WEBVTT 00:01.390 --> 00:08.910 Hi there, chess notation allows us to concisely record a game and even variations which might have 00:08.910 --> 00:09.330 happened. 00:09.840 --> 00:13.230 So chess variations as well could be recorded as part of the notation. 00:14.770 --> 00:22.420 There were various styles of notation, but in the modern world of chess has kind of gravitated towards 00:22.840 --> 00:26.270 algebraic notation, short form, algebraic notation. 00:27.010 --> 00:31.320 So instead of having to say that you play the game of chess, you have to draw out each position. 00:31.540 --> 00:38.530 Imagine the amount of ink or the amount of paper you use to tell a friend about this game you played. 00:38.740 --> 00:40.390 So you're really happy you won this game. 00:41.440 --> 00:45.910 There's a much more concise way you assume the game starts from the initial position. 00:46.900 --> 00:50.320 So all you do is actually record the changes that occurred. 00:51.820 --> 00:57.370 You don't tell them the whole position, it's the staff position, you just say the changes you made 00:57.370 --> 00:58.300 to the staff position. 00:58.300 --> 01:03.310 So A4 and concise algebraic, that's easy to fall. 01:03.310 --> 01:05.170 That's a poem from to. 01:05.920 --> 01:07.650 But we're making it even more concise. 01:07.660 --> 01:11.680 We don't have to say a pawn moved from 84 in. 01:11.750 --> 01:21.220 Can we just say efore and you can see I've shown the panel there, the five you can highlight, you 01:21.220 --> 01:21.970 know, 85. 01:22.000 --> 01:28.650 It's that move that 85 you can see in the notation is a very concise way of showing the game. 01:29.530 --> 01:36.820 And when I present you games, I've already pre analyzed variations because I don't want to make myself 01:36.820 --> 01:39.070 look like a complete idiot to you. 01:39.500 --> 01:45.650 So I've kind of checked my analysis quite often with the very strongest chess engines you can see the 01:45.670 --> 01:51.000 bishop takes before Seefried Bishop a five day fall. 01:51.820 --> 01:55.330 He takes in the so-called pigeon notation. 01:56.980 --> 02:03.250 We have castling here and we have details. 02:03.250 --> 02:04.660 Sifry being played well. 02:04.660 --> 02:15.340 I've noted in brackets this signifies a variation that if Black had played Knight G-7, then that would 02:15.340 --> 02:16.650 be interesting as well. 02:16.660 --> 02:22.840 C takes the four black holes and equals meaning, like even possessions. 02:22.840 --> 02:25.060 I've got my crib sheet notes. 02:25.630 --> 02:27.150 Whenever I present new games I. 02:27.520 --> 02:32.320 I like to prepare an advance presentation and I have the notation in front of me. 02:32.680 --> 02:36.670 I have the variations in front of me and in fact they're all pretty clickable. 02:38.230 --> 02:41.500 So this is the basics of chess software as well. 02:41.980 --> 02:45.130 In terms of chess software, it's often pigeon notation. 02:45.130 --> 02:47.590 It goes further than just the moves. 02:47.590 --> 02:51.430 Actually, you can even say, you know, plus four checks. 02:52.480 --> 02:55.510 If you want to say a move is strong, you can put exclamation mark. 02:55.780 --> 02:58.750 If what I say it's Blundy, put a mistake, put questionmark. 02:59.080 --> 03:05.560 So, you know, notation can help describe the strength of moves as well, as well as the variations 03:05.560 --> 03:07.600 which could have occurred behind the scenes. 03:09.220 --> 03:17.980 The variations help help sometimes you to determine why certain course of action was taken as opposed 03:17.980 --> 03:18.400 to another. 03:18.400 --> 03:23.620 Maybe there's some subtle trap the opponent avoided by playing the main line of the game. 03:23.620 --> 03:26.440 Or maybe they actually missed the major opportunity. 03:26.980 --> 03:29.110 And that's also shown in the variations of the game. 03:29.110 --> 03:30.310 It can be missed opportunities. 03:30.640 --> 03:36.010 But anyway, notations enable us to share the beautiful games of the past in a concise way. 03:36.010 --> 03:42.100 Imagine, you know, you had to do a labor of love and show each position, draw each possession. 03:42.460 --> 03:45.100 It would be very, very annoying. 03:45.820 --> 03:50.020 So concise notation, you know, even abbreviates further. 03:50.770 --> 03:52.750 So this is a very concise notation. 03:52.750 --> 03:57.550 You can see how queen bee when seven and I'll just take you through this game. 03:57.630 --> 03:59.500 She has quite a lot of fun, this particular game. 04:00.430 --> 04:08.820 So Black played this 95 fissured and she took her and then bishop to so the queen was kicked G5 and 04:08.830 --> 04:10.130 we could see eight four points. 04:10.160 --> 04:12.010 Thank Bishop 67. 04:12.010 --> 04:18.220 The King stuck in the center wrong eight was played rook FS1 you can see that. 04:18.220 --> 04:26.500 Plus remaining check to the king king the and the game actually ended here and in fact quite often, 04:26.860 --> 04:32.620 especially if you Abertay games, it's good to know when the game ended, if you're presenting a game 04:32.620 --> 04:36.850 and then take very seriously the chances after that point to get it right. 04:36.850 --> 04:38.020 Don't improvise anything. 04:38.440 --> 04:42.970 Chess is hard enough for you, especially if you improvise for me. 04:42.970 --> 04:46.780 Every time I improvise analysis, even at my level, it's often wrong. 04:46.780 --> 04:50.800 I just have to assume improvisation is extremely bad thing. 04:50.800 --> 04:56.470 If you're preparing games to show other people that it's not in your own games, you're usually just 04:56.470 --> 04:59.410 using notation to record the games and look at the games after. 04:59.740 --> 05:03.670 But when you analyze both computers, then you'll be attaching these variations. 05:04.120 --> 05:07.630 You'll be going through this process of questions and answer what if you did this? 05:07.870 --> 05:09.040 What you want to do that? 05:09.430 --> 05:11.170 And it's not just questions and answers. 05:11.170 --> 05:16.960 You want to get to the more fundamental questions and concerns which could affect not just that particular 05:16.960 --> 05:22.630 game variation, but other games in general to this question, in answering trying to get to the fundamentals 05:22.630 --> 05:26.140 of your chess and chess understanding is very, very helpful. 05:26.170 --> 05:32.650 There's a big part of the growth mindset, the actual act of recording your games with chess notation. 05:32.860 --> 05:39.070 It's vital to be able to study them after and learn the lessons and put yourself beyond the fate. 05:39.110 --> 05:45.550 Basically, they treat each loss as a learning experience and notation, as a major vehicle for recording 05:45.550 --> 05:50.380 those games and a very concise manner without having to use up lots of trees. 05:50.450 --> 05:51.220 Amazon rain. 05:51.720 --> 05:57.240 And the process, you can just use a very, very concise notation, it's very, very useful and the 05:57.240 --> 06:01.640 game ended because it has a killer move at his disposal. 06:01.650 --> 06:03.200 Can you see what the Klimov is? 06:03.210 --> 06:08.680 Which one must assume Fisher would have played if the opponent didn't resign? 06:09.090 --> 06:10.380 What's the killer move here? 06:10.650 --> 06:12.210 I give you five seconds for the video. 06:14.200 --> 06:17.800 You might be able to see rotationplasty on this occasion. 06:22.860 --> 06:30.630 When the game ended, OK, Queen Jeoffrey, it deflects the queen away from the critical six square. 06:33.710 --> 06:42.830 So if somewhere we just take the queen, but if they take our queen, we play bishop offtakes and that's 06:42.830 --> 06:44.150 going to be checkmate. 06:47.750 --> 06:55.670 So here the recorded variations that are recorded here, Queen H3 is is not so good, actually, because 06:55.670 --> 07:01.130 Queen G five is controlling the F things, so that's not so good. 07:02.240 --> 07:07.340 So the key move is Queen Jeoffrey and the critical variation that I pretend like Queen is taking the 07:07.340 --> 07:09.040 queen on this occasion here. 07:10.520 --> 07:16.330 So notation, it's a concise way to avoid you having to do a diagram of the diagram of the diagram. 07:16.350 --> 07:19.310 It's just the actual difference is. 07:20.920 --> 07:28.150 In-game, that card that you're recording very, very concisely, saving a lot of space in showing your 07:28.150 --> 07:33.790 games and learning from games after, it's a very, very good idea from the outset, especially if you 07:33.790 --> 07:39.850 want a growth mindset to start recording your games, even your unofficial games, you can learn a great 07:39.850 --> 07:46.420 deal from looking at them after, especially with maybe even stronger players from friends, relatives. 07:46.720 --> 07:49.030 Look at the games, after all, put them into computers. 07:49.720 --> 07:54.610 And it's called post-mortem analysis, if you will, and no one dies. 07:55.780 --> 08:01.410 But but those that generally use people generally use post-mortem analysis of a game. 08:02.650 --> 08:04.750 OK, notation. 08:04.750 --> 08:07.930 It's your friends, get familiar with it. 08:08.860 --> 08:13.180 Get familiar in particular with concise algebraic notation. 08:13.630 --> 08:14.230 That's much.