Beat Good Players with the London | Games to Know by Heart - IM Eric Rosen

[Music] welcome to games you should know by hearts I'm Eric Grandmaster in residence for the week I mean I am but I have the GM doesn't struggle today we're gonna look at a variety of games in the same opening and it's one of my favorite openings very popular at both beginner level and higher levels it's a London opening I know one one person here it plays the London does anyone else play the London as white which is d4 usually d4 and Bishop f4 anyone maybe sometimes okay has anyone played against the London is black I'm sure if you've been playing chess for some time you played London it's or played against London at some point now one thing about the London it has kind of a solid but sort of boring reputation where a lot of a lot of players just don't like going into those sort of positions as whites it might be just too boring and they they go for some efore opening which is more aggressive with these games that I prepared I'm gonna try and change the reputation of a London try and show all of the exciting possibilities so many exciting tracks and then hopefully after this lecture you'll at least be inspired to try out the London opening at some point so the first game I want to start with is actually a game that I played on online a few weeks ago and I usually don't do this I was actually debating whether or not to show this game this was a bollock game on me chess bullet chess is one minute chess I'm showing this game because I used pretty much all of my opening preparation it was maybe I don't look like 12 13 years of opening preparation and I won in under 15 months another thing special about this game is I was playing against a very strong Grandmaster I'm not a hundred percent sure it was a GN who I'm thinking about or Who I am I was told but I'm pretty sure it was against Bob you know Carl and he was playing under I think someone else's account and it was anonymous accounts I'm not going to share that count name but I know that it was I'm pretty sure was Fabiano because after I I played like all these bullet games I got this the snapchats message on my phone from Viviano and there's a picture of of him and his friend is playing me online and I will say I lost about 90 to 95 percent of the games this was one of the few games I won and I only won this game because of some dirty opening trick so we're gonna go through with the game d4 Knight of 6 and in this position I played Bishop f4 I believe II 6 III and for any any beginners London opening is incredibly easy to play or at least to learn from the very GetGo if I'm teaching London to maybe some some newer players usually a light show is you just want to put your pieces like so put your pawn on c3 Knight on g2 and like ghost f3 Bishop goes to d3 at Castle and if you do this it's hard to go wrong and you can do this against most setups at black juices and then it's a very difficult opening to crack even for stronger players in this game I'm going to show some more kind of high low higher level stuff against black specific setup so I started with he started with c5 I played Knight f3 and then he played b6 and b6 is a very common move especially among a lot of stronger players just aiming to be solid looking to play something like Bishop e7 control the long diagonal maybe play some move like Knight to Knight to c6 it has a solid reputation but there's some tricks to be aware of from the black perspective and in this position I play the very tricky move pawn c4 and the idea behind this move is I want to play d5 and I want just want to gain space in the center and if I achieve d5 then it sort of transforms into what we call the benoni opening which is usually Pleasant edge for white just having more space so what was played here as black Bishop e7 was played which looks like it prevents d5 this black is now controlling d5 three times pawn bishop Knights however I've studied this position before and there's a very cool trick that white can use in this position I can play d5 anyway and it's a pawn sacrifice by stacking upon but getting a lot of initiative as you'll see so back when I had clicked upon and in this position I play Knight c3 and very important theme in this game is I didn't really care about material I cared about accelerating development and then very quickly attacking black so we're gonna go forward pawn takes e4 black is currently up to pawns I could take back on c4 it if I want went back one plum but there's a more powerful move here started with Knight to d5 and in this position black is already having some threats to deal with the obvious threat is night c7 and there's not too many ways to defend against the threat and in this position I think Fabiana played maybe a careless move I mean it was bullet so you're not gonna play the most accurate moves let me show the best move here and let me show coming like cool preparation because it's very easy for blacks position to completely collapse even if the best move is played so best move is night a6 just defending c7 and then white can very happily capture on c4 and now in this position there's a really attractive move for black which I'll just show which is d5 and it looks like black is basically solving all the problems expanding the center attacking the bishop d6 is no longer weak in this position what it has a really cool move which I'll leave it up to you guys to find white to move and basically find the winning move if white doesn't play this move it's probably worse for lights so very important moments sorry yeah Queen a4 it's a beautiful move we ignore the fact that the bishops attacked and we just go for a counter play and in this case queen a4 causes some really serious threats against the king next he signs of threat 96 as a threat black has no time to capture NC 4 so there's actually a game played in this position I believe between Azaria and Knight itch and Knight each played 97 and in this position white didn't follow up correctly White has another very strong move here I think white played 95 if I'm not mistaken Osorio is white 95 was played white actually went on to lose the game so I want to show the strongest move in this position from whites there is uh there's a really beautiful sort of combination which starts with a pretty incredible move Jocelyn Queen side again ignoring the fact the ship is attacked on c4 and bringing the rook to the D file and what's amazing is after or if black tries to capture the Bishop White's gonna go ahead and capture on d7 and it's incredible because white sacrifice is a c4 Bishop sacrifices the rook on g7 but after Queen take d7 and then 95 in box position was just completely collapsing the Queen would have to move off of this diagonal and then there's going to be some very nasty discover checks against the King on Yeats so I'm actually not going to go forward here because there's a bunch of options if anyone wants to analyze this later do so in your own time but White's just completely crushing here I think's doctor says like plus 6 plus 7 so let's go back I will say I've had this position in one game and it was some like casual game or like online blitz game but I'm showing the Fabiano game or the supposed father game because our finish was pretty cool as well so instead of 96 he played not such such a good move t6 I didn't realize it I could still play Queen a4 here Queenie a4 is still a good move I went ahead I took the pawn first on g6 then he plays my day six defending c7 I went ahead I took on c4 and then he played 94 so trying to get some some attack at least against the bishop trying to remove the Bishop from d6 however because I was familiar with the other line which I just showed I knew that Queen a4 is just such a thematic idea and I played it without too much thought in this position because he's discovered attacks are just so so menacing against the king and after Queen d7 there is a completely crushing move for whites white to move what's the easiest move to play 97 check 97 Knight takes you 795 yeah 95 very direct attacking the Queen attacking f7 White's basically using all the pieces and even yeah even the Queen on a4 thanks for playing that and that's that's some one of the issues for lacking an opening like this is if white gets all the pieces into play before black can get the King safe it can be very very dangerous so this position is just I'd lost I just want to show you the finish the finish was pretty beautiful black plague rook e8 and I could go ahead and take the Queen and probably end up winning however white to move force made in two moves aha Bishop f7 and the final mate was pretty nice double check needs a queen queen and the knight both attacking the king the king has nowhere to go okay so that was kind of a fuel good game didn't really count for anything but it's cool - supposedly play like the top five player in the world and win like this it's maybe worth losing the other 95% of the games we're gonna move on I want to go to actually a very classic game between God account Sookie Sam Jenkins I'm sure most people here have heard of at least one of these players hopefully both Golikov Sookie is probably the most well known player at the top level for consistently playing the London it's been his main weapon of choice before it was cool sort of a hipster in some regard I actually played Tomsky in some blitz tournament many years ago he crushed me with the London and he's found some really interesting and innovative ideas so this is one of the cooler games that he played which features some really nice opening preparation and this is actually one of the games which inspired me to play the London so sometimes all it takes is one cool game to inspire someone to play an opening so like to share that with you guys we're gonna go forward and I want you guys to know this in this game chomsky does a complete exact setup which I mentioned earlier which I teach most beginners he just puts his pieces on kind of the the very typical London squares so in light of three now I should mention this is the first kind of decision moment for whites where black does challenge this Bishop on f4 and White has a few choices here white could take on d6 what could ignore the threat like a play Bishop g3 if you're a London player and you're getting in this situation a lot the the most principled move is to play Bishop g3 and that's what cops do us you don't want to concede the trade of bishops on g6 because that would help activate the black queen and when you play Bishop g3 you make it so that if black takes on g3 you're very happy to open H file and it's actually a mistake for luck I've had a lot of a lot of blitz games which have gone down this path after black castles white plays Bishop d3 and white actually gets some very quick attack because the rook on the open H file and the bishop they coordinate very well and I've actually had games where black maybe plays h6 trying to defend and then I can continue with a move like ninety five ideas of g4 g5 as very fun for for whites and in these situations light won't usually Castle kingside because you want the rook to stay on each file anyway let's go back because and in this game Shanklin did not take on g3 he played the main line which is castling comps key completes development Bishop d3 and this is one of the most common lines in the London I'm sure hundreds if not thousands of games have reached this exact position and there's a lot of theory surrounding it very popular at the top levels and in this position Shanklin has played a very natural intuitive move he started with Queen e7 and it's very important to understand the purpose behind Queen e7 black wants to play e5 here gain space so if y it ignores the threat and just castles and black plays e5 black should be very happy so if we go back after Queen e7 white house it really important to move here to stop e5 and that move is very simply 95 and this is a very common London move where you put you're not an e5 you have ideas of maybe playing f4 or maybe even the other knights after me it's one of these moves which can allow your in your position to improve further so in this position 95 was played Shanklin what I had he played 97 and now we're actually walking into kind of a very interesting tactical line let me put listen training mode what's about to happen is the next MMA b-78 moves are completely forcing and what's going to happen is at the very end of kind of the combination whites gonna be practically winning I will note it's not completely forcing there there are some ways for black to to not lose but I'm just gonna go ahead and just play through the natural moves first might take g7 this should take t7 very natural bishop take g6 queen take you six again very natural pawn dixie 520 takes e5 and we reach this position it just seems like things have kind of looked liquidated time simplified seems like kind of a very balanced equal position equal material not too many weaknesses for both sides before I go any further because anyone know this position anyone's seen this position before you see you okay so most experienced London London players should have at least seen this before and this is a really really famous position because white has a completely unexpected combination starting with the next move that's a good question I don't think so I think there is maybe one person before this but I think after this game there is some like blog blog article and then like everyone realized like the track so anyone who hasn't seen this before you want to try and find the combination white to move I'm realizing this is actually pretty tough if you've never seen this before it could take a while on so Alex do you want to say the move h7 and I'm sure if you've maybe studied like tactics you've seen what we call the Greek gift sacrifice where you stack on h7 and you get some attacking against the King it seems like in this position Bishop take h7 shouldn't work but it does work for a very cool reason so let's go forward can you take h7 Queen age 5 check King g8 and incredibly important move here 94 and it's incredible but the Queen on H 5 pins upon meanwhile the night attacks the Queen and I can't be taken and why is threatening both the Queen and Knight g5 so White's wasting no time every moves a threat black screen has to move and after Knight g5 white is actually very close to me so it's really really difficult for black to the friend in this position and actually white pretty much already has it decisively managed now we're gonna go forward the game's not over but if you play the London this is such a devious trap and it's the type of thing that even strong players don't know about like this game sands England over 2600 just walked into it's not every day a strong GM walks into a trap like this so we're gonna go forward Queen and see 495 and it still took work for a white to convert blocks not getting mated yet because rip d8 however white is happy to win that side and bond and after this white plays Queen age 5 team g8 now let me explain because there's some interesting kind of nuanced ideas without to best convert this position and I do want to explain the line that white would like to play is Queen h7 King f8 Queen h8 this is well forcing here here and then king b6 and it looks good for whites like you've won the g7 pawn you got the King to d6 but the King's kind of escaping and things might become unclear because black does have the extra bishop so Kamsky uh of course realize this and played a really really important move in this position take rook t1 he's in no rush to play Queen h7 Swedish 7 can basically be played any time he wants first she's preparing his attack by putting the rook on d1 so if the King ever comes to d6 Brook will be on the best where so we're gonna see how the game continues black lady five trying to do something I guess control more center and then white plate Queen f7 key mutates and now another nice move from lights Pawnee four and you know this white wants to to try and open the D file if the D file opens and d6 will be cut off and the King won't have in escape routes oh we should also notice the point can't take on e4 cuz there's a pin so the pawn is pinned to the Queen from behind and why it's already like very close to winning here and if you like take time and you look in this position for black it's really hard to find a move here for black black is pretty restricted so what happened in the game Shanklin tried to sacrifice back at piece and get counter play but it didn't work out and really there is no no other like useful thing he could have done so we'll just see what happened he played ninety seven giving away in the night which calms he gladly took and then Shanklin had the initiative for maybe like two to three moves but it didn't last so he played the ship e5 threatening means it's slightly scary because black bear White's King is stuck in the center why can't castle but calm ski very calmly plays rook d2 Shanklin takes on a two and I really like the handling from white in this position because it like all the moves are just so calm like he's not scared of Queen B one Czech happy to allow Queen B one check he simply moves back to f7 so he realizes if he can do the same thing Queen Queen h5 check we need seven check and if the king ever comes to d6 there's going to be a much stronger follow up so Queen a1 was played rook t1 Queen take b2 again threatening mate but now white is just in time to say grab the initiative before black inmate so the rest of the game just a series of checks Queen h5 seven queen eight shades queen take g7 and now we see the importance of that rook t1 move now the rook is in prime position rook takes d5 King keeps running and then Queen f6 was the last move and then black resigns really no hope here like all of whites pieces are coming into action if we want to play on a few more moves I can just show you what would happen after Queen f6 black would drop back white brings a knight in and then okay this position is just completely over like king b6 you could you could take the rook with discovery check you can play Knight d4 when the bishop lots of ways to convert for whites so this is a this very beautiful opening preparation it's not every day you can like get a strong opponent into preparation and then just win kind of right from the opening but that's what happens sometimes when you play con ski you'd be careful I have a bunch of games to look at I want to start with kind of a series of three games which all feature the same trap I'm not gonna show all three but I'll just show you one and then you'll kind of get the sense by making a point there are three games here because they were all played by the same player in same exact trap against pretty strong players anyone know Ashwin Jai Ram from the Webster team still lives in st. Louis so we have kind of an inside joke on the Webster team that there's an opening trap names at the Ashwin trap because he's had this in three like serious games two of which were the same exact tournament two which happened at spice Club against against offense so I want to make you guys aware of this trap it used to be a secret now it's I think it should be more public especially after this video and the I guess we'll start with the Josh polis game this is this was the shortest game and Osman played the London if anyone knows Josh pretty strong player FM has one GM norm but unfortunately for Josh he didn't understand or didn't know the opening in this game and got worse very quickly so we're gonna go forward London if you know this it's the same opening as as a Carolina game and earlier I showed c-4 in this game it turns out there's another trap for whites which starts with Knight bTW - and I think before we called it the ostrich trap we just called it the Knight d2 trap before Ashwin put his name on it 92 very tricky move order and the idea is to actually punish Bishop b7 and Bishop e7 is a move that most players will play without even thinking just very natural fee and color of the bishop that's why black played b6 earlier however after Bishop e7 is there's some really nice tactical and position ideas for whites all starts with Knight to c4 and this is not something you see every day in a London than like coming to c4 so early in this position it's justified because d6 is actually a pretty big weakness simply threatening 96 I shouldn't note I had one game listen random player they played d6 doesn't work at all because a plum take C 5 and then d6 is attacked three times 96 is coming so most players in this position will realize d6 is weak and they'll play d5 oh four times including the fun right I forgot about the fun yes so even if like the pawn gets captured it's still three times its that's enough I'm not the best at counting sometimes anyway ninety five and turns out once this position is reached Black has already fallen into the trap so I want to ask you guys in this position what is whites threats what does white want to play next move this should be five anyone agree hope some people agree there should be 5 check that's 1 threats and it's kind of an interesting phenomenon but most people will identify one threat here and then miss another threat turns out in this position white has two threats Knight g5 and even strong players who have reached this position it's it's funny but though they'll see Bishop b5 or they'll see Knight g5 but they don't acknowledge both it's very common a common type of process in chess always look for your pawns threat in this case black has to look for both threats unfortunately for black it's hard to stop with Bishop e5 and Knight g5 what happened in in this game Josh played c4 completely missing that g5 and the rest of the game I mean the box position collapses f7 can't be defended I'm just gonna play through without too much commentary like just one upon the knight doesn't get trapped came to d6 it was pretty brutal and this game has to maybe be rated like pg-13 anyway so that was one game Austrian played real quick we'll look at some other games same tournament this was spice Cup last year last year and maybe two years ago I forget 2016 ok last year played against Joel ba Noah who I think is an IM now same trap 92 night see for 95 in this game Joel played a decent try you play night bd7 unfortunate this move runs into both Bishop e5 and then the eventual Knight g5 so if we look at what Osman does Bishop e5 a6 and now actually very important move here from lights you don't want to move the bishop but you you just play Knight g5 and you you're gonna win you're gonna win f7 and what happened the game after a a p5 take Queen CA to take it looks like the knight should get trapped in the corner but the night usually manages to escape and then white will just be up to exchange white won the rook gave away the bishop another another pretty much decisive advantage bye-bye move 10 I know the full playthrough I don't know if Ashwin's conversion was best here but you'll notice he he just stayed up material and okay another sort of brutal position for black rook h3 nice move okay maybe some some technical challenges for whites but always held onto the extra exchange and that was enough in the end okay we won't go any further one more game from ashwin this game was a pro chesley game very quick hope you guys aren't sick of this by now but in this game a six was played again missing Knight g5 we're not going to go any further this was a an IM playing this game kesef is this wanna da so I'm showing this to you guys because this is a great way to beat maybe some FM's or IMS maybe even GM's who aren't well informed in the opening especially this line because I will say if we go back like this this whole setup with b6 is very common among stronger players but for some reason stronger players don't really know the exact traps in the position or at least based on this game say they don't know okay so we're gonna move on from Ashwin and look at another character in the chess world I'm actually going to show another one of my games I usually try and avoid showing my games but this one was pretty notable I played this over the summer back in was it late July in Denmark I did like this whole Europe trip this is the last remnant of my trip and I had the the great honour of playing a seaman Agda Steen I know if I'm saying that correctly but has anyone heard of him anyone yeah former coach of Magnus Carlsen I think he has a brother Espen who's Carlson's manager seaman is a really interesting guy because he I mean he's very strong Grandmaster over 2600 feet a and he also has played like professional soccer for Norway he was also in chess the musical and I didn't realize this before I played him but he's actually featured in a music video maybe I'll show you guys after after this lecture I won't show it now but like a day or two after I played him there's a music video and he's just singing about Magnus Carlsen and it's a really well produced video but it's a really annoying song yeah so so anyway it was cool together chance to play him it was even cooler to beat him and a nice game in the London so I'll show you it was sort of a maybe somewhat atypical line but I think it featured some really nice kind of creative ideas so we'll jump into it I was white another London he played nine of six and then c5 and I think I maybe showed I showed some similar lines in a different lecture where I recommended that like that black plays in early c5 an attempt to play Queen b6 and this is one of the main drawbacks of the London let's say say Knight f3 take take Queen b6 where black is targeting the b2 pond and this is sometimes like the worst I don't want to say nightmare but kind of the most unpleasant thing a london player can can encounter because it's a one-week point in whites position because the bishop on f4 developed so early and as wait you don't usually want to play kind of a consent conceding move to the Fen b2 are usually you don't want to play b3 you don't really want to play Queen c1 so I want to show like the one of the best ways to meet Queen b6 and the best way to meet this move is with aggression to go for counter play and actually in many cases to sacrifice a pawn so there's a very thematic move here from from whites which I'll just go ahead and show its Knight to c3 and the idea is that if Queen take b2 white happily gives away the pawn queen take b2 is actually a blunder white to move in this position what's the point any idea oh you wanted to play b3 earlier you said b3 oh yeah yeah b3 earlier it's completely fine but Knight c3 is better because it's um it's developing and it makes it bad for Locke to take on b2 so there's a really cool move here from lights 95 very nice and what you're doing I guess twofold first of all you're threatening xe7 secondly you're in some way kind of restricting the Queen from coming back there's even some lines where the Queen could get trapped on meet you so there's a there's a line here I'll show it pretty quickly but if 96 defending c7 the best line for white is rook b1 you give away the a pawn I'm stalling someone this earlier but when you give away pawns you open files and in this case you put the rook back on a1 Queen goes back to b2 and there's a few winning loose here for whites maybe the simplest is just to take on a6 and then play Knight c7 then when the rook I think the stockfish move is just to play Bishop d3 and then idea is just to castle Queen e2 rook F 1 and this Queen has a very hard time escaping from from White's territory so this is something that black usually just avoids so if you play Knight c3 it's usually unlikely that though they'll take on B - if they see might be 5 so the next few moves were really interesting because mo black did he was trying to to make it so he could take on me - he played the move Bishop d7 here controlling the b v square and it looks like that he wants to take on b2 next which he does because I'm like I wouldn't be able to play Knight b5 so I came up with another move here which kind of defends upon but with tactics well I allow block to take the pawn but if he takes the pawn it's bathroom so move I play is 95 and this feature is a slightly different but similar idea where if he takes the pawn it's still a mistake anyone want to guess and move here for whites I heard in 97 there's a stronger move I mean I'll go ahead and show it still might be fine and I will note that I was out of my preparation pretty early in this game I was probably out of preparation around Knight c3 but I still knew like a lot of like thematic ideas that that kind of helped me figure out the tactics so when I played 95 I actually calculated kind of a long and kind of a nice-looking line which I'll go ahead and show 95 he would probably take on b5 and then I play truck me one I win back the piece however it's still a little bit complicated he has Queen c3 check but then I played Bishop d2 making sure it's Queens still attacked I can still take on d5 if he takes on d4 I take on b5 with check and I did give away I give away the the b-pawn and the D pawn so I'm down to pawns but I get kind of an overwhelming attack and what would happen here is probably something like 97 I would trade and then take on b7 and earlier when I played 95 I calculated to this position and actually I think I saw one move further that if he plays King c8 there's very a nice looking tactical idea of rook c7 where the King can't it can't move to dark square or can't move to c7 because Bishop a5 and I would win the Queen so this whole line is just bad for black again so there's an interesting use of tactics too instead of like going for passive defense I go for a lot more aggressive play with 95 ok so 95 I think he took awhile here like he was probably calculating Queen take b2 but probably realized like all the dangers so he played another move attempting to take on V 2 he played a 6 now completely stopping Knight b5 and clearly wanting to take on b2 but as we'll see kind of the theme was I don't defend me too I just make it so that so that if he takes it it's just a bad move so I play Queen d2 oh no I didn't like Queens you two I play Queen f3 even more aggressive and if he does take on b2 in this case I don't have night b5 but my Knights defended which is really important because then I can just move my rook and I have ripped you one here and then if he grabs c2 I grab b7 I think this is a very nice looking position for white active rook his queen that looks scary but it's really not doing too much so he didn't take on b2 yet again he played a 6 normal move I Castle we're gonna go forward for a few moves might see 6 I took on c6 he took and then I play g4 g 4 it's actually a very natural attacking move especially because I'm Castle queenside I would like to expand on the Kings side now I have ideas of g5 try and kick his night he went ahead he played Queen a5 his idea he wants to play 94 distract my knight from defending a2 and then try and target a2 so if you listen to any Ben Feingold lectures what move ya always play King b1 probably the best move there defending a to reinforcing a 2 so if the nice deflected it's not a big problem he went ahead he played b5 I played Bishop t3 completing development and one thing about this game was I think I developed a bit quicker than him and that allowed me to get the advantage of it later on so he went ahead he played b4 just expanding further 92 and in this position I think he made this first like kind of big error yeah he played 94 I'll try and explain why this was a bad move what he should have done was like Queen b6 and try and push well he played the game 94 the the bad thing about this move is he was going all in too quickly he was trying to go for for a quick attack his clear idea was Knight c3 and I realized he was in a situation where I can actually provoke him to be over ambitious to overextend and then and then capitalize later so I think it's it's best to understand this by just showing what happened in the game I played Knight G 393 was a very kind of a nerve-racking move to play because I'm moving a piece away from potentially defending my Kings side and I'm leaving him with a potential to play Knight c3 and opened up my King and get a very scary looking attack when I played this move I realized he was in a situation where he either has to sack is Knight or retreat because I have three attackers on e4 and it was actually a very difficult situation for him and I think he took maybe 20 to 30 minutes just thinking about his next move I could see like he was already not happy with his situation and then finally he went ahead and he played Knight c3 and even though I was pretty sure this didn't work for black I was I still had to be very careful cuz it's so scary like I have to take the Knights I don't take the knight a to falls I take the Knights he takes back and my King's wide open he has his Queen to Bishop rook and my pieces maybe don't seem like the best in the best places for the Fen however there is enough defensive resources for whites and the rest of the game is pretty much white first of all fending off the attack and then attacking against black King and the game ended very quickly it was should ends like around 25 move 25 so first stage defend king a king a1 making sure there's no like quick mates he wanted to play Queen B for Queen B - I'm also preparing rook b1 so he went ahead he played Bishop a3 preparing to play Bishop e2 I play rook e1 and because he sacrificed tonight I'm completely okay giving up material to save my king and that's what happened he played Bishop b2 he won the exchange because I had to take he takes and now we're in a situation where I have I have two pieces for Brooke now this is an important position most experienced players will play the right move without even thinking in this position but wait to move the question is should you take the pawn and should you play King d1 yes yes yeah fine fine gold would be happy in this case what you're doing you're using the b-pawn as a shield the the b-pawn is actually acting as a defender so it it closes the file so after King v1 there's no sort of like Queen before check and I just leave the partner I'm pretty sure the pawn stayed there for the rest of the game and my king is now it can breathe easily there's no night to like come to c3 and I mean while I have the minor pieces and one thing about the situation when you have like two pieces two minor pieces for a rook is the minor pieces are much more effective in the middle game than a rook can be especially when there's no like like critical open files and especially when there's Queens on the board and the strategy for white is just to create an attack with the Queen and the minor pieces and ultimately there should be more attacking resources for white than defending resources for black so the game ended like very smoothly just show you what happened castle and it's a bad sign when like most of my pieces are already on the Kings side most of ox pieces are on the Kings side or on the Queen side I went how do I play g5 threatening Queen h5 there's actually a really cool tactical sequence here which he stopped he played f5 I do just want to show if he plays some move I don't know some random let's say rook c8 I was ready to play Queen h5 g 6 and then queen h6 and there's an unstoppable threat I believe it's unstoppable of Knight h5 and the point is 95 there's just too many mating ideas g7 if you were to take then each seven would be attacked so just to show you one potential checkmate let's say queen bee 4 9 h 5 she's also note Knight f6 right let's say take then we take on each 7 this is a classic mating idea well I could play Bishop e5 here too I could also play this this m8 so he had to do had to do something with all my pieces coming into action so he played that five unfortunate I think it's already very difficult to defend I take takes continue improving with tempo this case attacking rook he plays here that rook g1 and when you're attacking you just want to attack with all your pieces I think that's a pretty easy principle to apply in this case all of White's pieces doing some job or putting some pressure on the King side Bishop e5 was played I think in this position it's already a force twin Knight take g7 take and I actually sacrifice so if we count material I am down the exchange but it is force mates I'll leave it up to you guys white to move may than three very good Bishop f4 mates he resigned one move before mates after Queen f7 gave up in this position but it's a nice finish king of six Bishop f4 white being down at rook here but just a complete party on the Kings side for white so I thought that was an interesting game some kind of interesting sort of tactical moments in the opening with the whole scenario where he always wanted to take on B - I got preventing him with tactical opportunities so hopefully maybe you can apply some of these ideas to your own games if you play at the London even if you don't play the London some of the tactical and attacking ideas can be applied from from any opening [Music] [Applause] you [Music]

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Keywords: chess openings

Id: _g1xMZhGOuc

Length: 46min 54sec (2814 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 12 2017