WEBVTT 00:01.050 --> 00:08.190 Either in your first steps as a chess player, especially when playing against. 00:09.310 --> 00:12.620 Other plants have just started playing chess. 00:13.570 --> 00:19.120 It is popular to set each other traps, so you're testing each other's use of traps. 00:20.380 --> 00:26.430 And for example, if your opponent played evil and you played it fine, they might play Quidditch five. 00:27.070 --> 00:32.440 Now, if you routinely move here to attack the queen, you just fallen into a trap. 00:33.460 --> 00:35.560 This is an important trap to be aware of. 00:36.560 --> 00:43.840 If you play games, you've fallen into a trap and they can actually take care checking your king. 00:44.980 --> 00:50.260 And that's pretty annoying because actually no rocks falling off the boards. 00:50.530 --> 00:59.020 They might think, wow, it's so easy to lose a rock and a game of chess, but hopefully you learn from 00:59.020 --> 01:08.140 that game and next time they play Queen H5, you might do something more sensible and you might actually 01:08.140 --> 01:09.100 protect this pawn. 01:10.120 --> 01:12.310 And they then play this. 01:12.730 --> 01:16.600 And your next move is again, you're too keen to attack the queen. 01:17.230 --> 01:21.370 And they play this move and you're in checkmate and you think, ouch. 01:22.360 --> 01:26.170 But you learn from this trap and you know how to avoid it and protect against that. 01:26.230 --> 01:32.590 So in your next game, after at some point, hopefully you haven't given up chess by this point. 01:32.980 --> 01:34.390 See positive mindset. 01:34.390 --> 01:35.860 Yeah, you need a growth mindset. 01:35.860 --> 01:41.890 So hopefully you're learning from each game and you realize actually what they're doing is not the use 01:41.890 --> 01:43.840 of the queen to attack the soft spot. 01:43.840 --> 01:50.320 F7 So you shilled the soft spot and there are a lot of traps to learn in this section. 01:50.620 --> 01:54.520 So you play me like Queen Elizabeth and in fact. 01:55.590 --> 02:01.260 You avoided that trap, and in fact, there's a benefit here, you can achieve peace hitting their queen 02:01.800 --> 02:04.720 if they're not careful, you know, they're about to lose their queen. 02:04.740 --> 02:05.580 I have to move their queen. 02:05.580 --> 02:05.910 Right. 02:07.100 --> 02:10.830 Are you going to take their queen and they move their queen off they go. 02:10.830 --> 02:13.830 Hey, you can actually finally move to attack the queen again. 02:14.100 --> 02:15.470 They go all the way back here. 02:15.510 --> 02:17.820 You've actually got very good position. 02:17.820 --> 02:25.470 Even though the bushes blocked in, you can now play move like this desex, I would say, in this section 02:26.310 --> 02:32.520 to save you this process of trying out all of these traps or being the victim of traps. 02:33.990 --> 02:40.700 You can learn all the traps, the major traps, quite a lot of the major traps, at least in this section. 02:40.720 --> 02:41.640 These are pitfalls. 02:42.060 --> 02:43.890 So you need to know how to avoid them. 02:44.280 --> 02:48.630 And if you want, you can playfully set them for opponents at your level. 02:50.460 --> 02:54.690 Just be aware, though, the strong you get, CHESSELL stronger the opponents. 02:55.320 --> 03:01.890 The openings need to be as sound as possible generally in that they shouldn't incur a big disadvantage 03:01.890 --> 03:02.130 to you. 03:02.130 --> 03:04.710 They should not have a big downside. 03:07.150 --> 03:12.460 And yes, downside is one of my favorite words, if you check out my tactics, of course, I use downsides 03:12.460 --> 03:13.600 a great deal of the time. 03:14.230 --> 03:16.180 You don't want to incur downsides. 03:16.180 --> 03:23.020 Your whole scalability as a chess player to be able to play stronger and stronger opponents means that, 03:23.230 --> 03:30.630 yeah, you should be with less downsides of the opening, however subtle those might be. 03:31.000 --> 03:33.870 So anyway, in your first steps, beware. 03:34.030 --> 03:38.660 As part of the fun of learning chess, you'll be falling into traps. 03:38.770 --> 03:39.190 Fine. 03:39.610 --> 03:41.940 Just try and learn how to avoid falling into them. 03:42.790 --> 03:44.810 Or you could be saying and that's also fine. 03:45.010 --> 03:46.780 Have some fun winning games like that. 03:47.440 --> 03:53.410 But just be aware, the stronger the opponents you will face, the less you should be setting traps. 03:55.120 --> 03:58.530 Unless it's, say, a bullet time show, which I really love. 03:58.870 --> 04:00.010 I do love. 04:00.010 --> 04:06.130 For example, if they play like this, the so-called Konkan, I do like trying to get a quick win when 04:06.130 --> 04:06.730 they play this. 04:06.730 --> 04:08.200 I like playing the move queening turn. 04:08.200 --> 04:14.110 You see this trap in the section that if they routinely play this because the time that they might guess 04:14.110 --> 04:17.050 what you play here and you've won the game, can you see? 04:19.500 --> 04:26.340 96, Jack, so, yeah, factor in the time control as well, and how much damage is actually done to 04:26.340 --> 04:26.970 your position? 04:27.240 --> 04:33.900 I happen to know and I have checked with, you know, top engines that actually Queen Ito is not such 04:33.900 --> 04:35.830 a bad move at all. 04:36.180 --> 04:42.300 In fact, you know, even if they don't fall straight into the trap and allow you this chat, mate is 04:42.300 --> 04:44.040 checking the king, that is. 04:44.370 --> 04:47.550 This is actually a checkmate because that Paul is pinned to the king. 04:47.550 --> 04:50.210 It's not legal a move to take that. 04:50.460 --> 04:51.540 So that is actually checkmate. 04:51.540 --> 04:57.810 But even if they bypass the trap on this occasion, let's say they play this, you know, you're going 04:57.810 --> 05:01.770 to be slightly better because actually they've got hemmed in Bischof and so be aware. 05:01.800 --> 05:05.870 You know, sometimes you can play kind of traps which don't actually ruin your position and actually 05:05.890 --> 05:06.710 can do something about this. 05:06.960 --> 05:07.460 Up here. 05:08.100 --> 05:12.610 You can think Catamount, but Jita is a thing. 05:13.020 --> 05:17.800 It was I like to call sometimes when Chatto because it sounds a little bit better. 05:18.960 --> 05:19.350 Yes. 05:19.350 --> 05:22.560 If you follow the Oxford English Dictionary, you can say it, find chatter. 05:22.560 --> 05:26.370 You don't have to say Feehan Catoe, by the way, that's personal preference. 05:26.790 --> 05:29.550 But yeah, the Italian way is more thing. 05:29.550 --> 05:31.230 Catoe OK. 05:31.230 --> 05:37.590 But here anyway, the major point is you can play Trappes and you can keep playing Trappes even when 05:37.590 --> 05:42.780 you become more experienced, especially at the fast time controls and especially when the traps don't 05:43.050 --> 05:46.830 cause irreversible damage to your possession. 05:47.220 --> 05:52.290 So traps are there for your fun, entertainment and learning experience, especially in your early stages. 05:52.980 --> 05:58.920 And if you want to like give a boost, your early learning of Trappe awareness, then work through the 05:58.920 --> 06:05.040 traps in this section and maybe see the underlying tactical like ideas that make traps work or don't 06:05.040 --> 06:05.420 work. 06:06.030 --> 06:11.070 So it is also equipping you from a tactical perspective. 06:11.610 --> 06:17.130 We need to be good tactically in chess to be able to win the majority of our games. 06:17.520 --> 06:18.870 Teichmann once said. 06:19.290 --> 06:26.280 Chess is 99 percent tactics, which, although a major exaggeration, is a very, very important part 06:26.280 --> 06:29.820 of the game to be a tactical monster as soon as you can. 06:29.970 --> 06:31.320 And I mean that in a good way. 06:31.710 --> 06:38.070 Being a tactical monster will enable you to win more games than you lose as soon as you can become a 06:38.070 --> 06:39.110 tactical monster. 06:39.660 --> 06:43.950 So do try a lot of the the position that you see in this course. 06:43.950 --> 06:50.850 Take them very seriously, try and work them out as far as possible in your head to practice your visualization 06:51.150 --> 06:52.020 like Baphomet. 06:52.410 --> 06:57.270 But anyway, the main point is this section is all about trap awareness. 06:57.960 --> 07:01.290 You need to be able to avoid the traps, punisher traps and set the traps. 07:01.560 --> 07:03.600 There's a lot of fun to be had in the section. 07:03.750 --> 07:05.910 I hope you enjoy it and so much.