Crush Black with the Lethal Pillsbury 💀 Attack! - GM Susan Polgar

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Crushing Black with the Pillsbury Attack!
The Pillsbury Attack is an aggressive line played in the Queen's Gambit Declined and is named after it's inventor, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, who was one of the top players at the end of the 19th century.
In this video, a free preview of The Art of Attack (Advanced), GM Susan Polgar demonstrates how to play the Pillsbury Attack by going right back to the source, the superb 1900 game between Pillsbury and Marco.
The game starts in the normal way for the Queen's Gambit Declined (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6) and Pillsbury plays 4.Bg5, attacking the Knight. Black unpins and we get a few more developing moves.
The key position comes after Black fianchettoes his Queen's Bishop and White captures 8.cxd5 exd5 (3 minutes into the video). Now comes the Pillsbury Attack. White jumps his Knight into e5 with the idea of supporting it with f4. Now, if Black were ever to exchange the Knight off, the f-pawn would recapture and kick away the f6 Knight - a critical defender of the King position.
In the game, Marco claims some space on the Queenside with c5-c4, a6 and b5 while White castles and brings his Queen over to f3. Pillsbury maintains his Bishop on the b2-h7 diagonal when attacked. Then comes the move characteristic of the Pillsbury Attack: Qf3-h3, eyeing h7.
This sets up a winning combination if Black doesn't defend well. White would exchange pieces until the f6 Knight either moved or was captured, then mate on h7. Black is left with an unpleasant choice, whether to play ...h6 or ...g6. The first of these is met with Bxh6!, ripping open the King's defensive cover. Mate will follow soon.
The power of the Pillsbury Attack is shown after 14...g6 15.f5! when White opens more lines against the enemy King. We see another weakness of ...g6 a move later - the f6 Knight is no longer supported by a pawn and comes under heavy fire from Rook, Bishop and Queen.
The Pillsbury Attack is complete a few moves later with a devastating sacrifice and instructive follow-up.
Enjoy this video and check out the complete course The Art of Attack (Advanced) here.

[@ganeshpillai7545]

Vow its amazing video for d4 players. I didnt knew such combinations. Thank-you for showing such wonderful combinations tricks.

[@danno1800]

A very instructive chess lesson! Thank you very much.

[@ganeshpillai7545]

The Polgar sisters have proved that even women can play better chess. I love the games of Polgar sisters very much.

[@zanti209]

Awesome puzzle at the end!

[@mahmoudkchaou1799]

Very instructive ! thank you very much :)

[@yogi9631]

Very good video n easy to understand. Definitely subscribe!!

[@anthonyhaigh8819]

love Susan's accent , vite will have big advantage ! lol

[@gregoryjones1426]

Awesome presentation!

[@ganeshpillai7545]

At 23:57 what if black pawn doesn't capture the bishop??

[@nicholasgranat2999]

Enjoyable presentation

[@iChess2]

Thanks!

[@fadiljr2149]

Very good of chess presentation from legendary the best chess woman player. It make to beginner to master. Thanks, Iam Roy Borneo Indonesia.

[@shikhasharma8463]

Amazing really

[@kaivalyapatkar9288]

brilliant presentation! legendary chess player..

[@wilchitejeancharles5310]

Many master strategies .. now would like to know how black should respond

[@iChess2]

wilchite Jean charles This course is to play this Attack with the White pieces. Anyway this video is only a free preview of the course so it's not coomplete

[@hanyshawky1467]

amazing puzzle! really!

[@RahulSharma-yx5uf]

very understandable. Which is your favorite player?

[@lakshithachess]

Bravo!!

[@jeromehenen8256]

why not hr to chase bishop away

[@emanuelcolon2680]

MUY GOOD THANX

[@balamudaliyar9329]

thx

[@redhorizon7225]

15:06 doesn't Bishop c8 equalize the position?

[@iChess2]

White gets a great advantage then, by playing Bxf6 threatening mate in 1 an after Bxf6 Nxf6+ Qxf6 Rxf6 Bxh3 Nxd5 with an extra piece and pawn for white.

[@ldeans5620]

Delightful

[@shidqi1435]

nice puzzle

[@iChess2]

Thanks!

[@Pablo66616]

nice

[@angel_machariel]

15:25 is actually the inferior winning move. White merely has some material advantage after Nxd7, but lost all of its momentum. It's a move for the less skilled who can't calculate further. Pillsbury move Nh4 is slightly better as it still keeps the momentum but is harder to calculate. The continuation with Nxg6 is the strongest move, says Stockfish.

[@357light]

First and loving the video.

[@StefanReich]

The constant advertising in the screen is a bit extreme

[@jaylenlenear3944]

Qh4 is stronger than Susan recommended Nxd7 these guys were great tacticians

[@tyrelljeffries2527]

Colle Zuckertort, Pillsbury attack, Stonewall attack are all bad openings!