Magic Mechanism of Sacrifice in Chess. Alekhine vs Podgorny
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- Опубликовано: 15 янв 2024
- While the positional principles of chess focus on the static elements, such as material balance, pawn structure, weak squares, open lines etc., the dynamic element of chess is concerned with more sophisticated concepts, such as energy, tension, potential and harmony. By learning to feel the dynamism of chess you can develop your intuition, improve your tactical skills, and become a more creative player. The World Champion Alexander Alekhine is known for his brilliant combinations and sacrifices, but the question is how he gets the positions, in which these combinations are possible. I'll try to find the answer to this question in the following game.
1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 cxd4 7. cxd4 e6 8. Nc3 Bb4 9. O-O Qa5 10. a3 Nf6 11. d5 exd5 12. axb4 Qxa1 13. Nd2 Bxe2 14. Qxe2+ Ne7 15. Re1 O-O 16. Nb3 Qa6 17. Qxa6 bxa6 18. Rxe7 Rab8 19. b5 axb5 20. Rxa7 b4 21. Ne2 Rfc8 22. f3 Ra8 23. Rxa8 Rxa8 24. Kf2 Nd7 25. Nf4 Nb6 26. Ke3 Rc8 27. Kd3 g5 28. Nh5 1-0
The calculated variations are always so beautiful and tricky. One little mistake and all the advantage is gone.
Such high quality chess videos - thank you.
My pleasure.
Brilliant moves and clear explanations, as usual. Thanks
My pleasure.
I love how he writes in his annotations. Him and Keres are my favorites.
I adore the old school of chess, they played crystal clear but still deep, Alekhine and Capablanca masters of masters!
Keep up the vids!
So comprehensive commenting Just veeery useful and interesting😎✌
I realy like the way you explains the moves, great video
Simply amazing. Thanks for describing this game.
A sequence at 13:40 (with the Black Knight on e7)
Qxe7 Re8
would have been fatal if the White Queen moved (and not been captured), because
... Rxe1 would be checkmate.
You have to admire any player who can exert Alekhine like this.
My pleasure.
Like walking on a tightrope, difficult even for grandmasters, let alone for us, players of modest posibilites. Apart from Alekhine, only Morphi, Nezhmetdinov and Talj could do something like this. Congratulations on the choice of games and your extremely high-quality analysis. One more thing! Your English is very easy for me to understand, probably because my native language is from the group of Slavic languages, and I assume you speak Russian well. Greetings from Serbia!
Thank you. Yes, my native language is Azerbaijani, but I also speak Russian.
You just described the quartet of attacking chess. Morphy, Alekhine, Tal and Nezhmetdinov.
An excellent game by the Great Alekhine. The first pawn sacrifice (10. a3) makes sense in that White shouldn’t passively defend a threat from Black so early in the game. With such a lead in development the consequential attack refutes Black’s greediness. Then, the move d5 begs to be played constantly, but there are so many black defenders influencing the center that the consideration to sacrifice the exchange is great. The combination of d5 - axb4 - Nd2 - Qxe2+ in order to finally directly assault the enemy king was lovely, and I believe ultimately boils down to the fact that White employed creative resources to achieve central control which was worth even more given the centralized king was present, and Black’s failure to prevent the energy build up of the combination (@ 7:11, exchanging via BxN to remove both a white defender of d5 and limit the tension between a3 and Bb4, as opposed to non-dynamically fighting for d5 instead) allowed for Alekhine to be the master of the ‘explosion’ and take the control of the game.
Very helpful for me conceptually. Thanks for this lesson
My pleasure.
Alekhine' is my chess hero!!!
you should add a light colour frame to the board when discussing alternate scenarios. Easy for viewers to understand when discussing alternate scenarios involving several complex moves and then falling back to actual game.
Wonderful!! 👏👏🙏🙏
A very nice, dynamic game. I must say though I had few times a position close to the main one cause I played the Alapin I did not dare to sacrifice the rook in the corner. But after this game I will sacrifice the rook when I will have the opportunity 😅
Of course, but be careful, first you need to accumulate the sufficient amount of energy and reach the perfect harmony :)
Great videos, thank you😊
Thanks for watching.
So the strategy is to increase the potential energy so that when released, it comes out stronger? When I search for candidate moves on every turn, should I try to limit my options to the moves and plans that increase potential energy if my calculations entail it does not lead to a losing position? 3:35 a3 is very nice but how do I proceed after O-O-O? Maybe Bg5?
Yes, I think that strategy would make sense if a position is dynamic and you have the initiative.
10...O-O-O doesn't work, as White would capture the bishop (11.axb4) sacrificing the exchange, and after 11....Qxa1 the black queen will be in trouble. White would play 12.Qb3 threatening to win the black queen by moving his dark-squared bishop next move with the discovered attack on the black queen.
He is АлЕхин not АлЁхин for Christ sakes 😛
You are mistaken. It is indeed the second of the two possibilities you lay out, in other words with an umlaut over the “e”.