WEBVTT 00:01.510 --> 00:02.530 Hi there. 00:02.560 --> 00:05.530 In this lecture, I would like to draw some conclusions. 00:05.530 --> 00:08.560 So there are many conclusions to be drawn from this course. 00:09.070 --> 00:13.030 Here are some conclusions which I think are important. 00:13.990 --> 00:19.840 Attacking chess is actually a way of getting easier to play positions than the opponent's is easier 00:19.840 --> 00:22.420 in general to attack than to the fence. 00:22.420 --> 00:27.400 And that's also a view shared by one of the Kasparov quotations. 00:27.580 --> 00:30.340 And it also attack works well for Kasparov. 00:30.550 --> 00:35.530 He's tried other methods, but attack works well for him, and he's one of the greatest players ever. 00:36.100 --> 00:44.050 Now he learns from the previous generation, from players like Alexander Alekhine, among others, and 00:44.050 --> 00:48.450 he was also influenced by Bobby Fischer as well. 00:48.460 --> 00:55.090 But Alexander Alekhine is one of the important influences which we look at as the first layer in this 00:55.090 --> 00:59.560 course, and I hope you get a lot of ideas from Ilcoin. 01:00.340 --> 01:06.790 We also see, you know, other world champions events in this course like Boris Spassky and Uncrowned 01:06.790 --> 01:09.940 Kings of the Game like Viktor Korchnoi. 01:10.690 --> 01:14.140 We also see what you consider a defensive world champion, Tigran Petrosian. 01:14.140 --> 01:21.070 He was great at combinations and could face the counter attack and is also, you know, David Bronstein, 01:21.070 --> 01:23.670 very creative on the attack. 01:23.680 --> 01:25.690 So we see many other attacking players. 01:25.690 --> 01:31.870 They are featured in this course for the attacking ingredients, which we might hope to use in our own 01:31.870 --> 01:33.000 attacking games. 01:33.010 --> 01:37.090 We really want to become the chef on the chessboard. 01:37.090 --> 01:42.400 We need to know not just to appreciate the final beauty combinations of the attacking games, but know 01:42.400 --> 01:43.090 the ingredients. 01:43.090 --> 01:45.880 How did they get those positions? 01:45.880 --> 01:53.080 So hopefully there are great pointers in this course highlighted for how you can get attacking positions 01:53.080 --> 01:58.630 in your own games and recognize the attacking strengths, the attacking advantages that you construct. 01:58.630 --> 02:00.400 From the opening phase onwards. 02:01.000 --> 02:07.780 We see that pawn structures also play an important role in attacking players, mindsets and pawns of 02:07.780 --> 02:09.130 the soul of chess, Philidor said. 02:09.130 --> 02:14.290 So what are the other souls we can look for as important categories of attacking ingredients? 02:14.410 --> 02:16.330 Another soul for me is my errors. 02:16.330 --> 02:22.300 Personally, I like to see the downsides of the opponent's position and even just, you know, the weakness 02:22.300 --> 02:23.020 of the last move. 02:23.020 --> 02:29.920 I love, you know, making use of errors to create combinations, but also combinations in itself. 02:29.920 --> 02:35.980 The love of combinations increases the motivation for. 02:37.210 --> 02:43.120 Paying attention to the ingredients for how to create such a delicious offering. 02:43.120 --> 02:47.020 You know, in terms of a beautiful attacking game, how do we actually get there to create those beautiful 02:47.020 --> 02:47.950 combinations? 02:48.640 --> 02:54.220 The attacking chess bias we see is an attractive bias because it can lead to beautiful winning combinations 02:54.220 --> 02:57.160 and those games can be celebrated hundreds of years later. 02:57.160 --> 03:01.870 Immortal games, Evergreen game, literally hundreds of years later, these games are remembered. 03:02.050 --> 03:08.350 And even masters who didn't even get the GM title that there's mention of, we have to give credit to 03:08.350 --> 03:14.230 him for his absolutely brilliant beautiful games they transcend transcends just getting a point on a 03:14.230 --> 03:15.430 tournament cross table. 03:16.960 --> 03:23.320 So this course also tries the ground attacking chess with what I'd call post romantic era masters. 03:23.330 --> 03:31.630 So Alexander Alekhine is after the foundation set by Wilhelm Steinitz and reinforced and consolidated 03:31.630 --> 03:38.950 by Lasker, where chess is more of a science, you need to have an accumulation of advantages to justify 03:39.280 --> 03:45.490 attacks and to make sure in advance that the attack is going to be successful and not just easily defended. 03:46.480 --> 03:52.180 So if you are attacking Chance chances grounded solidly in the classic accumulation of advantages model 03:52.630 --> 03:58.600 set out by the two first, the first and Second World Chess champions, then we're more grounded as 03:58.600 --> 03:59.440 attacking players. 03:59.440 --> 04:01.300 We can learn a great deal from the old masters. 04:01.300 --> 04:05.500 In my view, pre engine era, post romantic era. 04:05.680 --> 04:11.770 Those old masters, especially Alekhine who absolutely had the passion for combinations, so therefore 04:11.800 --> 04:15.160 had the passion for the ingredients, trying to find the ingredients himself. 04:15.250 --> 04:23.230 So we need that search for the ingredients and the old masters we can identify with instructive mistakes. 04:23.230 --> 04:25.840 It creates contrast when we see an old master game. 04:25.840 --> 04:29.500 It's not all of this modern engine opening theory. 04:29.950 --> 04:31.000 It's more bare bones. 04:31.000 --> 04:38.230 We can study the simpler examples and hopefully more clearly see key attacking ingredients. 04:39.310 --> 04:43.660 So they all like the signpost, the ingredients like the signpost to look out for in your own games. 04:44.140 --> 04:48.700 So your evaluation of attacking opportunities, the evaluation, not just the calculation, your intuition, 04:48.700 --> 04:55.270 your evaluation, your instincts should be sharper and clearer as a result of trying to understand the 04:55.270 --> 04:57.250 example attacking games in this course. 04:57.400 --> 05:00.910 Attacking chess is huge fun, remains huge fun for me. 05:00.910 --> 05:06.430 I absolutely love attacking chess, going for the king, but yeah, in a refined way, especially. 05:06.430 --> 05:08.170 So it's not just random luck. 05:08.170 --> 05:10.090 That combination worked from a bad position. 05:10.090 --> 05:12.070 We want a good possession first. 05:12.520 --> 05:16.030 Delayed gratification through the accumulation of advantages. 05:16.960 --> 05:19.720 Let me show you a final game example. 05:19.720 --> 05:23.170 This is one of the IMS I've beaten in 1999. 05:23.170 --> 05:25.060 Colin Crouch, great player. 05:25.060 --> 05:33.250 I was fortunate to have an attacking build up position here and I kind of get a form pawn with F6. 05:34.060 --> 05:40.360 So we have G6, so we do have a dangerous pawn here and attacking ingredients. 05:40.360 --> 05:43.450 So if G takes F6, can you see what white place. 05:44.440 --> 05:44.860 Yeah. 05:44.860 --> 05:50.320 Queen shackle tracks even the seemingly the outrageous you know the rooks you know the battery isn't 05:50.320 --> 05:56.050 just pretty it's very functional as well if rook takes f6 queen sanctuary seven is mate so yeah the 05:56.050 --> 06:04.120 form pawn is established we have H five rook eight If rook takes f6, we just play H tanks G six and 06:04.120 --> 06:07.270 here Queen E seven is strong. 06:07.270 --> 06:15.900 So for example, Rook takes G six, H takes G6 because if Rook takes G6, Queen F eight check, and 06:15.900 --> 06:17.080 then that's mating. 06:17.590 --> 06:22.030 So say H tanks G six there's rook H two Checkmate. 06:22.120 --> 06:22.960 Cute. 06:22.960 --> 06:32.260 So Rook eight was played and we have now Queen H six Rook takes f6 H Tanks G six. 06:32.260 --> 06:33.280 Rook G seven. 06:34.900 --> 06:36.760 Yes, I'm fasting now. 06:36.850 --> 06:38.290 Queen size eight seven. 06:38.590 --> 06:38.980 Mating. 06:38.980 --> 06:40.110 So, Rook seven. 06:40.120 --> 06:42.190 But now guess what? 06:42.370 --> 06:47.380 I play in this position, which is simple and strong. 06:47.410 --> 06:49.360 The bank robbers being weakened is a kind of weakness. 06:49.360 --> 06:54.460 In the last move, we can make use of that little finesse with rookie for trying to head for that back 06:54.460 --> 06:54.700 row. 06:54.700 --> 06:57.400 Now we have rook have eight. 06:57.430 --> 07:04.750 If rook f thanks G6 rookie eight check and then we're crashing through of Rook takes G6 so Rook takes 07:05.110 --> 07:12.460 Queen G seven as checkmate If rook G takes g6 rook eight check rook eight Rook takes F8 And we're crashing 07:12.460 --> 07:17.350 through again like this Rook g takes g eight, mate. 07:17.350 --> 07:22.210 So Rook eight was tried, but now a beautiful move here. 07:22.300 --> 07:26.050 Well, in my view, beauty's eye of the beholder, as they say. 07:26.050 --> 07:27.100 So White's play here. 07:27.100 --> 07:28.930 What would you play in this position? 07:29.020 --> 07:30.040 Move 42. 07:30.070 --> 07:34.870 Which is of course the answer to life, the universe and everything if you're a Hitchhiker's Guide fan. 07:34.870 --> 07:36.490 So I'll move 40 to. 07:38.360 --> 07:38.600 Yeah. 07:38.630 --> 07:41.180 Going for the champ mates with Rocky Southern France. 07:41.190 --> 07:42.230 I think I'm making one. 07:42.560 --> 07:45.530 We have rook f g h f Rook takes e seven. 07:46.070 --> 07:47.270 Queen takes f eight. 07:47.270 --> 07:49.130 Champ mates if Rook have one. 07:49.130 --> 07:58.190 Check King H to this position G seven Check is crushing because waters won't play here, which is nice 07:59.120 --> 08:00.020 at some points. 08:01.190 --> 08:01.700 Yep. 08:01.760 --> 08:03.050 Queen size eight seven. 08:03.050 --> 08:06.110 And that pass pawn becomes a queen, which helps mate. 08:06.260 --> 08:08.030 So Rook fg eight. 08:08.180 --> 08:15.020 And in this position, guess what I played, which concludes this game and also this course with this 08:15.020 --> 08:19.010 introduction, not introduction, this conclusion lecture. 08:19.030 --> 08:25.730 It's a conclusion which is concluding, of course, the concluding move here. 08:26.570 --> 08:26.990 Yeah. 08:26.990 --> 08:29.960 Check all checks, even the outrageous ones. 08:30.320 --> 08:32.840 Queen takes h seven check is mating. 08:34.460 --> 08:39.070 So yes, if we continue rotates rotates H seven is checkmate. 08:39.080 --> 08:43.700 So yeah, a nice attacking game back in 1999, quite some time ago. 08:43.700 --> 08:45.140 So I love attacking chess. 08:45.140 --> 08:46.760 I've always loved attacking chess. 08:46.760 --> 08:51.860 So if you love tactics and combinations, you are yourself a kind of Alexander coin player. 08:51.860 --> 08:54.200 You really in search for ingredients. 08:54.200 --> 09:00.170 So this course is all about finding those ingredients and getting the jigsaw of our skill set together. 09:00.440 --> 09:03.680 So the sum of the parts is very, very powerful. 09:03.920 --> 09:08.960 If we can actually get those attacking positions, then leverage our tax court and compensatory skills. 09:08.960 --> 09:12.260 We're going to be a formidable, scary opponent to face. 09:12.380 --> 09:14.480 Okay, So I hope you enjoyed this course. 09:14.630 --> 09:15.890 Have fun in your chance. 09:15.890 --> 09:18.290 Have fun in life generally as well. 09:18.620 --> 09:19.490 Okay. 09:20.930 --> 09:21.530 So lunch.