Black Wins Against 1.d4 | Games to Know by Heart - IM Eric Rosen

[Music] last week I went over games in there so today I thought I was under instruction so today I'm going to go over a similar opening theme but it's going to hopefully apply to everyone this is games where black wins against d4 I know everyone has played back at some point everyone who's fight against d4 at some point so I have a kind of interesting collection of games um maybe one of my own games but also a lot of games that I look up to as well so we're going to start with actually do you guys have any preferences we could start with my game we could start with a game from rear oxen okay let's start with what the game that I played trouble months ago this was at the u.s. amateur team tournaments and it was kind of a different format than most tournaments because it was a team event and the way board sits four player teams where the board one on one team plays the board one on the posing team so I was bored one I was playing kind of a highest rated player on every other team and this game I was playing someone pretty significantly lower rated than me and I was black and in situations like this I usually want to play some opening where I play for women's lack and he played b4 and for pretty much my whole life I've been a Queens gambit declined player we're outside d4 d5 and after c4 e6 does anyone play the same setup as black only four people here sometimes I'm sure people online maybe some of you play it too this is an opening which maybe isn't known for like great weighing chances for black especially at the higher levels but I've used it to some useful amount of success and I found a lot of interesting kind of dynamic ideas we're back and interesting positions from early on now in this game I actually didn't start with d5 I started with mana sticks but what ended up happening is we transpose I play e 6 he played 93 l fi d5 and I don't know there's any clear reason why I did this I don't entirely remember but I was probably just giving myself option if I felt like it I could go for an Indo Indian but I just stuck with kind of my own kind of known territory so d5 he takes this is known as the Queens gambit declined exchange variation now he plays Bishop g5 and actually growing up this was one of the very first openings I learned and I was taught kind of a sneaky trap it's not really a great chat but it's kind of something to know where I was told to play Knight B d7 here and the trap is that if white captures a pawn black to move and punish white for being too greedy so yeah I take you 5 so kind of giving into the pin you give away your clean but then you win the clean right back digit before and I believe this was called the elephant's trap I'm not entirely sure why it's called elephants trap it might be because the word Bishop in Russian is also the same word for elephant but ok in this case white is certainly trapped because after the dust settles life is on a piece for a pawn so out of my whole chest career I think one person ever fell into this against me nowadays I don't like playing Knight bd7 because it blocked suspicion and I would rather be nice to my pieces so I play pawn features just solid making sure my d5 funds well supported now my opponent plays Queen c2 which is actually kind of an annoying move because what I wanted to do next move is play Bishop a5 but Queen c2 prevents Bishop f5 and may become it hinders my development process and I should mention that for good portion of the scam I was in opening preparation and I'm still in opening preparation in this position meaning I have studied this exact position before and I knew kind of what my plan will be so I play a kind of a rare move here most common move is probably Bishop e7 I played the more exotic move Knight a6 and the idea is kind of twofold one idea is to potentially play Knight d4 and harass the Queen the other idea maybe bit more positional is 1976 just maneuver knight in the center where I can attack a few different things so now White has a choice so I can either allow night before or prevent night before with a3 and actually a few weeks ago at the club I played like the Saturday night special and I got to this position against Farah Cobian and he was scared of Knight to be four so he played a3 and then I played 97 and we had a game in this game my opponent allowed night before we played III and now interesting things start to happen and the game kind of potentially gets very complex but I'll do my best to explain what's going on so I start with 94 and my opponent plays clean b1 so my main my main plan with Mac before is to combine it eventually with Bishop f5 to create tactics either against the Queen rule against like the the t2 square so my opponent keeps the clean on the diagonal so he's still preventing Bishop f5 so the natural continuation here is g6 yeah preparing Bishop a5 and again I should note I'm still an opening preparation this is a position I've studied before and in this position things could branch out a few different ways when I want to spend a little bit of time talking about how I can branch out of what my opponent did was not a great move he played f3 which as you'll see the internet for well another interesting move for white is a3 and many years ago I was playing a tournament in Washington DC I was actually playing against Poyser not Sabina for who we all know US Women's Champion but I was playing against I believe it was her sister mihaela Pfizer and before the game I had done all this preparation in this opening we went into it she played a three and where I moved nine right now I was prepared through move I think was 17 or 18 and we went through all of my preparation so by the time we reached like move 17 I had more time than I started with because we were playing on increment and I knew the exact computer evaluation of position and she had like an hour less than the clock and it was an equal position but then she lost consumer so a long time so I'll show you kind of that that preparation here I think it's really interesting and I should also mention that it was like the only line I prepared before the game I had maybe had half hour to prepare and it was just like the pure computer line so the next several moves for black are really just all computer moves and they're hard to understand if you don't really dig into them deeply so computer move here for black is to play Bishop a5 actually looks natural the potential problem and kind of if you're looking at this for the first time you might realize that white can play efore and after e4 then the bishops attacked nice effect it looks like blacks just losing a piece but computer comes up with some nice resources for black what I did in the game was Bishop taking for night take e4 Knight takes e4 and we should probably polish in this position because it looks like I can go ahead and take the Knights but this is a poisoned ice if white takes knife and it's just lost for white the black has too many or too much attack after they should take before White's King just gets way too exposed if King e tu aura Kingdom one Queen take D force coming and the compensations is overwhelming so that didn't happen what happened in again this Poyser was she took on Essex I took back the Queen I shouldn't notice the knight still can't be taken for the same reasons project before bit should take before too much conversation for back so she took on you for and again okay it looks like White's doing well because Kings and check Knights still attacked the move I play is King g8 which is itself kind of an ugliness but the problem for whites that really nothing is developed except for the Queen and the Queen's a target in a lot of lines for example if let's say pawn to knight in this position Bishop take King b1 all of a sudden I have rook e8 and I'm winning because the Queen is skewered to the e1 square so however the Queen moves rook e1 wings material and she realized that I shouldn't mention she was taking a ton of time around then around this point and she played the move I'm just going based off memory here I believe she played Knight to f3 I played Knight to d5 again this was just all the computer line I just happened to prepare before the game she played Bishop to c4 and now very very important computer move which essentially equalizes or neutralizes the the whole pressure that light has in the position and if I don't play this move I'll probably be in trouble the problem for black is because the King is in the center and has given up castling rights you have to kind of get cleaned off the board as quickly as possible so the key move is Queen e7 moving backwards but forcing a Queen trade and what happened the game I took I took should mention the Queen is pin so there's no Queen take d5 she took and I believe this was a final move of my preparation I'll actually ask you guys I want to see your opinion should black take that the bishop or the King this should be pure intuition exciting you're going to take the queen with the king yeah you take the king because you want your team to go to d6 and such kind of a weird computer line like a lot of bizarre moves where your lead pieces hanging you take that the king rather than the bishop but from this position I managed to two out player later in the game I think my bishop forget exactly what happened I think that this would came to h6 and rook came to see file and there were enough imbalances to play for wait so going back now hopefully dot like how it gives you a better understanding of White's potential problems where if the center opens up then all I could have some problems with King safety and that's exactly what happened in the game I played a few months ago instead of we go back to this position my opponent did play a three plays s3 maybe a little bit over-ambitious not necessarily attacking nice and he's actually preparing to meet Bishop f5 with E for now what I wanted to do in this position I wanted to play Bishop a5 allowing you for I was hoping that something like this would work take take and then Queen take d4 and then just sacrifice the bishop and attack the King the problem I saw with this line is that White has neither three developing with tempo and I realize there's probably just not enough compensation here so I can't you calculated that line before going into any of it and I realized I have kind of a tricky way to make things work in my favor instead of playing Bishop f5 immediately I throw in kind of the simple move h6 and what this does it provokes him to play the shifts back to h4 which was actually a very key mistake what he should have done was take on s6 but after Bishop h4 now I play Bishop a5 and that's the main difference between this line and the previous line without including h6 is that if you play d4 here which he did I take he takes I take this move Knight f3 it's very something that with Queen III so what I did I drove the bishop away from g5 so I can have access to be three square and this is actually a kind of a complex type of thought process in chess there's actually a name for this type of thinking where you start with having an idea the idea doesn't necessarily work because there's a problem so you fix a problem first and then you go through with the initial idea that's called reciprocal thinking and this is maybe a bit more complex example of reciprocal thinking but there's there's other examples too and if you if you actually want exercises on reciprocal thinking you can check out the book imagination in chess and the book actually allowed me to sharpen up my my thought process you can take a seat anywhere yeah don't be shy just make sure you can see let's go back so we went into this position queen take d4 and of course he didn't fight in Knight f3 given that Queen III is uh that's right so he took on f6 I take and I should note that I was completely okay giving away the bishop in this position because I knew that given White's lack of development and given the fact I can castle really quickly and that the essential files are open is going to be a more than enough compensation for black so now the game gets fun for for me at least he take out five reads I Castle King is now safe rook on the open D file he plays nine of three and the biggest problem for white is simply the king the King never had any opportunities to castle especially after Bishop c5 basically controlling both the G 1 and D 1 square so the king is stuck and this is always like things you want to look for especially sometimes a late opening early middle game where if your opponent King hasn't Castle Jess look for ways to try and keep the king of the center so that's basically what happened like tied Bishop to I play the most natural move rook heh this is a pretty painful position for like what look II need to I mean you want to get the King safe he tried to play smooth King f1 and now I actually want to let you guys think because this next move for black isn't the most obvious is all my pieces look pretty much optimized but the next plan is really important the question is how does black make progress to basically finish off the attack against the white king roof d2 you're thinking like seven has an unfortunate I take you to oh you wanted to dig on f5 that's interesting idea yeah you can't really take on that five and one of these things for black you definitely don't want to trade Queens yeah g5 certainly came to my mind it's like trying to add another resource what do you say yeah h3 and then it's kind of hard to still break through Knight to d5 oh I see you want to play 93 but unfortunately night take d5 and yeah you could take back um well usually when you're attacking you don't want to trade off pieces if it's not gaining you anything usually the more trades favored the defender I think I'll go ahead and show you guys on the fall process I used here is actually kind of simple and then once you use this process then hopefully the idea becomes clear so the first observation I made is how can I improve like one of the pieces I looked at my queen like how can I improve my queen of course if this was bughouse or if I could cheat I won't like clean on f2 so then the next question is how do I get my queen def to I want it to be on e3 right how do I get to e3 through E Sodom and this is a key maneuver queen e7 now initially it might be hard to consider and move likely nice timing because it's the backwards move so this process where you see the idea before you see the execution is actually pretty common where now okay Queenie trees coming and unfortunately for slice there's not too many ways to defend against Queen tree he plays a very strange night g1 but already at this point swipe saw light I can pretty much throw in the towel I mean the night is tied down to the bishop queen really doesn't have too many great places to go if he plays Queen e1 he runs into 92 so he went for a night g1 with idea that after I play Queen III he plays my h3 and now I play the move that you wanted to play it because the nights on h3 rather than after heat so I have to move 52 yep oh so usually you want to look at the whole picture but in this game I was mainly focused on the King because that was White's biggest target that was like the biggest weakness in the position because he never got to castle so I was like constantly looking for like the mating ideas or ideas to kind of use a king in some sort of tactic so actually if we look at some if we look at this position like I saw the King is incorporated a lot of tactics like if my knight ever moves can maneuver to to d5 or to d5 and then eventually and this never played out in the game so I was also always looking at how the King could be exploited so this game goes to show that sometimes attack is a lot more valuable than material I didn't mention this but my opponent played very quickly in the opening grab material early without understanding the consequences and sometimes that's what separates kind of the maybe lower levels from the much higher levels is a ability to make the judgment when to take material and when to maybe focus on King safety in this game King safety first next game I want to show is in a very topical opening these days from the London system anyone know what the London is or seen the London before maybe one person even if you don't know what it is I'm sure maybe you ran into it at some point it's essentially kind of a setup for wipes which is extremely easy to learn and understand but it's also a very trendy opening at the Grandmaster level especially these days a lot of high-level players are applying it including myself for both sides and it's an opening for whites where just to kind of give you an overview like usually plays d4 Bishop f4 and Knight of three III see 3-digit e3 castle maybe some small variations of this but this is like the main setup and usually when I teach beginners I like to teach them the London because it's just so easy if you memorize where like peaceful pieces want to go it's very solid and it's hard to crack so in this game we're going to see black cracking the London setup and now black is a very strong grandmaster Victor la Janica from the Czech Republic and his rating is I guess when this was played in 2010 whose rating was just below 2700 so we're going to see how it's super close to super GM deals with London opening d4 d5 HTML 4 5 6 5 3 and he plays the line that I like to play phrase this move C 5 and this is actually one of my kind of favorite recommendations against the London because what black is trying to do is take advantage of white setup as early as possible and the main idea is to eventually play Queen b6 and target the b2 pawn because addition is no longer odds you want so we'll see this playoffs III 96 c3 and Queen b6 so this is actually kind of a pretty well-known position where after Queen b6 white had some choice to make how to defend upon on on b2 now the most common move here and the move that white played in the game was Queen b3 some other moves maybe aren't as effective a move like III is really weakening because if black let's say black takes on d4 and then take there's always all these ideas of potential for Bishop b4 check I'm actually curious in this position if black can just play e5 looks really interesting and if white takes and just go for Bishop b4 92 94 and then it's not a 3 Bishop g4 and while I have some headaches with all the pins I'm not sure if that line moves entirely accurate but it just demonstrates some month some dangerous ideas for black so let's look at the mainline Queen b3 and now a very nice move for black c4 well black wants is for white to take on b6 because after 886 yes there's double pawns but this is actually a nice structure for black because the open a file a choose kind of a long-term target and it's actually interesting if I played some of like a three here then black has this plan of b5 and then actually ready to play d4 so if 1092 black and displayed before taking advantage of the pin and if politic might take some early activity for black so if we go back what what whites in the game and this is the most common move white just a clean teacher so so now yeah you know the move Bishop f5 have you seen this before no yeah so this was the common idea especially for the London is because the Queen was tied down to the beat do pawn you take advantage of it tactically Bishop a5 and the bishop can't be taken because then black wings upon and then ends up winning the look so this is that five is a nice moves to play over the board white pretty much has to play Queen t1 I should mention Queen d2 is almost never good because my equal so queen c1 and now now I really like the way logic of play because I play this line before it's black and normally what I do is maybe play some slow move like each like e6000 he really understood kind of the the tackle moments which are about to come up so he played nine h5 it's going straight away trying to get the bishop pair white plays Bishop g3 and now s6 blacks not in the rush to take the bishop because basically Knight take G trade can be played at any time what large nikka wants to do is play e5 and just take over the center when lights king is stuck in the center and we're actually going to see the same theme where white never ended up getting to Castle a third white never ended up casting this game because black was just too quick to open up the center and now there was just too much pressure so I played Knight bTW to blacks 85 take my take g3 with nice intermediate move take and night tick so a lot of things got traded off and then we get to this position and at this point it actually looks like White's next move it is somewhat dangerous while 84 and black does have to be careful here because black is a little bit overextended and center especially the see for fun is a target and if the d5 line goes away then black center could crumble so I was really impressed with the way logica handled this position kind of responded to White's threats and then eventually created threats of his own so the move here for black is actually very calm Bishop g6 maintaining the tension it does a lot like to take on d5 but now black to move this next move is like very critical if you don't play this move you could be in trouble if you play this move then whites and troubled so black to move find the best move very good this is c5 simply developing with tempo and this position really really favors the two bishops because basically wide open and especially this diagonal especially that's two pawn is very hard to tend the fact that a file is also wide open and as we'll see white light really struggle to come back I take c4 is played take Guinea - oh why not efore well Bishop Iggy four simple answer so yeah there's actually really no way to defend f2 if you play s3 then there's Bishop s2 it's just things fall apart for white so White's best chance was to try and get counter play but okay the King wasn't looking so so pretty after King e2 classics was played and I taking five and I was just Castle Lux just had done with development got the King safe ready to pull the rook on eh and wide is nowhere close to solving the countless problems that he has with his pieces so let's just zoom forward let's see how the game kind of soft 96 rook e8 intermediate move the King found itself on c4 now I will say that I wasn't entirely impressed with how the game ended because it actually took maybe 20 or so move for black to actually convert the position it seemed like there should have been delay I think if you turn on the engine here the engine will fail like +10 and find the most precise limit of winning but what black did was good enough rookie for Queen b6 Bishop e3 clean one rook F to this all the pieces come into play then white took so essentially black strips up a queen for a rook I think the computer had some maybe quicker way but that it was just a matter of converting a winning endgame so things got traded the D pawn was slightly annoying I'll be careful here is black please don't take the D pawn because I'm Bishop c4 check and you lose so okay grandmaster doesn't block into that and be pawns blockaded and then she wins the the D pawn I should mention if Khan c5 here does anyone know what Lac was going to play you said something right please yeah probably Queenie six and after it take just here this is probably just good enough to him you just want to make sure that you have this counter tackling e6 so I played a five and then the rest of the game eventually the queen is just too much this should be fourth time so if you know you're going to play someone who plays a London I would recommend knowing this game maybe not memorize a whole thing by heart but definitely know through the opening you should probably know at least remember this Bishop f5 idea if you go back somewhere earlier yeah remember this Bishop f5 idea against Queen t2 and then to go even further remember 90 h5 followed by F 695 so as a London player myself I'll give away a secret and I'll tell you what I do to avoid this line as I was actually debating beforehand whether to tell you guys but now that you brought it up I'll go ahead and tell you how I avoid the sign as white so when White's played c3 then he's allowing the game to enter these like Queen b6 lines and I would argue Queen b6 is already equalizing I've studied this pretty extensively on I don't see how white maintains any sort of advantage so the move that I like to play is might be e2 and it tricks a lot of people because a lot of people aren't used to this move order and if black goes for Queen b6 the position is completely different and white has a move here pawn takes e5 and I have a lot of my own opening preparations stemming from this position and there's lines after Queen takes e5 which are very comfortable for whites but then there's also lines after Queen take b2 which gets very messy for Queen B to mainline I have in my crafted rook be one Queen take a to fish' p5 and white has gambit adapt on to get more active play and I think is a London player it makes sense to go for this position where there's a lot of opportunities to play for some advantage so any further questions don't want me to reveal any more secrets but yeah it's a it's important like if you play an opening really for either side that you know kind of the nuance is especially like early in the move order because the same team applies and other openings to where if you play a move maybe before another move it could affect normal position and you want to be aware of that especially those things that you like so how do we move on a next game to look at let's say with the theme on the London show you another game now this game you can actually use the preparation against my version of the London I'll show you how so d4 d5 it's going to be pretty much the same sort of line to c5 now here white played T 3 this is also a different move or also maybe gearing up if black plays in early Queen b6 here blacks 86 now I should mention before we go any further this game was played very recently at the US Women's Championship and maybe if you guys were following the tournament you saw this game is between Jennifer you and on a share image if you guys are familiar with those players on a share of itch right now is I think teaching the ladies night or maybe was teaching ladies night sorry um yeah I think she's played local tournaments too she doesn't live too far away in this game she unleashed like really really strong preparation against London and she started with this movie six and if we notice this movie six kind of limits any Bishop f5 ideas later on but I will say that if we look at the other line that I just showed with 9f 396 and I showed this might be d to move I said Queen b6 was met with D takes e5 usually black will play e6 here anyway and then it will transpose to the game so there's a lot of trans positions and if you're first learning this I would say don't worry too much about the transpositions but do know that they exist and you might walk into certain things that you want to be prepared for this game b6 was fight earlier if it still goes into kind of same position and on this preparation was really impressive because normally in the main line is Bishop to d6 and there's a ton of games which stem from here but what she played was an early feat 84 and I should mention that she's actually just following a game that Wesley so played from a few months ago and it's another kind of piece of general general advice where if you're looking for maybe openings to player openings to to learn then it's a great idea to follow the top layers in the world they're always kind of lis unleashing new ideas and Leslie so used a very similar form of preparation which this game was basically modeled after so c64 eat 84 and now an i thi and this is a Leslie so's idea which now is using and idea is again kind of take event or try and take advantage of white setup and in this case try and get the bishop air so white didn't want to give up disrepair or white plays Bishop to g5 a6 lipslide and now Bishop III so actually both sides are doing some awkward things black pepper pollen f6 which is kind of awkward the lights with the bishop on e3 which see what kind of awkward and then not on a chive of course is kind of awkward to I should mention white is threatening to trap tonight would be flicks the g4 here so now the question becomes how does flack prepare to meet g4 what can black do to defend against the threat yes there should be six going on so it turns out that white ended up being more awkward than black or yeah white end up being more awkward than black giving black and early advantage white plays g3 here stopping nine f4 but it felt a little bit unusual black castle why played Bishop g2 and now on to played a really good move and I believe this move was the move that was B so played against Geary and it's a very difficult move to meet so I'll let you guys think in this position black to move try and put the most pressure on white as possible hi very good you just want to play f4 and open up a file and try and take advantage of White's whole setup because the white pieces right now are not very harmonious last pieces on the other hand they're working towards some common goal so with f5 coming or sorry at for coming uh white had to do something a little bit crazy and that's what happened ninety-five was played it's crazy because now there's a lot of things attack that's right as attacks place but also this one in h5 team so what transpired was at four was played even more crazy now the bishops hanging lights still hanging nice attack twice so a lot of chaos going on usually the the strong players can actually through this and we try and find the best continuation from Knight takes c6 Pontic Queen take take take so now the dust kind of settles and if we count material white is actually up upon white one that pond that was a march forward on that file but if we evaluate the position we should notice that black is significantly better setup than white if we look at like pieces of King especially still stuck in the center can't Castle kingside bishop doing nothing on g2 not doing nothing on d2 black having two bishops and actually these are two very good dishes so bishop on e6 is already good the bishop on c8 could potentially be good if it goes to a6 eventually so I would argue black has more than enough condensation for the pawn here and that was certainly demonstrated in the game and on just started with with initiative she in very simple threat rook b8 and here Jennifer you played a very questionable move which just kind of look like self-destruction I think what white shadows on is rook e1 but Jennifer Castle queenside not recommended like castling into your opponent's attack because now after cleaning five White's King is under major fire and like a lot of light pieces are on the Kings side being no help at all so King b1 inside now let me ask you guys did anyone was anyone like following the championship yeah so Queen takes e3 is a candidate move but we'll want to discuss further now I'm asking if anyone followed the championship because this was actually a kind of new Tory scheme especially for the round this game was a longest game of the round it should have been over in just a few moves but it ended up taking like over 50 or 60 moves black still won but black made a terrible mistake here and the terrible mistake is actually taking Sikri she played this move like without even thinking and this is what I was hoping for because this actually gives white initiative to come back in the game and I'll just show you what white did and then we'll come back and look at game ending move why play Knight beat three black ones the e3 pawn white plays rook e1 so black just one two pawns but white was already up upon so now black is up upon but White has initiative and then the position got like very messy and it was kind of a rollercoaster game but White's uh succeeded in kind of fending off the attack and getting pieces to reasonable squares so let's come back to this position because look honest should have done was recognized that Queen takes c3 isn't the only candidate move and that's really important in chess if you see a good move don't play it immediately look at your other options there might be better moves so black to move in this position what's the other key move yeah so you have Queen a3 or Bishop a3 any other like options to consider rook take b2 or you said rook F 2 right okay yeah you said work actually I was hearing worked a feature so maybe refusing it um yeah there's a lot of interesting options here and this is a position where yeah black should just be much better but you want to take your time to make sure that you're playing the best option to move to calculate first is rook take me to it's almost forcing because King has to take back and then if there's a line that like leads to a win then you don't have to really look at anything else and that was a case where Brooke take me to actually just wings on the spot does take a little bit of calculation but we'll see maybe it wasn't too difficult so it will take you to sacking the rook and this was very common like when you're when you have a lot of pieces aimed at your home is king what for sacrifices look for ways to just tear apart the opponent's defense so light would have to take and then Queen III King b1 and now now key move you right now only in really the queen with attacking you have to bring more pieces into the tack submission basics and what this does is basically makes two threats Bishop to d3 also work to be so like to try next to b3 and now actually 93 is clever because it kind of prevents Bishop d3 and doesn't make repeat as powerful but now the rook can infiltrate through a stew and this is probably what Anna would have had to activate if she wanted to go through with the sacrifice and the position is just completely waiting for black the best or like the only hope for white is to try and get kind of play Queenie a with after Bishop f8 white very quickly runs out of checks Queen diggy 6 King h8 and white could probably just resign here I don't see any way to survive Queen B 2 is coming only attempt is rook to d2 but now it's just a matter of finishing off lights after take take Bishop d3 King any one Queen takes c3 mate so if we look at the notation um the actual game oh I line was 91 moves the game could have ended like 525 so this this game is not a game you should know by heart because you don't want to memorize like Maggie one moves but you want to at least know through nice to know through Brooke baby to like the whole sequence of play like all the opening preparation leading up to this most amazing like Brook sacrifice and she didn't play it luckily for her she won the game but could have been a lot more beautiful so okay well any questions so far we'll move on um I think we have time for one more game one of my favorite games of all time and it was actually played by a good friend of mine very awesome anyone heard of very rotten before chess child chess prodigy there's actually a book written by Ray roxxon's dad called chess child and he talks about this specific game in the book and the game is really really cool because it features some like opening novelty but then it features some positional peace sacrifice where like even the computer doesn't understand that black was winning like the whole game even though the computer side of light was better for most of the time so it's best if I just we just go through it and this game ray was black and if I remember correctly I'm not entirely sure about this but there may have been some norm norm opportunities on the line for this game where like if he wins he either gets like a high-energy and run but I guess you would have to read the book to to find out so the game is an opening that I found to be very annoying over the years white played what's called the Catalan after g3 and this was actually a very trendy opening among grandmasters a lot of top fighters are playing at these days at the US Championships we saw Wesley so play it with some success I would say pretty much every like top GM has tightness at some point as whites and there's actually a pretty well known series of books by Boris avrech who's like a leading specialist on this line and that's one of the most like recommended book series that he can get for an opening repertoire but in this game Ray raphson fade a very kind of novel idea which before before 2009 when this game was played it really hadn't been seen before so he took she's one of the main lines Bishop e2 then he plays Bishop before checks is still in kind of known territory Bishop d2 and now his next move is actually like a very very move especially for the time the suicide and his next move I've actually coined the gray rocks and variation I think this deserves to be named after him the move is c5 it's not only did he win this game which is like beautiful game he won multiple other games with the same same exact line and the idea is to I guess first of all support the Bishop on b4 and there's a lot of lines where it gets into like a really weird pawn structure which may be difficult to understand at first but then there's all this kind of long opening preparation so the game continues but should take before so you take before and we should mention that white is down upon and black how these two kind of scary-looking pawns on C form before but why it is eventually winning one of these pawns back and now website is a main move here and I see five I will go off on a small tangent there is another move here which looks pretty good Queen a4 I'll just share just a quick kind of opening secret with you guys if Queen a for black complain ninety six which actually allows the very scary-looking 95 attacking the pinned piece three times also attacking c4 but then black has a very calm it should be seven and if white takes on c6 let's say take take take take there's a funny idea after Queen takes c6 ninety-seven the white queen can't take on c4 because black to move and room material yeah Rick c8 this is just one of my like nuggets of opening preparation where on if I ever kind of gets careless then you're curing the Queen to the C 1 square so let's look at the the game 24 it wasn't played 95 was played going after the the c-4 5 and the c4 pawn is kind of hard to defend so rageous gives it up and seeds with development Castle Knight takes e4 96 attacking d4y plays e3 and now very very important move from black because if we look at it's kind of hard to figure out how black should complete development big problem is suspicious on z8 you would like to play d6 in Bishop e7 but you can't really do that because there's a bishop on g2 so what ray did is very kind of aggressive enterprising move play e5 it's actually a temporary pawn sacrifice it's like chooses to take it and after this position I actually for myself I have a lot of open preparation spending in different variations there's a lot of options here for whites well I can take with the pawn with at night could take on p6 first and then take on e5 y can play d5 in this game we're just going to focus on d5 um this is one of the most challenging moves and after this black really only has one good move and it's not to move the knight on c6 the only good move for black is to play b5 counter attack so white takes kick take pick so some very bizarre pawn structure there's kind of a passed pawn on d6 which is hard to remove because the bishop supports it but then black has kind of this three-on-two majority with his pawns being ahead of the white pawn on d6 so very strange position and I think today there's a there's been a handful of games from this position and the the opening theory keeps developing I will say that I've actually reached this position as black and I've have it to be very enjoyable to play I think there's a lot of dynamic ideas for both sides and it's the type of position or type of opening where could play for a win if you wanted to explode imbalances so we're going to see what happened the game white played a three and now okay ray played Bishop to g4 king c1 and now Ray's did something which probably was a mistake at the time he played b3 now this turned out to actually be a really good movement later because you'll see his column b3 was incredibly strong what he probably should have done and I think he actually had a another game later on which reached his position and he played the other move a5 just to reinforce upon the point is now you just try and restrict the Knights and you prevent the knight from developing to c3 let's look at what happened the game B 393 rook a CH and we're going to keep going until first interesting moment happens a lot of tension in the center of n cheese black had to give up the e4 pawn so icon you three take take and now c7 and then this point was really interesting if my first impression would be that black has to play look stay here and try and like the time against the power of the pawn on c7 what ray did was he understood that white has some deficiencies in his position and he played a piece sacrifice which starts with the next lift we played rook to d4 and it sacrifices the piece because it allows the ship to b7 and white ends up winning the piece plays h6 at 5:57 Queen take take so White's left full piece for on and this is a position the computer just has no understanding of if you turn on the engine here it'll say around +1 for whites the problem is that this rook is just stuck and so is the nice and because both of these pieces are stuck black has basically infinite time to to maneuver and to eventually execute the time that he wants to do so the just counting the material or just a direct material situation here is not entirely relevant to who's better and it's actually going to be black thing for the win and the finale of the game was actually really enjoyable to watch because all black had to do was walk the King all the way up the board eventually you get you gets there I don't know if this was the exact path but we'll see where the King will walk up all the way and then help out with with some mating ideas so let's zoom forward King walks up notice that White's really had no escape especially this rook on the Queen side is so so sad 95 57 like tried to create some complications with the King side pawns but got nowhere you got to e16 is played take take and now roughly 2 and now we're about to see kind of the final mating idea which I don't know if ray actually saw from the previous position but I'm sure he was looking at different ideas of of how they look the knight then the King could play a role in mating the white king so I'll let you guys try and find the final idea lack to move and I think those positions just forced me sorry a rip d1 but then Bishop takes you want or not KQ d one's off-limits for now ok by process of guessing I guess you got the right person move rooks you to driving the white king to be one where it's even more set now how to make further progress not f1 very good because you just want to go to youtube and yeah 92 is very hard to stop well nicely to the idea so the only defensive option for light to stop 92 is to play 94 but this locks into still 92 disaster nice 82 King Day Guiteau White's like completely stuck on the Queen side white White's wishing this bishop was just off the board so it would be still me or no it wouldn't be stalemate nevermind I don't know what waits wishing for probably not not to get in the situation but rook see one from stoppable so yeah this is one my favorite games are very rapidly 2009 he just turned 21 so Rey was I can do math around 13 I don't know if you want to trust my math but people on YouTube to look it up so so yeah hopefully these games were inspirational especially being lacking in c4 maybe now you're more equipped to smoking so good luck in your your own games with d4 thanks [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Fri Jun 02 2017