A Masterclass By Magnus Carlsen On Pins [4 Rules]

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Very often, chess players play Bg4/Bg5 trying to pin the knight to the queen. In this video, GM Igor Smirnov analyzes several games of Magnus Carlsen to see how he handles such positions.
He has discovered that Carlsen consistently applies 4 key rules to either counter this pin and punish his opponents or to make use of the pin himself successfully.
Additionally, you will learn about pins occurring in various forms beyond bishop-knight pins, as well as the two types of pins and how to use them effectively.
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► Chapters
00:00 4 Rules To Punish/Use Pins Ft. Magnus Carlsen
00:21 Example-1
00:58 Rule-1
03:55 Rule-2
06:46 Example-2
07:00 Rule-3
11:16 Example-3
12:54 Types of Pin: Absolute Pin vs Relative Pin
13:17 Rule-4
14:40 Example-4 (Puzzle for you)
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[@GMIgorSmirnov]

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[@BobChess]

Puzzle solution: 1.b6+ is the way to go. Black has to accept the pawn sacrifice or else Rh8+ will be mate soon. Let says Rxg6 has been played. In this case, you just pick up a queen and you are up a full queen, so black would try Kxg6 , but then you play this beautiful rook sacrificing. Rh6!, now it's you that pinning his pieces and you will either win a rook or a queen in the next move. Pin this ♥️

[@josh6107]

its b6 not g6

[@abdush3268]

> *Pin* this. Staying true to the video subject I see.

[@reverseunderwriter8692]

How will Black go Kxg6?

[@rahesirazshaik7680]

Wow you are genius 😮

[@JustRightPinedo]

He should pin this comment ;) I had b6 check but couldn’t get more than a move past that idea

[@user-rn4bw7zs3g]

Best move is b6+!. This is a great example of rule 3. Attack right away using forcing moves! If they accept sacrifice with, Kxb6,Rh6!!,Rxh6,Qxe7!. White wins a Queen!. If black accepts the sacrifice with the rook. Rxb6,Qxe7! Wins full Queen! If black does not accept the sacrifice then: If Ka8 or Kb8. Then Checkmate. With the move: Rh8+,Qe8,Rxe8,Rxe8,Qxe8!. White wins.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters 00:00 4 Rules To Punish/Use Pins Ft. Magnus Carlsen 00:21 Example-1 00:58 Rule-1 03:55 Rule-2 06:46 Example-2 07:00 Rule-3 11:16 Example-3 12:54 Types of Pin: Absolute Pin vs Relative Pin 13:17 Rule-4 14:40 Example-4 (Puzzle for you)

[@dr.deepakgore1079]

Fantastic pins , thanks GM Igor Smirnov sir for very interesting teaching post 🎉🎉❤❤

[@elwanviossat4545]

Puzzle solution: 1. b6+ Kxb6 (1...Kb8 2. Rh8+ Qe8 3. Rxe8+ Rxe8 4. Qxe8#) 2. Rh6 Rxh6 (3. Rxe6 after any other move) 3. Qxe7

[@tan2319]

Thanks Igor and Carlsen for this information

[@brokenbackcoil3777]

B6+! And rh6.or mate on the back rank. Ciao.

[@lordsharkyvonsharkington4516]

Pawn b6 for the puzzle. If king takes the pawn, rook to h6 to absolute pin the black rook. Black can't capture the rook without hanging the queen. If king retreats to a8 or b8, rook h8 is checkmate in a few moves, forcing the black queen to block.

[@retr07397]

Just arrived after losing 3 matches from pins

[@Dmitriy_D]

Great video and great puzzle! Thank you Igor!

[@nishanthnellutla]

Answer to the puzzle: pawn b6+. King takes, then rook h6 pins the black rook. White will either be a queen up or rook up at the end of the variation.

[@SparkyForce]

That last puzzle is so cool

[@donsimons9810]

ill say it again: best chess content per unit time on YT

[@X00000370]

The last puzzle was a good one! Pinning the pinner after P->b6 check. BobChess has it described below.

[@Autumn_IK]

The continuation b6+, Kxb6 (if Ka8 or Kb8 is checkmate with Rh8+, Qe8, Rxe8+, Rxe8 and Qxe8++), Rh6, Rxh6 and Qxe7 with winning advantage. Normally the solution is easy to find when they tell you _"play and win",_ and not so simple when you are alone in front of the board :(

[@ricardopinto2611]

Now we just need the key rules to play like rashid nezhmetdinov. Could you analyze his best games and make a video about, please? Thx.

[@darkenloom1943]

Hi Igor, thanks for the nice video, as you request, i'm a pretty sicilian nadjorf player about 1900 elo, but i have some worries dealing whites with 6.Bg5 and the chekhover variation (4.Qxd4). So can you make video about these system please? Cheers

[@ZDTF]

I learnt a lot of ideas

[@khobbashim5191]

14:10 it is better to protect knight with king

[@dmortalla]

When your Queen is absolutely pinned and a capture or block is not enough to save you, see if you have either a check or checkmate. If not, your game is lost. In this case, check with b6 is possible, which allows you either a mate with Rh8, after Ka8/Kb8 and the loss of Black's major pieces, or a counter pin on Black's Rook with Rh6, winning the Rook and leading to a won game.

[@miqueljoancomarti]

b6+ key move , if Ka8 or Kb8, Rh8++, if King takes on b6, Rh6 pinning the rook. If Rook takes b6, Black Queen is taken by White Queen

[@ricardopinto2611]

I've seen a lot of chess videos and I'm trying to create a thinking system that can filter out the various golden rules and concepts. I thought in the following way and order: 1) discover the opponent's biggest threat mainly within my half of the board 2) Try to attack any piece or weak square mainly in my opponent's half of the board 3) If number 2 is not possible, try to prepare an attack using preferably the least active piece. WHAT'S YOUR OPINION? I await response. thanks

[@riccardodeangelis4086]

Hi, very interesting comments, but what about playing Kf7 at 13'59'' of the video? Tku

[@dalemcdowell2684]

loses to c8=Q Rxc8 Bxe6+ king moves or captures, then Bxg7

[@riccardodeangelis4086]

@@dalemcdowell2684 tku

[@charc0al_tv]

The answer to the last puzzle is b6. If king takes, Rh6 pins the rook to both the queen and the king. If Kb8 then you checkmate on the back rank

[@farouqbaiti4315]

1. b6+ Kb8 or Ka8 2. Rh8+ Qe8 3. Rxe8+ Rxe8 4. Qxe8#. Or 1. b6+ Kxb6 2. Rh6 Rxh6 3. Qxe7.

[@slsw89]

In the 3rd example, why is Rh7 a bad move? It looks like it forces a Q exchange and eases the prrssure for black?

[@killianmccluff36]

For example 3 wouldn’t queen moving to f7 after the knight is pinned completely stop this attack instead of moving the rook and giving the pawn a shot at promotion?

[@sailfly2008]

B6+ and then either Rh6 or Rh8 depending on whether or not black takes the pawn

[@FrankBeerbaum]

b6+! If Kxb6 Rh6 wins the Re6 an the next move. If Kb8 or Ka8: Rh8+ wins both black pieces and would still be checkmate on e8: Rh8+ Qe8 Rxe8+ Rxe8 Qxe8#)

[@SvenGoldberg]

b6 check wins :) if black moves away to a8 or b8 then Rh8+, black cannot take the pawn with the rook or it loses the queen and if black takes with the king, white plays Rh6. Nice video again, thank you so much.

[@mrfokus901]

I need more video's like this in my life. Lovely just lovely~

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@franciscojrviola9463]

Pb6check, if ka8 or kb8, then rh8check is more ever a mate, if kxp, then rh6 is a win

[@rafaney5104]

1. b5-b6+!!! If Ka7-a8 or Ka7-b8, 2. Rh4-h8+, Qe7-e8, 3. Rh8:e8+, Re6:e8, 4. Qe3:e8#. If Re6:b6, 2. Qe3:e7 and white has Queen for free. If Ka7:b6, 2. Rh4-h6 🙂and in the next move has Rook for free...

[@abrahamdelacey4288]

Does anyone have the full game of Carlsen - Ponomariov?

[@AlrightLetsGo111]

The Last one is funny! Cold. ah! GG! my friend. GG!

[@farouqbaiti4315]

It's entertaining and improving me at Chess.👨🏻‍🎓😎

[@henrysolar3866]

good one

[@masterofthemoon]

b6, Kxb6, Rh6, rook on e6 is pinned in all directions😂 (Kxb6 forced bc otherwise Rh8 leads to checkmate)

[@KizakiDwiky]

Sir Carlsen just amazing 🔥

[@initiativeplaytherapy88]

Out of curiosity, why didn't the queen take the knight when it moved to K7?

[@ChristianSoschner]

Rule #2: ignore and amplify. Don’t submit, double down on your own attack. Right?

[@brianseiler5987]

Check with the pawn then rook h6 at the end

[@user-ey3nf2vv5n]

Opening line from white against Scandinavian modern defence 😭

[@bryanbalucos3474]

b6+!! is the key move

[@ZDTF]

Pawn B6 If he runs Rook up checkmate If he takes with king Rook To 6 rank And You win If he takes with rook Take hsi queen and win

[@Trevy07]

Push pawn to b6. And if King x b6, white plays rook to h6.

[@delboy9234]

2nd game was the best here, comical if you're on the White side.

[@schwako1]

White up queen rook in the last puzzle.

[@ernestogarcillan1977]

Its a rainy pin 😅 10:04

[@mikebell117]

Me, ignoring my opponent to amplify my attack.... Opponent proceeds to checkmate me with a scholars mate 😦...

[@robertbrown3927]

nice puzzle

[@georgerose1315]

Wow!

[@arandomvieweronyt1222]

We Forget all rules when we play our opponent just like magnus when he plays Hans Niemann.

[@pietrako]

im 1200 chess and it took me around 15sec to solve it :D!

[@majoklengmawut1706]

white to check the king with pwan at b6. if black take the pwan with the king then white will pin rook with rook at h6 .

[@Billbarker57]

For the puzzle: b6+ Kxb6, Rh6! Rxh6, Qxe7

[@SpaceCadet4Jesus]

Puzzle: Not b6+. Because black sees the Grim Reaper at his door and decides to quietly shake hands, instead.

[@sonimasganga8793]

b6+ (Rxb6, Qxe7), Kb8, Rh8+,Qe8,Rxe8,Rxe8,Qxe8#. Therefore, Kxb6, Rh6, Rxh6,Qxe7 (or else rook is lost) +-

[@pramodkumarnarayanan9520]

Puzzle solution b6+ and white wins!!

[@arnold7769]

1. b6!

[@gicocreations6680]

Solution : b6+, moving king to a8 or b8 doesn't make sense because of the move Rh8 and eventually it will be a checkmate. And taking with rook will only lose the queen. So it needs to take with the king ,K×b6, then Rh6 is the final nail in the coffin and the rook is pinned and we are winning. Please support my comment Igor.

[@aidapex71]

'PP on the PP'

[@romeonowell1941]

Rule 1- Increase, don’t release! (Increase pressure!!!) Rule 2- Ignore and amplify (ignore your opponents threats and increase your own) Rule 3- Attack right away and use forcing moves (when you have a pin attack right away and use forcing moves to distract your opponent from the pin) Rule 4- Relative pin vs absolute pin! 12:56

[@AshikR-3103]

B5 to b6

[@spytrek]

Ignore and improve or as the legendary Jeremy Silman used to say: Push your own agenda.

[@Spin940]

Cool.

[@user-so9ph1pc2z]

Sir, iam new learner

[@thiyumsasmitha4329]

Easy b6+ Kb8 Rh8 Qe8 RXQe8+ RxR QxR+ or b6+ Rxb6 QxQ 1-0

[@chistianlassend4888]

Pawn b6

[@stephenfrisch7891]

b6+

[@NATURAL20YAY]

Hello

[@keithwald5349]

Increase, don't release!

[@snakkeshit]

1.Pawn moves to b6 check 2.King eats the pawn (or else it would be checkmate in a few moves) 3.Rook moves to h6 pinning the queen and the rook 4.Enjoy White's checkmate

[@justinkulla4630]

B6

[@miroslavmilosevic9386]

b6

[@briandoyle8623]

Lose the text... we can hear him but we can't see the pieces with the text.

[@nishikantamishra472]

b6!!! Kb6 Ra6!!! 1-0

[@salemtv5808]

please reconsider leaving puzzles unsolved i know some might solve it in the comments or us taking the position in a study and solve it with an engine but hearing and seeing the solution is much better and for that unfortunately i have the video👎🏻

[@yakzivz1104]

b6 Kxb6; Rh6 Ka5; Re6

[@sneakerhead4770]

Pp on the pp

[@user-ej7sr3ow8b]

For the puzzle, I believe the correct move should be b6+ if black reacts with Ka8 or Kb8, then b6+ Ka8/Kb8 Rh8+ Qd8/Qe8/Qf8 Rxd8#/Rxe8+/Rxf8+ Re8 Qxe8# will be an inevitable checkmate If b6+ Rxb6 Qxe7 white will be up a queen If b6+ Kxb6 Rh6 the e6 black rook is cross-pinned and the best reaction of black will be Rxh6 and allow Qxe7, which would be a losing Q+3p vs R+3p endgame An additional hint about the Q+3p vs R+3p endgame, unlike pawnless Q vs R endgame, which is a hard win even to world champion level players, when both sides has pawns, it would be much easier since white can trade the queen for the rook when one of the pawn can promote before black. In this position, white has an outside passed pawn, which the rook cannot take after Qxe7, because Qe6+ will fork the king and rook. White can easily lift the h pawn and force black rook to sacrifice for it. Then it will be an easier Q+2p vs 3p endgame

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

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[@user-dj1lj6tn4l]

Please pin me 💀

[@ZDTF]

I love pinning women

[@theodorfibiger3792]

B6