WEBVTT 00:02.160 --> 00:03.120 Hi there. 00:03.520 --> 00:05.200 Welcome to this beginner's course. 00:05.600 --> 00:13.280 Before we go on to this amazing journey, I want to share some some amazing quotations about chess with 00:13.280 --> 00:13.560 you. 00:14.480 --> 00:18.640 So the first one is by Irving Chernev, one of my favorite authors. 00:18.640 --> 00:22.200 In fact, he has very, very good books on chess I can recommend. 00:22.760 --> 00:26.600 And he said every chess master was once a beginner. 00:27.720 --> 00:35.200 I was absolutely enchanted by his most instructive games of chess book and other other people, also 00:35.200 --> 00:37.680 raving about his logical chess move by move. 00:37.800 --> 00:45.760 He's well worth checking out as a book author Siegbert Tarrasch had a lot to say about chess, and one 00:45.760 --> 00:53.560 of the things he said chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy or women happy, 00:54.080 --> 00:55.520 as we should say nowadays. 00:55.520 --> 00:58.480 So yes, Siegbert Tarrasch had that to say. 00:59.200 --> 01:01.590 Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. 01:01.630 --> 01:03.150 This is something to bear in mind. 01:03.390 --> 01:04.150 If nothing else. 01:04.150 --> 01:06.430 Chess is great mental exercise. 01:07.030 --> 01:08.190 I play chess every day. 01:08.190 --> 01:09.110 I absolutely love it. 01:09.150 --> 01:15.030 It does, I feel keep, you know, my my mind working rather than, you know, becoming a cabbage. 01:15.430 --> 01:16.310 So there's that. 01:17.270 --> 01:19.630 This is something you need to bear in mind about chess. 01:19.670 --> 01:24.350 You may learn much more from a game that you lose than from a game you win. 01:24.950 --> 01:28.190 So you'll have to lose hundreds of games before becoming good player. 01:28.190 --> 01:31.350 So that's a kind of note by Capablanca. 01:31.430 --> 01:35.590 Treat it as a learning process, that mindset to be a learning mindset. 01:37.630 --> 01:40.670 During games when you see a good move, don't be overexcited. 01:40.670 --> 01:42.830 Sometimes, sometimes look for a better move. 01:43.030 --> 01:48.070 Emanuel Lasker said that, you know, these are great world champions, many of these players. 01:48.070 --> 01:50.350 So Lasker was one of the longest world champions. 01:50.350 --> 01:55.150 In fact, Capablanca, another world champion, said a good player is also lucky. 01:56.150 --> 02:02.450 Always lucky, he said, always lucky, which shows, you know, sometimes, yeah, the good players 02:02.450 --> 02:06.810 really know, you know, the tactics and the positional play and everything. 02:06.810 --> 02:10.330 So they can even work their way back from bad positions to win. 02:10.570 --> 02:13.170 The better and better you get, the more lucky you become. 02:13.210 --> 02:13.850 Basically. 02:16.050 --> 02:18.250 You cannot play chess if you are kind hearted. 02:18.250 --> 02:19.250 A French proverb. 02:21.010 --> 02:23.450 Yeah, I'm not sure about that one myself, but this. 02:23.450 --> 02:24.810 This is a French proverb. 02:25.130 --> 02:30.890 Sometimes you do have this, have to have this will and determination to win and not accept a draw. 02:30.930 --> 02:32.410 There's a fear of not losing. 02:32.410 --> 02:34.690 You've got to overcome that and sometimes not accept a draw. 02:34.690 --> 02:35.770 Play on and play on. 02:37.090 --> 02:37.730 Okay. 02:38.530 --> 02:42.770 Tartakower is one of my favorite chess personalities in chess. 02:42.770 --> 02:45.810 He has so many amazing chess quotations to check out. 02:46.290 --> 02:48.250 Well worth checking out his quotations. 02:48.650 --> 02:52.050 And he talks about blunders a lot in some of his quotations. 02:52.290 --> 02:52.730 Blood. 02:52.770 --> 02:56.690 The blunders are all there on the board waiting to be made. 02:59.130 --> 03:03.560 He also said the winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake. 03:04.280 --> 03:05.120 That's another one. 03:05.440 --> 03:07.240 He says the game has three stages. 03:07.680 --> 03:11.840 So normally we'd think about the game, the three stages as opening, middlegame and endgame. 03:11.840 --> 03:14.840 He's changed that into this stage one. 03:14.840 --> 03:16.400 You hope you have an advantage. 03:17.040 --> 03:17.960 Two believe. 03:18.000 --> 03:19.720 You believe you have an advantage. 03:20.280 --> 03:23.960 And then three stage three you're knowing, knowing that you're going to lose. 03:23.960 --> 03:24.320 So. 03:25.720 --> 03:28.680 So yeah, tactical is well worth checking out. 03:28.720 --> 03:35.640 So these are inspirational quotes that have, you know, great insight to them. 03:35.640 --> 03:38.000 You'll see other quotes later on in the course. 03:38.000 --> 03:38.960 I love my quotes. 03:38.960 --> 03:44.120 And I thought, oh, this would be a fun start for this course, for your journey and for me. 03:44.120 --> 03:46.520 Yeah, the journey of chess is ongoing. 03:47.400 --> 03:52.200 It's a lifetime journey and it can really enhance your joy of life. 03:52.200 --> 03:57.800 I would say basically, as well as keeping your your mind fit and healthy. 03:57.960 --> 03:58.520 Okay. 03:59.680 --> 04:00.440 Thanks very much.