I appreciate Levy for his contributions to the game from the title he has. Larger impact from IM than you would see from 99% of GMs. If he ever gets GM that'd be cool, but he doesn't need it to get respect.
h4 does not help with development and gives up the center, so played properly by the opponent, you put yourself at an early and concrete 1 turn deficit, which is a disadvantage. it is rarely to your advantage to give up the initiative, and the times where it helps you is typically endgame where opposition comes into effect, never in the opening. you are also slightly weakening your kingside castled position, particularly if your f pawn ever moves. positives: its not actually to your advantage to play this move earlier, but black usually castles kingside, and if they do, you are a move closer to attacking the kingside castled position with your own pawn. If the pawn isn't going to be a defender, it might as well attack. It's less useless than, say, playing a3, which doesn't even conceivably attack anything in the long term and weakens the b pawn which typically moves to b3 a lot to allow the bishop to fianchetto. h4 is better than h3 for similar reasons. it's not a good move, and it is strictly better to play it later on. but it isn't completely without a use, if youre going to attack on the kingside. and it also does prevent black from attacking your own castled position by playing h5 and then h4 and h3. this move does stop that kind of attack, which is only one of many hundreds of ways your castled position can be attacked, and it allows other attacks to work better, so it's kind of a wash defensively. It's only truly useful when attacking, and then, it's not the time to do that attack. You can almost always play it later, black would have to play h5 first before you're risking being unable to play it. and its defended by the rook, so being attacked by a queen or bishop early does nothing to the pawn. it's one of the least bad "bad pawn openings". It's like c tier, where c4, d4, e4, are all s tier, and Nf3 is also a tier for a first move. a3 is d tier, and f3 is f tier. those are strictly worse than h4. Na3 as the first move is kind of c- tier, I'd rate it worse since you're putting your knight on the side of the board and not developing the center, and its unlikely black will castle queenside, so its almost not even really developing the knight at all, its going to take the same amount of moves to attack the center or the kingside as if you hadnt moved it at all. h4 does something. it's not good, but it's less bad.
The pawn is guarded by a rook on the 8th rank. And the pawn must take the queen because of check. Afterwards the black pawn will advance with check, then queen and white can’t do much about it
@@royalsparky-clashroyale5465it’s not possible to escape it’s gonna be checkmate no matter what. You really thought the brilliant queen sac wouldn’t lead to mate? Use your brain.
I guess Magnus is just bored from chess. When you see the Young Magnus that you can see the difference between now and young magnus. I mean you actually get bored when you do same thing again and again over 20-30 years
