Excellent! I want more!

Sorry Robo, you'll have to wait until next friday

But I don't wanna! I want one a day... yeah, that'd be nice.

Hehe, that would be real nice! That is the dream

No no, the dream would be private face to face lessons from this wonderful wonderful man. And possibly with some naked dancing women in the back, though they would distract from the chess... so maybe they're for the before/after party. Oh! And the lessons are in a tropical paradise, and I'm a multi-maillionaire with my own private spaceship and an army of little cute Nibbler-like aliens.

Another great video, keep them coming please

About h6:

Not sure if this is concrete or not, but I think that the reason why he's creating luft is so that he can then proceed with Rxa1 followed by Ng4 (assuming now Kf1) and Re6 to be followed up with Rf6 and then Qf5, and now he has a well placed rook there that can possible beaf up his queen on the h-file plays. Not checked with computer or anything and not sure if this really holds water, but that's my two cents anyways.

EDIT: I hadn't considered the game continuation, *chucks theory out the window*

Hi everyone! I'd like to be part of the forum discussions as well, if that's ok with you Although I'm very busy these days I would certainly have time to drop by and post a comment every now and then. Robofriven, I couldn't help laughing like crazy at the "this wonderful wonderful man" bit. Hahaha good stuff. Thanks man. themofro, I actually think your explanation about 23...h6 makes perfect sense! From what I know about Alekhine, he would never have played such a move only based in psychological reasons. He just wasn't that kind of a guy. I do believe now that he played it in order to follow up with ...Rxa1-...Re6! Thanks for teaching me that one Carlin, believe me, I know exactly what it's like to be a limited player who's eargely trying to get better at this game so that he can finally get to understand master play in detail. It's exactly for this very reason that I decided, long ago, that I'd learn this thing, you see? Your well-written post was indeed a delight to read, with all the details you broke down. A suggestion I would have for everybody in the homework position is: while trying to figure out what Black's continuation is, make an effort not to see only a move, only an idea; instead, try to control the position and calculate exact variations. I know, I know... it's too hard. But the goal here is to create the habit of trying to calculate longer variations, and to always predict your opponent's resources against your idea. Remember fellas: at the other side of the table there'll always be someone who's after your liver! Dedicate more time to predicting your opponent than to playing for yourselves. That's it for now, everybody have a great Sunday! Luis.

Another interesting video. It's an absolute delight to watch it!

You are great Coelho! /bow

Ok, so to continue the attack, the ideal position i would think is to have the knight on g4, and then bring the rook on e8 to f6. That way you have 3 attackers attack the weak f2 pawn, and the pawn cant be pushed.

As for h6, when you said it was a very mysterious move, i knew right away h6 was coming, lol. I dont think he made this move because he was afraid of potential back rank threats, but that could be a reason for playing it. The main reason i can see is he wanted to play a waiting move, waiting to see how Ahues wants to defend, maybe even believing ahues has no real ways to improve his position and most moves ahues can make will hurt himself. (as seen with the knight to a1 move, you said he never got that knight off of a1).

He mentioned me first! Now I only wish I was able to post something with some substance.

yes this i call lessons.so do you wanna createa video with explonatin of some opening, i am despired,i know play onley spanish game and evans gambit. (e4). so please help

OK IT'S FRIDAY - TIME FOR PART 2!!

Was that a little to anxious? Sorry. These things get me through my week.