THE DEADLY PIN | CHESS TACTICS | EPISODE 1

What's going on YouTube welcome to my new chess tactics series in every video I will break down one key motive. I hope it's gonna be clear practical and quick Now my goal with this video and with this series is to make you aware of these tactical patterns If you're not already and to show you what are the key things that you need to practice in detail on your own Now in this video, I'm going to show you nine examples ranging from easy to hard So it's gonna be three easy examples three advanced and another three hard Examples and our first topic is going to be the pin. So let's get started and I will see you on the analysis board Alright, here we go. As I said, we're starting off with the pin Why with the pin well because it pretty much happens in every single game and it can also happen at any stage of the game But what is the pin exactly? Well a pin is when a piece cannot move away for two reasons one it's because it's illegal and this is what we call an absolute pin and two is You lose something more valuable if you do now a pin can only occur on a rank File or diagonal and it's done by a long-range piece such as the bishop the Queen or the rook Now, let's take a look at the first example. I'm sure you figured out by now It is white to move and white can create a beautiful Pin on along the long diagonal by playing the move Queen a one Creating that absolute pin because the rook cannot move away and also the rook cannot be Protected the rook is lost game over and I think we can move on Now in the next example is just as easy as the previous one We can see that the king hasn't castled I mean the black king hasn't castled Queen is in danger on e4 white can take advantage of it by playing the move rook e1 again creating that absolute pin and The Queen is lost game is pretty much objectively speaking over now Let's move on the last so-called easy Example and in this one again, we are playing white. We can see that black is underdeveloped and in this case the white Rook is attacking the d7. The bishop is attacking the e6 pawn and The d7 pawn is basically the pinned one. So basically after bishop takes e6 I am winning the rook As I said the pawn on d7 cannot move because you lose the Queen you lose that More valuable piece and also the rook is pinned because it cannot move away because of the absolute pin Because it would be a check. All right, let's move on to the next one. Now. These are gonna be a little bit harder These are what I call the more advanced pins All right. Now in this position we can see that black is up by a piece but white has some very good initiative and in this position white to move and win and white can create a Beautiful beautiful pin and then really nice tactics by playing the move rook to f4 Fantastic move why because now the Queen is absolutely overloaded the Queen cannot really move anywhere Why because if you take my Queen for free I can take the rook for free and that is a checkmate on the back rank and if you take my rook now I can take on h7 and This is also a checkmate game over rook f4 is a brilliant brilliant move really nice idea Let's move on to another one now in this one another somewhat more advanced situation we see an endgame situation and this is the reason why I said a Pin can happen at any stage of the game Just like in an endgame in an endgame pin is just as dangerous as a middle game or an opening pin And in this situation, we can see that the bishop on e5 is already pinned. It cannot move away except to take on d4 and now white can take advantage of this by creating this beautiful beautiful extra pin basically on the back rank with rook b8 fantastic move putting pressure on the a8 rook now the e8 is Hang in so the bishop cannot take it because it is pinned It's illegal. So the rook must capture on b8, but after rook takes b8 I have bishop takes e5 and now it's a check and I'm next move. I'm going to take the rook game over All right, let's look at the last more advanced example in the pin section Now in this one again, we are playing white Here we see that black is up material black is up by a piece, but again white has some very very good compensation and White is attacking black king is in the middle and we can take advantage of the fact that black king is quite weak and black's pieces are somewhat uncoordinated and there and Also, by the way, the black Queen on c6 is already pinned so we can overload the pin With this beautiful move rook c1. What a fantastic move now again Queen cannot move away So the Queen cannot take on c1 nor on b7 because it's pinned It cannot move away because it would be a check now the Queen can take on a4 That's a legal move. But after rook takes c8 the game ends with a checkmate now there is one last move that black can do and that is Bishop to c2 but Bishop to c2 is also Losing why because white creates the same exact pattern by taking on c2 again setting up the same exact tactical motive really really nice one and That's it for the advanced section. Now, let's move on to the harder examples All right, guys quick tactical break. Thank you for watching the video I hope you're enjoying it so far if you stay until the end you'll get four tactical positions based on today's theme and I want you to write your solutions in the comments and if you're subscribed and like the video you'll Automatically enter a draw to win a free one-on-one training session with me You have five days I repeat five days to enter so don't miss out and now let's get back to the video Take care And now let's take a look at the hard examples now in this position white is in a checked situation But white is winning but white is winning by only one sequence and the sequence starts with King F1 and this is the only winning move. Now, of course, it's super scary because King f1 is meant by rook f8, but rook f8 Can be defended by the move rook d8 so the Queen was pinned, but we can her pin This is a fancy way For white to actually win the game. Now, of course the game continues, but this should be a winning endgame Instead in the game white move the King to f2 and you might ask what is the difference? Well, the difference is that after rook f8 again the pin, but you might say hey But I do have the counter pin again, but the game doesn't end here and black Also creates a counter pin by playing the move Queen h4 What a crazy crazy line and crazy position now the Queen is pinned cannot move away It's a check the King has to move and now Queen takes Queen game over What an unfortunate loss now, let's move on to the second Harder example now in this position. This one was actually played by the Hungarian grandmaster Banker pal Now in this position, he is winning, but he had to find a nice little tactics here So we can see the connection between the two Queens between the Queen on b2 and the Queen on f6 and he can actually overload that diagonal But first he has to play the move take c3. He sacrifices the rook if I wanna Quote the classics you guessed it Now after c takes d3 white has the beautiful move Knight to e6 check Of course exposing that long diagonal Queen cannot take the Knight because it's pinned So that and so the pawn must take it King cannot move away because the Queen is hanging So pawn takes Knight, but after the pawn takes Knight, we have rook c7 check Beautiful move now again Queen cannot block the check which would be all right in terms of material But it cannot do that because it's pinned so King has to move But after the King moves Queen takes Queen and the game and beautiful beautiful sequence Let me show you one more time rook takes these rook takes d3 c takes d3 96 check f takes c6 and rook c7 check beautiful beautiful idea now Let me show you the last example of this video the last one is gonna be a Complete game by none other than Fisher. All right, let me show you the the game So the game starts with e4 not going to talk about too much the about the opening phase of the game This is the accelerated dragon Knight f6 Bishop c4 castle Bishop b3 Nothing new so far now, of course, it was played in the late 1950s so opening theory it was not as well known as today now We all know how some of the lines go here. There's d6. There's e6. There is all kinds of them. There's even d5 My black played the move Knight a5 and I was quite surprised when I you know, check this game again I saw there were even games, you know in 2024 by actually reasonable players meaning like 22 2300 players fell for the same trick So 95 bad move opening principle violating an opening principle moving the same piece twice And now punishment comes e5 98 and now here Fisher showed his brilliance Absolutely fantastic move Bishop takes f7, but a ping So, what's the point if I Accept it and play the move rook takes f7. I can again pin the pawn By playing the move 96 and I trapped the Queen what a crazy crazy nice idea as you can see The Queen cannot move anywhere and if the pawn takes the Knight Queen takes the Queen game Over now sure you can take with the with the King and the point would be that Okay, at least now e6 square is covered, but it doesn't matter because 96 still comes Okay, because Queen still is trapped the pawn still cannot take so King must take but if you're dancing around In the middle of the board on move 11, you are probably gonna lose the game That's exactly what happened Queen d5 check King f5 g4 check and this is a forced checkmate King takes g4 Rook g1 King h5 Queen d1 check King h4 Queen g4 and that is a checkmate now actually most of the games That are in the databases Almost everyone played the move rook takes f7 sacrificed the pawn Sorry sacrifice the Queen and then they fought on but either way the game is completely lost And now let me show you the examples So these are the four examples 530 example white to move and win 531 example again white to move and win 533 example white to move and win and for the final one 534 black to move and win and if you follow all the steps You could win a free coaching session with me Alright guys, that's it for this video. I hope you liked it I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you learned something and Winners and the correct solutions will be announced at the start of the next episode So until then take care and good luck