WEBVTT 00:01.090 --> 00:01.690 Hi there. 00:02.010 --> 00:09.420 In this election, I'm going to show you that even grandmasters can sometimes ignore opening principles 00:09.420 --> 00:12.030 to their peril, even modern day grandmasters. 00:12.540 --> 00:18.390 So Anatoly Karpov, one of the great world chess champions in chess in 1993, was playing with the black 00:18.390 --> 00:24.030 pieces against Larimore Christensen, United States grandmaster, who, by the way, I've done some 00:24.030 --> 00:28.430 commentary on the ICC a few years back, one of the world championship matches. 00:28.440 --> 00:29.210 That was great fun. 00:29.490 --> 00:32.840 So he's a great guy, very, very keen tactical player. 00:33.240 --> 00:34.710 So he's playing with the white pieces. 00:34.710 --> 00:41.310 So we see this position of the C 46, Larry Christiansen plays like a freak off of plays B sex. 00:41.710 --> 00:43.530 So this is a pretty standard opening. 00:43.540 --> 00:45.450 It's called the Queen's Indian Defense. 00:46.290 --> 00:55.560 We see Bishop Jakes, queen to Bishop B 793 C five E for C takes 1964, 96. 00:55.560 --> 00:58.550 So far, pretty standard opening night. 00:58.580 --> 01:00.410 Take six bishops 66. 01:00.720 --> 01:03.780 Now things get very interesting now or move ten. 01:04.200 --> 01:10.290 They are in plays fall and maybe come off on this occasion is a slightly annoyed. 01:10.320 --> 01:11.730 Maybe he didn't have too much sleep. 01:12.990 --> 01:15.030 Maybe he's kind of uncomfortable with his position. 01:15.030 --> 01:21.810 He doesn't like it's control of Desex and actually plays the move to try and get them the bishops move. 01:22.440 --> 01:28.440 So nice H5 This does attack the bishop but the the noise of unprotected peace. 01:30.420 --> 01:40.350 Coincidence, Christensen just moves the bishop to a free and now off is maybe getting a little bit 01:41.190 --> 01:46.000 overexcited and provides yet another theoretical downside. 01:46.530 --> 01:48.650 This, in a way, is a veritable downside. 01:48.900 --> 01:54.300 It's with the downsides of your opponent's position that you will bring their downfall. 01:54.870 --> 01:58.830 It's one of my pet frequently used ideas to winning chess. 01:58.830 --> 02:03.510 Generally, if you're not winning on the clock, you're winning an opposition generally to win opposition. 02:03.510 --> 02:09.310 Guys, you want to find the downsides no matter how subtle a theoretical independent's position and 02:09.480 --> 02:12.600 is actually to not just one, there's two theoretical downsides. 02:12.990 --> 02:19.730 And in fact, they can work together to make it very practical to try and exploit that to unprotected 02:19.740 --> 02:20.280 pieces. 02:20.700 --> 02:22.530 So this is a double violation. 02:22.830 --> 02:29.220 So if this little bit of advice is worth anything, does it help in this particular situation, in concrete 02:29.220 --> 02:34.110 reality, in the harsh reality, as we sometimes call it, the harsh reality here? 02:34.290 --> 02:36.150 There's two unprotected pieces. 02:36.660 --> 02:38.010 How do we punish this? 02:38.670 --> 02:40.440 And this is Anatoly Karpov. 02:40.770 --> 02:46.350 So if you find an expert, you're beating Anatoly Karpov from this position at least. 02:46.710 --> 02:47.700 What would you play her? 02:50.050 --> 02:51.850 If I give you five seconds, pause, Viniar. 02:56.580 --> 03:02.820 OK, yeah, one of Kabul's shortest ever losses, just the queen, Daewon, the queen's very, very 03:02.820 --> 03:07.620 powerful and actually heads the sex and hits age five. 03:08.040 --> 03:10.230 Black is losing a whole piece here. 03:10.620 --> 03:15.780 And at this level, the grandmaster level, Anatoly Karpov, just resigned. 03:18.210 --> 03:23.490 So this is a very, very interesting story here in this game. 03:23.490 --> 03:28.710 Being told of the unprotected peace, don't leave unprotected pieces available. 03:28.720 --> 03:29.940 They do tend to drop off. 03:30.300 --> 03:31.990 This doesn't just apply to the opening. 03:31.990 --> 03:34.470 This applies to the middle gaming and games in general. 03:34.480 --> 03:35.490 You need to be cautious. 03:36.300 --> 03:42.180 And also, by the way, if you get into the process of analyzing games of computers, computers will 03:42.180 --> 03:44.010 often do all sorts of ways. 03:44.010 --> 03:49.890 And one of things, because they can calculate so much better than humans are afraid to say, guys, 03:49.890 --> 03:56.280 that a large part of chess is actually also making your positions easier for you to play. 03:57.120 --> 04:02.310 For you to follow up on the power of moves is in the power of followups. 04:02.970 --> 04:07.410 So you can't just imitate top level computers playing really difficult to play positions where you need 04:07.410 --> 04:11.750 to play the one in 100 every time, every time you're not a computer. 04:12.240 --> 04:19.920 So these general principles, these guiding rules are for your reassurance that you've got limited calculation 04:19.920 --> 04:25.020 powers, but you don't want to offer the opponent theoretical, even theoretical downsides where you 04:25.020 --> 04:26.220 don't know yourself. 04:26.550 --> 04:31.680 Sometimes the concrete punishments, you just know you shouldn't go there because there's likely to 04:31.680 --> 04:32.370 be punishments. 04:32.610 --> 04:34.560 It's more probability kind of thing. 04:35.310 --> 04:38.400 In general, you don't want to offer your opponent unprotected pieces. 04:38.640 --> 04:41.390 This applies just as in the opening, as in the middle game. 04:41.400 --> 04:42.990 In the end game in general. 04:43.530 --> 04:48.240 Sometimes you do work out and you think, OK, it might be worth it on this occasion, but in general, 04:48.240 --> 04:50.370 you want to keep your peace protecting each other. 04:51.570 --> 04:56.760 It's a safety guard, OK, before active operations as well. 04:57.330 --> 04:59.940 In this particular case, you can't have resigned. 05:00.240 --> 05:09.270 So as an example, if Bishop István Queen takes H5 piece up, the knight moves Queen takes these six 05:09.270 --> 05:11.700 piece up, there's no double defense. 05:11.700 --> 05:14.220 The queen can't come to the rescue defending both. 05:14.220 --> 05:17.670 Unfortunately, on this occasion, G six, which just taken. 05:18.240 --> 05:22.050 So, yeah, don't leave your pieces in general unprotected. 05:23.340 --> 05:24.540 That's the general rule. 05:24.540 --> 05:26.610 And that applies even to all chess champions. 05:27.540 --> 05:38.070 OK, so have you got something that reinforcing some basic concepts and not offering your opponent in 05:38.070 --> 05:40.080 general too many theoretical downsides? 05:40.950 --> 05:45.690 Even if you can't see the concrete punishments, you can assume the stronger and stronger your opponents, 05:45.690 --> 05:46.980 they will find the punishments. 05:48.180 --> 05:51.420 So sometimes you might be winning with dodgy stuff against weaker opponents. 05:51.420 --> 05:52.380 Go and plan a stronger team. 05:52.380 --> 05:53.240 You got wiped out. 05:53.430 --> 05:54.540 Don't be disheartened. 05:55.620 --> 05:59.520 You want to make sure your game is kind of solid without theoretical downsides. 06:00.420 --> 06:06.000 Even without any downsides, I did then you can stop losing and stop thinking about winning. 06:07.020 --> 06:08.400 OK, thanks so much.