Loving the outdoors. I can almost smell the fresh air from here! I knew you'd notice you'd swapped the king and queen around when white had to castle and yeah... the pieces all look the same aaaa! Re1 by white was a really nice move! It plays on the idea of exploiting the pin on the e-file. For example, Re1 Qxb5 (yep, the bishop is hanging at the moment) Bxg7! Rg8 Bf6 and now white will be win the bishop on e7 and therefore be up a pawn with way more active pieces whereas black will be left without castling rights. Bd3 is also a very good move as white is now threatening a discovered attack on the queen (by moving the rook and then attacking the black queen on f6 with the bishop on c3) WITH a threat. Now white is threatening Rh5 with the discovered attack on the queen AND the threat on h7 (bishop and rook). Qg4 threatens the thunderous Rxe7! deflecting the black queen from the defence of the g7 square (which would result in mate in one because of Qg7#) Qxg7+! The queen sacrifice! A simple yet beautiful combination. The black king blasted open and the bishops tearing through the position from afar. A simple, fun and very instructive game. Thank you for showing us the game, Professor! :D
if black takes the bishop, black’s bishop is also hanging on e7 and can be taken by the rook. also the g7 pawn would also be hanging and could be taken by white’s dark squared bishop, threatening the the rook and preventing black from castling
1:44 Discovered check? (pieces improperly set up)
he fixes it later in the vid
Nice!
I know a handful of guys who would sacrifice all material to mate ;)
Superb
Loving the outdoors. I can almost smell the fresh air from here! I knew you'd notice you'd swapped the king and queen around when white had to castle and yeah... the pieces all look the same aaaa!
Re1 by white was a really nice move! It plays on the idea of exploiting the pin on the e-file. For example, Re1 Qxb5 (yep, the bishop is hanging at the moment) Bxg7! Rg8 Bf6 and now white will be win the bishop on e7 and therefore be up a pawn with way more active pieces whereas black will be left without castling rights.
Bd3 is also a very good move as white is now threatening a discovered attack on the queen (by moving the rook and then attacking the black queen on f6 with the bishop on c3) WITH a threat. Now white is threatening Rh5 with the discovered attack on the queen AND the threat on h7 (bishop and rook).
Qg4 threatens the thunderous Rxe7! deflecting the black queen from the defence of the g7 square (which would result in mate in one because of Qg7#)
Qxg7+! The queen sacrifice! A simple yet beautiful combination. The black king blasted open and the bishops tearing through the position from afar. A simple, fun and very instructive game. Thank you for showing us the game, Professor! :D
Thank you for your comments and analysis!
Loving these videos professor (also enjoyed the recent philosophy video). Keep it all coming man!
At 3:25 why doesn't black take the hanging bishop on b5?
if black takes the bishop, black’s bishop is also hanging on e7 and can be taken by the rook. also the g7 pawn would also be hanging and could be taken by white’s dark squared bishop, threatening the the rook and preventing black from castling
Is it chess 960?