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Okay. Just got a 15 -10 game.

Let's have a look here. My phone is typing.

Okay.

Let's see.

We're in for a pretty lengthy game, I imagine.

I wanted to do a 15 -2. Actually, no. I am playing a 15 -2 game.

I thought it was a 15 -10 game.

Okay. This is what I wanted.

A 15 -2 game.

Hmm.

Alright, let's go with d5.

On b5, I think I'm going to play a4.

a4, b takes e, and then knight c3 with e4, and

then pick up the pawn conveniently with my bishop.

Hmm.

I think so. I like this move.

Kind of a positional approach against the...

Benko Gambit.

So let's see. B takes C.

I don't have too many options. B takes C or B4. So let's follow through.

Hmm.

I looked at this line not sure how long ago.

And I think my queen eventually does well placed on E2.

Let's see.

Hmm.

Bishop takes c4, queen e2.

Hmm, I'm wondering about many things here. I wonder about h3

prior to knight f3.

What more?

I think he just has to be scooped up, so let's make that move right away.

Oh, actually, I think I'm recalling...

This f4 move, that might be it.

f4 and then knight f3, or... Hmm, I'm confusing

the... I'm not recalling well a particular move order here that I found

appealing to me.

Okay, let's see.

Move to consider knight f3, h3 and then knight f3. I think I like that,

actually.

Just not allowing the dark square bishop to exchange himself so easily.

Yeah,

I think I'm going to go with that. h3, knight f3.

Yeah, let's do that. I'm going to invest this time here.

h3, knight f3, and make sure to get castled quickly.

Okay.

And let's just follow through.

Knight f3, castles.

Hmm.

On bishop to a6, bishop to b5 might be interesting.

And I think it's important in some lines to make sure you get castled quick. I'm

not sure in this exact pawn structure, but sometimes queen a5 can be a bit of a

bug.

So where's this knight headed?

Knight b6?

You see, he's a tough piece to make use of now.

Like, what are his prospects? And suppose knight e5? Well, I don't think

that's a good structure to have to capture d takes e.

Hmm.

So candidate moves for me here are definitely castles.

Queen e2?

Is that something I would want to consider?

Okay, what might this knight do? He might play to b6.

But I may simply reply with bishop to b5. No, I'm bishop b5, bishop d7. I

I want to avoid that exchange. I think the knight will be misplaced on b6.

In fact, I could try something like if the knight plays to b6, bishop b5,

d7, and only then back my bishop up.

And then when I give the knight a kick, the knight won't be able to make use of

d7.

Hmm.

Let's just castle.

I'm going to do that anyway. Let's remain flexible.

There we go.

That's going to be the key thing that makes me go with castling right away. I

want to remain flexible. Make the move you know you're going to have to make

first.

Retain some options with your other pieces.

Huh.

I really do like moving forward.

I don't think that this is a good move, although I think black is kind of,

again, in a tough spot because of this base advantage. It's a bit

cramping working with four minor pieces.

Hmm.

Where to go with the bishop?

I'm not so quick to retreat.

I want to move forward.

And I could also look forward to maybe going to c6.

Bishop b5, would there be some trap with c4?

And then a6, I don't think so.

Bishop b5, c4, a5, a6, I could just take the knight.

I'm actually drawn to what I said earlier. I like this idea of...

Playing here.

In fact, maybe on bishop d7 I could go here.

Huh.

That's a thought.

I've been pointing out for a bit now that I want to play queen e2. I'm not so

sure about that.

Not so sure I know the place for my queen.

Not so sure I know my place for my queen bishop.

He might have...

A useful role in simply staying home.

Watching over b2 from this bishop, or even a rook once it arrives on the b

-file.

So I'm not going to be so quick to move him.

Rook e1, would I really consider this as a plan?

This is always a typical maneuver with the king -knight in this structure.

Knight d2 to c4, but...

I don't know that I want to exchange pieces.

Is this an idea? Actually, notice how this isn't an idea now.

Now that the knight is on b6, he doesn't have very many options.

He can only go back here, that's his only safe square, so knight here, a5,

going to win material.

Aha.

So, this is what I expected, and initially I was going to drop back here,

what about moving forward yet again?

If I go here, I think black has to challenge my bishop again.

Now this is getting very uncomfortable for black, because normally this square

think you would like to keep vacated for a knight reposition.

When I see this configuration here, I sometimes view it as, if I can control

this knight, I'm controlling the bishop.

So I'm without question...

Not welcome to bishop takes bishop.

Knight takes, the bishop gets to see the world.

Don't want that.

So, what can I do here?

I'm considering bishop a6 and bishop to d3.

Let's... Let's move forward.

Yeah, I don't see anything wrong with that.

I have a4 covered.

I think the bishop needs to come back here.

And I'm going to repeat for just a moment, but I'm definitely not going to

accept some draw.

Bishop c8, bishop b5, bishop d7.

I'll try something else.

If I have to, I'll just come back to d3. I think I still stand well.

The thing that's keeping me away from playing bishop to d3 is the c4 advance

with tempo.

However...

The trade -off with that move, looking at the squares, the new squares it would

control, and the squares it gives up by playing the c4, of course

points at d3 and b3, but it gives up d4, which means I might be able to make use

of d4 with my knight, and maybe then c6.

This is the most sensitive square, I believe, in the black position.

Not so accessible, however, in this current position.

Don't know how I could clearly get to that point.

Bishop e3 to d4 if this pawn ever moves.

I could also consider e5

on takes, knight takes.

Tactically vulnerable, however.

I'm going to repeat a little bit. I imagine he'll play this quickly.

But we're going to see.

If he goes here, well, that bishop might not be so stable.

Bishop b7, a5, if he kicked the knight and kicked the bishop, and then plant

that bishop on c6.

Let's see.

Oh, I was saying, okay, I'm not going to repeat here.

So e5, if I want to get an e5, I think I need more support first.

So after takes, takes.

The knight can't move and pick up this unprotected piece.

Hmm.

Okay. I think bishop d3.

Yeah, let's go with it. I want more.

So this is a bit of a clumsy piece.

I think at least he's controlled in all his forward squares.

Can't really do so much.

Hmm.

I could kick this knight.

Would a5 be played?

Hmm.

I wonder about that.

a5 would then be the idea of c4? Yeah.

Okay. Remember that queen e2 move I was talking about before?

I'm kind of tempted to do that now.

Just so this move here is not going to be played.

Now, I've been visiting this B5 square for some time now.

I'm making use of it multiple times. I might want to actually go back there.

you believe it?

Now that B5 is a permanent hold, now that this A pawn has committed itself,

Bishop B5.

And on Bishop take, I might want to even consider taking with my pawn.

Hmm.

Not sure.

What about finally getting my bishop developed?

He's a bit clumsy.

He gets in the way. Like, I don't have a problem with a rook putting pressure on

this point.

I can't do b3 because my knight's unprotected. Just tactical stuff here.

So... Huh.

Let's see. What other moves to consider?

Is it b5, queen e2?

I don't know that I want to play this so quickly.

No, I'm not so quick to trade pieces just yet.

Hmm.

I think queen e2. Let's go with queen e2.

Yeah. I have enough support for a4.

I renew.

Well, I have a new pawn break now in the position, e5.

My queen is also here laterally to defend b2, so...

I can maybe be a bit more free to move my dark square bishop, so okay.

Now, I didn't share this yet, but my idea with this type of move was to take

then play here to break up the center.

Start to look for tactics. This is one thing that I'm thinking about right now.

I have a lot of pieces in play.

Knights on good squares, a bishop on a good square. This knight is a bit

This pawn is now unprotected, current position.

I don't think I could allow just takes here. I don't want to have to babysit

d5 pawn.

Let's take him.

Let's see how black recaptures. I think I'll consider doing this no matter how

black recaptures.

Hmm, actually with bishop takes, maybe I could play against this backward pawn.

Rook d1?

Hmm.

Bishop g5?

Bishop g5, I would anticipate h6, bishop back g5, getting out of the pin as soon

as possible.

Huh. I think on rook d1 they could still play d5. Rook d1, d5, takes.

Takes.

Takes.

I don't know how uncomfortable of a pin that would turn out to be.

Not sure.

Let's see. What other moves to consider?

Bishop g5?

And only after h6 drop back somewhere.

Put pressure on this pawn so that this d5 break isn't so easy to get in.

Maybe.

I think I like that.

Let's do it.

Provocal weakness and only then drop back to e3.

I'm not sure.

Tough to assess.

But this is definitely going to stop this advance. There's no...

d5, e5, h6 stuff, because I could just take with the pawn or bishop

on f6.

So on h6, I should play a quick move.

Ooh.

Okay.

That's interesting.

Hmm.

Still prepping this advance.

What about rook c1?

Putting pressure on this pawn?

Rook c1 or rook f to c1?

Is there a need to watch over the a4 pawn? Is it important to keep this rook

the a file?

Sacrifice over here?

Is that what's being lined up?

I don't think that's going to work.

Never know.

No, that can't work.

Definitely has my attention, though.

I think black wants to get this break in.

This knight can't be going too far because of bishop e6 and then picking

guy up.

Yeah, I don't believe that that tactic would work on h3. But if it does, I

I could play knight h2 and be okay.

The queen's there.

The queen would have pressure on my bishop, but I think that should be a

sufficient defense. Bishop takes, pawn takes, queen takes, knight h2.

And I'm preparing queen f3 to trade pieces, trade queens.

And it also frees up my f pawn so that if I need to defend...

My second or third rank with the rook, I have that option.

Time issue, yeah, down a significant amount, but you can always live off of

increment.

So increment is very nice because the time you invest is one that could

ultimately pay off. You really have to play the positions out. You can't just

for the classical time -burning tactics.

Doesn't work.

Let's see.

So in the end, I do go with the A rook, which allows this D file to be occupied

with my other rook.

I'm almost fully mobilized.

He's still a bit clumsy.

My primary reason for doing this is to stop the idea.

D5, okay, it's still there.

I wonder, should I push?

Allow this to fit?

Not so sure about that.

My idea was to take... Hmm.

What are my candidate moves here?

Would I really want to give up my Dark Square Bishop?

I don't think so. No, not going to do that.

Hmm.

Okay.

I don't want to relief that bishop so quick.

I think it's too strong to keep this pawn duo like that.

Hmm. Other candidate moves?

Where is black vulnerable?

Excuse me.

B5 to b5. I'm not even sure what that does.

If I don't take here, my knight could be kicked, and then knight takes a4.

I've got to make a move.

So he's going to be seeing the world soon.

A knight here, maybe I could consider something else. How about this,

I don't want to trade knights.

Or do I?

Or do I?

Hmm.

Let's see about something.

A knight takes knight.

Bishop takes.

Let's take here. Okay, so I have direct side of this pawn. Could I make use of

this pin?

We're going to see.

Here, here.

This is a pin. The rook will play to b8. He wanted to go there anyway.

Um, I have to watch over this pawn. I like bishop here.

Gotta move faster.

Let's see.

Hmm.

What is this move even doing? It's stopping rook here.

Hmm.

Let's go with bishop here.

Try and put pressure on this pawn soon. Is this tactic still there? No.

I mean, I could do this stuff again still with knight h2.

So black, they can't really, the rook here, I'm not sure what that does.

Knight here to challenge my bishop on b5. This must be a bit of a strong

These bishops in black's position have to be a bit annoying.

The queen can't get out of this pin so easily.

Do I have some clear plan to pile up on this pawn?

If this knight moves like knight b5, it seems quite natural. Bishop here

actually wins the exchange.

Huh. I think queen here.

Or rook there.

Interesting. Okay, I'm seeing something right now, and it's related to...

What?

Uh, it's related to this move.

Queen here.

Yeah, why do I like that move so much?

Keeps pressure on a5, and I might want to consider exchanging dark square

bishops. I don't know.

Tough call.

Look at these squares. I'm controlling these four squares.

They're ready to say four central squares.

Far off from being four central squares, but none of the rooks can make use of

these. This rook, I should have been saying to myself, is unprotected, so

might be some tricks connected with that.

So I still have pressure on c5 and a5.

Both of our structures are a bit ugly. I have a backward pawn. They have two

isolated pawns.

Everything is pretty nice structure -wise for both of us on the king side.

Let's see.

Not sure.

This knight can make use of b4 now because I don't have bishop e7.

Black is defending the 7th rank.

However, on knight here...

Maybe there's queen d6, which is threatening the pawn and bishop to e7.

Oh!

Really?

Wow, I wasn't expecting that.

Not at all.

What is that move doing?

I see it more as a weakness than a strength here. I guess they really want

make use of...

I don't know. They want to make use of these dark squares?

I mean, I was thinking about doing this anyway.

Now their 7th rank is weakened.

Bishop here, is there still this trick?

Keep looking at that. Like, it's something good. Maybe it is.

It's my bishop here. The queen taking on this square is hitting my bishop.

Um...

No, no, no, no, no, no. Why am I so fixated on that?

Definitely not.

Any bishop move here, I'm taking the knight.

Oh, man.

Okay. So I like that I now have some prospects against the black

king. Queens are still on board. They've weakened their seventh rank.

A minute left.

Dark square bishop exchange. I could pre -move that. Their queen still can't go

too far.

Let's exchange right now. And let's go where? Let's get my rook working. I

think there's any great discoveries.

Not seeing any great discoveries.

Is this trick still on?

With some stuff with knight f4.

Now that the knight is defended.

There might be something to that.

Might.

Oh, you know what I could have considered? Knight here.

Oh, I could have considered knight here, taking advantage of the pin.

Ooh.

Maybe it's still there if there's some trick on h3. Knight d4 hits the bishop,

threatening to give a check, taking advantage of this pin.

And also looking forward to knight c6.

Hmm.

This can't be bad though, can it?

Getting the last piece working, what's he doing?

If this sacrifice isn't working, I think I'm definitely better.

I don't see any other fantastic move for black. Every move seems a bit slow.

Like knight here, I don't have to worry about knight d3, my bishop's there.

He's really a giant bug.

He must be.

Any knight move I could...

make a queen move and attack the bishop a second time.

Wow! Oh, okay.

That's interesting.

So they're prepping this move, and now I had this planned.

I think I'm going to go with it.

Uh, yeah.

Let's just get on with it, right?

Hmm.

Do it.

Bishop d7?

My knight might want to occupy this square. Now, they're also, they're not

prepping this, they're prepping knight f4, support point.

He'll be very difficult to work around. This is a very dangerous square for a

knight.

So let's see.

Oh,

if bishop here, I could take the bishop and then play knight here.

There's got to be some tactics right around the corner.

Okay.

Knight takes here with check.

Got to do something.

Let's check.

And... what?

Um... Let's go here.

Keep pressure on this pawn. Knight here is strong, though.

Hmm... Starting to not like my position.

Where will the knight go?

Okay, I gotta make some moves here.

Here, I guess.

Gotta just abandon that bishop.

Try and put pressure on this pawn.

There's knighty two stuff. That's a pain.

Oh boy.

I have to be very careful about that.

I have to be more careful about my time. Forget about position.

Oh, you know, I could have considered Bc4.

Hmm.

Not sure.

This rook is defending the king quite well.

I feel like I'm going to fall into a fork. I feel like I should just make a

move.

They're at about 4 minutes 20.

Qc3. More pressure here.

I'll just go here.

I have to be careful of Queen H2 stuff.

And what more?

Knight take, pawn take.

It's pretty vulnerable.

Oh, I almost lost on time.

Yeah, they're going to win a pawn, and my rook's going to be pinned. So much

moving my king to F1.

It's easier to play, though. Let me get out of this pin.

I don't have to worry about that pesky knight.

They still have some king vulnerabilities.

Is h4 an idea?

Rook e6.

Put pressure on f6.

h4 to break down this structure.

6 .6.

They're investing some time as well.

This rook is more restricted than this one.

Rook b8, rook here.

I want to avoid a queen trade.

Let's just depend upon h4.

No, I don't want a queen trade.

King h2.

So the rook d1 stuff isn't available.

Rook d8 going to be played.

Let's just defend my back rank. I don't want to allow this rook to get here,

whether it's with check or not.

Three minutes.

Rook d3. I'm threatening this pawn, maybe.

Yeah, I probably am.

I want to get king h2 in.

So my rook is freed up to do some other stuff.

Hmm.

Yeah, let's get there right now.

The queens are going to be traded.

Now I could do this move.

I don't know, though.

Even in a rook ending, there might be something for me.

Two rook ending.

Safer king.

Rook d1.

He could always go for some draw, I think.

Queen b8 check.

I have to be careful of f2.

I should crack through on c5 as soon as possible.

Let's take that. I'm looking to get at their king now.

I could drop this, but rook c7 is in the air. I could have considered this.

Um, okay, let's throw in actually this check first.

Let's see what they're going to do.

Hmm.

Queen here?

Queen here? Something?

I have to watch out for g2.

Um, there's got to be some mate.

Rook takes here might be mate.

King takes, queen check.

There's something with this Rook Takes move.

I don't have the time to calculate it, though.

Alright, this is more direct, with Queen here to here as a mate threat.

Huh.

I can't take on F2.

Um... I missed that move.

Oh! 2 .7.

Now I'm threatening this?

I'm in a pin.

Rook here.

I want to get out of the pin. Not so easy to do, though.

Rook here. Rook here. Check.

Too many checks.

This must be good for me.

There's got to be something. They're under a minute now.

2 .7 seconds.

Not a lot.

Should throw some checks in to gain some time.

Be a lot happier when they're down to just as little time as myself.

Queen f7, rook g7.

I'm going to throw in some checks.

Let's pre -move that, just in case.

Queen e4.

They're up a pawn, but... They're a5 pawn.

He's a long way off from posing a threat.

I'm going to throw some checks in. Where's the mate?

That's probably not the mate, but he is close.

Mate in two threat.

G3 Queen E2.

I don't see how you stop that.

That should be mate.

Brutal.

Oh man, let's go back.

Tough, tough game.

I think I was... I'm not sure what to say. There was

a tough position right in that middle game.

As soon as that E6 break got in, I didn't think... Let's see, I thought

this was the right idea.

Just to avoid minor piece exchanges, as I was saying,

similar to the intention I had with... Actually, I should go into analysis

Similar to the idea behind H3, I basically used

that same reasoning when it came time to...

You know, when my bishop was finally threatened, when one of my pieces was

threatened. Just avoiding exchanges.

And, okay, we repeated a little bit. Bishop here, a5. I think that may very

have been necessary.

I think that's quite inconvenient if I could get a5, because maybe he's not

yet. Maybe he wants to push forward even further one day.

Hmm.

It's an important decision here, because it does give up b5 permanently now.

What could I have done better? Because I definitely started to slip.

When it was that strong knight on d4 versus my bishop on b5, it got really

tough.

To take or not, I think I need to take.

I can't hang on to him, so...

Now right around here, I think this is a very critical point because

possibilities for the structure change, he's going to be

vulnerable.

As it turned out, again, I was not expecting queen c8, that's for sure.

But maybe that just turns out to be quite a strong move.

Now I don't see a way that I could really prevent d5 and this clumsy piece,

worst place to...

A minor piece, at least, for black is going to be activated. So that's

how it happens. As soon as you correct one of your pieces, as soon as you make

improvements to, let's say, your worst place piece, your position can turn, I

don't know, better in this game, but at least, you know, you're not struggling

as much.

Like, if we do a knight comparison, this is what I'm getting at.

Do a piece -by -piece comparison. I see these guys as offsetting.

And my f3 knight versus the one on b6, I like my knight on f3 better.

Not sure how much better, but I think he's just a better placed piece.

I guess the other consideration was this.

I don't know about that. He has a quick track to get into that b4 square.

Tough call.

Tough game.

Queen c8, I went opposite the queen, still d5.

I'm not really finding anything better here. I think I had to go in for this

stuff, but there must have been some improvement. I'm just not seeing it.

These type of pins are just short -lived. Bishop e4, rook to b8.

He wanted to go there anyway. There's no inconvenience.

I think it's important that I make sure this rook...

Presence on the board will not be felt. It's difficult enough to have one piece

here.

Putting pressure on b2 and as a result tethering my queen down to its defense.

But if you have two pieces, that becomes all the more difficult. So I think this

is where my bishop belongs.

Rook a7, queen d2.

Not sure.

It might be a bit slow. What about queen e4 and then here?

Hmm. No, I'm dropping my pawn here.

I don't know. And you know, if I try to move him, I can't forget about the c3

square.

Tough.

Tough, tough game. Now, I thought, man, I thought that with that move, there

would be something.

Well, at the end of the day, there was.

The king got, uh... He went for a king walk.

But, uh... I don't know. This knight turned out to be a beast.

I missed something, though. I missed something. Yes, and I said it during the

game. Instead of this rookie one move, maybe this right now.

And now there isn't this move.

He doesn't have the support for that just yet.

And if he plays it now, instead of taking the bishop, I think I would take

this. Actually, I know I would.

Yeah. I would take like this. Initially, I was thinking after rook takes, I

could take here and win material, but the bishop's there to defend the queen.

So I would take like this, and after the recapture, I don't know, go somewhere

with my queen, keeping pressure on the position.

And I think I stand better.

I want to be careful, of course, to avoid exchanging all heavy pieces,

in a bishop ending alone, this is not good to have that pawn fixed on a light

square.

But that's a long way off and quite difficult to manage for the black side

exchange all major pieces.

Let's go back.

Yeah, it got tough. I mean, I was down on time, but he started to go down on

time, maybe a few minutes remaining only for him. And that's a strong knight.

I gave up that pawn.

King f1 was probably not a good choice because in the end I had to move him

again.

Not sure. There must be something here.

Even though being down a pawn, I don't know how great of a pawn plus it is for

black.

He's defending.

He's living off of the increment at that point.

I want to avoid the queen exchange. I think rook d1 is the better try. This

to be too much. As it turned out in the game, there wasn't time to take that

pawn on f2.

Giving these checks.

And then queen c4. I'm lucky I found that.

Yeah, now this renews all sorts of stuff. Two different checking

for the queen as soon as she's on c4.

I wouldn't be surprised if the computer is just lighting up as a... It must be a

win here for white. This pawn is irrelevant.

The king's safety is more of an issue, and f2 can't even be taken, so it's a

problem for black.

That move shocked me.

And then the king kind of got drug out there.

All right, well, very interesting game, very long video.

Hope you enjoyed it, though. It's a 15 -2 game. Could have been longer.

Initially, I thought it was a 15 -10, but... Anyhow, feel free to leave any

feedback, and as always, I hope you got something out of this video. Take care.

Bye.