WEBVTT 00:00.840 --> 00:01.500 Hi there. 00:01.530 --> 00:07.710 In this lecture, let's look at some interesting, inspirational Garry Kasparov attacking chess quotations. 00:07.890 --> 00:15.090 So one of his quotations is he basically sees his own style as a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine 00:15.090 --> 00:16.290 Tao and Fischer. 00:16.560 --> 00:23.310 And if you look up the term symbiosis, sometimes when there's a symbiotic relationship with species, 00:23.310 --> 00:24.210 sometimes. 00:25.600 --> 00:26.940 You know, they both benefit. 00:26.950 --> 00:28.240 Two species might benefit. 00:28.240 --> 00:34.480 For example, sometimes only one of them benefits at the expense of the other, and sometimes both don't 00:34.480 --> 00:36.910 benefit at all is better without it. 00:37.060 --> 00:39.910 But I'm sure he's talking about in the positive sense. 00:39.910 --> 00:46.270 Hopefully he benefits from blending the styles of the coin tower and fish appropriately, depending 00:46.270 --> 00:48.230 on the position he has on the chessboard. 00:48.250 --> 00:54.820 Sometimes it might, for example, be advantageous to put on the tail hat and increase the complexity, 00:55.000 --> 01:02.410 or maybe on other occasions just put on the fish hat to play, you know, more solidly in a universal 01:02.410 --> 01:07.900 style playing, you know, to the details of the position without too much bias, a universal style. 01:07.990 --> 01:12.820 But Laconia has a bit of a bias towards attacking the king and combinations. 01:12.820 --> 01:20.020 So this symbiosis in a positive sense, he's getting benefits, it would seem, ideally from fusing 01:20.020 --> 01:27.130 the best of all the styles and being appropriate to the position he has and the demands he has. 01:27.130 --> 01:32.710 He might need to win a game or he might just be content with the draw to the tournament situation and 01:32.710 --> 01:34.600 the position in front of him and the opponent. 01:34.690 --> 01:41.660 All of that factored in and then choosing the aspects of style from those players. 01:41.680 --> 01:48.790 So I do have courses on Talon Fischer for you to check out as well if you want to learn from Talon Fischer. 01:48.940 --> 01:50.260 So okay. 01:50.560 --> 01:57.010 He also said who else in chess history has won so many serious games with the help of brilliant tactical 01:57.010 --> 01:57.730 strokes? 01:57.730 --> 02:01.450 So when he's talking about Alekhine, yeah, he's absolutely brilliant tactical strokes. 02:01.450 --> 02:06.460 They kind of help advertise the interest of Alekhine's whole playing style that we want to learn. 02:06.460 --> 02:08.230 How did he get those positions? 02:08.230 --> 02:13.810 That becomes the big question how do we actually get those attacking positions as well? 02:15.250 --> 02:21.730 So he also said attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an 02:21.730 --> 02:22.780 opportunity. 02:22.780 --> 02:24.760 You allow it to pass you by. 02:24.790 --> 02:29.140 I guess a relevant analogy might be Jeff Bezos. 02:29.140 --> 02:34.390 You know, he was working in some company and he thought, you know, should he start up Amazon? 02:34.930 --> 02:37.480 So and that was an opportunity. 02:37.480 --> 02:44.410 He took a broader brush opportunity rather than any particular mistakes he might have made when working 02:44.410 --> 02:45.160 at Amazon. 02:45.160 --> 02:50.830 Maybe he made some mistakes, but the broader opportunity he took of leaving his kind of steady income 02:50.830 --> 02:52.330 job to set up Amazon. 02:52.330 --> 02:58.960 So these these broader opportunities we take on the chessboard rather than specific moves. 02:58.960 --> 03:02.230 That's what I kind of sense in this quotation. 03:03.130 --> 03:07.630 That's one interpretation perhaps you could have, he says. 03:07.630 --> 03:11.800 I like to say the attacker always has the advantage for me. 03:11.800 --> 03:16.210 Yeah, personally, the potential to slip up, especially at faster time, which holds the attacker 03:16.210 --> 03:20.590 for me, has the advantage because, you know, you could you could make the opponents, if they make 03:20.590 --> 03:21.970 one wrong, slip up. 03:21.970 --> 03:26.980 Of course, as an attacker, you could also have your attack defused and later lose. 03:26.980 --> 03:30.120 But you know, especially the fast, faster the time. 03:30.130 --> 03:33.730 So having the attack is advantageous. 03:33.730 --> 03:39.000 And even in one day chess, you know, if the opponent is under pressure, you know, before a time. 03:39.040 --> 03:45.160 So they kind of more likely to slip up even if they were kind of even at some point if they're on the 03:45.160 --> 03:49.840 defensive back foot, you know, it's like there's a potential for disaster. 03:49.840 --> 03:52.960 So the attacker, in a sense, always has the advantage. 03:53.440 --> 03:54.730 Interesting comments. 03:54.730 --> 04:01.900 He says it's altcoins attacks came suddenly like destructive thunderstorms that erupted from a clear 04:01.900 --> 04:02.560 sky. 04:03.490 --> 04:10.630 Yes, that is evident in so many alekhine games is because he's got such a desire to create compensatory 04:10.630 --> 04:10.990 play. 04:10.990 --> 04:15.910 It's almost like totally unexpected, like a thunderstorm from a clear sky. 04:15.940 --> 04:23.830 And he says, in contrast to Fischer with his propensity for clarity, you know, simplification, keeping 04:23.830 --> 04:25.840 things simple clear. 04:25.840 --> 04:30.730 And to Karpov, who grew up on Capablanca games, you know, Capablanca said he would prefer a very 04:30.730 --> 04:34.600 small advantage if it was very, very clear and non-controversial. 04:34.600 --> 04:41.980 So but from his early years, I was enormously influenced by Alekhine's play and won over by his unprecedented 04:41.980 --> 04:44.140 feat in the 1927 match. 04:44.290 --> 04:50.890 The 1927 match with Capablanca Alekhine was the underdog, had only lost to Capablanca, never beaten 04:50.890 --> 04:56.500 him, so it was unprecedented to beat Capablanca in the 1927 match. 04:56.830 --> 05:01.540 I admired the refinement of his ideas, and I tried as far as possible to imitate his furious attacking 05:01.540 --> 05:05.290 style with its sudden and thunderous sacrifices. 05:05.290 --> 05:06.940 So that's what we want to be. 05:06.940 --> 05:11.890 By the end of this course, we want to have what seems to be clear skies and we produce thunder for 05:11.890 --> 05:15.820 our opponents to handle or maybe not to handle, and we win brilliantly. 05:16.240 --> 05:20.050 So he says, I used to attack because it was the only thing I knew. 05:20.950 --> 05:23.560 Now I attack because I know it works best. 05:23.560 --> 05:24.910 Yes, there's an object. 05:25.170 --> 05:26.100 They weren't playing. 05:26.100 --> 05:29.430 But if you're playing against humans, we're not playing against computers yet. 05:29.430 --> 05:34.170 If you put them on the back foot for their king safety and the potential to slip up, it really often 05:34.170 --> 05:35.310 does work best. 05:35.310 --> 05:40.020 And of, you know, they're also consuming potentially vast amounts of time trying to defend accurately. 05:40.320 --> 05:45.310 He says when your house is on fire and you can't be bothered with the neighbors, you can't be bothered 05:45.310 --> 05:46.530 with neighbors, friends, Don't be saying chess. 05:46.530 --> 05:50.880 If your king is under attack, you don't worry about losing a pawn on the queen's side. 05:53.040 --> 05:55.470 So, yeah, actually, it should be. 05:55.770 --> 05:56.400 Really? 05:56.400 --> 06:00.170 If the opponent's king is under attack. 06:00.180 --> 06:00.590 Yeah. 06:01.140 --> 06:02.940 Especially in King's Indian Defense. 06:02.940 --> 06:06.420 I think there's so many vivid examples of sparring from the King's Indian defense. 06:06.420 --> 06:10.440 You know, kings in the defense plays in particular. 06:10.440 --> 06:15.630 They don't worry about the definite demolition of the back of their queenside losing material in their 06:15.630 --> 06:18.440 queenside if they're going to chat my on the king side. 06:18.450 --> 06:19.590 So yeah, it's a priority. 06:19.590 --> 06:21.720 It creates an independence of losing material. 06:21.720 --> 06:23.430 It creates a priority system. 06:23.430 --> 06:29.400 You're more concerned with meeting the opponent's king than your material concerns or with structure 06:29.400 --> 06:31.500 concerns, material and pawn structure. 06:31.500 --> 06:32.760 Well, they're just tools. 06:32.760 --> 06:34.950 You just, you know, checkmate ends the game. 06:35.460 --> 06:39.090 So, okay, let me show you a little bit of a game example. 06:39.090 --> 06:46.470 This is a dramatic game where Kasparov actually is material down against Karpov in round 16 of the 1986 06:46.470 --> 06:46.890 match. 06:46.890 --> 06:49.680 But it's absolutely a winning position. 06:50.010 --> 06:51.750 Yeah, this is a winning position. 06:51.750 --> 06:55.890 Even though Black has an extra bishop, the attack is rampant here. 06:55.920 --> 06:57.810 Karpov has actually gone wrong. 06:57.840 --> 07:00.180 Can you see what Kasparov plays here? 07:00.180 --> 07:05.280 If I give you 5 seconds to pause the video, it's actually a really brutal position. 07:06.480 --> 07:10.650 So Rook Takes G6 is a range of these pieces for this attack from from way back. 07:10.650 --> 07:14.070 You'll see this game analyzed in detail in the course. 07:14.070 --> 07:17.310 So Rook takes G6 now threatens this made him one. 07:18.300 --> 07:20.910 We have Queen E five, which seems to be a killjoy. 07:21.050 --> 07:24.660 It's like exchange in Queen's, but we need to sometimes celebrate that. 07:24.660 --> 07:29.880 That is going to be a mechanism which we need to anticipate quite often in our attacking chess Rook 07:29.880 --> 07:36.750 g eight Check King is seven and there's a big snag now in this position for black. 07:36.750 --> 07:38.220 Guess what that is. 07:40.440 --> 07:41.910 What is at play here? 07:43.700 --> 07:45.050 Okay, this is annoying. 07:45.170 --> 07:46.820 The cup of tea six check. 07:47.060 --> 07:48.470 So we have King E six. 07:48.470 --> 07:51.320 If Queen takes D six, we have this nice fork. 07:52.490 --> 07:54.980 So yes, so D six check. 07:55.010 --> 07:55.540 Very nice. 07:55.550 --> 07:58.610 Or queen takes the same kind of folk mechanism. 07:58.880 --> 08:02.960 We've got Knights five check. 08:04.670 --> 08:11.620 So Karpov compelled to play King e6 but now rookie eight Shank King d5 taking the queen. 08:11.630 --> 08:18.920 We've checked nine takes and now DS seven Ruby and now 96 FS have won a crushing finish to the game. 08:18.920 --> 08:25.470 So if Knight takes up seven Queen tanks B eight and then just cleaning Black's pawn is not going anywhere. 08:25.490 --> 08:29.330 So this was the crushing end to one of Garry Kasparov games. 08:29.330 --> 08:34.250 And you'll see this game in detail how it how we got to that position, how Kasparov got to that position. 08:34.490 --> 08:40.130 So, yes, Kasparov is like one of the primary layers of this course to be built on. 08:40.130 --> 08:44.210 As the course evolves, there'll be more and more examples from time to time. 08:44.210 --> 08:50.910 This course is a bit of a work in progress, but the first primary kind of layer is Alexander Alekhine 08:50.930 --> 08:52.010 in particular. 08:53.980 --> 08:56.430 Because he's shown so much admiration from Alekhine. 08:56.430 --> 09:03.930 We really need to know the source of Garry Kasparov, because when we look at the modern, more modern 09:03.930 --> 09:08.940 Garry Kasparov games, sometimes it's very, very complicated home preparation which comes in as well, 09:08.940 --> 09:13.500 which might obscure some of the concepts and principles we need for our own chess. 09:13.500 --> 09:17.100 So by looking at source, that's great. 09:17.100 --> 09:22.410 You looking at alekhine games that often more simple but still kind of complex in their own right, 09:22.410 --> 09:29.190 though of course we need to take great care to analyse in detail and really respect each and every example 09:29.190 --> 09:35.430 the nuances, try and clarify the frets at each point in the game, try and look at objectively the 09:35.430 --> 09:37.260 game, how it could be improved. 09:37.290 --> 09:41.250 Objectivity is our key for scaling up to stronger and stronger opponents. 09:41.250 --> 09:45.120 So anyway, I hope you enjoyed this set of quotations from Kasparov. 09:45.120 --> 09:49.350 I think they're inspirational, you know, encouraging, attacking players. 09:49.650 --> 09:54.240 So yeah, we're wearing a kind of mascot for attacking chess here. 09:54.270 --> 09:59.100 But, you know, sound attacking chess, attacking chess, which could get you all the way to becoming 09:59.100 --> 10:00.870 world chess champion potentially. 10:01.050 --> 10:01.860 Okay. 10:02.370 --> 10:03.150 That's very much.