The Perfect Combination!

Hello everyone and welcome to another incredible game. This one is also from the European Individual Championship that was played a couple of days ago and it features two Turkish grandmasters Işık Can and Ediz Gürel and I haven't even seen this game so I'm very happy that it comes as a suggestion from a subscriber and that is exactly what you should always suggest the game if you see a nice game. This is a true brilliancy and I would hate for anyone to miss this beauty. So yeah let's dive straight into it. It's the penultimate round and Işık with white pieces opens with pawn to e4. We have pawn to c5 by Ediz. We have knight to c3, knight to c6 and now knight g to e2. This is a chameleon variation against the Sicilian and it can transpose into many weird setups but if you execute d4 then you're gonna transpose into the normal stuff. So g6 here is the most common but here we have knight to f6 and now pawn to d4. Okay c captures, knight captures and now we're in the standard open Sicilian. We have pawn to e5 transposing into the Sveshnikov or the Laskar or the Pelican variation. Knight d to b5 and now pawn to d6 followed by knight to d5. So this is a very popular line especially as Magnus Carlsen and Fabiana Coruana played it I think in five games, in four games and one rapid game in tie breaks. So it was very very thoroughly analyzed and they're actually going to be following one of the games for quite some time. Knight captures on d5, e captures and now in some of the games Magnus won knight to b8, in some of the games he won knight to e7. Here we have knight to b8 and pawn to a4. Okay still you can see that they're not even spending time, they're even gaining time. Bishop to e7 with bishop to e2, castles castles and knight to d7. And here again many moves are possible. Here Fabi played pawn to b4. Interestingly today it's not one of the top engine moves. But the engines were a bit different in 2018 and I think it was the first world championship where neural networks were used. I know Leela Shaziro was used quite extensively in that world championship. So probably something to do with that. We have pawn to a6 and knight back to a3. And now in that game Magnus played pawn to a5 which interestingly today is not even in the top three engine recommendations. Here you will have something like b6, also pawn to f5, rook to b8. Those are all very very nice moves. But here we have pawn to b6 and we're still not in a completely new position. Knight c4, we have pawn to a5 and now there are some games where b5 was played. Also b captures on a5 is a known move. But here we have pawn to c3 and it is now as of move 15 that we have a completely new game. And this goes for queen to c7. We have bishop to e3 and this here after queen to c7 is the first moment where Isik goes for a bit of a not a deep thing but he does spend some time, some 15 minutes on this bishop to e3. And okay that b6 pawn is feeling the pressure but for the moment it is nicely defended. We have bishop to a6 and now knight back to a3 offering a trade of light square bishops but also offering a pawn on c3. So you have to calculate this out very precisely. And this does. He plays bishop captures on e2. We have queen captures and now queen captures on c3 followed by rook f to c1. And okay we have queen to b3 and now queen to b5 putting pressure on that knight on d7. Rook f to d8 and now rook c to b1 attacking the queen. Queen c3 and now you can't repeat with rook c1 as that b4 pawn will just be captured. The knight is no longer hanging. So knight to c4 putting pressure on that b6 pawn three different ways. And now a captures on b4. We have knight captures on b6. Knight captures and now bishop captures on b6 attacking the rook here. We have rook d to b8 and now we have pawn to a5. Okay we have king to f8 and now rook to c1. We have queen to d2 and now rook a to b1. Pawn to g6 and pawn to h3. Okay so everything gets traded off. Black has the passed b-pawn. White has the passed a-pawn. And they both created a little bit of breeding room for their kings. And this king to f8 move that was played it's a really weird move at least to me. Because on g8 you're on a light square. Okay your opponent has a dark square bishop so that has to be good. And on the other hand imagine if the rooks get traded off. Even a simple check on the back rank could be very annoying for Black. So I have no idea why he played this king to f8 move. Maybe Isik is already very low on time so maybe he's trying to burn more of his time. But here interestingly he goes back with king to g7. We have rook to d1 and now queen to c3. We have rook d to c1, queen to d2 and now rook to c6. Okay so everything is nicely defended and that rook is on a very active outpost. But what is it really doing there? Well sorry about that. Here we have pawn to b3 and now comes a very very interesting move. Rook back to c1. The problem is if you play rook captors on b3 then you have rook captors on a5. That's very annoying. So you can't do anything about this. And on the other hand if you play queen captors you still have rook captors on a5. And you're going to lose the d5 pawn as well and that's just going to be a lost position for white as white already gave up a pawn. You can't just blunder another pawn. So rook c back to c1 and now we have pawn to b2 attacking the rook. Rook to d1 attacking the queen and queen to c2. We have queen to d7 attacking the bishop and this is now a completely winning position for black. Here before this queen to d7 you can play many other moves. You can play queen to c6. This is fine. Queen to b4 is fine. Even just moving the rook to e1 is fine but queen d7 does not work. But in order to calculate why it doesn't work you have to really see some I would say six moves ahead. Like you have to see three to you know get a feeling that there's maybe something more there and then you have to really calculate it out otherwise it just doesn't work. So feel free to pause the video and win the game for black while I give you a couple of seconds. Yes it is the incredible rook captures on b6 and this really has to be calculated perfectly otherwise it doesn't work. So you have to capture otherwise you have nothing. A captures on b6 and now queen captures on d1. Absolutely spectacular. Rook captures and now rook to a1 and the problem is if you trade here it seems like maybe it's not terrible. For example king h2 still has the passed pawn on b6 versus a bishop so it doesn't seem terrible. But look at this bishop to h4 and now after b7 bishop captures on f2. White gets a queen into the game and of course black delivers the checkmate on g1. So that's the idea. So that's why here we have queen to g4 by Isik and now rook to c1. That's the only way to do it. You cannot play b1 queen but you can play rook to c1 and now you're actually threatening to bring a queen into the game. We have b7 b1 queen and now rook captures on c1. Queen captures and now king to h2 so the passed pawn is ready to promote. The question is what do you play? There's only one way to do it and if you found all of this then probably you will see this one as well. And this is move 40 so additional time has been granted. The move is queen to b2. The problem is if you go queen c7 just queen to c8 and there's no problem for white. But after queen to b2 now there's nothing you can do. Queen c8 and now look at this bishop to g5. And now if you promote a pawn into a queen look at this. Bishop f4 check king g1 queen to a1. You cannot give a check here or here but you can give it here and after you give up both of your queens it's going to be checkmate as the bishop covers the h2 square. So after bishop g5 we have king to g1 queen to a1 with check. A couple of precise moves are needed. King to h2 and now queen to d4. Again with the exact same idea. If you promote the pawn to a queen bishop f4 check and then if g3 you can even play bishop queen captures on f2. So king g1 now okay what's the idea here? Well the idea is now if black is careless you might well you might get back into the game. But here we have absolute precision from Iris and he plays bishop to h4 and he was in this position on move 44 that Ushik Ajan resigned the game as there is nothing more to be done here. Whatever you try b8 queen of course it's the first attempt. You're just going to give a check and then after king h2 bishop to g3 check king h1 and queen to f1 will be checkmate. Or even if you play something like queen to c2 you guard that pawn. Well now it's a bit of a problem because you cannot deliver checkmate. But you don't need to deliver checkmate. You're up a piece so you just need to get rid of the b-pawn. You're just going to play queen to b6 and that's it. White cannot defend on f2 as you are threatening that as well and the b7 pawn. So white will have to make any move queen to a2 and then you're just going to capture on b7 and be up a full bishop and the pawn and have a completely winning game. So absolutely incredible and you know you can different factors I imagine in this game. But yeah queen d7 I mean it's with less than a minute on the clock looking for ways maybe he thought he was lost or maybe he thought he had to win because you know it's an individual european championship so winning will get you closer to winning. But yeah queen d7 was over pushing it and unlucky for him but lucky for it is it featured this brilliant sequence. Look at this one more time. Captress, captress, captress, captress, rook a1, rook c1. You promote to a queen and then everything just has to be executed to perfection and that's all there is to it. Bishop h4 beautifully done. So I really hope you enjoyed it. Like I said always use that hashtag suggestion as I might miss games like these if you guys are not using it and I do have a watchful eye. I keep an eye on every game that's played but I can't keep an eye on literally every game so definitely it definitely helps. So yeah I really hope you enjoyed that. I would like to thank Stephen Connell, Igor Osmolovsky, Christian Medical, Voice of Reason and Lucas Teocatis for your contribution to my channel. Thank you a lot I really appreciate it. As usual you can check two of my previous videos here. Thank you for watching and I will see you soon continuing to check up on your wonderful suggestions and whatever else happens in the chess world. Thank you all I will see you soon and have an excellent rest of your day and sorry for my throat issues here and there. I'm you know I'm always catching something at this time of the year can't be helped. You know it is what it is. See you soon.