Capturing Pieces vs. Pursuing Checkmate | Chess Video Lecture | Chess Tutorial Course: Beginner to Advanced - Class 6

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hi this is coach Jeremy I'm gonna show
you a combination that actually maybe
arguably the greatest player of all time
certainly one of the greatest josé raúl
capablanca used this game although it's
not an outstanding game and I'm sure his
opponent was quite fearful of the fact
that he was playing the world champion
of a soon to be world champion at the
time this game illustrates very clearly
an important point which is that chess
is not just about capturing pieces the
name of the game is checkmate that's
what we're trying to do checkmate our
opponents King and prevent our king from
being checkmated and we'll sacrifice our
entire army to that end so from this
position and never mind fight how we got
here
Queen to f7 check the king only has one
move
d6 now the series of sacrifices begins
Knight to c4 the pawn is cutting off a 5
and c5 so we have to take the knight and
then Knight to e4 the other night jumps
in check the King only has one move d5
now we introduce a new attacking piece
the rook cannot be taken by the pond
which is pinned by the Queen so we're
forcing black again to take you could
have taken the pawn as well but he takes
the more valuable Knight now introduced
again on a new attacking weapon rook a
to e1 check sacrificing a pawn now white
hits in with c3 pawn check the King has
one move d3 and now to end the game we
have rook to d5 double check this is a
bishop there on h7 double check
checkmate and if we notice White's given
up two knights a bishop that's 9 10 11
12 points worth of material has only
captured 5 points of material but it's
the black king that's checkmated so just
as clearly not just about capturing
pieces
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