WEBVTT 00:01.170 --> 00:01.870 Hi there. 00:02.910 --> 00:12.780 In this lecture, I want to introduce you to the idea that you can sometimes generally score the state 00:12.780 --> 00:17.490 of a game depending on the material balance of both sides. 00:18.670 --> 00:25.620 And usually you do this by signing values to the pieces. 00:25.890 --> 00:28.830 The king, the object of the game is to checkmate the opponents. 00:28.830 --> 00:33.300 King Bobby Fisher called the king of infinite value invaluable. 00:34.020 --> 00:37.910 Some other systems, they don't even mention the Kings. 00:37.920 --> 00:42.150 It's not something that's able to be captured, but essentially the king. 00:42.150 --> 00:48.300 For me personally, my preference is to think of it as infinite because I like sometimes to sacrifice 00:48.300 --> 00:51.120 all my pieces to make the opponents king. 00:51.120 --> 00:53.190 And I am Kings Crusher after all. 00:53.190 --> 00:58.860 So King is of great importance to me, not accumulating lots of material. 00:59.220 --> 01:04.470 If I want to be an accountant, no offense to accountants, I would have been an accountant. 01:04.920 --> 01:07.290 But I want to be a chess player, a passionate chess player. 01:07.710 --> 01:09.570 And the king is infinite to me. 01:09.660 --> 01:16.530 And I hope if you want to be a King of Prussia and not an accountant, you will also treat the king 01:16.710 --> 01:21.270 as infinite value and your top scorer as the queen. 01:21.630 --> 01:24.990 And you might wonder, how did people arrive at these values? 01:26.430 --> 01:30.330 Well, first of all, these values are to be taken with a pinch of salt. 01:30.510 --> 01:32.010 They're not situational. 01:32.370 --> 01:35.160 Sometimes the queen is not worth knowing. 01:35.160 --> 01:38.310 It's usually these are all when usually they should all have. 01:38.310 --> 01:44.760 Usually in fact, they're based on sticking the queen in the center of the board and seeing the queen 01:44.760 --> 01:45.840 can go in all directions. 01:45.840 --> 01:51.780 So they give the queen noin so it's like a rook, plus a bishop, almost a rook. 01:51.780 --> 01:53.040 You'll find out later. 01:53.910 --> 01:58.810 If you stick a rook in the center of the board, it goes in all directions, horizontally and vertically. 01:59.460 --> 02:00.450 Look at that later. 02:01.050 --> 02:07.420 But the bishop goes diagonally, the knight goes in an owl shaped. 02:07.440 --> 02:10.590 We stick a knight in the center, the board, it will be going in an owl shape. 02:11.280 --> 02:13.190 So, for example, heads of hair. 02:13.920 --> 02:19.410 So these values are based on sticking a piece in the center of a board. 02:20.160 --> 02:21.600 They create a sort of. 02:24.010 --> 02:33.910 General Guide's value and the pawns are given value of one, but you know what, the pawns are tells 02:33.910 --> 02:37.890 of the unexpected and refuse to watch that great program. 02:38.110 --> 02:42.060 But when they go to the end of the board, they can promote into a queen. 02:42.070 --> 02:45.650 So actually their value increases as they go up the board. 02:46.030 --> 02:48.130 So that's why this is all situational. 02:49.450 --> 02:56.140 And I know we haven't been through any of the mechanics of the chess pieces and there seems odd, but 02:56.140 --> 03:04.930 I want you to get this general gist here, that there is a peace system created to sort of roughly get 03:04.930 --> 03:08.380 an idea of who's winning a position in general. 03:09.490 --> 03:14.110 Sometimes, you know, the knights are actually stronger than the rocks in a particular situation. 03:14.470 --> 03:19.490 Sometimes the pawns are worth their weight in gold or you're going to checkmate with one pawn. 03:19.720 --> 03:23.600 So that makes that pawn really quite valuable, even if the opponents got loads of material. 03:24.190 --> 03:30.190 So just remember, this point system is based on sticking essentially a piece in the center of the board 03:30.340 --> 03:31.930 and looking at the mobility. 03:31.930 --> 03:40.960 The number of squares is sort of attacking except for the king, which you can use the king as the attacking 03:40.960 --> 03:41.500 piece by. 03:41.500 --> 03:49.180 If the goal is to make the opponents king so that it's surrounded, it has no moves and it's in check, 03:49.560 --> 03:51.080 will discover all that later. 03:51.460 --> 03:52.300 Just bear with me. 03:52.720 --> 03:53.650 The symbols. 03:55.090 --> 03:55.450 Yeah. 03:55.690 --> 04:03.100 You know, like these symbols on the chessboard usually graphically represented the algebraic notation. 04:03.370 --> 04:06.820 There's an important consideration with algebraic notation. 04:09.160 --> 04:17.650 Which is essentially you see that the king is k fine, so when you come to write down your moves, it's, 04:17.650 --> 04:24.940 you know, King Move is usually K and then accordant, so say the king, you know, moves to eat. 04:24.940 --> 04:35.530 To be key to the queen is cue the rookies or the bishop is B but the Neutze is not K because we've got 04:35.530 --> 04:41.580 K for the king, the knights we say and not to be confused with King. 04:42.250 --> 04:45.370 So that's the important caveat when it comes to rotation. 04:45.760 --> 04:46.420 The knight isn't. 04:46.420 --> 04:53.140 And when you write it down in algebraic notation, the pawn is sometimes not written down. 04:53.140 --> 04:57.250 In short algebraic handwriting notation, it's not usually written down. 04:57.820 --> 05:01.390 It's usually a sort of abbreviated are just the coordinates. 05:02.890 --> 05:10.240 Don't worry, we'll be going in detail about algebraic notation later in the course. 05:10.930 --> 05:13.960 This is just a general introduction. 05:14.530 --> 05:15.250 And you know what? 05:15.250 --> 05:18.520 We're going to introduce the pieces one by one. 05:18.520 --> 05:24.180 You'll get to see their strengths, their weaknesses, their peculiarities, and you'll understand more. 05:24.190 --> 05:26.400 This is just a very, very general guide. 05:26.830 --> 05:30.280 This points system, very, very general guide. 05:31.840 --> 05:34.280 And we'll see that. 05:34.280 --> 05:38.740 You know, in many situations you have reversal of values, literally. 05:39.820 --> 05:45.490 So, but bear in mind, different people have done different point systems. 05:45.490 --> 05:47.830 Sometimes the bishop is given free and a quarter. 05:47.830 --> 05:49.540 Sometimes the bishops give them free. 05:50.020 --> 05:53.080 These dams are also not fixed in stone. 05:53.110 --> 05:55.540 As I say, some people don't even put value to the king. 05:55.840 --> 05:57.550 They leave it as undefined. 05:57.550 --> 05:58.540 They don't mention it. 05:59.080 --> 06:01.940 Some people do mention that Fisher mentions the Eagles ever. 06:02.200 --> 06:06.970 So it's just the general kind of points guide not to be taken too seriously. 06:07.600 --> 06:14.920 But when you when you're thinking about your chess positions, generally, you do want to sort of be 06:14.920 --> 06:18.820 up on material, so to speak, or be makes independents king. 06:19.030 --> 06:26.890 For me as King Squasher, my priority is to make the opponents king, OK, and so much.