WEBVTT 00:00.730 --> 00:01.660 Hi there. 00:01.750 --> 00:04.520 In this election, I have an amazing Paul Morphy game to show you. 00:04.810 --> 00:07.390 He actually gave his opponent here real cards. 00:07.750 --> 00:09.020 So that's why the rookie is missing. 00:09.040 --> 00:10.840 No, I haven't set the ball up incorrectly. 00:11.800 --> 00:13.840 He was such a strong player, Paul Morphy. 00:13.840 --> 00:19.690 He would do a lot of kind of exhibitions and fun games where he'd offer odds. 00:20.140 --> 00:22.000 So on this occasion, Queen's Rugg. 00:22.390 --> 00:28.470 So this is his game against Charles like a carpenter here in 1849 in New Orleans. 00:28.990 --> 00:33.070 So if from Paul Morphy we see five motor free nights, he says. 00:33.580 --> 00:37.740 So so far both sides have kind of equally developed Blancs players. 00:37.750 --> 00:45.430 Fine, but Paul Morphy starts trying to trade off -- for peace, development and peace. 00:45.430 --> 00:52.300 Development like this is probably more necessary than usual because one has to make up for the odds. 00:53.110 --> 01:01.570 It has to somehow amplify a certain factor and P7 as a great factor to amplify because it can lead quite 01:01.570 --> 01:03.520 quickly to King safety issues. 01:04.330 --> 01:10.960 And if Paul Morphy can actually knock out the opponents, especially before the end games, then losing 01:10.960 --> 01:14.520 one or two pawns won't be such a big concern. 01:14.800 --> 01:20.710 And yes, you can play like this as well in your early repetoire opening repertoire, which is like 01:20.710 --> 01:21.970 the sort of opening's you might want to use. 01:21.970 --> 01:23.660 You might want to try DeFore. 01:23.710 --> 01:25.150 It's called the Scotch game. 01:26.500 --> 01:30.190 So it's a way of opening up the position a little bit more, kind of activating queen. 01:30.700 --> 01:35.410 We see ETECSA now, Paul, if it doesn't even capture he plays Bishop CIFOR. 01:36.070 --> 01:44.170 He's working another piece the opponent seems to want piece by the intention here after Sifry is just 01:44.170 --> 01:45.100 to take this form. 01:45.280 --> 01:52.270 And whites, just castles and hair black actually takes this form, which is a little bit dangerous 01:52.270 --> 01:55.480 now because it's actually helping develop this piece. 01:55.480 --> 02:00.070 So we've got a real difference in peace development emerging for both sides. 02:00.340 --> 02:07.840 There's free pieces out for white and this bishop now actually scurries back just to protect G-7. 02:08.440 --> 02:14.620 So actually the relative peace development is also increased, even more so in this kind of situation, 02:15.100 --> 02:19.210 you can start to expect some real disasters to occur. 02:20.020 --> 02:22.120 So E5 is played by Paul Morphy. 02:22.120 --> 02:28.960 We see now Ruki one the rookies now develop towards the center, whereas Blackshirts they're still disconnected 02:29.230 --> 02:29.950 at home. 02:30.490 --> 02:32.800 Everyone's on holiday in the black position. 02:32.800 --> 02:34.180 No pieces have been developed. 02:35.440 --> 02:37.870 When you develop pieces, you stop them being on holiday. 02:37.870 --> 02:40.090 They are participating and the battle. 02:40.630 --> 02:44.320 We've got lots of lots of pieces participating here already. 02:45.610 --> 02:51.850 We see details five and now it looks as though hang on, this is a bit worrying exchange of Queens. 02:52.990 --> 02:54.940 But Paul Morphy welcomes it here. 02:54.980 --> 02:59.590 After 1965, things are actually getting together on Kether Common Squares. 03:00.130 --> 03:08.470 We see Queen 61 and here, instead of recapturing on Daewon Polymorph, he plays Bishop takes F7 Check 03:09.010 --> 03:10.090 after Kingi seven. 03:10.090 --> 03:11.860 Can you see what Paul Morphy plays? 03:12.410 --> 03:14.000 I'll give you five seconds to pause for the. 03:24.680 --> 03:36.260 OK, 96 check and it's double check, so the king has to move the double check now the king unwisely 03:36.620 --> 03:39.770 takes on F7 to play on in this game. 03:40.850 --> 03:46.970 King Desex was needed after which one can actually take the queen with Chag and still be in a very good 03:47.210 --> 03:49.100 position of the taking. 03:49.430 --> 03:53.270 But the opponent played a major disaster move. 03:53.540 --> 03:59.270 King takes F7 as positions get more and more hard play, you can expect disasters. 03:59.690 --> 04:02.840 Guess what one can play in this position which ends the game. 04:03.320 --> 04:05.240 I'll give you five seconds to pause video here. 04:10.550 --> 04:13.070 OK, nighttime's Aints. 04:16.970 --> 04:21.170 And look look at this lack of peace in the final position, these peace is still at home. 04:22.520 --> 04:30.230 This is a vivid story now in this story, when I told you the basic nature about the pieces, I didn't 04:30.230 --> 04:38.270 say about sacrificing forms that I the concrete examples show how you can actually achieve a huge differential, 04:38.480 --> 04:42.600 a huge difference between your peace, the woman and the opponents piece of armor. 04:42.620 --> 04:44.090 So this is a vivid example. 04:44.510 --> 04:50.690 Paul Morphy is one of those model players that in your early stamp's as a chess player, it's actually 04:50.690 --> 04:55.250 better to look sometimes at Paul Morphy, Anderson Grecco. 04:55.430 --> 05:02.270 If you look at those three players from the past, there wasn't so much opening theory as is today. 05:02.660 --> 05:05.870 There isn't so much, you know, computer analysis. 05:06.410 --> 05:11.960 And you can look at their raw openings and extract really great principles for your early steps in the 05:11.960 --> 05:12.170 game. 05:12.170 --> 05:15.340 They are like the early evolution of chess style. 05:15.350 --> 05:21.320 In any case, there was the so-called romantic era of chess where people used to sacrifice pawns to 05:21.320 --> 05:29.270 maximize the peace, pressure and initiative, the ability to coordinate pieces quickly, to create 05:29.270 --> 05:30.320 attacks quickly. 05:30.740 --> 05:36.910 And this is like a devastating example where the gambits of pawns maximize peace development. 05:37.250 --> 05:40.210 There is a trade off, though you are losing some pawns in general. 05:40.460 --> 05:42.020 Some of these governments are a bit dodgy. 05:42.530 --> 05:47.420 But actually also in your early repertoire, you do. 05:47.420 --> 05:54.680 You might want to include some gambits which take the opponent away from their opening period and maximize 05:54.680 --> 05:55.640 your peace development. 05:56.300 --> 05:59.570 And I'll talk about those, you know, later on, of course. 05:59.570 --> 06:04.980 But briefly, you know, if you wanted a gambit selection, you could play like Morphy, you know, 06:05.000 --> 06:12.110 with the rook, by the way, all sorts of games, you know, after E5 there are all sorts of interesting 06:12.380 --> 06:18.200 gambits to consider, but I will mention those later in the course. 06:18.200 --> 06:24.830 But here, just just take in the the lesson from this game that even if you're down on a whole rook, 06:25.700 --> 06:31.060 if you can maximize your peace development relative to your opponent by by trading off some pawns, 06:31.070 --> 06:36.740 so training off material peace, development and peace pressure, that peace pressure can yield huge 06:36.740 --> 06:37.280 dividends. 06:37.280 --> 06:40.730 And you can, you know, whip up a very, very dangerous attack. 06:40.970 --> 06:46.940 And he slips up here with this king takes F7 going straight into a checkmate. 06:47.210 --> 06:49.550 The rookie is controlling those escape squares. 06:49.550 --> 06:51.770 The knight is playing Czech King can't escape. 06:51.770 --> 06:53.840 The king can't go back to that bishop. 06:54.020 --> 06:54.730 This is checkmate. 06:56.450 --> 06:57.830 So a beautiful little game. 06:58.250 --> 07:05.120 So I'm hoping to reinforce any concept I say in this section about opening principles with Morfe or 07:05.120 --> 07:07.130 ANSO, other players examples. 07:07.490 --> 07:09.440 So have you got something from this example? 07:09.590 --> 07:12.890 And it does also introduce a very concrete thing that you can do. 07:13.340 --> 07:18.290 It's all very well someone saying, you know, one, how much better a piece of the opponent. 07:18.290 --> 07:19.520 How do you actually achieve that? 07:19.700 --> 07:21.410 You might have to trade off some points. 07:21.650 --> 07:22.610 You might have to play again. 07:22.610 --> 07:27.200 The game itself may have served me extremely well, especially in online chess. 07:27.500 --> 07:29.000 I've used a variety of gambling. 07:29.480 --> 07:32.510 It's like against the Sicilian defense, the Smithburg game. 07:32.840 --> 07:34.010 But we'll get to those later. 07:34.010 --> 07:39.890 OK, just bear in mind the lessons from this example before we go on, OK? 07:40.130 --> 07:40.670 Thanks so much.