WEBVTT 00:01.180 --> 00:02.050 Hi there. 00:02.410 --> 00:07.240 In this introduction lecture, I want to talk about the great attacking players and their routes. 00:07.510 --> 00:12.010 So why is a route metaphor interesting to consider? 00:12.430 --> 00:17.250 Well, if you want to get rid of weeds in your garden, let's assume you have a garden. 00:17.260 --> 00:20.830 If you want to get rid of weeds, usually you need to get rid of their roots. 00:20.830 --> 00:23.050 Otherwise they'll just get grow back. 00:23.290 --> 00:28.540 So if you get rid of their roots and carefully dispose of the roots, hopefully, you know, they don't 00:28.540 --> 00:36.400 grow back or they don't multiply as quickly, you get rid of the weeds by getting rid of the roots, 00:36.400 --> 00:38.590 ideally in general. 00:39.130 --> 00:44.260 And when we want to strengthen things, we want to improve the root system. 00:44.260 --> 00:51.700 It provides all the essential nutrients, ingredients, all the supplies that are needed to encourage, 00:52.210 --> 00:56.110 instill confidence in to provide examples. 00:56.110 --> 01:03.430 When we talk about chess roots, we want to ask, well, which attacking players first. 01:03.430 --> 01:10.990 They were very strong and consistently got good combinations and of course what we could say Kasparov, 01:10.990 --> 01:14.200 He really dominated everyone when Kasparov was a world chess champion. 01:14.290 --> 01:17.590 But what are Kasparov's roots? 01:18.190 --> 01:19.810 You know, what is his root system? 01:19.810 --> 01:26.770 So he mentions he alludes to Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Tsao and Bobby Fischer, and we focus on the 01:26.770 --> 01:30.580 Alexander Alekhine part in this course heavily. 01:31.570 --> 01:38.740 But you can check out my Tao and Fischer courses as well if you want more background influence. 01:38.740 --> 01:40.270 But here in this course. 01:40.270 --> 01:42.220 Yeah we are looking at. 01:43.400 --> 01:45.080 You know, some salmon fishing games as well. 01:45.080 --> 01:47.630 But a lot of Alexander Alekhine games. 01:47.660 --> 01:55.630 I think we need to respect the examples and see the trade offs of what we're looking at of the examples. 01:55.640 --> 02:01.310 If we go back to the Morphy era, yes, it's without computers, without the complexity and baggage 02:01.310 --> 02:02.210 of opening very. 02:02.210 --> 02:05.290 But Morphy was head and shoulders above most of his opponents. 02:05.300 --> 02:07.700 He taught us the basic principles of the open game. 02:07.700 --> 02:14.390 You know, a lot of Morphy's opponents had their pieces still on the back row and they were being checkmated. 02:14.390 --> 02:15.980 They had very, very bad openings. 02:15.980 --> 02:21.920 It was getting very, you know, gigantic advantages from the opening and using those elements to blast 02:21.920 --> 02:26.900 the opponents for, for example, like foul authority dominating pieces. 02:26.900 --> 02:29.810 And we see some examples of Morphy in this course. 02:29.990 --> 02:36.530 But the era of Alekhine was interesting because he did have very, very dangerous pairs. 02:36.530 --> 02:39.010 He wasn't head and shoulders above other people. 02:39.020 --> 02:45.080 He had to, you know, work hard to improve his results and he managed to beat Capablanca. 02:45.080 --> 02:48.110 He overcame Capablanca in a world championship match. 02:48.320 --> 02:51.680 So the error was also not too much computer preparation. 02:51.680 --> 02:54.530 So it's not like a deep, vast complexity. 02:54.530 --> 02:59.600 When we look at Kasparov game, it could have been like home cooked to a large extent. 02:59.600 --> 03:04.790 The absolutely brilliant moves, you wouldn't be able to recreate them in your own games because of 03:04.790 --> 03:06.410 this impact of computers. 03:06.410 --> 03:10.070 It could have been very detailed opening preparation. 03:10.070 --> 03:17.990 So we've got to be a bit wary that when we want to learn from past masters, hopefully the examples 03:18.710 --> 03:21.410 they have, the right trade offs we're looking for. 03:21.950 --> 03:27.800 Yeah, we can master the open game from opera, you know, from from Morphy, for example. 03:27.800 --> 03:29.510 The opera game is a great example. 03:29.510 --> 03:36.380 We can master the open game, sure, But Alekhine also, you know, in a slightly later generation where 03:36.440 --> 03:43.340 there's much more competitive pressure emerging, he was still able to have great attacking games. 03:43.340 --> 03:50.690 And his examples for me are very, very interesting to consider as a basis for studying more complex 03:50.690 --> 03:51.860 games of Kasparov. 03:51.860 --> 03:59.600 So basically we need to respect the errors involved, the trade offs of those eras, you know, computer 03:59.600 --> 04:03.710 preparation could actually be complicating are examples. 04:04.160 --> 04:09.350 And sometimes Morphy is a bit too, too much above his peers. 04:09.770 --> 04:15.200 So to be a more effective attacking player, what we're basically saying when we talk about Roots is, 04:15.590 --> 04:17.480 you know, what is your supply chain? 04:19.220 --> 04:24.260 Who is supplying you with the examples, the key game examples that that makes you a stronger and stronger 04:24.260 --> 04:24.950 attacking player. 04:24.950 --> 04:30.500 In my view, the more you can master the finances of each and every example, the variations, you know, 04:30.500 --> 04:36.350 what was being found, why, what the ingredients, what the themes ingredients is a sentiment synonym 04:36.350 --> 04:40.160 for themes, tags, patterns, you name it. 04:40.160 --> 04:45.230 What creates the climate for a brilliant, you know, final combination. 04:46.070 --> 04:53.720 So Kasparov indicated he studied Alekhine games and he also studied how Fisher Aronian thinks Alekhine 04:53.750 --> 04:55.850 is one of the greatest players ever. 04:55.910 --> 05:02.690 So also, you know, we should at some point add some aronian game examples as well. 05:03.650 --> 05:09.110 But it's important to get the foundation set in this course as the top priority. 05:09.110 --> 05:15.650 It is an evolving course and yeah, we can see clearly that there's a supply chain. 05:15.650 --> 05:23.390 It's like Alekhine was basically a great supplier of creative ideas for attacking chess for Garry Kasparov. 05:23.390 --> 05:26.720 We need to look at those supply chains of classic players. 05:26.990 --> 05:32.120 So we need to kind of strengthen and also need to qualify our attacking routes. 05:32.120 --> 05:35.780 So I don't know if you've seen this Cobra coin series on Netflix. 05:35.780 --> 05:39.260 It's all about attacking the fence and different philosophies. 05:39.290 --> 05:44.570 It's as if each world champion was a kind of sensei, a tutor, each world champion. 05:44.570 --> 05:48.140 We can learn something about chess from each world Chess champion. 05:48.140 --> 05:51.530 So, for example, Tigran Petrosian, we can learn about prophylaxis. 05:52.640 --> 05:54.110 We can just learn. 05:54.110 --> 06:01.340 Each bowl champion has quite a lot to offer in their own right, and some world champions have the same 06:01.340 --> 06:02.420 kind of playing styles. 06:02.420 --> 06:07.250 There's almost a pattern, you know, Capablanca, Karpov, Alekhine Kasparov. 06:07.280 --> 06:13.250 They have the same kind of similar playing styles, but we want to qualify our root systems, make it 06:13.250 --> 06:19.040 more effective and appropriate, so we don't want to get the wrong end of the stick force from some 06:19.040 --> 06:19.700 alekhine games. 06:19.700 --> 06:22.580 We need detailed objective analysis. 06:22.580 --> 06:30.290 We need to know the truth of the games, flaws and all to strengthen our root system, to qualify our 06:30.290 --> 06:31.280 root system. 06:31.760 --> 06:37.280 So we might need to replace some misconceptions we've had about games. 06:37.520 --> 06:42.680 We need to objectively analyze each game example and take it very, very seriously. 06:44.240 --> 06:51.050 So the course aims basically to strengthen our attacking roots, mine and yours, because it's a good 06:51.050 --> 06:52.000 revision for me. 06:52.010 --> 06:56.570 You know, I've seen a lot of these iconic games before, but to try and get even more detail, even 06:56.570 --> 07:02.900 more clarification on every single game example will improve our clarification of the core ingredients. 07:02.900 --> 07:09.110 The more fundamental ingredients get the details right, We can draw more correct conclusions, more 07:09.110 --> 07:18.440 qualified conclusions about the routes of attack, the ways of successful attack in chess, the root 07:19.040 --> 07:25.760 of Spassky, you know, Polish became, you know, when Spassky had a new trainer, Tönnies really boosted 07:25.760 --> 07:28.820 his attacking chassis, became much more dynamic. 07:28.820 --> 07:34.940 And, you know, here's a game example to show you might not have heard of Polish, but Tony was also 07:34.940 --> 07:40.280 playing The King's game and Spassky was playing The King's Gambit, so maybe encouraged Spassky to just 07:40.280 --> 07:43.250 play what he wanted in the opening to get dynamic games. 07:43.250 --> 07:48.950 So here in this game, this is an example game which is analyzed in much greater depth in the course. 07:48.950 --> 07:52.520 So it's against a Lord serve in 1948. 07:52.550 --> 07:56.780 I'm only showing you this game as an example of root influence or trainer influence. 07:57.470 --> 08:02.630 So we have E2 65 here, Polish against the Lords, now Queen 65. 08:03.080 --> 08:08.840 So nowadays E6 F4 would have been is more accurate. 08:08.840 --> 08:12.350 So this variation is is more accurate. 08:12.350 --> 08:15.500 Blacks should be okay here in this position. 08:15.500 --> 08:20.120 But so we have Queen 65 and it leads to a brutal quick win actually. 08:20.120 --> 08:26.150 So f takes E5 Queen 65, Bishop E to Bishop G for D for Queen E6. 08:26.570 --> 08:28.550 So White's ahead in development. 08:28.550 --> 08:33.980 So using the Romantic era King's gambit by 1948 USSR Championship. 08:33.980 --> 08:36.050 So why course was queenside? 08:37.070 --> 08:40.700 Bishop takes EA to Knight G takes ea to Bishop d6. 08:40.730 --> 08:44.420 We have D5 opening up things in the center. 08:44.450 --> 08:46.010 9/10 9/10. 08:46.010 --> 08:48.320 So there's a key defensive point taken away. 08:48.740 --> 08:52.550 Queen G3 big tempo gainer on D6 looking at G7. 08:52.640 --> 08:57.140 So Bishop takes that for Shake the King still in the centre doesn't last too long here. 08:57.170 --> 09:02.750 Rook HD check King f8 and now can you see the final touch for five points. 09:03.590 --> 09:10.820 Queen A free check and it's going to be a back row mate soon after Slay Queen D6 or just F King J Rookie 09:11.000 --> 09:14.630 is going to be checkmate so Black can only delay her. 09:14.930 --> 09:16.640 So yes, this is an example. 09:16.640 --> 09:24.590 I wanted to show you the influence of trainers, the influence of previous generations. 09:24.770 --> 09:28.850 They are supply chain of examples. 09:28.850 --> 09:31.070 The examples give us inspiration. 09:31.070 --> 09:34.070 They gave us a clue for attacking gradients. 09:34.070 --> 09:41.300 We need to be careful and attentive to details to get an objective truth about each game. 09:41.300 --> 09:49.040 Example Seeing where it could be improved for both sides and hopefully it should be this logical method 09:49.400 --> 09:51.920 and it can be applied in other disciplines as well. 09:51.920 --> 09:57.230 Instead of trying to do advanced maps, you know, you've got to get your maths foundation right far 09:57.230 --> 10:00.680 as you get the foundations right in your particular domain. 10:00.740 --> 10:03.170 And then the advanced stuff should be easier and easier. 10:03.170 --> 10:08.930 The more solid the foundation, the more solid your root system, the easier it is to put pressure later. 10:08.930 --> 10:13.700 On top of that foundation, a strong foundations, strong roots. 10:13.700 --> 10:15.530 These are important things. 10:15.530 --> 10:21.200 So yeah, we're trying to get very strong root system here for attacking style of chess. 10:21.320 --> 10:24.320 Okay, so I hope you appreciate this intro video. 10:24.830 --> 10:25.460 Okay. 10:26.030 --> 10:26.750 Thanks so much.