Morning all let's continue on look at how the King's Gambit has defeated world champions
in the past.
Now this is a classic game which Fischer was so outraged when playing Spassky and losing
to the Kings game that he wrote later a refutation in inverted commas to The Kings gambit.
So it was Mar del Plata tournament of 1960.
Spassky kicked off with e4 and Fischer played e5.
So now have f4 and Spassky actually had been quite an exponents of the game at one of the
few grandmasters to consistently play on a regular basis.
So officially accepts it.
Exf4 by the way checking on chess games com, there seems to be a blitz game where Dan Myers
who's I think a very successful businessman into mining and he apparently beat Fischer
in a blitz game in the Kings gambit.
That's quite fascinating.
Dan Myers actually played in quite a few you know blitz torments in the UK actually.
I had seen him in real life and he seemed fit and well when he is about 81.
He is quite a long lasting chess player.
But anyway that's the only other King's Gambit game that I found on record.
So Nf3 and now Fisher played g5.
Now since in his refutation inverted commas he actually recommends d6 as a high class
waiting move.
Now d6 takes away the e5 square from the night.
Now in this game it is a little bit curious to me that the e5 is used like this in this
manner to first undermine this g5 and then sort of spring back to the right uses e5 now
indirectly after h4 move.
So blank obviously can't take, can't play h6 hg and the pin on h8.
But he can't kick the knight.
Which is what Fischer played.
So Knight brings to e5.
So it's immediately threatening actually nxg4 as well.
And if d6 still Nxg4 there's two pieces on g4.
So Fischer actually defends his g pawn.
But we have the potential fragmentation issues you know if whites ever going to get back
this pawn now this pawn now being pushed you know look how sliced Black's pawn structure
will be and also look at the potential dark square weaknesses as well, this diagonal in
particular.
So d4 now, d6 and now Nd3.
So Spassky is ok with losing the e pawn here but regaining at least that f pawn.
That diagonal is kind of strong potentially.
I think there have been some Fischer games with white in the Kings gambit where he made
use of this diagonal.
So blacks really kind of you know a bit shattered the pawn structure already.
Face Bg7 and now on the move Nc3 which Fischer doesn't really like he prefers c3.
But I think nc3 has got some interesting points immediately challenging that strong Knight.
Although it does lead to also got another gambit in the sense now of the d pawn.
After c5 although technically this move might be great.
Look at the implied fragmentation after when this pawn is also a bit weaker.
So it puts I think black on a bit of a knife edge in my personal opinion.
After cxd4 castles although black is ahead in material.
Let's see now, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, two, three, four, five, White
is temporarily two pawn down.
But he's going to win g4 and when he does win g4 you know look at the number of isolated
pawns in Black's position and even the beat the beat this peoples on the b file white's
got very active pieces.
So this is the kind of knife edge effect that sometimes you know you do get a lot of strong
compensation and if the opponents on a knife edge, a razor edge then it's more likely for
them to slip up.
It's kind of logical.
So Bxg4 was played now and after castles Fischer just took on c8.
So potentially you know he's weakening also the light squares.
After Rxc8, Qg4 was played pinning that Bishop on g7. Fischer kicks Queen now f5 was played
and the Qg3.
The Queen's nicely kind of parked.
So there are lot of rex pawns here and d6 is immediately threatened by this battering
any case.
So Fischer snaps up that c3 pawn and here actually instead of Bxd6, Rae1 was played.
Now you may wonder what's wrong with Bxd6?
I'm thinking maybe Rf6 to g6 might be annoying.
Let's have a quick engine check of this position.
Bxd6 was not played immediately.
Yeah Rf6 has [05:59 inaudible] Bf4, then Rg6 and Black's going to get quite a attacking
position.
If say Qh3, then nd4 this is starting to look quite kind of unpleasant for white.
Okay Rae1 was played here instead of Bxd6.
Now Fischer actually played Kh8, so he's vacating that g8 square potentially for the rook.
After Kh1 he uses that.
And now finally that pawn snaps up that d6 pawn.
Fischer perhaps didn't want to weaken e5 anymore playing defense to try and hold onto material
like computer.
Instead he wants to get his pieces to be more dynamic and stronger.
So Bf8 , Be5++ now and now we have another imbalanced Knight for Bishop exchange.
Nxc5, Qxc5.
Again you know these shattered pawns, these isolated pawns mean that and the White Queen
in the center and White's possession of the e file gives him a lot of positional compensation.
Also the knight sitting kind of nicely on d3 ready to spring perhaps to f4 on the opportune
moment gives white compensation.
So now after Rg7, Rxf5 offering the h4 pawn.
So Qxh4 was played.
After Kg1 Fischer said this exactly he went wrong here, he should've played Qg3 instead
he played Qg4G.
Let's have a quick look at Qg3 under the, under [07:43 inaudible].
So this does indeed look technically better for black.
Running Rxg2, now if say Qe4 and then if say Qe4 and I think thats Bd6 in some lines or
even here there's a nice deflection either Re8, so Queen take then Qxg2.
If Ne5 then check.
This is starting to look bad for whites King Re6.
Qf2, its starting to look kind of very bad for white.
Okay.
Let's go back so Qg4 was played, Rf2 and look how centralized whites pieces are.
And it's difficult for Fischer’s sort of coordinate pieces and get them out of the
box here.
When he does tries Be7 which inner notes has the idea obscuring the Rooks.
Fine but some not an amazing positional move.
Maybe positional ideas like Rg8.
Sure that wasn't the only idea Fischer had in mind.
After Re4 it's apparent that this Bishop is now a tactical liability.
Qg5, now Qd4 keeping that horrible pin on g7 and black is getting very uncomfortable.
Fischer said so in his notes that he was very uncomfortable.
Because Rxe7 introduces a threat using that pin Queen's really just very powerful in the
center.
After Rf8, Re5 and white is forcibly winning material now after Rd8, Qe4 the queen and
bishop are attacked.
Queen goes to h4, but now Rf4 just winning the Bishop.
Fischer resigned.
He was the quite and kind of outraged and upset I think as a result of this game.
Which led to him later creating the reputation again kind of..
Let's have a look an overview and summary of what happened.
So there was some major pawn fragmentation and Spassky encourage more fragmentation since
like these pawns that temporarily slice.
But Fischer is a pawn ahead.
This parking of the Queen eyes d6 and keeps an eye on that pin Bishop on g7.
Which makes becomes a theme again with this Bishop is now a problem and there's a pin
now on g7 again.
And here is where Spassky is like winning a piece.
So it's an incredibly powerful centralization.
These three major pieces in the center qualitatively a lot better than black pieces here.
A classic game, please leave it in the comments or questions on the issue.
Thanks very much.