WEBVTT 00:01.170 --> 00:05.940 In this lecture, I'm going to do a quick compare and contrast of the pieces that we've introduced. 00:06.540 --> 00:08.940 So the pawns, you've got eight of them. 00:10.080 --> 00:10.800 They move forward. 00:10.800 --> 00:13.400 Generally, they're irreversible, unlike other pieces. 00:13.410 --> 00:15.980 So once we play a pawn move, we can't ever move it back. 00:16.530 --> 00:18.380 So poor move is irreversible. 00:18.690 --> 00:20.590 That's a major distinguishing feature. 00:20.850 --> 00:25.530 Another one is that they can't capture forwards. 00:25.530 --> 00:27.900 They're blocked actually by an obstruction. 00:28.380 --> 00:30.170 So they're blocking while they've locatable. 00:30.600 --> 00:32.820 So they're irreversible then locatable. 00:33.150 --> 00:35.340 They capture generally diagonally. 00:35.430 --> 00:37.740 So say we move the knights, we can jump over. 00:37.740 --> 00:38.020 Yeah. 00:38.040 --> 00:38.640 Like a knight. 00:40.140 --> 00:47.280 And we capture it with --'s Diagne so that Blackthorne can take that we can take back the night so 00:47.280 --> 00:50.370 we can see how the pieces operate together. 00:50.550 --> 00:57.060 A bishop goes diagonally and there's a special move called castling, where you move, you have to move 00:57.060 --> 00:59.790 your king first two squares and then the rook. 01:00.120 --> 01:04.340 So King two squares, then the rug don't move there. 01:04.350 --> 01:04.710 At first. 01:04.710 --> 01:07.050 That's kind of a move in its own right. 01:07.050 --> 01:09.540 The opponent can say, well, you've just moved there. 01:09.780 --> 01:12.270 You must move your king twice. 01:12.810 --> 01:19.170 And you, Castle, so the relative, you know, properties of the pieces. 01:20.010 --> 01:21.750 So the pawn is irreversible. 01:23.160 --> 01:27.290 So, you know, if you wanted to, you could change your mind about if you wanted to, you could move 01:27.290 --> 01:27.690 it back. 01:28.030 --> 01:31.080 This is not a good illustration by the pawns. 01:31.080 --> 01:33.000 Once they're set, they kind of set in stone. 01:33.660 --> 01:36.720 So they largely set the whole strategy for the game. 01:36.720 --> 01:38.100 In fact, you're eight pawns. 01:38.100 --> 01:39.870 The way they're shaped, the way you treat them. 01:39.870 --> 01:44.700 It sets the whole strategy for the game because they're kind of an irreversible aspect of the possession 01:45.640 --> 01:46.590 of the king. 01:46.590 --> 01:48.320 You generally want to put in safety. 01:48.330 --> 01:51.630 So a typical, you know, game could run like this. 01:52.050 --> 01:58.110 So the bishop comes out, bishop comes out both sides eventually, Castle. 01:59.520 --> 02:01.650 And, you know, this could be a typical game. 02:04.470 --> 02:06.510 So the bishops go diagonally. 02:06.510 --> 02:12.000 The rooks, you know, once casting enables this rook to move finally or that rook to move. 02:13.410 --> 02:18.780 And later, as the ball clears up the route, even more powerful generally than the knight and bishop. 02:18.780 --> 02:22.140 Generally, the rooks get super powerful in the end games. 02:22.680 --> 02:27.960 The king also gets super powerful in games at the beginning and in the middle of the game. 02:27.960 --> 02:30.780 Generally, you know, your king is tucked away in safety. 02:30.780 --> 02:35.550 You don't want to be checkmated, especially whilst the queens are on the board. 02:35.550 --> 02:37.440 The Queen, the most dangerous piece. 02:38.100 --> 02:43.110 So quite often in the most ferocious attacking players of all time, they they deliberately try and 02:43.110 --> 02:44.340 keep the Queen's on. 02:44.340 --> 02:50.910 Mikoto is a legend of the chess board, and they would often try and possess to keep the queens on to 02:50.910 --> 02:53.580 maximize his chance of meeting the opponents. 02:53.580 --> 02:55.140 King So anyway. 02:56.950 --> 03:02.110 So contrasting the pieces, the palsies super special, because they also have the -- promotion, 03:02.440 --> 03:04.500 they also have the feature. 03:04.840 --> 03:11.320 So in a way, you know, the -- make sure you review all those aspects of --'s they're quite subtle. 03:11.920 --> 03:14.470 They move forwards, they're locatable, they're irreversible. 03:14.470 --> 03:19.390 They can promote when they get to the sides, they can even under promote to a knight, bishop, Brooke, 03:19.750 --> 03:21.760 as well as promoting her queen. 03:22.150 --> 03:25.690 They can use the ampersand just to review the options. 03:26.260 --> 03:28.390 So so we have a -- on our Frank. 03:28.390 --> 03:29.620 And your opponent doesn't like this. 03:29.620 --> 03:34.810 We're going to take on so the pawns in a way that the trickiest you've got them, but in a way that 03:34.810 --> 03:37.180 the trickiest, though the most irreversible. 03:38.410 --> 03:42.400 The nights are fascinating and that they're the only ones that can jump over pieces. 03:42.910 --> 03:47.530 So jumping over own pieces, the bishops. 03:47.530 --> 03:52.660 The peculiar thing about the bishops is that they're confined to a particular color, you know, so 03:52.660 --> 03:57.310 sometimes it's good to keep the bishop hair because that's bishops always going to be driving on that 03:57.310 --> 03:58.630 side of the road, so to speak. 03:59.830 --> 04:08.350 And quite often that sets a very important strategic theme later that you might want to create harmony 04:08.350 --> 04:12.000 between you, your your own pawns and your bishops in particular. 04:12.340 --> 04:13.880 You don't want to bishop that's locked in. 04:14.170 --> 04:23.590 So it's fascinating to consider from the outset, not just the mechanics of the pieces, but the broader, 04:23.590 --> 04:24.670 you know, strategies. 04:24.670 --> 04:30.340 Later, they can conjure up enclosed positions because the lines can jump over things they often excel 04:30.910 --> 04:37.620 that the more closed position is the bishops needs an open position to excel. 04:38.410 --> 04:44.110 So each piece, you know, its territories make it more effective sometimes and its location, the knights 04:44.110 --> 04:47.500 in the center have much more influence than on the rim. 04:47.710 --> 04:52.900 In fact, there's an expression in the rim has them right in the corner is even the Knights generally 04:52.900 --> 04:54.550 once to gravitate towards the center. 04:55.870 --> 05:00.030 Your pawns, you really want to be, you know, carefully considering them because they're irreversible, 05:00.460 --> 05:05.470 the kings, you want to carefully consider King's safety and not being checkmated, and you want to 05:05.470 --> 05:10.110 consider how in the end games the king becomes a fighting piece, though, from the outside. 05:10.480 --> 05:14.890 So the strategies are really, really interesting, just based on the piece, you know, properties, 05:14.890 --> 05:20.800 the mechanics that we've expressed, they say that, you know, you can learn the rules of chess within 05:20.800 --> 05:24.610 a day, but it's you know, it's like a whole lifetime to master the game of chess. 05:25.240 --> 05:25.560 So. 05:27.040 --> 05:33.930 But, yeah, we've got to establish the mechanics on our first day or two before we can proceed further. 05:34.390 --> 05:37.690 But I just want to shed a little bit of light, actually. 05:37.690 --> 05:40.750 You know, the mechanics also employ some of the major strategies. 05:40.750 --> 05:45.670 As a more experienced player, you're going to be using you're going to be creating climates for your 05:45.670 --> 05:50.500 bishops who are knights, trying to centralize knights, trying to keep the king safe, try and block 05:50.500 --> 05:54.850 the opponents pawns, trying to stop your pawns being blockaded, you know, blocked. 05:55.630 --> 06:00.640 So the whole strategy spectrum is actually employed by the mechanics, as you might expect. 06:01.000 --> 06:06.910 It's how the pieces combine and create all the wonderful possibilities that there's a sort of combination 06:06.910 --> 06:08.620 explosion just after a few moves. 06:08.620 --> 06:11.980 There's millions of different, you know, possibilities that could have occurred. 06:12.010 --> 06:16.690 It's a it's a real explosion of possibilities, which makes chess such a rich game. 06:16.690 --> 06:18.690 And you can spend your whole life trying to master. 06:19.420 --> 06:21.490 OK, that's much.