WEBVTT 00:01.320 --> 00:09.000 Hi there in this tank, shall we say, the dangers of leaving a piece unprotected in the opening in 00:09.000 --> 00:12.030 general, you don't want to leave your pieces unprotected. 00:12.330 --> 00:14.990 You don't you want your pieces to be protecting each other. 00:15.660 --> 00:21.570 If you have an unprotected piece, you've created it in a way, a theoretical downside, a classic theoretical 00:21.570 --> 00:22.260 downside. 00:22.680 --> 00:29.970 And many, many plans on the 2200 will lose games because they simply have unprotected pieces which 00:29.970 --> 00:36.450 tend to drop off the bolt or used in other ways for the opponent's massive advantages in this game. 00:36.450 --> 00:41.760 As an example, I'm going to take you through what you could play as Whites 845. 00:42.210 --> 00:47.010 So you play like a free 96, you play Bishop CIFOR and they play Bishop Seafoam. 00:47.010 --> 00:48.930 So good so far. 00:49.770 --> 00:50.940 You play an interesting move. 00:51.660 --> 00:54.780 OK, I know it's before casting, but you're allowed to do this. 00:55.260 --> 00:57.030 It's a reasonable move in its own right. 00:57.030 --> 00:59.070 See free night, have sex. 00:59.460 --> 01:03.600 And in fact here the floor is played in this particular game. 01:04.020 --> 01:09.990 So this is Grecco against and then in sixteen twenty eight demonstrates a particular idea after Bishop 01:09.990 --> 01:19.900 breaks, it seems as though details if I might be a bad idea because surely then the night comes in, 01:20.010 --> 01:24.810 you know, takes the form and their bishop is looking at Africa as well. 01:25.320 --> 01:27.020 Isn't this a really bad idea. 01:27.030 --> 01:27.600 Details. 01:27.600 --> 01:30.570 But it's actually played 964. 01:30.570 --> 01:36.120 We have a situation, although the two pieces are cooperating on F2. 01:36.870 --> 01:42.540 Do you detect a slight downside of Black's position in terms of unprotected pieces? 01:42.540 --> 01:43.260 I hope you can. 01:43.260 --> 01:46.800 What is the unprotected piece here in Black's possession? 01:46.800 --> 01:50.490 Do we just defend the flat by casting or do we have something stronger? 01:54.740 --> 02:00.020 There's actually a super strong move in that position, I hope you can find it, so you might want to 02:00.020 --> 02:00.760 pause the video. 02:00.770 --> 02:06.110 There's a super strong move and that move is quantify the use. 02:06.110 --> 02:10.520 It uses the unprotected piece, and it also creates this battery. 02:10.610 --> 02:14.760 Batteries of Queenslander's Crake killer common squares by default. 02:15.170 --> 02:17.490 So it's looking at Queen's estimating. 02:19.340 --> 02:21.740 So here black is in big trouble. 02:21.740 --> 02:24.270 Black magic in the game resigns. 02:25.070 --> 02:27.740 So let's wonder why. 02:27.770 --> 02:32.300 If Knight takes F2, then Queen takes after is checkmate. 02:32.640 --> 02:33.130 Ouch. 02:33.800 --> 02:36.550 If 95 we get Queen seven. 02:36.860 --> 02:37.250 Again. 02:38.030 --> 02:39.590 If Bishop takes off to check. 02:39.610 --> 02:41.540 OK, they won a pawn and it's worth Chac. 02:42.230 --> 02:47.720 We just play King Itou as an example and they have pieces which are very loose. 02:47.720 --> 02:48.710 They're called like loose. 02:48.710 --> 02:50.270 They're about to drop off these pieces. 02:50.270 --> 02:51.890 They're so loose, they're about to drop off. 02:52.310 --> 02:59.330 But also Black is confronted with Queen F7 as even a bigger threat than taking off the light. 02:59.930 --> 03:01.610 So what does black do? 03:01.730 --> 03:03.470 Blacks just losing material. 03:03.470 --> 03:07.820 If they cancel now, they are actually losing the lights for not much. 03:08.420 --> 03:13.790 So you've just got basically a winning position where you should aim to manually cancel Kingside. 03:13.790 --> 03:17.900 But essentially you have now a big, gigantic advantage. 03:18.320 --> 03:24.820 And in fact, the attack rages on pretty soon with 95 looking at seven and eight seven. 03:25.100 --> 03:30.020 So it's a crushing position of the Queen D5 in this game of Grecco. 03:30.170 --> 03:34.160 He's demonstrating certain principles in these little games. 03:34.160 --> 03:36.260 And this one is the annotated piece. 03:37.340 --> 03:39.110 You need to look out for the unprotected space. 03:39.410 --> 03:40.550 Even in the opening. 03:40.700 --> 03:45.020 Even in the opening, it's often a great excuse for the opponents double attacks. 03:45.410 --> 03:49.160 So the double attack on F7 here and F4. 03:50.780 --> 03:57.470 So I hope you pick up this point here that in general you don't want to give the opponents any theoretical 03:57.470 --> 03:59.090 downsides in your possession. 04:01.890 --> 04:04.150 They can potentially use them against you. 04:04.590 --> 04:11.190 A key one is unprotected pieces, so beware even from the opening and in the middle and the end game, 04:11.580 --> 04:14.990 whenever you have whenever you have it, what does it matter what stage of the game? 04:15.330 --> 04:18.900 If you have unprotected pieces, they're are more liable to be picked off. 04:20.860 --> 04:21.550 Toxically. 04:23.470 --> 04:27.400 OK, so just bear that in mind so much.