WEBVTT 00:01.020 --> 00:07.530 Hi there in Atlanta, I'm going to show you the English opening, in particular the bottleneck system. 00:07.950 --> 00:15.660 So it's named after back home Mikahil Bottleneck, and he was a world champion for a number of years. 00:16.440 --> 00:18.860 He's like part of the Soviet CESCO. 00:18.870 --> 00:25.640 He was a teacher of Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, and on the Russian super grandmaster stance. 00:26.880 --> 00:36.030 So Michele Bachmann take plays C4 in this particular game against Vitaly Sergeyevich Kabakov in the 00:36.030 --> 00:38.040 1955 just saw championship. 00:38.940 --> 00:42.890 So we might have six Mitzy Free G six Jeoffrey. 00:43.350 --> 00:50.730 So the English opening in general is about controlling D5 You won't think that's going to help control 00:50.730 --> 00:53.460 D5 You're keeping that line clear for the moment. 00:53.610 --> 00:54.930 You haven't played it before. 00:55.470 --> 00:57.500 You have a clear view of the D5 squad. 00:57.510 --> 00:58.530 It's very positional. 00:59.310 --> 01:01.050 If we talk about openings in general. 01:01.050 --> 01:06.870 Just to recap, opening in general wants to try and control four key squares. 01:07.260 --> 01:13.470 The English opening satisfied that a kind of less forensically intense manner and pretty direct. 01:13.980 --> 01:21.150 And in fact, Andrew Webster, who became an international master when I was participating in a gentleman's, 01:21.510 --> 01:26.940 I had to play the great Michael Adams, who became one of the top players ever in the UK, and he was 01:26.940 --> 01:29.460 saying to me, I should play the English opening. 01:30.000 --> 01:33.180 I remember that day I still got matched by Adams. 01:33.600 --> 01:40.620 But it is an interesting opening, which means you don't need to know so much opening theory. 01:41.190 --> 01:43.800 So it's something you might want to try out from time to time. 01:44.010 --> 01:45.720 So this is the start position. 01:46.200 --> 01:49.770 The bulk billing system in particular is now an E4. 01:49.770 --> 01:53.640 In fact, you're blocking the view deliberately of the special. 01:53.640 --> 01:55.200 Is there a method to the madness here? 01:55.830 --> 01:59.430 It all depends on the follow ups that you have in mind. 01:59.640 --> 02:01.500 Justify it to yourself. 02:01.980 --> 02:04.470 First, look at example games. 02:04.920 --> 02:12.540 Be convinced, have conviction, look at BOTTOMLY games or other people using this public system to 02:12.540 --> 02:14.100 get those steam games. 02:14.100 --> 02:19.260 There's example games which will feed your middle game and game understanding of what the form is after 02:19.260 --> 02:19.560 this. 02:19.950 --> 02:23.790 But here we're going to see a classic idea Ninety-two. 02:24.870 --> 02:26.670 We've kept the form free. 02:26.670 --> 02:29.820 We haven't blocked the form like with Knight Afri. 02:29.970 --> 02:32.850 We've kept it that we can use the airborn. 02:35.940 --> 02:46.320 Later this morning, we can use the afternoon pretty soon, so 90 to 85 now counseling, so white has 02:46.320 --> 02:47.480 got a pleasant position. 02:47.490 --> 02:49.620 This position is a plausible position. 02:49.950 --> 02:52.490 If you reach it, you've actually got a slight advantage. 02:52.500 --> 02:55.350 You've done nothing really fundamentally wrong. 02:55.950 --> 02:58.560 You've only structurally conceded the default Four-Square. 02:58.570 --> 03:01.530 This is the downside you have to accept. 03:01.530 --> 03:08.030 Employing public system, we see might be some different 95. 03:08.790 --> 03:15.160 And now using that perk they have employee upon to play efore you're actually going to gain space on 03:15.160 --> 03:15.810 the Kingside. 03:15.810 --> 03:23.790 We see C6 age H3 96 and now F5 gaining space 94 and now G4. 03:23.940 --> 03:26.400 I absolutely love this kind of thing. 03:28.020 --> 03:31.440 The idea of Nigeriens is squishing is an ideal. 03:31.440 --> 03:37.850 As I saw once from an Anatoly Karpov game, I fell in love with so much Jeoffrey and just Squaresville 03:37.860 --> 03:40.260 G5 is a pleasant idea. 03:40.860 --> 03:44.910 Sometimes you want to play not very fast, but there are other options as well. 03:44.910 --> 03:50.130 We see ninety eight e3 a6 cloyingly two. 03:51.390 --> 03:55.440 We see black transgenics some Queensland counterplay here. 03:56.220 --> 03:57.240 Bishop J5. 03:58.850 --> 04:09.590 We see things when it takes off that bishop meetings and then a in place 964 18, so the black pawns 04:10.400 --> 04:19.670 have been doubled nightly to we see Quimby's six, see tanks, eight tanks, and now Queen eight six. 04:22.160 --> 04:25.350 We've got our top scorer, the queen, nearly pounds king. 04:25.370 --> 04:33.710 It does satisfy my use your best resources around squares around the King motto, which won me some 04:33.710 --> 04:34.820 torments when I was a junior. 04:34.820 --> 04:36.320 So best resource. 04:36.320 --> 04:38.330 Your Queen, your top scorer near the King. 04:39.110 --> 04:42.260 Special conditions about this position to make that even more effective. 04:42.260 --> 04:43.640 Without too many downsides. 04:44.000 --> 04:49.190 The Queen is difficult to evict the dance because they've already been weakened around the king because 04:49.190 --> 04:51.710 we exchanged of blacks think. 04:51.710 --> 04:56.570 And so Bishop, quite often that leaves behind these dance our weaknesses. 04:56.570 --> 04:59.840 Logically, that's a quite common strategy in chess. 04:59.840 --> 05:06.730 If you want to weaken a set of squares, take away the guardian bishop of that color complex. 05:06.740 --> 05:09.350 It's called that to a color complex. 05:09.860 --> 05:12.650 So the dance courts have been weakened around the king. 05:13.400 --> 05:20.990 We see Bishop D7 and in fact her wants to try and get some support for the queen. 05:20.990 --> 05:24.350 Ideally, if you imagine the pawn on have sex, then Queen is a movie Checkmate. 05:24.770 --> 05:32.780 So G5 trying to get a pawn, very dangerous pawn on have sex my age five now here. 05:35.020 --> 05:43.390 If F six is played, a major you might think is an Stenger's, but not entirely, not entirely F six 05:43.390 --> 05:47.560 wasn't played immediately, the night actually controls G-7. 05:47.560 --> 05:54.160 So this is not actually frightening checkmate because takes so actually make out. 05:54.250 --> 05:59.740 But when it plays night after he wants to get rid of that night first to make this whole idea much more 05:59.740 --> 06:03.220 effective and blacks in big trouble. 06:03.520 --> 06:10.090 Black Friday night G7 if takes for Rook takes effort. 06:10.100 --> 06:16.990 Why has that huge frat's now of f sex and f f sex from black F. 06:16.990 --> 06:21.280 Thanks G since this is really quite crushing once getting a huge advantage. 06:21.280 --> 06:28.420 As one example, if I just take a stand that is checkmates like this, Black's king is getting Looma 06:28.430 --> 06:28.930 mated. 06:30.850 --> 06:40.300 So anyway, we seem like G7 and now have sex and the game actually ended here because how does black 06:40.300 --> 06:42.340 stop this checkmate. 06:43.870 --> 06:51.010 If Knights ain't OK, that stops checkmate. 06:54.670 --> 07:02.020 Yes, for the moment, but there is another way of terminating her, Black's position is very, very 07:02.020 --> 07:02.600 passive. 07:03.010 --> 07:04.740 It's kind of disconnected. 07:04.750 --> 07:13.120 If you look at this position, there is a very, very key idea in this position, which is beautiful 07:13.630 --> 07:15.990 and with tempo. 07:16.000 --> 07:17.730 So actually gain the tempo here. 07:18.010 --> 07:21.730 I wonder if you can spot it if I give you five seconds to pause for the. 07:25.640 --> 07:33.080 It's a little bit advanced, actually, it's 95, it's attacking the queen and that the queen moves, 07:33.080 --> 07:34.430 there's 97 check. 07:34.730 --> 07:38.320 And if the king moves, it leaves behind the witness who lost both, at least behind Efate. 07:39.260 --> 07:47.690 So this move is crushing because if it takes we've actually also vacated now the force where we can 07:47.690 --> 07:55.020 play Rokan for France, Brooke, 84, to help the queen mate on 87 instead of G seven, eight, seven. 07:56.180 --> 08:00.700 So the big fat is brocades for what can do about this one? 08:00.890 --> 08:02.450 Not much, actually. 08:02.780 --> 08:07.160 Any time the night moves, we're going to it's going to be meeting with Queen Elizabeth. 08:07.160 --> 08:09.710 And I can't move the night's blocking in the rock. 08:09.710 --> 08:10.640 So the road can't move. 08:10.640 --> 08:13.160 The king can't move because the king's being blocked in the rook. 08:13.760 --> 08:16.030 This is major congestion charges. 08:16.820 --> 08:19.270 So the only thing black could do here is Bishop G4. 08:19.290 --> 08:21.020 We just this is a delay move. 08:21.380 --> 08:22.390 You know, it's just delaying. 08:22.400 --> 08:23.570 This is just desperate. 08:24.320 --> 08:25.940 We can just even just ignore that. 08:26.780 --> 08:28.940 Let let them take the rook. 08:30.410 --> 08:31.640 This is just aspirin's. 08:32.390 --> 08:38.960 We just take that and we renew now queen dissemblers, make friends and Queen Eighty-seven doesn't make 08:38.960 --> 08:39.290 friends. 08:40.880 --> 08:42.680 The only desperate thing they can do is this. 08:42.680 --> 08:44.420 And then they get checkmated. 08:45.650 --> 08:55.180 So in this game we see a basic attacking plan resulting from the English opening, but the bulk billing 08:55.190 --> 08:55.640 system. 08:55.790 --> 08:57.290 So there is method to the madness. 08:57.800 --> 09:04.550 In other words, if you know some of the amazing situations, this has an upside. 09:05.780 --> 09:09.110 So basically avalanching on the kingside like this. 09:09.620 --> 09:11.510 It's it's a really cool thing. 09:12.320 --> 09:15.890 So I thought this is a really cool game example of the bulk billing system. 09:16.880 --> 09:20.000 Black could have played better moves, obviously, but that's chess. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.880 You know, it relies on states for one side to win. 09:23.210 --> 09:24.910 Someone needs to make a mistake somewhere. 09:25.760 --> 09:34.340 So in this position, it seemed as though, you know, there could be difficulties ahead in this scenario 09:34.940 --> 09:43.940 when the knights actually talking on eyes of the SS, not 96, because then we would just eliminate 09:43.940 --> 09:47.510 the defender of G7 and then like Wingy seven Charmings. 09:48.050 --> 09:54.170 But by going to eight, well, the game actually ended half six because Black must have seen this. 09:54.980 --> 10:03.320 95 is an absolutely crushing blow in this position, tactical crushing blow, leaving black with very 10:03.320 --> 10:05.630 limited reply options because the Queen's attacked. 10:06.080 --> 10:09.050 So this whole thing, it seems like magic does that. 10:09.050 --> 10:14.870 But the more you practice calculating, forcing variations, when it's very limited replies, you can 10:15.170 --> 10:16.370 see deeper in the position. 10:16.700 --> 10:19.550 And the more you see deeper recession, more you challenge yourself. 10:20.120 --> 10:25.400 Maybe with some daily puzzles that you try and get 100 percent correct, the more your visualization 10:25.400 --> 10:27.410 abilities really improve. 10:29.330 --> 10:36.830 And by the way, in your chessboards, I you might wonder how what Color Square is on eight, by the 10:36.830 --> 10:37.100 way. 10:37.460 --> 10:40.120 You know, you can work that out if we have lights on the right. 10:40.130 --> 10:46.600 We know that like squares here and we think about the diagonal to eight is like a light square bishop, 10:46.640 --> 10:46.980 isn't it? 10:47.690 --> 10:52.450 So in your mind's eye, how long psych each one is always going to be a line square. 10:52.500 --> 10:57.170 I you know, from the perspective, we're always going to like square dance. 10:57.230 --> 11:00.570 Well, they won because of dance membership dance going on actually. 11:00.920 --> 11:05.230 So get visualization training from looking at games like this. 11:05.720 --> 11:07.910 So this seems like a really tricky thing. 11:07.910 --> 11:09.650 I've just tested you and want to move here. 11:09.830 --> 11:13.160 It is rather subtle, but it is kind of forcing. 11:13.160 --> 11:18.860 There are only limited replies from Black and the park, the little website that vacating that square. 11:18.930 --> 11:22.430 It's an amazing little treat to locate that square for the rock left. 11:22.910 --> 11:24.740 These are often devastating. 11:24.950 --> 11:27.890 They they find that crushing blow right in the middle. 11:28.400 --> 11:30.410 So there's no end game for the opponent there. 11:31.010 --> 11:34.800 The player is just wiped out in the middle of this. 11:34.820 --> 11:35.480 Look out for. 11:36.350 --> 11:39.020 Yeah, I mean, we could even just take the rook here. 11:39.110 --> 11:39.820 Oh yeah. 11:39.830 --> 11:46.220 And just not bother not doing anything now against this queen takes a seven maiffret. 11:48.800 --> 11:58.130 There's just, you know, something supported by the queen, so it's a crushing game example, and fundamentally 11:58.130 --> 11:59.480 you have the voting system. 11:59.960 --> 12:01.280 Think about the voting system. 12:01.280 --> 12:02.560 It could go in your repertoire. 12:03.110 --> 12:10.790 All of these systems mentioned on this course, all of the systems could be part of your varied repertoire 12:11.240 --> 12:16.820 and getting experience and different point structures, experience and different power structures. 12:16.940 --> 12:23.170 And where the kings are and the relative plans is going to be a good thing for your chess experience. 12:23.600 --> 12:27.560 So the bulk billing system, Putin's Russia does have some perks. 12:27.560 --> 12:29.630 They can run with the airports sometimes. 12:29.930 --> 12:33.740 So it's one of my favorite squash plans and chess from the public system. 12:33.740 --> 12:37.370 I've won many games of it myself, so I hope you enjoyed this game. 12:37.370 --> 12:42.950 Example to make you crush your opponents on the king side with the volcanic system occasionally when 12:42.950 --> 12:43.520 you're in the mood. 12:43.940 --> 12:45.830 OK, and so much.