Hi there.
In this lecture, I would like to draw some conclusions.
So there are many conclusions to be drawn from this course.
Here are some conclusions which I think are important.
Attacking chess is actually a way of getting easier to play positions than the opponent's is easier
in general to attack than to the fence.
And that's also a view shared by one of the Kasparov quotations.
And it also attack works well for Kasparov.
He's tried other methods, but attack works well for him, and he's one of the greatest players ever.
Now he learns from the previous generation, from players like Alexander Alekhine, among others, and
he was also influenced by Bobby Fischer as well.
But Alexander Alekhine is one of the important influences which we look at as the first layer in this
course, and I hope you get a lot of ideas from Ilcoin.
We also see, you know, other world champions events in this course like Boris Spassky and Uncrowned
Kings of the Game like Viktor Korchnoi.
We also see what you consider a defensive world champion, Tigran Petrosian.
He was great at combinations and could face the counter attack and is also, you know, David Bronstein,
very creative on the attack.
So we see many other attacking players.
They are featured in this course for the attacking ingredients, which we might hope to use in our own
attacking games.
We really want to become the chef on the chessboard.
We need to know not just to appreciate the final beauty combinations of the attacking games, but know
the ingredients.
How did they get those positions?
So hopefully there are great pointers in this course highlighted for how you can get attacking positions
in your own games and recognize the attacking strengths, the attacking advantages that you construct.
From the opening phase onwards.
We see that pawn structures also play an important role in attacking players, mindsets and pawns of
the soul of chess, Philidor said.
So what are the other souls we can look for as important categories of attacking ingredients?
Another soul for me is my errors.
Personally, I like to see the downsides of the opponent's position and even just, you know, the weakness
of the last move.
I love, you know, making use of errors to create combinations, but also combinations in itself.
The love of combinations increases the motivation for.
Paying attention to the ingredients for how to create such a delicious offering.
You know, in terms of a beautiful attacking game, how do we actually get there to create those beautiful
combinations?
The attacking chess bias we see is an attractive bias because it can lead to beautiful winning combinations
and those games can be celebrated hundreds of years later.
Immortal games, Evergreen game, literally hundreds of years later, these games are remembered.
And even masters who didn't even get the GM title that there's mention of, we have to give credit to
him for his absolutely brilliant beautiful games they transcend transcends just getting a point on a
tournament cross table.
So this course also tries the ground attacking chess with what I'd call post romantic era masters.
So Alexander Alekhine is after the foundation set by Wilhelm Steinitz and reinforced and consolidated
by Lasker, where chess is more of a science, you need to have an accumulation of advantages to justify
attacks and to make sure in advance that the attack is going to be successful and not just easily defended.
So if you are attacking Chance chances grounded solidly in the classic accumulation of advantages model
set out by the two first, the first and Second World Chess champions, then we're more grounded as
attacking players.
We can learn a great deal from the old masters.
In my view, pre engine era, post romantic era.
Those old masters, especially Alekhine who absolutely had the passion for combinations, so therefore
had the passion for the ingredients, trying to find the ingredients himself.
So we need that search for the ingredients and the old masters we can identify with instructive mistakes.
It creates contrast when we see an old master game.
It's not all of this modern engine opening theory.
It's more bare bones.
We can study the simpler examples and hopefully more clearly see key attacking ingredients.
So they all like the signpost, the ingredients like the signpost to look out for in your own games.
So your evaluation of attacking opportunities, the evaluation, not just the calculation, your intuition,
your evaluation, your instincts should be sharper and clearer as a result of trying to understand the
example attacking games in this course.
Attacking chess is huge fun, remains huge fun for me.
I absolutely love attacking chess, going for the king, but yeah, in a refined way, especially.
So it's not just random luck.
That combination worked from a bad position.
We want a good possession first.
Delayed gratification through the accumulation of advantages.
Let me show you a final game example.
This is one of the IMS I've beaten in 1999.
Colin Crouch, great player.
I was fortunate to have an attacking build up position here and I kind of get a form pawn with F6.
So we have G6, so we do have a dangerous pawn here and attacking ingredients.
So if G takes F6, can you see what white place.
Yeah.
Queen shackle tracks even the seemingly the outrageous you know the rooks you know the battery isn't
just pretty it's very functional as well if rook takes f6 queen sanctuary seven is mate so yeah the
form pawn is established we have H five rook eight If rook takes f6, we just play H tanks G six and
here Queen E seven is strong.
So for example, Rook takes G six, H takes G6 because if Rook takes G6, Queen F eight check, and
then that's mating.
So say H tanks G six there's rook H two Checkmate.
Cute.
So Rook eight was played and we have now Queen H six Rook takes f6 H Tanks G six.
Rook G seven.
Yes, I'm fasting now.
Queen size eight seven.
Mating.
So, Rook seven.
But now guess what?
I play in this position, which is simple and strong.
The bank robbers being weakened is a kind of weakness.
In the last move, we can make use of that little finesse with rookie for trying to head for that back
row.
Now we have rook have eight.
If rook f thanks G6 rookie eight check and then we're crashing through of Rook takes G6 so Rook takes
Queen G seven as checkmate If rook G takes g6 rook eight check rook eight Rook takes F8 And we're crashing
through again like this Rook g takes g eight, mate.
So Rook eight was tried, but now a beautiful move here.
Well, in my view, beauty's eye of the beholder, as they say.
So White's play here.
What would you play in this position?
Move 42.
Which is of course the answer to life, the universe and everything if you're a Hitchhiker's Guide fan.
So I'll move 40 to.
Yeah.
Going for the champ mates with Rocky Southern France.
I think I'm making one.
We have rook f g h f Rook takes e seven.
Queen takes f eight.
Champ mates if Rook have one.
Check King H to this position G seven Check is crushing because waters won't play here, which is nice
at some points.
Yep.
Queen size eight seven.
And that pass pawn becomes a queen, which helps mate.
So Rook fg eight.
And in this position, guess what I played, which concludes this game and also this course with this
introduction, not introduction, this conclusion lecture.
It's a conclusion which is concluding, of course, the concluding move here.
Yeah.
Check all checks, even the outrageous ones.
Queen takes h seven check is mating.
So yes, if we continue rotates rotates H seven is checkmate.
So yeah, a nice attacking game back in 1999, quite some time ago.
So I love attacking chess.
I've always loved attacking chess.
So if you love tactics and combinations, you are yourself a kind of Alexander coin player.
You really in search for ingredients.
So this course is all about finding those ingredients and getting the jigsaw of our skill set together.
So the sum of the parts is very, very powerful.
If we can actually get those attacking positions, then leverage our tax court and compensatory skills.
We're going to be a formidable, scary opponent to face.
Okay, So I hope you enjoyed this course.
Have fun in your chance.
Have fun in life generally as well.
Okay.
So lunch.