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Hi there.

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In this lecture, I'd like to introduce you to a Checkmates, so a check which cannot be parried the

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actually ends the game in your favor.

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And here we can play such a chameides.

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I wonder if you can spot it if it's white to play, what would you play here?

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OK.

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We can play the rock to check the opponent's king, and now the king cannot move away here.

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If we look at this, the king can't go there.

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That's illegal.

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That's illegal.

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The root can't be taken by anything.

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It's not as if there's a bishop here which could, for example, take the rook.

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There's nothing that can take the rock or a knight here.

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Imagine if there was a knight here able to take the rock.

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There's nothing that can take the rock and there's nothing that can interfere with the check.

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If there was, for example, a bishop here, it could maybe go there to interfere with the check.

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But none of these things are true.

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So this actually ends the game in its favor.

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And I'm a big fan of, you know, testing you guys.

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We've we've made puzzles, so we'll see make puzzles later on in the course, you know, make him one

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and maybe make it into and that will help you see how the pieces work together to deliver a certainly

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this is a circle back chromate pattern.

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It's quite a common one in chess, actually, because opponents by default tend to cancel on the king

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side and sometimes they don't leave any kind of air for the king.

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And he left, as it's called, for the king by moving one of these pawns.

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If there was a pawn there.

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And so there, the king could have just gone to seven.

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So here, yeah, it's an example of checkmate and we'll get plenty of exercises later on in the course.

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So it's a check which cannot be carried, OK, and it wins the game for you.

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And that is the objective of chess.

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It doesn't matter that black is material up.

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You've just won the game, even though technically black is two pawns up of one.

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So many games myself as Kings Crusher where the opponents have had vast amounts of material, but I've

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checkmated them.

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OK, thanks very much.