WEBVTT 00:01.230 --> 00:02.940 Hi there in Atlanta. 00:02.960 --> 00:08.990 I'm going to show you the so-called scholars might on the form of Chiang, as it's sometimes called, 00:09.930 --> 00:10.380 so. 00:12.870 --> 00:19.630 If you're playing black, let's play with the black pieces and your opponents. 00:20.010 --> 00:23.800 They play for you playing E5 and then they bring out their going to age five. 00:24.570 --> 00:26.660 Now, the queen is the most valuable piece. 00:26.670 --> 00:30.720 It shouldn't really be brought out this quickly. 00:31.350 --> 00:34.060 And you'll notice it's attacking your pawn. 00:35.520 --> 00:40.680 OK, so you think you could punish this queen, but you are a bit concerned. 00:40.680 --> 00:44.720 And if you do, if you just do this, you are actually losing a sense of pawn. 00:45.270 --> 00:49.200 So you go to protect your home with 96. 00:49.230 --> 00:49.980 That's fair enough. 00:50.490 --> 00:58.030 But now Bishop CIFOR is played away on fraternising something and you shouldn't use the routine move, 00:58.030 --> 00:59.130 not have sex here. 01:00.030 --> 01:04.490 You should have a look and be aware of what the opponent is threatening. 01:04.500 --> 01:06.870 And this is a general thing in general. 01:06.870 --> 01:09.120 You need awareness of what the opponent is frightening. 01:10.440 --> 01:17.010 And, you know, when you're calculating variations, the three golden principles Killer Common Squares 01:17.010 --> 01:22.590 is the first one or one, one of the three key ones, wings of the last move. 01:24.760 --> 01:27.310 And discovery effects on positions. 01:29.560 --> 01:33.440 So here is there a common square is a team working together? 01:33.610 --> 01:35.200 Now, this sounds very, very positive. 01:35.350 --> 01:37.780 Let's get the team of pieces working together. 01:38.140 --> 01:39.600 And there is a killer common square. 01:39.610 --> 01:41.450 If you played, might have sex. 01:41.830 --> 01:43.840 I hope you can spot what might please her. 01:45.730 --> 01:51.490 You shouldn't be playing the routine of sex in this position because one of us won't play. 01:56.330 --> 02:04.190 OK, quintets F7 is Tramaine, yeah, this is the so-called scholars meit's, which I hope you never 02:04.190 --> 02:04.880 fall into. 02:05.360 --> 02:06.940 Now what do you do? 02:07.610 --> 02:09.540 You might ask, what do you actually do here? 02:09.560 --> 02:11.210 What is what is actually the best move? 02:12.980 --> 02:20.150 Well, in fact, it seems I have taken this question very seriously. 02:20.930 --> 02:26.110 I put it into the most powerful technology available, the latest for visual networks and everything. 02:26.540 --> 02:31.230 So here, actually, I'm not going to give you a routine answer and give you a very specific answer 02:31.230 --> 02:32.240 it wants to hear. 02:32.520 --> 02:33.590 And that's desex. 02:35.110 --> 02:42.580 She seems to be the very best move now, they could drop back to a free and they are again renewing 02:42.610 --> 02:43.820 a threat on F7. 02:44.500 --> 02:49.870 Now, here you play a sex and say they play this. 02:50.740 --> 02:53.920 You have of the desex a very fine position. 02:54.520 --> 03:01.210 You can use what is called a fan cazzo of the bishop of incentives and sometimes quiet. 03:01.870 --> 03:07.570 And your position here is very, very nice to play from. 03:08.170 --> 03:10.200 So this is how to deal with it. 03:11.440 --> 03:12.520 So let's recap. 03:12.850 --> 03:17.590 So 845, the queen comes out early so you protect that pawn. 03:17.890 --> 03:18.910 That is sensible. 03:19.060 --> 03:23.770 But hey, you need to be wary of what the opponent is threatening. 03:24.370 --> 03:26.740 And in general, that's useful to have that awareness. 03:27.640 --> 03:29.890 And as I've mentioned in other lectures. 03:31.390 --> 03:37.140 You have to start with that awareness is it's good, very good to have an awareness of what the had 03:37.150 --> 03:43.180 is threatening so you can either parry the France, make it big of France, or completely crush the 03:43.180 --> 03:45.920 opponent with a crushing, winning combination by hand. 03:45.940 --> 03:48.120 No, we haven't got a crushing winning combination. 03:48.370 --> 03:53.020 We have to carry the France Perry the fray in such a way that. 03:54.990 --> 04:00.150 It actually doesn't create it creates rather minimal downsides for us. 04:01.980 --> 04:10.590 Some of the suggestions in this position, like Queening Seven seem OK, but actually, you know what, 04:10.920 --> 04:15.330 the queen, only seven is actually subject to tempo gain. 04:16.910 --> 04:26.690 Hear from later, noisy, free to define potentially so, for example, 94 immediately, and there's 04:26.690 --> 04:34.100 an uneasiness about 95 if you play nice D4 here. 04:36.840 --> 04:44.130 You're trying to drag the queen back to Tennessee to and then you can play C6. 04:46.980 --> 04:55.890 And that covers the five square, but White actually gets a position where you haven't really punish 04:55.890 --> 04:58.810 them, it's about equal hair, objectively speaking. 04:59.820 --> 05:02.850 So this kind of handling of the situation. 05:05.480 --> 05:08.000 Isn't entirely brilliant, isn't it? 05:08.030 --> 05:09.080 Tiny little. 05:10.530 --> 05:13.960 Well, your queen is on a seven because it's also blocking in your bishop. 05:14.790 --> 05:21.240 So this is not the most preferred treatment you're blocking in your bishop, which is against kind of 05:21.240 --> 05:22.380 opening principles. 05:24.070 --> 05:28.440 And you might ask, well, OK, why 94? 05:28.440 --> 05:29.190 Why not this? 05:29.220 --> 05:31.740 That's that's that is a reasonable question. 05:32.490 --> 05:33.600 But again, you know what? 05:33.600 --> 05:37.740 If they just went to the one, you haven't really punished them. 05:37.740 --> 05:39.950 You've just actually blocked in your bishop. 05:40.410 --> 05:49.560 So my recommendation for you is in handling this very direct early attack is is to actually play the 05:49.560 --> 05:50.430 movie G Sex. 05:51.450 --> 05:58.290 So kicking the queen, the queen will most often go to Africa to renew this curcumin Squyres principle, 05:58.290 --> 05:59.160 which is tactics. 05:59.310 --> 06:04.590 But it's too early on in the game for the opponents to indulge this kind of taunting, because one of 06:04.620 --> 06:12.000 the principles of opening play is not to use the same space more than once, ideally, and to try and 06:12.000 --> 06:15.630 get all your pieces out and hear the opponent isn't doing that. 06:16.230 --> 06:18.870 So let's have sex and then desex. 06:18.870 --> 06:22.940 And you're looking forward to potential tampoe gains against the queen later. 06:23.850 --> 06:27.470 So this situation is quite pleasant for you. 06:27.780 --> 06:30.000 You have various options here. 06:32.010 --> 06:33.840 So that's how to handle the scholars. 06:33.850 --> 06:34.110 Why? 06:34.350 --> 06:37.260 So should you actually play to win with the scholars? 06:37.260 --> 06:44.130 Might well, you know, want the taste of winning and peace is cooperating and a soft spot. 06:44.460 --> 06:46.890 They are principles in their own right. 06:47.880 --> 06:49.170 So you might want to give it a go. 06:49.170 --> 06:52.460 Occasionally they will trade, but it's a naughty trade. 06:52.470 --> 07:01.770 Bear in mind, opening play in general, you should be developing most of your army as much of your 07:01.770 --> 07:02.670 army as possible. 07:02.670 --> 07:05.370 Your pieces are like your chessmen. 07:07.290 --> 07:12.780 You shouldn't be bringing out your queen early in principle because it's the most valuable piece. 07:12.780 --> 07:18.690 It can be driven back and you're actually helping your opponents develop pieces quite often. 07:19.080 --> 07:20.580 So should you do this? 07:20.790 --> 07:23.070 It's not a recommendable opening. 07:24.620 --> 07:30.200 But if you want to do it for fun, to see your friends faces, 07:33.200 --> 07:37.970 OK, maybe it's the sort of thing I did as a kid. 07:37.970 --> 07:40.130 I enjoyed winning like this sometimes. 07:40.130 --> 07:48.080 But you learn better openings after and we'll see different openings later on in the course. 07:48.390 --> 07:53.540 So it's only if they play dates, then you can delightfully just immediately win the game with quintets. 07:53.540 --> 07:59.080 F7 you shouldn't really be playing for any traps, but it's setting a trap. 07:59.330 --> 08:05.360 It's a very trappy way of playing the opening and breaking kind of principles. 08:06.410 --> 08:08.780 You want to play a more principled opening. 08:08.810 --> 08:10.400 People talk about opening principles. 08:10.400 --> 08:12.140 We will talk about opening principles. 08:12.950 --> 08:19.280 And in fact, the next session could be a logical follow up where we're going to talk about my own principles 08:19.520 --> 08:22.460 and really not this trap violates some of them. 08:24.440 --> 08:26.520 So it's the scholars, though, it's very well known. 08:26.540 --> 08:34.180 You must know about this scholars ways to handle defending against it, at least variations on a theme. 08:34.790 --> 08:38.270 Let's say let's go back to plain black now. 08:38.270 --> 08:46.370 If they Verrett with Bishop CIFOR and you play if you've actually extinguished Quiñones five and there's 08:46.370 --> 08:47.520 no threat here either. 08:48.230 --> 08:55.430 So Bishop CIFOR isn't a great way for them to introduce the trap, and nor is actually Queen Afri, 08:55.430 --> 08:58.420 because usually you're going to develop piece here and then there's no front again. 08:58.910 --> 09:03.650 So the way they're going to play it is usually like this where they're attacking a pawn. 09:03.860 --> 09:07.850 They're trying to get you to play Ninety-Six and then they're attacking F7. 09:07.850 --> 09:10.610 You just got to be careful here not to play a routine move. 09:11.290 --> 09:17.180 OK, so I hope you don't fall for this cooperation of the Queen and Bishop on F7. 09:17.930 --> 09:20.510 So just play the move desex here. 09:21.170 --> 09:27.680 And if Queen Afri then you develop peace and you're shooting F7 and you look forward to a good position 09:27.980 --> 09:31.300 after Desex and G7, that's a very nice position. 09:31.750 --> 09:32.840 Start the game off with. 09:33.110 --> 09:35.090 OK, that's a much.