WEBVTT 00:01.470 --> 00:02.370 Hi there. 00:02.670 --> 00:09.420 In this lecture, I like to say if we can further internalize the accumulation of advantages model, 00:09.630 --> 00:15.510 which our first official world champion Rammstein has introduced and Laska successfully used into a 00:15.510 --> 00:21.450 really great weapon so he could be dominant as world champion for so many years. 00:21.540 --> 00:27.600 So this accumulation of advantages model kind of playing to the finances of possession, trying to extract 00:27.600 --> 00:32.070 advantages for the opening and then using them as the justification for attack. 00:32.910 --> 00:40.320 You could perhaps view it as a form of delayed gratification for attacking chess. 00:40.320 --> 00:46.840 So for example, in our early days we may have started games as juniors just aiming to, you know, 00:46.890 --> 00:49.680 checkmate the opponent's king with queen age five. 00:50.340 --> 00:53.460 But then we find out that opponents can defend f7. 00:53.460 --> 00:54.570 They don't need to be mated. 00:54.580 --> 01:00.570 So even though you could say this as an attacking game, it's not using all the pieces in the army. 01:00.570 --> 01:04.260 So there's less teamwork than what could have been a much more refined game. 01:04.560 --> 01:13.080 And so the royal appears and once players start defending with moves like G6 and then you get nothing 01:13.080 --> 01:17.370 from the opening, you find out you get nothing, you try and scale up your game and you may become 01:17.370 --> 01:18.900 much more refined later. 01:18.900 --> 01:23.670 And so you don't bother with that and you pay for a play, for example, Royal Topaz. 01:23.700 --> 01:30.840 Or you might try just quite a, you know, variations of piano, piano and trying to accumulate your 01:30.840 --> 01:36.450 advantages so we could see accumulation of advantages as a form of delayed gratification. 01:36.450 --> 01:39.870 The downside we're delaying our attack, the upside. 01:39.870 --> 01:42.690 We're trying to create the better circumstances. 01:43.020 --> 01:50.070 That's the upside for when we do attack through it to be more justified, less easy to defend. 01:50.280 --> 01:53.820 So building up advantages first makes sense. 01:55.170 --> 01:59.610 And this is good for other domains as well, this idea of delayed gratification. 01:59.910 --> 02:00.690 So. 02:01.630 --> 02:04.720 Maybe you're aware of the donut test. 02:04.960 --> 02:07.630 They did tests on these kids. 02:07.870 --> 02:09.040 Would they take the donut? 02:09.310 --> 02:14.920 They're told if you if you can wait like 2 hours, we'll give you more donuts. 02:14.920 --> 02:18.150 And the kids that just took the donut, they couldn't wait lines. 02:18.160 --> 02:22.500 They found out the ones with delayed gratification did better in their careers. 02:22.510 --> 02:32.290 You know, generally being able to delay is like being able to take the upside of delay and and get 02:32.290 --> 02:36.100 better circumstances to do things, especially on the chessboard. 02:37.210 --> 02:43.780 So basically, we also had this kind of, you know, romantic era in chess where attacks were just set 02:43.780 --> 02:49.960 off, like with the King game as early as the second move to try and get attacking positions, not worrying 02:49.960 --> 02:55.690 if it's a bit unsound, not worrying about the range of possibilities which could fully equalize with 02:55.690 --> 03:01.360 black and as well as the King's Gambit, The Evans Gambit. 03:01.660 --> 03:12.100 So in the junkyard piano with Bishop C4, Bishop C5 playing B4 and their spot systems were worked out, 03:12.100 --> 03:15.790 Ashley Laska had a very good equalizing system against the Evans game. 03:15.940 --> 03:23.890 So in the evolution of chess, the concepts of kind of more direct, speedier ways to get into attacking 03:23.890 --> 03:29.440 positions is not really this kind of delayed gratification model. 03:30.130 --> 03:37.780 So sometimes, yeah, we want to evolve our positions to a point where it does seem entirely appropriate, 03:37.780 --> 03:44.830 entirely logical to further our position with an attack, especially against the opponent's king. 03:46.000 --> 03:52.210 So basically, you could say, you know, our first and second world champions taught us positional 03:52.210 --> 03:52.440 play. 03:52.450 --> 03:56.630 They taught us a form of delayed gratification on the chessboard. 03:56.650 --> 04:01.600 The role of positional play, getting into good positions first, you could argue, is a form of delayed 04:01.600 --> 04:07.090 gratification, not just expecting immediate attacks to be successful. 04:07.600 --> 04:14.710 And chess generally with computers, in my view, is evolving to be more dynamic, like playing the 04:14.710 --> 04:15.790 position to its merits. 04:15.790 --> 04:23.830 Not any artificial rules of chess, but more of a, you know, play the position basis, more of a scientific 04:23.830 --> 04:28.420 basis that's progressed, but always with a practical bias, because we're playing generally against 04:28.420 --> 04:32.100 humans that make mistakes so biased towards easier to play positions. 04:32.110 --> 04:38.170 That's the general kind of attitude and easier to play from an attacking class perspective. 04:38.200 --> 04:40.450 It's easier to attack than defend. 04:41.170 --> 04:44.380 So that's where we're kind of evolving, in my view. 04:44.740 --> 04:51.310 So attacking chess plays a great role to get easier to play positions if you're looking for these juicy, 04:51.310 --> 04:52.480 attacking ingredients. 04:52.480 --> 04:54.760 So one slip from the opponent, there'll be mated. 04:55.060 --> 04:56.770 Of course, computers can defend. 04:57.010 --> 05:02.800 But there is this underlying idea that if we play the position and actually play it accurately, we 05:02.800 --> 05:06.040 can potentially accumulate tiny advantages. 05:06.040 --> 05:11.260 And a tiny advantages can mean we're really in great positions to attack the opponent. 05:11.260 --> 05:17.470 We've got better mobility, central control, basically, but lots of juicy ingredients maybe have been 05:17.470 --> 05:23.890 accumulated and then we can attack appropriately rather than look silly for attacking. 05:23.890 --> 05:28.270 But it's easy to defend and the opponent just counterattacks in a winning way or whatever. 05:28.660 --> 05:36.310 So, yes, even despite all our technology, we're still playing usually a human opponent that makes 05:36.310 --> 05:37.060 mistakes. 05:37.360 --> 05:40.840 So the preference for an easiest play position is there. 05:40.990 --> 05:48.150 So we're not just, you know, computers looking the tiniest of details of position to find, you know, 05:48.190 --> 05:49.510 the perfect move each time. 05:49.510 --> 05:50.920 That's not achievable. 05:51.310 --> 05:59.380 Our time constraints that we impose with clocks both online and off offline, means we've got to make 05:59.380 --> 06:00.670 practical decisions as well. 06:00.670 --> 06:01.840 We've got to balance it. 06:02.650 --> 06:10.330 Time that quest for perfection with easier to play positions so sometimes you can sacrifice pieces for 06:10.330 --> 06:12.940 an attack might not be objectively sound. 06:13.210 --> 06:18.250 And the town, of course, proved that style of play all the way that sometimes, you know, weeks, 06:18.250 --> 06:23.110 months later, years later, there's analysis which shows, well, maybe the opponent could have offended. 06:23.110 --> 06:24.760 It's academic by that point. 06:24.760 --> 06:25.900 It's really academic. 06:25.900 --> 06:27.880 It's who you play at the board. 06:28.510 --> 06:30.070 You're trying to get easier to play positions. 06:30.070 --> 06:32.110 And attacking chess plays a great role in that. 06:32.410 --> 06:38.320 But yes, our first and second world champions taught us about positional play and delayed gratification. 06:38.320 --> 06:43.900 The elements of the chessboard which were trading off for each other, which we're fighting to try and 06:43.900 --> 06:50.740 get the advantage in the possession, which can help justify attacking possibilities. 06:51.000 --> 06:56.890 Okay, So I thought this this is an interesting introduction lecture just to perhaps try and internalize 06:56.890 --> 06:59.260 a bit more silence in Lascaux. 06:59.290 --> 07:00.460 I hope that's interesting. 07:01.180 --> 07:01.930 Punch a much.