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Hello chess friends and welcome to that obsessional and welcome to adjust arre that's a little bit different than my usual Chester assume a YouTube channel. Today I wanted to show you a great chess game played by the legendary musician John Lennon.
So John Lennon was very famous, I think back in the last century. He was the founder of this very nice band, The Beatles. But The Beatles were popular all over the world. And unfortunately, exactly 39 years ago, John Lennon got shot by one of his fans in front of his residence in New York. And it was exactly 39 years ago at the end of December 1980. And I think this was really one of the saddest, saddest music music moments in history. And I don't know what to say about that. But John Lennon was really a legend, landed when it comes to music.
So among many things here, John Lennon played many instruments. But I think he was also a very nice chess player. Because when I saw that John Lennon got shot exactly at the end of December, I read many articles and then I saw also some many pictures that he used to play many chess games against his wife Yoko Ono. And then I searched on Google for some good chess games and I found really a great, great tactical brilliancy play by John Lennon. It was incredible how great, great tactically he was prepared. He played with aggressive, aggressive opening. I really liked this game and I think you should watch it because it's really something worth to see. So all of the respect to John Lennon. He played, as I said, among many instruments, he played, I think also some great chess.
So let's see his game. I don't know against whom he has played this game, but I just found this particular game. Let's see. He for John plays you're the most d5, very aggressive, immediately straight forward here. The Scandinavian fans we have e x d5 and now already a very interesting idea, knight on f6 after c4, c6, immediately playing sort of a gambit line, although you can take of course the pawn immediately. After he takes d5, John Lennon played a very aggressive chess, great, great gambit line. And now after c6, we have d x c6 and now a knight on c6. So if we evaluate the position now, white is a pawn up, but there is a problem because with this gambit line here, John Lennon gets out with both of these knights, which is very important. He gets this minor pieces faster out as well as white. So although white has is the pawn up, but it's still hard to make progress. Put some potential d4 move. So the d4 move would be sort of a liberating line for white. In the game, knight on f3 was played, preparing this move. And now very important, b5, blocking out this potential for d4 move by white. And in the game, d3 was played. And here John Lennon, again, we see how great, great tactical game he played. He played very aggressively here, moving e4 immediately, tracking the position. After he takes e4, we have queen takes on d1, king takes, knight takes on e4. And now there is this problem about this pawn on f2. So here bishop on e3 was played. But now bishop on g4, not that this bishop move only creates some dangerous pins, it also prepares queenside castling, which is very important here. Then you have all your pieces activated. You have activated your bishop, you have activated both, both of your knights. Still this bishop has a good diagonal and after castling, you have really a great, great attack against white's king. So in the game, knight on d3 was played. On our screen side castling, very nice move, very fast development here by John Lennon, not allowing here to take the knight because we have this very dangerous, dangerous pin on the king. So in the game, his opponent played king on c1. We have knight on c5. And if you take here, bishop on c5, I don't think that it brings you so much because we can simply take and go after this weak pawn on f2. If we grab this pawn, of course, then with the bishop pair in such an open position, black has the advantage. In the game, knight on e4 could have been played. But now after bishop on b5, again, c5 is a possibility, but not, not a problem. I think here we have two bishop on c7, again, black has a comfortable game. If you try to do bishop on b5 here, then bishop on c4 is very dangerous. If you move the king here on c2 in order to connect finally your rook, because you see in game, white has always this developing problems, although with the pawn up. Then bishop on f5 is a simple idea. If it takes, takes, then after maybe something like rook on e4, rook on e4, it can be played, continue to play against this dangerous pin on the knight on e4. If it rides knight and details, you see to protect your done when you have even this stunner rook takes on d2. So that's why after knight on c5, bishop on e2 was played. The white needs now the development. Now knight on d3, very nice check. We have bishop takes from d3, rook takes on d3. And now black is continuing the game with the bishop pair, which is very important here. In the game, a3 was played, maybe not the best of moves here by white, because maybe h3 is better here. We can maybe go bishop on d7 and after something like king on c2, at least we have here this move knight on b4, staying with this rook on this very important third rank and kicking away the king. The king has to go now, maybe here on a d1, but again, we can develop somehow way here the bishop and go maybe to create some dangerous attacks on the d4. So in the game, a3 was played. And now John Lennon gets an extra tempo because white has lost my tempo. This a3 creates nothing, it doesn't create any attacks. And how to proceed here? Of course, here John, I don't simply played on his fast developing style, which I really like because here you don't have to see immediately tactical possibilities, it's just about getting all of your pieces working, include all of your pieces in the attacking. That's why I think this bishop on e7 shows how great, great theoretical knowledge John Lennon had here. With bishop on e7 and preparing the bishop to go on this very important diagonal, with this both diagonals, with this battery on the d4, with this knight on c6, which has really a great attacking possibility, black has really a nice compensation for this for respond on. So after bishop on e7, we have king on b1. Here white desperately, desperately tried to try to escape with the king. He bishop on f5 and now king on a2. Okay, we have higher than the king here on on a2, but now rook on da. As I said, here we have a perfect coordination of pieces. In the game, rook from a to c1 was played. And now bishop on f6. Now in this position, our pieces are really on the best course. I couldn't find myself here a better score for any of these pieces. So now when we have this perfect attack, now it's time to search for tactical possibilities. In the game, a3 was played. And now John Lennon plays a very, very interesting idea. I really like this move, rook on d6. Incredible thing. There is really a tricky thing about this move, rook on d6, because this rook can now create some attacks on the sixth rank. And in the game, g4 was played here by John Lennon's opponent. And I want you to pause now the video and maybe try to find the best move because after this move of basically the game is over for white. We have now a forced six move chess checkmate technical sequence. Take your time. John Lennon saw this move. It was really a great tactical shot, unbelievable move. And after this move, basically white, white can resign.
So, okay, just take your time. As I said, this was really a great attacking brilliancy by John Lennon. So here the best move is to play on a counter-attack. So that's why I like this game because here most of us would retreat with the bishop because you got attacked, but not John Lennon. He played a counter-attack, knighted before with the check. You have to take here. We have a takes b4. But now rook on a6, very important move. Now the king comes and try to pause again the video and try to find the best move here. It's really incredible move, very, very nice decoy motive. We have here rook a1. If you take rook takes on a1, then here rook on rook on a3 is checkmate because this bishop, as I said, you see how John Lennon improved the position of the bishop by playing bishop on e7 and then bishop on f6, and now this bishop is covering the b1 square. And here after rook on a3, it would be game over. So that's why in the game, king on c2 was played. But now again, a very nice move. You can c3 again. If you take it, then you have sort of troubles. If you take here with the pawn, you cannot do that because here we have this discovered attack. So that's why we have a double check. Now it's white, white has only one square here. We have rook on d1 and now rook takes on c1. You have only one square, king on e2. But now bishop on d3 and very nice checkmate. Great attack by John Lennon. I was a little bit surprised because I've seen on many popular popular persons playing chess, but I've never seen that anyone has created such a great attack. It was a great attacking branch. I'm not sure if I would have found this an item before myself. I would consider it, but would I really calculate all of that after an item before? Here we have a force tactical sequence of force checkmate in five and it was game over.
Okay, great game by the legendary John Lennon. I hope you enjoyed it. I enjoyed this game a lot. It was really incredible for me to see and that among many, many great things that John Lennon did in his life, he played also some great chess. I'm really, really was really surprised to see that. And I hope you can maybe watch many of his music videos. He played really some great music and his band, The Beatles, were really one of the best bands in history. And I think you should do you should watch them if you haven't heard about them. I think you should hear about them for sure. So, okay, I hope you enjoyed this game. Meanwhile, you can watch my other content on my YouTube channel with more common to chess games and you can also watch my best chess games of all time series. I think I will add John Lennon's game on my best chess games of all time series. Check it out and you can also subscribe to my channel if you like this content. Thank you for watching and just the best, of course.