WEBVTT 00:01.710 --> 00:02.340 Hi there. 00:03.120 --> 00:09.900 In this lecture, I'm going to show you again, this is a part of the game from a high level Grandmont 00:09.900 --> 00:12.180 game, Luke Machain against Magnus Carlsen. 00:12.720 --> 00:14.970 I was there actually to witness this game. 00:15.450 --> 00:18.030 So Bangui's Colson seems to be under pressure. 00:18.030 --> 00:21.000 There's a dangerously installed bishop attacking Bishop. 00:21.750 --> 00:23.760 His queen's just been attacked. 00:25.620 --> 00:27.060 What do we want to do here? 00:27.720 --> 00:32.190 Do we want to go after a pawn when our king is attacked? 00:34.500 --> 00:42.480 It seems no, in fact, Magnus Carlsen tries to simplify the position, he tries to take off a lot of 00:42.480 --> 00:43.650 the attacking pieces. 00:43.860 --> 00:45.780 Ideally, he'd want to take off this piece. 00:46.080 --> 00:47.610 So it's not France anything. 00:48.160 --> 00:50.350 His first move is actually queen desex. 00:50.990 --> 01:01.520 In fact, he felt that of the Queen Bee five, a move like, for example, bee free might be sufficient 01:02.430 --> 01:08.280 and the queen's kind of not going to be exchanged for anything. 01:08.280 --> 01:09.300 And why it's attack. 01:09.870 --> 01:13.170 It's kind of dangerous to say. 01:13.170 --> 01:14.160 Bishop, thanks. 01:14.340 --> 01:17.210 You know why still got a vicious potential attack. 01:17.850 --> 01:20.790 We've all sorts of friends and a dreaded form --. 01:20.790 --> 01:24.900 Why call form --, -- site --, for example, like this. 01:24.900 --> 01:28.530 And it could be really dangerous, this position and a lot of threats. 01:28.600 --> 01:30.990 Parry, it's very, very scary stuff. 01:31.770 --> 01:34.260 So instead, Magnus actually sticks around. 01:34.260 --> 01:35.850 He wants an exchange of queens. 01:36.600 --> 01:41.910 Generally, when you're being attacked, you want to exchange of queens. 01:43.230 --> 01:49.170 And, you know, for example, the champions of the past, you know, Mekaal Tower was a great hacking 01:49.170 --> 01:54.800 player and people would want to try and get the queens off as soon as possible as against Mikoto so 01:54.800 --> 01:56.280 they wouldn't be creating all the threats. 01:56.940 --> 02:05.340 So to do with, again, a certain type of probability, not not so much a win or draw property, just 02:05.910 --> 02:08.100 not not having your king slaughtered. 02:08.100 --> 02:08.370 Probably. 02:08.370 --> 02:14.670 Birthe, you try an exchange of attacking pieces if you don't want your king slaughtered, which I guess 02:14.670 --> 02:20.810 is not losing the probability of not losing so quickly if you can exchange off pieces when you're under 02:20.820 --> 02:21.600 heavy attack. 02:21.900 --> 02:28.260 That's one of the climactic conditions of a chess board where you don't really want to go pawn hunting. 02:28.950 --> 02:32.190 And, you know, hey, if the knight moves with an exchange of queens, right. 02:33.300 --> 02:34.400 So we're going to simplify. 02:35.670 --> 02:39.270 And in the game, in fact, there's a clever little trick that Magnus played here. 02:39.720 --> 02:43.560 And as you get better tactically, you able to play these tricks to to help simplify. 02:43.560 --> 02:48.060 Sometimes you do need a tactical trick, as Magnus calls them. 02:48.060 --> 02:53.340 And I hope by the end of the course you will have a few tricks up your sleeve and be a little bit more 02:53.340 --> 02:54.570 of a tactical monster. 02:55.170 --> 02:56.970 That for me is a huge priority. 02:56.970 --> 03:02.130 If you get that within your first few weeks and months of playing chess, you've succeeded if you become 03:02.130 --> 03:04.740 more of a tactical monster in a good sense. 03:05.850 --> 03:12.180 So here you know, Magnus, here's a tactical monster and he manages to simplify this position, taking 03:12.180 --> 03:20.540 off these attacking pieces by this next move, which just basically equalises 965. 03:21.150 --> 03:25.380 And one of the points is he's kind of undermined the support for the six pressure. 03:26.250 --> 03:30.480 So if quintets, you know, we simplify with sex as an example. 03:32.880 --> 03:34.200 So the opponents here. 03:37.330 --> 03:43.840 You know, it's probably pretty annoyed if Bishop takes then that things like Ninety-four hitting the 03:43.840 --> 03:46.840 queen and then we're going to be taking off this bishop. 03:46.840 --> 03:51.820 So we're kind of simplifying again, we've taken off the attacking piece if you can take off the opponent's 03:51.820 --> 03:52.780 attacking pieces. 03:53.380 --> 04:01.180 So this is a case you're not necessarily losing in material where you might even be losing material. 04:01.270 --> 04:02.620 You've got to balance these things. 04:02.620 --> 04:03.580 You might be losing material. 04:03.580 --> 04:08.950 But if you're kings' about to be mated, it's good sometimes to exchange off the opponent's attacking 04:08.950 --> 04:10.150 pieces in general. 04:10.690 --> 04:18.130 So this clever little trick is react to a bishop takes a no man's place if sex -- bishop and knight, 04:18.410 --> 04:19.450 this is a fork. 04:20.890 --> 04:27.520 And in fact, the end result is of the bishop saying that Magnus has exchanged off a dangerous attacking 04:27.520 --> 04:27.940 piece. 04:28.270 --> 04:36.970 And also structurally in terms of Paul's structure, this pool structure is more fragmented and all 04:36.970 --> 04:44.260 the attacking dreams are wiped out of Paul McShane here, because, you know, Magnus just grinds this 04:44.260 --> 04:44.590 out. 04:45.370 --> 04:51.820 If you know your attack fluffers up against Magnus Colson, he's a brilliant and game player and he'll 04:51.820 --> 04:52.890 just beat you in an end game. 04:52.900 --> 04:59.350 So we see actually, just for the record, the game carrying on like this with more simplification. 04:59.710 --> 05:01.900 So there's no attack to speak of. 05:03.610 --> 05:11.950 So the more you can master and games, by the way, as one of the key fundamentals, your game opening 05:12.100 --> 05:18.970 game game, the more you'll be happy to kind of defend sometimes and simplify our opponents attacks 05:18.970 --> 05:20.020 and just win the end game. 05:20.110 --> 05:25.210 The stronger you are in and games in a way, the better, you know, defensive player. 05:25.210 --> 05:31.960 If he can just simplify our opponents attack and their Magnus's like taking off all the pieces and he's 05:31.960 --> 05:37.510 still able to maintain, you know, winning prospects because this is Magnus Carlson, you know, our 05:37.510 --> 05:38.350 world chess champion. 05:38.620 --> 05:42.490 Even back in 2012, he was absolutely super strong. 05:42.820 --> 05:47.500 And he marches this king to this pawn, which is kind of vulnerable. 05:48.070 --> 05:49.930 And he groynes this game out. 05:50.110 --> 05:52.840 You know, he creates a pawn soon. 05:53.950 --> 05:59.620 And, yeah, the king kind of aggressive in the end games more usually because it's less chance of being 05:59.620 --> 06:00.130 mated. 06:01.450 --> 06:06.970 I know this is beyond the point initially, but I'm just just want to show you End-To-End, an example 06:07.690 --> 06:13.150 that essentially all of that attack from earlier was clear that and here the opponent resigned because 06:13.480 --> 06:15.070 Magnus is going to be creating a pawn. 06:17.080 --> 06:26.200 So if we go back earlier, you know, sometimes you want to just take out the opponent's attacking pieces. 06:26.950 --> 06:32.500 And, you know, Magnus stuck around with the queen, kind of x raying the opponents queen. 06:32.500 --> 06:34.120 So ready to exchange of queens. 06:34.540 --> 06:37.060 That's the kind of X-ray of the opponent queen. 06:37.420 --> 06:43.180 So generally, yeah, if you're on the defensive, the opponents codpieces, especially installed around 06:43.180 --> 06:50.560 your king, if you can find some resourceful way of getting rid of these attacking pieces for simplification, 06:51.220 --> 06:54.850 then the attack, you know, has got less venom. 06:55.180 --> 06:58.450 It's like you're taking out the venom of the danger. 06:58.840 --> 07:04.210 It's not as dangerous if there's less attacking pieces generally. 07:05.080 --> 07:07.000 So Queen is sticking around. 07:07.510 --> 07:11.170 And then a fantastic simplifying tactic, 965 her. 07:13.340 --> 07:21.590 So very, very clever stuff, and if you want to look at a master generally of counterattack and sustaining 07:21.590 --> 07:26.750 attacks, you know, Victor cautiously is one of the great kind of uncrowned kings of the game. 07:28.040 --> 07:34.520 You'll see you'll hear me rather mention his name, because only a few times in this course and, you 07:34.520 --> 07:39.350 know, he could, like, defend against the most dangerous attacking players of all time. 07:39.710 --> 07:44.940 And he have actually a fantastic track record against Mikoto, who was a world champion, you know, 07:44.940 --> 07:49.550 known for his amazing, commendatory and attacking chess. 07:50.120 --> 07:54.500 But, yeah, he came unstuck again exclusively on quite a few occasions. 07:55.340 --> 07:57.410 So there is an art defense. 07:58.730 --> 08:03.020 And when you exchange pieces, that's part of the art of defending your king. 08:04.010 --> 08:07.040 There are many elements of the opposition to manage. 08:07.040 --> 08:11.650 It's not just the material Barat balance, it's pawn structure, it's king safety. 08:13.100 --> 08:19.040 And in your early evolution as a chess player, you can think of it like element management, I state. 08:19.040 --> 08:25.580 But no, I prefer to think about, you know, the what the opponents downsides, but the undertones. 08:25.580 --> 08:28.970 For me, there are elements on the chess board to manage. 08:29.390 --> 08:31.100 You don't want terrible king safety. 08:31.100 --> 08:32.630 You don't want a terrible power structure. 08:32.630 --> 08:34.130 You don't want to be down in material. 08:34.520 --> 08:36.230 But all of these things are in balance. 08:36.230 --> 08:44.770 And sometimes, yeah, you need to use simplification as a tool sometimes to improve your relative king's 08:44.810 --> 08:48.200 safety if you're taking out the attacking pieces. 08:48.200 --> 08:52.670 So bear that in mind as you develop and improve your chess. 08:53.150 --> 09:02.360 That is a kind of the art of capturing can be used in this wider element management where you want to 09:02.360 --> 09:06.680 manage your king's safety sometimes by simply taking out the attacking pieces. 09:06.980 --> 09:12.110 One attacking piece could could create lots of threats for the next few moves. 09:12.500 --> 09:18.200 So if you can simply take out that attacking piece, then there's less to worry about. 09:18.200 --> 09:24.020 You want to minimize the counterplay, the hassle, the worries that the opponents presents. 09:24.410 --> 09:27.800 So simplifying in particular, there are you know, they're attacking potential. 09:27.800 --> 09:31.340 They're attacking pieces around your king is a great thing you can do. 09:31.760 --> 09:38.000 So this is, you know, an interesting example I felt to show you kind of end to end that if you can 09:38.000 --> 09:40.630 do that, you can still win potentially in games. 09:40.670 --> 09:42.050 That's also a motivation for you. 09:42.050 --> 09:49.430 You know, if you start using games as well as conscientiously as the openings of mental games, then 09:49.430 --> 09:57.410 you have more of an urge, maybe also to sometimes simplify your way out of quite dangerous looking 09:57.410 --> 09:58.040 possessions. 09:58.550 --> 10:00.470 OK, that's a much.