WEBVTT 00:00.780 --> 00:07.560 Either in this century, we can have a look, a very concrete example of central control and in particular 00:07.560 --> 00:14.500 how if the opponent doesn't control your movements in the center, it can lead to a devastating attack. 00:14.880 --> 00:22.890 So here Grecco in 16 20 is playing against an E4 ESX defo, and we seem to have sex. 00:23.190 --> 00:26.790 So now this is already a little bit concerning. 00:27.450 --> 00:29.730 Why actually protects the of Bishop Differe. 00:29.760 --> 00:40.590 It's a concern here because why it has potentially e5 at his or her disposal at any point, which is 00:40.590 --> 00:43.320 basically a facility to drive away the Knights. 00:43.770 --> 00:50.880 If black castles it might not actually be that safe after if this is driven away, when you consider 00:50.880 --> 00:57.030 on the Kingside, you often do want a defense of knights on Forsakes helping defend your king's position. 00:57.240 --> 00:59.430 Otherwise, in a way, there's no point in castling. 00:59.790 --> 01:08.550 We see 96 knights have free bishop s7 and all this time, you know, if I was available, but if I was 01:08.550 --> 01:09.740 not played just yet. 01:10.320 --> 01:12.690 In fact, Grecco is being a bit cagey. 01:13.020 --> 01:14.550 He's actually going to. 01:16.010 --> 01:22.630 DeLay casting himself a little bit by playing age for he might think, hold on things. 01:22.750 --> 01:24.500 Watch this breaks all the rules. 01:25.040 --> 01:32.480 You are allowed to break the rules sometimes if it's justified, if your follow up is justified, if 01:32.480 --> 01:34.760 you calculate, you can get a very big advantage. 01:34.770 --> 01:36.190 Sometimes you can break the rules. 01:36.860 --> 01:39.150 And here it's a calculated risk. 01:39.150 --> 01:44.050 It's playing age four and the unsuspecting opponent does actually console. 01:45.350 --> 01:52.080 So, yes, usually it's costing early, but actually, what's the idea? 01:52.580 --> 01:58.970 If you look at the philosophy that I mentioned, put yourself beyond the feet before going on the attack. 01:59.450 --> 02:05.870 But is it actually putting yourself beyond the fate when you counsel in an unsafe area so castling itself 02:05.870 --> 02:06.850 needs to be qualified? 02:06.860 --> 02:11.890 Is your king actually safer or you actually beyond the feet? 02:12.140 --> 02:15.860 Look at the actual goal behind what we're saying. 02:18.240 --> 02:27.000 Often casting early creates safety, put yourself beyond faith, but sometimes it doesn't. 02:27.420 --> 02:32.220 This is a case it doesn't because there's a lack of central control here. 02:32.640 --> 02:39.900 Blackies, continue allowing this E5 and I've won so many games in recent weeks and months when I get 02:39.900 --> 02:44.070 this kind of sensor, which is mobile and I can kick away defensive lines. 02:44.520 --> 02:51.600 And yes, I've probably won more games with the so-called great gift, which were about to say, and 02:51.600 --> 02:53.850 if you haven't seen the great gift, it's delightful. 02:54.240 --> 02:59.610 I've won more games probably than most online players going, yeah, we see a lovely situation. 02:59.610 --> 03:10.470 I'd be licking my lips, hurt myself after five because of the 95 has left 87, even though. 03:11.560 --> 03:16.460 Black has technically licensed the prescriptive role of castling early. 03:16.870 --> 03:23.200 There are cases it's still inappropriate because the fundamental goals, the fundamental goals. 03:25.140 --> 03:29.200 Are not being met here of King's safety, especially in this position. 03:29.670 --> 03:30.230 Guess what? 03:30.230 --> 03:34.920 Why it can play in this position if I give you five seconds to pause video. 03:39.620 --> 03:40.190 OK. 03:43.440 --> 03:48.060 Bishop Tate's H7 check is actually kind of drawing the Cahall, even though the Kings Castle King has 03:48.060 --> 03:48.800 been drawn out. 03:48.810 --> 03:56.750 Now King takes a seven point ninety five check and there's big problems here, huge problems here. 03:58.230 --> 03:59.980 If the king step back. 04:00.130 --> 04:01.760 Sir, this is the worst one. 04:01.830 --> 04:06.710 Then there will be Queen X five check and then I kill a common square on seven. 04:07.710 --> 04:10.530 They'll be just Queen seven checkmates. 04:11.400 --> 04:15.360 And if the king goes back to gate, it's not much better. 04:15.390 --> 04:16.290 Queen at five. 04:18.940 --> 04:19.780 What does Black do? 04:21.400 --> 04:22.960 If if rookie AIDS. 04:24.760 --> 04:32.260 Queen Eighty-seven Jack and Queen Angelique is Chapei as the example of Bishop Takechi five, then Aztec's 04:32.260 --> 04:38.800 opens up this rock and we've got this so-called battery which batteries by Rieffel create killer common 04:38.800 --> 04:39.350 squares. 04:39.370 --> 04:42.160 And we're actually frazzling Queen a checkmate. 04:44.380 --> 04:45.910 And this is a classic. 04:46.000 --> 04:47.740 I don't want to spoil the game. 04:48.490 --> 04:50.290 It's got an idea here which is in the game. 04:50.290 --> 04:56.290 Let's go back to the game for a moment in the game G5 they did actually take him. 04:56.290 --> 05:01.840 We get a similar position to what I've just shown you and the defensive try F5 is played. 05:02.260 --> 05:03.550 So what's the key move here? 05:03.560 --> 05:04.810 You think it's a play? 05:06.130 --> 05:12.160 If I give you five seconds pause video, I've used this mechanism to win hundreds of games in similar 05:12.160 --> 05:13.420 kind of circumstances. 05:17.580 --> 05:23.820 OK, it's actually not Placek, sometimes you want to just take out the escape square first before playing 05:23.820 --> 05:25.860 a check, you're making your checks much more effective. 05:26.220 --> 05:29.190 And the way to do that here is the Morganics. 05:29.610 --> 05:31.660 It takes up that escape square. 05:32.070 --> 05:38.720 And now we've got this huge threat of Queen eight checkmate because we've taken out the escape square 05:39.420 --> 05:40.500 rookie ace is played. 05:41.100 --> 05:41.590 Checkmate. 05:42.420 --> 05:48.870 OK, so you might be wondering, you know, you know, blank, blank, blank, canceled early, didn't 05:48.870 --> 05:54.030 they, that they should have been beyond the feet, you know, they were getting ready for their active 05:54.030 --> 05:54.520 operations? 05:54.540 --> 06:01.830 Well, actually, if you think about it, Central Control wasn't totally ideal quite often in many openings. 06:02.550 --> 06:05.160 And you'll find out these openings soon enough. 06:05.970 --> 06:10.230 Blank especially is on the back foot because it's already got a lead environment. 06:10.230 --> 06:10.610 Right. 06:10.890 --> 06:13.950 So is definitely something we're definitely mentioning, a very lethal environment. 06:13.950 --> 06:17.070 We definitely mentioned in that central control. 06:17.100 --> 06:23.400 We mentioned about the golden set up, but in the golden sense of introduction, there wasn't a drastic 06:23.400 --> 06:25.200 punishment immediately after. 06:25.530 --> 06:32.220 It so happens that if the opponent does allow a thing like 85 and they've canceled, you can actually 06:32.220 --> 06:33.640 straight away go for their kings. 06:33.650 --> 06:38.730 That's why I wanted to show you this example to substantiate the kind of golden setup, a variation 06:38.730 --> 06:39.600 of the golden setup. 06:39.810 --> 06:45.750 You've got the pawn duo and they're ready for in the five or five, but the opponents cost them Kingside 06:45.750 --> 06:46.500 quite often. 06:46.500 --> 06:50.310 E5 is a gigantic point scorer for me. 06:50.640 --> 06:56.310 They haven't really put themselves beyond the feet, have they, before going on the attack, they should 06:56.310 --> 07:00.150 have reinforced against a five black. 07:00.150 --> 07:03.480 Should have played this in a slightly different way, this opening. 07:05.740 --> 07:11.490 For sure or encourage if it's going to be like it's called the French defense, just just play defined, 07:11.500 --> 07:12.670 that will be the standard move. 07:13.240 --> 07:16.980 And if it plays E5, then Black has good plans. 07:17.260 --> 07:18.430 It's a standard position. 07:18.760 --> 07:25.870 But the way this is being played is asking for E5 as a sort of night kick, which reduces King safety 07:25.870 --> 07:26.280 later. 07:26.500 --> 07:32.020 So it's not a bad way of playing a very bad way of playing a French defense into a complete disaster. 07:32.320 --> 07:36.940 Generally in the French defense, if you're like E5, you've got to be sure your king's not going to 07:36.940 --> 07:42.220 be in trouble because this pawn chain, his so-called pawn chain, is heading in the direction of your 07:42.220 --> 07:42.710 king. 07:42.790 --> 07:47.310 It's like a river flowing in the direction of how the pawns are shaped. 07:48.010 --> 07:51.370 And here, yeah, this Greek left is just absolutely crushing. 07:51.670 --> 07:58.840 And in this example, it's just and it's something I've used in hundreds of games myself, the Greek 07:58.840 --> 08:00.400 gift sacrifice. 08:01.780 --> 08:05.380 So, yeah, sometimes just castling doesn't guarantee King safety. 08:05.380 --> 08:11.740 If the center is under lock and key and you can drive away a key defensive line, then off the court, 08:11.930 --> 08:14.410 you're immediately going to have this welcoming committee. 08:14.800 --> 08:16.300 So bear in mind this idea. 08:16.300 --> 08:16.900 And by the way. 08:16.900 --> 08:18.310 Yeah, let's have a quick look. 08:18.760 --> 08:24.270 If you might have thought that the check is only good, it's not as good at all because the escaped 08:24.280 --> 08:25.060 score is used. 08:25.510 --> 08:26.560 Your your queens. 08:26.560 --> 08:27.280 There were times. 08:28.270 --> 08:29.980 Now, if queen H5 chag. 08:31.090 --> 08:38.320 Perhaps best would be, for example, King seven looks like a reasonable move, and whereas White's 08:38.320 --> 08:45.960 winning, you know, mating attack black and start defending G7 and yeah, there's no mating here. 08:46.360 --> 08:48.220 So this is a pivotal move. 08:48.220 --> 08:53.670 If you're going to start to understand early the great gift and I am Greek Cypriot, so why not? 08:53.920 --> 08:57.970 You can understand earlier Greek gift example here, G six is the way to do it. 08:57.970 --> 09:03.690 Guys, you restrict that Kingsgate Square to ignite the battery even more on age eight. 09:05.080 --> 09:08.850 But anyway, the premise here, the more fundamental premise is about central control. 09:08.860 --> 09:13.290 It's a bit of a worry if the opponent has E5 available on a plate. 09:13.870 --> 09:18.700 So why did a very, very cheeky thing if we had to cancel this rook wouldn't have been used so aggressively. 09:19.330 --> 09:23.380 That would have been a more classical use of the rock coming to the center, not a direct attack. 09:23.590 --> 09:29.200 So this is a pretty vivid example of how things can actually go really, really badly wrong early if 09:29.200 --> 09:35.950 the opponent councils right into it when the center wasn't really under lock and key, whereas E5 with 09:35.950 --> 09:36.850 great effect. 09:37.280 --> 09:40.900 OK, have you got some points from this and so much.