WEBVTT 00:01.590 --> 00:02.320 Hi there. 00:02.340 --> 00:05.520 In this lecture, I want to talk about the amplification concepts. 00:05.520 --> 00:07.110 So that's a very interesting concept. 00:07.110 --> 00:12.270 You might think, Well, that's only for sounds, that amplify sounds with an amp or something. 00:12.270 --> 00:20.040 Yeah, but in chess, we're often amplifying things, especially online pieces can be arranged in line 00:20.040 --> 00:21.150 to amplify. 00:21.450 --> 00:27.540 So especially if you've checked my Nimzowitsch Larsen course where the first move is B free and Bishop 00:27.540 --> 00:28.320 b2. 00:28.740 --> 00:33.480 There are various ways of amplifying a B2 bishop on a diagonal. 00:33.480 --> 00:36.030 You can imagine a B2 bishop on a diagonal. 00:36.810 --> 00:40.860 So for example, you can try and get rid of the opposing bishop. 00:40.860 --> 00:45.240 If there's an opposing bishop, you can try and weaken the dark squares in advance. 00:45.480 --> 00:50.970 You can try and put a batch rate amplifier like a queen, either behind or in front, depending on the 00:50.970 --> 00:51.690 position. 00:52.440 --> 00:59.340 You can get rid of pawns in the way so you can sacrifice to weaken the opponent's king, which will 00:59.580 --> 01:03.120 further celebrate the amplification strategy sometimes. 01:03.240 --> 01:11.400 So amplification is a great concept I personally finds which is useful on the chessboard. 01:11.640 --> 01:16.620 And here I will get to this example towards the end of this. 01:17.340 --> 01:19.020 I just want to make a few more points. 01:19.350 --> 01:21.540 We'll get to this example here. 01:23.010 --> 01:24.990 So the few the other points I want to make. 01:24.990 --> 01:32.190 So batteries, when you arrange your line pieces like doubling rooks, it's often a good idea to do 01:32.190 --> 01:34.320 that to get more and more pressure. 01:34.320 --> 01:40.560 Sometimes you might be tempted just to win a pawn and release the pressure, but sometimes there's bigger 01:40.560 --> 01:48.510 gains to be made from increasing and increasing the pressure, amplifying it, and especially if it's 01:48.510 --> 01:50.910 related to squares around the opponent's king. 01:50.910 --> 01:52.980 So I've given an example here. 01:52.980 --> 01:56.340 You can look up, if you want, in the course or not. 01:56.340 --> 02:02.910 Backing down from tactical downsides, you might think, well, it's not convincing right now. 02:02.940 --> 02:04.170 That is a weakened diagonal. 02:04.170 --> 02:06.570 It might need more pressure to be built up. 02:07.680 --> 02:17.340 And in general, the idea of intensifying pressure or intensifying scrutiny and not being content with 02:17.340 --> 02:21.810 accepting the opponent's liabilities are not exploitable. 02:21.990 --> 02:29.910 If you're kind of determined, sometimes you can realize, for example, an unprotected piece is a clear 02:29.910 --> 02:30.540 liability. 02:30.540 --> 02:33.480 But what if it was protected by one or two pieces? 02:33.480 --> 02:40.110 But if you're kind of very tactically relentless, you might find ways to discover it's actually a piece 02:40.110 --> 02:41.460 is not protected enough. 02:41.460 --> 02:46.260 So that's a classic downside unprotected piece in his opponent's position. 02:46.260 --> 02:50.160 So when we don't back down, we see that there is an issue. 02:50.160 --> 02:52.890 It just needs to be kind of amplified. 02:54.090 --> 02:56.820 We become more dangerous tacticians. 02:56.820 --> 03:03.450 We do actually punish the opponent for their liabilities, tactical liabilities, their tactical downsides 03:03.450 --> 03:04.440 in their position. 03:04.440 --> 03:07.200 We've got to be relentlessly resourceful on that. 03:07.410 --> 03:09.090 And the same with pinning. 03:09.090 --> 03:15.870 Quite often people are not ruthless enough with pens, and I've coined the phrase like celebrating the 03:15.870 --> 03:22.080 pen, because sometimes they just like win material immediately, whilst if they intensified the pin 03:22.080 --> 03:26.520 by celebrating a bit more, it could have ended up as a false mate. 03:27.030 --> 03:32.430 So yeah, we're talking about the difference of amplification between winning a little battle and winning 03:32.430 --> 03:32.820 the war. 03:32.820 --> 03:39.390 We're more interested in winning the war as a philosophy of this course game ending downsides, game 03:39.390 --> 03:44.010 ending, not just little battle winning game ending downsides. 03:44.010 --> 03:45.330 But we've got to be relentless. 03:45.330 --> 03:50.310 We've got to take the tactical liabilities of the opponent's position and see how much we can amplify 03:50.310 --> 03:56.820 them, see how much we can intensify, ramp up the pressure until the opponent is conceding more than 03:56.820 --> 03:57.720 potentially material. 03:57.720 --> 04:01.980 You know, they have to their king is being mated, ideally. 04:03.300 --> 04:09.540 So there's always sometimes a delayed gratification angle to this that you're quick to celebrate a pin 04:09.540 --> 04:14.850 by just too quick, sometimes by just taking material when you could have actually built up the pressure. 04:14.880 --> 04:19.530 Now here we've got a great example of amplification, a classic example. 04:19.530 --> 04:22.080 So let me show you this and the against Nimzowitsch. 04:22.290 --> 04:26.580 So Alekhine played Rook C2 here, Nimzowitsch played 28. 04:26.580 --> 04:34.230 So there's a nasty pen and it's kind of celebration of ten Rook, AC one eight, Queen F3 and one is 04:34.230 --> 04:38.400 black doing blacks in a kind of very difficult spot, very passive. 04:38.520 --> 04:41.370 Without too much counterplay you might think, Well, what's this about? 04:41.430 --> 04:43.950 It's about constructing Alekhine's gun. 04:43.950 --> 04:50.040 So this alekhine's gun construction is where the queen is at the base of the two rooks. 04:50.040 --> 04:56.850 So the pressure's been really amplified, ramped up, and now even more with Bishop A4, which represents 04:56.850 --> 04:59.760 the of B5 to win material on C7. 05:00.180 --> 05:04.140 So we have B5 giving black time to try and arrange a defence. 05:04.140 --> 05:08.880 It's a desperate move, giving up a pawn, but tries to arrange the defence of C7. 05:08.880 --> 05:14.880 So the bishop goes back now threatening B5, you can see doubling or tripling of resources and it could 05:14.880 --> 05:17.880 be a bishop and a queen here or queen in the bishop. 05:17.880 --> 05:23.220 You know, classic thing, cancer amplification amplification here again with the B5 threat. 05:23.250 --> 05:23.460 So. 05:23.460 --> 05:29.880 KING The eight but Black's tied down so much now that just a quiet move and it shows that Black's in 05:29.880 --> 05:31.230 a kind of zugzwang. 05:32.730 --> 05:38.430 So this is a delayed gratification move rather than B5 because. 05:38.430 --> 05:45.210 B5 okay, night before Black's in a position to collect staff and still White's better, but with the 05:45.210 --> 05:49.470 delayed gratification y can do better than this position. 05:49.470 --> 05:52.110 White just waits because the king is going to have to go back. 05:52.110 --> 05:56.040 Isn't that something's going to have to release the protection of C6. 05:56.160 --> 05:58.950 So if King E Black resigned, his -- resigned. 05:58.950 --> 06:02.970 He had enough of this of King E eight, then B5 with much greater effect. 06:02.970 --> 06:10.920 You can see delayed gratification in chess is the act of playing what is a juicy resource, a juicy 06:10.920 --> 06:19.290 exploitation, but making it juicier through making the conditions even better for the implementation. 06:19.560 --> 06:22.830 So you're creating even better circumstances for things sometimes. 06:22.830 --> 06:24.960 So it's sometimes good to delay. 06:25.860 --> 06:31.340 And in fact, one super modern super grandmaster, which is a master of delayed gratification, great 06:31.470 --> 06:33.660 delayed gratification space live on Aronian. 06:33.660 --> 06:38.730 Sometimes he takes time to recollect a pawn under the most favorable circumstances possible. 06:38.730 --> 06:42.330 So this idea also of delayed gratification is important. 06:42.360 --> 06:45.870 It has a relationship with this notion of amplification. 06:45.870 --> 06:50.250 So here it's absolutely destructive that the King's gone away as example. 06:50.550 --> 06:53.250 We're just absolutely crushing C7. 06:53.250 --> 06:54.690 So Rook, take C7. 06:54.690 --> 07:01.470 So it's a crushing to be a King's crusher or to be crushing generally the opponent's tactically tactical 07:01.470 --> 07:08.550 liabilities, amplification, delayed gratification, get the best possible circumstances for executing 07:08.550 --> 07:11.040 a certain threat that is possible. 07:11.040 --> 07:17.550 Sometimes it might not seem optimal, but yeah, we're searching those much better circumstances. 07:17.850 --> 07:18.330 Yeah. 07:18.330 --> 07:18.900 So. 07:20.310 --> 07:20.730 Okay. 07:20.730 --> 07:26.790 So I hope that this is inspirational just for this general concept of amplification, which for me was 07:26.790 --> 07:33.450 a beautiful concept which made doing the 1b3 course even better than Nimzowitsch Larsen Of course I've 07:33.450 --> 07:39.300 got where you get many, many examples of, you know, the lone piece, the bishop being amplified on 07:39.300 --> 07:41.910 the diagonal, even just for that angle. 07:41.910 --> 07:46.560 Even if you don't want to play the opening just for the angle amplification, there's a rich set of 07:46.560 --> 07:52.800 examples in that particular course, but you get lots of amplification examples in this course. 07:52.800 --> 07:56.970 So yes, tactical downsides of the opponent's position. 07:57.930 --> 08:02.640 If someone was asking you abstractly about a certain position, would you exploit it immediately? 08:03.690 --> 08:06.540 You might answer, Well, it depends. 08:06.540 --> 08:08.190 Could I ramp up the pressure? 08:08.190 --> 08:16.710 Could I make better circumstances for exploiting, say, a pin or a pin pace or weakness instead of 08:16.710 --> 08:17.520 just winning a pawn? 08:17.520 --> 08:21.090 Could I ramp up the pressure and see, do I win a lot more than the pawn? 08:21.300 --> 08:25.650 Because maybe you've got more pieces arising there and you get more gains to be made. 08:25.650 --> 08:31.530 So think about this concept a little bit amplification and delayed gratification, because sometimes 08:31.530 --> 08:40.170 the the frets is is more important than the execution, as Nimzowitsch would say. 08:41.760 --> 08:48.180 Yeah, the front is often more important, more kind of dangerous than the implementation of the France. 08:50.080 --> 08:50.950 Okay to that effect. 08:50.950 --> 08:52.960 Anyway, Nimzowitsch said something to that effect. 08:54.310 --> 08:55.270 Okay. 08:56.980 --> 09:00.870 I hope you get inspired by this kind of example and look out for it. 09:00.880 --> 09:07.000 This kind of attacking build up and also means also the team effort side effect that the whole team's 09:07.000 --> 09:14.110 been brought together through the exploitation of a tactical downside within the opponent's possession. 09:14.530 --> 09:15.190 Okay. 09:15.670 --> 09:16.390 That's so much.