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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

An invasive Steed Saves the Day

I figured out why the guy my YouTube account defaults to is so damn popular:
  1. He does not babble on while playing out the opening moves like some chess commentators do who pretend to know what the best move is.
  2. The dude has the most tranquilizing, soothing voice I have heard.
  3. He provides just a dollop of history as he quickly gets to the critical positions of the chess masterpieces he presents 
I wonder what Antonio Radic would think about the following position where Black is down the  exchange with an exposed and apparently vulnerable King. Czech Republic jugadore Nadateho must have believed the game was his after playing the instinctive Qd6 check. 

However, it is White who has to be careful and could easily lose with a careless misstep after Black moves his Monarch to the "safe square" h5. A key feature of the position is White's inactive f1 Rook viz a viz Black's hyperactive Horse! White's error was to ingest Black pawns at the expense of not activating his his f1 Rook. Rowson would certainly scold White for not having intimate cozy conversation with his phlegmatic Tower. White also unnecessarily weakened the f3 square providing a simple goal for the Black Knight. White can draw but has to acquiesce to a perpetual check which is hard to do psychologically when you had been winning the entire game.


Long live Agadmator and his lucrative passive income stream. 3.2 million subscribers to his channel and counting!!



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