WEBVTT 00:00.840 --> 00:01.460 Hi there. 00:01.800 --> 00:06.690 In this lecture, I'm going to introduce you to one of my favorite weapons of choice, especially in 00:06.690 --> 00:11.460 online chess, we wanted to try and win as many games as quickly as possible. 00:12.090 --> 00:13.440 It's not the Swiss format. 00:13.440 --> 00:18.630 It's the all you can eat format where you as soon as you when you get paired with another game, you 00:18.630 --> 00:18.880 know. 00:18.880 --> 00:23.400 So sometimes on some sites they're called arenas and so on. 00:23.400 --> 00:25.860 Others, you know, it's been called war zones in the past. 00:26.970 --> 00:27.220 Okay. 00:27.750 --> 00:32.160 But they're the as many games as you can get in basically type. 00:32.580 --> 00:39.960 And in those two months I personally prefer opening's which do increase the probability of me winning. 00:40.200 --> 00:45.960 So might my things become a little bit happier, but not to the point that that's completely terrible 00:47.010 --> 00:49.760 openings, that they don't compromise my position to that level. 00:49.950 --> 00:54.110 I don't like to give myself a lost position on purpose in general. 00:54.690 --> 00:57.650 So here we see fall. 00:57.870 --> 01:00.140 I play for quite often of E5. 01:00.150 --> 01:01.650 I love playing like Sifry. 01:02.070 --> 01:06.150 It seems a lot of people are not really prepared for the so-called Vienna game. 01:06.510 --> 01:16.770 So 94 is the Vienna game and if 96 has played, I like playing at four in particular against Let's have 01:16.770 --> 01:22.380 sex and I think take this is actually leading potentially to huge trouble. 01:22.980 --> 01:28.890 They've been a bit greedy here, but the thing is also they've released the brakes on your --. 01:28.890 --> 01:30.300 You can push the -- forward. 01:30.870 --> 01:37.740 And now they realize probably in horror that the NOI hasn't really got useful squares. 01:38.640 --> 01:44.310 If the night goes here, we can just take it because we haven't obstructed our queen or Queen's got 01:44.310 --> 01:46.020 a sign of H5 here. 01:46.020 --> 01:47.100 We haven't played a a free. 01:47.490 --> 01:54.600 So that's the horror they kind of perhaps realize and quite a lot players don't like playing night ninety-eight, 01:56.490 --> 01:57.120 if not yet. 01:57.120 --> 01:59.100 It seems like a silly retreat. 01:59.100 --> 02:05.940 And in fact, yeah, it's a free rules out Quiñones for chag and then after defo you have what seems 02:05.940 --> 02:09.480 to be well is usually I love this a fantastic game. 02:09.870 --> 02:12.990 You can actually avoid the exchange of Queens here. 02:13.410 --> 02:16.950 So here you don't play this because then they can take off the queens. 02:17.340 --> 02:25.230 You keep all the pressure going with queen to after bishop, even Queen takes a five and you're going 02:25.230 --> 02:30.570 to get your pull them back with interest after Bishop takes four, you're actually frazzling that pawn 02:30.570 --> 02:31.500 on C7. 02:32.190 --> 02:37.650 And if they play this, you've got a lead in development and it's a very, very pleasant possession 02:37.650 --> 02:40.680 with great options, great opportunities. 02:41.070 --> 02:45.990 You've actually got a rook, which is potentially aggressive later on this fall as well. 02:46.320 --> 02:48.210 You got a great use of the five squired. 02:48.210 --> 02:51.210 This is a lovely position to have the opening. 02:51.990 --> 02:57.510 But black, believe or not, I mean, they might even play worse than this after the taking the pawn 02:59.010 --> 02:59.610 five. 03:00.690 --> 03:02.430 What if they didn't retreat the Knights? 03:04.850 --> 03:09.950 And they played Queene seven now here you're almost going to win straight out of the opening. 03:11.290 --> 03:18.950 This is a very, very bad idea, very bad because, OK, they pin the pin, but you just jump in here 03:19.040 --> 03:20.010 with Queene, too. 03:20.360 --> 03:21.980 So, again, they're in that quandary. 03:21.980 --> 03:23.510 Where do they move the knights? 03:23.510 --> 03:26.330 They can't move them anywhere without it being taken. 03:26.630 --> 03:28.120 So they have to go back to the gate. 03:28.470 --> 03:34.010 But here is a worse situation because the queen is now on a seven subject to what I'd call tempo game, 03:34.010 --> 03:35.360 where you win time. 03:35.900 --> 03:38.880 Basically, time is a major factor on the chessboard. 03:39.650 --> 03:44.300 Some of the great players like Paul Morphy, they would often get the so-called initiative, which is 03:44.300 --> 03:50.300 a representation of extra time on their opponents, extra development, extra piece activity, and they 03:50.310 --> 03:55.970 use that time and swap it for another advantage, quite often a crushing, you know, king attack. 03:56.450 --> 04:00.350 Now, here we can gain a tempo, which is a very important thing in chess, potentially. 04:01.460 --> 04:05.440 So what do they do here in this position? 04:06.650 --> 04:11.270 So if they have this position, so let's say they go back up. 04:11.900 --> 04:15.050 So we have five Queene, seven queening, they go back. 04:15.590 --> 04:18.110 DeFore is a very, very good move here. 04:19.340 --> 04:25.340 So if you don't have to use your tempo again immediately, this is a really cool move. 04:26.150 --> 04:32.840 You're waiting them, waiting for them to make an even greater mass here with a move desex. 04:33.260 --> 04:36.170 This is them making a huge mess of the position. 04:36.620 --> 04:40.130 And now you spring in with 95 hitting the queen. 04:41.990 --> 04:44.930 And this is really problematic for them. 04:44.930 --> 04:46.160 Really problematic. 04:47.750 --> 04:56.150 Let's say they play Queen the eight, you have to completely crushing moves her and 1967 check is one 04:56.150 --> 05:03.320 of them, so hair of the queen takes, then you can play, he takes the sex check and you'll be winning 05:03.440 --> 05:04.170 their queen. 05:06.200 --> 05:08.570 So, yeah, this is this is very, very interesting. 05:09.110 --> 05:10.490 Very, very interesting indeed. 05:11.450 --> 05:16.460 And by the way, if they play a move like Queen Age for check, you know, it's harmless. 05:16.680 --> 05:21.380 They have to go in the fancy seven after this check in on this occasion to play King one. 05:22.370 --> 05:28.120 They have to go and the fans over here later again and then hand back to the same tactic, you know, 05:28.130 --> 05:30.830 98, C seven and eight, 66 is Jack. 05:31.790 --> 05:33.820 Or, you know, it's so strong, the position. 05:33.830 --> 05:40.340 There's different ways of willingness of the king, the one queen that you can actually even just play 05:40.340 --> 05:45.110 this 866 Jack and in 1967, Jack. 05:45.110 --> 05:47.300 And this is awful, losing the rook as well. 05:47.570 --> 05:49.750 It's a really crushing position. 05:50.390 --> 05:57.740 So all of this is set off because you're unsuspecting opponents, you know, play you know, you play 05:57.760 --> 06:02.210 mighty Siegfried and they're playing routinely that maybe they haven't seen this something that you 06:02.210 --> 06:02.690 play for. 06:02.700 --> 06:07.360 It's like a polite version of the so-called king's gambit, but not as risky the Vienna game. 06:07.910 --> 06:12.980 My inspiration for it was saying Andrew Horne, a very talented player, beat Van Starin, a grandmaster 06:12.980 --> 06:15.800 right next to me on a board at one of the lowest back monsters. 06:16.250 --> 06:20.900 So Andron then he got like a gentleman that told me he got on, I am known, but he did so well. 06:21.230 --> 06:27.230 And his systems like the Vienna game really shined through, you know, shone through. 06:27.230 --> 06:29.900 And I picked up the Vienna game as a result of that. 06:30.350 --> 06:31.940 But there is a good line for black. 06:31.940 --> 06:33.920 Now, let's say you're playing the black pieces. 06:34.370 --> 06:35.300 What's the antidote? 06:36.320 --> 06:41.480 What what's the black to hear you OK? 06:41.480 --> 06:44.270 OK, I'm going to tell you you play D5. 06:44.270 --> 06:47.390 This diffuses to a large extent the Vienna game. 06:48.830 --> 06:52.010 There's stuff to research it, to follow up research. 06:52.010 --> 06:55.780 If you really want to take this seriously, any parts of this course you want to take seriously, you 06:55.780 --> 06:56.750 might want to research later. 06:56.750 --> 06:59.990 So I'm giving you an announcer pointers for you for further study. 07:00.500 --> 07:03.920 So here, let's see you play D five and they play offtakes. 07:03.920 --> 07:11.270 Now you play 1984 and Twelfth and play continue to be free and there is an invitation for the check 07:11.540 --> 07:12.320 that is line. 07:12.890 --> 07:15.110 It's not that bad at all. 07:15.440 --> 07:16.970 Usually players were black. 07:17.270 --> 07:18.770 The best thing is to ignore that. 07:19.310 --> 07:23.720 Just take on Seefried, double the opponent's pawns and then play ninety-six. 07:23.720 --> 07:28.160 Ask them about this pawn and you generally get a nice game of black. 07:28.280 --> 07:32.090 You can play the fool trying to disconnect that pawn and extend the scope of your pieces. 07:32.270 --> 07:39.050 And you could even try to take that pawn out and later try and cancel on the queen side. 07:39.590 --> 07:43.010 And this is to Black's advantage, actually. 07:44.060 --> 07:44.870 Yeah, I know. 07:45.140 --> 07:50.870 So I am a little bit naughty knowing that black can equalize with best play. 07:51.560 --> 07:54.470 And believe me, I do get punished by the stronger players. 07:54.470 --> 08:00.260 If I do, dads play the game and I always have that sinking feeling of regret. 08:00.530 --> 08:06.140 There's a balance in chess, I can tell you completely theoretical, correct chess. 08:06.140 --> 08:08.570 By the openings, things would be boring and solid and dull. 08:09.350 --> 08:15.650 It's good to have a definitely at least as with a lot of things I've said in the course, at least you 08:15.650 --> 08:18.320 have awareness of the whole spectrum of traps. 08:18.590 --> 08:24.710 There're ups and downs for both sides, at least have the awareness because in some game contexts or 08:24.710 --> 08:29.900 against certain players with certain rating, you may have that requirement have to win quickly. 08:30.230 --> 08:33.380 That's a very, very popular online format. 08:33.740 --> 08:40.610 There's all you can eat format because NSW, the problem is with a Swiss format where basically you 08:40.610 --> 08:44.240 have to wait for every single game of around the finish for the next round to be bad. 08:44.630 --> 08:50.960 So this popular All You Can Eat format encourages in a way this bias towards winning quickly. 08:51.410 --> 08:53.840 I know I'm a fun lover in chess. 08:55.340 --> 08:57.020 I love to have fun from chess. 08:57.410 --> 09:03.110 And so sometimes I do take the risk, especially against low rise opponents or just generally on the 09:03.110 --> 09:03.530 fast. 09:03.530 --> 09:08.150 The time limits against anyone to play the Vienna game is to take a little bit of a risk. 09:08.540 --> 09:15.080 But the more you know about the Vienna game, the more you can get usually a good position, at least 09:15.320 --> 09:16.610 even in the critical lines. 09:17.090 --> 09:24.410 You know, it's it is a legitimate opening the Vienna game, but it's not that popular at the super 09:24.410 --> 09:26.210 supreme level 93. 09:27.590 --> 09:32.150 There are other ways of continuing the position rather than playing this for. 09:32.510 --> 09:41.120 But sometimes as a quick point scorer, I would say it's worth checking out, especially against your 09:41.120 --> 09:45.680 weaker oppositions and especially on the fast assignments. 09:45.970 --> 09:46.730 It's a little bit more. 09:46.790 --> 09:50.090 Trappy, yeah, the problem of trappy openings in general. 09:51.580 --> 09:59.020 The ones which really compromise your positions, OK, for the ones which sometimes compromise your 09:59.020 --> 10:02.050 positions, you have to judge, is it worth the risk? 10:02.630 --> 10:03.700 Is it worth the risk? 10:04.650 --> 10:08.370 OK, so it's not all cut and dry. 10:09.040 --> 10:15.310 So but be aware of the Vienna game and its tracks for both sides, because at the very least, it contributes 10:15.310 --> 10:20.080 to understanding of what's going on on the chessboard, that this kind of the late king's gambit, you 10:20.080 --> 10:25.150 know, a relic, the romantic air of the king's gambit just played in such a manner makes. 10:26.150 --> 10:30.940 A very interesting weapon in its own right, but also the king's gambit is a great weapon in its own 10:30.940 --> 10:33.230 right and a very dangerous weapon. 10:33.520 --> 10:38.200 You know, the great Boris Spassky, a possible champion, use that to beat Bobby Fischer. 10:38.200 --> 10:39.640 And Bobby Fischer was so miffed. 10:40.180 --> 10:44.310 You know, he wrote a refutation of the king's gambit by the Vienna game. 10:44.320 --> 10:45.340 Some people regard it. 10:45.340 --> 10:50.800 I mean, I regard it as a kind of polite version of the king's gambit where you're delaying it. 10:51.010 --> 10:56.890 And ideally, you wait for this because if you if you did this, if your opponent does that, I mean, 10:57.230 --> 10:58.510 it's more risky for me. 10:58.520 --> 11:03.340 They can actually just take and kind of hold on to the pawn. 11:03.340 --> 11:10.590 Actually, they can sometimes hold onto this pawn or you have to parry the check. 11:10.630 --> 11:13.060 So you can't even do that because you have to pay the check. 11:13.390 --> 11:18.520 So you end up carrying the check and then the queen has got sign of G5. 11:18.550 --> 11:26.030 So then G5 happens and this isn't so great as as far as I'm concerned. 11:26.080 --> 11:32.230 My experience, as soon as I see 96, there are polite ways of playing this with Jeoffrey with minimal 11:32.230 --> 11:33.060 risk yourself. 11:33.460 --> 11:40.900 So this is an interesting situation where you've got a fairly solid position and you've got a good attacking 11:41.530 --> 11:42.150 prospects. 11:42.250 --> 11:48.700 So quite often I play like this and later I still like getting a kind of attack because I jump in this 11:48.700 --> 11:52.990 pawn and then I play for F4, F5 gaining space. 11:53.320 --> 11:54.550 So that's another way. 11:55.120 --> 12:00.640 If they play, you know, if they don't react with my offense by play 96, that's to be borne in mind 12:00.640 --> 12:01.080 as well. 12:01.390 --> 12:05.230 You don't have to go for remember, the follow up is key. 12:05.620 --> 12:07.540 That often makes a move good or bad. 12:07.540 --> 12:08.350 The follow up. 12:09.070 --> 12:09.480 Yeah. 12:09.850 --> 12:15.670 So also bear in mind, when you're in some sort of puzzle mode and someone asks you what is the best 12:15.670 --> 12:16.930 move, don't just guess the moves. 12:16.930 --> 12:18.340 You need to know all the follow ups. 12:18.640 --> 12:19.660 That's the beauty of chess. 12:19.660 --> 12:24.610 You need responsibility not for your just your move, but how are you going to follow it up after. 12:25.090 --> 12:31.510 So anyway, so if they play not have sex yet, I'll say on first time controls, I've won my fair share 12:31.510 --> 12:35.170 of Thomas online, even with James James in them. 12:35.290 --> 12:41.830 And I've used the Vienna gambit here, the Vienna game here as a quick point score because a lot of 12:41.830 --> 12:46.480 people just just don't have a clue about this after five, they just don't have a clue. 12:46.480 --> 12:51.190 And so quickly, seven is what you're really looking for with a huge advantage to be gained. 12:51.190 --> 12:55.730 Very, very quick zap of the opponents in the heat of the night. 12:55.730 --> 13:01.780 Take C7 e takes and just putting their queen as one nightmare scenario for the opponents. 13:02.620 --> 13:09.160 OK, so an awareness of all these traps, the tactics, how they work is only going to contribute to 13:09.160 --> 13:10.300 understanding of the chess. 13:11.800 --> 13:17.590 But you don't always have to play these dodgy traps, but just at least be aware of them and how they 13:17.590 --> 13:18.550 work the mechanics. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.130 OK, that's so much.