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Hi there.

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In this lecture, I just want to make it clear that Jack doesn't end the game.

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For example, here the white king is in check.

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Bonds of the king have to in this particular position, black can actually end the game with check and

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mate.

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It's checkmate because the king can't get out of the chank.

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There's no escape squares.

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The pawn is controlling those three squares.

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The queen is controlling E to G one AF1 Iwon as well as well as the Knights.

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So this is checkmate and it's one of the more common ways of winning in the game of chess.

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So chameides ends the game and as such, it's important to bear that in mind, even philosophically,

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that you can be down in material.

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You can also sacrifice material, sometimes deliberately, if you can reach a checkmate where you've

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checkmated the opponent's king.

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So Chiangmai ends the game and it doesn't matter how sophisticated you get in your chess later your

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big chance journey, you could accumulate lots of very, very advanced principles.

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But if you neglect King safety and you get checkmated, then you lose.

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Or if your opponent neglects King's safety, hopefully, and you try to make them as more optimistic,

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then you win.

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So just bear in mind that, especially from a philosophical perspective, that everything else is trade

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off for checkmate because it will win you the game.

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Checkmate and the game, as Nigel Short said, one of the top British players, you know, pawns, pawns

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structure is nice to be interested in, but checkmate ends the game.

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OK, as a mouse.