Faustino Oro's Magnus Queen's Gambit Blasts Bluebaum

Hi everyone, it's Jerry. I have an instructive game to share with you from Title Tuesday Blitz, played today, April 28th, on the white end, Matias Blubom, playing against Faustino Oro. All right, 5 plus 0 time control. Most popular third move here, Knight F6. In this one we have A6. This is known as the Janowski variation. It's the older name, at least. More modern name, the Magnus Queen's Gambit. Okay, regardless of the name, what is this move doing? What's a note or two? Well, this tension is still present. If black continues developing here, so these moves, black can capture on C4. And if white targets C4 one move later, black is in a spot to play B5. And hang on to that extra pawn. So, another detail, if E3, simply defending C4, black can at least point to this dark square bishop. Cannot easily be deployed now to F4 or G5. White's approach, hey, if you're not going to play this most popular move and control E4, what's holding me back from playing two steps with the E pawn? That's just what we see. D takes E. Knight takes E. Bishop check. And from here, the knight falls back to block. If the bishop blocks, there is Queen takes D4. Some line like this. Not what we see. In this one, it is Knight C3. Duo challenged right away. A3, pin maintained. And from here, more development. If white captures on C5, black can follow with the captures on D1 and C3. The order does not matter. In the end, white is up a pawn, but the computer says it doesn't. It's not really a full pawn, is it? With this case of triple isolated C pawns. Okay. That's a very ugly structure. We have more development at this point. And some defense of C3. More pressure on C3. A follow-up here is D5. The structure is going to change significantly from here. White's top move at this point is Bishop D3. Why doesn't white go with this move? Probably for the following reason. After the capture on C3, there's a capture on D4. And white is not in a position to take with the pawn and straighten out the structure. The pin is still there. So you would have to take the piece at this point. And queenside is a total wreck. So that's a structure white is trying to avoid, we might say. The approach here is with D5. And we're pretty much pulled into a Benoni structure from here. E takes D. C takes D. And we now have this queenside majority. White with a passed D pawn. Majority rolls. Bishop D3. Only now. Knight takes knight. Pawn takes knight. Knight D7. From here, white castles. Now, do know there is no Greek gift sacrifice. This sequence right here with knight G5 and queen H5. The knight is in a position to save the day. Knight F6, covering H7, and throwing a punch. No sacrifices to worry about. We have now castles. Pop quiz, what is your move? Pause the video if you'd like. Okay. Important moment for this game here for the structure. The top move here is C4. If you go with something else, let's say, Rd8. Seems purposeful. Open file hop to it. White would now be better. C4 is very strong, supporting this passed pawn and influencing the top pawn for black on the queenside, this middle pawn of the three. If it's capturing, okay, bishop recaptures, black's pawns split. This would be a very good move for white to get in. Black is on move here. This pawn after castles is now unpinned. This is the moment to play C4. This is top. Bishop B1. You'll notice this structure remains strong here. This middle pawn will not be influenced with any C4. Moreover, this pawn is now cut off from the defense of any of the white pawns. It's a target from this point on. Follow up, bishop B7, some pressure on this point. Queen C2. Now, it doesn't like this move. It prefers a pawn advance, seeing how the pawn is going to be a target on the D5 square specifically. It says move to D6, let the queen cover it from there. Not so easy to put pressure on the D6 pawn. Okay, you can see why a player might shy away from advancing like this. The bishop's scope has now been extended. The queen has some restriction that has a role here to defend the knight. Not how white plays it. White provokes some kingside weaknesses with queen C2. Threatening mate. The follow up is G6. Now, it says you can approach it with knight F6, but here's what keeps a player away from knight F6. Maybe bishop G5. Threatening. Bishop takes knight and then yet again the mate. Okay, it says you can play G6 here. This situation, not comfortable. To be in a pin, to have a restriction placed on the queen here. Alright, black's approach. I'm willing to create these dark square weaknesses and sidestep any pin on this diagonal in the process. Okay, follow up, rook F to D1. It's saying come back over to D2 at this point. White gets this final piece working. Rook E8. Only now, only after establishing this nice queenside structure, more appropriate moment for this piece improvement. Queen D2, bishop B6. From here, bishop captures bishop. It says top bishop G5, bishop kicked, and then knight C5. Black is doing well here. Evaluation about minus one. Threatening a fork, currently. Be covered. Healthy move, queen D7. Invite your final piece into the game. Okay, not what we have. It is a dark square bishop exchange from here. Knight recapturing. This point, ready to fall. Three attackers on it. There's no holding it. The play from here is queen H6. Next up, knight G5, going in for the kill on H7. If the pawn advances here, there's bishop captures knight, and this pawn will not survive. So, there's rook A7 to D7. You could put three major pieces on it, and well, if you really need a fourth attacker, it's nearby with knight C8. There's really not much that white can do about this very idea. The bishop is pretty much a non-factor in the kingside weaknesses. They cannot be exploited. The queen will not be enough to take advantage of these dark square weaknesses. So, not a good idea really to play D6. The try here, queen H6, queen F6 in a spot to defend. Rook lift, bishop captures pawn, knight G5, queen G7, queen H4. From here, rook E5 is played. Pressure on something. Prepare to get this final piece working. Set up a back rank mate. It says a better idea, give the knight a kick, and address this idea to jump into F6 with rook E6, or even the capture of the knight. Okay, with black's play, rook E5, this was a window for white to now play F4. He does not play in this way. What we have is knight E4. This was the top line. F4, with then F5, trying to do something on these white squares. Okay, no F4 here. The try, knight E4, the knight immediately swiped. Bishop recapture, rook's double, flight square, knight A4, pressure on this pawn. Uncomfortable situation for white here. Pressure on C3 by a minor piece. Have to allocate a major piece to the defense of a pawn. That's an inconvenience. From here, king H2, rook E6. Okay, some rook moves here, bishop being a bully. Black keeps a rook around on the back rank, safeguarding the king here. Follow-up F4, rook C5, bishop F3, pop quiz. What's your move here? Pause the video if you'd like. Okay, there is a move that is very tempting here. The move in the game is knight captures pawn, and this is not winning. Imagine most who spent time with this pop quiz were capturing away on this square. I think I would be on that list as well. This is not a winning move. A top move in this position is rook F5. Not really the first move that screams out to be played. The idea here, open up this idea to bring the queen into the action. Right now, the queen really just functioning like a bishop. All of these squares under control by white. Rook is coming to the queen's rescue, supporting this move. Now, if rook F5, and let's say it's challenged with the bishop, then there is this sacrifice on C3, undermining the support of the rook. Rook takes knight, queen takes rook, queen is on the rook there. Also, rook F5, G4, there's a little trick with rook takes pawn, the follow-up fork. We do not see rook F5. The move in this game is knight C3. Now, what's the big issue with knight C3? This is not a losing move, but it's no longer winning for black. White not in a position to take advantage of this, especially taking a quick peek at the clock, 33 seconds to find the refutation here, the top line from here. Pretty much an impossible task, I would say. White's approach, we have rook to D8. Here is the way to keep this position now level. The only move here is with queen F2 to defend the rook. First of all, capturing the knight hangs the rook. This is the top move. Retreat move number 1 of 2 white would have had to find here. Now this is a threat. Where do you go with the knight? Let's say knight A4. Retreat move 2 of 2 would have to be spotted. Yeah, good luck coming up with these two to keep this level. There's now pressure on the knight, and it pretty much can't move. If the knight moves to B6, white would now be winning after rook D6, targeting these two loose pieces. So if the knight cannot move, what would be best here? It's calling for the doubling up of the rooks, allowing the bishop for knight exchange, allowing the queenside structure to be damaged within this follow-up deflection idea. Pulling the c-rook away, queen takes rook, and this pawn will soon fall. Equal position here. No longer winning. Okay, again, good luck coming up with these two retreating moves. From this point on, the play from here, rook D8, black once more taking care over his back rank. Rook C8, rook takes rook, rook takes rook, the queen now ready to play a roll. Queen E7, queen in the center, pressure on the pawn collapses in just a blink. We have F5, queen F4, G3, queen D2 check, of course you can take the rook straight away, but why not insert a check? White blocks with the bishop, always a nice little move to flick in here, may not always be the case. White is in a position to block the check, may have to, in some situations, fall back to the first rank, and in that way, you get to take the rook with check. Alright, all plays out here. We have the block, and after move 38, as you might expect, this queen captures rook, white goes ahead and resigns. It's down to full rook here, and a couple big pawns. This was a nice game, really, this Magnus, queen's gambit line. Key structural note, really, with this one dating all the way back to right around here, any of you attracted to a useful move like rook to E8 here, not inserting C4, important to get in this very move. Don't allow white to play C4. Black was pretty much in the driver's seat from this point on with this particular arrangement. Anyhow, your thoughts with this one. Feel free, as usual, to leave any feedback to this video in the comments section below. I hope you enjoyed it, and maybe took a thing or two away. That's all for now, take care, bye.