WEBVTT 00:01.230 --> 00:03.040 Hi there in this thing. 00:03.210 --> 00:09.300 I just want to emphasize to you that chance logically divines, if you're teaching, it's newcomer's. 00:09.300 --> 00:16.380 The classic divide is the so-called opening of the game, the middle game and the end game. 00:16.950 --> 00:20.400 So let's take an example game and just observe. 00:20.400 --> 00:27.060 I know I haven't explained how the pieces move or anything in this, but I want to tell you, for a 00:27.060 --> 00:31.480 game just to identify the opening phase, the middle game phase and the end game phase. 00:31.890 --> 00:38.910 So this game was between Wolfgang Ullman and Bobby Fischer in the 1970 Parlement Minorca and Zonal. 00:39.210 --> 00:42.640 The opening moves include defo. 00:44.280 --> 00:48.300 So this is one of the two key opening moves, most of them used in chess. 00:48.810 --> 00:54.170 Fischer played six C4 C5 three five eight six. 00:54.210 --> 01:00.150 So we get actually an opening which is identified as the modern Benoni. 01:00.810 --> 01:02.370 So this is the opening phase. 01:02.370 --> 01:09.120 You can consider this the opening phase and usually we can signify the start of the middle game when 01:09.120 --> 01:11.110 both sides castle. 01:11.520 --> 01:15.960 So this is like the middle game and surely into the middle game. 01:15.960 --> 01:22.910 Actually, Fischer plays a chess tactic to win a pawn here, 1964. 01:22.920 --> 01:28.080 So the lights go in all shapes the more I introduce all these pieces of evidence pretty soon. 01:28.530 --> 01:34.410 So when a kind of mental game, the mental game is signified, when the queens are kind of still on 01:34.410 --> 01:34.950 the board. 01:37.670 --> 01:46.190 And essentially, black managed to get potentially, you know, a small edge from the middle game and 01:46.190 --> 01:52.010 sometimes the game's not Seiders in the middle game or the opening, they carry on to the so-called 01:52.010 --> 01:52.560 end game. 01:52.580 --> 02:01.760 So here you can see pieces coming off and hear more exchanges, simplification of the position. 02:02.030 --> 02:06.860 So we're in a kind of endgame definitely now with this level of simplification. 02:07.730 --> 02:12.460 And the pawns become more important quite often in the end game. 02:12.470 --> 02:17.360 And the Kings actually come out quite often in the end game, come out on the bounce, help the battle 02:17.660 --> 02:20.620 because there's less of a risk of them being checkmated. 02:21.110 --> 02:23.920 So we have this logical divide of the game. 02:24.050 --> 02:27.590 And in fact, here the opponent actually resigned after the night of sex. 02:28.910 --> 02:35.360 The reason, if you're interested, is if King takes D6, then the king actually comes back aggressively 02:36.050 --> 02:38.480 to help win material and traps the rock rook. 02:38.870 --> 02:44.960 So in other words, black because black is pawns up at this level. 02:45.320 --> 02:51.230 You know, white felt the position was hopeless and if the rock went here, that might take some blacks 02:51.230 --> 02:55.230 up in pawns and that basically at this level people resign. 02:55.730 --> 03:04.520 So the core focus I just wanted to introduce you here in this game is that chess is divided logically 03:04.970 --> 03:07.610 and classically its opening middle game. 03:07.610 --> 03:14.290 And Angang, the opening of this game is there's actually a name to the opening called the boloney. 03:14.750 --> 03:20.570 Usually, you know, when both sides have consoles were in the kind of mental game where you can now 03:20.570 --> 03:22.160 because you're king is safer. 03:22.970 --> 03:23.780 Both kings are safe. 03:23.780 --> 03:26.720 We can think about active operations in the middle game. 03:27.710 --> 03:34.340 And quite often the advantages are taken through, especially if we're going to win the game to the 03:34.340 --> 03:34.910 end game. 03:36.530 --> 03:45.200 So opening an end game and this course has assigned many of the sanctions as opening middle game and 03:45.200 --> 03:45.800 end game. 03:46.520 --> 03:55.290 And instead of level numbers, a black hole level numbers, there's basically like level one is essentially 03:55.310 --> 03:56.060 introduction. 03:56.960 --> 04:00.260 You know, level two is essentially if you're leveling up. 04:01.910 --> 04:05.030 Like beginner, so like beginner kolon. 04:06.210 --> 04:08.010 Opening will begin to a game. 04:09.800 --> 04:18.200 Any higher levels like intermediate is like a higher level, so those are like free voucher levels, 04:18.200 --> 04:27.410 you know, introduction, which you really should know about, at least begin intermediate and I may, 04:27.770 --> 04:31.610 you know, put some more advanced material as advanced. 04:33.090 --> 04:35.850 Later, the course could evolve. 04:37.890 --> 04:42.550 Or you could just take my mom, my more advanced courses to go further. 04:42.990 --> 04:50.920 So chess is a game where there is a certain skill sets actually associated with playing the opening 04:50.920 --> 04:52.530 as well as the mental game on the end game. 04:52.560 --> 05:01.260 Well, there are distinct priorities and skill sets associated with this logical divide in chess and 05:01.260 --> 05:07.980 also in a real game, you're sort of anticipating little games and anticipating and games and that anticipation 05:07.980 --> 05:08.900 might even occur. 05:08.910 --> 05:14.670 You know, the stronger you get, it might occur in the opening and looking at games that you might 05:14.790 --> 05:21.840 say might be ending up, but that's much more advanced as you advance your transitions between the different 05:22.080 --> 05:22.830 phases. 05:23.250 --> 05:24.660 They get better and better. 05:25.380 --> 05:31.650 You know, you don't want a fantastic middle game advantage and just transpose it into and then game. 05:31.740 --> 05:33.940 It's only a draw even though your friend builds up. 05:34.260 --> 05:37.470 So sometimes you got to look ahead as well to other phases. 05:37.470 --> 05:44.460 But they're kind of arbitrary, logical divides, but they do reflect fundamental shifts in priority 05:44.460 --> 05:44.960 function. 05:45.840 --> 05:52.110 So that's how the course is also kind of sectioned up to level you up to provide a basic framework structure. 05:53.890 --> 06:00.280 So if you wanted to, you could navigate the course just by looking at the introductions to get a basic 06:00.280 --> 06:00.730 gist. 06:01.760 --> 06:08.780 Of each of these logical divides, and then you could go to the beginner sections of each, you know, 06:08.780 --> 06:17.450 set the intubations and then maybe go to the intermediate after so you can get your basic kind of structure 06:17.600 --> 06:19.480 for tackling the three phases game. 06:19.490 --> 06:22.070 Otherwise, you kind of become off balance. 06:22.250 --> 06:24.980 Your weakest link is letting you down. 06:24.990 --> 06:33.950 You want a kind of homogenous spread across the opening game and name as a skill set to address the 06:33.950 --> 06:38.510 different priorities that each phase of the game emphasizes. 06:39.140 --> 06:43.590 So I hope that's clear that chess is logically divided into opening little game and game. 06:44.810 --> 06:50.990 But before we get into anything, we need to make sure we know how the pieces move, the special moves 06:51.140 --> 06:52.840 and the basic rules of chess. 06:54.200 --> 06:58.250 So we need to get that sorted and then we can start introducing. 07:00.320 --> 07:06.260 Things in the opening, then the middle and the end game, so I hope you like it's a classic structure, 07:06.260 --> 07:06.630 basically. 07:06.650 --> 07:13.770 I hope you like the way it's structured and leveled and you can always improve in chess. 07:13.790 --> 07:14.790 This is only the start. 07:15.080 --> 07:19.490 So this is a big journey, potentially a journey of a lifetime. 07:19.520 --> 07:26.510 I hope this course is inspiring to you and I hope you have fun with your chance and so much.