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hi everyone this is Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn

and together with Chess lecture.com

I'd like to welcome you to today's lecture

now

last lecture

I did about King's Indian attack from white

and today I really wanna continue a little bit

and show you how powerful this setup is

and I will actually go over an invisible trap

you can say because it happened just recently

in a grandmaster game

at the recent tournament in Denmark

called Politician Cup

where white was played by Grandmaster

Illusion from Russia against another Russian

grandmaster

Voul v U L

and white actually started with the first move

night f 3

now if you recall

I prefer to play King's Indian attack with the move e

four

because after night of 3 d 5

Black doesn't have to play e 6

and instead black can choose to play c 6

Bishop g 4 much more solid approach to

this opening but the game actually transposed

so let's see what happened Knight of 3 d 5 g 3

Knight of six

Bishop g 2

e 6 so again after e 6

things are much easier for white

because we're gonna transpose into the French

move order of the King's Indian attack

and of course black has

many other ways to counter white so one of them

as I mentioned earlier c 6 followed by Bishop g four

then E6 and so forth with a very solid position

another way is to play C5

Knight C6 and e five

and now we're actually getting kind of reversed

King's Indian defense where white is a temple up

so this is another way to play it

and of course black can play the Fianchetto line

with either including c 5 move or immediate g six

so that is why I actually prefer white to play one e 4

but let's see what happened in the game so e six

and of course

white is gonna transpose after simply castle

bishop e 7 and d 3

so the plan is to play knight b d 2 followed by e four

and of course black follows up with C5

and now after night b d 2 night C6

e four

we are basically in the French move order

of the King's Indian attack

and this is something that I think favors white

and the major problem is

the bishop on c eight has no future

so black has to fianchetto the bishop

does he plays

nighty 6 E4 and B6

so really his plan is to play Bishop B 7

Quincy 7

followed by either Short Castle or Long Castle

and now if you recall after b 6

whites plan is to put the pawn on e 5

so you can play it immediately

or you can play it followed by Rookie 1

or you can play Rookie 1 first

which is a more flexible move

because really you're not

you're never really afraid of d takes E d takes E

because you're still controlling the center

and the pawn from e four is gonna go to e five

and now you have the outpost on e four for the night

so after Bishop b 7

White plays e 5

so far so good and of course black plays 97

so we have reached one of the classic

King's Indian attack positions

and the key here for black

is to try to put pressure on the e

5 pawn

and white simply is gonna defend the pawn

followed with knight f 1 h 4

knight h 2

as I showed you previous in the previous lecture

but the actual trap is very

very hard to see from advance

and in a few moves

you're gonna see exactly what the trap is all about

so white kind of plays a normal move knight of one

right and black follows up with queen c 7

so e 5 pawns is hanging

so 9 out of 10 people are gonna play queen e 2

and just simply follow up with the h 4

knight h 2 c 3 in the future

and just normal king's Indian attack position

but this is really tricky trap now white plays C3

wow you might say you're just blundering the pawn

and this is the whole point behind the trap

is this is not so easily seen

what could actually happen

if black simply takes the pawn

and I actually did a database search of this position

and I found at least four

other games

where black actually ended up taking the pawn on e 5

so you see it's not only this grandmaster

there are other players and masters

who fell for this trap

so let's actually see what happens

it doesn't really matter what night you take

with night d or night C

after night takes E5 night takes E5

white simply falls with Bishop at 4 pin

forcing the next reply which is Bishop to d 6

and now let

let us all try to figure out why this is a trap

so the knight is well defended

if we put another pressure on the knight with Queen

e 2 or d 4 well

black simply retreats and he's up a solid pawn

and the next move is a little bit hard to foresee

after Bishop takes e 5 Bishop takes e 5

it looks that black has a bishop pair and extra pawn

which is by the way

central pawn in all the winning chances in the world

but this move is really hard to foresee Queen to h 5

attacking the bishop and pinning the f 7 pawn

which means that whenever the bishop retreats

e 6 pawn is lost

so this is the whole point of the trap

and I can't believe that a grandmaster fell for it

but I guess it happens

in uh in tournament practice you know

that's why they call them the traps

and I should say that

probably even after seeing Queen H5

black just thought well alright

I can retreat with the bishop and if rook takes pawn

my king is gonna move I still have the bishop pair

I may not be you know in such a bad shape

so let's see what happened next so bishop f six

Brooke takes pawn check

and now black falls up with king to d 8

and now he basically says

well the rook on e 6 is hanging

you're probably gonna have to go back

to either e 2 or e 1 I will play g 6

follow up with pressure on the queen

queen d 6 king c 7 and simply consolidate

and this may be the extent

to what black saw during the game

or even after Queen h 5

but the beauty of this position is that white simply

doesn't allow black to get off the hook that easily

with the beautiful exchange sacrifice

Rook takes f 6 xclam

so black has nothing better than to simply take

by the way the pawn structure is not ruined

but what's more important

Bishop takes d 5

White wins a pawn with the king in the middle and

blacks position in total ruin why

the problem is if let's say the king was on b 8

the rook was on d 8

it's not so easy for white to get anything going

and he's simply down in exchange

in this however position white will be able

to play D4 in the future and really blow up the center

and black has no time to connect the rooks

f 6 pawn is really weak

the knight is coming in with e 3

and this position is very hard to defend

from a practical point of view

so let's see what happen next

so rook e 8

so he finally says alright

take the other pawn on h 7

I just wanna get it over with

and finally get some counter play

so of course white can simply take on b 7

Queen takes and take the pawn

but this is probably the best black can hope for

because now at least black gets a breather

instead

I believe illusion made the correct decision

to go for the central attack

Bishop takes queen takes d 4

x Queen pawn h 7 is not going anywhere

but we are starting the king hunt

starting with the move d four

so let's see how black defended

so after d 4 he plays rook c eight

and really taking on d 4 is not an option

simply after rook to d 1

followed by rook takes d 4 again

notice the black king it has no squares

nowhere to escape

so after rook c 8 he finally makes maybe run for it

king c 7 king b 8

let's see if white can do something about it

so rook d one

now king c 7 is no good because f 7

is hanging

and of course taking the pawn is no good either

so what is really black up to

and he's really

gonna close up the position with the move c 4

that was the main idea Roxy

but now the knight comes into the game knight e 3

so knight is gonna probably go to d 5 or f 5

notice that the king is still stuck in the

in the middle can't go to c 7 because f 7 is hanging

and c 4 is a potential target as well

so with every move

white is putting more and more pressure

on blacks position

so you see this kind of a trap is not sort of say

winning immediately

but it gives you immediate sort of say

practical winning chances

you put black in this very defensive approach

black is probably lost objectively

but you know practically it's very hard to play

and more importantly white is not risking anything

even if white manages to win a second pawn

and black somehow goes into an endgame

there's still a lot of fight

for black to try to struggle for a draw

and that's why I like this

this exchange sacrifice on f 6

so knight e 3 rook c seven and now simply d 5

notice how white doesn't stop and take points on h 7

which is probably still a possibility

but something that he probably didn't like

is try to go into some kind of an endgame

or maybe even queen f three

with some kind of rook takes e 3 sacrifices

why bother give any counter chances

when the pawn is not going anywhere

and with the move d 5

you take the queen out of the game

so not only that you also enable rook

d 4 left for putting pressure on black c 4 pawn

so rook c to e 7

and now finally queen takes h 7

so you could really see how

dire black is to get some sort of counterplay

so he plays b five

and now simply queen h 6

it's a matter of technique I

I would probably guess that white is a

is winning easily but you still have to play carefully

and not to allow any counter play

such as rook takes e 3 for example

in the future

so queen b six

notice that queen nicely defends the e 3 square

and now d 6 hit in the rook

rook e six

and y decides not to stop there and push all the way

d 7 this is really fun

the king on d 8 is the sole blocked in piece

so notice is that from the very beginning

after black took the pawn on e 5

so for move 11 the game actually is

is so so to say semi forced

and that's why I like white

white's position so rook g 8

and now queen h 7

again basically asking the rook to

move back to not pleasant square to f eight

and you got the king who is the black key and piece

you got the rook on f 8

the position is not looking pretty for black at all

and now queen g seven

so queen c 5

he has to do something about the fate rook

and now white simply falls up with a nice rook d five

Queens e 7 and rook takes b 5

so I already lost count

count how many points white is up

but this is just a matter of uh finishing black off

and after Rook takes b 5 Rook takes e 3 the last hope

if white takes

then black at least gets some kind of perpetual

but of course why doesn't have to take on E3

he simply takes on F8 with with the very beautiful

simplification tactic

Queen takes f 8 Rook b 8 check king takes d 7

Rook takes f eight

and now the rook endgame is totally lost for black

um black kind of makes a few desperate moves

Rook e 1 check

before resigning king g two

king e 7 rook 8 and he finally resigned

so as you see

this little game illustrates one of the typical

I should say

an invisible trap that black would easily fall into

if black takes the e 5 point

and of course white didn't have to play c 3

White could have played Queen e 2

but why not set a trap

with a good chance

that your opponent might fall into it

and I hope you Learned that

even in a simple opening setups

there is still a lot of traps and ideas

that you have to be really careful

if you're black and if you're white

if you know them you might score an extra point

so I thank you very much

and I hope to see you all next time bye bye