Hi there.
In this lecture, I want to talk about the power of complementary resources and attacking chess.
So in the real world, we often eat with a knife and fork.
They're complementary.
So you can do the carving with the knife and picking up things with the fork, and you could just have
a spoon.
That's also complementary if you're having a dessert.
So they have different roles and responsibilities and they complement each other.
They're a great team of instruments to our food, and eating is very important generally to mammals
like us, human beings.
So when resources work in a team, if we abstract from that, we like to have other resources working
in a team effectively.
So they often have non duplicate roles and responsibilities.
So another example, YouTube channels.
Everyone's having a YouTube channel nowadays.
I was one of the early big YouTube channels for chess, but in general it's becoming more and more professional
and the bigger channels actually get sometimes teams of thumbnail artists so they can work on the video
and they might have an editor as well.
And you have different roles and responsibilities.
So in chess we do naturally at the start of a game, have two different bishops on on two different
cultures.
So in this position, which I'm going to talk about soon, we do have a natural complementary to start
off with.
You know, the bishops are on different cultures and you know, sometimes in terms of mating, they
can work together to make one can take escape squares of the opponent's king and one can checkmate the
knights.
Also, you know, there's no knights on this position for white.
But knights can also take different responsibilities, even though they are the same.
We have two knights.
They can take different responsibilities as well.
But also, you know, in chess we can amplify exactly the same resources like Rooks, we can double
them or bishop and queen.
We can create batteries for our duplicate kind of line pieces quite often, and that's effective as
well.
So sometimes you're just amplifying the same role.
And that's that's not to disregard that aspect.
But anyway, another example in chess pieces in harmony with pawns, so at least not interfering with
each other's roles and responsibilities.
You don't really want locked in bishops for the whole game because your pawns are locking in the bishops.
So we're looking out for complementary resources quite often in real life and on the chessboard and
mating patterns.
Basically, if you see my checkmate course, you know, mating patterns often have free, golden different
roles and responsibilities.
You have pieces or pawns or the opponent's pieces are pawns taking away escape squares.
Sometimes you have a supporting role where an attacking piece is supported, so it's not munched, eaten
by the opponent's king.
And then you have the classic piece or pawn, which does the checkmate.
So in a mating pattern, you have sometimes a team of pieces and pawns working together.
So the idea of complementary resources, it's a super powerful one.
It's an obvious one kind of we take for granted in the real world.
And yet in other example, you know, a knight on F5 is often, you know, it's one of Kasparov's favorite
pieces and aggressive knight placement and five Kasparov loves the Knight and F5 or Knight on F4.
It's very, very dangerous for the attacking player, helping quite often.
Couldn't control Escape squares help the queen Checkmate sometimes.
So yes, the idea of complementary resources, it's really interesting.
So here is an example for my good friend Constance Carey on this, which you will see in detail later
in the course in the Bishop Pear section.
There's two beautiful bishops, so a real natural complementary example.
And Costas here plays a very strong move.
Guess what it is for ten points.
Okay.
So.
Bishop de five So you could say in this position, well, this bishop is doing a really good job in
controlling the dark squares, which really makes this more effective.
There's no Queen F six, right?
So by maintaining the bishop pair, they're already working really well together, putting the queen
into a really unfortunate square now.
So the queen goes to D seven, which interferes with the bishop looking at looking after E six.
But you know, what could black have done if rook takes E two?
We're going to take the queen and other bishop is also holding a one.
So this is a winning position anyway.
So.
Okay, so we have Queen D seven.
And now can you see the beautiful move which causes black to resign?
If I give you 5 seconds, pause video here won't play and black resigns.
Okay.
It's rookie six.
Yes.
That kind of weakness of the last move that the bishop is being interfered with.
And there's a huge rook takes h six check that bishop is actually in a pinning role.
Pinning that pawn the power of the piece.
The pin piece of pawn is illusion rates and the illusion that it's supporting h6.
So Black resigned.
If rook takes, then rook takes.
So that's good.
The two works, although they're completely duplicate they they reinforce, they amplify this rook E6
resource.
So now black can't really do too much about this in an effective manner.
Black and try rook have sex.
But we just play.
Bishop takes f6, Knight takes f6.
And here the Queen can also sometimes act in a complementary role to another bishop.
And how can we get that commitment going here?
What would you play here for?
Ten points.
Yeah.
Rook takes f6 destroys Black's king G takes queenside h6 Jack.
So the queen is acting in a way like a dance membership as well as other things.
But here now, Queen, have a check.
And then we have the bishop in a support role supporting the queen for queen.
Thanks, Jack, mate.
So complimentary are everywhere.
Look out for them in in these attacking games.
There are really powerful concepts in the real world which are very logical and very beautiful.
And I thought this is interesting because when we look at the original Steinitz in elements of positions,
the bishop comes up.
But it's good to ask why.
Why is the bishop pairs so good?
It's good to have some example games and it's good to fundamentally say, well, actually the bishop
here is also an example of complementary resources.
What other complementary resources are there in chess?
So there are many, you know, constructing mating that requires different roles and responsibilities
of pieces.
So you get the general idea.
Looking out for complementary resources is really a great idea.
It's like a team of yours on the chessboard.
Your resource is working as a team in non duplicate roles, but the useful exception, you know, when
we have our line pieces lined up, it's usually to amplify them.
So.
Okay, so there are exceptions is not everything is covered by the complementary concepts, but it's
something to look out for in my view.
Okay, so much.