WEBVTT 00:00.960 --> 00:01.600 Hi there. 00:01.860 --> 00:07.290 This is another very dramatic example, just to drive the point home that you really need to look at 00:07.440 --> 00:10.080 your exact position to determine who is winning. 00:10.110 --> 00:13.200 You can't just count the material of both sides. 00:13.500 --> 00:22.350 And here it also crucially depends on whose side it is to move to make that evaluation about who is 00:22.350 --> 00:23.190 actually winning. 00:24.630 --> 00:27.170 So if you're playing, why are you actually winning this? 00:27.450 --> 00:33.470 It looks as though you've only got one pawn and the opponents, Almani Army is immense. 00:33.510 --> 00:38.510 I mean, if you started counting this up, it's immense, right? 00:40.710 --> 00:43.140 Nine plus five. 00:44.120 --> 00:46.520 Fourteen plus three and a half. 00:47.390 --> 00:53.660 And, you know, we're stacking up the numbers, we're going to be more than 20, easily more than 26. 00:54.200 --> 00:57.980 But if it's us to move, you know, we're winning this game. 00:58.010 --> 00:59.000 I hope you can see why. 00:59.000 --> 01:00.710 If I give you five seconds, pull the video. 01:03.880 --> 01:08.590 You know that -- is worth its weight in gold for a different reason, not for -- promotion, but 01:08.590 --> 01:13.280 for a slightly different reason that -- can actually deliver check and mate. 01:13.750 --> 01:17.410 How does Black actually handle that as checkmates? 01:17.860 --> 01:19.090 There's nothing the king can do. 01:19.930 --> 01:21.240 The king's just being checkmated. 01:21.250 --> 01:25.020 There's no piece or -- that can influence that --. 01:25.360 --> 01:26.470 This is end of game. 01:26.680 --> 01:28.950 It's checkmate if it was black. 01:28.960 --> 01:30.190 So it was a different story. 01:30.190 --> 01:31.390 We've we've really had it. 01:31.390 --> 01:38.230 You know, the opponent can actually just chatenay us with Kwangju five, but thankfully it won't play 01:38.230 --> 01:38.500 here. 01:38.770 --> 01:44.380 So this is just another vivid example that my end of the game and quite often, you know, the only 01:44.380 --> 01:49.220 chess computers, people could beat them by offering material on the other side of the board. 01:49.270 --> 01:54.370 This is 1976 that computers were still both baseball in chess. 01:55.090 --> 02:01.470 So you'd let the computers, you know, think they're up in material, but then you sort of checkmate 02:01.510 --> 02:07.870 or not make them on this side of the board, not usually with a --, but, you know, with Queen and 02:07.870 --> 02:09.010 some other pieces usually. 02:09.490 --> 02:17.320 So it's been a common theme in chess to let sometimes the opponent have more material and make them. 02:17.320 --> 02:22.300 It's a league, you know, used theme as Kings Cross myself. 02:22.300 --> 02:23.530 I really enjoy this. 02:23.770 --> 02:25.720 I enjoy these checkmating attacks. 02:26.230 --> 02:30.640 And sometimes I let my opponent, you know, kind of women's material somewhere else. 02:32.380 --> 02:38.710 So, yeah, I just think that it really depends on the possession, the true state of affairs, who's 02:38.710 --> 02:44.620 winning and who's Turner is David Bronstein, one of the legends of chess, said that's one of the most 02:44.620 --> 02:48.940 formidable weapons on the chessboard in itself whose turn it actually is. 02:49.540 --> 02:53.290 So, OK, I hope this is another very, very vivid made up example. 02:53.290 --> 02:57.100 I've made this up just to emphasize that material isn't everything. 02:57.100 --> 03:02.140 You know, if you can make your opponent or secure a strong mating attack, you're going to win the 03:02.140 --> 03:02.560 game. 03:03.370 --> 03:07.150 Chess is about winning largely and you're going to win the game. 03:07.150 --> 03:10.510 It's not about just accumulating vast amounts of material. 03:11.050 --> 03:12.880 OK, so much.