WEBVTT 00:01.160 --> 00:02.090 Hi there. 00:02.120 --> 00:07.550 In this introductory lecture, I just want to talk about how the course has been layered, how it's 00:07.550 --> 00:08.660 been constructed. 00:09.740 --> 00:16.670 I felt that Alexander Alekhine is a great role model and I looked at several Alekhine games. 00:16.670 --> 00:22.550 So you see that as the first kind of primary layer, the undercutting of this course. 00:23.810 --> 00:25.900 But it's not all just about Alekhine. 00:25.920 --> 00:33.080 I also then looked at the highly notable games in chess history, so Wiki has an excellent page on the 00:33.080 --> 00:35.600 most notable games that it considers. 00:35.600 --> 00:41.480 So I factor that in because some of those are absolute attacking masterpieces. 00:41.480 --> 00:45.050 I believe we should have a fun ride in our chess awareness. 00:45.080 --> 00:52.790 Go through really fun game examples and yeah, there are some super fun game examples, especially in 00:52.790 --> 00:55.880 this secondary layer of highly notable games. 00:56.630 --> 00:58.940 The third layer Kasparov classics. 00:58.970 --> 01:04.460 So Kasparov, who learned from Alekhine, some of those are much more sophisticated examples, were 01:04.460 --> 01:09.350 sometimes home cooking in the openings, but nevertheless, quite often they're very, very instructive. 01:09.350 --> 01:15.620 The Kasparov classic games and the fourth layer, and this is an ongoing, you know, process, this 01:15.620 --> 01:17.210 course, it's a work in progress. 01:17.540 --> 01:24.170 It's not just that I've shipped you some DVD like 4 hours and that's it, and that's the end of it. 01:24.170 --> 01:29.360 No, this is an online course, and I absolutely love going through the examples and working on this 01:29.360 --> 01:31.760 course for my own attacking chess potential. 01:31.760 --> 01:33.950 So the course is a work in progress. 01:33.950 --> 01:41.510 So we will be looking more and more at other attacking players not mentioned to give them credit and 01:41.510 --> 01:42.380 it will be ongoing. 01:42.380 --> 01:46.250 So this is the layering of the course that I've made a priority. 01:46.250 --> 01:55.880 So we get to see the most juicy attacking games, but we also get key kind of tutors alekhine the basis, 01:55.880 --> 02:02.720 the undercutting basis of this course, who was actually studied heavily, it seems, by Garry Kasparov, 02:02.930 --> 02:05.360 arguably one of the greatest chess players ever. 02:05.600 --> 02:08.450 So yeah, alekhine kind of. 02:10.050 --> 02:18.270 He's a great undercoat to me and we see quite often very instructive games in this era where the opponents 02:18.360 --> 02:20.280 aren't as accurate as the modern era. 02:20.280 --> 02:22.560 So we do get a better contrast. 02:22.560 --> 02:28.560 So we see how to punish key mistakes that our opponents generally make. 02:28.560 --> 02:32.430 So we hopefully, you know, we get a good understanding of how mistakes are punished. 02:32.430 --> 02:36.090 It's not like super GM versus super GM of modern games. 02:36.090 --> 02:40.920 So looking at the Alekhine era of games is in a way very, very instructive. 02:42.080 --> 02:47.510 Because of this contrast, the contrast from the opponent's blunders to see how to make use of mistakes 02:47.510 --> 02:48.440 for advantage. 02:50.080 --> 02:52.240 So without mistakes, there is no advantage. 02:52.240 --> 02:55.300 Without voltage, there is no attack which could be successful. 02:56.470 --> 02:57.280 Now. 02:57.900 --> 02:59.190 The notable games. 02:59.190 --> 03:05.400 So that second layer, we give credit to many other world chess champions like even Smyslov and oh. 03:06.150 --> 03:09.210 So those two are basically on YouTube. 03:09.210 --> 03:13.260 I haven't covered too many of their brilliant games, but they have played brilliant games. 03:13.260 --> 03:14.460 They were world chess champions. 03:14.460 --> 03:18.150 They had in general, more positional styles. 03:18.810 --> 03:24.380 But yeah, we get we, we give credit to the world champions more broadly in that second layer. 03:24.390 --> 03:27.960 So it's a very, very useful from that perspective as well. 03:28.560 --> 03:33.900 Not so much towers you might expect, you might suspect expected this this course to be filled with 03:34.290 --> 03:35.730 tons and tons of tower games. 03:35.730 --> 03:40.260 You can check out my tower course if you want tons and tons of tower games. 03:40.260 --> 03:43.530 But he also it kind of used complexity as a weapon. 03:43.530 --> 03:49.320 So it's less clear in my view, than Alexander Alekhine and not so much more because he was so much 03:49.320 --> 03:55.200 ahead of his his peers that it's kind of unfair a lot of the time. 03:55.200 --> 03:57.750 Paul Morphy's opponents have their pieces on the back row. 03:57.750 --> 03:59.160 Kingston and Center. 03:59.160 --> 04:02.700 Okay, brilliant game, but not too much resistance sometimes. 04:03.450 --> 04:03.810 So. 04:03.810 --> 04:07.590 Okay, that's the course construction strategy. 04:07.590 --> 04:11.520 I've kind of what I call like minimizing round trips to find examples. 04:11.520 --> 04:18.660 So sometimes the blindingly obvious sections, which should be in an attacking course like King still 04:18.660 --> 04:19.530 stuck in the center. 04:19.530 --> 04:21.150 KING Prevented from castling. 04:21.660 --> 04:27.450 Yeah, those those are obvious sections opposite side castling weaken king possession. 04:27.450 --> 04:28.860 Those are obvious sections. 04:28.860 --> 04:34.340 But after that I actually it's through systematically going through Alexander game. 04:34.680 --> 04:39.960 Alexander Alekhine game examples and then seeing, okay, what pattern does this represent? 04:39.990 --> 04:42.660 Let the patterns come from the examples. 04:43.110 --> 04:45.480 So in that way it's easy to find examples. 04:45.480 --> 04:50.790 I just worked for a brilliant Alexander Alekhine game collection and then see, Well, where does this 04:50.790 --> 04:51.090 belong? 04:51.090 --> 04:52.080 Where does this belong? 04:52.110 --> 04:55.290 And there is another advantage in doing that. 04:56.330 --> 05:03.350 We're creating specific sections which your opponents might not be clear of that theme. 05:03.380 --> 05:08.720 Maybe they've been on this other attacking course and it's only the bleeding obvious sections that they've 05:08.720 --> 05:09.170 encountered. 05:09.170 --> 05:13.520 They haven't encountered form --, they haven't encountered Bishop male counterpart. 05:13.730 --> 05:17.990 So hopefully there's some attacking ingredients which are highly competitive in nature. 05:17.990 --> 05:20.210 Of this course, it's kind of secret. 05:20.930 --> 05:24.410 So secret ingredients that makes you more competitive. 05:24.410 --> 05:28.970 If your evaluation of positions includes these secret ingredients, then that's great. 05:28.970 --> 05:35.810 So sometimes, yeah, we're getting the ingredients by working, putting the work in to specific examples, 05:35.810 --> 05:41.210 keeping an open mind, and then saying, well, actually this does have a certain pattern to it. 05:41.210 --> 05:45.890 So discovering your own attacking patterns, that's useful in my view. 05:46.370 --> 05:47.930 Korchnoi has indicated chess. 05:47.930 --> 05:54.710 You don't learn, you understand, and I interpret that slightly as, you know, it's good to understand 05:54.710 --> 06:01.280 tons and tons of different games and not be kind of laid out to you in a kind of, you know, very simple 06:01.280 --> 06:07.820 way because you only get those simple kind of tags, tags, so to speak, in attacking tags like King 06:07.820 --> 06:08.540 Left and center. 06:08.570 --> 06:11.990 What if you did want to explore a particular attacking ingredient? 06:12.050 --> 06:17.690 It's good to be able to understand each of the game examples and make notes of what you think the ingredients 06:17.690 --> 06:25.580 or tags were so useful to understand each game example as clearly as possible and take potentially multiple 06:25.580 --> 06:29.000 tags from each game attacking game presented in this course. 06:29.000 --> 06:32.960 So this is just an overview of the course layering and architecture. 06:33.350 --> 06:34.730 And so you get a balance. 06:34.730 --> 06:41.240 Sometimes you do get very basic sections you'd expect and sometimes surprising elements, and it's those 06:41.240 --> 06:45.620 surprising elements which might be the most competitive elements to really help you win games. 06:45.860 --> 06:47.810 So chess is very competitive nowadays. 06:47.810 --> 06:50.810 So you want some secret stuff, some secret sauce. 06:51.170 --> 06:51.980 Okay. 06:52.490 --> 06:57.650 I hope this makes things clear, how the course was layered and constructed and how it's an ongoing 06:57.650 --> 07:02.540 work in progress as well, because it's an absolute joy to find these attacking examples because I do 07:02.540 --> 07:07.430 want to keep my name as the King's crusher and have spectacular King's crushing games. 07:07.670 --> 07:09.590 Okay, that's very much.