How to Play Aggressive Chess

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Fritz Gaspard, Chess Teacher at Chess In The Schools in New York City. How to play aggressive chess? We're going to look at one of the quickest possible checkmates. It's called the Four-move checkmate by beginners and novices, but we also know this in Scholar checkmate. Let's see how it works. If I place the pawn from E2 to E4; it controls central square and allow this, the bishop on F1 to get out and the queen to go to F3 or G4 or H5. If black response with the pawn to E5, then white now may place the bishop on C4; you may notice that the bishop on C4 is trained on the pawn on F7. But the pawn on F7 is protected by the king so for the moment that pawn is safe. If black would have play, the knight to C6; now an aggressive player playing white might see the opportunity to attack this pawn with a different piece. The bishop is already attacking; let's bring the queen into the game; the queen to H5. The queen on H5 is attacking on this white diagonal and so we have bishop and queen attacking the pawn on F7. Suppose black is not aware of this and black continues with a normal developing move; let say knight to F6. The knight comes out, it's actually attacking the queen but it doesn't do anything to protect this pawn on F7. Now we can capture the pawn on F7. Which piece you think we should take with; the queen or bishop? Both are good but the queen is better. The queen captures on F7; it's attacking the king; the king is in check and there's no way to capture the queen; there's no way to block the check, it's completely impossible because the queen is right next to the king; the bishop protects the queen; checkmate, game over and this is called a checkmate."