC5.
02:36Now, here's the point.
02:37So, what we've done is we've brought out pieces and organized the way to get our pieces out, get control
02:43of the E4 square, and we have a strong point on D4.
02:46Then, after we've developed pieces on the king side, we castle.
02:49Now, when we consider our options, what we need to do is look at the features of the position.
02:56If we look at our pawns in the center, let's say we have D4, the D4 pawn in the center,
03:04and supported by C3 and E3.
03:06We notice that if we play E4 too soon, and I'm going to show you, if we play E4 too
03:12soon, what's going to happen?
03:14We're going to get an isolated pawn.
03:16So, let's suppose I play E4 now.
03:19C takes D, right?
03:22C takes D.
03:23Yes, we do have Knight B4.
03:26After Bishop B1, we have D takes E.
03:30Well, Knight takes E, Knight takes E, and Queen takes E4.
03:34Yes, our other Bishop has come out, but the problem now is that a Rook on A1 is still not
03:42in play, which means the Rooks are not connected.
03:47And, also, we have an isolated pawn.
03:50An isolated pawn is a pawn that cannot be supported by another pawn next to it.
03:54So, it's isolated.
03:56Okay?
03:57This is a position of weakness.
03:59It's difficult to take advantage of it.
04:01What the defender will do, and I'll talk about a simple strategy.
04:05Well, the strategy behind taking advantage of an isolated pawn is to, first of all, blockade it.
04:12Blockade it is to prevent it from moving.
04:14Okay?
04:14So, an isolated pawn can be strong if it can be moved, such as it can be something like a
04:21battering ram.
04:22A battering ram is only good if it moves forward, right?
04:24So, the isolated pawn can be like a battering ram.
04:28But, if it cannot move, what black would do, or the opposing side would do, whoever has the isolated pawn,
04:36whether it's white or black, is the first thing we want to do is blockade it.
04:40So, it doesn't move.
04:41Then, what we do after that is we coordinate pieces to all attack the D pawn, or whatever pawn that's
04:48isolated, to win the pawn.
04:50So, here, even though it says, in theory, this is equal, positionally speaking, it's not the best option because we
04:57have an isolated pawn.
04:59So, I'm just going to put here, white has an isolated pawn.
05:06Okay?
05:10Except, I want to spell it the other way.
05:13O-L-E-T-E-D.
05:16Okay.
05:17So, in this position, remember I said knight b3 is bad?
05:23You see knight b3, why that's bad?
05:25Because we've got the fork, right?
05:27I'm not even, yes, we have the engine there.
05:30Let's just shut it off.
05:31We can see that c4 forks.
05:35Forking, right?
05:40Okay.
05:42Okay.
05:43So, knight b3 doesn't work.
05:44So, when we analyze the position, we want to look at where the pieces are placed.
05:48We want to look at moves that make sense.
05:51The idea is we want to be moving the pieces forward and not backwards.
05:55Also, we want to calculate, if we move a piece forward, how many times is it defended?
06:00For example, when we looked at e4, right?
06:02What happens?
06:03Well, we calculated it was defended two times.
06:07Excuse me.
06:08It was attacked two times, so it was defended three times.
06:12Okay?
06:14The other thing, so we have e4 as an option.
06:17The idea is it lets the knight come out, and eventually the bishop comes out.
06:21Also, with knight b3, we'd like to move it out, but we can't do it at the right time.
06:25We have to do things at the right time.
06:26What's the right time?
06:28Okay.
06:30We want to be able to move the knight out so we don't have a fork.
06:33How do we do that?
06:34We play d takes c5.
06:36Well, d takes c5, bishop takes c5.
06:39What happens next?
06:40Then we can play e4.
06:43First, let's play into the center first, so we have central control.
06:46Then we can play knight b3.
06:47So we're going to play e4.
06:49He plays e5.
06:51E takes d.
06:52Knight takes d.
06:53Then we have our move knight b3 now, guys.
06:57Here we can move the knight out because we've established we allowed to get our pieces.
07:03We want to get our pieces forward, so after all of this, right?
07:07Yes, we had to.
07:09There was all these trades.
07:10Now we've got this tempo-gaining move of knight b3.
07:13The idea is later we'd like to play the knight on d4,
07:15but e5 was a decent move for black.
07:18It does stop knight d4 as an outpost.
07:20But after knight b3, black has a choice.
07:24He can play the bishop back to b6, in which case, right?
07:30If we play bishop back to b6,
07:33it's possible that we play a4 with the threat of playing a5.
07:37But because we have it guarded three times, possibly not.
07:40Maybe our next move here will be to play rook to d1,
07:44then bishop e4, then get the bishop out.
07:47So eventually, maybe this bishop is badly placed because of a4, a5 at some point.
07:53In fact, if we look at the engine, we can see what the engine believes after bishop b6.
08:00Yeah, bishop g5 is possible.
08:01Bishop c4 is possible.
08:04Because either way, I'm thinking, okay, we want to attack this knight,
08:07but rook d1 maybe is too slow.
08:11Bishop g5 gets the piece out.
08:14So after bishop g5, let's say black plays f6.
08:19It's a major idea, right?
08:21Okay, now, say, okay, he plays rook a d1.
08:26Why rook a d1?
08:28What if he plays f takes g5, then what?
08:32Bishop c4, now we will win the piece.
08:35See, this is what I was thinking.
08:36I want to get a rook over to there,
08:38but we also want to control the e file,
08:40so we'd like to get our king rook that's on f1 over to e1 instead of to d1
08:44because where's the other rook going?
08:46There's no open file.
08:47So we need to say, okay, where's the rook better placed?
08:50Then we do this in a certain order.
08:54So after we place bishop g5 and he blocks,
08:57instead of moving our bishop, right,
09:01alternatively, yes, we could have played bishop c4,
09:04but then what?
09:05He can still take, right?
09:07This is possibly a transposition after rook a d1, right?
09:11But let's say bishop c4, bishop g5, right?
09:18Sorry, we have bishop c4, rook a d1.
09:21This is basically a transposition, okay,
09:23which means we got to the same position but just in a different order, okay,
09:28like one or two moves later,
09:30but he got to the same main position that we're aiming for.
09:35So let's say after rook a d1, f takes g4, and bishop c4,
09:38you notice that we will be winning this piece back.
09:40So let's say even after bishop to e6, right,
09:43when we calculate it, okay, bishop e6 and queen e4,
09:48notice we've got three pieces on it.
09:50How many can he do?
09:51He can attack it twice.
09:53Now let's say he says, okay, fine,
09:55I'll just move the knight out of the way.
09:57Let's say knight c7, defending the bishop, right?
10:00Then, of course, we just win the queen.
10:02We can't play knight c7 because it's pinned, right?
10:10Winning the queen, right?
10:12So we can't play knight c7, okay?
10:20So queen e4, now we're hitting it three times.
10:22The other option here is we can play knight at c to e7,
10:26so we notice both the knight on d and also knight on c can go to e7,
10:32so we put the knight on c to e7.
10:34Then we play knight takes g5.
10:36Notice we're going to be – we take the pawn, fine.
10:40We're down the exchange, but we're finding another way
10:43to attack the defender, so removing the guard, right?
10:48We attack that.
10:49Meanwhile, this has a multi-purpose idea, knight takes g5,
10:53because it's attacking the bishop while also attacking the pawn on g7.
10:59So after bishop f7, which is basically one of the worst moves on the board,
11:04we would play queen takes h7 check, king f8,
11:08and then we have queen h8, and we have bishop g8.
11:11Then what do we do?
11:13Okay, we can simply just play knight e6 check, and we've won the queen.
11:21And we have – we can win the queen.
11:24We can also threaten to play queen takes g7.
11:27If you couldn't take the knight, I would say queen takes g7 check,
11:30then take the queen.
11:31So this wins the queen.
11:34So this is what we do, okay?
11:36We look at all the reasonable moves.
11:40Sorry, wins the queen.
11:49All right.
11:51We want to look at all reasonable moves.
11:54Now, the reason why we play bishop – the reason why bishop g5 was –
11:59after bishop b6 was a possibility,
12:01because we have one last piece to bring out, the bishop.
12:05Now, it is somewhat developed because we have scope with the bishop,
12:07looking from c1 all the way to h6.
12:11But bishop g5, it was a bishop g5, right?
12:15If he tries to defend it with f6, right,
12:19we have to look at the idea that now that this bishop from c4 all the way to g8 is
12:26open,
12:26because we open the door by playing f6.
12:29So after rook a d1, bishop e6, right?
12:35Let's say bishop e6 earlier, which would make most sense, right?
12:41It should be 6 instead.
12:43Rook a d1, bishop e6, because we're defending this twice, right?
12:49It's not defending at all.
12:51But then when we move c4, it's hit twice, right?
12:55Queen e4 now.
12:57Now, queen e4, we have to see queen e4 as a good move.
13:00Why?
13:00Because queen e4 is not only hitting this a second time with the follow-up of bishop c4,
13:06they're also threatening going on h7.
13:08So after f5 hitting that, what do we do?
13:10We play queen h4.
13:13Notice that also the queen was in pre.
13:15Also the queen, when it played f5, was hitting my queen.
13:19My bishop was hitting his queen, but we move our queen out of the way,
13:22and now we have the threat.
13:24So e4 doesn't work, of course, because bishop takes d8, okay?
13:29We have to see the value of the pieces.
13:32Obviously, the queen is worth more than the bishop, obviously.
13:36So that loses.
13:40So we want to be careful not to just quickly just like,
13:43oh, we're anxious to fork the pieces, but we have to see what's going on.
13:49In other words, we look at the last move, right?
13:55He says, okay, f5, right?
13:58I see, okay, he's hitting my queen.
14:00I say, okay, well, the bishop is still attacking the queen.
14:04We have to see that.
14:05So, for example, you play queen d7, queen e7, sorry, queen c7, queen d7, queen c7.
14:15Although both have their merits, queen c7, and we can play bishop takes.
14:20After bishop takes, bishop takes, and then rook takes.
14:24So this is why queen c7 doesn't work.
14:27This is, it says it's equal, but this position is favoring white.
14:32I mean, he has ideas like rook fd1, and we have other things coming in,
14:38even rook fe1, attacking the knight twice, attacking the pawn twice.
14:44So let's say you play z4.
14:46Now we have rook fd4 hitting the bishop.
14:49So after queen f7 now, we can just go back to d2 and double up on the d5, okay?
15:00The engine claims white's slightly better.
15:02That would be more like it.
15:03I wouldn't say equal because it looks like white has better chances.
15:08Now after queen d7, which was a mouse slip, c4 hitting the, now we hit the knight, knight on d
15:14to e7, right?
15:17Now we look at this idea of playing bishop takes f5 as possible, right?
15:22Bishop takes f5.
15:23That's one possibility.
15:24You see, because it's a discovered attack against the queen, and so after knight takes f5,
15:29we have to see that it's attacking our queen to queen e4, right?
15:33We're hitting the pawn, the knight, right?
15:36Still, there's attack on the queen, and we're hitting, so it's 1, 2, 3.
15:42We have three.
15:43He has four minor pieces.
15:45Notice the bishop on e6 is defending the knight there, so this would be blunder, okay?
15:52Everything is guarded now for black, so we can't do that.
15:56So after knight d7, what we have to do is continue where they're playing c5, hitting the bishop, plays bishop
16:02c7,
16:03and now we've got bishop c4.
16:06Bishop c4 is hitting the bishop on e6.
16:09Meanwhile, we have an uncovered attack against the queen, and so what do we do?
16:14We play knight d5 now to block it.
16:17Rook d2, we're going to double up.
16:18So you see?
16:20White's going to be clearly better in this position.
16:23So let's continue on.
16:26So when we look at the position, the way we analyze it, we look at all the reasonable-looking positions.
16:31How do we know it's reasonable?
16:32By looking at where the pieces are placed.
16:35What makes sense?
16:37Well, do we have any, what pieces need to come out?
16:40What pieces are unguarded?
16:43Is there, do I have a combination, like playing queen e4?
16:46Or, well, can I make a threat with queen e4?
16:49We see here, after knight b3, I've let the bishop come out, have scope to come out,
16:55and we're at the same time hitting the bishop on c5.
16:59So really, bishop b6, he plays queen b6 now.
17:04Now, best I would say is to play bishop b6.
17:07We don't want to trade the knight off for the bishop.
17:09We have a pawn on e5, which is good.
17:15So it's guarded by the rook and the knight, so it's fine for now.
17:18Bishop b6 objectively would be the best move, but that's not what was played.
17:24Queen b6.
17:27Notice here, we have some options.
17:30Now, if you look at where the bishops are pointing, they're pointing towards the king's side.
17:34So we look at that feature.
17:36What potential threads can white work up?
17:38Well, on the king's side, because that's where our pieces are pointing.
17:41Now, his pieces are pointing towards our king's side, too, but not where it affects anything,
17:46whereas the bishop immediately has a threat on h7.
17:50Notice that rook on f2 is guarded twice, whereas his pawn on h7 is on the guarded once.
17:55That's the difference.
17:56So after queen to b6, we take.
17:59So how do we see this move?
18:01Okay, we see that we have no defenders on this side.
18:04So what we need to do is double-check.
18:06If we play queen e4 right away, right, instead of bishop takes h7, which, of course, I guess the engine
18:13doesn't like, but he has g6.
18:19Okay, so bishop takes h7, king takes h7, queen e4 check, and king g8, we have queen takes d5.
18:30Now, after the combination, we have to assess, did our position improve, did it stabilize, or did it get worse?
18:36Meaning, it stabilizes, and did it stay the same?
18:40Or, I mean, did it get better, or did it stay the same?
18:44So after queen takes d5, black could apply bishop to e6 here.
18:51Okay.
18:54Of course, then, after that, we have queen takes d5 winning the piece.
18:58So this winning a piece.
19:00So bishop e6 is not a really good move.
19:04Right.
19:11And objectively, it's not the best move.
19:13When we play chess, we want to look at things objectively from a sort of outsider's point of view.
19:18Now, we do have bishop takes b3 removing the guard.
19:21And then we can either play queen takes b6, in which case a takes b6, and we can't take back.
19:28So what we do at this point is we play bishop to e3.
19:32Right.
19:34Say, okay, so what?
19:35We just trade, right?
19:36We trade, takes, takes, bishop moves down to c2.
19:40So when we look at it, white has saved the piece.
19:47So now it's actually equal.
19:50Black actually gets back the piece with the tactic of bishop takes b3.
19:55So two good moves in a row.
19:57But anyway, here we want to look objectively.
20:00Black wants to look objectively.
20:02Bishop f8 is just a passive move.
20:06When we have this type of position as defender, we want to give the king some space to move out
20:10of the way.
20:10I also want to move out our last piece.
20:15So bishop f8 was quite bad.
20:18I wouldn't say it's quite losing, but it's bad.
20:22Now knight g5 makes sense.
20:24You see?
20:24Why knight g5?
20:25Let me close and turn this off.
20:27Why knight g5 now?
20:28Well, knight g5, we're hitting the f7 pawn twice.
20:32And typically we move the knight over to that side to attack on h7 and also on f7.
20:37Right.
20:37That's typically where the knight goes.
20:40Knight g5, bishop e6 defending.
20:42So it's defending f7 pawn and hitting the queen.
20:45Queen e4 now.
20:46You notice what the threat is, right?
20:48The threat is on h7, right, from 8.
20:51So he blocks it with g6.
20:53Now, do you see the next move?
20:57Where do you think the queen is best placed?
21:00Don't look at the actual moves.
21:03But look at the board.
21:05What do you think is the best move?
21:08Okay, queen h4.
21:10Why?
21:10We're renewing the threat going on to h7.
21:13Bishop g7 now to give him...
21:15But notice he had to make all these extra moves just to move the king.
21:20So bishop g7 to give him square loft on f8.
21:24Then we play bishop e3.
21:26So here we don't have a forcing move yet.
21:29But we do need to bring on our last piece.
21:31And we'd like to play the bishop on c5.
21:34So this is actually a good...
21:35This is a good foresight move, bishop e3.
21:38Very easy to underestimate it because it just looks like you just bring a developing move.
21:42But we have to see what it does in the short run and long term.
21:46So after bishop e3, queen a6, we have knight to c5.
21:54Right?
21:55What does knight c5 do?
21:56Well, knight c5 is hitting the queen and also hitting the bishop twice.
22:02So after queen c4, saying okay.
22:06It's also hitting the queen.
22:08Queen e7 check.
22:11King goes to f8.
22:13Then we play knight at c to e6.
22:15Notice our knight on g5 is on this best square.
22:18So we want to keep it there.
22:19But the knight on c5 will eventually be attacked if he plays b6 and stuff like that.
22:25So knight takes bishop.
22:28Right?
22:28F takes.
22:30And then we have queen takes g6.
22:32Notice that when he took back, right?
22:36With the f pawn, the g pawn is no longer guarded.
22:40But if we look at options, right?
22:43Let's say we're analyzing this position.
22:45There's two main options we look at.
22:46Well, the main idea for analyzing a position is checks and captures.
22:51While there are captures, rook and the pawn checks, well, we also can capture the rook, give check, but I
22:58would take back.
22:59That doesn't make sense.
23:01So those are really the only options.
23:03Now, after rook takes as an alternate, right?
23:07The problem is now you have to give up the material after knight takes.
23:10Queen takes, right?
23:13And then bishop c5 check.
23:15You're going to run out of moves.
23:17And also, you're going to lose the bishop.
23:19So after knight to e7 now, which is your only move, you've got rook ad1.
23:24Here, we're going to shut down that d file.
23:29We could probably double up with like rook d2, rook fd1.
23:32And you really can't stop it.
23:34So rook ad1 is winning at this point.
23:38All we're doing is we're bringing another piece into play.
23:41So after f takes e, because we see, okay, we see rook ad1, black's losing.
23:47Why?
23:47Because we can't get a rook on d8.
23:49Rook on e8 would be passive.
23:51The knight is pinned.
23:52The bishop, what is it going to do?
23:54Go to f6.
23:56h6, you're just going to lose the piece.
23:59And the queen needs to stay on e6.
24:01So he's kind of tied down.
24:03So we know that f takes e doesn't, sorry, rook takes e6 doesn't work.
24:08Okay, notice we took, we played, we took the knight for the bishop, which is equal exchange,
24:13but then he gave up the exchange for the knight for the rook.
24:16So that's, that's going to lose.
24:19So f takes e is the only, only option.
24:22Then I get queen takes g6.
24:25Notice here, I didn't give, white didn't give up any material.
24:28Sorry, let me turn that, I only have this on for, I showed some ideas, I showed some
24:34analysis, I just double check.
24:36So queen takes g6.
24:37Now, because that, the defending pawn of the pawn on g6 was diverted, now I can take it.
24:43And after knight to d8, what do we have?
24:46We have knight e7 check.
24:47Black, okay, so you say, well, why is knight e7 check winning?
24:51Why did, so here black resigned, okay.
24:56Black resigns, or gives up, resigns, gives up.
25:01And so that goes one to O.
25:03That means, one to O means white wins, zero to one means black wins, half to half means
25:09it's a draw.
25:11Okay, so black, oops, I don't want to do it that way, sir.
25:19Sorry.
25:20Black resigns.
25:22Now, why?
25:23Well, first we have a check, okay.
25:26So we only have two options here.
25:28We have king g8 and we have king e7.
25:33Now, if we look at it, king g8, what do we have?
25:39We can first of all play knight f6, check, and win the rook.
25:43For winning of the rook, okay.
25:46The other option we can do is we can play king e7.
25:50Now, king e7, I believe you just take.
25:52Or, instead of taking right away, we can throw in this move says, okay, let's cut off the
25:59king first.
26:02Right?
26:02We don't want it to take and then him being able to skip on d7.
26:06We cut it off.
26:07Okay, where's the bishop going?
26:09Nowhere.
26:10Okay, he actually technically can go to f8.
26:12It's true.
26:14But if we look at it, right, all his pieces are going to the back rank passive.
26:18Then what do we do?
26:20Well, it looks like we have mate next move, do we not?
26:22Yes.
26:24So, let's look at this before we finish because I have to attend to something in a few minutes.
26:30And I'll do a part two.
26:31Don't worry, guys.
26:32I'll have a part two for this video.
26:34So, after knight e7, the question is, why did he resign?
26:37Well, the engine says made in like 15 moves.
26:42Now, so we have king e7, king g8.
26:44It's only two moves.
26:45You can't take the knight, can't block it.
26:47So, there's only two moves that are possible, king e7 and king g8.
26:50Well, king g8.
26:53Oh, sorry.
26:54King e7.
26:57Oh, yeah.
26:58I guess I could play queen gxg7.
27:01Oh, rook fd1.
27:02Maybe that's even better in a way.
27:05Both rooks is possible.
27:08And then what do we have?
27:10We're threatening queen gxg7 for mate.
27:12Right?
27:16Rook g8, I guess.
27:18Mission g5 check.
27:20Notice he can't go on the d file anywhere.
27:23King f8.
27:24Sorry.
27:25Can't play king f8.
27:26So, that's the check because the check is from g5, the e7 diagonal.
27:32So, the only thing that can stop is blocking it.
27:35And then, of course, we can just take from mate.
27:38Okay.
27:38So, king e7 doesn't work.
27:43I guess rook ad1 also is something.
27:46Oh, what's the difference, rook ad1?
27:51Yeah, rook ad1, we do the same thing with g8.
27:54Still, it's the same idea.
27:58It's the same thing with check.
28:01Right?
28:02Blocks and it's mate.
28:03It's the same kind of thing, right?
28:07So, let's say rook fd1.
28:11Rook fd1 just means he doesn't win the pawn on a2.
28:15But, I like to king come out, I guess.
28:18Has some pluses.
28:20The other option, so after king e7, the other option for white
28:24is it can play queen takes g7.
28:29That's one idea.
28:30So, what you do is you look at both options.
28:31Do we want to take with the queen or do we cut them off with one of the rooks?
28:36Okay.
28:36Then, we subdivide out as an analysis tree.
28:39So, queen takes g7 check.
28:42We have king d6 and rook fd1 check.
28:46Or rook ad1, but rook fd1 is what they're suggesting.
28:49Then, what do we do?
28:50We have king c6, right?
28:53But, then we have queen d7.
28:55We have to see where the queen's going to go next and then where it's cut off.
29:00Notice with the bishop on e3, it did cover that diagonal, but also had the, of course,
29:05the purpose was to go to c5.
29:09So, there isn't a ton of moves here.
29:11King g8, how would we finish off?
29:14Well, as I said, knight f6 check.
29:17King 8, well, if we play king f8, then we just take the rook with the queen.
29:23Actually, not even with the knight with the queen because it's mate.
29:27If he goes to h8 instead, then, of course, we have mate.
29:33So, we have to see what was the point behind that h7 check.
29:38It's not check to give just for the sake of giving a check, but because it has a long,
29:43has like a finality to it in terms of finishing off the game.
29:49So, basically, when you look at the, when you analyze the position,
29:52you look at what are the possible moves, right, and what are the most,
29:56and what is the best move of all the possible moves.
29:59How do you know that?
30:00By what's most reasonable.
30:01What makes the most sense?
30:03So, you analyze king e7, and you analyze king g8.
30:13Oh, yeah, and king g8, yeah.
30:14Yeah, king g8, and, of course, as I said, knight f6 check.
30:20And king h8, I already showed you, that leads to queen over on mate.
30:24Notice that's why the knight is on f6 in the first place.
30:27But yes, also has a dual idea of taking the, supporting the queen when it takes on,
30:31on the rook on e8.
30:33Notice with the knight on d8, it's disconnected the rook,
30:36so the other rook cannot defend.
30:39Remember, also with king f8, of course, where you would take the rook.
30:43So, you see that, right?
30:44So, I'm going to conclude part one here with talking about some key positions
30:49and some things to remember from the game.
30:52Remember that black, white's playing more positionally.
30:54He just wants to play on the queen side first.
30:56Bring out knight to support, prevent e5.
30:59Bring out the knight out as normal, e6, e3.
31:02Remember I told you it is flexible because we can play e3, then c4,
31:06instead of immediate c4.
31:09Remember, but here, after c5, you played c3.
31:12This is a c3 goalie.
31:13Remember I told you that?
31:14Remember I told you bring out your bishop because we're going to castle on the king side,
31:18remember?
31:19And bring out the knight to support the pawn on e4.
31:21Remember I told you that?
31:22Also, castle here.
31:24Want to get our king out of the center?
31:25I told you that.
31:26Queen e2.
31:27Remember this move?
31:28Queen e2 or rook e1?
31:30I think those are two main ideas here.
31:32Or even dxc5, actually.
31:36Dxc5 is also possible, according to the engine.
31:40Dxc5 is also another possibility.
31:43But queen e2 supports e4.
31:46Personally, I think I would prefer to play rook e1 instead of queen e2,
31:50but queen e2 has a point.
31:54Anyway, the advantage of playing rook e1 over queen e2 is that if he ever played c4,
31:59we could play bishop e2.
32:01However, after dxc5, which I think is like the main move these days,
32:06is there's no idea of playing c4 anymore.
32:09See, so bishop takes c5, knight b3.
32:14Or even b4, which is the phoenix colisecator, which I won't,
32:19I mean the phoenix Koltanowski, right?
32:22Or the c3 phoenix, however you want to put it, right?
32:26But there's this b4, b5 idea, knight b3.
32:30We're going to get e4 in, get the knight to d4, and this complicated play.
32:34But txc5 is pretty interesting.
32:39Long-term planning.
32:40So anyway, plays queen e2, the idea was to support e4.
32:44As the older approach has some merits.
32:47Rook e1, remember we took the pawn.
32:49We don't want an isolated pawn because he's threatening to take.
32:51And then if we ever play e4, we have the isolated pawn on d4, remember?
32:55So he plays bishop takes c5, d takes c, bishop takes c, e4, e5.
33:00Then we exchange there because we don't want this idea of him forking on e4.
33:06Also with the queen on e2, by the way, he doesn't have this idea of e4
33:09because it's guarded three times.
33:12Remember knight b3, getting the bishop out.
33:15And then when we see a position, remember, when we see an idea where there's nothing
33:21defended on the king's side, what we should do is immediately look at is it possible
33:25to sacrifice on f7?
33:27Now the engine's saying knight g5 and bishop c4 and all this other stuff,
33:31but that's something you look at.
33:35You want to look at your major moves.
33:36Do you want to play knight g5 to hit it twice?
33:39Do you want to play bishop c4, hitting the undefended piece?
33:44Or do you want to sack the bishop?
33:45You've got to calculate each one, as I was saying.
33:48In this case, he sacked, took, and checked.
33:51Notice at the end we have a fork, so we won a pawn,
33:54but we got our pieces going forward, which is the point.
33:57So after he went back, you took, and he played you.
34:01Remember, it's passive.
34:02You don't want to be playing the bishop back on f8.
34:04It's already on a good square.
34:06We want to bring out our last piece.
34:07So that's what happened when he played passively.
34:10It's a major lesson not to play passively.
34:12So white just continued to bring another piece in.
34:15After he attacked it, he just moved over to his main threat,
34:18and then he blocked.
34:19Remember, the important thing now is to bring our other queen
34:22back into position.
34:23So one was from the e4 to h7 diagonal.
34:27Now we have h4 from the whole h file, so h4 to h7.
34:31So after bishop g7, notice white continued on to play bishop e3,
34:37sort of in between waiting moves.
34:39We're hitting the queen.
34:41Notice with the knight on b3, he's not winning the pawn on b2
34:45because it's blocked by the knight.
34:47Also, bishop takes b3 doesn't work because we're attacking the queen
34:50and developing the piece.
34:52Now that we've clarified where's the best square,
34:55we notice that e3 is the only good square, so queen moves.
34:59And now we can support the knight.
35:02Well, we can support the knight now because it's defended by the bishop,
35:06but ideally when we think about what's the best square,
35:09we want to think how can we get it there without it being taken.
35:13So we think two moves in advance.
35:15Like I want to play bishop e3, developing move,
35:17but then for the purpose of hitting the queen,
35:20but longer purposes, having an outpost on c5.
35:23Now we see we have an attack on e6 twice.
35:26So we just moved out the queen, remember, he gave the check,
35:29he went over, and then we took.
35:31Notice with the pawn, notice we had to calculate.
35:35Before we took, we have to calculate.
35:37Is this the best move?
35:38Why?
35:39Because we have to see, okay, if he takes with the pawn,
35:42f pawn, or the rook, what happens?
35:45So we say, okay, in this case, he takes with f.
35:48What is the result after the combination?
35:51Are we better, are we the same, or are we worse?
35:55Okay, we need to be at least the same or better
35:57for the combination to work.
35:59So queen takes g6, 98, and knight takes h7.
36:02Notice after we took the pawn back,
36:04who's no longer guarded, we played this last move.
36:06How do we know we should play this last move?
36:09Because we have to bring our last attacking piece into play.
36:15Now, so, we have to also see that this bishop wants this knight.
36:22We have to see that if this king gets diverted away
36:25from the protection of the bishop, it's going to be lost.
36:27And after that, of course, you see black resigns,
36:30but we want to see why does this win.
36:32Because no matter where he goes, g8 or e7,
36:37we see that either way, right?
36:40Remember I said e7?
36:41I can, we can just cut him off with rook ad1 or rook fd1 even.
36:51And he's cut off, we're threatening to take.
36:54Rook g8's not going to work.
36:55Remember I showed you.
36:56Because now he can't defend the bishop on going to g5.
37:01And also he cannot escape on the d file, right?
37:04So a few blocks, we just take it's going to be made
37:06because it's defended by the knight and the queen.
37:09Right?
37:11And of course, we also saw that also,
37:13let's say he plays king g8 instead.
37:16Instead, instead of king e7,
37:19so king g8 or king g7,
37:21so he chose king g8.
37:23He has, I have knight f6.
37:27Instead, notice bishop can't take
37:28because it's pinned by the queen against the king.
37:31And then after king f8,
37:33we can take the rook for mate.
37:36So he either goes to f8,
37:37which is loses because he'll lose the rook
37:39and it'll be mate.
37:40Or if he plays,
37:43or if he plays h8,
37:45it was a pawn to h8,
37:47which we originally were intending
37:49to put it on h7.
37:52So that will conclude for today.
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