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In some games, all the pieces get a turn. In other games, one piece will be the star of the show and will be the MVP of the match! In this rapid 10 min game I played recently, I screwed up in the opening and was in a losing position. But then, one of my bishops managed to capture 14 points of material, completely turning the game around!

I’m not hugely familiar with defending against the London system and as I just blitzed out some opening moves, I only caught my opening error after the move was made. However, the opponent seemed to have a weakness for seeing diagonals allowing the bishop to not only snipe first the queen, but then also rook! The two lessons from this game is that we need to know the opening moves for the common openings, and, it’s good to consciously and deliberately visualise the pieces that can command long diagonals – the bishops and the queen.

I hope you enjoyed this video, and thanks for watching!

Game analysis on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/a/2iXwQkCKsL

[Event "Rated Rapid game"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/PUCzZYEK"]
[Date "2021.12.07"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Sayed_Dawood"]
[Black "vitualis"]
[Result "0-1"]
[UTCDate "2021.12.07"]
[UTCTime "04:29:22"]
[WhiteElo "1602"]
[BlackElo "1570"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "-6"]
[BlackRatingDiff "+10"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]
[ECO "D00"]
[Opening "Queen's Pawn Game: Mason Variation"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]

1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 {D00 Queen's Pawn Game: Mason Variation} 2... Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nb5 e5 5. dxe5 Nd7 6. e6 fxe6 7. Nxc7+ Kf7 8. Nxa8 e5 9. Bg3 d4 10. e3 Bb4+ 11. c3 dxc3 12. Bc4+ Kf8 13. Qd6+ Bxd6 14. bxc3 Qa5 15. Ne2 Nb6 16. Bb3 Nxa8 17. O-O g6 18. Rfd1 Ba3 19. Rd5 Qc7 20. Rad1 Be6 21. Rd6 Bxd6 22. Rxd6 Qxd6 23. Bxe5 Nxe5 24. Bxe6 Qd1# {Black wins by checkmate.} 0-1