WEBVTT 00:01.020 --> 00:01.660 Hi there. 00:02.190 --> 00:05.460 In this lecture, we're going to have a look at the so-called elephant trap. 00:06.120 --> 00:10.830 So say you do venture to play the Queen's Gambit because you're inspired by the Queen's Gambit Netflix 00:10.830 --> 00:13.710 series and actually do want to play the Queen's Gambit. 00:13.710 --> 00:21.900 So he played C they Peepli ESX Night Zeferino Essex, you play Bishop G5 and they play like BD seven 00:22.140 --> 00:25.460 and you might be thinking, hold on, can't I just win a pawn here. 00:26.010 --> 00:29.700 So you play C takes it takes you think the NetSpend. 00:32.070 --> 00:38.460 And this is also very, very good example that sometimes you can't trust the so-called relative Penns. 00:38.820 --> 00:41.700 This is a bunch of Peng's, it's my pen against the Queen. 00:42.330 --> 00:45.780 So it seems as though you might be able to play this 1965. 00:46.500 --> 00:47.910 But this is a mistake. 00:48.840 --> 00:51.210 Black Jazz plays 1965. 00:51.650 --> 00:53.100 You might think, well, you're winning the queen. 00:54.300 --> 00:54.960 That's true. 00:55.230 --> 00:56.220 So you win the queen. 00:56.220 --> 01:00.030 But there's a backfire with your king in the center. 01:00.510 --> 01:01.680 There's a backfire here. 01:01.950 --> 01:03.540 You haven't put yourself beyond the face. 01:04.350 --> 01:09.840 So when you don't get your king, you know, safely Carseldine, you indulge in active operations. 01:11.160 --> 01:12.990 You can often expect backfires. 01:12.990 --> 01:15.180 And there is a big one before track. 01:15.660 --> 01:17.250 You have to expose your queen. 01:18.090 --> 01:24.990 And Black is just winning a piece, basically black and even just take her, leaving that pin in place 01:26.010 --> 01:27.390 and Black's piece up. 01:31.420 --> 01:39.190 If, for example, you know, queen size, we can see that black has one to three minor pieces or two 01:39.190 --> 01:42.260 and the two rocks, we just factor in the rocks. 01:42.910 --> 01:43.960 Black space up here. 01:44.770 --> 01:49.750 You've invested two pieces here to win the queen. 01:52.250 --> 02:00.410 If you think about it, you dropped a piece here, so one piece and then the eight bishop so Black can 02:00.410 --> 02:04.830 afford to give one piece back like it, even just take her. 02:05.450 --> 02:08.360 That's all so strong immediately and then take her. 02:08.360 --> 02:12.680 You can see Black has three minor pieces for your two. 02:13.250 --> 02:20.900 So one of the more fundamental points about this trap is not trust in the so-called reality pens. 02:21.200 --> 02:27.980 You need to be on the lookout in chess for options to be a tactical monster, which I hope you all become, 02:28.400 --> 02:36.080 especially if you look at my more complete guide to tactics that will massively improve your ratings 02:36.290 --> 02:39.740 and your enthusiasm and your passion for chess. 02:39.740 --> 02:45.710 It will be a great way for you to really appreciate chess from a tactical perspective. 02:46.850 --> 02:53.720 If you can know things like this, that the relative pin, there are options. 02:53.720 --> 02:55.370 You know, it's not as if black. 02:58.560 --> 03:03.990 It's not as if this is an illegal move, anything which is not an illegal move, if it was the king, 03:04.000 --> 03:05.310 it would be an absolute pin. 03:06.600 --> 03:09.240 If it was a king on the act, which is not the light could not move. 03:09.690 --> 03:13.780 But chess is such that you've got to consider all the options. 03:14.280 --> 03:19.280 So, yes, this trap kind of is very nifty to win a piece. 03:19.440 --> 03:20.480 It's worth knowing about. 03:20.850 --> 03:23.130 We can look at it from the black perspective. 03:23.130 --> 03:29.880 If you want to play against an unsuspecting opponent, it doesn't compromise the position. 03:29.880 --> 03:35.460 In fact, in setting this trap, you're going to see, does it actually damage your position to actually 03:35.460 --> 03:36.090 set it up? 03:36.880 --> 03:37.860 Not so. 03:37.860 --> 03:41.460 Actually, this is a position which is pretty standard. 03:42.150 --> 03:51.360 And in fact, you know, if it doesn't play 1985, then you've still got a fairly decent classic position. 03:52.590 --> 03:58.500 There's a move like CSX had to reinforce D5 now and you can carry on with development. 03:59.670 --> 04:01.200 It's a decent enough position. 04:01.590 --> 04:05.640 You haven't actually compromised your position if you're playing this trap with the black pieces. 04:06.090 --> 04:13.500 So it seems, you know, this move is asking whites to test this D5. 04:14.490 --> 04:19.380 So very interesting to be aware of how both sides don't fall into it. 04:19.800 --> 04:25.320 And if you want to have fun setting it there where it doesn't actually compromise your position. 04:25.320 --> 04:31.740 So even against my strong opponents later, this is still a legitimate opening actually in its own right 04:32.730 --> 04:34.290 to play, OK. 04:35.190 --> 04:35.820 That's how much.