Karl Marx | Il Sacrificio del Cavallo Più Comunista della Storia

Hello everyone and welcome back to a new video Today we are going to see the game of a famous historical figure, Karl Marx who was a philosopher, an economist, a politician, a journalist a very famous figure who published the Manifesto of the Communist Party and then the Capital In this case he managed to publish only one volume, anyway, Karl Marx, Communist How did this character end up in chess? And above all, what style of play did he have? Because I, in reality, was a little surprised Before starting, I remind everyone to like and subscribe to the channel Thanks to all those who are subscribing And let's start Ok here we are, we are in Germany in 1867 Karl Marx plays with the white pieces against Meyer We don't have many games of Marx to analyze However, it was said that he was not a good chess player In this case we see this friendly game, which in my opinion is very interesting Marx opens with e4, Meyer responds with e5 And here he follows pawn f4, king's pawn In short, it doesn't surprise me much, even if I expected Marx to have a solid style of play In fact, in the 19th century, the king's pawn was the mother of all openings So it may be that Marx played the king's pawn from white Because it was played by everyone Meyer captures in f4, so we return to the accepted king's pawn And Marx, be careful, doesn't play knight f3 But he continues with queen c4 He reveals the diagonal h4 e1 So, theoretically, black could give up This variation with queen c4 exists It's a very aggressive variation, white immediately attacks the f7 house But it's very risky at the same time Meyer defends the pawn in f4 with g5 He doesn't play queen h4 Marx continues with knight f3 He develops the knight And the g4 pawn arrives Ok, in this position, white must already be very careful Because if he had to move the knight Obviously, now comes queen h4, check And here would be a problem Marx decides to give up He leaves the knight in play We return to the Muzio's pawn Many of you asked me Ok, here it is, it's played by Karl Marx In practice, white sacrifices a piece to have an advantage of development After pawn for knight, queen for pawn We return to this position As you can see, white has three pieces developed He already put the king safe While black didn't develop any piece Meyer continues with queen f6 Marx plays e5 pawn As you can see, it's a tactical and very aggressive style He sacrifices the e pawn He wants the queen to capture And then, in some way, try to attack the queen and the king Even if, at the moment, it's not so banal These are all moves that have been played by great masters Like, for example, Nakamura Meyer captures with the queen D3 pawn arrives Now, Marx wants to capture the f4 pawn with the bishop Meyer defends with bishop h6 And follows with knight c3 White continues to develop the pieces Black plays knight e7 So, he interposes a piece between king and queen And Marx simply plays bishop d2 We are at the 10th move And white has finished the development While black has three pieces at home, on the side of the queen And, also, your king h8 isn't playing Not to mention the king, which is still in the center However, in this position, black is better Because white plays with one less piece But, from a practical point of view I'm sure that many would find it better to play with the white pieces Now, Marx simply wants to develop the e1 tower And gain some time on the queen Meyer develops knight g6 Follows with e1 tower Queen f5 And Marx jumps with knight d5 As you can see, he's attacking, he's putting pressure Meanwhile, he wants to play knight c7, checkmate And gain the tower He's still attacking the knight in e7 And, also, he's attacking the pawn in f4 So, knight d5 is a great move Meyer is forced to defend And plays king d8 Defends the pawn in c7 And Marx continues with bishop c3 With this move, he attacks the tower But this isn't the only idea After tower g8, in fact Marx plays bishop f6 This is a nice move In fact, he's attacking the knight in e7 And he's ready to gain a piece To take back the piece Now, the black must absolutely defend in some way And he has a nice idea In this case, the black plays bishop g5 The bishop contrasts the bishop of the white But, in addition, he defends Even if the x-ray is defending the knight in e7 So, the white can't gain the piece So, Marx captures in g5 And, after queen in g5 He plays knight in f4 In fact, the position is getting more and more tense From both sides Because the black, now, as you can see Has the tower and queen battery And he's threatening checkmate in g2 The white, on the other hand, is defending But, also, the white is putting a lot of pressure on the black king So, let's see what happens Mayer continues with knight e5 He attacks the queen, he attacks the bishop The idea is right He can stay with one more piece So, he has to try to change the pieces And to simplify the position Marx moves the queen in e4 He increases the pressure on the knight in e7 Mayer pushes the pawn in d6 He defends the knight and prepares to develop the bishop And here comes a tremendous move from Marx Maybe it's not the best move But, the idea is really devastating In fact, Marx plays pawn in h4 He's attacking the queen But, why? He wants to deflect the queen So, he wants the queen to capture in h4 To play knight e6 checkmate And to capture the queen in black Really a nice combination Mayer, in this case, understands Marx's intentions And plays queen g4 With queen g4 he maintains the pressure in g7 However, this is a very serious mistake Because the game returns in parity If the game returns in parity with the white that has a piece less Then there is some problem The best move, in fact, was queen g7 And in a while we'll see why Marx continues with bishop to f7 He attacks the tower He puts a piece in the capture Because after knight to f7 He plays queen to knight in e7 checkmate So, here's why the best move was queen g7 To defend the pawn in f7 To not let it capture Now, instead, black is risking a lot Meanwhile, the tower is under attack Mayer moves it in f8 Attacks the bishop Marx withdraws the bishop in h5 Attacks the queen The queen withdraws in g7 Note that now the position is even And Marx comes out with d4 pawn Attacks the knight And, of course, he wants to increase the pressure in e7 He follows knight c6 Mayer defends the knight in e7 And attacks the pawn in d4 Marx here plays a calm move That is, pawn c3 He simply defends the pawn in d4 And here, at this point of the game A very strange move comes from black A move that doesn't make much sense Pawn a5 Mayer wants to develop the tower in a6 But even if he had to develop the tower in a6 What would he gain from this? Nothing Because as long as there is the pawn in d6 The tower cannot come and participate In the attack here on the king's side So this is a useless maneuver Marx, on the other hand, plays a nice move That is, knight e6 With this move, as you can see, he gives a jump Threatens the queen Threatens the tower So black is forced to capture Mayer captures with the bishop And the tower comes for f8-jump Intermediate move After queen for f8 Queen for bishop We reach this position Where white has completely won the game For what reason? It's because, even if black has one more piece The tower is still as if it didn't play Also, white threatens the queen on g4 Queen on d7-jump This plan is not so easy to parry However, he follows a6-tower for Mayer You see, what was his idea? A6-tower, but what does it serve? It serves nothing, a6-tower And Marx, attention, does not play on g4 But he plays on f1-tower On g4-alpha Black could play queen e8 Defend himself from the bishop So defend the house on d7 And the position would return to parity So, very good here Marx To see this variant He plays on f1-tower He wants to deviate the queen So the queen can't go on e8 anymore And after queen on g7 Now he plays on g4-alpha Here it is, he's threatening the bishop on d7 Desperate move here for black He plays knight on b8 A knight on b8 controls the house on d7 But will it be enough? No, not really Marx simply plays on f7-tower And in this position, Mayer abandons Because there is no defense This is the problem White threatens to capture And give a crazy escape The other side is attacking the queen on g7 So after, for example Queen on g8 But guys, really, any move Black plays, white wins I'll show you an example Queen on g8, he follows Queen on knight, crazy escape A very fun game Very interesting I didn't expect Marx to have An aggressive style of play Instead, from this game emerges DC We have reached the end of this video Thanks to everyone for watching I remind you to like and subscribe to the channel Bye and see you next time